Told You I Can Turn Back Time
Chapter 85 Black Earth Lady

Chapter 85: Chapter 85 Black Earth Lady

When Lin Xing came to his senses, he found himself standing in front of a bridal sedan.

"Husband, won’t you hurry and take your wife out?"

Lin Xing groggily went through the wedding process, and when it was time for the wedding night, he lifted the red cloth covering the bride’s head, revealing the face of a beautiful woman.

Staring at the lovely yet blurred face, Lin Xing gradually lost consciousness again.

It was a repeating cycle of marriage, wedding night, death.

After an unknown number of repetitions, Lin Xing finally sensed that something was amiss.

"Your face..." Lin Xing looked at the bride’s face and realized she didn’t have a fixed appearance; it was constantly changing, as if the features of countless women were blending and interchanging.

Among the various faces, Lin Xing thought he saw many women from his memories, even Jing Shiyu’s features were mixed in.

When he realized this, Lin Xing suddenly snapped to attention, "Wasn’t I dealing with an evil spirit?"

He looked at the bride in front of him, who had her red cloth lifted, and said, "You’re just using AI to generate this image, and you’re using my memories as a database, right?"

The bride before him clearly didn’t understand what Lin Xing was talking about. She just turned pale with a surge of cold energy and opened her gaping mouth to swallow Lin Xing whole.

After dying a few more times, Lin Xing gradually figured out the rules of the illusion.

"After entering this illusion, a memory of getting married today is woven into my head, and if it weren’t for the number of times I’ve died, I probably wouldn’t have caught on."

"If I follow the memory’s instructions and go through the ceremony and wedding night with this bride, I’ll end up dead."

Having understood the rules of the illusion, Lin Xing suddenly felt that coming here today had been the right decision.

"First, let’s see if I can practice my skills."

Without paying any attention to the eager bride, he sat down on the spot and began to practice meditation.

"Husband, won’t you hurry and take your wife out?"

"Husband, hurry up..."

"Husband..."

After urging him several times, Lin Xing was unresponsive, having entered a deep state of meditation.

So the servants beside him immediately came over, picked up Lin Xing with his eyes closed, and began to guide him through the wedding ceremony.

Finally pushed into the wedding chamber and seeing that Lin Xing made no move, the bride seemed to lose patience and lifted the red veil herself.

"Someone, help the groom into the bridal chamber."

After dying once again, Lin Xing realized that as time reversed, he was back at the beginning of the illusion.

So he continued to meditate through life and death. Lin Xing felt this was the most relaxed life-and-death struggle he’d ever faced—after all, he just had to keep meditating, and let everything else be handled by the bride.

He didn’t know how long he’d been "farming," but when Lin Xing felt his spirit start to fatigue, his meditative skill had greatly improved.

Meditation (Level 2, 11.3%) → Meditation (Level 2, 52.8%)

"It’s about time to get out."

With that thought, Lin Xing no longer followed the rules of the illusion to get married but began trying to break through the illusion before him.

...

Sword light illuminating the sky, the gongs, flags, and lanterns of the wedding procession were all sliced into pieces, scattering along the way.

Only that red bridal sedan remained, racing into the distance as if trying to escape something behind it.

"Escape?"

"Let’s see where you can run to!"

Jing Shiyu, with her long hair flying, levitated three feet above the ground, pursuing the red bridal sedan with gusts of wind.

As she flicked her sword, a flash of sword light whooshed out and completely flipped off the sedan’s top.

"Hand over the person to me, or I’ll tear you apart and burn you to ashes today!"

The bridal sedan, like a frightened beast, ran even faster following the slice of Jing Shiyu’s sword light.

Just then, a figure suddenly leapt out from the bridal sedan—it was Lin Xing, who had escaped the illusion.

He had tried many methods in his repeated deaths, such as causing a scene at the wedding, beating the bride, dismantling houses... He finally realized that he could simply run directly to the edge of the illusion, and as long as he could avoid the bride’s pursuit, he would eventually escape the illusion just as he had now.

"Lin Xing, are you alright?" Jing Shiyu’s eyes lit up upon seeing Lin Xing escape from the sedan, and then her face filled with murderous intent as she looked back at the damaged bridal sedan.

With another flick of her sword finger, another harsh sword light slashed out, cutting the sedan into two halves.

The halved bridal sedan sat motionless, as plaintive female cries gradually dissipated into the air.

At the same time, a bridal figure dressed in a wedding gown and covered with a red veil fell to the ground.

Jing Shiyu, who had just destroyed the sedan, turned slightly pale, feeling that the spiritual thoughts in her sea of consciousness had become chaotic.

She quickly put away the Sword Jade Hairpin, sat down cross-legged, took out an elixir, and started to soothe her injuries.

Lin Xing walked towards where the sedan had vanished, picking up the evil relic left behind.

The moment his hand touched the relic, images and sounds flooded his mind.

...

"It is still possible to marry a daughter to the boy next door, but a son buried, is forgotten with the weeds."

"Do you not see, at the western frontier, ancient bones uncollected still lay? "

"New ghosts are pestered by unresolved qualms, old ghosts weep, with their cries dampened by the drizzling rain!"

Appearing before Lin Xing was a girl silently shedding tears as she copied the poems.

The young man she was betrothed to had gone off to war, with no news for a long time.

Year after year, day after day.

The girl honored her marriage promise, refusing to remarry despite her parents’ persuasion, still waiting for the young man who had gone afar.

She waited until her wedding clothes faded, until her black hair turned white, but the young man never returned, with no further news.

Until one day, a fairy known as the Black Earth Lady appeared before the woman.

Moved by the woman’s loyalty, the fairy offered to bestow Immortal Law, enabling the woman to meet the young man in the next life.

The woman, grateful to the fairy, thenceforth cultivated the Immortal Law near her husband’s home, using it to guard the young man’s homeland.

In a blur, she felt herself dressed in the wedding gown again, sitting in the bridal sedan, and the one she sought was waiting ahead.

...

As the visions gradually faded, Lin Xing snapped back to reality, his brow furrowed slightly as he recalled everything from those scenes, "Black Earth Lady?"

Looking at the statue of the bride, Lin Xing murmured, "Were you bewitched by this Black Earth Lady to turn yourself into an evil spirit?"

Daoist Bai Yun, Bai Yun, and now this Black Earth Lady.

Lin Xing didn’t know about the other evil spirits in the world, but at least the three he had encountered seemed to have something lurking in the background, pushing events from the shadows.

After pondering for a while, Jing Shiyu, who was sitting beside him, slowly exhaled a breath, finally having calmed the injuries within her body once again.

She used her meditation technique to sense the Spiritual Energy stabilizing within her sea of consciousness and then converted it back into her familiar quantifiable method, thinking to herself, "Ah, until the injuries fully heal, my spiritual thoughts could only exert the strength of four women."

Looking at Lin Xing, who stood beside her with a worried expression, she thought about how he had stayed by her side all this time, surely concerned about her condition.

Jing Shiyu propped herself up with a smile and said, "I’m fine, it’s just that the action was too big this time, and my old injuries flared up."