Chapter 398 - A Blurred Night (1/2)

“Yu Yangzi?”

Xiao Chen frowned, trying hard to recall the memory of Yu Yangzi. Yu Yangzi was the former leader of the Corpse Refinery Sect and was also Ye Wuxin’s master. He suddenly disappeared 300 years ago, but actually, he was secretly plotted by Ye Wuxin and fled from the Corpse Refinery Sect. He later hid in the Changyin Mountain Range to recover with Negative Qi, and tried to devour Su Xiaomei’s soul.

Given Han Yun and Han Yu’s statuses in the sect, they did not know many things about the seniors of the sect, and all they knew was hearsay. Why did Ye Wuxin plot against his master back then? Did he do that out of his ambition to usurp the power? The reason should not be so simple.

Xiao Chen tried hard to recall what had happened in the Changyin Mountain Range that day. The things seemed to be that only when the Divine Corpse was revived could the people of the sect break free from a place forever. To revive the Divine Corpse, the leader of each generation of the sect had to be sacrificed. But when it came to Yu Yangzi, he refused to sacrifice himself. However, was the whole thing really so simple? Or did Yu Yangzi actually discover something…

“Sir?” Su Lianyue saw Xiao Chen absent-minded again and called him gently.

Xiao Chen regained his presence of mind and said, “Go ahead.”

Su Lianyue thought for a moment and slowly said, “Yu Yangzi disappeared three hundred years ago and he was plotted against by Ye Wuxin, but I think it happened too coincidentally.”

While talking, she slowly wrapped a strand of her hair around her fingers as if she was trying hard to recall something. Xiao Chen looked at her and asked, “What did you mean?”

Su Lianyue released her hair and looked at him, saying, “On July 7th, 300 years ago, many women who were born on July 7th disappeared for no reason.”

Xiao Chen’s body quivered slightly at the words. Every time he heard “July 7th”, he would be absent-minded for a moment. The news Qingluan got last time also indicated that similar things would happen every several hundred years, and from the looks of it, it had something to do with the Corpse Refinery Sect.

“So, fairy, in your opinion, we must find Yu Yangzi and ask him clearly about it?”

Su Lianyue nodded and replied, “Yu Yangzi’s body has now been turned into a Corpse Puppet by Ye Wuxin, but his soul must still be in the Corpse Refinery Sect, and he must be willing to help us.”

Xiao Chen squinted slightly. This might be a solution. There were many mountains and innumerable caves in Mountain of Myriad Caves. Only the seniors of the sect knew those top secrets. However, Xiao Chen and Su Lianyue did not know where Yu Yangzi’s soul was locked now.

Faced with question after question, Xiao Chen suddenly felt a little tired. It was getting later and later in the night, chilling air penetrated through the gaps between the doors and windows, and the candlelight on the table swayed slightly.

“Sir, are you tired?” Su Lianyue suddenly asked.

Xiao Chen rubbed his forehead and said, “Yes, I’m a little tired. We can’t investigate these things until three days later. Are you sleepy?”

“Yes, I’m a little tired too.”

“En… huh?” Xiao Chen suddenly seemed to wake up and looked around. Although there were two beds in this room, it was a narrow room after all, and the two small beds were placed together. There was nothing except the bed edge between the two beds, making them look like one bed. The beds couldn’t be moved, and the bedsheet was put together in a mess…

“It looks like the brothers are very intimate with each other on usual days, but we… are we going to sleep in one room?” Su Lianyue looked at Xiao Chen, asking calmly as if she were talking about something unrelated to her.

Xiao Chen also looked at her and said calmly, “You want me to sleep outside? It’s cold outside.” Su Lianyue just looked at him calmly and nodded while replying, “Yes.”

“Don’t kid me. We are in a task right now, and we will arouse suspicion from others if we suddenly sleep in different rooms,” Xiao Chen said calmly.

Su Lianyue took a deep breath and exhaled before turning around to look at the gadgets on the table. The gadgets were all daily necessities, like washboards, brushes, cups, teapots, washbasins… and they were all shared together. It looked like the two Han brothers were really intimate with each other.

Xiao Chen also looked at the small objects on the table and then looked around inside the humble room. He suddenly felt that the two Han brothers were also very poor. Their family members were all killed, leaving them displaced and alone. Finally, they had to come to the Corpse Refinery Sect, where they were bullied all the time.

In fact, like the two brothers, many people of the Corpse Refinery Sect had come to the sect because they had no other choice. However, Xiao Chen’s master had once told him that all the people of Devils’ sects were evil and were born for misfortune, so everyone wanted to kill them…

Su Lianyue stroked a small teapot with a chip on the table and suddenly smiled softly while saying, “Actually, I had an older sister. She was so lonely and helpless that she joined the Blue-water Altar of Fort Raksasa in the end.”

Xiao Chen was stunned for a moment and didn’t speak. He looked at her silently until she finished speaking. He thought that if he hadn’t been saved by his master in the past, he would have joined the Devils’ sects even if he survived…

Su Lianyue took a deep breath, looked up at the moonlight in the back mountain from the western window, smiled, and said, “I was still very young then. After entering the Blue-water Altar, many people bullied me and my sister. Only my sister protected me. At that time, I swore that one day I would make them afraid of me and would protect my sister… ”

Having said that, Su Lianyue turned around, looked at the two small wooden beds that were placed together, and continued with a smile, “I lived in a small wooden house, just like this one, with my sister. My sister and I had been afraid of the cold very much since we were small. Every night, my sister hugged me to sleep. When I saw those people who came in and out of the beautiful palaces and were dressed in beautiful clothes, I envied them so much. At that time, I always said that I must let my sister live in a big palace in the future, but my sister always smiled at my words and said nothing…”

Xiao Chen looked at Su Lianyue quietly, and somehow, he suddenly felt that she was so beautiful at the moment and wondered how could she be a demonic woman of Devil’s Practice’… He asked, “What happened later?”

Su Lianyue smiled and answered, “Later, I finally got what I wanted. I personally killed our former leader, but I haven’t seen my sister for a long time…”

“She… Where did she go?”

“She died,” Su Lianyue said calmly.

Xiao Chen trembled slightly at the words and said, “So… sorry.”