Tian Taiyang smiled. "All of this is thanks to Zhang Fei, Ancestor. If he hadn’t saved and helped me recover my soul, it would have disappeared forever."

"Zhang Fei? Who is he?" 𝓯𝙧𝙚𝒆𝙬𝙚𝒃𝙣𝙤𝒗𝓮𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

Tian Taiyang created a qi screen, showing two people on it. "The man is Zhang Fei, and he is Hu Tianlang’s sole heir."

"Huh?" Tian Shuying was completely shocked. "Is this young man really Hu Tianlang’s sole heir? Where did you meet him?"

"I met him in the Moon Clan several years ago, and he has been helping me recover my soul ever since." Tian Shuying’s expression changed slightly as soon as Tian Taiyang mentioned the Moon Clan. Someone from that clan caused the downfall and destruction of their Sun Clan, and she harbored resentment towards them. "After that person killed all our clan members, I went to the Moon Clan to settle accounts. I fought with Yin Yue for many years, which resulted in both of our deaths. To prevent further destruction, Guang Zhiyi imprisoned my soul in the abyss and hers in the palace."

"Guang Zhiyi." Tian Shuying didn’t have a good impression of that name because she could have saved their Sun Clan from destruction at that time, but she chose to remain silent and let someone from the Moon Clan slaughter all her clansmen.

At that time, Tian Shuying wanted to move to save the Sun Clan from disaster, but she couldn’t do it because her soul was too weak to act, and she was afraid that she would die in that person’s hands.

"Then, who is the woman beside Zhang Fei? Why are you showing her to me?"

"Her current name is Feng Yao, and she is one of Zhang Fei’s wives." Tian Shuying looked at them with a straight face. "She is the reincarnation of Guang Zhiyi."

Tian Shuying’s expression turned shocked after Tian Taiyang said that. "What did you just say? Is that woman really the reincarnation of Guang Zhiyi?"

"Feng Yao is truly the reincarnation of Guang Zhiyi, Ancestor."

Even though so many years had passed since she last met Guang Zhiyi, Tian Shuying still remembered the woman’s character, and she remembered for sure that she had no passion for love. Yet, Tian Taiyang said that the woman had been married to Zhang Fei in this lifetime, which was truly unbelievable.

"Did Guang Zhiyi decide to marry Zhang Fei because he was Hu Tianlang’s sole heir?"

Tian Taiyang shook his head. "Honestly, I don’t know much about their relationship, Ancestor. From what I’ve heard, she met Zhang Fei when he was just starting his cultivation path in the lower realm, but I don’t know the details, and she returned to the Paradise Realm several years earlier."

"How old is Zhang Fei? What level is his cultivation at?"

"Zhang Fei is still under a hundred years old, but his cultivation has already reached the 1-Sun Celestial Emperor Realm."

Tian Shuying took a deep breath as she continued to look at Zhang Fei’s image on the qi screen. "Hu Tianlang’s sole heir is truly extraordinary! He was born in the lower realm, but he managed to reach the Celestial Emperor Realm in less than a hundred years. When I was alive, the only cultivator who could do such a thing was Guang Zhiyi."

"However, Zhang Fei is different from Guang Zhiyi, and he is a dual cultivator with more than a hundred wives by his side, Ancestor."

Tian Shuying nodded slightly. "Dual cultivation paves a way for cultivators to improve their cultivation faster, but I’ve never met a dual cultivator who could reach the Celestial Emperor Realm in less than a hundred years, let alone Zhang Fei, who started from the bottom in the lower realm. Even cultivators who began their journey in this realm wouldn’t be able to reach that level with that little time, let alone a cultivator from the lower realm."

"He—"

"Hahaha." Tian Shuying and Tian Taiyang looked at Feng Yao, who had just arrived. "I thought all your clan members had entered the circle of reincarnation, but it turns out your soul is still here, Little Shuying."

"Do you know that my hatred for you runs deep, Guang Zhiyi?" Tian Shuying asked in a vicious tone, and her eyes were also filled with hatred.

"I know that." Feng Yao nodded at her. "However, you must remember that, as the guardian of the ancient realm at that time, I could not interfere in matters between clans. I couldn’t stop the destruction of your clan or the other clans at that time, so I decided to imprison Tian Taiyang’s soul in the abyss because I knew that someone would free him, and he would become the cornerstone of your Sun Clan’s revival."

"What do you mean by that?" Tian Shuying and Tian Taiyang were both confused by Feng Yao’s words.

"Hu Tianlang." Tian Shuying and Tian Taiyang raised their eyebrows. "No one knew that Hu Tianlang could see into the future, and at that time, he foresaw the future of your clan. He came to me and told me everything, so I imprisoned the souls of your descendant and Yin Yue’s for the sake of the revival of both clans. As he said back then, my husband managed to free their souls, and he also helped them strengthen their souls so they could reshape their bodies in the future."

Tian Shuying nodded in understanding. "So, everything was arranged by Hu Tianlang, huh?"

"You’re wrong about that," Feng Yao denied her guess. "Hu Tianlang has the ability to see the future, but he wasn’t the one who arranged everything."

"Then, who arranged everything?"

"The one who arranges everything is one of the hidden forces in this universe, and people call it Fate."

"Fate?" Tian Shuying and Tian Taiyang were shocked. "What—"

"I can’t say anything about hidden forces," Feng Yao stopped them. "Anyways, your soul power is too weak, and you can’t possibly reshape your body with your current state, but that doesn’t mean there’s no way to bring you back to life."

Tian Shuying’s eyes and soul trembled as soon as Feng Yao said that. ’Alive again? Do I still have a chance to live again?’

"Is there still a chance for my Ancestor to come back to life, Senior Feng?" Tian Taiyang asked with a glimmer of hope in his eyes.

"When you met my husband, your soul was already too weak, and you would have disappeared completely in a few years, but my husband managed to restore your soul power." Tian Taiyang smiled bitterly listening to Feng Yao’s words. "If you want to come back to life to rebuild your clan, I can ask my husband to help you, so the decision is yours."

"Where’s your husband now? Why didn’t you bring him here?"

"Hehe," Feng Yao chuckled. "We came here to retrieve the Sun Flame, and my husband is in the process of merging with it."

Tian Shuying frowned at that, but she realized that the Sun Flame was no longer of any use to her clan since everyone was long dead. "Can I really come back to life?"

"Your soul is so weak, but it’s still intact. My husband only needs to strengthen your soul, and you can reshape your body after a few decades," Feng Yao said confidently because she knew Zhang Fei very well. "So, what’s your decision? Do you want to live again? Or do you want to enter the cycle of reincarnation? If you want to live again, I will take you to my husband. If you want to be reincarnated, I will send you there, and you will be born as a new individual."

Tian Shuying looked at several other areas before returning her gaze to Tian Taiyang in thought. She looked at Feng Yao and made a decision. "Please help me come back to life, Guang Zhiyi. Little Taiyang can’t possibly rebuild our Sun Clan by himself, so I will help him."

"Alright." Feng Yao enveloped them with her aura and brought them back to the bottom floor of the Sun Palace.

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"Eh?" Yue Ningxue and Tian Yaoqin were surprised by Tian Shuying’s presence. "Who is this woman, Empress Huo?"

Tian Shuying looked at Feng Yao. "Empress Huo? Is that your identity now, Guang Zhiyi?"

"Empress Huo Yanling is my identity after Guang Zhiyi, and my current identity is Feng Yao." Feng Yao’s answer gave Yue Ningxue and Tian Yaoqin a headache because she had too many identities. "This woman is Tian Shuying, and she is one of the ancestors of the Sun Clan."

Yue Ningxue and Tian Yaoqin were surprised again, not expecting that the soul of one of the ancestors of the Sun Clan still existed.

Tian Shuying looked at Yue Ningxue and Tian Yaoqin. "A human and a winged race, huh? Are they also the wives of your husband, Guang Zhiyi?"

"Tian Yaoqin comes from the winged race, and she is one of my husband’s wives. Yue Ningxue is a human, and she will become his wife soon."

"Hahaha," Tian Shuying laughed mockingly. "When you were still living as Guang Zhiyi, you chased away every man who tried to approach you, so I didn’t expect you to be willing to share a husband with so many women in this lifetime."

Feng Yao simply smiled at that. "In my lifetime as Guang Zhiyi or Huo Yanling, there wasn’t a single man worthy of standing beside me, let alone becoming my husband. In this lifetime, the only man worthy of being by my side is Zhang Fei, so I’ve decided to accept him as my husband."

"Is it because Zhang Fei is Hu Tianlang’s sole heir?"

"Do you think being Hu Tianlang’s sole heir means that much?"

"Then?"

"I won’t say much, but I can tell you that Zhang Fei far surpasses Hu Tianlang."