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East Peak Mainland.
High up on the mountain, the wind howled furiously.
Xia Ruoyun was standing motionless on top of the mountain, her hair entangled wildly with the wind. The chilly gaze of hers was fixed upon the group of people in front of her. Among that group of people, there stood a middle-aged man who was dressed luxuriously.
In the eyes of that man was a chilly and emotionless gaze, prompting Xia Ruoyun to shiver all over from head to toe, with a sense iciness enveloping her heart.
"Xia Ruoyun, you have been running away for too long! Let’s see how are you going to be able to escape again this time!"
The middle-aged man laughed out scornfully, a disdainful half smile hanging on his lips. His eyes looked as if he was piercing through his sworn enemy, as though the girl in front of him was not of his own flesh and blood.
"The Ancient Divine Pagoda was passed to me by Grandfather when he was still alive. I will never ever give it away to anybody!"
There was an unmistakable tone of hatred in Xia Ruoyun's voice.
Back in those days, just because of that one sentence uttered by her grandfather: "Whoever marries the daughter of the Yun family will be able to become the head of the Xia family", her so-called father dumped his childhood lover and proceeded to court her mother instead.
Within the same month that her mother got married to him, he actually went ahead and had a second marriage with his ex-lover, making her the second wife of the Xia family.
As the head of the Xia family, having multiple wives was totally normal. There was completely nothing that her mother could do, other than crying her eyes out everyday.
Had it not been for her grandfather who felt sorry for her, her mother would probably have no place at all in the Xia family...
With his face darkening a few shades, Xia Ming said loathingly, "You atrocious lady, the Ancient Divine Pagoda actually belongs to Chu Xue. How dare you talk to me like that after you have stolen her stuff? Don't you ever forget that when she was born, there were the signs of anomaly from the Heavens. The Emperor's Teacher even prophesied that she was the reincarnation of the Ancient Phoenix. Father must have been confused and muddled in his mind to have passed the Ancient Divine Pagoda to you. Now that he is already dead, it is up to me to set this right again!"
"Ha ha ha!" Xia Ruoyun let out a boisterous laugh that echoed for a long time in the distant mountains.
"Did you actually forget that the day that Chu Xue was born was actually my birthday too? Grandfather must have his reasons for handing down the Pagoda to me. But look at you!"
She sneered and continued, "In the interest of getting the Pagoda, you tortured me cruelly. In order to save me, Mother was tormented and persecuted to death by you, dirty swine! Her whole family was also massacred completely by your own hands! How could you still consider yourself as a human being? You did not even hesitate to slaughter your wife just for the sake of another daughter!"
"Humph!!" Xia Ming let out a disdainful snort and said coldly, "She was not worthy to be my wife. It doesn't matter whether the reason was you or not, I would still not have let her continue to live. It was only with her death that the woman that I love could rise up to the throne!"
Woefully, Xia Ruoyun shut both of her eyes in grief. The image of her mother's tragic life was still etched into her mind.
She really had given up!
Given up the consignation that was entrusted by her grandfather and wanting to use the Pagoda to exchange for her mother's life instead. However, it was as if Mother knew clearly what she was going to do and so, she chose to use her own death to protect the Ancient Divine Pagoda.
Even just the mere thought of it now still gave her an enormous sense of heartbreak and pain!
"Xia Ming, with all things that you have done, you will eventually be full of remorse and regret! A man like you who is so treacherous, heartless and perfidious will get your payback and punishment and be looked down forever!"
"Regret?" Xia Ming let out a scoff. "Do you even know about the rumour that is about you?" You, Xia Ruoyun, an arrogant and conceited girl, has provoked an insidious enemy and it was because of this reason that every member of the Yun family was massacred! As for me, Xia Ming, am a faithful and pitiful widower who mourned sorrowfully for your mother. Even Chu Xia was so heartbroken that she passed out multiple times. It was only you, the ungrateful cowardice daughter, who went into hiding after bringing such suffering to the family. Then again.... ha ha ha! Your mother didn't even get to be buried in the ancestral grave of the Xia family! I threw her body into the unmarked mass grave and it was devoured by the pack of wolves there! The Xia family ancestral grave is not a place where a nameless woman can easily enter!"
Lightly shuddering, Xia Ruoyun opened her eyes. All of her hatred was fixated on the man before her as she cried out, "Xiaming, you contemptible--!"
"Contemptible?" Xiaming laughed scornfully. "This? It’s just survival of the fittest! You see? It’s this precise ignorance of yours that had your mother murdered. That’s right; The one who killed her was you!"
The one who killed her was you.
"HAHAHAHA!" An abrupt outburst of manic laughter tore off from her throat. It pounded up the air, surrounding the hills with menacing echoes.
"Hey Xiaming, how about I bring you bastard down under to offer a personal apology to my poor mother? In fact, I’ll bring you with me…. Now!"
Immediately, her energy field intensified exponentially. It was so intense that it obscured the lights from the sky, the ashen surrounding now thick with a sense of foreboding.
"NO!" Xiaming’s face paled, murmuring to himself. "She’s going to blow herself up!"
Xia Ruoyun was the prodigy hailed from the Xia family — a savant who had already attained the title of Martial Honor at just a tender age. If not for the Yun Family’s "Devastation" he used in the prior attack, Xiaming wouldn’t have successfully and heavily injured her with his sneak attack. Yet, injuring a Martial Honor means nothing if she was going for an assault of a mutually-assured destruction!
Pccchh!
Suddenly, shredding through the still air of the hills, was an abrupt sound of a human chest being stabbed through.
Xia Ruoyun’s body froze, her gaze fell to the blade lodged in her chest. She turned her head slowly to a chiseled, handsome face. "Luchen… You…."
She knew Luchen was going to appear. But because it was Luchen, she had allowed herself to let her guard down.
She could not believe this. The man she trusted the most would want her killed!
Energy exploded out from her body, vaporizing the blade into sparks. Her hand held her chest as it bled, her eyes bleed in disbelief and deep sorrow, "Why would you...?"
Kill me?
The last two words were trapped by the lump in her throat. She just could not say them out.
A faint semblance of guilt and sadness flickered in Luchen’s eyes, but they were gone in a flash.
"My dear Yun, I’m sorry... But I am an ambitious man. You may be the love of my life, but only Chuxue is the reincarnated avatar of the Ancient Phoenix Zhixie, the true arbiter of the Ancient Divine Pagoda! With its power, she will become the strongest of this realm. Whoever marries her would then essentially own the world, and that is why I did what I had to do…"
Xia Ruoyun’s face was drained of any color. The man she loved or who had sworn to love and protect her forever was now pettily wagging a blade against her.
Suddenly, as if she remembered something, she charged towards Luchen like a possessed woman.
"My brother! My brother Yu, whom you promised to protect! What have you done to him, you wretch?!" Intense pain shot through her body but she ignored them, with her attention fixated on him as she clutched his shirt in hysterical fits.
Mother is dead. Her grandfather and his family were dead too. Her baby brother was all she had now! She had trusted Luchen and she had wanted her baby brother to stay out of this. That was why she had trusted Yu with this bastard. But now…
Xia Ruoyun’s body shook as suspicion rose within her. Fear began to shroud her sickly face. It was so pitiful, even Luchen felt a throb in his chest.
It was short-lived. His heart hardened immediately, and so did his voice as he ordered his men, "Bring me Xia Linyu!"
A thump was heard as a half-dead boy was thrown towards their direction. His frail body swayed and shuddered in this howling gale as if he could be blown away by the wind.
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