Chapter 365: You Are All Dead

Granny Li immediately noticed the change in Su Yan's emotions, but she did not stop.

"Once you lost your energy, you naturally lost your value to the Kong family, which is why they allowed your mother to take you back. By the time you mother and daughter finally returned home, your mother was already at the end of her rope; she passed away within a few days."

"Wait, since my energy has already been taken by the Kong family, then why am I still..."

Su Yan finally found a suspicious point in Granny Li's narration and wanted to determine the truth of it all.

Granny Li didn't even wait for her to finish before cutting her off directly.

"Still possessing an ability, right? That is because those fools in the Kong family made one mistake. They thought that extracting the energy from your pupils was everything, not knowing that these eyes of yours are the true treasure, and the ability within them is merely an appendage to that treasure. As long as your eyes remain, the energy will continue to regenerate endlessly."

Su Yan trembled violently. Although she still wanted to argue, for the first time, she found herself speechless.

"After your mother died, no one around you knew this secret. At that time, you lost too much energy at once and suffered significant backlash; combined with the fact that you were still a child and didn't know how to regulate it, you fell ill and could not get up. Your father searched everywhere for famous doctors to no avail, and then he encountered a Taoist priest."

"I know, it was that Taoist who told my father to send me thousands of miles away, preferably to be raised by someone with no children, no relatives, and no kin. That is how Father found you," Su Yan finished Granny Li's sentence.

There were still too many doubts in her heart. For instance, why was it specifically Granny Li? What was the relationship between Granny Li and that Taoist? What was her relationship with her mother? Her mother had already passed away; how did Granny Li know all of this?

It didn't make sense; there were still many things that didn't add up.

"Don't be anxious. Granny will clarify all your doubts one by one," Granny Li indeed saw what Su Yan was thinking.

Su Yan felt somewhat dazed, unable to tell if the Granny Li before her was actually an illusion.

This illusion was born from her own inner expectations; everyone should have appeared based on how they looked in her memory, and everything they said or did should have been based on her memories and known information. But what Granny Li was saying now had completely deviated from that.

What kind of illusion could be so realistic that even she could not find a single flaw?

"That Taoist did not appear out of thin air; he was entrusted by your mother. In fact, before your mother went to the Kong family, she had already made all the preparations. How could she not have realized that the Kong family's target was you? Her original plan was to send you away from them so that you could escape the Kong family's eyes."

Su Yan noticed that every time Granny Li mentioned her mother, her voice seemed to carry a faint tremor, as if she were suppressing something.

"And I, in fact, had known your mother for a long time. After your mother escaped from the Kong family, she wrote me a letter. The contents of the letter were the truths I have just told you, and finally, she entrusted you to me in that letter."

Granny Li's breathing grew increasingly rapid, as if she could not hold on much longer.

Su Yan did not know how to describe her feelings at this moment.

She couldn't even distinguish what the truth actually was.

Her logic told her that all of this was merely an illusion. But in her heart, a voice was clearly screaming: *So this is the truth!*

*So Mother really died at the hands of the Kong family!!*

"Yan Yan, the reason Granny never told you before was because I was worried that once you knew, you would go to the Kong family to seek revenge for your mother. Now that you have grown up and have a group of good friends by your side, Granny knows you will definitely not act on impulse and do something that would cause pain to your loved ones and joy to your enemies, right?"

Granny Li became somewhat agitated. Because of her concern for Su Yan, she gripped Su Yan's wrist tightly, waiting for Su Yan to give her a reassuring promise.

Su Yan felt a sense of suffocation. "This isn't Daoliu Village at all, and you aren't the real Granny Li. Everything you just said is fabricated; even you are fake!"

She had heard everything she needed to hear and had no intention of wasting any more time.

Granny Li showed an expression of disbelief, and the gaze she directed at her shook violently.

"Yan Yan, what are you saying? I am Granny!"

Su Yan coldly pulled her hand away, her entire being seemingly shrouded in a shadow.

"You want to exploit my feelings for Granny to cause an emotional fluctuation and make me lose control, right? Even if what you say is the truth, your scheme will not succeed."

At this moment, Su Yan's mind was exceptionally clear—she had to be clear.

"Pfft!"

Stimulated by her words, Granny Li spat out a mouthful of blood.

Su Yan did not dodge, allowing the blood to splatter onto her clothes.

"Yan Yan, I don't know what you are going through right now, but Granny doesn't blame you... Granny thinks this is good. My Yan Yan must have this kind of guardedness to be able to live well..."

Granny Li forced herself to hold onto her last breath, using all her strength to reach out toward Su Yan, wanting to touch her one last time.

Su Yan remained motionless, watching as that hand fell completely limp just a moment before it could touch her cheek.

Granny Li slowly closed her eyes, a relieved smile even lingering on her face.

Su Yan kept telling herself it was fake, that everything was fake, but the moment she saw Granny Li die, a sense of suffocation pressed down on her, making her feel extremely miserable.

She could not forgive!

Even if it was fake, she absolutely could not forgive!

"I don't care who is behind this trial, and I don't care what your purpose is!"

She spoke almost word by word, gritting her teeth, as a terrifying aura of hostility instantly erupted from her entire body.

"You! Are all dead!"

To Su Yan, Granny Li was a reverse scale that no one could touch. Even if it was an illusion that made Granny Li die, Su Yan could not accept it.

With a low roar, the light of the talisman used to dispel illusions flashed.

Along with those streaks of light, both Granny Li and the house she stood in completely vanished.

Su Yan watched coldly as everything before her dissipated; a moment later, she found herself surrounded by evil spirits.

All these evil spirits stared at her with wide eyes, revealing greedy gazes.

"To think you saw through us so quickly!"

The evil spirit in the center possessed an aura of gloom many times stronger than the others. Su Yan immediately concluded that the Granny Li from just now had been an illusion created by this thing.

"Do you really think I would be so foolish as to believe any random lies you fabricate?" Su Yan looked at these creatures with utter contempt.

(End of Chapter)