Chapter 712: 712 The Incompetent Her
Chapter 713: 713. Do You… Believe Your Teacher?
Severed arms, mutilated limbs, heads, and pools of brain matter and scarlet blood.
The white-skirted girl trembled, her hands gripping the wall as she stumbled through the dimly lit, terrifying corridor. Soon, her stiff steps quickened, and she ran as if gone mad, using hands and feet alike. Turning a corner, she tumbled from the second floor to the first.
On the living room sofa, a middle-aged man sat leaning back, his newspaper-covered knees soaked in scarlet blood. His neck was empty, headless. The head rolled from the sofa, slowly coming to rest at the girl’s feet, joining the head of the middle-aged woman on the floor. Their vacant, blood-soaked grayish-white eyes stared unblinking.
A gust of wind puffed up the sheer curtains. The sky was clear, the moon and stars few, the night silent and desolate. Yet, a piercing wail erupted from the uninhabited estate. Hatred stirred a sudden gust of wind, startling a few crows from the treetops outside and sending them into the sky.
Kneeling in the blood, the white-skirted girl clutched the two heads, trembling, curled up in the center of the living room. She was like a silkworm cocoon, falling into an eternal sleep in this dim, blood-red hell.
When the tears in her eyes finally dried, she slowly sat up as if a machine. Her vacant, hollow purple eyes lifted, her pupils dilating, surrounded by countless swirling, gorgeous purple rays of light in the whites of her eyes.
Centering on her, the surrounding scene immediately reversed, time flowing backward, shifting back to two minutes ago. The middle-aged man was still on the sofa reading the newspaper, and his wife, holding a fruit plate, was smiling as she prepared to go upstairs to find their daughter.
Suddenly, the light in the center of the living room twisted, and a mysterious person clad in a blood-red hooded robe quietly appeared. There were no markings on the mysterious person’s robe, and their face, hidden within the hood, was a blurry mass of red shadow, their identity impossible to discern.
The middle-aged man looked up in shock, but before he could say anything more, a completely crushing slaughter began. Countless screams of agony echoed through the estate.
Crimson bloodshot veins appeared in the white-skirted girl’s eyes as she watched the scene unfold in despair. The “Eyes of Naraka” could restore scenes from up to three days prior, but this slayer had no distinguishing features, and their technique was merely simple swordsmanship, revealing no tricks. Even if she wanted revenge, she had no target.
The only certainty was that the slayer’s realm was at least Sacred. After all, the protective formation of the Cha family estate had been set up by a Sacred Realm expert, hired at great expense and through considerable favor. Those below the Sacred Realm simply couldn’t get in.
Xia Feng and Mu Qingtong stood beside the snow-skirted woman, silently watching Cha Nai Xue’s nightmare. They watched as Cha Nai Xue repeatedly used the “Eyes of Naraka,” replaying the scene of the slaughter of all sixty-three people in the estate, trying to discern some clue from the slayer’s actions.
“There’s very little information, but the casting material for this sword should be ‘Moonfall.’ It’s generally used for forging the swords of Black Moon Knights,” Mu Qingtong mused.
“Black Moon, huh…” Xia Feng’s expression turned grim. “If that’s the case, Cha Nai Xue’s reason for joining the Black Moon Holy See was likely to investigate the true culprit behind the Cha family’s annihilation by starting with Black Moon. However, for some unknown reason, her memories from the night of the massacre were erased, or perhaps they were blurred and forgotten by some mysterious power. Her original intention for joining the Black Moon Holy See has also since faded. She only knows that she must continually become better and ascend to high positions within the Holy See.”
“And these memories were only awakened the day before yesterday when Saint Pastor Angi and the Burning Angel Disciple were talking.”
From the information provided by the Burning Angel Disciple the day before yesterday, it was known that the Cha family was annihilated because the fourth “Fire Seed” was in their possession. The slayer, having somehow obtained this secret, came for the Fire Seed. In the nightmare’s recall, the slayer released countless threads that connected to the heads of all the deceased within the estate, seemingly performing some soul-searching technique. After obtaining the desired information, they vanished from the spot and departed.
The white-skirted girl knelt on the ground, her fingertips digging deeply into her thigh muscles, trying to bury the self-reproach and depressive emotions deep within her heart.
“Tap~ tap~” A pair of pure white boots slowly approached her. Miao Shi said gently, “It seems you remember everything?”
The white-skirted girl looked up dazedly. In the dim, yellowish light, Miao Shi’s gentle and kind face came into view. “Teacher?”
Miao Shi bent down, painlessly stroking the girl’s head before pulling her into a hug, patting her back gently. “There, there, don’t cry. Teacher is here…”
The white-skirted girl’s eyes immediately welled up with tears. The suppressed emotions surged outwards, and she sobbed hoarsely, unable to stop. “It’s all my fault, it’s all my fault! If only I could have become the Chief, if only I wasn’t so incompetent! Today I would have been on my way to the Imperial Central Court. Father, Mother, Sister, Butler Qin, and Aunt Na… they, they wouldn’t have died!!”
Miao Shi gently patted the white-skirted girl’s back, quietly listening as she vented her emotions.
“…wouldn’t have died.”
The white-skirted girl continued to murmur, “It’s all because of my incompetence…”
“Father was right, don’t make excuses for your incompetence. I can’t keep running away like this… I can’t run away.”
“Alright, alright, don’t be sad.” Miao Shi looked up, her eyes full of tenderness, wiping away the tears from her eyes. She said with pain, “Teacher will help you get revenge, okay?”
The girl looked up confusedly, her eyes already hollow and lost, murmuring, “Teacher, do you have a way to help me?”
!
Miao Shi continued to wipe the girl’s tears with pity and said softly, “Little Xue, you should understand that whether it’s your talent or teacher’s talent, reaching the Sacred Realm in this lifetime is the limit. But as long as you give everything of yourself to teacher, teacher is confident in advancing to the Sage, and even becoming a god. Naturally, I’ll also be confident in finding the mastermind behind this!”
“Are you willing to believe teacher?”
“Give everything… to teacher.”
“What you can’t do, teacher will do for you. This way, you can also prove to your father that you are not incompetent, that you are actually very outstanding. Little Xue, what do you think?”
“I am actually very outstanding?”
“Come, Little Xue.” Miao Shi touched foreheads with the girl, gently encouraging her, “Holy Solution! You can’t get revenge with your abilities, so let’s add teacher’s! Prove to your father that you are not incompetent!”
The girl’s eyes were hollow, murmuring “incompetent, incompetent…” Gorgeous purple light surged in her eyes, and the light of “Holy Solution” illuminated them both.
The girl’s figure gradually faded, turning into specks of spiritual light, beginning to merge into Miao Shi’s body. Once the fusion was successful, all of Cha Nai Xue’s strength, including her spirit artifacts and knowledge, as well as her cultivation talent, would be transferred to Miao Shi, in addition to her memories and emotions. Of course, the slave seal on Cha Nai Xue would also be transferred to Miao Shi.
Xia Feng had no interest in such an old woman. Although Cha Nai Xue was calculating and a bit of a “green tea,” she was currently on his side. If anyone were to bully her, it would only be him… and Miss Mu who had the right to bully her. Who did this old woman think she was, daring to manipulate his and Miss Mu’s female slave?!
“I’m teasing your mother, Miao Shi!” Xia Feng cursed, seemingly helpless against the hidden Miao Shi, and could only watch as Cha Nai Xue was successfully devoured by Miao Shi. However, in reality, he had already devised a plan, but he was waiting for the right time.
