Chapter 188

At noon, those who came to search the houses did arrive at the house where they were hiding, and as they expected, it was some low-ranking cultivators or ordinary guards who could be fooled with the eyesight hindering technique.

The news of the theft of the Qingfeng Sword did not spread. Not knowing if Yun Xiang Yi had not found out yet, or if she didn't dare to alert Qi Meng Sheng, but the hunt for them would not end so easily, and they needed to escape as soon as possible.

After those people left, Xie Bi An and Fan Wu She only dared to loosen up a little bit, and slept lightly for a while. Ever since they entered Chidi City, they had not slept a full night for three days.

After the sun went down, a curfew was imposed on Chidi City, and there were many more patrols on the streets. The small fortress was closed like a cage, and it was impossible to escape.

The three sat for a long time to discuss. Other than forcing their way out, they couldn't think of a way to get out under the cover of a diversion. Lan Chui Han proposed to be the bait to lure the pursuers away, which was also rejected by Xie Bi An.

When they were unable to find a solution, Xie Bi An suddenly noticed a strange movement in the air. When he turned around, a pair of men and women in dark blue suits appeared inside the house silently. The two look superb and look very well matched. The only odd thing is that the woman's eyes are tightly closed, floating beside the man like she was asleep.

"Day Patrol, Night Patrol." Xie Bi An looked at the two ghost immortals in surprise.

Fan Wu She felt certain in his heart. The duties of these two patrols are to patrol the earth, but they do not interfere with earthly affairs. Now they appear here, either Cui Jue had authorized them or Zhong Kui had sent them here, and they definitely came here to help them.

Lan Chui Han does not have a soul weapon, so he cannot see them, and as the Underworld Generals, these two can completely hide their Yin energy, so Lan Chui Han also could not sense them. Watching the strange words and actions of Xie Bi An and Fan Wu She was very confusing to him.

"Impermanence." Day Patrol’s face was cold and his voice was calm, "Official Lord Cui asked us to come and help."

"That’s great!" Xie Bi An said joyfully, "Have you guys met master?"

"Mm, Heaven Master already knows that you have come into the city to steal the Qingfeng Sword."

"Stealing. The Qingfeng Sword is the Master's sword. Returning things to their original owners is not stealing." Xie Bi An corrected.

Day Patrol obviously had no intention of talking nonsense with him: "Give me the Qingfeng Sword."

Lan Chui Han looked at the air in front of Xie Bi An: "Bi An, who are you talking to? Is it Day Patrol God and Night Patrol God?"

"Yes, Brother Lan, they can bring the Qingfeng Sword out of the city."

Fan Wu She said straightforwardly, "Senior brother, is he trustworthy?"

Xie Bi An said awkwardly, "Day Patrol and Night Patrol are Official Lord Cui's people. Of course they are trustable." Not only that, this couple worked for the Underworld only to pay for their sins in their previous lives and reincarnate as human beings together again. They could not and dared not to betray the judge. The only thing that puzzled him was how Official Lord Cui, who was the codifier of the underworld’s law, leads by example and is dedicated to his duties, would allow the Underworld Generals to participate in earthly strife. He also asked about this doubt.

"Official Lord Cui said that it is no longer just an earthly matter."

"What does that mean?"

"Official Lord Cui did not explicitly say."

Xie Bi An didn't press on. He trusted that any decision Cui Jue made would be of great importance. He handed the Qingfeng Sword to Day Patrol.

"What about us?" Lan Chui Han said, "We still have to find a way to escape."

Day Patrol said, "After it gets dark, Night Patrol will help you escape."

After Day Patrol left, he left Night Patrol behind, who was still sleeping.

Fan Wu She had only seen this ghost couple at the New Year's Eve banquet at Heaven Master's Palace, and he couldn't help but be curious and ask what sins the two had committed in their previous lives.

Xie Bi An said: "In the previous life, one was a princess, and Day Patrol was a guard. The two were secretly in love. But the princess was forced to be betrothed to the emperor of a neighboring country, and on the eve of the marriage, they eloped. The neighboring country originally had ambitions of annexing the world, and used this as a reason to send troops. Hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians died in the battle, and the lives of the people were ruined. The two were so guilty that they killed themselves to die for their country."

Lan Chui Han thought: "I seem to have read about it in the history books. Was it the story that happened more than a 500 years ago in the era of Southern Liang?"

"Yes." Xie Bi An sighed, "After their deaths, the emperor was touched by this deep love. Just that, although unintentional faults are not mistakes, they did cause the deaths of countless people, so he made them into underworld servants, while at the same time, punishing them; one person will be patrolling in the day, and the other at night. Within a day, there are only two brief moments when day and night alternate, when they can meet soberly. For five hundred years, they have been paying for their sins in the hope that one day, they can be reincarnated together and continue their previous relationship."

After listening to this, Lan Chui Han sighed constantly: "I don't know whether this action from Great Emperor Beiyin is lenient and kind or cruel."

"To them, it should be lenient and kind." Xie Bi An said, "Although such a long five hundred years of torture may not be as painful as going to hell to serve the sentence, without the emperor's lenient treatment, they would be completely separated during reincarnation after serving their sentence."

"As long as they are not separated, even if they can only hastily look at each other each day, they are willing to do so." After Fan Wu She finished speaking, he raised his eyes to look at Xie Bi An.

Xie Bi An felt warm in his heart. He thought, since Fan Wu She will like him forever, that certainty was no different from this moment, so how could he easily question such a deep love? Zong Zi Heng's memory could not erase the love between them.

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After the sunset, Night Patrol slowly opened her eyes under their gaze, and immediately did a search. But she quickly remembered something else. Looking at several people's eyes which tended to be calm, she said: "He took the Qingfeng sword away?"

Xie Bi An nodded: "Night Patrol, I wonder how you plan to take the three of us out of the city?"

"After Shen Nong Ding is opened, the people from Cangyu Sect will have to make a trip to deliver supplies from First Fortress Qian. They will leave roughly between 9-11pm. I'll possess the body of the elder in charge of the delivery and let you guys mix in with them."

"Got it."

"My possession won't last long. After leaving First Fortress Qian, you guys will go out from the way you came in."

Xie Bi An arched his hand and said, "Thanks a lot, Night Patrol." He knew that possessing the body of a high-ranking cultivator must be at the cost of losing one's own cultivation, and he was very grateful that Night Patrol helped them in this way.

They laid low until late at night. When Night Patrol led several carts of supplies from the door, the carriage wheel suddenly broke, and a carriage of goods fell out and landed on the ground crookedly. Some melons and fruits actually rolled all over the street.

The "elder" scolded loudly, and several cultivators went to pick them up in a hurry.

The three of them took advantage of the chaos to get into the big wooden box that had been prepared and were taken out of First Fortress Qian in a rickety carriage.

Since they couldn't see anything in the wooden box, their other perceptions became sharper. For example, they gradually felt hotter and hotter, and could even see orange light through the slight slit of the wooden box, from which they could judge that they were approaching Shen Nong Ding

"Wait." The voice of the "elder" came from outside, "This sound I heard doesn't seem right. Check all the wheels again."

"Yes."

Someone whispered: "Today's stuff doesn't weigh much, how can the wheels be pressed ..."

Only to hear a few heavy objects fall to the ground, the surrounding area became unusually quiet, and then the box was knocked a few times.

The three of them pushed open the box and rolled out, gasping heavily for air a few times, which was mixed with a thermal current.

Xie Bi An turned back to the direction of the heat flow. A volcano stood beneath the vastness of the sky, illuminating the night sky as if it was daylight, and the powerful sense of oppression made his body tremble and his breath stutter.

Night Patrol urged: "You guys go quickly."

Xie Bi An came back to his senses. He lowered himself: "Brother Lan, I'll carry you." They didn't dare to fly with their swords, so they had to rely on their legs to get back to Sixth Fortress Kan before dawn.

Fan Wu She immediately stepped in front of the two of them: "I'll do it."

"Where are you running----" A furious move resonated through the night sky, accompanied by arrows that broke through the wind.

Fan Wu She spun around and cut down that powerful icy arrow with his sword. He shook his numb arm and looked coldly at Yun Xiang Yi and Hua Xiang Rong as they came after them with Cangyu Sect cultivators.

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PS: 188 makes me think of 188 boy group, haaa

 

Edited on 19 May 21 (Emzie)

 

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