Eternal Life Starts as a Hunter-Chapter 193 - 106: The Gentlest Protection, Curse Lifted

Chapter 193: Chapter 106: The Gentlest Protection, Curse Lifted

Soon, the group exited the city in a triangular formation.

Lady Yan finally breathed a sigh of relief. It wasn’t easy for her to get out.

She recalled the moment she left home.

Xiaozhao tugged at her and asked, "Elbow?"

Lady Yan replied, "No elbow."

"Elbow! Daddy!" Xiaozhao somehow knew the news.

Lady Yan coaxed for quite a while and used some new candies to distract her, finally succeeding in leaving Xiaozhao at home.

A moment later, by Silver Creek, the disciples of the Blood Saber Sect dispersed, and Black Marquis stood guard on both sides at the pathway.

Li Yuan successfully severed the Divine Soul Connection with the sparrws and built a new connection with four black birds, then manipulated them to fly towards Hua Mo County.

Hua Mo County was a dangerous place that could explode at any moment, and the four black birds just happened to watch over the east, south, west, and north gates.

After doing all these, he finally looked at Lady Yan.

Lady Yan was petite and delicate, her fair fur coat clinging to her shapely figure.

Her face was like a porcelain doll, perhaps because she had done a lot of good deeds and was often called "Bodhisattva," giving her a mix of "peace and prosperity" and "compassion" in her brows and eyes.

She clasped her hands, leaning gracefully against an old tree, and looked at Li Yuan with an air full of allure.

Li Yuan looked at her too.

The air was somewhat quiet.

"Did you miss me?"

"Yes."

"How much did you miss me?" In Lady Yan’s almond eyes, there suddenly appeared a glossy light as she extended her long legs, stepped halfway out, sat next to Li Yuan, and said softly before he could answer the previous question, "This is the wild, we can’t stay too long... If someone sees, it would be quite embarrassing."

Li Yuan whispered, "Every sound around here is in my ears, no one will see us."

As they were talking, a few crows suddenly flew over from not far away.

"Caw~~"

"Caw-caw~~"

"Caw~~"

The crows cawed.

Li Yuan: ...

Lady Yan: ...

In the next moment, like students caught daydreaming by the teacher, their appearances changed instantly.

Li Yuan stiffened suddenly, lazily laid on the tree, pretending to enjoy the scenery.

Lady Yan sat upright, tidied her hair, and donned an expression of dignified softness, resembling a virtuous wife and loving mother.

Three crows flew in front of Li Yuan and Lady Yan, and the numbers on their heads astonishingly read "8~9."

"Daddy~"

"Mommy~"

The crows switched to Xiaozhao’s childish voice.

Lady Yan was speechless, thinking it might have been better to bring her daughter along.

The two chatted with the crows for a while and then urged them to hurry back home. Once the crows flew away, they stealthily embraced like young lovers, adorning the open-air setting with sweet moments.

Afterwards, Lady Yan quickly tidied her dress and then leaned on Li Yuan’s shoulder, speaking softly, "Husband, there’s been something I’ve pondered over for a long time, and the more I think about it, the more something feels off..."

"Is it the dream?"

"You know, huh..."

"Go ahead first."

"Here’s the thing; over half a month ago, I had a ridiculous dream.

It was still the same dream in the black room.

I couldn’t move, and the white shadow by the window kept watching outside.

Xiaozhao could move, strolling around the room without a hint of fear.

But over half a month ago, there was suddenly another person in that black room.

It was a man...

The man had his back to me, so I couldn’t see his face clearly.

However..."

Lady Yan was suddenly gripped by fear, "Someone outside was knocking, and Xiaozhao wanted to open the door, but she couldn’t.

The white shadow turned around; she had hair covering her face..."

"A woman."

"The white shadow opened the door, grabbed the man inside, and brought him to the door.

From behind the door suddenly stretched out a charred hand.

The white shadow handed the man to the charred hand, and the charred hand gave a piece of white paper to the white shadow like they were making a transaction.

Then... then I saw clearly that the man was Brother Xiong."

Lady Yan grew more afraid as she spoke; this nightmare that she had buried in her heart all this time was finally revealed as she saw her husband. At last, she could let go of the strong facade as a mother and release her fears into her man’s embrace.

"Do you think the black room in my dream could also be some kind of ghostly thing?

Why would Xiaozhao and I be in that room?"

This was Lady Yan’s greatest fear, something she had tried hard to avoid thinking about. Now, she could no longer hold back and confessed everything.

Li Yuan held her tighter and asked, "Did you see what was on that white paper?"

"Yes...

One cent.

The white paper was marked with one cent."

Lady Yan widened her eyes in fright, "That was money; that ghost sold Brother Xiong and got money in return."

One cent?!

Li Yuan remained calm outwardly but was shocked inside.

He remembered, one cent equals ten subcents, and one subcent equals ten tiny cents, and Pang Yuanhua mentioned that very few in the Zhong Mansion had even one full cent.

One cent, that’s a lot!

Chances were, with this one cent, he could buy back his puppet, and perhaps Woodworker Ghost would even want more money from him.

Brother Xiong was worth so much?

How did it sell for one cent?

If it was this profitable, he could easily become a righteous adventurer, capturing more of people like Brother Xiong, supplying them to that ghost, and he’d be satisfied with just two or three tenths of the cut.

Li Yuan remembered how the street vendors shouted "a few cents, a few cents"...

These thoughts quickly flashed through his mind, and Li Yuan suppressed them instantly, then began to ponder further.

According to Elder Ding, Ancient Elephant, and Pang Yuanhua, ghosts in the Ghost Realm seemed not to be related to grievances, a common belief in the Central Plains.

However, the Ghost Realm would connect with certain obsessions of a person before death, like Woodworker Ghost and Shen Jiliang.

The Woodworker Ghost shouldn’t be Shen Jiliang, yet it possesses characteristics of him... Even the way it kills is connected to Shen Jiliang, and the Ghost Realm itself is practically Shen Jiliang’s Carpenter’s Shop.