Arc 5
There is a Ghost in Your Heart (9)
After Ye Chen watched Lin Jianxi leave, she huddled up with Chu Tian. She fished out a mirror and wrote runes on it. Soon afterward, Lin Jianxi’s figure appeared in the mirror.
Chu Tian sat down next to Ye Chen, accepting the melon seed that Ye Chen handed him. He exclaimed excitedly, “Wow! This feels like watching a TV broadcast!”
“Mn.” Ye Chen stared at Lin Jianxi from the mirror. Lin Jianxi seemed to sense her gaze and glanced back.
The young man wore a white robe unique to Feng Shui Master. His hair had grown long and reached his back. He copied Ye Chen and pinned his hair next to his ears using a hairpin. The hairpin was somewhat similar to Ye Chen’s. It was a hollow blue butterfly. His appearance right now should be considered feminine, but with his handsome and delicate features, it actually blended strangely, showcasing the charm of a teenager and the stability of an adult, presenting a kind of elegant beauty.
When he glanced back, his squinting eyes floated over, as if the light of the sun and the moon was in his eyes. Such a light glance could make people feel that the world was muted, the only thing that could enter their eyes was him.
Ye Chen couldn’t suppress her smile. If Chu Tian wasn’t here, she even wished to reach out and trace his features.
“Ye Chen” in her body abruptly said, as if she sensed Ye Chen’s emotions, “He looks good. ”
“That’s right. “Ye Chen laughed, “You think so too?”
“Mn.” Ye Chen replied. A moment later, she spoke slowly, “Will you continue to reincarnate like this?”
Ye Chen was taken aback. This was the first person other than 38 to ask her such a question.
Everything regarding the System couldn’t be leaked out. Even if it was a powerful person like “Ye Chen”, she couldn’t confide it to Jiang Huai because of the Host Privacy System. She could only tell Jiang Huai that after the matter was over, the soul of Ye Chen would vanish and the real “Ye Chen” could stay forever.
The only one who knew the inside out was “Ye Chen” who had shared her memory with her. Listening to the other party’s question, Ye Chen responded, “Mn. I will.”
“You exist to maintain world peace?”
“More or less.”
“You are pretty brave.”
“Not really.” Ye Chen smiled and reminisced her emotions the first time she promised 38. At first, she was merely an ordinary white-collar worker. She thought, she could live a simple life happily just like that. Yet, one day, she was bestowed with a task, forcing her into a ‘hero’. What was her emotion when she first met 38? Probably— Pleasantly surprised.
Because the placid life finally got an outlet and her life became valuable, she could finally help more people.
“I probably just think… Living like this is more interesting. ”
“Ye Chen” was silent. A long time later, she eventually stated, “Do a good job. Save Lin Jianxi.”
“Save? “Ye Chen was stunned. She didn’t quite grasp the meaning of “Ye Chen”’s words. “Ye Chen” slowly explained, “The Villain won’t be a villain just because. There must be a certain reason. He has experienced suffering all his life. You saw it yourself. You have met him many times, yet which one of him was free from the suffering? You are there, he suffers from losing you; You are not there, he suffers from all kinds of sufferings of the world. It is as God has will it, he is doomed to suffer. Don’t you find it strange that he always suffered such a deliberate tribulation?”
Ye Chen couldn’t reply.
She remembered the operating mechanism of the world.
The big world contained many small worlds. Each small world was a story. Each story had a theme, which was the source of energy for the whole world. As a transmigrator tasked with “Saving the World”, 38 existed to save said worlds. Every time she saved a world, 38 obtained some energy. The energy was used to support her stay in the next world. She couldn’t stay in a world for too long, because 38, as her battery, could run out of energy.
With such a mechanism, the Main Lead was born blessed. He was born to be the energy source of the world and must be protected at all costs. For example, Kyle. Even if he was blackened, even if he was about to destroy the world, she still had to protect him.
Meanwhile, the Villain was born doomed. If Ye Chen appeared, he loved her, yet, he was destined to lose her; If Ye Chen didn’t appear, his life was hell on earth. He was fated to die only after he experienced suffering all his life.
As if only two paths were written for the Villain, each ended up with a dead end. There was no other path for him.
She wasn’t sure whether it was better for him to fall in love with her or not.
As long as he didn’t love Ye Chen, his life appeared to be unusually stagnant.
“In the Causality Cycle, if a person suffers such great pain, there must be a Cause of it and a way to end it. Be stronger and save him. This is the final puzzle you should solve.”
Ye Chen listened to her words and donned, “Thank you.”
“Mn.”
When they were chatting, Lin Jianxi had arrived at the arena.
Now he was the only candidate that could compete for the first place, followed closely by the disciple of the Lin Family. After the Ye Family lost “Ye Chen”, their subsequent generation no longer had a genius such as her. The Jiang Family was not comparable to the two big Families from the start. On the contrary, Lin Yu, the heir of the Lin Family, could match evenly with him. If it weren’t for Lin Jianxi, the first place would presumably belong to him.
Lin Yu, this person, was the one who refined his Gege, Lin Jianxi, into the Yin Gu in the original world.
Ye Chen watched Lin Jianxi meet Lin Yu from the mirror. Lin Yu was tall and had stern features, but his movements were graceful. However, compared to Lin Jianxi, he was pale in comparison.
In the original storyline, Lin Yu let his fiancee seduce Lin Jianxi and made Lin Jianxi take the initiative to practice the secret method, turning himself into the excellent material of Yin Gu. At that time, Lin Jianxi was an ordinary person. The lack of his parents in his childhood made him submissive. Naturally, he couldn’t compare with Lin Yu, who was raised as the heir of the Lin Family since childhood. Therefore, Jiang Xuan was dead set on Lin Yu. Even if Lin Jianxi gouged his heart and lungs, she would still deem Lin Jianxi wasn’t even worth the hair of Lin Yu.
However, now, Lin Jianxi had been raised by Ye Chen for three years. These three years were crucial for his character development. Although he spent most of the time in the Daoist Temple, Ye Chen still provided him with top-notch food and clothing. He could go to places he wanted to because Ye Chen doted on him and would protect him wherever he went. Coupled with Lin Jianxi’s talent and handsomeness, the gap between them in the previous life was shortened.
Lin Yu studied the person on the opposite side. Since he signed up for this competition, his father had been dissatisfied with this person. He even dispatched several assassins in a row. Lin Yu couldn’t help asking his father why he treated Lin Jianxi this way. Only then did he know that this person turned out to be his own blood brother.
Just… He bore the Obstruction Array of the Lin Family and was expelled from the Lin Family early on. And, Lin Yu replaced his position.
Facing Lin Jianxi, Lin Yu had mixed feelings, pity and fear.
Pity for his tragic fate.
Fear for his retaliation.
Everything that should have belonged to Lin Jianxi, belonged to Lin Yu.
“Belonging to no Sect, no family, Lin Jianxi.”
The two stood in the ring. Lin Jianxi introduced himself first. Lin Yu squeezed the whip in his hand, wanting to listen to Lin Jianxi’s words, recalling his father’s words from the previous night.
“I placed a soul-destroying spell in this whip. This spell is powerful and hard-won. That Ye Chen, such a powerful Master, also died under this Soul Destroying spell and the god array. Tomorrow, you set up the array and coupled it with this Soul Destroying spell. Be sure to hit him with this whip on the stage.”
“So as to avoid future trouble.”
“You have me. Just focus on killing him!”
These words echoed in his mind. Lin Yu felt some pain in his hand from his grip on the whip. He maintained his stern demeanor and smiled faintly, “From the South City, Lin Family, Lin Yu.”
“Someone asked me to retrieve something from you,” Lin Jianxi looked up at him. At that moment, dozens of runes floated above his hands. Those runes ejected like an arrow and he dashed with his sword, slashing towards Lin Yu. The moment he reached Lin Yu, he spoke again, “Please return it! ”
With his words, dozens of flames flickered on Lin Jianxi’s sword. Lin Yu hurriedly turned over and dodged. At the same time, he felt cold on his back and swiftly pivoted to parry Lin Jianxi’s sword.
Lin Jianxi didn’t waver. He recited a spell and Lin Yu quickly created an array. At his feet, the blue and green array exploded at the same time with Lin Jianxi’s spell.
Because of the outbreak, the two jumped back before violently confronting each other again. The entire area was full of brilliance. The spells collided all over the sky. One by one, the arrays exploded, smashing the whole arena into a pit. The aura in the air fluctuated violently, and even the spectators felt oppressed.
Such a high-intensity and high-quality confrontation make the elders on the scene sweat, lamenting the appearance of two more geniuses in the Feng Shui circle after Ye Chen. One of the elders, Su Wen smiled at Lin Xuan, “The two people in the arena are surnamed Lin. Are they all the children of the Lin Family? If they are… Lao Lin, you and your Lin Family definitely can sit firmly in the position as the leading Feng Shui’s Family.”
This Su Wen was a Feng Shui Master, he was over 80 this year. He had a great reputation in the Feng Shui circle and was the president of the Feng Shui Association. Even Lin Xuan had to give him a bit of face and called him “Su-laoxiansheng.”
Hearing Su Wen said this, Jiang Huai followed, “Su-laoxiansheng, Lin Jianxi just said that he is not under any sect or family. No family would let an outstanding talent like him wander outside, especially the Lin Family. If there were a person like him in my Jiang Family, I would carry him back personally to the Jiang Family and provide for him.”
“Xiao Jiang jests.“ Lin Xuan didn’t dare to refute Su Wen, who was twice his age, to save him a face, but he dared to confront Jiang Huai. His face turned stern, “A family is a family. How can you give differential treatment just because of their ability? Not to mention that Lin Jianxi is not a part of my Lin Family, even if he is, he should abide by the rules of the Lin Family. They should fight fair and square.”
“Each family has its own rules,” Jiang Huai said with a smile, watching the earth-shattering battle on the arena. “But, speaking of it, the Lin Family always emphasized that Lin Jianxi is not a part of the Lin Family, but… to be honest, watching Lin Jianxi and Lin Yu side-by-side in the arena, they look so similar.”
Jian Huai tilted his head. His eyes turned crescent from his smile, “Patriarch Lin, could it be that you have forgotten something during your spring breeze[1] outside?”
While Jiang Huai and Lin Xuan were shooting words at each other, Ye Chen and Chu Tian watched the fight and Ye Chen gradually noticed something wrong.
“I believe that Lin Yu’s strength is more than this…” Ye Chen had superb eyesight. She stared at Lin Yu tumbling around and frowned, “Is he arranging something?”
“An array.” “Ye Chen” spoke coldly, chilling one’s heart.
“That year, I died under the combination of this array and Soul Destroying spell. God array and Soul Destroying spell, faced with these, no one can escape Death “
The author has something to say:
[Mini Theater · Something between Me and the Doctor]
Doctor: “Mo Shubai, you can be discharged from the hospital now.”
Mo Shubai: “No, I don’t want to.”
Doctor: “Why?”
Mo Shubai: “I won’t be able to see you after I get discharged.”
Doctor: “Indeed, there are so many people waiting to kill you at the door. If you leave the hospital, I will probably never see you again in my life. ”
Mo Shubai: “Then, why did you let me leave the hospital?”
Doctor: “In this life, I’m hopeless with your situation. If there is a next life, I hope your situation may be better.”
Mo Shubai: “No, Doctor. You are wrong. In this life, the next life, and even the next next life, I am probably at the best situation in my life.”
Doctor: “Then, your expectation is really a little too low……”
I’m a little tired today.
Footnotes
Love affair. ↵
Ry’s Corner
A surprisingly short chapter? In case you don’t count the chapters, it’s 2 more chapters until this Arc ends.
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The chatting guest on the seat went, so the book slept.
Two more!!! Lets gooooooo
Will he notice that lin yu is tryna kill him? Or will ye chen have to appear to save him? Dun dun dunnn
We’ll find out next chapter~
Thank you as alwaysss
Imagine he was changing the array without letting Lin Yu knowing.