Translator: Dj2203
Editor: Dj2203
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Zhong Wumo slowly moved over, sat down in front of Zhong Suifeng’s body, raised his hand and closed his eyes.
Lin Xin lowered his head and looked at the blood on his hands without saying a word.
Back then, in the small town of Luochuan, the master gave a comment to a man who mistakenly thought that his future was delayed by his stepmother, “There is always a way in Penglai, but once you make an irreparable mistake, you will regret it.” It was just right to use it to talk about him now.
Zhong Changye had powerful spiritual power and excellent skills. He was a tyrant such that even the emperor had to be courteous in front of him. He was Lin Xin’s most difficult enemy in his previous life. If he had known that the enemy who killed his father was someone worthless like Zhong Suifeng, he would not have needed the supreme authority of the Marquis of Lu at all.
There was a road in Penglai, but it turned out to be a thorny road. One wrong move of hatred cut off the path of reincarnation of an innocent person.
Shen Lou hugged him and stood up.
“What’s going on?” Zhu Xingli came over to see his apprentice appearing distressed. Suddenly, a dazzling golden light came from the horizon, blinding people. “Who is this?”
A group of golden guards wearing golden armor followed behind him as an anxious Zhong Youyu fell into this dilapidated yard.
“Second uncle! Zhong Lu!” Zhong Youyu exclaimed when he saw the two people on the ground and ran over quickly. When he saw the mark of Mojian on Zhong Suifeng’s neck, his eyes suddenly turned red and he turned around and grabbed Lin Xin’s hand. He said, “It was my father who killed your father, and there is already a wrongdoer and a debtor. Why did you kill my uncle?”
Although Zhong Suifeng was incompetent and cowardly, he had been very kind to the two brothers since they were children. His father was strict and life was difficult for them, especially for the naughty Zhong Youyu who was often beaten. The second uncle always stumbled and stopped his father, saying that he was still young.
“I’m sorry.” Lin Xin said hoarsely.
“Can you solve it by saying sorry? My second uncle is dead!” Zhong Youyu cried, “Even if he collaborated with the enemy and committed treason, it was not your turn to kill him!”
He had already taken the initiative to bring the golden guards to look for his uncle. He planned to personally tie him up to see the emperor, in the hope that maybe he would get a lighter sentence. This was good, now all hope was gone.
“Zhong Youyu!” Shen Lou pulled Zhong Youyu’s hand away.
“Uncle killed his father, not dad,” Zhong Wumo suddenly said, looking at his brother with dark eyes, “It was uncle’s plan to let us enter the palace.”
Zhong Youyu was pushed by Shen Lou and staggered, so after hearing his brother say these words, he was immediately stunned.
No one spoke. Only Wu Zhaoyang, the retainer who had followed Zhong Youyu, was negotiating with the golden guards. The golden guards decided to bring Zhong Suifeng’s body back to the capital to let the emperor punish him.
“Master Marquis, will you follow us back to Beijing?” Commander of the Golden Guard came over and saluted Lin Xin.
“It’s already the New Year. Why would we go back to Beijing? We have to go back to the Southern Region.” Zhu Xingli waved his hand.
“However, this matter was reported by the Marquis, and it is not easy for this subordinate to explain it to the Emperor.” The commander was a little embarrassed.
“When did I report it?” Lin Xin looked up at them, his eyes cold and stern. Ever since he discovered Zhong Suifeng’s affair with the barbarians, he had been exhausted all the way and had no time to complain to the emperor.
The golden guards immediately did not dare to speak out, “Didn’t it come from Lord Marquis? Then let me report it to the Emperor as well.” After that, he did not dare to say more.
Wu Zhaoyang walked to Zhong Lu’s body, looked at it carefully, and then looked at Zhong Suifeng, feeling neither happy nor sad. Holding the jade pendant at his waist, his lips moved slightly, as if he was muttering something silently.
When Shen Lou saw his actions, his eyes darkened. It was really funny to remember that when he met Wu Zhaoyang in the Southern Territory that year, Lin Xin also discussed with him that Wu Zhaoyang was wearing an osmanthus cake jade pendant.
“Wu Wanhu, who does this jade pendant of yours belong to?” Shen Lou asked in a deep voice.
Wu Zhaoyang looked at Shen Lou, seeming a little surprised that he would notice his jade pendant, but he still answered respectfully, “It belongs to Xiao Yue. I wonder if the prince still remembers him.”
Swordsman Wu Yue, the young man who showed his little fangs when he smiled.
The golden guards negotiated with the Zhong brothers and began to collect Zhong Suifeng’s body. So, no one noticed their conversation.
Wu Zhaoyang looked at the yellow jade osmanthus cake in his hand, and chatted with Shen Lou in a chatty tone, “He was the child with the best spiritual potential in our Wu family. The Duke of Guo said that he has superior qualifications. Xiao Yue wanted to take the martial arts test. He was the number one scholar but he wanted to go to the battlefield, saying that he wanted to earn a prince title. The one he admired the most was Duke Xuan… No one has talked to me about Xiao Yue for a long time, so I made the prince laugh.”
Shen Lou looked at Wu Zhaoyang who seemed to be restraining himself, with a complicated expression.
When Lin Xin heard this, he glanced at the Golden Guards over there.
Coming to the wilderness to get the horn bell was by no means a temporary idea. Zhong Suifeng was escaping to Beimo. He was so anxious to escape because he must have known that the golden guards were coming to catch him. How did the emperor learn that Zhong Suifeng had collaborated with the enemy and committed treason in such a short period of time?
“That night in Mogui Mountain, you led me to see the barbarians?” Lin Xin stared at Wu Zhaoyang.
Wu Zhaoyang smiled slightly, “I don’t know what the Marquis is talking about.”
The golden guards took the body and Zhong Youyu and hurried back to Beijing overnight. Wu Zhaoyang stayed to take care of Zhong Wumo and to take the second young master back to Mogui Mountain.
After turning around to leave, Wu Zhaoyang whispered to Lin Xin, “If you want to find the ashes, Master Marquis, you can go to Beimo.”
Lin Xin’s pupils shrank, and when he wanted to ask again, the man was already carrying Zhong Wumo on his back, as he stepped on his spiritual sword and disappeared into the night sky.
“There’s no need to chase him, he doesn’t know much.” Zhu Xingli sighed and took the Xue Ji on Lin Xin’s back to check. When he saw that the graves of the Lin family and his wife were turned upside down, he knew something was wrong, so he sent out his fish to find them.
Since fishing could be used to ask for help, it could also be used to find people. All you had to do was follow it.
“Master, who was my mother?” Lin Xin raised the horn bell in his hand.
Zhu Xingli was a little embarrassed. The child was older and could not be fooled by words such as “frozen blue when he was a child.” “Your mother’s real name was Uluolun Dasu, and she was the biological sister of Khan Uluolun Heruo.”
Lin Xin and Shen Lou were shocked. The barbarians said she was a saintess. They both thought she was related to the great witch, but unexpectedly she turned out to be the Princess of Beimo!
“Ding——” The horn bell rang by itself, seemingly in response to Zhu Xingli’s words.
“That year, the barbarian witch had some unknown illness and insisted on making her a saintess and sacrificing her to heaven. Heruo actually agreed. She didn’t want to die, so she escaped and met your father.” Zhu Xingli revealed the secret that had been buried for many years, and he breathed a sigh of relief. He took the horn bell and shook it, “This spiritual weapon was used by Lan Su to find the Luli Mine. Uluolun Dasu had a special ability, she could borrow the eyes of animals to see things. This horn bell was hung on the deer’s antlers. Once she found the Luli mine, she could attach the remnant soul to the deer’s eyes and see the specific location.”
“Otherwise, why do you think Mrs. Jing likes you?” Zhu Xingli saw that his apprentice looked unhappy, so he spoke out to tease him. Lin Xin didn’t inherit his mother’s abilities, but he still had some influence. Thus, those little things liked to be close to him.
Lin Xin snatched the horn bell back and held it with great care, “Don’t move it, there is a residual soul in it.”
“Yeah, let’s release it quickly. Although the lack of a little soul will not affect reincarnation, it will affect life after reincarnation after all. Okay.” Zhu Xingli took out a box of cinnabar and was about to draw a formation.
“Don’t!” Lin Xin put the horn bell into his arms. The remnant soul looked like his mother’s. He could still see it all the time if he carried it with him.
After death, the soul separated. The Hun soul returned to heaven and the Po soul entered the earth. As long as the soul was not dispersed, you could be reincarnated. People like Zhong Changye couldn’t reincarnate because their soul was crushed to pieces by Lin Xin, including their Hun souls and Po souls. This residual soul was separated from the divine soul and did not affect reincarnation.
“If you lack a soul, your health will be poor in the next life.” Shen Lou advised him in a low voice.
Lin Xin looked at Shen Lou, holding the horn bell in his hand tightly, “I want to take a look at her again.”
With the cinnabar painting formation and the Luli gathering the soul, you could see the soul shadow without a dark mirror. The remnant soul floated up and down in the formation, looking over in confusion. Zhu Xingli peeled off the remaining soul from the horn bell bit by bit, cut off her connection with the horn bell, and then released it to the sky.
“Mom, I am Chi Nuo. I have grown up. Look at me.” Lin Xin looked at Uluolun Dasu in the formation with great reluctance. He wanted to engrave this image in his heart and never forget it again.
The remnant soul looked over with empty eyes. The ghost soul was separated from the spiritual weapon and gradually became brighter. The moment it slowly ascended to the sky, the originally ignorant remnant soul suddenly spoke and called out: “Chi Nuo[1].”
Chi Nuo was Lin Xin’s real nickname, which meant wolf cub in barbarian language. But Lin Xin didn’t understand the barbarian language, so he thought it was Chi Nuo.
That voice was gentle and clear, just like the voice of his mother coaxing him to sleep in his dream.
“Mother!” Lin Xin rushed over and grabbed the air. The remaining soul disappeared, and even the formation drawn by Zhu Xingli lost its aura. His eyes suddenly went dark.
“Xinxin!” Shen Lou quickly caught him, but he had already passed out.
Before Zhu Xingli could show off his new formation, he was frightened by his apprentice and quickly held his hand to watch. Only then did he realize that the blood on his hands was not from the murderer, but his own. The wound on his palm had reopened and had stained half of his body, but the clothes he was wearing were dark and he didn’t notice it.
“This is a curse. You have to remove the curse first and then stop the bleeding, otherwise it will never heal!” Zhu Xingli said sadly.
Lin Xin woke up again in Huan Xinghai. The room was lit with cold incense of grass and trees, and it was filled with the scent of Shen Lou.
His master’s voice came from the window, “Hey, Shen Qirui, are you happy that I stayed in Huan Xinghai to celebrate the New Year with you? Look at how good I am to you, I didn’t even go home during the New Year.”
Duke Xuan Shen Qirui didn’t know why but he snorted meaningfully, “Thank you so much.”
“Hey, you’re welcome. Our Zhu family are all kind-hearted, especially to old widows and widowers.”
“Zhu Yixiao!”
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[1] This Nuo is different than the Nuo that LX had been using uptil now.