Published at 18th of October 2020 06:29:13 PM
Chapter 58
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Mo Qing stared at me fixedly. Following which, I just awkwardly smiled like this, a face that congealed solemnly due to some nervousness.
However, without being nervous for long, my heart erupted forth a rush of resistance of “why was I so nervous?” As soon as I cleared my throat, I coughed dryly and said: “There’s no money in my netherworld account, so I found someone to borrow some money. However, borrowing money over there is a bit troublesome, so I picked someone to marry. I find him to get some money for a little assistance on expenses…”
“Lu Zhao Yao! You…” His voice was both low and deep, calling out my full name. For a moment, it actually made the skin on my face tighten. There was a kind of feeling of being berated by my maternal grandfather when I was a child.
This kind of feeling came suddenly. After momentarily making me nervous, it immediately turned into a long ago feeling, somewhere between discipline, concern, and special constraint. While this feeling of constraint was usually accompanied by a sense of security.
To be protected by others, it possessed a real sense of safety.
Mo Qing controlled his emotions. He appeared to be somewhat gnashing his teeth, as he said in a low voice: “You should get a beating.”
He was angry, but was helpless at the same time.
It was because he could not bear to hit me.
I turned my head to look at him, patting his chest: “Alright, alright, am I not taking your money to go conclude his matter? Don’t be angry anymore, the one I like is you.”
Haa… It was as if these words that I said and the tone that I used were extremely similar to a certain type of man in the secular world, but after Mo Qing heard me say “like,” he still could not stop the light in his eyes from stirring slightly.
I carefully observed his expression and saw that the flames in his eyes had almost subsided. I immediately pinched his chin and laughed at him: “Ai-ya, I simply like your jar of vinegar. It’s slightly sour, with just a sniff, I feel captivated. Quickly, let me have a taste.” I moved forward, wanting to kiss him.
Mo Qing, who had a taut face, finally could not resist my approach. He literally did not know whether to laugh or cry and turned his head away. He appeared to be extremely helpless. During the time that I was playing to my heart’s content, my heart suddenly transmitted a sharp tingling sensation.
My hand that was holding his chin could not endure the pain and slightly exerted a bit more force. The corners of my lips immediately also tightened to suppress the groan that almost came out.
“What’s wrong?”
Mo Qing immediately noticed my changes, so I turned my head to look at him. Just a moment ago, it was not easy to erase the pain and concern from the depths of his eyes, and now his eyebrows were furrowing once again.
“I’m fi-… Uh…” Even more severe pain was being transmitted to my heart and I momentarily could not stop the groan from escaping. At the same time, my body suddenly slid to the ground, and with all of Mo Qing’s might, he held me in his arms.
“Zhao Yao?” He called out my name, the timbre of his voice was extremely taut and tight.
I made Ugly Little Monster brokenhearted again…
When the third wave of acute pain came again, my soul was slammed out of Zhi Yan’s body. As I drifted out, behind me, I heard Zhi Yan’s body immediately inhaling great, deep breaths.
As soon as I turned my head, I saw Zhi Yan open her eyes. When she saw Mo Qing in front of her, she immediately stretched out both of her hands and abruptly pushed Mo Qing away. Mo Qing also conveniently let her go and threw her on the ground.
“Ai-ya!” Zhi Yan cried out in pain. Beside her, Mo Qing suppressed every terrified panic and restlessness within the depths of his eyes, hiding it deep within his heart. He looked coldly at Zhi Yan and asked: “Where is she?”
Hearing Mo Qing ask her, Zhi Yan was so scared that she did not even cry out in pain anymore. She promptly knelt upright on the ground. Off to the side, she looked at me, then she looked outside at the color of the sky: “I… I also don’t know why my soul suddenly returned at this time…”
I looked outside and faintly realized — The Hour of the Rat had passed.
*Hour of the Rat (子时 – zǐ shí) – between 11 p.m. and 1 a.m.
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Apparently, now that my soul had taken two Resurrection Pills, I could only use Zhi Yan’s body for two hours with some difficulties.
“Where is she?” Mo Qing repeated the question again with his ice-cold intonation.
“Right… Right here…” Zhi Yan pointed at me.
However, Mo Qing could not see me, but when he heard her answer and knew that I was still here, his expression was no longer as terrifying as it was before: “Why did this happen so suddenly?” I knew that Mo Qing was asking me this question.
Zhi Yan also immediately gazed at me intensely.
I looked at her: “Didn’t I tell you the reason before? You can explain it to him.”
“Oh…” It was like she had just remembered that I needed to rely on her to communicate with Mo Qing. She blinked her eyes and thought for a moment, “Great Demon King seemed to say that because she ate some things from the ghost market, so it led to her soul being weaker than before… Right?”
I nodded: “Probably from now on, I can only possess your body at the Hour of the Rat.”
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*Hour of the Rat (子时 – zǐ shí) – between 11 p.m. and 1 a.m.
“From now on, she can only possess my body at the Hour of the Rat.” As she properly repeated my words, she was so intimidated that she did not dare to even say one more phrase in front of Mo Qing.
When Mo Qing heard this, he frowned: “What about her body? Where in the world is it?”
I answered: “Qin Qian Xian needs to be asked this.”
“Ask Qin Qian… Haa?” Zhi Yan raised her head to look at me, “My Big Uncle?”
“Yes, your Big Uncle.” I said, “During that year, he took my body out of the Sword Tomb. It’s unknown which frozen ice cave he hid it in, and he embedded my body into the ice wall.”
This answer surprised Zhi Yan, making her forget Mo Qing’s existence: “Why did my Big Uncle want to hide your body?”
I shot her a glance: “Obsession?”
Zhi Yan mumbled something to herself: “Could it be because of the inner demon during that time?” She turned her eyes and landed on Mo Qing, who was next to her, carrying inquisitive eyes. She properly knelt upright once again and said, “Although I had never seen it that year, but I vaguely knew that my Big Uncle had given birth to an inner demon somewhat due to Lu Zhao Yao of Wan Lu Sect. He usually repressed his emotions, so no one knew how his inner demon was handled. However, my father went to see him a few years ago and when he came back, he rather ruefully told me that my Big Uncle finally expelled the inner demon.”
I stroked my chin and asked her: “A few years ago is how many years?”
“About three or four years ago.”
So it happened after my “death.” In other words, before that time, Qin Yu knew that Qin Qian Xian’s inner demon had always been there.
“Could it be that Qin Qian Xian stole my body because he wanted to expel the inner demon?”
Zhi Yan told Mo Qing about my suspicion. Mo Qing was silent for a moment and then summoned the Dark Guard: “Where is the current whereabouts of Xu Zhi and Qin Qian Xian?”
“After East Mountain Lord took Qian Chen Pavilion Leader away from Xian Tai Mountain, this subordinate went ahead to the agreed upon location. However, I waited and never saw East Mountain Lord come by. I searched the surrounding area for a long time, and still there was no trace of the two people. Right now, I’m still looking for them.”
Mo Qing asked: “Where is the agreed upon location?”
“The location is the Celestial Demon Convergence, the celestial sects’ Jiang City is thirty miles away from Su Mountain.”
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Su Mountain… This place was not far from Qian Chen Pavilion. It stood to reason that Qin Qian Xian should also be very familiar with it, so it was impossible to get lost.
“There are a lot of magical arrays outside Su Mountain…” Zhi Yan whispered, “That day, I saw that my Big Uncle seemed to be injured, and East Mountain Lord… Um, doesn’t seem to be bothered with trifling matters? Perhaps they carelessly enter into a magical array?”
If that was the case, then it was bothersome.
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Although magical spells had no effect on Shi Qi, even arrays with blazing flames and frozen snow could not hurt her at all. However, if it was a maze array, then she did not have the ability to see through it. Even if Qin Qian Xian was very knowledgeable about magical arrays, he was injured, so it would not be easy to see through the array at first glance.
It had been such a long time since anyone appeared, it was unknown what troubles they had come across inside.
The most troublesome thing was that people outside had no way of helping them, because absolutely no one knew which magical array they had fallen into.
Qin Qian Xian could not die; my body was depending on him completely.
“Su Mountain is extremely close to Qian Chen Pavilion, they’ll certainly have some research on the arrays in the mountain. Quickly contact the people of Qian Chen Pavilion, have them send people to go to Su Mountain and search together. Qin Qian Xian is their Pavilion Leader, they’ll definitely won’t turn a blind eye.” Mo Qing commanded.
As the Dark Guard cupped his fist, he affirmed with a “roger that” and his shadow immediately disappeared.
The room quieted down, only leaving Zhi Yan with her head quietly hanging down and Mo Qing in the same place. They mutually did not utter a word, making the scene awkward.
“You can go back.” As Mo Qing said that, Zhi Yan looked like she obtained a general pardon. She quickly stood up, patted her clothes, and ran back towards Zhuo Chen Hall. Before she left through the door, she said somewhat shyly: “Great Demon King is right by your side, she didn’t leave.”
I resented her: “You talk too much.”
Then Zhi Yan gathered her clothes and ran away.
I turned my head to look at Mo Qing, but when I saw him standing alone in the empty palace, his figure seemed to be particularly lonely. He walked towards the desk, piled high with lots of documents. As usual, he stood in front of the desk, and immediately began to approve the documents.
I stood opposite of his desk, resting my upper body on his desk to watch him. Suddenly, I heard him calling out softly: “Zhao Yao, I can’t see you, but I know that you’re here, so I’m at ease.”
Was he afraid that I would be worried?
I passed through the desk, drifted in front of him, and secretly kissed his lips.
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Then his figure slightly paused and the light in his eyes immediately softened. He did not say much and just continued his work.
Perhaps he could still feel a little something, he could at least sense the slight chilliness.
If that was the case… I drifted onto his back, and hugged his neck from behind. He did not feel anything, but I brought my face to his ear and said: “Even if I can’t find my body again, I’ll still be the spirit behind you from now on.”
I suspended myself on his body until dawn of the next day. I felt that the sunshine was harsher than before, so I immediately hid in the room and did not go out.
Mo Qing spent the entire night to finish approving the documents on the desk. Then he wrote on another piece of paper, calling out to the Chief of the Dark Guards: “Sect Leader Command.”
When the Chief of the Dark Guards heard what was said, he shivered and respectfully accepted the command in Mo Qing’s hand. After reading it quietly, his eyes contained some bewilderment and astonishment: “Burn… paper?”
Even though I was having a dizzy spell due to the sun, when I heard these two words, I immediately regained vigor. I drifted behind the Dark Guard and looked at the paper along with him. Sure enough, it was the Sect Leader Command! It commanded everyone in the sect to burn paper offerings for three days, each person would burn one thousand coins every day. North Mountain Lord’s subordinates would burn for Cao Ning and the other mountain lords’ subordinates would burn for Lu Zhao Yao.
Ah! The Sect Leader Command that I had been yearning for in my dreams!
I jumped up to hug Mo Qing, but my arm passed through his body. This did not matter, it did not affect my happiness in the least.
Soon afterwards, I could go get the green document written! Although those interesting pills in the ghost market could no longer be eaten, I could spend all of my money at the Da Yin Netherworld Bank to watch my past!
*green document – divorce document
Just repeatedly watch the section before the mountain gate!
I would watch it over and over again, carefully watch it to nitpick for any blunders, and then wait until I retrieved my body in the future, those parts that were not done well would be completely redeemed.
Ah, right, I could even help Zi You, help him watch his past. If he kept watching it, then he could not forget those past at all!