Secular world: My destiny has no taboos

Chapter 45: Whose fault is it?

Taoist Akagi's vision was blurry. In the pitch-black night, there was a flickering candlelight. The not-so-tall figure of his master was silhouetted in the dim light. He stroked his head and spoke the words that he often heard in his ears.

"Qingyuan, you have to remember that we need to be good people in order to cultivate ourselves and uphold morality."

"I'm sorry, Master. I didn't do it!"

Taoist Akagi's soul was erratic, and the consciousness that occupied the infant spirit's mind gradually weakened.

Since his master passed away, he has become the only abbot of Senluo Temple.

He was young that year and had great ambitions. He wanted to elevate Senluo Temple to the top of the seven Taoist sects and change its dilapidated status quo.

But things are unpredictable, and the outside world is far more cruel than he imagined. He is not talented and cannot even meet the basic requirements for opening a Taoist temple. He wants to run and manage the Taoist temple, but he has no connections.

After being mediocre and doing nothing, he finally chose to find another way. However, it was this fork in the road that made it difficult to turn back, and he embarked on the path of refining evil and nourishing yin.

Gradually, interests blinded his eyes, and he could no longer remember how many people he had killed, actively or passively. His heart gradually became greedy, and he could easily abandon people's lives for his own benefit.

He slowly became the person he hated the most when he was a child.

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"Ding-bell-dang!"

Black chains were wrapped around the body of the infant spirit, and it was as if two yamen runners were standing beside the mansion, reaching out to grab the chains and dragging the infant spirit into the mansion.

“Wow, wow…”

The crying of the baby echoed throughout the Ruan Mansion. The fear in the baby's subconscious mind made it dare not resist the pull of the mansion at all, and it could only allow itself to get closer and closer to the mansion.

But at this moment, Madam Li's thin and weak soul rushed out from the side, and knelt down tremblingly in front of Lin Beixuan, nodding her head frantically, praying that her newborn child would be spared.

Do ghosts have feelings?

Lin Beixuan has often thought about this question since he entered the secular world. The ghosts in the secular world seem to be different from what he knows in reality. In fact, most of them have their own behavioral logic.

They will take revenge on the enemies who hurt them, and will also be grateful to the kind people who have done them favors during their lifetime.

But most of the time, they are driven by the desires in their hearts and start to do evil unconsciously.

They also know fear and terror.

When Madam Li knelt in front of him tremblingly, Lin Beixuan felt a little shaken, but he immediately suppressed his emotion.

No matter what, Taoist Akagi has occupied the consciousness of the infant spirit. If he dares to release the infant spirit, the other party will probably strike back immediately.

Moreover, because of this infant spirit, all the members of the Ruan family died. Lin Beixuan didn’t care about other people, but the death of Xiao Shitou made him extremely angry.

If Pei Juan was the mastermind behind this incident, then Madam Li was the accomplice of the other party, with blood on her hands, and both of them deserved to die.

Lin Beixuan shook his head indifferently and let the chains drag the baby spirit into the mansion.

Madam Li was unable to speak and babbled. Seeing that the baby spirit was about to be dragged in, she stood up and grabbed the chain with both hands.

But she couldn't grab the chain easily. Suddenly, a strange blue-green flame started burning, burning Madam Li's hands.

Lin Beixuan was shocked. He didn't expect that the chains in the mansion had such ability.

However, what shocked him even more was that Madam Li actually let herself be burned by the flames but never let go. She just kept babbling, as if she was comforting the crying baby spirit.

She hummed a lullaby softly as the flames spread along her arms and gradually spread to her entire body. However, she seemed not to feel any pain, and her eyes were filled with only deep love for the baby spirit.

That was her child, how could she not save him?
Seeing this scene, Lin Beixuan showed a conflicted expression on his face and didn't know what to do for a moment.

"Alas!" At this moment, a sigh from Taoist Akagi suddenly came from the infant spirit's mouth.

A puff of green smoke rose from the ears and nose of the infant spirit, and slowly gathered in the air to form the shape of Taoist Akagi's face.

Taoist Akagi took the initiative to come out of the infant spirit's consciousness.

No one knew why, but as Taoist Akagi left the infant spirit's body, the talisman behind the infant spirit's head began to burn out of thin air, and soon burned to ashes and fell to the ground.

Lin Beixuan frowned, and the chains seemed to understand what he was thinking and stopped in place, but did not loosen the restraint on the infant spirit.

Taoist Akagi, who appeared with a face transformed into green smoke, looked at Lin Beixuan and showed only a self-deprecating smile.

"I'm far inferior to you!"

In the faint voice, Akagi Taoist recalled every little thing he had with his master. His face floated in the breeze, almost melting into the world.

Lin Beixuan was staring at the green smoke, thinking that Taoist Akagi was going to dissipate in the sky and earth, but the green smoke just spun in the air and rushed towards Pei Juan like a sharp sword.

“But at the end of the day, I want to be a good person.”

Qingyan's sudden change of direction caught everyone present off guard.

The old beggar's pupils contracted and he hurriedly looked at Pei Juan beside him. He saw the green smoke instantly pass through Pei Juan's body, leaving a blood hole the size of a bowl in her chest.

Pei Juan looked down at her chest which had been pierced, and was stunned for a long time. Her eyes trembled slightly, and suddenly she laughed.

Her laughter was very gentle, like a hint of relief after being bound for a long time. Her always cold face also melted at this moment, as if she had returned to her girlhood, when she was shy and about to bloom.

"That's fine, that's fine!"

Pei Juan whispered two words and her body slowly fell backwards. However, just as she was about to hit the ground, the old beggar suddenly reached out and hugged her.

"Yes...I'm sorry."

The old beggar opened his mouth, choking with sobs, his palms on Pei Juan's chest, wanting to touch but not daring to, tears running down his dirty cheeks, as if trying to wash away the present him.

Pei Juan smiled happily and said nothing to the old beggar. She just stared at the sky shrouded in darkness, where a few stars were secretly emitting their brilliance without being covered by the clouds.

She had actually died a long time ago, and now she was just dying again. There was nothing to be afraid of.

Maybe if I die, I can forget those unbearable memories.

Pei Juan gradually closed her eyes, but a smile was still on her face. At the last moment before she was about to lose consciousness, she felt a warm hand pulling her up.

"Juan, I'm here to pick you up, let's go!"

The young man's clear voice rang in her ears, and Pei Juan stood up in a daze.

That hand felt both strange and familiar to her, and the warm feeling was as if she was returning to the fields she had once walked through.

"I knew you would come."

Pei Juan's face was filled with a happy smile, and the last trace of resentment in her heart disappeared. She took the warm hand in front of her and followed the other person out of Ruan Mansion.

A simple and honest boy, and a girl as beautiful as a flower.

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(End of this chapter)