Divine Tribulation
Chapter 33
The ghosts dispersed. The girl with a pale face was still standing in the same place. She was waiting for my answer.
I smiled at her and asked if she wanted to sit down and listen to another story.
She seemed to have many things on her mind. Logically speaking, when a ghost comes to the Yellow Springs, they would be affected by death and their seven emotions and six desires would weaken. However, she still looked so haggard. With her appearance, she must have suffered a lot when she was alive.
She hesitated for a moment and sat on the yellow sand, listening to my story seriously.
It was a story about God, Chang'e, humans, and the broken Heavenly Pillar.
"… The Heavenly Pillar was bestowed with consciousness by God and worshipped God. However, it was personally destroyed by God and wandered to the mortal world. It thought that it was not involved and coldly judged the happiness, anger, sorrow, and joy of the mortal world. However, it didn't expect that it was the one being judged by the mortal world.
It boasted that it understood the mechanisms, but who would have thought that it would also fall into the mortal world and be trapped by obsession. "
I smiled, and the mist in front of me finally dispersed. That bit of divine power and obsession vanished together with it.
I turned back into a grain of sand, a real and ordinary grain of sand.
In a daze, I felt a drop of tear fall on the cold sand. It was like a cloud and also like a flower blooming.
Flowers of the mortal world, covering the mountains and plains. I haven't seen them for many years.
If there is an afterlife, then I'll just be a flower seed …
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What I didn't expect was that I didn't reincarnate and actually became a flower seed.
I was planted in a small flowerpot, next door to a withered yellow weed.
Oh, that's right, the weed has a cultured name, Red Spider Lily.
There was also a human head, no, a ghost head. He was called Young Deer and used to be a bandit. Now, only his head was left in the pot.
He was originally Meng Po's snack. However, Meng Po didn't like him and planted him in the pot to accompany the Red Spider Lily.
Now that I'm here, the originally small windowsill is filled to the brim.
I was very curious about the process of me turning into a flower seed, so I used some tricks on Young Meng Po.
It turned out that the sickly and pale girl used some unknown method to cultivate me into a flower seed.
A few days ago, the current Meng Po Sanqi went to Meng Po's village and picked up an unconscious female ghost.
The female ghost had a beautiful appearance, but her name could not be found on the Yin Scroll. She was also not a living soul, so she should have been handed over to the Netherworld King to deal with. However, Meng Po San Qi was obsessed with appearances. She really coveted the female ghost's beauty, so she secretly hid her in her room without telling the ghost messengers.
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My mood was very complicated. Anyone who was ready to die a second ago, but the next second, they were alive and kicking, and they owed someone a debt of gratitude that could only be repaid by tearing their skin and bones apart would feel as complicated as me.
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I secretly went to take a look at that sickly girl and discovered something. This girl's soul wasn't a creation of this world. I didn't even notice it before because my godly power was exhausted!
It was a mistake.
She might have accidentally entered this world. When she was a mortal, she wore a physical body and wasn't discovered by Tiandao. Now that she had shed her physical body, she was rejected by the world. She was a fool and showed kindness to me, a stranger she met by chance. The world felt that it had found an opportunity and used a little ghost to trick half of her soul into sharing it with me. It was determined to exterminate this otherworldly person.
This cunning heavens, they wanted me, a broken pillar of heaven, to be their slave!
Hmph, don't even think about it!
While little Meng Po wasn't paying attention, I snuck into the Underworld and swallowed half of the Yin Scroll. Finally, I found a way.
I carefully took a drop of blood from her heart and signed a contract with her. Then, I returned half of her soul to her. Unfortunately, there were still a few strands of her soul left with me. I could only return them to her after I recuperated for a while.
With her soul intact, she woke up very quickly. However, perhaps because there were still a few strands of her soul missing, she had forgotten a lot of things. She only remembered that she was called Ah Jin and that her memory was not very good. The only thing she was good at was planting flowers.
Little Meng Po was overjoyed. Little Meng Po raised a Red Spider Lily. She took care of it every day, but it still looked half-dead.
The daughter of the Flower Goddess lived up to her name. That wilted Red Spider Lily had been nurtured by her until it was verdant and glistening. It even had a bud in its mouth. Even the demon-headed deer was surrounded by flowers and plants. Only my flower of unknown origin had yet to sprout or bloom.
It wasn't a real flower, so how could it germinate and bloom?
Even if this girl was the daughter of the Flower Goddess from another world, she wouldn't be able to make a fake flower bloom!
I had a clear conscience and occupied a basin. Every day, I enjoyed the sun and rain. I also saw many ghosts and listened to their stories when they were once human. It was very comfortable.
However, there was a ghost servant who often came and had a foul mouth who said that I was "occupying a latrine but not taking a shit."
I … didn't know what to say.
The days passed peacefully like flowing water.
Until a young man named Chang Sheng came to the Meng Po Manor.
I knew that there was something wrong with that young man, but I didn't have enough divine power. I could only remind Little Meng Po through dreams. However, Little Meng Po, who was in love, completely ignored it.
One day, the Yellow Springs was in chaos. The sword immortals of the mortal world came out in full force to kill Meng Po and steal the Yin Scroll in order to obtain immortality.
Countless ghost servants died in battle. The deer was completely annihilated. Even the Red Spider Lily that had just bloomed not long ago turned into dust in the chaos. Even Jin Mi was seriously injured when she blocked a sword for Little Meng Po.
I used what little divine power I had left to bring her out of the chaotic Meng Po Manor and hid her in the yellow sand.
I thought that this time, I would really have to use my body to make Tiandao whole. So, I peeled off a few strands of my soul to make her whole.
I didn't expect that after she recovered her memories, she would be stunned for a moment. Then, she smiled bitterly and said to me, "It's better to be the Ah Kim who doesn't know anything. My fate is inauspicious, and I came to this strange world without knowing how to find my way back."
Since this soul is useful to you, I might as well give it to you.
As she said that, she took out an ice-blue dagger from somewhere. She raised the dagger and cut off a small part of the soul as if she was cutting a biscuit. Then, she pressed it on my body …
Are you cutting vegetables?!
I've never seen a woman as ruthless as you!
If you have the ability, you can be unreasonable to outsiders. What kind of hero are you to be unreasonable to yourself?
Also, I owe you a big favor!
Do you know?!
I already owed you a karma when I took a drop of blood from your heart. Now, I owe you more and more!
Forget it, you don't know anything …
Feeling that my body was full of divine power, I was speechless. I looked at her who was in a coma again. For the first time, I felt the unique despair of human beings.
Forget it, there will always be a chance to repay your kindness in the future.
Sanqi was dead. There was no Meng Po in this world. Meng Po's village was abandoned.
I took the weak Jin Mi to the human world. I was afraid that Tiandao would find her and send thunder to destroy her soul. So, I simply let her live in my real body.
I snatched another temple to worship the gods. Anyway, the Heavenly Dao has been coveting me for a long time. Before it eats me, it has a high tolerance for me. It will even help me cover it up.
She slept for many years. Several dynasties changed in the human world. Later, the emperor was overthrown. There were more and more monsters in the mountains. On the contrary, the faith in the human world was getting thinner and thinner. The traces of those fairies were getting fewer and fewer.
However, I heard that there used to be a real dragon in Dongting. I didn't know if it was true or not …
In a chaotic world, there must be demons.
The sky of the human world changed.
However, these matters have nothing to do with us. It is destined by the heavens. The only thing I can do is to chase away the beasts for the people who have fled into the mountains and provide them with a temporary safe place to stay. Anything more than that … I can't get involved. I can't get involved … "
One day, Jin Mi suddenly woke up. She said that she dreamed of Sanqi.
Little Meng Po was going to be reincarnated. Before she left, she came to see her and asked her to take good care of me. I was an important thing …
Bah!
I am not an object!
No, you are an object!
In order to conserve my God Power, I always took on the appearance of a child. After seeing Jin Mi and San Qi so many times, my aesthetic standards improved too much. Thus, I took on the appearance of the two of them.
Little Meng Po had wandered in the human world for a long time. She was infected with the human's tongue. She joked that I was the child of her and Jin Mi …
Jin Mi smiled and told me. She looked at my dark face and laughed until she couldn't breathe.
Well, as long as she was happy.
Then, Jin Mi took out a wooden box from beside her pillow and handed it to me. "This is a gift from Little Meng Po."
I took it and casually opened the lid. As soon as I saw what was inside, I immediately closed it!
Unfortunately, it was too late. Dark clouds were rolling in the sky, and thunder was brewing in the clouds. A bright flash of lightning struck outside the house.
I complained in my heart. Sanqi had given me the half of the Yin Scroll that I had eaten in the Underworld.
The Yin Scroll was a treasure of the Underworld. To me, it was like the Tianshan Snow Lotus to a sick mortal. It was a great tonic.
I didn't know how Sanqi knew about it, but she gave me this thing.
However, she couldn't eat it all. If she ate it, I could directly ascend to heaven and become an immortal.
But Tiandao was still waiting to eat me. Wasn't this going against Tiandao?
With a bitter face, I set up a barrier in the house to resist the lightning. Then, I suddenly saw Jin Mi's confused face. My heart suddenly brightened. The daughter of the Flower Goddess from another world …
Perhaps this was an opportunity?
I opened the wooden box. Half of the Yin Scroll lay quietly inside. The lightning on the barrier became more and more intense, and the inside of the barrier was as bright as day.
I'll make sure you can't eat it!
Hahaha ~
I sneered at the barrier. Then, I grabbed Jin Mi's wrist and threw the half of the Yin Scroll into my mouth. At the same time, I used my last bit of God Power.
Just like that, I escaped death and arrived in another world. I brought along a person who was both a guiding light and a burden.
There was no need to describe the bitter journey. You only need to know that I "suffered untold hardships for many years, but in the blink of an eye, I turned back into a flower seed."
Fortunately, Jin Mi was safe and sound.
In addition, I found that the Tiandao of this world was very gentle. Or rather, it was lacking. It seemed to welcome me. Or rather, it was the aura of the Yellow Springs that the Yin Scroll in my body carried.
After a few friendly meetings with the Tiandao of this world, I thought that in this world, there was no one who could resist.