Chapter 48: The "Twin Sisters" of the South (Fourth Update)
The markings on the notebook's cover caused Su Xiao's heartbeat to accelerate. After searching for so long, he finally had a direct clue, but there was also bad news: this yellowed notebook was far too thin, only three pages. Aside from the front and back covers, the only content was on a single page in the middle. This was definitely not good news.
Opening the notebook, Su Xiao immediately felt something strange. It seemed someone was watching him, but after only a moment, they gave up.
Inside the library, Xue Yi, who had been lying on a small wooden bed, sat up. A purple glow emanated from her eyes.
"Your hand... is reaching too far. This is the Holy Healing Church, not the South!"
Xue Yi's voice was icy cold. After a moment, her expression returned to normal, and she lay back down, crossing her legs.
"So this is what they're looking for. I really can't understand the thinking of these monsters. Why provoke those three sisters? The Moyi Family is not to be trifled with."
Xue Yi seemed to know something, but she could no longer leave the Holy Healing Church headquarters. As long as she was here, a certain someone in the South dared not set foot in the Central Region.
In the library's small room, Su Xiao opened the notebook in his hand. As he had guessed, the content recorded on it was very limited.
'The Land of Death has no real connection to the witches.'
'The Moyi Family has guarded the Land of Death for generations. This is incomprehensible.'
'It has been confirmed that the Land of Death is located in the South. 157 witch hunters have been killed or injured as a result. Exploration has ceased.'
'The Moyi Family is not guarding the Land of Death; they are guarding something within it. This may be the source of the Moyi Family's power.'
'Why does every generation of the Moyi Family produce a Fifth Stage witch? Why are all their direct descendants female? Why are their avatars so excellent? Incomprehensible. This may be related to the Land of Death, but exploration has stopped. Consider sending witch hunters again. The threat of the Moyi Family is urgent and cannot be delayed.'
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Just five simple paragraphs. There was no other information on the notebook, but this was already enough. Remember, when Su Xiao first entered the Crow World, his intelligence was only: The specific information on the Demon Blade Energy Sealing Device was known only to one witch, and the witches called the "Demon Blade Energy Sealing Device" the Land of Death.
Relying on this simple clue, he had rooted out the Moyi Family. With the amount of intelligence he had now, if he couldn't find where the Land of Death was, he wouldn't deserve to be called a Hunter. To some extent, Violators were harder to find than the Land of Death.
The Land of Death was in the South, and the Moyi Family was guarding it. Based on these two pieces of intelligence, Su Xiao found a record about the Moyi Family on the bookshelf.
The Moyi Family was a witch family. The head of each generation was a Fifth Stage witch. This was almost a law, and it was precisely this that established the Moyi Family's ruling position in the South.
The Moyi Family had many generations. The direct-line members of this generation were three people, three twin sisters. Their names were: Moyi Nora, Moyi Lisa, and Eyun.
The corners of Su Xiao's mouth twitched visibly. The names of these three sisters were as striking as Xiao Ming, Xiao Bai, and Liu Tiedan.
Moyi Nora and Moyi Lisa made sense. Moyi Nora was the eldest daughter, Moyi Lisa was the second daughter. As for Eyun, she was the youngest sister~.
Eyun was a formal name, not a nickname or title, which was precisely why it felt so strange.
After flipping through some more, Su Xiao focused on the name of the second daughter, "Moyi Lisa." His brows furrowed tightly.
Moyi Lisa, Molisha? They looked very similar. Both were Fifth Stage witches, both were elementalists, and... close in age.
Su Xiao continued looking through information on the Moyi Family. When he reached records from five years ago, he confirmed that Moyi Lisa was the Light Witch Molisha who had died by his hand.
Moyi Nora and Moyi Lisa were both Fifth Stage witches. They had originally been stationed in the South. Their younger sister, Eyun, was also a Fifth Stage witch.
A family producing three Fifth Stage witches. One could imagine the Moyi Family's status among the witches at that time. But five years ago, Moyi Lisa suddenly left the South and went to the witch gathering place in West Port that the Moyi Family had managed for a long time. That place was where the Moyi Family had risen, before they moved to the South.
Even more surprising was that the eldest daughter, Moyi Nora, had heavily withdrawn the witches from West Port, leaving only a few people there. It seemed the two sisters had a disagreement.
As the eldest daughter, Moyi Nora naturally inherited the Moyi Family's power and influence. But she didn't consolidate the witches of the South; instead, she scattered them throughout the region.
Just when everyone thought Moyi Nora's move was incredibly foolish, half a year later, the Holy Healing Church could no longer set foot in the South. It had become a nation of witches, a loose nation without a king or an economic system.
Only then did people realize how terrifying Moyi Nora was. The witches scattered throughout the South were like beasts in the jungle, preventing any outsiders from entering the South. This gave the witches the opportunity to develop and grow.
Witches were not an army. Gathering them together actually prevented them from using their individual strengths, and it consumed a large amount of resources.
From then on, the surname Moyi was only inherited by Moyi Nora alone. Moyi Lisa was called Molisha by outsiders, and Eyun disappeared from everyone's sight.
According to the records, Eyun was a natural freak, so much of a freak that even her parents refused to acknowledge her, which was why she was named Eyun.
A child not acknowledged by her parents. One could imagine how freakish Eyun was. Remember, her mother was also a witch.
Among the three sisters, Moyi Nora, Molisha, and Eyun, Moyi Nora was the guardian of the Land of Death. Only she knew its exact location.
Having read this far, Su Xiao understood which witch the main mission referred to. It was Moyi Nora.
However, there was one thing that bothered Su Xiao. Melody had once stolen Molisha's family heirloom. This made him wonder: could that so-called family heirloom be the Demon Blade Energy Sealing Device?
After pondering for a moment, Su Xiao felt it was unlikely. The place where the Demon Blade Energy Sealing Device was located was called the Land of Death. If that heirloom really was the Demon Blade Energy Sealing Device, Melody would have been torn to pieces by the Southern witches long ago.
Putting down the materials in his hand, Su Xiao had peeled away layer after layer of mist. The situation was becoming clear. Moyi Nora knew where the Land of Death was. Or rather, finding Moyi Nora was essentially equivalent to finding the Land of Death. She was guarding it, so she couldn't be too far away.
To find Moyi Nora, Su Xiao needed to go deep into the South. But the number of witches in the South was incomparable to West Port.
There was an even more troublesome problem: Moyi Nora seemed to have some connection with her sister, Eyun. A witch hunter had once tried to assassinate Moyi Nora, obviously without success. But before he died, he sent a message back to the Holy Healing Church headquarters: to kill Moyi Nora, Eyun must be killed at the same time.