After five bigwigs in Beijing's elite circle fell into their trap, I fled.

Chapter 236 Freshmen
"Such a brutal being has no place on earth." The girl's pupils flashed with mocking murderous intent. "Then let's go to hell together..."

As soon as she finished speaking, the girl seemed to experience a final burst of energy, her entire body enveloped in a tremendous radiance of wood spirit light. She made a strange gesture, and instantly the spirit staff that had entered Ning Yunzhan's body seemed to be awakened by something, transforming into several illusory figures, accompanied by the girl's light and ethereal voice:

"Using my soul as the guide and life and death as the incantation, I will link his fate with mine, so that we may live and die together."

As soon as she finished speaking, the wood spirit radiance on her body turned into a blood mist, and the phantom of the spirit staff on Ning Yunzhan's body suddenly exploded!

In the torrent of explosions, he was shattered once more by countless fragments of spirit staffs, his soul seemingly about to leave his body. In that instant, he was so acutely aware that he felt like he was the girl's shadow beside her, clearly sensing her gently pressing Li Yubai down beneath her...

They are clearly very far apart.

Ning Yunzhan clearly saw that beneath the turbulent currents, Li Yubai's back slammed hard against a fragment of a spirit staff, blood seeping from his back. The beautiful man, however, felt nothing, only gazing tenderly and sorrowfully at his lover...

"Li Yubai." The girl's voice gradually faded as she gently grasped Li Yubai's hand. "I know you want to come with me, but no, I want you to live."

Li Yubai didn't speak, he just stared at her.

The girl sighed softly: "Live well, and take with you what I gave you."

Her hand gently stroked his ring finger, on which was a black obsidian ring she had crafted herself: "Keep it as a memento. When you meet a good girl, please forget me."

Li Yubai's eyes gradually reddened: "What nonsense are you talking about? I only want my young lady. If our fate is over in this life, then I will wait for you in the next."

"Our relationship is a tragic one, it's best we never meet again. But if you want to wait, then wait. I'm cold-hearted by nature, I might not necessarily rush to you again..."

After the girl finished speaking her last words, she vanished into countless streams of light.

Ning Yunzhan, who was also struck by death, fell into a pool of blood, his vision blurred, and he too was plunged into a long period of darkness.

When I woke up again, it was ten years later.

He opened his eyes in the desolate, chaotic graveyard. All around him were piles of white bones, the remains of his people, slaughtered by his blade.

He weakly got up, disguised himself, and blended back into the clan. He saw the restored buildings, and the Holy Spirit Academy and the main hall showed almost no signs of decay.

The dean meticulously instructed the construction team: "Restore it to a one-to-one scale! That plague god is ruthless. Our young lady was kind to him, yet he destroyed the Holy Spirit Academy, which she painstakingly established, like this. It will probably take decades to restore it to its original state..."

The construction team also looked dejected: "That plague god is dead, but he left behind a mess! The vampire clan has declined for many years since then, and even our two sacred artifacts, the Spirit Staff and the Magic Puppet, have disappeared..."

A cold, eerie voice sounded from behind: "Where is Li Yubai?"

The dean and the construction team casually turned their heads.

Then, terrified by the tall, elegant figure behind him, wearing a mask and dragging a butcher's knife, he instantly knelt down...

The plague god has risen from the dead and returned!
Almost overnight, the entire vampire clan was plunged into chaos once again!

Three days later, Ning Yunzhan ascended to the throne of the Blood Clan Lord.

At the clan meeting, Ning Yunzhan's eyes, hidden behind his mask, coldly looked at the Grand Elder: "What has happened in these ten years?"

The First Elder glanced at the strange butcher's knife beside Ning Yunzhan and answered honestly:
"Reporting to the new master, the old master disappeared along with the puppet after that battle with you..."

"The puppet has disappeared too?"

"Yes, and the spirit staff too." Her tone was full of resentment.

Of the three sacred artifacts, only one remains—a butcher's knife—and it's still in the hands of that cruel plague god. In these dark and hopeless days, it seems there's no hope left at all...

The new master's eyes, hidden behind his mask, held a thoughtful look: "And her?" Everyone below lowered their heads and remained silent.

"Is she still alive?" The new master gently closed his eyes. "I... I sense it..."

"do not know."

“If you won’t tell me, I’ll go find it myself,” the new master said slowly. “But since you’re useless, why don’t you go to the fat master’s vegetable garden?”

The elders knelt down with a thud. "The former master paid a great price, but the young lady can only be considered to have a chance of survival; she has not been resurrected."

The new master stood with a cold expression, his hands behind his back, exuding a bloodthirsty and violent aura, but he did not speak again.

Only the hand behind his back trembled almost imperceptibly.

Was it because...she regained life that he, who had shared life and death with her, was able to climb out of the abyss of death once again...?

He suddenly felt a strong urge to see her again.

Thirty years later, he met her in a remote mountain forest in China.

She lay quietly in the incubator at the medical center, frail and not breathing, looking like an infant.

Li Yubai stayed by his side at all times.

He could only gaze at them from a great distance.

He couldn't remember how many years had passed, but finally one day, the sleeping baby opened its eyes...

When Li Yubai carefully picked up the child, he hurriedly changed her diaper and fed her. Although he was flustered, it was as if he was holding the whole world in his arms.

At that moment, the new owner, who had been lurking in the shadows, had an impulse: he wanted to snatch it and raise it himself.

Thus, the assassination attempt by the Extreme Sky Mercenary Group took place, serving as a testing ground for their skills.

As his clansmen had predicted, Li Yubai's strength had greatly diminished, and he was seriously injured in the confrontation with Ji Tian.

That night, the bloodthirsty new master bathed and burned incense, purifying himself thoroughly before leisurely embarking on his journey to snatch the child. In the dark forest, Li Yubai was covered in blood, but the child beside him had vanished.

All traces of that child seemed to be concealed. He knew that if Li Yubai intended to hide him, he would likely be unable to find him.

But it doesn't matter; time is the least valuable thing to them.

He chose to travel, secretly searching for the young lady's whereabouts. On the day he left the vampire clan, all the clansmen bid him farewell with tears in their eyes; the fervent and exhilarating atmosphere was almost like a celebratory cannon salute. If he could make a wish, he believed that everyone's wish at that moment would be for this farewell to be forever.

But... ha, those idiots are overthinking it.

Years later, he encountered someone in an alley in the capital of China. It was a nine-year-old boy who happened to look about 60% like him.

Thus, the new master stepped out from the shadows and into the open, replacing the boy's identity and establishing Cloud City, standing across the street from Li Yubai's puppet business empire, the Li Group. He knew that as long as he kept a close eye on Li Yubai, he would be able to see their young lady again.

During the waiting period, he always remembered the young lady's aspirations for the real estate market. Following her preferences, he built one real estate project after another, gradually encroaching on the real estate market and becoming a local financial tycoon.

Countless nights, he stood in his own building, silently calculating the gap between himself and Li Yubai under the moon:
With his gentle appearance, refined demeanor, and immense wealth, he seemed so similar to Li Yubai. Had he unknowingly become a shadow of Li Yubai?

Nineteen years after the young lady's disappearance, Ning Yunzhan finally received news of her once again.