Chapter 112 Wedding and mourning (43)
The golden light quickly spread out from Yan Shixun, so bright that it was impossible to look directly at it. It swallowed up the blood moon and the darkness with an unstoppable force, and the entire silent Jiazifen Village was illuminated by this light.
The corpses looked up blankly, staring at the sun-like light with their empty eyes. Then, the next moment, when the light touched them, the rotten corpses turned into powder.
The corpse of a woman dressed in a wedding dress that appeared when the coffin was opened felt the strong threat coming from Yan Shixun and immediately turned around and tried to run away.
However, the light advanced steadily, destroying everything in its path. The village houses were shattered, the earth was surging, and the female corpses were swallowed up by the pursuing light after running only a few steps. They disappeared without a trace without even a howl.
The entire extremely dark place surrounded by the Moon Mountain Range was lit up by this ball of golden light, like a golden crow falling to the ground and suddenly exploding.
The earth was shaking, and the howling of the evil spirits disappeared in the next moment.
And in a place where no one could see, in the very center of the light, Ye Li was hugging Yan Shixun's thin but bloody waist from behind in a very intimate manner. He lowered his head slightly, his cold cheek pressed against Yan Shixun's neck, his slender arms stretched out against Yan Shixun's arms, his cold palms interlocked with Yan Shixun's blood-stained palms, and his cold and dry palms were also stained with Yan Shixun's blood, as if they were also stained with human warmth.
"Yan Shixun, is your final conclusion that Yin spirits should not exist in the human world?"
From an angle that Yan Shixun could not see, Ye Li's usually cold eyes seemed to be ignited by a fire, reflecting the slender figure of the person in front of him in the light. The light swayed, and in his entire field of vision, there was only the person in front of him.
Ye Li's voice was magnetic and hoarse, as if he was suppressing the excitement that made him tremble: "You don't agree with the Yin God, but you didn't kill all the ghosts here. You found Jiang Yanran's last connection with the human world, took on Yang Yun's obsession, but didn't soften your heart and let Yang Duo go. You think Yang Duo has her sins. Shi Xun..."
"Even if Fengdu, who judges good and evil, is here, he can only do this. The exorcists in the human world can actually do this. This... surprises me."
A soft and slightly cool breath fell behind his ears. Yan Shixun frowned and wanted to distance himself from Ye Li, but he was firmly held in the other's arms, which were as motionless as a mountain.
Ye Li was taller than him, and had a stronger and more imposing physique, and he was able to hold him tightly in his arms without leaving any gaps, as if it was born that way.
Yan Shixun tried several times, but the pain from the wounds on his body became more and more intense as he used more strength. His trembling muscles had almost no strength left, so he was naturally unable to break free from Ye Li's arms.
And he could feel that after his talisman took effect, it was not the divine power that he was familiar with in his memory, but a colder yet more majestic force that poured into his body, traveling along his meridians, and being released freely according to his will, without any restrictions or stagnation.
It was as if that was not a power driven by the content and effect of the talisman, but another ghost or god handed the power into his hands, allowing him to drive and demand it.
That chilly yet pure aura was exactly the same feeling that Ye Li gave him.
"Ye Li."
Yan Shixun turned his head slightly and glanced at the tall man behind him, but was touched by the other's long black hair that fell down and brushed across his cheek. Through the shadows cast by the hair, he saw that there was no malice on Ye Li's handsome and sharp face. Instead, he was like a collector who saw the world's most precious gem, full of surprise and love, cherishing it to the extreme, fearing that the world would hurt it in the slightest.
Even though he originally had many doubts about the man who called himself "Ye Li", Yan Shixun, who had seen all kinds of people and had a good eye, had to admit that Ye Li had no ill will towards him.
So, he paused his harsh questioning and asked calmly, "Who are you?"
"I know you are definitely not an assistant director hired by Zhang Wubing, but I suspect that you are some anonymous person who has a karmic relationship with my master. After all, the power you have shown before is far beyond the general understanding of this era."
Yan Shixun looked into those narrow and smiling eyes and said seriously, "But now, I even begin to doubt whether you are still a human being."
Ye Li chuckled. Because Yan Shixun tilted his head, their cheeks were extremely close to each other. They could even see the subtlest emotions in each other's eyes. The heat from their conversation would fall on each other's skin.
Their auras blended and their eyes met, as if nothing in the world could stand between them.
"There is no cause and effect between me and your master."
"I just want to establish a cause and effect with you."
Ye Li spoke hoarsely beside Yan Shixun's ear and whispered, "As for who I am... that depends on you, how you define my role. As long as you want, I can be anyone."
It feels like a feather brushing across the ear, bringing a fine itchy sensation.
Yan Shixun had never been so close to anyone before. He couldn't help but turn his head, wanting to move away from Ye Li, but Ye Li moved one step closer.
"Yan Shixun, you always make a Yin-Yang contract with the living, and the heaven and earth will become witnesses of the contract. Why don't we also make a Yin-Yang contract?"
Ye Li smiled, his tone gentle and bewitching: "Maybe I am a vicious person, maybe I will threaten other people's lives, you can guess my identity at will, evaluate and be alert to the threat I bring. Then, Yan Shixun, will you turn a blind eye?"
"Let me walk with you, and in return, you can freely explore my truth and understand everything about me."
"how?"
Yan Shixun paused and hesitated for a moment.
Ye Li's proposal was indeed full of temptation, and this was one of the methods he had thought of. The danger that had not yet shown any signs must be kept by his side so that he could be stopped when he was about to commit a crime. And it was even better that Ye Li himself could bring it up.
But, he inexplicably felt that there seemed to be something wrong here.
It was as if he was walking towards Yeli step by step.
This feeling of closeness made him, who had always walked alone, feel uncomfortable and wanted to escape.
but……
"I have understood a truth since I was very young. There is no giving without reason in the world. All actions must have reasons. So Ye Li, you put yourself in front of me and give me what I want - what will you get?"
Ye Li laughed softly, and the vibration of his chest was transmitted to Yan Shixun along the skin that was close to him.
And Ye Li's eyes, which were originally cold and lifeless, became so bright under the reflection of the surrounding golden light that they could not be looked directly at.
"you."
——When you explore me, you will also get closer to me.
And I will get you.
By then, the cause and effect entanglements will become more and more numerous, and you will be left by my side by heaven and earth, and can no longer be separated.
So Yan Shixun, come to me.
…
The golden light covered the sky and the sun. The earth and mountains were completely overturned. Moon Mountain shook and made a huge roar. Huge rocks rolled down the mountain and shattered it. It gradually collapsed and splashed a lot of dust and rubble.
And what collapsed along with it was this lifeless world.
The ground collapsed inch by inch, falling into the bottomless darkness. The outline of Jiazifen Village quickly disappeared in the night, and those village houses that once recorded countless painful memories would never see the sun again.
Lu Xingxing subconsciously held her breath at some point, looked up at the brilliant light in the sky, and thought in a trance - could it be that Yan Shixun was some kind of god who had descended to earth? After the collapse of the heaven and earth, could there still be gods?
Zhao Zhen and the others all widened their eyes at the same time, looking at everything in front of them, shocked and not knowing how to react.
But they knew very well that this power came from Yan Shixun.
Zhao Zhen stared blankly for a long time before he realized that his eyes were dry. He blinked quickly and tears welled up in his eyes.
It was the shock and emotion that came from the soul after witnessing the miracle and splendor of the great road of heaven and earth with one's own eyes.
It seemed that at this moment, he was extremely close to heaven and earth, and heaven and earth were with him.
"Mr. Yan..." Zhao Zhen murmured softly, and sighs scattered in the air.
Whether it was Jiang Yanran or Yang Duo, they both stopped what they were doing, stood there, raised their heads, and stared blankly at everything in front of them.
“How… is this possible!” Yang Duo shook his head and backed away in disbelief, his face full of disbelief: “I am the Yin God, the Yin God!”
"He's just a living person, how could he possibly destroy my world!"
On the trembling earth, only the ancestral hall remained intact.
The golden light gradually faded, and from it, a tall and slender figure slowly walked out.
“Crack!”
The Martin boots made a slight sound as they stepped on the gravel that had rolled down the ground.
Yan Shixun's figure shuttled through the light and shadow, his eyes lowered, his handsome face calm, without any sign of how he had just done something to shock the evil spirit.
"The world does not need a place of death. People may have made mistakes, but that is not an excuse for you to wantonly kill lives. Their sins will be judged by yin and yang. And you, Yang Duo."
Yan Shixun looked at Yang Duo indifferently: "The consequences you have created have exceeded the promised limit. Your consequences have become your evil causes. Those innocent deaths have become the sins you must bear."
"Life? Ha!" Yang Duo's lips trembled, but she looked at Yan Shixun with a mocking expression, full of murderous intent: "They have done so many evil things, it's not a pity that they die! What's wrong with me killing them!"
Yan Shixun remained unmoved and asked in a cold voice: "What about those newly born children and young people who are gradually integrating with the outside world? They have not done anything wrong."
Yang Duo sneered: "What their fathers owed me, they will naturally pay it back! Besides, they will make mistakes in the future. Can you guarantee that they will not commit any sins until they die?"
"I can't guarantee it, and this guarantee is meaningless." Yan Shixun responded indifferently: "What you said is all your imagination. Everyone makes mistakes, so should everyone be killed at birth? How can you decide their life and death based on the mistakes they haven't made yet?"
"Yang Duo, go tell Yufengdu about your hatred and sins."
As soon as Yan Shixun finished speaking, the entire ancestral hall suddenly shook violently, bricks and stones rolled down, the earth broke into pieces, the broken ancestral hall and the ground made a roar, and then fell down at an angle.
The darkness below was bottomless, swallowing up all light and sound.
Just like the hell in the legend.
Zhang Wubing and others screamed in surprise, but soon discovered that the bricks and cracks did not harm them at all, and they all avoided their location as if by coincidence.
But Yang Duo slowly fell along with the collapsing earth.
She screamed miserably and tried her best to escape from the ground where she was standing, but a force from below grabbed her feet tightly, making her unable to move.
Yang Duo looked down and found that it was a pair of stiff and rotten hands that grabbed her ankles. She looked in the direction of the hands and saw a cold and pale young face.
She vaguely remembered that he was one of the young men who massacred the village.
Not only that, pairs of rotten hands stretched out from the darkness one after another, firmly and forcefully grabbing Yang Duo's ankles and calves...
The palms included those of men and women, young people and children, and even tiny fingers of babies.
Their whispers echoed in the empty darkness, pulling Yang Duo along with them as they fell into hell.
Yang Duo screamed and tried desperately to kick those people down, but was grabbed by more and more hands. She reached out to grab the edge of the boulder that had split from the ground, trying her best to climb up and return to her world.
But the boulder made a loud "crack" sound and fell mercilessly into the darkness.
Yang Duo opened her bloodshot eyes and stretched her hand upwards, but she could only watch herself falling. The human world was getting farther and farther away from her. Only hell would accept her and judge her sins.
A second before being swallowed by the darkness, Yang Duo vaguely saw Yan Shixun's cold eyes looking down at her.
But to her surprise, there was no trace of sarcasm or arrogance in that look, only a heavy and gentle sadness.
It was like seeing her off.
Is this... possible?
Yang Duo's heart was filled with turmoil, but she couldn't help but begin to waver in her original resentment because of Yan Shixun's look.
Could it be... that I really did something wrong?
In a trance, Yang Duo saw the faces surrounding her from all directions. Their complexions were pale and their eyes were empty, but they only held her tightly with their hands and expressed their resentment and questions from their mouths.
——Why do you want to kill me? I didn’t do anything.
——Why are you seeking revenge on me? I haven’t done anything wrong.
Yang Duo slowly blinked her eyes, and her beautiful face and body quickly turned into dry bones. She wanted to take another look at the world and recall her life again, but suddenly she found that she had forgotten it.
The negative energy had submerged her for too long, and she seemed to have forgotten where she came from, just as Yan Shixun said.
"I think I did something wrong..."
But it's too late.
Darkness suddenly came and completely engulfed Yang Duo.
Yan Shixun withdrew his gaze from the darkness. He turned his back to the golden light that had not yet dissipated, and walked slowly but firmly towards Jiang Yanran, who was sitting on the ground in a mess.
He slowly bent down and extended his slender hand to Jiang Yanran.
"Jiang Yanran, I'll take you home."
Jiang Yanran blinked, and clear tears slid down her cheeks.
She raised her hand and firmly grasped the hand extended by Yan Shixun.
"Well, let's go home - take my uncle with us and leave Jiazifen Village."
Yan Shixun held Jiang Yanran's hand tightly and led her towards the dazzling golden light.
The light fell on Jiang Yanran, and her embarrassment slowly faded away. The corners of her skirt flew in the wind, and her smile was bright and brilliant.
An old and hunched figure, leaning on a cane, was waiting not far away, smiling kindly at Jiang Yanran.
Jiang Yanran slowly opened her eyes and shouted in disbelief: "Uncle!"
The old man waved to her happily: "Yanran, I'm here to take you home."
He walked towards Jiang Yanran hurriedly with a crutch, and as he walked, he threw away the crutch. His body gradually became straighter, his gray hair turned black, and the wrinkles of sorrow on his face disappeared little by little.
He turned into the middle-aged man who was once in his prime and always remained in Jiang Yanran's impression. He smiled heartily and opened his arms, waiting for Jiang Yanran to throw herself into his arms.
Just like what he did every time he was waiting at the train station and saw his college-age niece appear at the exit.
Jiang Yanran was laughing, but her tears came out before her voice and flowed all over her face.
"uncle!"
She ran over and threw herself into the arms of the middle-aged man, choking with sobs but with an unstoppable smile on her face: "Well, let's go home together!"
At this moment, it seems as if time has gone back to that sunny summer decades ago.
In front of the train station, Jiang Cheng waited for his niece, took the luggage from her hands, and listened to her talk about the interesting things about her internship with a smile all the way. Amid the crowd, they created a warm atmosphere, and they talked and laughed on the way home.
He was full of energy and was planning to cook his specialty dishes for his niece. His niece looked at the white hair on his temples with distress and thought about making her uncle live a good life.
A breeze blew by, and the road they walked on was covered with sunshine without any haze.
…
Yan Shixun quietly watched the soul gradually disappearing in the light, and his serious and sharp face finally softened and became warm again.
A tall figure walked and stopped beside him.
Yan Shixun glanced sideways, as if smiling but not smiling.
"I seem to owe you again?"
Ye Li chuckled and nodded: "I couldn't ask for more."
Yan Shixun wanted to turn around and say something, but because of the excessive movement, he pulled the wound. The sudden pain made him grin, and then he laughed: "You'd better hide your truth. If I find out that you are really not a human, don't expect me to be gentle."
There was a smile in Ye Li's eyes, and the ice crystals turned into spring water.
He spread his arms, revealing his chest as if exploring: "There are many truths about me, Yan Shixun, it seems you have a hard time finding them. But fortunately - we have enough time to spend together."
"Isn't it?"
Yan Shixun looked at him steadily for a moment, then snorted softly and turned to look at the few people who were still shivering and huddled in the ancestral hall.
"What are you still doing there? Waiting to die?" Yan Shixun raised his chin in the direction of the light and said nonchalantly, "Let's go."
After saying that, he took the lead and walked towards the golden light.
Ye Li walked side by side with him.
Yan Shixun seemed to sense something and looked sideways. He was used to being alone, but surprisingly he didn't find it annoying.
Maybe...having someone around isn't such a bad thing?
Behind everyone, the world collapsed and sank completely into darkness.
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