Against The Heavens 131 The Suspicions About Their Reincarnation.

Li Yang walked into the cave, a small orb of fire floating in front of him to provide a source of light as he got deeper into the cave. When he reached the end of the cave, the corners of his lips couldn't help but twitch slightly. There was a rather large house standing in front of him, it was so large that it almost perfectly fit into the cave both height-wise and length-wise.

Li Yang pushed open the strangely ornate and wavy door of the house, entering a s.p.a.cy living room that contained an excessive amount of couches and tables, it looked more like a reception room than a living room. Seeing Zhao Feng and Fang Ying sitting on two of the couches that surrounded a rectangular crystal table, drinking tea from what appeared to be jade cups, he couldn't help but comment.

"Why the h.e.l.l are you just carrying a house wherever you go?"

He was certain that Fang Ying wasn't the one who brought this house so it could only have been Zhao Feng. But he couldn't figure out just why he would be carrying around an entire house, taking up needless s.p.a.ce in his interspatial ring. Zhao Feng put down his cup and then waved his finger in front of his face, clicking his tongue a few times.

"Houses, it's plural, get it right. And what, you don't carry around a few houses with you as you travel? I'd say it's pretty normal."

Fang Ying let out a soft laugh when she saw Zhao Feng's haughty manner, she had already undone her fusion so Langshen was lying on her left and resting his head in her lap, clearly somewhat drained after having to stay fused with her for the entire previous battle. Li Yang walked over to the couch, rolling his eyes all the while.

"Oh well, f.u.c.king excuse me for not knowing the contents of your interspatial ring. And no, no I don't carry around a few houses, I'd say it's pretty far from normal. What sort of reason could you possibly have for bringing along a house, much less more than one?"

Not even in his past life had Li Yang, or Zhao Feng for that matter, dragged around a house in their interspatial ring, they just dug simple caves or rested in inns when they wanted to sleep. Li Yang meant for his question to be rhetorical, but Zhao Feng still stretched out finger after finger, listing several reasons.

"Well, first of all, you can use it to sleep at night, you can cover it in arrays for defense, use it for cooking when you want fresh food, when you want to invite guests, when you want to rest in a good be..."

Li Yang snapped his finger and caused a small hand of ice to appear above Zhao Feng, the hand chopped down on Zhao Feng's head and interrupted him. Meanwhile, Li Yang rubbed the bridge of his nose and let out an exasperated breath.

"I'll cut you off there, I feel like listening to anymore will give me a headache. Really, you were eccentric in the past, but you've reached new heights now, you've become an actual spoiled prince."

Li Yang could only chalk this up to the fact that Zhao Feng had been born as the Silver Dragon Prince of the Demon Race, who else would give him stupid ideas like this? Zhao Feng didn't disagree, swatting away the hand of ice while beating his chest and declaring in a grand voice.

"d.a.m.n right! Once you get a taste of the good life, you can never go back! Just you wait, Shu'er will agree with me once we find her again!"

Li Yang could only let out a sigh, waving his arm and causing the hand of ice to dissipate. He glanced at the jade cups and the tea in them for a short second before sitting down on the seat right next to Fang Ying, leaning against the back of the couch.

"Alright, hand me some actual drink and let's get on to the actual topic at hand, how you guys managed to reincarnate."

Li Yang wasn't much of a tea person, he had always been fonder of wine, a fact that was true even in this new life of his. Now that they weren't in the midst of a battle they also finally had time to hear about how Zhao Feng and the others had managed to reincarnate on their own, a feat that was practically impossible. Zhao Feng nodded his head but then seemed to remember something, swiping his interspatial ring and bringing out a gourd that seemed to have been made using the sh.e.l.l of a strange pear-like fruit that had markings similar to a watermelon.

"Before that, you should try this. I had the brewers in our capital do their best to replicate Old Mam Chao's wine, it's quite an experience to drink it."

Li Yang slightly raised an eyebrow when he accepted the gourd. The wine from Old Man Chao was one of the best wines even back when they were at their peak, they had drunk it whenever they had the chance. Fang Ying had the people of the Tian clan attempt to replicate it, but while it ended up close it wasn't quite the same. Li Yang put the gourd to his mouth and swallowed a good mouthful, spitting it out almost instantly while cursing.

"f.u.c.k! That's absolutely vile!"

The wine in the gourd wasn't even fit to be called drinkable, it tasted like muddy water that had been tainted with blood and all sorts of excrements. Zhao Feng burst out laughing when he saw Li Yang's reaction, slapping his thighs while tears started to gather at the edge of his eyes.

"HAHAHA, it really is, isn't it?! They failed horribly, spectacularly so, so much that I find myself wondering just how they f.u.c.ked up that much!"

Li Yang quickly cleaned the insides of his mouth, using fire to burn away any traces of the wine and then melting some ice in his mouth to wash it all away. He then threw the gourd at Zhao Feng, who quickly dodged it.

"If you knew that, then why the f.u.c.k would you make me taste it?"

Zhao Feng didn't respond, he simply used his chin to point at the person sitting next to Li Yang, Fang Ying. Li Yang turned his head and saw that Fang Ying was covering her mouth with her hands, doing her best, and failing, to suppress her laughter. Now that he looked closer at her he could see that the sleeves of her robe were slightly wet, she must have tried the wine and then spat it out, drying her mouth with her sleeves. Once again betrayed by his own wife, Li Yang felt a sense of dejvu wash over him.

"You're a monster, woman, you know that?"

Fang Ying wasn't bothered by Li Yang's cursing, removing her hands from in front of her mouth and smiling at him. She stretched out one of her hands, sliding her finger down Li Yang's nose before giving it a slight tap, smiling charmingly.

"Yup, and so are you. But I'm your monster and you're mine so it's all fine."

Li Yang wanted to at least maintain a sliver of his annoyance, but he knew he had lost when he saw her charming smile, he never could say no to that. He leaned his head closer, Fang Ying mimicking his actions, but a loud cough from Zhao Feng interrupted them.

"Guys, please stop, the sweetness will make me nauseous."

The two of them turned their heads slightly and glanced at him but then swiftly ignored him, leaning closer to each other and sharing a long kiss. They kept their kiss going until Zhao Feng waved his hands in defeat and started telling their tale.

"Alright alright, I won't joke around anymore, so please stop. Shortly after the two of you were killed, I and the others felt that the speed at which our strength grew became even slower than normal, it even started to decrease after about a hundred thousand years pa.s.sed. We wanted to take revenge on Jing Yimu, but he seemed as spry as ever, even when our strengths started to decrease. As our strength decreased more and more, we decided to try and merge our powers and reincarnate so that we could start cultivating again, we'd be able to perfectly utilize our talent and previous knowledge."

Li Yang and Fang Ying ended their kiss, intently listening to what Zhao Feng was saying. They couldn't help but share a glance when they heard that their strengths started to decrease after time. It wasn't exactly uncommon amongst cultivators, but that was only amongst cultivators who were approaching the end of their lives. At that point in time, they should only be around a million years old, they should have at least a few hundred million years left in them considering their cultivation. Zhao Feng stopped talking to give Li Yang and Fang Ying a chance to digest the information, letting out a sigh as he continued to speak.

"Even with all our powers combined, it was far from easy to maintain our souls and try to sneak them into reincarnation, but we seemed to be on the right track. But then, just as we reached the final step, we failed. Something interfered, actually interfered with our souls just as we placed them into reincarnation. I know it sounds impossible, but that's actually what happened. The last I heard before my soul started to disintegrate was 'we want our freedom, so you must perish for them'."

The expressions of Li Yang and Fang Ying grew serious when they heard how Zhao Feng and the others failed. The cycle of reincarnation was governed by the heavens themselves, just sneaking in a few souls was hard enough, so just how hard would it be to interfere with souls already located in the cycle? They kept listening, because the presence of Zhao Feng meant that something else had surely happened in the end.

"And then, just when I thought my soul had completely dissipated, I heard a jovial laughter ring through the darkness. 'Heheheh, those two old b.a.s.t.a.r.ds think they can play around as they please, eh? But if they think that I'll let them f.u.c.k around like that then they're dead wrong. Oy, little kiddo, I'll give you and those buddies of yours a hand here, I'll even have those other lazy bones help me hide you from those old b.a.s.t.a.r.ds. You'll end up where you want to be, so you just run around and cause as much chaos as you like'."

Zhao Feng's story reminded Li Yang and Fang Ying of how the two of them had ended up being able to reincarnate, two unknown people or beings had sent their souls into reincarnation. Could the one that helped, as well as the one that interfered, with Zhao Feng and the others be people of the same cla.s.s?

The serious air Zhao Feng had about him while telling his story vanished the moment he finished talking, he leaned back in the couch and downed his cup of tea in a single gulp, grinning at Li Yang and Fang Ying.

"I'll tell you, at that time it had already been quite a few years since I was last called kiddo by someone. But whoever that was, they weren't lying, I ended up where I wanted to be. Had we reincarnated as we planned, I would have been born about two million years before the two of you, we'd already be old fogies by the time we met again."