Chapter 135: On the Rhine (5) “Regarding the Emperor of Heaven…

After Si Ling finished speaking, he tilted his head to the side and waited for Xuan Chi. Xuan Chi lowered his eyes and pondered, his profile looking like a meticulously carved white porcelain statue filled with worry and endless loneliness.

She didn't urge him, and the silence stretched on for a long moment. Then he suddenly took a breath, as if he'd finally mustered up the courage, or perhaps just thought of the right words. He opened his mouth again and said, "If you still hate me after you figure out what happened..."

He turned and met her gaze: "Then kill me, please."

Si Ling laughed and shook his head, "I'm not the Emperor of Heaven. Hmm... maybe you don't know much about ghosts? Only creatures in the human world become ghosts after death. Although demons can be reborn as humans or cultivate to become immortals, they don't have the transition to becoming ghosts. The gods in the heavens are high above and generally immortal. If they die, their souls will be scattered, and there is no way they can become ghosts."

She tried to calmly and logically convince him, to reassure him. But he simply smiled and said in an equally calm tone, "These rules you speak of cannot bind the Emperor of Heaven. Besides," he stared at her face, "you happen to look like the Emperor of Heaven, and you happened to release me? This is not a coincidence."

"The Karma Curse!" Si Ling raised his right hand and flipped it, producing the folder he had taken from Fox City. "I think your previous speculation makes sense. The Emperor of Heaven cast the Karma Curse, and the person involved in one of the links of the Karma Curse looks exactly like her. That's normal, right?"

Xuan Chi had no idea what was in the folder at first, but when he flipped it open and took a look, he felt a little embarrassed. He coughed lightly and explained, "When I went to find Fox Ancestor, I didn't know you and the Heavenly Emperor looked the same... cough." He coughed again and continued, "The Karma Curse doesn't work that way. On the contrary, to avoid unnecessary complications, the Karma Curse will try to avoid such 'coincidences' as much as possible."

"But..." Si Ling wanted to argue.

Xuan Chi sighed softly, "You don't have to run away from this."

"I didn't..." Si Ling frowned and shook his head. "I just don't think this makes sense. If I were the Emperor of Heaven, why would I become a ghost? Since I'm a ghost, who is the current Emperor of Heaven? Even if it's a god descending to the mortal world to experience life, this position can't be left vacant for 30,000 years without anyone taking care of it, right? Even if it's a constitutional monarchy, this mascot-like monarch has to be there, right?"

These questions stumped Xuan Chi, as they really didn't make sense.

Seeing that he fell silent again, Si Ling felt that what he said must make sense, so he relaxed a little.

After a while, Xuan Chi suddenly said, "The Emperor's name is Xin Bi."

Si Ling was stunned, thinking that this sentence was incoherent, but he still asked him: "Which two words?"

Xuan Chi raised his hand and wrote in the air, and two golden characters appeared in the air. Si Ling didn't have any special feelings about the character "辛". He frowned at the character "妣". "Why is it this 妣..."

——When any Chinese person sees this word now, the first word that flashes through his mind is probably "like losing one's parents."

Ke Xuan Chi said: "Bi, the woman holding two swords."

Si Ling was stunned. Xuan Chi said, "Legend has it that the Emperor of Heaven was born during the turbulence caused by Pangu's creation of the universe. The first ray of sunlight that pierced through the chaos turned into two swords, which became her magical weapons."

He dismissed the name with a wave of his hand, then added, "Besides, you and her really are alike. Not just in appearance, I mean..." He tried to describe their similarities, but couldn't quite put his finger on them. Finally, he could only say, "They're similar in every way."

"Okay..." Si Ling didn't want to argue about this anymore, so he bumped his knees against his. "Then how did you offend the Emperor of Heaven?"

Xuan Chi said, “I don’t know.”

"No...you even remembered what weapons the Emperor of Heaven used!" Si Ling felt something was wrong and even suspected that Xuan Chi was deliberately not wanting to say it.

But Hyun Chi looked sincere and bewildered. "I feel strange too. I think I remember everything, but this part..." He sighed. "My memory is that I was ordered to conquer the West. After winning a battle, I set up an altar to worship the ancient gods as usual. Suddenly, the Emperor of Heaven sent Yuan Qianzi to kill me."

Si Ling: "Yuan Qianzi?"

"Another confidant of the Heavenly Emperor," Xuan Chi said. "One of the first four people to follow the Heavenly Emperor. At that time, people collectively called them the 'Four Holy Lords,' which later gradually became the 'Seven Holy Lords.'"

Si Ling: "Are you included in the Seven Holy Lords?"

Hyun Chi nodded: "Yes, I'm the last one."

...Although he ranks seventh among the Seven Holy Lords, he also ranks seventh among all the gods under the throne of the Emperor of Heaven.

It can be seen that he really had a very high status in the Heavenly Court at that time.

Si Ling concentrated and pondered for a moment, then asked, "What if I was the Emperor of Heaven before, and my memory was restored in the future? After my memory is restored, will I still remember what I'm doing now as a ghost?"

Xuan Chi paused and shook his head: "I don't know..."

"Then my promise now may not be of any use." Si Ling said as he took out the Tongming disk and smiled, "But I can still try my best."

She turned on the front camera, switched it to video mode, and cleared her throat seriously, "Hello, Xin Bi."

“…” Hyun Chi didn’t know what expression to make.

Si Ling quickly gathered his thoughts: "If you're seeing this video, it means you're facing a situation that meets at least four conditions: 1. We are the same person; 2. You've recovered your memories from when you were the Emperor of Heaven; 3. You no longer have any memories from when you were a demon; 4. You haven't moved on from Xuan Chi's incident."

Si Ling thought for a moment, then turned the Tongming Plate slightly to frame Xuan Chi in the camera: "I recorded this video because Xuan Chi hopes you can kill him, but I don't agree."

"Si Ling?" Xuan Chi frowned slightly and raised his hand to press the camera.

Si Ling dodged, stood up and walked two steps away, then continued to talk to the screen: "I admit that I don't know exactly what happened before, but I still want to say, no matter what happened, can this matter be forgotten?"

"To be fair, you've sealed him for thirty thousand years. During those thirty thousand years, he's been able to feel pain. Even if he's a... uh, traitor, this punishment is acceptable, right?"

"Si Ling!" Xuan Chi stood up, strode to her side, and grabbed the camera on her Tongming Plate.

Si Ling looked at him, and he took a deep breath: "Don't be like this."

Si Ling raised an eyebrow: "What do you mean don't do this?"

Xuan Chi shook his head: "I'm not afraid of death."

"We have to fight for our chance to survive." Si Ling said.

"But she hates me." Xuan Chi frowned deeply.

"You..." Si Ling wanted to persuade him, but her voice was choked. Because she suddenly realized that what she meant was that he didn't want to live in the hatred of the Emperor of Heaven.

Si Ling's heart twitched violently. She stared at Xuan Chi for a long time, but in the end she didn't say another word. She lowered her head to turn off the video of the Tongming Disk and turned back to the wooden house.

"Si Ling." Xuan Chi called her, but she ignored him.

Are you angry?

Xuan Chi stood there, at a loss as to what to do.

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In the next few days, they did not talk about the Emperor of Heaven or the past because they could not reach a consensus. Talking about these things would only increase the awkwardness, and avoiding them would be bad for each other - at least that was what Xuan Chi thought.

Late at night, after Xuan Chi fell asleep, Si Ling turned on the video again: "Xin Bi, today I want to show you something different."

She produced the folder again, flipped the camera to the rear, and filmed the contents page by page. "When Xuan Chi went to get these things, he didn't know I might be you. He thought I was part of the karma curse cast by the Emperor of Heaven and was afraid I would die."

"He doesn't care about his own life or death, but he's afraid I'll die."

"I've been a ghost for 30,000 years, and I've never met anyone as pure and kind as him."

"Will he really make some unforgivable mistake?"

"Could you please calmly reconsider this matter?"

After recording this segment, Si Ling also put this video into a folder named "To Xin Bi".

There are already several videos in the folder, all of which she recorded in the past few days. The content is very diverse, and she recorded whatever she thought of.

Putting down the Tongming Plate, Si Ling lay down on the bed, looking up at the ceiling.

She knew in her heart that although she had been denying the possibility that she was Xin Bi, she had actually been convinced.

Just as Xuan Chi said, there would be no such coincidence. Her appearance and weapons were already coincidental enough, not to mention that she released Xuan Chi - he had been imprisoned there for 30,000 years before she went to the West, but it was she who was able to release him.

In addition, some things that Xuan Chi did not mention seemed to have answers, such as why she, as a fierce ghost, was obsessed with becoming an immortal, and why she had no memory of her life before becoming a ghost and didn't even know her own name.

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After staying in the cabin in the woods for half a month, Si Ling and Xuan Chi's internal injuries had healed.

Si Ling actually didn't want to leave this place, because she was secretly a little afraid of what would happen next. She was afraid that when Xin Bi's memory returned, she would really become a cold-blooded tyrant.

If it really comes to that, what should Xuan Chi do?

But in the past half month, both Lucifer and the students of the Ghost Academy have been concerned about their situation many times.

Two days ago, Lucifer sent her a new message, telling her that the mermaid had found what they were looking for and asked them to find him in the principal's office after returning to school.

Si Ling was in no hurry to read the prophecies with an escapist mentality, but Xuan Chi was bent on finding out the hidden truth of the past and couldn't wait to go back.

So they returned to the Ghost Academy together.

Before entering Hohenzollern Castle, Si Ling coughed dryly: "Regarding the matter of the Emperor of Heaven..."

She paused and said, "Let's keep it secret for now." Si Ling pondered, "This matter is too big, and the relationships between the various divine realms are also very complicated. If others knew about it, it's hard to say what the consequences would be."

"Okay." Xuan Chi nodded.

However, after they entered the principal's office, Lucifer stood up and came over. He looked at Si Ling and asked half-jokingly, "What should I call you now? Your Majesty?"