Volume 5: The Mystery of Shamo Chapter 61: A Promise That Day Was Worth a Thousand Pounds
During the battle at the Shen family that day, Gong Lili lost all consciousness and was abducted by Wu Su. Mo Yi tried to stop him but failed. Because he had suffered severe internal injuries from the previous fight with his clansmen, and his spiritual power was exhausted, he slept for a whole day before waking up. After waking up, he couldn't wait to come to Shamo City to rescue people.
Originally, Zeze, Yan Zheng and others had no choice but to go with him to Sha Mo, but unexpectedly, Shen Fei and the eldest son of the Huan family asked to go with them at the same time, and their attitude was extremely tough. In short, they had to go. Yan Zheng had no way to deal with them, so he had to ask Mo Yi for help.
In Mo Yi's eyes, except for Yan Xiaoxiao who could break the barrier and Yan Zheng who was responsible for leading the way , the others were redundant, especially the culprit Shen Fei. If he had not forcibly detained Gong Lili in the Shen family, things would not have come to this point. So the first thing Mo Yi did after waking up was to chop him with a knife. If Yan Zheng had not stepped forward to stop him, saying that he would spared Shen Fei because he had taken out another "Nirvana Huifeng Pill" to heal Mo Yi's injuries, which was considered exchanging medicine for his life, Shen Fei would probably have turned into a cold corpse by now.
Unfortunately, Shen Fei himself had no idea that he had just escaped death. He ignored Mo Yi's face, which was as dark as Bao Gong's, and begged to join their rescue team. He even walked up to Mo Yi fearlessly and said, "Can I have a word with you?"
Mo Yi didn't want to pay any attention to him at first and turned to leave, but he stopped in his tracks when he said, "Our Huan and Shen families have a secret about Yao Ji that has been buried for five hundred years."
It was this sentence that piqued Mo Yi's interest. He felt that there were many things he didn't know about Yao Ji back then. Of course, the most important thing was what Shen Fei added: "It is said that it is related to Yao Ji's reincarnation."
Mo Yi and Yan Zheng looked at each other, paused silently and motioned for him to continue.
Shen Fei, however, was a cautious man. He glanced around and chased Zeze and the others, including the second young lady of the Huan family, out, leaving only Mo Yi, Yan Zheng, and Huan Zhu. Then he spoke carefully, "Back then, our ancestors of the Huan and Shen families didn't fall out. They separated to keep an item for Yao Ji that was said to be crucial to her life. We thought she would come to claim it if we kept it for a while, but we didn't expect to receive news of her death. So, our ancestors followed her original instructions and kept the item for her for another five hundred years. She had said that after five hundred years, her reincarnation would come to claim it."
"Wait, what did you say? Yao Ji mentioned the period of five hundred years? She predicted her own fate back then? She even said that she would be reincarnated five hundred years later?" Mo Yi interrupted Shen Fei hurriedly. He had never heard of this matter before, and if Yao Ji knew that she would die and therefore set the period of five hundred years, it would be too strange.
"I don't know the story very well. My old man died before he could tell me in detail. Why don't you let him explain it to you?" Shen Fei spread his hands and threw the ball to Huan Zhu, who had been silent beside him.
Everyone looked at Huan Zhu with puzzled eyes. Huan Zhu pondered for a moment before taking over the conversation, "Five hundred years ago, before Lady Yao Ji became the chief wizard of the Shamo tribe, she secretly gave our ancestor an important item and told us that if she needed it one day, she would come and get it herself, but if anything happened to her, she would keep it for five hundred years, awaiting her afterlife. Now, five hundred years have passed. When I heard in Wucheng that Lady Yao Ji's reincarnation appeared in Yonghui City, I rushed there as fast as I could. Unfortunately, I still passed her by. So I thought I would just find this Shen Yao, combine the two items into one, and then hand them over to her. But I didn't expect that I was still a step too late. Before I could give it to Miss Ping, she..."
"Merge into one? What's going on?" Hearing Yao Ji's name, Mo Yi frowned inadvertently.
"Originally, the lady named Yao Ji gave the item to my ancestor for safekeeping. That was the eldest lady of our Shen family named Shen Chenyu five hundred years ago. But it is said that my ancestor realized when he left the Shamo Sacred Mountain that there seemed to be people of very high status in Shamo who were spying on the item, and he had a premonition that they would do something bad to Yao Ji. At that time, the cultivation of our two ancestors was not very high. In order to protect the item from falling into the hands of bad people, she divided the item into two, carried half with herself, and gave the other half to her ancestor, named Huan Shu. The two pretended to have a dispute, went down the mountain separately, and pretended to break up from then on. In fact, it was to deceive people so that they could keep the item separately." Shen Fei took over Huan Zhu's words very tacitly, and slowly pieced together the past that they each knew, restoring the truth of the year.
However, because five hundred years have passed, no one can tell the details of what happened back then. This matter has always been regarded as an extremely important secret by the Huan and Shen families, and has been passed down orally only when the head of the family inherits it. The item has also been passed down to the head of the family for safekeeping with great caution from generation to generation. Now, Huan Zhu and Shen Fei are the heads of the two families respectively, and the item is naturally in their hands.
Back then, the eldest daughter of the Shen family, Shen Chenyu, and the eldest son of the Huan family, Huan Shu, were secretly breaking up. Although they broke up on the surface, they lived together in private and had a son and a daughter. Naturally, the son eventually became the head of the Huan family, and the daughter inherited the Shen family. The item that was entrusted to them by Yao Ji was also divided into two and handed over to the descendants of the two families to guard for generations. In a sense, Huan Zhu and Shen Fei can be said to be of the same clan.
However, this matter has been kept very well hidden by the Huan and Shen families, so outsiders could never guess that there was such a story behind the split between the two families.
Mo Yi naturally thought of Huan Shu and Shen Chenyu back then. He had a good impression of them; it seemed like they had hit it off with Yao Ji. But he wondered what treasure Yao Ji had entrusted to them back then? What was it that necessitated their such cautious attention, even pretending to be separated from each other, to protect Yao Ji? And who were they guarding against?
"What exactly did she ask you to keep?" Because it concerned Yao Ji, which also concerned Ying Lili, Mo Yi showed a little more patience.
"We don't actually know what that item is. We only know that our two families have carefully passed it down from generation to generation. It's said that this item was extremely important to Yao Ji back then, and it was said to be related to her life and her reincarnations." Shen Fei spread his hands and changed the subject: "But what I can't understand is why my ancestors took the initiative to move the Shen family to this place. Could it be that the most dangerous place is the safest place?"
"You already knew Lili was Yaoji's reincarnation, so why didn't you just give it to her?" Mo Yi pondered for a moment before asking Shen Fei in a deep voice. He had a feeling this wasn't that simple. Shen Fei had clearly been with Lili for so long, so why didn't he just give it to her instead of going through all this trouble? There must be something else going on.
"Oh, I forgot..." Shen Fei's excuse made Mo Yi frown even deeper. He glanced at Shen Fei coldly, and a terrifying spiritual pressure suddenly spread all over the place. Mo Yi has never been a good-tempered person...
There was a sound of cracking, and a deep crack suddenly appeared under Shen Fei's feet.
"Hey, hey, hey, I'm telling you, isn't that enough? Why are you so boring that you can't even take a joke?" Shen Fei was probably afraid that the young man in front of him would be unhappy and tear down his Shen family's alchemy room. He also remembered that this guy named Mo Yi had fought with the Great Elder Wu Su for several moves and even had the upper hand. Such an evil star cannot be provoked.
"I forced her to stay at the Shen family before, originally intending to use her Nine Yin Mysterious Desolate blood to help me refine the 'Nine Transformations Resurrection Pill', and then hand over the item I was keeping to her. You know that girl is very cunning. She might take the item and run away. Where would I find her then? I didn't expect Wu Su to show up in the middle of the process and disrupt my plan." Shen Fei said this without any intention of reflection. The result was that his feet cracked again. No, more than cracking, the place where Shen Fei was located collapsed an inch square in an instant! Shen Fei lost his balance and fell to the ground in embarrassment. The most terrifying thing was that from beginning to end, no one saw Mo Yi make a move...
Obviously, Mo Yi was also extremely dissatisfied with his answer.
"'Nine-turn Resurrection Pill'? Shen Yao, you actually found all the ingredients?" Although the other two people present thought that Shen Fei deserved it and had no sympathy for him, Shen Fei's words still aroused Huan Zhu's interest, and his expression looked quite excited.
"Not only have I found them all, I almost succeeded in refining them. Thanks to you, I failed at the last moment!" Shen Fei replied gritting his teeth. It would have been fine if he hadn't mentioned it, but he got furious as soon as he mentioned it. It turned out that when Huan Zhu was sucked into the alchemy pot before, he was directly smashed into the alchemy room of the thatched hut, and he was about to fall dead on the emerald alchemy furnace, knocking the furnace over to the ground, causing the spiritual power in the furnace to leak out. Naturally, the elixir that was being refined failed, so Shen Fei got angry and started fighting with him on the spot, and was finally killed by Wu Su.
"'Nine-turn Resurrection Pill'? Isn't that recipe that has been lost for a long time in our Sha Mo? I remember hearing Master mention it before." Yan Zheng, who had been silent until now, finally spoke, with a puzzled look on his face.
Shen Fei laughed uncomfortably and said, "That was given to my ancestors by your Lady Yao Ji as a thank you gift. Anyway, you Shamo people are not good at refining pills, so it would be a waste to take it."
Seeing Yan Zheng's face gradually darkening, Shen Fei quickly changed the subject and said, "I think we should hurry to Shamo, so that old guy Wu Su won't take advantage of that girl!"
As soon as these words came out, there was a loud bang, and the roof above Shen Fei's head collapsed completely, burying him in the rubble. Looking up, the bright sunlight suddenly blazed in. What a sunny day...
"One day I will cut off your tongue!" Mo Yi said this and then disappeared like a gust of wind, leaving Yan Zheng and Huan Zhu behind him nodding in tacit agreement.
Everyone agreed that it would be better if this monster from the Shen family was a mute.
Given Mo Yi's tacit consent, Huan Zhu and Shen Fei naturally joined them, together with the barrier master Yan Xiaoxiao. Originally, they planned to go to Shamo with a group of five, and the rest of the people would stay in Mingyue Canyon to wait for news, and help the Shen family guard the Mingyue Canyon. It turned out that not all the Shen family members disappeared that day, but were hypnotized by Wu Su's witchcraft and led to the Shen family ancestral hall, because Wu Su probably thought that was the fastest way to find people.
Later, after finding the Shen family, although Yan Zheng helped them to break the hypnosis, many people still fell into a deep sleep. It is said that some were in a coma for three days at least, and some for more than a month. Obviously, Wu Su was extremely dissatisfied with the Shen family for detaining Yao Ji, so he did not hold back.
Therefore, the people brought by the Huan family had to temporarily replace the Shen family and look after the house for Shen Fei. The original plan was to leave behind Zeze, Qiongqi, Tubie and the second daughter of the Huan family, but they did not expect that little Zeze would be so persistent. When they found that Zeze had been following them all the way by using earth escape, they were already outside Shamo City. Therefore, the members of the Gonglili rescue team finally became six people.
The Huan family is now the most powerful and wealthy family in the Void Realm. They have dozens of businesses in Shamo City alone, ranging from weapon shops to teahouses and taverns, and even brothels in the red light district...
The Shamo wizards also need to eat and drink, so the business that delivers vegetables, fruits and melons to the Shamo Sacred Mountain every day is naturally the Huan family's business.
However, several days have passed, and apart from the fact that Mo Yi used the "Mirror Flower and Water Moon" to see Ying Lili appear in the Shamo Temple yesterday, nothing has been found. Where did Wu Su hide her?
In this room, apart from the unconscious Mo Yi, the other five people were all lost in their own thoughts...
