Chapter 451: You killed everyone in the Witch Moon Sect?

Just you?

Jin Yun slowly sat up, her eyes like a blade frosted with ice, staring fixedly at her junior sister.

Lingjun, I know you've always had a bit more talent than me since childhood. Therefore, the person our master loved and favored most has always been you.

You've always thought that when our master was on her deathbed and passed the sect leadership to me, I used tricks and forced her to do so.

But do you really think I actually want this sect leadership?

Back then I also believed the sect leadership belonged to no one but you, so I worked hard since childhood, not lacking compared to my fellow senior sisters, but I truly never aimed to seize the sect leadership.

I only wanted to study more Witchcraft Technique; even if I ended up just an elder in my old age, I would be content.

So our master entrusted the entire Witch Moon Clan to me before she died, something I never even imagined.

But only after holding the position did I realize how great the responsibility is.

I gradually came to understand our master's painstaking intentions; she liked you, so she wanted you to live freely. She liked you, therefore she never let you learn the secret technique that only the sect leader may study.

Those secret techniques are destined to make me, like our master and grandmaster, unable to live past fifty! They also destined me to never bear children.

Hearing this, Lingjun, who had always worn a look of disdain, finally showed a hint of surprised shock on her face.

No…… how could it be……?

She never seemed to have imagined the truth would be like this.

Only now did she fully understand why the Witch Moon Clan, passed down through generations, had never had its own direct bloodline.

Only then did she realize that the Witch Moon Clan's sect leader seemed to have never actually lived past fifty!

She had still thought it was just a coincidence.

It turned out that because they practiced the sect leader's secret technique, each generation's sect leader was destined not to be long-lived.

Because they could not bear children, most ended up in mutual destruction with their husbands, or even in separation and death.

No wonder, back when Jin Yun and Dong Siyuan were mutually in love, everyone in the sect opposed them.

And when she herself found her beloved, she would receive the master's blessing.

It turned out that Jin Yun had always been the sect's cultivated successor to the sect leadership.

Lingjun found this blow hard to bear, and she shouted, full of resentment: "Doesn't our master understand what I truly want?"

I would rather not be long-lived, I would rather never bear children; what I also want is——

From behind Lingjun came several mournful shouts: "Mother!"

They were Lingjun's one son and two daughters.

In the entire MiaoJiang, aside from the Five Poisons Sect, all sects accept only female disciples.

Lingjun's two daughters had become Witch Maidens since childhood, while her son has always been in charge of miscellaneous affairs in the front courtyard.

Today the entire Witch Moon Sect was slaughtered, yet her family remained completely unharmed.

Who would believe that all this has nothing to do with Lingjun?

However, when Lingjun said she would rather want the sect leadership of the Witch Moon Sect than bear children, her three children could not accept it and their faces changed.

Lingjun instead glared fiercely at them: "Fake, everything is fake!"

My master's affection for me back then was fake, and my affection for you is also fake. Don't you understand yet? What I truly want is the Witch Moon Sect!

Haha, hahaha……

Jin Yun gave a cold smile, and with Que'er's support, she stood up.

Witch Moon Sect?

The Witch Moon Sect has already been completely destroyed by you!

Lingjun, our master truly did treat you as her own daughter. She knew you had a somewhat impatient, eager-for-quick-success nature and were prone to taking extreme paths.

So, on her deathbed, she repeatedly instructed me to be more tolerant of you and guide you.

And yet you claim her affection for you is fake?

Haha……

Her sincere devotion to you was truly just fed to the dogs!

Look, see what you've turned the entire Witch Moon Sect into!

Lingjun's face turned pale.

It's all, all your fault. These years our Witch Moon Sect has fallen into this state entirely because of your incompetence!

If you had stepped aside earlier and let me lead the Witch Moon Sect, would today's events still have happened?

Jin Yun: "Whether you believe it or not, the Witch Moon Sect already showed signs of decline before our master passed away."

The clan's disciples lack sufficient spiritual energy, and those with talent are even rarer. These years we have grasped less than half of the sect's secret techniques.

Can this be blamed on me alone?

Moreover, I have strived to keep the Witch Moon Clan steadily progressing, merely wishing to keep the clan safe.

This was also our master's original intention in choosing me as sect leader!

Lingjun refused to listen at all: "Lies!"

All of this is nothing but your deception toward me——

Li Qingluo felt her forehead throbbing.

Enough!

Senior sister, why are you still wasting words with this traitor?

Lingjun! I know you don't want to acknowledge me as a member of the Witch Moon Sect, so I won't call you senior sister either.

Coincidentally, you're not worthy either.

Speak, you colluded with villains to slaughter the entire Witch Moon Sect—what exactly is your true purpose?

If this is what you call reviving the Witch Moon Sect, with just you and your dozen or so confidants, are you planning to revive the Witch Moon Sect in the netherworld?

"I say, let alone reviving, you wicked person should first go down the eighteen layers of hell and walk through it before we talk!"

Jin Yun's expression drastically changed upon hearing Li Qingluo's words, and her body swayed heavily.

She had been able to feign composure earlier, but now she was on the verge of collapsing.

"What did you say——?"

"Luo'er! You say…… she killed everyone in the Witch Moon Sect?"

"Lingjun—— I already promised you that to enter this forbidden land and take what you want, you would exert all your strength to repel the various sects."

"But how could you have done that!?"

It seems that before Jin Yun woke up, she hadn't heard the full confrontation between Li Qingluo and this Lingjun.

So she still thought her junior sister could be saved.

As it turned out, her junior sister was the true culprit who slaughtered the entire Witch Moon Sect.

I don't know whether Jin Yun is aware that Dong Siyuan has……

Just thinking about this, Li Qingluo felt extremely sorrowful.

However, she hadn't yet figured out how to tell Jin Yun this truth, when Lingjun let out a derisive laugh: "Jin Yun, Jin Yun, you are truly naive."

"Speaking frankly, not only was your disciple A Duo captured by them, but your old lover Dong Siyuan merely heard them say a few words about your impropriety with him, and for the sake of defending you he was killed by Elder Si Fang of Cloud Valley."

"Look at you, you can't even protect the Witch Moon Sect, and now you can't even protect the people around you."

"What good is it for you to still be alive, you worthless waste?"

Jin Yun turned her head and spat out a mouthful of fresh blood.

"No……"

She hadn't expected things to turn out like this.

And all of this is because I trusted Lingjun too much!

It's all my fault, it's all my mistake!

Dong Siyuan shouldn't have stayed in MiaoJiang originally.

Since they had already fled far away, why did he insist on coming back?

And A Duo, who knows what suffering she will endure in their hands!

Jin Yun's vision went black, and she nearly fainted.

It was Li Qingluo who steadied her with one hand: "Show your sect leader's might and cleanse the sect."

"Senior Sister Jin Yun, you can't indulge her any longer."

"She is the true culprit."

Having said that, Li Qingluo turned, anger blazing, and raised her sword to charge.

"Lingjun, I think the one who most deserves to die is you!"