Chapter 310: A Living Corpse (2/2)

Su Xiaoxiao instinctively wanted to resist, but the human’s words made her start and dismiss the immortal energy she’d been gathering.

Within hell, Lu Yun and Su Xiaoxiao appeared at the same time.

“Where are we?” Her voice was clear and moving, but she still kept her eyes shut.

“A living corpse… the person is dead and their soul was scattered, but the body lives on…” Finally on his home turf, Lu Yun could immediately identify Su Xiaoxiao’s current state of existence.

She was a living corpse!

That was why she didn’t dare open her eyes. The moment she did, she would truly die and turn into a dead body. Everything that’d happened to her in life would all drift away on the wind.

Su Xiaoxiao trembled again and shuffled a few steps backwards.

“Take your place, seventh Envoy of Samsara!” Lu Yun pointed at the center of the girl’s forehead.

Whoosh!

Hellfire gushed into existence on her body as a black rune slowly formed on her forehead. However, a piercing shriek sounded at the same time.

“Ahhh!!” It came from Tinglan; three beams of faint light shot out of her body and sank into Su Xiaoxiao. It was the three ethereal parts of her soul, and they were quickly joined by seven beams of light cutting through the air.

……

“What happened?” Deep in the throes of battle, Beigong Chonglou suddenly shuddered and halted his exchanges with Jin Heyi. With the disappearance of the immortal ghost behind him, his senses returned to normal.

“Who are you, and why do you attack this prince?!” Fear tinged his tone, along with sheer bafflement as to what was going on.

“Eh? The immortal ghost disappeared?” Jin Heyi blinked, then defeated Beigong Chonglou with a wave.

……

“You can open your eyes now,” said Lu Yun as he digested Su Xiaoxiao’s memories and experiences.

“No!” came the quick reply, shot through with sweetness. It was an uncommonly nice voice to listen to. “I’m not wearing anything!”

Lu Yun held his forehead and subconsciously glanced at Su Xiaoxiao. Um… she’s on the skinny side, but she’s still got the goods. She’s got curves where she should have them, and valleys where there should be dips. The hellfire earlier had burned her white dress to cinders.

“You know, you’re a peerless immortal, you can conjure a set of clothes for yourself.” He rubbed his nose.

Su Xiaoxiao was quite different from his other envoys. Upon assuming their new position, they showed the utmost deference and respect to Lu Yun. Some even tried to seduce him and win his favor that way.

As for his latest addition, though she’d died, her body had lived on and been tempered by the passage of countless eons. It’d reached peerless immortal realm, so that was the level of her cultivation upon revival.

Her new master’s words reminded her of what to do and she quickly bent down, huddling until the white dress from earlier appeared again. She then stood up again, beet red and looking at Lu Yun with some embarrassment.

In his eyes, her refusal to open her eyes because she wasn’t wearing any clothes denoted a cowardly mindset. It seemed like her reaction to danger was to curl up in her blankets and pretend there was no danger at all.

“Seventh Envoy of Samsara, Su Xiaoxiao, greets the master!” the girl offered weakly.

Lu Yun looked at Su Xiaoxiao and shook his head; she was very different from Cangyin. The time manipulation art had sent Cangyin back to her origins, thus, she’d died in the form of an egg so he hadn’t been able to glean any memories from her. Su Xiaoxiao’s, however, were at his fingertips.

Of course, he needed some time to digest them all, but that was the last thing he lacked in hell.

Discomfort still marked Su Xiaoxiao’s face. After all, she’d been known as a demon in the ancient world of immortals, one who’d committed genocide of all beings in eighteen major worlds. Everyone had been out for her head, and not even her master, Qi Hai, foremost of all pill masters, could save her. He’d been forced to cripple her cultivation and throw her out.

As for how she’d died… she didn’t have a clue.

All she knew was that she’d gone to bed one day, then awoken in this tomb. The ethereal and corporeal parts of her soul had mysteriously been swallowed by two corpse coffins, which had then transformed into two immortal ghosts. Those ghosts had inherited her skills in medicine and poison because they’d devoured her soul.

Meanwhile, her body had remained alive as a living corpse.

As for Guanqing and Tinglan, she had indeed saved these two orphans back in the day, but they weren’t her maids. Now that she’d come back to life and her soul was returned to her, the two ghosts naturally drifted away on the wind.

“You were right to do what you did.” Lu Yun suddenly looked at Su Xiaoxiao very seriously. “If I’d been in your shoes, I would also destroy everything in those eighteen major worlds. If they hadn’t died, the entire world of immortals—and all other worlds besides—would’ve fallen to a great disaster!”

Su Xiaoxiao trembled, then looked at Lu Yun with a hint of gratitude. Her master had used ‘everything’, and not ‘everyone’.