Chapter 116: His Light

In the Yuanrong Tower, there was a temporal gap between the people and Shi Wenyu when it came to seizing him; they were helpless. At that moment, Shi Wenyu executed a secret technique, pinching a seal, and on the walls of the Yuanrong Tower, the symbols began to move.

A sharp pain shot through Huang Rang’s mind, and she could feel herself about to enter a dream again!

Huang Rang sensed the danger; Di Yiqiu’s body was being taken over. Shi Wenyu was evidently prepared to possess him.

When would he lead everyone?

She resisted with all her might, and the others, including Di Yiqiu, also sensed the danger.

Without hesitation, Di Yiqiu lashed out with a claw. Xie Hongchen behind him was caught off guard, and blood immediately flowed from his arm!

“You!” Xie Hongchen was still figuring out a countermeasure when he was suddenly struck. Just as he was about to retaliate, something unexpected happened. He lowered his head and saw his own blood dripping onto the Yuanrong Tower.

Sure enough, the Yuanrong Tower sensed his blood, and the symbols immediately began to spin. Shi Wenyu let out a muffled groan. He was originally chanting a spell, but now he seemed to have lost some control.

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This was a tower of blood and tears.

Lei Yindaji killed an unknown number of people, imprisoning them within this tower, using spells and charms to forge this artifact.

However, because the artifact was too resentful, the master of the array was prone to backlash. So he established the evil technique of the Spirit and Devil Book to control the Yuanrong Tower. The technique fed on resentment and wouldn’t harm the Yuanrong Tower.

Di Yiqiu moved through the nine-tiered tower, needing to quickly understand the symbols of the Yuanrong Tower.

Xie Hongchen was dragged into the tower, and his bloodline made the Yuanrong Tower hesitate for a moment. Tens of thousands of people in the tower struggled and wailed, including his father, who was imprisoned deep in the belly of the Yuhu Immortal Sect’s mountain, and, oh, his master.

This was the longevity they yearned for.

Even Yi Nian Shenbu’s determination to slay dragons in the past couldn’t escape the temptation within.

Xie Hongchen used his fingers to cut his wrist, allowing more fresh blood to flow.

The Yuanrong Tower sensed him, causing even more intense vibrations. Meanwhile, Di Yiqiu, who moved inside it, quickly understood the artifact at the fastest speed—he was, after all, the most outstanding craftsman.

In this aspect of talent, he was even more formidable than Yi Nian Shenbu.

He swiftly seized one of the wandering talismans and swapped it with another golden-colored talisman!

For a moment, Di Yiqiu, Xie Hongchen, and Huang Rang all felt a sharp pain in their minds simultaneously!

Various sounds filled their ears—some pleaded for mercy, some cursed, and some called for help.

Suddenly, Huang Rang felt as if all the sounds around her had disappeared.

She opened her eyes and saw nothing but a vast expanse of dust. She struggled to stand up, and the yellow sand blew into her face.

Where was this?

Huang Rang was too familiar with the sensation of entering dreams; she knew she had entered the fourth dream.

But this place…

She lifted her head, looked around in confusion, and saw nothing but endless yellow sand. As she took a step forward, she unexpectedly stepped on something. When she lowered her head, she discovered that within the yellow sand lay tattered clothes.

And within the clothes was a shocking sight—a set of white bones.

Huang Rang racked her brain but couldn’t recall this place.

She looked at herself and found that she still had the appearance of an adult.

She had no choice but to continue walking. In the distance, a stone path was faintly visible, though it had corroded over time. The surrounding houses were in ruins, with occasional glimpses of their former splendor.

After walking for a while, Huang Rang suddenly stopped!

Right in front of her, a signboard leaned precariously, as if it might fall at any moment. On it, the words “Celestial Court” were already weathered and worn.

Huang Rang looked up, scrutinizing this seemingly familiar but ambiguous gatehouse. She suddenly recognized where this was!

This is the main gate of the Black Tortoise Bureau of the Celestial Court in the capital!

How…?

Where are the people inside?

Huang Rang rushed in, but it was empty inside. The yellow sand had eroded the ground, and the buildings were dilapidated, with vegetation withering away.

All things were silent, silently staring back at her.

“Di Yiqiu?” Huang Rang called out loudly, but the only response was the sound of the wind.

The sand fell on the roof, making a rustling sound.

In an instant, she couldn’t distinguish between dreams and reality.

Meanwhile, Di Yiqiu also awakened from the darkness. He opened his eyes, and intense pain spread throughout his body.

He tried to move, but as soon as he lifted his hand, he froze!

His hand was swollen and purplish-black, and even the slightest movement was exceptionally difficult.

And he was too familiar with this feeling.

This was exactly the suffering he endured every day when they injected the blood of the Snake Hui into him.

Could it be that he had returned to the year when he was nineteen?

Di Yiqiu exerted all his strength to suppress the excruciating pain from his bone marrow and tried to recall that year.

In the fifth year of Cheng Yuan, he proposed to Huang Rang, but she refused.

At that time, it wasn’t a big deal for the 86th prince.

He admired Huang Rang’s breeding talent, and the breeding families were closely connected. Even the court had to yield to the Xi family.

If he married Huang Rang, the court would have its own breeding master, and a free one at that.

—The calculations of the 86th prince were quite cunning.

Under Huang Rang’s refusal, before he could come up with a countermeasure, Shi Wenyu sent him out to capture the Hui Snake.

After successfully bringing the Hui Snake back to the palace, Di Yiqiu encountered an even greater disaster.

—Shi Wenyu gathered all the princes and princesses to the Yuanrong Tower and injected Hui Snake blood into their bodies.

Because it needed to be done in secrecy, away from wind and light, they were nurtured in a dark room.

Di Yiqiu couldn’t even tell what time it was.

He sat up and staggered to the door. Using the dim light filtering through the door, he rolled up his sleeves. Sure enough, snake scales of a bluish color covered half of his body.

The scales were fine and dense, growing on human flesh and sending shivers down anyone’s spine.

Di Yiqiu let go of his sleeves, and after a long while, someone entered.

It was Li Lu.

He walked to the side of Di Yiqiu, wanting to speak, but hesitated.

Di Yiqiu could only ask, “What’s the matter?”

He heard his own voice, blurry and indistinct, sounding unlike a human.

Li Lu whispered, “Chief, Miss Huang Rang… has married into the Yuhu Immortal Sect. Recently, she married Xie Hongchen.”

Di Yiqiu responded with a sound. Compared to the pain of the past, Huang Rang’s marriage was, in fact, not a significant matter.

He knew this was a dream, and as long as he could break free from it, everything before him was just a bubble.

But, Ah Rang… why do I have all the memories in this dream? Is it because of the incident in the Yuanrong Tower?

What about you? Do you still remember me?

“I, I want to go… to the Yuhu Immortal Sect!” Di Yiqiu struggled to move his tongue, but his swollen throat made his words unclear.

Li Lu supported him, automatically understanding his anxiety as a deep emotion.

Vice deputy Li comforted, “Chief, your current body is really not suitable for movement. Congratulations can be conveyed another day.”

Di Yiqiu still wanted to struggle, but soon he sat back down.

His current body couldn’t endure any physical exertion. Involuntarily, he closed his eyes, and his ears were filled with his own heavy breathing.

Intense pain filled his lungs and organs, but such pain had become a familiar part of his life.

Li Lu sat beside him for a long time before saying, “Chief, there are some other matters. Qiu Shengbai says you still cannot tolerate light and should not go out. Earlier this year, the Celestial Court received a batch of Eye of World Perception from the Yuhu Immortal Sect. You personally transformed them into Nine-Curve Spirit Eyes. Now, the Nine-Curve Spirit Eyes have been in use continuously. I brought some in; at least you can have something to do. Perhaps it won’t be so dull and boring.”

Li Lu was not a procrastinator. He quickly moved the Nine-Curve Spirit Eyes into Di Yiqiu’s cell.

And Di Yiqiu understood very well—given his condition, he couldn’t leave the room, nor could he reach the Yuhu Immortal Sect.

He couldn’t deplete himself any further; he could only use all his strength to conserve energy and integrate the Hui Snake blood.

As for the Nine-Curve Spirit Eyes on the wall, they showed different scenes depending on the array core brought by Li Lu. Sometimes it was the mundane scenes of the city, other times it was the immortal sect hunting demons. Sometimes butterflies frolicked, and other times flowers bloomed.

And none of these array cores were what Di Yiqiu wanted to see.

He had been waiting; he knew which one Li Lu would ultimately bring.

Outside the dream, In the fifth year of Chengyuan, the nineteen-year-old Di Yiqiu could not accept his current state. He refused to drink the “medicine,” stopped eating, and his will sank, nearly at the brink of death.

Qiu Shengbai had to move him out of the Yuanrong Tower and let him rest alone in the Celestial Court.

In the dark room of the Celestial Court, Li Lu, in order to keep him alive, found many array cores of the Nine-Curve Spirit Eyes to entertain him.

Finally, after seeing no results, Li Lu brought another core for him.

As the scene of the Nine-Curve Spirit Eye unfolded on the wall, Di Yiqiu, who had shown no reaction to his surroundings, suddenly looked up. Then this person blossomed quietly in his desolate years.

Across merciless time and harsh storms, she remained bright and vibrant, never withering.

Sure enough, on this day, Deputy chief Li inserted another core into the Nine-Curve Spirit Eye.

He closed the door, said nothing, and left quietly.

Di Yiqiu lifted his head and saw the Huang Rang, lady from Xiancha Town, now with her hair in a bun and dressed as a woman, just a few days after her marriage. She was carrying pastries she had made herself, visiting Xie Shaochong.

The scene where she was taking a deep breath was shown in the Nine-Curve Spirit Eye; as if gathering strength countless times, she finally turned and walked into the courtyard.

Xie Shaochong obviously didn’t recognize her. The two chatted in the courtyard.

She smiled with a delicate and graceful demeanor.

“Brother Xie, Hongchen left in a hurry, and I’m somewhat idle with no one around. Today, I made some pastries. Could Brother Xie please taste them? Are they still palatable?” She was poised and generous.

Xie Shaochong, however, looked bewildered. He clearly didn’t recognize the woman before him.

Huang Rang mentioned Xie Hongchen, and he quickly realized, immediately bowing, “It’s the Sect Master’s wife. I’ve been impolite.”

Huang Rang naturally didn’t mind and took the food box into the courtyard, inviting him to taste.

At first glance, Di Yiqiu felt strange.

Huang Rang was, after all, the Sect Master’s wife of the Yuhu Immortal Sect. Why would she cautiously befriend the people in the sect?

Thus, he developed a slight curiosity about this woman.

Deputy chief Li quickly realized where his interest lay, so the array cores he brought were all related to Huang Rang.

In the most painful and desperate times, when Di Yiqiu detested the world, he watched her, a lonely girl unrecognized by anyone, step by step, lead herself in front of everyone in the Yuhu Immortal Sect.

Cultivators didn’t judge based on appearance or age, but one time, Huang Rang mistook someone and got their generation wrong.

She hid on the Qilu terrace and didn’t want to go out on good days.

If it were usual circumstances, Di Yiqiu wouldn’t have cared about such trivial matters.

But today, in the current situation, he urged Li Lu for information about this person for the first time.

Li Lu thought it was the chief’s lingering feelings for the past.

Yet, in this world, how many instances of love at first sight and unwavering commitment truly exist?

From now on, Di Yiqiu was merely a ray of light breaking through the darkness of this room. He watched this delicate woman struggle to survive in the Yuhu Immortal Sect.

He observed her like watching a blade of grass breaking through a crack in the wall, like watching an ant carrying food back home, like watching a mouse on an adventure.

And in the end, she didn’t disappoint his expectations.

She adorned herself, gave porriage and medicine, and quickly established herself in the Yuhu Immortal Sect, becoming the revered “Sect Master’s Wife” praised by everyone.

Her reputation spread far and wide, and she lived harmoniously with Sect Master Xie Hongchen, equal in status.

Occasionally, some clear-minded individuals in the world lamented that the immortal sect gained another wife while the world lost a renowned figure.

However, for the chief in the Celestial Court, whether she was a wife or a renowned figure, sunlight was just sunlight.

Once it has shone, you will know its warmth.