Chapter 334: Stripping the Soul
After an unknown amount of time, Su Rui opened her eyes in a daze when she heard the sound of humming a little tune.
It was pitch black and nothing could be seen clearly. Su Rui couldn't tell where she was, but she could feel that she was sitting on a very hard and cold place.
The sound of the little tune came from the front. The tone was incomprehensible, but it was chilling, as if it was the death-demanding music from hell.
Suddenly, the sound of the little song was heard, and Rong Huan's voice was heard: "Awake?"
Then, a little flame appeared in the pitch-black darkness. The flame moved and lit the torch on the wall.
As the torches were lit, the flames instantly dispelled most of the darkness.
Su Rui then saw clearly that she was in a cave.
The cave is not big, but it should be very deep. I can't hear any sound from outside, not even the sound of the wind, and there is no way to go further inside.
Rong Huan was still wearing the same black dress. It was a little dusty, but not obviously dirty, which showed that she had been unconscious for no more than two days.
I wanted to get closer to take a closer look, but I had no strength at all. I was as limp as a puddle of mud. If I lost the support of the mountain wall behind me, I would collapse on my own.
"You can't move, so don't waste your energy." Rong Huan advised her.
Staring at Rong Huan, Su Rui refused to give up. She opened her mouth and asked with difficulty, "Is your target me?"
"You're very smart." Rong Huan nodded in appreciation. She walked forward, sat on the ground, and asked Su Rui, looking at her at eye level, "You saw it that day, didn't you?"
Su Rui didn't answer.
Rong Huan didn't insist on getting her answer, but reached out and lifted her sleeve, revealing her forearm which was almost half covered with corpse spots.
"You've worked as a cobbler in the borderlands, and you've died before, so you know all about corpses. I know, I can't hide it from you. You must have figured it out a lot, right? That's why you're so anxious to leave."
"You died too, we are the same people, right?" Su Rui asked, expressing her doubts.
Rong Huan didn't nod immediately, but thought for a moment before saying, "Same, and different."
Su Rui looked at her doubtfully, as if she didn't understand what she meant.
This time, Rong Huan didn't hide it anymore. Looking into her eyes, she spoke to herself, "You and I are indeed both reborn souls, but I'm not as lucky as you. You can see that my body is rotting."
"In my previous life, I died at the age of twenty. I was reborn at the age of fifteen. I thought God had been kind to me, allowing me to start over, kill my enemies, and gain everything. But on the day my previous life died, this body died."
"I've tried everything to maintain myself, but this body is already decaying beyond repair. I'm dying, dying again, dying at twenty. No matter if it was in my past life or this life, no matter if I win or lose, I'll die at twenty. I'm unwilling to accept this. I want to live, but I have no other options."
"Fortunately, God didn't let me die. Zhao Yinqin came to Dongyue, and I recognized him at first sight."
make out?
Su Rui grasped the key point and asked, "Have you seen him before?"
"You can say I've seen him, but you can also say I haven't." Still speaking ambiguously, Rong Huan looked at Su Rui's puzzled expression and thought for a moment before saying, "It's the same with you. Before coming to Da Zhao, I've seen him, but I haven't either."
The same for her?
"I have seen you and Zhao Yinqin since I died."
"soul?"
Rong Huan shook her head. "No, I'm not. It was more like a dream. I saw everything from your past life, and I saw your soul wandering around the Yong'an Marquis Mansion. You were trapped inside, and I was looking down from the sky, taking in everything. I thought it was all a dream. I didn't know who you were, and after my rebirth, I didn't care who you were. That was until Zhao Yinqin came to Dongyue to steal the Ten Thousand Year Lotus for you. I recognized him at first sight, and I knew it wasn't a dream. You all existed."
Ten thousand year lotus?
Yun Ji went to Dongyue not to investigate the situation, but to steal the Wannian Lotus for her?
The medicine that brought her back to life was Dongyue’s lost national treasure, the thousand-year lotus.
Therefore, ever since returning from Weicheng, Yun Ji said that he was no longer a Buddhist monk, and he even did not step into the gate of Fahua Temple last time. It was not because he was going out, but because theft was a serious crime in Buddhism. He had betrayed his beliefs and had no face to step into the gate again.
"I remember that in your previous life, you had already died. So, when I knew that Zhao Yinqin had stolen the Wannian Lotus for you, I knew that you had also been reborn. I saw that light, and we were reborn together."
Light?
Is there any light?
It seems so.
But it happened so quickly, so quickly that she didn't even remember it. When she opened her eyes again, she was reborn between life and death on the border, and she didn't have time to think about it.
That light is the opportunity for rebirth.
It seemed that the light appeared not long after Yun Ji arrived at the Yong'an Marquis Mansion and her soul passed through.
"So, I took the opportunity to make a deal with Zhao Yinqin and help him steal the Wannian Lotus. Because the Wannian Lotus is not only a miraculous medicine that can bring back the dead, it also has another unknown effect." Rong Huan approached Su Rui, whispered in her ear, and admired her body, "Stripping the soul."
Su Rui was surprised.
Stripping away the soul?
How to peel?
Stripping...hers?
She remembered what Rong Huan said in her ear before she fell into coma.
Suddenly, everything made sense.
The reason why Rong Huan came to Da Zhao in a hurry was not Yun Ji, nor the Second Prince, nor did she care about the internal strife in Da Zhao. Her purpose from the beginning to the end was herself.
To be exact, it was her body.
Rong Huan's body was rotting and could not last much longer. Knowing that she was talking about someone who had been reborn like her, she felt that it was a glimmer of hope.
She investigated her and rushed to Da Zhao just to verify whether what she thought was true.
Rong Huan said she smelled good because her body exuded the fragrance of the thousand-year lotus. Rong Huan was sure that she had eaten it, and also confirmed that her body was not dead, not rotten, and did not need to be covered with perfume. Her body was alive and was what Rong Huan needed.
All the provocations and displays are only for now.
If Rong Huan's body could not wait any longer, she believed that Rong Huan would do a better and more perfect job.
"It seems you've figured everything out." Rong Huan could see from Su Ruidu's eyes that all her doubts had been cleared up after she said this. She reached out and gently stroked Su Ruidu's face, praising him, "You're really smart. If it weren't for the fact that only one of us could stay, I really wouldn't want to ruin you."
Su Rui wanted to shake off the cold hand, but she couldn't. She could only stare into Rong Huan's eyes and ask, "Are you sure the Wannian Lotus has this effect?"
"Of course." Rong Huan sniffed her scent and raised an eyebrow, "Because I've already taken the Ten Thousand Year Lotus before you. This isn't my first soul exchange, but the previous ones were all very brief. They were all from this life, unlike you and me."
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