The scoundrel who abandoned Abbess Miaohui, turned out to be a descendant of a folk sect!
Yan Shouyi instantly understood. It was for this reason that Abbess Miaohui hated the folk sects and joined the Twelve Yuan Chen, because everything Li Genmiao did was always harmful and not beneficial to the folk sects.
But another doubt immediately surfaced in Yan Shouyi's mind.
If Abbess Miaohui wanted to switch allegiance, she could have done so long ago. Why did she guard the Emei sect for so many years and fake her death only after Grandma left?
"Little Aunt, did Abbess Miaohui say anything special before her Nirvana?" Yan Shouyi asked.
Abbess Guanyun did not think too much about it, only believing that Yan Shouyi was gathering clues to deduce the location of the Lotus Array's eye.
She recalled and shook her head, "My master did not say anything special."
Then, Abbess Guanyun looked at Wen Yuxian with a hint of apology and said, "But before she died, my master still thought of you, my senior sister."
Human life is paramount. At the time of her death, shouldn't Abbess Miaohui have been thinking of her own flesh and blood, or expressing her hatred for that man?
Why did she keep staring at Grandma?
Yan Shouyi stroked his chin and pondered for a long time.
He quickly thought of a plausible deduction.
After Abbess Miaohui was cruelly abandoned, she had also considered staying with the Emei sect, waiting for that man to change his mind. But decades passed, and neither the man nor her child appeared. Abbess Miaohui's patience gradually wore thin.
When Abbess Miaohui learned that her most favored disciple, Wen Yuxian, had fallen in love with a descendant of a folk sect, she must have worried that Wen Yuxian would repeat her mistake and therefore strongly opposed it.
She believed that Wen Yuxian would definitely be abandoned by Yan Baixiang.
However, the final outcome was not as Abbess Miaohui had predicted. Yan Baixiang broke into the forbidden area of Emei Mountain for the sake of his lover and forcibly took Wen Yuxian away for them to elope.
Wasn't this exactly what Abbess Miaohui had been waiting for all these years?
Wen Yuxian's departure shattered the conviction that Abbess Miaohui had held for years, causing her cultivation to be completely abolished due to anger. What truly infuriated her to such an extent was not Wen Yuxian, but the heartless scoundrel who had left her.
She hated that her years of waiting had been in vain, like a reflection in water and moon. Yet, the very thing she had longed for happened to her most favored disciple, which was like sprinkling salt on Abbess Miaohui's wound.
The devastated Abbess Miaohui no longer chose to wait but opted to fake her death, escape, and join the Twelve Yuan Chen to retaliate against the folk sects, including the heartless man, and also Wen Yuxian and Yan Baixiang, who had found love.
Of course, these were merely Yan Shouyi's speculations.
Yan Shouyi seized the opportunity and asked a few more questions, finally annoying Wen Yuxian and Abbess Guanyun to the point where he wisely chose to stop.
Abbess Miaohui was someone neither of the sisters was willing to mention. If it weren't for the search for the Lotus Array's eye, they probably would never have discussed their master.
However, Yan Shouyi did gain some information.
The man who abandoned Abbess Miaohui was a magician. He didn't have much skill, but he was particularly good at making girls happy.
Abbess Miaohui's period of training outside the mountain was set for three years, after which she had to return to Emei. At that time, Abbess Miaohui, who had just begun to understand love and had not experienced much of the world, had been outside for less than half a year when she met the magician and fell deeply in love, uncontrollably.
When the news reached Emei, the then Sect Leader of Emei was furious and ordered Abbess Miaohui to be brought back. Abbess Miaohui and the magician hid, and after much difficulty, they managed to have their child. Not long after, Abbess Miaohui was captured and brought back to Emei Mountain.
The magician was not resigned. He took the child and lived at the foot of Emei Mountain, occasionally finding opportunities to secretly meet Abbess Miaohui. This was why Abbess Miaohui could remain at Emei Mountain with peace of mind to continue her cultivation.
As for the "heartless man's" disappearance, it was because he had not contacted Abbess Miaohui for a long time. Abbess Miaohui, in her anger, went down the mountain only to find the place deserted. The heartless man had left, taking the child with him, leaving Abbess Miaohui all alone.
This was the information Yan Shouyi had gleaned from Wen Yuxian and Abbess Guanyun.
Unfortunately, this information was of no use in finding the Lotus Array's eye.
After reminding Grandma to take good care of herself, Yan Shouyi bid farewell to the two and left the Flying Cloud Hall.
After the Emei Lotus Array was broken, he would definitely go down the mountain to settle accounts with Abbess Miaohui. Therefore, knowing more about her was not a bad thing.
So, Yan Shouyi, unwilling to give up, found Ling Xiaoxiao and asked her to help search the Emei Sect's Sutra Repository for clues about Abbess Miaohui.
The Sutra Repository was not a place anyone could enter. Even with Yan Shouyi's good relationship with Abbess Guanyun, he still had no right to enter such a sacred place of the sect.
Therefore, he had to ask Ling Xiaoxiao.
Ling Xiaoxiao was young, but she was quite righteous. She readily agreed, left her partner Yan Nanfei, and rushed to the Sutra Repository.
Yan Nanfei said helplessly, "Xiaoxiao is too naive. I'm afraid she'll be deceived in the future."
Hearing this, Yan Shouyi couldn't help but be stunned.
It seemed that the Emei sect was rife with naive girls!
Abbess Miaohui was deceived by a heartless man.
Grandma Wen Yuxian was eloped with by Grandpa Yan Baixiang.
Now, Ling Xiaoxiao was fond of happy soda for couch potatoes, and if anyone bought her a bottle of cola after she went down the mountain, she was willing to follow them.
Alas, I hope Junior Sister Ling won't meet a man as reliable as me in the future.
Yan Shouyi silently praised himself profusely.
Not long after Ling Xiaoxiao entered the Sutra Repository, Zhuge Ji and Tian Jue'er rushed back in a hurry.
Abbess Guanyun and Wen Yuxian were still in the Flying Cloud Hall. The two were Yan Shouyi's confidants, so they did not think of going to Abbess Guanyun but came directly to report to Yan Shouyi.
Zhuge Ji not only reported the incident of encountering skeletons in the back mountain but also shared some of his deductions.
Yan Shouyi's expression became extremely solemn after listening. He immediately called for the idle Yan Nanfei and went to the scene in the back mountain together.
In the back mountain, after arriving, Yan Shouyi examined all the skeletons. Combined with Zhuge Ji's deductions, he also believed that the truth was more or less the same as the deductions.
However, they still lacked evidence.
Therefore, Yan Shouyi released Zhu Shanzao and ordered, "Old Zhu, it's time for you to shine!"
Zhu Shanzao glanced at the skeletons on the ground and immediately knew what Yan Shouyi wanted to do. It roared angrily:
"How many times do I have to tell you, I'm not a dog!"
"But your nose is as good as a dog's!" Yan Shouyi said.
It is known that pigs' sense of smell is even more sensitive than dogs', even 2 to 3 times more sensitive than dogs'.
Although Zhu Shanzao looked very unwilling, it still started working honestly. It followed the scent of the skeletons and searched around.
Finally, it found a few more bones. After Tian Jue'er pieced them together, Yan Shouyi and Zhuge Ji both showed thoughtful expressions.