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"Senior sister, it's been so many years since we last met, I've missed you terribly!"

On the cliff opposite Lingjiu Palace, Li Qiushui looked at the well-ordered Lingjiu Palace and said softly, her tone indescribably frivolous and relaxed.

The reason she only arrived at Lingjiu Palace now was because most of the Lingjiu Palace disciples had gone out to search for the Child Granny's whereabouts, leading her to believe that the Child Granny had already left Lingjiu Palace.

After searching for two days, she saw the Lingjiu Palace disciples rushing back, which made her realize that she had been tricked. Only then did she rush back to the Lingjiu Palace in Piaomiao Peak.

Looking at the familiar building in front of her, she couldn't help but feel emotional. It was here when the three of them were taught by Xiaoyaozi when they were young. She never expected that many years later, the two of them would become mortal enemies, and Wuyazi would also disappear.

The entire Xiaoyao Sect has fallen apart.

Inside the quiet room, Tianshan Tonglao slowly opened her eyes, instantly absorbing the white mist surrounding her. She turned to look at the door, a cold smile appearing on her lips, before closing her eyes again to continue recovering her strength.

"Senior sister..."

Just as Li Qiushui was about to continue using the Soul-Searching Technique to locate Tong Lao, she was interrupted by a deep and impatient voice.

"Uncle-Master, stop calling! It's very impolite to disturb people's peace and quiet."

She looked up toward the door and saw a slightly burly young man with a rugged face slowly walk out. The young man had a displeased look on his face and his expression was full of impatience.

The person who arrived was Lu Ming. He rushed out immediately after hearing Li Qiushui's voice.

"Who are you?! Where is that bitch?!"

The two stood facing each other. Sensing the cultivation level of the newcomer, Li Qiushui frowned slightly, her face turning terribly gloomy.

"This junior is Lu Ming, and my master is Wu Yazi!"

Lu Ming clasped his hands together and bowed slightly to Li Qiushui.

"Oh! Wu Yazi's disciple, after all these years, has Wu Yazi finally decided to leave the mountain?!...Where is he?! Why hasn't he come looking for me all these years?!"

Li Qiushui smiled and said with a hint of teasing. She didn't believe Lu Ming and thought he was specially trained by Tianshan Tonglao to deal with her. After all, she and Tianshan Tonglao hadn't seen each other for thirty years, and the latter had enough time to train a successor.

As for Lu Ming saying that he was Wu Yazi's disciple, it was nothing more than an attempt to agitate him and break his mental defenses.

"Uncle-Master, you don't really think Master is still alive, do you? Given what you and Ding Chunqiu did to him back then, you can't really believe Master is safe and sound."

Lu Ming's voice grew colder, and the impatience in his eyes turned into killing intent. Li Qiushui only glanced at those cold eyes unintentionally, but she felt as if she had fallen into an ice cave, and her body trembled uncontrollably.

"Of course he's fine! With his martial arts skills, what's that cliff?! What's that bit of poison in his body? He hasn't seen me for so many years, he's been hiding from me!" Li Qiushui took a step back and said, pretending to be calm, but her tone clearly carried a hint of panic.

"So that's what you were thinking!"

"Hahaha!"

Lu Ming was so angry he laughed. He never expected that Li Qiushui would think that her master, Wu Yazi, would be alright, and that Wu Yazi's paralysis over the years was to avoid him.

"What are you laughing at?!" Li Qiushui frowned.

"Then look what this is! Do you still think I was wrong?!"

Lu Ming flipped his hand, and a green thumb ring appeared in his palm. He waved it at Li Qiushui and then focused his gaze on her.

"This is a jade thumb ring, how could this be?!" Li Qiushui trembled after just one glance, then screamed hysterically, "It's fake, it's fake! How could he die? He hasn't apologized to me yet, he hasn't been with me yet."

"What a joke! Do you really think no one knows what you did back then? Why should your master apologize to you, you fickle woman?! Besides, in your heart your master is already dead, otherwise he wouldn't have made Li Qingluo call Ding Chunqiu 'father' to cover up his actions, and then abandoned his own daughter to become the Empress Dowager in Xixia after he got tired of Ding Chunqiu."

"You think your master isn't dead, but that's just wishful thinking. The reason you haven't looked for your master all these years is simply because you're afraid he wasn't injured but was beaten to death."

"If it weren't for your fear of your master's recovery, which aggravated your master's love and caused your master to suffer a qi deviation, leading to the disintegration of the Xiaoyao Sect, and the fact that there is still no decent successor, you would be the culprit for all of this."

"Tell me, what gives someone like you the right?!"

Lu Ming's questioning voice echoed throughout the entire Misty Peak.

At this moment, Li Qiushui's face was deathly pale, and she staggered, almost falling to the ground. She wanted to refute, but what Lu Ming said was true. No one had mentioned it for so many years, and she thought that others didn't know or had long forgotten it, but now that Lu Ming had revealed it, she was on the verge of collapse.

"You make it sound so nice, but what about my senior sister?! Doesn't she do anything wrong?! Look at my face, this is where she scratched it, shouldn't I hate her?"

Li Qiushui suddenly ripped off the fake skin on her face, revealing a hideous grid-shaped scar. Pointing at the scar, she spoke hysterically, attempting a final struggle.

"You caused your master's sister to suffer a qi deviation, forcing her to maintain the body of a young girl for the rest of her life. It's already merciful of her not to kill you, let alone leave a scar on your face. It's far too lenient on you!"

This wasn't to excuse Tong Lao, but rather Lu Ming's genuine thought. If he were Tong Lao, killing Li Qiushui with a single sword strike wouldn't be unreasonable.

If it weren't for Li Qiushui, Tonglao's personality wouldn't be so extreme and twisted. Even so, Tonglao only ever liked Wuyazi. She was strict in her governance, clear in her rewards and punishments, and all the disciples of Lingjiu Palace were loyal to her.

"You're asking for it!"

Li Qiushui's expression was ferocious and twisted. She moved with incredible speed, leaving behind a series of afterimages. At the same time, she gathered true energy in her right palm and slammed it out. The sharp palm force went straight for Lu Ming's face.

"I couldn't hold back any longer!"

Lu Ming, his face full of disdain, also slapped out a palm.

Seeing this, Li Qiushui sneered inwardly. With a slight movement of her left palm, the force that was originally aimed at Lu Ming's face changed direction in the air and struck towards his heart. But the next second, her expression stiffened.

Lu Ming pulled with his left hand, changing the direction of his palm strike and intercepting hers.

"boom!"

The two palm strikes collided, creating a terrifying impact that sent the two flying backward.

Lu Ming lightly tapped his toes in the air to dissipate the force, and after gliding for more than ten meters, he landed steadily on a stone on Piaomiao Peak. This was stepping on the void, a light-body skill recorded on the cave wall, which was an advanced version of Lingbo Weibu.