“I don’t know whether he betrayed us.” Mo Qiushuang’s nose stung.
“I only know that Jiang Han never received even a single bit of cultivation resources in the Heavenly Dominion Sect. The realm he has now was achieved entirely through his own effort.”
“If we were unwilling to provide for his cultivation, then if he chose another sect willing to support him, is that really wrong?”
“He didn’t have cultivation resources?” Liu Hanyue was stunned.
“How is that possible? Each of us has 300,000 medium-grade spirit stones every month to use as we please. Even if he got less, he should have had 30,000 or 50,000 at least. Aren’t those cultivation resources?”
“Master said it herself,” Mo Qiushuang replied with a bitter smile.
“Master…” Liu Hanyue froze. She had always assumed everyone had resources to use freely and had never once cared about Jiang Han’s cultivation.
She had never imagined that Master had not given him even a single bit of cultivation resources. Not even one.
“Jiang Han stayed in the Heavenly Dominion Sect for so long. It’s one thing that Master didn’t give him resources, but what about you? Did any of you ever give him even one spirit stone?”
Mo Qiushuang gritted her teeth. “Why did you treat him so harshly?”
“I saw more than once how you ruined the spiritual fruits he gathered. Those were his only cultivation resources!”
“Every time Jiang Han obtained a slightly better spiritual fruit, the first people he thought of were you. He brought them as offerings. Why wouldn’t you accept them? And even if you didn’t want them, why throw them away in front of him or feed them to spirit beasts?”
“I…” Liu Hanyue was at a loss. “It’s not like I asked him to bring them. Besides, everyone treated him that way. I didn’t go too far. I only beat him lightly a few times.”
“And Senior Sister, weren’t you the same…”
Mo Qiushuang fell silent for a moment. “Forget it. I came to ask you something else.”
Hearing that Senior Sister would no longer press the issue, Liu Hanyue finally let out a breath. “Go ahead.”
Mo Qiushuang stared at her. “Last time when I took Jiang Han to the Demon Spirit Cave, why did you insist on coming?”
“Oh, that time?” Liu Hanyue looked away awkwardly.
“Tell the truth.”
“Fine.” Liu Hanyue took a deep breath. Visit g.com for the full chapter.
“It was Jiang Han’s fault. He always liked to watch me set up formations. You know how much I hate being watched when I’m studying formations. His presence affected me. No matter how much I scolded or beat him, it didn’t help.”
“That day I happened to hear you were taking him to the Demon Spirit Cave, so…”
“So you left him there alone and came back?” Mo Qiushuang was furious.
The Demon Spirit Cave was filled with creatures at the Foundation Establishment Realm and above. There were even many at the Golden Core Realm.
She had never imagined that her second junior sister could be so heartless, abandoning Jiang Han, who was only in the Qi Refining Realm, in such a dangerous place.
“I just wanted to study formations in peace. If Jiang Han hadn’t kept bothering me, I wouldn’t have treated him like that,” Liu Hanyue said stubbornly.
“Besides, I knew what I was doing. I only left him in the outer area of the Demon Spirit Cave. Who knew Jiang Han was so useless? They were only Foundation Establishment Realm creatures, and he couldn’t even handle them!”
Mo Qiushuang trembled with anger. She had not expected Liu Hanyue to do something like that and still act as if nothing was wrong.
“Because of such a trivial matter, you nearly killed Jiang Han!” Mo Qiushuang pointed at Liu Hanyue and shouted.
“You say Jiang Han disturbed your formation research and deserved punishment. Then what about Xiao Xuan?”
“Xiao Xuan often went to you as well and disturbed your research. Why did you never find him annoying?”
Liu Hanyue pursed her lips. “How can that be the same? Xiao Xuan is my junior brother. Of course I wouldn’t find him annoying when he came to see me.”
After saying that, she quickly asked before Mo Qiushuang could pose another strange question, “Senior Sister, what is going on? Jiang Han has already betrayed us. We can just capture him and bring him back. Why keep asking these things?”
Mo Qiushuang’s eyes reddened again, and tears streamed down uncontrollably.
“Jiang Han didn’t betray us. We forced him to leave! I want to bring him back. I want to make it up to him!”
Liu Hanyue was shocked. “Senior Sister, have you gone mad? Jiang Han lacked ability. How can you say we forced him to leave?”
“Hahaha!” Mo Qiushuang let out three bitter laughs, her eyes red as she looked at Liu Hanyue.
“What did Jiang Han do wrong? He only wanted to stay with us, yet we beat and scolded him.” The source of this chapter is novelping.com.
“We gave him no cultivation resources and offered no guidance. Why should he have remained in the Heavenly Dominion Sect?”
“And you say Xiao Xuan is our junior brother and can come find you whenever he wants. Then wasn’t Jiang Han our junior brother too? Why couldn’t he come find you?”
“Why did you feel disgust when you saw him? Why did you find him annoying?”
“Not just you and me. Master and the other junior sisters as well. None of them liked Jiang Han!”
“If Xiao Xuan did something, it was fine. But if Jiang Han dared to do the same, we would hate him, despise him, humiliate him, beat him!”
“Did we truly treat him as a direct disciple of the Heavenly Dominion Sect?”
Liu Hanyue stood there, stunned and speechless.
Mo Qiushuang shook her head. “Perhaps we never truly treated him as a junior brother…”
Liu Hanyue was completely dazed. Had they really never treated Jiang Han as a junior brother? She did not know.
But thinking carefully, they truly had ignored him all along. Both were junior brothers. Lin Xuan received their love and care, while Jiang Han had nothing.
He did not even have proper clothes befitting a direct disciple, let alone anything else.
With so many senior sisters, not one of them had ever cared about him, much less thought about buying him clothes. The thought had never even crossed their minds.
“When he first came up the mountain, he was only five years old. He spent two months alone exploring the mountain before finally climbing to the summit. How frightened must he have been?”
“I can imagine how he felt when he first saw us at the top of the mountain. Perhaps relief, happiness, fear, maybe even some nervousness and confusion.”
“But I can also imagine how he felt when we despised him, insulted him, and threw him down from the summit. He must have been terrified. He must have been in despair.”
“He was only five years old! Hanyue, he was just a child who had only begun to understand the world. Why did we treat him like that…”
Mo Qiushuang covered her eyes and choked on her sobs. “Hanyue, we are not heartless people. Even if we saw a stray dog outside, we would not be so cruel.”
“Then why, why did we never treat Jiang Han as a human being? Why did we keep bullying him? Why did we always treat him like an enemy? Isn’t he our junior brother?”
Mo Qiushuang lifted her head, her beautiful face streaked with tears as she looked at Liu Hanyue. “Hanyue, why? Why?!”