Fate Trading System – Chapter 73

Plan A

Gift of the Spring Breeze 7

Yue Lao

How can this be…

Ghosts cannot touch physical objects.

Previously, Ling Zhi could only throw her own things, and other ghosts, including this demon.

Worldly things, she cannot touch, even this water is the same.

“I just tried, and didn’t expect to succeed.”

Su Xin also had a look of unexpectedness, saying somewhat foolishly.

“It seems very useful, do you feel it?”

Ling Zhi’s fingertip felt the water’s icy coldness, feeling very comfortable.

Ling Zhi said nothing, she only looked at Su Xin’s face inches away, her eyes’ color very deep.

Su Xin was still holding her hand, stirring the water, realizing her question hadn’t been answered, she tilted her head to look at Ling Zhi, but accidentally crashed into those deep eyes, feeling momentarily helpless.

“I felt it, thank you very much.”

Ling Zhi withdrew her gaze, looking in the direction of the lake’s surface, and softly expressed her gratitude.

“It’s nothing.”

A strange feeling flashed through Su Xin’s heart, but she continued enthusiastically holding Ling Zhi’s hand to touch things.

They were in the center of the water, squatting on the lake’s surface, Ling Zhi’s long black hair winding and scattered, her red clothes like butterfly wings.

Su Xin led Ling Zhi’s hand across the lake’s surface, taking her to feel the lotus leaves and lotus flowers in the water.

Here, perhaps due to the thin spiritual energy, there were no awakened intelligent spirit creatures present.

This was originally a very romantic scene, but it was disrupted by something.

The strong fishy smell of water grass, the wet sound.

There is a water ghost in this lake.

The water ghost’s face was already swollen from being submerged, looking extremely disgusting.

He crawled out, saw Su Xin and Ling Zhi on the lake’s surface, and then slowly shrank back.

Neither was human.

One was something unknown, the other seemed to be a very powerful ghost.

The beautiful moonlit scenery was disrupted by such a suddenly emerging head, Ling Zhi frowned, but Su Xin felt indifferent.

She even found it very novel, waving towards the ghost in the lake.

“Come out.”

The water ghost slowly crawled up again, but this time no longer had that swollen appearance from the water.

He was a scholar, looking gentle in appearance.

“Much better looking than just now.”

Su Xin sat lightly on the lotus leaf, as if she had no weight.

“Isn’t it?”

Su Xin looked at Ling Zhi, who seemed somewhat absent-minded, and when she heard Su Xin’s question, she lifted her eyes and nodded.

“What’s wrong?”

Su Xin poked Ling Zhi’s face.

“Nothing.”

Ling Zhi shook her head, she lifted her eyes to look at the water ghost, causing the scholar-dressed water ghost to shiver.

“How did you die?”

Su Xin released Ling Zhi’s hand and ran to squat in front of the scholar.

The scholar suddenly submerged silently, leaving Su Xin puzzled.

“How else could he die? A water ghost is, of course, drowned.”

Ling Zhi walked over to Su Xin’s side, pulling up the squatting Su Xin.

“Of course, I know that. I just wanted to hear the story, really, how he ran away.”

Su Xin pouted, while Ling Zhi lowered her eyes and said nothing.

That water ghost was probably scared away by her; she might have accidentally revealed her aura of wanting to devour.

But actually, she doesn’t usually act against ghosts, after all, she is also a ghost and doesn’t need to rely on them to replenish her power. It’s only when some ghosts really displease her that she chooses to devour them.

It was just seeing Su Xin release her hand and run to someone else that made her feel a little bit displeased.

Ling Zhi classified that feeling as a normal state, very normal indeed. Maybe it was because if she wasn’t close to Su Xin, she would be bounced back by the power, so she liked Su Xin holding her hand and would be unhappy when Su Xin let go.

Yes, that’s exactly it.

“Don’t mind him, come on, let’s go to the Marriage Temple and take a look.”

Su Xin’s mood changed very quickly; one moment she was unhappy, and after thinking of other things, she would immediately become happy again.

She heard that the Marriage Temple was very beautiful, and since it was not yet the Lantern Festival, the Marriage Temple had no people at this time, making it perfect to explore thoroughly.

Ling Zhi offered no resistance as she was pulled along to run, her clothes’ edges and hair floating up in the air.

Su Xin didn’t use teleportation; instead, she ran directly to the Marriage Temple, with the wind whistling past her ears, feeling very comfortable.

Ling Zhi seemed to have no weight, as Su Xin pulled her along, it felt like pulling air.

“You’re very light.”

“The weight of a ghost, how much can it be?”

Ling Zhi answered her, following her steps toward the destination.

The Marriage Temple’s doors were tightly closed, but they easily passed through.

In the courtyard, there was a big tree, with red ribbons hanging all over it.

Marriage Temple, also called the Yue Lao Temple.

“Huh? There’s a spirit?”

Su Xin looked at the big tree in the courtyard; this tree had intelligence.

Ling Zhi was now beside Su Xin, and being here made her somewhat uncomfortable.

In contrast, Su Xin felt very comfortable, with the spiritual energy inside her body circulating more joyfully.

“How can ghosts enter here?”

The big tree spoke, but Su Xin didn’t quite like what it said.

The big tree looked at the red-clothed female ghost, emitting a repelling aura; this was an evil ghost.

Marriage Temple, the Yue Lao Temple, is a place for worshipping Celestials. Logically, ordinary ghosts shouldn’t be able to enter, but this ghost could, which seemed very powerful.

“So what about ghosts? Do you look down on ghosts? We’re just here for a walk.”

“A demon? You two should leave, this place welcomes neither ghosts nor demons.”

The big tree said in a muffled voice.

Demons belong neither to heaven nor earth, and naturally, Yue Lao’s marriage book has no record of them. As for ghosts, they are long-dead existences, so how could there be talk of marriage fate?

Su Xin wrinkled her nose and gave a dissatisfied hum.

“We’re not here seeking marriage fate, just to stroll around. Since you say this, then we simply won’t leave.”

Su Xin pulled Ling Zhi towards the inside of the Marriage Temple, and the big tree, having no physical form, couldn’t block them.

As they entered the temple, Ling Zhi stumbled and bumped into Su Xin.

“What happened?”

Su Xin was startled and hugged Ling Zhi.

“Something attacked me.”

Ling Zhi held Su Xin, feeling much better.

Very strange, Ling Zhi looked at Su Xin’s worried appearance.

Since encountering this demon, it seems like everything has become different.

By touching this demon, she can leave the place of bondage.

Through this demon, she can touch things in the human world that she normally cannot.

Just now, her body was clearly uncomfortable, but when held by this demon, that painful feeling diminished.

Like a miraculous elixir.

This demon is too special.

Someone walked out from the temple, with a full head of white hair, yet dressed in all red, an old person, leaning on a cane, with many red threads entwined on the cane.

Undoubtedly, it was Yue Lao.

“How did you come out?”

Yue Lao looked at Ling Zhi with a complex expression. He had heard the notorious name of this ghost. Back then, the underworld was disturbed because of her, and the King of Hell came up to complain, with everyone present.

Yue Lao did not get involved in this matter, since it wasn’t under his jurisdiction. He only needed to focus on the marriage fates of the human world, and in fact, he didn’t need to intervene in such matters.

But he hadn’t completely isolated himself, and at that time, he was still very interested in the outcome of this ghost.

This ghost could not be strangled, which indeed made everyone curious.

In the end, several star gods sealed her in the Chenghuang Temple, which finally brought peace.

Now, several hundred years have passed, and how this ghost suddenly came out and appeared in his Yue Lao Temple was strange, especially since those star gods did not sense this at all.

Yue Lao quickly reported to the higher-ups and first descended to the mortal world to check the situation.

“You knew I was locked there?”

Ling Zhi countered.

She couldn’t remember, having forgotten who locked her inside.

“So that’s how it is.”

Yue Lao fixed his gaze on Su Xin, and then looked at Ling Zhi, suddenly realizing.

“Tsk, an ill-fated relationship.”

“What are you saying?”

Su Xin asked curiously, looking at the muttering and strange Yue Lao.

At a glance, she was clearly a little demon that had existed not long, lively and carefree, naive and innocent.

Yue Lao said nothing, just kept looking at the two of them, waiting for others to arrive.

“We need to leave quickly.”

Ling Zhi tugged at Su Xin’s hand, feeling very uneasy.

“You cannot.”

With a wave of his hand, Yue Lao made a net of interwoven red threads appear at the doorway.

“You cannot stop me.”

Ling Zhi’s black pupils turned blood red, her face deathly pale, emitting hostility.

Yue Lao’s heart skipped a beat, and he hurriedly withdrew the net.

He was just a small celestial responsible for marriages, and if the net were broken, he didn’t know how long it would take to weave it again, and it couldn’t stop her anyway.

“Don’t you want to know why touching her allowed you to come out?”

Yue Lao said, attempting to persuade Ling Zhi to stay.

Ling Zhi was indifferent, and with the unaware Su Xin, she wanted to step out.

“You are destined to be together, I can help you stay together forever.”

Yue Lao quickly said.

Ling Zhi’s steps came to a stop, and she turned to look at Yue Lao.

“Wait, wait, wait, why do I need to stay with her forever?”

The Pear Blossom Demon shouted, pointing at the ghost sister with a face full of confusion.

Although she didn’t dislike Ling Zhi, and Ling Zhi was very good-looking, she had agreed to take Ling Zhi along to leave, but she hadn’t intended to always have Ling Zhi with her; after all, a demon’s life is very long!

Master Fourteen, you still haven’t told me the lifespan of this body.

【This… apologies, I am unable to find out this time.】

Why?

In so many worlds, this is the first time such a situation has appeared for the Fourteen.

【This time, the host’s body’s lifespan is related to the client’s wish target, and Qin Yi’s calamity timing is variable, so I am also not clear, very sorry.】

That is to say, Qin Yi’s day of great calamity is Su Xin’s death date.

Su Xin and Fourteen both do not know that every decision Su Xin makes will greatly affect Qin Yi, and Qin Yi’s own thoughts, in the unseen, determine his day of great calamity.

Su Xin thinks, no matter what, Qin Yi is a mortal and cannot live beyond a hundred years.

And Qin Yi now is already over twenty years old.

At most, Su Xin might live seventy more years, perhaps not even that.

Oh.

Ling Zhi was stunned when she heard Su Xin’s words and pursed her lips.

That’s true, this demon doesn’t necessarily have to stay with her.

She cannot leave this demon, but to this demon, she is indeed an optional existence.

She is just like an ephemera in her long life.

Born in the morning, dying by evening, falling into the water without a ripple.

Her mortal world has nothing to do with her.

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