Published at 18th of October 2020 06:29:13 PM
Chapter 57
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That day, right in front of Mo Qing, I immediately “vanished into a puff of smoke.” He did not even know what the ghost world looked like, so the only possibility that he could think of was probably to return and find Zhi Yan, but even if Mo Qing found Zhi Yan, it was still useless because this time none of them knew where I was.
After all…
Even I, myself, did not expect that when I left the Soul Return Store, I would encounter a situation like this; I was immediately arrested, imprisoned, and detained for three days. However… I, at last, got to know about the secret past related to myself.
I drifted into Zhi Yan’s body. While next to me, Zhi Yan was wiping her tears and chokingly saying:
“Three days ago, Li Chen Lan came back to find me. He constantly asked me, where’s Lu Zhao Yao, where’s Lu Zhao Yao, he almost scared me to death… It was only later that I became aware that he had already known about our tricks. But when he asked me so anxiously at that time, how could I know where you were, so I thought that your soul was still on Feng Mountain. Li Chen Lan led me there to find you, but we did not see you, so we returned once again. After that, I spent a day looking for you on the mountain, then I spent another day looking for you in the ghost market, I couldn’t find you anywhere I went…”
When she spoke up to this point, she drew back the corners of her lips, wanting to cry again, “Great Demon King, where have you been these past few days, huh? Scared me to death. At Wu E Palace, Li Chen Lan is dispersing his divine sense to find you. If you didn’t appear today…” She paused for a moment, impatiently gazing at me, “Why aren’t you anxiously entering my body?”
I looked at her, feeling a little frantic. However, I still forcibly suppressed my emotions, looking at the color in the sky and saying: “It’s no hurry, wait until it’s the Hour of the Rat, then I’ll try again.”
*Hour of the Rat (子时 – zǐ shí) – between 11 p.m. and 1 a.m.
When Zhi Yan heard what I said, her face became solemn and she stopped nagging and crying. She immediately drifted to my side and circled around me twice: “Great Demon King, you… Your soul is much fainter… Just now, I didn’t even notice it. This body of yours seems a little fuzzy. What happened to you?”
“I took the Resurrection Pill.” As my heart sank, I said, “It’s possible that my soul has some changes… I haven’t disappeared yet! You’re not allowed to cry!”
“Hu…” After Zhi Yan got scolded by me, she immediately bit her lower lip and gazed at me with tearful eyes.
“My body is still in the world of the living, perhaps there is still a little bit of life force left inside, so I’m now considered a half-dead person. Therefore, when you knocked yourself against my grave, your soul left your body, but you didn’t die, so you could see me.” I tried to explain it to her as simple as possible, “But this time because I wanted to get rid of Luo Ming Xuan, I took the Resurrection Pill… The things in the ghost market, the more I eat, the closer I’ll be to death. It’s especially the case with the Resurrection Pill, so now the body of my soul may have changed a little bit compared to before. It’s not as easy to enter your body, and maybe in the future, I won’t be able to enter your body more.”
Even…. Maybe after a while longer, the life force in my body would fade away, then even Zhi Yan would not be able to see me.
I refrained from telling her these words.
“Right now, it’s almost the Hour of the Rat, so after a moment, I will try again to see if I can enter your body. If I can enter, then that’s great. But if I can’t, then you properly re-enter your body, go back, and tell Li Chen Lan my situation. Tell him not to worry, I will drift to his side.”
“So… So in the future, if you can no longer enter, then how do you want to communicate with Li Chen Lan?”
“You’ll relay my words. Then we’ll go find my body as soon as possible.”
“Where’s your body?”
I rolled my eyes and looked at Zhi Yan: “Where’s your Big Uncle?”
Zhi Yan was dumbfounded and thought for a moment: “It seems like… When East Mountain Lord carried my Big Uncle away from Xian Tai Mountain and later got lost, I no longer heard any news about the two of them… In the past few days, Li Chen Lan went crazy, looking for you. Everyone in Wan Lu Sect was dispatched to scout the world for strange occurrences relating to ghosts, so no one went out to make discreet inquiries about their news…”
Therefore, it was assumed that the two of them had been missing since then?!
I was speechless. Little Shi Qi was someone with no sense of direction, so did Qin Qian Xian have a poor sense of direction, too? Chen Ji Mountain was such a big mountain that was poking out over yonder, you guys still could not find it?
However, being together with Shi Qi… Anything could happen.
So I temporarily placed this matter aside. After waiting for a while, I saw that the time was the Hour of the Rat, I calmed down and drifted above Zhi Yan’s body. Coming face-to-face, my soul and her body started to harmonize and slowly merged together. After a short period of time, I slowly felt the heaviness in my fingertips, the heartbeats pulsing in my body, and the blood flowing back and forth like a shuttle.
I opened my eyes, and saw Zhi Yan’s soul floating by my side.
I sat up and moved the muscles and bones about: “Ultimately, this body of yours is still not as good as my own body.”
She happily circled and bounced around twice: “You’re in! you’re in! Hurry up and go find Li Chen Lan!”
Without needing her to tell me, I twirled my fingers and utilized the Instantaneous Travel Technique. In a split second, I immediately set foot in Wu E Palace.
Above Wu E Palace, the bright moon was shining silvery light everywhere. As I stepped in, the silvery light seemed to fluctuate slowly.
I was startled, but knew what kind of magical array this was — the Ninth Heaven Technique. It could explore up to the Ninth Heaven and search down to the Nine Springs. It was a magical technique that could observe everywhere in the whole world. As long as he wanted to, he could even hear the sounds of flowers blooming thousands of miles away.
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However, this magic consumed an extreme amount of spiritual essence. The farther he explored, the more damage it would cause to his divine sense.
Zhi Yan said that Mo Qing had exhausted his divine sense to look for me, but I did not expect him to arrange such a large array.
I went inside Wu E Palace, only to find Mo Qing sitting upright on the divan. In the room, the silvery light on the ground was even more brilliant, like the vast starry sky sprinkled on the ground with a softness that was peaceful and refreshing.
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He was meditating with his eyes closed. All of his divine sense was scattered around in other places. I did not dare to alarm him, so I just slowly approached him. When I stood before him, I gently called out: “Mo Qing.” The sound of my voice was softer than I could have ever anticipated, “Mo Qing, I’ve come back.”
This call of mine appeared to be provoking the silvery light on the ground, so inside the room, the drops entered the stars like specks of dewdrops.
The silvery light flashed, layer upon layer of waves moved outward. After a while, layer upon layer of waves came back, and the gleaming waves slowly gathered together. The more it gathered, the faster it became. Finally, the silvery light in the room faded away. Mo Qing was like an old monk meditating, sitting still, not moving.
I knew that when the scattered divine sense was abruptly recalled, the burden to the body was immense. Outsiders might not know, but he was most definitely enduring a tremendous amount of vertigo and pain.
I did not dare to touch him. I was only afraid that a little touch would disturb his thoughts, making his divine sense chaotic. Then he would be unable to restore it.
Without any other option, I silently waited in front of him. It was unknown for how long I waited, perhaps it was more than an hour. Finally, the fingertips on his knees slightly twitched and his eyelashes fluttered like the flapping wings of a butterfly. He slowly opened his eyes.
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Seeing me before him, he became lost in thought for a split second. I looked into his clear, translucent eyes and for a moment, also became lost in thought.
It was just that, I did not know if his thoughts were the same as mine or not. Anyways… Right now, in my head was the scene before the mountain gate during that year, against the background of the light, fire, wind, and snow, I impolitely and senselessly pinned him onto the ground with a violent kiss.
Thinking about that scene, my throat felt somewhat dry and a little bit constricted.
I reached out my hand to push him, directly pushing him back into the divan. Last time, the netherworld charged me with a rape crime. I felt that I was wrongly accused. However, this criminal charge could not be corrected, then I would bluntly and directly make this criminal charge true.
I moved up and wanted to immediately bite his lip.
However, a moment before it could happen, he used his hand to promptly block me, and I kissed his palm. He gazed at me and in his eyes, I saw Zhi Yan’s face, then I became somewhat clear-headed.
This was… Zhi Yan’s body.
Just thinking about it, I could foresee the screeches that would echo beside my ears every day and every night in the future. So I held back my emotions, gnashing my teeth.
“Zhao Yao.” At this moment, beneath my body, Mo Qing called out my name, “Is it you?”
I sighed: “It’s me.”
“You didn’t disappear?”
“I did disappear.” I wanted to tease him, but when I said these words, his eyes suddenly became vacant for a moment. So in the blink of an eye, my teasing heart was immediately stabbed by a thousand needles. My throat choked for a second; never again would I use this matter to tease him with, “But I was reluctant to be apart from you, so I returned. Ugly Little Monster…” I helped him sooth his chest, “I told you not to cry, did you do it?”
As soon as my back tightened, I was pulled down by him. He embraced me into his chest, holding me tightly. He did not say a word, only protected me like guarding a treasure: “Lu Zhao Yao.”
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“Mhm?”
“Don’t say those kinds of words again. Tell me where you’re going, I’ll accompany you.” He hugged me so tightly, “Don’t let me search again.”
Mo Qing… Were you scared?
As I patted his chest, I brought my head out from his embrace: “Let’s go look for it together.”
He was slightly startled.
“My body.” I said, “My body is still somewhere in the corner of this world. Let’s go look for it together. Once it’s found, I’ll come back and marry you.”
Speaking of this, the matter of that ghost husband of mine suddenly flashed through my mind: “Oh, that’s right.” I sat up from above Mo Qing’s body, “Before that, I still need you to help me with some things.”
As I got up, he sat up, too. Then I tiredly sat on his lap and said: “In the ghost market, I’ve gotten into a marriage debt. I have to pay back the money in order to divorce that scholar. Help me burn some money first.”
Mo Qing’s body suddenly stiffened.
I lifted my fingers, counting and muttering: “Two Resurrection Pills, one trip to the dungeon, a sum of money for the Da Yin Netherworld Bank, and a little for the divorce fee, so according to the expense level of Cao Ning… Probably have to burn four hundred thousand for him? Mhm, he’s been very good to me these past few days. Rounding it up, burning him five hundred thousand should be enough.”
As soon as I turned my head, I bumped into Mo Qing’s ice-cold, but somewhat subtle expression.
He appeared to only understand the meaning of my first words. So he only acknowledged two words, repeating them with emphasis: “Marriage debt?”
Ah…
I watched Mo Qing’s eyes becoming deeply hidden and darkish black. Suddenly I was able to react, maybe right now, I should not have told it to him like this? I rolled my eyes: “Then it’s… A gambling debt? Anyways, it’s a debt, how it’s addressed is not important.”
He narrowed his eyes and looked at me. For the first time, I felt that his pair of eyes were more beautiful than the starry sky. He stared at me with bad intentions: “Cao Ning, who’s he?”
“Ha ha ha!” I forcefully laughed for a moment. My answer choked in my throat, making it hard to speak. Naturally he was…
My current husband, registered in a book in the netherworld.