A sound of pleasure
Tianshu then warned: "Ali, don't worry, we will find a way to save you right away, don't run around."
Yuanli replied, "Okay."
Inside the temple, there was no more clapping sound coming from the sarcophagus. In the silence, there were some faint whispers.
Cha Suxun, who was standing nearby, then squatted down, palms touching the ground, and whispered a mantra. After repeating it three times, Cha Suxun stood up and gently knocked on the sarcophagus lid three times.
Seeing no response, Cha Suxun grew impatient and sternly asked, "Do you really have to wait for me to tear open your coffin before you come out?"
The next moment, the coffin lid automatically moved away. A hand reached out, grasped the edge of the coffin lid, and pulled it halfway open. He then ducked sideways behind the remaining half of the coffin.
"Where is your first king? If you don't tell me, I'll tear open all the coffins here!"
After these words were spoken, the skeleton hand trembled and pointed to a darker stone coffin. Cha Suxun walked straight over and asked through the coffin, "How do we get out?"
"Young man, you certainly have some skills to survive until now. But you broke into my Kasi Temple, so you should pay the price. If I were you, I wouldn't be so rude. If you want to provoke me, go ahead. If you really have the ability, you are qualified to negotiate a deal with me."
Cha Suxun immediately shattered dozens of surrounding stone coffins with a single palm strike. Inside the coffins were not skeletons, but souls. The frightened kings of the past dynasties of Kasi changed their expressions, becoming horrified.
"Now, let's talk about whether you are qualified to trade with me."
"Rampant! High Priest!"
Following King Kas's summons, several spirits emerged from the sarcophagi. Their clothes were embroidered with strange patterns, and they wore gold chains around their ankles, adorned with delicate little bells. As they took slow, measured steps, the chains rang rhythmically.
Several high priests surrounded the two of them, observing them. Then one of them said to King Kasi, "The prophecy I left in the sixth year of Kasi's Yongzhen reign has come true today."
"What prophecy? Why didn't you take precautions? You're disturbing the peace of my Kashi's soul?"
The high priest pondered for a moment and said, "In the 23rd year of Yongzhen, I predicted that six people would come here. The prophecy was unusually split into two outcomes. In both cases, everything would return to the yellow sands, and eternal peace would follow. However, the difference lies in the peace of the deceased souls. I rushed to the palace to report that at night, but the king did not leave any warning for future generations. My investigation has revealed that it is related to the beauty Yi."
"I knew that bastard was a hopeless piece of shit! Lust blinded him! Reckless and ignorant! He didn't know what was happening, he killed his father and imprisoned his brother. If you had any conscience and hadn't tortured your brother to an untimely death, you wouldn't have suffered the same fate as your father, and the peace of the ancestors of my country, Kasi, wouldn't have been destroyed in your hands!"
"That's enough. I don't have the patience to listen to your accusations. I'll ask you one last time, how do I get out?"
King Kas replied, "I don't know either. I have no idea how you got in. This has never happened before. We controlled the coffins to surround you just to scare you and make you leave quickly. After that, we got a little out of control."
Yuanli said, "This is your temple. It was your sarcophagus that trapped us here. Now you say you don't know?"
"The temple already existed when I brought my people here to settle down. Back then, it was the only place surrounded by water. We simply renovated it according to our Kas beliefs, and the mechanisms we set up are all ordinary magic. Although we were elves in life and knew some magic, we are just ordinary ghosts after death. Even I can't drag you to the underworld."
Cha Suxun: "The underworld?"
"Yes, the place where we ghosts stay is so separated from the living, it's like two different worlds. If it's not the underworld, then what is it?"
Without waiting for Cha Suxun to speak, Yuanli said, "Only the realm beyond the Ghost Gate can be called the underworld. If you had passed through the Ghost Gate and entered the underworld, you wouldn't be gathered together like you are now. You would have been divided into different hells for judgment according to your deeds in life."
"Then it can only be... the Huangquan clan." Cha Suxun suddenly spoke, muttering to himself.
As soon as the words left their mouths, the sand beneath their feet suddenly vanished into nothingness, catching the unprepared Cha Suxun and Yuanli completely engulfed in the golden sand. As they sank deeper and deeper, the little magical power Cha Suxun and Yuanli could summon from their mortal bodies was completely suppressed.
They both realized that something was wrong and held each other's hands tightly until they lost consciousness.
Yuanli felt that she had just closed her eyes and then opened them again soon. The heavy feeling of being dragged by the golden sand disappeared, and her body became light and floating.
She looked down and saw her body at a glance. Just when she was wondering if she was dead, a hand reached out from the darkness and grabbed her tightly.
Following the hand, a pair of narrow green eyes lit up in the darkness.
With a powerful tug, Yuanli was pulled away without resistance. After a moment of dizziness, Yuanli and the man in black were both in endless darkness. They stood facing each other, floating in mid-air.
The man in black wore a large cloak that covered her entire body, from head to toe, even to the tips of her toes. The hood of the cloak was particularly large, covering almost half of her face.
"Who are you?"
The man in black untied his cloak, revealing his face. He raised his head, gazed at her with a smile, and replied, "Me? I am the sober you."
It was really uncomfortable to look at that face that looked exactly like mine and hear such words spoken in such a gloomy tone.
Yuanli scoffed and said, "Is it interesting to become me?"
"I don't need to become you. I already am you. You idiot, you've been played around by others, and you still have to serve them wholeheartedly. You might as well get out of here and let me control this body!"
"I don't care what you are, stay away from me! I'm just a mortal, and you can't do anything if you take my body."
"What? I told you, I'm you! No, no, no, to be precise, I'm also the consciousness in this body, just trapped by you. During those days of fleeing, wasn't it my thoughts that kept me alive? Now that you've become a high and mighty god, you almost completely ignore my thoughts."
After hearing this, Yuanli didn't believe her words and thought she was just some kind of monster.
Until, she said: "Ever since you transformed, you slowly began to despise my ideas. But don't forget, if it weren't for me, with your current self-proclaimed compassion, any of the goblins and ghosts who bullied you while you were running away would have eaten you. We used to work together so happily. Black Bear Jiumu, Water Snake Liandai, Fiendish Ghost Yeqing... Which one of them didn't die at our hands because of my ideas? I can't even count how many bad guys we killed together who bullied us. Have you forgotten all this?"
When she mentioned the goblins and ghosts she had killed, Yuanli began to believe that she might really be the consciousness in her body. Because of those past events, she never dared to speak of them to anyone.
During those days of fleeing for her life, her hands were stained with blood and her methods were extremely cruel.
She was a little excited and said, "Look, you remember it! You remember it!"
After saying that, she continued with some displeasure, "But why did you start trying to erase our past after being taken back by A-Cha? We've been together through thick and thin, but we can only share the hardships, not the happiness, right? Then let's go our separate ways! Get out! Let me control this body, and we can get everything we want!"
"Don't even think about it! You are just some evil thoughts in my head. You are not even a soul. I am the master of this body!"
She was angered by Yuanli's words, but she didn't hurt her. After a moment of hesitation, she sneered and said to herself, "Evil thoughts? Don't say it so harshly. What kind of good thing are you?"
Seeing Yuanli didn't say anything, she joked in a playful tone, "Let me guess, why are you desperately trying to erase my existence? Are you afraid that Wen Yici, whom you've been thinking about, will think that you're no longer the gentle and lovely woman in his memory? Are you afraid that he'll think you're scary and vicious? Or are you afraid that Cha Suxun will know that you're not as pitiful and kind as you were when he picked you up? Are you afraid that Cha Suxun will know your so-called cruel methods and think that you've killed too many people, so he won't want you anymore? Or are you afraid that if outsiders find out, the image of compassion and mercy you've maintained will be wasted? You won't be able to fit in with the group of people in the heavens, like an alien? You're afraid that mortals won't want to worship you, and you won't be able to become a god respected by the world. Everything will return to the starting point again, and you'll be back to the days of running for your life, with everyone stepping on you. How scary~ Hahaha..."
"Stop talking!"
"Why are you so anxious? Did I hit the nail on the head? Are you going to tear off that hypocritical face of yours and turn against me? Look, don't you think the thought that just flashed through your mind is a bit like mine? Tsk tsk, poor thing, even if I have evil thoughts, I will only be awakened by you if you start to have evil thoughts. Admit it, you need me. Actually, your existence is not completely without benefits. At least, you please that group of people, and with such an image, it is really convenient for you to do bad things."
"what you up to?"
Hearing this, she clapped her hands with joy and said joyfully, "You've finally figured it out! You can't live without me, and I can't live without you. After all, we're the same person, fighting for the same destiny, so why exclude each other? As for what I want to do, of course, it's to fulfill all the dreams we've had since escaping. I'll take control of the body, and we'll have everything."
"All your dreams after escaping?"
She looked at Yuanli angrily and kept silent.
"You can continue to be angry, but I won't give up my body easily. Let me guess, the reason you didn't take my body directly, and didn't do anything to me, is because I have to return to my body, right?"
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