Chapter 129

Amid the thunderous applause and cheers from the audience, Mu Huiyue smiled as she walked towards her partner.

She gently stroked the thick neck fur of the Frost Night Battle Wolf, turning with it to face the excited spectators and raising her hand high.

The cheers from the audience grew even louder, nearly bursting the venue and reaching the skies.

“Well done, White Fang,” Mu Huiyue said to her contracted beast. “These cheers and praises are all for you.”

Using two high-level A-class attack skills, [Eclipse Impact] and [Shadow Hunt], simultaneously was a feat even a fully evolved beast could struggle to achieve.

During this time, White Fang had not only been training [Simplification] but also using combo attacks with greater fluidity.

“Woof!” Hearing Mu Huiyue’s words, White Fang’s golden eyes sparkled, like moonlight shimmering in the night, crystal-clear and radiant.

It lowered its head affectionately and nuzzled her waist, wrapping its mist-like tail around her.

On the other side of the battlefield, Mu Yixia silently approached the Twilight Battle Wolf and took out emergency medicine to perform basic treatment.

After regaining consciousness, Misha used [Light Healing Therapy], and within moments, it was fully restored.

It lowered its tail and gently licked away the tears that had unknowingly fallen from Mu Yixia’s face.

Mu Yixia hugged it tightly, burying her face in Misha’s thick neck fur, no longer able to control her emotions.

Her surging tears quickly soaked the neck fur of the Twilight Battle Wolf, and no one saw her silent crying.

Only Misha appeared slightly at a loss, curling its tail around her body and making comforting whimpering sounds from its throat.

“I’m sorry… Misha,” Mu Yixia whispered, her voice trembling with emotion. “You worked so hard to evolve, yet I still lost to Mu Huiyue.”

“Awoo…” Misha nudged her with its damp nose.

Mu Yixia didn’t lift her head.

All this time, she had lived with the goal of defeating Mu Huiyue. From the first day she met this “sister,” whose eyes were filled with disdain, Mu Yixia had harbored the desire to beat her.

Neither of them liked the other, a sentiment that came far earlier than the stiff family dynamics or the arrival of conflicts of interest after growing up—it was an instinctive feeling.

Mu Yixia didn’t like Mu Huiyue, just as Mu Yixia didn’t like herself.

She had thought that defeating Mu Huiyue would be the best way to prove her worth, but after striving toward that goal from the age of ten to eighteen, she still hadn’t achieved it.

After Misha evolved, her father’s sudden change in attitude, along with some memories that seemed to resurface in her dreams, made Mu Yixia waver.

She began to doubt whether the obsession she had always considered her goal truly had value or meaning.

This doubt inevitably affected her contract with Misha and her resolve on the battlefield.

With such an unsettled state of mind, it was impossible for her to win against the current Mu Huiyue.

Thinking of this, Mu Yixia raised her head.

All the out-of-control emotions had subsided. Aside from her eyes and nose being slightly reddened, no one could tell that she had just cried, burying her face in her contracted beast’s neck.

“Mu Huiyue.”

She called out to the black-haired girl who was so similar to herself.

Mu Huiyue turned back and immediately saw Mu Yixia’s red eyes, unsure of what to say.

Leaving what needed to be said for the battlefield wasn’t just a way to avoid speaking to Mu Yixia—it was the most effective way for both of them to communicate.

Mu Huiyue could see from her that the other person’s recent lifestyle, mental state, and the way she nurtured her contracted beast were all clear.

At least in the recent battle, she didn’t dislike Mu Yixia as the Beastmaster of the Radiant Wolf.

Compared to people like Fang Xuyang and He Yuzhi, Mu Huiyue could feel the bond between Mu Yixia and Misha more strongly on the battlefield.

After their match in the Longning First High School selection tournament, Mu Yixia had never referred to her as “sister” again.

It was as if she had finally torn away the facade of the gentle, sweet “little white flower” from the past and admitted that their relationship was not a warm, harmonious, fake family bond.

They may have some special blood ties, but they could never truly be sisters.

Mu Yixia’s current state, forcing herself to suppress all weak emotions and refusing to show any vulnerability in front of her, reminded Mu Huiyue of her own past.

It was like the Mu Huiyue from before, the one who never accepted defeat and always aimed for first place.

“I have something to say to you,” Mu Yixia continued.

“Let’s talk in the break room,” Mu Huiyue replied.

It was perfect timing; there was something she needed to ask Mu Yixia in person regarding the mysterious “rule” that Lawyer Zhao Lu had observed.

The Starshine Battle Club’s competition venue was fully equipped, with a designated rest and discussion room.

Mu Huiyue entered the rest room and casually closed the door behind her.

For the upcoming scheduled time, it would be just her and Mu Yixia in the room, with no one else to disturb them.

Mu Yixia stood in the center of the room, chairs behind her, but she didn’t want to sit down.

“What do you want to tell me?” Mu Huiyue asked, looking up.

Mu Yixia was silent for a moment, then spoke, “Mom… Aisha Legend might still be alive.”

Upon hearing this, Mu Huiyue furrowed her brows slightly. “How would you know? Did you remember something? About the secret realm she was exploring before she disappeared?”

“I…”

Mu Yixia instinctively took a step back. She had been questioned about similar topics countless times since she was a child.

At that time, she had only felt that Mu Huiyue’s hatred was inexplicably intense. They had grown up together as sisters—what Mu Huiyue didn’t know, how could she possibly know?

The past memories were disconnected, filled with paradoxes too difficult to think through. Yet, over the past ten years, no one had noticed anything unusual.

Including Mu Yixia herself.

And now, this fog that had been shrouding her rational perception seemed to have been torn open, finally revealing a glimpse of the truth.

“I remembered the last image of my mother,” Mu Yixia exhaled and continued, “In the deep blue sea, she was talking to someone else… another existence.”

“She said that if the observation results were the same, then let this child go.”

“Since she had encountered this here, she really couldn’t just watch and do nothing.”

“If it were her who stayed, maybe there would still be a chance to fight.”

Mu Yixia’s voice paused, her fingers nervously intertwining. “Then I felt a smooth, sticky sensation wrapping around me, like… huge… tentacles.”

Those tentacles pulled her into a completely new life… or rather, placed her into a beautifully woven, carefully crafted dream.

Upon hearing this, Mu Huiyue looked up.

After discussing Mu Yixia’s abnormalities with Lawyer Zhao Lu and Minister Su Luo, they all deduced that the effect, which influences the perception of the laws of space-time, most likely originated from some unexplained super S-rank mythical skill.

If Mu Yixia’s memories are true, it at least reveals an important piece of intelligence.

Aisha Legend could truly still be alive. She believes she still has the strength to fight and had some form of interaction with the existence that released this super S-rank mythical skill.

But what does “the observation results are the same” mean?

Does it refer to her saving Mu Yixia, Mu Yixia appearing in reality, or something else?

“Have you told anyone else about these things?” Mu Huiyue asked.

Mu Yixia lowered her gaze. “…Father knows too.”

“The day Misha evolved, I remembered this fragment, realizing something was wrong, and Father sensed the anomaly at the same time.”

“He said, it turns out I am the lie Aisha brought back.”

“But my existence just happens to prove that their deduction was correct, so he still treats me the same as before…”

Mu Huiyue interrupted her and asked, “They?”

“The Intelligence Attribute Research Group at Xingda, the universities in the Nova region, and the collaborative team with Tianzhong Supercontrol.”

Mu Huiyue frowned slightly. Research on intelligence attribute beasts would also involve this aspect?

However, Aisha’s Legend was indeed a project under the Tianzhong Supercontrol Group when she went to explore the secret realms.

Mu Yixia still kept her gaze lowered. “Since that day, Father has never spoken to me again… No matter what kind of achievements I made, not even when he spoke about your accomplishments, he never cared. All his thoughts were focused on that collaborative project.”

Mu Huiyue didn’t have much of a reaction. Hadn’t Mu Tong always been like this? He didn’t lack anything materially when it came to his daughter, but he wasn’t willing to invest any emotional effort.

When he was busy with his career, he needed an excellent and presentable heir; and now, as he was entirely focused on following Aisha’s clues, he naturally had no time to care for a daughter who couldn’t be of any help.

She thought Mu Yixia had long understood this, so why was she still paying attention to her father’s attitude?

Mu Yixia tightened her grip on her arm. “Perhaps he was right. My existence… is just a false lie.”

There were no sisters who grew up together with a poor relationship, nor a strict father.

Her life began in a conversation without a beginning or end, with no meaning or value of existence.

Mu Yixia didn’t know why she wanted to say these things to Mu Huiyue. Perhaps it was because of the battle earlier, or perhaps it was because of her unpleasant memories with Mu Huiyue. It was the life Mu Yixia had truly lived over the past ten years.

Mu Huiyue fell into deep thought.

In the past, she had pondered more than once about what Mu Yixia truly was. After the incident with the Withered Glory Spirit Deer, she even suspected that Mu Yixia might be some “unrealized possibility,” with the mysterious behind-the-scenes forces at work.

But Mu Yixia’s appearance was much earlier than that of the original Angry Rock Black Tortoise, and unlike the developments in these two cases, it didn’t lead to this possibility “replacing” Mu Huiyue’s existence.

The memories of their conflicts and arguments were so numerous that while Mu Huiyue loathed Mu Yixia, she could also clearly feel that she and Mu Yixia were two entirely different individuals, and neither could replace the other.

The most important thing was that Aisha’s Legend would never personally bring danger to her daughter’s side.

The abnormal rules surrounding Mu Yixia had gone unnoticed for the past decade, but recently, they had been showing signs of loosening up, one after another.

Mu Huiyue herself could attribute her situation to her soul not being bound by the current space-time rules, but why did Mu Tong and Mu Yixia happen to discover clues at the same time?

What caused the loosening of the rules? Could it be related to that tentacle-like existence, or Aisha’s Legend’s situation?

The thoughts in Mu Huiyue’s mind were suddenly chaotic, and her mood inexplicably grew heavy, a sense of unease emerging without reason.

She had a vague intuition that this loosening was not a good sign.

Indeed, she needed to focus on strengthening her abilities and catch up with this year’s world competition to enter the “Tree Sea of All Things” to get to the bottom of things.

She glanced at the downcast Mu Yixia, her mood slightly complicated.

“…Was the contract with Misha also fake?”

Mu Yixia suddenly lifted her head.

Mu Huiyue checked the time on her phone and continued, “I’ll stop here. Do you need me to teach you what your life is supposed to be for, Mu Yixia?”

The reserved time for the lounge had arrived. Mu Huiyue said no more, turning and leaving the room.

“Huiyue!” Wen Li waved at her from outside the door.

Earlier, Wen Li had asked about the situation, and Mu Huiyue had mentioned she was in the lounge, so now was a good time for her to come over.

Wen Li noticed another person in the lounge and was a bit surprised. She asked softly, “That person looks a lot like you, Huiyue. Is she your sister or your younger sister?”

“Neither,” Mu Huiyue replied as she walked with Wen Li toward the conference hall.

“How’s your match going?”

“The process was a bit tense, but at least I managed to win smoothly!” Wen Li excitedly gestured, “Me and A Miao were in perfect condition. We’ll definitely win the next round too!”

After today’s match, they’d at least secure a spot in the top eight, and she would officially become a member of the competition club.

Mu Huiyue smiled and discussed some strategies with her friend, preparing for the two of them to check out the groupings for the upcoming matches.