After confirming that the two Demon Sovereigns had truly left, Zhou Yan finally dropped all his pretense.
He slumped straight onto the stone stool, his expression immensely complicated.
"Ah..."
He cultivated the Dao of Karma, so he cared more than anyone about such great karmic ties as "past lives and present lives."
This time, besides persuading Zhu Yao and Feng Qing to turn back, his reason for stopping them...
Had also included a little selfish wish of his own.
From Old Xie's scattered remarks and his own deductions, he had guessed a little of the truth.
But no matter how he calculated, he could not work out his true name in his previous life.
The feeling was like a fishbone lodged in his throat.
That was why he had deliberately arranged this tea gathering today.
He had hoped to coax a little information about his previous life out of these two Demon Sovereigns from Ancient Times.
But what had happened?
Zhu Yao had not beaten around the bush at all. She had called him "Jiutian" right off the bat!
That peerless Demon Sovereign of the ancient Demon Realm who cultivated the Myriad Forms Heavenly Evolution Dao!
Zhou Yan rubbed his cheek. "Were my ways of doing things before and after reincarnation really that similar? Enough to recognize me at a glance?"
At this thought, he finally understood why Xie Changsheng had been so furious back then that he had cursed Shi Yin out.
Who would want the life they had painstakingly lived, including their personality and manner of doing things, to turn out to be nothing but someone else's shadow?
He shook his head hard, driving these thoughts from his mind.
"Forget it."
"Now that I know the name, I'll leave the rest to time."
"No matter how glorious my