Chapter 66: The Unlucky Star 13

  After 9 pm, the fire in the building was finally brought under control, and firefighters began entering the building to rescue people.

  At the same time, behind the building, a black figure slid down from the fourth floor along a thin steel rope. After landing, he retracted the rope and stumbled to the side of the road.

  However, he didn't get far before falling down beside the flower bed on the sidewalk. His right hand covered his left shoulder, letting out a painful groan.

  Although careful preparations were made before entering the lost fire building, the preparations for the upper room were still far from enough. Taking risks to get close to the formation, in the end not only did the ghost equipment fail to refine, but if Qin Fei hadn't been by Gu Yin's side at that time, he might have been trapped by Gu Yin.

  However, even though Qin Fei managed to escape successfully after the attack, he still got several burns of varying sizes on his body, and one arm was dislocated.

  Gu Yin, a thousand years ago was the top genius among the era's masters, and in this era a thousand years later, he still is. Seventeen years ago, taking advantage of Gu Yin's abilities being suppressed by his youthful body, he could trap him, but ultimately failed to obtain Gu Yin's soul. Seventeen years later today, facing Gu Yin head-on again, he has no chance of winning at all.

  However, once he got what he wanted and fulfilled his wish, Gu Yin would no longer be a concern.

  In the shadow of the pedestrian path, a faint sound of footsteps came. Before long, a man appeared in front of him. The expression on his face was dull and lifeless, with hardly any blood color, he just stood there motionless, like a puppet doll.

  The man sitting on the ground slightly tilted his head and looked at the lifeless man, "Zhang Duo, have all the traces been cleaned up?"

  "Yes." The man replied briefly.

  The man sitting on the edge of the flower bed, covering his dislocated arm, stood up from the ground. His body swayed for a moment before stabilizing, and his gaze pierced through the night, looking towards a hotel diagonally across the street. However, his gaze didn't linger there for long, but instead paused briefly before turning his head in the opposite direction of the hotel and walking away.

  The man named Zhang Dang followed the other man's footsteps in a daze, and the two figures quickly disappeared together into the dark night.

  ……

  On the evening of March 11, a gas explosion occurred in the second-floor restaurant, causing a fire in the building. The fire was brought under control after 9 pm, and thanks to the emergency rescue efforts of the firefighters, many people were injured but fortunately no one died.

  On the morning of March 12, all the news was reporting on last night's fire. After Qin Fei finished reading the news on his phone, Ye Cheng also checked his body and found that except for some scratches, he was miraculously almost unscathed.

  "Fatty, you almost gave me a heart attack! With those long legs of yours, I thought for sure you'd be the first to escape if there was a fire. How did you end up getting trapped in the building?!" Song Meng exclaimed as he patted Ye Cheng's shoulder nonstop after they walked out of the hospital.

  However, Ye Cheng just absent-mindedly responded with a few sounds, and didn't chat with Song Meng as he usually did. Song Meng thought that Ye Cheng was frightened and hadn't come back to his senses, so even if Ye Cheng wasn't talking much, he himself was still happily chattering away. Escaping death, there's nothing luckier than this.

  Ye Cheng was trapped in the burning building without informing his company, and his agent Xu Gao was also completely unaware of it. So when they went back, there were still five people in a row, and the car used was still the business car that came out last night, but the driver was replaced by Ye Cheng with Song Meng.

  Back at Ye Cheng's villa, Song Meng originally planned to take a bath and sleep well, but saw Ye Cheng go silently to the second floor study alone. Song Meng was stunned for a moment, hesitated for a while, turned around and walked towards the direction of the study.

  "Ah! Ah! Ah! What's going on?" Song Meng stepped into the study, and before he could even close the door, he saw Ye Cheng's tear-stained face, which shocked him so much that he almost fell to the ground.

  Qin Fei and Gu Yin exchanged a glance at the sound, then walked towards the study. Zhou Jun, who had just returned to his room and hadn't sat down yet, also quickly ran out with his cane, and the three of them almost simultaneously arrived at the door of the study.

  Zhou Jun pushed away Song Meng who was blocking the door, and then Ye Cheng and others also saw it.

  "How did you cry?" Zhou Jun asked after being stunned for a moment.

  "Is he possessed by that woman in the jade hall? I've known him for a long time, and I've never seen him cry before, yet he's crying so sorrowfully..." Song Meng said, grabbing Qin Fei's arm.

  Song Meng's voice was not loud, but everyone in the study heard it clearly.

  Gu Yin's gaze first shifted to Song Meng's face, paused for a moment, and then fell on the fat paws grasping Qin Fei's arm. After a quick tremble of his entire body, he quickly withdrew those fat paws before turning to look at the strange Ye Cheng.

  "What's going on?" Gu Yin asked Ye Cheng.

  Ye Cheng rubbed his face randomly and his gaze fell on the jade vase on the desk, "I don't know, seeing this jade vase, I suddenly feel very sad..."

  Gu Yin walked to the desk, picked up the jade tank. This jade tank had become an ordinary jade tank, even if it left the symbols on the desktop, ordinary people like Song Meng and Zhou Jun could still see it. The jade tank had become dull and lost its luster, the originally damaged scriptures on it were now filled with fine cracks, and the seal of the tank was completely ineffective.

  This was within Gu Yin's expectations. Shen Qianlan had blocked that group of evil spirits for Ye Cheng and protected him from the fire, but his already weakened powers couldn't withstand such turmoil. Ye Cheng's body still retained the lingering aura of Shen Qianlan's soul, but this was only because the fundamental jade platform could no longer sense the residual aura of the soul. However, it was likely that the scattered soul had entered the realm of the dead and would soon enter the River of Forgetfulness, disappearing from the world forever.

  Ye Cheng saw Gu Yin holding the jade urn for a long time without making a sound, hesitated for a moment, and couldn't help but speak: "She... is the deceased soul in this jade urn... Is she okay? The scriptures on it are all like this..."

  "It's already gone." Gu Yin said.

  Ye Cheng was stunned and asked somewhat dazedly: "Where did she go?"

  "The fairy in the jade altar cannot leave her jade altar and run to other places, she has disappeared." Gu Yin didn't put the jade altar back on the table, but held it in his hand and walked out. "When a person reaches the end of their path, they die; when a ghost reaches the end of its path, it completely disappears. Although it's not entirely gone yet, it's almost there."

  Ye Cheng lowered his head, staring blankly at his toes, but just as Gu Yin was about to leave the study, he suddenly turned around and shouted to stop Gu Yin, "Since she hasn't completely disappeared yet, can you save her?"

  "Hey, that woman is going to harm you, why are you still thinking of saving her..." Song Meng muttered softly.

  "Although she seemed to want to harm me before, it was her who saved me in that burning building! I was a bit dizzy at the time, but I'm sure it was her who saved me!" Ye Cheng shouted loudly.

  Ye Cheng finished shouting, panting heavily as he looked at Gu Yin. From the moment he returned and saw Yu Tan, in the burning building, Shen Qianlan's appearance became clearer, clear to the point where he could confirm that what he had seen was not his own illusion or fantasy. The woman in red shirt and long skirt, with a face full of blood, her expression twisted and ferocious, but the look in her eyes was so sad and yearning. He clearly didn't know her, but at that moment, looking at her, he felt a heart-wrenching pain.

  He didn't want her to disappear like that, he couldn't accept this ending. He couldn't come up with a reasonable explanation, only this idea was particularly strong.

  "Do you think I'm a god? Can I even piece together the scattered souls?" Gu Yin sneered and walked out without looking back.

  Qin Fei took a glance at the dejected Ye Cheng, turned around and followed Gu Yin out of the study.

  Gu Yin went back to his room, and Qin Fei followed him in immediately after.

  "You're not going back to rest, what are you following me for?" Gu Yin put the jade tank he had brought out on the bedside cabinet, then turned around to look at Qin Fei.

  "You actually have a way to save Shen Qiu Lan, right." Qin Fei said with certainty.

  Gu Yin fell silent for a moment before speaking: "I only know the method, but I have no way of doing it."

  "Let's hear it." Qin Fei pulled over a chair and sat down beside Gu Yin, then looked up at him.

  Qin Fei had an attitude of "you won't say it, I'll just keep waiting", so Gu Yin could only helplessly sigh and sit down on the bed to start explaining that "method".

  "To save Shen Qianlan, first we need to recall her scattered soul from the Land of the Dead, and then perform the ritual again - restore the scriptures on the jade altar. The former I can do, but the latter requires a person who has attained the Tao, which I am not capable of."

  Qin Fei: "The one who has attained the Tao?"

  Gu Yin: "A person with accumulated good deeds and virtues."

  Qin Fei pointed at himself, "I remember I had my fate calculated before, it said I have ten lifetimes of good deeds, can't I make it?"

  Gu Yin fell silent, Qin Fei could naturally do so, but he didn't like Qin Fei getting involved in these matters at all. The wandering between gods and ghosts would only bring disaster or calamity, never anything good. But Qin Fei's nature, although different from the previous life, still had one unchanged aspect - a soft heart, always finding it hard to let go of people he had interacted with before.

  "The possibility of success is slim, rather than being disappointed again, it's better to end it like this. For the two of them, their fate isn't a bad ending either." After a long while, Gu Yin continued speaking.

  Qin Fei raised his eyes to look at Gu Yin, his gaze gradually deepening: "Those who save others can die with a clear conscience, while those who are saved can live in peace... I've never thought this was a good ending."

  Gu Yin's heart skipped a beat, and he stared at Qin Fei in a daze. He felt as if he was facing Yuan Qing from his past life again - Qin Fei's words seemed to be Yuan Qing blaming him for choosing to die to protect him.

  "Sorry......" Gu Yin apologized in a low voice as he came back to his senses.

  "Huh? I didn't mean to blame you......" Qin Fei was somewhat perplexed by Gu Yin's sudden apology.

  Gu Yin stretched out his hand and stroked Qin Fei's hair with his fingers, saying in a low voice: "I'll listen to you."