Li Zixi learned from Ding Feng that several months later, his young master was finally going to face Xiao Sha, the murderer who had killed him. Li Zixi was excited but also a little worried. He found an opportunity when Yuan Suiyun was not around and went to talk to Yun Chuxiu.

When he found Yun Chuxiu, he was sitting on a large bluestone and playing the flute. Perhaps because he was about to kill his enemy, Yuan Suiyun finally gave him the other Snow Phoenix Ice King Flute that Li Zixi had brought back. Yun Chuxiu originally thought that he would have some psychological trauma after what happened before, but it turned out that he still liked the Snow Phoenix Ice King Flute very much. Therefore, after practicing martial arts these few days, he always kept it with him, and the melodious and crisp short tunes often rang out in the carriage.

He was proficient in musical instruments and was an expert in this field. Not to mention that the Snow Phoenix Ice King Flute was a rare instrument, even a willow leaf picked from the roadside could produce a very beautiful tune in his hands.

Moreover, he and Yuan Suiyun had a very deep relationship. Whenever they were together, they were always in a good mood. When they were in a good mood, the music they played became more and more touching and made people’s hearts tremble.

Therefore, whenever he played music, the servants and maids around him could not help but put down their work and listen quietly, and Li Zixi was no exception. However, what he thought in his heart was: It was fortunate that the young master had been living a life of luxury since he was a child and had never lacked money, otherwise, he should have become a musician long ago, and why would he still be in the underworld!

He was not polite to Yun Chuxiu. As soon as the flute stopped playing, he told him what he was thinking: “Although you are wise and brave, Xiao Sha hurt you in the past… If you don’t want to go, just order me to go. I am your subordinate, so it is you who did it.”

Yun Chuxiu’s eyes sparkled, and he jokingly said to him, “Oh, it’s rare to see you asking for something so proactively. You just made a lot of money, are you still short of money recently?”

Previously, the masters at the top of the Forbidden City had challenged each other to a duel, which caused a bloody storm in all the major gambling houses. I don’t know how many people died as a result, but everyone still wanted to gamble, and some even bet their entire fortunes on it. This shows how much wealth and the desire to win can attract people.

Yun Chuxiu didn’t have much desire to win, but he had just received some new pocket money from his master and the old man, so he took half of it and gave it to Li Zixi, asking him to go to the gambling house to place a bet, and they would split the winnings 50-50. Of course, Li Zixi bet on Ximen Chuxue without hesitation.

——He had already seen the ending, so why would he hesitate?
Li Zixi curled his lips, thinking that if he didn’t have this sucker in front of him, where would he find another person who would split the money with him 50-50? But he said, “Sharing your worries and solving your problems is also for my future.”

“Okay, don’t I know you?” Yun Chuxiu jumped down from the rock and looked up. Yuan Suiyun’s villa was already in sight. “Don’t worry about me. Although Old Yuan won’t take action, he will definitely go with me.”

So that’s how it is. Li Zixi felt relieved instantly. Although he was always afraid of Yuan Suiyun, he also admitted that he was very powerful and had a deep relationship with Yun Chuxiu. With him watching over him, nothing should go wrong.

Thinking of this, he couldn’t help but be curious, so he approached Yun Chuxiu and asked, “Hey, young master, I heard from Ding Feng that we will have a little young master soon?”

“Yes, they are all children of Lao Yuan’s cousin. It is said that Lao Yuan will not only choose one, but several first. He will not choose those who are too old. When they grow up a little and start to practice martial arts, Lao Yuan will choose them.” Yun Chuxiu shrugged. “As expected of Lao Yuan’s father, he knows what Lao Yuan likes. He doesn’t care about anything else. He will definitely not even look at those who have poor talent in martial arts.”

But how can people decide on their own when it comes to talent? Just because he has an extraordinary talent, he can’t expect everyone in the world to have the same talent as him, right? Li Zixi secretly complained, and couldn’t help but feel a little sympathy for this little young master whom he had never met.

But this is a matter for the future, who knows what kind of changes will happen in the future, and of course he is more concerned about Yun Chuxiu’s thoughts. Li Zixi asked: “Young Master, don’t you want to… raise a child of your own?”

“What? Do you want Lao Yuan to give me a child?” Yun Chuxiu thought for a moment, held his hand, and said earnestly: “Charlatan, although I know that you have always been superstitious and think differently from us ordinary people, I want to tell you solemnly – two men cannot give birth to a child!”

Li Zixi: “…”

Li Zixi replied solemnly: “That may not be the case. Ever since I pulled you back from the underworld, I feel that nothing is impossible in this world.”

Yun Chuxiu: “…” Oh my god, I can’t even refute it!

But even though they were playing around, he was not afraid to confess to Li Zixi: “I’m still young, why should I be a father! If it weren’t for the fact that the Yuan family had a manor master to inherit, I wouldn’t want to raise a child so early…”

Li Zixi said sympathetically: “That’s not easy. If you don’t like it, just hand the young master over to the servants to take care of him in the future!”

He had good intentions, but Yun Chuxiu held his chin with one hand and said thoughtfully, “I was thinking, should I go out for a walk with Old Yuan while he can help take care of the children…”

Of course, these are all for later.

After Yuan Suiyun led him into the courtyard, he ordered his subordinates to boil water and cook dinner in an orderly manner. He then took Yun Chuxiu to open the mechanism of the garden and stepped into the water dungeon under the garden. “Does everyone like to build a secret passage under the yard?” Yun Chuxiu held the oil lamp in one hand, a little curious. There was also a mechanism buried under the old man’s garden, not a water dungeon, but an entire river.

It is said that he was ambushed by Ritsukagawa before, but he escaped by relying on this dark river and the boatman who had been guarding the upper reaches of the river for ten years.

“So, is there a dungeon underneath Wuzheng Villa?”

“It used to be there.” Yuan Suiyun answered leisurely. “However, ever since my second uncle and third uncle died there along with many others, my father ordered the secret passage to be sealed. I will talk about unsealing it after I become the owner of the manor.”

Yun Chuxiu then stopped talking. He had met all of Yuan Suiyun’s uncles before, except for the second and third uncles, who had been gone for many years, leaving only two tablets in the ancestral hall.

Everyone in Wuzheng Villa was very secretive about their deaths, but this certainly did not bother Yun Chuxiu, who could sense emotions. Since ancient times, power struggles always resulted in deaths. Even if the original owner of the villa looked gentle and kind, how could he control the entire villa without some tricks?
When they reached the depths of the dungeon, Yuan Suiyun also stopped and motioned Yun Chuxiu to go forward. He didn’t have a lantern in his hand. Yun Chuxiu took a few steps forward, and when he looked back at him, he could no longer see his shadow. Knowing that he would not give him much sense of security, he could only straighten his back and continue to walk forward.

Xiao Sha was imprisoned in the deepest part of the dungeon.

Before meeting him, Yun Chuxiu was actually very suspicious. He had been tortured by Yuan Suiyun to the point of being unrecognizable and was only left with one breath. After all, this was the hatred of murdering his wife, which could easily lead to a duel in the martial arts world. How could Yuan Suiyun be such a good-tempered person?
However, Xiao Sha stood in the water dungeon. Although his hands were locked with iron chains, his shoulders were hooked with iron hooks, his face was haggard and his body was covered in blood, but he stood straight in the water without groaning or begging for mercy, and he was conscious. As soon as Yun Chuxiu emerged from the darkness, he immediately recognized him.

“It’s you!” The Blood Eye Dragon King looked him up and down with eyes as bright as torches, and suddenly burst into laughter: “Haha! I was wondering if you were a ghost coming for revenge, but there are more than a thousand people who have died at my hands, so why is it you who came! It seems… you actually survived?!”

“What? Don’t I deserve to live?” As soon as he saw him, the humiliation, pain, hatred, sadness of that day… suddenly surged up from the bottom of his heart. Yun Chuxiu clenched his teeth, feeling as if he had returned to the past, to the day when he was killed by the person in front of him for no reason and without any resistance!
He subconsciously tightened his grip on the jade flute at his waist and sneered, “You certainly didn’t expect that this day would come, did you?”

Xiao Sha spat at him, then suddenly rushed forward, ripping the chains on his body. “That’s right! God is really unfair. What’s the value of your survival? You are just a little kid. I crushed you to death that day, just like crushing an ant! If it weren’t for these things today, would you dare to come to see me? Do you have the courage to face me? You little bastard, say something!”

His voice was as loud as a bell, and when he laughed loudly towards the sky, it seemed as if even the ground was shaking. Yun Chuxiu was originally furious, but after staring at him for a few seconds, he suddenly calmed down and began to look at the torture instruments hanging on the wall beside him – the blades were all stained with blood, and it was obvious that they had all been used on Xiao Sha. This old man was still as vigorous as ever after such torture, and he was truly a great hero.

He said coldly: “Yes, you only used one palm to break my neck that day. The difference between our martial arts is huge. But in the end, you still fell into my hands. I can do whatever I want to you. What’s the difference between this and that day?”

Xiao Sha stopped smiling. He glared at Yun Chuxiu, as if he wanted to eat him alive with his eyes. Yun Chuxiu also looked at him coldly, and suddenly raised the corners of his mouth, revealing a very gentle and humble expression: “Why, Dragon King, am I wrong?”

This expression immediately reminded Xiao Sha of the young man who had brought him to this dungeon. Although he was young, his martial arts skills were astonishingly high. When Xiao Sha thought of him, in addition to resentment, he also felt an indescribable jealousy!
Why are there always so many rivalries in the world? Just like he already exists, why is there a Wang Yifeng!? Xiao Sha gnashed his teeth and asked him, “Who is that person?”

“that person?”

“The master here!” The other party had never tortured him personally, but occasionally came here, sat on a chair, watched the servants whip him, and drank tea quietly. That gentle and contemptuous look, those snake-like cold eyes, even though they had only met a few times, were deeply engraved in Xiao Sha’s mind.

If the other party had not been so despicable and shameless, and had captured him in the chaos in the Nanzhao Palace, he would have… tortured him and killed him! How refreshing it would be to see such a proud son of heaven kneeling in front of him, crying and begging for mercy!
He wanted to ask Yuan Suiyun, and Yun Chuxiu certainly had a lot to say, but he immediately sensed what the other party was thinking, and couldn’t help but sneered and said, “Don’t flatter yourself. If it’s a one-on-one fight, how can you be his opponent? The reason why he didn’t kill you is that he wanted me to do it myself. Otherwise, you would have died countless times!”

“Hmph!” His words came out of the blue. Only Xiao Sha, who had practiced the Red Dust Heart Method, knew that any emotion was visible in his eyes, and his jealousy became even more serious. On the contrary, Yun Chuxiu felt very happy when he thought of Yuan Suiyun. Instead, he smiled and continued, “Why? Don’t you want to ask why he insisted that I do it myself?”

His eyes sparkled with a strange light: “I heard from my senior brother that you once learned the Red Dust Heart Method? Then you must know that this kind of inner strength is not something that everyone can learn, right? If you don’t have talent, even if you learn it, you will never be able to achieve perfection in your lifetime – Oh, I almost forgot, wasn’t it because of your lack of talent and bad character that you were expelled from the sect?”

“You…” Xiao Sha was about to get angry upon hearing such words, but Yun Chuxiu approached the railing and whispered, “I have not made any progress in the past few years since I learned the Red Dust Heart Method by myself, but it’s not because I don’t have enough talent, it’s just that I lack a little help. You should be happy, old immortal. Today, use your death to become a stepping stone for my martial arts success–“

After saying that, he slapped open the door of the water dungeon.

(End of this chapter)