Chapter 05 She is really a god!

 Chapter 05 She is really a god!

By Jiulu Feixiang,

Translated, Edited and Arranged by Angel Chua 10/09/2024

Shen Li followed the scent all the way to the gate of a small courtyard. Just when she didn't know how to get in, the gate suddenly creaked and opened. Shen Li hurriedly hid behind the door and hid in the dark.

A man in night watch clothes and holding a lantern walked out of the door. He was the middle-aged man who came to find her today: "It's almost time for my shift. I'll leave first. You watch your sister-in-law. It's the middle of the night. Don't let her run out to find some half-immortal again."

The woman inside responded: "Be careful."

The man responded and turned away. The gate closed again. When Shen Li was anxious and didn't know how to get in, the door opened again. The woman inside chased out with a cloak: "Da Lang, your cloak. It's cold at night. Don't catch a cold."

Shen Li took a look. The gate was open and the two people were far away. She jumped and went straight into the yard. She saw the woman's room at a glance. Because the light was still on, she was sitting in front of the window sewing clothes. Her silhouette was cast on the paper window, and she was indescribably lonely. The door of her room was not closed, Shen Li quietly poked her head through the crack of the door. After a glance, she suddenly understood why she felt an inexplicable breath on this woman today.

Behind the woman, a young man in tattered light armor was staring at the clothes she was mending in her hands. His expression was gentle and his eyes were gentle, as if he was looking at the things he cherished most in the world, but he had no feet. His body was invisible during the day due to the strong yang energy, but it finally appeared at night.

Did he become a spirit... Shen Li couldn't help but sigh. The woman could no longer find her husband, and she didn't need to look for her husband, because the man had never left her. Shen Li didn't expect that her sigh would make the lightly armored man turn his head suddenly. His pair of black eyes suddenly turned red when he saw Shen Li. He opened his mouth and a yin energy overflowed from his mouth. Without giving Shen Li any time to react, he rushed towards her with a hideous face. Shen Li fluttered her wings twice in panic: "Stop! Wait..." Before she could even crow two chickens, the spirit passed through her body, and the full of Yin energy made her stagger and roll several times until she hit a clay pot in the corner and stopped.

"Stop! Stop... cough..." Shen Li shook her neck hurriedly.

But the ghost didn't listen to her, and just stared at Shen Li fiercely, ready to attack her again.

Shen Li hurriedly said: "I'm here to help you!" The man was slightly startled when he heard the words, and his expression eased a little. Shen Li took two breaths and was about to speak, but the hostess of another room was startled by the previous sound. When the door over there opened, the woman couldn't see the ghost, but stared at Shen Li strangely: "Where did the hairless chicken come from?" As she said that, she walked over here, but before she took two steps, a stone suddenly hit her head. The woman's eyes rolled back and she fainted on the ground.

Behind her was Xingyun, who was covered in dust. He threw away the stone in his hand and said with a hint of helplessness: "Haha, you're running around and getting into trouble again."

Shen Li looked at him blankly: "How did you get here?"

"Climbing the wall." He said calmly, took a few steps forward and pulled Shen Li into his arms, "There is a curfew at night, don't you know? Go back."

"Wait!" Shen Li slapped Xingyun's face with a chicken wing. The feathers that had just grown a little bit pricked Xingyun's face, "Didn't you see! There are still some things that haven't been dealt with here!"

Xingyun pressed her wings: "What's the matter?"

Shen Li gestured: "Can't you see such a big ghost?"

Xingyun frowned slightly: "I only have access to the secrets of heaven, not a cultivator, and I can't see ghosts."

Shen Li didn't expect this. Xingyun was too mysterious, making her mistakenly think that he knew everything. She pondered for a while and explained to Xingyun, "When the woman came to me today, I sensed a strange aura on her, but the yang energy was too strong during the day, so I couldn't see it. I only found him when I followed her tonight. It seems that after he died on the battlefield that year, he was too obsessed and couldn't be reincarnated. In the end, his soul returned to his hometown and floated to her side, and then he has been guarding her until now."

Shen Li turned to look at him, the man lowered his brows and nodded slightly.

"You know she has been waiting for you and looking for you, right?" Shen Li turned to ask him. The man had a bitter look on his face. He looked at the silhouette of the woman on the paper window and nodded gently. Shen Li said again, "Do you want her to know where you are?"

He looked at Shen Li in surprise and desire, as if asking her, "Can I?"

Shen Li nodded: "Xingyun, go and tell her."

Xingyun sighed: "What a fool." He said, "Do you want me to dance and gesture to create a ghost? Who would believe it with words?" He put Shen Li on the ground, and then fiddled with a few stones, as if arranging them in an orderly manner according to some formation. "Since you have already intervened, you should do your best. But don't regret it after it's done."

Shen Li was silent, waiting for Xingyun to come over. After setting up the formation, he used his finger as a pen and wrote a word in the middle. He stepped back and said, "Tell the ghost to float on this word."

The man followed his words and stopped above the word. It seemed that a ray of light was injected into the word. The stones arranged in order in the yard lit up one by one. The last ray of light was concentrated on the man. His body seemed to be stronger and clearer than before. Xingyun smiled and said, "Knock on the door and tell her that her husband is back."

Shen Li didn't ask anything. She ran over eagerly and pecked the wooden door with her sharp beak. After a while, the wooden door opened. The woman frowned and said, "It's a bit noisy tonight. The clothes I sewed for Sanlang haven't been finished yet..." The woman paused, and her turbid eyes seemed to be shining with the light in the yard.

She took a step forward in disbelief: "Sanlang..."

The man was also a little at a loss. He didn't dare to move his feet. He just stared at the woman steadily. He didn't even know how to put his hands. He clenched them and stretched them out. He opened his mouth, but no sound came out. The woman understood what he said. He called her "wife." This name had not appeared in her ears for fifteen years.

Her cloudy eyes moistened in an instant: "You are back... You are back." Her voice was trembling with joy, and a childlike smile appeared on her wrinkled face. She hurriedly took a few steps forward and stepped into the formation, but stopped when she was about to touch the man.

She touched her hair and face with trembling hands: "Look at me, I haven't prepared anything. You see, I didn't even prepare a meal for you. I missed you for so many years..." Her voice choked uncontrollably, "Where have you been all these years? Do you know how long I have been waiting for you... Do you know that others thought I was crazy, even I thought I was crazy... I can't wait any longer. I can't ask you whether you are alive or dead, I can't find your whereabouts, I have nowhere to send my sewn clothes, and no one can read my written letters! Where have you been hiding!"

She couldn't stop her tears from falling, in the array of light, time seemed to flow backwards on them, smoothing out her wrinkles and vicissitudes, turning her into that woman in her prime, and his armor and clothes were as new and his appearance was the same as before, as if it was the last night to see her husband off, they were still young, without the fifteen years of life and death separation.

The man's face turned sad, and he couldn't help but raise his hand to touch her face. Xingyun, who was standing by, bit his fingertips silently and dropped two drops of blood on the stone of the formation. The light in the formation became brighter, and the man actually touched the woman. It should have been the hand of a ghost! Feeling the real touch, the man suddenly exerted force with his arms and hugged her fiercely.

Shen Li looked at Xingyun in astonishment: "This formation..." This formation connects life and death and goes against the way of heaven. Its power is so strong.

Xingyun just said lightly: "This formation can't last long. So, if you have something to say, tell them quickly."

Shen Li was stunned again when she heard it. This man actually saw what she wanted to do...

She vaguely guessed today that the woman was possessed by a ghost. She thought it was a little ghost attracted by her obsession, but she didn't expect it to be the husband she was looking for. However, people and ghosts are different. If they spend a long time together, it will inevitably affect the woman and shorten her life.

So, she originally wanted the ghost to leave the woman, but now...seeing that Shen Li didn't move for a long time, Xingyun just said: "Why not let them decide for themselves."

Shen Li was stunned, Xingyun continued, "They are both ordinary people, they don't understand the Yin and Yang, and they don't know how much impact Yin energy will have on people. Now that it has come to this, it is better to tell them everything and let them decide for themselves what to do. "

Shen Li opened her mouth, but still didn't say anything, because she wanted them to stay a little longer, even if it was only a little while.

Xingyun sighed and suddenly said, "People and ghosts have different paths. Brother, you know that you have been with her for more than ten years, and you have almost exhausted her life." The two people on the other side were stunned when they heard this. The man turned his head to look at Xingyun in surprise, but the woman's palms tightened and murmured, "Be with me for more than ten years? You have been with me for more than ten years? You..."

She seemed to have just seen the man's clothes and his appearance that had not changed at all. She looked a little dazed, "Is that so... So, it's like this..."

"If you force her to stay in the world again, it will not only harm her, but also make yourself restless."

Xingyun said calmly, "Of course, whether to go or stay is all up to you."

The man turned his head and glanced at the woman. At the same time, the light in the formation dimmed, the man's figure became vague, and the woman's face also returned to vicissitudes, as if everything just now was just a dream. The woman couldn't find the man's figure and looked a little flustered, but she didn't know that her husband's hand had been touching her cheek... between life and death that could not be crossed.

In the end, the man nodded. He was willing to go.

This result should be good, but Shen Li couldn't feel relieved.

Xingyun asked Shen Li, "I can ferry souls, but I don't have the power to ferry souls. Do you know how to summon souls?"

"Yes, I can." After the fighting on the battlefield subsided, it was often her who helped the souls of her soldiers return to the River of Oblivion. Shen Li was very familiar with the soul-summoning technique. "No need to set up a formation." She said lightly. With this technique, she would never fail under any circumstances. Because she used this method to ferry the souls of thousands of brothers. No matter how many injuries she suffered, she could not fail with this technique.

"Xingyun, take off your coat."

Xingyun was stunned and took off his green clothes as he said. Shen Li got into the clothes. After a while, golden light shone through the green clothes. The dazzling light rose. The moment Xingyun closed his eyes, the people around him had already walked forward.

She was barefoot, and her green dress was too big for her, but it didn't look cumbersome on her. She walked forward with a straight back and a heroic spirit that was even stronger than that of a man.

"I will lead the river of oblivion with my name." Every word was sonorous. She waved her hand and touched the man's forehead. She formed a seal with her hands, and the light suddenly increased and then softened. The man's figure slowly turned into stars, like a firefly on a summer night, lingering around the hunchbacked woman, and gradually flew into the depths of the night sky.

"Ah...ah..." The woman trembled and reached out to embrace him, but there was nothing she could hold.

Their earthly fate should have ended long ago.

The night returned to silence again, and only the old woman looked at the night sky and whimpered incomprehensibly.

"Madam." Shen Li gently held the woman's withered hand, "He left to make you live a better life. Do you feel this kind of heart?"

"Felt it..." After a long silence, the woman finally said hoarsely, "How could I not feel it? I heard it... He left humming a folk song. He wanted me to feel at ease." Her wet tears fell all over Shen Li's hands, and Shen Li silently helped her back to the room.

The woman seemed to be very tired and fell asleep in a short while.

Shen Li stayed with her for a while before walking out of the room. The moment she stepped out of the door, Shen Li felt dizzy. The mana that had not recovered much was almost exhausted after being wasted like this. She was unsteady on her feet, and when she was about to fall, Xingyun gently helped her. Before Shen Li had time to thank him, she felt her heart tighten, and the world suddenly became bigger. She turned into her original body again. Shen Li was still stunned when she heard Xingyun chuckle and pick her up.

"Are you satisfied with this result?"

Shen Li knew that he was asking about the woman and her husband. She was silent for a moment and said, "This result planted the seeds of dissatisfaction fifteen years ago." Once a person is gone, no matter what the result is, it will not be a good result.

Xingyun smiled: "Oh? It seems that you are deeply touched by this kind of thing."

"But I have been to the battlefield and seen too many lonely souls who died in battle." Shen Li's tone was slightly heavy, "I don't know whether it is right or wrong to persuade her like this today, and I don't know whether it is good or bad to do this today, but I think that if I have relatives and lovers in the future, if I die in battle, what I hope most in my heart must be that they will forget me quickly. Because the past has become a falsehood, only the future can be called life."

Xingyun was stunned, and then smiled again: "Stupid chicken, only now can it be called life."

Shen Li rubbed her head in his arms, found a comfortable place to put it, and said, "You are right."

"Go back."

Xingyun pushed open the gate, hugged Shen Li and walked home. The two people who were exhausted didn't notice that there was a man in a cloak hiding behind the gate. When he saw the two people walking away, he walked into the house with trembling legs, and helped his wife who was knocked unconscious in the yard by Xingyun, muttering: "She is really a god, my wife! She is really a god!"

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