Chapter 241

The Snow Phoenix clan actually exists to safeguard the divine essence of the Fire Witch God!

Xue Feng's answer also indirectly confirmed all my earlier guesses.

The Great Witch and the Fire Witch God are not the same.

The Great Witch is just a Great Witch, while the Fire Witch God is a being that once possessed divine essence.

The "A Wu" that the Dahui Chan Master speaks of is the Fire Witch God.

When the Great Witch was running out of oil and her lamp was about to die, she kept urging me to return to Cangwu Mountain—perhaps for this very reason?

In Cangwu Mountain, remnants of the Fire Witch God's divine essence remain.

Xue Feng said this, then suddenly struggled to rise to her feet and knelt straight toward me.

She spread her arms, then pressed her palms together; as she knelt down in bow, she placed her joined hands before her forehead, lay prostrate on the ground, and made a deep bow.

Immediately after came the second.

Then the third.

She had performed this kind of worship toward me once before.

At that time she was still in the form of a little white bird.

She was worshiping the Fire Witch God.

How could a clan that has guarded the Fire Witch God for generations fail to recognize his reincarnation?

So… I am the Fire Witch God!

To be precise, I am merely a fragment of the Fire Witch God's remnant soul.

After Xue Feng's three bows, she fixed her gaze on me and said, "Please, sister, save my ancestors! Please, Fire Witch God, seek justice for my Snow Phoenix clan!"

Having said that, she bowed to me again.

She lay prostrate on the ground, unwilling to rise for a long time.

The room was very quiet.

I was stunned.

Li Qingying was also stunned.

Even Hui Moqiong, who had been leaning nonchalantly against the doorframe earlier, now had a solemn expression.

I helped Xue Feng up, still leaning on her as we sat on the ground.

Her emotions were agitated.

She is here now, laying everything out… even her previous decision to betray me actually had only one purpose—to get me to return to the Feng Clan.

Before, she used Feng Xianqiu's hand to coerce me; now she is pleading with me.

Li Qingying quietly tugged at the hem of my clothes.

I understood her meaning; she was worried about me.

Regardless of whether everything Xue Feng said today is true, I cannot immediately agree to her request.

The Feng Clan is a dragon's pool and tiger's den.

After my mother's death, even if Feng Lizi was pushed forward by Feng Xianqiu to become the clan chief, the entire Feng Clan remained under Feng Xianqiu's control.

Moreover, I can be certain that Feng Lizi has never actually occupied the position of clan chief.

Those who truly hold high office would not be like Feng Lizi—mad and delirious.

All her schemes against me ultimately aim at the position of clan chief.

So the question arises: since Feng Xianqiu has already groomed Feng Lizi into a puppet, why doesn't he simply push her into the position?

Is he unable, or does he not want to?

Or perhaps there is some other reason?

This suddenly reminded me of the Feng Lizi who appeared at East Street, seeming as if her core had been swapped.

An extremely bold idea slowly surfaced in my mind… What if Feng Lizi's identity has been false from the very beginning?

The true Feng Lizi, namely my twin sister, has only just surfaced.

After my mother entrusted the orphan to the Right Guardian, my twin sister has continually been under Feng Xianqiu's control—so why would he bother creating a fake?

Doing so seems somewhat unreasonable.

The twists and turns here are probably known only to Feng Xianqiu himself.

The news Xue Feng brought threw my thoughts into immediate chaos.

The more I tried to sort it out, the more confused I became.

At the root, it's because I know nothing about the Feng Clan.

All the information I possess, aside from what Liu Junyan helped gather, is based on scattered clues I inferred myself.

This time provides the greatest amount of information.

But Xue Feng's purpose is not simple either.

I lifted the mask from my face, turning my rotted, exposed right half toward Xue Feng, and said, "It's not that I don't want to help you, but I can barely protect myself now; Xue Feng, I might disappoint you."

Xue Feng stared blankly at my face, her reddened eyes instantly filling with guilt.

I smiled, then put my mask back on, saying, "Still, I must thank you for telling me this; I will think carefully about what to do next."

Xue Feng nodded, somewhat dazed, and rose to her feet.

Li Qingying merely cleaned her wound simply, applied a little medicine, but she still has serious internal injuries.

Watching her about to leave, we all felt worried.

I asked, "Where are you going?"

"I'm going back to secluded cultivation." Xue Feng said to me, "Sister, I acted too hastily; actually I also understand that at this time, if you don't return, my clanspeople will be safer… I… I'm just too worried about my ancestors."

She smiled at me and Li Qingying, saying, "Don't worry about me; I'll find a place to secluded cultivate, properly rest my body, and when you, sister, are ready to return and attack the Feng Clan, I'll then be able to help and rescue my ancestors right away. Sister, let's work hard together!"

After saying that, she strode away.

After Xue Feng left, the three of us remained silent for a long time.

Everyone felt a breath stuck in their chest, unable to rise or fall, feeling terrible.

Finally, Hui Moqiong was the first to react: "This girl has ill intentions; her words cannot be fully trusted. To be safe, I've had someone watch her."

After saying that, they went to make arrangements.

Li Qingying pulled me up from the ground, busy making food while telling me to drink some warm water to settle my stomach.

I returned to my room and took out that Cangwu Nether Seal again.

The Cangwu Nether Seal was brought by the Netherworld Envoy on New Year's Eve.

It was a year-end bonus awarded to me based on an audit of the pawn shop's performance.

But… is it really a reward?

The Cangwu Nether Seal clearly belongs to the Feng Clan, not the Nether Realm, so how could it be rewarded to me in the Nether Realm's name?

So, who in the Nether Realm originally held this Cangwu Nether Seal?

And who entrusted it to that person?

Was it my mother?

Or the Fire Shaman God?

What is the Cangwu Nether Seal's status within the Feng Clan?

Is it the Feng Clan's great seal, or the Fire Shaman God's great seal?

Thinking this through, I suddenly realized a question… Was Feng Xianqiu after the Cangwu Nether Seal?

Whether the Cangwu Nether Seal belongs to my mother or the Fire Shaman God, it is surely a symbol of authority within the Feng Clan.

If Feng Xianqiu wanted to legitimately control the Feng Clan and mobilize some kind of force within it—say, death warriors—he would need the Cangwu Nether Seal.

When the Netherworld Envoy handed the Cangwu Nether Seal to me back then, he warned me to always bring it if I entered the Netherworld.

Now that I've returned to the Feng Clan, I can't go through the front; I mostly enter from the back of Cangwu Mountain.

That is Lingdie Valley.

So, all of this was planned out.

I gently rubbed the patterns on the Cangwu Nether Seal's surface, my mind full of calculations.

The Companion Spell's effect continues, leaving me little time.

If Tang Xun hadn't used spirit butterflies to fill my soul, I couldn't possibly be sitting here intact; thus she has also been keeping an eye on my condition…

Suddenly, I realized a problem.

Tang Xun came back from Lingdie Valley after replenishing her soul, so why has she changed?

My senior sister Yu Nian once had a guess: Tang Xun's memories from several lifetimes are jumbled in her mind, so she might forget some things and recall others from past lives.

So did she recall some past‑life memories? Those memories might have made her start paying attention to me, yet she couldn't face me directly, fearing to cause me unnecessary trouble.

Her past life…