Chapter 5

Chapter 5: Secrets of the Past Life
She was already stuck riding a tiger and could not get off.

Ye Cong Xin began to regret it. She should not have agreed yesterday to let Yu Zhao apologize in public. Now Yu Zhao had put her on the fire to roast.

She looked at Fang Cheng Lang for help, but when she saw his serious face and realized he did not plan to stop this, she could not help feeling a trace of resentment toward him as well.

“Mm?” Yu Zhao let out a soft sound.

Her voice was not loud, but it carried a strange pressure.

The crowd began to stir.

Everyone was waiting to see how Ye Cong Xin would react.

Ye Cong Xin had no choice but to bite the bullet and take the Purple Cloud Bamboo Flute from Yu Zhao’s hand: “Thank you, Senior Sister.”

Boom.

A wave of violent anger burst out.

Lan Zi Yu was both shocked and furious, his eyes turning red.

“Yu! Zhao!”

The disciples around them all jumped in shock and hurriedly stepped back, fear on their faces.

Ye Cong Xin also instinctively took a step back.

Lan Zi Yu’s expression at that moment was too frightening, and even she could not help feeling scared.

“Zi Yu, calm down!”

Fang Cheng Lang walked forward in a few quick steps, blocking Yu Zhao and lightly patting Lan Zi Yu’s arm to calm him.

The next moment, he froze.

Lan Zi Yu’s arms were trembling.

For the first time, Fang Cheng Lang realized that maybe Lan Zi Yu did not hate Yu Zhao as much as he pretended to.

“I have apologized and given the gift. I will not bother everyone any longer.”

Yu Zhao cupped her hands in a casual salute, then turned and walked away, leaving the stunned crowd behind her.

“S-she just left like that?”

Someone murmured in disbelief.

In the past, whenever Lan Zi Yu so much as frowned, Yu Zhao would circle around him, worried. But today, she had not even asked him a single question. It was as if she had turned into a different person.

[Could it be that… she has gone mad?]

Lan Zi Yu stared blankly for a moment.

She left?

Yu Zhao had actually left?

No apology?

No explanation?

She had just walked away?

After a brief shock came a towering rage.

“Fine! Very fine!”

The anger in his chest kept crashing around, and Lan Zi Yu almost ground his teeth to pieces.

“Zi Yu, calm down first. You are really not in a good state right now.”

Fang Cheng Lang’s head was starting to ache.

He had thought that once the conflict between Little Six and Junior Sister was smoothed over, everyone could get along happily. Yet now his second junior brother had started a fight with Little Six instead.

With red eyes, Lan Zi Yu said, “I am very calm!”

Fang Cheng Lang let out a sigh, forced a small smile, then turned to Ye Cong Xin: “Junior Sister, go back and rest first. I will have a talk with your Second Senior Brother.”

Ye Cong Xin glanced at Lan Zi Yu and wisely nodded in agreement. She did not dare bring up the Purple Cloud Bamboo Flute at all, and she left in a hurry.

The other disciples wanted very much to watch the drama on Lone Moon Peak, but they did not dare to be too obvious. They walked away, turning back to look every few steps.

Fang Cheng Lang said to Lan Zi Yu in a cold voice: “Come with me.”

Master Qing Yan stayed in closed-door cultivation most of the year. As the First Senior Brother, Fang Cheng Lang had always had great authority. Even if Lan Zi Yu did not want to, he did not dare disobey.

The two of them found a quiet spot on Lone Moon Peak.

“Zi Yu, you were too impulsive today.” Fang Cheng Lang’s face was serious. If he had not been there, Lone Moon Peak would almost have become a joke to the whole Five Elements Dao Sect.

“First Senior Brother, Yu Zhao insulted me first. From now on, there is nothing between me and her.”

Lan Zi Yu’s face was gloomy.

“Nonsense!” Fang Cheng Lang scolded sharply. “How did Little Six insult you?”

“She gave something that belongs to me to someone else!”

Whenever Lan Zi Yu thought about that scene from just now, the anger in his chest spread through his whole body, as if it wanted to burn his body and even his soul to ashes.

“She did not give it to just anyone. She gave it to your junior sister, Ye Cong Xin. You have always been closest to your Junior Sister, so why can you not accept that?”

Lan Zi Yu’s expression stalled, and a hint of confusion flashed through his eyes. “Th-that is different…”

“What is different about it? Little Six and Junior Sister are both your junior sisters. How are they not the same?” Fang Cheng Lang pressed.

“She, I…” Lan Zi Yu choked, then finally gritted his teeth. “She is just different!”

The Purple Cloud Bamboo Flute was the first successful item he had ever crafted. He had poured all his effort into it, and it meant a lot to him.

There was only one of it in the world.

There could be no replacement.

Just like there would never be a second piece of Purple Cloud Bamboo exactly like it in that Purple Cloud Bamboo Grove, he could never make another Purple Cloud Bamboo Flute the same as this one.

After hearing this, Fang Cheng Lang’s expression instead softened.

“Zi Yu, you still care about Little Six in your heart. You just have not realized it yet.”

Lan Zi Yu exploded at his words. “Impossible. How could I care about her! From the day she hurt Junior Sister, I knew she was someone with a deep mind and a vicious heart! How could I ever care about someone like that!”

Fang Cheng Lang frowned, a bit shocked and a bit confused.

In his memory, Lan Zi Yu and Yu Zhao had been quite close. Even if Yu Zhao had not been as sensible and cute these past few years as she used to be, it should not have been enough to leave such a terrible impression on Lan Zi Yu.

Had something happened between them that he did not know about?

He wanted to keep asking, but Lan Zi Yu suddenly reacted like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, getting very worked up.

“First Senior Brother, you do not have to say anything more. Even if Yu Zhao kneels and knocks her head on the ground to apologize, I will never forgive her! Between me and her, it is not over until one of us dies!”

After saying that, he did not wait for Fang Cheng Lang to answer. He ran off in a huff.

Fang Cheng Lang rubbed his brow in exhaustion.

There was no way to talk sense into his second junior brother right now.

It would be better to have Little Six take the initiative to apologize.

After all, this whole matter had started because of her.

In a cave dwelling on Lone Moon Peak, Yu Zhao sat cross-legged on a stone bed, the corners of her lips curved up. She was in a very good mood.

Today, she had given the Purple Cloud Bamboo Flute to Ye Cong Xin to personally cut off her past with Lan Zi Yu and also to help push the relationship between Ye Cong Xin and Lan Zi Yu one step further.

In her previous life, she did not know if it was a coincidence or if Ye Cong Xin did it on purpose, but everyone who became close to Ye Cong Xin was a young genius of their time, a Heaven’s Chosen.

The strange thing was that these Heaven’s Chosen showed unstoppable strength and shone brightly at first, but later, every one of them grew weaker.

The only exception was Ye Cong Xin.

When many people had stopped advancing, her potential exploded. In the end, she pressed down all the other Heaven’s Chosen and became the cultivator who reached Divine Transformation the fastest among the younger generation, shining above everyone.

At first, Yu Zhao had not suspected anything wrong. Ye Cong Xin was deeply loved by their Master and all the senior brothers. Spirit stones and pills kept falling into her hands.

As long as Ye Cong Xin opened her mouth to ask, even treasures that were hard to find in the whole world would be offered to her.

With so many heavenly materials and earthly treasures feeding her, even if Ye Cong Xin’s talent had been poor, her cultivation speed would not have been slow.

Yu Zhao only truly realized something was wrong when Lan Zi Yu went into closed-door cultivation to prepare for a breakthrough to the Nascent Soul Stage.

In order to Shatter Core to Form Nascent Soul, Lan Zi Yu had spent ten whole years just resting and storing up energy, and during that time he made all kinds of preparations. Even Master Qing Yan had said that his breakthrough was sure to succeed.

Yet the final result was very disappointing. Lan Zi Yu failed the breakthrough and even suffered a backlash, almost losing all of his cultivation level.

By then, Yu Zhao’s relationship with Lan Zi Yu and even everyone on Lone Moon Peak had already been as bad as fire and water, but when she saw Lan Zi Yu looking like a dried-up husk, she still could not help feeling sorry for him.

Just as she was racking her brains for a way to comfort him, news came that Ye Cong Xin had successfully formed her Nascent Soul.

At that moment, the seed of suspicion took root and began to grow in Yu Zhao’s heart.