Mu Anxiao stood rooted to the spot, feigning calm as she watched the monsters tear Mu Xi apart, fighting over his remains. She said coldly, "That woman is truly ruthless."
Dagger: "You still dare to watch."
Mu Anxiao, tears welling in her eyes as she looked at the gruesome scene, sniffled. "When you do many evil deeds, even if you live a long life, you never understand that the person you can least afford to offend in this world is a woman. Serves him right." Saying this, she actually couldn't bear to look any longer, but in order to return and recount the details of Mu Xi's death, she had no choice but to grit her teeth and continue watching.
Dagger: "What you're saying is vicious, but it actually makes quite a bit of sense."
"I think so too," Mu Anxiao replied. A scent of blood wafted towards her on the wind. She quickly raised her hand to cover her mouth and nose, her gaze drifting towards the bloody Mu Xi, tears falling.
However, after tearing Mu Xi apart, the monsters did not cease their frenzy. Instead, they all turned their attention to Mu Xi's soul standing by the cliff, letting out ferocious roars.
Mu Xi: "..." He was terrified by the monsters' brutality, so at the moment they roared at him, he froze.
Hearing the commotion, Mu Anxiao, still covering her mouth and nose, followed the monsters' line of sight to the cliff edge. Her eyes widened. "What's going on?"
Dagger: "What is it?"
Mu Anxiao looked down at Dagger, her brow furrowed tightly. "I didn't sense anything just now... his soul aura."
Although Mu Anxiao was not a Yin Messenger, with decades of experience, she had always been sensitive to soul auras. But now... she hadn't felt Mu Xi's soul aura, nor had she even noticed that Mu Xi had left his body. This made her doubt her own abilities.
Dagger: "Didn't you hear Xi'er speaking?"
"What?" Mu Anxiao had been too preoccupied with meticulously listing Mu Xi's crimes and witnessing Xi'er's revenge. As for Xi'er's words, she hadn't listened carefully at all.
"What what," Dagger said, "that Xi'er said it was all your fault."
"Why?" Mu Anxiao was indignant.
Dagger: ".... Don't tell me you didn't hear Xi'er speaking at all." She had felt that Mu Anxiao was quite serious just now, but to find out that Mu Anxiao knew nothing was surprising to her as well.
"She said she wanted to let those monsters tear Mu Xi apart, right?"
"Her brainwashing of Mu Xi, you didn't hear it, did you?" Dagger asked, incredulous.
"..." Mu Anxiao thought for a moment before saying, "She mentioned me?"
"..." Dagger was speechless.
Mu Anxiao looked down at Dagger and then slapped her forcefully, asking, "Why aren't you talking anymore?"
Dagger: "I'm speechless with you. I thought you were quite serious just now, but all you did was watch and not listen."
Mu Anxiao, prone to habitual thought abandonment, couldn't refute Dagger's statement. She said properly, "What did she say?"
Hearing Mu Anxiao's more amicable tone, Dagger decided to be direct. "She said it was all your doing."
"What?" Mu Anxiao looked astonished. "Why is it all my fault? What did I do? Besides, if you calculate the timing, it doesn't make sense. At this time, I was still wandering alone. Did I have the leisure to do these things? What kind of person is she?"
Listening to Mu Anxiao's agitated words, Dagger thought, it was fortunate that Mu Anxiao hadn't heard earlier. If she had... she would have gotten involved, and things wouldn't have been so simple.
Therefore, Dagger believed that her current outburst was actually quite good.
"Exactly, what kind of person is she?" Dagger chimed in.
"What if I explain things clearly to Mu Xi now? What do you think?" Mu Anxiao looked down at Dagger.
Dagger: "You absolutely must not say anything."
"Why?" Mu Anxiao's mind was only focused on clearing her name; everything else seemed irrelevant to her.
"Are you stupid? If you clarify things now, then..." Dagger didn't know how to explain the issue, so she paused before continuing, "Anyway, I think it's best if you don't. Otherwise, your current mission won't be a mission anymore, and you might even incur more trouble. When you return, you might have amnesia, in short, it's very troublesome."
"..." Mu Anxiao pondered for a moment. "What you're saying makes sense."
"I'm glad you think it makes sense," Dagger said, relieved.
Mu Anxiao: "What else did she say?" She truly hadn't listened to anything carefully.
Dagger: "She said she wanted to turn your brother into a lonely wandering soul. I think," she paused again, continuing, "this might be why your brother lost so much of his memory."
"In that case, Shen Yan's master didn't actually disrupt his memory much."
"Right."
".... I understand," Mu Anxiao looked up at the monsters who had stopped before Mu Xi, her brow furrowing. "It was all that Xi'er's doing. It was Xi'er who indirectly brainwashed him."
"Mm," Dagger replied with conviction.
Mu Anxiao sighed. "That's strange. I never saw that Xi'er when I was in the cultivation sect. Did she... not go back?"
Based on her understanding of cultivators, there were quite a few who cultivated demonic arts in the cultivation sect. Moreover, since Xi'er was the daughter of the sect leader, she thought Xi'er would definitely return.
However, the fact that she had never seen Xi'er made her puzzled.
Dagger: "Probably not."
"What makes you say that?" Mu Anxiao stared at Dagger.
Dagger: "Actually, it's quite embarrassing, she probably wouldn't dare to go back."
"That's true," Mu Anxiao felt Dagger's reasoning was sound and shifted her gaze back to the monsters, displaying a look of disgust. "Ugh, what kind of monsters are those? So disgusting."
After a long detour, Mu Anxiao finally noticed the appearance of the monsters. Dagger found this remark to be somewhat speechless.
"..."
Over there.
Mu Xi stared blankly at the twenty monsters before him, recalling how his body had been torn apart without him feeling anything. He clenched his fists. "Mu Anxiao, I will not forgive you." After speaking, he glanced around at all the monsters present and turned to jump off the cliff.
Mu Xi's words, not a single one omitted, entered Mu Anxiao's ears. At this moment, his words were like needle points, piercing Mu Anxiao's heart bit by bit.
However, from the day she attained immortality, she had been spoken about by all sorts of people, framed by all sorts of people. Many even said she was the originator of unearned gains.
In short, she had heard every unpleasant word imaginable. Being wronged had long been commonplace for her.
Yet, she had never experienced such a groundless accusation. At the age of ten, she was branded with the crime of fratricide. Hearing this, she found it unbearable and deeply unfair.
And the person who caused her such psychological distress was Xi'er.
At this moment, she vowed that upon her return, she would definitely capture that Xi'er.