This won't do. If he succeeds, the consequences are truly unimaginable.
The more critical this moment is, the more I need to stay calm. My mind races, and suddenly I remember the Body - Protecting and Evil - Suppressing Spell that He Bi once made me recite.
I take a deep breath, hold it, and clear my mind of all distractions. I silently recite the spell in my mouth.
"Heaven's Way, Earth's Way, Humanity's Way. I follow my own way. Ghosts and gods need not interfere... Retreat..."
As the words leave my mouth, my eyes snap open, and a purple light shines from them. Chi Yu on the opposite side is sent flying several meters backward.
My previously immobilized body suddenly relaxes, and I fall to the ground.
I quickly get up from the ground. Without thinking, I turn around and run in the opposite direction of Chi Yu.
As I run, I take out the talisman paper that the Celestial Prince of the Rooster Day gave me from my fanny pack.
As soon as I take it out, the talisman paper catches fire. The Celestial Prince of the Rooster Day has just landed, and Chi Yu's body is already standing in front of him.
The bright moon hangs high in the sky. The two are fighting fiercely in the dark night. I don't dare to stay for a moment and turn around to escape.
I've just run a few meters when suddenly a bloody thing lands right in front of me.
I look closely and am immediately terrified, my face turning ashen. I see the body of the Celestial Prince of the Rooster Day crashing down in front of me. A red - chained snake crawls out of his body, and his head is gone.
"Still trying to run?" A ghostly and terrifying voice comes from behind me.
My body trembling, I slowly turn around.
I see Chi Yu holding the head of the Celestial Prince of the Rooster Day in his hand. Blood drips from the wound onto the ground with a patter.
He was a proper celestial being from above. In just a few minutes, his head was twisted off by her bare hands.
I'm filled with self - blame. If I had known this, I wouldn't have let him come and die.
I stare at her with hatred in my eyes. Just as I'm about to say something, I see Chi Yu throw away the head of the Celestial Prince of the Rooster Day. In the blink of an eye, she has teleported in front of me.
"If you run again, you'll be next." Chi Yu's face gradually turns into a scarred face. The corners of his mouth curl up, showing his white teeth. That greedy smile sends a chill down my spine.
I stand still. On that ferocious face, I seem to see Chi Yu's weak soul.
Since I can no longer escape, I can only accept the reality.
I clench the Nuwa Stone tightly in my hand. Now I can only pray that Nuwa will show mercy and hope for a miracle.
I give up resistance. My soul seems to be sucked in by a powerful force and uncontrollably rushes into Chi Yu's body.
"As the saying goes, the enemy of our enemy is our friend. Our common enemy is the Heavenly Emperor. As long as you behave yourself and let me slowly absorb your snake - scale spirit, I'll avenge Gu Qingcheng for you."
As my soul enters Chi Yu's body, it's like being confined in a small space.
I can only see the outside world but have no autonomy.
Chi Yu walks over to the mysterious well and sits cross - legged to meditate. I feel a cool sensation in my body.
It's like having cooling oil smeared on my skin. Every pore is radiating heat, and this heat is absorbed by another soul. I start to feel a bit cold.
Just as I'm thinking about how to break free, I hear the clanging sound of armor colliding outside the mysterious well.
Looking out, I see no less than five thousand celestial soldiers coming from the back hall of the Purple Star Palace in a dense mass. They surround Chi Yu tightly.
The resentful ghost controls Chi Yu's body and stands up from the bushes.
"Since you're here, come in." Chi Yu puts his hands behind his back and shouts at the door of the back hall.
"Hahaha... Old friend, you still haven't changed your ways. After sealing you for ten thousand years, you still managed to escape. I really underestimated your ability."
"Gu Cangxuan, if it weren't for you teaming up with Xi Nv and using the snake - scale spirit to trap me here back then, do you think you could have ascended to the throne of the Heavenly Emperor? Do you think I would have ended up like this, neither human nor ghost?"
"Ying Gou, all this is the will of heaven. Do you think the Celestial Realm would let a dead man who guards the Netherworld Sea of the Yellow Spring be the lord of the Celestial Realm?"
From their conversation, although my body is gradually weakening, my mind is still clear. I finally figure out what the resentful ghost possessing Chi Yu is.
Ying Gou was originally a celestial being from above. He was demoted to the underworld to guard the Netherworld Sea of the Yellow Spring for violating the heavenly laws. He already harbored deep resentment towards the Celestial Realm. Later, the corpse of the ancient imperial daughter, Nu Ba, fell into the Netherworld Sea. He was infected by the remaining zombie blood on Nu Ba's corpse and merged to become the ancestor of zombies.
I didn't expect that he once competed with the Heavenly Emperor for the throne and was sealed inside the mysterious well. No wonder he has such deep grudges against the Celestial Realm.
In my hazy mind, I hear the sound of battle. They're like enemies who hate each other even more when they meet. Now, for the sake of the snake scales, they start fighting as soon as they disagree.
Seeing the five - thousand elite soldiers charging towards Ying Gou, Ying Gou suddenly soars into the air. Thick black gas rises around his body. He gently raises his arm, and countless black - gold iron chain hooks, like scorpion tails and tainted with corpse poison, fly out from his back.
The iron chain hooks dance in the air, invincible wherever they go. None of the five thousand celestial soldiers is spared, and their heads are all cut off.
If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I probably would never have known why the head of the Celestial Prince of the Rooster Day was cut off in minutes.
Even the Heavenly Emperor is shocked and immediately calls for countless more celestial soldiers to fight against Ying Gou.
The armor of the celestial soldiers shines silver, so numerous that it's blinding.
Ying Gou shows no sign of fear. As the celestial soldiers approach, the chain hooks retreat until they wrap around him.
The chains wriggle, wrapping him up like a zongzi.
With a long howl, the chain hooks fly out again. At the same time, I feel a tremor in my soul. Most of the energy in my body seems to be sucked away by him.
The chains fly out, and thousands of red - chained snakes splash out in the sky.
This is the legendary rain of red - chained zombie snakes. Large swaths of red - chained snakes bounce and fly out as if they have wings. They open their venomous fangs and fly towards the necks of the celestial soldiers.
In an instant, the entire Celestial Realm is submerged by the red - chained snakes. The scene is like a disaster movie.
However, I can only watch and have no way to stop it.
The celestial soldiers bitten by the red - chained zombie snakes will have their pupils turn vertical after being poisoned and will be under Ying Gou's control.
This catastrophe in the Celestial Realm lasts for a full seven days. When Ying Gou gets angry, he doesn't care about the safety of the Three Realms.
The red - chained snakes have already overflowed from the Celestial Realm and fallen into the human world and the underworld, causing great suffering to the common people.
Ying Gou's actions arouse the anger of the Three Realms. His behavior has fallen into the Heavenly Emperor's trap. The capable and extraordinary people from the underworld and the human world have flocked to the Celestial Realm to fight against Ying Gou.
They are determined to execute him on the spot to console the countless innocent lives that have died because of him.
Among them is a person. That person is none other than Gu Yuan, who just married me not long ago.