Senior Sister Went Mad After My Fake Death Chapter 26

“Daoist Han Xiao, what did you say?” Su Yanchen clearly couldn’t believe her ears. “You said you’re returning to the Bright Snow Sect now?”
After speaking, she and A’yu exchanged glances, confirming they hadn’t misheard.
A’yu subtly gestured to Su Yanchen, telling her not to show such a surprised expression. After all, everyone was startled when they found Han Xiao.
The usually cold and ethereal Great Senior Sister of the Bright Snow Sect was actually disheveled, barefoot, leaning on her long sword, wandering aimlessly. When they found Han Xiao, they barely recognized her.
Su Yanchen still remembered the scene when they found Han Xiao:
After comforting Yan Linglong in the mine, they went out to search for Han Xiao. However, the path was filled with demonic energy, and they couldn’t make up their minds. Seeing the incessant rain and mist in the sky, they all gave up, saying they would look for Han Xiao after the rain stopped.
Finally, the rain stopped, and the group set out to find Han Xiao. They saw a white figure in the forest, swaying precariously. Upon walking closer and confirming repeatedly, they realized that this person, who looked like a mud-covered commoner, was Han Xiao.
When asked anything, she wouldn’t answer. Her body was covered in dirt, showing no trace of her former elegance. Su Yanchen, seeing she couldn’t get any answers, turned to Jing Shun for discussion: “Daoist Jing Shun, Han Xiao is your fellow disciple. What should we do now?”
Jing Shun managed to stop himself from laughing, coughed twice, and said, “Ah, yes, Han Xiao is a Bright Snow Sect disciple after all. She might have suffered some injuries when she razed the Cave of Severed Affections. Let’s find a place to rest for now.”
Su Yanchen listened, found it somewhat reasonable, and agreed. However… seeing the uncontrollable curve of Jing Shun’s lips, she still felt something strange.
So they stopped to rest for two days, waiting for Han Xiao to recover before discussing what to do next.
That night was indeed an accident—everyone thought so—because Han Xiao returned to her usual self on the very day she reunited with them.
However, after her first question, Han Xiao’s reply startled her.
Han Xiao said she wanted to return to the Bright Snow Sect.
“But we still have most of our journey left,” Su Yanchen said with a smile. “I know you expended some spiritual energy in the Cave of Severed Affections. Is that why you want to go back?”
Thinking of Han Xiao that day, disheveled and barefoot, suddenly like a deity fallen to the mortal realm, Su Yanchen felt a chill in her heart. Expending most of her spiritual energy should result in weakness, so why did she seem as if tormented by a nightmare?
“I must return.” Han Xiao offered no explanation, only a statement.
She now looked much more sober. Her hair was neatly tied, her clear pupils indifferent. Aside from a slightly pale complexion, she looked completely unchanged from before. Just as pure and untainted.
Jing Shun sat on the other side of the round table, scratching his head in frustration, and finally couldn’t help but say, “What’s the rush to go back now? You seem to have recovered quite well, haven’t you?”
He had witnessed the Twilight Kite cleaving downwards, flattening the entire Cave of Severed Affections that day. Resentment surged in his heart. How could Han Xiao possess such power?
He had also seen Han Xiao that day, disheveled and barefoot, looking like she had gone mad.
So what exactly happened? Although Han Xiao had now reverted to her usual haughty demeanor, everyone had seen her panic that day.
What reason would make her want to return now? Jing Shun pondered.
Han Xiao did not look at Jing Shun, still gazing straight at Su Yanchen, and said, “I must return to the sect. It’s urgent.”
Since she had mentioned returning twice without giving a reason, it must be something inconvenient. Su Yanchen understood well and said, “Alright.”
“Just ‘alright’?” Jing Shun protested again. “We are a group. It’s not like you can come and go as you please, nor is it that once you agree, Han Xiao will just…”
“I am merely informing you.”
Han Xiao finally, rarely, looked away, speaking nonchalantly. As she said, she stood up and walked out of the makeshift shelter.
Jing Shun stood behind, grinding his teeth, stomping his foot in frustration, but to no avail. He quickly left himself. He wouldn’t stay there for the remaining dozen people to laugh at him!
He also wondered what Han Xiao was truly thinking… suddenly wanting to leave must have some reason, but he just didn’t want her to go.
Just then, someone called out to him: “Senior Brother!”
It was Yan Linglong.
He turned around. “Junior Sister, are you alright? Are you hurt anywhere? If you’re hurt, I won’t be able to explain it to Master when I go back.”
After speaking, he let out a self-deprecating laugh. He had to come and be irritated by Immortal Lord Yang Nian’s head disciple, and then console and appease a pampered young lady.
“I, I’m alright, it’s just… Senior Brother, I just heard Senior Sister Han Xiao say she wants to go back, is that true?” Yan Linglong stammered.
Jing Shun frowned. “Yes, she wants to go back. Why don’t you try to persuade her not to go back?”
Upon hearing that she should persuade Senior Sister, Yan Linglong’s expression suddenly turned strange.
“What’s wrong?”
Yan Linglong’s expression was extremely unnatural. “N-nothing. Then I’ll go ask, go ask Senior Sister.”
Jing Shun didn’t notice Yan Linglong’s subtle emotional change and still said, “Alright, then go ask Han Xiao. If she insists on leaving, ask around and let me know.”
Speaking of which, after Han Xiao left, he had also wanted to leave the mine, but was stopped by the demonic energy swirling outside. That demonic energy stretched between heaven and earth, surging irresistibly—but the strange thing was that this demonic energy had no intention of invading; it was more like it was probing for something.
Jing Shun knew his cultivation was insufficient. He knew this demonic energy was oppressive. If they were to clash head-on, the dozen or so people, without Han Xiao, might really not be able to defeat that demon. Fortunately, that demonic energy finally disappeared, and Jing Shun had felt relieved at the time.
However, now Jing Shun no longer felt that way.
Why did that demonic energy dissipate after Han Xiao left, and when they found Han Xiao, that demonic energy…
Hmm. Jing Shun had some suspicions.
“Go, and also ask Senior Sister Han Xiao if she encountered any demons.”
Yan Linglong felt somewhat reluctant to go find Han Xiao—she couldn’t quite say why, she was afraid of being reprimanded by Senior Sister.
“No, she won’t, Senior Sister Han Xiao won’t reprimand me.” She silently told herself this.
Although Senior Sister Han Xiao wasn’t as sincere and kind as Senior Sister Jiang Chunai, she wasn’t a strict person either. She was just indifferent to everyone, as if the sky falling had nothing to do with her.
As for that strange Senior Sister that night, it was just an accident.
It’s fine, she thought, and then found Senior Sister Han Xiao standing alone by the cliff edge.
Besides, Senior Sister had once meticulously guided her swordsmanship. Nothing would happen.
Thinking this, Yan Linglong proactively spoke: “Se-Senior Sister.”
The first time she called, Han Xiao didn’t turn around, still facing the clear, vast sky. The sky was cloudless, and the river wind carried a fishy smell.
Someone seemed to have arrived behind her and said something. Han Xiao didn’t hear clearly, but she didn’t want to hear clearly. She preferred to gaze at the cloudless sky, falling into a deep illusion.
But the person behind her didn’t give up.
This time, Han Xiao clearly heard what the person behind her was calling.
“Se-Senior Sister, Senior Sister Han Xiao!”
Senior Sister. Someone was calling her, Senior Sister Han Xiao.
Almost instantly, Han Xiao turned around.
Yan Linglong had never seen Senior Sister Han Xiao, who always seemed indifferent to the world, suddenly have her eyes burst forth with such brilliance. If it were a dark room, it would be illuminated by the light in her eyes.
Senior Sister’s eyes were indifferent, even somewhat unfeeling with their prominent lower whites. Such a person, caring only for themselves and not others, was common enough.
But the light in Han Xiao’s eyes quickly vanished without a trace upon seeing that it was Yan Linglong. It reverted to its original cold, hard state.
She was still the pure, snow-like Han Xiao, like a long, sleepless night.
Yan Linglong’s heart skipped a beat. She involuntarily took a deep breath, her hands trembling. She didn’t know why Senior Sister’s expression suddenly changed. No, perhaps she knew. But she didn’t want to admit it.
“Senior Sister, I heard that you want to return to the sect, is that…”
Before she could finish, a dark shadow pressed down before her.
Han Xiao’s voice was like an ice pick. “Why didn’t you tell me Jiang Chunai was also there?”
Yan Linglong’s breath hitched. “Senior Sister, you, what are you saying?”
“What, what Senior Sister Jiang Chunai also there? Senior Sister Chunai, she… she might have gone back now, right?” she stammered, wanting to retreat.
However, her wrist was clasped by Han Xiao, forcing her to look up and meet her gaze.
“You also used the voice transmission jade seal.” Han Xiao lowered her eyes, her voice hushed. “At that time, Jiang Chunai was by your side.”
“Or rather, Jiang Chunai had already gone out to save you.”
Even though Senior Sister Han Xiao was only holding her hand, Yan Linglong felt pain radiating through all her limbs and bones. She realized for the first time that Senior Sister Han Xiao’s emotionless eyes were actually so sharp and merciless.
Beneath her eyes, there were also fine, dense reddish-black lines—she had never been this close to Senior Sister Han Xiao, never seen them clearly before. But now, she could finally see clearly, and she was afraid.
“No, it’s not like that, Senior Sister, Senior Sister Han Xiao, listen to me. Senior Sister Chunai was trying to save me then. I was very scared at the time, so I thought it would be brief and concise…” Yan Linglong’s words became incoherent, almost crying. “I just wanted you and Senior Brother to come save me.”
“I was in the mine, I told Senior Brother this!”
Han Xiao’s grip on her hand, however, tightened, and the fear in Yan Linglong’s heart grew.
The mountain wind, mixed with the river wind, made the jade ornaments in her hair clink, the only sound in this eerie scene.
“You told Senior Brother you were in the mine,” Han Xiao suddenly released her hand, but the next second, she used the momentum to pull out the hairpin from Yan Linglong’s hair and pressed it against her chin. “Do you remember what you told me?”
The hairpin’s tip was sharp, pressing tightly against her skin, threatening to pierce her flesh and bone the next second.
Yan Linglong’s breathing stopped, her pupils widened abruptly, and she cried out repeatedly in alarm, “No, I don’t know, Senior Sister, I, I wanted you to go to the Cave of Severed Affections to save Senior Sister Chunai!”
A faint golden pattern suddenly appeared in Han Xiao’s clear pupils, flickering in and out of view.
“Se-Senior Sister, Senior Sister Chunai, she must have left first, right?” she whispered, her eyes constantly glancing at the jade hairpin pressed against her neck.
Had Senior Sister Han Xiao gone mad?
She must have had her mind seized by those demons in the Cave of Severed Affections, right? Otherwise, why would she do such a thing to a fellow disciple?
“Give me the item,” Han Xiao said.
Yan Linglong trembled. “Wh-what item?”
“The item she gave you.”
It was the twin jade bracelet. Yan Linglong’s head buzzed. She quickly took it out and gave it to Han Xiao.
Han Xiao took the jade bracelet, then lowered her stance. But she didn’t return the jade hairpin to Yan Linglong; instead, she tossed it to the ground, walked straight past Yan Linglong, and left.
Yan Linglong stood stunned for a long time before picking up the jade hairpin from the ground, her heart still trembling.
There were indeed demons in the Cave of Severed Affections, weren’t there? Besides, Senior Sister Jiang Chunai wouldn’t die, would she? She thought that much was enough.
As for that time, after Senior Sister Jiang Chunai went to the Cave of Severed Affections, she then said that the demons were in the Cave of Severed Affections…
It’s nothing. There were indeed demons in the Cave of Severed Affections. She comforted herself.
When the jade hairpin was pressed against her chin, Yan Linglong had felt a momentary fear of death; but once the moment passed, she regained her calm.
A calm like Senior Sister Han Xiao’s.
Having retrieved the jade bracelet, Han Xiao decided to set off.
She still had one last shred of sanity remaining, one last faint hope sustaining her: that Jiang Chunai was not dead, that Jiang Chunai was still alive.
Jiang Chunai wasn’t a fool. If she couldn’t win, she would definitely flee, right?
But why was her heart filled with such unease? Han Xiao didn’t understand. She found her voice transmission jade seal again. Jiang Chunai had also used this item to ask her for help, to come save her.
…If she was alive and well now, she would definitely be able to reply to her.
Thinking this, a glimmer of hope suddenly surged in Han Xiao’s heart. She took out the jade seal, intending to send a voice transmission.
A faint blue aura emerged from the jade seal.
Who? Who could she send a voice transmission to?
She froze, looking at the glowing sphere, and finally put the jade seal down.
“…” She was silent.
The reason for putting it down was simple: she couldn’t send a voice transmission to Jiang Chunai.
For a Bright Snow Sect voice transmission jade seal to be useful, to send a voice transmission to someone else, one first had to obtain the other’s permission, by allowing it on their own jade seal.
Han Xiao was the sect’s Great Senior Sister; many people sought her help. So, Han Xiao never refused those who wished to send her voice transmissions.
Jiang Chunai actually often sent her voice transmissions, always, always clinging to her, sharing various things with her. Interesting, boring, beautiful, not beautiful…
Perhaps Jiang Chunai told her too many things, leading Han Xiao to always have the idea that “she could communicate with Jiang Chunai anytime, anywhere”; perhaps Han Xiao was a boring person from start to finish, unable to tell Jiang Chunai anything…
In short, Han Xiao had never proactively sent a voice transmission to Jiang Chunai.
But now, when she finally realized she wanted to tell Jiang Chunai, wanted to find Jiang Chunai, she discovered that her voice transmission jade seal… simply couldn’t be used.
Originally, Jiang Chunai didn’t need to send her voice transmissions; it was she who took everything for granted.
Or rather, when she finally remembered, when she wanted to send a voice transmission to Jiang Chunai, she realized she had never received Jiang Chunai’s permission.
Not coincidentally unavailable, but never obtained.
In the past, she cared about nothing—not livelihood, not weather. But now?
A feeling of unease, completely uncomfortable.
The cool night enveloped her like water, a lonely moon and sparse stars. A bitter taste surged from the deepest part of her being, gradually spreading upward, reaching her throat.
Guilt.
The first emotion she deeply tasted in her life was guilt. She scoffed at herself.
Han Xiao took a deep breath and left directly, heading towards the main path back to the sect.
Since she couldn’t reach her by voice transmission, she had to see her in person.
Jiang Chunai would definitely be waiting for her at the sect.
She had made a wish before, saying she wanted to be with her forever.
So, she would definitely not leave, let alone die.
Han Xiao did not accept this possibility.
In a trance, she heard the heavy rain from last night again—
What controlled her, manipulated her, making her walk alone in the stormy wind and rain?
“My heavens, dragging this corpse is truly annoying,” the lion demon, carrying the corpse, felt deflated. “Boss clearly wanted to tell me something else…”
He was truly resigned. His boss was dead, and he was burdened with a human life.
Jiang Chunai was now a wandering soul, unable to move an inch, forced to follow this lion demon. This lion demon had no other virtues; its only virtue was its speed. Otherwise, when Han Xiao razed the Cave of Severed Affections with the Twilight Kite, both her physical body and this lion demon would have been incinerated.
Jiang Chunai’s wandering soul floated along with this lion demon, listening to its complaints all the way. At first, she felt a little embarrassed, after all, this demon was carrying her corpse so far—
But gradually, Jiang Chunai felt something was wrong. After all, there was no baseless kindness in the world, especially at such a critical juncture of life?
After carrying the corpse over several mountain peaks, the lion demon was completely unable to walk further. So he found a clean spot, respectfully placed Jiang Chunai’s corpse, and then found some stones to pile up.
Like bowing to a Buddha, he sincerely prostrated himself a few times. Blood mixed with mud on the lion’s head, more staining its forehead.
Jiang Chunai floated nearby, sensing that the situation was not good.
“Oh, this Immortal Elder, although Her Highness says you are a demon like us, why don’t I feel you’re like a demon?” the lion demon muttered, then said, “But whether you are one of our kind or not, I have done my utmost!”
“Look, if it weren’t for me, you would definitely be in the Cave of Severed Affections, beaten to pieces by your wicked Senior Sister. Now, well, thanks to Her Highness’s face and my efforts, I painstakingly carried you out, at least ensuring your body remains intact.”
Jiang Chunai listened, already with some guesses.
The lion demon still knelt. “In short, as a demon, I’ve treated you, a cultivator, very well. And I’ve carried out Her Highness’s command; as a member of the Cave of Severed Affections, I’m qualified.”
At this moment, Jiang Chunai had already guessed the lion demon’s intention.
“Now the Cave of Severed Affections is razed, and my sisters and brothers are gone. Now I’m going back to find my true sisters and brothers. As for you, your physical body still exists. If someday your wicked Senior Sister discovers her conscience and calls your soul back, reviving you, then there’s still a medium!”
He was going to run away.
As Jiang Chunai had predicted, the lion demon, after blurting out these words, abruptly stood up. “So it’s settled. I’m leaving. I’ve treated you well. If you want to claim a life, go find your heartless, wicked Senior Sister, not me!”
With that, the lion demon bowed again, piled a few more stones on Jiang Chunai’s corpse, and found a pile of weeds to casually cover it.
“If you don’t want to come back, that’s fine too. I’ve even set up a tombstone for you!”
Jiang Chunai looked at her small mound of stacked weeds, her heart instantly filled with mixed emotions.
This lion demon was indeed a coward, but he had completed the task Saintess gave him. His running away was not a problem, after all, the two of them had no relation.
In fact, if Jiang Chunai hadn’t entered the Cave of Severed Affections, Saintess and the demons of the Cave of Severed Affections wouldn’t have died… As a cultivator, she seemingly shouldn’t pity demons.
Jiang Chunai used to deeply understand this principle, but at this moment, she actually began to understand demons.
Why?
Jiang Chunai laughed mockingly. In truth, she knew the reason. In the lion demon’s “prayer” just now, that person was mentioned several times.
But what did that have to do with her?
The person who personally killed her was none other than Senior Sister Han Xiao, whom she had treasured for many years.
It was a pity that before she died, she still saw Han Xiao flattening the Cave of Severed Affections with her sword. Did she wish her to be incinerated into dust that much?
It was still night then.
No need to wait until dawn, the beautiful dream would awaken.
From now on, she would be free.
The bitterness had left Jiang Chunai’s heart. Instead, she floated calmly beside her grave.
The lion demon leaving was also a good thing, leaving her corpse in place, making it easier for others to find.
And this mountain was so far from Mount Shu, so far from the Bright Snow Sect, so far from that person.
Without Han Xiao, the morale of the group was scattered, and all the problems initially hidden were exposed.
A high-ranking cultivator from a minor sect said directly, “The Bright Snow Sect broke its word first. Since it’s like this, we don’t need to stay!”
With that, she also left.
One person left today, two tomorrow, and in a couple of days, this team was truly going to disband.
Jing Shun and Yan Linglong tried to persuade them not to leave, but with little effect. In the end, even Su Yanchen and A’yu from the Mengling Immortal Manor decided to leave.
The only one who remained was surprisingly a mute from Yanqiu, named Chang Xin.
Because Chang Xin was mute, she didn’t speak a word the whole way; whatever they told her, she did.
But everyone left, and she didn’t.
Jing Shun, seeing that the remaining team still had a Yanqiu person, couldn’t help but sigh, “Daoist Chang, why don’t you go back too?”
Chang Xin looked up in surprise, as if not understanding.
Jing Shun explained, “My fellow disciples did break their word first, and it’s understandable for everyone to leave. Now that this team only has two or three of us left, we certainly can’t cause any waves, and the demons in the Cave of Severed Affections have been eliminated, so things should be peaceful for a while…”
“Why don’t you leave first?”
Chang Xin stared at Jing Shun for a long time, then finally nodded, looking very reluctant.
Only after Chang Xin left did Jing Shun find time to say to Yan Linglong, “I didn’t expect that mute to be the one who stayed.”
Yan Linglong pressed, “Who is that mute?”
To be honest, ever since she was rescued, the atmosphere in the team had been very strange. She had rarely had a chance to meet new people, let alone a mute.
“That mute… is from Yanqiu,” Jing Shun said. “At first, I even said Yanqiu deliberately disgusted us, sending a mute to perfunctorily deal with us instead of someone else.”
“But it was only at the very last moment that I realized this mute was actually a person of strong loyalty. Everyone else left, but she didn’t.”
Yan Linglong nodded, showing agreement.
Yanqiu was a place where Nuwa’s descendants gathered. Its people were all exceptionally skilled, with an ethereal immortal aura. Anyone who knew Yanqiu sent a mute would not be pleased at first reaction.
“Everyone’s leaving; the group’s disbanding. We should go back too.”
Yan Linglong agreed, but at the thought of returning to the sect, a wave of unease surged in her heart.
Going back?
How should she face Senior Sister after returning?
Not just Senior Sister Han Xiao, but also Senior Sister Jiang Chunai.
Even now, Yan Linglong couldn’t explain why she had said the demon was in the Cave of Severed Affections at that time.
This night, the moon was bright and stars were sparse. The three stayed in a village. The villagers, to thank the three immortal elders, specially vacated three bright and spacious large rooms for them. The villagers knew that one of the immortal elders could not speak, so they even hung a bell on her door, saying she could knock it if anything happened.
But after midnight, this room was empty.
Chang Xin, taking advantage of the night, left the village.
“Jiang Chunai, you were originally meant to be one of us from Yanqiu. Even in death, your body must return to Yanqiu,” she murmured, her words fragmented, blending with the wind. “Moreover… you should not die, and cannot die.”
She would find her lost sister.