Until the shadows of the four disappeared completely into the darkness, Duanmu Huai then turned again to Shen Xue who was kneeling on the ground, and clenched his fists. With his movents, the shadows around him began to sway like flas, spreading, and then, eyes erged from the dark shadows around Duanmu Huai, fixedly staring at Shen Xue before him.
"Alright, the act is over, isn’t it."
"Huhuhu..."
However, at this mont, Shen Xue seed completely different from her previous pitiful deanor, she raised her head, her fly-like compound eyes fixedly staring at Duanmu Huai.
"I never thought I could be seen through by you? I really don’t know what I did wrong."
"It’s simple, because you’re too ordinary."
Looking at Shen Xue in front of him, Duanmu Huai calmly replied.
In fact, from the very first eting with Shen Xue, Duanmu Huai knew there was definitely sothing wrong with this woman.
The reason was simple, stepping back ten thousand steps, assuming Shen Xue really was sacrificed by her father, then her mind couldn’t possibly resist the Old God’s pollution for over a hundred years!
After all, she was just an ordinary girl! Moreover, judging from her previous performance in her diary, Shen Xue did not possess the resilient spirit and willpower like her sister!
So, what kept her going for over a hundred years?
Familial bond? Or... revenge?
Though Shen Xue did not kill ijia, which led Shajuye and Blondie to instinctively think she was a good person, Duanmu Huai knew the only reason Shen Xue didn’t act was because of his Cursed Talisman’s protection. Had she truly dared to harm ijia, it would definitely have been her who died.
"Ordinary? Ordinary? What is ordinary?!"
At this mont, Shen Xue finally scread, she stood up, glaring at Duanmu Huai, her voice full of hatred.
"Father, for that illusory dream, gave up everything! Gave up ! In his mind, I ant nothing! But in the end, when he needed soone as a sacrifice, father still chose ! And the only reason he chose was to sacrifice ! Why should I do this?! Why should I die for his illusory dream?!"
Amidst Shen Xue’s screams, the ground around began to tremble, and she grinned, revealing a twisted smile.
"When father used needles to inscribe these strange tattoos on , I cried and begged him to stop. Yet he didn’t care about at all, he was just trying to rectify his mistakes! To him, it was just about escaping reality! Trying to pretend that nothing ever happened! For that, he was willing to sacrifice !"
"So, when that great entity descended, I made a contract with it... I would trap my father in an eternal dream. But it wouldn’t be the dream he wanted, he would relive everything he ever did over and over again in this never-ending nightmare!"
The shadows around began to change, turning into an illusory fantasy, as if a dream. Within it, Duanmu Huai saw scene after scene. The father diligently nurturing Hong as a successor, then the birth of the child, he chose the newborn boy as his successor. Then, Hong completely darkened, killed that child. And with the child’s death, the wife went mad, imprisoned and killed Hong, then committed suicide. While the father despairingly watched this scene of slaughter, sobbing uncontrollably.
"Did you see that?"
At this mont, Shen Xue was already in a state of madness.
"He completely ignored ! Even if I ceased to exist, it didn’t matter to him! To father, what mattered was sister! Was mother! Was Nagamatsu! Not !"
"Alright, I understand."
Duanmu Huai silently nodded, as Shen Xue said, the ritual did succeed. But the "success" of the ritual had different anings for different people. Obviously, for that father, the ritual was a complete failure, but in fact, it wasn’t a failure—well, ultimately, it was still the father’s fault.
But for Duanmu Huai, there was no difference, because he had only one thing to do.
"So, are you ready to die now."
"That depends if you’re capable of it!"
As she spoke, Shen Xue raised both her hands high.
"Great Aterac Nakya! Listen to my call, and descend from the realm of dreams!"
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