Chapter 508 474: Ye Liyuan Comes Out of Seclusion

The Dao Sect's colossal ship cruised slowly through the Cloud Sea, like a whale that could swallow the sky.

The Spiritual Ships and Flying Swords of Loose Cultivators were like frightened fish, hastily scattering the moment they saw the colossal ship's shadow fall upon the Cloud Sea.

Pei Yuhang stood on an open-air corridor, a constant, gentle breeze brushing past and lifting his ink-black hair.

He glanced back at the room behind him several times, wanting to go in, yet he remained, hesitating.

In the end, all he could do was let out a complicated sigh.

If someone had truly impersonated him back then, deceiving Nangong Jin and setting her on her current path, then Pei Yuhang felt he owed her a debt…

'On top of that, I have to find whoever was pulling the strings!'

'Who on earth was it? On the eve of my wedding to Liyuan, they lured Junior Sister Nangong from the Sect and tricked her into cultivating the Forgetfulness Sword Dao...'

Pei Yuhang's eyes narrowed, a rage born of deception and manipulation burning within him.

The suffocating feeling of when he was kept like a Canary by Shang Miaoyan, imprisoned in the Saintess Hall of the Yin Yang Sacred Land, seemed to descend upon him once more.

Pei Yuhang absolutely refused to go back to a life where others interfered at will, treating him like a toy and pathologically imposing their control over him!

He had to find Nangong Jin and get to the bottom of this!

A moment later, a door creaked open.

Lu Ruoxi looked at Pei Yuhang standing outside her door, a little surprised.

"Junior Brother Pei? What are you…?"

"I heard Junior Sister Nangong was seriously injured, so I came to see if there was anything I could do to help."

Pei Yuhang quickly concealed the gloom in his eyes, forcing a gentle smile.

Unaware of the complex thoughts swirling in his mind, Lu Ruoxi simply assumed her Junior Brother Pei was worried about Nangong Jin and said with a hint of playful jealousy:

"Has Junior Brother Pei forgotten that his senior sister is the youngest appointed Elder of the Dan Yun Pavilion? I've already examined Junior Sister Nangong's injuries. It's just a severe case of Spiritual Qi depletion, nothing too serious."

"You can rest easy."

"Well…"

Just as Pei Yuhang pursed his lips, wondering what excuse he could use to get past her,

"Senior Sister, is Brother Pei here? Let him come in."

A woman's voice, clear as a spring, came from inside the room.

At this, Lu Ruoxi could only sigh and step aside.

"Junior Brother, I need to go report some important matters to the Sect. I'll probably be back in one or two hours.

While I'm gone, don't you and Junior Sister Nangong go making a mess of my room~"

"Senior Sister, what are you saying!"

Pei Yuhang instantly flushed, realizing Nangong Jin must have heard that too…

'Seriously... My Senior Sister telling me—her Junior Brother, who is also the Dao Companion of our *other* Senior Sister—not to get too carried away with our Third Junior Sister... The dynamics in our lineage are a complete mess!'

'If Master were still around, he'd probably pass out from anger!'

"Hahaha~ I'm just kidding."

Lu Ruoxi chuckled, waved her hand, and then walked away gracefully.

She wasn't too worried about Nangong Jin. A woman who cultivated the Forgetfulness Dao had severed all worldly ties; nothing would happen between her and Pei Yuhang.

Only after Lu Ruoxi's figure disappeared around the corridor's corner did Pei Yuhang let out an imperceptible sigh of relief, the tense line of his shoulders relaxing slightly.

He stepped into the room and saw Nangong Jin sitting by the window, pouring tea with her head lowered. Her long, slender fingers held the pot, and her movements were as fluid as flowing water, yet they possessed an almost mechanical precision.

The faint light filtering through the window illuminated her pale face. Her lowered lashes, like butterfly wings, cast soft shadows beneath her eyes. She looked like a figure from a meticulously drawn ink-wash Lady Painting—beautiful, but in a cold and distant way.

She exuded an Immortal Qi that made one feel she did not belong to the mortal world, as if she might ascend to a higher realm at any moment.

Before, Pei Yuhang might have been happy for Nangong Jin, as this transcendent aura was a sign she had reached the Extreme Realm of the Forgetfulness Dao.

But now, all he felt was sorrow.

Nangong Jin had been tricked onto a path she never would have chosen for herself.

And the one who deceived her had done so using his name and face…

Pei Yuhang's eyes darkened as fragments of past memories churned in his mind. He sensed a malice even more hidden and dangerous than the brazen wickedness of a villainess like Shang Miaoyan.

What disturbed him most was that decades had passed, yet this person remained hidden in the shadows, not having revealed the slightest trace of their existence.

If he was to drag this shadowy villainess from the darkness, his only lead right now was Nangong Jin.

Pei Yuhang closed his eyes, suppressing the turbulent emotions within. When he opened them again, his expression was calm.

He walked up to Nangong Jin and said in a low, gentle voice, "Junior Sister Nangong, I've read all the letters you gave me."

At his words, Nangong Jin's fingers paused for a fraction of a second, and the tea rippled in the cup.

She slowly lifted her gaze to meet his, her eyes as tranquil as an ancient well. "Mm. It's good that you've read them, Brother Pei…"

"Unfortunately, of the original twenty-two letters, only the last three remain. I hope you don't mind, Brother Pei."

Pei Yuhang shook his head. He looked at Nangong Jin with a solemn expression. "Junior Sister, in your letters, you mentioned that I came to you on the eve of my wedding to Liyuan and made a bet with you about cultivating the Forgetfulness Dao.

How much do you remember about the details of that night?"

In the end, Pei Yuhang didn't directly tell Nangong Jin that the "Pei Yuhang" she had met that night was an imposter.

After all, anyone who learned that their decades of arduous cultivation were the result of a lie would inevitably suffer a blow to their Dao Heart.

He felt that Junior Sister Nangong had already been deceived into a miserable enough state. Though she had gained peerless Divine Abilities and Cultivation in exchange, she had lost her true self…