Questioning Heaven, Desiring the Way - Chapter 138

Crack! A crisp sound arose from within the coffin. Gu Suihan and the middle-aged man stopped their conversation and hurriedly turned around.

Ba-thump! Ba-thump! The sound of a heartbeat slowly grew louder and louder, beating like a war drum. A frostiness filled the well quickly, making the temperature fall drastically.

“Once he wakes up, neither of us will be able to get away,” said Gu Suihan with a chuckle as he deliberately cast a glance at the unconscious Shuang’er.

“And what do you think we should do?” The middle-aged man furrowed his brows and stared at Gu Suihan. Based on the energy that Gu Suihan had given off earlier, the middle-aged man quickly understood that Gu Suihan was no Foundation Establishment cultivator. This young man was actually an ancient fellow who had taken over someone else’s body. After all, no Foundation Establishment cultivator could possibly be such a genius that they could shapeshift with their spiritual sense.

“Help me break the formation on this coffin and let me take over the body first. Then we’ll join hands and destroy the spirit that’s also awakened.” Gu Suihan eyed the physical body that was clearly gaining life again.

“I can’t hold up like this for too long, since I’m only a partial soul. What if you hurt Shuang’er in the future?” the middle-aged man immediately raised objections. His whole reason for existence was to ensure Shuang’er’s safety and Gu Suihan was definitely no upright man. What if Gu Suihan uses Shuang’er to threaten him once this ordeal was over? What was he going to do then?

“If you don’t want to cooperate, then you’re going to die now and she won’t make it either. If you cooperate, then I might actually be kind to her,” said Gu Suihan with a frosty smile, his flippant words spelling out a threat that made the middle-aged man fly into a rage.

After staring daggers at one another for some time, the middle-aged man finally caved in and agreed to cooperate with Gu Suihan.

“The body’s consciousness has not been fully extinguished and it’s just nearby. How are you so sure you can take over this body successfully?” asked the middle-aged man.

“This technique requires one to wash away all traces of their old self during the process of refining the physical body. So, even if this body belongs to that cultivator, it won’t be difficult.” Gu Suihan remained confident. If he could take over this body successfully, this body would be so much more powerful than the one he possessed right now.

“He’s…about to wake up,” said the middle-aged man. As the illusion of a split soul, he was naturally more sensitive in certain aspects.

“I’ve finally…made it!” A hoarse voice suddenly rang out as it uttered words with indescribable loneliness and excitement.

“Now!” yelled Gu Suihan. He sent his spiritual sense out to cover the entirety of the not-very-large well to search for where that voice had come from.

“It’s coming from below the coffin!” yelled the middle-aged man. He used his sword will to slash the cage open, then used it to hack at the coffin without caring about whether the body inside would be damaged or not as a result, clearly aiming to destroy the body.

“You’re asking to get killed!” shouted Gu Suihan in a nasty tone of voice. He gathered his spiritual sense again and transformed it into a reddish light that glinted frostily as it aimed for the middle-aged man. It was an imposing aura that enveloped Shuang’er as well.

“Humph!” The middle-aged man scoffed angrily. There was a flash in his right hand as a silver sword appeared and he brought it down toward Gu Suihan.

Everywhere the silver sword touched, the frosty glint from Gu Suihan was destroyed. His blade trembled slightly as its soul-destroying will rapidly flew toward Gu Suihan.

“Explode!” Gu Suihan bellowed loudly and his flesh turned into a bloody mess, exposing his thickened skeleton made from the chaotic intertwining of bones. The empty sockets where his eyes were supposed to be looked like they were about to swallow someone.

“Come out now!” As the sword will of the middle-aged man came toward him, Gu Suihan’s ribs moved and a small, delicate and adorable baby suddenly appeared.

The bloody glow behind him looked like a nebula and the white heart-soul in the lower part of his body was covered in swirling dust. His eyes lit up as a golden glow flickered around his lower abdomen.

“You’ve gathered your heart-soul?” The middle-aged man was horrified and retreated in shock, making sure that Shuang’er was safely behind him. His ethereal body kept flickering, as though it was unable to hold up under the sheer pressure of Gu Suihan’s murderous qi.

“You…you are an Immortal?” The voice beneath was filled with fear, its exclamation reflecting the terror it felt.

“Time to die!” The eyes of Gu Suihan’s combined origin core and nascent soul infant seemed to contain the sun, moon, and stars, the wind, the clouds, and the heavens all moving as one rotating system.

His eyes seemed to contain an irresistible suction power and he absorbed the middle-aged man into his body through his eyes even as the middle-aged man howled in terror.

As the qi in his body moved rapidly, his face kept changing expression for a short moment before reverting to that indifferent gaze unique to Gu Suihan. Many of the lines in the ugly web of crack lines on his supreme soul had also healed up.

“And you!” Gu Suihan sent his supreme soul toward the underside of the coffin and looked on apathetically at the nascent soul before him that was just as injured as his. This nascent soul did not have a heart-soul beneath it and the glow around its head was barely there.

“I don’t want to die! I don’t want to die!” The face of the nascent soul looked terrified for a moment, then a determined and aggressive expression flashed across its face. “I’m going to just give it my all!”

Gu Suihan had a surprised look in his eyes as his expression fell. He knew what situation he was in right now. After he had deflected the sword of the middle-aged man and swallowed the older man’s soul in what seemed like an effortless motion, he was actually almost out of energy. He was hoping that what he did just now was enough to frighten this revived corpse sufficiently so that he could swallow it as well.

But this consciousness belonged to a Divine Soul cultivator after all. No cultivator at such a high level was stupid enough to be frightened like that. When it realized that Gu Suihan was going to consume it, it decided to forgo everything and bring Gu Suihan down with it.

“Flowers are not flowers! Mist is not mist! Dust returns to the ground! Dirt returns to the ground! Awaken the worldly desires! Connect to the illusionary realm!”

Gu Suihan formed a hand seal forcefully and light burst from his eyes, making them sparkle as brightly as gemstones. Countless complicated and strange-looking runes shot out from his gaze that could terrify thousands and headed straight for the eyes of the other party.

“Awaken now!” A voice in the distance rang out softly like a sigh.

Gu Suihan and the other party felt their world spin before their eyes and the next thing they knew, they were staring blankly at one another, feeling like they had forgotten something.

“Suihan, what’s wrong with me?” The young man who just spoke had some freckles on his face, wore casual clothing, and looked younger than he was because of his messy hairstyle. He was now looking confusedly at another young man.

The other young man felt confused as well, but he quickly responded, “Qingming, maybe you’re in a daze because you just woke up. What’s happened? Did you have a nightmare? Here, finish your breakfast.”

The young man named Suihan had waist-length black hair that was smooth and shiny, which matched his supple skin and delicate perfect facial features that made him look feminine. He wore a knee-length trench coat, with the first two buttons of his shirt left carelessly unbuttoned, revealing his high collarbones and his slightly muscular chest.

“Maybe,” mumbled Qingming. He glanced enviously at Suihan’s feminine looks and couldn’t help but feel sour. “Seriously though – how does a man like you manage to look this pretty? This is totally why I don’t have a girlfriend now!”

“Hoho,” Suihan chuckled and shook his head casually as he picked up a thick book lying on the table and started reading it.

“We’d better go or we’d be late. If we’re late, our tickets will be useless.” Qingming wolfed his breakfast down, grabbed his jacket, and dragged Suihan out with him.

Suihan sighed exasperatedly and said flatly, “It’s just a movie, isn’t it? You can just stream it online later or something.”

“What? No! We’re going for a movie premiere! And I heard the producers invested a few hundred million into it! Also, several celebrities are going to be there.” Qingming ignored the complaints of Suihan and dragged him along. He slammed the door behind him shut and ran toward the garage.

“Fine, fine. Let go of me, I’ll drive the car over.” Suihan sighed as he broke free of his friend’s grasp and walked toward the garage at his own pace, even though Qingming kept yelling impatiently at him to hurry up.

“Let’s go.” Suihan peeked his head out of the window.

The eager Qingming hopped into the car in seconds and gave the command, “Onward!”

Immediately after they set off, Qingming touched the sides of the car enviously and said a little sadly, “If only I had a Porsche like you. That would be so nice. I…I don’t even have a job now.”

“You could work in my company. I didn’t say you couldn’t do that,” said Suihan with a chuckle. He said in a relaxed voice, “It’s a family business, so I don’t have the final say in everything, but it’s not difficult to just get you a position in the company.”

“It’s alright, Suihan. I know you mean well, but I insist on relying on my own two hands to carve a career out for myself,” said Qingming with a determined and resolute look on his face.