When Earth Awakened, I Became a Sword Saintess

Chapter 2 : Different

2: Different

The vicious ghosts carrying the sedan chair thus walked into the night sky, disappearing into the purple haze of the scattered neon lights.

Only Yuyin was left, her beautiful hair as dark as the night cascading behind her, standing at a loss.

The Ghost King's bride?

I am the Ghost King's bride? What on earth is going on?

And who is the Ghost King?

However, although she understood nothing, at least she was temporarily safe, right? Yuyin breathed a small sigh of relief.

"If what that vicious ghost said is true, then on the other hand, those vicious ghosts at least won't come to harm me within the next three years, right? Can I command those vicious ghosts?"

Judging by their ferocious and imposing aura, they obviously didn't seem like they would take orders from her.

Then perhaps... they were acting under the direction of some being far more powerful than these vicious ghosts?

The Ghost King?

She, a boy reborn as a girl, was to be married to the Ghost King?

A chill ran down Yuyin's spine.

However, the truth of this matter was still uncertain, and it was not something she could figure out by standing here and idly speculating.

Next, what should she do? She was reborn as a girl, so were her parents still her parents from before? Could she still go home?

Yuyin remembered the phone she had been hiding by her side. She picked it up and looked at it; it seemed to be a very expensive model. The phone had all sorts of apps installed, but in her QQ and WeChat, there wasn't a single friend or group.

Yuyin opened the camera app; at the very least, she should see what she looked like.

"Ah..."

What met her eyes was a peerless, fairy-like face.

If she were still a boy, this was probably what the lover of his lonely dreams would look like if she appeared before him.

To be reborn as a tall, ethereal big sister, who nevertheless possessed a worldly sensuality...

No wonder even the Ghost King would take a liking to... a liking to... herself!?

???

Although she now possessed the appearance of a goddess from a dream, it absolutely did not mean she could accept being taken a liking to by some Ghost King. That was impossible to accept.

She looked at her clothes again. The white, flowing garments, elegant and graceful in an ancient style, did not lose some fashionable cuts and decorations, not quite like a pure costume from a play. Paired with the white ribbon on her head, in a fashionable capital like Lingdu, it wasn't something she couldn't wear out.

Although Yuyin was a boy in the past, she had some artistic talent and was somewhat knowledgeable about women's attire.

Buzz~~~

Just then, the phone vibrated, startling Yuyin a little.

A voice message popped up on the screen. The signature was "Mom".

"Mom?"

Yuyin immediately opened it.

A slightly magnetic, very pleasant mature female voice came from the phone, but the voice seemed a little rushed.

"Yinyin, Mom is on a ship to Africa right now, it's fine, don't worry. Don't you dare go home, debt collection companies are everywhere... Mom has arranged a temporary place for you to stay, right behind your school, 267 Weiming South Road... 3012... The conditions are harsh, I'm sorry to put you through this. You must get into a good university! Make Mom proud... Daughter, take care, Mom loves you..."

Toward the end, the voice was intermittent, deliberately lowered, accompanied by various noises, and it seemed to choke up a little at the end.

This voice, although pleasant, was clearly not the mother Yuyin had before her rebirth.

It seemed she had run into some trouble and fled to Africa? Then what about herself...

Yuyin could not yet accept this woman as her mother, but the expectation and care filled in her tone still made Yuyin's heart ache.

She couldn't help but look toward the street flowing with lights beyond the heavy shadows of the trees. She was reborn into this world, so what would happen to her original parents?

But, she was powerless to do anything about that, at least for now.

But at the very least, she had to protect herself! Otherwise, all her thinking was useless.

Those demonic night spirits wandering the city, both illusory and real, although it wasn't yet clear what dangers they posed...

But to say this place was a peaceful and prosperous era like her past world, Yuyin didn't believe it.

Since she couldn't go home and wasn't sure where her home was, she would first go to the place her mother mentioned in the text message. Find a relatively safe place first, and then look things up online properly.

Weiming South Road... the name of the road was very familiar.

Yuyin suddenly realized, wasn't it the back street of the high school she used to attend? That was a famous shantytown, located in the city center but very chaotic. When she first entered high school, she was extorted for money and beaten by upperclassmen on that street, and she never dared to walk that street again.

To arrange for a place in a neighborhood like that...

Yuyin opened the map navigation. It wasn't far, a little over a kilometer on foot.

She walked out of the public green space and onto the street, and once again felt a sense of trance at the scene before her.

Those demonic spirits wandering through the heavy, black silhouettes of the city seemed to merge with it, forming a scroll painting where the spiritual and the real were one.

Many of the passersby around were looking at her, most of them men, and there were also many jealous gazes from women.

An unlicensed cab even stopped, the driver with tattoos on his arm asking her with unclear intentions, "Young lady, where are you headed?"

Yuyin wanted to turn and leave immediately, but she suddenly remembered something and asked the lecherous driver, "Sir... did you see those strange things on the street?"

"Huh?" The driver looked blank.

Yuyin said no more, ignoring the gazes from the driver and the people around her, and followed the navigation with her head down. "It's clear that people can see me, but they can't see those strange things, but those things... they seem to be able to see me..."

Yuyin quickened her pace, trying her best not to look at those pairs of eyes flickering with ghostly light.

When she reached the school gate, Yuyin finally breathed a sigh of relief.

She couldn't help but feel a bit of familiarity. Lingdu No. 21 National Senior High School.

This place looked almost exactly the same as where she went to school in the past, but, it also seemed there was something unusual.

Yuyin had really walked very quickly this whole way, but she didn't feel tired. Yuyin realized her body was very healthy. Not only was her line of sight higher, indicating she was taller, but her physical strength was even better than when she was a boy. It was just that after the hurried walk, her body felt damp, and a faint, subtle body fragrance emanated from her... But body fragrance wasn't a bad thing, it was just something she didn't have when she was a boy.

Yuyin looked at the school and gradually realized what was wrong, "It's so late, why are all the lights still on?"

She walked into the school gate and wasn't stopped. The short, stout security guard at the entrance even greeted her with a grin, his eyes full of admiration.

She was also a student at this high school in this life, so it wasn't strange that the security guard recognized her.

Walking into the campus, Yuyin immediately felt that something was wrong.

A group of male and female students ran towards her in tank tops and shorts. Practicing running this late at night? How strange...

Yuyin looked toward the sports field on the other side. It was brightly lit and almost packed with students of all kinds exercising. Many students were also sparring there with sticks and weapons or something like that. Was this a martial arts school? The key thing was, a few of them looked like she recognized them... What on earth was the situation?

A striking banner hung on the sports field.

"Practice diligently, strengthen yourself and the nation."

"Unite, strive, fight, 60 days until the Source Martial College Entrance Examination!"

She then saw four lines of large words made of neon lights on the school building up ahead: "There are ten thousand Daos and methods, but Primordial Energy is the first. To train the body but not the qi..."

From the gloomy small woods on campus, an unsettling gaze seemed to come.

Yuyin thought it was another demonic spirit there, but when she looked over, she realized it was actually four or five students, male and female, meditating in the woods. One of the girls was even wearing flowing Hanfu.

Not reviewing in the middle of the night, could they be cultivating immortality?

As expected... this school, on the outside, looked similar to what she remembered, but in reality, it was very different.