Immortality Path: From the Blind Man at the Pharmacy
Chapter 211 - 129, 130. This time, he took Yune away (big Chapter - subscribe)_2

Chapter 211: 129, 130. This time, he took Yune away (big Chapter - subscribe)_2

She urgently needed to make a choice: to eradicate her humanity and become a perfect evil spirit to cope with outside attacks, or to be devoured by exterior evil spirits.

Two drowning people were in the endless hell.

In the boundless darkness, only their hands gripped each other tightly, as if clutching that lifeline neither could reach shore.

At that moment, countless thoughts flashed through Song Cheng’s mind like a revolving lantern, like the last flickers before extinction...

He looked up at Yune and the light.

Yune turned around, looking at him and the darkness.

The two were suspended in the water, drifting, gazing at each other, never reaching the bottom, nor finding an end.

Suddenly, Song Cheng saw the power in Yune’s evil spirit face dimming in her eyes...

He read Yune’s thoughts.

’It’s over...’

’Time to give up...’

’Thank you...’

...

...

’You... what kind of person are you?’

’Are you good, or evil?’

Song Cheng was being interrogated within.

Suddenly, he remembered something...

He was evil.

In Tang River Village, he had tried every way to escape; lacking a Road Guide, he needed to become a refugee to perfectly reach the county town.

What better excuse to become a refugee than bandits raiding the village?

Thus, even though he knew Ding Sigu had left, he didn’t expose him.

He imagined the bandits arriving and killing those detestable villagers... merely exquisite packaging housing his evil.

The Reappear Calamity wouldn’t end just because Yune had grabbed his hand.

In this, all evil was magnified.

The cracks in Song Cheng’s heart widened.

He possessed evil.

It was he who caused Yune to end up in this state today.

He also shared in the greatest evil of Tang River Village.

And now it seemed to be repeating.

He had saved Yune, so Yune came to save him.

Yet the Yune who came to save him also needed to be saved.

He himself also needed to be saved.

’This time... this time...’

Song Cheng suddenly gripped Yune’s hand with a burst of unimaginable strength in his soul; the tight clasp as if telling both the soul hidden within the evil spirit and himself: do not give up!

...

...

Two hands, in a sudden reversal.

Yune, who had been on top, now beneath.

The river also vanished in an instant.

The two drowning figures found themselves in a different setting, no longer cold, no longer suffocating, but equally in pain...

It was a deep pit in the center of a village, filled with firewood drenched in slick, stinging petroleum streaming down, the pungent odor assaulting their nostrils with the night wind.

Song Cheng stood at the top of the deep pit, while Yune was falling into it, landing on the piled-up firewood.

But as she fell, Song Cheng’s hand tightly grabbed hers.

Thus, her body dangled in mid-air, gently swaying.

The two still locked eyes.

And though Song Cheng’s surroundings had been empty, suddenly it buzzed with noise.

"Burn her!"

"Burn her!"

"Burn her!"

Angry voices rose and fell like whirlpools.

"She is an omen of misfortune, a source of disaster, she brought misfortune to the village, she saved that child, that child should have been sacrificed to the River Lord!"

"Burning her will appease the River Lord’s wrath!"

"Burn her!!!"

Hysterical screams and roars mingled together.

Song Cheng suddenly realized: entangled with Yune, opposing probably a Fire Ghost, and now... he and Yune were embroiled in the Fire Ghost’s Reappear Calamity.

In Tang River Village, someone might come to rescue him.

But in this strange village, there was no one.

"Burn her!"

"Burn her!"

The malicious, twisted howling transformed into a wave capable of shattering hearts, each curse making the person Song Cheng held seem utterly despicable.

No one would forgive her, no one would save her, she didn’t even know why she was being burned.

Had she done something wrong?

She... just saved a child, a child who was supposed to be drowned.

...

...

Despair intensified in Yune’s eyes.

She understood the situation very clearly.

She and the Fire Ghost had been in balance.

But her violent struggle with the Fire Ghost had dragged Song Cheng into it.

Song Cheng, for some reason, had entered Tang River Village and started his ordeal.

In the Reappearance, her human side was awakened.

When humanity surfaces within an evil spirit, the evil spirit... weakens.

The balance between her and the Fire Ghost was disrupted.

She and Song Cheng were both entangled in the Fire Ghost’s Reappearance.

The only way, she knew clearly.

A look of relief appeared in her eyes; really, these days as an evil spirit were very painful, she followed the rules of evil spirits while fighting off their invasion...

Her human aspect was dwindling.

If so, why keep any lingering regrets?

Rather than being manipulated like a puppet by the habits of evil spirits, better to let go and then become an evil spirit, thus devoid of humanity...

That way, her balance with the Fire Ghost would be restored.

Song Cheng would also have a chance of survival.

...

...

’For Yune, and for myself.’

’Never let go.’

Even as Song Cheng felt the villagers’ shoving.

Their pushing intended to hurl him and Yune together into that flaming pit of petroleum-soaked wood.

He desperately clung to an old tree root beside the pit, his palms bleeding, yet he had still not given up.

Suddenly, he smelled the char, he saw the world turn red, blood-red, like fire invading, the color of the quiet Tang River Village’s sunset, also the color of burning.

Black smoke billowed from all directions, the scattered sparks transformed into blazing torrents blown by the wind toward the narrow village, while the surrounding villagers quickly turned into charred corpses, which were carbon skeletons stripped of all flesh by the fire...