131 The suspicions about their reincarnation. (2/2)
The wine in the gourd wasn't even fit to be called drinkable, it tasted like muddy water that had been tainted with blood and all sorts of excrements. Zhao Feng burst out laughing when he saw Li Yang's reaction, slapping his thighs while tears started to gather at the edge of his eyes.
”HAHAHA, it really is, isn't it?! They failed horribly, spectacularly so, so much that I find myself wondering justhow they fucked up that much!”
Li Yang quickly cleaned the insides of his mouth, using fire to burn away any traces of the wine and then melting some ice in his mouth to wash it all away. He then threw the gourd at Zhao Feng, who quickly dodged it.
”If you knew that, then why the fuck would you make me taste it?”
Zhao Feng didn't respond, he simply used his chin to point at the person sitting next to Li Yang, Fang Ying. Li Yang turned his head and saw that Fang Ying was covering her mouth with her hands, doing her best, and failing, to suppress her laughter. Now that he looked closer at her he could see that the sleeves of her robe were slightly wet, she must have tried the wine and then spat it out, drying her mouth with her sleeves. Once again betrayed by his own wife, Li Yang felt a sense of deja-vu wash over him.
”You're a monster, woman, you know that?”
Fang Ying wasn't bothered by Li Yang's cursing, removing her hands from in front of her mouth and smiling at him. She stretched out one of her hands, sliding her finger down Li Yang's nose before giving it a slight tap, smiling charmingly.
”Yup, and so are you. But I'm your monster and you're mine so it's all fine.”
Li Yang wanted to at least maintain a sliver of his annoyance, but he knew he had lost when he saw her charming smile, he never could say no to that. He leaned his head closer, Fang Ying mimicking his actions, but a loud cough from Zhao Feng interrupted them.
”Guys, please stop, the sweetness will make me nauseous.”
The two of them turned their heads slightly and glanced at him but then swiftly ignored him, leaning closer to each other and sharing a long kiss. They kept their kiss going until Zhao Feng waved his hands in defeat and started telling their tale.
”Alright alright, I won't joke around anymore, so please stop. Shortly after the two of you were killed, I and the others felt that the speed at which our strength grew became even slower than normal, it even started to decrease after about a hundred thousand years passed. We wanted to take revenge on Jing Yimu, but he seemed as spry as ever, even when our strengths started to decrease. As our strength decreased more and more, we decided to try and merge our powers and reincarnate so that we could start cultivating again, we'd be able to perfectly utilize our talent and previous knowledge.”
Li Yang and Fang Ying ended their kiss, intently listening to what Zhao Feng was saying. They couldn't help but share a glance when they heard that their strengths started to decrease after time. It wasn't exactly uncommon amongst cultivators, but that was only amongst cultivators who were approaching the end of their lives. At that point in time, they should only be around a million years old, they should have at least a few hundred million years left in them considering their cultivation. Zhao Feng stopped talking to give Li Yang and Fang Ying a chance to digest the information, letting out a sigh as he continued to speak.
”Even with all our powers combined, it was far from easy to maintain our souls and try to sneak them into reincarnation, but we seemed to be on the right track. But then, just as we reached the final step, we failed. Something interfered, actually interfered with our souls just as we placed them into reincarnation. I know it sounds impossible, but that's actually what happened. The last I heard before my soul started to disintegrate was 'we want our freedom, so you must perish for them'.”
The expressions of Li Yang and Fang Ying grew serious when they heard how Zhao Feng and the others failed. The cycle of reincarnation was governed by the heavens themselves, just sneaking in a few souls was hard enough, so just how hard would it be to interfere with souls already located in the cycle? They kept listening, because the presence of Zhao Feng meant that something else had surely happened in the end.
”And then, just when I thought my soul had completely dissipated, I heard a jovial laughter ring through the darkness. 'Heheheh, those two old bastards think they can play around as they please, eh? But if they think that I'll let them fuck around like that then they're dead wrong. Oy, little kiddo, I'll give you and those buddies of yours a hand here, I'll even have those other lazy bones help me hide you from those old bastards. You'll end up where you want to be, so you just run around and cause as much chaos as you like'.”
Zhao Feng's story reminded Li Yang and Fang Ying of how the two of them had ended up being able to reincarnate, two unknown people or beings had sent their souls into reincarnation. Could the one that helped, as well as the one that interfered, with Zhao Feng and the others be people of the same class?
The serious air Zhao Feng had about him while telling his story vanished the moment he finished talking, he leaned back in the couch and downed his cup of tea in a single gulp, grinning at Li Yang and Fang Ying.
”I'll tell you, at that time it had already been quite a few years since I was last called kiddo by someone. But whoever that was, they weren't lying, I ended up where I wanted to be. Had we reincarnated as we planned, I would have been born about two million years before the two of you, we'd already be old fogies by the time we met again.”