Drunken Dream (Part 9)

In killing her, Bifang might be able to help Shi Yao a lot.

That was all Sandy could think of.

She could sense that the already depressing atmosphere around her became even more depressing as she spoke. Liu Lixue remained silent, and Su Xuan's hanging hands were quietly clenched, and his knuckles turned white.

Sandy suddenly held his hand and loosened his clenched fists one by one.

"In the past, I was deceived by the Sword Sect. Shi Yao was well-behaved and kind in front of me, but later... In short, she is not that kind of bad person. When she was in her teens, her health was very poor. She dared to leave the Sword Sect and go to the Northern Territory to save Bi Fang. It must be because there was something in Bi Fang that she wanted."

Shi Yao knew that the Sword Sect wanted to use Sang Dai to exchange her spiritual roots, and she acquiesced to it.

When they were in the sword-like situation, Sandy took off the Tianyu Stone from her wrist, and the hatred in Shi Yao's eyes was obvious.

She herself didn't understand why she hated Sandy, she didn't owe Shi Yao anything.

This little junior sister who was once gentle and kind in her eyes had long since changed. Ever since the book appeared in Sandy's mind and she knew what Shi Yao had done, Sandy's feelings for her had long since been drowned in betrayal.

Liu Lixue asked: "So, what does Shi Yao need?"

Sandy finally pried open the little fox's fist, held his bony hand and gently kneaded it, massaging and circling his joints.

He used too much force just now and his joints were all red.

The swordsman lowered her eyes, her hair covering the side of her face, her expression still peaceful and calm, as if these things had nothing to do with her and she was just talking about a very ordinary matter.

Sandy has always been so calm about everything, which makes the little fox even more uncomfortable.

The swordsman pinched the little fox's paws. The fox snorted softly, but the anger around it did subside.

After a faint laugh, Sandy finally had time to reply, "Bifang is an ancient beast, but he is only a Mystical Spiritual Root, his cultivation is not very high, and he only has one natural ability called Suppression. These are nothing to Shi Yao. If Shi Yao wants to kill me, it will be difficult for Bifang to do so with these alone."

Sandy raised her eyes and her expression turned cold.

"Before I was twelve, the Sword Sect never took my blood. When I turned twelve, the Sword Sect's senior brothers and sisters gave me the best immortal herbs and made soup for me every month. They told me that the soup could help me nourish my meridians. However, drinking too much soup would leave toxins, so I needed to have my blood drawn once a month. At that time, Shi Yao had just returned from the Northern Territory."

"My spiritual roots were gradually stripped away by the monthly medicinal soup and blood-letting, and I stayed in the Spiritual Transformation Realm for a full twenty years and could not make any further progress. During the Immortal-Devil War, my spiritual power was already significantly hindered."

Even though she had reached the full state of Spirit Transformation, her spiritual roots had been more than half stripped away by poisons over the years during the battle. She could not fully utilize her spiritual power, and the consequence of forcing herself to mobilize her spiritual power to fight was that her golden elixir shattered and she died in the battle.

Su Xuan thought of something else and said in a cold voice: "When Bifang was born, there was evil fire, and his flesh and blood also carried evil fire. If touched, the skin will be burned at the least, and the meridians will be burned and the spiritual roots will be peeled off by the evil fire at the worst."

Having said that, the real reason can be guessed at once.

The medicine for stripping Sangdai's spiritual roots requires Bifang's blood as a medicine guide. In fact, it is Bifang's blood that actually strips Sangdai's spiritual roots.

Liu Lixue frowned: "But if you died in Kongsang Realm, how could Shi Yao obtain your spiritual root to survive?"

Sandy said: "What she wants is not my spiritual root, but my life."

Jian Zong wanted to strip Sandy's spiritual roots in exchange for Shi Yao's life, but Shi Yao never wanted Sandy's spiritual roots from the beginning to the end. She just wanted to kill Sandy.

She had been planning this war between immortals and demons a long time ago. She had the Sword Sect promote Sandy to a very high position and brainwash her into defending the immortal world with her life. At the same time, she would strip Sandy of her spiritual roots and prevent her from making progress in cultivation. When the time came, the war would break out and Sandy would die.

As a mortal, Shi Yao would not have lived long. Without Sandy's spiritual roots, even with the Sword Sect's elixir, she would have died of the five decays sooner or later. But she still wanted Sandy to die on the battlefield.

Liu Lixue hesitated: "She just wanted to kill you...relying on Ying Heng's spiritual roots to survive?"

Sandy nodded: "Yeah."

In the book in her mind, Shi Yao also survived by relying on Ying Heng's spiritual roots.

Shi Yao knew destiny just as well as she did, and even earlier than she did. Shi Yao knew it when she was at least a teenager, and it was all because of Shi Yao that Sandy would end up in such a situation.

Maybe Heaven made a deal with Shi Yao, letting her kill her, and the reward for Shi Yao was Ying Heng's spiritual roots?

However, Ying Heng's spiritual roots did not fall into Shi Yao's hands, so this speculation has no conclusive evidence to support it.

Also, if the destiny that Shi Yao knew was given to her by heaven, then who gave her the book in Sandy's mind?

Sandy pinched her brows and felt an inexplicable headache, which she couldn't figure out.

There are too many doubts about this matter so far, and her guess alone cannot confirm it. She still gets to see Shi Yao and Bi Fang once.

The little fox held her hand and asked softly, "Do you have a headache?"

Sandy shook her head: "Nothing, just thinking about something, but I can't figure it out."

"We'll know once we meet them, Dai Dai. Linglong Town will be open soon. If Shi Yao is working with the person behind the scenes, she will probably go there too. Anyway, if we catch either of them, we should be able to find out the whole story of this incident."

Sandy nodded: "Yeah."

At least they now know that the person behind Bifang is Shi Yao, and Shi Yao knows destiny. If they follow this line of investigation, they will definitely gain something.

The person behind the scenes has been leading her to one place after another. What is his real purpose?

The pressure in the room was too heavy. Liu Lixue took a long breath and was the first to speak to relieve the pressure.

"Hey, don't think about it, don't think about it, let's eat first, my fried fish is getting cold."

Liu Lixue picked up the crispy fish that Cui Shao had placed in front of him and took a bite. His peacock eyes lit up instantly.

"What kind of fish is this? It's so delicious! It's much more delicious than the fish you bought!"

He tried to lighten the mood, and after he said this, Sandy couldn't help laughing.

"This is the fish that Su Xuan and I caught when we went to Zuihuajian a few days ago."

Liu Lixue was not a serious person for long. He held a piece of fried fish in one hand and drank the tea in the other.

He had something in his mouth and his voice was unclear: "Miss Sang, try it. The crispy fish made by the chef of the Demon Palace is delicious. Our Lord can also make it."

Sandy: "...Can Su Xuan do it too?"

Liu Lixue bit into the crispy fish and answered, "Yes, our master knows everything, but I have to beg him to cook a meal for me. Miss Sang, you are different. Before, the meals you ate in the Demon Palace were all - hiss, did you kick me for anything?"

Perhaps a certain peacock had seen too bloody a scene during the day, so its brain was a little slow to react. It looked at its master in disbelief, slightly bent its body and rubbed its knees.

Sandy: “…”

Su Xuan: "You were dreaming, who kicked you?"

Liu Lixue: “…………”

He nodded and said in a chubby voice, "Okay, you didn't kick me."

I dare not even let Miss Sang know this. The person who is behind this must be a fox.

Su Xuan picked up the bowl and placed it in front of Sang Dai, and said in a deep voice: "Eat."

Sandy: "Su Xuan, I know you made those medicinal dishes."

The little fox's hand holding the soup trembled.

Sandy thought for a moment and said, "I'm not a fool. I know..."

The little fox gritted his teeth and tried to save face: "I just cook occasionally."

Sandy smiled. "I don't think there's anything wrong with it. You cook delicious food."

Su Xuan's body stiffened and he looked back at her: "Really?"

Sandy nodded: "It's delicious. I always eat a lot. You are amazing. I can't cook. I think people who can cook are amazing."

Liu Lixue burst out laughing, crunching the crispy fish and nodding in agreement: "Yes, our master learned to cook when he was a child. Because Madam Liu likes to eat and drink, the master learned a lot of dishes. Miss Sang will also have a good time in the future. Let me have a few meals as well."

The embarrassment in Su Xuan's heart suddenly disappeared, and he filled another bowl of soup and placed it in front of Sang Dai.

"You can eat anything you want."

She didn't specify who she was talking to, but Liu Lixue wasn't so narcissistic as to think that it was a promise to him.

Sandy took the soup and nodded with a smile: "Okay."

The little fox liked to take care of Sandy, thinking that one day he would be able to take care of her daily life personally. After he ascended the throne, he had a lot of free time, so he learned to cook more meals, braid women's hair, and practice swordsmanship.

Since the swordsman doesn't know anything except practicing swordsmanship, he is the only one who can learn these.

Su Xuan served her some food and rice. Sang Dai lowered her head and ate silently. Her appetite gradually grew.

Liu Lixue finished most of the fried fish, and after the meal he asked Cuishao to pack a bag for him and put it in his Qiankun bag.

Peacock narrowed his eyes and smiled: "Miss Sang, don't you mind?"

How could Sandy mind? She said, "It's okay. Young Master Liu can come to the Demon Palace anytime if he wants to eat."

Liu Lixue felt more and more that Sang Dai was a good person, and the immortal world was really blind.

The sword cultivator is handsome, has a good personality, and is very good at fighting. How could such a person come to their demon world?

Liu Lixue shook his head, feeling that their master was truly destined to have a wife.

There was no other reason. It was all because of the opponent's suicide that the little fox got the swordsman he had always dreamed of.

Cui Shao came in to clean up, and the jade token on Sang Dai's waist suddenly lit up at this moment.

The three people's expressions gradually froze.

Cui Shao also noticed it, and she cleared the dishes much more slowly. She quickly cleaned up the dishes and left.

Sandy answered the jade card.

"This poor monk has already solidified Madam Liu's soul. You can now hand it over to the Lord of Fuyou City and throw it into the Forgotten River to enter the cycle of reincarnation."

Sandy said: "Thank you, Master Tan Huai."

"Miss Sang, you are too polite. Please enter reincarnation as soon as possible. Madam Liu has stayed in the human world for too long."

"Okay, thank you."

The jade token was broken.

Su Xuan's long eyelashes drooped slightly, hiding the emotions in his eyes. Sang Dai and Liu Lixue looked at him carefully.

"Su Xuan?"

"My Lord?"

The two of them called him at the same time, intending to comfort him.

Before he could utter any words of comfort, Su Xuan took action first.

He stood up, took out a handkerchief and wiped the corners of his lips, then looked at Sandy calmly: "Daidai, I'm going to take one last look at my mother, and then..."

"The soul enters the River of Oblivion, and the body is buried in the mausoleum."

When a person dies, he must be buried in peace. Liuying has been delayed for too long.

Sandy stood up: "Okay."

Liu Lixue also stood up, and for once he was serious, "Then I will go and prepare the ceremony. When the mausoleum is completed, Madam Liu's body can be placed inside... Let's do it tomorrow. There will be no rain tomorrow. From now on, the demon world will have continuous heavy rains and abnormal frost and cold weather."

Su Xuan turned and left, but Sang Dai did not follow him.

Liu Lixue sighed and left to do his own thing.

Sandy was the only one left in the room.

She walked out of the kitchen. It had rained all night last night, and many petals had fallen from the osmanthus tree in the yard, making the fragrance even stronger.

Sandy looked up and saw that the sky was dark and gloomy.

The swordsman murmured: "A person with awakened heavenly spiritual roots..."

Being a person with a heavenly spiritual root awakening, is it a blessing or a curse?

Give them honor, and leave them with nothing.

***

Outside Linglong Town, above the attic.

Unlike the continuous heavy rain in the demon world, it did not rain in the fairy world, and the sun was still shining brightly near Linglongzhuang.

The door of the room on the upper floor was tightly closed, and coughing sounds continued to leak out, accompanied by bursts of violent coughing, and blood was vomited all over the floor.

The woman in the pink dress lay on the couch, her face flushed red. The continuous coughing made it difficult for her to breathe, and the veins on her beautiful face were exposed.

The young man in red knelt on one knee beside the couch, his pretty brows tightly wrinkled, and tried to use his spiritual power to help her relax, but found that it was of no use.

Shi Yao raised her hand to stop him, and covered her mouth to stop the blood from flowing out, "Bifang, no need."

"Miss..."

Shi Yao turned her head away, wiped the blood from the corner of her lips, and sat up with Bifang's help.

She gasped and raised her hands, and saw that they were covered with blood, all of which she had just vomited.

Shi Yao laughed at herself: "... this body of four sufferings is indeed in a state of decay and decay."

Bi Fang replied: "Young Miss is a princess, please don't say that."

Shi Yao rolled up her sleeves, revealing her thin, white arms.

The color of her blood vessels was actually a thick black, and the thick veins on her arms were particularly obvious, as if all the meridians in her body had turned black.

"I really envy Sandai... The four sufferings will not corrode her. She is the only cultivator in the world who is not harmed by the four sufferings. She is born with a body of lapis lazuli."

Bifang held her wrist and gently stroked the black blood vessels: "Miss, this is exactly why God wants to kill her. There is nothing to be envious of."

Shi Yao looked at the boy's slender fingers and let him wipe the blood off her palm.

"...But she didn't die, Bifang, why didn't she die?" Shi Yao asked blankly, "I did everything according to what was written in the destiny book. Sandy was supposed to die in that battle, and the heavens also said that was her destiny, so why didn't she die?"

"She didn't die, so the fate of all of us has been changed. I may not survive, and Su Xuan may not die. Everything is messed up, all because of her."

Shi Yao's voice turned cold: "Why would an orphan girl from the Weisheng family compete with me?"

Bi Fang wiped her hands clean, his eyes paused for a moment on the black lines on Shi Yao's wrists, and he pulled her sleeve to cover the black lines.

He said, "Miss, Bifang will help you survive."

The young man raised his head, his eyes full of genuine affection.

"Miss, you are the most important person to Bifang. It is only natural for Bifang to do anything for you."

Shi Yao looked into his eyes and clearly saw the affection of a young man in his eyes.

She suddenly pulled her hand away and said in a cold voice: "Bifang, now that everyone around me has left, the Sword Sect has fallen into this situation, and my mother has returned to Taixu Mountain, why do you keep following me?"

Bifang bowed his head respectfully: "Because the eldest lady is very important to Bifang. The eldest lady saved Bifang and raised Bifang."

Shi Yao looked at him with complicated eyes.

He was raised only to be used, but he never realized it.

Idiot.

She lay down, covered herself with the quilt, turned her back to Bifang and said nothing.

The young man still knelt on one knee and said, "Miss, if you are still swallowed by the four sufferings in the end, the Bifang will be your last way to survive."

Shi Yao closed her eyes and said nothing.

The young man transformed into a spirit crane, curled up quietly on the green bricks, with a faint smell of fire between his breaths.

The house was quiet and somewhat dull.

***

The Forgotten River is located in the underworld, only a hundred miles away from the White Blade.

The young man in black robe was walking on the plank road. The rivers on both sides were flowing slowly, and a faint light was visible on the river surface.

Those were the souls that could not cross the Forgotten River and were thrown into the Forgotten River by the Samsara Seal.

Su Xuan walked forward holding the ice box. When he reached the end, he saw a man waiting there with his hands behind his back.

Fu You turned around and fell silent after seeing the ice box in Su Xuan's arms.

He held out his hand: "Give it to me."

Su Xuan suddenly stopped moving.

He held the ice box in his arms and lowered his eyes to look at the tiny dots of light inside.

Liuying's breath is still gentle.

Fu You said, "The reincarnation seal will be opened soon. Everyone will die eventually. If she had entered reincarnation a hundred years ago, she would probably be about the same age as you now. Don't delay."

Su Xuan pursed his lips, lowered his head, and rubbed the side of his cheek lightly against the cold ice box.

Fu You was stunned.

He didn't know how he died, nor did he know what his human body was like. In short, when he regained memory, he was already a ghost cultivator, so he had no parents and found it difficult to understand family love. The only person he cared about was Ling Yin.

I also don't quite understand why Su Xuan is willing to give up the six spiritual veins in exchange. The only condition is to let Fu You open the reincarnation seal and send a person who has been dead for a hundred years into reincarnation.

After a person dies, his soul either becomes a ghost or floats to the outside of the Wangchuan River to wait for reincarnation.

The Samsara Seal opens every three years. It takes a certain amount of time for ghosts to wait outside the Wangchuan River before they can enter the cycle of reincarnation. The last time it opened was last year.

Fu You withdrew his hand, waited for him with his hands behind his back, and reminded him, "It will open in a quarter of an hour."

Su Xuan watched for a long time, and time passed little by little. When a quarter of an hour was up, a huge disc appeared behind Fu You. The disc began to rotate slowly, and then the speed became faster and faster until only a phantom could be seen.

Fu You stretched out his hand again: "Give it to me."

The little fox slowly passed the ice box over.

Fu You took it and opened it in front of Su Xuan.

Spots of dark light floated out, and when Fu You waved his hand, the dark light disappeared and an illusory human figure appeared.

He was dressed in golden clothes, exactly the same as the one lying in Su Xuan Yao Palace.

Her expression was dull and her eyes were empty.

Su Xuan's breathing was trembling, and he took a step forward and wanted to hold her.

Fu You hurriedly stopped him: "No, if you wake her up, she will have an obsession and it will be difficult for her to enter reincarnation!"

Su Xuan's breathing was shaking so much that his back was hunched and he didn't even have the strength to stand up straight.

Fu You had an incomprehensible expression, he turned around and opened the rotating Samsara Seal.

On the endless Forgotten River, the river was split in two, and a small path appeared, like a dam separating the two banks.

Liu Ying walked slowly along the path on the water.

Su Xuan turned his back, afraid that he would not be able to help but call her if he looked at her again.

His shoulders trembled, and the pain in his heart turned into a sharp knife, causing pain all over his body.

Liu Ying walked forward, and when he was about to disappear into the darkness, Fu You suddenly spoke: "She has passed the Wangchuan River and is about to enter the reincarnation cycle. Do you want to take another look at her?"

Su Xuan turned around in panic and saw the woman in golden clothes walking towards the darkness step by step, towards her new life.

His jaw was tense and he pursed his lips tightly, not daring to speak. As soon as he opened his mouth, Liu Ying would wake up and she would never be able to enter the cycle of reincarnation again.

He just watched her as she crossed the Forgotten River, her skirt disappearing at the end of the path. The stagnant river water began to flow again, and the water that had been separated on both sides gathered together in the middle, flooding the path on the river surface.

Fu You said: "She's gone."

Su Xuan covered his eyes.

"Mother..."

He finally dared to speak out.

Fu You was dumb and didn't know what to say.

I'm used to seeing Su Xuan being stubborn and arrogant, but I've never seen him so fragile, like a cub that can hardly survive without its mother.

In the distance, a person was walking along the same path that Su Xuan had come from.

Fu You looked over and found that she looked no different from when he saw her a few months ago. She was still wearing the same blue dress, with delicate hair accessories on her forehead and her facial features were still pretty.

But there are some differences.

The Sandi he met a few months ago still had a sense of aloofness and coldness about her, but now, as if she had been polished away by something, she was now infinitely gentle. Even the way she looked at him was less distant and more polite.

She nodded to Fu You, who returned the nod and walked out of Wangchuan.

There were only two of them left on the wooden bridge.

Sandy came to the little fox and tried to pry open the little fox's hands that were covering his eyes.

"Su Xuan, let me take a look."

The little fox refused.

The swordsman was helpless and coaxed him softly: "Let me see if you've cried and if your eyes are red. Let me comfort you."

The hand covering his eyes loosened a little.

Sandy easily pulled his hand away.

Su Xuan's eyes are very beautiful. In his light blue eyes, there are faint ripples beside the pupils. They are a pair of very beautiful eyes.

His eyelashes were very long, and tears were hanging on them at the moment.

Looking into his eyes, Sandy could hear the little fox's crying heart.

[Daidai...I don't want her to leave...]

He didn't want Liuying to leave at all.

She entered reincarnation and would be reborn, and from then on she would have nothing to do with him.

[I want to keep my mother... I want my mother. ]

But he couldn't do that.

He cannot prevent Liu Ying from entering the reincarnation cycle because of his own selfish desires.

The swordsman wiped away his tears and said softly, "When I was very young, I felt that death was a very scary thing. I lost a very important person and I will never see him again in this life. When my master died, I even crossed the Wangchuan River to find his soul."

But for those who have awakened their heavenly spiritual roots, there is no such thing as reincarnation.

Once you die, you are truly dead, and your soul will dissipate into the world along with the annihilation of your spiritual roots.

Heaven gave them the most powerful life, but also cut off their afterlife.

The little fox cried silently in her palm.

"Later, I saw more and more deaths. Parents died for their children, lovers died for each other, monks died to exorcise evil spirits. There were too many of them. From the deaths I saw, I understood that every day of a person's life is a journey towards death, but death is also the beginning of a new life."

Sandy curved her eyes slightly and wiped the tears from the corners of the little fox's eyes.

"Maybe one day, I will die, but Su Xuan, I am by your side every day of my life. You occupy a very important place in my life. Even if I die, I will have no regrets in this life. So losing is not scary. Don't go crazy, don't trap yourself, and don't be sad."

The swordsman stood on tiptoe and hugged the little fox, resting his chin on his shoulder and patting his back gently.

"Go forward and don't look back."

Su Xuan hugged her tightly, his nose against the swordsman's neck. Her aura made him feel at ease.

Sword cultivators have always been very gentle, with a very gentle soul beneath their murderous sword intent.

He likes her and only likes her.

"Dede."

Sandy responded: "Yeah, I'm here."

Su Xuan hugged her tightly.

"Stay by my side forever. We are together in life and in death."