Otherworldly Merchant
Chapter 559: A Spring River that Flows Eastward

Ihurriedly movedaside to dodgethe female ghost. I fumbled to takeout the wormwood powder,smearingitoverthe wound on my neck. Then, I stood upandcautiouslywatchedthe ghost!

The female ghost’s weaponswereherlong sleeves. In the dreams, her sleeves looked mesmerizing when she danced. However,atthis moment, if sheusedthem, they could take people’s lives!

I didn’t want tofighther head-on. I moved the lightercloseto the paintingand shouted,“Calmdown. Do you want your husband to perish?”

Shefroze. However, it was for only a moment. Thenshe continued to attack me even more furiously!Hersleevesmoved into the air. I couldn’t even see her shadow, only hermovingsleeves.

“Li Yu,damn you…” I thought I would go madafterknowing that Li Yuhad overestimatedhis position in Zhou Ehuang’s heart. Since she had already become an evil ghost, she didn’tcare aboutbetraying her husbandor not.

“Don’t hesitate! Burn me!” I suddenly heard Li Yu’s rushing voice. It seemed he had made up his mind.

I didn’t wantto. If I burned the painting, his soul would perish. I didn’t mind himand continuedto sway to avoid Zhou Ehuang’s attack. I threw the Sirius Whip asideasI had already used up its power. Icasuallygrabbed a blood transfusion rack near me.

This transfusion rack had helped many people in the past. More or less, it had some Yang energy. When I used the rack to stop the ghost’s sleeves, she screamed.

The blood transfusion rack worked. I wielded it harder, butI had to stop after a few times since it was heavy.

When the ghost saw mestopmy movement, she shrieked and flew toward me. Soon,she pushedme into the corner. I had no way back!

“Ehuang!”At thismoment, Li Yu called her. I opened my eyes and recognized that the ghost’s long nails were just around ten centimeters away from my forehead. She could pierce through my head intheblink of an eye.

Li Yu’s Yin spirit was smiling. He was holdingthe scroll paintingandhovering above the flame of a candle.

Although the small candle couldn’t hurt Li Yu, if Li Yu boldly pushedhimself into the flame, it wouldn’t be easy for him to return unharmed.

“I’m so sorry Ehuang! I shouldn’t have had anything to do with your sister under the moonlight and left youto diealone in the palace.Your sister was indeedyoung and beautiful, yet you are my only wife.Sigh! Ihaveregretted it. Butby then, it was too late. Why didn’t I recognize and treasure you when I still had you with me?If you ask me how much I worry, it’s just like a river flowing eastward in the spring!”Then, Li Yu threw the scroll toward the candle.

I gawked in shock.I hadn’t thought that Li Yu would be that cruel to himself!

It seemed the female ghost also hadn’t expected that he would be that resolute. She screamedanddashed forward. But the scroll had already been engulfed in flames. It fumedrings of dark smoke. Li Yu’s ghost slowly disappeared as the paintingburned. In the high flame, he didn’t even flinchand stoodmajesticallyasa king. I admired this man.

However, as soon as Li Yu disappeared, the female ghost became more frantic. The black mist became thicker. It coveredme shortly after.

“You all have to die! I’ll bury you with him!” As she saw that I didn’t have anything to defend myself, she didn’t hurry to deal with mebut kept howling and roaring.

I was speechless. Li Yu’s spirit was forced by her, right? Why did she pour it on me?

Anyway, I understood thatsinceLi Yu’s soul had vanished, it was impossible to help Zhou Ehuang ascend peacefully. I hadn’t activated the formation earlier because I didn’t want to hurt Li Yu. But Ididn’texpectthat hewould beso resolute.

Before she couldattackme, I jumped into the eye of the formation.

The female ghost gritted her teethand hurledherself toward me. I didn’t let thischance slip away. I closed my eyes and read the spell to activate the formation. At the same time, I took out the Peach Soul Flower from my chestand heldit horizontally in front of me.

The Peach Soul Flower’s power wasnot big. However, since it was small, it wasn’t an attacking weapon, but a strong defensive tool. As soon as the Peach Soul Flower emerged, a dazzling red halo expanded,which sweptthe ghost’s sleeves away. She screeched. At the same time, the PeachSoul Flower’s halo faded and disappeared.

I opened my eyes to look at her. She was wearing a menacing smile. She knew the Peach Soul Flower had lost its defensive effect. I shook my headand gaveup onthe idea of helping her ascend. I activated the mutually engendering and mutually restraining formations.

From my spotinthe center, two light spheres appeared. They spun and releasedalight that hit the ghost. She was stunnedand lookedat me for quite a long time before instinctively hitting the Life gate.

Unfortunately, as soon as she broke through the Life gate, the Death gate of the other formation blocked her. Since the spheres were spinning fast,whenshe got out of the Life gate, shefacedthe Death gate.

Under the silver light, the dark mist on the ghost diluted gradually. In the end, she had no energy left.

I exhaled. I wanted to ask if she had any last words. However, before I could say anything, she had run toward the burning scroll.As I watchedthe flame devour her, I had a feeling I couldn’t describe…

IfLi Yu and Zhou Ehuang had livedduringmoderntimes, they would have been a typicalmarried couple that loved each other a lot.

Yet, the husband couldn’t get over the mortal temptation.He was a typical man.

Zhou Ehuang could endure her husband’s harem full of beauties, but she couldn’t stand the affair between her husband and her younger sister.

In the legend, after Zhou Ehuangknewabout Li Yu and Young Lady Zhou, she laidfacing the wall every day. Untilher death, she hadn’tglanced at her betraying husbandeven once.

The next morning, Orange woke up. After such a horrible incident, Orange’s mother agreedtoher marriage. Shen Haoran stated that I had done him a great favor. He swore that he would stop his thug life andbecomea responsible husband. Moreover, he asked me to stay to drinkwine at hiswedding.

Their wedding was small but warm. Li Mazi and Irefusedto sit on the high chairs for important relatives. We sat in a cornerandsilentlydrank. After the reception, Li Mazi and I spent another night there.After thenewly married couple bid farewell,we drove back to Wuhan.

I brought the remaining part of the painting with me. I would study it further since I didn’t understand why a counterfeit could become an otherworldly item. Why didthe Last Ruler, Li Yu of the Southern Tang,chooseto dwellin it?

Then, Iwentto an expert to check the painting. He told me it was true that the painting was a counterfeit. However, the poem on it was authentic.

I couldn’t hold my emotion after thinking about Li Yu boldly burning himself. He had chosen that way to destroy himself. Deep in his heart, he hadfeltguiltyfora few thousand years. He wanted to be a good husband, but in the end, hebecamea cheater who had broken his wife’s heart.

It was similar toa famous movie star’s recent affair. Why did theyhaveto linger in the temptation of beauty for a moment and hurt thepartnerwho had been withthemthrough thick and thin?

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