Wei Linglong shook her head.
Ayao lowered her head and said, "I... I feel he's changed, he's become like a different person." After saying this, she looked up and stared directly at Wei Linglong, "Perhaps you, like everyone else, are wondering why I distanced myself from him back then. Do you want to know the reason?"
Wei Linglong nodded.
Ayao said, "Three years ago, after he came out of seclusion, he came to see me, did you know that?"
Wei Linglong said, "I know that."
“That day, he… he got me drunk and tried to take advantage of me, so I turned against him.” After Ayao finished speaking, she saw shock on Wei Linglong’s face. She continued, “You are his mother, you know him better than I do. He couldn’t possibly do such a thing, so… so later I suspected him…”
"You suspect he's been possessed?" Wei Linglong's expression changed drastically.
Ayao nodded: "Yes."
"No, no, this is impossible! This is impossible!" Wei Linglong shook her head and said, but upon careful recollection, she felt that her son had indeed shown many abnormalities over the years. However, she did not believe it, she did not want to believe it. She raised her hand, and a lamp appeared in her hand.
It was a life-giving lamp, its flame burning brightly without any sign of going out.
“Look, look, Feng’er’s life lamp is still burning. How could he have been possessed? He’s still alive, he must still be alive!” Wei Linglong said excitedly.
Ayao looked at the life lamp in her hand and felt strange.
If Lou Munan were still here, it wouldn't be surprising that the life lamp is still burning; at the Immortal Emperor realm, there are plenty of ways to keep it burning. But Lou Munan is gone, and she couldn't sense any residual power in the life lamp, so why is it still burning?
Ah Yao couldn't fathom that Xu Fengzhi was Lou Munan's clone. Lou Munan's absorption of him was a process of reclaiming, not possession; they were originally one person.
She gazed at the burning lamp of life, its flames blazing and its light intense and fiery.
Ayao felt something was off.
But she had already fought with Lou Munan, and Lou Munan himself admitted it. How could there be any mistake? Wait, could it be that Xu Fengzhi didn't die, and that the demon didn't kill him, but just possessed him?
She recalled the strange phenomena caused by Xu Fengzhi's blood in the second level of the Burial Dragon Mountain secret realm. Perhaps Xu Fengzhi really did have some great secret that piqued the demon's interest, which was why he didn't kill him; he was merely manipulating Xu Fengzhi's body.
Thinking this, Ayao suddenly turned deathly pale.
She recalled the moment when she stabbed Lou Munan with her sword.
If Xu Fengzhi didn't die, then the person she stabbed was...
Her heart suddenly clenched.
Three years ago, she not only severely injured Lou Munan, but also Xu Fengzhi. This thought sent shivers down her spine, but she was quickly overjoyed. Xu Fengzhi was alive, so she still had a chance to save him. Before, she was afraid that her sword strike wasn't vicious enough; now she was afraid that she had struck too hard.
“Look, Ayao, the wind’s life lamp! The wind’s life lamp is still burning.” Wei Linglong grabbed Ayao’s hand, bringing Ayao back to her senses.
Ayao grabbed her hand: "I saw it, I saw it. Maybe it's not as bad as I thought. He might be dead. He wasn't possessed. He was just possessed."
“He’s just possessed, so as long as we find him, there’s still a chance to save him. Yes, as long as I find him, I still have a chance to save him.”
Ayao became more and more excited as she spoke, even more so than Wei Linglong.
Wei Linglong looked at A Yao in confusion: "Possession?"
Ayao looked at her and nodded: "Auntie, think about it carefully. Is your son the kind of person who would run off to the Northern Region alone without saying a word? Is he the kind of hypocrite who would take advantage of a woman in her vulnerable state? Think about it again, and you will surely be able to think of many unusual things."
Wei Linglong thought about it carefully, and then nodded: "You're right, the wind was acting very strangely during that time."
“His life lamp hasn’t gone out, so he’s alive, but he’s been possessed, which is why he’s behaving so strangely. We have to find him, we absolutely must find him,” Ayao said resolutely.
Wei Linglong murmured, "Possession, possession..."
If that's the case, then it's quite clear.
Ayao then told her about what happened at the Jianan Grand Gathering three years ago: "Back then at Tianbao Pavilion, he spent two hundred million high-grade spirit stones. Later, I had a conflict with him, and after that, I never saw him again."
Ayao said it half-truthfully.
Wei Linglong said, "I have been to the Northern Region. Someone said that he had been to Tianbao Pavilion. I also went to ask the Pavilion Master of Tianbao Pavilion, but he denied ever seeing Feng'er."
Tianbao Pavilion was already terrified by Lou Munan. And it wasn't just Tianbao Pavilion; all the Void Refinement cultivators that day were scared out of their wits. In fact, some of them had seen Xu Fengzhi before and knew that the old monster looked exactly like the young sect master of Shenmeng Sect—was he possessing someone?
In any case, they were thinking it was better to avoid trouble and pretended not to know anything. When Wei Linglong and Sect Leader Xu came to ask, they both tacitly played dumb.
Heaven knows what that old monster is up to. If I say something out of turn, I might get myself killed. It's not worth it!
“Maybe they’re scared,” Ayao said.
Wei Linglong recalled the expression on the face of the Tianbao Pavilion Master at that time, and it seemed quite plausible. Feng'er had been possessed, and the possessor could instill fear in the Tianbao Pavilion Master and deceive the couple—could it be someone at the Integration Stage? What would such a person want to do by possessing Feng'er?
"Possessed? Who is it? What does it want to do?" Wei Linglong asked.
“I don’t know. Auntie, has Fengzhi ever done anything unusual since he was a child?” Ayao asked.
Wei Linglong tried hard to recall, but finally shook her head: "No."
Ayao was a little disappointed when she heard this answer.
She thought for a moment and asked Wei Linglong, "Auntie, may I ask you for a drop of blood?"
Wei Linglong asked in confusion, "Blood?"
“I want to try and see if I can track down Feng Zhi’s whereabouts using bloodline resonance,” A Yao said.
Wei Linglong asked, "Heart's blood?"
For cultivators, their heart's blood is extremely precious, but if it's lost, it's lost; it can be replenished. The real fear is that it might fall into the hands of someone with ill intentions, potentially becoming a medium for casting curses. Of course, very few people possess this skill, but no one would carelessly give away their heart's blood so easily.
“No need, just a drop of blood will do,” Ayao said.
Upon hearing this, Wei Linglong immediately pricked her fingertip and squeezed out a drop of bright red blood. The drop of blood floated towards A Yao.
Looking at the crimson blood before her, Ayao pointed a finger and cast a spell on the blood. Then, her hands moved swiftly, forming hand seals, and mysterious runes appeared one after another.
Wei Linglong watched this scene in surprise, not recognizing a single one of the runes. She wondered which master had taught A Yao this technique.
She thought of Senior Feng, whom A Yao had mentioned before. That senior must be in the Integration Stage, right?
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