Chapter 16: Master, you lied to me, you lied to me too, didn't you?
"It was the two of them, father and son, who destroyed your family and stole your entire life!"
Sun Jin's voice echoed incessantly in Jiang Qingyi's ears.
"Impossible, impossible…" Jiang Qingyi kept backing away, her face deathly pale.
"You must be lying to me! You must be lying to me! It must be!" Jiang Qingyi's mind was in extreme turmoil, unable to believe anything she heard.
She couldn't believe that her Master was the son of her enemy.
And it was at this moment that Sun Jin found an opportunity and threw the hidden weapon in his hand towards Jiang Qingyi!
But Jiang Qingyi merely tilted her head, and the hidden weapon brushed past her hair.
Almost simultaneously, Jiang Qingyi pressed her fingers together, using her finger as a Sword, and slashed it across his neck.
"Uh…"
Sun Jin clutched his neck, blood spurting from between his fingers.
"Save…me…" Sun Jin reached out to Jiang Qingyi, his pupils gradually dilating.
Jiang Qingyi looked at him with eyes like stagnant water, without the slightest ripple of emotion.
A few breaths later, Sun Jin's hand completely dropped to the ground, his eyes wide open, staring straight ahead, blood staining the dirt.
"Qingyi! Are you alright?"
Xiao Mo finally arrived.
Seeing his Disciple's unharmed back, and the corpses of the Blood Butterfly Pavilion Cultivators around her.
Xiao Mo finally let out a sigh of relief.
And hearing her Master's voice, Jiang Qingyi's delicate body trembled, and she slowly turned around.
The moment Xiao Mo saw the look in Jiang Qingyi's eyes, his steps involuntarily halted.
Xiao Mo had never seen such a look in his Disciple's eyes before.
Qingyi's eyes were devoid of any color, as if her entire being had died, her Soul broken.
"Qingyi, what happened?"
Xiao Mo took a step forward, but Jiang Qingyiunleashed a Sword Qi, which slashed in front of Xiao Mo.
"Master… do you know?"
Jiang Qingyi slowly spoke, her voice like it came from an abyss, filled with despair.
"Actually, when I was very young, probably when I was one year old, I could already remember things.
I remember having a very happy family.
My father was a moderately wealthy merchant, and my mother, though ordinary, was very gentle and loved me and my father very much.
When I was two years old, my mother gave birth to a younger brother.
My younger brother was very cute.
When he was one and a half years old, the first name he could clearly utter was 'elder sister'.
From birth, I didn't know what troubles were.
But when I was four years old, everything changed.
Several people rushed into our house, and as soon as they entered, they started a wanton massacre.
Whether it was the guards, the servants, or the maid sister who took care of me, all of them died.
At that time, the stone path was covered in blood, and the pond in the courtyard turned blood-red.
My parents stuffed my two-year-old brother and me into a cabinet.
My parents told us not to speak, no matter what happened outside, not to come out.
Inside the cabinet, I held my younger brother tightly, covering his eyes and ears.
Not long after, there was movement outside.
Through the crack in the cabinet, I personally saw my parents being killed by those people!
They finally found my brother and me.
Right in front of me!
They killed my younger brother!
Master, do you know what it feels like to watch your family members die one by one in front of you, and no matter how much you beg for mercy, it's useless?
They even killed your two-year-old brother!
Master, do you know this kind of despair?"
Xiao Mo: "…"
When Jiang Qingyi brought up these matters, Xiao Moknew that Jiang Qingyi had already learned everything.
"My whole family died, not a single survivor, and I was taken to a courtyard.
In this courtyard, I saw many people.
They tied me to a bed, took a knife, cut open my back, and took out one of my bones.
It hurt so much, it really hurt.
At that time, I fainted from the pain.
When I woke up, I was surrounded by corpses.
Later, I learned that the place where I woke up was called a mass grave.
I don't know how my wounds healed, nor do I know how I survived.
Perhaps Heaven took pity on me and had an Immortalpassing by heal me.
But I knew, I survived!
At that time, I swore to Heaven that I would live well, and I would avenge my parents and younger brother!
They killed my whole family, so I will kill their whole family!
No matter whether the enemy's family members are innocent or not, I will not spare them!
I will kill his son, kill his daughter in front of him, and then slice him into a thousand pieces with one knife after another!
Everyone must die!"
Jiang Qingyi raised her head, her eyes filled with boundless hatred.
"For all these years, Disciple has been secretly investigating who killed my whole family, but I have never found any clues.
The house back then has already turned to ashes.
But Master…
Just now, when I killed this man.
He said.
Your father, Master, is the enemy who killed my whole family.
It was to transplant one of my bones onto your body, Master.
Master, is that true?
Is everything he said true?"
Xiao Mo: "…"
"Master! Is he lying! Is he deceiving me!"
Xiao Mo: "…"
Jiang Qingyi's eyes were blurred with tears, her right hand tightly gripping Xuanshuang Longjian, almost hysterically shouting:
"Master! Answer Qingyi!"
"Master! Speak!"
Xiao Mo sighed, raised his head, and looked directly into Jiang Qingyi's eyes: "The person you killed is named Sun Jin, one of the advisors of the Xiao Wang Residence. Everything he said is true.
It was the Xiao Wang Residence that killed your entire family, and I am the son of Jing Wang.
Your Sword Bone is within me."
Listening to her Master's words, Jiang Qingyi shook her head: "No, none of this is true… none of it is true… Master, you lied to me, you lied to me too, didn't you…"
"Qingyi, this is the truth."
"Liar!" In an instant, the young girl raised her longsword and pointed it at Xiao Mo's eyes, "Then why did you save me back then! Why did you bring me back to the mountain! Why did you teach me Sword Arts! Why did you treat me like a brother and a father! Why! Why?!"
"Because I owe you," Xiao Mo said calmly, "I reached the Nascent Soul Realm at eighteen. I originally thought it was due to my extraordinary talent, but it turned out to be from transplanting a young girl's Sword Bone. One day, a woman told me that the girl hadn't died, so I left the Xiao Wang Residence, wanting to find you and compensate you."
"Compensate… The son of an enemy who killed my whole family saved me! Taught me Sword Arts! Raised me! If that's the case, you might as well have killed me!" Jiang Qingyi roared loudly.
Xiao Mo slowly closed his eyes: "Kill me. Fulfill your vow. This is what I owe you."
Looking at the man in front of her, the longsword in Jiang Qingyi's hand trembled incessantly, tears rolling down her cheeks onto the ground.
Finally, Xiao Mo only felt a gust of Sword Qi brush past him.
Xiao Mo slowly opened his eyes, the piece of skirt hem cut off by the young girl slowly floated up into the air before his eyes, ascending.
She held her longsword, turned and left, her voice coming from behind her:
"From now on, there is no longer any relationship between you and me."