In the deep mountains and forests on the outskirts of Beijing, Xu Chen stared silently at the soul in the jade bottle.
"Great hero, great god, please spare me! I finally managed to borrow a body and escape the constraints of reincarnation. You are also a cultivator, you should know how difficult it is to get to this point."
"I'm sorry, I don't know." Xu Chen lit a cigarette, turned to look at the distant mountains, lush and verdant, layer upon layer of peaks. "You have to explain it to me."
"Explanation? I don't understand what you mean."
“Explain to my wife.” Xu Chen recalled the confusion in Wang Li’s eyes earlier and suddenly felt it was necessary to ask this spirit to help him clarify things.
"An explanation is fine, but you have to let me leave after you've finished explaining."
"Can."
Meanwhile, outside, the police were searching for Xu Chen's whereabouts. In today's China, any harm done to a woman inevitably becomes a trending topic online, let alone a heinous incident like a street assault. The pressure from public opinion was immense, even affecting Wang Li, who was resting at home. Her phone was frequently receiving threatening text messages. If it weren't for Xu Chen's special background, Wang Li, even at home, would likely be mobbed by the media, bombarded with questions.
"Lili, I'm back." Xu Chen returned to the small villa with the jade bottle in his arms.
Wang Li stared intently at Xu Chen without saying a word, presumably because Xu Chen had come to give her an explanation.
"Tell me, how did you possess this body? Who were you in your past life? Why did you target that girl? Tell me carefully. If you answer well, I will find you a body and let you be reborn. If you don't answer well, I will make you vanish into thin air." Xu Chen placed the jade bottle on the table. Wang Li could clearly see a constantly moving gray mist inside.
"Xu Chen, what is this?" Wang Li didn't understand Xu Chen's meaning, and then what happened next surprised her. The mist actually spoke, "I am a Foundation Establishment cultivator from the Yunhe Sect. The Yunhe Sect failed to seize the blessed land, and I died. Before I died, the restrictions of the blessed land suddenly changed and absorbed the souls of all of us who were about to die. We were thus able to escape the constraints of reincarnation. After that, I carefully traveled around with the merchants on the star road, looking for a physical body that I could satisfy. This star is one of my countless places of residence."
"Why did you possess that girl?"
"It was a coincidence, a complete coincidence. The girl was physically weak, and I didn't want to possess her. But I learned about your existence from her memories, so I thought about whether I could get close to you and trick you out of spirit stones."
Wang Li suddenly realized, and was somewhat afraid to meet Xu Chen's eyes. Xu Chen continued, "You're quite honest. Tell me, what kind of body do you need?"
"Ideally, it should be a cultivator! Great hero, I'm not picky, but a cultivator's body is the best."
"Wait!" Xu Chen waved his hand, took the jade bottle, and disappeared from the spot.
"Chen..." Before Wang Li could finish speaking, seeing Xu Chen disappear, she felt extremely flustered. What would Xu Chen do with her? Would he be angry that she didn't trust him?
After a long time, Xu Chen transferred his soul into the new body. Before the soul could even rejoice, Xu Chen smashed the body to pieces with a single palm strike, reducing it to nothingness along with the soul itself.
"I promised to let you leave and give you a physical body, and it seems I've done that." Xu Chen stepped into the spaceship and sailed away from the unfamiliar star.
Back in the outskirts of Beijing, he lit a cigarette and watched the clouds drift by. He figured he couldn't go back to the capital, so staying here to enjoy the scenery and cultivate himself wasn't so bad.
Three days passed, and Li Muxi remained in a coma. Although the public outcry had subsided, many people were still paying attention to the matter. Outside Li Muxi's ward, netizens would come to visit from time to time. Wang Li came every day, hoping that Li Muxi would wake up soon and clear Xu Chen's name, but she was often driven out by the angry Li family.
However, things didn't go as Wang Li had hoped. On the fourth day, when she came to visit, she saw Li Muxi being wheeled out of the ward. A group of doctors, drenched in sweat, hurried beside her, discussing what to do. Wang Li understood that the girl was in extreme danger.
After the rescue, the girl returned to her ward, where she was still fast asleep. The Li family members were also dozing off, trying their best to stay awake and take care of her. Xu Chen came to the ward and looked at Li Muxi, who was pale. He sighed softly and stretched out his hands to use his spiritual power to nourish the girl's brain. Although Xu Chen had not studied medicine, he could still do it by carefully controlling the output of his spiritual power. It was just a matter of whether this method would work.
As it turned out, the spiritual energy nurturing was effective. Soon, the girl slowly woke up. "Xu... Xu Chen... cough cough..." Li Muxi looked at the tall, gentle man gazing at her beloved, feeling a sense of disbelief. She looked around at the surroundings, including her sleeping parents. "What... what happened to me?"
"Get some rest. Once you're discharged, I'll tell you everything you want to know." Xu Chen took out a jade pendant he had carved himself and put it around the girl's neck. "This jade pendant can help you a lot. If possible, don't take it off."
The girl felt the warmth emanating from her and looked at Xu Chen in surprise. Just as she was about to call out again, her parents opened their eyes.
"Xi'er, you're awake!" Li's mother suddenly saw her daughter sit up. She rushed over to check on her daughter's condition. Li's father turned on the ward light and observed carefully. The parents were surprised to find that Li Muxi's pale complexion was gone and she had almost fully recovered.
"I'm awake, Mom and Dad. I feel much better now. I want to be discharged."
"No! You need to get checked again. We can only leave the hospital when the doctor says we can be discharged."
"Mom, look!" Li Muxi got off the hospital bed and jumped up and down a few times. "I'm really fine, Mom."
Soon after, the doctors arrived. They were particularly concerned about the girl who had attracted public attention, fearing that something might happen to her and cause the hospital to be criticized. After a series of examinations, the family was discharged from the hospital with the doctors' affirmative answer.
Outside the hospital, the night was dark and the stars in the sky were few. Xu Chen stood on the rooftop, watching the girl being discharged. He smiled and then thought about walking away.
"Xu Chen! Xu Chen, I know you're here!" For some reason, she had a blind trust in the man who had given her the magical jade pendant. She firmly believed that Xu Chen would wait for her, and she began to shout around the hospital.
"Xi'er, are you calling out the name of that violent thug who beat you?" Li's mother couldn't believe it; her daughter's expression seemed to be calling for Xu Chen to appear.
"What? You mean Xu Chen hit me? Mom, you mean Xu Chen hit me? Impossible, he's not that kind of person." Li Muxi felt something was strange. How could Xu Chen possibly hit her? Just as she was wondering, Li's mother opened the video on her phone, which clearly recorded how Xu Chen had attacked her.
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