Honkai Impact 3rd: The Girl Who Chases the Flame

“Teaching without nurturing is the worst thing a parent can do.”

Mei Zijing reached out and pulled Jiang Wanxi away.

"Look at your apprentice... she doesn't even dare to look you in the eye now. You ask who's right and who's wrong? I'm telling you, you're wrong, and she's wrong too. Teaching without nurturing results in producing talent but not character!"

"..."

So he's still insulting me.

Jiang Wanxi understood, but she didn't dare to say a word.

Anyway, she's in the wrong, so scolding her or beating her up would be too lenient.

"Yes, I failed to fulfill my responsibility of raising you."

Master Chi Yuan nodded.

"That's how it should be. If you just say 'I love you, teacher' to them every morning, 'I miss you, teacher' to them when you go out, and 'Let's have dinner together' on holidays, there wouldn't be so many problems."

Mei Zijin snorted and said.

"..."

Mei Xiang felt wronged, as this was the person who raised her, and she had never heard those words before.

"Is that how it should be said?"

Master Chiyuan was stunned.

"Why don't you say you'll give it a try? This girl will definitely like it."

Mei Zijin pulled Jiang Wanxi over again.

"No, no, no, no, it's not necessary..."

Jiang Wanxi shook her head repeatedly.

Master Chi Yuan told her "Master loves you"? That would be the end of the world, she couldn't accept it!

"Ugh……"

Mei Zijin shook her head repeatedly, thinking to herself that this girl was really clueless.

Back then, Xiao Hong was so shameless in her pursuit of Fu Hua, she practically called her "Mom."

"I just heard about Chi You..."

At this moment, the bishop interjected,

"If Chi You has been sealed away, why is there no sign of damage to the Nine Nether Ruins?"

"Because what escaped was not the real body, but probably the resentment of Chi You."

Master Chiyuan said,

"The events of that year... were actually misunderstandings. Chi You harbored hatred that had persisted for a thousand years. He knew the history of Shenzhou, was familiar with Honkai energy, and even possessed powers that I was unaware of."

There was something fishy about that incident at Mount Taixu.

"Is...something fishy going on?"

Jiang Wanxi was stunned.

"The seven disciples murdered their master, and even killed True Person Chi Yuan. They couldn't have done it without extreme hatred."

Mei Zijin spoke up.

"You could have easily taken Jiang Wanru and escaped, so why are you thinking of killing Chi Yuan?"

"This……"

The events of that year were etched in her memory, and she felt restless whenever she thought about them. Jiang Wanxi would naturally try to forget them.

But after mentioning it, Jiang Wanxi also felt it was inappropriate.

Why kill your master?

To live freely?

Save my sister?

However, these reasons are actually untenable.

If they don't hate their master, why don't they run away?

"Back then, only Cheng Ling Shuang and Qin Su Yi retained their rationality."

Mei Zijing glanced at Li Sushang and continued,

“Cheng Ling Shuang’s sword heart cultivation is extremely high. Even Yu Du Chen cannot easily influence her. As for Qin Su Yi… her obsession with Hua is too deep.”

"My mother...is she deeply obsessed with the real person?"

Li Sushang asked in surprise.

"You may not know this, but your mother actually..."

Mei Zijing heard about this from Cheng Ling Shuang, and after thinking about it, she decided to tell the truth.

"Actually, she lost her sword spirit after that night. It's not surprising that she was killed this time. Because without her sword spirit, her martial arts skills were just those of an ordinary rogue cultivator."

"My mother doesn't have a sword heart? How could that be? The Taixu Sword Qi isn't..."

"I won't go into the origins of the sword spirit, as you wouldn't understand anyway. But it's not something that can be lost forever."

Mei Zijin pointed at Master Chiyuan.

“Even now, your master and grandmaster, the True Person Chiyuan, does not have a sword heart. Without Yu Duchen, she wouldn’t even be able to use the Taixu Sword God.”

"A real person?! But why?!"

Li Sushang trembled a few times. Did that mean her sword heart might also disappear?

"Your mother saw Hua as her spiritual pillar, and the incident at Mount Taixu was too much of a blow to her, causing her mental health to deteriorate."

Mei Zijin shook her head.

"As for your grandmaster, it was because he was stabbed by your master with that sword."

"Let's get back to our original topic."

Otto steered the conversation back on track.

"What affected the other disciples? Was it related to Chi You?"

“Although Chao Yu is a descendant of the Nine Nether Clan, she was distracted at the time, so it was clearly not him. The most likely candidate is the one who orchestrated that assassination. If any of the seven disciples were controlled by Chi You, then it could only be…”

Mei Zijing paused, then said in a firm tone,

"Wushuang Gate, Su Mei."

……

at this time

Wushuangmen

"Master Chi Yuan is awake. It seems your plan has failed after all."

"...So what?"

Do you think you still have a chance?

“I can sense that Chi Yuan has suffered a great loss this time, and is no longer the person I used to be wary of.”

"..."

"Su Mei, free me, I'm coming..."

"Kill her!"

"You don't need to persuade me, and I have never been controlled by you."

Su Mei remained silent, simply standing at the doorway, gazing at the stars in the sky.

"I know, I know."

In this world, true energy is blind, and Heaven's will is indifferent; thus, people are treated like straw dogs.

Little Ma said that Master was not wrong to kill, and I agreed. But there must be a fault, but if the fault does not lie with Master, me, or the deceased, then the fault lies with Heaven.

The void is a prison; my master, though possessing unparalleled martial arts, is also a prisoner of heaven.

"..."

"But I will still do it."

Su Mei wasn't sure if she was talking to anyone, or if she was just talking to herself.

"I do not regret."

Chapter Twenty-Five: Turning Against Each Other

Jiang Wanru huddled in the stone cave, looking like a dumpling.

But no one would find her cute, because the space around her was filled with bones and blood.

She's gone mad.

Perhaps, he's already gone mad.

The purple hair had vanished, leaving only striking white hair and scarlet eyes.

Jiang Wanru is very strong.

This is an objective fact: among the Seven Swords of Taixu, apart from Ling Shuang, she is the most outstanding one.

She originally thought she would be the third person to become a sword god. When she was a child, she always felt that this would allow her to understand what her master was thinking.

I desire it but cannot obtain it; I desire it but cannot obtain it.

In fact, Jiang Wanru could never escape this sentence throughout her life.

Swords are like life.

Life is like a sword.