Imdiately after birthing a spirit, she slaughtered everyone within her vicini. This included the guilty and the innocent, and then for the next two weeks, she tracked down every single person connected to the death of her would-be master, Luo Xue, and that led her to the doors of the royal family and the Zhang family of the Gentle Rock Kingdom and slaughtered her way through both families.
When she was done with the execution of the two families, she stood vigil at her master’s grave which was next to her creator, up until Inquisitors from the Order ca to apprehend her, having been made aware of the incident by the remaining noble families of the Gentle Rock Kingdom.
Since she gained sentience, it has been 400 years, but how much of it has she lived? She was older than Yang Qing several tis over but when it ca to the school of life, she was basically a toddler with two weeks spent in slaughter, another week spent in mourning, and the period that followed, all of it was spent in incarceration at Requiem.
Though different from most, even if Luo Suyun was guilty like those imprisoned there, for killing innocents, with mortals having a sufficient number in her casualty list, her circumstances were different, and as such she wasn’t completely treated like a convict.
As a newly ford spirit, she was basically a blank page, and from what Shao An told him, the past 400 years were spent filling a bit of that page. Educating her in all manner of things as one would a child.
Yang Qing’s thoughts were pulled back by Luo Suyun talking.
"Every ti I am around those so steeped in blood, it always feels like a veil of blood has surrounded , suffocating as it encloses , and because of it, I always have this irrepressible urge to slash away at that veil so I can finally breathe and see clearly again.
There are very few places and people that don’t make feel that way.." Luo Suyun said as she looked away from the pavilion bringing her attention back to the sakura tree.
"One of the places was where..." her voice went silent, as she seed like she was struggling to say the next words.
"It is where my ... master and creator are buried. It felt peaceful there. I would have wanted to stay there forever but..." she paused, her smile turning bitter, as a look of guilt washed over her.
"After failing my duty, I didn’t have the heart to stay there, and...." she stretched out her hands, looking at her palms intently with several emotions flashing through her eyes. Yang Qing recognized one of them. It was self-loathing.
Luo Suyun flipped over her palms, her look returning to the impassive and listless look she had before.
"The second place I didn’t feel like I was being suffocated by curtains of blood was oddly enough soplace around Requiem. Does that place really host evil cultivators? It didn’t feel or sll like one,"
"It does," Yang Qing answered prompting a nod from Luo Suyun.
"Mmh I guess it does considering my roommates," Luo Suyun said with a coldness to her tone.
"The other place is here, around this tree, even at Requiem, I found it comforting around the trees there. The owner said they were parasol trees, and now this sakura tree. I was told it was called Sanctuary Blossom Sakura tree, a rather fitting na don’t you think?"
"It does," Yang Qing said mimicking Luo Suyun’s actions as she reached out to one of the branches, a smile on her face again.
"My baleful qi doesn’t affect it at all," she said as a red-black qi appeared on her fingers that had a highly corrosive aura to it. She brushed it against one of the petals but it did nothing, in fact, the petal let out a faint luster that seed to purify and cleanse the red-black qi.
"Sanctuary, it really does live up to the na. It not only provides tranquility, but protection even against soone like ," she added with a shining smile before turning to face Yang Qing.
"When it cos to people, only two people haven’t made feel nauseated. One of them was the owner of the parasol tree, the one who taught how not to act on my urges. But he told he wasn’t human, and he was part tree, and part sothing else.
And the other person is you," she said as she leaned closer to Yang Qing.
"Are you sure you’re not a tree, not even partly like that person? Otherwise, how would a human have this sll," Luo Suyun said clearly puzzled.
"I am not a tree," Yang Qing answered, slightly flustered as Luo Suyun was standing a few milliters away from him, slightly leaning her head to sll his robes and neck.
"I just share a nature or source with them," he added as he took several steps back, lest Luo Suyun decide to confirm her suspicions and based on the experintal glint he saw flash through her eyes, he was glad he did.
"There goes my sage-like deanor," murmured Yang Qing in exasperation.
It looked like Luo Suyun was about to ask sothing but she paused as her gaze turned cold as she stared behind Yang Qing.
"Oh, what is happening here? I thought you didn’t care much for our kind," a gentle calming voice sounded from the direction she was looking at.
Though gentle, the look seed to trigger an opposite reaction from Luo Suyun who looked like a volcano about to erupt as her pupils flashed with red, and a corroding red-black wave radiated from her body which brought with it a thick scent of blood.
"I told you.." The aura around Luo Suyun transford into a terrifying sharpness that looked to dismber everything in its path.
She walked forward with fierce montum but was halted by a hand that was placed on her shoulder followed by a voice that seed to quell the boiling anger within her.
"The sanctuary blossom sakura is protecting you too."
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