Chapter 191 - Escaped From the Catacomb (1/2)

“Papa!”

“Xu Lan!”

Everyone was shouting Xu Lan’s name.

“Pft…”

Xu Lan spat another mouthful of blood, dyeing his shirt, the chime-bells, and the wooden mallet red. Even then, he continued ringing the chime-bells according to the arrangement in the codex. All souls, with the exception of the ones whose body had fallen into the subsurface stream earlier, returned into their respective bodies. They walked onto the platform and looked at Xu Lan worriedly.

Bai Wu floated toward Xu Lan and screamed for him to stop. Even when Bai Wu’s voice was hoarse from all the screaming, Xu Lan remained unmoved. Xu Lan’s handsome face gradually lost its form and he looked weaker and thinner. He seemed to be shouldering an unbearable weight; his straight back arched under the weight, the scar on his brow lost its vigor and rested weakly like a caterpillar in fall.

“Papa!” By then, Xu Lan had played the soul-summoning tune thrice. Bai Wu was still circling around Xu Lan and shouting anxiously.

“Heck! Why aren’t you coming back to life yet? Cough…” Xu Lan cursed with a pair of red eyes. He spat another mouthful of fresh blood on the chime-bells. The businessman walked over with Fang Lingzi. They tried to offer consolation but was halted by Xu Lan’s sad moan.

“Bai Wu, don’t you have anything that you miss about this world?” Sheng Ya lowered Bai Wu’s body on the ground and sat next to him. She watched as his soul floated in mid-air.

Xu Lan stopped ringing the chime-bells. He looked at Bai Wu with a gaping mouth as he realized he had yet to ask if Bai Wu was willing to come back to life!

“What are you babbling about? I have something I love dearly in this world!” Initially, Bai Wu could not comprehend the rationale behind Sheng Ya’s question. When he saw Xu Lan’s empty gaze, he was shaken to his core and his heart ached. His floating soul flickered delicately; the body next to Sheng Ya woke up in shock.