Fingers as white as jade grasped my father's wrist tightly, as if taking root, and the unparalleled speed stopped in an instant.
And the moment I heard this voice, I couldn't help but be slightly startled.
Because I have heard this voice before, even though it was only twice, but it is like a brand, deeply imprinted in my mind.
At the same time, I couldn't help but pictured in my mind the scene of me digging the Nine Orifices Exquisite Monument at the end of the village when my grandfather passed away.
That fluttering white dress is still unforgettable to this day.
I turned my head blankly and looked at the white figure that suddenly appeared next to me. It was exactly the same as what I saw then, which suddenly gave me an unreal feeling.
At this moment, my dad also raised his head and looked at the woman in white, with an incredible expression in his dark eyes.
At this moment, time seemed to stand still.
Two figures, one white and one black, were close at hand, their eyes facing each other. A complex emotion appeared in those dark eyes.
I breathed a long sigh of relief. No matter how stupid I was at this moment, I already understood everything in my heart.
This woman in white clothes is none other than the little white snake. What is different from when she appeared before is that she no longer has that eerie and terrifying aura, but has a kind of righteousness and softness. I don't know if it is because of the disease.
The merits of our Zhang family actually gave me a feeling of closeness.
I wasn't too surprised by this, but I raised my head and looked at my dad's familiar face. The soul inside this body, I seemed to have an idea of what was going on!
Zhang Tianqi, Tianzi generation, haha... isn't this the seniority of our Zhang family?
However, the truth is so cruel to me that my brain is buzzing at this moment and I can't believe it is true!
At this time, the soul that occupied my father's body finally spoke after staring blankly at the woman in white for a moment:
"You, you are still alive?"
The woman in white sneered, and a touch of cold ridicule appeared on her face, which looked like a fairy descending from the earth: "You are not dead, how can I be willing to do so?"
There was a bone-chilling resentment in his words.
At the same time, a strong momentum suddenly burst out from her body. The jade-like palm suddenly exerted force, and a bang was heard. My father's body was directly bounced backward by this force.
It flew more than ten meters before stopping.
The moment his feet landed on the ground, the stone slabs on the ground shattered into several pieces with a click.
However, what surprised me was that he was not angry, but raised his head with complex eyes, and looked at the face of the woman in white again, with a hint of helplessness in his eyes.
"Do you hate me so much?"
The woman in white snorted coldly, her voice even more like the ice of Jiuyou, "I can't wait to eat its flesh and drink its blood. For hundreds of years, I have been cursing you every day and night to never be reincarnated."
Faced with the vicious words of the woman in white, the other party just opened her mouth and let out a helpless sigh.
"Yun Ruo, it was all my fault in the first place. I know I can't make up for it, but I really have no choice, and neither do our Zhang family members..."
"Shut up, you have no right to call me by my name, you perfidious hypocrite!" Yun Ruo interrupted him.
As expected, the other party obediently closed his mouth and did not speak again.
At this time, Yun Ruo turned her head and glanced at me, hesitated for a moment, and then said: "From now on, my grudges with you will be wiped out. After all, the grudges between me and your Zhang family have nothing to do with you. I owe this meritorious favor to you."
Accept it, and as long as I am alive today, I will protect you from death."
I nodded and said thank you.
Then, I set my eyes on my dad, my eyes were extremely complicated. I took a deep breath and then I picked up the ghost-slaying sword and walked towards him step by step until I walked to the door two meters away in front of him.
place, and then stopped.
The other party looked at me calmly and did not choose to attack again.
After a moment, I suddenly inserted the ghost-slaying sword in my hand into the ground under my feet with a clang, then bent my knees and knelt down in front of my dad.
"Zhang Zhiyang, the 9th generation descendant of the Zhang family's coffin-carrying line, pays homage to the great ancestor!"
While I was talking, I kowtowed to the other party respectfully three times. The other party did not move and accepted my kneeling calmly.
"How do you know it's me? My name is not left in the merit book!"
"Your name is not left in the merit book, but there is a Tianzi generation in our Zhang family, and you also said before that your soul has been integrated with my father's body. They are close relatives of flesh and blood.
It’s something that only people can do, so the answer is already obvious!”
The other party nodded slightly, with a hint of approval in his eyes.
"Based on these, you can analyze my identity. You are very smart. Yes, I am your great ancestor Zhang Tianqi. It is not unfair for you to kowtow. Get up!"
I glanced at him and then slowly stood up from the ground.
"I didn't want you to know my identity, but now that you have guessed it, I want to know what you are going to do next?" Zhang Tianqi asked.
I didn't answer his question, but stretched out my hand and pulled out the Demon Slayer Sword.
"I kneel to you because of the love of blood, because you are my great-grandfather, Zhang Jiuyang, and because of the rules that have been passed down for thousands of years. But now I want to ask you, why are you in my father's body?"
This is the question I want to know the most. Although I still have bold guesses in my heart, I still want to hear some different answers from his mouth, because I am really afraid that the truth is what I imagined.
…
Unexpectedly, he spoke directly without any hesitation.
"It's simple, because I took away your father's body."
My body trembled violently. Although I was prepared in my heart, when I heard him say this, especially when he said it without any scruples, I still felt that my heart was stabbed by a knife.
An unbearable pain.
"Why? Why are you doing this?" I asked through gritted teeth.
"It's very simple, because I don't want to die, I want to live forever, I want to change this fate, and I want to resist this way of heaven!" Zhang Tianqi's cold voice came out of my father's mouth.
"What the hell is heaven again!! He is your blood descendant and your great-great-grandson." I growled.
My eyes turned red, and tears began to well up in my eyes. I don’t know if it was because of hate or pain.
But the truth is so cruel.
This time, he was silent for the first time.
I stared at him, hoping he could give me an answer, a different answer...
Because, I am still expecting, expecting him to have a reasonable explanation, even if he tells me that he did it as a last resort, after all, he is my great ancestor, his blood flows in my body, and my father’s body
His blood is also flowing...
But he didn't!
He just looked at me silently, his eyes were calm and cold. His eyes seemed to be telling me that the so-called blood and family ties were worthless to him.
My heart sank bit by bit, like a dead quagmire.
Footsteps sounded, and Yun Ruo walked to my side.
"Zhang Jiuyang, put away your fragile emotions, because even a little bit of your emotions and delusions are superfluous to him. He will not have any softness or hesitation because you are his descendant, just like he did back then.
He treats me the same way, without any hesitation or mercy, because he is such a very ruthless person!"
I turned my head and glanced at Yun Ruo. I couldn't help but feel a little curious, so I couldn't help but ask:
"What is your relationship with Gaozu?"
Yun Ruo smiled coldly, "Do you still remember the snake bone under the stone tablet?"
I nodded, of course I remembered.
"That is my true body, and the copper nail that Lin Wan pulled up was nailed in by him with his own hands. Before that, I was his lover, the lover who stayed with him through thick and thin!"
This answer was both unexpected and within my expectations.
I couldn't help but sigh. I never imagined that my great ancestor, Zhang Jiuyang, would be such a person.
"Now, do you understand? This person is a cruel, greedy and selfish hypocrite."