CHAPTER 59: 59

"STOP IT." On the other side of the Heavenly Sword Sect, inside one of the dimly lit rooms, two beautiful figures were entwined with one another. One of the women with large breasts was grabbing another perky woman from the back by using her right hand to hold her waist while her left hand to grabbing the perky woman’s hand, which was holding a sharp, pointy piece of metal that was just a few inches away from the face of the man who was lying there unconscious.

"LET ME GO." Lin Yue was struggling with all her might, wanting to plunge this piece of metal into the man’s eye. "Wan’er is dead. Why does this bastard get to live?"

"She must be feeling lonely. Let him accompany her." The more she spoke, the angrier she got. By the time she finished speaking, she even put all her weight into that piece of metal, wanting to fall down on him.

But how could Xiao Ruolan let her do that? She knew what Lin Yue was going through. The three of them were childhood friends. Even though she hadn’t talked to both Lin Yue and Lin Wan in years, they were like her sisters. Although she hadn’t spent that much time with Lin Wan, it didn’t diminish the pain in her heart in the slightest.

But unlike Lin Yue, she was a cool-headed person. She knew that the man lying there unconscious was innocent. He was a mere victim in all that happened. After all, it was them who dragged him there.

And now, with Lin Wan dead, it was hard to say what he was going through. After all, he was her lover.

In her eyes, Lin Wan’s death caused a significant trauma to the man lying there. She had heard it with her own ears the miserable howls of the man when Lin Wan died. She had seen it with her own eyes, the pain he went through when Lin Wan died.

And now that Lin Yue wanted to kill him... how could she allow it to happen? She was going to protect him. In a way, she was protecting the memories of her dead sister.

"AAAHHHHHHH." Lin Yue, unable to break free, just howled like an animal before going limp.

*Clang

Looking at the piece of metal that fell down as well as Lin Yue’s slumping body, Xiao Ruolan finally let out a sigh of relief.

"Let’s go back." Whispering softly in her ears, Xiao Ruolan slowly pulled her back before making her sit on the chair and then sat beside her.

"It wasn’t his fault." After a long silence, Xiao Ruolan spoke in a soft voice. "And neither was it yours."

Lin Yue’s body shivered at this statement.

"I know you have been blaming yourself. But you have to understand that it wasn’t your fault. There was nothing you could have done."

"How..." Lin Yue’s body trembled for a moment, but with her head bent down and her hair covering her face, it was hard to see her expression. "How wasn’t it my fault?"

"Wasn’t I the one who messed up the escape plan? If only I weren’t stupid, if only I had planned better."

"We could have rescued her."

"We could have saved her."

"And when she came to us. What did I do?" Speaking till here, Lin Yue’s voice was filled with self-mockery. "I REJECTED HER. I FOUGHT WITH HER. IT WAS BECAUSE OF ME."

"IF I HAD LISTENED TO HER, SHE WOULD HAVE BEEN ALIVE."

"IT WAS MY FAULT."

With every word she spoke, Lin Yue’s voice grew hoarser. By the time she reached the end of her sentence, she was almost shouting at the top of her lungs.

"It wasn’t." Xiao Ruolan, on the other hand, just hugged her tightly, burying Lin Yue’s face in her large, proud breasts.

"There was nothing that you could have done." Xiao Ruolan muttered softly, but her words weren’t just for Xiao Ruolan, but to herself as well. "Didn’t you hear her mother? It was bound to happen sooner or later."

"There was nothing we could have done."

The two women didn’t say a word after that. They just sat there in silence, each one lost in their train of thought. But if there was one thing that was common on their faces besides sorrow, then it was self-blame. They both blamed themselves for what happened to Lin Wan. Lin Yue blamed herself because she failed her rescue mission, while Xiao Ruolan blamed herself because she wasn’t strong enough to rescue Lin Wan.

Perhaps both of them knew that it wasn’t their fault, but when has grief ever been easy to overcome? One always finds a reason for self-blame.

While the two of them were sitting there quietly, hugging each other tightly, hoping to lessen the pain in their hearts, a knock on the door brought them back to their senses.

"Who is it?" It was Xiao Ruolan who asked. While she was thankful to the Heavenly Sword Sect for rescuing them from the Duality Sect, she was wary of them. Instead of sending them home, they brought them here and kept them in this house. It was as if the script of the Duality sect was being played over again.

"It is me." An old voice came from the outside.

"....." Xiao Ruolan just raised an eyebrow in response. She wasn’t familiar with the person outside the door. And just when she was hesitating about what to say next, the person outside seemed to have realised their mistake.

"Oops! How silly of me." With a gentle laugh, the person spoke again. "I am Jian Yu, Sect Leader of the Heavenly Sword Sect."

Xiao Ruolan hesitated for a moment before opening the door, and the moment she did, she was greeted by the sight of the woman in her sixties wearing long white clothes.

"Senior." She didn’t know why the other party was here, but since she was the Sect Leader of the Heavely Sword Sect, she needed to pay proper respect to the other party.

"No need to be so tense." Walking inside the room, Jian Yu glanced around as her eyes first scanned Xiao Ruolan, then Lin Yue and finally stopped at the figure of Yang Ze, who was lying there unconscious.

"What happened to him?"

"About that." Xiao Ruolan didn’t hide anything from her. "Lin Wan and he were pretty close. I think it is her death that sent him into a coma."

"Heh!" Yang Ze shook her head with a smile.

"And they say true love is dead."

Focusing back on the two women in the room, Jian Yu let out a gentle smile akin to a grandma next door.

"How are the two of you feeling?"

"Good." Xiao Ruolan just gave a punctual answer. She didn’t know why, but she didn’t want to talk too much to this woman.

"Senior, our families should be worried. We need to go back to them." After going through so much, Xiao Ruolan just wanted to go home.

But how could Jian Yu let them go this easily? They were her ticket to the Heaven Step Realm. They were the only people who knew how Yun Ning managed to step into the Heaven Step Realm.

"No worries." With a gentle smile on her face, Jian Yu just nodded in response. "I have contacted your families. They would be here soon."

Focusing her gaze back on Xiao Ruolan, she narrowed her eyes as the smile on her face grew.

"It’s just that you all have gone through so much. Don’t you guys want revenge?"

"....." Xiao Ruolan didn’t answer. Of course, she wanted revenge, but she was clear about their own situation. With their strength at the Vein Expansion realm, going against Yun Ning was a pipe dream.

Lin Yue, on the other hand, didn’t think so. She wanted revenge. She wanted that bitch dead, and for that, she was willing to make any sacrifices.

Standing up in response, she looked at Jian Yue through the scattered hair on her face, making her look like a ghost.

"HOW?"

"How can I get revenge?"

Jian Yu’s smile only got stronger. She was initially disappointed by the lack of response from Xiao Ruolan and was even thinking of using other means. But who would have thought that one of them would jump so willingly?

"Leave that to me." Patting her chest, Jian Yu finally asked the thing she was dying to ask.

"It’s just that... before we go against her, I wanna know her better."

"What happened there?" She put on a worried face as she asked in a concerned voice. "Can you tell me from the very beginning?"

Xiao Ruolan wanted to reject her. It wasn’t that she didn’t want to tell what they went through. It was just that she didn’t trust her.

But who would have thought that before she could reject her politely, Lin Yue stood up and took a step forward.

"I will tell you everything. But before that, I have to ask you something."

Jian Yu raised an eyebrow before nodding in response, "Go on."

"Is the Saintess of Duality Sect still here?"

Jian Yu didn’t think too much about it and just nodded in response.

"Let me meet her after this."

With this statement, she began to tell her everything that happened without even waiting for a response.

From the day her mother brought Lin Wan to the Lin family, to her getting kidnapped and them going to the rescue, but failing, and ultimately, Yun Ning sacrificing her own child to achieve the Heaven Step realm.

The more Jian Yu listened, the darker her expression got.

She was expecting something simpler... but who would have thought that Yun Ning would be so crazy.

But even after listening to all of this, she couldn’t resist the allure of the Heaven Step. If she were given a choice, she too would follow the same path. After all, for cultivators, strength was everything.

"Now take me to the Saintess of the Duality Sect."

Lin Yue’s voice was devoid of any emotion as she uttered those words.

Jian Yu just nodded in response. She knew what the woman wanted to do, but she wasn’t worried. With her strength, it was impossible for her to make any moves.

The two of them made their way towards the prison, leaving behind the figures of Xiao Ruolan, who was still staring at their backs worryingly, along with the figure of Yang Ze, who was still lying there unconscious.