Hell Emperor.

Chapter 410 Evergreen
In the dim room, faint sobbing sounds could be heard continuously. The Snow Girl snuggled tightly with her husband whom she had not seen for many years, and her tears wet his chest.

At the side, Inai lit a short candle and reminded: "When the candle burns out, the person you want to see will leave. You don't have much time, so say what you want to say now."

After a long separation, the Snow Girl of course had a lot to say, and hurriedly asked, "You were suppressed in the Soul Devouring Abyss. Have you been okay these years? Have the Shuras there made things difficult for you?"

Chang Qing stroked the snow girl's cold face and answered gently, "I had a rough time in the past few years. There are many evil spirits suppressed in the Soul Devouring Abyss. They heard that I once worked for the Heavenly Court and was a mountain god, so they often came to trouble me."

The Snow Girl was worried: "How could this happen... Are you okay?"

Chang Qing didn't want to make her worry, so he smiled gently, "Being a mountain god doesn't bring all bad things. A master heard that I was once a mountain god, so he provided me with shelter and asked me to look after a medicinal garden under the Soul Devouring Abyss for him. The medicinal garden grows rare flowers that only bloom in the Soul Devouring Abyss. Since then, not many evil spirits dare to cause trouble."

Hearing this, the Snow Girl finally felt relieved and said with relief: "I'm so glad you're okay... I wonder who that master is? If I have the chance, I must repay him well."

Chang Qing revealed the man's identity: "I heard from the evil spirits in the Soul Devouring Abyss that he is one of the twelve beast-shaped masters of the Beast-shaped Hall. Each beast-shaped master controls the form of a wild beast, and the one he controls is the form of a deer. I don't know his name, but I know that all the ghosts call him the Deer-shaped Master."

After a pause, Chang Qing seemed to remember something and hurriedly asked, "By the way...where is my child? Is he with you?"

Chang Qing looked around, and his eyes finally fell on Ye Jie behind him. He hesitated and said, "Could it be that he is our child? According to his age, our child should be this old... But, how can he be a ghost?"

Ye Jie's mouth twitched, and he was speechless, but he couldn't blame Chang Qing. Who made Ye Jie starve to death at the age of fifteen? No matter how many years have passed, the appearance he presented is the appearance of the fifteen-year-old before his death.

The Snow Girl interrupted him immediately: "Don't talk nonsense... He is my benefactor. Thanks to his help along the way, I can come here and meet you. If it weren't for him and his companions, I'm afraid I would never see you again."

Chang Qing immediately realized that he had made a mistake and apologized: "I'm sorry, I thought..."

Before Changqing finished speaking, the short candle next to Inai's hand was completely burned out, leaving only a pool of warm slag.

The red veil that had just been taken off by the Snow Girl and fell to the ground suddenly flew up, bringing up a gust of cold wind, accurately covering Changqing's face, and he could no longer utter a sound.

The Snow Girl didn't know what was happening yet and still held her husband's hand tightly. However, the feeling she felt in her hand was no longer the familiar warmth, but a bone-chilling coldness that was even colder than the coldest ice cellar.

The cold stimulation brought the Snow Girl back to her senses. Her husband had disappeared, and instead, there was only the extremely strange red veil.

The woman in red veil slowly raised her hand, and her originally rough and thick palm like a man's now turned back into a woman's soft and boneless jade hand. She picked up her fingers and slowly pulled them in front of the Snow Girl's forehead, and a silver silk thread was pulled out by her.

After getting the silver thread, the woman in red veil opened a thin gap from the bottom of the red cloth with one hand, and shyly inserted the silver thread with the other hand. Under the cover of the red cloth, no one could see her next move and could only hear the crunching sound of her chewing.

The Snow Girl could not suppress the severe pain in her mind. The agony of having her love ripped away caused her to have a splitting headache. She wished she could bang her head against the wall to relieve the pain.

Tears flowed down the snow girl's pale face like pearls from a broken string. It was unknown whether it was because of the pain in her mind or the sorrow of having her memories stripped away. Even Ye Jie couldn't bear to watch and asked, "Are you okay?"

"I'm fine..." The Snow Girl managed to answer, crying out in pain. Despite the unbearable pain, her face remained strong.

Ye Jie sighed: "Now that you have met your husband, your long-cherished wish should be fulfilled, right?"

The Snow Girl shook her head: "No... I still have a lot to say to him. I want to see him again! I want to see Changqing again!"

Hearing the snow girl's request, Ina showed a look that suggested it would happen, and took out another short candle:
"You already know the rules. If you want to see him, I won't stop you. But every time you see him, you need a thread of love. The love thread contains all your memories of him. If there is no love left, you will completely forget him."

The Snow Girl trembled inwardly. The consequence of completely forgetting her husband was so terrible, so terrible that she couldn't bear it at all. But she gritted her teeth and persisted:
"Even if there are such consequences, I still want to see him!"

Inai stopped persuading her and let the Snow Girl lift her red veil again and light a short candle.

"Xue Ling...what's going on? How did you see me?"

When the red veil was taken off, Changqing appeared in the room again. With the experience from last time, he reacted quickly. He was full of confusion, not understanding what was going on. He was clearly in the Soul-Devouring Abyss, so how did he appear here?

"It's the red veil. Only the red veil can allow us to cross the barrier of the Soul Devouring Abyss and meet each other again."

The Snow Girl endured the severe pain in her head, her dim eyes showing a bit of haggardness as she told the truth.

"A red veil?"

Hearing that name, and seeing the strange furnishings in the room, Chang Qing understood what was going on, and his expression changed:
"The red veil you mentioned is the thousand-year-old evil spirit hiding in the Witch God Temple? You actually asked it for help? Don't you know what the price is for asking the red veil for help?"

Facing her husband's confusion and accusations, the Snow Girl pursed her lips and said sadly: "I just want to see you again, no matter what the price is, I am willing to pay it."

Chang Qing looked reluctant. It had been many years since he reunited with his wife and they were able to learn about each other's recent situations, but he couldn't be happy at all. The joy of the reunion was soon overwhelmed by huge worries.

Currently, he is being suppressed in the Soul Devouring Abyss, thousands of miles away from his wife. However, the red veil can cross thousands of mountains and rivers, penetrate layers of restrictions, and summon him from the Soul Devouring Abyss to this place. However, the price of doing so is too much for both of them to bear.

"The Red Veil... I once heard about it from an immortal outside the East China Sea. I always thought it was just a legend, but I didn't expect it to be true..."

Chang Qing took a deep breath, his brows filled with worry, and the same thing happened to Xue Nu. The two of them clung to each other. Obviously, the time they had together was so precious, but no one spoke to break the silence.

After hugging for a long time, Chang Qing asked, "By the way, you haven't told me yet, how is our child now? Didn't he come with you? I have been in the Soul Devouring Abyss for so many years, thinking about you, which gave me the motivation to persevere and not be defeated by those evil spirits." The Snow Girl was full of sorrow and said in a sad voice, "Our child, he...he is dead."

"How could it be..." Chang Qing was horrified. Hearing this bad news suddenly was like a bolt from the blue. There was a hint of disbelief in his eyes. "What on earth happened? Tell me quickly!"

"since……"

The Snow Girl was about to speak and tell the cause of her child's death from the beginning, but was interrupted by Inai.

"Time is up."

Inai reminded him slowly, his tone calm and unaffected by the sad atmosphere in the room.

The red cloth flew up, completely covering Changqing's face and even obscuring his breath.

Seeing that all traces of Changqing were disappearing rapidly from the red veil, and it turned back into the strange and ominous thousand-year-old evil spirit, the Snow Girl could no longer suppress her excitement and screamed, "No... my Changqing..."

Before the Snow Girl could finish her words, the woman in red veil reached out again, pulled out a silver thread from her forehead, and put it into her mouth, chewing and swallowing it.

The movements of the red veil were filled with the shyness of a young girl. Even when she swallowed her love threads, she refused to let outsiders see. From beginning to end, Ye Jie could not see her mouth, nor her original appearance. He could only see the red cloth moving. Everything was blocked by the red cloth.

The love thread was pulled out abruptly, and the heart-wrenching pain made the Snow Girl half-kneel on the ground. Her whole body trembled uncontrollably, cold sweat broke out on her forehead, and she was enduring the pain of being cut into pieces every moment.

Even Ye Jie understood the seriousness of the matter. Compared with before, the Snow Girl was now extremely weak. Where was the majesty of a great demon?
"Let's stop here... You have already met your husband twice, your wish should be fulfilled, right? If you continue, you will only suffer a serious blow, and even your realm will fall." Ye Jie couldn't bear to watch any longer, and turned to persuade her.

The Snow Girl gritted her teeth and bit her lips. Bright red blood flowed from the corner of her mouth, leaving a shocking mark:
"No... He just learned about his child's death, but he doesn't know how the child died. How sad must he be? I must tell him the news. I can't let him worry in vain in the Soul Devouring Abyss and add to his sadness."

Ye Jie opened his mouth, but didn't know how to persuade her. No matter what he said, he couldn't change the Snow Girl's determination. In order to achieve this wish, she had spared no effort.

"I want to see him again..." The Snow Girl dragged her splitting head and pleaded with the red veil.

She sat there with a red veil, her body motionless and terrifyingly silent, just waiting for someone to lift the veil and catch a glimpse of her beautiful face.

Once again, Chang Qing lifted the red veil and looked at his wife, who was trembling all over and with bloodshot eyes. He was equally grief-stricken:
"Why did you do this... Don't suffer for me anymore. I violated the Heavenly Law and was suppressed under the Soul Devouring Abyss. This is the retribution I deserve. Why should you suffer for me?"

The Snow Girl slightly raised her head, her eyes showing not only pain but also satisfaction and relief: "I am already very happy to see you again... I don't want you to worry in vain in the Soul Devouring Abyss alone. I want to tell you everything that happened. Our child, he... he..."

Having said that, the Snow Girl paused, and a deep sense of panic suddenly arose in her heart for no reason.

She really wanted to tell her husband, who was suppressed in the Soul-Devouring Abyss, the whole story of her child's death. However, when the words came to her lips, she couldn't say them no matter what. It was not because the situation was so embarrassing that she couldn't say it, but because she simply didn't remember it.

"Strange... How did our child die? Do we... have a child?"

The Snow Girl fell into deep thought. No matter how hard she tried to recall, she could not remember anything about the child. She even forgot the child's name, not to mention how the child died. There was endless severe pain in her mind, as if it had been stabbed by a sharp knife. Her memory was completely confused.

"I...I forgot...how could this happen..."

The Snow Girl trembled all over and felt cold all over. She felt as if she had fallen into an abyss from which there was no escape.

Ye Jie seemed to have seen something and said immediately: "It was the red veil. It must have done it. Your memories of the child have been completely forgotten along with the disappearance of love."

Chang Qing also realized the seriousness of the problem and quickly persuaded her: "Don't look for me anymore. If you continue like this, you will only make yourself more miserable! I just hope that you can live a good life in the future and don't look for Hong Haitou again."

The Snow Girl shook her head like crazy. She grabbed her face with both hands. Her sharp nails dug deep into her soft face, disfiguring it. But she didn't care. She only felt the pain in her heart reach the extreme: "No... I can't forget you too. I have to look at you carefully. Only in this way can I remember you..."

Seeing that he couldn't persuade the Snow Girl, Chang Qing had no choice but to look at Ye Jie: "My benefactor, you brought her here, please persuade her not to come to see me again. If she continues like this, I'm afraid she will really..."

Ye Jie sighed: "I tried to persuade her, but she didn't listen at all. Even you couldn't persuade her, so what else can I do?"

Changqing was distracted for a moment. At this moment, Inai's emotionless and cold voice rang in everyone's ears again: "The time is up."

The red veil flew up from the ground, like an inescapable giant net, entangling Changqing's face, and his figure could no longer be seen.

The Snow Girl sat there in a daze, as if she had lost her soul. Even though the red veil had once again taken away her love, she did not react at all. Her whole body was petrified and everything in the outside world was far away from her.

It was not until her love thread was swallowed by the red veil that the Snow Girl covered her face and sobbed. Seeing this, Ye Jie sighed and stepped forward to comfort her, hoping that she could cheer up again:
"Don't be sad. You have gained something from this trip. At least you know that Changqing is safe in the Soul Devouring Abyss and is valued by the Deer Envoy. You don't have to worry about him anymore."

After hearing what Ye Jie said, the sobbing Snow Girl froze in place, forgetting even her grief. She looked at Ye Jie with confusion in her eyes: "Chang Qing? Who is Chang Qing..."

Hearing this, Ye Jie's pupils shrank and he took a breath of cold air. Then he heard the Snow Girl say:
"I still remember that I came here to find someone, but I don't remember who I was looking for. I seem to have forgotten something important... Who is the person I'm looking for?"

(End of this chapter)