Chapter 117: Master, Don’t Run!
Ye Jing lay on the bed, barely breathing. She held Xie Fei's hand and kept nagging him to take care of himself and not be so harsh on the child. Xie Fei nodded in agreement.
Her eyes became increasingly cloudy. After a while, she began to look at the ceiling and recalled their acquaintance, understanding, and companionship throughout their lives. As she spoke, she seemed to be a little confused. She stretched out her other hand towards Xie Fei's face and murmured, "... Ning Yi? You are Ning Yi? I, I married... you? Is this really not a dream?"
Xie Fei was stunned when he heard that. Seeing her staring at him with an expression of disbelief, his frail body trembled as he tried to come closer.
This Ye Jing seems to be different from that Ye Jing.
Xie Fei hesitated for a moment, and when he felt the soul he cared about was still there in his clasped hands, he resisted the urge to pull his hand away.
Seeing her expectant eyes, Xie Fei paused and said, "It's not a dream, you really married Ning Yi."
"That's great." Ye Jing smiled silently twice, the corners of her mouth slightly raised, revealing a satisfied smile. I don't know what she suddenly thought of. After a while, she put away her smile and asked hesitantly, "Ye, where is Ye Shimian? How... is he——"
"He died from torture." Xie Fei said lightly.
"Really?" Ye Jing was stunned for a moment, sighed and said softly. The room was very quiet for a while. After a long time, she moved her eyes to Xie Fei, looked at him for a long time, and said faintly, "You are not him, I know, you are not him..."
Xie Fei was not surprised to be seen through by her, because he had no intention of hiding it. He pursed his lips and said softly, "You should leave."
Ye Jing smiled softly upon hearing this, slowly closed her eyes, and a tear fell from the corner of her eye: "Thank you..."
After she finished speaking, her hand gently slipped away from Xie Fei's hand. At this moment, her mouth, which had been closed, slowly moved again: "Husband."
The sound was very light, but it instantly exploded in Xie Fei's ears.
His originally indifferent expression suddenly froze, and his pair of cold eyes looked straight at the person on the bed with shock. His heart trembled when he heard the last two words.
He clearly had no memory of hearing it before, but why did it feel so familiar that he subconsciously wanted to respond?
"Come out!" Xie Fei shouted in a low voice, his eyes fixed on the person on the bed.
Then, a soul like a wisp of smoke flew out of Ye Jing's body. She seemed very happy, but a little shy. She hid aside and quietly looked at Xie Fei.
Seeing her, Xie Fei's expression softened a lot. He looked at her calmly, then asked calmly: "What did you call me just now?"
She hesitated for a while, lowered her head and whispered, "Husband."
Xie Fei's heart was shocked again, but his face showed no sign of it. He continued to ask calmly, "Why do you call me like that? Do you know who I am?"
The soul tilted its head to think for a moment, then said hesitantly, "You are... my husband."
Xie Fei was choked and sighed helplessly, and asked: "Then who are you?"
"I am, I am... I don't know." She murmured a few times, but after a while she shook her head and looked at Xie Fei, "Husband, who am I?"
As soon as she said this, the calm Xie Fei felt like he had lost to her. He sighed again and was about to speak when she whispered, "Ah, I'm leaving—"
Before she finished her words, she disappeared in an instant with a "whoosh". Xie Fei, who had just reacted, had no time to do anything and could only watch her fly away.
…
After finishing the work, Xie Fei returned to the underworld as usual. As he was preoccupied with things, he did not notice anything wrong at first. When he was almost at the door of the Soul Pawn Shop, he realized that the Netherworld Bridge was much more lively than usual.
Without thinking too much, he almost subconsciously walked towards that direction. From afar, he saw Hou Tu, whom he had not seen for a long time, standing on the Netherworld Bridge, with Judge Cui beside her. Countless ghost officials stood on both sides of the Yellow Springs River, including the Ox-Head and Horse-Faced Ghost, all of them looking at the river with great interest.
Xie Fei walked over silently, and saw the Yellow Spring water under the bridge bubbling like boiling water. The boiling turbid river water rolled to one side, and the deafening rumbling sound from the bottom of the river reached everyone's ears. Such a small river burst out with the majestic momentum of the sea.
"What are you doing?" Xie Fei asked slowly, with his hands behind his back.
"You are back, Lord Ksitigarbha." Judge Cui bowed and took two steps to the side, welcoming Xie Fei to Hou Tu's side. "The Yellow Spring water suddenly became abnormal, and I don't know the reason, so I am waiting here."
Xie Fei hummed softly, nodded, and stopped asking questions.
Hou Tu was eating a handful of snacks in one hand. When she heard the voice, she turned her head to glance at Xie Fei and said with a smile, "Hey, little Feifei, you're back. I missed you so much."
"Speak nicely." Xie Fei glanced at her and replied indifferently.
“Yes, Lord Ksitigarbha.” Hou Tu rolled her eyes and snorted reluctantly. Then she threw a snack into her mouth and started to chew it. She mumbled in a low voice, “When your master comes back, I will make him punish you. You dare to talk to me like that!”
"What are you mumbling about?" Xie Fei looked straight at the surging river under the bridge and asked softly, "Do you have any news about my master?"
"Huh?" Hou Tu paused, laughed twice, and waved her hands, "No way, how could I have it if you don't have it? You heard it wrong, you heard it wrong!"
"Oh, really?" Xie Fei raised his eyebrows, and without waiting for Hou Tu's response, he turned to look at the Yellow Springs River.
A crack slowly appeared in the middle of the river that was rolling to both sides. It became bigger and bigger, and it was pitch black under the crack, as if there was no way to see the bottom.
After a long while, Xie Fei spoke again: "You know what's underneath."
Hou Tu's hand shook as she threw the snack, and the snack fell to the ground and rolled to the side. She turned her head to look at Xie Fei, blinked and was about to open her mouth, but was interrupted by Xie Fei: "It should also have something to do with me."
"My master's sudden disappearance, the injuries caused by my so-called infatuation with martial arts, the inexplicably uncontrollable evil spirit, and the familiar soul that followed me closely... all of these were planned by you to help me, right? Did I forget something important?"
"You know everything." Hou Tu was stunned at first, then smiled lazily, "Yes, you have indeed lost your memory. Not only you, but also -"
"And her." Xie Fei said, raising his chin towards the crack, "My wife."
Hou Tu was really shocked this time. She looked at Xie Fei in disbelief and asked cautiously, "You, have recovered your memory?"
Xie Fei shook his head: "No."
"Then how did you know..." Before she finished asking, Hou Tu understood immediately. She smiled and said, "Did she tell you? That girl Wan'er!"
Waner...
Xie Fei uttered the name twice softly, and his heart softened instantly. After a long time, he asked casually, "So what happened? Why did I lose my memory? Why is Wan...she at the bottom of the Yellow Spring River?"
Hearing this, Hou Tu turned her head away hesitantly. After hesitating for a long time, she finally evaded the question and said, "This... Actually, I'm not too sure..."
"No, you know." Xie Fei looked at her and said affirmatively.
Hou Tu felt numb all over when he looked at her. She closed her eyes, stamped her feet, bit her lip and said, "Okay, okay, I know, but your master told me that I can't tell you now, otherwise you will really go astray."
"Why?"
After hesitating for a long time, Hou Tu finally compromised and said helplessly, "Okay, I'll tell you part of it first."
Xie Fei also knew that this might be Hou Tu's bottom line, so he nodded obediently in agreement.
"You and Wan'er didn't lose your memory, but your memories were sealed by someone. This seal cannot be broken by force, and it takes time to gradually wear away." Houtu sighed slightly and said slowly.
Xie Fei nodded in understanding: "That's why you used the evil spirit as an excuse to set up a soul pawn shop, allowing me to erase the seal in the long river of time."
"This is one reason. The evil spirits are not all excuses." Hou Tu curled her lips and started eating snacks again. "Wan'er's soul was severely damaged at the beginning. After I refine the soul power of these evil spirits, I can use them as nutrients for her to quickly repair her soul."
"I see." Xie Fei nodded and asked, "Then why is Wan...then why is she at the bottom of the Yellow Spring River?"
"You are stupid. Your soul is seriously damaged, and the injuries on your body will only be more serious. There is a cave under the Yellow Spring River. Inside is the Moon Ice Bed that your master's master found. This ice bed is a top-quality item. Even if Wan'er is unconscious, as long as she lies on it, the ice bed will spontaneously connect the meridians in her body and nourish her body from the inside out, without her having to use her Qi to recuperate on her own." Hou Tu explained word by word, "Now that the Moon Ice Bed has come out of seclusion, it means that Wan'er's body has basically recovered."
Does this mean he's finally going to meet his...wife?
Xie Fei was stunned for a moment, then he came back to his senses. He pretended to be calm and asked, "Since she is sleeping here, how did she stay with me?"
"Well... aren't you a married couple? The husband should sing and the wife should follow." Hou Tu scratched her neck and said nonsense, "Besides, this is a good thing. It can help Wan'er to wear away the seal."
Xie Fei looked at Hou Tu with an expression that said "Do you think I'm stupid?", and Hou Tu pursed her lips in embarrassment. It wasn't that she didn't want to say it, but she couldn't say it. Once she said it, with this devilish boy's cleverness, he would be exposed.
After all, it was Xie Fei's master who specially asked Yue Lao to cast a spell and tied a red rope around their two souls, so no matter where Xie Fei's soul goes, Wan'er's soul will follow him.
But Xie Fei couldn't be told this, because Yue Lao was from Heaven, and the Underworld had never interacted much with the people from Heaven. Once the two worlds of Heaven and Earth began to unite, there would definitely be a catastrophe in the five realms.
Therefore, once I mentioned Yue Lao, Xie Fei would definitely guess that the matter was related to the Five Realms, and he might go to investigate the situation himself.
Although it was the Demon Realm's Mo Xing ancestor who took advantage of the confrontation between Xie Fei and the Demon Realm's Yao Ming to launch a sneak attack, which caused Xie Fei to be injured and defeated, Xie Fei's strength has not yet fully recovered, and there is still a seal on his soul. If he goes out and is discovered in this situation, he will be courting death.
Therefore, she must not let Xie Fei know about this, at least not before he broke the seal.
Although according to the news from his master, the losses in the underworld and heaven were much more serious than those in the demon world, and the human world was also in danger, but fortunately Xie Fei's progress was very fast. Now he has recovered 60% to 70% of his strength, and the seal has also become much dimmer. It seems that he will be able to go out and help the heaven and earth soon.
Oh, and there’s Wan’er too.
Although Wan'er is much weaker than Xie Fei, she has heard that there is a unique dual cultivation secret book in heaven - Lingxi Yuantong Technique. Once it is practiced to perfection, perhaps... there is a glimmer of hope.
It’s a pity that they have only been married for less than a month, and this dual cultivation technique has just reached a acceptable level. If they want to practice it to perfection, they have to go through the three stages of elementary, intermediate, and great perfection.
Time...
Hou Tu was sighing to herself, and at this moment, the ghost officials on both sides of the Yellow Spring River cried out in surprise.
It turned out that a dazzling light burst out from the crack, and an almost transparent ice bed slowly floated up, surrounded by a lingering fairy air as cool and bright as the moon.
After a while, the fairy energy gradually absorbed into the body of the delicate woman on the ice bed. Everyone could see clearly that there was a natural beauty with skin as white as snow and delicate features lying on the ice bed.
She was wearing a water green dress with a gem pattern, which made her skin look even whiter and more transparent. Her thin eyebrows were slightly furrowed, and there were little drops of water on the eyelashes at the corners of her eyes, emitting little bright crystal light.
Although she was just lying quietly on the bed, her whole body exuded a sense of elegance. She was beautiful and radiant, her appearance was bright and attractive, and her temperament was even more noble and extraordinary, making people forget the world when they saw her and lose their minds when they looked at her.
In just a short moment, all the ghost officials were stunned and they stood there in a daze.
Before they could come to their senses, Xie Fei lifted his robe and flew up. In a blink of an eye, he was next to the ice bed. He stretched out his long arms and pulled the person into his arms. In a flash, he returned to the original place with the person in his arms.
At the same time, the Yueming ice bed slowly descended until it sank into the cave. In just a dozen breaths, the surging Yellow Spring water gradually calmed down and returned to its former tranquility.
Xie Fei carried Wei Jingwan in his arms and walked a few steps back to the house. Hou Tu looked at his back with amusement, and only turned around and waved away the ghost messengers who were watching the fun after he entered the house.
Xie Fei had just carefully placed Wei Jingwan on the bed in the inner room when Hou Tu came in slowly. She sat down on Xie Fei's special beauty couch without any hesitation, eating something with a crunch, and at the same time she consciously poured herself a cup of tea and sipped it, with a look of enjoyment on her face.
"Give me the thing." Xie Fei came to Hou Tu and stretched out his hand.
Hou Tu looked up at Xie Fei in surprise and pretended not to know: "Thing? What is it?"
Xie Fei said nothing, standing still in the same place, looking at Hou Tu calmly, which made Hou Tu feel uncomfortable. Hou Tu cursed him in her heart, thinking for a moment, and then suddenly realized, "Oh, you mean the soul power refined by Li Hun."
As she spoke, she stretched out her right hand and flipped it lightly, and a jade-white porcelain bottle appeared in the palm of her hand.
Hou Tu played with the bottle while glancing at Xie Fei, saying mischievously, "Xiao Feifei, you should tell me what you want. If you don't tell me, how can I know what you want? I'm rich, and if you only talk about things, it's really confusing."
Xie Fei let Hou Tu tease her with a calm expression. She had been playful for a long time. After a pause, Xie Fei said, "Give me your soul power."
Hou Tu raised her eyebrows and hummed. Her beautiful eyes rolled around and she said with a smile, "It's not impossible to give you the soul power, but you can't just ask for it like this, right? Do you have anything to exchange?"
Xie Fei knew what she was planning at a glance. He waved his sleeves and two small wine jars appeared on the table: "Master brewed 'Human Jade Dew' by hand, hundreds of years old."
"Not bad, not bad." Hou Tu approached the jar and sniffed it. She couldn't help swallowing her saliva. She turned around and glared at Xie Fei fiercely. "Humph, you little bastard, you have such a good thing but you don't know how to honor me, your master..."
Ugh, I almost let the cat out of the bag. The fact that I’m his master’s wife has been sealed, and I must not let it out.
"Forget it, sister. I am a magnanimous person and will spare you this time." Hou Tu said this quickly, threw the porcelain bottle to Xie Fei, picked up the two wine jars on the table and disappeared.
Xie Fei looked at Hou Tu's fleeing back, feeling that he had overlooked something in the previous sentence. After thinking about it and finding nothing wrong, he turned around and walked into the inner room with the porcelain bottle.
It took two days and one night to finally transfer all this soul power into Wei Jingwan's soul, and she was just waiting to absorb it slowly, bit by bit.
…
After Xie Fei finished his work, he felt a little exhausted, so he sat in the house to meditate and recuperate.
On this day, Judge Cui brought a girl of about eighteen or nineteen years old from somewhere. The girl was unkempt, dirty all over, and extremely thin, but her every move showed that she was well-educated.
At this moment, her face was full of regret, tears as big as beans kept falling from her face, and low sobs filled the room.
Xie Fei slowly opened his eyes and glanced at the girl with his cold eyes. Finding that she did not match the evil spirit that Judge Cui had described before, he turned to look at Judge Cui who was lowering his head and looking pleasing to the side.
When Judge Cui saw the master looking over, he immediately stepped forward and explained, "Master, this is the evil spirit that Queen Hou Tu sent for. Originally, there were other arrangements, but for some reason, Queen Hou Tu insisted that I bring this girl here first."
Xie Fei nodded and said calmly: "It doesn't matter, she has her own deep meaning."
After he finished speaking, he looked at the girl and saw that although she was still sobbing slightly, the crying gradually stopped. So Xie Fei's slightly frowned brows slowly relaxed and he asked slowly: "Since you are here, I think you should also know the relevant content of the transaction."
"Yes, I know." The girl choked up and replied, "I am willing to sacrifice my soul in exchange for your fulfillment of my wish and help me get revenge."
Xie Fei nodded and said, "In that case, let's talk about you."
The girl nodded immediately after hearing this, raised her hand to wipe away the tears on her face, took a few deep breaths and began to talk about her short and tragic life.
The author has something to say: ??ps: Regarding the relationship between the five realms and their characters, the titles such as Yue Lao, Hou Tu and Ksitigarbha are only for reference and are private settings. Please do not verify them.
I still have 1,000 words left to finish. I will finish it tomorrow. It's too late today~~QAQ
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