Xie Xuanyi slowly recounted the events that had occurred during this period.

The Southern Border Demon Cleansing, the Imperial City marching south...

These two major events were truly shocking.

At first, Jiang Miaoyin's expression was still calm, but it gradually turned to shock, and in the end, her eyes were full of disbelief.

"You mean..."

"The real traitor of the Sword Palace is not Qing Zhu, but Senior Brother?!"

Upon hearing that part about the Sword Forest.

Jiang Miaoyin's expression grew more complex to the extreme.

All these years, she had always blamed herself for the North Sea tragedy.

If it weren't for her carelessness, if she hadn't trusted Qing Zhu so easily... the outcome in the North Sea might have been rewritten.

In a sense, this was where her "heart knot" lay.

Upon hearing this news.

The shadow weighing on her heart suddenly shattered.

The woman sitting in the chair felt as if the immense burden on her shoulders scattered like smoke, and she slumped in the chair, feeling lighter than ever before. Two lines of clear tears slowly fell.

Xie Xuanyi no longer spoke.

He silently handed over an embroidered handkerchief.

"So it wasn't me..."

Jiang Miaoyin's voice trembled, yet with a hint of a smile: "All these years, I always thought it was my fault... that caused you to be forever separated from the North Sea..."

"No matter what, the events of that year can't be blamed on you."

Xie Xuanyi shook his head, said seriously: "You sent Qing Zhu out with the intention of performing a rescue."

"Not long ago... I stopped Qing Zhu..."

At that moment, Jiang Miaoyin's voice still had a slight tremble: "I wanted to ask her the truth... actually, in this illusion, I've asked her many times already..."

That day.

She confronted Qing Zhu on the mountaintop.

Jiang Miaoyin wanted to know who was manipulating Qing Zhu behind the scenes.

"And then?" Xie Xuanyi asked.

"And then... she self-destructed."

Jiang Miaoyin shook her head, mocking herself: "She didn't leave me any useful clues."

"Self-destructed?"

Xie Xuanyi's gaze tightened: "Did you use Divine Thought to capture the scene at that time?"

"Hmm..."

Jiang Miaoyin fell into thought, pondered for a moment, took out a Jade Scroll, and replayed the scene from that night.

Xie Xuanyi took the Jade Scroll, and with just a glance, he had his answer.

Qing Zhu self-destructed on the mountaintop.

Blood spattered everywhere, mixed with frost white traces.

"Paperman Sect!"

Xie Xuanyi spoke coldly: "Sure enough, it's related to Lu Yuzhen!"

"Paperman Sect?"

Jiang Miaoyin's expression was serious: "Didn't this sect appear only in the last ten years... was Qing Zhu part of the Paperman Sect?"

"Given Lu Yuzhen's way of doing things, if it doesn't happen quietly, it's earth-shattering."

Xie Xuanyi pressed down his anger and spoke slowly: "Before the Paperman Sect came into being, they had plotted meticulously... Lu Yuzhen wanted to infiltrate the Da Sui Sword Palace, Qing Zhu and Zhou Zhiren were excellent 'Paperman' candidates."

Qing Zhu was Jiang Miaoyin's close maid.

Zhou Zhiren was the senior brother of Lotus Peak.

With these two "Papermen" serving him, Lu Yuzhen had virtually gained control of all the intelligence movements of the Da Sui Sword Palace at the lowest cost.

All changes, great and small, were in his view.

"I can understand Qing Zhu."

Jiang Miaoyin gritted her teeth: "But Senior Brother... why would Senior Brother betray the Sword Palace and join the Paperman Sect?"

After all, Qing Zhu had a blood feud with the Jiang Family.

Everything she did was an act, all for revenge.

Zhou Zhiren, however, was different.

He was a disciple personally brought back to the Sword Palace by Zhao Chunyang, the senior brother of Lotus Peak, and had no reason whatsoever to betray the Sword Palace... for him, staying at the Sword Palace would be the best choice.

"I also want to know the answer."

Xie Xuanyi's tone grew cold: "In fact, for you, the news of a second 'inner traitor' in the Sword Palace isn't hard to guess... is it?"

At these words, Jiang Miaoyin paused again.

That's right.

She understood what Xie Xuanyi meant.

As a variable in this "great calamity," after killing Qing Zhu, it was tantamount to changing the course of the North Sea... but without a betrayer like Qing Zhu, Xie Xuanyi's movements were still leaked. Every time she reached Yusang City, the battle had already erupted.

Clearly.

There was another informant in the Da Sui Sword Palace, one more deadly than Qing Zhu...

"You're right."

Jiang Miaoyin lowered her gaze, said somewhat sadly: "Even though I now know the 'truth,' I find it hard to accept, I really don't want to believe that Senior Brother would do such a thing..."

"..."

The teahouse returned to silence.

After a while, Xie Xuanyi lifted his tea cup, said gently: "Enough, thinking too much is pointless, since we're here, why not see it with your own eyes."

Steam rose from the tea cup.

"I never thought I would experience the 'North Sea calamity' again here."

Xie Xuanyi maintained his posture of holding the cup, smiled, then spoke seriously: "I hope I can survive, and even more so, hope to untie your 'heart knot'... regarding those things in the previous life, I have to apologize to you."

Jiang Miaoyin's Heart Lake trembled heavily.

She looked up at the young, handsome face in front of her, still as it was yesterday.

The arrival of Xie Xuanyi was nothing less than "saving her."

Alone in this reincarnation dream, she didn't know how many failures she would have to endure to conclude this "Heart Tribulation."

"I..."

A thousand words blocked her chest, Jiang Miaoyin raised her teacup and gently clinked it with Xie Xuanyi's.

Clang.

The crisp sound of the tea cups resonated in the elegant room.

In the next moment, the walls of the tea house shattered, and a giant serpent emerged from beneath Yusang City, leaping skyward, then heavily crashing down with its tail!

Screams, cries, and roars erupted at that moment!

Xie Xuanyi took a step forward, drawing the unresponsive Jiang Miaoyin into his embrace, both of them struck heavily by the serpent's tail, sent flying.

"Boom!"

The entire Yusang City was thrown into an earthquake, evil Qi rising from the ground crevices, forming into a huge palace at the Heavenly Peak, awe-inspiring and fearsome.

Truly "dark clouds press down on the city, the city is about to fall"!

The entire long street where the teahouse stood was shattered to pieces in that strike, becoming ruins.

Rolling dust enveloped the air.

Elders clutching children fled quickly, young men and women scattered crying, Yusang City almost turned into a human purgatory.

However, wherever Yin Qi covered, black barricades rose from the ground, those trying to escape touched the barriers and were instantly consumed, their voices disappearing... in just a few moments, the once noisy and chaotic small city became deathly silent.

"Hiss!"

The giant serpent flicked its tongue, slowly raised its head.

On its flat head, a lazy, demonic child cloaked in snow-white robes sat cross-legged.

Due to various "cause and effect" changes, this time the North Sea calamity had turned upside down...

Next to the demonic child were two figures, one red and one green, hanging like a blazing sun.

White Ghost, Red Immortal, Green Owl.

The Yin Mountain Three Saints had appeared together.

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