Zhou Zishu felt there was reason in these words, and did not know how to comfort him either. In the end, he admitted honestly, “That is true.”

By this point, Ye Baiyi and Wen Kexing had literally raised the roof. The two of them leapt outside and continued their fight, but this dark prison was greatly brightened all of a sudden. As though he could feel the sun, Long Que reached a trembling hand out to it, and sighed in deep satisfaction.

Zhou Zishu was about to speak when Ye Baiyi, unable to tolerate it any further, raged outside the house, “What are you sticking your nose in this for, rascal? Long, I have to know what happened to Rong Xuan all those years ago no matter what. He was my disciple!”

With this roar, even Long Que was given pause. Wen Kexing’s leg froze in a horizontal sweep mid-air. Holding this comical posture, he regarded Ye Baiyi with an odd gaze, ruminating that since Rong Xuan and Long Que were of the same generation, and Ye Baiyi was Rong Xuan’s shifu...could this Ye person really be a long-lived tortoise bastard[33]?

Ye Baiyi glared at him frostily, and turned to return to the house. Standing in front of Long Que, he looked down upon him from a height, and said stiffly, “Back then, Rong Xuan stole the Six Harmonies Cultivation Mantra from me, left the mountain, and never returned. Today, because of what he has left behind, the pugilist world of the Central Plains has invoked the Realm’s Command. Do I not deserve to know what happened all those years ago?”

Long Que asked, “You are Ye...Ye…”

“I am Ye Baiyi.”

Long Que took a deep breath and shook his head, sighing. “I didn’t think that Senior would still be alive…”

An elderly person whose hair and whiskers were entirely white was addressing a person with a young man’s face “Senior”--this scene before his eyes was extremely uncanny.

Zhou Zishu thought for a bit, then interjected, “I stumbled across a Puppet Manor trap with two human puppets, male and female. There are many human puppets in this manor, but all of them are bare-headed, polished, and made from the same mould. None of them are like that couple, who were made with great detail and resembled actual human beings. Senior Long, that pair of human puppets of yours, were they you and your esteemed wife, or Rong Xuan and his wife?”

Long Que closed his eyes. A long while later, he finally replied, “Rong Xuan and his wife.”

Zhou Zishu said in a soft voice, “In the end, they dashed each other’s skulls to smithereens.”

Long Que’s hand trembled almost unnoticeably. Ye Baiyi asked, “Rong Xuan underwent a qi deviation?”

Long Que nodded silently, and said, “Indeed. Before Madam Rong died, he had already descended into insanity from qi deviation. Madam Rong died at his hands.”

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