Dance Of The Phoenix
14. Mysterious Figure

The figure of the girl fell into a deep sleep this beautiful morning. However, his sleeping position was so chaotic that his body was wrapped around the blanket in full. He didn't move, just slept like a dead man.

The sound of birds singing out there disturbs his sleep. The pair of blood-red irises showed their color as sunlight slipped in. He complained while closing the entry of light into his eyes by closing his eyes.

Because of his slanted sleeping position, he also rolled his body to his back. But who would have thought, bad things happen ....

Bruckk

Gu Yuena's life returned to her body when her body just fell off the bed. He was shocked, and realized instantly from his dream. He only realized that his body was wrapped around the blanket perfectly until he could not move.

Gu Yuena sighed and relaxed her body. He may sleep while making trouble.

Wait a minute, since when did he arrive at the Duke's Residence?

Gu Yuena pitted while rolling on the floor to escape the winding. She was like an unkempt girl with hair as disheveled as a wasp's nest. After detaching from the blanket roll, he stood up while tidying up his hair.

"Weiwei ...." He called his personal servant lazily while sitting on the bed. His gaze was directed at the bowl of ginseng soup on the table.

He took the ginseng soup, then smelled it, hoping for no poison or anything. The temperature was still warm, indicating that the soup had just been made. In addition, there was no other peculiarity besides the pungent smell. Did Jiang Weiwei make it?

Then ... was he caught drunk? Luo Youzhe brought her here blatantly!

"Dead me ...."

Gu Yuena complained back while crying tearlessly. If the people of the residence knew his behavior, it was exhausted all his disguise as 'good boy'. Ting Le would continue to look for faults and push her worse. Know for yourself Gu Shan dislikes brats the most. He could stay in the dilapidated house again after Gu Yuan returned to the academy.

"Weiwei ... Jiang Weiwei!"'s!" Gu Yuena called Jiang Weiwei loudly, but there was no telling. He took all the soup and got out of bed.

Wearing a veil and coming out of the room, all he saw was a servant girl rushing up to him. That girl was not Jiang Weiwei, Gu Yuena had never seen her either. Looks like he's a new waiter.

The servant girl leaned over to greet him, then asked, "Miss, can I help you?"

"Where is Jiang Weiwei?" Gu Yuena acted calm to cover up her panic.

"This subordinate heard, Servant Jiang has already gone to the hometown, unable to tell Fourth Miss in a hurry."

"Hometown?" Gu Yuena did not remember the girl having a hometown. Aren't all the servants here since childhood? They married and had children in this place, it was impossible to have a hometown.

"This branch only hears from the gossip of other servants, not knowing more. Duke Gu had already sent a servant to become Miss's personal servant, replacing Servant Jiang. Sorry, if Miss is less pleased."

"Nothing." After all he did not like Jiang Weiwei who kept trying to poison him. Jiang Weiwei was Ting Le's spy, it was great if he 'go home' before he himself got rid of that person.

Though Gu Yuena had already made a pleasant plan to mentally take down Jiang Weiwei once again.

"What's your name?" ask Gu Yuena.

"The name of this subordinate is Chu Xin."

"Yesterday, did you see anything strange?" Gu Yuena wanted to find out if this servant saw her with Luo Youzhe or not.

"Answer, Miss, there's nothing strange."

"You didn't see anyone else walk into the pavilion last night?"

Chu Xin shook his head not knowing. "Miss, this subordinate has just come before dawn, not understanding what Miss means."

Only Jiang Weiwei knew. But thankfully, the girl had been gone for a long time. Don't know when it'll come back.

"Well, I want to take a shower, get everything ready."

Gu Yuena did not want to be dizzy for too long just because of a servant. Since the one who came was not the servant that Gu Shan had sent to call him, he thought Luo Youzhe had not brought him home blatantly. That nice.

But wait a minute. Jiang Weiwei-mata—mata Ting Le—has left, it could have been Chu Xin who was the spy Gu Shan sent to monitor him. He must not make the same mistake again, let alone show strange things. It was better to avoid the servant as much as possible and be independent, so that the servant did not find anything strange around him.

About Jiang Weiwei. It must have been that the girl had already reported to Ting Le before leaving, making Ting Le complain to Gu Shan and send Chu Xin for proof. He must be vigilant.

But if that's the case, who made him some ginseng soup? There's no way the showman is, is there?

Or ... Chu Xin had actually found him in a drunken state. He had to prepare everything before Chu Xin reported his behavior to Gu Shan.

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After bathing and gifting into an innocent feminine girl, Gu Yuena took Xiao Hei into her arms to go give the gift she bought to Gu Yuan. This gift was very special and expensive, Gu Yuan must have loved it.

He walked quietly, although in reality he was eager to run to get there quickly. But it's okay, he must keep his face so as not to deviate from what should be. If he could maintain this face, his life would be at ease.

"Miaw!"

There was neither want nor rain, suddenly Xiao Hei meowed very hard and jumped from Gu Yuena's embrace. The black cat ran in the other direction and put on an alert attitude. Wanting to not want Gu Yuena to follow him.

"Xiao Hey, I don't have much time to keep you company." Gu Yuena's footsteps stopped once she saw the black figure that flashed so quickly. A mysterious abstract figure, like a black fog that lived and walked in darkness.

Gu Yuena took Xiao Hei to her carriage, then followed the direction the black figure was going. He could clearly see the black figure moving very quickly to the pavilion where Ting Le lived.

That figure reminded Gu Yuena of something. Something that became his nightmare. He clenched his fist. His heart was beating very hard and started to shake.

"It can't be ...." There's no way it's 'him'. He had already gone to another world, there was no way 'he' had followed him until here.

The shadow of death on his head flashed making him uneasy. A variety of negative emotions began to haunt him. Then recalling the day that he would die at the hands of his rival, he also saw that figure which caused the anger of his rival to successfully kill him. (Chapter 1)

Was 'he' the one who brought him here? But why did 'he' enter Ting Le's residence? What's their relationship?

Feeling unable to harbor curiosity, he walked up to the pavilion and went inside. Walk and hide every step. He no longer saw the black figure, but Ting Le's voice spoke started to sound.

He followed the direction of the voice and hid behind the wall to peek at the room where Ting Le was. The woman appeared to kneel before a black figure that could not be seen clearly—because it was covered in pillars and curtains.

Ting Le was so tense and scared when he realized that the black figure had come into place. He knelt for so long with his body shaking. His tongue felt faint when he wanted to say something.

"Sir, this subordinate is guilty, unable to judge the situation well. But ... My daughter is already engaged to Young Master Ye, it's only a matter of time to settle the rest." Ting Le was scared to death. He looked at the black figure, then hurriedly said, "There will be no mistake the second time. This subordinate has already taken control of the Duke's Residence, just need to wait for my daughter to get married and pressure the Luo Clan to not enter the Duke's Residence. After that, you can launch a plan."

Gu Yuena in the distance there frowned. The plans? What were they planning to do using the Duke's Residence?

"He almost leaked everything, didn't he, sweet girl?"

Gu Yuena was surprised. He turned around and saw the black fog staring at him with frightening red eyes. He looked again at Ting Le, then realized that the figure had disappeared from there and moved before him.

He retreated to give distance. He had to run, as his current strength could not compare to the black figure that felt so strong that it suppressed him. Even Xiao Hei was already very frightened in his arms and could not run away.

Until Gu Yuena was finally cornered, her hand found a large book on the table. He unconsciously picked it up because of panic. But who would have thought, the book became another door-opening lever in the form of a wall behind it until it fell into.

Gu Yuena fell on the ground with the book she was carrying. Apparently the secret door was the exit just behind the residence. Somehow the distance was as far as it could go, whereas the Ting Le pavilion was in the middle of the residence. It must be magic again.

He got up and pulled his dirty skirt. He saw a thick book open on the ground. There's a phoenix in it.

"Meow~" Xiao Hei sniffed around the book. When he pressed the open book, a red flash pushed him to the point that Xiao Hei bounced around with the screech of a cat.

"Xiao Hey!" Gu Yuena directly picked up the mired Xiao Hei. Thankfully not hurt. He looked back at the strange book, then thought of something.

The book he picked up spontaneously in Ting Le's pavilion, was the key to the secret door that had them bouncing out of the residence. There must be a secret behind this. Moreover, Gu Yuena wanted to know what kind of creature was behind that black fog.

He saw it in his world long ago, but the figure always left after it was discovered. But now when he was abandoned in this world, that figure instead found him.

He was sure, that figure was actually from this world and was only a newcomer to his world first. But how can it be? How has he been connected to this world since childhood?

"Xiao Hey, looks like I'm going completely crazy." Gu Yuena rubbed her face in frustration. He looked at the book with narrowed eyes. Maybe there's an answer there.

He took the book and intended to return to the residence. But when he stepped foot to enter the residence, the black figure again appeared blocking his path. It appears like a ghost.

Gu Yuena retreated spontaneously. He took out the dagger he was carrying just in case, then used spiritual power to attack.

But unfortunately, the figure seemed to have no body so that the dagger that Gu Yuena drew pierced through the black fog. Gu Yuena was surprised. This time, he had to make his life a priority during the face of that unknown figure.

Some black fog shot out an attack towards Gu Yuena. Gu Yuena immediately carried Xiao Hei into his arms and left while dodging the attack.

Behind the Duke's Residence was a forest. Since Gu Yuena could not go to the front of the Residence and enter the city, then she could only break through the forest and use her small body advantage to sneak into each branch of the tree.

In addition to using the tree as an attack barrier, he could also go to a small crack to remove the trail and turn back to the city to seek shelter.

But no one expected, the figure would be faster than expected. A wisp of black fog suddenly appeared right in front of Gu Yuena who had just landed from the tree branch. Gu Yuena directly lowered her head back to avoid the black fog that would stab her like a spear.

Gu Yuena jumped backwards to give some distance. His fighting ability can only be used for humans, even with a cultivation of no more than 4 levels. Against a mysterious figure unknown to his kind, of course he was overwhelmed. Moreover, the creature could not be attacked using weapons and could not feel pain.

The black fog continued to slide as long as Gu Yuena made an escape. One of the black fog shot out from the opposite direction right in front of Gu Yuena. Gu Yuena did not have time to dodge and smashed into the black fog. His body slammed far enough away, then hit the tree trunk until he felt his body had been crushed.

Xiao Hei also crashed and fell on the ground. Fortunately, he is soft-boned so he can stand back, then try to keep his body from the attack of evil creatures. Merely, the small body became submerged among the bushes and the magnitude of the black figure.

Gu Yuena stood up. He thought of a way to get away from this situation, but the other party's strength was too strong to have all his plans shattered instantly. He had yet to exert his strength, but that figure had already made him collapse first so as to not have a chance to act.

The creature again let out a thick black fog to hit a large spear. He moved his hand quickly, then aimed the spear formed towards Gu Yuena.

He took off the huge spear at high speed. Gu Yuena prepared to risk everything to fight back and took out a flying dagger as the final mainstay. Although he would lose, he should not be a coward who gave up on death.

Just as the huge spear full of fog was getting closer towards him, a dark blue light flashed at high speed and held the spear right in front of Gu Yuena.

Gu Yuena was stunned. He saw a person in front of him holding a huge spear with a dark blue light that was full of battle aura. Just by looking at his back covered in black robes, he already knew who that person was.

"Luo Youzhe?"

Duarrr

The two energies repelled each other and caused a pressure-filled explosion. The spear managed to break Luo Youzhe's defense, while the retreating Luo Youzhe directly took Gu Yuena to another safer place. The spear hit Gu Yuena's starting place right then and there.

Luo Youzhe arrived at a safe place and released his embrace towards Gu Yuena. While Gu Yuena was still speechless. Xiao Hei on the other hand was still trembling while hugging Gu Yuena's feet tightly.

"You okay?" Luo Youzhe asked. I don't know when this girl will stop making trouble.

Gu Yuena was still in a state of shock. Then his gaze shifted to that figure. "Revelation!"

The black fog that shot out was instantly crushed by Luo Youzhe's double sword blade. The slender sword was smoothed out very quickly, then formed several attacks that rained down on the mysterious creature to create a thick fog.

The black figure seemed to be irritated upon seeing Luo Youzhe's presence, whereas the man only put on a cold face. Unable to continue what he wanted, the figure left quickly, disappearing into the darkness.

Luo Youzhe stored his two swords back into the spiritual space. His gaze was fixed on the direction of the mysterious figure's departure coldly, seemingly knowing something.

Gu Yuena ended her shock and looked at Xiao Hei who was still frightened. He lifted the little cat, then rubbed it gently. He looked towards Luo Youzhe, feeling uneasy himself.

"Thank you." Gu Yuena said sincerely. Although their relationship was not good, Luo Youzhe was willing to help her already very good.

"How did you get here?" Luo Youzhe did not turn around to look at Gu Yuena. His voice sounded very cold.

For some reason, Gu Yuena felt that cold tone made her reluctant. Although it should be normal, he just felt uncomfortable and made him lazy to answer.

Luo Youzhe turned around. When he saw Gu Yuena, his cold gaze turned normal as usual. He looks like he'll be showing off soon. Gu Yuena did not feel bad and wanted to hit him.

"Don't be overconfident, I saved because I saw you being bullied before my eyes. In this world, only I can bully you."

"Who is being bullied? I obviously want to be killed." Gu Yuena felt that the one who saved her was the other Luo Youzhe, not this one.

"Who wants to kill you? If he wants to kill you, with his strength, he won't stall for too much time until I come. Or he could've killed us both here." Luo Youzhe explained as he walked out of the forest.

"Why are you here all of a sudden?"

"Just through."

"You're playing in the woods, not in the Dark Market anymore?"

Luo Youzhe glanced at Gu Yuena, seemingly thinking. "Initially I just wanted to hunt, then accidentally met you who was bullied by a stranger."

"I told you I wasn't bullied ...." Gu Yuena said in a complaining tone.

"Either who you offend until it's like this. This time, it was most likely that person would return. Actually he didn't want to kill you, so you can still think of a way to escape."

Gu Yuena was deep in thought as she stepped following Luo Youzhe's direction. Right, if the creature wanted to, he had been dead since at the Ting Le Pavilion. What exactly is the purpose of this makhkuk?

"You know something?" Gu Yuena asked Luo Youzhe. Luo Youzhe's gaze when he saw the creature earlier, seemed to have recognized him.

"No. Where could my acquaintances be that bad." Luo Youzhe was unwilling to admit. It made Gu Yuena even more curious.

Who was Luo Youzhe really?