novelraw Chapter 1053 1053 A Similar Flower
Chapter 1053 1053 A Similar Flower
Regarding the ghost-faced woman, Jun Xiaoyao had always been seeking an answer.
He had previously encountered traces left by the ghost-faced woman on several occasions.
However, the ghost-faced woman seemed to have mistaken him for someone else — believing him to be the reincarnation of her brother.
So, Jun Xiaoyao wanted to find the truth.
And among the traces the ghost-faced woman had left behind, there were always signs of the Manjusaka flower.
As well as the ghost-face mask that Xuanyue wore.
All of these clues pointed to the Bianàn Imperial Clan.
So, Jun Xiaoyao had come, determined to uncover the truth.
After he produced the ghost-face mask, the Mother of Manjusaka's expression clearly shifted.
Then, she actually rose from her throne.
Her flawless, delicate jade feet lightly touched the void.
Wherever her feet landed, clusters of Manjusaka flowers bloomed in full.
Her fair bare feet and the crimson Manjusaka flowers complemented each other beautifully.
A foot enthusiast's delight!
In the next instant, the Mother of Manjusaka appeared before Jun Xiaoyao.
That aura of pressure was not deliberately released, yet it was enough to instantly crush a supreme powerhouse, shattering their physical body to pieces.
Even Jun Xiaoyao, who possessed a Chaos constitution and had cultivated the laws of the physical body,
felt his bones faintly creaking at this moment, sensing a terrifying oppressive force.
Xuanyue, standing nearby, felt as though even her soul was about to freeze.
Had Jun Xiaoyao not shielded her from all of that pressure, her physical body would have likely collapsed outright.
It was absolutely terrifying!
The cultivation realm of the Mother of Manjusaka was unfathomably deep.
Far beyond the level of an ordinary Immortal King.
"Where did you get this mask?" the Mother of Manjusaka asked.
"Perhaps Senior should first answer my questions," Jun Xiaoyao said calmly.
Facing this top-tier powerhouse from a foreign realm, Jun Xiaoyao's expression remained placid, still as an undisturbed well.
His innate background and upbringing, combined with his natural temperament, allowed him to remain composed and at ease even before an Immortal King.
"You dare bargain with this King?"
The Mother of Manjusaka clearly had not expected Jun Xiaoyao to carry himself this way.
In the past, even her own clanspeople would prostrate themselves before her, not daring to meet her gaze at all.
"I came here seeking answers, not to answer questions," Jun Xiaoyao said.
There was another reason he was so composed.
He was nearly ninety percent certain of one thing.
The Mother of Manjusaka would not move against him.
"Your karma is... very obscure..." the Mother of Manjusaka said, her voice indifferent.
She had advanced even further within the Immortal King realm.
Deducing karma was naturally effortless for her.
Yet she could not capture even a trace of Jun Xiaoyao's past.
It was as though it were a blank slate.
Jun Xiaoyao smiled, making no attempt to conceal anything.
He dispersed his concealment and revealed his true appearance entirely.
Radiant and immortal in bearing, peerlessly handsome.
"Allow me to formally introduce myself — Jun Xiaoyao, of the Jun family of the Immortal Domain."
Jun Xiaoyao said with a calm expression and a smile.
Behind him, Xuanyue was completely stunned.
Had Jun Xiaoyao lost his mind?
Before an Immortal King of a foreign imperial clan, he was openly revealing his identity as a member of the Jun family of the Immortal Domain.
How was that any different from seeking death?
"This...?"
The gaze of the Mother of Manjusaka, behind her ghost-face mask, suddenly fixed on Jun Xiaoyao's face.
Her focus was not on Jun Xiaoyao's background as a member of the Jun family of the Immortal Domain.
It was on his face.
Within her memory, a blurry face seemed to gradually come into focus.
That face had brought her boundless warmth, and it bore a striking resemblance to the Jun Xiaoyao before her.
Like two flowers of the same kind.
After countless ages of cultivation, that cold and dormant heart of hers trembled ever so slightly because of Jun Xiaoyao.
An inexplicable emotion welled up from the depths of her heart.
"You are... Jun Xiaoyao..."
The Mother of Manjusaka murmured to herself, her gaze never once leaving Jun Xiaoyao's face.
"What is going on?"
Behind them, Xuanyue was utterly astonished.
After learning of Jun Xiaoyao's true identity and origin,
the Mother of Manjusaka had not released any killing intent whatsoever.
She only seemed somewhat surprised, staring at Jun Xiaoyao in a daze.
Jun Xiaoyao had already anticipated this in his heart.
Though his looks were indeed enough to make any woman in the world fall for him at first glance,
the Mother of Manjusaka, as a supreme immortal being, was clearly not someone swayed by appearances.
That meant Jun Xiaoyao's face had resonated with someone in the heart of the Mother of Manjusaka.
"In that case, could it be that the Mother of Manjusaka is the ghost-faced woman herself."
"The person she has been searching for must be her brother — someone who looks remarkably like me."
"And the reason Xuanyue was chosen was likely because of a similar life experience that created some kind of resonance."
In an instant, Jun Xiaoyao had thought through much of it, piecing together the cause and effect.
But what came next caught him completely off guard.
A cool, smooth jade hand gently touched Jun Xiaoyao's cheek.
The Mother of Manjusaka looked at Jun Xiaoyao as though her soul had been drawn away.
The ghost-face mask concealed her expression, but it could not hide the complexity in her gaze.
"In this world, when a flower withers, will it bloom again at some point in the future?"
The Mother of Manjusaka said something that seemed to come out of nowhere.
Jun Xiaoyao's eyes flickered with a hint of surprise, then he said lightly, "There are no two flowers exactly alike in this world, just as there are no two people exactly alike."
"Is that so?" the Mother of Manjusaka said, her tone distant and melancholic.
"Would Senior be willing to answer this junior's questions?"
Jun Xiaoyao wanted to know whether the Mother of Manjusaka was indeed the ghost-faced woman he had been searching for all along.
Upon hearing this, the Mother of Manjusaka withdrew the jade hand that had been touching Jun Xiaoyao's face.
Then she slowly raised it and removed the ghost-face mask from her face.
Mist surged and radiance shimmered, everything shrouded in a hazy glow.
Ordinary people would find it nearly impossible to make out her features, as though blocked by an invisible barrier.
But Jun Xiaoyao possessed the Eyes of Chaos, which allowed him to perceive the peerless beauty of the Mother of Manjusaka.
Her features could only be described as devastatingly beautiful — among all the women Jun Xiaoyao had ever seen, she easily ranked within the top five.
At the center of her brow was a vivid crimson Manjusaka flower mark.
Time had left not a single blemish on that face.
It had only distilled into a certain timeless charm.
"You said that this King may have mistaken you for someone."
"But in truth, you may also have somewhat misunderstood this King."
The Mother of Manjusaka said.
Jun Xiaoyao's gaze flickered, slightly taken aback.
Had his deduction been wrong?
Was the Mother of Manjusaka unrelated to the ghost-faced woman?
Yet the various clues the ghost-faced woman had left behind did indeed point to the Bianàn Clan.
It seemed she had noticed the surprise in Jun Xiaoyao's eyes.
The Mother of Manjusaka spoke in a soft, distant voice, "The Manjusaka blooms for a thousand years, falls for a thousand years, and flower and leaf never meet. Love is not bound by karma, yet fate determines life and death."
"She was merely waiting for someone to return."
"Waiting a thousand years, then another thousand years."
"One epoch, then another."
"In the end, all she waited for was a flower that merely resembled him — how utterly heartbreaking."
The sigh of the Mother of Manjusaka faded into silence.
Jun Xiaoyao's expression shifted slightly.
"Could it be that Senior is not..."
Jun Xiaoyao had not expected to be wrong.
From the words of the Mother of Manjusaka, he gathered that she was not the ghost-faced woman herself, but had encountered her.
"No, you guessed correctly, but not entirely."
"This King is her, and yet is not her."