After rebirth, the eldest sister voluntarily abdicated and gave way to the wise.

Chapter 658 Secret

Ye An'an and Qing Mu are both very strong-willed, and it's hard for them not to argue when they're together. They don't want to waste each other's time on these things, so they simply divide the responsibility, each taking half. Jiang Liqian has to run between the two of them to see her. But when things really get tough, the two of them are more united than anyone else.

Qingmu's blade was covered in blood and murderous aura. Although she had many wounds, large and small, her spirit was even more excited. The path she walked was the path of slaughter, and the war between immortals and demons had made her who she was.

Ye An'an was under much more pressure than her. As the young master of the Ye family, she had to take care of both sides, especially the various spirit beasts raised by the Ye family, which were the favorite food of magical beasts. The Ye family was the most severely attacked by the demon army. Once Ye City was captured, they would have a large amount of food to survive and break through to higher levels.

"No need to dawdle and check if we're dead or not. Don't worry, the Great Dao is ahead. We face death to live, what's there to be afraid of!" Qing Mu's eyes shone with a dazzling light, the purest belief in heaven and earth, in life and death, and in the Great Dao.

Jiang Liqian hadn't seen such a look in a very long time.

When she went to see her senior brother, he was fighting the demon army to the very end. A huge magical shockwave blew him away. She rushed to him in a panic, her eyes filled with deep fear, and her hands trembled as she checked his wounds.

She was scared, so scared.

She only had her eldest brother; he was all she had left.

But the eldest brother raised his head from the messy mud, staring blankly at her. Suddenly, tears streamed down his face, and he murmured, "Junior sister, I think I remember who our master is..."

Her heart trembled violently, and she collapsed to the ground, turning her head away, unable to look her senior brother in the eye.

This time she was even more afraid, afraid that her senior brother would ask her where their master had gone.

Jiang Huaizhou came to help her up, and it took him several attempts to get her up from the ground.

"Senior Sister, will we ever meet again?"

she does not know.

"Don't die."

She only said this one sentence.

As the second disciple of Sect Leader Qingzhi, Xuan Ling was stationed in the most dangerous Beiyao City. It was the closest city to Beizhou, with an extremely harsh environment. The defensive fortifications were progressing very slowly, and the battles were the most fierce, with the most cultivators injured. Most of the disciples of Danfeng were stationed here.

Even so, when Xuan Ling came to see Jiang Liqian, she was clean and tidy, and even her hair was sprinkled with a light and delicate fragrance of orchid.

The most eye-catching red clothes he wore were like a dazzling sunset that could never be erased from a gray city.

"Senior Sister!" He ran over, completely unaware of the sandstorm raging outside.

Jiang Liqian looked at him, staring at him, feeling that he was both so unfamiliar and so familiar.

Aside from his betrayal of her, he actually did very well—towards the sect, his fellow disciples, his family, and the world. She always felt that she was leading from the front, but Xuan Ling always followed behind her, never retreating an inch.

Despite the perilous situation here, with the sect leader deceased, he remained fearless and steadfastly held the front line. He carried the burden of the Tianqian Sect better than she had.

Love, hate, resentment, and hatred—having experienced so much joy and sorrow, she didn't know whether she should hate or resent him.

It's a mix of hatred, resentment, joy, and happiness; I'm too exhausted to do anything about it now.

She was a sword forged by her master's own hands, and he was a pillar she nurtured little by little.

That was her expectation of him, but things inevitably changed.

"Senior Sister!" he called out to her, his voice carrying the wind and rain, his robes fluttering in the sunlight.

"Sister!"

"Senior Sister..."

A sandstorm swirled in the air, obscuring the sky and the sun. In the blurred boundary between sunlight and darkness, Jiang Li murmured softly.

"I know what I need to do."

"I know……"

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The Heavenly Mystery Pavilion is located at the extreme of the Southern Continent, standing atop the clouds. Every brick and stone in its foundation is taken from divine stones that fell from the primordial universe. They contain profound heavenly principles, laws and regulations, and the shifting of stars and constellations, which cannot be expressed in words and are beyond the comprehension of ordinary people.

Within the cultivation world, the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion holds a very special position. It accepts disciples based on merit, exceptional talent, youth, and exceptional appearance.

Therefore, very few disciples can be admitted to the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion, but each one is a prodigy who is hard to match by other sects. They are also exceptionally good-looking, have outstanding temperament, and are destined for greatness.

Its ability to predict destiny, fortune, misfortune, calamity, and past and future events, and its skillful manipulation of fate, makes it a force that no one in the cultivation world dares to offend.

It is also the sect that everyone in the cultivation world most wants to see, yet most fears seeing.

Every day, every hour, countless people from all over the country flock to the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion, hoping to achieve a resolution for themselves, their families, their loved ones, and even for their enemies.

Yet few can ascend that towering pavilion in the clouds, or cross that bridge of clouds and stars.

But today, a special guest arrived at the long-silent Tianji Pavilion.

The man walked straight in through the Heavenly Gate of the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion, crossed the Floating Star Sea Bridge, and arrived at the “Cause and Effect” Pavilion without any setbacks or delays.

And there, a young master of worldly affairs had been waiting for her for a long time.

White silk fluttered, robes billowed, and a piece of black hair tied up with white jade was entwined with a crimson pendant. Jade pendants jingled, and jade and gold ornaments adorned the scene.

Jiang Liqian gazed at him from afar, and suddenly her eyes were filled with tears.

"Are you a stone?" she asked.

Shi Yunyu tilted her head, and the white silk covering her eyes fluttered in the wind.

"Fellow Daoist, you came to the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion just to ask this question?"

Jiang Li smiled faintly, but the smile in her eyes was very faint.

"I came here seeking an answer." She loosened her clenched hand, revealing a small piece of writing in her palm, which was suddenly blown away by the wind.

On the finest gold-flecked paper, a line of small characters is clearly visible through the paper.

—The causes and consequences, the karmic connections, are all left to the secrets of heaven.

This note was given to her by the stone when she followed the light of the Spirit-Suppressing Pearl to the mortal realm.

Because of the many shocks that followed, she had no time to think about this, and it wasn't until she left Xuanlei Valley that she vaguely remembered it.

It's no surprise that Shi Tou appeared by her side; perhaps he had been waiting for this day from the very beginning.

Wait, she'll come looking for a cause and an effect.

A future.

"The Pavilion of Cause and Effect, trace the cause and effect. If you have no regrets, please enter."

Shi Yunyu stepped aside and lowered his eyes to invite her into the pavilion.

Jiang Li took a deep breath and stepped forward.

"Jiang Liqian, once you step in, there's no turning back."

Have you really thought this through?

She paused for a moment, then strode inside.

Shi Yunyu stood behind her, watching her silently, then turned her head and sighed softly.

In both her past and present lives, her choices seem to remain unchanged.

In this life and the next, I only hope that it wasn't all in vain.

The Pavilion Master of Tianji Pavilion emerged from the layers of clouds, looking at his most beloved closed-door disciple with a complex expression: "Child, are you truly sure? Are you willing to give up everything?"

Shi Yunyu kowtowed to him, her silence conveying his most resolute answer.

He rose from the clouds and stepped into the Hall of Cause and Effect.

"Perhaps we're all getting old..."

"Or perhaps, you are too young..."