Chapter 72: Incomplete Soul
The sky of the underworld was as thick as ink. When Shen Qing followed Bai Wuchang into the bluestone steps of the underworld, the water of the Wangchuan River was surging with dark blue phosphorescent fire.
Bai Wuchang had already put away his ferocious attire, his clothes rustling in the cold wind. He suddenly stopped, his pale face glowing grey in the light of the ghost fire.
"Madam, the master has been dealing with the riots in the underworld recently and has not rested for several days..."
The hoarse voice wrapped in coldness penetrated into the ear bones,
"If you have anything to say, please don't..."
Shen Qing clenched his sweat-soaked palms in his sleeves, feeling bitterness in his throat.
The harsh words he uttered that day were still ringing in his ears. Now, looking at the fireworks hanging from the eaves of the Yin-Yang Gate in the underworld, he actually felt a little homesick.
"I understand, Lord Bai. Thank you for your help."
After hurriedly thanking Bai Wuchang, he returned to his bedroom on the ground covered with broken bluestone that looked like jade. The sandalwood had already burned out, and the remaining tea on the table had long gone cold.
After an unknown amount of time, the carved wooden door was cracked by the night wind.
Shen Qingze looked up suddenly, and saw that Yeluvis's black robe was stained with dark red blood, his hair was hanging down, and the frost and snow condensed in his pupils shattered the moment he saw him.
"you......"
The hoarse low call startled the crows roosting on the beams. The Ghost King's usually cold fingertips touched his cheek.
"When did you come back?"
Shen Qingze's throat tightened, and he pressed his warm face into the other's palm.
"You just came back not long ago, what have you been doing?"
The candle flame suddenly flickered violently. When Yeluvis lowered his head, Shen Qing saw undissolved blood stains on his eyelashes, reflecting tiny starlight in the darkness.
The candlelight in the hall flickered in the draft, but Yeluvis's palms were incredibly hot.
"I thought you would be gone for several months before coming back."
When his fingertips stroked the faint green shadows under Shen Qingze's eyes, the tenderness and care that surged in his golden pupils almost became real, and a suppressed sigh escaped from his throat, as if he was afraid of shocking the person in front of him.
He lowered his eyes, and gently stroked Shen Qingze's trembling lips with his calloused thumb, and finally leaned over to place a kiss.
"Well...I told you, I'll come back even if I run away. I'm not going anywhere."
The kiss was as gentle as a feather at first, but it quickly became as hot as a prairie fire.
Shen Qingze was held in his arms, his nose lingering with the smell of ambergris mixed with blood. He reached out his hand to Yeluweisi's back, and his fingertips touched the dampness oozing from below. It was the unhealed wound that was bleeding.
"Tell me clearly, who hurt you?"
Heartache surged through his chest like a tide, and just as he was about to ask what happened in the underworld, Yeluvis suddenly grabbed the back of his neck and deepened the kiss.
His kiss was almost uncontrollable and plundering, his teeth gently rolled over his lips, and their breaths entangled into a burning web as they turned.
Shen Qing could feel the anger emanating from the other person, but was hugged even tighter.
Yeluvis pressed his hot palm against his back, his voice so hoarse that it almost broke.
"Don't ask...stay with me"
The hoarse murmurs concealed endless fighting and the torment of wanting to tear the space apart countless times to see him. Now they all turned into a turbulent kiss, to make up for every minute of separation.
"Yeluvis.....tell me, please?"
The steaming mist wrapped in the fragrance of agarwood spread over the carved jade pool wall, while Shen Qing was immersed in the warm spring water, his pale fingertips still trembling.
The arms of Yeluvis that were wrapped around him were covered with scars, and dark red threads meandered along the texture of the arms into the hot spring, dyeing the clear water surface an eerie crimson color.
"Is that enough? Lord Bai has told me, so please stop hiding it from me, okay?"
Shen Qingze suddenly sat up straight by the pool, her hair wet with water droplets falling in front of her eyes, her eyelashes casting fine shadows under her eyes.
He turned around, splashing water, and pressed his cool fingertips hard on Yeluweisi's chest.
"How much did Bai Wuchang tell you?"
"Not much, I want you to tell me",
"My beloved Ghost King, you are the supreme master of ghosts and gods. Who could hurt you like this? What on earth are you hiding from me?"
Yeluvis's Adam's apple rolled, and the surging emotions in his golden eyes were crushed by the mist.
He wanted to reach out and pull the person back into his arms, but Shen Qing turned his head away.
"That day you locked me in the bedroom and said 'the underworld is dangerous'. Am I some kind of porcelain doll?"
Shen Qingze's voice trembled, and his fingertips stroked the other's collarbone.
"I can hurt you, how can I be so calm as to do nothing?"
The hot spring water suddenly shook violently, and Yeluvis suddenly pulled the person into his arms.
He buried his head in Shen Qingze's neck, his hot breath spraying on the sensitive skin.
"Don't ask."
The hoarse voice is wrapped in suppressed animality.
"You just need to know that everything I do..."
Before he could finish his words, Shen Qing suddenly bit his shoulder, and the smell of blood spread between his teeth.
"I want to hear the truth."
The bloody words were blurred but firm. Shen Qing raised his face which was covered with water droplets. The water droplets hanging from his eyelashes fell on the back of Yeluweisi's hand.
"Otherwise, I will return to the world of the living right now and take away all my property before and after marriage."
The night-shining pearl at the bottom of the hot spring pool suddenly exploded, and the faint blue light reflected on Yeluvis's suddenly contracted pupils.
He stared at the stubborn face in front of him, and finally cursed, and pressed the man hard against the pool wall, and a bloody kiss fell on his trembling lips.
"Okay, I'll tell you - but after that, if you dare to mention leaving again..."
"Lock me up, lock me up tightly"
Yeluweisi finally couldn't bear to be cruel to him, so he held up his lover's waist and found a more comfortable angle for him.
"Do you know why I didn't interfere with your travels through the world of the living and your inability to go there in person?"
Shen Qing grabbed his shoulders, tried to relax his tense body, and exclaimed softly,
"You said that you were restricted by the Yang energy of the Yang world, and my soul is incomplete. Forcing my soul to travel between the two worlds would have a great impact on my soul,"
"You don't intervene forcefully because you're afraid that your intervention will affect my soul."
Yeluweisi nodded and kissed his neck.
"When we made the blood pact, your soul was sacrificed along with my heart blood and combined with my other half of my soul. From now on, your body and the other half of your soul are no longer restricted by the underworld."
"The difficulty lies in the fact that I separated that half of my soul in order to cultivate its purity."
Shen Qing stared at Yeluweisi with his eyes wide open.
"So your soul is actually not complete?"
Yeluvis nodded and continued,
"The ghost of a high rank is murderous by nature. After that part of his soul separated from my origin, it would go berserk from time to time. I had no choice but to seal him in the extremely cold land of the underworld. But I didn't expect that one day he would develop his own consciousness and escape from the underworld."
"I guessed that he might have fled to the mortal world, but I couldn't find his presence until just now, when I felt his presence on your blood contract. However, I am limited by my status as a ghost and god, and my soul is incomplete. If I rashly go to the human world, it will disrupt the balance between the two worlds."
"So I can only bring you back by force."
Shen Qingze narrowed his eyes.
"My heart's blood and the other half of my soul are all in your other half of your soul. No wonder you are afraid that I will run away."
"I'm worried about you, so don't go back."
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