ebookland Chapter 382 Heavenly Way
Chapter 382 Heavenly Way
With Jiang Ming's help, the three of them returned to the streets of Yaemachi in the blink of an eye.
"Xia, this is the second to last Hungry Ghost Path. Use the Ninja Art Original Scroll to absorb it. I'm going to settle down Raiden Mei. It may take some time. The collection of the Heavenly Human Path can be delayed for a while."
Xia nodded: "Well, although I don't know what your real plan is, just go."
After Jiang Ming explained some more things, he glanced at Diwu Ye vaguely. The latter did not notice his action, so he disappeared on the spot holding Raiden Mei.
"call......."
Xia let out a long sigh, then raised her right hand, aimed at the Hungry Ghost Path floating in front of her, and whispered: "Hungry Ghost Path, take it——"
boom.
Xia's body was suddenly knocked away, and with her vision reversed, she saw a hand grabbing the curse seal.
Xia adjusted her posture in the air in time, made a prediction while falling, and threw a kunai at the attacker behind her.
Ding.
The kunai seemed to be bounced off something, making a crisp sound, but it was not the sound of the kunai piercing flesh as Xia expected.
After landing, Xia raised her head and saw Diyuye holding a seal with one hand and the kunai she had thrown was still between the fingers of the other hand.
At the same time, tiny fragments were falling continuously from the mask after being hit by the kunai.
Night 6: "......"
Xia looked at the white-haired girl in front of her in confusion: "Sixth Night... Did you know from the beginning..."
The sixth night threw away the kunai with one hand and pressed the broken mask: "Xia, you have collected four volumes of Ninja Scrolls, but that's it..."
Liu Ye slowly loosened her hands. This time, her mask could no longer be fixed on her face. Half of the mask shattered, revealing Liu Ye's true appearance - it was the Lord of Yunchen City, Karen.
The pair of light blue eyes looked at the sunset, covered with a layer of mist, revealing a mixture of emotions.
"--?!Who are you......"
"As the Sixth Night, I hope to help you complete your mission, but as the Lord of the City, I must stop you."
The Sixth Night raised his hand again, trying to cover his face with the broken mask, as if to embed it into his face forever, but the result was the opposite of what he wanted: "I once thought that the person disguised by the mask of [Sixth Night] was still me back then... the person named Kallen."
"But now I finally understand that the mask of [Sixth Night] can be shattered... but the mask of the city lord [Yun Chen] underneath can no longer be taken off..."
"What on earth are you......"
Xia frowned and shook her head subconsciously: "No, you are not her. As a ninja, I can't possibly remember it wrongly. I have a unique aura from people I have had close contact with. Although you and the city lord [Yun Chen] are extremely similar in appearance, you are completely two different people in terms of aura."
"Who...are you?"
"Is that so... So in your eyes, [she] is a different person from me? The aura you mentioned should refer to the soul, right?"
Karin looked extremely worried, her hair was disheveled, and her originally clear blue eyes now looked dim and lifeless. Although the corners of her mouth were slightly raised, her willow-like eyebrows were deeply bent, making it impossible to tell whether she was laughing or crying.
Finally, she raised her eyes and looked at Xia with a wry smile: "If that were true, perhaps I wouldn't have to live such a miserable life. But unfortunately, [she] is indeed me. This is an irrefutable fact. And because of this, I can no longer let you go any further on this matter."
Xia was silent for a while, then suddenly asked: "Is this [Sixth Night]'s judgment or [Yun Chen]'s intention?"
"..."
"This is [Karen's] decision."
"...When you first approached me, you were planning to take advantage of my situation and then take back all of them at once after I had collected most of the seals?" Xia swallowed, preparing to delay time.
"No, you are wrong. My only goal has always been this seal of the [Hungry Ghost Realm]."
Karen stared at the Hungry Ghost Path Primordial Curse in her hand, looking at it in a trance: "I chose to approach you just to get the information you have... but perhaps there is also a little selfish motive mixed in."
"Selfish?"
"Even though I know you are not her, deep down I still hope to fight alongside her again one day."
"She? Are you talking about the legendary priestess? The soul transfer experiment... I see, is this why you want to get involved in the taboo? But if that's the case, why did you post a wanted notice for yourself throughout the city?"
After a long silence, Kallen finally answered: "That's because [Yun Chen] noticed my intention to track down the Hungry Ghost Realm. Your intuition as a ninja is not wrong, Xia. [Yun Chen] is indeed me, but I am not [Yun Chen]."
"What does this mean?" Seeing the obvious effect, Xia continued to ask questions.
"[Yun Chen] cannot interfere with me, but she can use the pretext of a wanted order to restrict my actions at night. Now, [Yun Chen] is sleeping in this body, and when she wakes up - I will no longer be myself."
"What...? You're no longer what you mean..."
Xia kept looking at and pondering the other person and the words he said, as if hoping to find a flaw that would allow her to refute it.
As if she could see through the other person's mind, Karen shook her head helplessly: "It means exactly what it says. I still haven't found the answer to why it has become like this. I can't even remember when the change first occurred."
As if she was lost in past memories, Kallen's dark eyes became deeper and deeper: "In that battle more than five hundred years ago, I lost the love of my life... I originally wanted to follow her and return to Europe to be judged by the Church of Heaven."
"But when I came to my senses, I had already fought off the hounds that were following Destiny, and decided to revive and protect this land on her behalf. Perhaps this was my instinct, and it was also the truest thought in my heart. So I stayed, in this far east."
"After that, I integrated the curse of [Heavenly Way] into my body, and gained an almost immortal lifespan, in order to protect Yae Town forever, and also to punish myself..."
Kallen sighed repeatedly.
But Xia didn't seem to feel sympathy, instead she treated him coldly: "If that were all, I might feel sad about this story, but you have violated the taboo that you should never violate."
"Ah, because of a certain opportunity, I noticed the possibility of soul transfer, but to realize this possibility, a lot of experiments are needed to verify it."
Kallen showed a look of understanding, but then became bitter again: "Even though I know I shouldn't do this and can't do it, but... once the desire in my heart is ignited, it's hard to extinguish it."
"I spent a hundred years in this struggle, and then one day, I heard a voice saying to me: 'You don't have to do anything, just watch from the side.' Haha, that voice was none other than myself."
"The day I heard this voice, I had a good dream for the first time in a long time. In the dream, I was patrolling in Yae-machi as usual, and when I woke up, it was already midnight. But then, the dream began to develop in a direction that I didn't expect."
After a pause, Karen took a deep breath and continued, "In the dream, I began to instruct my subordinates to find dying patients or prisoners on death row to conduct human experiments on soul transfer. The dream was too real. When I woke up again at night, I disguised myself and went to investigate the experimental site I saw in the dream."
"...Facts tell me that it was not a dream. Everything is actually happening."
"Since I heard that voice, I have lost control of my body during the day. Even now, my activity time at night is gradually decreasing. There is another me in this body, a me named [Yun Chen], a me who is willing to dirty my hands for love, but there is no doubt that she is me..."
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