Chapter 106.2 : The Past. (Part 2)
Relying on the Su family's status throughout the entire Wangjian City, there were countless people who lorded it over others and acted with impunity.
At present, within the whole Su family, the only one Su Yushan truly cared about was this "mother" of hers—Qianqiu Xue.
As for Qianqiu Yue, the one with whom she had formed a special connection in childhood because of that painting, Su Yushan felt both gratitude and curiosity toward her.
She still remembered the diary owner's inference:
Su Mo's rebirth had very likely originated from Qianqiu Yue.
As her thoughts drifted, Su Yushan recalled the conversation she had previously had with Qianqiu Xue.
From it, she had learned everything.
Qianqiu Yue and Qianqiu Xue, the two sisters, were both members of a race known as the Spirit Clan.
Moreover, they were of the Spirit Clan's highest direct bloodline.
Later, however, the heavens and earth underwent a great upheaval. Long ago, the two had entered a hidden secret realm and fallen into slumber.
Until one day, the young Su Qing accidentally barged into the secret realm and awakened the Qianqiu sisters.
Faced with an intruder, the sisters' first instinct was naturally to kill him on the spot.
The process went smoothly. At the time, Su Qing—only at the Fourth Heaven—was no match at all for the sisters, who possessed the strength of great power realms the moment they awakened.
He was subdued with ease.
However, after learning some information about the present world from Su Qing, the two sisters changed their minds.
Since they had already awakened, and since the secret realm they were in had now been discovered—even if only by Su Qing for the moment—there was no guarantee that no further complications would arise in the future.
Thus, the two decided to simply end their long slumber altogether.
They themselves belonged to the younger generation of the Spirit Clan. Even though they had slept for an unknown number of years,
they still retained the mentality of young girls, their hearts filled with curiosity about the outside world.
They immediately left the secret realm, intending to personally understand the current state of heaven and earth.
Naturally, Su Qing, their captive, became the sisters' tool and guide.
After spending some time together, however, the two began to feel that Su Qing was not a bad person.
Moreover, his strength was nothing more than that of an ant in their eyes, so they gradually lowered their vigilance and guard toward him.
After all, one cannot be on guard against thieves for a thousand days straight.
Of course, although their wariness lessened, the two sisters still did not forget to place restraints upon Su Qing, in order to prevent him from exposing their identities.
After all, the present world was already one after a great upheaval, and the Spirit Clan had long since become a legendary race recorded only in ancient texts.
If they were exposed carelessly, the wonders inherent to a race like the Spirit Clan would inevitably attract covetous eyes.
At that time, although the two sisters were not weak, it would still be difficult for them to protect themselves.
But what the two sisters never could have imagined was that this slight relaxation of their vigilance would eventually turn into a sharp dagger—
one that stabbed them viciously in the back.
During one expedition to explore ancient ruins, the three of them accidentally barged into a powerful grand formation left behind by an expert.
Because of the formation's power, the three who had been traveling together were separated, and the cultivation of the two sisters was forcibly suppressed to the Sixth Heaven.
Within this grand formation, Su Qing obtained an inheritance—a cultivation method that was extremely mysterious and bizarre.
The technique Su Qing was now using to cultivate Su Mo came precisely from this inheritance.
Not only that, he also obtained the formation core of that grand array, gaining control over it.
At that moment, Su Qing revealed the fangs he had concealed for so long and turned against the two sisters.
He manipulated the grand formation, suppressing the already weakened sisters on the spot.
In the end, it was only because Qianqiu Yue employed methods that exceeded the limits of what she herself could bear that she managed to help her younger sister, Qianqiu Xue, escape from the grand formation.
Qianqiu Xue emerged unscathed—
but Qianqiu Yue paid a grievous and devastating price as a result.