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Sick Beauty [Rebirth] - Chapter 80

Published at 11th of March 2022 07:31:44 AM


Chapter 80

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My name is Yue Qiushuang.” The water ghost said in a sulky manner, “I was an….actor on the Eastern Continent Ghost Ship.”

The past events followed his words and formed its silhouette.

During the ghost chaos period, yin and yang were chaotic, and mountains and rivers collapsed. 

The ghosts who escaped from the cycle of heaven and earth stayed in the world forever. They stole living people everywhere for food and used them as entertainment. 

Yue Qiushuang was a living person who the ghost ship caught for the ghosts to use as entertainment. 

He was born in Changlemen and was originally a music cultivator. He survived because he was good at music and dance. 

Yue Qiushuang had no intention of looking for death because a ghost detained his younger sister. Thus, he had to drag out his existence. 

His twin sister was called Yue Yudie- also a music cultivator. She looked very similar to him and was famous for her clear singing voice. 

However, after Yue Yudie was caught on the ghost ship, she lost her voice because of the overwhelming panic when she saw the ghosts were eating people. 

If the humans on the ghost ship couldn’t please the ghosts, they would end up miserably. 

Yue Qiushuang could only surrender himself to the ghosts to save his sister.

The Eastern Continent Ghost Ship’s leader was Li Fei- a well-known ghost general then. He was very keen on raising singers and performers to appreciate music. 

Li Fei said to Yue Qiushuang, who was kneeling on the ground: “If you want to save her, you will have to have the ability to replace her. You must sing with the same ability as her.” 

Yue Qiushuang was silent for a moment and then said: “I can.” 

He opened his mouth to sing. 

Yue Qiushuang had never revealed his gift in singing at Qinggemen usually. Everyone only knew that he had a heavenly-sounding sister but didn’t know that he also had a beautiful voice. 

He raised his voice, letting out a melodious and mellow female voice. It was light and very similar but more ambiguous to Yue Yudie’s voice.

The ghost general was very satisfied but said: “I could have accepted your request to save your sister’s life. However, I heard that you had been on the ship for half a month, but you always refused to appear on stage, very rebellious——” A cold sweat fell from Yue Qiu Shuang’s forehead: “From now on? I will definitely do my best to serve——” The ghost general laughed: “So, have your sister stay here as this general’s maid. If you play nicely, your sister will naturally be safe and sound. The general isn’t unkind, so how about you guys meet each other every three months?” 

Yue Qiushuang knew that this was the only choice the ghost would give him. 

He could only bow his head in thanks. 

After that, Yue Qiushuang became a performer on the ghost ship to please the ghosts. He was responsible for two people’s lives. Once called, he would get up and dance. He had to go out early frequently and could only rest at night while completely exhausted. 

Until one day, a young man came on the boat. 

At that time, Xie Jiuyou was not the Great Emperor Netherworld who stunned the world. He was just a little daoist who broke into the ghost dwelling without knowing his limits and was caught by mistake. 

Yue Qiushuang sang on the stage, while the ghosts tied up Xie Jiuyou and cut him into meat to taste. 

The scene was quite bloody. Only, the more Qiu Shuang looked at such scenes, the more numb he became. 

The people’s screams, the sound of cutting into the flesh, and his singing echoed on the ghost ship day after day.

Sometimes, Yue Qiu Shuang would think that maybe even he himself had already become a ghost on this ghost ship, no different from those ghosts. 

But that day was different. 

Yue Qiushuang didn’t hear the screams he was used to in the past. He looked down the stage in surprise. He saw the young man suspended on the wooden frame was boned and cut. However, his teeth were still closed without a word. 

Yue Qiushuang saw a deep hatred and endless fire in the young man’s eyes. 

…Just like himself many years ago. 

After singing, Yue Qiushuang stepped off the stage and said to the ghost commander he was serving: “Can you leave some scraps for this slave? This slave wants to taste him.” 

Li Fei said: “Slave Shuang, what do you want to use to exchange it?”

The ghosts can only taste the sweetness of bloody flesh, but they couldn’t taste other delicacies in the world, so there wasn’t a cook on the ghost ship. Those of them that the ghosts raised for entertainment could only be forced to eat the same food as the ghosts.

… And getting even this bit of food required them to put in the effort to please them.

Yue Qiushuang took off his clothes one by one and then jumped and danced. The silver bells that hung on his wrists and ankles made a pleasant sound along with his dance. 

At the end of the dance, he crawled on the ground with his limbs twisted into a strange appearance. A living person’s limbs and the face covered with thick white powder without a trace of anger showed a strange beauty, which obviously pleased the ghosts with different aesthetics from the living person. 

The ghost was in a good mood and gave him the reward of Xie Jiuyou, who had lost most of his flesh and blood. 

Yue Qiushuang moved Xie Jiuyou back to where he lived. 

When the ghost boat was singing and dancing, Xie Jiuyou’s eyes had been dug out. The meat of his ears, cheeks, lips, limbs, waist and abdomen were all fresh parts that ghosts liked to eat. 

Yue Qiushuang could only help him bandage the wounds. Then, he fed him some of the meat porridge that the other party had saved before and left the rest to his fate. 

And Xie Jiuyou really didn’t die. He managed to improve bit by bit even though the injury was so severe.

“Oh, so to speak, you are the savior of the slave?” 

Shen Shu sat next to Ye Yunlan, bent his leg, and asked. 

The water ghost in the lake nodded. He touched the paper crane in his hand. A thick white power covered his pale face. It acted as a mask and concealed all his expressions. 

“He was hurt too badly. After waking up, he couldn’t see anything, listen to any sounds, or speak. I thought I had taken in something troublesome, but in the end, I picked him up and couldn’t just abandon him.” 

“If I knew that I had saved a big man who could end the ghost chaos in the world then…” At this point, the water ghost laughed hoarsely, “Then I would have served him like a god and allowed him to eat and drink well, then he could leave the ghost ship safe and sound. He would go off on his great cause by himself. And me. I should die in a muddle-headed manner without leaving anything to worry about since I lived in a muddle-headed manner for so many years.” 

Yue Qiushuang took care of Xie Jiuyou on the boat for three years. 

Before Nascent Soul, if a cultivator’s limbs were damaged, it was difficult to regenerate. Xie Jiuyou was still young at that time and only had a Golden Core. He was unable to speak, hear, or see. The two could only write and communicate in each other’s palms. 

He knew that Xie Jiuyou came from a declining immortal sect, and that ghosts had destroyed the immortal sect. He also knew that Xie Jiuyou’s lifelong wish was to avenge his master’s sect, destroy all ghosts in the world, and return the world to peace. 

Xie Jiuyou asked how to call him. 

He wrote in Xie Jiuyou’s palm: You can call me Ah Shuang. 

Xie Jiuyou seriously wrote the words “Ah Shuang” in his palm and then wrote: Your previous singing voice was very beautiful. 

Yue Qiushuang was startled. 

He didn’t expect that Xie Jiuyou would still listen to his singing under such circumstances.

He had never sung in Changlemen, and the ghosts on the ghost ship treated people like animals. He could only feel the joking gazes of the ghosts in the audience. Occasionally, the tone would be of bitter punishment. 

This was the first time someone said his singing was beautiful.

Xie Jiuyou also wrote: When you are usually on the boat, what else do you do besides singing songs? 

Yue Qiushuang remembered the ugly manner of him dancing in front of the ghosts. He pursed his lips and wrote: I have nothing else to do. 

Xie Jiuyou nodded. 

Under his care, Xie Jiuyou’s injury gradually healed. 

Although he still couldn’t see, listen, or speak, he was barely able to get up. 

Every time Yue Qiu Shuang returned late at night, he saw the young man would be sitting by the bed and waiting for him. 

The moonlight faintly hit the boy’s face. The hideous wounds on both sides had healed, and he could vaguely see a handsome appearance. 

Although Yue Qiushuang was exhausted, he would still take some time to tell Xie Jiuyou about what he heard about the outside world on the ghost ship. 

One day and night, Yue Qiushuang finished talking about the matter. Xie Jiuyou suddenly held his palm while he was undressed and lying down. Yue Qiushuang opened his eyes in surprise and felt Xie Jiuyou slowly write in his palm: Ah Shuang, you are so good to me. I don’t know how to repay you. 

Yue Qiushuang was silent for a moment: I don’t need you to repay me. 

Xie Jiuyou stood up and leaned in like a small animal beside him. 

The young man closed his eyes, his eyelashes trembling lightly. His breath lightly hit his face. 

Xie Jiuyou: Ah Shuang, can you tell me what you want most? Yue Qiushuang was silent for a long time before he wrote:  What I want most is.

He was in a daze before he slowly wrote the word: “freedom.”

Xie Jiuyou: Okay. I will definitely rescue Ah Shuang from here when I resume my cultivation. 

This time, Yue Qiushuang just smiled and touched the young man’s head. 

He knew that Xie Jiuyou’s original cultivation base was only a Golden Core, but the lowest-level ghost on this ghost ship already had a Nascent Soul as its cultivation base. 

Xie Jiuyou couldn’t save him. 

If Yue Qiushuang’s own cultivation base was still there, there might be a way. He was famous when he was young. He was originally a genius in Changlemen, had an unparalleled gift in music and dance, and had reached the Nascent Soul Realm. However, his cultivation was broken after the ghost ship caught him.

The ghosts forced him to take the so-called “Eternal Life Pill” to maintain his youthful limbs and youthful appearance. Since then, the poison had infected him. He had to eat human blood and flesh like the ghosts to avoid the poison’s torture. 

He didn’t tell Xie Jiuyou about this matter. 

Just like how he never told Xie Jiuyou where the food he brought back to Xie Jiuyou came from. 

The ghost ship had a lot of jubilation on the autumn moon’s 15th day. It was during the Ghost Festival.

Yue Qiushuang sang on the stage for a whole day. Then, he was called to the inner cabin to dance for the ghosts in the middle of the night. 

He prostrated himself on the ground, a white flesh covered in blood and wine with wet, long hair that winded onto the ground—— those wines were what the ghosts threw at him when they were watching him dance with interest, something they referred to as “rewards.”

The scent of alcohol made him drunk, and he was bewildered. Then, he made eye contact with a maid who was coming from the outside to serve wine for the ghost. 

The pot of wine in the maid’s hand fell to the ground with a huge cracking sound. The ghosts who were talking were silent for a moment. The maid had already knelt down and kept kowtowing towards Li Fei. 

Yue Qiushuang saw the maid’s appearance and suddenly came to his senses.

That maid was his sister, Yue Yudie. 

Because of the agreement with the ghost general Li Fei that year, Yue Qiushuang and Yue Yu Die would only see each other every three months. 

At that time, Yue Qiushuang would always take care of himself neatly——at least to look like a brother, how could he be embarrassed like now. 

In the chaos, Yue Qiushuang crawled over to Li Fei’s feet and asked to be punished on behalf of his sister. 

If someone made a little mistake, Li Fei would usually break their neck and throw him into the sea. But maybe Li Fei was in a good mood that day, or Yue Qiushuang’s pleading gesture was too humble that day. Li Fei just stared at him with interest for a while, then agreed to his request. 

Yue Qiushuang breathed a sigh of relief. 

“You don’t seem to be afraid of what we were going to punish you with.” Li Fei said, “Yes, you have already received all the punishments on the boat. In that case, I will try something new today.” 

He took out a bottle of powdered medicine and poured it into the whole wine jar. Then, he put the wine jar on Yue Qiu Shuang’s lips. “Drink it all.” 

Then two ghost servants stepped forward, buckled Yue Qiu Shuang’s shoulders, and forced Yue Qiu Shuang to raise his head to accept the whole jar of wine. 

“Everyone, during the ghost festival, we shouldn’t allow a small matter to disturb my spirits.” Li Fei said to the guests. He patted his head, “Slave Shuang, go, continue to dance for us. If it is not between 5-7am, you are not allowed to stop. Of course, it’s okay if you stop, but everytime you stop, your sister will lose a hand for holding wine. You can consider it.” 

Blood wine had covered Yue Qiushuang, and his cheeks were already red. His head was dizzy. He leaned over to respond, then turned his head to look at his sister. 

Yue Yudie bowed her head and knelt on the spot, cleaning up the wine pieces on the ground one by one. She seemed terrified, and her body trembled the entire time. She didn’t look at him.

Yue Qiushuang retracted his gaze. He shakily climbed up from the ground, then danced again. 

The blood wine trickled down his body, and he suddenly felt an unbearable heat rising from his groin. 

He finally realized what kind of medicine Li Fei gave him. 

But he couldn’t stop dancing. 

He felt as if he was in a blazing fire, and he could only continue to dance. He danced until the flames melted his legs, then he was forced to curl up on the ground. His soft limbs stretched into a twisted posture, still dancing. 

He could feel the cold and sticky eyes of the ghosts freezing on him, accompanied by the sound of discussion and the blood wine that was splashing. 

Ghosts didn’t have human desires. They just liked to see the appearances of people struggling. Yue Qiushuang had always rejoiced for this, but he hated it now. 

He didn’t know how long it took, but the ghosts at the banquet gradually dispersed. 

The sky’s light entered the cabin, and the autumn frost on the ground was splashed with cold water by the people who were cleaning the cabin. He regained a little of his sanity. 

He staggered back to his room, vaguely seeing a person sitting next to the bed. 

Xie Jiuyou was waiting for him as usual. 

Today’s night was too long. 

Yue Qiushuang wanted to turn around and go out. However, his mind, barely focused, was already hard to support. He stumbled over to the bed, curled his hands, and touched the person that sat by the bed. 

Xie Jiuyou felt him, so he held his hand full of alcohol and hurriedly wrote in his palm. However, he couldn’t tell what the other party was writing. 

He just approached with his drunken body, pushed the boy’s stiff body onto the bed, then sat down slowly while he cried, “I’m sorry?” under the torment of the pain and heat. 

The young man’s body kept on being stiff, and he didn’t dare to move. 

When everything subsided, Yue Qiu Shuang regained consciousness.

He realized that he had done something that couldn’t be forgiven. He was a villain who seeked recompensed and took advantage of people. 

Even if it was himself. 

He wrote “I’m sorry” in Xie Jiuyou’s palm while he was trembling. Then, he went to the water tank to fetch water with his weak body, but Xie Jiuyou suddenly grabbed him. 

Xie Jiuyou wrote in his palm: Ah Shuang. 

Yue Qiushuang was startled and once again wrote: Sorry. 

Xie Jiuyou shook his head and wrote: Ah Shuang, I want to marry you. 

Yue Qiushuang was stunned. 

He didn’t understand: Why do you… want to marry me as your wife? 

Xie Jiuyou: Ah Niang once told me that love and joy in this world should be a lifetime event for both parties. After this incident, one has to be responsible to the other party. 

It turned out he was just following his family’s teachings. 

Yue Qiushuang pursed his lips, and somehow, his heart felt a little sealed. He wrote: I don’t need you to be responsible. Besides, I forced you to do things you don’t like to do. I am the one who did the wrong thing, and I am also the one who should apologize. You don’t have to take any responsibility. 

Xie Jiuyou wrote: But I like to do such things. 

Yue Qiushuang opened his eyes in amazement, then he felt Xie Jiuyou continue to write in his palm stroke by stroke: Ah Shuang, I like you. 

Yue Qiushuang’s face suddenly became hot. 

He hurriedly wrote: “You are still young. The things of love in this world are not as simple as you think, so how can you easily marry?” 

Xie Jiuyou: I am not far from the coming of age ceremony (20 years old). Besides, I have been thinking about it for a long time. Ah Shuang, I like you. 

Yue Qiu Shuang: I am on a ghost boat, and I am an entertainer that indulges in evildoings. I am dirty, and my age is much older than yours. My cultivation has been scrapped, so I have no other ability. We are not a good match.

Xie Jiuyou wrote stroke by stroke: I know you weren’t willing. I don’t think you are dirty. I also don’t care about your age. I like your singing. 

Yue Qiushuang shook his head: No, it shouldn’t be… it shouldn’t be like this. 

Xie Jiuyou: If you like someone, why not? It’s natural for me to like Ah Shuang. 

Yue Qiushuang’s face was flushed. 

Xie Jiuyou couldn’t see his expression, and he leaned forward while only following his breath. He raised his face and gently touched his lips. 

Yue Qiushuang… Yue Qiushuang ran away. 

“That guy is quite straightforward,” Shen Shu said by the lakeside, playing with the grass stem in his hand, “I thought he was just a pretty boy before, but who thought that his tongue would be this smooth. After eating cleanly, his mouth wouldn’t be sparing. En, why are you staring at me like this? Did you agree?”

“Shen Shu.” Ye Yunlan scolded him in a low voice. 

“Not at the beginning,” The water ghost retorted sullenly. He rubbed the paper crane in his hand, then continued for a while, “Later, I was punished because of something and had a high fever. He stayed up all night to take care of me. My heart felt soft for a while, so… I agreed.”

 

After Yue Qiushuang agreed, the two fell in love, and Xie Jiuyou got closer to Yue Qiushuang. 

Only, the two had never done anything beyond their boundaries because of Yue Qiushuang’s inner misgivings and hard work day and night. 

Xie Jiuyou’s injury had almost healed, and he wanted to take Yue Qiushuang to escape from the ghost ship. However, Yue Qiushuang stopped him.

In the past three years, Yue Qiushuang acted carefully and hid Xie Jiuyou secretly. No one knew that Xie Jiuyou was still alive. As long as he found the chance, it wouldn’t be difficult for Xie Jiuyou to leave. 

But it’d be completely different if he brought him. 

If he disappeared, the ghosts would soon find out. When the time came, there wouldn’t be for the two of them to escape. 

… Besides, he hadn’t told Xie Jiuyou that the eternal life pill’s effects were unresolved on his body. Even if they were ashore, they wouldn’t live like a human in the end. 

He decided to let Xie Jiuyou escape alone, but Xie Jiuyou didn’t want to. 

In the middle of the night, Xie Jiuyou turned his back to Yue Qiushuang and said nothing. 

Yue Qiushuang got up to look but saw a face full of tears.

He didn’t see Xie Jiuyou shed a single tear even when the ghosts sliced into his flesh and bones. 

He didn’t expect to see him cry tonight like a very embarrassed little tabby cat. 

Yue Qiushuang was taken aback. He quickly got up to coax him, but Xie Jiuyou seemed to feel even more wronged. He slowly wrote in his palm while crying too hard: Ah Shuang, I only blame my cultivation base for being too low and unable to protect you. 

Yue Qiushuang: How could I blame you? I only hope you will cultivate well after you leave the ghost ship. You will come to the ghost ship to rescue me when your cultivation completes. You said you want to marry me, so I will wait here for you. I want to see you in your battle armor, sweeping down the ghosts. The person I like should be a majestic hero. Don’t cry anymore. 

Xie Jiuyou: Are the words Ah Shuang wrote true? Do you want me to be your hero? 

Yue Qiushuang rubbed his head and wrote: Naturally. 

Xie Jiuyou finally stopped violently opposing leaving. 

Only, he stuck closer to him and would often kiss and hug him. 

After the kiss and hugs were finished, he would take advantage of him and pretend to be well behaved, and then write something cheesy on his palm. 

Xie Jiuyou wrote: Ah Shuang, you are so soft. 

He also wrote: But you are just too thin and need more supplements. I heard Ah Niang say that being too thin will affect fertility. 

Yue Qiushuang blushed. He never thought about having a later generation when he got on the ghost ship. Besides, he was already with Xie Jiuyou now. So he wrote: Don’t mess around anymore. 

… 

Before leaving, the boy grabbed his hand and wrote: Ah Shuang, wait for me to come back.

Yue Qiushuang wrote: Okay. 

Xie Jiuyou raised his hand again to touch Yue Qiushuang’s face inch by inch. He closed his eyes and stroked it carefully as if to thoroughly remember his facial features’ outline. 

Yue Qiushuang bowed his head and kissed his lips in response to his childish behavior. 

He found an opportunity to put Xie Jiuyou into the corpse-handling bags on the ship, then threw the bag into the sea. 

No ghosts were aware of it. 

Xie Jiuyou put a bottle of blood essence in his room to keep his qi. 

During the second year after he left, a paper crane Xie Jiuyou folded followed this qi and flew to Yue Qiushuang’s hand. 

Yue Qiushuang held it in his hand for a long time before opening the paper crane. 

After the paper crane was spread out, there was a letter. 

“To my wife” was written on the letter. 

Yue Qiushuang blushed slightly and then read it line by line. 

In the letter, Xie Jiuyou said that he had returned to the shore smoothly and joined a dao Academy. Now he wasn’t far from breaking through Nascent Soul. He also said that he was fortunate enough that he had cured his deformity with the help of his seniors, so he could see things and listen to speech normally. 

Then he talked about getting a sea bead when he was diving in the sea before and planned to make jewelry by himself. He would bring it to him personally when he married him in the future. 

Yue Qiushuang read the letter three times before carefully folding the letter paper into a paper crane and hiding it in his wall cabinet. 

In the following years, he received many more paper cranes. 

The young man gradually grew up in places he couldn’t see. His pen strokes became sharper and sharper, and the world he saw and heard became vast.

Only, Yue Qiushuang’s cultivation base was completely abolished. 

Although he could receive letters, he could not reply. Even so, every time he received a paper crane, he still took out a piece of letter paper and carefully wrote a reply, then put it in his drawer. 

After years, the letters had stacked into thick piles. 

On the envelope, after Yue Qiushuang hesitated for a long time, he would blush and write on it: To my dear Xie Lang. 

Seventh year after Xie Jiuyou left. 

Yue Qiushuang came to the inner cabin to meet with his sister Yue Yudie and found that Yue Yu Die’s cheeks were haggard and sunken. Her whole person was thin and out of shape, and the shape was a bit terrifying, like a supporting skeleton. It looked like she didn’t have much time left.

Yue Qiushuang was shocked: “What did Li Fei do to you!” 

Yue Yudie lowered her head and said nothing. She did not touch the pen on the table. 

——Since she was frightened and lost her voice that year, she hadn’t spoken again. She could only communicate with Yue Qiushuang with pen and paper. 

“I didn’t do anything to her,” The ghost general Li Fei suddenly walked into the cabin, “Is she just overestimating herself? She was delusional, attempted to please me, and got affected by my ghost qi on me. Thus, she ended up like this.” 

“I haven’t even figured out how to punish her for the crime of trespassing this time.” 

Yue Qiushuang was startled, knelt down to the ground, and said: “General, my sister has made a mistake. This slave, as her brother, did not teach her well. If you want to punish her, please punish this slave.” 

Li Fei smiled, “Slave Shuang, you love your sister so much, just as in the past. How about this? I remember during the ghost festival, years in the past, you had drank and danced and it was very moving. This year you will again offer such a dance and cannot stop until 5-7am. ” 

Yue Qiu Shuang’s complexion turned pale, but he could only agree.

After hesitating for a while, he said: “Ghost qi contaminated my sister, and I am afraid that she will not have much time left. She will be powerless to serve the Lord. Can she be returned to this slave to take care of her?” 

Li Fei waved his hand, “You can do whatever.” 

Yue Qiu Shuang brought Yue Yudie back to his room. 

Yue Yudie hung her head. Her face was haggard, and her eyes were hollow. The question and reprimand that were about to come out stopped at Yue Qiushuang’s throat when he saw her looking like this. 

Coincidentally, there was another ghost summoning, so he had to go prepare. 

When he came back late at night, he found that Yue Yudie was sitting next to the bookcase where he usually wrote letters. 

The wall cabinets and desks showed signs of opening. Yue Qiushuang wondered whether his sister had seen his and Xie Jiuyou’s letters. He saw Yue Yudie holding a pen and writing on the paper: I really didn’t mean to offend him. 

I just want to live better. 

…Brother, I’m really…too scared. 

Yue Qiushuang looked at it, sighed, and stepped forward to hug his sister, feeling that he was only holding a skeleton. 

He said: “It’s all over. Don’t be afraid.” 

Yue Yudie: Will I die here? 

Yue Qiushuang said: “No. Yudie, do you believe in brother? Very soon, someone will come to rescue us, we will soon be able to go back to the world.” 

Yue Yudie: How long will it take? 

Yue Qiushuang recalled what Xie Jiuyou had written in the letter and smiled a little: “It’s not long, it’s… half a year at the latest.” 

The fifteenth day of the autumn month was also another year’s ghost festival.

Yue Qiushuang dressed in red with thick white powder and colorful makeup on his face. He danced in the sight of the ghosts. 

The ghost attendant fed him the sprinkled blood wine. He drunkenly laid down in the blood-colored wine pool and undressed. blue and fluorescent lines painted his snow-white body. The strange and weird beauty attracted many ghosts to the blood. 

A glass of wine spilled on him. The cold drink and the hot fire in his body mixed together. He twisted and stretched his limbs and danced, but his consciousness gradually began to blur. 

Suddenly, someone yelled: “Fire! The ship is on fire!” 

He opened his eyes blindly. 

The fire reflected in his pupils, and a group of daoist cultivators descended from the sky. 

The face of the leader was very handsome. He was wearing silver armor and holding a long sword with a sharp look. This is what Yue Qiu Shuang had imagined countless times in these years of what he looked like when he grew up. 

He opened his mouth, but he could only make a husky, sweet hum. He saw Xie Jiuyou’s gaze sweeping across the deck, sweeping across the ghosts like enemies, and him lying on the floor. 

He also looked at the musical actress in the stands, looked at it inch by inch, and frowned. 

The fire burned to the deck, and daoist cultivators and the ghosts kept fighting. 

Yue Qiushuang was confused when he saw the young man’s figure disappear into the cabin. 

He thought that it was probably because he put on too heavy makeup and looked too shamefully. He didn’t tell Xie Jiuyou in advance that besides singing on the ghost ship, he also had to dance. Therefore, Xie Jiuyou couldn’t recognize him for a while. 

It didn’t matter, he thought. 

Xie Jiuyou wouldn’t leave directly. He would go to the room to find him. As long as he followed, it would be fine… 

Then he used his strength to prop up his body and climb into the room.

He heard Xie Jiuyou yelling: “Ah Shuang? Ah Shuang?” 

Yue Qiushuang answered, “Xie Lang…” The sound of burning flames drowned The small voice. 

At almost the same time, he heard a beautiful female voice sounding like a lark in the room. It was a voice very similar to when he sang. 

——It was also the lost voice that had never spoken to him again. His sister’s voice. 

“Xie Lang, are you looking for me? I’m Ah Shuang.” 

“I’m so scared, hurry up…take me out of here.” 

He saw Xie Jiuyou hurrying out of the room while holding the skinny woman. He boarded his sword and flew to the sky. The burning wood hit his hand, and the tongue of fire licked his pale body. 

He felt that he was indeed drunk. Thus, he would dream such a ridiculous dream. 

Suddenly, someone picked him up. The other party’s black nails clasped his waist and abdomen. 

Li Fei said: “The ship is sinking, follow me.” 

The Eastern Continent’s ghost ship was destroyed. All the ghosts on it were destroyed. Only the ghost general Li Fei escaped. This became the first event in the history books for the human race to calm the ghost chaos. 

Li Fei took Yue Qiushuang to the Western Continent, where the ghosts were more chaotic. Li Fei established a ghost mansion in Qingming Mountain and still asked Yue Qiushuang to dance and sing for him. 

Yue Qiushuang still had extravagant thoughts, thinking that as long as Xie Jiuyou realized, he would definitely come back and rescue him. 

But after waiting for two months, he only found out the news of Xie Jiuyou’s marriage.

Li Fei: “Your sister’s life is really good. Although time was running out, you had protected her on the ghost ship. Then, she could return to the world with the so-called savior of mankind protecting her. Slave Shuang, you should feel rest assured since you heard the news. Peacefully serve me well. You have been absent-minded in the past few days, which made me very dissatisfied.” 

Yue Qiushuang was only silent. 

Xie Jiuyou and Yue Yudie married in February. The crowd celebrated with a thousand miles of red makeup. In another six months, Mrs. Xie passed away. In the same year, Xie Jiuyou went into closed-door training. 

His cultivation met success, and he stepped into Void Tracing Realm in another one hundred and seventy years. He wanted to build an underworld and re-establish reincarnation. The world called him the Great Emperor Netherworld. 

Yue Qiushuang waited for Xie Jiuyou for one hundred and seventy years. 

After he sang a song on stage, he suddenly heard a roar in his ears. Xie Jiuyou’s voice then spread into the hearts of everyone in the world, including ghosts. 

“I, Xie Jiuyou, am now establishing the underworld. Acting on behalf of the heavens, the cycle will re-establish, and ghost chaos will stop from now on.” 

Yue Qiushuang listened in a daze. 

Li Fei held him and took him to a well. Li Fei smiled and said: “Slave Shuang, now our great power has passed. Now the underworld has been established. Why not become a ghost since you have been with this Lord for so many years? Come with me.”

“Yes,” Li Fei said again, “At the beginning when the Yin and Yang rebelled against chaos, those of us who escaped from the heavens and the earth were unforgivable ghosts. After we go to the underworld, we should be going to the eighteenth h*ll. Slave Shuang, after raising you for so many years, you have eaten so many living bones, you must be already full of sin. After you die, you should be well matched for me. At that time, I will save you from slavery. How about we get married in the underworld?”

Yue Qiushuang suddenly trembled when he heard the word “married.”

Li Fei pushed him into the well while he struggled endlessly. Then, his clear melodious voice screamed hoarse before he finally died. 

“You went to the underworld and saw him?” Ye Yunlan asked. 

The water ghost held the paper crane and nodded slowly. 

Ghosts come and go in the underworld, especially to the Palace of the King of H*ll. There were so many ghosts that waited to go up to the mirror platform that the square almost couldn’t fit them all. 

He heard those who worked as escorts in the ghost mansion sigh that he was busy with work. He didn’t know how the King of H*ll endured loneliness and judged people here every day. 

Someone said: “Since Mrs. Yudie died, there has been no one around that person.” 

Another person sighed: “That person has a deep love for his wife. It’s a pity, Mrs. Yudie’s life was not long. She was already like that when she was rescued. Even the emperor was unable to help.” 

One person said: “Speaking of, I remember that before Mrs. Yudie was rescued she had a nickname, he would mumble on his lips every day. Why doesn’t he say it now?”

Another said: “That’s Mrs. Yudie’s name. Afterward, Mrs. Yudie said that this title reminded her of all her experience on the ghost ship, so she had that person stop calling her that. Even we cannot say it. Hey, speaking of this, what is the nickname of that lady? Time has passed too long, I have forgotten a little.” 

“It seems to be, Ah Shuang…” 

“Ah Shuang?” Li Fei, who stood in front of him, repeated. He then turned to look at Yue Qiushuang, “I don’t know when your sister had such a nickname?” 

Even though he has become a ghost, Yue Qiushuang was still instinctively afraid of Li Fei. 

Li Fei’s tone became a little elusive when making the connection. 

“So, back then, what led Xie Jiuyou to destroy the Eastern Continent Ghost Ship was you who he wanted to save, not your sister?” 

Yue Qiushuang thought that Li Fei would be furious. 

Unexpectedly, Li Fei just looked at him faintly for a moment, then stroked his cheeks with his black nails, “Ah Shuang, you are really a disaster.” 

“It’s nothing. I will treat you after I go to the underworld.” 

They lined up for a long time. It was for about a hundred years. 

Li Fei entered the hall first, then Yue Qiushuang. 

The sin mirror showed that he was full of guilt. Yue Qiushuang didn’t care, he just raised his head to look up. 

The King of H*ll was wearing a heavy robe on the high seat, hidden by a huge shadow. He was not the same as the person he imagined. 

He said: “You are a human race, but you mingled with ghosts. Helping to be a tormentor, you ate your fellow clan. According to the law, you should go to h*ll and be sentenced for thousands of years.”

Yue Qiushuang stared at him, spoke softly, and said the only thing he wanted to say every day while waiting for the other for one hundred and seventy years. 

“Xie Lang, do you still recognize me? I’m… Ah Shuang.” 

There was a long silence on the high seat. 

Then, there was a suspicious whisper: “Ah Shuang?” 

The robes and shadows covering the upper part dispersed, and the pale and thin man who looked like a scholar walked down. 

His gaze was a little confused as if he wanted to come closer to see Yue Qiu Shuang on the sin mirror platform. But before he arrived, there was a bronze chain behind him, which bound him so he couldn’t move forward.  

Xie Jiuyou’s confused expression gradually became hollow and indifferent. 

He said: “I use my body to protect the netherworld, combined with the underworld, merging with the heavens. Now, the past has been forgotten, and the six emotions have no roots. I have sworn that there will be more ghost chaos, and the underworld will never be empty, so I will never be detached.” 

“I don’t know what you have to do with me. But as soon as you enter the underworld, you should abide by the underworld rules.” 

The sin mirror platform changed from real to virtual. 

Yue Qiushuang and Xie Jiuyou’s eyes crossed. 

He opened his mouth, trying to say something. But thinking about it carefully, what he wanted to say had actually been said in the sentence just now. 

He had nothing to say. 

Yue Qiushuang originally thought that he would fall into h*ll to be tortured, but he didn’t expect that after a long fall, there was a clean place with light, water, green grass, and blue sky in front of him when he opened his eyes again. 

There was no penalty and no bondage. 

There was a stone stele on the ground that recorded the origin of this space. 

This was the cornerstone of the underworld palace. It was also the place where Xie Jiuyou’s cultivation base had arrived at Void Tracing Realm, able to open up space. 

The stone tablet recorded that Xie Jiuyou built this place for the person in his heart. 

When the person he loved’s heart and soul died.

The soul was missing, unclear where it was floating. 

Xie Jiuyou decided to rebuild the netherworld and vowed to subdue the netherworld with his body. He would restore Yin and Yang and calm the ghost chaos to be able to escape from the Three Realms, and then become immortal to bring his sweetheart back to life. Xie Jiuyou didn’t know if this matter was successful, so he left a touch of thought in advance. If the soul of the person in his heart returned to the underworld and his mind perception recognized the person, they could be sent to this space without being controlled by the law of the underworld. 

Going around and around, recognized by Xie Jiuyou’s heart, the soul that had returned to this point was still Yue Qiushuang. 

“He wanted to become an immortal, and he swore a big oath, saying that ghost chaos will stop and that h*ll will not be empty, and he will never be detached. But becoming an immortal is not such an easy thing… But then I thought, why not wait for him again since I have already waited for him for so long.” 

The water ghost’s voice was already very calm as if he was not the one who was screaming and howling when he first got the paper crane. 

“Thinking about it carefully, he was actually not wrong.” 

“He just…he recognized the wrong person, and later, he forgot my original real name.” 

Shen Shu said: “What Great Emperor Netherworld, King of H*ll—— isn’t he just a glib thing, a blind idiot.” 

The water ghost didn’t lift his head up this time. He stared at him and muttered in a low voice: “Indeed.”

“But this paper crane is for me, you can’t take it back.” 

Shen Shu: “I know, I know.” 

Ye Yunlan suddenly said: “Since it is the letter he left for you, won’t you open it?” 

The water ghost was startled and looked towards the white paper crane in his hand. 

After he hesitated for a long time, he slowly unfolded the paper crane. 

The writer’s handwriting was the same as that of the past. It was brilliant and sharp. 

It was just the first line of the letter that left him in a daze. 

For a while, he didn’t know whether it was happiness or sorrow. 

——See the words as if it were one’s face, Ah Shuang. 

Recently, my mind has been in a trance, and I can’t remember your original name. I only remember the word “Ah Shuang”, which often lingers in my ears. I am also very familiar with it. Since I am in a hurry, I called it this way first, and I hope you don’t take offense. 

After merging with the underworld, everything is not as good as I imagined. Although I have gained power beyond my own body, my five passions and six desires seem to be gradually fading. I don’t remember many things in my life. The memories that have the deepest impact with me is the time with you, spending those three years on a ghost ship with you. A ghost caught me and I went to the boat. When I was tortured, I heard your sweet singing. After I woke up in a coma, I couldn’t listen to it anymore. The singing is still in my heart…

Now that I think about it, if being tortured by meat and bones means I would be able to see you again, I would be willing to accept it.

Ah Shuang, I hope you don’t think I’m long-winded, I want to write down the things that I still remember before the memory fades away. 

Recently I am always scared and always thinking, if I become immortal, but forget you, then what should I do? Later, I thought about it and felt that even if I became an immortal, I would never forget you. If I had forgotten you, I would naturally not become an immortal. Thinking like this, I no longer worry about it. 

Yes, Ah Shuang, when I escaped from the ghost ship and found a sea bead while diving deep into the sea, I said that I would polish it into jewelry and wear it for you when I marry you. It’s just that when you were seriously ill, we hurriedly got married, and we forgot about it for a while. Later, I was alone in closed-door training and remembered that I had finished polishing it. 

I remember Ah Shuang told me that what you want most in your life is freedom. If your soul returns to the underworld, although there is a place I set up to live temporarily, you will still be a little cramped while coming. There is my mark on this hairpin, so you can walk through the underworld at will, share the authority of the underworld with me, and be the master of the underworld together. 

Although there is not much scenery in this mansion, there are all kinds of illusions my mind formed. It should be sufficient to entertain you… 

The handwriting on the letter suddenly began to mess up. It seemed like it was written by a person while half asleep. 

And the last line that could be faintly recognizable was: Ah Shuang, I miss you very much. 

A hairpin was already lying quietly on the water ghost’s hand when the paper crane unfolded. It was made of ebony, with a faint blue bead embedded in the front end, which gave off a moving light as the light flowed.

It seemed that others had often rubbed the hairpin. There was already a layer of oily and smooth coating on the surface that made it as beautiful as jade. 

“Why are you crying?” 

Ye Yunlan suddenly said. 

Water ghost: “I just suddenly knew that he was waiting for me.” 

Ye Yunlan: “His spirit has disappeared. Do you want to continue waiting?” 

Water ghost: “No longer.” 

“I’m going to find him myself.” 

Ye Yunlan: “Now that h*ll is empty, and reincarnation has been re-established, his spirit, though dissipated, has not yet broken from life. If you rush this time cycle, you might be able to see him.” 

The water ghost laughed, “Yes. I need to see him.” 

For a moment, he calmed his emotions and said to Ye Yunlan and Shen Shu: “Right, are you strangers who strayed into the underworld?” 

Ye Yunlan: “Yes. ” 

Water ghost: “Thank you for sending the paper crane and being willing to listen to me telling such a boring story. If you want to go out, I can send you a ride.” 

Ye Yunlan nodded, then said: “Then please send us to the third level of the Secret Realm.” 

The water ghost rubbed the hairpin in his hand and said: “Okay.” 

He raised his hand and pointed, then there was an illusion of a light door behind Ye Yunlan. 

Ye Yunlan and Shen Shumai stepped forward. Halfway through, Ye Yunlan turned around and saw an imaginary spot of light emerging from the water ghost. 

The other party slowly came ashore from the water. The bloody clothes on his body and the heavy makeup on his face fluttered with the light spots, and he could vaguely see his slender figure dressed in blue clothes. That ebony hairpin lifted up the other party’s black hair. His face was so beautiful that it was difficult to distinguish between genders. He had a pair of gentle eyes. 

Yue Qiushuang waved at them, and his figure became more and more transparent. 

“Goodbye.”





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