Chapter 148: Reminiscing the Past (4) That was a hellish level of difficulty to collect...
I don’t know where Luo Ling went.
Si Ling pondered in his heart and looked at Xuan Chi again. He stopped stuttering and fell silent again, as if...
It's like restarting a computer system after a crash.
Si Ling laughed to himself, and suddenly realized his condition - it was not so much that he was panicking, but rather that he was "crashing".
You really can't blame him for this. He learned the truth about what happened 30,000 years ago within an hour, and then she asked him out on a date. The amount of information he received was really too much.
Si Ling realized that even if it was just out of sympathy, she should give him some time.
She stopped teasing him and lowered her head to eat the simple meal in front of her. Hyun Chi's silence lasted for the entire meal.
It was noon when they returned to the Ghost Academy after dinner. Noon in the underworld was different from the mortal realm; there was never a blazing sun. In Fengdu, the Porcelain Kingdom, daytime was more like cloudy skies on earth, a constant occurrence for tens of thousands of years, the only difference being the occasional rain. Meanwhile, in Lingbo City, daytime was perpetually red, symbolizing Satan's hellfire, a red that intensified at noon.
Many souls newly arrived in Hell from the human world were unaccustomed to this kind of sky, but experienced spirits were not surprised. Si Ling didn't dislike this weather after arriving in the West; after being accustomed to Fengdu's scenery, she found it quite refreshing.
So Si Ling looked up while walking to appreciate the rich colors, and suddenly she felt a slight itch in the palm of her hand. She subconsciously clenched it, and then she felt her clenched hand twitch.
Si Ling raised his eyebrows and tilted his head. Hyun Chi's expression was tense: "You said it was a date."
Si Ling chuckled softly, turned her head away, and loosened her grip. Xuan Chi immediately held her hand. She felt that he was still a little stiff, but he still held it stubbornly, although the silence continued.
This was the first time they had done something like this in tens of thousands of years. Si Ling didn't think there was anything wrong with it. She had once thought this kind of emotion was meaningless, but after experiencing turmoil and being a fierce ghost for 30,000 years, she felt that this might be an interesting bond.
In the next few days, they basically stayed in the dormitory and did not go out, mainly because Si Ling needed to rest so that he could dive into the trench again and call upon the magic weapons.
So most of the time these days, she was either meditating or sleeping. Xuan Chi seemed to have gradually found a new pace in getting along with her. When she was meditating or sleeping, he was always happy to stay beside her and do nothing. Once, Si Ling slept in the middle of the night and was awakened by a gust of wind blowing across her face. The first thing that caught her eye was the black wings.
At that moment, she thought that the god of death had come to visit.
Then she frowned, yawned, and half sat up: "Hyun Chi?"
"Hmm?" Xuan Chi turned around and covered her face with his wings again.
Si Ling didn't hide, and closed his eyes in the feathers: "What are you doing..."
"Hiss, sorry!" Si Ling heard the sound of wind in front of her eyes, and she knew that it was Xuan Chi who had folded his wings, so she opened her eyes again. Xuan Chi came over with a smile and lay on his back on her legs, "I want to make a few more bracelets to help you recover."
Si Ling subconsciously touched the bracelet on his left wrist, suddenly laughed, and lay back down in the laughter.
Xuan Chi was a little confused and moved over to lie next to her. Before he could ask, she said, "When I was in heaven, I used your feather as a bookmark for many years."
Xuan Chi was stunned: "Picked it up?"
"I picked it up." Si Ling nodded, gesturing with his hands in the air. "It's this long, and the end looks like a peacock feather, but it's aqua blue."
"Oh, Tail Feather." Hyun Chi nodded in understanding and then asked, "Do you like the black bookmark?"
Si Ling turned over and grabbed his wrist: "Stop plucking your hair! You're going bald!"
Hyun Chi wanted to say no, but her cheek pressed against his chest, and his mind went blank for a moment. Then he could hear her laughing, a soft laugh... as if there was no sound at all, but he could feel her laughing.
Si Ling closed his eyes and took a deep breath: "I'm recovering quickly. No more bracelets. Stay with me and sleep for a while."
"Okay." Xuan Chi responded.
When Si Ling woke up in the morning, it was pitch black. She rubbed her eyes and tried to sit up, but as she pushed herself up, she felt the feathers again. She realized she was covered by his wings. She brushed them aside and realized why he was covering her—she hadn't drawn the curtains before going to bed, and the early morning sunlight streaming in was a bit disturbing. He must have woken up because of this, but he was too lazy to draw the curtains, so the wings just covered her face and his own.
These wings are quite versatile. She thought as she turned over to lie on her side and combed his feathers with her hands. He soon woke up, raised his eyes to look at her, turned over and used his wings to hold her.
"Want to eat something?" he asked. "Shall I go to the restaurant and order for you?"
Si Ling shook her head and yawned, saying, "I'm almost recovered. Let's go to the trench tomorrow. If we can really mobilize those heavenly soldiers..." She pursed her lips tightly, "We can consider overthrowing the Heavenly Court."
"Should we find Luo Ling and the Five Clans first?" Xuan Chi hesitated. "Luo Ling is loyal to you. If nothing unexpected happens, she will definitely carry out your wishes."
"I know that." Si Ling nodded, "but I have no idea where they went. When I ordered her to protect herself and the five clans, I didn't make any detailed requests, nor did I ask her about her plans, because I was very afraid that Di Jun would capture my soul and use it to find their hiding place."
She was cautious and suspicious like a frightened bird.
…So now, the question to her is like, “I hid my stuff in a perfectly safe place, so safe that I don’t even remember where I put it.”
Si Ling gave an awkward yet sincere smile.
"Okay..." Hyun Chi laughed.
The next morning, they went to say hello to Lucifer and then headed to the Puerto Rico Trench again.
With the help of Xuan Chi's flying speed, Si Ling's journey that took several days last time was shortened to only half a day.
The ghost wall barrier that Si Ling broke last time had not yet recovered. They successfully found the rectangular hole and soon reached the underground space.
The dark army of heavenly soldiers had not changed at all compared to last time. The two men landed in front of Cangming Palace. Si Ling raised his right hand, made the soldier seal appear in his palm, and handed it to Xuan Chi.
——At that time, she was a monarch who took the principle of "trust those whom he employs, and do not employ those whom he doubts" to the extreme. On the issue of sending soldiers to the battlefield, her view was very similar to what Sun Wu proposed, "A general in the army is not bound by the king's orders."
Therefore, unless Xuan Chi returns to the capital and formally hands over the military seal, the highest authority will belong to him.
Xuan Chi took the military seal, held it in his right hand, and silently chanted the incantation in his heart: "Starlight forges armor, the edge rises to the sky."
When driven by the commander's spell, the military seal will turn into a golden axe with a phoenix pattern - this is why he felt familiar with the dragon-patterned axe he saw in the museum. The dragon-patterned axe symbolized the unity of royal power and divine power in the Shang Dynasty, and the golden axe that the military seal turned into was exactly the same.
But after Xuan Chi finished chanting the spell and waited for a moment, the military seal still lay quietly in his palm, with no sign of turning into a golden axe.
Xuan Chi frowned in confusion and read it again, but it was still the same.
"What's going on?" He turned to look at Si Ling in confusion. Si Ling also felt strange and walked up to him and asked him to try again. So he tried it for the third time and recited the spell out loud, but the soldier seal still did not move.
"Is it because it's too old and has lost its function?" Si Ling picked up the military seal and looked at it from left to right.
"..." Hyun Chi raised his eyebrows in amusement, "You try it."
"Oh." Si Ling took back the military seal, held it in his right hand, and read clearly: "Starlight casts armor, the edge rises to the sky."
The moment the words were spoken, the golden seal emitted a dazzling golden light, illuminating most of the entire space.
But after about three or four seconds, the golden light went out again.
The military seal failed to transform into a golden axe, and the dark army before him remained motionless.
However, the result of the military seal flashing on and off was not surprising to Si Ling: "The military power is in your hands, and the military seal will behave like this."
After she said that, she frowned: "But it has a reaction on me, which means it's not broken, but why doesn't it work on you...Ah!!!" Si Ling suddenly exclaimed.
She belatedly recalled a detail - thirty thousand years ago, she had taken great pains to split the altar and Cangming Palace apart in order to separate Xuan Chi's remains from her own.
Because the skeletons of gods contain spiritual power, if both sets of remains fall into the hands of Emperor Jun at the same time, he will most likely find a way to summon her heavenly soldiers.
But now—
She absorbed her own remains during her last visit to the trench, and Hyun Chi...
"Where are your remains?" she asked.
"?" The only answer Xuan Chi could give was, "Impaled on the bronze sword?"
This was the scene he saw in her memory.
Si Ling was speechless.
The problem seemed a bit tricky: for the past 30,000 years, her bones had been hidden in the sparsely populated Cangming Palace, making them difficult to lose. The close proximity of the military seal, which could sense her bones, provided her with an additional layer of protection, making even the most powerful ghosts and monsters unable to approach.
And he...
Although he was also underground, he had been discovered long ago, so long before she arrived in the West, Satan and Lucifer had set up a barrier around the cave where his soul was.
As for his bones, since Lucifer never mentioned them, they must have disappeared earlier.
It is possible that they have been found by Emperor Jun, and then it will be extremely difficult for them to retrieve the remains;
It's also possible that it was picked up by other ghosts...that would be even worse.
Because the gods have 206 bones just like mortals, and although Suhuang can also exist in human appearance, they actually have both wings and fish tails, and have more bones.
If it was picked up by other ghosts, it is very likely to fall into the hands of different people.
That's hellish level of collection difficulty.
Si Ling suddenly realized that Thanos only needed to collect five gems and Voldemort only had seven Horcruxes, which was really the kindness of the creator.
- Just imagine how desperate it would be if Harry Potter needed to find more than 400 of Voldemort's Horcruxes.
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Author's comment: Harry Potter's search history for finding over 400 Horcruxes would be like:
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