Free Web NovelChapter 2608: Chapter 2608: Bearing It Alone, Dying Alone!
"Do you intend to face him head-on for an assassination?"
Lilianna was shocked: "He is a Quasi-Saint, have you... really become a Quasi-Saint?"
Snow Zane calmly said: "It’s just a risk. Even if there’s a thirty percent chance, it’s worth doing."
Lilianna silently stared at Snow Zane, and after a long pause, she whispered: "Even if, as you say, he is the murderer, wasn’t it mother’s intention for you and me not to send ourselves to die? If you challenge him, what’s the difference between that and sending yourself to die?"
She paused, and Lilianna’s emotions suddenly became agitated: "Even if you die, nothing will change. He remains the Hall Master, and you are completely dead, with no trace left behind..."
Snow Zane said indifferently: "Wouldn’t that fulfill your wish? You’ll never have to see me again."
Lilianna’s face flushed as she glared at Snow Zane, her chest heaving, clearly furious at Snow Zane’s words.
"Fine! Then go die already, die cleanly, so you’re not a bother!"
Despite being cursed, there was a hint of tenderness in Snow Zane’s typically indifferent eyes, and her cold voice softened slightly.
"You know what kind of person I am. When I choose to become like this, I care about very little, including my own life..."
Lilianna looked at Snow Zane’s wrinkled, aged face, silent for a moment. Female cultivators care most about their appearance, and it’s even one of their sources of motivation for immortal cultivation.
Snow Zane used to be so beautiful, divine in appearance, with countless admirers, akin to her Heavenly Immortal-like mother. Many even said she resembled her mother more, while though Lilianna was quite beautiful, she always seemed lacking in charisma compared to her mother and Snow Zane.
Snow Zane was an orphan, her mother took her as a disciple, raised her, and treated her like a biological daughter, even investing more effort in her than in Lilianna.
Many years later, Lilianna was born, and compared to the exceedingly beautiful and highly talented Snow Zane, she appeared much inferior and thus harbored dislike and even disdain for Snow Zane.
In front of her mother, Lilianna showed no signs, but in private, she showed her disdain for Snow Zane freely, to which Snow Zane always dismissed with a laugh, indifferent, not complaining, allowing Lilianna’s antics.
After reaching adulthood, Lilianna sought to surpass Snow Zane, setting her as the benchmark in all things, yet the results were often frustrating.
Lilianna was indeed talented, but Snow Zane was even more extraordinary.
They competed for a long time, with Lilianna mostly losing, and badly so, intensifying her resentment towards Snow Zane.
Later, after her mother’s death, Lilianna succeeded to the position of City Lord, while Snow Zane wandered far away, and they did not meet again until much later.
Upon reunification, Lilianna was already a Superior Grade Great Land Prime Immortal, a top-tier force in the Immortal Realm, one of the Twelve Immortal Kings, while Snow Zane had become an old woman, her luster gone, frail and aged.
Did she pursue greater strength at the cost of her own lifespan, resulting in her aged appearance?
Lilianna asked softly, "Are you doing all this to avenge mother?"
Snow Zane answered calmly, "Without the teacher, I would’ve died long ago. My life was reborn because of her, so with her murdered, I must do something, even if the price is death, it doesn’t matter. I’ve lived long enough, and there’s nothing in this world I yearn to stay for."
Lilianna clenched her fists, filled with complex emotions at this moment.
Her mother was murdered, yet as her biological daughter, Lilianna serves the enemy as a subordinate, contentedly, while the woman she hated sacrifices her beauty, lifespan, and is even willing to sacrifice her life for her mother’s revenge!
Guilt!
Shame!
Fear!
Various emotions oscillated in Lilianna’s heart, anxious and uncomfortable.
As Snow Zane said, what good is knowing if she does nothing?
Avenge mother?
Despite her great strength, facing that man, he could likely extinguish her with a mere wave.
Avenging leads to certain death, a pointless sacrifice, yet doing nothing brings inner torment, feeling lost...
Snow Zane stated calmly: "Just pretend you never saw me. Continue being City Lord, and whatever I do has nothing to do with you. Just pretend not to know me. Now, barely anyone can recognize me, so you needn’t worry about being implicated."
Lilianna looked at Snow Zane, with unreserved anger in her eyes: "So, are you planning to just abandon me again, leaving me clueless about everything, and bear it all alone, even die alone?"
"Don’t think I don’t know, mother originally intended to leave the position of City Lord to you, for you to take care of me, but you refused her, claiming you disliked constraints and wished to wander. From that moment, you were already prepared, ready to leave Ice Snow City, find out the truth, and avenge mother, isn’t that right?"
