Chapter 69: A Glimmer of Life

  Just as An Xiaoyu subconsciously prepared to follow her companions onto that gloomy bus, she had already brewed a gaze of farewell, with melancholy revealing reluctance, and reluctance hiding memories.

  Who knew, An Xiaoyu had just walked to the car door when she was suddenly blocked by those two men in black. For a moment, I thought these two guys were going to bully this little girl, and I instinctively rubbed my hands together, ready to ignite my Flame Emperor's Fist and go fight them. This is what I'm most proud of - my intelligence and sense of justice.

  I dared to go up and fight because, according to Tiejie's words, these two are basically part-time Yin walkers, with positions much lower than mine and no background, so I was fearless, wanting to show off in front of the little girls, showcasing my male hormone and making An Xiaoyu regret her previous praise of Tiejie's handsomeness.

  Who would have known, just as I was moved by my own righteous actions and my blood was boiling, Tie Yi grabbed my right hand and whispered in my ear: "There's a problem, don't be impulsive, have you forgotten the story I told you? Do you still remember Tie Hong from Ku Ling? Impulsiveness is the devil, and afterwards comes punishment. You've made a wrong move, even if it was temporary, and there won't be any good outcome!"

  I racked my brains to recall, this guy should be talking about the matter in Kuxi Village and Tiehong, so I stopped the action in my hand, stood with Tieyi on one side, staring at those two guys wearing sunglasses. If gaze could kill, these two would have been cut into pieces by me.

  The car door was about to close in the last moment, An Xiaoyu had not yet boarded the bus, would she become a wandering ghost?

  Just as I was about to break free from the iron clothes, the shorter and fatter one of the two black-clad men, whom I had thought were mute, spoke directly to An Xiaoyu: "Your life span has not yet ended, your name is still on the Book of Life and Death, so you cannot board for now. If by dawn your body and soul are still not reunited, we will come again, and you can take the last bus before dawn!"

  After finishing speaking, the two men in black directly got on the car. I hadn't reacted to what was happening when the car had already disappeared from sight. An Xiaoyu faced the direction the car had gone and shouted her little friend's name, with a tear-stained face she chased after it for a long distance.

  I don't know whether An Xiaoyu was excited because she knew she wouldn't die for the time being, or if it was because her little friend was leaving and she felt reluctant to part with her. I didn't know how to comfort her either, so I just stood there stupidly, not knowing what to do.

  The atmosphere is melancholic and serene.

  "What are you still dazed about, if you don't go now it'll be too late!" Tie Yi's words broke the silence in a very depressing way. I and An Xiaoyu shifted our gaze to Tie Tui's face together, and pasted two big question marks on his small round face with our eyes.

  I looked at Tie Yi in a daze and asked, "Where are we going? What's going on? What just happened? Why did Xiaoyu stay here unscathed? I remember seeing Xiaoyu's miserable state by the roadside just now, was I seeing things?"

  An Xiaoyu looked at me with a silly and cute expression, saying "The woman you saw when I was stopping the car wasn't actually me. Because my figure is petite, I was afraid you wouldn't be able to see me, so when I stopped the car, I just randomly chose a corpse from the messy graves by the side of the road. My own corpse is still at the bottom of the cliff."

  I was instantly stunned. An Xiaoyu is really bold and daring, she dares to dig into the grave mound for no reason, and even chose a female corpse that has rotted to such an extent. It really makes me look at her in a new light, this little girl's taste is truly not ordinary, no wonder she thinks Tie Yi looks more handsome than me.

  Tie Yi looked at me and said, "Listening to what the black-robed man said, it means that An Xiaoyu is not dead yet, but her soul has escaped. Maybe there's still a chance for her to survive. However, if we can't send An Xiaoyu's spirit back to her body before dawn, she'll really die! So now we must send An Xiaoyu's soul back to her body."

  As soon as An Xiaoyu heard Tie Yi's words, she was like being electrocuted, her mouth wide open in shock. She looked at me and then at Tie Yi, opening her mouth without making a sound. This time I understood that this little woman was so excited that she couldn't speak.

  Thinking back, when I first jumped off the cliff at Yishan Cliff and didn't die, I almost got so excited that I peed my pants when I woke up.

  "What's the big deal? Saving a life is better than winning seven lottery tickets! So, what should we do now?" I curiously looked at Tie Yi.

  Tie Yi looked at me and said, "Actually, this matter is very simple. Originally, summoning the soul would have been enough, but I'm not good at this sort of thing. Catching ghosts and killing them is doable, but as for summoning souls, it's really not something that can be done without a Taoist priest. However, I do have a method that might work."

  I was waiting for Tie Yi's next words, but unexpectedly, Tie Yi didn't say a word and directly grabbed my right hand. Before I could ask what was going on, a cyan light flashed by, and my right index finger was suddenly pulled out of its sleeve by Tie Yi. Instantly, blood gushed out, and Tie Yi's swift and decisive action left me stunned, completely bewildered about the situation.

  They say the index finger is connected to the heart, this guy suddenly had no warning and it hurt so much that I almost cried, hurriedly stuffed my finger into my mouth and sucked wildly, later remembered An Xiaoyu was still by my side, although this little girl doesn't count as a person now, but thinking about it, it's not decent, so I pulled my finger out again.

  "Are you crazy?! Wipe, aren't you prone to violence? What's wrong with you that you'd stab me like that!" This guy was too ruthless, my long right hand was instantly disfigured.

  "How dare you!" As I spoke, I was ready to rub my hands together and ignite the flames of battle, but who knew that after getting stained with blood, I rubbed them twice without any reaction. It seems this guy is waterproof again, not even a little bit of defense. I immediately decided to change from martial arts to verbal combat, exercising my tongue to prepare for a scolding!

  "Haven't you found it to be quite effective? If I had told you beforehand that I was going to give you a little something, what would you have done? Would you have been so calm and composed while being bled? I reckon even your shadow would have run away! " Tie Yi looked at me as he spoke, meanwhile smearing the blood from my index finger onto his own fingertip.

  Then Tie Yi pointed at An Xiao Yu's brow, and with a single finger, a small red mole appeared on her brow, the visual effect was quite good.

  Just as I was praising An Xiaoyu's new look, An Xiaoyu suddenly changed, her body slowly peeling off from the paper person, this shape looked like a painted skin, very strange.

  Soon, the paper man collapsed to the ground with a soft thud, returning to its original state of being torn apart by the iron clothes. Meanwhile, An Xiaoyu suddenly floated in mid-air, and I looked up at her, muttering that this was more like what a ghost should look like.

  I looked at Tie Yi's inexplicable behavior and curiously asked, "What do you mean by this? What time is it that you're just reacting now and joking with Little Sister, are you out of your mind?"

  Tie Yi completely ignored my words and said, "There's a Blood River Dan pill in your blood. This Blood River Dan pill has the effect of locking one's body and soul. If you smear your blood on An Xiao Yu's head, it will be much easier for her to enter her own body later." Tie Yi said as he walked away.

  "How did you know about this? How did you know that I have the Blood River Dan pill in my blood?" I remembered that I had only told my father about the various experiences I had during my journey to the underworld, so by rights, this guy shouldn't know about it. I quickly caught up with Iron Robe and asked him what was going on.

  An Xiaoyu was currently being driven crazy by our conversation, and couldn't make sense of it. She looked at me for a moment, then at Tie Yi, and quickly followed us as we walked towards the parking area, asking me what I meant along the way.

  "It was what you said yourself when you were talking in your sleep." Suddenly, Tie Yi's back figure threw out a sentence that made me break out in cold sweat.

  "I was just saying don't watch me sleep, don't watch me sleep, are you sick or something! What else did I say?" I instantly felt guilty and my heart was filled with sorrow and indignation.

  He didn't say a word and just kept laughing, the laughter sent chills down my spine. I thought to myself that I must have said something outrageous again while I was sleeping. This guy is really unpredictable!

  I chased after Tie Yi and asked, "You little brat, tell me clearly, what else did I say...". But this iron lump just wouldn't respond to me, with a dead pig not afraid of boiling water look, couldn't beat him, couldn't ask anything out of him, very frustrating.

  At this time, I remembered that An Xiaoyu was still following behind me. In my heart, I thought that after finishing this matter, I must investigate clearly how many of my secrets this guy had grasped and whether it had reached the point where he needed to be silenced! I tried to persuade myself to take deep breaths and relax, but as a result, I accidentally farted, which was truly embarrassing just thinking about it.

  As the two of us were about to reach the car, I looked at Tieyi's back and asked: "Where are we going now? Are you saying that we're taking An Xiaoyu's soul to the foot of the mountain?"

  Tie Yi nodded and got on the carriage without a word. I quickly pulled An Xiao Yu, "Foolish girl, don't just stand there, hurry up and leave, or it will be too late. The sky is getting light soon. If you don't want to die, then hurry up! By the way, I remembered that you handled those last words yourself, this thing I really can't do!"

  An Xiaoyu whispered a few words, I reckon this little girl is still grieving over the loss of her partner. But time waits for no man, I pulled An Xiaoyu into the car and told Tie Yi to drive quickly, saving people is urgent.

  Like this, the two of us ghosts quickly got into Tie Yi's car. Tie Yi stepped on the gas pedal and the car sped towards the cliff at full speed.

  I'm guessing Iron Clothes is really anxious, this speed, I'm sitting in the passenger seat and almost threw up, this damn thing is like a racing car. Didn't expect this old-fashioned-looking car to be so powerful, for a moment, I thought I was sitting in that yellow transformer car. When we arrived at the cliff, it wasn't as dark anymore, I looked at my watch and anxiously said "It's getting late!".