After becoming the villain

Chapter 248 “The Emperor’s Favor” and “Blood Bead Divination”

"Who cares whether he is possessed or not if he can live a little longer?"

When Yan Wulu heard this, he couldn't help but think - it's hard for his master to cherish his life so much, and even went to participate in the extremely dangerous and unpredictable battle of Purple Mountain for him.

And then later.

After Yan Wulu and others returned to Northland.

Jun Xing even had the idea of ​​withdrawing from the world.

He made a special trip to find Yan Wulu.

Jun Xing said, "I am very proud to have a disciple like you, Wu Lu. But at the same time, I have nothing more to teach you. You will be more accomplished than my teacher in the future."

"... As a teacher, I have long been tired of the world. Now, it is time to withdraw from the world."

Yan Wulu sometimes doesn't quite understand why these people with status and reputation in the world like to withdraw from the world.

However, he also expressed that he would support Master Junxing's decision.

Yan Wulu asked Jun Xing if he needed to live in seclusion in the North?

In this way, he can often visit Junxing.

Jun Xing waved his hand and refused, saying——

"My master once made a promise to Shui Bi to visit the far north, to cross the East China Sea and the South China Sea, and to go to the west of the Western Region."

"...to find the so-called 'edge of the world' as a teacher, this is Shui Bi's lifelong dream, and now, this is also my dream."

Yan Wulu sighed with emotion when he heard this.

He no longer wanted to retain his master Jun Xing, but he only hoped that when Jun Xing came back in the future, he would definitely come to Zhenbei Palace again.

Jun Xing said, "It will definitely happen."

……

Yan Dong, the king of Zhenbei, and Yan Wulu stayed in Jinling for more than ten days.

The old emperor Zhao Purui gave King Zhenbei the supreme honor.

The King of Zhenbei was originally the highest-ranking vassal king who "went to the palace with swords and shoes, entered the court without following, and praised and worshiped without name".

And now, the old emperor has even awarded him the title of "Shangzhu Kingdom", making him one of the only two people in Daqian alive to receive this title.

He was given various honorary titles and numerous rewards.

King Zhenbei accepted them all.

However, during this period of time, Yan Wulu did not see any joy in his father's "revenge".

He had tentatively asked Yan Dong.

And Yan Dong said - "Although blood revenge is avenged, the deceased cannot be resurrected."

When Yan Wulu heard this, he also looked sad for a moment.

They are preparing to return to the North.

Yan Dong, Yan Wulu, and Yan Weiyu all petitioned to return to Beidi.

And the old emperor Zhao Purui surprisingly agreed to them all.

The Demon Suppression Division has begun the handover, with deputy commander Han Fan taking over as commander-in-chief Yan Weiyu.

This also means that everyone in the Yan family of Zhenbei will return to the North.

There are no more Northland hostages in Jinling City.

It's quite rare.

Yan Wulu felt something was wrong.

Could it be that the old emperor was so happy that there were no immortals standing over the dynasty to challenge the imperial power, so he "showed extra kindness" and "emperor's grace is so great"?

Yan Wulu didn't come up with a definite answer, but no matter what, in a few days, Zhenbei King's team would set off back to the North.

……

……

At the same time as the battle at Purple Mountain ended.

Thousands of miles away.

[Tingyun Pavilion].

On top of the majestic cloud cliff, stands the tower of [Tingyun Pavilion].

[Tingyun Pavilion] was rebuilt by a direct elder in the attic after the destruction of [Star Reaching Pavilion].

It is said that the reason why the headquarters of "Tingyun Pavilion" was chosen on this cloud cliff is because it was once the site of "Star Reaching Pavilion", but no one has been able to verify it.

Inside the tower.

Yan Fei put the blood beads emitting a strange blood glow in his hand into a huge compass.

The blood drops flowed out, following the lines of the compass, forming a strange blood formation.

The blood array on the compass shone with dazzling blood.

Finally, the blood glow stopped.

The blood bead in the center of the compass stops supplying blood.

The bright red lines in the blood formation dimmed and disappeared at a speed visible to the naked eye...

Then, an elixir that was so red that it was almost coquettish floated out of the compass.

Yan Fei took it with one hand and murmured to himself: "It's just a primary blood pill?"

Just when I was about to take a closer look.

Suddenly there was a sound of footsteps.

The elders and guards in [Tingyun Pavilion] didn't even have time to report, but someone had already broken in.

Yan Fei's face is still beautiful and calm. In this world, there is only one person who can break into [Tingyun Pavilion] like this.

She calmly put the "Blood Pill" into the ring.

Turning around, he was facing the person who came.

Yan Fei smiled charmingly, his lips parted lightly, "Senior sister, you are well."

"Sister-in-law."

The person who came spoke was a very familiar female voice.

She was wearing a [Tingyun Pavilion]-style taupe jacket, and she felt extremely mysterious.

She slowly lifted the huge gray-brown hood on her body.

The camera freezes, and it turns out to be Zhang Chunhua's mother, Mrs. Zhang.

Zhang's face is still so upright and strong, and it is impossible to connect it with [Tingyun Pavilion].

……

"Back then, you followed Master, and in just two days, you learned the techniques of fortune telling and stargazing that Master was most proud of."

"...You know, I learned these things after 20 years of following my master since I was a child."

"...If you hadn't insisted on quitting [Tingyun Pavilion] for a man, my position as the Pavilion Master should have been taken by you, senior sister."

Yan Fei brought up the past.

Regarding these, she did not judge too much about right or wrong.

The same is true for Ms. Zhang. She always does what she wants.

"So, senior sister, you haven't been to [Tingyun Pavilion] again for so many years. Why did you come suddenly today?"

Yan Fei asked instead.

Zhang responded, "I want to verify a few things."

"Ok?"

Yan Fei considered it carefully: "...Is it Northern Xinjiang? Or Western Region?"

"Junior sister, what you did in Northern Xinjiang is inhumane, but I don't want to care about it."

"You activated the Forbidden Ancient Formation in the Western Region. You did go too far, but it's not what I care about."

Yan Fei was a little curious when he heard this, but then he thought of the few remaining connections with the other party.

"I understand, it's something related to Prince Zhenbei and your daughter, right?"

"Were you behind the battle at Purple Mountain? How much did you intervene in it?"

"Senior sister, I think too highly of me, junior sister."

Yan Fei raised her signature faint smile and continued: "...I wanted to intervene, but I was busy with matters in the Western Region at the time and didn't notice anything unusual here in the Purple Mountain."

"I do not believe."

Zhang's words were very cold and indifferent.

"[Tingyun Pavilion] knows everything about the world, and you are by no means an ordinary person. It is impossible to really know nothing about this matter."

Yan Fei was speechless.

She secretly sensed the supreme magic weapon in the ring - the blood bead. Because of the deaths of the top ninth-level warriors on Purple Mountain, the blood bead's light was obviously even brighter than before.

"Since senior sister has already made up her mind, why should she come to me again for confirmation?"

"I want to dissuade you. Don't do anything stupid."

"...blood beads are not something you should touch."

When Yan Fei heard this, he thought it was funny. The other person was just standing and talking without pain in his back.

She opened her mouth and responded——

"Sister, you are serious. Yan Fei just wants [Tingyun Pavilion] to regain the glory of [Star Reaching Pavilion]."

Hearing this, Mrs. Zhang let out a long sigh.

"The destruction of [Star Reaching Loft] is naturally due to its violation of the laws of the Three Realms."

"...Now [Tingyun Pavilion] is just trying to survive in the cracks. Junior sister, you are irresponsible to [Tingyun Pavilion] by risking all the future fate of [Tingyun Pavilion]."

Zhang's words are rational and calm.

There is both a clear context as a bystander and an empathetic experience as a witness.

It's just that these words, falling into Yan Fei's ears, are extremely annoying.

"Ha, that's better than Senior Sister, you risking [Tingyun Pavilion] for a man."

Yan Fei sneered slightly and retorted verbally.

Mrs. Zhang also looked solemn for a moment, and she had nothing to say.

After thinking for a long time, Mrs. Zhang said again——

"Since I can't convince you, let's do a fortune teller for each other."

"A fortuneteller will never be able to predict his own destiny, but he can do fortunetelling for other fortunetellers."

"Okay." Yan Fei replied directly.

"... Let's use the abilities that Master taught us to divine the future destiny of this [Tingyun Pavilion] and ourselves."

After he finished speaking, Yan Fei opened a secret mechanism.

The secret door moves open.

They came to a giant Bagua array in Tingyun Pavilion.

The two stood opposite each other.

Then they sat together on both sides of the Bagua circle.

The two men performed almost identical movements and spells. The diviner's spiritual power surged and flowed into the magic circle, and the magic circle suddenly shone with light.

In the brilliant light, Yan Fei was the first to stop his gesture.

She looked at the other person quietly, thought for a moment, and then said——

"Sister, I have seen your future. You will live high in a gorgeous palace, but you will also die in the countryside."

Yan Fei said so.

Zhang's gestures on his side also stopped.

She opened her eyes and responded: "Junior sister, I saw yours too."

"...Your blood bead will succeed, but you will die. Death will occur the moment the blood bead succeeds."

Yan Fei was stunned for a moment when he heard this.

But it was only for a moment.

They fortune tellers never cheat.

In other words, the other party will not lie to themselves.

“I risk everything, including my life, to let [Tingyun Pavilion] regain the glory of [Star Reaching Pavilion].”

"...This is the lifelong dream of Master and even all previous [Tingyun Pavilion] masters."

"...And now, as the ninth generation master of [Tingyun Pavilion], I, Yan Fei, naturally have my duty."

Yan Fei has already made up his mind.

The senior sister said that her blood beads will be successful. This sentence is enough!

Zhang would never have imagined that the words she tried to dissuade the other party from taking action would now become the motivation for the other party to go all out.

……

Jinling City.

Time passed, and there was still one day left before the Zhenbei Army set off to leave Jinling and return to the North.

Yan House.

Yandong bedroom.

Antique carved railings.

Yan Dong was wearing a black slim casual suit and standing by the window.

He quietly looked at the distant sky, where the sunset was setting, as if he had entered a world that was completely his own...

He didn't even feel that Yan Wulu had come within a few feet of him.

Yan Wulu walked in and asked aloud——

"Father, are you thinking about the future of the Northern Land and the Zhenbei Army?"

Yan Dong came to his senses after hearing this.

He looked at Yan Wulu and smiled softly, "It turns out it's Lu'er."

"...It seems that my father is really old, and he can't even notice Lu'er approaching."

Yan Dong still chuckled as he spoke, and his words contained a hint of self-deprecation.

Yan Wulu also smiled and comforted -

"Now, my child can be considered as a ninth-level warrior at the Dzogchen stage. Although he is not as good as your father, he is still one of the top martial arts masters."

"...Besides, during the battle at Purple Mountain, father, you still have internal injuries that have not healed, and your consciousness will inevitably be affected."

Yan Wulu said that he was reluctant to continue talking about this topic. He felt that Yan Dong had been a little absent-minded occasionally recently.

He changed the subject and continued easily: "Father, you're not just watching the sunset, are you?"

"...But I have to say that such a beautiful scenery has a unique flavor."

Yan Wulu came to Yan Dong's side as he spoke and stood side by side with him by the window.

In Yan Wulu's impression, his father Yan Dong has always been much taller than him...

But it wasn't until now that Yan Wulu realized that Yan Dong was actually about the same height as him.

In the past, if King Zhenbei's python robe was not too large and gorgeous, Yan Dong would not be much stronger than Yan Wulu.

Yan Wulu even felt that his father's current figure was slightly stooped.

He could even see the sparse white hair in his father's bun.

Yan Wulu suddenly felt an inexplicable sentimentality—it turns out that his father is really old.

But in the next moment, Yan Wulu reacted.

It's not that his father is old, but that he has grown up.

……

"Yes."

Yan Dong took Yan Wulu's words, and the faint smile on his face turned into a smile.

He stretched out his right hand and let a ray of sunset fall on his palm, as if he could catch the dying ray of sunshine.

"...Back then, your mother and I's favorite thing was to sit on the cliffs of mountains and watch the sunrise and sunset."

"...Your mother said that after she died, she wanted to become a feathered bird chasing the sunset."

When Yan Wulu heard the words, he nodded slightly and responded quietly: "So that's it."

He also looked at the place where the sunset set, and felt that it was extremely beautiful.

It seemed vaguely that there were really birds flying.

……

"Although the internal injuries suffered by my father are serious, it does not appear to be fatal at present. My father, please rest a lot, and the child will be nursed with Yao Yingran. He will recover after a period of time."

"...It's just that during this period, father must remember not to use any more internal strength, nor to be too tired."

Yan Wulu reminded Yan Dong.

In response to Yan Dong's nod, Yan Wulu also bowed and resigned, no longer disturbing his father's rest.

Exit the bedroom.

Walk to the inner courtyard.

At the gate of the courtyard, Yan Wulu suddenly stopped.

His face became slightly serious, and he only uttered two words coldly - "Come out."

Then, from the shadow of the courtyard wall, secret agent Ling Zhi, dressed in a secret guard uniform, appeared quietly.

"Secret Inspector Ling Zhi, see His Royal Highness."

Ling Zhi stepped forward, bowed to Yan Wulu, and then continued——

"His Royal Highness is indeed very human now. Even Ling Zhi can't hide his aura."

……

(End of this chapter)