"Hongye?!"
Xiao Yang's heart clenched, and he rushed to the jade bed in a single stride.
But when he reached out to touch Ning Hongye's cheek,
an invisible yet terrifyingly powerful force burst from Ning Hongye and sent his hand flying!
Xiao Yang staggered back seven or eight steps before he managed to steady himself.
He stared at the woman on the jade bed in shock.
This... this wasn't Hongye!
She had the same face and the same body,
but that gaze, that aura, that lofty majesty emanating from the depths of her soul...
none of it belonged to his Hongye!
"Who are you?!"
Every hair on Xiao Yang's body stood on end!
He instinctively gripped the Immortal Slaying Sword on his back, and a flash of icy killing intent flickered in his eyes.
"Get out of her body!"
Xiao Wuji's expression was just as grave.
He could feel how terrifying the presence inside Ning Hongye was, too!
It was an aura more ancient and powerful than his own, even more so than the aura he had sensed from the Nameless Old Man!
It was as if some supreme existence from another era had appeared!
"Heh..."
On the jade bed, "Ning Hongye" slowly sat up.
She glanced at Xiao Yang, who was bristling with killing intent and standing on guard, and the corners of her mouth curled with interest.
Then she spoke.
Her voice was no longer Ning Hongye's cool, clear one,
but an ancient, timeworn, majestic voice—a celestial woman's voice that seemed to make the world obey her words.
"You're Xiao Yang?"
"That girl Ruyan certainly had a good eye."
Ruyan?!
At the name, Xiao Yang's pupils contracted!
Emperor Ruyan!
The sleeping Female Immortal Emperor inside Ning Hongye!
Could this being before him be connected to Emperor Ruyan?
But