Not committing the same mistake again (1/2)
Fang Yuan confirms the Spring Autumn Cicada and asks Mo Yao’s will whether she has wanted him to use it, and she quickly denies knowing he has it. He says that, as a naturally cautious man, he considered the worst case from the moment she lurked in his mind. That case is that she has known his secret of Spring Autumn Cicada and rebirth since he first entered Water Pavilion. She appears extremely sincere as she shakes her head. ch. 644
Fang Yuan lays out what he believes she did. She pretended not to know the secret, revealed herself, and feigned guilt toward Spirit Affinity House to give him the mission of returning Water Pavilion, which he calls a red herring. She truly racked her brains for his trust, creating six arm heavenly zombie king for him, teaching him ink transformation and other refinement path killer moves, and helping him infiltrate True Yang Building. Meanwhile she altered his thoughts, steering him to keep taking risks when Giant Sun’s will awakened and to attack Ma Hong Yun, which raised his black coffin luck. She also struck in secret to stir memories of his previous life and tried to look at them. ch. 644
Fang Yuan admits his foundation is superficial, but says her greatest flaw was sending Water Pavilion to charge the seven fingered formless hand. The mission she gave him was to return Water Pavilion to Spirit Affinity House, yet at the crucial moment she gave it up to protect him, which shows the mission was a red herring. This time Mo Yao’s will does not refute him and sinks into silence. He lists more flaws: she hid that she placed Water Pavilion on him, and hid what kind of will she was. She purposely gave him an incorrect timing so that his body would completely turn into six arm heavenly zombie king, and made him think repeatedly of using Spring Autumn Cicada. She retorts that she saved him, so harming him makes no sense, but he answers that both were her plan. ch. 644
Reasoning from her position, Fang Yuan says a will left for ten thousand years after her main body and lover died would want to use Spring Autumn Cicada to travel back and revive herself. Since the cicada sacrifices everything the Gu Master has and merely preserves consciousness, she would sneak into it at the crucial moment, destroy the Gu Master’s will and replace him. Mo Yao’s will’s pupils shrink. Two obstacles stood in her way: a will cannot use most Gu worms, and the cicada is his vital Gu, so she cannot take it by force. The cicada also runs on its Gu Master’s self-detonation as fuel. She therefore had to strengthen him, so his self-detonation would give more driving force, and create absolute despair, so he would have no option but to use it. She exposed Water Pavilion to save him from Giant Sun’s will because she feared he would die, and crashed it into the formless hand to keep his cicada from being exposed. ch. 644
Outside, Giant Sun’s will has counted down from ten to six, and Mo Yao’s will stays silent for a long time. Then she praises his analysis and admits she failed to deceive him. As Spirit Affinity House’s thirty-sixth generation fairy, a rank seven Gu Immortal and refinement path grandmaster, she confesses in an extremely forthright manner. Her main body entered Eighty-Eight True Yang Building. There it obtained an inheritance in the true inheritance secluded domain and created her will from it. She left Di Qiu inheritance to preserve the chance of refining calamity beckoning Gu and as a trap aimed at Spirit Affinity House, which she had betrayed for Bo Qing. She discovered his Spring Autumn Cicada when he refined calamity beckoning Gu, and she tampered with the refinement so the Gu already held her will, an arrangement originally meant to target pursuers from Spirit Affinity House. ch. 644
