Fall of Goddess

"The key difference was that the Brahma Soul Bell was not only a divine artifact used for inheritance, it could also control all of the divine powers related to the Brahma Monarch God Realm."

Yakou listened to the explanation about the Brahma Soul Bell she was giving him as he scoffed. From the explanation he heard, the Brahma Soul Bell was a rather advanced Soul Artifact from what he heard.

Even though he found the Brahma Soul Bell rather inferior because the Ōtsutsuki Clan had way better refinement techniques when it came to refinements of Artifacts.

He still didn't really dare to openly use the Kāma Seal on Qianye Ying'er because it would certainly notify the Brahma Heaven Emperor about it...

He could see that the moment someone tampered with her Soul, it would notify the holder of the Brahma Soul Bell about it, in this case, the Brahma Heaven Emperor and that would be a bad thing to happen.

'No matter what loyalties she holds, someone as prideful and ambitious as her wouldn't appreciate being chained by a soul-binding artifact.'

Yakou thought because right now, with the usage of the Kāma Seal out of question, he needed another method to ensure the sound of silence and in the end, he decided the thing he was best at...

Manipulation.

The art of manipulation was drilled into him by his mother from an early age, as she was best at that, and due to her cheerful and bubbly personality, nobody would ever notice that she had them wrapped around her finger.

And as he looked at the woman before him, looking straight into her eyes with his Tensei-Sharingan, she didn't even notice that she fell into a very advanced illusion in a split of her defenseless.

And as she was in the illusionary world, Yakou noticed something intriguing about her memories as some of them were altered or sealed.

This was very interesting, as someone as powerful as her shouldn't have sealed or altered memories; such cases were rare, or those memories were from the time she was still very young and not very powerful.

And someone who sealed them was far superior to her in terms of cultivation, not to mention, Yakou was able to discern that the memory-sealing method and memory alternation were pretty advanced even compared to the methods of the Ōtsutsuki Clan.

When he started spinning the illusionary world, playing with the memories that were altered, he grinned as he shattered the altered memories into countless shards, which automatically unsealed the memories that were sealed during her childhood or adolescence.

Yakou observed then the exchange between her and her father from several centuries ago.

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Genjutsu World

The scene featured a much younger Qianye Ying'er, who was crying and having an argument with her father in the Imperial Palace of the Brahma Monarch God Realm.

"My mother, she… did you kill her?"

This sudden and exceptionally abrupt question caused Qianye Fantian's eyes to instantly narrow.

After that, he let out a soft sigh as he said.

"It looks like I missed something back then. After all, having no gaps at all is really a big gap in and of itself."

Qianye Ying'er's beautiful eyes suddenly focused as the last illusion within her shuddering heart and soul was completely shattered into oblivion.

"It was really you… It was really you!!?"

Qianye Fantian gave a dry chuckle.

"Since you already guessed it and sensed it a long time ago, why did you never ask about it or believe it to be true? Was it because you didn't dare to? Or was it because you weren't willing to?"

He had frankly admitted it and he was not the least bit worried about her finding out. One could even hear some disappointment and ridicule in his indifferent voice. Qianye Ying'er's eyes started trembling even more intensely as her voice grew hoarse.

"Why… Why did you kill her!?"

She screamed at her father with anger, anguish, hatred, sadness and myriad of other emotions mixed within.

"Why?... Isn't the answer already as clear as day? Of course, it's because of you."

Qianye Fantian wore a tragic and sorrowful expression on his face.

"Your innate talent did not only surpass all of my other children; no one in your generation in the entire Eastern Divine Region could match it either. This coupled with the viciousness, single-minded focus, and ambition I could see in your eyes, made me feel as if I had witnessed the birth of the first female Brahma Heaven God Emperor. Compared to the successor that I had previously selected, your brilliance was far more dazzling."

He then paused as he frowned deeply while looking at his daughter.

"But alas, you back then had a fatal flaw, and that fatal flaw was… your excessive care for your mother! After that, I even found out that the most important reason for your fervency and ambition toward the profound way was actually because you wanted to obtain an even higher status for your mother. Heh… how pitiful that was, how laughable."

Qianye Ying'er clenched her teeth tightly as her entire body shook.

"Your mother died by my hands. This was a grave matter that concerned the future of the Brahma Monarch God Realm, so I could only do it myself. After that, I personally executed both the god empress and the crown prince before posthumously conferring the title of god empress upon your mother."

He then summoned the Brahma Soul Bell in his right hand and an unknown artifact appeared in his left hand.

"Unfortunately, this really happened at a bad time and I still have uses for you..."

Suddenly, the Brahma Soul Bell shined in bright light as everything went blank because Qianye Fantian sealed some part of her memories and altered the remaining ones about this conversation.

While this indeed proved to him that, in the end, his efforts were futile and his daughter wouldn't be his successor, he still had some uses for her...

After her uses were finished, she could be sold to some of the God Emperors or powerful cultivators in exchange for benefits for the Brahma Monarch God Realm.