Punishing the "couple? Then what about Yu..."
Pei Xuanzhi nodded, then lowered his chin, forcing Yan Huanyue to lower her head as well.
She nudged him in the ribs with her elbow, and Pei Xuanzhi grunted. He wisely sat up straight and helped her up to lean against him.
She looked up at Fu Yinhuan again.
Fu Yinhuan's black hair was wet, and he was huddled in a corner wearing an old cloak belonging to Pei Xuanzhi. The edge of the cloak had slipped down, revealing his shoulders, which were so white they were almost transparent.
His breathing was shallow, and his body looked as delicate as a jade cicada that had been reborn, white and flawless.
Yan Huanyue struggled for a moment, intending to stand up and go to Fu Yinhuan's side to check the situation.
Pei Xuanzhi held her tightly, his tone cool, "What's the rush? If I wanted to harm him, I wouldn't have let you see him. Now I know about him, but I don't care. As long as you forget him in the future, we can still be as loving as ever."
Yan Huanyue frowned and asked, "What does he have to do with us?"
Pei Xuanzhi, overwhelmed with anger and coughing, sneered, "So that's what you're thinking. If I had remained ignorant, it would have been fine, but now that things have come to this, I will absolutely not share a servant with anyone else..."
In the corner, Fu Yinhuan coughed, drawing their attention away from the other two.
His consciousness gradually returned with his newborn body.
The first thing he saw when he regained consciousness was Pei Xuanzhi, which made his heart clench.
The next moment, when he saw Yan Huanyue in Pei Xuanzhi's arms, he gradually realized that this was not a matter from his previous life, and that he was not going to die at Pei Xuanzhi's hands.
Fu Yinhuan was an extremely perceptive person when it came to the living environment. With just one glance, he knew that Pei Xuanzhi's view of him was completely different from that of his previous life.
In his previous life, after he fell into Pei Xuanzhi's hands, the young man in white only looked at him with disdain and disgust.
It wasn't until he learned that Yan Huanyue had died at his hands that the once calm and collected young man looked at him with obvious hatred and resentment.
But at this moment, besides the disgust, he actually saw a hint of inquiry and scrutiny in Pei Xuanzhi's eyes.
It was a very subtle look in her eyes, a look of disgust towards him, yet an unconscious desire to figure out exactly what was good about him.
This made Fu Yinhuan realize in an instant that Pei Xuanzhi regarded him as Yan Huanyue's possession.
In Fu Yinhuan's eyes, Pei Xuanzhi in his previous life was an extremely insecure and sickly man who only dared to secretly fantasize about Yan Huanyue.
In his previous life at the Tianyan Sect, Yu Zhao and he once chatted in a secluded villa about taking Yan Huanyue back to Yunjing to get married the day after the Mid-Autumn Festival.
At that moment, a faint fragrance wafted in from outside the pavilion, but soon it began to dissipate.
"It's that succubus."
Yu Zhao said this.
Fu Yinhuan knew he was referring to Pei Hanzhou's son, and she couldn't help but feel curious, so she went to the window and looked out.
A slender, tall boy dressed in snow-white robes and wearing an indigo cloak was seen walking slowly alone under a patch of crabapple blossoms.
He chuckled. "He really looks very ill."
Yu Zhao walked over and looked at the boy under the crabapple blossoms. "He was originally a sickly person, but his illness has worsened in the last year or two."
He added, "It's interesting to say that I recently heard from Senior Brother Su that when the Sect Leader brought Junior Brother Pei back, he even considered asking Huanyue to marry him."
"However, the sect leader didn't make his words clear at the time, nor did he say who he was going to save. I suppose he didn't want to be too demanding. Senior Brother Su told me to be careful of him and not let him harm Huanyue like his mother did."
Upon hearing this, Fu Yinhuan immediately grasped the key point: "Why would Sect Leader Pei consider this even though he knows you two are engaged? Is there something special about your Junior Sister Yan that makes Sect Leader Pei feel obligated to come here and ask for her help?"
"There are some special features, but... Huan Yue's cultivation level is not high enough to protect herself, so this matter should not be easily passed on to others."
Fu Yinhuan pondered his words in her heart.
He sighed again, "Your junior sister is still a silly girl. She won't miss you or look for you even if she doesn't see you for several months."
“I see that you always find a chance to talk to her every now and then, and it always ends badly. Since you two are like this, if she is willing to agree to marry this young master Pei, it would be a blessing for you and fellow Daoist Tan.”
Yu Zhao was clearly annoyed by this. "What do you mean by that? I have been betrothed to her since childhood. How dare some bastard from who-knows-where compete with me?"
Upon hearing this, Fu Yinhuan couldn't help but be amazed and asked, "What about Fellow Daoist Tan? Last time, she heard that the Yu family of Yunjing disappeared while preparing for your wedding."
In reality, he knew that Tan Guiyi had taken advantage of Yan Huanyue's upcoming marriage to get close to Xue Jingnian, who was secretly heartbroken, and was busy going to Chang'an to find out what benefits the Xue family had.
While I'm at it, I'll use my disappearance as an excuse to discipline Yu Zhao, that treacherous dog.
According to Fu Yinhuan's thinking, if he were Tan Guiyi, he would definitely show up on the night of Yu Zhao's wedding.
By then, that silly girl will already be Yu Zhao's wife. Even if Yu Zhao runs away with another woman on their wedding night, that silly girl will still be Yu Zhao's wife.
Tan Guiyi has no need to marry Yu Zhao unless it is necessary and he will not have to take on any responsibility. It only involves his guilt. What can't he get if he wants it?
Although Tan Guiyi did indeed do so later, she probably didn't expect that Yu Zhao, while unwilling to let go of Yan Huanyue, also genuinely loved Tan Guiyi.
Thinking back to his own life after being resurrected and his relationship with Yan Huanyue, he now realized that many things in his past life were truly the cruel twist of fate.
For example, after he chatted with Yu Zhao about Yan and Yu getting married away from the mountain that day, he saw the sickly young man sitting in a wheelchair quietly following Yan Huanyue to the Lake of No Falling.
He guessed Pei Xuanzhi's intentions at that time, so he followed along with the intention of watching a good show.
He originally thought that Pei Xuanzhi would be able to use his seductive skills to lure the silly girl to a dark place and do something earth-shattering and terrifying with his weak body after following her there at night.
In this way, he could also play the hero and save the damsel in distress, and who knows, he might even get to see Pei Hanzhou and see how Pei Hanzhou would react when he found out about this.
To everyone's surprise, Pei Xuanzhi simply sat there in the wooden pavilion, watching her release the lanterns.
Then, nothing happened, and they didn't even exchange more than two sentences.
Her fellow disciples didn't call her "senior sister," but immediately addressed her as "elder sister."
Worthless things...
Even now, after marrying Yan Huanyue, Fu Yinhuan could tell from Pei Xuanzhi's single glance that this sickly man was still worthless.
Her thoughts raced for a moment before Fu Yinhuan snapped out of her reverie, raising an eyebrow as she looked at Pei Xuanzhi.
“Young Master Pei, how can you still be so naive even now? Even if you know I exist, I am still going to die.”
“Young Master Pei, Madam is just that ruthless. She can destroy even the deepest love after so many years. If she can treat me like this, she will treat you the same way one day.”
Yan Huanyue then suddenly realized what Pei Xuanzhi was talking about with those strange remarks.
He thought she kept Fu Yinhuan by her side because she was secretly having an affair with her.
Even if Fu Yinhuan were to be resurrected, she would be nothing more than a cicada that had just emerged from its shell, so soft that it hadn't even grown its thin, hard shell yet.
He knew he wouldn't survive this time either, but he didn't want her to have an easy time.
Yan Huanyue sneered, trying to pull away Pei Xuanzhi's arm that was locked around her waist, but she couldn't.
She said calmly, "Aren't you supposed to be polite, understanding, and reasonable, and ask me to go check if he's hurt?"
Pei Xuanzhi's expression was cold, his eyes reddened, and he said in a deep voice, "You don't need to go to his side. I won't kill him, and I don't ask you to kill him, so that you won't hate me in the future."
"I can help him recover his cultivation as soon as possible, as long as you are willing to settle things with him. You can talk to him here and make things clear, okay?"
Upon hearing this, Yan Huanyue immediately cast a spell with her right hand, and a horizontal blade flew out from her sleeve, resting against Fu Yinhuan's neck.
“Fu Yinhuan, you don’t need to spread rumors and cause trouble here. I locked you up because you’ve done so many evil deeds and deserve to suffer. You stole lives, possessed several life bottles, and died to exchange your life when the snow blocked the mountain. If I don’t arrest you, who else should I arrest? If I don’t kill you, who else should I kill?”
Fu Yinhuan felt the cold aura of the blade across her neck, glanced at her sideways, and chuckled, "But, Huanyue, you want to imprison me, and you harbor such deep resentment towards me. What has happened between us?"
Yan Huanyue stared at him intently. "Of course it's because you wanted to take my life and use me to make medicine. So, I'm going to make you taste the same pain. Now that you're spreading rumors and trying to ruin our marriage, I'm going to tear your throat apart."
Fu Yinhuan scoffed, "Husband and wife? Then Yu..."
"Pfft..."
Blood splattered like fireworks.
Pei Xuanzhi's eyes twitched, and he secretly tightened his embrace around the person in his arms.
Fu Yinhuan's neck was shredded by the knife tip, and she collapsed to the ground in a daze, panting heavily with her mouth open.
Yan Huanyue used her five fingers to form claws and summoned Fu Yinhuan over.
He brushed aside the cloak covering him, tore open the tattered black robes on his body, and expressionlessly shattered the top of his head with a single palm strike, then pierced through his thin skin and his heart with another.
Blood splattered indiscriminately on her and Pei Xuanzhi's faces and bodies.
Pei Xuanzhi stared blankly, a single, ill-timed tear hanging at the corner of his eye, threatening to fall but not quite.
Yan Huanyue grabbed Pei Xuanzhi's hand with the hand stained with Fu Yinhuan's blood. She gripped it tightly, like a blood-stained, warm chain.
“I only have hatred for him, and I have not crossed any lines. Whether you believe me or not, I am fortunate enough to be alive now, so you must not leave me.”
Pei Xuanzhi lowered his eyes and looked at the crisscrossing old and new wounds on Fu Yinhuan's body after her clothes were torn off.
The wounds were tangled; the numerous wounds, forcibly healed with medication, resembled a swarm of ferocious, frantic centipedes, slowly writhing and pulling at the dark red, rotting flesh...
To say that this is because of love that one keeps the person by one's side is really a bit far-fetched.
Fu Yinhuan had already died under the Crying Spirit Blade, so it was strange that she could come back to life. He originally thought that she was helping Fu Yinhuan.
But little did she know that it was Fu Yinhuan who wanted to harm her.
So it turns out he hadn't anticipated that Fu Yinhuan possessed the life-saving bottle, which allowed her to be brought back to life and gave him the opportunity to harm her...
The person in his arms broke free from his embrace, reached back and hooked her arm around his neck, forcing him to lower his head onto her shoulder, and then she turned her head and kissed his lips.
The kiss wasn't particularly intimate; it was more of a punitive act as she bit his lips lightly or heavily a few times.
"It's all thanks to you, otherwise, if this scourge had gotten away, countless people would have been harmed by it."
She turned her head away.
Pei Xuanzhi licked his lips, feeling unsatisfied with her forceful, almost punitive kiss.
However, he was in the wrong first and had misunderstood her without permission, so he dared not say another word and wished the matter would pass as soon as possible.
Yan Huanyue got up and carried the corpse on the ground to the stone palace next door, leaving behind a talisman.
With a loud "boom," the flames shot into the air.
The golden python, which had swallowed the crimson python whole and was submerged beneath the stone pond, raised its head from the water.
The firelight reflected in its cold, golden pupils, and a section of its crimson snake tail, which it hadn't yet swallowed, was still visible at the corner of its mouth.
Yan Huanyue found the scene of snakes eating each other rather unsettling and asked, "Will the red one also come back to life?"
Pei Xuanzhi walked behind her. "No, the waterway separated the Doubtful Palace. There were originally many snakes here and in the Doubtful Palace. These snakes originally ate their own kind. Now only it is left. Or perhaps they are all inside its body."
"If a person wants to be resurrected by the python, he must be swallowed by it immediately after death or before death. Moreover, if the python resurrects someone once or twice, it will be exhausted and die."
Yan Huanyue asked, "Is there a secret passage here? How did you lure it here?"
Pei Xuanzhi said, "There is a secret passage between the real and fake underground palaces. I set up an array and bait in advance. When the time comes, it will come over when the secret passage is opened, and my soul mist will replace it and travel to the suspected palace."
Yan Huanyue glanced back at him. "Your soul mist was hidden inside the secret gate. Now that the gate is open, you came back to remove the spell on you, right?"
Pei Xuanzhi remained noncommittal.
Yan Huanyue understood, but didn't say anything more, and simply turned and walked out.
Pei Xuanzhi silently followed after him.
The two walked one after the other in the secret passage.
Pei Xuanzhi followed for a while, then caught up with her, put his arm around her waist, and asked, "Sister, does your injury hurt? I'll take you back to Jixue Peak."
Yan Huanyue asked, "Where is Yun Xuanchen? At the Nine Heavens Palace?"
Pei Xuanzhi said, "Everyone is looking for him right now. He is not in the Nine Heavens Palace, but he will eventually lead my soul mist to where he is."
Yan Huanyue frowned and said, "Perhaps Yun Xuanchen's second son will know?"
Pei Xuanzhi asked, "What do you mean?"
Yan Huanyue said, "This time it was his second son who betrayed him, telling me the flaw in the evil formation, and also telling me Yun Xuanchen's vital point, which is the back of his neck. I don't know why they have become estranged from each other."
Pei Xuanzhi fell silent.
After walking for a while, he suddenly said slowly, "So that's how it is... The resurrection of that python is uncertain. After it is resurrected, it will be extremely vulnerable for a period of time, just like Fu Yinhuan. It will need to hide for several years before it can come out. It is not the best choice for it. No wonder it did not take my soul mist with it for the time being."
Yan Huanyue looked at him with a puzzled expression.
Pei Xuanzhi suddenly picked her up and rushed outside, asking, "Is that disciple from the Divine Capital Sect named Tan Guiyi also on this trip?"
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