As Pei Chiyao's headache showed signs of worsening, he immediately slammed on the brakes.
Zhi Yao was nearly thrown forward, giving her a fright. "Pei Chiyao, what's... what's wrong with you?"
The young lady glanced back to see Pei Chiyao's eyes bloodshot red, causing her already anxious heart to race even faster.
"Pei Chiyao... don't scare me."
But no matter how much Zhi Yao called out Pei Chiyao's name, he seemed not to hear her.
His mind was flickering through images that did not belong to him, like a slideshow.
A cold ancestral hall... a golden dagger... a pure white fox... Taoist robes.
And a dragon.
Beads of sweat formed on his forehead, and his body was swaying unsteadily.
Zhi Yao held Pei Chiyao tightly, immediately grabbing a phone nearby, unlocking it, and calling someone in the car ahead of them.
"Hello, stop the car quickly, Pei Chiyao is in trouble."
She hadn't even hung up when the car in front immediately pulled over.
Zhi Yao then saw the car door open, and the bodyguards pulled Anthony out, his hands cuffed.
When the bodyguards saw Pei Chiyao's state, he was nearly unconscious. Startled, they quickly dragged him out and laid him on the ground, carefully examining his condition.
Anthony was being held back by another bodyguard, his hands still cuffed. Seeing this, he let out a slightly relieved smile. "It seems this person has some connection with Xuanling Town."
The first time he came to Xuanling Town, he was also tormented to near death.
"What do you mean?"
Tears welled up in Zhi Yao's eyes, but when she heard Anthony's words, she abruptly lifted her head to look at him. "You'd better explain clearly."
But Anthony immediately sealed his lips, his expression almost mischievous.
The implication was clear - he wasn't going to tell her.
Now that Pei Chiyao was unconscious, he didn't believe this little girl could do anything to him.
But soon Anthony realized he was very, very wrong.
"What... what are you doing!"
He looked at Zhi Yao in alarm as she snatched a knife from one of the other bodyguards. Without hesitation, the young lady said coldly, "Hold him down!"
"Hey, hey, hey! What are you doing! If you kill me, you'll never get to Xuanling Town in this lifetime!"
Zhi Yao acted as if she hadn't heard a word Anthony said. She raised the knife and struck down.
"Ah—grass, you fox! How dare you..."
The knife was embedded in Anthony's thigh, blood gushing out.
Zhi Yao lifted her eyes, her icy gaze bearing no trace of her usual soft and tender demeanor.
"If anything happens to Pei Chiyao, you'll be the first one I kill."
Her words stunned not only Anthony but also the two bodyguards nearby.
For some reason... at that moment, Zhi Yao seemed just like Pei.
"You..."
The knife was still stuck in Anthony's leg, and he instantly realized that Zhi Yao wasn't joking!
"Pull it out for me!"
Anthony gritted his teeth. "Alright, I'll tell you the truth. Xuanling Town hasn't existed for a long time. During the Republican era, it became a desolate town. The place I'm taking you is where it used to be located. Only those who have a connection and can sense its presence are able to enter."
He had suspected from the beginning that Pei Chiyao's identity was not simple. He couldn't see through Pei Chiyao's true self, so this person... must be terrifying.
It's even possible that he doesn't belong to this era.
Therefore, he wanted to test his luck.
But he didn't expect to have it verified so quickly.
"No longer exists?" Zhi Yao murmured, then continued to ask, "Then tell me, how do we get in?"
"That's a secret of my Ji family, not something I can share with outsiders. Now hurry up and pull this knife out of my leg!"
Zhi Yao glared at Anthony. "Don't you have hands yourself?"
She turned away from him, about to go to Pei Chiyao lying on the ground, when Anthony spoke up, "He won't die! Pull the knife out, and I'll have a way to revive him."
Of course he had hands, but he couldn't very well do it himself!
Zhi Yao squinted her golden eyes at Anthony for a while, seeming to consider whether his words were credible.
After a moment, the young lady chose to believe him.
She raised her hand, and in almost an instant, less than a second, she pulled the knife out.
Another ear-piercing scream, like a slaughtered pig.
Anthony resisted the urge to pass out, pressing hard on his wounded thigh as he fished out a bundle of fox-tail grass from his pocket and tossed it to Zhi Yao. "Light it and let him smell it for three minutes. He'll naturally wake up."
One of the bodyguards immediately handed Zhi Yao a lighter.
The young lady did as instructed, and soon after, Pei Chiyao regained consciousness.
Seeing the man slowly open his eyes, Zhi Yao finally breathed a sigh of relief. "Pei Chiyao, you're awake at last."
Tears welled up in her eyes as she looked at Pei Chiyao, a sight that disgusted Anthony. "Big sister, so you were just pretending to be silly and sweet!"
The ruthlessness she showed when wielding the knife was nothing like her usual silly demeanor.
But what Anthony didn't know was that Zhi Yao also had wolf blood in her.
She wasn't just a delicate fox who only knew how to act cute and roll around. She also had the ferocity of the wolf clan in her blood!
That fierceness was ingrained in Zhi Yao's lineage. Once someone threatened those under her protection, the young lady would definitely charge forth and tear them to shreds.
It's just that in her previous life, Zhi Yao's world only consisted of her mother, who was always the one protecting her, so this side of her had never been triggered before.
Zhi Yao frowned, ignoring Anthony and fixing her gaze on Pei Chiyao.
Pei Chiyao had just regained consciousness and his head was still spinning.
He felt like he had just had an extremely long dream...
Anthony struggled through the pain in his leg, observing Pei Chiyao's dazed expression. Reluctantly, he spoke, "What you dreamed about just now was an illusion. Clear your mind and don't be deceived by the illusion."
The so-called illusion was actually events that had occurred in Xuanling Town hundreds of years ago, which was why it felt so real.
Pei Chiyao lowered his eyes in thought for a moment, then suddenly spoke in a hoarse voice, "No, it wasn't an illusion."
Anthony was taken aback, and then he couldn't help but laugh, "Are you kidding? That's the Xuanling Town from a few hundred years ago. Don't tell me you've been alive for a few hundred years."
But as soon as he said that, Anthony was stunned again.
Wait... until now, he didn't know Pei Chiyao's true identity.
What if... what if he really had been alive for a few hundred years?!
