Facing each other
Through the white cloth, Cha Suxun gently touched the children's foreheads with his fingers, then closed his eyes and cast a spell to recall what they saw before they died.
When the brother opened the door, he saw his sister covering something with her hands. When his sister turned around and saw him, she was startled.
"What are you hiding in your hand? Are you secretly catching spiders to play with again?" As he said this, the brother pretended to snatch it away.
Hearing this, my sister covered her hands even tighter, desperately hiding them in her arms, and backed away slowly. "I didn't."
"Then take it out and let me see it! Auntie said to stay away from spiders! Not even the spiders crawling around the house can be touched! She'll be mad when she gets back! If you don't want to be eaten by an angry Auntie, take it out now!"
Hearing this, the younger sister immediately let go of the spider and tried to throw it away, but the spider quickly climbed up her arm and headed towards her collar. The younger sister broke down crying and yelled, "Brother, help me! The spider is crawling all over me! I don't want to be eaten! Brother, hurry up!"
Her brother desperately searched her body for the spider, but he couldn't find it. Cha Suxun could clearly sense his fear and terror, but was the source of that fear the spider or their mother?
Just as Cha Suxun was thinking, his sister screamed and then fell heavily to the ground. When she fell, there was a bang because the back of her head hit the wooden table leg behind her.
His sister died instantly. His brother's eyes widened in horror as he stared at his fallen sister in disbelief, at a loss for what to do. He then squatted down, stretched out his trembling hand, and placed his index finger between her nostrils. After confirming that his sister was no longer breathing, the brother didn't dare cry out loud. He covered his mouth tightly, fearing he would make any sound, and he didn't dare touch his sister's body again.
He wanted to run to find A Niang, but his mind flashed back to her, her mouth full of blood, her eyes dim, like a soulless walking corpse, clinging to the corpse and sucking the blood from its neck. Thinking of this, he gave up the idea and didn't dare to go find A Niang. He was afraid that if A Niang knew what happened today, she would blame her for her sister's death and take her anger out on him.
He squatted on the ground with his legs limp, not knowing what to do until he saw a scarlet spider crawling out of his sister's nostrils and crawling towards him.
He was so scared that he didn't care about his sister's death and frantically got up from the ground and ran out. But before he touched the door, he felt a sharp pain at the back of his neck, and in an instant, he lost consciousness.
Cha Suxun slowly opened his eyes, using Psylocke to explore his memories of the bodies. He saw that after the two children died, swarms of spiders crawled out from the roof, cracks in the walls, windows, doors...anywhere there was a gap, and headed towards the bodies of the two children.
They covered the two children's bodies and retreated again, allowing Cha Suxun to see the thin, faint web. Then the shabby door of the old house was pushed open, and a woman wearing only a loose purple robe walked in.
Cha Suxun recognized her.
Her name was Xixia, and she was the concubine of the great tick-fish monster named Mingti who served under Xieyuan.
As soon as she came in, the spiders all retreated back the way they came. She bent down and took the spider that killed the brother and sister in her hand, and put it back on her head. The spider then climbed onto the end of one of her gold hairpins and became like the spider rubies adorning the ends of the other seven gold hairpins.
The woman hung the two children from the beams of the house, then cut open their backs, exposing the entire spine. But she didn't seem to see what she wanted. Disappointed and furious, she took her anger out on the corpses, and the wound from the bifurcation of the tailbone instantly split all the way to the heel.
Then she disappeared.
The modus operandi was exactly the same, both were looking for the jade hairpin hidden in the body.
Cha Suxun immediately went home and lay down, once again risking his own magical power backlash. He returned to the Netherworld and retrieved the small portion of Netherworld power he had previously sealed beneath Wangxiang Pond, then headed for the stone formation that sealed the Evil Abyss.
Standing in the center of the stone formation, Cha Suxun concentrated his mind and energy, using his own netherworld power to sense and search for her magic power. When Li Wan was still fond of clinging to him as a child, he would extract a strand of his own soul and wrap it around her real body.
She said: In this way, we can stay together for the rest of our lives and never be separated.
And thanks to this, he was able to reunite her shattered soul threads and rebuild her life.
Her power was still there. Although some of it had vanished after thirty thousand years of consumption along with Xie Yuan, most of it remained. That power enveloped him, offering a warm response.
Although the suppressed Xie Yuan's true body and soul would be completely destroyed by the formation, and most of it should have been consumed in the past 30,000 years, Cha Suxun clearly sensed that Xie Yuan's true body and soul were being slowly repaired by something at this moment.
Cha Suxun immediately thought of the former members of Xie Yuan whom Yuan Li had encountered; they too were after the jade hairpin. It now seemed that those great demons were seeking the jade hairpin for far more than simply coveting the power it held. However, the hairpin was formed from eight of Li Wan's ribs. Retrieving it would only grant her power, similar to his method, but not Xie Yuan.
When he recast Li Wan's soul thread, he was extremely careful, meticulously planned, and hid it very secretly. At that time, only he and the old turtle, the divine turtle of Zhisheng Sea, knew that she had been reincarnated, and it was impossible for there to be a second person.
Returning to Wangxiang Pond, Cha Suxun once again drew out that portion of his power and hid it beneath the surface. As he emerged from the pool, the moisture quickly dissipated from his body, leaving his clothes and hair dry. The familiar tingling sensation returned, even more intense than before.
He lifted his arms, and every wound from the backlash of his spells while leaving his mortal body was still there, even a little more open than before. Unlike before, this time, he felt the same stinging pain in his chest. He opened his collar and saw a backlash wound that stretched from his left chest to just below his ribs on the right.
As soon as he had tidied his clothes, Nian Dai appeared in front of him and saluted. Cha Suxun didn't say anything, and she didn't say anything either, just looking at him quietly.
Just as Cha Suxun was about to leave, she stopped him and said, "Your Highness, your backlash scars have become so severe that they won't heal for at least three to five hundred years. If you continue to use your mortal body to drive the power of the Netherworld, I'm afraid you'll damage your very foundation."
"Don't let this matter get out."
"Nian Dai never reveals His Highness's affairs to outsiders. Nian Dai only recognizes you, as you know. Nian Dai knows she has no right to interfere in His Highness's affairs, but the entire Netherworld needs His Highness, and His Highness must be safe and healthy."
Cha Suxun stopped, looked back at her and said, "Since you know you have no right to interfere, you shouldn't have any unnecessary thoughts."
"Nian Dai knows she's wrong, and she won't have any delusions."
"You must keep the pearl that she and I have shared in this life safe. When I return, you must immediately deliver it to my palace. You must hand it over to me personally, without making any mistakes."
"Nian Dai obeys orders."
Watching Cha Suxun disappear, Nian Dai stood there for a long moment before leaving. Those words wouldn't make her dislike him in the slightest, nor would they make her retreat. Nian Dai believed that if she vanished completely, she would one day vanish from his heart, and then, perhaps, he would see himself standing behind him for tens of thousands of years.
She never dared to covet him. She knew her position and dared not blaspheme the god she looked up to. Nian Dai only hoped that she could always stand by his side and assist him wholeheartedly, and she also hoped that he would not hurt and embarrass himself again for a woman.
At this moment, in the mortal world.
Cha Suxun's soul sat on the roof of Qi Heng's carriage, feeling annoyed at the sight of him still alive and kicking despite his supposed death. The records of the three of them in the Yin-Yang scrolls were no longer visible. His fate had changed, yet he couldn't discern the change. He could only take things one step at a time, like any mortal.
This critical moment of being out of control is frustrating and unpleasant.
Qi Heng only brought two people with him, Qi Heng and Xiang Yao, who was responsible for driving the carriage. He didn't even bring a coachman.
Inside the car, Chu Xiao's face was extremely grim. He held a sword in his arms and said, "Your Majesty, what's the logic behind this? You weren't ordered to personally handle the serious case in the capital, yet you're asked to leave the capital to personally investigate a few deaths in a town this far away. Putting aside the question of whether the rumors of ghosts in town are true, the fact that His Majesty only asked you to bring two people to investigate secretly is a deliberate attempt to harass you."
"You and I are from the Dali Temple. Although we are stationed in the imperial capital, we are responsible for any case that occurs in the Western Frontier. If the people below can calm down and investigate the case, there would be no need for His Majesty to send us to investigate secretly."
"Investigate? How can we investigate with just the two of us? My father told me that His Majesty collaborated with monsters to destroy Liangzhu. Otherwise, how could he have killed General Baisheng? He knows best that there are monsters and demons in this world. If it's really haunted, then they're clearly worried that you won't die soon enough, so they sent a carriage to take you on your way."
Qi Heng put away the scroll and said jokingly, "Are you scared? Then go back."
"Why wouldn't I be afraid? I'm in my prime, and there are so many beautiful ladies waiting for me in the capital. It's really not worth it to let me die." After joking, Chu Xiao said seriously, "Besides, after the cat demon case, I really do believe in ghosts, gods, and demons."
"Really? I heard that General Liu has returned to the capital, and Miss Liu has also returned to the imperial capital. She has been on the battlefield for two years. Why don't I send her an invitation to come and protect you and me, and we can catch up on the past. By the way, I can also check for you to see if those beautiful girls you mentioned have hooked up with other people while you were away." Qi Heng said seriously, and he really couldn't help but smirk.
"No, no, no, Miss Liu has been fighting with her father for a long time and has worked very hard. It's better not to trouble her."
"After all these years, just give in to her. She's a hero who fought for his country. This is all she wants. She doesn't want an elixir of immortality. Just give in to her. His Majesty will thank you, Chu family."
"Your own porridge hasn't even cooled down yet, and you're here to blow my Yuanxiao? She's right there on that mountain, and you don't dare to fight for her anymore. After all, you're willing to be her boss, so why can't you be her concubine?"
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