Chapter 128: Su Lian Yue’s Past (Special Chapter 17)
Su Lian Yue did not continue to ask. Her two outstanding disciples had both said that there were no high-grade spiritual beasts nearby.
Then there probably weren’t any.
Su Lian Yue did not plan to waste too much time in this mermaid tribe. At most, she would stay for three days.
After the meal, the receptionist mermaid took the two to see the beautiful scenery of the seabed and then planned to go to rest.
The resting place was naturally also at the bottom of the sea. The receptionist mermaid found a huge shell bed for the two, and there were also corals as embellishments.
An isolation barrier surrounded this area to ensure absolute quiet for the two distinguished guests to rest.
This kind of bed could accommodate two people, and the feeling of sleeping on it was much more comfortable than a bed on land.
It was Jiang Xianyue’s first time sleeping at the bottom of the sea. She lay on the bed and looked around at everything with curiosity.
She looked at the surrounding coral reefs that shimmered with a soft light, and the occasional colorful small fish that swam past. She was too excited to fall asleep.
And Su Lian Yue, on the other hand, quickly fell into a dream. Her even breathing was particularly clear in the quiet seabed.
Su Lian Yue’s sleep quality had been very high during this time. During her time with Jiang Xianyue, she had always been very relaxed.
Sometimes, she had even forgotten her own identity. She didn’t have to manage her own territory, and she didn’t have to consider her own responsibilities.
She just had to happily play with Jiang Xianyue every day.
Jiang Xianyue retracted her admiring thoughts and turned to look at Su Lian Yue’s peaceful sleeping face.
“Sister is so beautiful even when she’s sleeping…”
Jiang Xianyue jumped down from her bed and walked to Su Lian Yue’s side, just quietly looking at her. Her gaze swept over every feature of Su Lian Yue, as if she wanted to firmly engrave her shadow in her heart.
“You’re not sleeping. What are you doing?” Su Lian Yue suddenly said. Jiang Xianyue was suddenly nervous.
Su Lian Yue was a light sleeper. She had noticed her as soon as she got out of bed.
“Mm… I’m afraid that sister will suddenly run away. I want to look at sister for a while longer.” Jiang Xianyue said what was on her mind without thinking.
Su Lian Yue smiled helplessly. “If I wanted to run, I would have run long ago.”
“Go back and rest.”
Jiang Xianyue shook her head. “I don’t really want to sleep.”
“Alright then. I’ll rest first. You can play by yourself for a while.”
Su Lian Yue turned over and was about to ignore Jiang Xianyue.
“Sister, I have something to tell you…”
“It’s not too late to talk about it tomorrow…” Su Lian Yue said with her back to her.
Jiang Xianyue was silent. She had wanted to say something for a long time, but she had never found a suitable opportunity.
Now, there was no one around, only her and her sister. It was the best time to speak her mind.
After this time, who knows when she would be able to say it.
“Sister…”
Jiang Xianyue’s hand rested on Su Lian Yue’s waist. Su Lian Yue also understood that it was impossible to sleep today without letting her finish.
She turned over and looked at Jiang Xianyue helplessly.
“If you have something to say, just say it. I’m listening.”
“Sister, what do you think of our travels during this time?” Jiang Xianyue asked.
“It’s alright.”
“Just alright?”
“Then it’s not bad.”
Su Lian Yue didn’t know what she was going to ask and could only answer according to her own feelings.
“Sister, I want to know why you saved me back then~”
Jiang Xianyue blinked. This was a question she had always wanted to ask.
“Sister, you’re so strong. Wouldn’t you be very busy if you helped everyone you met?”
“But by a stroke of luck, you happened to help me.”
“And then… I latched onto sister…”
The reason Jiang Xianyue said these things was to hear something different from Su Lian Yue’s mouth.
For example… “I fell in love with you at first sight, so I saved you,” or something similar.
But Su Lian Yue would definitely not grant her wish.
“That’s right… I can’t even run away if I want to…”
“Do you want to hear the real answer?” Su Lian Yue asked.
“Of course!” Jiang Xianyue replied without hesitation.
“Alright then… actually, your encounter that day just happened to remind me of myself…”
Seeing that Jiang Xianyue did not understand, Su Lian Yue continued.
“Jiang Xianyue, I am indeed a strong person, and stronger than you can imagine.”
“In the process of becoming a strong person, my hands are stained with countless blood. The lives that have passed away in my hands may be more than you can imagine.”
Su Lian Yue stated a fact. Jiang Xianyue, however, was indifferent.
“Sister, actually, even if your hands are stained with more blood, what does that have to do with me? I don’t know them.”
“I only know that sister is good to me, protects me… teaches me cultivation techniques… and plays with me!”
Jiang Xianyue began to count Su Lian Yue’s good points on her fingers again.
That’s right. She couldn’t care less about what Su Lian Yue was like in the past.
But during this time, Su Lian Yue was good to her, and she had really felt it.
People are selfish. When you like someone, you will magnify their strengths and minimize their weaknesses. And this was not even a weakness for Su Lian Yue.
Su Lian Yue did not follow her words. “Didn’t you want to know why I saved you?”
“I’ll tell you now. Because you… are just like the weak me…”
“You are naive and brave… but also so foolish. You clearly know that your body will be coveted, yet you still don’t care.”
“I don’t know if I should say you’re foolish or…”
Jiang Xianyue: “Sister, we were born like this. Why should we change ourselves for others?”
Su Lian Yue gave a bitter smile. “You don’t understand… before I became strong, I was not like this at all.”
“Some people are born to be eye-catching. For example, some have cultivation talent, and some have beauty…”
“But in this world where strength is paramount, if you don’t have strength or a powerful background, these are your disasters.”
“Did you know… when I was your age, I didn’t dare to look in the mirror. I didn’t dare to see what I looked like.”
Jiang Xianyue: “Why, sister? We should all be very beautiful at our age…”
Seeing that Jiang Xianyue was so naive, Su Lian Yue couldn’t help but touch her head.
“This is your naivety. You’re always living in an ideal world.”
“Let me ask you, if your face were to be destroyed… what would you do?”
“I would go crazy. I might not be able to live…”
Jiang Xianyue answered directly without much thought. Of course, she also knew that she was born with a stunning face. In the Snowfall Sect, countless elders doted on her.
And many men were in love with her.
This would of course lead to her being a little arrogant and complacent, and she liked to act coquettishly with the elders.
The elders would unconditionally satisfy her requests…
Su Lian Yue: “The day we came out of the Absolute Flame Valley, more than half of my face was destroyed… but I didn’t care at all. Do you know why?”
Jiang Xianyue thought for a moment. “Because sister is strong enough, and maybe because sister… knows that her face will heal in the future…”
“None of what you said is right. It’s because… for two-thirds of my life… my face was like that.”
Su Lian Yue’s words were like a bolt from the blue, striking Jiang Xianyue’s heart.
She was a little in disbelief of Su Lian Yue’s words, because her expression was as if she were talking about a trivial matter.
In her opinion, it was impossible to say this so calmly.
To make Jiang Xianyue believe, Su Lian Yue continued, “Like you, I had outstanding cultivation talent and beauty since I was a child. But… I also had a misfortune…”
“I don’t have a powerful background, and I was born in a poor village where people had a hard time even getting enough to eat.”
“As I grew older, I showed my extraordinary talent day by day. My parents thought I was a first-class cultivation genius, so they wanted to send me out of this village to change our future destiny.”
“I left the village. At that time, I only had the cultivation of the Foundation Establishment realm and was just a little girl. But I was captured by thieves on the way.”
“They saw my beauty and wanted to send me to the so-called big shots…”
“I was too weak and was naturally captured by them. I was locked up in a place similar to a prison, and it was here that I saw something that would change my life.”
“There were many girls like me here. They would be taken out by those people every few days, and they never came back.”
“I don’t know what those big shots did with these girls. It might be far more tragic than we can imagine.”
At this, Su Lian Yue closed her eyes, and the tragic memories came to her mind.
She remembered the painful pleas of those girls, but what they got in return was one lesson after another from those people.
Only when the girls could no longer make a sound would they be rudely taken away.
That’s right. The people of the Demon Realm… from a certain point of view, were far more lacking in humanity than the people of the Mortal Realm. It couldn’t even be called humanity… it was simply bestiality.
Hearing this, Jiang Xianyue already had a trace of sympathy for Su Lian Yue’s childhood. She couldn’t imagine what kind of life Su Lian Yue had lived before.
She gently held Su Lian Yue’s hand, and Su Lian Yue did not refuse this comfort.
The two’s hands were just held like this..
