Chapter 161
Chapter 161
The Phoenix flying away immediately drew the attention of the Black Wind Cult.
They rushed into Lu Goudan’s thatched hut at once.
Lu Goudan still had tears and snot bubbles on his face.
The Black Wind Cult Leader walked in. Seeing him in such a sorry state, he gave a gloomy laugh. “Tsk, tsk. What, you know your death is near, so you’re starting to cry in advance?”
Lu Goudan said nothing.
The Black Wind Cult Leader swept his gaze around the room and asked, “Where’s that little lover of yours in red? Why isn’t he here?”
“He’s already gone,” Lu Goudan said, looking utterly relieved. “You’ll never find him.”
The Black Wind Cult Leader said, “Oh, what a shame. I was planning to strip him naked and reward the brothers with a little fun, keep playing with him until he died… Who knew he’d abandon you so quickly?”
The Black Wind Cult Leader strode up to Lu Goudan, grabbed him by the collar, and asked through gritted teeth in a low voice, “Talk! What exactly does he have that’s better than me? You actually hit me with a brick for his sake?”
Lu Goudan: “…………”
That question was far too difficult. Lu Goudan truly had no answer.
The Black Wind Cult Leader sneered. “I knew you wouldn’t be able to answer. But it doesn’t matter. You’ll be a dead man soon enough…”
He enunciated every word. “What this cult leader hates most is faithless men like you!”
“…”
With that, he dragged Lu Goudan into the courtyard and made a gesture.
The members of the Black Wind Cult understood at once and rushed forward, launching a group beating on Lu Goudan.
At first, Lu Goudan fought back, but he was hopelessly outnumbered. The Black Wind Cult members kept punching and kicking him until he coughed up several mouthfuls of blood and collapsed to the ground, unable to get back up.
Only then did the Black Wind Cult Leader take out a dagger in satisfaction. “Next, let’s make things a little exciting. I’ll carve you alive, slice by slice!”
Lu Goudan lay weakly on the ground and gave up on treatment.
He knew he was definitely going to die today.
He opened his swollen eyes and gazed up at the clear blue sky above.
Vast stretches of white clouds drifted through the heavens, some like islands, some like palaces.
The Phoenix must have come from those clouds, right?
The Phoenix was a divine bird, and a divine bird should live in the sky. By now, perhaps he had already gone back, returned to those beautiful islands and palaces…
At that thought, a faint, blissful smile suddenly appeared on Lu Goudan’s face.
When the Black Wind Cult Leader saw that mysterious smile, he figured the boy had probably been beaten stupid. Death was at his door, yet he could still smile…
But in the next second, the smile on Lu Goudan’s face froze.
Because he saw a fiery-red figure plummeting rapidly from the sky, landing right beside him and hugging him as he said in a trembling voice, “Ah Lu, I really couldn’t stop worrying, so I came back…”
“Ah! I-pfft!”
Lu Goudan felt so heartsick he nearly died of anger, and he suddenly spat out a huge mouthful of blood.
-This massive idiot insisted on running back to hand them his head. Was he trying to piss him to death?
The moment the Black Wind Cult Leader saw his love rival appear, his hatred maxed out instantly.
His tiger-like eyes went wide, and without another word, he thrust the dagger viciously at the Phoenix!
Lu Goudan’s pupils shrank in an instant.
He suddenly erupted with the last of his strength, rolled over, and shielded the Red-clad Beauty beneath him.
With a soft tch.
The dagger stabbed into Lu Goudan’s back, straight into his heart.
In that moment, time seemed to stop.
Fresh blood dripped onto the Phoenix’s fair, handsome face. He stared blankly at the young man before him. “Ah Lu…”
Lu Goudan opened his mouth, but he could no longer say anything.
The Phoenix held him and swept his gaze over the Black Wind Cult members, saying furiously, “You dared hurt Ah Lu. You are unforgivable!”
He swung his sleeve fiercely, and an arc of light sliced out with razor-sharp force!
The spiritual light flashed past like a blade, and every single member of the Black Wind Cult had their throat sealed in one stroke!
Black Wind Cult members: ???
Before they could even figure out what was happening, they all toppled over and died with question marks practically hovering over their heads…
Lu Goudan had been on the verge of death.
After seeing this scene, he was shocked right back into a final burst of life.
He stared at the Phoenix in disbelief and panted, “Y-your powers recovered?”
The Phoenix nodded.
Lu Goudan couldn’t help asking, “When did they recover?”
The Phoenix said, “Last night.”
“…” Lu Goudan said in a trembling voice, “Th-then why didn’t you say so earlier?”
Phoenix looked utterly innocent. “You didn’t ask.”
Lu Goudan: “…”
Lu Goudan’s body shuddered, and with a splash, he coughed up another three liters of blood.
If he had known Phoenix had already recovered his spiritual power and could take care of those people with a single move, why would he have driven him away and thrown his own life away for nothing?
Lu Goudan felt that he had not been stabbed to death by the Black Wind Cult Leader at all. He had been angered to death alive.
He was furious at himself for being so stupid. He was practically even more foolish than Phoenix!
It would have taken only one casual question, yet he just had not asked… At the time, all he had wanted was to keep Phoenix away from danger. He had not thought about anything else at all!
Lu Goudan was brought to tears by his own stupidity.
Seeing him cry again, Phoenix panicked even more. “Ah Lu, does it hurt badly? There’s still medicine in the room. I’ll get it for you!”
“N-no need…”
Lu Goudan gripped his hand tightly and said, his breath barely there, “Running into you… really was my rotten luck…”
Phoenix held him in his arms. “What did you say?”
Lu Goudan smiled. He was going to die anyway. What was there left that he did not dare say?
So he used up all his strength and said, “Phoenix, I like you. I really, really like you… Please, in your next life, be born as a woman and marry me, all right?”
At that, Phoenix looked sorrowful and troubled. “But my gender can’t change. Even if I reincarnate, I can only be male…”
Lu Goudan coughed up blood again and said unwillingly, “Fine. Then even if you’re male, marry me anyway… Can you dress as a woman and marry me? I just want to take you as my wife!”
Phoenix said through his tears, “All right. I’ll listen to you. I’ll marry you!”
Only then did the young man close his eyes with a smile.
Lu Goudan, deceased.
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Glazed Continent.
After Ye Piaoling left, Hua Wuhuang kept thinking about what she had said.
She had said that perhaps he owed Lu Yin from a previous life, and that it was only right for him to marry him.
Ye Piaoling had always helped him think of ways to escape Lu Yin, yet now her attitude had suddenly changed. Hua Wuhuang knew there had to be a reason for it-she simply could not say what it was.
After brooding over it for a long while, Hua Wuhuang went to a fortune-telling shop in a remote alley of the imperial capital.
The fortune-teller here was an unusual person who could help others see their past and present lives.
Hua Wuhuang said, “Master, I want to see my previous life.”
The fortune-teller said, “That requires a great deal of spiritual power.”
Hua Wuhuang said, “I’m willing.”
The fortune-teller said, “Very well. Ten taels of silver lets you see one fragment.”
Hua Wuhuang placed the silver on the counter. The fortune-teller took out a mottled bronze mirror. “Release your spiritual power into the mirror, and you’ll be able to see your previous life.”
Hua Wuhuang did as instructed.
A moment later, an image really did appear in the bronze mirror.
He saw Lu Yin lying on the bed bare-chested, covered in wounds, while he himself was pulling down Lu Yin’s pants…
Hua Wuhuang’s expression darkened. He slammed the bronze mirror face-down onto the table.
The fortune-teller clicked his tongue in wonder. “Wow. Is this really something ten taels of silver is allowed to show?”
Seeing that Hua Wuhuang’s expression looked rather ugly, the fortune-teller quickly said, “Don’t worry. I won’t tell anyone about this. These are secrets of heaven. If I leak them, it’ll shorten my life… So? Do you want to see another fragment?”
Hua Wuhuang took out another ten taels of silver.
Then he lifted the bronze mirror, and another fragment appeared inside:
Lu Yin’s clothes had already been completely stripped off, and Hua Wuhuang himself was holding some kind of ointment, repeatedly smearing it over Lu Yin’s buttocks…
Hua Wuhuang: “…”
Once again, he slammed the bronze mirror hard onto the table and said through gritted teeth, “Are you sure this is my previous life?”
“Of course,” the fortune-teller said with a smile. “With content like this, those ten taels of silver were well spent, weren’t they? So? Want to see another fragment?”
And so Hua Wuhuang spent another ten taels of silver.
A new image appeared in the bronze mirror once more.
Lu Yin had him pinned to the bed, kissing him with fierce, scorching intensity, while Hua Wuhuang had his arms around Lu Yin’s neck and was responding obediently and somewhat inexperiencedly. Both of them were half-undressed…
This time, Hua Wuhuang nearly dropped the mirror onto the floor.
“Does this lousy mirror of yours only show this kind of thing?”
Hua Wuhuang demanded furiously.
The fortune-teller laughed. “You can’t blame my mirror for that. If you want to blame anyone, blame the two of you for doing nothing but this in your last life. Otherwise, how could every random fragment it shows be this?”
Hua Wuhuang: “…”
He did not believe it! He absolutely did not believe it!