Chapter 128: Saving Life and Crossing Death, It's Called Crossing the Yin
The golden light was still there, and it made Tao Huali's eyes dry and sore as he tried hard to open them to see their movements.
Qingzhu's hand reached straight into the bloody hole on his shoulder, his fingers cold, searching for something in the wound.
Just before Tao Huali couldn't help but raise his hand to block the golden light, Qingzhu whispered, "Found it."
It was a purple-black mycelium as long as an index finger. As it was pulled out of the wound, the blood hole disappeared.
Tao Huali felt his body suddenly relaxed, and the pain and fatigue of the past few days disappeared. "What's wrong with you...?"
"There is life and death, and the boundary between yin and yang is unbroken. Those who save the living and cross the dead are called yin-crossers." Sanqi still had that nonchalant attitude, but his tone was serious and his eyes were full of reverence.
"Remember, girl, not everyone can be a ferryman to the underworld. Your character and brains must outweigh your abilities, or we in the underworld won't recognize you."
Qin Qinsen didn't respond to his words. He just took back his hand and waved it casually, "Okay, stop talking nonsense. Let's go home and disperse."
"Wait, my method..."
"You can go back and find the original source and see for yourself." Qin Qinsen left after saying this.
Sanqi chuckled twice, "You are lucky to have met our Master Qin. Don't enter the Yin Road casually in the future. This is not a place for you living people to stay."
"Why don't you talk about him? I came here to recuperate, what about him?" Tao Huali was a little dissatisfied. After all, she was the leader of the new generation of the Tao family. Why could Qin Qinsen enter and exit the Yin Road freely, but she couldn't?
"Didn't you understand? Life and death, hahahaha..."
After saying that, without seeing Sanqi making any movement, Tao Huali and Qingzhu had already left Yinlu and returned to the familiar Haishi Street.
"That Master Qin is not considered a living person."
"What's the meaning?"
Qingzhu's words were creepy, and Tao Huali widened his eyes in disbelief.
She had a shoulder injury, not a brain problem. That guy was clearly alive, so how could he be considered "not alive"?
"Do you remember the book 'Anecdotes of Yin and Yang'?"
Tao Huali nodded, not understanding why she suddenly mentioned the collection of half-true, half-false gossip.
"When you were flipping through it, I took a few glances and saw it was about people who could ferry people from the underworld." Qingzhu paused, and seeing that the person was still staring at him with obvious confusion in his eyes, he had no choice but to continue, "You always wanted to become a ferryman back then. You were said to be able to enter and exit the underworld at will, to walk through the underworld without anyone daring to stop you. It was so cool. But according to the "Yin Yang Anecdotes", people who could ferry people from the underworld were outsiders caught between life and death."
"...without the favor of Heaven, without the protection of the living, there is no day of peace...Great suffering, great perseverance, great fearlessness...some die and then come back to life, or live and then die again, they are not ordinary people."
Tao Huali finally picked up a few words from the corner of his memory, but the more he recalled, the sadder he felt.
"At that time, I comforted you for a long time. Although you are not blessed by the heavens, you can only rely on yourself for everything. However, the ghost people can travel through the underworld and are respected by the officials of the underworld. They are considered half-human ghost gods and are of great benefit to the Xuanmen sect."
Tao Huali smiled bitterly and shook her head. She was born into a Xuanmen family and could not trust anyone except herself.
Even so, Tao Huali, who was fourteen or fifteen years old at the time, still felt that the people who crossed the underworld were truly pathetic. Not to mention the issue of life and death, the three-no description alone was too much for her to bear.
"Indeed, without the blessing of Heaven, a Xuanmen disciple can achieve nothing. However, the Duyin people are different. They are born with knowledge and are protected by the Yin God..."
"What?!" Tao Huali yelled, "Isn't it three-no?!"
Qingzhu was puzzled. "Even though there's no gods or living people protecting him, it doesn't mean that the Yin spirit can't help. He's half a Yin spirit, otherwise why do you think those arrogant Yin messengers bow and scrape to him? The Yin ferryman himself is half a Yin spirit, so of course Yin spirits help each other, and the Yin messengers and ghost officials have to bow and salute when they see them."
"Yeah, that's right."
Some familiar voices suddenly appeared, startling Tao Huali so much that he jumped back a few steps.
"Why are you here?!"
It turns out that you can’t gossip about others behind their backs. The real culprit has appeared!
"How would I know you came out from here?" Qin Qinsen said helplessly.
He had clearly chosen the intersection closest to the Teng family's house, but when he turned around, he saw Tao Huali and Qingzhu standing in the middle of the road, whispering. If it weren't for the midnight and the villa area, with not even a stray dog on the roadside, Tao Huali would definitely have been taken away as a psychopath talking to himself.
The Yin Road is extensive and interconnected, not entirely overlapping with the Yang World. Therefore, as long as one chooses the right intersection and direction, one can quickly reach their destination. However, the Yin Road is extremely dangerous, and no one would normally go there.
It is obvious that Tao Huali is not normal.
"Qinsen?"
Qin Qinsen turned his head when he heard the voice and asked in surprise, "Why did you come out?"
The person who came was Teng Su. He was holding a mobile phone and walking towards Qin Qinsen, his face full of worry, "Are you okay?"
"What could be the problem? Is there any food at home? I'm so hungry." As he said this, he fell weakly and exaggeratedly on Teng Su, and nudged his head in the other's shoulder.
"Nanxing brought over some crab roe tofu and steamed dumplings. Would you like some?"
Tao Huali's mouth twitched as he watched the sticky dog man leave, pointing at the two men's backs, "Three noes, huh."
"...I don't say I can't have men." Qingzhu finished speaking with difficulty, and began to doubt the truth of the records in the so-called "Yin Yang Anecdotes".
Qin Qinsen had no idea what the man and ghost behind him were thinking. He only knew that he had been extremely busy since he became this damn ghost ferryman.
It was common for him to go hungry one day and to have a full meal the next, and he often had to work overtime all night long. Compared to his job as a special assistant in his previous life, it was no less stressful, or even worse.
Thinking of this, Qin Qinsen paused to swallow, "Should I accompany you to work? Otherwise, it would be bad to take the money and not do anything, and still occupy the position of special assistant."
"Oh, I've put you on unpaid leave."
Teng Su said calmly, "After all, we have to explain to the board of directors and shareholders. It's really unacceptable for you to be absent from work every day."
He thought this person would give him some caring comfort and say a few nice words, but who knew that was all?
Rolling his eyes, Qin Qinsen bit down the tofu in his mouth as if it were Teng Su. He said helplessly, "Who told you to go through all this? Just resign now."
Seeing that Teng Su was about to say something, Qin Qinsen said with a sly smile, "I don't want to have an office romance. Who would fall in love with their boss? I'm not crazy."
Teng Su had no choice but to put his arm around his shoulders and move closer to him, but was interrupted by the phone ringing.
After seeing the caller ID, Teng Su answered the phone and said, "Go ahead."
Less than a minute later, he hung up the phone, and his expression was unusually strange and vivid.
Seeing this, Qin Qinsen stopped eating his dumplings and asked him curiously what was going on.
"There was a cocktail party tonight, and after it was over, Luo Nanchen confessed his feelings to Shangguan Yue. She was so scared that she told her that she liked girls and had a crush on Xiao Wang next door."
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