251 - Please Bring Him Back! (4)
“Geez, that boy and his lackeys are always so flashy.”
Little Yin could not help but scoff the moment the barrier between the mortal world and the underworld was breached. When the color of absolute darkness seemingly spilled into the fabric of the world, she did not even move from her place.
She simply put her hand away from touching Ye Mo’s body and eyed the existence approaching her from the lowest depths of darkness.
A monotonous voice that was neither male nor female, young nor old, spoke seemingly from all directions.
“Are you the one who prevented the reapers from harvesting this human’s soul?”
Little Yin did not
252 - Please Bring HIm Back (5)The judge of the underworld spoke in the same monotonous manner.“This soul is under my jurisdiction.”When he opened his mouth, the world trembled, and when he closed his mouth, the world ceased.To his surprise, Little Yin did not seem to react much differently than earlier.“Well, I guess this makes things easier. Hey, let’s make a deal.”However, the voice from the depth of darkness never openly showed his curiosity. He wasn’t here to converse or negotiate in the first place. He only appeared because he felt a strange resonance coming out from a sudden rift nearby, which was caused by a gate of the underworld being le
253 - Please Bring Him Back (6)Little Yin knew that this judge would not budge as easily as humans would—after all, wasn’t it human to be swayed by emotions and feelings? All these time, ever since she arrived in the Ancient Xia Continent, she was able to take advantage of many things due to her ability to understand humans.However, how long had she been here? It hadn’t even been two months, yet she was able to learn so much just from observing and interacting with the people around her.Affection, hostility, curiosity, greed, fear, anger…there were countless emotions she had to learn and imitate, and yet she was able to respond accordingly.On the contrary, how long had she stayed in the underworld? Not only had she played around countless ghosts for
254 - The Terms Need Revision, I Think (1)Life and death, and a human soul.Even among the practitioners of the Dao who reached the peak of cultivation within the Ancient Xia Continent, no one could claim that they fully understood the intricate mysteries of a human soul.Mortals only knew the end of life is death, while those who cultivate knew that with profound cultivation, lifeforce could be extended thus prolonging one’s life. Those practitioners who happened to specialize with the unorthodox arts, mostly dealing with yin-attributed or death qi, could at most scrape the tip of the iceberg.Yet cultivation could only delay death, not stop it.In the end, a life that began would reach its end, and the soul would enter the c
255 - The Terms Need Revision, I Think (2)‘Oops, I forgot.’Little Yin wanted to smack her forehead for having high expectations of a mere judge.Judges might be almighty existences that managed the souls of the dead in a certain world, but in the bigger view of things, they were merely nothing more than low-level officers among the servants of the King of the Underworld.To put an example in terms of the Ancient Xia Continent, if the White Tiger Immortal Wuwei was King Yama, then this judge was only at the level of the Leaf City’s City Lord. The things they knew, the world that they could perceive, had stark differences from each other, and their knowledge were like heaven and earth apart.Like Little Yin, K
256 - The Terms Need Revision, I Think (3)Being surrounded by inky darkness would normally cause one to feel great discomfort, but for Little Yin, it was the opposite. She was in fact in her element. That was why she didn’t feel there was a need to hurry.‘As long as I and this judge are here in a standoff, Old Fogey’s soul wouldn’t be able to enter the underworld.’Truth be told, causing disturbance was all Little Yin could do given the current state of her soul. She had suffered too much damage ever since the Iron Fan Mistress captured her, forcing herself over and over again despite her body’s limits.Though the underworld was a place that functioned under the laws her original body governed, Little Yin simply held a fragment of her origin
256 - The Terms Need Revision, I Think (3)‘What…?’Ye Mo found himself frowning as he looked around.There was nothing to be seen but darkness. It was such an odd sensation, because he could still see his body with perfect clarity, his fingers, his hands, his limbs, yet his surroundings were pitch black in color.It was as if he was floating in nothingness.Empty.Alone.The silence was deafening.“Where am I?” he asked himself out loud.He could hear his voice, which was something he felt thankful for, but aside fr
257 - The Terms Need Revision, I Think (4)An empty darkness.Ye Mo found himself in a state that was hard to describe—he was neither floating nor stepping on flat ground—and yet he found his body stably fixed in an upright position. He must have been in this place for a long time, but there was no feeling of fatigue or dissonance. It was as if he’s an existence that didn’t belong in that darkness, though he was being welcomed and accepted by it.‘What am I?’‘Do I even exist?’‘What’s the purpose of me being here?’It seemed meaningless to move in a place where the concept of space didn’t seem to operate, yet Y
258 - The Terms Need Revision, I Think (5)However, the memories in Ye Mo’s head remained elusive as a butterfly in a dream. Things that mattered to him, people that were important to his life, none of their images stayed in his mind. Something was urging him to let it go, to simply embrace the nothingness, but at the same time, he felt that he should resist that urge.‘If I let go…it will really be gone.’It was a strange thought, but he trusted his intuition. Ye Mo felt that as long as he gave it his all, he could remember the things he had forgotten. It would be slow, but it would work if he tried hard enough.So he stopped walking.He sat down cross-legged amidst the inky black darkness and waited.