Chapter 124 - Li Longling's Frustrations

What did he mean?

Li Longling could not see Ye Anping's expression. She didn't know if he was smiling or talking to her seriously, and she couldn't tell if his words were true or false.

The girl named Pei, who had just spoken, said that Wu Yue was a demonic cultivator.

But Wu Yue had the token from her father.

Could this mean that her father was behind the demonic cultivator's appearance in the Dragon House?

Her father was the one who helped the demonic cultivators?

Her father was the spy colluding with the demonic cultivator, the traitor she had been trying to find these days?!

How could that be?!!

She couldn't believe it.

This man in front of her must be trying to drive a wedge between her and her father!

That's right!! That must be it!!

Li Longling bit her lips and wanted to refute Ye Anping's words, but she could not think of any evidence to prove her father's innocence.

If Wu Yue was really a demonic cultivator, then there was no way her father could get away with it.

But still...

"..."

Li Longling gritted her teeth hard, and her hand clutched the soil underneath the grass.

Ye Anping knew that it was hard for her to come to terms with such a fact. In fact, in the game's plot, she was never told what Li Feng had done, not even at the end of the Dragon House incident.

The cause and course of the Dragon House incident were, in the end, concealed by Si Xuanji.

The news that reached the various sects in the Western Region was that "Li Feng fought against five Demonic Sect cultivators alone, but unfortunately fell into a trap and died." This was also the 'truth' that Li Longling knew in the game.

Si Xuanji's white lie successfully saved the Dragon House and allowed Li Longling to take over the family business left by her father, but at the same time, it also planted a time bomb in her heart.

This bomb would detonate a hundred years later, during Li Longling's Nascent Soul Tribulation*. It would become her inner poison that led to her untimely death, due to her destabilizing under the strain of the Nascent Soul Tribulation.

Even before her death, Li Longling still stubbornly believed in this lie.

But, that was in the game.

There was no doubt that the plot line in this world had been changed again.

Ye Anping did not know what the consequences of his actions would be. He just had a vague feeling that telling Li Longling the truth was the right thing to do.

The truth might make her feel confused for a short time, but it was better to be confused now than at a critical moment.

...

After Ye Anping and Pei Lianxue left, the forest became quiet.

The only sounds heard were the chirping of cicadas and the rustling of leaves in the wind.

The smell of grass and trees was refreshing and pleasant.

In such an environment, Li Longling soon calmed down.

She had been rejecting what Ye Anping told her, but now she finally figured out that it didn't matter whether his words were true or false.

What she needed to do now was to immediately return to the mansion, find her father, and ask him about this matter face to face.

Even if it would turn out to be true what Ye Anping implied...

"Even so..."

At this thought, Li Longling hugged her knees tightly, her nose felt sore, and she seemed to have something stuck in her throat that couldn't come up or down.

Wanting to vent her anger, she clenched her fist and swung it hard at the grass beside her. Unexpectedly, she somehow hit something soft.

"Ah..." Li Longling herself was startled.

"Burp--"

Feng Yu Die, who had been punched in the stomach, woke up instantly from her sleep and looked around in confusion.

She felt a sharp pain in her head, and it took her a while to recover. Looking around and seeing that Li Longling was the only one there, she was puzzled. "Sister Li, where are the others?"

"..." Li Longling was startled for a moment before replying in a low voice, "They left."

"What? They left?"

Feng Yu Die lowered her head. She had wanted to have a good chat with Sister Pei, whom she hadn't seen for a long time, but now...

Remembering what just happened, she looked around and found a bag of spirit stones next to her. She took it, and seeing that there were thirty thousand spirit stones inside, her mood greatly improved.

She stood up, patted her robe, and put the spirit stones bag into her storage bag.

"Sister Li, did my brother tell you about Master Li..."

Li Longling quickly interrupted. "He did."

"Then, what are you going to do?"

"I..." Li Longling bit her lip, hesitating. "I'll go and talk to my father."

Feng Yu Die nodded, grinned, and patted her shoulder again. "Sister Li, remember, we will always be on your side."

"Uhm..."