Counting on your fingers, the fifth marriage is coming

People's memories are grayish white, and Xu Shanshan, who broke into them, became the only color.

She wandered through the long river of his memory, and the moment her fingertips touched the other's soul fire, the scene before her eyes suddenly distorted.

She seemed to be sucked into a whirlpool, and the scenes around her rapidly receded, finally freezing in a spacious and majestic hall, which was the main altar of Xuanmen.

Master Anran was confronting several Xuanmen elders.

His face was still cold and gentle, but there was a hint of determination in his eyes.

"If she betrays me, I am willing to take full responsibility." Shi Anran's voice was low and firm, as if declaring an unshakable oath.

"An Ran, we kept you by her side to teach her just for the convenience of supervision. Don't develop any unnecessary feelings for her. She is just a pawn of ours."

"Yes, if the chess piece is unwilling to be manipulated by others, it will be a useless move!"

"Don't be confused!"

Shi Anran listened quietly and smiled coldly, "Of course not. Although she is now wavering and has the intention to betray me, I have spent most of my life cultivating her. It would be a pity to abandon her."

The Xuanmen elders looked at each other and finally nodded.

"But just in case..."

One of them walked forward, holding a talisman that was shining with strange light in his hand, and slowly pressed it on Shi Anran's chest.

The talisman sank into his body, turning into a restriction, branding itself deep in his soul.

"If you show favoritism and cause her to make a big mistake, you will be doomed!"

Shi Anran did not resist: "Of course."

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The scene changed, and Xu Shanshan saw the conversation between his past self and Shi Anran.

"Master, I finally figured out a way to completely free Jingguo from Xuanmen's control, and I can be free too."

"any solution?"

"In fact, I started to lay out this plan many years ago. The Seven Kings' Rebellion was bound to cause the Kingdom of Jing to suffer a setback. The Xuanmen sect was ready to make a move, and their surveillance of me would definitely be relaxed at that time. I faked my death to get rid of my identity as the Grand Master, and then became the most powerful Emperor Yue of the Kingdom of Jing."

Shi Anran looked at her quietly, with a hint of complicated emotions in her eyes.

"Seven kings are causing chaos, the country is doomed, and the people of Jing will suffer."

"Master, has the world ever shown me mercy? They needed a great master, so they imprisoned me in the cage of the Holy Mountain. The royal family respected me on the surface, but they asked me to bear all the suffering and misfortune alone."

"Don't worry, I will save the world, of course, after the Jing Kingdom's royal family is in danger and the Xuan Sect is overthrown."

He nodded and said softly, "I'll help you."

Xu Shanshan's heart sank suddenly.

At that time, she originally thought that Shi Anran would help her hide it from Xuanmen, but she didn't expect that he would take advantage of her trust - he exchanged her soul with Xu Shanshan's, making her a person with a missing soul.

The scene changed again, and Xu Shanshan saw Master Anran deducing the hexagrams alone in the secret room.

His face was pale and beads of sweat appeared on his forehead.

"Right now, perhaps this is the only way to survive..."

He pulled down his clothes and there was a deep and long scar on his heart.

Xu Shanshan thought of the altar before. He hurried to save her and cut open his heart to inject life into her, but she clearly had no memory of this.

Had she lost something, or forgotten something?
She followed Shi Anran to an altar deep in the secret room, only to discover that this was the formation he had set up for soul exchange. This formation was so complex and intricate, unprecedented in its complexity, that it definitely could not be achieved overnight.

...He must have been preparing for this a long time ago. Her heart seemed to be grasped by an invisible hand.

"Shen'er, your heart has already been sacrificed by Xuanmen. After you die, they will refine you into a corpse puppet to continue to be controlled by them. It is impossible for you to hide from Xuanmen's surveillance. I can only choose a new body for you to help you be free."

She saw Shi Anran injecting his own blood essence into the formation, and saw him enduring tremendous pain when the formation was activated.

His body was covered in blood and full of holes due to overdrawn, while her soul was forcibly extracted from her coma and entered Xu Shanshan's body.

"So... that's it." Xu Shanshan put his hand on the beating heart.

It turned out that her original body had long lost its "heart", and the only reason she was still alive was because Shi Anran chose to share her life, which allowed her to maintain her vitality.

Why did she have to exchange souls with someone else? Because only by completely getting rid of that body could she get everything she wanted.

Tang, Wei, Chi, Gu Yue and the Li family were the marriage arrangements he had chosen for her. They were the variables he had calculated through divination that could help her change her fate.

Everything she experienced was a way of survival he paved for her.

Before she had fully grown up, he protected the fake Grand Master, created resistance, and had been guarding and covering her in his own way, preventing her from being exposed too much to the sight of the Xuanmen people.

The scene changed, and she saw that what she had done in private was finally discovered by Xuanmen, and they also realized what Shi Anran had done behind her back.

Shi Anran was chained to a stone pillar. The elders of Xuanmen surrounded him, their eyes full of coldness and anger.

"How dare you go against Xuanmen's will and let her go without permission?" The leading elder spoke in a low voice with unquestionable majesty.

Shi Anran raised her head, blood on the corner of her mouth, but her eyes were still calm: "She shouldn't have died."

“Shouldn’t she die?” The elder sneered and shouted, “She has grown strong now and is unwilling to be controlled. However, you taught her everything you know, causing her existence to become the greatest threat to Xuanmen!”

Before he finished speaking, the talisman in the elder's hand had already been pressed on Shi Anran's chest.

The talisman sank into his body, activating another restriction in his body and branding it deep in his soul.

Shi Anran's body trembled violently and beads of sweat oozed from his forehead, but he clenched his teeth and did not utter a single groan.

"Since you are determined to protect her, then bear all this for her." The elder's voice was cold and merciless.

The next scene made Yuedi's heart suddenly tighten.

She saw Shi Anran’s soul being forcibly stripped away, and the pain seemed to be transmitted to her through her memories.

Shi Anran's body was shaking violently and his face was as pale as paper, but his eyes were still firm, as if telling everyone: There was no need to fear death, and he would not regret anything he had done.

The moment his soul was stripped away, Shi Anran's body collapsed like an empty shell.

The elders of Xuanmen sealed his soul into a bronze lamp. The wick burned with a faint blue flame, which was the fire of Master Anran's life.

"Put his body in the black coffin and transport it to Thunder Island. Since he doesn't want his apprentice to be a Xiang corpse puppet, let him go!" the elder ordered coldly.

The black coffin was fixed by nine black iron chains, each of which was engraved with spells to suppress the soul.

Xu Shanshan saw Master Anran's soul struggling in the bronze lamp. The dark blue flame flickered, as if it was enduring endless pain.

After arriving at Thunder Island, the black coffin was fixed on the highest altar. In the dark cloudy sky, lightning struck the black coffin from time to time, making a deafening roar.

Every time lightning struck, Shi Anran's soul would tremble violently, and the dark blue flame in the cauldron would almost go out. This was both a punishment for him and also intended to create a calamity that would bring disaster to the world.

The memories gradually became blurred, and when the last firefly sank into her brow, Xu Shanshan heard the sound of chains coming from the depths of the void.

She walked over step by step, and then saw the imprisoned soul of Master Anran.

Although the three souls of heaven, earth and man were gathered together, his soul was forcibly stripped away and his body was destroyed by Thunder Island. His mind was unstable and he was at the end of his strength.

"I told you I would find you." Xu Shanshan said calmly. (End of this chapter)