Fate Trading System – Chapter 75

Plan A

Gift of the Spring Breeze 9

Original Form

“Return her to me.”

The Hundred Flower Fairy was completely bewildered, looking in surprise as the female ghost, truly freed from the chains, came step by step towards her. She helplessly cast her gaze towards the master of the Nine Layers of Heaven (Ninth Heaven), the Heavenly Emperor.

The flower branch floated from her hand to the Jade Emperor’s hand, and he examined the demon that had reverted to its original form in his palm, curling up the corners of his mouth.

Fragile, a single pinch will kill it.

Ling Zhi redirected her gaze, walking towards the man leading the group.

Her heart was roaring and screaming inside; that thing was hers.

It should lie in her palm, never to be separated from her.

Her little demon.

Silly, soft, dazed, but incredibly warm—a presence she couldn’t give up once she encountered it.

“You say whether it’s faster for you to destroy this place, or for me to kill her.”

The Heavenly Emperor let the branches and leaves float, speaking quite playfully.

“You must value her greatly, right? As long as I make a move, she will die here, you know. A demon’s death allows no reincarnation, she will completely dissipate in this world.”

If one looks among the celestials, the Heavenly Emperor is undoubtedly the most outstanding, recognizable at a glance.

But the first instinct would absolutely not think he is the Heavenly Emperor, because of his casual aura, as if all death and injury had nothing to do with him.

He always watched coldly, and no one dared to approach him. He watched as Ling Zhi turned the Nine Layers of Heaven into chaos, only lazily giving orders at the end.

No one dared to complain, because he is the Heavenly Emperor.

“What do you want?”

Ling Zhi’s actions stopped, her voice hoarse, blood spreading at her feet, her focus unwaveringly on one place.

“What do I want? Shouldn’t this question be asked of you? What do you want, could it be you intend to destroy my Nine Layers of Heaven?”

The Heavenly Emperor leaned sideways on his chair, a group of incompetents, even a single ghost could fluster them.

In the Nine Layers of Heaven, there is no unity. Originally, celestials have an indifferent nature, with not much interaction between them. Having an irresponsible master only intensified this gap.

“Return her to me, and I will leave.”

“Why should I believe you? Anyway, she is in my hand now, right? After killing her, you must die as well.”

It only requires expending a large amount of power.

The Heavenly Emperor has his own little plan. These years, he has ignored affairs, but when he is willful, no one dares to criticize him. After all, they cannot defeat him, and he is also the legitimate successor of the Nine Layers of Heaven.

If he expends a large amount of power to eliminate this ghost, then she will certainly enter a weakened state, and at that time, there will be many people wanting to get rid of him.

Ling Zhi no longer wants to waste time; her entire mind is focused on one thought: to snatch back what originally belonged to her and hold it tightly in her hand.

“Tsk.”

The Heavenly Emperor used the pear blossom branch as a weapon and flicked it out. Ling Zhi dared not attack, forcibly endured it, spat out a mouthful of blood, and cradled Su Xin in her hand as if it were a treasure.

“Remember, the day you harm the human world is the death day of that demon in your hand.”

Ling Zhi left, and no one dared to stop her.

“Heavenly Emperor, how can you indulge that evil ghost? Why not order its execution?”

A celestial stood up to speak.

“Can you defeat it?”

“Could it be that the Heavenly Emperor is also not her match?”

That celestial ignored the previous question and continued speaking.

“I’m just too lazy to make a move. You all clean up and go back.”

That celestial still wanted to say something more, but the Heavenly Emperor raised his hand and sealed his voice.

Tch, said to be a heartless, emotionless god, just like this.

Ling Zhi was very afraid. She looked at the unresponsive Su Xin in her hand, at a loss.

How could she make her wake up?

Ling Zhi returned to the state where she could not touch anything, even though she was holding a flower branch in her hand.

What to do… what to do…

In heaven, one day; on earth, one year.

During the time Ling Zhi was fighting in the Nine Layers of Heaven, seven or eight days and nights had already passed in the human world.

Qin Yi had already handled matters perfectly, yet there was still no trace of Su Xin.

The poison was administered by the Prefect’s first wife; the assassination of the Prefect and the killing of the steward, as well as the impersonation of the steward, were all done by the Sixth Prince’s subordinates.

This place is near the sea, with developed water transport, serving as a major hub for operating and smuggling salt.

Selling private salt can yield huge profits. The position of Prefect in Yuanzhou might not seem particularly important in officialdom, but in business, this position determines many people’s sources of wealth.

After the Emperor learned the truth, he swiftly dealt with it with fierce means, and Qin Yi thus gained merit.

These matters were resolved two days ago, and Qin Yi has not left here since, still waiting for Su Xin in the original inn.

He had an intuition that something very bad had happened; that silly demon wouldn’t leave without notice or saying a word. She had promised to always protect him.

Qin Yi finally saw Su Xin, but it wasn’t the lively Su Xin he expected; instead, it was a plain-looking flower branch.

The female ghost holding the flower branch was anxious as if about to cry. Her posture was so embarrassed that anyone who saw her would retreat. She was in her evil ghost state.

“Quickly save her, do you know how to awaken her?”

It was still broad daylight, and Ling Zhi ignored the sunlight burning her in the room, appearing in front of Qin Yi.

Qin Yi stood up and closed the window to prevent the sunlight from shining in.

“How could this happen?”

Wasn’t it just a few days ago that she was still fine, full of energy in front of him?

“It’s all my fault, I didn’t protect her well. She was hit back to her original form.”

“Hiss…”

Qin Yi was also very anxious. How could he save her?

“Wait here for me a moment, I’ll be right back.”

Qin Yi suddenly thought of something and hurriedly ran out.

He didn’t know how to save a demon, but he knew how to save plants.

For plants, just bury them in the soil to grow, right?

Qin Yi bought back a flower pot and some supposedly very effective and precious soil, telling the shopkeeper he didn’t need flowers, and hurried back again.

“Quick, plant it!”

Ling Zhi looked at the flower pot, then at the branch in her hand. Could it really work?

“What are you hesitating for? Hurry, unless you have a better method?”

No!

Ling Zhi gritted her teeth and inserted the flower branch in.

One person and one ghost try the dead horse as a living horse doctor, this is the only way to try.

“Actually, the best method should be to take her back to her original body, which is over at that very beautiful pear tree.”

Qin Yi said.

“Where is it? I’ll go immediately.”

Ling Zhi held the exquisite small flower pot and touched the small petals on top.

“If only I remembered, it was a matter from several years ago. I only remember that one thing happened, but I can’t remember the place at all.”

He had passed so many places, handled so many cases, and crossed so many hills, how could he remember which one?

“Put it out to sunbathe, don’t all plants like that?”

“Give it to me, I’ll put it out.”

Qin Yi reached out to Ling Zhi, but Ling Zhi insisted on placing it herself; she really didn’t want to let go again.

“If I’m not mistaken, the pear tree became like this because of you, right?”

Qin Yi said, arms crossed. To be honest, he had no feelings for this female ghost lady. As a law enforcement officer, he initially did not believe in ghosts or gods, but the facts were in front of him, making it impossible not to admit. He always felt that this female ghost had deceived Su Xin.

Ling Zhi’s expression was grim. Su Xin indeed got involved in these matters because of her, so saying that Su Xin was injured because of her is not an exaggeration.

“Since you are a ghost, then sunbathing will certainly injure you, right? The sun outside is so intense now. If you directly put the flower pot out, will your hand still be okay? Don’t waste her hard efforts to help you, okay?”

Qin Yi didn’t really feel sorry for Ling Zhi. Actually, he thought that since people are already dead, why linger in the human world? He just didn’t want Su Xin’s efforts to be wasted; it wasn’t worth it.

Ling Zhi pressed her lips and placed the flower pot on the table.

Qin Yi opened the window again, put the flower pot outside, and even watered it a little.

Although a solitary flower branch stuck there does indeed look very strange.

Su Xin was already awake, but her current body’s power was insufficient to transform her into human form, so she could only wait a bit longer.

In this form, she couldn’t speak, but she could see the things around her.

She was somewhat bored and panicked, so she chatted with the system in her head.

Master Fourteen, I think my current state is extremely abnormal, even more exaggerated than a mermaid.

【You’ll get used to it, please make sure to prepare mentally, because this might not be the strangest.】

Could there actually be something stranger than becoming a tree branch?

Su Xin thought it couldn’t be, becoming non-human was already very miserable; could there be something more miserable than becoming this type of non-human?

【To be honest, my other host became a member of the insect race in an interstellar setting.】

Fourteen said, and honestly, even in that scenario, it felt very sorry for Sun Yixiao.

Because Sun Yixiao hated insects the most, and extremely loathed insects with shells, you must know that during those times of doing tasks, Sun Yixiao wanted to kill herself every day, waking up each day disgusted by herself. The scene was very gruesome, causing men to be silent and women to weep.

Yikes…

Su Xin’s drawn-out tone expressed her disdain. Thinking about it this way, becoming a tree branch doesn’t seem so bad.

Too abnormal, right?

It’s simply a test of one’s psychological resilience. Su Xin could endure herself becoming various animals or plants, but absolutely not insects. Despite sounding like a very cool insect race, it’s the same.

Su Xin diligently absorbed the sunlight. Indeed, without comparison, there is no harm. Thinking about it now, she still feels very fortunate, having only become a tree branch.

As the sun set and evening came, Ling Zhi ran to the Yue Lao Temple holding the small flower pot.

Last time, when Su Xin stayed there, she seemed very comfortable, probably because of the spiritual energy there. Since there is spiritual energy, it should be able to speed up her recovery.

Ling Zhi sat cross-legged on the ground, holding the small flower pot and looking at the red string tied on the flower branch.

Her little demon, quickly wake up.

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The author has something to say:

Sun Yixiao: What can I do? I am also very hopeless.

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