Questioning Heaven, Desiring the Way

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Once he had wiped out all traces of himself, he marched off.

“Mother, are you really going to be so heartless?” Mo Yuluo’s face was pale as she lay weakly next to a pond, sniffling sadly while murmuring to herself.

“Falling in love and all that nonsense is transient, so why get entangled at all? I used to have such feelings for your father, but he ended up abandoning me.
How could you dream of attaining the Way when you are distracted by all these worldly emotions? It is but a dream.”

Inside Mo Yuluo’s consciousness, a blurry figure spoke flatly to her.
The voice seemed indifferent, but it also carried tiredness, as if it had gone through many vicissitudes.

Mo Yuluo was like a helpless little deer, and her expression was dazed as she listened to her mother’s heartless words.
Her body shook when she heard the mention of her father, and her eyes slowly became more focused again.
She murmured, “I just want to know when you started taking notice of Gu Suihan and what’s going on with the joined hearts fruit.”

“I took note of him ever since I read the comments Disciplinarian Zhang had of him.” The blurry figure that was actually the split soul of Yun Lianyi seemed rather surprised that, at this point, her daughter was asking about someone unrelated to her current situation.
But she replied patiently anyway.

“He’s very much like your father.
Ruthless, heartless and vicious.
But unlike your father, he doesn’t get himself entangled in any relationship.
In fact, as long as you’re a threat to him, it doesn’t matter if you’re male or female – he’ll exact revenge on you in the most vicious way possible.”

“Could it be…” Mo Yuluo stared in shock at her mother’s look of yearning and admiration and couldn’t help but think of a possibility.
A possibility that was nearly impossible.

“You’re overthinking this.” Yun Lianyi threw her daughter a displeased glance.
“I just think of your father when I see him, that’s all.”

Mo Yuluo couldn’t stand it anymore.
“My father is You Hantian, not the one you love, Mo Yunyu,” she yelled through her tears.

Yun Lianyi sighed sadly, disregarding Mo Yuluo’s exclamation as she went on, “After I got this pair of joined hearts fruit, I had been holding onto them dearly until I found out about your disagreement with Gu Suihan as well as what you told me about him being a cultivator who has restarted his cultivation journey after taking over another person’s body.”

“In that instant, I suddenly thought of using you to try and control him, then wiping out your consciousness and taking over your body.
That way, the effect of the joined hearts fruit would remain but have no hold over me.
Then, I would try to get some secrets out of him.”

“When I told you about having to overcome the hurdle of falling in love, I was hoping that doing so would lead you to develop some feelings for him and eventually get Gu Suihan to consume the fruit.
Unfortunately, I did this in too much of a hurry, and you ended up realising what was going on.”

Yun Lianyi seemed rather disappointed at this juncture.

“Hurhur,” Mo Yuluo laughed self-deprecatingly before falling completely silent as she stared blankly at the slightly translucent face with sweet and gentle features in front of her.
Ordinary people thought that the saddest thing in the world was to be unable to think or make decisions for themselves, while cultivators went after a life that was free of worldly emotions.

But when it came to real life, how many could have control over their own lives? And how many could really be free of emotions? Yun Lianyi turned out to be able to be truly heartless to her own biological daughter.

As the saying goes, even the ferocious tigress would not eat her cubs, so it was assumed that all mothers loved their children dearly.
But what happens when the tigress is starving?

“I’ve answered all your questions.
That will make it a little easier to wipe out your consciousness.” Yun Lianyi suddenly had an indifferent look in her pretty eyes.
The tinge of gentleness and motherly love she had earlier was gone.

“Ha.
We were meant to be emotionless beings, but we have been put inside emotional bodies,” murmured Mo Yuluo sadly before she gave up resisting.

“Soul Splitting Secret Technique, Transfer of the Bloodline.” Yun Lianyi suddenly leapt up and pounced toward Mo Yuluo’s flickering soul within her consciousness.

“Mo Yuluo?” Just then, a tall figure walked toward Mo Yuluo, his emotionless face raising an eyebrow in surprise when he noticed the pretty face next to the pond.

It was Gu Suihan.

“The poor child.” Gu Suihan sat down rather curiously next to the exhausted-looking young woman dressed in chiffon robes and observed her condition closely.
He clearly did not intend to help her at all.

He waved his right hand over the empty area next to him.
A small table, a teapot and teacups appeared.
Fragrant steam rose from the teapot and swirled in the air.

Gu Suihan poured two cups of tea out.
He pushed one to the side where Mo Yuluo was, then picked up the other cup and drank its contents down noisily.