A master of both medicine and martial arts, he picked up a beautiful CEO as his wife.

"Yuqing!"

Ye Feng was terrified. He leaped up and caught Lin Yuqing as she fell.

The name "Yuqing" was utterly heart-wrenching. Just moments ago he was in high spirits, but now his heart was clenched in pain. He saw Lin Yuqing's pale face and trembling body. The thousand-year-old pure yin within her body had completely lost control, transforming into a chilling radiance that was uncontrollably drawing towards the main peak of Nirvana Mountain—the place depicted in the painting, the deep underground where the ancient ferocious beast was suppressed!

Ye Feng gripped her wrist tightly. He was well aware of the immense power of the pure Yin force pulling him, as if something was truly calling to and attracting her from beneath the mountain.

"Her pure yin is resonating!!" Shen Yu exclaimed in shock, "Junior Brother, the thing inside her is resonating!"

After hearing the word "resonance," Ye Feng's mind flashed back to the entire wall painting he had seen in the hall last night. The two veins of the ancient "Abyss," one hard and one soft, were bound together by flesh and blood, forming a unified whole.

Ye Feng's heart sank to the bottom.

He held her tightly, refusing to let go, desperately channeling his inner energy through his meridians to suppress the uncontrollable Yin energy. After a long while, Lin Yuqing finally stopped trembling, but the thread that had been pulling her along acted like a rope, dragging a truth that Ye Feng had always suspected but never expected to be presented to him.

Shang Zhi lay in a pool of blood, watching this scene. His pale face squeezed out a faint smile, containing the resentment of a loser and a cruel sense of satisfaction that the mystery was about to be revealed. This time, he didn't get to tell Ye Feng the answer before Ye Feng did, because Ye Feng had figured it out himself.

Embracing that wisp of pure yin that was frantically pulling towards the mountain's belly, it was like a rope that pulled the murals covering the walls of the hall from last night back to the ancient "Abyss" before him. The two veins, one hard and one soft, were bound together by flesh and blood, becoming one; the last two images of them standing together in an embrace, one burning with the most intense flame and the other shrouded in the coldest radiance.

The coldest moonlight

纯阴

Ye Feng's breathing stopped abruptly. He looked down at the woman in his arms, whose body was trembling from being pulled by the pure yin within him. An unexpected thought exploded within him.

That vein on the wall, which, along with the vein of Dianyang, suppresses the abyss, is her.

It is her maternal line.

"It seems," Shang Zhi panted, his initial pleasure at revealing the answer turning into a cold laugh, "that I need not speak."

"Her maternal lineage is the Zhao family," he said, staring at Lin Yuqing, enunciating each word clearly, "has had an alliance with your Nirvana Mountain since ancient times. You think your yin-yang union is something natural? It's just that ancient covenant, imprinted in your bones, nothing more than instinct."

Zhao! That's Lin's mother's surname.

The secret behind this name is a bloodline that has continued from ancient times to the present, a bloodline that has exchanged lives with Nirvana Mountain.

One lineage has continued for thousands of years, and those who target this bloodline will be eradicated!

No wonder Ye Feng felt his blood run cold.

At this moment, he even understood the cause of that sudden illness twenty years ago: what the master wanted to eliminate was not the Lin family's things, but the roots of the Zhao family.

This is no ordinary power struggle among wealthy families; it is a massacre targeting an ancient bloodline.

Unfortunately, despite all the precautions, Lin Yuqing was not spared. She grew up, and the thousand-year-old pure yin awakened.

"Have you figured it out yet?" Shang Zhi's eyes were fixed on Lin Yuqing, greedy yet wary. "Then you must understand that the real key to this game is not you, Ye Feng, nor your fatal ko. My master has spent twenty years painstakingly trying to achieve what he has always wanted—"

"That's her!"

Ye Feng felt a chill run from his feet all the way to the top of his head.

At that moment, he truly understood everything.

During the six months he was down the mountain, he thought he was looking for a pure Yin body as a "key" to unravel the "death calamity".

But now he finally sees what's hidden behind this "darkness under the lamp"—the biggest move he never expected.

The moment the master said, "The tribulation she suffered was much earlier than yours," finally had an explanation.

The master said, "What I dare not write outright is actually this."

Using her as a pawn was aimed at the deadlock that had plagued the two lineages for thousands of years.

Lin Yuqing was never just a little maid in Ye Feng's story, nor a key that could save him from his death.

On the contrary, it is Nirvana Mountain, it is their lineage of Yin and Yang, that has been protecting her from the very beginning, in order to uphold the ancient covenant between the two lineages spanning thousands of years.

She is the key player in this game.

Looking down at the pale yet stubborn face in his arms.

Lin Yuqing weakly opened her eyes, looking at him with confusion and panic in her eyes: "Ye Feng... what he said... about my mother... what exactly is on me...?"

Her usually calm eyes now revealed the look of an ordinary woman shocked by the revelation of her true identity: helplessness and panic.

Ye Feng did not answer her.

Those ancient covenants, twenty years of blood debt... he didn't tell her anything.

He simply pulled her tightly into his arms.

Her body was still trembling, so Ye Feng held her even tighter, as if afraid of gradually calming down the cold and restless pure yin energy around her.

"Don't be afraid!" he whispered in her ear. "I know there's something on your body, but I don't care!"

"All I know is that from now on, no matter what happens, I will protect you!"

Lin Yuqing's eyes immediately welled up with tears. She nestled in his arms and bit his clothes tightly, and her heart, which had been hanging in turmoil, suddenly calmed down.

But the gaze that was hidden deep within Nirvana Mountain grew colder and colder.

Twenty years of enmity, a thousand-year-old pact, and a secret she doesn't even know—a colossal secret about "her"!

He will accompany her to the end of this game!

Furthermore, he was determined to personally eliminate the person who had been controlling all of this for the past twenty years!