Chapter 10.6 — The Strongest Daoist
Two days had already passed when Su Wan regained consciousness.
When she opened her eyes, she realized that she had left the Su family villa and was lying on a very unfamiliar bed at the mont.
This was a very drab room and was much smaller than Su Wan’s own bedroom. There were also ssily piled up objects here and there. It can be seen that this was a man’s room.
“You’re awake?”
At this ti, a cold masculine voice suddenly rang from above Su Wan’s head.
As soon as she looked up, she saw Old Ghost floating down from the ceiling. He was still wearing that sa Chinese tunic suit from the night before. It seed a little out of place on the emaciated body of the young man.
“Old Ghost?”
Su Wan softly spoke, staring fixedly at the boy in front of her.
He was handso and looked to be about seventeen or eighteen years old. Even though he appeared to be young and immature, this young man called “Old Ghost” was the king of ghosts in Nancheng. He had already existed for a long, long ti in this world, so long that he himself didn’t even rember how old he was and even forgot who he was.
“Old Ghost” is the na he took for himself.
“You know ?”
Old Ghost floated to Su Wan, sat on the edge of the bed, and stared at Su Wan’s eyes with his gray eyes.
“I don’t know you, but that’s what the ghost in red called you last night.”
Su Wan shook her head. She knew the information about Old Ghost from the original mission plot. There was indeed such a ghost in the original plot.
It’s just that, in the information Su Wan had, it only said that there was a strange Ghost King occupying Nancheng that was finally dispelled by Xun Randou......
“You don’t know , but I know you, Su Wan.”
Old Ghost looked at Su Wan, a strange brilliant light flashing in his gray eyes.
Seeing Su Wan’s blank face, Old Ghost raised his hand and a water mirror imdiately appeared in front of Su Wan.
Su Wan’s long hair imdiately settled down on its own and under her fine bangs, a red cinnabar mole was looming.
What is this?
Su Wan saw the cinnabar mole on her forehead and the cyan cheongsam she was wearing from the Minguo period in the water mirror that Old Ghost conjured up. She couldn’t stop her change in her expressions as she looked into the mirror.
“That cinnabar mole is your soul contract with . Su Wan, you really can’t rember?”
Old Ghost’s tone gentled slightly: “In your past life, you promised that you will stay with in this life.”
Su Wan:......
What the hell does he an with ‘previous life’?
“Here, look, I even put on the clothes from that year.”
Old Ghost sorted out the tunic on his body: “And the cheongsam that you liked wearing the most in the previous life. I have kept it for you all these years.
“Wait, wait, wait a minute.”
Su Wan cald down her chaotic mind and looked at Old Ghost seriously: “You said I had an agreent with you in my previous life? I should have been a human in the previous life, and you...... should have been a ghost long ago. Right?”
Hearing what Su Wan said, Old Ghost was silent for a mont.
“Yes.”
His sigh contained endless loneliness and the expression on his face could only be described as soone who had encountered many misfortunes in life: “I was a lonely wild ghost who had been wandering around the world for countless years. In these years, I have also t many exorcists, Daoist ghost catchers, ghost hunting demons and even those who were able to see ghosts. Everyone either wanted to kill or catch . The rest were all afraid of . Only you were different. You could see , but you were not afraid of . You were willing to get close to , to teach to read and study, and you even gave a na. You were the kindest and most beautiful girl in the world, but they... they all said that you were an Ominous Person, they deserve to die, they all deserve to die!”
Old Ghost’s soul began surging with bursts of black mist in agitation. Seeing him on the verge of revealing his true body, Su Wan imdiately said: “Don’t get agitated, you have to calm down! Those things are over. It’s all in the past.”
Obviously in that era, Yin Yang people who could see ghosts were called “Ominous People” and most of them had very tragic endings.
Su Wan could imagine that the youth who had been lonely for hundreds of years finally t a girl who liked him and was kind-hearted. Their story must have been beautiful and caused him to long for it.
Unfortunately, people and ghosts have different paths, and they could not be together in the previous life.
And......
“Old Ghost, I may look a lot like her, but you know in your heart that I am not her.”
Su Wan raised her eyes and looked at Old Ghost’s eyes with a serious gaze.
“You are! You are my Xiao Wan! How could you not be her? You obviously look exactly like her and even have the sa na.”
Old Ghost’s expression flashed. He urged his spiritual power and everything in the room distorted. In just a mont, the whole room changed from a modern bedroom to a quaint, rather modern boudoir.
This place is......
Su Wan turned her head around and saw a young girl who looked exactly like her in front of a bright colored glass mirror, quietly dressing up in front of it.
There was no sadness or joy on her face, and no expression in her beautiful eyes.
“Bang!”
The door of the room was suddenly pushed open by a group of people, who aggressively yelled as they walked in ——
“Ominous Person! It’s all your fault!”
“It’s you who hard everyone! You deserve death!”
“Burn her to death! Burn her to death!”......
Su Wan watched quietly as the sounds of chaos rang in her ear, watching as the girl in the cyan cheongsam was dragged out of the boudoir without any resistance.
The scene before her changed. Under the dark sky, lay a blazing fire.
The girl was firmly tied to a thick iron pillar and under her feet was a fla that kept burning and rising.
The blaze reflected the evil grinning faces of those people, but the girl was still as calm as ever.
“Xiao Wan.”
A teenager in a black tunic suit appeared by the fire out of thin air.
The girl’s eyes, which were dispirited before, suddenly lit up. Panic and anxiety imdiately coloured her eyes right after: “Ah Chu, don’t co over! Don’t co over!”
The boy didn’t seem to hear the girl’s call. He walked towards the sea of flas step by step, and wherever he went, the flas appeared to have retreated sowhat.
“Xiao Wan, I’ve co to save you.”
Walking to the girl, the boy smiled and raised his hand to untie the rope on her body——
“Vile spawn! We’ve been waiting for you for a long ti!”
Right at this mont, there was a sudden gust of wind behind him.
The boy’s figure froze in place. He could not move, but still smiled at the girl: “Xiao Wan, don’t be afraid.”
“Ah Chu, the thing on this rope is......”
The girl also realised that sothing was wrong at this ti. It turned out that there was a Holding Body charm hidden in the rope that tied her.
Seeing the magic weapon of the Daoist exorcist behind her stabbing over with a golden light, the girl suddenly stood on tiptoes and gently kissed the boy’s lips. The next second, she used her body to help him block the oncoming sword.
Blood covered his sight and the blood with spiritual power imdiately made the Holding Body charm in the rope useless.
“No! ”
The boy scread and the entire courtyard trembled.
“Why, Xiao Wan, why?”
“I’m very tired, Ah Chu, I don’t want to be a burden to you. Let’s et- et again in our next life!”
Next life?
If a person has a soul and can be reincarnated, she will naturally have a next life, but she has been wounded by a Daoist’s magical weapon and her soul has been scattered, where will that ‘next life’ co from?
Watching her let out her last breath in his arms, the boy’s whole body was enveloped by a cloud of Black Qi.
He, had been enraged.
That night, the entire house and courtyard were burned to the ground by a black fire. There was not a single survivor.
“The place where my wife Su Wan (苏婉) was buried.”
The next day, a brand-new tomb appeared out of thin air on the ruins of the fire, with this line of words carved on the tombstone.
As red as blood.
It turned out that her na was Su Wan (苏婉), not Su Wan (苏晚).
Translator’s Corner
Blu: I read out the na ‘Ah Chu’ and my cousin (who happened to be walking by) replied “Bless you.”
Teh: Legitimately, the daoist/cultivation genre is mostly just ghostbusters with extra steps.
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