097 The Heart of Leaving the Heavens

The silence of Nüluo, the abnormality of Li Tian, the strangeness of space and time and the sleep god—when the four seasons arrive, they encounter such a scene. She blankly watches how she has missed what things.

Nüluo first recovers her normalcy, seeing the arrival of the four seasons, her heart sinks.

The four seasons now appear only now, where did she go during this time? She should have already known about the departure of Yao Guang, but she does not know if Yao Guang told her the purpose of this trip, yet given Yao Guang’s temperament, she should keep the secret.

It is not the time to show any abnormality yet, Nüluo does not express her doubts in her heart, she pretends nothing has happened, only reprimanding her late arrival.

When Li Tian sees Nüluo’s eyes, he feels relieved, such a gaze he has encountered before. His Highness only reprimands her for not being present at such an important moment, with no other meaning. She temporarily feels at ease.

Space-time sees that the four seasons is also somewhat angry, she had already conveyed the message to the four seasons, but did not receive a reply, why did she delay?

“Since the four seasons has also arrived, some things need to be rearranged. During the time I and the King of the Underworld leave, the affairs of Fengdu City continue to be handled jointly by the sleep god and space-time, with the four seasons assisting.”

No objection from Li Tian, meaning agreement, space-time and the sleep god have no objections. The four seasons also agrees.

“Well then, since no objections, continue to execute, during this time, no one should leave Fengdu City even half a step.” Currently Fengdu City is still the territory of the human realm, Nüluo has supreme jurisdiction over it, but for Li Tian, she cannot ignore his opinion, obviously Li Tian has no objection to it, even indifferent.

After all arrangements, Nüluo and Li Tian set off on the reincarnation path. A seemingly simple and unremarkable entrance connecting two worlds, each step is a brand new attempt.

One step in, heaven and earth transform.

Fengdu City is shrouded in dark clouds, no humans exist, but it has not become the final city of the dead, and this reincarnation path to the underworld cannot hide the desolate and dark feeling after losing life.

Nüluo knows the destination of the path under her feet, but still feels the distance and confusion ahead. She is like this, what about a ghost? Before, no ghost has ever had the opportunity to be reborn, once a human dies and becomes a ghost, they must enter the underworld to suffer eternal torment, even those who did not enter, they cannot have peace in the human realm until final disappearance.

Yet this reincarnation path’s first impression is so illusory and uncertain, which is a huge difference from her initial idea.

No wonder space-time repeatedly mentioned the dangers of this path, her expression was extremely complex at the time.

Nüluo does not blame space-time, she did not have much contact with ghosts, and after she left Fengdu City with only an initial idea, she left.

Li Tian looks satisfied at the path ahead, illusory, disappearing at any time, which meets his expectation, the sleep god did well with this matter.

To step on the reincarnation path, the ghost must pay a greater price. This is just the first step.

“Lord!” Nüluo hesitated for a long time and decided to call him like that, she did not expect that upon opening her mouth, she instantly felt Li Tian’s deepened anger, he was indeed angry because of her address.

Li Tian looks indifferently at Nüluo, saying nothing.

Nüluo looks up at those eyes that are incomprehensible in joy or anger, seeing the colors she does not understand flashing inside, she subconsciously wants to avoid such gaze, but cannot move her eyes, at this moment only their figures stand in such an empty and ethereal space, one step back is the Fengdu City that has no life but still belongs to the human realm, one step forward is the Fengdu City filled with deathly aura.

Life and death are at the two ends, and although they are the masters of these two worlds, there is a force that exists beyond their power.

Nüluo finally still slightly lowered her head, her gaze left Li Tian’s gaze, her heart relaxed, in that moment, she felt she had already gone through countless reincarnations, no, compared to reincarnation, such a gaze is even more mysterious and unpredictable. She almost immersed in it and could not escape.

Why is this feeling getting stronger and stronger, as if every time she sees him, her feeling deepens by one point.

Li Tian sees Nüluo avoided his gaze, “Escaping, good, deliberately distancing, good.”

Nüluo is silent, she temporarily cannot speak, can only stare at the path under her feet like escaping.

“When does the earth goddess want to see it?” Li Tian’s voice seems to freeze this place, making the already dark space even colder.

“Here needs to be modified.” Nüluo sighs in her heart, she first needs to solve the problem here.

“Is it? The goddess thinks where needs to be modified?” Li Tian speaks word by word.

“The reincarnation path is a path of hope for new life, but now even for me, I do not feel any hope, let alone for ghosts.”

“There is no such simple thing in reincarnation, changing the established order of heaven and earth requires a price, if you cannot even accept such an environment, you will not be able to bear it later.”

Indeed, Li Tian in anger has no retreat.

“Earth goddess! You have personally experienced the real underworld. You have also experienced the punishment for ghosts. Compared to the underworld, such an environment is already exceptionally kind to ghosts.”

Nüluo thought, she is stepping on this path for the first time, what dangers ahead are unknown, just continue walking and see!

“Since so, continue walking. But I still retain the previous opinion.”

Continuing forward, Nüluo and Li Tian walk side by side, close yet like separated by thousands of miles, they do not break the silence, walking silently on this reincarnation path.

The narrowness under the feet has not changed, but has more illusion, such a path is so similar to the one encountered in the underworld world under the Yama god’s palace, Nüluo even has the feeling of stepping on it and never returning.

She stops, Li Tian also stops.

Nüluo picks up a handful of soil, indeed these soils have no traces of life appearing.

The reincarnation path is just a channel connecting the two worlds, it once did not exist, cannot be measured by the real world, such a world is more like an illusion, any things that appear are the creator’s imagination.

These soils are not from the human realm, then can only come from the underworld, using the underworld’s unique aura to deepen the darkness here, using the underworld’s suppressed atmosphere to render a more terrified and uneasy heart, perhaps this is the most real intention of this path.

Indeed everything is dyed invisibly, when ghosts step on here, although their hearts are full of hope, more is a confusion about the future, they do not know what they will encounter, just stepping on the unknown journey with a possible hope in mind.

This must be modified.

“Does this have any problem?” Li Tian’s tone is somewhat relaxed, he curiously looks at the soil in Nüluo’s hand, what did she think, why is her expression so serious?

“These soils are not objects from the human realm.”

Li Tian nods, the sleep god once mentioned, almost everything here comes from the underworld, objects from the human realm cannot easily reach here, even with the abilities of space-time and four seasons, they cannot easily transport such large-scale things here, even if Nüluo wants to build this path with all the things from the human realm is not so easy.

Things have two sides, the reincarnation path, although a path of rebirth, but after all it is walked by ghosts. And everything from the human realm carries traces of life existing. In this way, those soils from the human realm that want to condense into such a path would consume several times the power of the underworld.

“Objects from the human realm cannot easily reach here, which is also the final choice of space-time.”

Nüluo gently places the soil on the ground, facing Li Tian again, “Even if it cannot easily reach, the soils from the human realm must be transported here. The reincarnation path is already extremely dangerous, cannot let the path under the feet also lose hope. This point please forgive me, lord.”

“Regarding this point, you can try, but the underworld will not provide any help.”

“It can, these are originally human realm matters.”

Nüluo has a sentence she did not say out loud, even if the underworld wants to intervene she would not allow it, she wants to choose the most vital soil with life force to recast this path, she did not expect earlier that there are these mysteries under the feet.

Space-time eventually did not personally experience the dangers of the underworld. If not for Nüluo’s experiences in the underworld before, she would not think of such details, in that changeable illusion, Nüluo cracked that powerful illusion relying on the life breath of the human realm. At the most critical moment, the path under the feet will bring unimaginable power.

Once life is interfered and damaged by powerful forces, if the land under the feet once had traces of life, those soils will emit vitality at the last moment, no matter what dangers the ghost will encounter on the future path, she must eliminate the dangers under the feet.

Li Tian watches Nüluo lost in thought, at this moment he is a bit confused, he does not understand what mysterious mechanism is hidden in these soils, at least in his view there is no suspiciousness, he did not have the crisis before Nüluo, nor encountered everything that Nüluo encountered.

Just seeing Nüluo so values these soils, he also wants to see the subtlety within, but there is one thing Li Tian cannot agree with, as the earth goddess, Nüluo never showed her identity, especially now in this appearance. In Li Tian’s mind, he has never imagined which goddess would be like her. The soil traces still remain on her hands.

Perhaps this is her greatest difference from those goddesses. As the ruler of the human realm, but Nüluo more shows that she is just the servant of that piece of land. Li Tian does not doubt at all, once needed, Nüluo even would merge herself into the earth.