After completing everything, Alice satisfactorily patted her paws and stood up saying, "That’s more like it."

Xu Shu watched in surprise, "Liu Mianmian... is that your real name?"

Alice tilted her head and said, "Seems like it."

"What do you mean by ’seems like it’?"

"It means, I can’t remember clearly, but vaguely, it’s this. Of course, it’s not important, because this name will remain here forever and won’t be used in the future."

"You’re quite open-minded about it, aren’t you?" Xu Shu clicked his tongue in amazement.

"Of course, may his soul find peace in the Divine Kingdom..." Alice clasped her hands together, praying earnestly.

Xu Shu shook his head, smiling faintly.

He originally thought that Alice would cry and gnash her teeth at the grave, vowing to seek revenge for her father’s death, saying things like "A father’s murder is irreconcilable; I will kill Voodoo in this life to repay the grace of birth."

Unexpectedly, she was more composed than he had imagined.

"Uh, Jing Wang Mansion..."

At this point, Xu Shu suddenly remembered two things.

When he first entered Penglai, passing by Jing Wang Mansion, Alice didn’t recite the local tradition of the Soul Calming Spell, "Learning without thinking would perish," which attracted many Chang Ghosts peering at her from the window.

However, when he later visited Jing Wang Mansion, even if he attracted the gaze of Chang Ghosts without reciting the spell, the situation was far less severe than the first time.

Clearly, the problem lay with Alice.

The peculiar attitude of the Chang Ghosts towards Alice, combined with the Jing Wang Mansion massacre itself, made it easy to deduce the answer.

The girl kidnapped by the Ghost Killing Sect was Alice!

The Chang Ghosts went berserk because they sensed the aura of the "enemy’s daughter" on her!

Hiss... meaning, back then, Liu Yuan faced with enemy coercion, made the final choice to drive the Golden-eyed White Tiger to slaughter the town...

Xu Shu was momentarily stunned, and instantly understood everything, his gaze at the tombstone in front of him became complex.

He couldn’t judge if Liu Yuan’s actions were right or wrong.

Because such matters cannot simply be viewed from a fair perspective.

Saying Liu Yuan wasn’t wrong would be absurd. How innocent were the tens of thousands of people at Jing Wang Mansion? Was Liu Director’s daughter’s life more valuable than tens of thousands of civilian lives?

But did he do wrong? As a father, his biological daughter was in the enemy’s hands, such actions are normal human behavior.

It can only be said that as a father, his choice was understandable; but as a local director, he was evidently too selfish.

This is what the ancients meant by the dilemma between loyalty and righteousness!

If considering the situation himself at the time, could he have handled the dilemma better than Liu Yuan?

Maybe not! Though he might have chosen to first hand over the "Seven Treasures Lotus," and exchanged it for his daughter, then kill all enemies in a fit of anger... Uh, thinking like this seems too naïve, as enemies might not release the person after getting the treasure, and mostly would continue to press further, possibly demanding the continued tarnishing of Living Cultivators’ reputation, threatening to continue the massacre unless Liu Yuan complied.

Thus, it’s essentially a dilemma without a solution.

Sigh, past merits and faults are indeed hard to judge, and one shouldn’t fault good people for making unwise choices under duress. The real problem lies with the evildoers.

Thus, the root of this tragedy... is actually power!

Ultimately, Liu Yuan was too weak, which is why when the news spread, Ghost Killing Sect dared to use this method to coerce him.

With his abilities, holding the "Seven Treasures Lotus" was like a child holding gold through a bustling street, sure to attract envy and robbery.

It was because his power was weak! He couldn’t match up!

Aside from that, speaking solely about the Liu Family tragedy itself, who was at fault?

Ghost Killing Sect has already been wiped out by Yu Mingluan, and Liu Yuan, who committed the massacre, has paid the ultimate price. Yet, the true culprit behind it all remains at large till today.

Who was it?

That’s right, it was Voodoo.

All these disputes originated because of him!

"... Damn that Voodoo for being so wicked! If I don’t kill this villain, my Dao Heart cannot reach enlightenment ahhhhhhh!!!"

Xu Shu roared furiously in his heart.

"It’s strange, he wasn’t your father, why are you more angry and upset than the cat?" Alice stared at Xu Shu in confusion.

"I just empathize with our father’s oppressed life." Xu Shu casually replied.

"Hm!" Alice’s cat face flushed, "Who, who shares a father with you!"

"Oh, perhaps it’s just that I occasionally have facial nerve distortion, don’t mind me, we ’Warriors’ are like that." Xu Shu felt slightly awkward and changed the topic, "By the way, given the current situation, perhaps the Seven Treasures Lotus was taken by the Archbishop. Do you have any leads on this treasure?"

"Never heard of it. What does it look like?" Alice asked.

"Uh..."

This question stumped Xu Shu for a moment.

Fortunately, he was always well-spirited, immediately opening the ascension network, asking Xiao Ya, "What does the Seven Treasures Lotus look like? Send a picture."

Then Xiao Ya was also stumped.

She hadn’t seen this treasure either!

"Hiss~"

Xu Shu gasped on the spot, thinking that if you haven’t seen it and just wandered, and when the treasure mountain is before you, if you can’t recognize it, aren’t you causing a blunder and handing it to Voodoo?

Luckily, Xiao Ya dispelled his doubts.

According to Xiao Ya, although she hadn’t seen the "Seven Treasures Lotus," the object emits seven-color treasure glow, predominantly featuring multicolored light pollution, once it appears, it is impossible to overlook or mistake.

Xu Shu didn’t know if what she said was reliable, and could only take her word for it.