It was a man in white.
A man in white with a cold, stern face and an aloof, solitary demeanor.
He had appeared at some unknown time, standing there with his hands clasped behind his back, gazing intently at that room.
Ouyang Feiyue suppressed the shock in her heart, for she had no idea when this person had arrived. She immediately darted over, and when she clearly saw who it was, her expression changed drastically in fright.
It was actually Gu Qingfeng!
"You...
How!
When did you..." Ouyang Feiyue pointed at Gu Qingfeng, her beautiful face filled with utter astonishment, her words stumbling. She took a deep breath and asked in surprise, "What are you doing here!"
She did not know who Gu Qingfeng was, nor his identity.
She only knew this man was shrouded in profound mystery, possessing bizarre and ferocious power.
Gu Qingfeng ignored her, his gaze fixed on the room. If one spoke of shock, the shock in his heart was no less than Ouyang Feiyue's—he simply didn't show it.
When Yun Nishang's soul fragment vanished, he had been tracking it with his Divine Sense.
He knew Yun Nishang's soul fragment had landed here.
Right in that room.
On the bed in the room lay a person, a young girl, a girl with exquisite features. It was none other.
It was the first person he had met in this world.
Ouyang Ye.
Back at Yunxia Sect, he had speculated: if Yun Nishang had awakened five hundred years ago in the identity of Hongxiu, then after the great calamity, she would inevitably awaken again in another identity.
Gu Qingfeng had guessed it.
He just hadn't expected that person to be Ouyang Ye.
To be honest.
If it were anyone else, even Ouyang Feiyue, Gu Qingfeng wouldn't have been so astonished.
But of all people, it was Ouyang Ye.
Five hundred years ago, when he first entered Yunxia Sect, he had fallen in love at first sight with Hongxiu.
Five hundred years later, today, after being judged by the Heavenly Dao and stripped of everything, a man who had practically died once, the first person he encountered upon awakening was Ouyang Ye. Though there was no love at first sight, through a twist of fate, they had even posed as a Daoist couple for a few days.
Was this coincidence?
Or chance?
No!
It couldn't be coincidence, nor could it be mere chance.
Could this be the so-called karma?
Gu Qingfeng did not know.
For the moment, he couldn't figure it out, only feeling the matter was exceptionally complex, perhaps even more so than he imagined.
"You...
What exactly are you here for!"
Ouyang Feiyue stared at him warily, asking in astonishment.
"Ouyang Ye's bloodline..." As Gu Qingfeng spoke, before he could finish, Ouyang Feiyue's heart jolted, and she blurted out, "You know about Ye ye's bloodline?"
As she spoke, she seemed to realize something and pressed further, "Are you here for Ye ye's bloodline?
What do you want to do?
Are you truly connected to Ye ye's bloodline?"
"What has she said?"
Just as Gu Qingfeng's words fell, a loud cry suddenly came from inside the room.
Without hesitation, Gu Qingfeng immediately flashed inside.
At this moment.
Ouyang Ye lay on the bed, her entire body enveloped in a layer of Blood Mist.
"Ye ye!"
Seeing this scene, Ouyang Feiyue, worried for Ouyang Ye's safety, rushed forward, but Gu Qingfeng stopped her.
"Her soul has already returned to its place. Her bloodline is awakening."
Bloodline awakening?
What bloodline?
Wait!
Soul?
What does bloodline have to do with the soul?
As Ouyang Feiyue was puzzling over this, Ouyang Ye, shrouded in the Blood Mist, suddenly began shouting like a madwoman.
"Why!
Tell me why!"
Ouyang Ye's voice was filled with sky-piercing killing intent, her tone demonic yet also Buddha-like.
"I said if you don't reincarnate, I absolutely will not reincarnate!
I never want to reincarnate again...
I don't want to!"
"I waited for you until I became a demon, you killed for me until you became a demon...
We...
We owe each other nothing!"
"You don't owe me..." "I can't forget..." "You told me to wait for you...
That lifetime, this lifetime...
I waited for you until I became a demon...
That lifetime, this lifetime too..." "You said our karma is severed...
We can never go back..." "Heh..." "I've tried to mend the karma...
I've been mending it all along...
But why can't I ever mend it completely!
Why!"
"I've also tried to sever the karma, but why can't I ever sever it completely!
Why!"
"A road of no return!
Heh!
You said this is a road of no return..." "You told me not to mend karma, nor to sever karma...
Karma is endless...
It has no beginning, no end..." "Heh, you said...
It can't be fully mended, can't be fully severed, the more you mend, the more there is, the more you sever, the more chaotic it becomes...
Endless..." "Heh...
Hahaha!
!!"
"But you..." "But how did you manage it..." "You were not born!
You did not die!
You were not destroyed, you did not perish..." "I searched through the three thousand Great Daos, I searched through all the reincarnations of the world, I searched through all the laws of heaven and earth, yet in the end, I could not find you..."
Beside them, Gu Qingfeng stared blankly, listening carefully, yet the more he listened, the more confused he became, the more his heart grew unsettled. Even his Great Buddha Unmoving Heart seemed affected, his mind beginning to grow restless!
"Why!"
"Where exactly are you!"
"Where!
! Tell me!
Where are you!
!"
Whoosh!
The Blood Mist exploded, boiling and spreading, filled with profound mysteries and principles, mixed with soaring resentment and an overwhelming, pervasive momentum.
Gu Qingfeng, quick-eyed and swift-handed, waved an arm, pulling Ouyang Feiyue into his embrace and leaping into mid-air.
Boom!
The room was instantly crushed into fragments. The entire mountain villa turned into ruins, surrounded by boiling Blood Mist.
At this moment.
Ouyang Ye stood within the Blood Mist, or rather, seemed to float within it. Her arms were spread, her legs straight, her head slightly tilted back. On her exquisite face was an indescribable, ineffable expression. Her eyes were closed, and around her body swirled vast, billowing Blood Mist. Her originally black hair gradually turned a deep crimson.
After an unknown length of time, her eyes finally opened. They were a pair of blood-red eyes.
Like bloody abysses, somewhat hollow, within them seeming confusion, resentment, bewilderment...
She looked at Gu Qingfeng opposite her.
Just looked.
"You feel...
familiar..." Ouyang Ye murmured, her voice also containing boundless confusion and bewilderment.
Without any visible movement, she instantly appeared before Gu Qingfeng, reaching out to gently stroke his cheek, murmuring, "And also...
strange..."
Gu Qingfeng did not move, only frowned as he watched.
Ouyang Ye's eyes held endless bewilderment and confusion, and his own eyes were no different.
"Deja vu...
Why...
do I feel this way..." Ouyang Ye murmured, her blood-red hair dancing wildly around her exquisite face. Her pair of crimson eyes fixed on Gu Qingfeng as she asked, "Tell me, who are you."
"And who are you."
Gu Qingfeng countered.
"Ye ye?"
In Gu Qingfeng's arms, Ouyang Feiyue had long been frightened into bewildered by the scene before her. Gazing at the Blood Mist-shrouded Ouyang Ye, she asked with terror and concern, "What's wrong with you..."
"Ye ye?"
Ouyang Ye glanced at her again and asked, "And who are you."
"I'm your aunt!"
"Aunt?"
Ouyang Ye seemed utterly unfamiliar with the term 'aunt'. She shook her head slightly and said, "I have no aunt."