Chapter 104

Ye Cang acted faster than the people of the Celestial Realm expected. Less than a month after the seal was lifted, he returned to the Demon Realm and led the Demon Army to attack the Celestial Realm without any regard for their own lives. They surrounded the Celestial Palace.

The people of the Celestial Realm were terrified. They were not afraid of the Demon Army, but none of them dared to charge at Ye Cang. They could only hide in the array and fret.

But soon, they were no longer fretting. They began to panic because Ye Cang would tie someone up at the entrance of the array every day.

The people he tied up were none other than the people who knew what happened back then. They were all people who participated in the sealing of Ye Cang. They were guarded by his magical beast, Tao Tie.

Although Tao Tie was a magical beast, as the saying goes, like master, like spirit beast. Its temper was just like Ye Cang's. It was extremely arrogant.

It bared its sharp teeth and slowly tasted the flesh of the immortals while roaring at the array. The people of the Celestial Realm were so frightened that a bunch of white hair grew on their heads.

While the people of the Celestial Realm were fretting, Yin Li was unusually calm. He completely ignored the situation outside the array. He did not want the array to be able to withstand it. He only wanted to stall for time. After waiting for more than three thousand years, he would not allow any failure.

Gu Bai did not know any of this. He could only guess from the worried expressions on the faces of the servants around him.

In fact, he was starting to panic. Yin Li was crazier than he thought. He could sense that Yin Li was about to do something. He did not care about anything else. This kind of lunatic was the scariest.

And Ye Cang was outside the array, but he could not see him. A feeling of helplessness made him very uncomfortable. He was afraid that something unexpected would happen.

Time passed quickly. On the third day after Ye Cang led his people to attack the Celestial Realm, Yin Li finally made his move.

"What are you trying to do?"

Gu Bai was fixed on the altar in the Celestial Realm. Yin Li stood beside him. Not far from him, several guards were holding the tied-up Lu Yaoji, the woman in the palace dress who had screamed at him.

Everyone from the Immortal Realm knelt in front of the altar, trembling with fear. They looked at the expressionless Yin Li and wanted to say something, but didn't dare to.

Ye Cang and the Demon Realm had been completely isolated from the outside world. Even if they could sense the movements of the people inside the formation, they had no way of knowing. They could only do their best to attack the formation.

"…"

Yin Li didn't say anything. He turned around and signaled everyone to lower their heads. Then, he slowly untied Gu Bai's clothes. Then, he took out a golden pen and began to draw mysterious runes on his body. It was obvious that he was casting some kind of spell.

After he finished drawing the runes, Gu Bai clearly felt that his soul was being bound by something. Then, he saw Yin Li take out a jade doll and signal for the guards who were holding Lu Yaoji to bring her over.

Gu Bai didn't know what Yin Li was trying to do, but he was instinctively afraid. When Lu Yaoji was brought over and saw what Yin Li was doing, she shook her head in horror.

"No, no, Yin Li, you can't do this. You can't do this to me!"

"Bring her over …"

Yin Li didn't even bat an eyelid. He took out a dagger from his storage ring. He was a handsome immortal, but he looked like a heartless demon.

The guards obeyed and brought her over. Lu Yaoji struggled madly. She stared at the dagger in Yin Li's hand and the fear on her face deepened. She kept shaking her head, but Yin Li had no intention of letting her go.

Gu Bai looked at the expressionless Yin Li and felt a chill in his heart. Although he didn't have any memories of the past, ever since he came to the Immortal Realm, he knew that Yin Li wasn't a simple person and wasn't a good person. However, Yin Li had always been gentle. Now that he was so cold, he felt an inexplicable sense of fear.

Under the attacks of Ye Cang and the Demon Realm, the formation's defenses began to weaken. The immortals' hearts were in their throats. Yin Li was indifferent. He continued to focus on the matter in front of him.

He held the dagger and walked towards Lu Yaoji step by step. Lu Yaoji's face was deathly pale. She shook her head frantically. When she met Yin Li's cold eyes, her body trembled. Finally, she couldn't help but plead in fear.

"Yin Li, you can't kill me. If you kill me, he'll die too. He's not from the Six Realms. Who knows if the Nirvana technique will succeed in the end? Yin Li, you can't do this to me. You can't do this to me.

Sob … sob … "" Senior Brother Yin, we were once brothers and sisters in the same sect. Why are you so heartless towards me? He's just a puppet. If it weren't for him, you and I would have already formed a dual cultivation marriage. Senior Brother Yin, you can't kill me because of him. It's not my fault. It's him. He fell in love with the Demon Realm.

Senior Brother … "

Lu Yaoji cried. Her messy hair and clothes made her look extremely pitiful.

However, Yin Li's gaze was still as cold as ever. He looked at Lu Yaoji in front of him as if he wasn't looking at a person, but an object that could be casually thrown away. His voice was emotionless.

"Without him, you and I would just be strangers. You should know very well what the people of the Heartless Sword Sect cultivate and what their responsibilities are …"

"No, it's not like that!

Then why did you fall in love with him?! "Lu Yaoji couldn't accept this.

"…"

Yin Li didn't say anything. He didn't know the answer to this question either.

The other party didn't hesitate at all when she begged for mercy. Lu Yaoji slowly stopped crying. She stared at Yin Li with eyes full of resentment.

"Yin Li, you're so cruel. You're really treating me like this!

I won't let you have your way. So what if he comes back alive? If I die, I can still enter the cycle of reincarnation. If he dies, he'll turn into ashes. I want you to never have him! "

After she finished speaking, Lu Yaoji used all her strength to break free from the bindings. She charged directly at Yin Li. Her chest slammed into the dagger in his hand. Then, she grabbed the dagger in his hand and pulled out a heart that was burning with red flames.

Yin Li reached out to dodge the moment he saw the heart. However, Lu Yaoji was faster. She risked being hit by his attack and grabbed the heart tightly. Channeling all the transcendence energy in her body, she clenched her fist tightly.

In an instant, the heart that was burning with red flames turned into powder.

"Baigu!"

"No!"

Yin Li and Ye Cang, who had just barged in, screamed at the same time. The sky turned from sunny to dark clouds as the heart was crushed.

"Ah —"

Gu Bai, who was on the altar, screamed in pain. The moment his heart was crushed, he felt an intense pain in his chest that he had never felt before.

Gu Bai's roar shook off the runes binding his body. Suddenly, a red pillar of light appeared in the dark sky and shone on Gu Bai's body, sucking him into the air.

A thick red light enveloped his entire body, forming a huge protective barrier that prevented anyone from getting close to him.

"Look, what's that?"

Someone exclaimed. The powder of the heart that Lu Yaoji had crushed suddenly gathered together. Then, as if attracted by something, it slowly flew into the red pillar of light and entered between Gu Bai's eyebrows.

When Yin Li saw this, he seemed to understand something. He took a step back and his face turned pale...

On the other side, within the red ball of light, the pain in Gu Bai's chest slowly subsided. As a gentle force entered between his eyebrows, the blank space in his mind slowly filled up.

Countless familiar images flashed through his mind like a fast-forwarded movie. Gu Bai closed his eyes. As the images entered his mind, his expression began to change. When the last image disappeared, a drop of crystal clear tear fell from the corner of his eye...

Ever since he became a spirit and started doing missions, he rarely thought about his life. That was because those short 20 years of memories were very vague to him.

He was different from others since he was young. He was unbelievably indifferent to emotions.

Not only his friends, even the dean who had taken care of him since he was young said that he was sick and heartless. This was because he would never be sad for anyone, happy for anyone, shed tears for anyone, or rejoice for anyone.

He had doubted himself countless times. He never understood. Even when he fell in love with Ye Cang, his so-called heartbeat was actually just the trembling of his soul. His heart had always been cold and empty.

Now, he knew...

Gu Bai slowly opened his eyes. His hands formed a seal, and a set of embroidered red robes appeared out of thin air. In the blink of an eye, he put it on. The red ball of light that enveloped him slowly disappeared. Finally, it turned into a mysterious rune mark that remained between his eyebrows.

At the same time, an uncountable number of black shadows suddenly appeared in the sky. Then, they turned into puppets with hollow eyes and surrounded the group.

Everyone stared at him as he slowly descended from the sky. They all held their breaths.

Even though his appearance was still that of Gu Bai's, the mark between his brows and the dense crowd of puppets that had suddenly appeared around him made everyone clearly understand one fact — the real Yin Baigu had returned!

"No, impossible. You, how are you still alive..."

Lu Yaoji's face could no longer be described as pale and frightened. She could not believe it. Her eyes were filled with disbelief. She could not even feel the pain from her wounds.

On the silent altar, her voice was very clear. Gu Bai slowly turned his head and looked at her. After a long time, he smiled. His voice was very happy.

"Nothing is impossible. My birth was an accident of this world. Lu Yaoji, you really did not disappoint me..."

It was just a simple sentence, but Lu Yaoji's brain understood everything. She looked at the smiling Gu Bai in front of her. Her body felt like it was being crushed by a huge rock. She fell to the ground and shook her head in a daze. She repeatedly muttered, "No..."

Yin Li stood to the side and stared at Gu Bai. He did not say anything. He did not even breathe for a long time. He stood there like a statue.

When Gu Bai walked in front of him, he slowly said in a hoarse voice, "You... expected this..."

"Yes... reality has proven that I won this game of chess."

Gu Bai stared at him coldly.