Chapter 2006: Ling Muyan’s Death; Zhizhi’s Past
"I once had someone in my heart, it was Xu Changqing."
"It’s true that Yixue killed him, but I allowed her to, I even secretly helped her."
"I killed both the Great Elder and the Third Elder, and also Yixue..."
As she spoke, Ling Muyan’s eyes suddenly reddened.
"I gave the poison to Yixue, she... she smiled at me when she took the poison. She said she was grateful to me, grateful for my help back then, grateful I allowed her to enter the Immortal Medical Alliance..."
Speaking to this point, Ling Muyan’s voice was almost choked.
She dared not recall; whenever she thought of it, her heart ached immensely.
But, indeed it was she who handed the poison to Xiao Yixue.
Because she knew that Xiao Yixue would listen, would heed her words.
She felt sorry for Yixue, sorry to the person who wholeheartedly trusted and upheld her.
"Stop talking, did you take poison? What poison? I will give you the antidote," Ling Yilin said while searching for the antidote.
Completely forgetting that she was a healer.
Ling Yilin heard this, tightly holding Ling Yilin’s hand, then shook her head at him, "Senior Brother Yilin, don’t look for it."
"I deserve to die many times over."
Thinking about it carefully, these days, she realized she had behaved ridiculously.
First, she personally killed the Great Elder, then she killed her master who treated her as his own, and blamed it on Ling Zhiyu and Ling Yilin.
She didn’t even know why, at that time, she could be so resolute.
Thinking back now, perhaps, she was already mad.
Perhaps at this moment, it was one of her few moments of clarity.
Thinking and thinking, Ling Muyan felt her eyelids fighting to stay open.
With her last ounce of strength, she handed a paper filled with writing to Gu Zhiqi, detailing the events.
Finally, she tilted her head and fell onto Gu Zhiqi’s shoulder.
Blood in her mouth continued to flow out, directly dyeing Gu Zhiqi’s collar red.
Gu Zhiqi paid no heed, continuing to support the person, reaching for the paper she held, then lowering her gaze slightly, staring at the paper in a daze.
After a while, a cautious voice echoed in her mind, [Zhizhi, are you okay?]
This scene was very familiar to Chubby Chiu.
Years ago, in the Feng Shui Alliance, there was a master aunt who lost control due to cultivating the Heartless Path.
As a result, she killed her husband and son; anyone who held a place in her heart became her target.
Back then, among the people in the master’s sect, only Gu Zhiqi was her match.
Gu Zhiqi stopped her but accidentally killed her.
That master aunt was called Gu Yuan; after Gu Zhiqi’s master Gu Yin’s ascension, it was Master Aunt Gu Yuan who became the Alliance Hierarch.
Gu Yuan was pierced through the heart by Gu Zhiqi’s sword; that day, she was also like Ling Muyan, leaning on Gu Zhiqi’s shoulder, with blood staining Gu Zhiqi’s collar red.
As Aunt Gu Yuan spat blood, she spoke to Gu Zhiqi, "Qiqi, thank you."
"Qiqi, don’t blame yourself, Master Aunt doesn’t blame you."
Aunt Gu Yuan didn’t want to kill, but she had succumbed to madness and couldn’t control herself.
Gu Zhiqi killed her, which was a relief to her.
However, Gu Zhiqi couldn’t move past it.
Before Aunt Gu Yuan passed away, she entrusted the master’s sect to Gu Zhiqi, wanting her to become the new Alliance Hierarch, but Gu Zhiqi couldn’t move past it and closed herself off in seclusion for decades.
Gu Zhiqi refused to become the Alliance Hierarch, so the position fell to Gu Zhiqi’s Big Senior Brother Gu Mojue instead.
Later, Gu Mojue was severely injured by several sects, his cultivation level destroyed.
Gu Zhiqi thought, if she had listened to Master Aunt and taken up the position of Alliance Hierarch back then, Big Senior Brother wouldn’t have been severely injured.
On the day she emerged from seclusion, Gu Zhiqi stormed through seven sects, forcing them to hand over the culprit who hurt Gu Mojue.