Transmigration; Married to My Ex-Fiancé's Uncle-Chapter 275; Arrival of the Celestial Mother 5

Chapter 275: Chapter 275; Arrival of the Celestial Mother 5

Her mother’s soul was barely visible, growing more translucent by the second, like a ghost fading into memory.

Shuyin’s spiritual form manifested fully, and she was suddenly aware of herself in two places at once, her body kneeling in the sitting room, and her spirit standing in this void, facing down a monster.

In her spiritual hand, a blade of pure light materialized, blazing with celestial fire.

"Release her," Shuyin commanded, her voice echoing across the endless expanse like thunder.

The serpent’s head turned slowly, regarding her with eyes that opened across its body, hundreds of them, thousands perhaps, covering every inch of its form like scales made of malevolent consciousness. They all fixed on Shuyin with ancient, terrible intelligence.

’She is already mine,’ it hissed in a voice that sounded like dying stars collapsing into black holes. ’You are too late, little princess. See how thin the threads have become? A few more moments and she will slip away forever.’

"I am never too late."

Shuyin lunged, her blade slashing through the serpent’s form. The weapon connected with a sound like reality-tearing, and the serpent shrieked, a noise that reverberated through both realms simultaneously.

In the physical world, Shuyin’s body convulsed. Blood began trickling from her nose, then her ears. Lu Yuze caught her, keeping her from collapsing entirely, his voice urgent and frightened as he called her name.

But she couldn’t hear him. She was too deep now, too far into the spiritual battle, submerged completely in that other realm where her mother’s life hung by a thread.

The serpent fought back viciously. It coiled around Shuyin’s spiritual form, trying to crush her, trying to inject its poison into her as well. If it succeeded, both she and her mother would be lost, two souls severed, two lives ended.

But Shuyin was younger, stronger, burning with celestial fire that the serpent couldn’t extinguish. She was her mother’s daughter, born of the celestial court, and she would not, could not, lose this fight.

She cut and slashed, each strike fueled by rage and love and desperate determination that bordered on madness. The serpent’s form began to fragment, pieces of it dissolving into the void like smoke, but still it wouldn’t release its hold on her mother.

’If I cannot have her,’ the serpent whispered, its voice growing fainter but more vicious, ’then neither can you.’

It constricted one final time, and Shuyin felt her mother’s soul begin to slip away entirely, the last threads snapping one by one like overstrained violin strings.

"NO!"

Shuyin dropped her blade and lunged forward, catching her mother’s spiritual form in her arms. She wrapped herself around her mother’s soul, her own essence forming a barrier between her mother and the infinite void that waited to claim her.

The serpent struck at Shuyin instead, its fangs sinking deep into her spiritual form. 𝑓𝘳𝘦𝑒𝑤𝑒𝘣𝘯ℴ𝘷𝘦𝓁.𝑐𝑜𝑚

Pain exploded through both her bodies, spiritual and physical. In the sitting room, her physical body jerked violently, blood pouring from her nose and mouth now. Lu Yuze was shouting her name, shaking her shoulders, but she couldn’t respond, couldn’t hear.

In the spiritual realm, venom pumped into her essence, trying to sever her own soul from her body.

But Shuyin held on.

She held her mother tight, refusing to let go, even as the poison burned through her like acid, even as she felt her own soul beginning to fray at the edges.

"You can’t have her," she snarled at the serpent, her spiritual form blazing brighter, burning with all the life force she had left. "You hear me? You can’t. I won’t let you."

She poured everything into that light, every ounce of power, every reserve of strength, every drop of celestial energy that flowed through her veins. The light grew blinding, searing, too bright to look at directly.

The serpent screamed as the light burned it, dissolving its form piece by piece, destroying the very essence of the poison itself.

But it was taking Shuyin with it.

She could feel herself fading, her consciousness dimming like a star going dark. The pain was beyond description, beyond endurance. She was dying. She knew she was dying.

But her mother’s soul was stabilizing, the threads reconnecting, anchoring back to her physical form.

Worth it, Shuyin thought distantly. She’s worth everything.

The serpent dissolved completely, its death-scream echoing into silence.

And Shuyin began to fall.

The Return

In the physical world, Lu Yuze watched in horror as Shuyin went completely limp in his arms, blood streaming from every orifice, nose, mouth, ears, and even the corners of her eyes. Her breathing had stopped. Her heartbeat was barely detectable, a faint flutter that grew weaker by the second.

"Shuyin!" He shook her, panic clawing at his chest. "Shuyin, come back! You promised.... You promised you’d come back!"

No response.

"SHUYIN!" His voice cracked, raw with desperation. "Lin Shuyin! I’m calling you back! You have to come back! Your mother needs you! I need you!"

He held her against his chest, one hand cradling her head, the other pressed against her back, and he called her name over and over, pouring every ounce of will he possessed into the words, trying to create a beacon she could follow home.

"Please," he whispered against her hair. "Please don’t leave me. Don’t leave her. You saved her, you did it. Now save yourself. Come back."

In the spiritual realm, Shuyin heard his voice, distant at first, like a sound heard underwater, but growing stronger, clearer.

Someone was calling her.

Someone wanted her to come back.

She was so tired. It would be so easy to just drift away, to let go, to finally rest.

But that voice wouldn’t stop. It kept calling, insistent, desperate, anchoring her to something she’d almost forgotten.

Lu Yuze.

Her mother.

Home.

With monumental effort, Shuyin began pulling herself back, following that voice like a rope thrown to a drowning woman. It hurt. Everything hurt. But she climbed anyway, clawing her way back toward consciousness, toward life.