The Year of Lihua: She Was Reborn

Ye Hua took out the dagger hidden in his sleeve, and a cold light flashed.

She placed the tip of the knife against her neck, steadying her shaky body while shouting.

"Let them go, or I will die with them..."

Bai Ze stood up quickly and seemed to be fine.

He wanted to reach out and snatch the dagger from Ye Hua's hand, but she gave him a sharp look, so he gave up the idea and stood behind her.

"It's really not worth it to die with them in this place that will never see the light of day, Junior Sister."

Li Li trembled as he glanced at his master, whose face was becoming increasingly gloomy. He stood up, gently tugged at Ye Hua's sleeve, and whispered a warning.

Zhu Jiuyin, who had struggled to get up, just raised a big hand and placed it in front of Ye Hua, and said just one sentence to Ye Hua.

"Don't worry, I, Zhu Jiuyin, will die with you, don't be afraid!"

"Bah, what nonsense!"

When Zhu Jiuyin raised his head and looked at his master, his gentle eyes had disappeared, and were now filled with fearlessness and hostility.

Watching them become each other's support, cherishing each other and sharing life and death.

The master's cold eyes were hurt, and his pupils dilated slightly as he looked at Ye Hua with anger.

"Li Li, I asked you to watch over Junior Sister. Is this how you're going to play along with her?"

"Disciple, no..."

Li Li was so frightened by this sudden accountability that he couldn't breathe. He immediately denied it and hid behind Ye Hua.

When he caught a glimpse of the blood on Ye Hua's neck caused by the dagger, he seemed to have caught sight of something that gave him the courage to disobey, so he raised his voice and shouted at his master.

"But didn't you promise Junior Sister that you wouldn't embarrass them anymore? Why did you keep them imprisoned here? And tortured them into this state where they're half-human, half-ghost..."

"Master, you are so arrogant, why do you bother with two mere beasts? Moreover, God is merciful, aren't you too murderous..."

Li Li was indignant and righteous at the beginning...

When he saw his master's cold eyes filled with murderous intent, his high-pitched voice became lower and lower, until it was so small that it sounded like the buzzing of a fly flying by, making it impossible to hear what he was saying.

"Yehua, your mother also betrayed the sect for a mere demon tribe. Now you are going to follow in her footsteps..."

As soon as the master mentioned Ye Hua's mother, he seemed to lose control of the evil spirit in his body in an instant.

The evil spirit gushed out of his body like a surging black torrent.

At this moment, Master Qingyou, who was dressed in a blue cloth shirt, was completely enveloped by this extremely dense black evil aura.

His eyes, which were already cold and intimidating, were now filled with wisps of murderous aura surging outwards.

These evil spirits were like nimble and evil little snakes, crawling and sliding freely on his face.

It made his already cold and indifferent face look even more eerie and terrifying, making people's hair stand on end.

Ye Hua, who was standing on the opposite side, stared blankly at his master who had become so strange and terrifying, and a strong sense of fear and uneasiness involuntarily surged in his heart.

She only felt her legs become weak and powerless, as if all her strength had been drained away and she could no longer support her own body weight.

Then, with a "thump" sound, Ye Hua fell heavily to his knees on the hard stone floor.

"Master, I, Yehua, have never begged you for anything. Please be magnanimous and spare them this time, just this once..."

Ye Hua couldn't help but increase the strength of the dagger in his hand, and the blood flowed even faster.

"Master, Li Li has never begged you for anything. Please let them go for my junior sister's sake. From now on, they will never set foot in Qingcheng Mountain again."

Li Li panicked and knelt on the stone slab, kowtowed several times.

He knew that once Ye Hua made a decision, he would never give up until he achieved his goal.

But his master was a man of his word, and those monsters who trespassed into the Qingcheng Sect were killed without a complete corpse and turned into ashes.

It was a blessing in disguise that the two of them were alive, but judging by the attitude of their master, they were afraid that they would not be able to leave this dungeon alive tonight.

Before Li Li could finish his mental assessment, the dagger tightly held in Ye Hua's hand was corroded by an invisible black air and turned into ashes in an instant.

At the same moment when their master showed his murderous aura, Bai Ze and Zhu Jiuyin had already summoned their best weapons and held them in their hands, ready for a fight to the death.

Ye Hua waved away the remaining ashes in his hand with a cold face, stood up, drew out the soft sword from his waist, raised it high, pointed the sword at his master and asked angrily.

"Old Qingyou, are you really not going to let them go?"

"You are so stubborn. I will ask you again: Do you really want to save them?"

"Old Qingyou, your word is your bond, don't you understand? Didn't you promise me to let them go a long time ago? They've been tortured by you for more than half a year, so it's time to let them go."

As Ye Hua spoke, he gestured to Bai Ze and Zhu Jiuyin: I will stop Master.

"Brother, take them away first. Master won't do anything to me."

As Ye Hua spoke, he swung his sword and stabbed towards his master, pouring all his remaining spiritual power into this strike.

Zhu Jiuyin was unwilling to leave at all, thinking of living and dying with Ye Hua, but Li Li grabbed his arm and lifted his whole body up with magic.

"As long as there is green mountain, there is no need to worry about lack of firewood. Master will not do anything to Ye Hua, you believe me."

The observant Bai Ze had already sensed the reluctance in his master's cold and angry eyes, and he also helped Li Li to pull the motionless Zhu Jiuyin.

"You stubborn ass, you can't let Ye Hua's efforts go to waste. She even gave us her own blood to drink. If we can't get out of Qingcheng Mountain today, I'm afraid it will be a life-and-death battle. You don't want Ye Hua to die, do you?"

Bai Ze turned his head to look at Ye Hua's figure speeding away, his red eyes filled with tears that were about to fall but couldn't.

Zhu Jiuyin finally gave up struggling amid their pulling and persuasion.

I can’t do anything in this body now. If I can’t escape this time, I’m afraid I will really die here.

At this moment, after seeing the situation in front of him, Li Li did not hesitate at all and instantly conjured up a pair of huge and transparent wings behind him.

The wings shimmered with a faint light, as if they were carved from the purest crystal.

With a gentle flap of their wings, a powerful airflow surged up, carrying them like an arrow, and suddenly shot out from the dungeon under the bottomless pool.

However, in sharp contrast to this is Ye Hua's current situation.

Her originally fragile body was now as shaky as a candle in the wind, and it seemed that it could be blown out by the wind at any time.

Just before the fatal sword was about to hit her beloved master, she used up her last bit of strength and threw herself towards the hard stone ground without hesitation.

In an instant, the sharp sword energy and the vast immortal energy contained in it disappeared without a trace like smoke.

Then, something unexpected happened—the kerosene lamps on the stone walls that had illuminated the entire dungeon went out one after another.

The dungeon was suddenly shrouded in endless darkness again, and one could not see one's hand in front of one's face.

The strong evil spirit that had been lingering around the master seemed to have lost its support and quickly disappeared completely.

The master, who was originally preparing to chase after Li Li and the others, stopped at this moment because of his deep concern and reluctance to leave Ye Hua.

It happened so quickly that Master turned around at lightning speed.

His wide sleeves drew a graceful arc in the air, and then suddenly lifted up, like a gentle spring breeze, just right to gently embrace Ye Hua's falling body into his arms.

"You are just like your mother. You only know how to torture me like this."

"Master, please, let them go. I promise you, I will never see them again in this life..."

Ye Hua gasped for breath, looked at his master with tears in his eyes, and made this final prayer and promise before he slowly fainted.

The master held Ye Hua, whose body temperature was gradually getting colder, in his arms. It was hard to refuse such a small person.

But the stubbornness on her face had not dissipated at all, her tightly furrowed brows expressed her worry and uneasiness, and her hands were still tightly grasping her master's hands, unwilling to let go...

Spring goes and autumn comes, winter comes and goes, and the years pass by quickly like a white horse passing by.

The alternation of the four seasons is like a never-ending gorgeous dance, and I don’t know how many cycles it has performed.

In spring, the earth wakes up from its slumber, all things revive, and flowers bloom.

In summer, the sun is scorching, the trees are green and shady, and the sounds of cicadas and frogs are endless.

As autumn arrives, the cool breeze brings coolness, the fruits are plentiful, and the rice fields are a golden scene of harvest.

The cold winter is coming, the snow is white and the ice is frozen for thousands of miles, and the whole world is covered in silver.

In this way, spring, summer, autumn and winter cycle back and forth, and each change is a magical and wonderful masterpiece of nature.

They are like marks in the long river of time, witnessing the growth, prosperity and withering of all things in the world.

Ye Hua was still sitting in meditation quietly in the center of the deep pool into which the waterfall fell, and he was reluctant to wake up.

Hua Ye even stirred up huge waves in Ye Hua's sea of ​​consciousness out of boredom.

"Sister, if you don't wake up, I'm afraid I'll be so depressed that I'll cut my neck with a knife and strangle you!"

Hua Ye cursed and swung the soft sword again, slashing at the boundless sea of ​​consciousness.

"Your master is truly inhuman. Afraid that you might cause trouble again and run down the mountain, he imprisoned you in this deep pool, keeping you alive while keeping you unconscious. You're imprisoned on Qingcheng Mountain forever. He's truly incredibly cruel..."

Hua Ye cursed and shouted until she finally collapsed in exhaustion in her sea of ​​consciousness. She lay on her back with her arms and legs spread out, looking hopeless. The endless days of imprisonment had made her lose a lot of vitality.

Just as she was about to close her eyes, Ye Hua's soul appeared before her without any warning.

"You look so much like me. Could it be that you are really my past life, and I, Hua Ye, am the result of tens of thousands of years of reincarnation to form this life?"

"Maybe? Why don't you say that you are my past life, and I, Ye Hua, am your present life."

Ye Hua's tone was flat, and he showed no interest in Hua Ye who appeared in his sea of ​​consciousness.

"Are you giving up just like that? Are you really going to follow your perverted master's wishes and be trapped in this tiny place forever, never leaving?"

Hua Ye sat up suddenly. Without time to dodge, Ye Hua was hit face to face by the two men, and their foreheads instantly turned red.

"You've lived two lives, how come you're still so unstable?"

After hearing what Ye Hua said, Hua Ye, who was still touching his forehead, was immediately ignited and retorted without mercy.

"You are the descendant of the only supreme immortal in the fairy world. How can you allow yourself to be imprisoned here? You are simply embarrassing your mother."

"What do you mean? You are just a lowly cultivator, yet you dare to speak so rudely? I will tear your mouth apart."

The two people with extremely similar appearances fought each other, showing their fangs and claws without holding back.

There were claw marks all over his face and neck, and his hair was messed up like a chicken coop that could lay eggs.

The two men didn't know how long they fought before they stopped, sat down on the ground, looked up at each other, and laughed at the same time.

“Haha…you…haha…”

The two of them laughed and then shut up together in tacit understanding.

After a while, Hua Ye spoke first, breaking the sudden silence.

"Anyway, if I were Hua Ye, I would never accept my fate. No matter if he is the king of heaven or a great immortal, as long as I am still alive, I will never compromise. You should do the same."

Hua Ye lifted Ye Hua's face firmly, his eyes firm as if he wanted to convey all the courage in his heart to Ye Hua's heart.

"And there's also that old pervert like him. I have reason to suspect there was something else behind your mother's death. It's definitely not like what he said, that she died together with your father.

"How could a mother bear to let her newborn child die..."

Hua Ye was convinced and steadfast, but the increasingly puzzled tone made Ye Hua's suspicion grow and spread...

In fact, she had doubted it before, but she just couldn't imagine that the master who had pampered her until she was completely untainted by the worldly affairs could be such a filthy, despicable and deceitful person.

"You clearly suspected it before, why... why... why... you just didn't want to investigate the truth? You were deceived by his cold and doting face, and you didn't dare to think about it, right?"

Hua Ye became more and more excited as he spoke, as if she was also involved in it. Her anger reminded her of the betrayal in her previous life, and her rage of being disappointed in someone had reached its peak.

Ye Hua was given a splitting headache by what she said, but he had to face the reality. It was like someone had torn off his fig leaf and he had to face the problem squarely.

Ye Hua bit his lip, a look of determination flashed in his eyes: "You are right, I can't escape anymore."

Hua Ye nodded with satisfaction.

"That's right. But we have to find a way to break free from this confinement first."

Ye Hua closed his eyes and felt the fluctuations of spiritual energy around him. Suddenly he opened his eyes and said, "There is a weak spot at the bottom of this deep pool. Maybe we can give it a try."

So Hua Ye used all his strength to hit Ye Hua's soul back into his body.

"I will also transfer all my life's cultivation to you. This time, you must open your eyes and see clearly what kind of person your master, whom you have respected and loved since childhood, is..."

Ye Hua felt strength surging into her body, and she used her spiritual power to swim towards the bottom of the deep pool.

After finding the weak point, she concentrated her spiritual power and struck hard.

Cracks appeared on the wall of the pool and gradually expanded, eventually creating an exit.

She seemed to have awakened, and her movements were swift and agile, and she rushed out of the deep pool barrier in one go.

At a glance, it was clear that her immortal power and spiritual power had increased immensely and were continuously oozing out.