"I'm sorry, I never told you the truth," Hei Feng looked at Mu Anxiao.
Mu Anxiao was stunned. "What do you mean by that?"
"The blow the wolf demon gave you that day was not a fatal one, but one that would scatter your soul. If you hadn't drunk his immortal blood, you would no longer exist in this world."
"How could I..."
"Stop talking. Seeing is believing," Shen Yan said, no longer looking at Mu Anxiao with such hostility. "Take me back to the past, to... before you went to the backyard."
"I've never used that spell before," Mu Anxiao flinched.
"Think of that place, then cast the spell to return," Shen Yan said earnestly.
For fifty years, whenever Mu Anxiao went to see Shen Yan, Shen Yan wished she could kill herself. Never before had she been so peaceful. Looking at her, Mu Anxiao inexplicably felt happy.
"Okay," she agreed. Taking a deep breath, she was about to cast the spell when the man in the pale blue robe arrived.
"Stop."
At the sound, Mu Anxiao and the others turned their gaze to the suddenly appearing man in the pale blue robe.
"Why are you here?" Shen Yan asked.
The man in the pale blue robe glared at Mu Anxiao and walked up to Shen Yan. "You've forgiven her just like that?"
"No," Shen Yan spat out the two words coldly.
"Then you..."
"Don't say any more," Shen Yan said, shifting her gaze from the man in the pale blue robe to Mu Anxiao. "Cast the spell, I don't have much time."
"Okay," Mu Anxiao agreed and reached out to grab Shen Yan's sleeve.
Shen Yan looked down at Mu Anxiao and said, "Fifty years after ascending, you're still the same. It's truly embarrassing."
"I... I've changed. I don't know why, but when I see you, I get scared," Mu Anxiao mumbled.
Shen Yan heard Mu Anxiao's voice and said, "That's because you feel guilty and remorseful towards me."
"Say whatever you want. You've been scolding me your whole life anyway, I'm used to it," Mu Anxiao said, raising her hand slightly, her mind repeating the events of that day fifty years ago...
Then, Shen Yan withdrew her gaze fixed on Mu Anxiao's face and looked up at the sky, which was gradually changing, and said, "It's time, snap your fingers."
Mu Anxiao nodded, expertly snapped her fingers, and she and Shen Yan vanished instantly.
The Yin messenger looked around in surprise and said, "Hei Feng, you'll have to speak up for me when you go back."
"Don't worry, I've already spoken to the boss," Hei Feng said, turning to look at the man in the pale blue robe who hadn't agreed to see him for fifty years. "As expected of a half-demon, your face changes faster than a flipping book."
"Say whatever you want," the man in the pale blue robe glanced at Hei Feng, then looked up at the darkening sky. "Shen Yan's master can finally let go now."
"What do you mean by that?" Hei Feng asked doubtfully.
"Since Shen Yan is willing to acknowledge her now, then... I'll tell you the truth," the man in the pale blue robe's attitude was no longer as cold as it had been for the past fifty years.
"Go on," Hei Feng raised an eyebrow.
"That day, I acted that way deliberately because I saw Mu Anxiao transform into a woman," the man in the pale blue robe said, lowering his eyes. "To be honest, I was quite disappointed."
"So if she were a man, you wouldn't have acted that way?" the Yin messenger asked, seeing the guilty expression on the man in the pale blue robe.
"Yes," the man in the pale blue robe nodded and said, "If she were a man, I wouldn't have thought she had such scheming intentions. At the time, I felt like she was deliberately lurking around Shen Yan."