Completely ignoring the cold metal handle placed upon the entrance of her vagina, Cang Yue instead focused on what Xiao Ruolan had just said.

"What do you mean by twenty-six days to live?" This was what she wanted to know the most.

"What do I mean?" Pulling back the needle, Xiao Ruolan threw it to the ground beside her before grabbing a chair and sitting right in front of Cang Yue, who was still tied naked in front of her.

"What do you think, I mean?" She instead asked Cang Yue with a smirk on her face.

"....." Cang Yue's eyes narrowed into slits, but she didn't answer.

In the end, it was Xiao Ruolan who shook her head helplessly before raising her hand and placing it on Cang Yue's chest, directly above her heart, where there were three sword tattoos.

"Huh!?" Feeling the warm touch of Xiao Ruoaln's hand, Cang Yue merely cast a puzzled look.

"So, this is what you mean?" She almost wanted to laugh in response. Of course, she knew what the sword mark left on her chest meant.

When that old woman in the ruin handed her the soul gem, she also gave her the warning that if she didn't come back to the ruins after a month, the sword marks would get triggered and tear her apart.

Of course, she knew about it, but at the same time was surprised that Xiao Ruolans seemed to have seen through it.

One had to know that the sword mark on her chest was left by that mysterious old woman whose strength was unfathomable. For Xiao Ruolan to see through it could only mean that her strength was similar to that old woman or perhaps even greater.

But thinking about how she was at least an expert in the Soul Tempering realm, Cang Yue calmed her heart.

"So... the young lady of the Xiao family isn't really a young lady at all." She merely taunted Xiao Ruolan, trying to change the topic of discussion from herself to Xiao Ruolan's identity.

Who would have thought that the seemingly ordinary young lady of the Xiao family would be a monster in disguise? The entire world was fooled by her. And if not for her suddenly barging here and wanting to teach her a lesson, she might have never discovered it.

"..."

"..."

Xiao Ruolan merely looked at Cang Yue in response before shaking her head with a sigh.

"You pitiful worm..."

"You don't even know what your fate is going to be."

"Truly... a frog sitting in a boiling water who can't sense its own demise."

Her words only made Cang Yue grit her teeth in anger before she was finally unable to take it any longer.

"Shut up, you whore." This was the first time Cang Yue had insulted Xiao Ruolan so openly.

"I know exactly what is going to happen to me, and I know how to get out of it."

"Oh! Do you?" Xiao Ruolan merely let out a smile, completely ignoring the insults Cang Yue was throwing around.

"Do you really think that by merely going to the trial on your designated time, you will be able to rid yourself of these marks?"

"Like I said... Pitiful worm who doesn't know its own fate."

Xiao Ruolan's words finally made Cang Yue's expression turn serious. When she came out of the trial, she always had a lingering suspicion. Why would the trial of a righteous path trial would allow someone like her, who was demonic in nature, to leave so easily?

Why was she left alive? Why did the old woman give her the soul gem? It certainly wasn't out of the goodwill of her heart.

Why did the old woman want her back in the trial one month later?

The more she thought about it, the less sense it all made.

But at that time, Cang Yue didn't have time to pay attention to it at all. At that time, she was worried about Yang Ze's safety, and then, after he regained consciousness, his changed personality, as well as the mission request from Lin Yue, caught her by surprise. After that... she had almost forgotten about it.

But now Xiao Ruolan mentioned it again, the lingering seeds of suspicion sprouted once again.

"What do you mean by all that? Can you at least tell me what is going on?" Cang Yue immediately put aside her pride before asking in a soft voice.

The woman in front of her wasn't some young lady of the Xiao family from an obscure place, but she was a powerhouse in the realm of Soul Tempering. It was an existence that the Current Cang Yue wasn't even worthy of meeting, much less holding a conversation.

Hell, if not for her identity as the Duality Sect's saitness, she wouldn't have been able to converse with a Core Condensation powerhouse, much less a Soul Tempering expert.

Right now, Xiao Ruolan's insights could be the difference between saving her life and losing it. If she could just make things clear and warn her of the hidden danger in advance, Cang Yue could increase her chance of survival.

"....." Xiao Ruolan merely let out a soft chuckle after seeing Cang Yue change her arrogant and haughty tone in an instant to that of meek and submissive.

"Forget it..." She merely let out a sigh before speaking further. "There is no harm in telling you. Not like you will be able to go anywhere in the next twenty-six days."

Cang Yue merely narrowed her eyes at the latter half of the sentence, but ignored it for now. She wanted to know what Xiao Ruolan knew.

Xiao Ruolan took a deep breath and, under Cang Yue's expectant gaze, began to narrate slowly.

"A long time ago, there were two frogs living in a pond."

Her very first words made Cang Yue raise an eyebrow, but she didn't interrupt her.

"The frogs were the strongest creatures in the pond, and in a sense they could be said to be the rulers."

"But the two frogs didn't want to just stay there..."

"They thought about leaving the pond, going to a larger place."

"Unfortunately for those two frogs, they were surrounded by both sides."

"On one side were innumerable thorns where poisonous creatures reside who could eat them up in a single gulp, and the other side was covered in a dense fog where incomparably terrifying beings roam mindlessly, preventing any life from stepping there."

"The two of them were stuck, with no way out."

"But they weren't willing to give up."

Speaking till here, Xiao Ruolan's eyes went in a daze as she narrated those events as if she had witnessed them in real time.

"So, with nowhere left to go, the two of them could only dig deep. To find something or someone who could help them out of this predicament."

"And sure enough... After centuries of searching, they finally found something..."

"A serpent."

Xiao Ruolan's eyes narrowed into slits as her breathing paused for a moment before she continued further.

"The serpent knew a way out; it told them that it would take them to a place beyond their wildest imaginations. Not in a larger pond or an ocean, but a place beyond the skies. To a world whose mere existence is beyond their understanding."

"So it told the two frogs what they needed to do, but with the condition that they needed to free it from its cage."

"A heavenly oath was made, and the serpent finally told them a way out."

"The first condition was to be in a state between life and death."

"The second condition was to get the heart of a fallen Immortal."

"And the third and final condition was to bring a special physique that is born after the sacrifice of nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine infants born in the lunar yin cycle."

"And thus... the two frogs began their long arduous journey of obtaining them all."

Every single word of Xiao Ruolan was enough to shake Cang Yue's heart, who was having a hard time wrapping her head around everything that was just told to her.

She could understand Xiao Ruolan's references and how she was saying that her mother, Yun Ning, was one of the frogs, but in that case, who was the other frog? Her father?

She couldn't help but shake her head. She knew her father and how he died, so his being one of the strongest people of the Azure Dragon Continent was out of the question. Besides... her mother wasn't even the strongest person. Hell, she only started to cultivate again after rejoining the Duality Sect after their family's massacre.

And was her mother really one of the frogs of the story?

The more she thought about it, the less sense it all made. She even felt like her head was about to split into two.

In the end, she decided not to think for the moment and focus on what Xiao Ruolan was saying,

"The two frogs combined their blood, a part of their soul and with a special ritual, created three offspring."

"The eldest daughter was created for the sole purpose of fulfilling their first condition... By slaying her, the two frogs would kill a part of themselves, officially entering the state of life and death."

"The second daughter was created for the sole purpose of being a vessel to the Fallen Immortal Heart."

"The third and the youngest daughter was created by sacrificing nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine infants born in the lunar yin cycle to give her the Nine Yin Physique."

"And the third daughter would be the offering of the Serpent... so that the Serpent would once again be free to roam this world."

"Of course... my story might have a lot of misinformation, and it might be even wrong in some places, but overall... it is the truth."

Xiao Ruolan's words were akin to heavenly thunder in Cang Yue's ears as her mind almost stopped working.

She wasn't that stupid to not know what Xiao Ruolan's words meant. Other than the so-called 'frogs', she understood everything else.

The First offspring, who was supposed to die to put the frogs between the state of life and death... that was her elder sister Lin Wan...

The third offspring, who had the Nine Yin Physique... that was clearly herself.

And the second offspring... the one who would carry the fallen Immortal heart...

Thinking about it, a name suddenly escaped from Cang Yue's lips unconsciously.

"CRIMOSN HEART?"

"LIN YUE?"

Cang Yue's eyes went wide with disbelief, and her mind almost stopped working. For a moment, she couldn't help but think that Xiao Ruolan was spouting nonsense, but one glance at Xiao Ruolan's face and she understood that everything she just said was true.

And the fact that her sister Lin Wan was dead only strengthened what she had just said.

"How..." Cang Yue found it hard to even speak a word as her eyes darted around, as if she wanted to escape from reality.

"How could it be possible?"

"HOW IS IT POSSIBLE?"

The more Cang Yue spoke, the more hysterical she got.

If her mother killing Lin Wan was something that broke her heart, then the fact that the three of them were sisters and they all had such a wretched fate in their future was something that completely drove her crazy.

Looking at Cang Yue's raging emotions and her increasingly crazed state, Xiao Ruolan merely tapped the air in front of her, making her regain clarity.

"Take some time to register everything that I just said and accept your fate."

"Initially, I didn't want to take any action against you, but you brought it upon yourself."

"You will spend the rest of what your pitiful little life is in this room."

"As for Yang Ze... you don't have to worry about him."

Patting Cang Yue's cheeks, Xiao Ruolan turned around and walked out of the room, sealing the entire room in her internal energy, completely cutting off Cang Yue's curses and screams.

"Now then..." Coming out of her room, Xiao Ruolan stretched her body for a while before looking in the direction of Yang Ze's room. "Shall we too have a small chat?"

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