Her destiny stolen? The Divine Witch Ancestor has returned!

"You...you mean the capital city?!"

"Could it be that you are one too—"

Yu Ying's eyes widened, and she even stepped on the broken pieces of the cup.

She lunged at Wu Zhao and grabbed his arm tightly.

"You, you're from the capital? Then, do you know Professor Wu Ping of the History Department at Imperial University?"

Wu Zhao was taken aback for a moment. "Sorry, I haven't heard of it."

How can she explain that she's an old-fashioned person who doesn't really understand the modern world?

Yu Ying's expectant expression froze instantly.

She let go of his hand, somewhat disappointed.

"Yes...it's been many years...it's been, it's been a long time..."

"We can't go back, we can't get out..."

Her expression was sad and bewildered, and the way she muttered to herself made her seem somewhat possessed.

Wu Zhao reached out and patted her shoulder.

"It's possible that I just haven't heard of it, but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist."

"You've been here for so long, haven't you ever thought about leaving?"

"And... with your husband in this condition, he could die at any moment if he stays in the village."

Yu Ying smiled bitterly as she walked to the bedside and touched the pale, haggard man on the bed.

"How could we not want to leave? We were thinking about leaving as soon as we came in here out of nowhere."

"At that time, we couldn't leave at all."

As if she had thought of something incomprehensible, Yu Ying's expression turned somewhat unpleasant.

"He and I were chasing... a group of people who broke into this village."

"It's strange, really. Once we entered the village, it was completely different from the outside world... The way people live and the way they speak are different from ours."

"This village is eerie. We've been here for so long, and we've hardly seen any young women..."

Yu Ying picked up a towel from the basin beside the bed and carefully wiped her husband's face.

His once handsome face had become so thin that he looked almost unrecognizable, but Yu Ying's gaze towards him was still full of love.

"He's a decisive person, so naturally he wanted to find out what was going on in such a strange place... After realizing we couldn't leave, we stayed here for the time being."

"The group we were chasing...we lost them because of that."

"But the villagers are very wary of us, and we can hardly get any information out of them. Also... the high priest who suddenly came to the village is a bit strange."

After hearing her story, Wu Zhao frowned.

Did Junwu actually... suddenly arrive in the village?

She thought that time might flow differently in this village than outside, so Wu Zhao wasn't sure how long the couple had been missing.

However, from Yu Ying's words, Wu Zhao still keenly perceived some key information.

They came following someone else.

In addition, there are some of Yu Ying's little habits, such as her tone of voice and facial expressions when she speaks.

All of this reminded Wu Zhao of one person.

Gu Jiaxi.

"You and your husband are both police officers in the Imperial Capital Garrison, right?"

“I’ve dealt with the Security Forces before, and you give me the impression of being very similar to them.”

A flicker of wariness crossed Yu Ying's eyes.

Her gaze toward Wu Zhao also turned colder.

It seemed to be a warning to Wu Zhao.

"Don't be nervous."

Wu Zhao noticed her defensiveness and spoke.

You've probably heard of the Gu family in the capital, right?

The Gu family in Imperial Capital?

"You...you're from the Gu family?"

Yu Ying had naturally heard of the Gu family's great reputation.

Because the young master of the Gu family, who pretended to be devoted to his wife, brought his true love and illegitimate child into the family not long after his first wife passed away.

This angered the head of the Gu family so much that he ended up in the hospital.

This matter was the talk of the town in the capital, and she had heard about it.

Seeing that Yu Ying seemed a little troubled, Wu Zhao raised an eyebrow.

"Perhaps the Gu family you're talking about isn't the same one I'm referring to. The current head of the Gu family is... named Gu Chen."

When Wu Zhao uttered that name, there was a slight fluctuation in his eyes.

Yu Ying was taken aback.

"Gu Chen? I remember he's the child of the first wife... but isn't he still very young?"

If she remembered correctly, she and her husband had only been in this village for three years.

Young?

Thinking of the tall and handsome Gu Chen, Wu Zhao smiled with a hint of amusement.

“You… may have been missing from your family's sight for more than ten years.”

Ten, more than ten years?!

Somewhat shocked, Yu Ying gasped, and a youthful face suddenly flashed into her mind.

Her voice trembled with a hint of tears.

"How, how could this be... I thought it was only three years, three years..."

"What will happen to Wenwen? She must be so heartbroken..."

The thought that she and her husband had missed out on their daughter for more than ten years made Yu Ying tremble.

She held her husband's hand tightly.

"Wu Xingzhou... when are you going to stop sleeping? Our child, we've already missed so many years...!"

Wu Zhao turned the ring on his hand, and a red light flashed from the ring.

……

The present world, the ancient village.

"The teacher's entire family has the same symptoms."

Wei Wenxue looked serious; he had just examined Professor Wu and his wife.

"His breathing is steady, and his heartbeat and pulse are normal."

The person was unresponsive and had those unknown totems on their face.

Wu Xingyun tugged at Phoenix's beautiful tail feathers.

"What happened to them?"

Phoenix pecked Wu Xingyun's cheeky hand and jumped onto his head in annoyance.

"They've been influenced by this lousy village."

This village has a profound influence on certain bloodlines, and Professor Wu's family probably has some special relationship with this village.

Those who were spying from the outside mostly sensed it as well.

So they decided to target these three people, and obviously they succeeded.

Phoenix was a little confused.

Professor Wu and his family are just ordinary people, and there is no spiritual energy fluctuation on them at all.

Compared to Wu Xingyun, who possesses the bloodline of the Wu family, and Huo Weiwei, who is blessed with good fortune, these three people are truly useless.

Barbatos, somewhat bored, crossed his arms and casually glanced at them, a hint of schadenfreude in his expression.

Phoenix was too hesitant to have much contact with him, so he didn't notice Barbatos's meaningful gaze.

Interesting, it's actually a summoning between ancient bloodlines...

It seems that the owner was taken to that time.

Barbatos's eyes flickered.

If something happens in a place like that, it won't be their problem, right?

A faint sense of expectation and ambition rose in his heart.

Suddenly, an extremely terrifying pressure locked onto him.

That feeling of fear that could take his life at any moment and destroy him completely.

Barbatos straightened up instinctively, his drooping fingers trembling.

"Heavens, the Way of Heaven..."

A cold and authoritative voice rang in his ear.

With contempt and warning.

"You filthy demon, are you courting death?"

"If anything were to happen to her... you would have no reason to exist in this world."