Ji Yunxi slept soundly this time. When she woke up, it was already the next day.
If it weren't for the scorching look in Feng Xingzhi's eyes after he woke up, she might have slept for a few more hours.
"Xixi, are you awake?"
Ji Yunxi retorted helplessly, "How could I not wake up? If I were a block of wood, I'd have been burned away by your gaze."
Feng Xingzhi let out a soft laugh, his chest vibrating slightly. Ji Yunxi, who was lying on his chest, felt a bit embarrassed. "Let go. It's already bright. I have to go back."
"It doesn't matter."
"Of course it doesn't matter to you. This is your room. Hurry up and let go!" As Ji Yunxi said, she patted Feng Xingzhi's arm, her shyness evident.
Feng Xingzhi nodded. "Okay, okay. I'll let go right away."
But even as he said so, he didn't retract his hand.
"Feng Xingzhi! Someone might come soon. We're not married yet! If you keep acting like this, big brother will surely be unhappy."
Hearing this, Feng Xingzhi's smile faded. He let out a helpless sigh. "Fine, fine. I still need to marry you as soon as possible. Otherwise, you'll always use big brother to threaten me."
Ji Yunxi got out of bed and looked outside. There was no one there. She secretly let out a sigh of relief. But who would have thought that as soon as she stepped out of the door, she bumped right into Feng Heyang.
Feng Heyang remained calm. She had planned to find Ji Yunxi early in the morning. When she arrived at the room and asked the maid to knock on the door, she found no one inside.
The maid went to inquire and found out that Ji Yunxi didn't return to her room last night. Instead, she stayed in Feng Xingzhi's room all night.
And she knew that Feng Xingzhi had woken up yesterday. If it was just to take care of him, it wasn't necessary.
Feng Heyang didn't think too much about it. After all, she didn't know Feng Xingzhi well. But she did know that Ji Yunxi wasn't married yet. In this life, Ji Yunxi should just be Feng Xingzhi's fiancée.
The moment they saw Feng Heyang, both of them blushed. They lowered their heads and wanted to leave quickly.
"Ji Yunxi!" Feng Heyang called out to her and didn't intend to expose her. "I've found out something about the Kunlun Seal. Do you want to take a look?"
Ji Yunxi immediately became serious. "Of course!"
Without hesitation, she followed Feng Heyang into the room. Feng Heyang pointed to a piece of paper. "The Kunlun Seal is extremely powerful. This seal is very complex. Not only does it require a very powerful person to seal it, but it also needs a strong divine power to support it. It's not a seal that can be broken overnight. We have to take it slowly."
Ji Yunxi frowned, looking worried. "What do you mean by taking it slowly?"
"It means that the Kunlun Seal has a total of forty - nine layers. Each layer is interrelated. We have to break them layer by layer."
After she finished speaking, Ji Yunxi stood still in shock. She had thought that the seal would be difficult to break, but she never expected there to be forty - nine layers!
If they broke one layer a day, it would still take forty - nine days. Not to mention that the seal was so difficult that breaking one layer a day was just a luxury.
Her mood instantly turned dejected, and she rarely kept silent.
Feng Heyang looked at her. "What? Are you already planning to back down before we even start?"
"When did I ever say I was going to back down? I'm just... a bit worried."
"Come on. Don't worry needlessly. Since we've decided to do it, we can't hesitate!" After all, Feng Heyang didn't go through reincarnation. She had an old - fashioned heart and could stay calm about anything.
Now that Feng Xingzhi had woken up safely, Ji Yunxi could spare some time to care about other things.
There was something she had been curious about for a long time - who was the person Feng Heyang wanted her to save back then?
She hesitated to speak, afraid that asking would ruin their cooperation. But then she thought that even if Feng Heyang was dissatisfied, she wouldn't do anything to her and Feng Xingzhi. Moreover, now that she had regained her divine power, it wasn't certain who would win.
"Feng Heyang, tell me the truth. Who were you trying to save when you asked me to make the blood contract?"
Feng Heyang didn't want to hide it from her. "It's no one else but Feng Ji, the Lord of the Fengche Palace."
Ji Yunxi was very surprised. In her memory, wasn't Lord Feng Ji already dead?
She looked puzzled. "Feng Heyang, are you serious? Isn't Lord Feng Ji already..."
Hearing this, Feng Heyang suddenly let out a bitter smile. "No, he's still alive, but not completely."
"What do you mean?"
Before Ji Yunxi could finish asking, Feng Heyang suddenly took off the hood of her outer robe. Under it was a head of snow - white hair.
"You!" Ji Yunxi gasped. The so - called immortals in the upper realm never aged. So, Feng Heyang's young appearance back then was one of the reasons for Ji Yunxi to confirm that she was from the upper realm.
But this head of white hair was definitely not something a very young and beautiful woman should have.
Ji Yunxi had a faint guess. Maybe something had been depriving Feng Heyang of her power.
Sure enough, the next second, Feng Heyang said, "It's ugly, isn't it? But it's worth it. Because I've been using my divine power to keep Lord Feng Ji's soul from disappearing. But to save him, we still have to rely on the master of the Fengche Palace."
It was hard to imagine how much pain Feng Heyang had endured over the years. Ji Yunxi felt a bit heart - ache. She knew that Lord Yunyang was already dead, and among the existing gods who could maintain the operation of a palace with their own divine power were only Yue Chen and Feng Xingzhi.
Yue Chen of the Yuehua Palace wished he could kill everyone. How could he come out to revive Lord Feng Ji, who might be his opponent?
He definitely wouldn't help. And other gods couldn't even maintain the operation of a palace, let alone use their divine power to revive a dead person.
Feng Heyang also understood this. So, as soon as she sensed the familiar divine power in Ji Yunxi's body, she had been sending people to keep an eye on Ji Yunxi.
She originally wanted to use Ji Yunxi's hand to save Lord Feng Ji. But when she was monitoring, she found that the Yuehua Palace had also targeted her.
At that time, Ji Yunxi had no memory, and Feng Heyang couldn't directly approach her. So, she had someone kidnap Li Jiuge and forced her to make a blood contract with her.
Ji Yunxi sighed. "Why did you use such a method? You could have just told me directly."
Feng Heyang looked up, with no trace of regret in her eyes. "I don't regret it, and I don't think I did anything wrong. Because I can never bet on Lord Fengche's life. I can't afford to take that risk. And at that time, the Yuehua Palace was also eager to take action. I didn't know if you were another Yunluotian. I couldn't fully trust you at that time."
Ji Yunxi explained, "You misunderstood. Yunluotian wasn't a traitor."
"I know. She found a way to save you. But this trick won't last long. They'll know soon."
Thinking of the people she met on the way, Ji Yunxi said, "It's more than that. I've already encountered them once before."
Feng Heyang was curious. "Then how did you escape?"
"The people who came weren't from the Yuehua Palace. Back then, Yunluotian's thunder punishment had already scared most of them. But some people were still worried, so they deliberately came to test."