After she entered the book, she just wanted to live with her

When Shen Daixing sat down by the stream holding Fu Ying's soul bead, the Nirvana fire had become as weak as a firefly.

The reeds by the stream swayed like ghost hands in the blood-red moonlight. Suddenly, there was a small sound on the other side of the river, and she subconsciously held her breath.

Suddenly, Gu Cheng, who looked about five years old, emerged from the reeds barefoot, his brocade shirt stained with mud, but in his hand he was holding a lantern full of fireflies.

He looked so dirty that I thought he was a beggar from somewhere.

When Gu Cheng saw Shen Daixing not far away, tears suddenly filled his round, cat-like eyes.

"Xingxing..." the child cried out in a sobbing voice, "That bastard Xihuai betrayed me!"

Shen Daixing's pupils shrank slightly.

She has been traveling back and forth in various memory illusions recently, and the bizarre scenes have made her nerves weak.

When has the 996 system ever been so miserable?

Oh, no, now it's called Gu Cheng.

She hesitated and asked, "Are you real or fake?"

Gu Cheng paused, his eyes widening. "I didn't even doubt you! How dare you doubt me? Have you forgotten who dragged you to the Wuji Sect with all their hard work?"

Then he added, "Oh, I forgot you lost your memory."

"You forgot who did the shit and piss..."

Before he could finish his words, he was interrupted by Shen Daixing: "Stop, stop, stop, can we stop talking about corpses, water, rice fields, etc.?"

"Oh fine."

"You said before that your mother died, your father went crazy, and you have a paralyzed brother?"

"Yeah..." Gu Cheng replied, then reacted and stared at her with round eyes: "You...you recovered your memory?"

Shen Daixing raised her eyebrows: "Explain?"

Gu Cheng's eyes were still filled with tears. "You know, I'm a lonely and helpless child. After meeting you, I've always regarded you as my mother. After... Gu Yuyuan ascended to heaven, you disappeared. I thought you were dead."

"You and Gu Yuyuan have sworn homage to heaven and earth, so he is naturally my father. If you die, he will also go mad. He actually enslaved me as a child!"

"As for my paralyzed brother, Xihuai's dead face... facial paralysis can also be considered paralysis, right?"

Shen Daixing narrowed her eyes slightly, and this nonsense look was very much her style.

"Okay, I believe you, come here."

Gu Cheng staggered towards her, feeling aggrieved, and the mud under his feet splashed with water.

Shen Daixing looked at his pitiful appearance and pinched his face: "When we first met in the Heavenly Palace, did you recognize me?"

Gu Cheng said nothing, just kept crying.

Ugh.

Unable to bear it any longer, Shen Daixing patted his back to comfort him, then changed the subject: "What happened to Xihuai?"

Gu Cheng sobbed and spoke intermittently: "He... stole my system and pushed me off the cliff!"

As he spoke, he held up the lamp made of fireflies. Under the light, his little face looked both aggrieved and resentful.

"Can he still beat you? Haven't you always been better than him?"

"Before... I was better than him. Maybe he mutated after drinking Sanlu milk powder recently."

When Shen Daixing heard this, the corners of her mouth twitched.

She coughed lightly and asked seriously, "So how strong are you now?"

Gu Cheng rubbed his red eyes and said with a sob, "My current strength is only about one-tenth of what it used to be. My system was stolen, and many of my skills are no longer usable."

Shen Daixing sighed at the flickering green fluorescence of the wick. It was really hard for him to catch so many fireflies when he was so young.

She stretched out her hand to take it, but suddenly a miasma arose from the forest, and the tinkling of bells could be heard amidst the sweet fragrance.

The crimson skirt swept across the dead branches as Ling Xue walked over with an umbrella in hand. The blood-red cassia tree painted on the umbrella looked very strange in the moonlight.

A closer look revealed that what was painted on the blood-red umbrella were not flowers at all, but millions of distorted human faces.

"What a coincidence." She twisted a strand of hair with her red fingertips, "Are you guys going on an outing?"

Shen Daixing and Gu Cheng exchanged glances and whispered, "Do you think she is real or fake?"

Both the immortal and demon worlds are in chaos, why is Ling Xue here?

And she's dressed so fancy.

Gu Cheng took a breath and said, "It might be a monster. When I first entered the world of life and death, I encountered many such monsters. They all looked quite ugly."

"How ugly?"

"Maybe all ten river beasts in the Boundary River combined are that ugly."

Shen Daixing nodded, "That's very ugly."

The big one and the small one were talking to themselves, leaving Ling Xue aside.

Ling Xue curled up the corners of her mouth in a sneer, and the face of the person on the umbrella seemed to be distorted and became more hideous with her emotions.

"You two are in such good spirits, you even have the leisure to discuss beauty and ugliness here."

Before she finished speaking, she gently rotated the umbrella handle, and the face on the umbrella seemed to come alive, emitting low hums.

The surrounding miasma rolled even more violently, and the sweet fragrance was mixed with a barely perceptible fishy stench.

Shen Daixing frowned, she pulled Gu Cheng back a few steps, and looked at Ling Xue warily.

"What do you want to do?"

Ling Xue did not answer directly, but walked slowly closer, each step stepping on the dead branches, making a crisp sound, which was out of tune with the strange atmosphere around her.

"Shen Daixing, do you know that in this world of life and death, the thing most lacking is resentment? And among all these countless resentments, I am the strongest one."

What resentment?

Can the resentment be heavier than that of cattle and horses?

"It has nothing to do with me. I didn't do anything." Shen Daixing refused to take the blame.

She picked up Gu Cheng and stepped back, but found that the ground beneath her feet began to move.

Countless tiny poisonous insects crawled out from under the dead branches and leaves. Each of them had a human face and was crawling towards them greedily.

How can there be such a disgusting thing!

Shen Daixing summoned the divine pen, and the karmic fire swept across, and the poisonous insect cried like a baby in the flames.

Ling Xue chuckled, and the face on the umbrella twisted into a vortex, sucking in all the burning poisonous insects.

"It's useless." She shook the umbrella handle lightly, her voice coming from afar, "The resentment in this world of life and death is inexhaustible..."

Before he finished speaking, Gu Cheng stuffed the firefly lamp into Shen Daixing's hands and broke free from her arms.

The child stepped barefoot on the ground covered with poisonous insects. Suddenly, his chubby little hands grabbed Ling Xue's skirt: "Sister, your face..."

Ling Xue subconsciously lowered her head and met Gu Cheng's innocent cat-like eyes.

A drop of golden blood condensed from the child's fingertips at some point, and turned into a tiny golden butterfly, flying towards the face on Ling Xue's umbrella.

The human face let out a shrill scream, and Ling Xue's face instantly turned gloomy.

"As expected of a spirit from the underworld." She stroked the bone carving on the umbrella handle, a faint green light emanating from her fingertips. "Even blood can break my wraith umbrella."

Then, a golden butterfly silently and gently touched her right cheek.

"Ah--!" Ling Xue let out a shrill scream, and the umbrella instantly collapsed.

Those distorted faces turned into black smoke and rushed into her right cheek.

"How dare you hurt my face?" Ling Xue stroked the festering skin, with madness in her eyes.

The tip of the umbrella suddenly pierced the ground, and blood mist gushed out from the crack.

The mist condensed into chains that wrapped around Gu Cheng and Shen Daixing's ankles, and the next second, they were dragged into the ground.