Chapter 8: Snake (2)

  Xia Yanyi, still focused on the task of opening the Night Pearl, didn't even want to waste the effort of turning her head: "Huh? It's a family heirloom, my ancestor gave it to me a few years ago. He said I'm always either pretending or hiding underground, and told me to wear it in case it can ward off disasters."

  "Preventing a disaster? I think it's more like you're inviting one. " Ao Yuan let out a cold snort, seeing Xia Yun fly frowning and turning her head to scold him, he flicked his tail towards the direction of the table, "You should take a look at what's on the case before making a conclusion."

  Xia Yanfei pocketed the last night pearl with satisfaction, zipped up and jumped down while responding: "I said you can't just bite your own tail and play for a while, do you have to disturb my work?"

  Then she lowered her head and saw a black jade dragon pendant that was exactly the same as the one she wore: "What the f**k is this?! Twin fish pendants? Are you kidding me?!!"

  But Xiaoyan Fei, although she shouted so loudly, was actually carefully calculating what this was all about. The white jade dragon pendant she wore was one of the Summer family's heirlooms, and when Old Master Summer gave it to her, many people in the clan were secretly jealous and spoke ill of her to the old master. But no matter who said what, they couldn't shake Old Master Summer's resolve. So what kind of disaster was this supposed to ward off? And her jade pendant just happened to be identical to the dragon-shaped pattern used as a token by the four major families - was it just a coincidence or was there something hidden behind it?

  The more Xiaoyan thought about it, the more her brow furrowed, and she slowly took off the white jade pendant that had been with her for many years. Because of being close to her body for a long time, the white jade dragon showed a warm feeling from the inside out under the flashlight, but she found that the white jade dragon that had been close to her body all along was emitting a strange red glow.

  Xia Yanfei placed her jade pendant next to the black jade dragon on the table and carefully compared them. Her fake techniques were superb, so comparing these ancient objects was a piece of cake for her. Ao Yuan, who was standing behind her, had somehow also wandered over to the table and was watching her with an expression that was so focused it could kill. He swallowed the words that were on the tip of his tongue.

  He didn't want to be stepped on again by the seemingly gentle girl in front of him because of one sentence, heaven knows how this girl's strength is so great, and he didn't think that with such a force, which man in the world would still dare to marry her.

  Ao Yuan thought of a girl he once knew, with black hair down to her waist and blue eyes that seemed to hold the entire Eastern Sea within them. When she smiled, her eyes would slightly narrow, looking delicate yet being a fierce character who could sweep through all the beacon fires in the world.

  He could even clearly describe her taking off the silver helmet and shaking open her long hair, at which time she turned back to look at him with a surprised and delighted smile.

  But these can only be scenes left in his memory.

  Xia Yu Fei's heart was filled with a mix of emotions as she stared at the two pendants, which were identical in every way except for their color. Even the patterns on the jade surface were exactly the same. Fang Chen Ye had brought her all the way here with half-truths and half-deceptions - was it all just for this?

  "Would you care to explain?" She was getting increasingly annoyed, her tone not improving as she spoke to Ao Yuan. Ao Yuan, seemingly anticipating this reaction, lazily leaned against the desk and began to speak in a slow, measured tone, his voice tinged with an inexplicable smile: "I was wrong from the start. The way to unseal it wasn't through a blood contract, but rather... it's you, with this white jade pendant."

  After a pause, Ao Yuan glanced at Xia Yunfei's tightly furrowed brow and continued: "This yin-yang dragon jade was originally born from the depths of ten zhang under the earth, a great calamity. The yin jade is for sealing, while the yang jade is for unsealing. However, to activate the yin-yang dragon jade, there is an extremely difficult condition - it requires the life of a woman with all four pillars and eight characters in her birth chart being yin as a sacrifice, and even if she is forced, it still cannot be activated. What a sinister method you've come up with, Ghost King!"

  "......Can't you stop being sentimental for now?!" Xia Yunfei's fur stood on end, wanting to throw Ao Yuan under her feet and trample him again. Was this a joke?! According to what he said, was Xia Yunfei already a dead person?! Who curses people like that?!

  She remembered the night before entering the mountain, that old man said something behind the floating smoke that didn't make sense.

  "Girls, you few this time entering the mountain, if someone is carrying jade in, then they will be kept in the mountain by the Green Dragon."

  At that time, she just laughed and said a few people had already left the jade decorations at home and hadn't brought them out, then bid farewell and returned to her room. Who would have thought it would end up like this now?

  Agilely dodging her hand, Ao Yuan swiftly escaped from the table: "You should be grateful that the heart's blood you accidentally dripped just now formed an incomplete blood contract with me. If not for this blood contract temporarily merging our lifespans into one body, your three souls and seven spirits would have been collected by this Yang Jade long ago, never to reincarnate again!"

  Xia Yan, who heard this sentence, stopped her pursuit of Ao Yuan with an unexpected halt. Ao Yuan, who was unbelievable, slightly turned his head to look at her, and as a result, Xia Yan's face sank like water, and she was frightened into a cold sweat.

  After all... having no expression is one of the most terrifying expressions.

  "Temporarily? Just tell me how much time I have left to live."

  Ao Yuan fell silent for half a day, and finally slowly spat out the boundary between life and death: "Three years. Even if I were to make a blood contract with you now, it would only be able to withstand this Yang Jade for five years at most."

  "Alright." Xia Yanyi nodded, neatly sheathing her short knife. "After I send you out of this tomb, we'll go our separate ways. I'm going to find a way to get rid of this ghostly thing."

  "She snorted coldly: 'Three years? I'll let that ghost king see that Xia Yanyan is more long-lived than three years!'"

  He was stunned on the spot by a sentence, and it seemed that someone had said the same thing in his memory. What happened to that person later?

  He slowly remembered, oh, that person seemed to have died under the Yinyang Longyu after all, with a look of extreme fear, his eyes wide open, truly dying without closing his eyes.

  Ao Yuan lightly swished his tail and suddenly became interested in the girl in front of him. Putting aside that she had helped him unseal himself, he was more curious to see how far a girl who dared to dig up graves and harm her own yin virtue could defy heaven.

  After making up his mind, he slowly opened his mouth: "You are suffering from this calamity because of me. I have been with you for three years, using all my strength to resolve the great calamity of the yin and yang dragon jade."

  Ke Xiaoyan flew back but only gave him a cold glance, lightly laughing and opening her mouth: "No need. This is my own matter, no need for you to intervene."

  "It was agreed that once you're sent away, everything will be over, it's that simple."

  "I, Xia Yanfei, will brave this calamity with all my might. Even if I die in the face of it, I will do so willingly!"