MOF Chapter 58

Chapter 58: The Truth of the Bygone Events of the False Spring Comes to Light; Cold Presses Winter Snow, Flying and Drifting Like…

“But where are we going to find someone now?” Gu Huanzhi asked.

Xie Yiling suddenly remembered, “I heard that some siblings have a telepathic connection. Since Bai Cheng and Bai Zhe are twins, perhaps the connection is even deeper.”

Gu Huanzhi led them into a side room. Xie Yiling once again released Bai Cheng’s soul, and then took two steps back.

Having heard their conversation clearly through the Soul-Questioning Curse, Bai Cheng, after being released, looked at them and asked, “If the truth is as you say, what will you do to my brother?”

Hearing this, Xie Yiling felt a headache coming on. He supported his temple with one hand and rubbed it.

Nangong Ci said, “If he has truly colluded with the demonic path, his spiritual power will undoubtedly be crippled. If his hands are stained with lives, we can only act on behalf of the heavens.”

“I…I can help you find him, but after finding him, can you let me ask him first?” Bai Cheng lowered her eyelashes, a hint of expectation in her eyes, “I want to hear him tell me the truth with my own ears.”

“Alright,” Xie Yiling agreed.

Bai Cheng closed her eyes, her feet leaving the ground, floating in mid-air. The gray-green dark light around her was several times denser than before.

Before long, Bai Cheng slowly landed. She covered her heart, her face as white as paper, almost transparent. “Brother, he…he is on Changming Street, below the Sun and Moon Spirit Platform.”

Having obtained the desired information, Xie Yiling took out the Soul-Questioning Curse, intending to take Bai Cheng back in, but he heard her say, “Immortal Lord, wait. There’s no need for me to go back in. My brother wants to see me. Let me just go with you like this.”

Seeing her looking as if her soul could dissipate at any moment, Xie Yiling couldn’t bear it and poured a stream of spiritual power into her to protect her soul.

Bai Cheng was stunned for a second, smiled at him, and was about to thank him when suddenly a burst of severe pain came over her. Her body curled up like a shrimp, scaring Xie Yiling’s expression.

“W-What’s wrong?” Gu Huanzhi stammered.

Xie Yiling was also puzzled, but in his urgency, he thought of something else. In the painting, Bai Cheng was suppressed by the formation and had no choice but to say “Save me” to him.

He now suspected that the formation was not for protecting Bai Cheng.

Nangong Ci cast another spiritual incantation and probed Bai Cheng’s body, finding that the little remaining magic power was rapidly losing. He frowned slightly and forcibly stopped the mysterious force from plundering Bai Cheng’s magic power.

Xie Yiling looked at the hand that was channeling spiritual power into Bai Cheng and wondered if he was really a disciple of the Immortal Sect.

Was there something wrong with his spiritual power?

“It’s not your problem,” Nangong Ci said to Xie Yiling, withdrawing his hand.

Bai Cheng barely managed to stabilize herself and sat down, leaning against the table.

Gu Huanzhi cautiously asked, “What’s going on?”

Bai Cheng’s voice was weak and faint: “I don’t know why, but my spiritual power always disappears for no reason, as if someone is secretly stealing it.”

Hearing that it wasn’t his problem, Xie Yiling’s eyebrows relaxed. Remembering the formation, he guessed, “Is it because of that formation?” He stared at Bai Cheng, “When you were inside that formation, did you feel anything strange?”

Bai Cheng thought for a while and nodded. “Actually, every time the formation was activated, I could feel it absorbing my magic power. At first, I thought it was my imagination, but after a few times, I was sure. I asked my brother, and he said that it was because the formation needed spiritual power to protect me at the same time.”

“That doesn’t sound right,” Gu Huanzhi suddenly said. “No matter what kind of formation it is, it contains the will of the person who set it up. Unless the person who set up the formation wants to absorb your magic power, the formation will not do such a thing on its own.”

Xie Yiling asked her again, “Are you sure the formation wasn’t set up by your brother? From what you said, this should be a spirit-stealing formation, whose purpose is to trap people inside. Once it senses the spiritual power surging within the trapped person, it will activate and seize the spiritual power of others. Moreover, this kind of formation, as time goes by, will also imprint on the memories of the trapped person. Even if the trapped person eventually leaves the formation, their spiritual power will still be seized by the person who set it up.”

The room was silent for a while, and finally, Xie Yiling broke the silence. “Alright, let’s not discuss this for now,” he said. “Let’s go to Changming Street quickly.”

Bai Cheng propped herself up and followed behind them.

As Xie Yiling and the others left the Sun and Moon Spirit Platform, they suddenly heard a familiar “whoosh” sound. The three of them turned their heads at the same time and saw three consecutive red fireworks exploding in the sky about to dawn.

Gu Huanzhi’s eyes reflected the shape of the golden lantern fireworks, a glimmer of water rising, but he suppressed it.

It seemed that Headmaster Gu had thought for a long time and still hoped that Gu Zhanyun could leave with some dignity.

*

On Changming Street, the cold lamps flickered in the dying night. Ten thousand leaves fell, and the wind urged dawn.

On the empty street, a white figure stood quietly.

Xie Yiling and the others slowly approached, stopping three meters away from that person.

“Brother,” Bai Cheng called out to the person, stepping past Xie Yiling.

Bai Zhe turned his head and saw that Bai Cheng’s eyes, which had always been full of trust in him, now contained some emotions that he couldn’t understand.

“You know everything,” Bai Zhe said to her.

“You…” Bai Cheng’s beautiful eyebrows furrowed, her head tilted slightly to the left, and a tear slid down her left eye.

Although she had suspected Bai Zhe when Xie Yiling and the others told her, hearing him admit it without any explanation still caught her off guard and made her shed tears.

It was indeed so.

It was indeed so!

What she thought was sharing hardships and working together to resist a common enemy was nothing more than the other person’s deliberate use.

“Why did you do this?” Bai Cheng’s heart experienced a feeling she had never had before, as if her heart was being squeezed hard, sending out waves of pain. Her voice was already hoarse, sounding like a tear, but she still shouted out with all her strength to question Bai Zhe, “Where have I ever wronged you?!”

“What’s there to be indebted or not?” Bai Zhe’s voice was so cold that it made people’s backs shiver. “You are my sister. I just want to become stronger. You would be willing to help your brother, right?”

Bai Cheng’s eyes turned red, and she shook her head. “So the formation you set up wasn’t to protect me at all, but just, just to absorb my spiritual power?”

She suddenly thought of something, looked at Bai Zhe sharply, and said with trembling lips, “You just set up the formation, right?”

The indifference on Bai Zhe’s face finally showed a trace of fluctuation. He smiled, “Didn’t you guess it?”

The wind grew stronger and stronger, mixed with coldness.

Xie Yiling raised his hand and touched his cheek. There was a bit of moisture on his fingertip. It looked like it was about to snow. Dawn was also approaching, and the truth was about to be revealed.

Bai Cheng also smiled, but the smile was very ugly. “That rumor, and that fire, you also knew about it?”

Gu Huanzhi clenched the sword in his hand tightly. The scene of the siblings in front of him, one scheming and hypocritical, the other treating him sincerely, was very similar to him and Gu Zhanyun.

Even if Bai Cheng was a jade stone spirit and not a mortal, it would still be extremely painful to have her body burned.

“What exactly is our sibling relationship worth after all these years?” After a long time, Bai Cheng finally spoke. Her tone was a bit sad, but more of it was calm. “I thought you just looked unfeeling, but you still had me, your sister, in your heart. I didn’t expect, Bai Zhe, you have no heart at all.”

Xie Yiling couldn’t listen anymore: “What benefits did Wen Liangchen give you? To actually be so cruel to your own sister!”

“Hahahaha!” Bai Zhe laughed: “Haven’t you already seen its power?”

Nangong Ci said, “That Yin-Yang Ink.”

“That’s right.” Bai Zhe took out the Yin-Yang Ink, gently stroking the pen body, and said: “Yin-Yang Ink needs a lot of spiritual power to nourish it. I searched for a long time and couldn’t find a suitable candidate, so that Master Wen gave me an idea. He used his subordinates to disguise themselves as Taoists and tricked that already sinister Gu Da Gongzi into catching Bai Cheng and burning her to death. It was simply easy.”

The snow fell almost at the moment his voice fell, fluttering down. It was the first snow since winter.

The cold pressed down on the winter snow, flying and drifting like white catkins. The snow came especially heavy and fast, as if foreshadowing some kind of crisis.

“Be careful!” Suddenly, Bai Cheng shouted, and before Xie Yiling and the others could react, she flew towards Bai Zhe and blocked the red silk that almost swept him away.

Xie Yiling said, “It’s Hua Jieyu again!” He summoned the rune chain, following the red silk to find its owner.

Gu Huanzhi rushed towards Bai Cheng, but just as he was about to touch her, he was suddenly pushed away by a huge force and flew out.

“Third Young Master Gu, long time no see.”

A familiar voice came. Gu Huanzhi clutched his chest in pain and got up from the ground. Seeing that the person who came was Yan Zhan, his face was ugly: “Who has been a long time no see with you? It really is you guys causing trouble again this time!”

“We’re just catching a ghost,” Yan Zhan smiled, his tone concerned. “Third Young Master Gu, are you alright? Why do you look so weak? Could it be that your eldest brother just died, and you haven’t had time to recover from the grief?”

“Pah!” Gu Huanzhi spat a mouthful of blood at him.

Yan Zhan was about to retort when his expression suddenly changed. He restrained Bai Cheng and blocked her in front of himself.

“Immortal Lord Fufeng, don’t act rashly.”

Nangong Ci stopped the rune in his hand.

“You also know that we people, who are always moving knives and swords, don’t have a sense of propriety when we strike. If we accidentally crush Miss Bai’s soul, it wouldn’t be good.”

Yan Zhan smiled and looked at the calm Nangong Ci, then looked at Bai Cheng, who was being strangled by the neck, and shook his head with a tsk. “What a deep sibling affection.”

He glanced at Bai Zhe, who was standing well on the other side and was not injured at all, and a mocking look flashed in his eyes.

Bai Cheng, who was originally a soul body, became even weaker after being attacked by Hua Jieyu.

Her face was as pale as paper, and she was held motionless in Yan Zhan’s hand.

“Miss Bai, do you think they care about your life and death?”

Xie Yiling followed the red silk and found Hua Jieyu not far away. With a wave of his rune chain, he hit her arm heavily.

Hua Jieyu turned around, the red silk dancing and changing constantly.

As soon as Xie Yiling moved, he found a red silk wrapped around his feet. His eyebrows jumped, and he had a bad feeling.

The red silk exerted force at the other end, and Xie Yiling immediately shifted his center of gravity back. When he landed, he supported his body with his forearms on the ground, barely managing to stabilize himself.

The red silk tightened, dragging Xie Yiling closer to Hua Jieyu. The remaining red silk wrapped around his arms, legs, and waist, trying to bind his movements.

Xie Yiling slapped the ground with both palms, and his whole body bounced up from the ground. He grabbed a few red silks with each hand and pulled them towards himself.

He concentrated and silently chanted incantations in his heart while confronting Hua Jieyu.

The rune chains that had fallen on the ground began to make clear collision sounds and slowly left the ground.

“Entangle her!” Xie Yiling shouted, “Did you think you were the only one who could bind people?”