Chapter 542: Another Round with Heaven
Boundless coldness spread throughout the night, blowing the candlelight in the hall to the point of flickering and making it look like it would not last until dawn.
It seemed like a foreshadowing that Yun Chen was like a candle in the wind and would not live long.
"Does it hurt?"
"What?"
"You mentioned 'soul splitting' and the soul-devouring pill... they must be very painful..."
"Probably."
Yan Lang looked towards Yun Chen in the side hall, feeling a surge of despair in his heart.
Looking at Huo Gannian again, Yan Lang felt that he might be dazzled.
He seemed to see a fresh vitality being drawn away and peeled off from Huo Gannian.
The tall and upright figure suddenly became limp, and he slumped in the dragon throne like a piece of rotten dead wood.
"'I know what Yun Chen knows, and I also know what she doesn't know. And that crappy pill can only hurt her, not me.'"
Huo Gannian finished speaking in a hoarse voice, and Yan Lang immediately understood that the tone and wording should be what the other Yun Chen - the Ghost Slayer said.
Huo Gannian had keenly grasped the key point, "Is it possible that Ghost Slayer is waiting for forty days to poison Yun Chen with the Soul Devouring Pill and then take over this body?"
Yan Lang opened his mouth in surprise, shocked by this bizarre idea.
But after thinking about it for a moment, he felt that there was some truth to it.
If Huo Gannian's guess is true, of the two souls, Yun Chen is the weaker, while Gui Mie is the stronger. Gui Mie has been lurking nearby, quietly waiting for Yun Chen to be poisoned by the Soul Devouring Pill, and then jumping out to occupy Yun Chen's body, from then on killing people and drinking blood, committing all kinds of evil...
There is indeed a way, maybe you can give it a try.
Yan Lang showed some hope, but his expression also became extremely serious:
"Actually, the Soul Devouring Pill isn't unsolvable. It's just that the ancient book I was studying when I was making the pill was a half-broken copy. It just happened to disappear when it came to the only solution. Only half a sentence remained, and it was blurred and disjointed by stains:
"Dragon Ashes, if taken by men, can prolong life. Women, if taken... Dragon Ashes originate from elephant bones. The soul-devouring elixir made from them has no antidote, except... if one buries the victim in mud from the bones of an elephant tomb, they can be resurrected from the brink of death..."
Just a few unclear sentences, nothing more. I can't guess what the second half of the book says, or how to detoxify it, but there's no other way now. After forty days, Yun Chen will either die from the Soul Devouring Pill or die of madness with his soul torn apart. We have no choice but to go to the Elephant Tomb and give it a try.
Yan Lang's voice grew lower and lower as he spoke, as if before he even started, he already felt that hope was slim:
"But how do we find the Elephant Tomb? According to what you said, that Demon Slayer knows everything. What if she discovers our plan to rescue Yun Chen, triggering a fight between the two souls and killing Yun Chen prematurely? Even if we go to the Elephant Tomb, how can we guarantee that Yun Chen will survive? This method is ridiculous and too risky. The chance of success may only be... one in a thousand."
If I fail, I won’t even have the chance to say goodbye to Yun Chen.
Yan Lang really couldn't say this, but before he could say it, Huo Gannian's face had turned as pale as a dead person.
One in a thousand, such a tiny probability, what's the difference between that and directly declaring death?
But he still spoke in a trembling voice:
"Okay, I'll try."
These three words broke the coldness of the hall and made Yan Lang's heart start to panic.
Huo Gannian slowly stood up from the dragon throne, like a dead vine embedded in rotten wood, pulling himself out bit by bit with difficulty.
The shoulders, which had always been tall and straight, now looked hunched over as if in old age.
His voice was trembling but extremely firm:
"Okay. One in a thousand, I'll try. I'll play another round with the sky."
Afterwards, Huo Gannian and Yan Lang discussed for a long time and finalized the plan:
Yan Lang first made up a cruel method of using the Dustless Gu to save people and told Yun Chen.
Given Yun Chen's kindness, she would definitely not use this method. She would also try every possible means to escape from the palace because she was afraid that Huo Gannian would know that she was poisoned and use this cruel method to make an antidote.
This escape must be done with all one's strength, difficult and real enough, even requiring Yun Chen to fail several times first, and then finding the person who is least likely to be close to Yun Chen to help, in order to deceive the Demon Slayer lurking nearby.
After successfully escaping from the palace, Huo Gannian will arrange for Guanxu's junior brother to lead Yunchen to the elephant tomb.
After witnessing Guanxu's abilities with his own eyes, Huo Gannian wanted to recruit this otherworldly master into his fold, but every time he sent people, they couldn't even find the door to the Taoist temple.
Later, Huo Gannian had to go and visit in person, and Guanxu had no choice but to recommend his junior brother.
Since Guanxu has the ability to know everything about the mountain pythons, it should not be difficult for his junior brother to find the elephant tomb.
Once we arrive at the elephant tomb and bury Yun Chen in the elephant bone mud, nothing that happens next will be under anyone's control.
Until then, everything depends on God's will.
After the plan was finalized, Huo Gannian and Yan Lang were both sweating as if they had fought a big battle.
The entire plan was perfectly linked, without any mistakes or omissions, but Yan Lang had grasped a crucial point and frowned:
"No, there's a huge uncertainty here. If I'd told Yun Chen from the beginning that the Dustless Gu refined from virgin boys and girls could save her, she would definitely not have agreed given her personality. But if she chose to wait for death in the palace, unwilling to spend the last forty days with you, and didn't escape, then what would happen? All my subsequent plans would have been in vain."
Huo Gannian shook his head firmly: "No."
Yan Lang's brows deepened: "Why are you so sure?"
Huo Gannian looked directly at Yan Lang and said word by word:
"Because she knows how much I love her, she would definitely give up all her principles for her, even if it meant killing thousands of people. And because she loves me, she wouldn't let me commit murder, and she only wants to help me achieve a life of wisdom."
Just a few simple words, without any grand oath, seemed to shake Yanlang's heart with a force stronger than gold and stone.
After a long silence, Yan Lang's soft sigh was heard in the hall, a little lonely and a little self-deprecating:
"A true Bodhisattva also needs a Dharma protector. Now I finally understand. She is a Bodhisattva who came to the human world to transcend tribulations, and you are her Dharma protector."
The scene on this page ended here. Yun Chen gently closed the page. Huo Gannian's pale face but determined look lingered in her mind.
She knew everything that happened afterwards.
Just as Huo Gannian was determined, she was determined to escape from the palace, but she tried several times but failed. The poison attacks became more and more frequent, and her body became weaker and weaker.
She turned to the next page, and the picture showed her before her first attack of the poison.
She shaved his face as he requested, but suddenly felt that the soul-devouring pill was about to take effect, so she hurriedly pushed him out of the hall and closed the door tightly.
She was in so much pain that she collapsed and curled up against the door, biting her belt hard to stop herself from crying out in pain.
She thought she had concealed it perfectly, but she didn't know that behind the door, he pressed his forehead against it, gritted his teeth, clenched his fists, and looked even more painful than her.
When she finally fainted, Lu Liang inserted the blade into the gap of the door and gently lifted the bolt.
Huo Gannian carried her to the couch, carefully washed her, and changed her sweat-soaked clothes.
When the bloody cloth was taken out of her mouth, Huo Gannian could no longer hold it in and burst into tears on her arms.
"Your Majesty, don't be sad. Time is running out."
Lu Liang choked up and reminded her. Run He was also wiping away tears.
Huo Gannian finally calmed down, put the belt back into her mouth, and carried her back to the door, returning her to the position she was in before she fainted.
Huo Gannian left the bedroom, and Lu Liang wrapped a soft silver thread around the door bolt. After closing the door and bolting it, he pulled out the silver thread. This was a method often used by secret guards to create secret rooms.
After a while, she slowly woke up and struggled to get up from the ground, as if nothing had happened.
"So that wasn't a dream..."
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