After sleeping for who knows how long, Yun Che finally woke up slowly. When he regained consciousness, his nose was filled with a rich and fragrant scent.
"Ah...you're awake."
He heard the girl's surprised cry, and when he opened his eyes, a beautiful girl with emerald green eyes, as if she had walked out of a painting, was looking at him... She seemed to have just cried, her green eyes were red, and there were still traces of tears on her cheeks.
No matter his body or soul, he no longer felt any pain. His entire body did not feel the fatigue after long-term torture and coma. Instead, he felt particularly comfortable. He stood up in a daze. As far as he could see, there were thousands of flowers forming a sea, insects and birds enjoying themselves, the wind was gentle and the sky was clear, and there was even a fairy in front of him... For several breaths, Yun Che seemed to be in a fairyland in a dream, and he did not wake up.
“He… Ling…” Yun Che stared at the wood spirit girl in front of him…
He Ling, He Lin's sister.
Back then, He Lin left his hiding place without permission just to find his sister. Back then, he knelt in front of him and asked to be his disciple just to find his sister. He gave him the Wood Spirit Pearl, and when he was about to die, he shed tears and made the only request, which was to find his sister...
He finally found it.
He had not forgotten. Before he passed out, it was she who knelt down and begged Shen Xi, which made Shen Xi allow him to enter the "Reincarnation Forbidden Land" and escape the nightmare of the Death-Wishful Mark at this moment.
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"Please... find my sister for me..."
“I am the last royal wood spirit of the entire clan, carrying the last hope of the entire clan… However, I am so useless… I cannot protect my sister, I cannot protect my clan members… I can’t do anything… Even if I continue to live, I will only harm Brother Yun Che who is truly kind to me… I am useless… I cannot find my sister, let alone protect her… I can only… selfishly ask Brother Yun Che…”
“Don’t say anything more… Don’t worry, even if I have to travel all over the God Realm, I will definitely find your sister! I will protect her… I will kill anyone who wants to harm her! Even if I have to risk my life, I will never let her get hurt! I swear… I swear!!”
"Thank you, Brother Yun Che. This is... the only thing... I can give you in return..."
“When I was very young… my parents told me… that my Wood Spirit Pearl is very special. It is a seed of miracle. I hope that one day… it can really… bring miraculous power to Brother Yun Che…”
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Yun Che unconsciously covered his chest. Those words that He Lin said back then, which were filled with tears and life, had always been in his heart and soul, and not a single word of them had been forgotten.
This time, it wasn’t just He Ling who saved him, but He Lin as well… If it weren’t for his Wood Spirit Pearl, even if he wasn’t dead now, he would be living a life worse than death.
“Hmm…” The wood spirit girl nodded vigorously. She thought she had cried all her tears out, but when Yun Che called out softly, her eyes were instantly filled with tears: “It’s me, you…”
Looking at the man in front of her who was obviously a stranger but had the most familiar aura to her, she choked up and was unable to speak.
“Thank you… for saving me.” Yun Che stood up and spoke these extremely pale words of gratitude.
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"My sister's name is He Ling... He Ling!"
"So...what does she look like? Is there anything that sets her apart from other wood spirits?"
"Sister is the most beautiful wood spirit, the most beautiful sister in the world, prettier than all the flowers, and prettier than the stars and the moon in the sky!"
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He originally thought that He Lin's words were his most instinctive and intimate compliment to his sister. Now, looking at the wood spirit girl so close to him, he realized that He Lin had not lied to him at all.
The wood spirits were endowed with pure natural power. Both men and women had excellent looks, which seemed to be a gift from the power of nature. He Ling was the last descendant of the royal family of the wood spirits. This was also shown to the extreme in front of her. The flowers were gorgeous, but not as beautiful as her. A few tears on her face made the whole world sad.
The wood spirit girl shook her head. When Yun Che was unconscious, she would look at him every day. Now that he had woken up, she timidly avoided his gaze.
“How long… have I slept?” Yun Che asked.
“Thirteen days.” She answered in a low voice. She glanced at Yun Che secretly, then immediately turned her beautiful eyes away.
He...is not He Lin after all. This is the first time she has been so close to a human man since she was a child.
“Thirteen days…” Yun Che muttered in a low voice, sighing inwardly. Even though he no longer had the Brahma Soul Death-Wishing Seal on him, it was too late for him to enter the Eternal Heaven Divine Realm.
Looking at the ring on his hand that belonged to Caizhi, he muttered to himself sadly: Jasmine, I am destined to not be able to fulfill the promise I made to you... and Caizhi that day.
Qian…Ye…Ying…Er…
This name and the golden shadow flashed in his mind, and a sense of hostility suddenly surged in his heart and soul... But when his eyes fell on the wood spirit girl in front of him, he suppressed the hostility again.
This woman is so scary.
The profound power of breaking stars with one finger, extremely scheming, as cruel as a snake or scorpion, but also extremely cautious... avoiding the eyes and ears of everyone, and taking action outside the Eastern Divine Region, and planting the Brahma Soul Death-Wishing Mark on a person who had no power to resist...
Yun Che was a person who was never afraid of the strong. Back then, when he was only at the Divine Soul Realm, he dared to take on the entire Black Soul Divine Sect by himself and caused a huge Realm King Sect to be in chaos.
But Qianye Ying'er was too powerful. When facing her, Yun Che clearly felt that he was like an ant pressed under a mountain. No matter how much strength, means, and thoughts he used, he could not shake her even a little bit.
Since she had already taken action and even planted the Brahma Soul Death-Wishing Seal, there was no reason for her to stop.
Now he was forced to be unable to enter the Eternal Heaven Pearl... Was he going to live under her shadow for the rest of his life?
Thinking of her terrifying nature, and the torture he had endured under the Brahma Soul Death Seal, Yun Che’s scalp went numb, and his soul trembled: Qianye Ying’er… I won’t die so easily… If one day in the future, you fall into my hands…
I will rape you a thousand times and then cut you into pieces! !
He gave Qianye Ying'er the most vicious thought in his life... Admittedly, given the gap between him and Qianye, he could only think like this.
“You…what’s wrong with you? Are you feeling pain again?” He Ling asked worriedly as she saw Yun Che’s expression suddenly begin to twist slightly.
Yun Che came back to his senses and said quickly, “No, no, I just thought of something. Um…where’s Senior Shen Xi? I haven’t thanked her for saving my life yet.”
He Ling looked towards the bamboo house standing in the sea of flowers and said softly, "The master is in meditation. When the master is in meditation, she cannot be disturbed. However, the master will suppress the Brahma Soul Death-Wishing Seal for you every day these days, so the meditation time will not be very long. You should be able to see her soon."
“Okay.” Yun Che nodded in agreement, and then asked, “What kind of person is Senior Shen Xi? I had never heard of her before I came here.”
Qianye Ying'er had said that she was the only one in the world who could break the Brahma Soul Death-Wishing Seal. With her level and strength, there was no doubt about what she had said.
But Shen Xi could solve it.
Moreover, he really did not feel the pain of the Death-Wishing Mark at all now.
Who on earth is she? How could she suppress Qianye Ying'er's power?
No! Qianye Ying'er had said that if someone was hit by her Death-Seeking Mark, even the God Emperor would have to either beg for death or mercy... Could it be that she was even more powerful than the God Emperor?
And the place where she lived was actually the largest forbidden area in the Dragon God Realm! ?
He Ling thought for a moment and said, "The Master is a very powerful and great person. Three years ago, it was the Master who saved my life and took pity on me because I was alone and poor, so she brought me here. But I don't know anything else about the Master. I only know that... she seems to be bound by something and has to stay here all the time. Although she can leave occasionally, she can't be away for too long each time, otherwise, she will disappear."
“…Disappear?” These two words shocked Yun Che.
"Yes, that's what the master said." He Ling nodded gently: "The master meditates here every day in order to get rid of the 'bonds'. And this time because of me... the master will have to wait a long time at night to get rid of the bondage."
She lowered her head and bit her lips tightly.
This is a long time... not ten or a hundred years, but twenty thousand years.
“…” Yun Che was stunned for a moment, and quickly said, “No, it’s not because of you, it’s because of me.”
That day outside the Forbidden Land of Samsara, he could hear all of Shen Xi’s faint voice. He remembered Shen Xi saying that if she saved him, her entire twenty thousand years of hard work would be destroyed in an instant…
In other words, if she saved herself, it would delay the time for her to escape from "restraints" by 20,000 years.
He raised his hand and scratched his scalp... This was another great favor that I could never repay.
He always encounters various misfortunes in his life, but also always meets noble people one after another... He doesn't know whether to be resentful or grateful.
It was no wonder that Xia Qingyue begged him so hard, but she refused so firmly... A full twenty thousand years, for a being at the level of a Divine Lord, was an extremely long time. After all, the lifespan of a human at the Divine Lord level was limited to only fifty thousand years.
It was actually incredible that she would finally agree to save me.
He Ling still shook her head. She slowly raised her eyes. She had been avoiding Yun Che’s eyes until now, but now she suddenly looked at him intently and asked in a very soft voice, “Can you… tell me about Lin’er? He… he… how… did he die…”
When he said these words, he saw a deep pain in He Ling's crystal-green eyes.
From He Lin's concern for her, Yun Che knew very early that they had a very good relationship. And He Lin's death was not only a blow to He Ling of losing her last relative, but also the end of the lineage of the Mu Ling royal family...
“Okay.” Yun Che nodded. Even though it was cruel, he had to tell He Ling.
"I met He Lin in a lower star realm called Hei Ya Realm. At that time, I wanted to get a Wood Spirit Pearl..."
At that moment, he entered Hei Ya to obtain the Wood Spirit Pearl, and after ‘buying’ He Lin, he finally didn’t have the heart to kill him, and sent him back to his hiding place… but instead caused all the Wood Spirits there to be slaughtered… He told He Ling everything that happened at that time in great detail, especially every word, every plea, and every tear of He Lin.
Until He Lin sacrificed his royal wood spirit bead, and then disappeared in his arms with tears...
He Ling had been listening quietly without saying a word. When she heard those familiar names and heard that they were all dead, she pressed her snow-white hands tightly against her lips, tears streaming down her face like crazy, and her whole body trembled violently, as if she was bathed in the polar cold wind.
"Dead... all... dead..." She sobbed, every word filled with tears.
“…” Yun Che didn’t dare to look into her eyes: “It was me who harmed them. It was me who brought the disaster there. I burned the body of the culprit Lei Qianfeng at the place where they rest, but…”
Yun Che's voice suddenly stopped at this moment, because within his sight, a drop of green crystal water fell on the ground at his feet.
He raised his head suddenly and was shocked to see that there were two emerald green water marks on He Ling's snow-white face.
That is the color of Mu Ling’s blood!
What was even more terrifying was that her originally emerald green eyes... were covered with a thick layer of gray.
Yun Che’s heart skipped a beat, and he hurriedly stepped forward to hold He Ling’s shoulders: “He Ling… He Ling! You…”
"Granny Aoba... Uncle Aoki... Feiyu... Zhuyin... Qingzhu... They are all dead... All... dead..."
She chanted softly, her heart aching, her pupils unfocused, filled with only pain, despair, and an increasingly dark gloom... a kind of darkness that should never appear on Mu Ling.
“He Ling!” Yun Che shook her weak shoulders vigorously and said in a hurry, “Listen to me, they are no longer here, and you are the last descendant and hope of the Wood Spirit royal family, so you must be stronger… I have He Lin’s Wood Spirit Pearl, so I am already half a Wood Spirit. From now on, I will work with you to find and protect other Wood Spirits. Don’t…”
A hand pushed him away powerlessly at this moment. He Ling turned around and stumbled away, leaving a long trail of green blood behind her...
“He Ling!”
Yun Che quickly stood up and tried to catch up. Behind him, a soft sigh came.
"Oh...let her go."
Yun Che paused and turned around.
She was bathed in pure and holy white light, with no visible face, only her graceful figure that looked like an angel.
It is clearly within reach, yet it seems to be standing in the clouds, out of reach.
Divine light.
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