Chapter 1021 Soul

Baili Jia Jue turned his face and glanced through their faces, his eyes gleaming with extremely deep and cold light.

Just then, the mermaids withdrew their gazes and began to concentrate.

Pure and ethereal voices could be heard from the surface of the river, creating layers of thin fog.

This was the only moment in which the human eyes could catch the sight of the sinking souls at the bottom of the river.

Baili Jia Jue must hide his magic if he wished to find them.

The temperature of the Styx River was extremely low and it was completely impossible for common people to endure the bone-piercing cold with mortal flesh and body.

As such, a thought began to form in the minds of those evil spirits who had a rebellious heart.

"Eat him, eat him!"

"He won't have any magic for a short while after entering the Styx River!"

They wanted to grab this opportunity to finish up Baili Jia Jue as his blood was literally an absolute tonic for them.

There's absolutely no way such a situation could happen again!

It was true.

Helian Wei Wei would never know.

The arrogant and cold man had revealed his weakness for the very first time for her sake.

The evil spirits stabbed at his back brutally by using their sharp claws.

Supposedly, he could have dodged the attack easily with his ability, albeit not having any magic. However, he simply leaned slightly to one side to protect the First Soul that he just scooped up, letting the sharp claws penetrate his left shoulder and stab right into his sphenoid.

The evil spirits laughed as if they had succeeded.

However, before they could have enough taste of the wonderful blood...

They turned into fireworks in the air while howling, as though they were burnt by the raging fire.

It turned out that Baili Jia Jue's blood was filled with magic that none of the spirits would find bearable.

The power was so strong and perverse to a certain extent, it was totally beyond their limits of endurance.

The lips of all the other evil spirits who originally wanted to join the action turned pale as they witnessed the scene. They dared not take a step forward, and all they could do was begging Baili Jia Jue for his mercy.

However, this time, Baili Jia Jue did not punish them, nor did he ask them to leave. Instead, he appeared as though he was unaware of their existence. He kept on bending his body and concentrating on scooping something.

Apparently, he did not feel any pain, even though the blood was dripping down, drop by drop, from his shoulder. He carried the Second Soul nicely and carefully in his hand, without letting his blood stain any part of the soul.

No one had ever seen Baili Jia Jue in such a state.

His fingers which used to be elegant were frostbitten to red and there was a lot of black silt on it.

Nonetheless, he did not care about it at all.

He looked so serious and persistent as if he was afraid that he might have missed out on something once he lost focus. He had been standing in the Styx River for a total of four hours.

He only went ashore when the water of the Styx River wetted his hair as well as his body. Coldness transmitted all over his body as he stared without blinking at Helian Wei Wei who was lying in the sea of flowers. In his heart, there was something cooling down bit by bit.

The mermaids continued singing and pouring out the melody.

However, there was an unknown flame burning in his chest, dashing madly around his body as it could not find a way out.

Not waking up.

She...is not waking up.

His favorite flower, equinox flowers were growing vigorously and blooming all over the riverbank.

Finally, he had his wish fulfilled and obtained a complete rebirth. magic

However, the person who always loved and cared for him would never come back again...

"I want you to be blessed, happy, and no longer be alone. This is what I wished for."

Why? Why didn't I stop earlier when I heard the sentence?

Baili Jia Jue moved his throat with great difficulty. He could feel his hand covering in blood, but he did not move at all. His whole body appeared to blend into the darkness in the dark of the night.

The night breeze was blowing silently.

The sea of flowers was shaking in the shadow.

Yet, Baili Jia Jue was still standing on the original spot.

The blood on his body dripped onto the white snow.

Except for the day he had fallen from heaven and wallowed in the chaos for a few days, he had always been cool and elegant, and he had never looked as miserable as he was right now.

His upbringing would never allow him to do anything beneath his dignity.

Nevertheless, he was burying his head in Helian Wei Wei's chest with his eyes closed. How eagerly he wished for this person to wake up, so much so that he was willing to do anything to bring her back.

He smashed his fist fiercely onto the ground, the black feathers falling down lightly.

Uncountable wraiths surrounding him were affected and burnt to ashes in an instant.

The enormous aura of resentment above the sky of Styx River was cut off by the black smog, the limit of the great barrier was broken and shattered into pieces of slag.

At this moment, all the mermaids halted their singing and headed above the river water. For no other reason than the fact that they had never expected that the superior man would cry one day.

It is a well-known fact to everyone that regardless of whether you are a human, God or Buddha, you will cry for sure the moment you are born.

The only exception was Baili Jia Jue, who was born in chaos. He came to this world with a smile on his face. That curved lips on his face illustrated that he was born with a rebellious attitude.

Surprisingly, such a person was actually shedding tears here.

Not only the mermaids but even the evil spirits from a hundred miles away had also stopped hovering.

Baili Jia Jue's eyes were filled with red marks and the dark Qi emitted from his body had risen and pressed up the Mountain Tenya in Buddhism.

All the Three Realms were shocked, but none of them could handle Baili Jia Jue at this moment.

The Underworld was shaking violently, even the King of Hell could not stand on his feet. He then took the opportunity to hold the woman he loved into his arms.

The judge could not bear it anymore and fell into the Fourth Level of Hell by accident.

The Underworld was in complete chaos. Many spirits began to flee in random directions and even the reapers were in a state of great disorder due to the tremble.

Meanwhile, in the human world, Baili Shangxie was walking in the snow, clumsily holding a little guy who was just one head shorter than him in his hands. The ghoulish aura he used to have was nowhere to be seen, he was now noble and cold while standing in the Coffin Shop that he least wanted to be at.

Little Qingchen stayed quietly in his arms, his lips were pale and he had lost all the color in his little face. All he could do now was to lie on Baili Shangxie's shoulder.

The owner of the Coffin Shop was known by a single name, Bing. He was dressed in a black suit with a black notebook in his hand, wearing zero-degree flat spectacles on his nose solely for the purpose of weakening his ghoulish aura. In spite of that, his cold and handsome side profile still revealed the fact that he was not a human.

"Wake him up and I'll pay you accordingly." Baili Shangxie said in a low voice, looking exactly like a grown-up.

Bing raised his eyebrows upon hearing that, subconsciously sensing Helian Qingchen's ears.

His little ears were hanging down, but they looked empty as there were no silver earrings as decoration.

Bing wrinkled his thick eyebrows. No?

Chapter 1022 His Highness

"Yo! What's wrong with this child?" Another boss, Kasuo, held out his slender finger. Right when he was about to dip his finger on the child's adorable little cheek, Baili Shangxie turned his body and avoided his approach.

Kasuo pursed his lips and muttered, "Can't even touch a little."

Baili Shangxie looked at him with a poker face and said indifferently, "You're a Grim Reaper, your aura is not good for him."

"Is it so?" Kasuo furrowed his brow as he had never heard of such a statement.

Bing was noticeably more reliable. He closed the notebook in his hand and started talking. There was no warmth in his voice. "He's not enlightened and his physique is different from yours, yet your Imperial Father's magic is so strong that it causes an impact on him. Put him in the coffin first, everything will be alright if your Imperial Father is able to return."

Baili Shangxie remained silent, but he did not refuse to have any contact with the Grim Reaper like he did before.

Right now, nothing mattered more to him than his younger brother.

Baili Shangxie crouched down and placed Helian Qingchen, who was smaller than him, into the softest coffin. Unwilling to leave, he watched over the little one at the side.

When Helian Qingchen felt unwell, he would feed him some water that he prepared and rub the little one's head with his fingers as if he was comforting him.

Kasuo shook his head in disbelief. "Never would I have thought that this vicious fellow would be fond of his little brother."

"It's true that he only knew how to eat people back then, it's the same for all the devils." Bing had a deep voice. "Especially those demonized devils, more often than not they will unconsciously perform acts that they will regret soon after. In addition to that, he's a purebred devil. In his head, killing is nothing but a method of survival as devils are born cunning and selfish. You're not fond of them too, aren't you?"

Kasuo smiled. "Indeed, I dislike them, but the devil isn't the nastiest species as compared to humans. So, if this issue can be done and dealt with, perhaps we don't need to get involved, right? I don't want to fight with that man because I know it will lead to my ultimate defeat. Even the King of Hell lost to him, isn't it? But if it's you, you may be able to last very long."

"Don't talk with your gigolo tone in front of me." Bing pushed the glasses sitting on the ridge of his tall nose. "No fight will take place, there's always an anomaly."

Anomaly?

Kasuo peered out at the window. Yeah, by right the person will show up.

The Grim Reapers were right about that.

At the other end of the equinox flowers in the deep corner of the Underworld, a man actually came walking by.

He was no longer dressing in the fashion of the olden days. Instead, he clad in a white T-shirt with a pair of brown slacks, appearing to be as clean as the moon hanging high in the sky, alluring yet sophisticated.

Behind him was a little one with a gloomy expression on his face, holding a small bottle gourd in one hand. He looked ghostly because of the heavy eye bags, but his act of tugging at the man's sleeves made him look oddly adorable.

Baili Jia Jue's silver long hair was stained with black ink, drenched, but gently fluttering onto his anterior body. He simply let the river water soak his robe, the water eventually mixed with the fresh blood on his chest. He was still the whole time.

The man walked over to Baili Jia Jue and paused, his eyes glancing through Helian Wei Wei's face like flowing water. "She's still the same as she was at Mountain Tenya. If something involved you, her first reaction would be to protect you."

Baili Jia Jue slowly lifted his head up and said with a deep voice, "Jing Wushuang?"

"It's indeed a rare sight to see you in such a difficult position." Jing Wushuang's words were for Baili Jia Jue, but his eyes never left Helian Wei Wei as she was his longing for the past millions of years. "In this case, I guess her hard work paid off now. Do you know why she extracted the Dharma Bone herself back then? Because she refused to follow the orders of Buddhism to exterminate you."

Baili Jia Jue jolted and shivered, grasping his fingers tighter and harder, as though he had lost all his senses.

"She had been living on Mountain Tenya ever since I knew her. Unlike others, she didn't have her own palace. The vast Snowland of Prajna was where she practiced. She loved eating buns when she was little, every time she would bring the buns and silently finish them while sitting under me. Those people in Buddhism never played with her." Jing Wushuang withdrew his gaze and faced Baili Jia Jue. "But she still went to that place, as if she was looking for someone."

"Last time, I used to think that I knew her first. But then I finally understood, the person she had been looking for all along, was you." Jing Wushuang squatted down with both his eyes fixed on Helian Wei Wei. "She had always been different from the others. Among the huge population that entered Buddhism at Mountain Tenya, who would deny the protections of the Golden Lotus? However, she showered me with the holy water that she took a lot of trouble to get. Back in Mountain Tenya, I would always think about how great it would be if I had met her earlier, perhaps I could be the one she loved. I was obsessed with the idea of transforming into a human, but I left out a crucial detail. It didn't matter who was the one whom she met first, because the only person who could take away her pain of loneliness and make her full of life, was you."

Baili Jia Jue's movements came to a halt. He could feel his chest being torn into bits.

Large amounts of fresh blood gushed out rapidly yet silently from his chest.

He thought that the greatest pain in the world was when she offered him to leave.

However, when he saw her defending in front of him with her own body, that was when he truly felt the pain the humans were talking about.

It felt like little intricate pieces of string crawling and eventually spreading into his chest.

The strings were threaded with hatred, unwillingness, and heartache that he never experienced before.

Jing Wushuang's gaze turned deep and dark. His long slender fingers were fair, like the feathers of a Phoenix. He loosened his grip. "It's not guaranteed that she will wake up by simply scooping up her souls, she needs the Sound of Buddha to gather her spirit. I'm here to return the blessings that she had graced me previously. Please treat her well in the future."

Jing Wushuang stood up as his words settled.

Then, he did not look back. magic

The little one followed behind the man with a confused look. He looked up at him with his big eyes. "Master, why didn't you meet her? You have been wanting to meet her for a very long time."

"She doesn't need it anymore." Jing Wushuang held out his hands and patted the little one on his head. His eyes were empty and cold. "This is good enough. I don't want her to feel like she owes me anything."

The little one did not understand why feelings and emotions had to be so complicated.

However, the little one was sure that if it was not because of Helian Wei Wei's relentless effort, his master would never have returned.

Now that Master has returned everything back to that Lord, everything should be over.

How could it possibly be over?

The 10,000 steps toward Buddhism, and those devoted kowtows.

Not everyone could complete it.

As a ghost baby, the little one would never understand what Helian Wei Wei's existence meant to Jing Wushuang.

Sometimes, it was mainly because she was too important to him.

That was why he chose to withdraw himself till the point that he was nothing but a good friend of hers. At least then, she would not feel like she owed him anything...