Chapter 96: Hui Yue's Past
When Hui Yue performed the Soul-Searching Technique, Zuo XiaoYao had already discovered that those crimson 'threads' could also affect the Sea of Souls where the soul was stored. Fortunately, Zuo XiaoYao only wanted to read her opponent's memories and did not try to protect Hui Yue's Sea of Souls which had been invaded by the crimson color, so she was not affected.
From Huiyue's memories, Zuo Xiaoyao learned that she became an orphan at the age of seven and was taken in by her master Minghui into the Xiu Zhen realm. She grew up in Zhengding Gate, where Minghui, although not yet a Jiedan superior, held a high position due to being the closed-door disciple of Dingmu Dajun, a renowned alchemy master in the Xiu Zhen realm. Xiaoyao also had an extraordinary status within Zhengding Gate, but due to the successive loss of her parents in childhood and the harsh realities she faced after becoming an orphan, her personality became introverted. Even after entering the Xiu Zhen realm, this did not change, and she never took the initiative to make friends with others.
In Zheng Dingmen, Hui Yue got along quite well with her fellow disciples, despite not being particularly close to them. This was because of her exceptional talent and innate ability in alchemy, which earned her Master Ming Hui's favor. With her stunning beauty but aloof demeanor, she was known as the 'Ice Snow Fairy'. The reason she got along so well with Qin Liang was that they shared similar life experiences - both had difficult childhoods and were abandoned by their parents at a young age. However, Qin Liang's parents were cultivators, and after her father's death, her mother left her when she was only five years old to be with another man. Fortunately, she later met Qin Xiao.
And Huiyue, who was born extremely intelligent, since discovering that she had inexplicably arrived in this strange world, the thing that weighed most on her mind was of course to find Zuo Xiaoyao before anyone else. So, she took the sudden acquisition of the 'Holy Girl' position very seriously, not only using the power in her hands to mobilize the people's strength to collect cultivation materials, but also to obtain those cultivators' cultivation methods.
In the Sahara Desert, when Zuo Xiao Yao was forced to take out the Bi Huo Huan and Han Shui Ci she had bought at the Jiu Tai Shan trading conference, revealing her identity as 'Xiao Yao', Hui Yue immediately thought of the information related to 'Xiao Yao' that she had learned from Qin Liang Ke. She realized that Zuo Xiao Yao must have some unknown secret that allowed her to advance from the initial stage of building her foundation to the intermediate stage in less than four years. Moreover, before the large cauldron's anomaly occurred, a black sphere had flown out of Zuo Xiao Yao's storage bag, and Hui Yue had clearly seen this scene.
This was also the main reason why Qin Xiao and Qin Lian were taken away by Left Xiaoyao at that time, after all, she had seen the abnormality of the large cauldron since the black sphere entered it.
After arriving in Feng Luan country, she kept thinking about why Zuo Xiao Yao's face without makeup disguise in the Sahara Desert gave her a sense of familiarity. Later, she finally remembered that it was because of her relationship with the Hong Xin Group that Zuo Xiao Yao had become famous. As a cultivator, ordinary people in the mortal world were not worthy of attention in her eyes. However, at that time, Zuo Xiao Yao was widely reported in the newspapers and caught her attention due to her identity being exposed by Wang Yi Feng and his wife.
Most of the time, she was no different from an orphan, and Huixiang, who had always been concerned about her own life, had a good impression of Zuo Xiaoyao, who was also an ordinary person in her eyes at that time. She paid more attention to it unintentionally, so through newspaper media reports, she learned some information about the relationship between Zuo Xiaoyao and the Wang family, including their identities and ages.
She thought that the other party had built a foundation at an age two years younger than her, and for many years, Huiyue's heart was even more passionate about improving herself as the only goal in life. She expected Zuo Xiaoyao to have treasures that could improve her cultivation, so she made up her mind to get them, which led to this plan later on.
That crimson 'thin line' is called Fa Yuan, a legacy of the Heavenly Court. It can be fed with the essence of living beings to release what the Fa masters believe to be Fa Yuan power. In fact, it's a special spiritual energy for the Fa masters to cultivate. However, those Fa Yuan can only exist in spaces built with special materials, like the grand hall where Hui Yue waited for Zuo Xiao Yao's arrival, which was paved with flashing ink stones that automatically emitted a special power.
All living beings that come into contact with the crimson 'fine lines' will be instantly suppressed in their spiritual power, and swallowed whole. Only masters who possess special magical techniques can control them without direct contact.
After landing safely on Mount Tian, Hui Yue was sealed as the 'Respected Saintess' by the Grandmaster of Feng Lian Country. With her grasp of a large amount of knowledge related to spiritual power, national affairs, and weapons, she gained the trust of the Grandmaster and the old emperor at that time. Not only did her status become solidified, but she also obtained the opportunity to learn the 'Fa Yuan' in the Jing Tian Court, which is the cultivation of spiritual power.
Later, after discovering that the spiritual energy in this world is extremely abundant, but when her cultivation was promoted to the perfect state of fusion liquid stage in an extremely short period of time, she could no longer obtain any improvement, even if she took some elixirs that she had refined after consuming a large amount of spiritual medicine, it was also ineffective. She had to accept that this world seemed to have special constraints on cultivators, who could cultivate but not improve their cultivation. After this result, except for placing her last hope on Zuo Xiaoyao, who might possess some unknown treasure, she shifted her attention to the core secrets of the Jing Tian Court.
Through tireless dedication, the great master who was in control of the Heavenly Court at that time was not someone who grew up in modern information society, and he also mastered many low-grade elixir refining methods. He soon regarded her as his own successor, and before long, the secret art of inheriting the power of the law through the source of the law and the authority would be transferred to a new owner. However, he who was once famous in the Wind and Lotus Country became the "nourishment" for those sources of the law, because as the "food" supplied by the nourishment itself, the stronger the spiritual power, the more law yuan power it could produce, making a significant contribution to Hui Yue's rapid growth in spiritual power. However, all this was not known to outsiders.
With the wind at her back, Huiyue had cultivated her spiritual power to a level comparable to that of her master, Minghui. Having successfully mastered the use of spiritual power, she felt confident in her ability to confront Xue Ya directly. She intensified her search for Xue Ya's whereabouts on Fengxing Continent. During this time, upon hearing rumors of an extraordinary person appearing on Leiyu Continent, which was separated from Fengxing Continent by a sea, she even sent someone across the sea to investigate. However, as of now, no definitive information had been received regarding the outcome.
It turned out that after Zuo Xiao Yao exposed her tracks in the imperial city of Fengyun Country, Hui Yue confirmed through the images transmitted back by her subordinates that the target who triggered the huge change in Fengyun Country's political situation was indeed hers. Hui Yue set out to plan how to lure Zuo Xiao Yao into taking the bait, but unexpectedly, cleverness was mistaken for cleverness, not only underestimating the opponent's strength but also underestimating their intelligence. Not only did she fail to successfully lure Zuo Xiao Yao into the trap she had set up in advance, but even her final killing move failed to take effect, ending up with a tragic outcome of being trapped by her own doing and having to swallow the bitter fruit she had brewed herself.
They were originally two people who had no grudges in the past, nor did they have any enemies recently. Moreover, their impression of each other was not bad. However, as things turned out, they ended up watching Huiyue fall to a state of utter despair. Although Zuo Xiaoyao didn't feel pity for her, she couldn't help but feel a sense of loss. It's human nature to have desires, but to meticulously plot against others in order to satisfy one's own desires is absolutely not worthy of understanding or forgiveness!
From Hui Yue's memories, she knew that the Fawu Fire had swallowed countless lives, including humans. She set fire to the grand hall and burned it down. Zuo Xiao Yao controlled the Xu Kong Yun to quickly escape in the southeast direction of Feng Luan Country. Although she 'heard' someone below shouting Hui Yue's name loudly, knowing that it was the new emperor of Feng Luan Country who truly sincerely assisted Hui Yue, she didn't care at all.
Unlike the modern era where people are often left out in the cold, Hui Yue has been working hard to cultivate his spiritual power since arriving in this new world. Although he was initially disheartened and frustrated when he realized that this world was not suitable for cultivating the truth, he eventually accepted this fact. While sending people to search for Zuo Xiao Yao, he couldn't bear the loneliness and ended up spending his excess energy on power and romance.
Putting herself in his shoes, Zuo Xiao Yao also had the same goal of upgrading her cultivation. Although she was not sure what decision she would make, she could confirm that she would never be like him, thinking about how to take advantage of a slim chance to cooperate with others, but rather indulging in her own desires and setting up such a vicious trap, trying to put others to death.
Plotting against the great master who has been kind to her, murdering her father and usurping his position, leaking the manufacturing technology of highly lethal weapons, launching wars against four neighboring countries, and plotting to unify the entire continent... all these things that Huiyue did, treating ordinary people's lives as worthless, could never happen to her. On this point, Zuo Xiaoyao was absolutely certain.
With Huī Yuè's death, the Feng Luan country's plan to conquer all directions will inevitably be greatly affected. The Feng Yun country, which has not yet been taken over, can also take advantage of this opportunity to catch its breath. This is also a benefit that Zuǒ Xiǎo Yáo unintentionally gave to the Feng Yun country, and it can be said that she fulfilled her encounter with them.
After leaving Kongtian Mountain, Zuo Xiao Yao traveled over 200 miles before descending from her escape light. Although she had learned the method of cultivating spiritual energy from Hui Yue's memories, she did not plan to cultivate it. This method was very mysterious, and in this world, there were always gains and losses. Even if the method was good, if it hindered her cultivation, it would be too late to regret it then. Moreover, according to Hui Yue's increasingly impulsive attitude since starting to cultivate spiritual energy, she had also become more cautious.
She didn't get any more information about others coming to this world from Huiyue's memories, but she knew that at that time, those involved were not just Qin Xiao, Qin Lianke and Huiyue, but also Luo Hongtian and Zhuge Jinyu. Zuo Xiaoyao felt a bit heavy-hearted, although she had the Transmission Rod that could traverse space, whether she could use it with her current strength, whether she could bring them back to modern times, and how others would treat her were all problems that didn't make her feel at ease.
PS: Update again tonight!
