"Ugh~" Gu Yuncheng was a little flustered, not daring to meet Ling Luoyi's eyes.
"Tell me the truth!"
"Luoluo, it's not that I don't believe you, nor do I think you'll lose. I actually intended to wait for you on the Divine Continent of the Divine Realm at first. But I am the Demon Emperor, and the Divine Emperor wouldn't allow me to stay in the Divine Realm for too long, so I had to leave after a hundred years. Xingyu discovered that the Underworld King was collecting your scattered souls after your death. I thought that whether you became a god or reincarnated, you would visit the Underworld, so I came here to wait for you."
"A'su, I don't think that's what I'm asking."
"Luoluo, I'm sorry, but I still can't just wait for you in the Demon Realm. If you become a god, I hope I'm the first person you see; if you're going to reincarnate, I hope I can find you first. Didn't you say you had a miserable childhood? I want to take you back to the Demon Realm after you're reborn and raise you properly, to make up for the sadness of your childhood."
Upon hearing this, Ling Luoyi was stunned. After a while, she proactively hugged Gu Yuncheng and said, "A'su, you don't need to make up for anything, you owe me nothing."
Speaking of which, the true family affection, friendship, and love Ling Luoyi had felt in her life were all after meeting Gu Yuncheng. Before that, only Wen Zonglin had treated her well, and that was for less than a year.
"Luoluo..." Gu Yuncheng also hugged her tightly.
"Oh, right, this is for you." Gu Yuncheng suddenly took out a bracelet and placed it in front of Ling Luoyi.
"Bone Jade!" Ling Luoyi recognized the bracelet at a glance and cherished it in her hands.
This was her previous bracelet. It originally had one bone jade and eight gemstones of various designs. Now, only one bone jade and seven gemstones remained.
"Luoluo, after I was driven out of the Divine Realm by the Divine Emperor, I first went to Qiu Yuanxi to get the bracelet back before coming to the Underworld to wait for you. Luoluo, drip your blood to recognize your master first, and I'll put it on for you."
"Mm."
Ling Luoyi once again dripped her blood onto the bone jade, watching it absorb it. Then, another connection appeared in her sea of consciousness.
Gu Yuncheng gently placed it on Ling Luoyi's wrist and said, "Luoluo, don't take such risks again in the future. The last time the contract broke, it almost cost me half my life. Can you just pity me a little?"
Ling Luoyi looked at him with heartache. She knew that his pain at that time was not caused by the contract breaking, but by him feeling her death.
"A'su, you know, I had no choice but to take that risk. If I hadn't taken that risk, you wouldn't be seeing me now, nor would you see my reincarnation."
"Luoluo, I understand, so I don't blame you for that. I'm talking about the future, don't take such risks again in the future."
"You can rest assured about that. I'm not that stupid. If it weren't for gambling on this sliver of hope, I would have hidden when the barrier shattered. If I had hidden, I guarantee that even Reid, a powerhouse of the Divine Realm, wouldn't have been able to find me."
Ling Luoyi was not joking. Before the invasion of the Outer Realm Heavenly Demons, she hadn't decided whether to gamble this time. It was only after she returned her power to her that Ling Luoyi made up her mind to take the gamble. Otherwise, she would have faked her death and entered the Fengxi Realm when she fought the Outer Realm Heavenly Demons.
The final outcome would have been the same. She died on the battlefield of the Outer Realm, and it wouldn't have brought shame to her Saintess master, living up to her identity. As for Reid continuing to invade the Human Realm afterward, she couldn't do anything about it anyway, as she wasn't their opponent.
The Fengxi Realm, like the small world of the Ling family, was a new plane created somewhere in the Six Realms. No one knew its exact location. Ling Luoyi only possessed one, and the only key – the Fengxi Bracelet.
At that time, Ling Luoyi didn't know the location, but now she could guess it. The creator of the Fengxi Bracelet was the Wind God Yao Feng and her past life. She had already confirmed that her past life was a god, so the Fengxi Realm should be in the Divine Realm. Given Yao Feng's status, it was highly likely to be in the Divine Domain.
Hearing Ling Luoyi's words, Gu Yuncheng understood that Ling Luoyi had secrets she hadn't told him, and he felt a little sad.
"A'su, I'm sorry, I can't tell you about this."
"It's alright, Luoluo, no need to apologize. Everyone has their own secrets, I understand." Gu Yuncheng stroked Ling Luoyi's head and comforted her softly.
Ling Luoyi smiled and suddenly remembered something. She said, "Oh, right! A'su, you've lived for so many years too, do you know who my past life was? If possible, I'd like to go to her grave to express my gratitude. If it weren't for her divine bone, you might have really had to wait for my reincarnation."
Hearing her words, Gu Yuncheng also smiled and said, "I know the general idea. After the Wind God said your past life was her friend, I had people investigate, but there was no news. I had some vague guesses, and only confirmed them after hearing the Underworld King's words just now."
"Then who was my past life? Was she also a very powerful figure?"
"Yes. Luoluo, don't be too surprised by what I'm about to say."
"I know."
"Luoluo, your past life should be an ancient Demon God. The Wind God Yao Feng you saw earlier was the ancient Wind God, and her best friend was the ancient Demon God. If she said your past life was her friend, then your past life should indeed be the ancient Demon God."
"Ancient Demon God? Could it be that she cultivated into a god from a demonic body?"
"Yes. All things in heaven and earth can cultivate into gods, and demons are no exception. It's just that very few demons can cultivate into gods, because the God and Demon races were always opposed before the appearance of the Outer Realm Heavenly Demons. Therefore, the ancient Demon God was the first and only one in recorded history to cultivate into a god from a demon. Even now, there isn't a second one. However, there are quite a few demons who have fallen from the God race, and this batch is called fallen demons. But 'Demon God' doesn't refer to a demon who cultivated into a god; it's her title, though I suspect it has something to do with that aspect."
"She sounds very powerful. But why would such a figure die?"
"It was during the God-Demon War. The ancient Demon God died in a God-Demon War. I don't know how she died, and now the Six Realms have very little record of the ancient times."
"Indeed. Then A'su, do you know the name of the ancient Demon God? Was she male or female?" Now that she could finally learn about her past life, she naturally had to ask clearly.
Gu Yuncheng was amused by her and said helplessly, "Luoluo, these are all matters of ancient times. Books wouldn't record these. Only those who have lived from ancient times to the present can know these things, but in the current Six Realms, there's only the Underworld King left."
"Him?! Forget it, I already asked him just now."
"Then shall we go back?" Gu Yuncheng hesitated for a moment and asked, "Luoluo, do you want to go back to the Human Realm?"
Ling Luoyi hadn't deliberately thought about the Human Realm since she woke up. Now that Gu Yuncheng asked, she had to answer.
"Let's go. I also want to see how the Human Realm has changed in the past two hundred years."
"Okay. Luoluo, Xingyu had sent me a message saying that Qiu Yuanxi entered the Holy Domain a hundred and twenty years ago, so let's go to the Holy Domain first."
In fact, in the two hundred years after Ling Luoyi's death, although Gu Yuncheng had stayed in the Divine Realm and the Underworld, handing over all matters of the Demon Realm to his sister Gu Yunnuo and seemingly neglecting everything else, he had still been paying attention to Qiu Yuanxi, Wen Zonglin, and the Ling family. However, since Ling Luoyi hadn't mentioned the Ling family, he hadn't brought it up proactively.
"Okay."