Chapter 490: Frank with Each Other

The match continues as before.

The 202nd match, Di Qingye steps onto the stage.

The opponent Di Qingye drew wasn't strong, and he soon won.

Immediately after, Ling Huya, Xiao Lingwei, Cang Li, Xue Jin, Ying Wuji, Song Yan, Xiao Zhufeng, and Dongfangxiu went up one by one.

And they each won their one-on-one platform match.

Starting with Yuan Yao, the Ninth Province team won ten consecutive matches. This is something everyone finds hard to believe.

After all, the teams from other provinces or islands all lost at least one of the first ten matches.

Next, the Ninth Province team sent out Ao Su.

Ao Su is currently at the peak of the late Golden Core Realm.

The opponent he drew turned out to be——

Feiyun Island's Qian Yunzhou!

The moment Ao Su saw his opponent clearly, his face darkened.

Qian Yunzhou wore a red robe, his amber cold eyes holding a half-smile, his facial bones as if finely carved by a god, handsome and mysterious.

There is a small red mole beneath the corner of his right eye.

He strode over, instantly drawing everyone's gaze.

He is too good-looking.

Ao Su and Qian Yunzhou stood on the same platform, and they seemed to be from different dimensions.

Ao Su heard cheers from around, with almost everyone shouting Qian Yunzhou's name.

Ao Su let out a deep sigh in his heart.

"I concede."

Conceding early can still spare him the pain of flesh.

Everyone was not surprised by this result.

After all, Qian Yunzhou is the pride of Feiyun Island!

Qian Yunzhou walked around the platform, then deliberately came to the edge near the Ninth Province team, his gaze falling on Yuan Yao.

And Ying Wuji sensed Qian Yunzhou's gaze, his face instantly turning cold, a flash of killing intent flickering in his eyes.

Qian Yunzhou naturally sensed Ying Wuji's killing intent, but he merely smiled and then turned to leave the platform.

Ying Wuji said solemnly, "Yao Yao, stay away from Qian Yunzhou from now on."

Yuan Yao already had many doubts in her heart; she pursed her lips and asked, "Why?"

Ying Wuji said coldly, "This person cannot be befriended."

Yuan Yao's eyes flickered; she secretly sent a sound transmission to Ying Wuji, probing: "Senior Brother, do you perhaps know something we don't?"

Ying Wuji startled, tilted his head to meet Yuan Yao's doubtful gaze.

He remained silent for a few seconds.

"No."

Yuan Yao faintly felt Ying Wuji wasn't telling the truth, "Senior Brother, maybe you know something I could also know."

【Host, please do not reveal the original plot to anyone. Otherwise, you will suffer punishment.】 The 250 System seemed to sense her thought, reminding and warning her.

Upon hearing this, Ying Wuji's deep eyes gazed at her like an ancient well, his look carrying a hint of inquiry, a hint of confusion, and a hint of pain not easily noticed.

His aura seemed to turn deep because of this, the surrounding clamor as if isolated outside, leaving only the two of them between heaven and earth.

Their gazes met in the air, colliding silently, as if an invisible current flowed between them.

In that moment, time seemed to freeze, and they each understood the other's deep, ineffable complex emotions.

"Yao Yao," Ying Wuji's voice entered Yuan Yao's sea of consciousness, "Do you believe we will have a past life?"

Yuan Yao's heart jumped violently, her pupils suddenly constricted, and she felt a surge of thousand-layered waves in her heart.

Ying Wuji keenly caught the subtle change in her expression, a flash of realization crossing his eyes, he continued via divine sense transmission: "Every so often, I recall some fuzzy fragments, those… seem to be events from a past life. Yao Yao, do you… also have memories of a past life?"

Yuan Yao opened her mouth, wanting to answer, but her throat felt as if blocked by something, unable to utter a single syllable.

Regarding rebirth, regarding the system, regarding those tasks that must be completed, she could not confess them to her senior brother.

Since she could not speak, Yuan Yao blinked at him once.

Given Ying Wuji's years of understanding of her, he almost instantly grasped the meaning of her unspoken words the moment she blinked.

She indeed also remembers!

No wonder……

Ying Wuji's heart suddenly became enlightened.

In her past life, Yuan Yao should have choked to death by gulping down those ten bird eggs all at once over a year ago, but this life she did not gulp them down.

As it turns out, Yuan Yao also reincarnated.

But he quickly realized that Yuan Yao seemed to have something unspeakable, unable to voice what she knows.

Among them……

There must be something fishy!

He anxiously asked, "Yao Yao, do you… have a threat to your life?"

Yuan Yao met his worried gaze, her heart warmed, then sank slightly.

She thought carefully, then slowly shook her head.

She did not want her senior brother to know about her strategy mission.

Moreover, after this period of effort, her remaining lifespan is still plenty; for now, she does not face a threat to her life.

At least, for now she doesn't need to let him know these.

Yuan Yao looked at Ying Wuji, her mood extremely complicated. She thought of the Carefree Sect members' tragic fate in the original novel's plot, and that was something Youngest Senior Brother had truly experienced in his past life, which must have caused him great hurt.

She herself has no memories of her past life and can only learn from the system the fate of the Carefree Sect members in their previous lives and in the original novel's plot.

Even if she had past‑life memories, they would only extend up to the moment of choking to death.

And Ying Wuji quickly sensed this.

Ying Wuji's gaze grew dim as he stared at his own junior sister, and his heart suddenly sank.

Ying Wuji thought: even if Yuan Yao has been reborn, she could not possibly know anything about Lu Xiangxiang and the others! Therefore, Yuan Yao must still be hiding other secrets. And this secret, she could never reveal.

His mind filled with uneasy doubt, those beautiful vermilion‑phoenix eyes now full of worry, he transmitted his voice and asked, "Yuan Yao, don't lie to Youngest Senior Brother. Do you really have no danger to your life?"

Before Yuan Yao could speak, Cang Li was already standing beside the two of them, his gaze carrying a hint of inquiry: "What are you doing? Making eyes at each other?"

His voice, once spoken, immediately drew the attention of Song Yan and several others.

Xue Jin spoke up: "What are you talking about?"

Yuan Yao and Ying Wuji exchanged a glance, temporarily keeping the secret locked in their hearts.

Yuan Yao replied: "Youngest Senior Brother told me to stay away from Qianyun Zhou."

"Qianyun Zhou?" Song Yan asked, slightly puzzled, "What's wrong with him?"

Ying Wuji explained: "Qianyun Zhou always likes to get close to Yuan Yao. Yuan Yao's nature is simple, and I don't want her to be deceived by others."

"I see," Cang Li nodded in sudden realization, then shifted his tone: "We must not only guard against Qianyun Zhou, but also guard against that Xie…"

Before he could finish, Yuan Yao stepped on his foot.

The pain made him yelp instantly!

Yuan Yao, irritated, said: "Third Senior Brother, you must not speak recklessly. Making me guard so many people—if it spreads, wouldn't it ruin the reputations of others and mine?"

Cang Li gritted his teeth and said: "How could I have made you guard so many? Since Ying Wuji said it, I can't speak otherwise! Yuan Yao, you're being biased!"

"Third Senior Brother, my heart has always been biased. No one's heart sits in the exact center," Yuan Yao blinked innocently.