Chapter 231

Chapter 231: He Never Wanted Yu Zhao Dead
“Elder brother, are you an immortal?”

“Elder brother, why are you lying here? Where is your family?”

“Elder brother, I am Little Yue. From now on, you will be my elder brother.”

…

A clear childlike voice chirped nonstop by his ear.

Master Qing Yan strangely did not feel annoyed.

He liked this voice.

There was even a faint sense of longing.

He did not know why he felt this way.

But he enjoyed this rare peaceful time.

Ever since that injury, he had not felt this relaxed in a long time.

So he let his soul sink into it, not thinking and not wanting to wake up.

Suddenly, a tearing pain came from his sea of consciousness and jolted him out of his hazy state.

Then he found that there was another soul in his sea of consciousness.

“What petty villain dares to body-seize me!”

Master Qing Yan’s voice rolled like crashing waves, stirring up a tsunami in his sea of consciousness.

His soul took on a human form, standing with hands behind his back, pride between his brows.

“Hmph, some petty thief dares to show off before an expert.”

Amid the roaring noise, a cold voice like jade communication stones striking against each other cut through the layers of sound and stepped out into the open.

The two of them met in the sea of consciousness.

Then they both froze.

“Audacious heart devil! How dare you disturb my Dao heart!”

Master Qing Yan shouted angrily, the earlier trace of carelessness gone from his eyes.

He stepped forward. In the sea of consciousness, gigantic waves surged toward the person opposite him, cold killing intent stirring up ripples.

The man opposite him hesitated, his eyes flickering, then suddenly flicked his sleeves.

The massive waves vanished like a mirage. The sea of consciousness returned to calm, as if the earth-shaking roar from before had only been an illusory realm.

Master Qing Yan was shocked.

His voice was dry.

“You… what kind of demon are you?”

The person opposite him gave a cold laugh and said: “Qing Yan, since you already recognize who I am, why will you not admit it?”

“Nonsense. How could there be two Qing Yan in the cultivation world at the same time!”

Master Qing Yan looked at the man across from him, who had the same face and the same origin as he did, and denied it flatly.

“Besides, I never wear black Dao robes, and my aura would never be this weak. You are not me!”

Even as he spoke, a deep unease wrapped around Master Qing Yan like vines, tightening layer by layer.

The “Master Qing Yan” opposite him curled his lips in a smile that looked just like his and said: “I ended up like this all thanks to your good disciple.”

“It was Yu Zhao!” Master Qing Yan burst into fury. “I knew she was rebellious to the bone. She was bound to commit something as unfilial as killing her master!”

“Silence! Do not slander Zhao’er!”

“Zhao’er?”

For once, confusion showed in Master Qing Yan’s eyes.

Even though he did not want to admit it, the other’s soul gave off the same origin aura as his and could control his sea of consciousness. Clearly, they were closely connected.

But the other man’s actions and the things he said were completely different from his own experiences.

For the moment, he did not even know if the other really was another version of himself.

He stayed silent for a long time.

He stretched out his hand. A ball of light shining with seven colors floated above it.

The “Master Qing Yan” opposite him also drew out a ball of light from his body without hesitation.

The two light spheres crossed paths in the air and then fell into each other’s hands.

Master Qing Yan closed his fingers.

Endless memories poured into his sea of consciousness.

Now he could finally be sure that the soul opposite him was “Master Qing Yan” from another small world.

Because the other man’s life from childhood onward was exactly the same as his. Even entering the Five Elements Dao Sect, becoming the youngest divine transformation cultivator, and using Burning the Soul to fight three enemies at once, all those important experiences matched one by one.

Only when the first difference appeared did the two worlds’ paths slowly start to change.

In the other world, after Yu Zhao entered the Black Prison, she stubbornly refused to repent and finally fainted in the cell. She was carried back to Lone Moon Peak by disciples and from then on was cursed as selfish and stupid.

After she left prison, Yu Zhao did not change to cultivate a heartless path either. Instead, her personality became more and more meek and timid. She put the sect first in everything.

But her obedience did not improve her situation. Instead, she sank step by step into becoming a scum everyone in the Five Elements Dao Sect wanted to beat.

When Master Qing Yan saw this part, he frowned in discomfort.

In front of him, Yu Zhao had always been arrogant and overbearing, with no one in her eyes. She had never been so humble and trembling.

Seeing Yu Zhao acting so timid and submissive did not please him at all. Instead, he grew even more annoyed. How could such a spineless thing be worthy of being his disciple? She was not even as good as that rebellious disciple who angered him every day!

As expected, many people thought the same way as he did. In this life, the disciples who had once desperately defended Yu Zhao treated this timid, cowardly Yu Zhao with the worst possible attitude.

Fang Cheng Lang knocked the sword from Yu Zhao’s hand with one strike and scolded her, saying she was not worthy to use a sword.

Lan Zi Yu broke the Purple Cloud Bamboo Flute he had given Yu Zhao in half and cursed her for having a heart like a venomous snake.

Su Ming burned the pouch that Yu Zhao had embroidered and used a Wish Slip to order her to kneel and slap herself.

Cui Jue tricked Yu Zhao into taking a poison pill that crushed the heart and split the liver, then watched coldly as she cried in pain.

Quan Ye used the excuse of sparring to toy with Yu Zhao, leaving her covered in wounds and with lingering hidden injuries.

And when he could no longer endure it, he drove Yu Zhao out of the sect and, in the end, even struck her with a sword…

When he saw the sword tip pierce through Yu Zhao’s chest, Master Qing Yan suddenly remembered Fang Cheng Lang kneeling in the main hall and asking him whether he had to kill Yu Zhao a second time after already killing her once.

Master Qing Yan suddenly understood.

What Fang Cheng Lang had mentioned should be this life he was seeing now.

He really had killed Yu Zhao.

[No. It was not him. It was him.]

The one who killed Yu Zhao was the “Master Qing Yan” standing opposite him.

Not him.

Even if he did not like Yu Zhao, he had never thought of taking her life.

He had only wanted Yu Zhao to be a bit more obedient, not covered in thorns all over, and not to hide blades in her words.

But when he looked at that Yu Zhao from before, who seemed to have had all her bones broken and her spirit drained, he felt a bit repelled too.

If he had to choose one, the current Yu Zhao was still a little easier on the eyes.

At least she knew self-respect and self-love.

She would not let others bully her.

And that other “Yu Zhao” only wore Yu Zhao’s skin without her backbone at all, completely sullying the name he had personally given her.

The way she ended up hated by everyone was something she had brought on herself.

Just as Master Qing Yan was about to keep looking through the memories, the “Master Qing Yan” opposite him suddenly attacked.

“You actually called Zhao’er an ungrateful, selfish person! Are you trying to ruin her!”

He did not dodge. Right before the attack landed, he raised his hand and blocked the other himself.

“Your soul force is not as strong as mine.”

In other words, the other “Qing Yan” could not beat him.

“Qing Yan, you should not have hurt her! Have you still not remembered? She is Shui Qing Yue’s reincarnation!”

“Shui… Qing… Yue…”

Master Qing Yan slowly spoke this name. It felt as if someone had cut a huge hole in his chest and cold wind was blowing through it, chilling him to the bone.

“Yes, Shui Qing Yue! Your little sister! To protect you, she went alone to lure the enemy away. After you were separated, she searched for you for dozens of years, but you did not remember her at all and even hurt her again! You deserve to die!”