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Volume 1 Heian Past and Present: Chapter 32 Love Ballad

Between this world and the other side, there is an unknown place.

"Am I going to hell?"

The girl's tone was confused.

"Well, your soul is about to fall to the other side."

The girl replied softly in the same voice as him.

"Really... Can I still see Shang Yangjun?"

The girl's tone was full of anticipation.

"Can't see it."

The same voice answered softly again.

"……Why?"

The girl's tone was filled with extreme pain and despair.

"do not know."

The same voice hesitated a little, but finally answered.

“…I want to go back.”

The girl's voice, suppressed with pain, was filled with a bone-chilling hatred.

"……it is good."

The same voice replied softly, somewhat reluctantly.

The Yoshino Mountain area is in a realm of alienated death.

The green lotus transformed by Shang Yang was still slowly rotating clockwise.

Shang Yang's mind was now in a daze, bored. After observing his surroundings, he gave up the idea of ​​exploring the realm of death. The realm of death is a conceptual layer from "life" to "death". Apart from the principle of "transforming life and death", other properties do not exist.

It's not that you can't see, but there is nothing at all, no color, no perception.

Most living beings, including humans, will be transformed into undead in an extremely short time without being noticed once they come into contact with this conceptual layer. Even among the undead, those who know about the existence of the realm of death are extremely rare.

For some alien creatures with strong vitality, including monsters, when their bodies are fatally injured and become incomplete, as long as the remains of the corpses remain in the world, these remains will repair themselves. When the body becomes intact again, the soul of the alien creature will be able to escape the state of death, return to the body, and come back to life again.

Moreover, there are some alien life forms whose bodies have completely disappeared and whose souls have been transformed into undead by the realm of death, but they can still return to the world of the living as undead.

That's another situation.

Originally, according to the calculations of the Lady Lord God, even if Shang Yang's body "shell" was destroyed, his soul could still escape the realm of death. After his soul returned to the human world, Shang Yang could use his magic power to create another "shell" and come back to life. He could also find his own innate abilities by removing the constraints of the body's "shell" and the process of his soul entering and leaving the realm of death.

After comprehensive calculations based on the information she had, Miss Lord God concluded that Shang Yang would return to the world within 26 hours.

But now the situation has changed. After Shang Yang's soul entered the realm of life and death and turned into a blue lotus, the realm of death began to change its own nature in coordination with the blue lotus transformed by Shang Yang's soul.

When the multiverse no longer recognized that the celestial demon Shang Yang would die, the realm of death began to send Shang Yang back to the human world on its own.

After falling into the realm of death for the first time, Miss Lord God was extremely surprised. Now Miss Lord God has made an even more shocking discovery, that is, the green lotus transformed by Shang Yang's soul is gradually becoming materialized. It is expected that after the green lotus transformed by Shang Yang's soul is actively sent back to the human world in the realm of death, the green lotus transformed by this soul will become a material entity.

The Lady Lord God couldn't help but recall the scene when Qinglian transformed into Shang Yang after Shang Yang became the Yuanshi Tianyao.

According to the Lord God's further calculation, the time of this process is within the same 26 hours, and Shang Yang will definitely return to the world.

"The resurrection time is so long...it seems much worse than that of the Penglai people."

After listening to Miss Lord God's description of the situation she currently knew, Shang Yang couldn't help but feel a little disappointed.

For his plan with Miss Lord God, it seemed that only the process had changed, but the result had not changed.

[No... From what I've observed, only the first comeback takes this long.]

Miss Lord God's tone was not very uncertain.

If I'm not mistaken, the Doctor's soul actually contains death itself. From now on, no matter what harm he suffers, he probably won't come here again... But this is just my speculation. We can study it slowly in the future. But Doctor, after removing the constraints of your "shell" and experiencing the test between life and death, have you found your innate abilities deep within your essence?

"Don't worry, Miss Lord God, I have already sensed the existence of this talent that comes from the essence."

Sensing the "power" that had already broken out from the depths of his soul and overflowed with soul, the young man answered Miss Lord God with ease.

This is the most important purpose of the two people's trip. If it goes smoothly, it will be the best result for the young man and the Miss Goddess.

"...There's something I've wanted to ask you for a long time, Miss Lord God."

After a brief pause, the young man asked Miss Lord God a question that had puzzled her for a long time.

"The immense mana, or spiritual power, within Ai's body shouldn't be due to her origins?"

"From a physiological point of view, close relatives have the potential to give birth to geniuses. Does this also apply to extraordinary powers like inspiration and magic?"

[…The Master also noticed this.]

Miss Lord God was silent for a while, somewhat hesitant.

[It's not a case of incest... Such a remarkable talent and inspiration can only be innate, and has nothing to do with whether the parents are closely related. Miss Ai's talent and inspiration are so strong that even if she reincarnates, the soul that constantly attracts spiritual energy will not disappear, but will accompany her to reincarnation in the human world once again.]

[…This is probably why Miss Ai’s fate was fixed, and after multiple reincarnations, she fell into hell and became a Hell Girl.]

Nara, Fujiwara Kyo.

In Fujiwara no Miyabi, love is deeply buried in a secluded place.

Late at night, in a secluded place inside the village, the deep pit where Ai was secretly buried after her execution had already been hastily filled up by the warriors in the palace, and the warriors had already left.

The remains of love are buried deep underground under layers of soil.

Emperor Jitong, who had already returned to the imperial palace to rest, was not worried that his deeply buried love was still alive.

The three swords that pierced the heart of love were enough to kill it. Even so, she was not dead yet. She was buried deep in layers of soil, and she was dying. She could only wait for the moment of suffocation under the heavy pressure of the soil.

Judging from general facts, Emperor Chitong really has nothing to worry about.

He was severely punished, tortured to the point of being on the verge of death, and his heart was pierced, but love did not die immediately.

But love is still human. After being buried under the soil, love finally took its last breath with longing for its beloved, great regret, and deep resentment towards all those who caused all this.

Emperor Chitong would never know that her momentary change of mind ultimately satisfied a condition that was originally impossible to satisfy.

And now, Emperor Jitō himself, and even everyone in the Fujiwara Palace, must pay the price for this consequence.

A terrible price.

It was quiet late at night, and the several foot soldiers who took turns to guard here were feeling a little sleepy. Some of them leaned against the wall of the temple, and some against the pillars, wanting to take a short nap.

The wife sighed, "...I can't find him."

In the silence, the girl's voice sounded faintly.

The girl's voice was filled with confusion and loss, and it faintly reached the ears of the drowsy foot soldiers.

"Who! Who is there?!"

The confused and lost voice startled the drowsy foot soldiers, waking them up with pounding hearts. They all subconsciously picked up their weapons, looked around in panic, and shouted questions.

No one answered.

The bright moon, casting a faint moonlight, was covered by dark clouds at some point.

got windy.

On this windless night, a biting cold wind suddenly blew out of nowhere.

In the cold wind, there seemed to be a strange sound that sounded like crying and laughing.

The foot soldiers were terrified. Suddenly, everything became strange on a quiet night.

Boom...

Thunder rumbled in the dark night sky.

The foot soldiers looked at each other, their calves trembling, but they still gathered together with all their might, filled with fear.

...Crack!

White lightning flashed across the dark night sky.

Click! Click! Click!

Lightning began to flash continuously in the night sky, and thunder sounded in bursts.

According to legend, if a resentful undead is born, heaven will send down thunder and lightning to dissolve the resentment of the undead. However, for some special resentful undead, the thunder will instead stimulate its transformation and make it more powerful.

This is also the way of heaven.

As a human being, if you suffer a painful fate that you don't deserve, it is only natural for the dead to turn into ghosts and seek revenge.

...Crack!

Amidst thunder and lightning, white lightning suddenly struck the ground, blasting away layers of soil.

The thunder and lightning struck with a deafening roar, and the surrounding trees were ignited by the lightning and burned fiercely.

The explosion caused by the white lightning created a bottomless pit on the ground.

Inside the deep pit, there was a blazing fire.

Several foot soldiers looked at each other in dismay, and after exchanging their thoughts in fear, they decided to take the risk and go forward to check. In case there was any rare treasure in the deep pit that caused the natural disaster, everyone here might be able to escape their helpless fate and become rich.

The foot soldiers slowly squeezed forward and cautiously looked into the deep pit where the fire was shining.

"……ah!!!"

In the deep pit, the flames burned fiercely, and the dazzling flames illuminated everything at the bottom of the pit.

Several foot soldiers who peeked in could easily see what was at the bottom of the pit.

Then, several foot soldiers let out heart-wrenching screams of terror and fled away in a tumbling manner.

Lying on her side at the bottom of the blazing pit was the body of a young girl, buried deep under layers of soil. She was dressed in a single white garment and covered in congealed blood.

The body, which had long lost its life, showed an extremely terrifying vision.

The girl's body began to move.

The girl slowly propped up her frail body, and the iron chains nailed around her fair wrists jingled.

The girl stood up, her head bowed, her long black bangs obscuring her face.

In the girl's right hand, she held a heart emitting a dark glow.

This heart is beating, beating...

thump... thump...

Ai raised her head, her bloodless face was extremely sad and beautiful, and the blood plasma on her cherry lips had already solidified, just like her life that had already disappeared.

The girl's fair jade feet stepped lightly on the soil.

The soil stepped on by the girl's fair white feet began to ignite with flames.

The girl's heart, held in her slender hands, kept beating.

dong... dong... dong...

Love sensed the beating of her heart, raised her hands, held the heart in front of her, and stared at it infatuatedly.

"Shangyang..."

Love stares at this heart with a dazed look and calls softly.

On the beautiful face stained with blood, a sad and blurred shy smile was reflected.

"Be with me...we will be together forever..."

Muttering to herself in a daze, Ai's slender hand groped behind her, penetrated from behind, and grasped the sword that pierced her heart.

puff!

The dagger that pierced the heart from behind was pulled out by love without hesitation and thrown into the bottom of the pit.

Then, the girl spread out her soft hands, stretched out her five seemingly weak and boneless fingers, and covered her chest.

Five fingers pierced straight into the chest.