"What did you say...?"
Upon hearing Wu Mian’s words, Lu Sheng was taken aback.
The massacre back then wasn’t caused by her, but by her father?
How is that possible?
The memory vividly surfaced before her eyes.
It was she who used Divine Power to create a world-ending catastrophe, earthquakes, floods, fires, ice attacks, all wiping out countless lives in a single night.
It was she who lifted her hand and effortlessly crushed the skulls of weak humans who pleaded in fear, regarding them coldly like ants.
She roamed the streets of the Human Realm under the midnight moonlight, with her gaze rendering all those humans immobile.
Then she would go forth, reaching into their chest cavities, digging out their hearts alive and holding them in her hand.
Lowering her head, she seemed to still see her hands covered in fresh blood. Those beating hearts seemed to still rest upon her palms, pulsing, accusing her of past sins.
Not the ones she killed, not her doing all this, how is that possible?
And their father.
He was the only Divine Lord of the Six Realms.
He was the symbol of light and pure goodness of the world, who endowed everything with the purest essence, and full of mercy and tolerance towards all filth and ugliness.
Massacre... anyone could,
But their father alone, absolutely could not do such a thing.
"Enough, Wu Mian!"
Li Zhi’s voice rebuked.
Lu Sheng turned to see Li Zhi’s chest slightly heaving, with a look of restrained expression on his face.
Knowing him for so long, this was the first time Lu Sheng heard Li Zhi speak loudly with emotion. In the past, he was always the calmest, never being harsh to any of them for thousands of years.
Wu Mian hesitated for a moment under Li Zhi’s rebuke. He clenched his fist then released it, regaining composure.
"...Don’t know the truth, will Ah Yin always be fine that way?"
Wu Mian’s starry sky-like blue eyes looked at Li Zhi, carrying a trace of sadness, "No one knows better than us how kind-hearted Ah Yin truly is."
"If we don’t tell her, then from now until the day she completely dies, she will bear the pain brought by such guilt."
Lu Sheng truly felt somewhat confused, and also looked at Li Zhi: "What is going on?"
Wu Mian didn’t speak, just looked at Li Zhi with a stubborn gaze.
Under their gaze, Li Zhi’s eyes trembled slightly.
Finally, he closed his eyes for a moment then opened them again, his voice sounding somewhat weary: "...Alright, I will tell her."
Perhaps sensing that she was about to embrace some colossal truth, Lu Sheng involuntarily took a step back.
Then met Li Zhi’s gaze.
Li Zhi took a deep breath and posed a question Lu Sheng had never considered.
"Ah Yin, since you’ve regained your memory, do you still remember, what were you thinking when you were committing those massacres?"
What was I thinking when committing those massacres?
Lu Sheng attempted to find an answer from her memories, but the more she recalled, the more her brows furrowed.
"I... don’t know."
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