
The three members of the Death Flute Sect left behind Fang Yin and Huamei. They walked into the room that was not visible from the outside because they were currently in the courtyard that was in front of a hall.
"Xiao Yin, I'm afraid," Huamei whispered as he looked at the flames surrounding him.
Fang Yin looked down. He knew the elements and structure of the spell seals that locked them away. Actually he could have canceled it, but it would definitely be a problem. Right now all he has to do is be patient to look for opportunities.
"We just follow the rules of the game. Don't break what they're telling you!" fang Yin said trying to calm Huamei down.
After waiting for a while, finally the members of the Death Flute Sect came. They flocked to come and stood around Fang Yin and Huamei.
Huamei watched one by one the people who came, but he did not see Xiao Peng. Her heart was pounding in fear if it turned out that her husband was not a member of the Death Flute Sect. A cold sweat started to appear soaking his body and making him unable to think clearly, it was fortunate that there was Fang Yin helping him to look after his son, otherwise he would definitely be even more frightened.
The three people who had brought Fang Yin and Huamei there stood together with the other members of the Death Flute Sect. However, they just kept quiet and did nothing.
No matter who they were waiting for, everyone who was there did not have a single voice. A man came to the crowd and stopped in front of Huamei. The man had sharp eyes and looked ruthless. He was a confidant of Sect Leader Yao Zhihuan named Yao Lang.
"Who has the baby?" yao Lang asked as he stared at Fang Yin and Huamei in turn.
Huamei raised his hand and said that he had the baby. Yao Lang looked at it from head to toe. Without commenting anything, he then continued his question.
He asked Huamei if there were any among the rows of men standing before him. Yao Lang asked the men to come forward one by one and asked Huamei to recognize their faces.
There were more than fifty men who came before her, but her husband was not one of them. Yao Lang looked at Huamei in surprise. There were only three men left that Huamei had yet to ask him: himself, chairman Yao Zhihuan and his son Yao Lin Feng.
The entire person who was there felt tense, as well as Fang Yin and Huamei. There were only two choices left because Yao Lang had never met and known Huamei.
"If it wasn't one of us or the Sect Chief and his son, maybe your husband wouldn't be around. I can't decide this matter. Let's wait for the Sect Chief and his son to come." Yao Lang looked extremely tense.
His clan members couldn't possibly misidentify people. The baby did indeed have the blood of the Yao Clan. The problem this time is who is the father of this baby.
As Yao Lang recalled there had been no marriage for this year. There were also no dead members of the Death Flute Sect. This complicated matter made everyone who was there look frightened. They imagined the anger of Sect Leader Yao Zhihuan when they discovered this offense.
Members of the Yao Clan had a marriage tradition where a man from his clan who married a woman outside the clan had to bring at least two lives to certify the woman as a member of the Death Flute Sect.
In the distance, two men walked into the crowd. The people who swarmed aside to make way for the two. Yao Lan lowered her head in salute to the two when they had arrived before her.
Huamei stood looking at one of them. His eyes did not blink looking at his face and his lips muttered silently. He recognized the man deeply even though he was still lowered and had not looked at him yet.
Fang Yin looked at Huamei's change in expression. He was certain that one of them was the person he was looking for. The two men were very similar, only the difference in hair color of the two were different.
There was nothing strange in the cultivation world about one's physical form. Even though they were very old, it would look young if they had a high cultivation level. They can go against the laws of nature and still look youthful.
"Did she find her husband?" asked Sect Leader Yao Zhihuan.
"Not yet, Sir." Yao Lang replied with a straight look. He did not dare to stare at the faces of Yao Zhihuan nor Yao Lin Feng.
Yao Zhihuan and Yao Lin Feng were shocked to hear Yao Lang's reply. They looked into the fire prison and clearly observed the two women who were there.
Yao Lin Feng was aghast when he saw Huamei. His heartbeat felt as if it had stopped and his body was on the verge of consciousness. She was confused as to why there were two women in front of her and the one carrying the baby instead of Huamei.
The change in expression from Yao Lin Feng invited Yao Zhihuan's attention. As a father he understood that his son looked at a woman differently.
Yao Lin Feng walked up to the fire prison and made sure that the woman inside was really Huamei. If it was true that he was his wife he would have recognized her though not as Yao Lin Feng but as Xiao Peng.
"Xiao Peng" whispered Huamei softly. Her tears fell as she saw the man she loved standing before her. He had almost stepped forward and violated the ring of fire that surrounded them if Fang Yin did not pull him.
Yao Lin Feng looked down helplessly. During this time he covered up the whereabouts of his wife from his clan and kept their marriage a secret from his family. Huamei was from the Luo Clan who had long been a mortal enemy of the Yao Clan.
Both have different idealisms with opposing schools of belief. Neither the Luo Clan nor the Yao Clan ever wanted peace and agreed to live their respective lives without interfering with each other.
For more than ten years there has been no dispute between the two. Yao Lin Feng did not want his marriage to Huamei to be the trigger for a war between the two.
"Do you know these two women?" asked Yao Zhihuan.
His voice was not too loud but it sounded very shocking to Yao Lin Feng.
"I know one of them, Father," Yao Lin Feng honestly.
Huamei felt a little relieved that her husband did not refute if they knew each other. Fang Yin felt the same way even though this was only the beginning.
"Say clearly what happened! Even though you are my son, you still have the same treatment as the rest of the sect." Yao Zhihuan looked at his son's face fixedly. His stern gaze made whoever was in front of him become a guts whip.
Yao Lin Feng nodded. He did not dare to look towards his father because after this things would become complicated. He seemed to eat the fruit simalakama which makes it go awry.
"Lin Feng!" exclaimed his father in a slightly firm tone. He wanted his son to immediately tell him what he knew about this woman.
"It's about what happened about a year ago dad. I went with Uncle Lang to go on a mission to retrieve the god's eye armor ...." Yao Lin Feng recounted the beginning of his meeting with Huamei to the kindness of the woman who brought him home when he was seriously injured.
Yao Lin Feng told him all the events he had experienced up to the crimes he had committed on both Huamei parents. He did not care if his wife would hate him because back then he really needed a spirit core to survive.
Huamei felt shocked listening to Yao Lin Feng's story. The man he had loved was very cruel and could kill his parents. His muscles felt limp and unable to stand properly, he leaned back and cried on Fang Yin's shoulder.
Fang Yin gently rubbed his shoulders trying to calm him down. He knows it's very heavy. On the one hand she loved her husband very much but on the other she denounced his cruelty which had the heart to kill the family of the man who had saved her. Whatever the reason, what Yao Lin Feng did was not right.
Yao Lin Feng continued his story until the day of his return. Everyone was shocked by the love story between these two incompatible camps. They had not expected that Yao Lin Feng was keeping such a big secret about his marriage.
Sect Leader Yao Zhihuan was silently fixated on hearing the honesty of his son. He could not think clearly to make a decision on the matter. In terms of sect rules their marriage had been valid because it had sacrificed two souls to strengthen its relationship with the women outside the sect. However, he remained guilty of not telling her this matter.
If there was no baby, perhaps the secret of her second marriage would not be revealed and Huamei could also live comfortably in her clan. Fate says otherwise, everything that happens in this life cannot be controlled by humans.
Sect Leader Yao Zhihuan extinguished the prison of fire. Within seconds Huamei's baby had moved into his hands. Fang Yin had clenched him tightly but Yao Zhihuan's strength had pulled him unconscious by anyone.
Baby Huamei was still awake while in Yao Zhihuan's arms. Yao Lin Feng came over to the baby and looked at it up close. His face looked very similar to both of them as they had the same blood.
Huamei was still crying in Fang Yin's arms. His heart was completely broken and it was hard to accept the reality of his life. He felt so guilty towards both of his parents, indirectly he was the one who caused their deaths.
"I'm sorry, Dad." Yao Lin Feng bowed lethargicly before Yao Zhihuan.
"You want me to forgive you?" yao Zhihuan asked with a stern look.
"Kill that woman!" yao Zhihuan screeched as he pointed towards Huamei.
Fang Yin was wide-eyed at the vile man's orders. He also lost control. The flash of anger was clearly visible in his eyes. Regardless of whether Yao Lin Feng would do his father's orders or not, his heart could not accept Yao Zhihuan's treatment.
"It's not wrong for people to call you demons! This woman painstakingly defended her baby from the cruelty of her clan and ran here to expect protection, but what did she get? Hemh, the same cruelty. Is there no justice in this world?" Fang Yin spoke loudly before the Sect Chief.
Huamei tried to prevent and did not want to involve him in this matter, but Fang Yin instead jumped into the flames and got into Huamei's matter.
"Xiao Yin, go! I'll ask them to release you. All of this is my fault, let me bear it myself," Huamei said as he pulled Fang Yin's body away.
Fang Yin did not budge, he remained on his stance. Before Huamei gets justice he won't give up. No matter what happens, he will not allow their crimes to continue.
"Shut up!" Fang Yin snapped at Huamei loudly. She did not like weak people even though she was a woman.
The atmosphere in the place became tense. The entire Death Flute Sect members did not dare to make any sound. They are afraid of what will happen after this.
Right now Fang Yin was staring fixedly at Yao Lin Feng. He felt that the man before him was extremely weak. His hands were itching to beat him and make him prostrate at Huamei's feet.
"Hi, you bastard! Are you also as devil-hearted as your father? I admit your face is handsome but your heart is rotten! I assure you that your cruel nature will not decline in this good son of yours. He was born full of love and affection. The boy who knows how hard his mother is to keep her life. So what have you done?" Fang Yin attacked Yao Lin Feng with playful words.
Yao Lin Feng did not answer a word. He knew what he was doing was wrong, both in the eyes of Huamei and his father. In this case he is the one who deserves to be blamed.
"I said one more thing. When I met your wife and son, they were in his clan's siege. They're fugitives for carrying your child. If I don't arrive on time, I'll make sure that you won't meet them at this time. Then what good would I do to save them if you got here you'd kill him. You know, I'll just let them both die." Fang Yin vented his frustration.
Yao Zhihuan and everyone else there listened to Fang Yin's story, as did Yao Lang. While on a mission, he thought that Yao Lin Feng had died because they were both severely injured. If not for being saved by Huamei, perhaps he would no longer exist in this world.
Yao Lang ventured to talk to Yao Zhihuan about his state and Yao Lin Feng's state while on the mission. They were seriously injured after fighting with the divine eye armor guards. It was certain that Yao Lin Feng would not have survived without Huamei.
About the deaths of Huamei's parents, Yao Lang apologized to him. Back then he had done such a cruel thing as Yao Lin Feng had done to survive. He ate the soul of the man who was looking for firewood around his hiding place.
Although Yao Zhihuan was extremely ruthless, but he still had a slight side to humanity. After hearing the story from Fang Yin and Yao Lang, he thought of reducing Huamei and Yao Lin Feng's punishment.
The few times Yao Zhihuan looked at his grandson's face, his heart became trenchant upon seeing him so similar to her. The aura of energy he possessed felt very different, the blood of the two clans flowing in his body produced a very extraordinary fusion.
He could not imagine losing his grandson. His eyes were clear as if he had no sin. Yao Zhihuan's heart softened even more after looking at his grandson's handsome face.
"Looks like he's hungry." Yao Zhihuan handed Huamei's baby to her. She indirectly asked him to breastfeed the baby. His attitude did not look as cruel as before.
Huamei received her baby and suckled her while holding her. She thought that this was the last moment with her baby. Huamei cried deeply.
Fang Yin stopped talking but had not lost his anger. Right now he was still holding a grudge against the father and son standing before him.
Yao Lin Feng walked over to his father. Arriving before him, he dropped to his knees. The problem that happened was his fault, he was the cause of this mess.
"Dad, punish me. Let my wife and children live. I took the lives of both of his parents. Now it's just me and our son his family. If you want death, kill me. I should have died a year ago if it wasn't for Huamei and his family." Yao Lin Feng shed his tears as he begged his father.
Fang Yin felt overwhelmed by what Yao Lin Feng was doing, but he did not want to feel happy just yet because Yao Zhihuan had yet to officially announce whether he was cancelling the death sentence for Huamei.
"Wakeup! I'll think of the punishment you deserve after this. You made my head break." Yao Zhihuan walked towards the hall then sat on his seat of greatness.
Everyone followed him and stood in his place. There were only Fang Yin, Yao Lin Feng, and Huamei who were nursing their babies in the courtyard. The four of them became the center of attention of all the sect members who were inside the hall.
"Huamei .. I beg you to forgive me. I had to kill your parents. You can take revenge on me if you want. I regret my mistake. You can live happily without me, I'm just an irresponsible husband who abandoned his children and wife." Yao Lin Feng begged Huamei but he did not kneel down.
Abstinence for a Yao Clan kneeling before women. It is an unwritten rule that cannot be broken.
Huamei did not answer. His heart still hurts too much. Everything that happened to her was complex and shocking to her. At this moment his heart had been broken into pieces. He did not know if he could love Yao Lin Feng anymore or not after this.
An apology may not bring things back as they were, but a mistake will be erased once the apology is accepted. It wasn't easy for Huamei to forgive Yao Lin Feng.
"Let me take your baby, now you guys solve your problems. Think of the best path for you guys ahead." Fang Yin took Huamei's baby.
Huamei threw his face the other way as Yao Lin Feng advanced before him. His heart was squeezed by mixed feelings that made him feel worried. Feelings of anger, hate, love and longing are united in him. He did not know which was the most dominant.
"Xiao Peng, I don't know what your real name is. I don't know how much you lied to me. And I also don't know if everything you've been saying is a lie or a real thing. Your life is full of lies, Xiao Peng. However, I never regretted everything I did to you. I believe that someday my sincerity will bear sweet fruit." Huamei's voice sounded hoarse and heavy from crying for too long. Sometimes he still wipes away his tears that flow without excuse.
"Huamei .. I am indeed a cruel and devil-hearted man. But know I don't intend to hurt you. I really love you and never lied to you about everything I said. I still consider our marriage sacred. We have rights and obligations as a married couple and our baby is a legitimate child." Yao Lin Feng spoke full of earnestness.
"Let's just say I trust you and I won't prolong this matter. I'm gonna get out of here with our baby. Maybe it's better that we don't know each other and become strangers after this, but before I leave, you have the right to name your son and pin your margin on." Huamei made a decision for their relationship going forward.
Yao Lin Feng looked very saddened by Huamei's decision. However, to deal with a woman who was angry, he could not impose his will. Tonight, of course, Huamei is still staying there overnight, he will persuade her again tomorrow morning.
"Are you going to agree if I give her the name Yao Han Luo?" yao Lin Feng asked.
Huamei nodded he had no other choice for their son's name. Whatever the name, the baby would still be taken away from the Death Flute Sect without his father.
Yao Lin Feng walked up to his father and said what Huamei wanted. He begged his father to let his son and wife leave the sect and live freely.
Yao Zhihuan did not directly agree to Yao Lin Feng's request. He asked for time to think about it. He will make his decision tomorrow.
Huamei asked Fang Yin for his opinion on the matter and even Fang Yin did not mind if they stayed in the Death Flute Sect tonight. In Fang Yin's heart thought to look for an opportunity to take the Book of Nine Eight-star Dragons stored in a dark room.
Yao Zhihuan asked someone to prepare a guest room for Huamei and Fang Yin. Everyone dispersed and returned to their respective villas. However, their steps all came to a halt when the incision heard the sound of a flute in the distance.
The wind that was blowing quietly started to turn into a strong wind like a hurricane. The night air is getting colder because of the wind.
All the sect members that were around Fang Yin knelt down in unison including Yao Lin Feng who was nearby. Huamei and himself did not do so and looked at each other with faces of confusion.
"Huamei, kneel down if you want to survive. Invite your friend as well," Yao Lin Feng whispered.
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