Chapter 71

"What is that...what is that?" The disciple holding the ink stick got goosebumps all over his body and felt a chill on his back.

Those identical faces looked at Zong Ning in despair, but with strange and twisted smiles on their lips.

They all opened their mouths and called out in a wailing voice, "Young Master..."

The faint and lingering sound is so deafening.

The courtesan stood alone in the distance. At some point, even the maidservant beside her had turned into that woman's face.

The courtesan smiled softly, and Su Xuan subconsciously shouted, "Zong Ning!"

The next second, Zong Ning, who was closest to the oiran, threw several spiritual chains over with an expressionless face, but the oiran slightly bowed and was blocked by four maids behind her!

The four maids were knocked away by the spiritual power chain. However, before Zong Ning could frown and chase after them, the rooms on the second floor, which had closed their doors and had become quiet at some point, suddenly opened one after another with "bang", "bang", and "bang". A group of people with the woman's face rushed out from inside and pounced on Zong Ning, Su Xuan, Yan Ning, An Xianmo and the others, instantly drowning out the figure of the courtesan so that she could no longer be seen!

Everyone had to deal with those people who were rushing towards them and whose consciousness was obviously controlled!

Those who have spiritual power will use it, and those who don’t have spiritual power will just draw their swords!

"There aren't usually so many people in Chunyue Pavilion!" Night Guard Ah Qi shouted angrily as he used the back of his knife to deal with the people who rushed over.

"Because they spread the news today that the courtesan will show up!" His companion dodged a figure flying over and looked surprised when he saw the figure baring its teeth like a dog as if it was about to bite someone.

"So the Chunyue Pavilion madam is in cahoots with that vicious beast?! She's working for that vicious beast?!"

"The madam... the madam herself has turned into a dog!" Ah Qi knocked out a bloated man wearing the same clothes as the madam with the flat of his knife and yelled, "The only problem is the courtesan! Where's the courtesan?!"

The courtesan had already escaped to an unknown place, and they didn't even know where Ran Yi was hiding.

But he must be hiding somewhere where he can see all this scene.

Su Xuan released a chain of spiritual energy, sweeping across the area. He and Gu Shuo were at the entrance of a staircase, with many people crowding up from below. Su Xuan took a deep breath and cursed, "This is simply a zombie siege!"

The key is that they cannot hurt these humans directly. If they are not seriously injured, these humans can quickly get up from the ground, just like machines. If this is not zombies, what are they!

"Then we won't turn into zombies if we are bitten, right?" Lu Tao and Su Xuan responded to each other in the distance, their voices trembling, but their hands were hammering away!

Su Xuan almost slipped!

The corner of his mouth twitched as he said, "This isn't a real viral infection!"

As soon as he said this, Su Xuan paused and hesitated: "...It's impossible that Ran Yi really developed a zombie virus, right?"

Lu Tao: “?!”

"Mind control is an ability possessed by ferocious beasts, while changing appearance is witchcraft," Gu Shuo said with a frown as he knocked a man who had jumped directly onto the second-floor railing away. "Is there a witch doctor working with him?"

"This is Second Senior Brother's ability!" One of Xian Mo's disciples suddenly roared, "Only Second Senior Brother can change the appearance of everyone in the city at the same time, but—"

"But Second Brother was eaten by Ran Yi a long time ago. I saw it with my own eyes!"

Hearing this, everyone was secretly shocked.

Ran Yi ate Xian Mo's disciple... and gained his abilities?!

Su Xuan and the others restrained their expressions slightly. If this was true, then how much stronger had Ran Yi become in the past few years?

All of Xian Mo's disciples had red eyes. They roared and fought off the surging crowd with anger and hatred, as if they couldn't wait to pull Ran Yi out and kill him immediately.

Yan Ning'an looked at Xian Mo with mixed feelings.

The silver-haired man remained very calm throughout.

With a wave of his hand, he set up a barrier around the entire Chunyue Pavilion.

Then he looked down at the grand spectacle downstairs, then looked at Zong Ning at the other end of the second-floor corridor and asked, "Whose face is this?"

Zong Ning paused.

Ye Yun was always protected in his arms, turning and dodging with Zong Ning's movements, with staggering steps.

He kept yelling at Zong Ning to let him go, saying that he knew martial arts and could handle these people, and even if things got tough, he could protect himself, so there was no need for him to keep protecting him like this—

However, it was not until Xian Mo asked this question that Zong Ning paused slightly.

Two figures rushed up from the left and right sides. Zong Ning's eyes turned cold, and he swung out two spiritual power chains, knocking the two people away!

But he was distracted for a while.

When a hot and humid breath appeared behind him, Zong Ning's pupils suddenly constricted.

The next second, Ye Yun in his arms turned around nimbly and gave a fierce roundhouse kick, kicking the man who attacked Zong Ning from behind into the wooden wall, creating a hole and causing him to fall face down into it!

Ye Yun took a deep breath and looked at Zong Ning.

Zong Ning raised his eyebrows and said, "You are quite impressive?"

"I told you, I've learned martial arts!" Ye Yun said unconvinced.

"Is it just martial arts? Don't you also call yourself a sorcerer?" Zong Ning asked with a sneer.

Ye Yun: “…”

Zong Ning swatted away the people rushing towards him and said lazily, "If you're a sorcerer, why do you still rely on physical combat? Why don't you show me some of your magic?"

Ye Yun: “…………”

His face flushed, and he whispered, "...How much do you know?"

...He always felt something was not right.

Zong Ning smiled lightly.

He glanced at Su Xuan and Lu Tao, who were looking at him worriedly, and squinted his eyes and asked, "Are those two the two of the four dogs?"

Ye Yun: “…”

"Who are the other two dogs?" Zong Ning said slowly as he played, "Let me guess, is it the white-haired man? No, he doesn't seem to know me at all. It's the one next to him wearing women's clothing? He's dressed exactly like you, weirdly. He must be your companion, and he must have been by your side back then."

Ye Yun swallowed hard and cold sweat broke out.

"There's another one—could it be the man in black next to the one in red? But if I remember correctly, he seems to be the newly appointed commander of the Night Guard? I saw this guy once after I came to the capital. Is he one of yours too? The way he follows you closely is very similar to that black dog..." Zong Ning paused and said slowly, "Five years, you kept me waiting."

Ye Yun trembled slightly.

His heart was pounding and his head was buzzing.

He looked up at the man and said in a hoarse voice, "Zong Ning..."

Zong Ning said slowly, "A bunch of guys with unknown origins barged in front of me without permission, disrupted everything, and ran away without explaining anything clearly."

On their left, Su Xuan and Gu Shuo had cleared out all the people between them and Zong Ning and Ye Yun. They ran over and stopped when they heard what Zong Ning said.

Su Xuan was silent.

Zong Ning had already cleared the area around him. He pinched Ye Yun's chin, lowered his eyes and looked at Ye Yun. "A little beggar of unknown origin, who kept saying he liked me and wanted to be with me, then disappeared for five years and when we met again, he called himself 'Chunxiang'? You didn't really think I would believe that was your name, did you?"

Ye Yun's heart skipped a beat.

Five years... So, five years have passed since that early morning in the temple...

Ye Yun opened his mouth, at a loss, and said in a dry voice: "I, I don't look like a little beggar. I'm afraid that even if I tell you that I am a little beggar, you won't believe me, and..."

Ye Yun's eyes dimmed.

And he always cares about that "previous life lover"...

…

Huh.

Ye Yun was suddenly stunned.

Having said that, they have already come this far, what about Zong Ning’s lover in the previous life?

Zong Ning's lover from his previous life should have appeared on this night. It was because Zong Ning forgot this night that he developed a special feeling for the reincarnated Ye Yun at first sight, and transferred his love for Ye Yun in his previous life to Ye Yun, right?

But……

It’s already this late, and it seems like his previous life hasn’t appeared yet...?

Ye Yun looked around in confusion. Except for Su Xuan and the others, everyone else had the same woman's face.

...There is no second "Ye Yun" at all.

"What are you looking at?" Zong Ning's dissatisfied voice sounded.

He pinched Ye Yun's chin and turned his face around, and Ye Yun's eyes met Zong Ning again.

The latter narrowed his eyes, his pupils as deep as a pool, reflecting his figure clearly.

——He was the only one there.

At this moment, Ye Yun seemed to suddenly realize something and his heartbeat became faster.

"Boom, boom, boom, boom," the sound of the hammer hitting his chest again and again made him tremble with fear.

His mind went blank and his fingertips felt slightly numb, or rather, his entire body seemed paralyzed from head to toe.

He was shocked, stunned, excited, happy, and screaming in his heart.

For a moment, he didn't even know what he was thinking. What came out of his mouth was a completely dumb and stupid sentence: "...Zong Ning, do you... do you like me? Like, like means joy. You, you may be from ancient times, but you should understand, right?"

He spoke incoherently, grabbed Zong Ning's sleeve, and asked excitedly: "The one you like... is, is it me?"

Zong Ning was stunned, his face turned black, and he pinched Ye Yun's lips directly. Ye Yun was speechless, and he looked at Zong Ning stupidly.

Zong Ning turned his eyes away, but his ears turned red.

"You little beggar, you're so shameless," he muttered softly, paused, and then said expressionlessly, "Of course I know. I've spent five years pondering what you said that day, your actions, and..."

He said slowly: "And the things I encountered in the past twenty years."

He turned around and looked at Ye Yun. His face was stinky and his tone was very dissatisfied, but his ears were red enough to bleed: "What do you think I have been waiting for these five years?"

At this moment, Ye Yun's heart seemed to fly.

His world exploded like fireworks, and his ears were filled with the joyful sound of "bang bang bang"! It blew his soul up into the sky!

However, at the same time, his eyes turned red.

He looked at Zong Ning with a surge of emotion and said in a hoarse voice, "Zong Ning, you...you have changed a lot in these five years."

This man became less gloomy and cold.

He no longer had a gloomy face all day long, nor was he always shrouded in gloom, as if he hated everything.

He began to laugh, to be sarcastic, to express dissatisfaction, and he finally showed the warmth that an ordinary person should have. This made him seem like he had crawled back from the abyss to the world and became alive again.

Upon hearing this, Zong Ning's eyes moved around uncomfortably, then swept over Su Xuan, Gu Shuo, Lu Tao, Yan Ning'an and others not far away, and finally returned to Ye Yun.

He released Ye Yun's lips and whispered, "You appeared by my side twice, wasn't it just for me back then?"

"If there hasn't been any change in five years, then I'm a bit too stupid, right?" Zong Ning said, rubbing Ye Yun's head and gently pushing him - pushing him in front of Su Xuan and Gu Shuo.

Ye Yun was stunned for a moment. The clothes behind Zong Ning had been torn open, and a pair of phoenix wings had grown out!

He smiled, looked downstairs again, and his voice cooled: "But some people really don't seem to have changed at all in five years."

After he finished speaking, he spread his wings and flew downstairs!

Ye Yun exclaimed, "Zong Ning!"

The people on the first floor immediately pounced on Zong Ning. They chirped excitedly, stretched out their hands to catch him, opened their mouths to bite him, one after another, like a wave made up of people, which made everyone's scalp tingle!

Zong Ning knocked everyone to the ground. Amid the scattered screams, Su Xuan, Gu Shuo, Xian Mo, and Yan Ningan on the second floor all noticed something: "—The man in gray!"

——Those were the clothes of a Chunyue Pavilion servant! When everyone rushed towards Zong Ning, only this person quietly took a step back!

And that was also Zong Ning’s original goal!

Zong Ning threw out the spiritual power chain, and the next second a thunderous sound was heard in the air. The two spiritual powers hit each other, and the airflow instantly swept across the entire Chunyue Pavilion, tearing the curtains and cracking the wooden pillars!

Night Guard Ah Qi screamed, "It's going to collapse! The building is going to collapse!"

Immediately afterwards, a force came and the group saw with their own eyes that the cracks that appeared and the wooden pillars that were about to break quickly returned to their original shape and the cracks disappeared.

Everyone was stunned.

Yan Ning'an quickly looked at Xian Mo and asked in surprise: "How did you do that?!"

He had never seen anyone who could use spiritual power to restore dead things! Just how powerful was Xian Mo?!

Xian Mo looked downstairs and said with a smile: "Little brother Ning An, spiritual power and witchcraft are very mysterious things. You still need to study hard."

Downstairs, the gray-clothed man who had fought back against Zong Ning had already jumped back more than ten meters and assumed a defensive posture.

Zong Ning said coldly, "I'm talking about you. Why, do you still want to use that face?"

"Don't you miss me, Zong Ning?" The man laughed strangely.

Su Xuan and the others all frowned.

——That was Ran Yi’s voice!

Ran Yi said slowly: "After all, it has been five years since you left that dilapidated temple and returned to that couple."

He smiled strangely and said, "That woman died of illness five years ago."

Hearing this, Ye Yun's heart skipped a beat.

Back in the dilapidated temple early in the morning, before Ran Yi escaped, he mentioned a couple.

He said that the couple had once taken them in, and Ran Yi had obviously attacked the couple.

When staying in the time tunnel, Ye Yun had worried about the couple's situation, and also worried about what would happen to Zong Ning if something really happened to the couple. However, now it seems -

His heart sank.

Ran Yi tilted his head and chuckled, "Zong Ning, do you still remember her scream before she died?"

As soon as the words fell, all the people with women's faces around them hugged their stomachs and screamed in pain!