novelraw Chapter 581 - 520: I Swear to Protect You
Chapter 581 - 520: I Swear to Protect You
Then, the woman transformed into a faint ball of white light and drifted into his palm.
"Come out," Sha said, glancing coolly in a certain direction.
A somewhat slender figure emerged from behind a rock. Unable to withstand the oppressive aura of the being before her, she prostrated herself on the ground, not daring to look directly at the man’s noble face. Still, she cautiously peeked at the ball of white light in his hand, her eyes filled with worry.
"An Ancient Strange Beast, an Ear Mouse," Sha identified her true form with a single glance.
Little Can hurriedly shook her head in denial. "No, no, Your Eminence has mistaken me for someone else. I... I’m just an ordinary Mouse Beast."
"Legend says that the Ancient Strange Beast, the Ear Mouse, grants immunity to a hundred poisons and protects from jealousy when eaten. For this, they were hunted by many and driven to near extinction. You disguised yourself as an ordinary Mouse Beast to survive in your past life, but a Demon Hunter still found you. You were sold on the black market, carved up, and eaten. After death, you became one of the resentful spirits and killed thousands, for which you were finally imprisoned on the third floor of the Black Tower. When that fox and the Demon Snake broke through the Black Tower last time, you escaped in the chaos. But a Tower Seal was etched onto your soul, and you remained trapped here."
Sha had laid out her entire life in just a few sentences. Little Can’s face went deathly pale, and her body trembled with fear. During her time as one of the resentful spirits, her mind was consumed by a single-minded obsession with revenge. She had killed many of her enemies, but she was also aware that she had implicated many innocent people in her rampage. That was why she had been locked away in the Black Tower as an Evil Beast... ’Is this Venerable King here to eliminate me for good?’
Her sins were unforgivable. She deserved to be utterly destroyed.
Sha glanced down at the faintly flickering white soul light in his palm before absorbing it into his body. "The seal is broken. You may go."
Little Can hadn’t even processed his words when a deafening RUMBLE filled her ears. The sky-piercing Black Tower, which had stood for countless years, was collapsing!
Countless soul bodies of all sizes and colors escaped from within the Black Tower. They streaked across the vast night sky like a meteor shower, emitting a brilliant light. The sight was so strangely beautiful it made one’s heart tremble.
It only took a moment for Little Can to understand the relationship between the beautiful woman and this man. Overjoyed, she kowtowed in thanks before transforming into a ball of light and leaving this world forever.
Completely liberated!
Flying toward the true place of reincarnation to welcome a new life.
...
The Heavenly Thunder had long since dissipated. The Ghost Domain had returned to calm, and the destroyed Rashamon Palace was restored to its original state, as if the catastrophe had never happened.
"Venerable King, the Young Master is hungry again," said an old man in a gray robe, hurrying forward while holding a swaddled baby.
When the child was first born, her skin was wrinkled and had a strange bluish-purple tint. But after just a few days, it became fair with a rosy glow. She had a pert little nose, rosy little lips, and chubby little arms and legs. She was as exquisitely cute as a porcelain doll.
Two small, round horns poked out from her forehead. Her large, round eyes were open, framed by thick, curly lashes. Her left eye was green, her right eye red, both as dazzlingly brilliant as jewels and capable of easily drawing in a person’s Divine Soul. She stared curiously at the tall, handsome man in the Profound Robe before her.
Sha silently watched his daughter, reaching out to gently touch her cheek. It was warm and soft, more like the skin of a human with living blood flowing through it than that of the Ghost Clan...
The baby giggled as if she’d been tickled, revealing sweet dimples. Fluttering her large, jewel-like eyes, she was so adorable it could melt anyone’s heart.
Since the child’s birth, the Venerable King’s attitude toward her had been far calmer than expected. The gray-robed old man had been somewhat uneasy, but seeing this first interaction between father and daughter, he could finally put his heart at ease.
He smiled kindly. "Newborns remember their own father and mother first. Venerable King, you should spend more time with the Young Master when you can. She has been crying constantly these past few days, but she smiled the moment she saw you!"
"Da... da..."
The baby’s little mouth suddenly puckered, her expression turning aggrieved as if she were about to cry.
Sha quickly took the child into his arms. She immediately stopped crying, nestling against his chest, and fell asleep a moment later.
"Newborns are most attached to their parents, especially their mother’s scent. The Young Master lost her mother right after she was born. Though she’s still too young to understand, she instinctively rejects the auras of outsiders like us. That’s why she’s been crying nonstop and hasn’t been eating properly. She always eats and then throws it all up... Alas!"
"She’s different from an ordinary member of the Ghost Clan. She can directly absorb energy for sustenance." Now that Sha had returned, he planned to raise the child by his side personally.
He took out a grayish-purple Ghost Pill that radiated a terrifyingly profound Ghost Energy.
The old man almost couldn’t bear it and nearly collapsed to his knees. ’This... could it be...’
He thought about the disturbance over in the Purgatory Land. No one knew exactly what had happened, but to cause that level of destruction... It must have been the Venerable King clashing with that Ancient Ghost Beast!
’This Ghost Pill couldn’t be...’ A cold sweat beaded on the old man’s brow, and he dared not say more. He secretly marveled at how the Venerable King would truly spare no expense to raise his heir.
The baby smelled the delicious aroma and woke up again. She reached out her small, chubby white hand, which resembled a section of a lotus root, and curiously grabbed the Ghost Pill. After looking at it from side to side, she opened her mouth and swallowed it whole.
An entire Ghost Pill from an Ancient Ghost Beast, swallowed in one gulp by this child.
"..." Sha also looked surprised.
Even for him, refining this Ghost Pill from the Ancient Ghost Beast would have taken a considerable amount of time.
He had originally planned to refine it first and then feed it to the child gradually. He never expected her to be so greedy as to snatch it and swallow it in one go. However, she didn’t seem to be in any discomfort. The power of the Ghost Pill was slowly being transformed by her, and her body entered a long period of hibernation. It was impossible to know when she would wake up.
"Take this child to the Blood Pool. Tell me when she wakes."
"As you command."
The old man took the child, bowed respectfully, and retreated.
Sha went to his bedchamber.
Where the bed should have been, there was now an Ice Coffin. Inside, an unparalleled beauty with black hair and snow-white skin lay as if asleep.
Sha walked to the coffin and caressed her face.
After her Nirvana Rebirth, the woman’s appearance had become even more dazzlingly beautiful. Unfortunately, her soul had been damaged, and after ending up in the Purgatory Land, she had also lost a portion of her memories.
He drew the faint ball of light from his chest. The moment the Soul group encountered its original body, it flew from his palm and returned to the flesh. Yet, the beauty in the Ice Coffin showed no signs of waking...
Sorrow flashed in Sha’s green eyes. He braced his left hand on the edge of the coffin and materialized a sharp blade in his right palm, which he plunged heavily into his own chest.
Pale red blood dripped from his hand and the blade onto the woman’s body. It was like vibrant Manjushaka flowers blooming on flawless white snow, only to slowly fade away and merge into her flesh and blood.
Between her brows, an esoteric and magnificent green beast seal coalesced.
Sha lowered his head and kissed the seal, chanting a string of ancient, obscure Spells.
"I vow to protect you, for all of eternity, as long as heaven and earth exist..."
"Luoluo."
"Don’t make me wait too long."
The Ice Coffin closed once more. Fully clothed, he lay down to sleep.