Chapter 98 The World Turns, Time Presses On (Part 3) Never to Be Apart. ...
Yu Chan stared blankly at Si You, seeing him curl the corners of his mouth into a harmless smile. His blood-red lips and pale face made him look like a bewitching demon from an old woman's story.
For a moment, Yu Chan felt that it wouldn't be a problem to give him the Fu Yu that was in her eyes.
Anyway, he wanted it, and he didn't seem to have enough ability to bear the weight of the Xuan Bird Talisman Jade.
She even thought that with Fu Yu, Si You might be able to leave the mountain that was about to imprison him for life, while without Fu Yu, she might grow wings when the mountain winds rose again, and like the Jianmu tree of yesteryear, fly over Riyue Mountain and into the real world to see the scenery described by others.
Does it really matter who possesses the Talisman Jade and who inherits it?
Yu Chan's thoughts and ideas, her rapid breathing and accelerated heartbeat, could all be transmitted to Xia Zhu's brain through Isuzu.
Actually, she didn't quite understand what this feeling was like.
All I remember Ji Wuchou saying is that this was because they were two people who fell in love but could not have a good ending.
She felt dizzy and her cheeks were burning. She even doubted whether the power of consciousness would still be effective after it was attached to another object, because this state was similar to having a fever.
Si You released the cicada, like two flowers after the rain, swaying in the wind, then sticking together and separating, the raindrops connected in the middle twisted into round and fine shapes, lingering and damp.
The distance between them had increased, but Si You's hand was still near Yu Chan's ear. Just as he was about to pull it back, a sharp ice spike pierced his palm with the wind that entered the room, and stuck to the wall behind them with thick blood.
"You scoundrel!" the newcomer shouted angrily.
Yu Chan stared in disbelief at Si You's pierced hand, then abruptly turned towards the doorway, blocking his path.
"Mother?"
Yu Chan spread her arms like a baby bird protecting its young, but in the female cultivator's eyes, she was nothing more than a fledgling bird with immature wings, struggling ridiculously, unable to even fly, yet trying to protect something.
She didn't look at her daughter, but stared at Si You behind Yu Chan, who looked calm and composed, without a trace of shame or fear.
"How dare you!" She spoke each word with her tongue pressed tightly against her teeth, her face contorted in a ferocious and twisted expression, looking at her son as if he were someone she deeply hated.
"No, Mother! I sneaked up here on my own, it has nothing to do with Si You! Mother, Mother, his hand is injured, please call the witch doctor up the mountain first, okay?"
The wound was shocking to behold. If someone wasn't called for treatment immediately, Si You's hand would probably be ruined. Yu Chan was extremely anxious, and Xia Zhu from Isuzu was also worried. The female cultivator was really ruthless to her own son. As far as she knew, intermarriage within the clan was allowed before the two of them. But the female cultivator's policy of reviving ethics came suddenly. Was it simply because Yu Chan was her most valued heir, and Si You, bearing the name of the plague demon, would hinder her daughter's future prospects?
Plague Demon?
Xia Zhu had not yet noticed anything unusual about Si You.
"Mother, it's been a long time." But Si You didn't care at all that his hand was bleeding profusely, and he greeted the female cultivator calmly, "Let me count, it's been five years since I last saw you."
"Mother, you're as beautiful as ever. Look at your son, haven't you grown up a lot? Has your appearance changed?"
Yu Chan hurriedly turned around, wanting to tell Si You to stop talking, but he ignored her completely and continued to say things that made the female cultivator's face grow worse and worse, in a tone that sounded like he was just reminiscing.
"Ah, I forgot. How could a mother who can weave the name of the plague demon into shackles and impose them on her own son care about such trivial things?"
"In your eyes, there are probably only power and status, and only those ignorant and foolish people of your clan are of great importance. Even your most beloved Yu Chan is nothing more than something you use to stabilize people's hearts, let alone me?"
"An ant that you could easily crush."
“Mother, since you have condescended to come to my desolate and impoverished mountain, you might as well kill me now. Otherwise, if there is any natural disaster or man-made calamity in Puyang in the future, I will have to bear other responsibilities besides the plague demon.”
The female cultivator laughed angrily, "Do you think I wouldn't dare?"
Si You leaned back, his tone and expression nonchalant, as if he were not talking about his own life. His injured hand hung limply to the side, blood soaking through his silk robe.
“What do you have to be afraid of? Without the power of transformation, your crippled body is nothing but trash in your eyes. Since all living beings are not free and are not in control of their own lives, and the Great Dao is not fair, then it is better to enter the cycle of reincarnation as soon as possible, rather than me guarding this lifeless mountain day and night, living a life worse than death.”
"Si You, stop talking..." Yu Chan stood helplessly between her brother and mother. She didn't know what to do. The sadness in her mother's eyes and the red mark on Si You's palm seemed to pierce her like a sword. She could only stubbornly stand in the middle, hoping to save the two of them from each other's sharp edges.
"Fairness? Freedom?" The female cultivator's expression collapsed in an instant. She seemed to have heard the biggest joke in the world. Her originally tense shoulders slumped down, and she even seemed to be unable to stand, leaning against the door frame.
"Yes, from childhood to adulthood, how many times have you said similar things to me? Do you think you can prove your innocence by risking your life? Do you think you're the only one among this masses who is clear-headed?"
"Si You, my son, you are still too naive." She looked past the panicked Yu Chan at the person by the window, her eyes no longer filled with the anger and resentment of before, but only with a pity that surprised Si You.
His eyes twitched, but he quickly suppressed his doubts and forced a twisted smile, trying to retaliate against the humiliating pity in his mother's eyes.
“My son, the right to despise will always have absolute control over everything. Life and death are just a matter of a word. There has never been absolute justice in this world.”
“You should be grateful to have been born into my tribe of female cultivators. Under the protection of your sisters, you can eat your fill every day even if you have nothing. You can wear silk clothes and don’t need to go out naked to fight against the heavens and the earth. You should also give up your so-called obsessions because you were born into such a world.”
The female cultivator's eyes flickered. She took two steps into the room, staring into Si You's eyes, forcing him to look at her.
"If today you were to transcend the barriers of bloodline and gender, and possess the same abilities as women, can you guarantee that the world millions of years from now will remain as permanently just as you imagine?"
"Impossible Si You, justice is the biggest joke in the world."
"Like the heavens above, forever hanging over humanity, capable of annihilating everything in the blink of an eye, stop your attempts to rebel and disrupt the peace of the tribe, and stop... bewitching my daughter..."
Si You did not respond to his mother, nor did his expression change. He smiled and met Yu Chan's gaze, as if trying to reassure her. The image froze, lingering on his bright red lips.
In the next instant, the stars shifted, and it seemed as if several days had passed. The sky was dim, with only the pine wood on the wall swaying in the light. A dull knocking sound came from inside the room as Yu Chan silently pounded the herbs in the earthenware pot. These were dandelions and madder that she had picked that morning.
Si You's eyes flickered, but he always had a smile on his face as he looked at the cicada in front of him with utmost seriousness.
"Why are you here again?" The voice was elusive, swirling around the room like smoke, seemingly the culprit behind the flickering flames.
“I can come whenever I want,” Yu Chan retorted defiantly, without looking at him as he simply added some more wood ash to the earthenware jar.
"Are you complaining that I have another hand that's still intact?" Si You raised her uninjured hand and waved it in front of Yu Chan.
To his surprise, his little sister was easily teased. After hearing this, she immediately dropped what she was holding and got up to leave. Si You gently grasped Yu Chan's sleeve, looked up at her with teary eyes, and said in a weak tone, "I only have one hand left. What will I do if you leave?"
Yu Chan looked at his eyebrows and eyes, which were five parts similar to her own, and then her gaze moved down to his hand, which was bent like a bamboo joint. In the end, she couldn't bear it, so she sat back down in her original position and continued to crush the herbs with her head down.
Si You stopped joking, and the two remained silent. The room was quiet except for the sound of Yu Chan's heartbeat, which made Xia Zhu feel dizzy and disoriented.
After an unknown amount of time, the sound of pounding medicine stopped. Yu Chan put down the pottery jar in her hand and picked up a sharpened Bian stone from the side.
"Hands," she said coldly.
Si You obediently placed her hand into Yu Chan's palm.
Since the day she was captured by the female cultivator and imprisoned on Qingku Peak for three days and three nights, there has been no further news of Siyou. Yu Chan was heartbroken and finally begged the elder to release her while the female cultivator was out.
She carried the herbal pottery jar to Qiongyin and found Si You still lying under the window, not even wiping the bloodstains on his hands and face. She was so angry that she almost lost control of herself and wished she could freeze him from head to toe with ice.
The wound on my hand was a penetrating one, and it had become infected and rotten after being left untreated for a long time.
It is necessary to use Bian stone to remove the rotten flesh and squeeze out the pus and blood.
Yu Chan gritted her teeth, trying her best to appear calm and collected, but the pain of her torn flesh pierced her heart.
Si You himself seemed completely unaffected, and his smile even grew brighter.
Yu Chan couldn't help but sigh again, for they were conceived in the same mother's body, shared the same blood, and had the same flesh, so they should feel the pain together and insist on sticking their flesh and blood back together, never to be separated again.
With a touch of vengefulness, she plunged the sharp stone knife deep into the already intact flesh, watching as healthy, clean, bright red blood oozed out. An unprecedented pleasure surged through her. She couldn't help but secretly think that Si You's blood was shed for Yu Chan. Her grip on the stone knife tightened until the sharp edge pierced the flesh, and scalding blood flowed down the stone into Si You's wound.
That's how it should be, that's how it should be.
Yu Chan's eyes were red, the firelight warmed her face, and the warmth flowed through her festering flesh and spread throughout her body. This feeling of peace was like returning to the beginning, when they were still unformed embryos.
"A-Chan." Si You withdrew his hand, ignoring the gushing blood and the burning pain, and gently stroked Yu Chan's face, holding her close until their breaths were intertwined. He could feel the icy, snowy aura emanating from her body that drove him mad with infatuation.
“Ah Chan, I knew seventeen years ago that we would be entangled for all eternity, and that you and the missing part of me would eventually be re-embedded into my body.”
"Nothing can separate us. Even if one day my body decays and time changes, you will become snowflakes and drift back onto my bones."
Yu Chan affectionately nuzzled her face into Si You's palm, feeling the warm liquid sliding down her cheek.
"A-Chan, if possible, would you be willing to leave with me?"
"Leave?" Yu Chan suddenly broke free from his grasp like a startled little beast. The word was like a bowl of extremely tempting poison, steaming hot, and seeping into her body through her seven orifices.
"Leave here, leave Puyang, go to a just and free place." Si You's expression twisted and became sinister in the firelight. His lips twitched slightly, a taut, almost manic laugh forming on his face.
"Ah Chan doesn't know yet, but in this world, there is someone who can help us escape our prison. From then on, we will be together forever, never to be separated again."
The firelight flickered and died out with the wind, and the scene once again dissipated before Xia Zhu's eyes like ashes from a burnt-out fire.
Only Si You's words lingered like a delirious murmur.
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