Senior Sister Went Mad After My Fake Death Chapter 42

The Bright Snow Sect’s Great Senior Sister Han Xiao and the Wunian Sect’s Young Master You Qian’s pact, originally a joyous occasion for the entire cultivation world, ended up causing unprecedented trouble: Han Xiao turned out to be a snake demon. Her breaking of the seal implicated many innocent cultivators who had come to the banquet.
“Now all the major sects have complaints about our sect. I can only push the blame onto Han Xiao, but it is truly a last resort.” Dao Lord Qiming wrung her hands, sighed deeply, and then asked Mei Shengchi, “Cliff Master, what are your thoughts on what to do next?”
Although Dao Lord Qiming wouldn’t speak to the person beside Mei Shengchi, for the past few days, Mei Shengchi had been accompanied by a young female cultivator.
Dao Lord Qiming had a very good memory, and she attended every sect competition. If this person were from their sect and had some level of cultivation, it would be impossible for her not to remember.
But this female cultivator, she truly found unfamiliar.
Jiang Chunai stood silently by Mei Shengchi’s side.
Han Xiao again.
“Yes, it is indeed a last resort. If Han Xiao doesn’t bear the consequences of this evil, our sect will be destroyed,” Mei Shengchi said in a low voice, a trace of reluctance still flashing in her eyes.
Han Xiao was indeed wrong in this matter, and Immortal Lord Yang Nian was also wrong—they were all wrong, but the latter could not be made to bear the responsibility.
Just as Zhang Ziga had said before she died, because she was Yin Zhuyun, she would be biased.
As for Han Xiao… who would be biased towards Han Xiao?
Thinking of this, Mei Shengchi subconsciously glanced at Jiang Chunai beside her.
Her eyes were clear, as if free of impurities, as if the “Han Xiao” they were talking about was a complete stranger to her.
Dao Lord Qiming strangely noticed the anomaly, blinked, and committed Mei Shengchi’s strange behavior to memory.
After they left, Jiang Chunai and Mei Shengchi spoke of what was to come. Mei Shengchi asked her about her future plans.
Jiang Chunai said, “Cliff Master, I wanted to become your disciple before, didn’t I?”
Mei Shengchi nodded. “We both had that intention before, but… something happened. I wanted you to do something for me, to retrieve the ‘Pearl of Retrospection’ for me. I didn’t expect you to meet with disaster on the way.”
“The Pearl of Retrospection?” she murmured.
A moment later, Jiang Chunai was suddenly shocked. Through the falling snowflakes, she asked, “Cliff Master, you have the ‘Pearl of Retrospection’?”
The Pearl of Retrospection was one of the six ancient divine artifacts. She had just learned that Han Xiao, the king of demons, had betrayed her sect and slaughtered immortals just to steal the ancient divine artifact, the God-Binding Rope.
In addition, the most victimized Wunian Sect also accused, “Han Xiao agreed to form a pact with our sect all to steal our sect’s treasure!”
Although the Wunian Sect did not say it explicitly, anyone with a mind to could guess that the Wunian Sect must possess a divine artifact, otherwise Han Xiao would not have gone to such great lengths.
Just one divine artifact had caused such turmoil.
The Pearl of Retrospection was also one of the six divine artifacts, yet Mei Shengchi’s tone was flat when she spoke of it, as if it were an insignificant matter. This greatly puzzled Jiang Chunai.
Mei Shengchi seemed to have noticed Jiang Chunai’s confusion and said with a smile, “You think I have the real ‘Pearl of Retrospection’?”
Jiang Chunai was surprised. “Huh? You mean, the ‘Pearl of Retrospection’ isn’t real? The one you asked me to retrieve back then wasn’t the real thing?”
Jiang Chunai couldn’t help but sigh. Her previous body had died for a fake treasure. But she also understood. The divine artifact the Cliff Master had asked her to find was a fake, which matched her cultivation level.
This was not self-deprecation. Even a demon with Han Xiao’s cultivation level had not gained any advantage before a divine artifact and had been defeated by the combined forces of the cultivators. Now she was on all sorts of wanted lists in the cultivation world.
She had schemed and calculated, yet she hadn’t obtained a single divine artifact. As for her, a cultivator back then, how could she have retrieved a real divine artifact unscathed?
“Yes, that wasn’t the real ‘Pearl of Retrospection’,” Mei Shengchi sighed, as if regretting her miscalculation. “At most, it was just a magical artifact that borrowed the name of the ‘Pearl of Retrospection’.”
Jiang Chunai couldn’t help but be curious. “Then what’s the difference between the real and fake Pearl of Retrospection?”
“According to legend, the Pearl of Retrospection has the power to turn back time, to change space-time, allowing people to twist time and alter what has already happened…”
Then, Mei Shengchi gave some examples, mostly of people with regrets who had obtained the Pearl of Retrospection and used it to turn back time, twisting space-time to change the past.
“Sounds like a magical artifact tailor-made for that demon, doesn’t it?” Mei Shengchi suddenly let out a small laugh at this point.
Jiang Chunai was engrossed. After a moment of daze, she finally said, “Ah, is that… so?”
She wasn’t sure what Mei Shengchi’s motive was for saying this. Why suddenly mention Han Xiao?
But Mei Shengchi lowered her head and smiled, changing the subject and no longer talking about the Pearl of Retrospection. “Do you know about your past with Han Xiao?”
The moment the name “Han Xiao” was mentioned, the first things that came to Jiang Chunai’s mind were the scenes of their first and second meetings.
From the noble and cold head disciple of the Immortal Lord to the underworld god-ghost in a wedding dress and mourning clothes, it had only been a few days.
She felt a pang of sympathy.
“Cliff Master, Chunai does not know about the past.”
In truth, she didn’t want to know either.
She had already been given a new life in Yanqiu. Why should she have any old ties with a demon?
“Roughly speaking, you used to like her a lot, and you were also Immortal Lord Yang Nian’s disciple,” Mei Shengchi said, then concisely introduced the past of the Bright Snow Sect’s Jiang Chunai.
She said that the Jiang Chunai of that time was particularly soft-hearted. If someone asked for something, she would never refuse.
It sounded like she was so soft that she would be easily bullied.
Jiang Chunai pursed her lips and said slowly, “So, the me of the past was very weak?”
“On the surface, yes, but you are a tenacious person,” Mei Shengchi said, suddenly thinking of the impressive paintings Jiang Chunai had drawn in the sand, and raised her voice. “Well, it’s not like you didn’t have a temper. Although you didn’t dare to say it to her face, you did quite a bit behind her back.”
Jiang Chunai: ?
The Cliff Master returned to the topic of the Pearl of Retrospection. “There are many fake versions of this artifact on the market. The one I asked you to retrieve was just a pearl that could show scenes from the past. There are at least a hundred such pearls in the world. They are precious, but not to the point of bloodshed.”
So that was it.
“Then did you get the Pearl of Retrospection later, Cliff Master?” Jiang Chunai asked. “I mean, the one that’s not a divine artifact.”
Mei Shengchi suddenly stopped speaking. Her sharp, alert cat-like eyes stared at Jiang Chunai, and then she pulled her lips into a line. “Do you want to see your past with Han Xiao?”
Jiang Chunai was at a loss for words. She murmured, “Then let me see it with you.”
This kind of Pearl of Retrospection, which borrowed the name of a divine artifact, had a limited range depending on its maker. What Mei Shengchi showed Jiang Chunai today were all the things that had happened between her and Han Xiao in the past.
Their first meeting in their youth, the path of cultivation up the mountain, the adventure in the Ghost Market, making a wish under the flower tree…
Every single event was filled with a young girl’s feelings. Just watching it once, Mei Shengchi herself felt a sense of lament.
The Pearl of Retrospection naturally had to show the experiences of the person present. Jiang Chunai had not been there before, and she had not used the Pearl of Retrospection on her, so she naturally didn’t know that so many things had happened between her and Han Xiao.
In the past, Jiang Chunai had certainly liked Han Xiao.
However, at this moment, Jiang Chunai just watched the scenes presented by the Pearl of Retrospection with indifference. Finally, the scene moved to the Ice Soul Secret Realm.
—A woman with a fox’s tail was intimate with her.
Mei Shengchi, being older, even looked away with a bit of embarrassment when she saw this. She was an elder, after all. What kind of thing was it to watch her disciple’s intimate affairs with someone else!
Jiang Chunai also couldn’t help but hold her breath.
But the end of the matter was heartbreaking:
In the image, the woman with skin like ice and bones like jade slowly stood up. The next moment, the long sword in her hand was at Jiang Chunai’s neck.
Her eyes were extremely cold, her words extremely harsh. “Get lost, or I’ll kill you.”
Jiang Chunai and Mei Shengchi both fell into silence.
After a long while, Mei Shengchi finally said, “So that’s how the strange lines on you and Han Xiao came to be.”
She was referring to those fine, crimson-black lines, the sign of a love gu.
“Does the Cliff Master know what kind of gu I was afflicted with?”
“A twin love gu,” Mei Shengchi suddenly replied. “This love gu is made by evil cultivators. It is rooted in the spiritual platform and creates love out of thin air. If one becomes obsessed with desire and does not copulate, their body will explode and they will die.”
Jiang Chunai suddenly felt a chill down her spine.
Even though she had forgotten everything about Han Xiao, was she still forcibly bound to her by a love gu because of that one mistaken night?
But she couldn’t feel any effect from the lines.
Perhaps they were just growing vigorously, she thought.
The Pearl of Retrospection that Mei Shengchi possessed only showed up to this point. More about how Jiang Chunai died could not be seen.
After watching everything, Jiang Chunai’s mood was clearly much lower.
Mei Shengchi keenly noticed that at the beginning, Jiang Chunai was still somewhat interested, until the matter of the Ice Soul Secret Realm.
It was hard to imagine that someone who had clearly used her body to detoxify and overcome a difficulty would, in the next moment, raise a sword to her neck, her threatening words harsh, cold, and devoid of any emotion.
—If they were truly strangers who had never met, it would be one thing.
But how could they be strangers who had never met?
It was clearly a young girl’s admiration, true and sincere feelings, yet it was met with such treatment.
“Oh. I didn’t expect it to be like this,” Mei Shengchi said, as if feeling the silence between them was too heavy, and suddenly tried to make conversation.
But Jiang Chunai said, “There’s nothing unexpected. She is a demon, after all. It’s only natural for her to do such a thing.”
Mei Shengchi looked at Jiang Chunai with considerable surprise. Was she forgiving Han Xiao?
But Mei Shengchi quickly realized she was wrong.
A demon naturally had a demon’s standpoint, and Jiang Chunai, as a cultivator of the Bright Snow Sect, had a cultivator’s standpoint.
“Cliff Master, I have heard people say all along the way that the people of Mount Shu slay demons and are never soft on evil things. In the past, Chunai was considered a somewhat famous cultivator in the sect,” she said, word by word. “And as Immortal Lord Yang Nian’s disciple, I would naturally abide by this unwritten rule even more.”
But it was this Jiang Chunai who, after being unintentionally intimate with Han Xiao, had swallowed all the bitter forbidden fruit.
So-called principles and bottom lines were things that could be easily changed for one person.
…But how exactly had Han Xiao repaid her?
Jiang Chunai didn’t know, but she didn’t want to know now either.
She wanted to go back to Yanqiu first. Zhi Zhi was still waiting for her.
Mei Shengchi quietly watched her and said, “Since you’re going back, you can ask Yu Lingzi.”
“Since she reshaped your physical body, she clearly did something to your memory. But she clearly underestimated you,” Mei Shengchi smiled helplessly. “You already know.”
The moon was now high in the sky, and the cold moonlight fell to the ground, illuminating the patches of ice and snow.
Jiang Chunai said again, “Then, Chunai thanks the Cliff Master—if there is nothing else, Chunai will return to Yanqiu first, and then come back to see you.”
Mei Shengchi nodded, allowing her to leave. “Alright, you can go then.”
To say “allow,” what right did she have to stop Jiang Chunai from leaving?
Staring at Jiang Chunai’s receding back, Mei Shengchi couldn’t help but smile.
She had a bad temper, and everyone said she liked to grind people down, but it was in this grinding that she knew which kind of person was the most difficult to deal with.
A person like Jiang Chunai, who looked soft and easily bullied, as if she would fall over in the wind.
But she was more like the reeds by the river.
The wind would bend her over, but she would never fall down.
So tenacious, so resolute.
…The people of Yanqiu had gone through so much trouble to find her and revive her, which also proved that the bloodline in her was extraordinary.
So what if a demon has descended upon the world? she thought. Jiang Chunai will find a way to deal with it in the future.
At this moment, Mei Shengchi seemed to understand why Immortal Lord Yang Nian had left a pair of jade rings, one for Han Xiao, and the other for Jiang Chunai.
Jiang Chunai returned to Yanqiu with Zhi Zhi.
As Zhi Zhi had said, she saw Senior Sister Chang Xin—it was indeed Senior Sister Chang Xin.
The three of them met up on the way back.
Chang Xin was initially surprised. “Chunai, what are you doing here?”
Unlike Jiang Chunai’s composure, Zhi Zhi was shaking her head frantically on the side, four streams of tears flowing from her eyes. “Senior Sister Chang, Senior Sister Chang, did you know?”
“Know what?” Chang Xin asked.
“Senior Sister Chunai used to be a cultivator of the Bright Snow Sect, sob, sob! She used to be a cultivator of the Bright Snow Sect! I was wondering why Senior Sister Chunai was so amazing. She hadn’t been in the sect for much longer than me, but she learned everything so quickly. So it’s because she already had a foundation.”
Zhi Zhi’s eyes were full of tears as she pitifully shook Senior Sister Chang Xin’s shoulder.
However, to her surprise, Chang Xin was not surprised at all, but her mind was heavy. “Yes, I know she used to be a cultivator of the Bright Snow Sect.”
Zhi Zhi: ??!
She froze on the spot, and only after a long while did she realize that she was the only one who had been kept in the dark.
How could this be!
But neither Senior Sister Chang Xin nor Senior Sister Chunai focused on her.
Jiang Chunai went straight to Chang Xin. “Senior Sister Chang, can you tell me what else you know about my past?”
“Cliff Master Mei has already told me what happened to me as a cultivator of the Bright Snow Sect,” Jiang Chunai said earnestly. “But that’s all she could tell me. It ended with an accident that happened between me and Han Xiao in the past.”
She didn’t know how she had died.
Chang Xin grinned awkwardly. “When you died… it was very tragic. It was probably someone who pierced you with a sword, a fatal blow.”
When she said this, her gaze was evasive, and she didn’t even dare to look Jiang Chunai in the eye.
At that time, she had been secretly following the demon-slaying team. She really didn’t know how Jiang Chunai had died.
Originally, in her plan, Jiang Chunai was to be brought back to Yanqiu alive.
Seeing that Jiang Chunai already knew about her past and was not blaming them for concealing it, Chang Xin recounted everything she had encountered along the way.
Jiang Chunai listened quietly, not saying a word.
Only when Chang Xin mentioned that their group had rescued Yan Linglong from a mine at that time did a strange light suddenly appear in her eyes.
“Yan Linglong?” she murmured.
Chang Xin was confused. “What’s wrong? Chunai, do you remember her?”
Jiang Chunai shook her head. “I can’t remember anything. It’s just that later, when I went to the Bright Snow Sect, I went to Mount Shu with Cliff Master Mei. At that time, in the Zhaoyang Forbidden Ground, we ran into Yan Linglong with the people of Mengling.”
Chang Xin swallowed hard, suddenly remembering something—Master had once said that the Yan clan and the Su clan had a thousand threads of connection.
Just as she was struggling with how to tell Jiang Chunai, the latter said again, “I think Master knows the most. Let’s go back and ask her.”
Chang Xin agreed.
Along the way, Zhi Zhi was dejected, as if she were sad that she was the only one who didn’t know about Senior Sister Chunai’s past, beating her chest and stamping her feet.
Even though she was a spider, they didn’t have to hide it from her like this!
The journey from Mount Shu to Yanqiu was another long one. By the time they arrived, the wind and snow over the thousand mountains had mostly subsided.
It was almost spring.
The first thing Jiang Chunai did when she returned to Yanqiu was to see her Master.
The stars still shone brightly on the ceiling of the great hall, the sun, moon, and stars flowing, as if in a fairyland.
Incense was still burning in the hall, dispersing the scent of incense that Jiang Chunai and the others had picked up in the Bright Snow Sect.
“Chang Xin, Jiang Chunai, Zhu Zhi.”
Before the three of them could state their purpose, Immortal Venerable Yu Lingzi, seated on the high throne, had already spoken, calling their names.
The three hurriedly bowed and said, “Greetings, Master.”
“You may rise,” Yu Lingzi’s voice was light as she continued to play with the vibrant flowers in the porcelain vase.
A flower with such vigorous vitality needed to be carefully tended to.
Chang Xin thought to herself that since she was the senior sister, she should be the first to speak. “Master…”
However, Yu Lingzi interrupted her, her voice clear and cool. “You need not speak. I already know what has happened. Yanqiu is far from Mount Shu, thousands of mountains and rivers away. The speed of your return cannot match the speed of gossip.”
The implication was that she already knew everything that had happened in the Bright Snow Sect.
“Oh, yes, yes,” Chang Xin said meekly, but then she looked down at Jiang Chunai beside her, thinking that she should be the one to say this. “Also, Master… Chunai already knows.”
At the same time, Jiang Chunai also raised her head, wanting to see Yu Lingzi’s reaction.
However, Yu Lingzi still had an indifferent expression, as if this was also within her expectations.
“That day, when I couldn’t find you, nor Zhu Zhi, I had already guessed a thing or two,” Yu Lingzi said without expression. “What’s done is done, it cannot be stopped. Perhaps, this is fate.”
Looking at Jiang Chunai’s life, it was truly a series of unfortunate events.
She had just escaped from the mire of love, only to voluntarily go to the Bright Snow Sect and meet the demon that had been sealed for thousands of years.
Chang Xin had been with her Master for a longer time, so she was bolder. “Then, Master, are you going to let Chunai know everything about her past?”
“Everything?” Yu Lingzi said. “I cannot say the word ‘everything.’ It would just be letting Jiang Chunai see and feel what it was like before she died again.”
Jiang Chunai’s eyes widened, and she stared at Yu Lingzi on the high platform.
“However, looking back at the past is not easy, at least not for Jiang Chunai. Do you want to see?” Yu Lingzi’s clear pupils looked over, her gaze and words unable to be faked.
Jiang Chunai’s heart suddenly pounded.
Of course she was curious. She was curious about how she had lived, how she had died.
How she had gone from an outstanding cultivator of the Bright Snow Sect to starting over in Yanqiu, wasting decades, even a hundred years of her life.
So, she said, “I do.”
“Good, you do,” Yu Lingzi nodded lightly, and suddenly plucked the petals of the flower she had been playing with. “Then I will grant your wish.”
Suddenly, a bright pearl appeared before Yu Lingzi’s seat, shimmering with a gentle light, gathering spiritual energy.
Jiang Chunai knew that this was the Pearl of Retrospection that Cliff Master Mei had spoken of.
—But this Pearl of Retrospection was clearly more powerful.
In an instant, the world changed color. The people who had been in the great hall were now in the dark and damp Cave of Severed Affections.
Jiang Chunai had thought there was some legendary secret to her death, so she watched with great concentration.
She saw herself—still a cultivator of the Bright Snow Sect—after a great battle, exhausted, cautiously walking along the stone wall of the Cave of Severed Affections.
Jiang Chunai could see that she was afraid at that time.
She had just sent a voice transmission to Han Xiao.
But Han Xiao had coldly said, “Why should I be expected to save you,” and cut off the transmission.
Jiang Chunai pursed her lips, her heart suddenly aching. This was similar to the scene shown by Cliff Master Mei’s Pearl of Retrospection.
That woman had used her to detoxify, and after she had passed the crisis, she had raised her sword and told her to get lost, or she would take her life.
She was so afraid of trouble, it was only natural that she wouldn’t come to save her.
Until now, Jiang Chunai still held some hope for her death: she couldn’t have died so ordinarily.
There must be some secret.
If there was no secret, it would have been some heroic sacrifice.
Like in the legends.
But the reality shown by the Pearl of Retrospection was too direct, too bloody.
It was so direct that there was no room for maneuver, so bloody that she was unwilling to watch the second time with such cruelty.
Even after being coldly and heartlessly rejected by the senior sister she had always admired, Jiang Chunai still moved forward resolutely.
Then, she actually met Senior Sister Han Xiao.
A drowning person clutching the only floating wood they can rely on is no different.
But this floating wood was covered with sharp barbs. Anyone who touched it would feel a bloody pain.
Then Jiang Chunai saw the most unbelievable scene:
“You don’t know what’s good for you,” Han Xiao said so coldly, and plunged the Twilight Kite sword straight into her chest.
Without a trace of reluctance, without a shred of emotion.
Just like when she had slain those demons, she held a long sword and ruthlessly pierced her chest.
“Sen-Senior Sister…” Jiang Chunai, with a gaping hole in her chest, murmured, her translucent, glass-like pupils losing their luster.
A sigh mixed with the whistling wind blew into the ears of the newly born Jiang Chunai.
She thought that at that time, what she must have been thinking was—
Never to like Han Xiao again.