After My Thoughts Were Read, My Master Led Me to Change My Fate - Chapter 34

Stepping through the wide, clean hall and into the inner part of the palace, it was no longer as peaceful as it looked from the outside. Splashes of blood were scattered on the floor, like the final struggles of the desperate.

Ran Fanyin scanned her surroundings and quickly found her greatest opponent for this trip among the many people detained in the hall.

The reputations of the so-called secluded families from the Four Islands were barely sustained by blocking incoming and outgoing news. After the former prodigious cultivators either ascended or went into seclusion, the four great families had not produced a world-shaking genius for a long time. Even a person like Ning Yuanyue, who barely reached the Void Refinement stage when she was three or four hundred years old and only arrived at the Body Fusion stage after an unknown number of years, could shoulder the position of Family Head. The Ning family was certainly the weakest, but how much better were the other three?

The people on the Four Outer Islands had long gone insane. They strictly restricted news and practiced endogamy. Regardless of how tangled their marital and familial relationships had become, as long as the talent was slightly better, they were piled together. Just like her so-called marriage alliance with the Yue Clan, it was merely an attempt by two slightly better-talented juniors to get together and gamble for a genius.

No one cared about her physique; no one cared that this physique, praised by everyone, could not bear children, or rather, that she was destined to die on the night the child was born—she could only choose one of the two.

Neither she nor the Yue Clan Young Master wanted this marriage, nor did she want a stranger to share her bed. So the two of them discussed what should be done, and the object she chose was the equally talented spiritual slave, Cheng Yunhuan, the elder sister she loved and cared about deeply.

If that Yue Clan Young Master had not backed out at the last moment, exposing everything and attempting to reclaim the child, perhaps… she would not have fallen to this state.

How could a Goddess consort with a spiritual slave randomly picked up and raised in a medicinal bath? She was destined to be locked up here, bearing everyone’s wrath.

Fortunately, she had let Cheng Yunhuan go. Fortunately, she was still outside, free.

And she had brought back news of the child.

She didn’t want to delve into the strangeness of this matter. If the child was willing to come, then she was willing to face her with the appropriate affection.

However, Ning Xiujie shook her head, gently holding Ning Leyan’s hand, and softly said, “She is not feeling hatred; she is feeling jealousy.”

“Jealousy that my beloved and I are deeply devoted to each other, jealousy that Elder Brother, for the sake of his lover and clan sister, even charged straight into Mu Island with his sword, disregarding his own life.”

“And the person she loves is an absolute hypocrite, someone whom everyone would laugh at, a soft laugh if they dared not laugh loudly.”

Ning Leyan asked in return, “Then does Aunt think she was wrong?”

Ning Xiujie paused for a moment and said, “Liking someone is just liking someone; how can there be right or wrong? Moreover, between the two of them, the one who was wrong was always that hypocrite. If I have to say it, I actually have a bit of admiration for her… Forget it. Leyan, you must remember that the one who mocks others is the real hypocrite.”

Ning Leyan nodded. Only then did the woman relax slightly, the tension and pain in her heart eased by this conversation. With a clear head, she began to think of a countermeasure.

She asked in a low voice, “Which round is it now?”

“The ninth. We should be going out now.” Another voice cut into the conversation. This single voice made Ning Xiujie’s eyes widen. She suddenly remembered the small dimension she had long forgotten tucked in her embrace. Before she could take out the ring, a flash of lightning passed, and a tall, slender figure appeared in the prison cell.

The next moment, several bolts of lightning struck down, directly severing the iron chains binding her hands and feet. And that tall, slender figure, under Ning Leyan’s gaze, almost without hesitation…

…knelt before Ning Xiujie and gently cupped her face.

Cheng Yunhuan’s eyes were moist with tears, and her voice trembled, “I am so sorry for making Young Miss wait so long. I am late.” She paused, then added, “But I really cannot agree with what that madman Ning Yuanyue did. There was no need, truly no need…”

The beautiful atmosphere of a long-awaited reunion was completely shattered the moment her mouth opened. Ning Xiujie still had tears on her face, but she laughed from sheer anger. She raised her hand to hit the person in front of her.

What nonsense! Her admiration was for Ning Yuanyue not giving up in such circumstances, but rather climbing step by step to the highest peak. This person in front of her must have known that but still joked about Ning Yuanyue later imprisoning the person she loved. How hateful!

Cheng Yunhuan quickly blocked her, repeatedly apologizing, yet couldn’t help but smile slightly, saying, “Shall we go out now? To help Little Wu with something.”

More of the long-awaited reunion can wait. The important thing now is to successfully escape from the Ning family. Ning Songwu is at the end of her rope, and they cannot afford to delay even a second.

Ning Xiujie was stunned. “Your injuries?”

“Little Wu gave me a lot of medicine. She’s doing very well at Shangyun Sect, and she has someone she loves… I will tell you the details later, including how she managed to survive. Let’s get out first.”

As Cheng Yunhuan spoke, lightning surged in her hand. Dark-purple lightning shot up from the ground, flickering as it slowly destroyed the entire prison cell.

Ning Xiujie was already a little dazed upon hearing that her daughter had someone she loved. She only snapped back to her senses when Cheng Yunhuan picked her up, but she was weak and couldn’t break free. She quickly said, “Leyan and I can just stay in the small dimension.”

Cheng Yunhuan glanced at her, smiled helplessly, and said, “You can hear everything inside. Instead of being frightened and worried in there, it’s better to see it with your own eyes.”

“Besides, the clan elders have mostly been killed by Ning Yuanyue. Dealing with just Ning Yuanyue alone, I can do it.”

She wasn’t lying. Back then, she had already made it to the outside of the prison cell. If the clan elders hadn’t blocked her there, she might have been able to take Ning Xiujie away, instead of getting severely injured herself.

Just Ning Yuanyue alone was still beneath her notice.

Ning Xiujie frowned deeply, “There is also Ning Yuanlie. Only these two from the Yuan generation are left, but neither of them can be underestimated…”

“Then leave that to Young Miss,” Cheng Yunhuan interrupted her and summoned Ning Leyan into the small dimension.

Before going in, the young girl poked her head out and smiled, “Should you still call her Young Miss?”

“Leyan!”

The young girl chuckled and quickly hid inside.

Cheng Yunhuan gave a soft laugh. “Little Niece is right. Then the rest is up to my wife.”

Ning Xiujie looked up in astonishment, meeting those bright eyes that held a faint smile. Following that, the woman looked up at the sky, summoning the final bolt of shocking thunder to shatter the entire prison cell to pieces.

The dust slowly settled. When the view became clearer, they could see the battle scene below perfectly.

No, they didn’t even need to look down.

Because that figure, entirely in white, was floating in mid-air, holding a cold sword, with a frigid frost lotus drifting behind her.

In the scene of overwhelming whiteness, only the person in the center was dressed in blood-red.

Cheng Yunhuan’s heart leaped in shock. Her first reaction was to raise her hand to cover the ears of the person in her arms, and then pull her closer to herself, shielding her view.

Don’t look. Don’t listen.

【So disgusting. How can they harm ordinary people? Aren’t they afraid of divine retribution?】

【In just half a year, with such an unstable foundation, what is there to boast about here?】

【If you don’t leave soon, I’m going to throw up.】

【What the heck is this? These people… their taste is truly unique.】

【Lin Yuxue’s rapid advancement in strength, could it also be related to this medicine? Is she also a participant in this cult?】

【Judging from the current situation, the development of this cult is not weak. Why is there no mention of it in the book? Or did the person who wrote the book not know about it either?】

【Subtitles, the sentient one, you’re here? What do you mean the person who wrote the book didn’t know?】

【Will I die? Oh, that’s a pointless question.】

【No.】

【? What a useless answer.】

【There are indeed spells that increase cultivation speed, but only a portion of the cultivation gained can be used by oneself, with the remainder being taken by the spirit-gathering formation?】

【The rapid aging of everyone in Huarong Village was because their cultivation and even their lifespan were absorbed by the formation. And Yin Xi’s appearance seems unaffected because of spiritual energy replenishment?】

【What about Lin Yuxue? Her cultivation speed is so strange; it must be related to this spell. Her appearance wasn’t affected, so that’s why she suffered a backlash…】

【I can’t solve the spell, and I don’t understand the pharmacology, but the formation must have a diagram. After suffering such a misfortune, I must get something out of it.】

【So embarrassing. I thought I acted so well, but they saw right through it.】

【So, Lin Yuxue is indeed related to this group, right! Otherwise, how would this group know me!】

【But Yin Xi has returned. What should I do now…】

Ning Songwu hugged the tree branch, her face full of worry. Her plan to steal the formation diagram failed before she even started. Which direction can she even go now…

【As long as there are words, it will be here. I don’t believe I can’t find the formation diagram.】

【What can I do? Master handles things much more smoothly than I do. I’m just a little dummy…】

【A little dummy, and proud of it.】

【Is this guy sick? I gave him the cold shoulder and told him to scram, and he still has a good impression of me?!】

【Yue, I’m going to throw up.】

【I have someone I like. Males, do not disturb.】

【Master wouldn’t think I’m trying to hide the fact that I have someone I like, would she?】

【Tsk, why do elders always think in this direction?】

【How should I hint to her that Luo Sheng had love at first sight for Liu Ruoying?】

【Never mind. Master still hasn’t figured out the unspoken, mutual crush between the Sect Master and Elder He Lan, so I won’t bother her anymore.】