Chapter 346: Fu Yan's Memory

"It's my fault."

Fu Yan sighed lightly, "It's not about the guardian; I was too careless."

You can feel that the suffering Fu Yan sister bears has become heavier.

You said seriously, "What exactly happened to Fu Yan sister in the past? I didn't dare ask before, but now I have the power to save my sister."

Fu Yan looked at you, her expression complicated.

She shook her head, "This is my matter; I shouldn't burden you."

You said, "But we made a promise."

Fu Yan forced a smile, "I thought you couldn't do it; my intention was only to encourage you, never to truly burden you."

"You deceived me."

You stared into her eyes, "Fu Yan sister, don't forget, I can read minds."

"..." Fu Yan was startled, "I don't believe it."

"Fu Yan sister, you're just waiting for me."

You laughed, "If you truly didn't trust me, you wouldn't wait ten years after I left to do this."

"You believed me, yet feared I'd fall into an unfavorable realm; you were torn, but ultimately made up your mind."

"Going alone, by oneself."

"Fu Yan sister, am I right?"

Your words left Fu Yan in silence.

After a long while, she let out a giggle.

"Fine! Sister concedes, I can't argue with you."

"So..."

You really want to know the truth of the past.

Fu Yan extended her hand, "Your pure divine heart can sense all things, right? Whatever you wish to see, I'm here; look yourself."

Perhaps there are things Fu Yan doesn't want to say aloud.

"Alright."

You grabbed Fu Yan's hand and closed your eyes.

At that moment, you seemed to enter Fu Yan's inner world, a hollow realm with almost nothing.

Only a sealed, blood‑red sphere remained.

"Is this Fu Yan sister's suffering, the secret she never wanted to speak of?"

You gently embraced that blood‑red orb.

A memory slowly unfolded in your mind.

You saw a different Fu Yan, then a girl barely older than you, looking about sixteen or seventeen.

At that time, she was a member of the Dark Extinction Squad.

She was the weakest among the powerful Dark Extinction Squad, yet the team's beloved mascot.

In the memory, every teammate's face was crystal clear, and you could feel their care for Fu Yan.

Just as when you first joined the Dark Extinction Squad, Captain Gu Yan and Sister Xia Tao treated you the same.

Precisely for that reason, you could better understand Fu Yan sister's pain.

The clearer the memory, the deeper it pierces the heart; they say time can wash away everything, yet some wounds truly cannot be washed away.

It's just that a person grows, deliberately covering it up, but the pain from the wound remains the same.

"Xiao Fu Yan, stay close, don't get lost."

In the memory, the girl Fu Yan hoisted the squad flag, her face beaming with a happy smile, while teammates shielded her at the very center of the formation.

"Xiao Fu Yan, are you scared?"

The squad's deputy captain, just like your former deputy Xia Tao, was also a big sister full of fiery enthusiasm.

"Not scared!" the girl Fu Yan declared, chest out.

At this moment, she was at the peak of Mortal Dust's Eighth Realm, and in Jing Tu she was also a rare Prodigy Girl.

The other squad members had all reached above the Legend Realm.

The strongest captain was even the peak of Chuandao Sijing.

"Xiao Fu Yan, the place we're heading to is the mysterious Demon Abyss; even before the Jing Tu era, it was an extremely terrifying place."

"Compared to the twelve great super powers, it's no less formidable."

"Are you really not scared?"

The deputy captain's tone carried a tease.

"Not scared!"

The girl Fu Yan's gaze was steadfast.

"Very good," the deputy captain laughed, "In the future, our Xiao Fu Yan will surely become a top‑tier powerhouse capable of holding her own!"

Amidst laughter and chatter, the squad marched onward.

They arrived at the Dark Shadow World, a place called the Demon Abyss.

The captain said, "Come to think of it, gathering resources in the Demon Abyss is easier than for the twelve great super powers."

"The defenses here are far less stringent than there."

"The overall strength of Dark Shadow life is also inferior to the twelve great super powers; we only search the peripheral regions, not venturing deep."

The passage to the twelve great super powers' ruins in the Dark Shadow World exists only in the first Jing Tu world and the second Jing Tu world.

Places similar to the Demon Abyss are the richest resource sites that other Jing Tu worlds can find.

The squad searched for resources with practiced efficiency, relying on the advantage of the World-Cleansing Spirit Artifact to avoid many shadow lifeforms.

Occasionally, when they had no choice but to disturb shadow lifeforms, the squad could quickly eliminate them without letting the disturbance spread.

After gathering a large amount of resources, the squad was preparing to set out on the return journey.

The young girl Fu Yan seemed to have spotted something. She pointed somewhere and said, "Captain, Vice-Captain, look quickly—that shadow lifeform seems very different from the others."

Normally, when undisturbed, shadow lifeforms would remain still and slumbering, gazing upward at the sky.

The shadow lifeform Fu Yan had spotted, however, was slowly wandering, appearing even more eerie within the already bizarre shadow world.

"What is that thing?"

The captain's eyes widened. "Could there exist shadow lifeforms beyond the rules?"

The Vice-Captain said gravely, "Look—the garments on her are vastly different from those of the shadow cultivators in the Demon Abyss."

"This is—!"

A squad member cried out in alarm, "I've seen these garments in records before. They come from the Biluo Abyss of the twelve great superpowers."

"How bizarre."

The captain quickly issued orders. "We're leaving. We must report the intelligence here to the Council of Elders."

The unexpected happened at precisely this moment.

The strange shadow lifeform that had originally been wandering slowly suddenly turned violent and charged fiercely toward the squad.

"Kill her!"

The captain immediately assumed a combat stance.

In an instant, the strange shadow lifeform dissolved into a wisp of dust, easily evading everyone's attacks and heading straight for Fu Yan at the very rear.

"Ahhhh!"

The young girl Fu Yan let out a heart-rending scream, and even you, experiencing this memory, felt the agony of a soul being torn apart.

One could imagine what Fu Yan had endured back then.

But this was merely the beginning of the sorrow. What happened next was the agony that Fu Yan would never be able to forget for the rest of her life.