Tianyin looked away: "I'm sorry, I don't know how to help you."
Ayao was disappointed with the answer. After a moment of silence, she said, "Do you want to hear about the thing I told you back in Qingyaozhou?"
Tianyin looked at her again: "What do you mean?"
Ayao said, "You asked me what kind of entanglement we had, whether in the past or the future. Now I'll tell you. I knew you in a past life."
Seeing Tianyin's surprise, she told her everything. However, Ayao didn't know that Luo Bai and his clone had already guessed the answers to everything she said, and now, hearing her, they had filled in all the details.
Ayao spoke for a very long time, and Tianyin listened intently, then exclaimed in shock:
"The Reincarnation Bead, this is incredible!"
With a wave of her hand, A Yao produced a bead radiating nine-colored light—the Reincarnation Bead. To be precise, this Reincarnation Bead was a projection; the real Reincarnation Bead resided within A Yao's primordial spirit, and to extract it would require killing her.
The nine-colored bead, shrouded in primordial energy and chaotic aura, cast a nine-colored glow upon A Yao's exquisite face. Tianyin's eyes reflected the bead, and a look of shock appeared on his handsome face. He said:
"Aren't you afraid I'll steal it from you just like that? You're showing it to me like this?"
Ayao looked into his eyes and asked softly, "Can you?"
Tianyin stood up and sat down next to Ayao. He took her left hand in his, looking at the beads in her hand. He held her hand, his fingers gently caressing her delicate skin. Ayao felt ticklish from his touch and immediately put the beads away, pulling away from him. She said reproachfully:
What are you doing, touching me like that?
"Because I told you I am Luo Bai's independent consciousness clone, do you mind if I touch you?" Tianyin asked.
Ayao stood up, took two steps, turned back and said:
"What nonsense are you spouting? Even if you are Luo Bai in his true form, you can't be disrespectful to me. We are sworn enemies, have you forgotten that?"
When Ayao tells him about her past life, she definitely won't tell him about how she drank the potion of forgetfulness for him and how she entered his dreams a thousand years ago—that would only make him smug. She would rather die than tell him and let him be so proud.
Tianyin also stood up and walked towards her:
"Didn't you say that revenge only leads to more revenge? We can turn hostility into friendship?"
He walked up to A Yao, gently stroked her beautiful face, and said in a tender voice, "I think you might be right. Our two clans should stop fighting. Perhaps a marriage alliance would be a good option."
A marriage alliance?!
A look of shock appeared on A Yao's face.
She took two steps back, avoiding Tianyin's hand, and asked, "Marriage alliance? Who's marrying whom?"
“Of course it’s you who’s with me,” Tianyin said with a smile.
"Me and you? Do you mean I should become your Daoist partner, or your true form?" A Yao asked.
"Aren't they the same?" Tianyin asked.
“How are they the same? Don’t you have an independent mind?” Ayao said.
Tianyin suddenly stepped forward again, his golden eyes sharpening: "Are you saying that you only want Luo Bai and not me?"
Ayao: "..."
What's going on here? Wait, does he mean that if she decides to be with Luo Bai, she has to take in Luo Bai and all of his alter egos? Including those with independent consciousness, those without independent consciousness, and even those in female form?
Seeing Tianyin's face suddenly loom large in front of her, Ayao was so startled that she immediately took a step back. Once she was at a safe distance, she said, "Stop! I don't think an alliance needs to involve any marriage."
Disappointment showed on Tianyin's face. He looked at Ayao and said, "You don't want a marriage alliance, so everything you said to me was a lie?"
Ayao felt guilty for promising to marry Luo Bai but then going back on her word. However, she quickly suppressed her guilt and said, "We are facing a crisis that will affect all the worlds. At a time like this, what's the point of talking about romance?"
Tianyin took a few steps and sat down beside the jade table. He said:
"That's all I want to talk about. I don't want to talk to you about anything else."
Ayao: "..."
After A Yao left, Tian Yin waved his hand, and the invitation flew into his hand. After glancing at it, he threw it into his storage space. He was very dissatisfied with what A Yao had just said. Before, she said she didn't want to marry him because of the feud between the Dragon Clan and the Phoenix Clan. Now she was talking about a marriage alliance but refused. In the end, she still had feelings for other men.
The more Tianyin thought about it, the angrier she became.
Tianyin was furious, and Luo Bai and all of Luo Bai's other clones were also in a bad mood. Some even really wanted to chase after her, break A Yao's arms and legs, and imprison her.
After leaving the Endless Sea, A Yao sat cross-legged above a sea of clouds. She was very dissatisfied with what Tian Yin had said. Her intuition told her that Tian Yin, or rather Luo Bai, must know a lot about Lou Mu Nan, but he just wouldn't say it.
Even the Immortal Emperor realm is just his clone, so what kind of monster is his true form?
A monster like Lou Munan?
In his past life, he had heard that Luo Bai looked remarkably like his father and grandfather. Wait a minute, could his father and grandfather also be his alter egos? How long has he actually lived?
Could it be that his ancestors for eighteen generations were all himself?
The more Ayao thought about it, the more terrified she became.
Luo Bai was unreliable; she even regretted revealing the Reincarnation Bead.
What should we do now?
Luo Bai couldn't believe that her clone had been kidnapped by Lou Munan again. With her strength, she had no way to snatch someone from the Demon Realm, and Lou Munan might not have even taken her clone to the Demon Realm.
Ayao's brows were furrowed tightly. Having no other options for the time being, Ayao could only return to the Phoenix Clan's ancestral land.
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In the ancient world, Prison Law Mountain.
Hua Yan stood in the sky, gazing at the mist-shrouded mountain peaks in front of her.
The mountain peak was shrouded in mist, and only a lush corner could be seen. Hua Yan felt extremely awkward. She had run away on her own, originally intending to make her master anxious and come looking for her, so that he would beg her to return. Now that she had returned like this, she felt very embarrassed.
However, she also promised A Yao that she would make sure her master went to the Phoenix Clan.
She took out the invitation from her storage space, glanced at it, took several steps into the void ahead, and then turned back. While she hesitated, time passed. The sun rose in the east and set in the west, then the sky was filled with stars, the sun rose again, and then set again.
The sunset painted the sky with a vibrant red, illuminating the mountains and the earth.
As Hua Yan walked forward for the 581st time, and then suddenly turned around, a voice echoed from within the mist-shrouded Prison Law Mountain:
Are you planning to stay abroad for a hundred years?
It was Li Yan's voice, a voice tinged with helplessness.
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