Chapter 169 The Realm of the Soul

"Xiaqiu, wake up!"

The familiar voice came from my ear. Although it was not too big, it seemed to break the long-standing peace. Before that, all Xia Qiu's memories stayed at the moment when she fell into the pool of blood. Death was far less painful and not as terrible as she thought. The second before her death, she kept looking at Ouyang Xiao Leng, but she couldn't remember what expression she said goodbye to him.

But there is such a voice calling her name and waking her up. She also wanted to sleep for a while, like this, immersed in a long dark and dead silence without any distress or concern, which made her feel that she was going down a black river, and maybe she would soon reach the other side of the light.

"Xiaqiu... wake up quickly!"

But the voice didn't let her wish. She had to open her eyes and felt like she was in another world. She paused for a while before she knew how to breathe. The appearance of the man in front of him gradually became clear in his sight. He was dressed in white, and the two ribbons on the red hair accessories on his head hung down to his chest. Although he looked much better than the last time he met, his skin was still much paler than ordinary people, and his slender eyes were always so gentle when he looked at her.

"Feather Crane Immortal..." She shouted all of a sudden.

"Shh!" The Yuhe Fairy put his finger on her lips and said, "Follow me!"

She nodded, grabbed his outstretched hand and stood up, and looked around where she was. She didn't know how she came to a dense forest. At this time, it was dusk. She followed the Feather Crane Fairy, where the trees and plants grew very densely, and many places had to be sideways to walk through. He walked in a hurry in front of him, as if he was taking her to avoid someone.

There was always the rustling sound of leaves behind her, as if something was really chasing them. When she looked back, she seemed to see some white shadows passing through the bushes from time to time. Perhaps because she just woke up, her body was not very strong. After running for a while, she was exhausted, and her footsteps became slower and slower, watching the white shadows get closer and closer to them.

The Yuhe Fairy pulled her behind her back and said, "Come up!"

She had to obediently lie on his back. As soon as she hugged his neck, he rushed forward a few steps and then crossed the obstacles of the dense forest and into the air. She flew higher and higher with him, and then she looked down to find how vast the dense forest was that she could not see the end at a glance. And not far below them, the white shadow chasing them just now also flew over. They were wearing white cloaks, their faces were covered, and they held silver spears in their hands.

"Why are they chasing us?" Xia Qiu finally couldn't help asking.

"I don't know. I'll explain other things to you after we get rid of them. Hold on!" The feather crane fairy ordered.

He accelerated the speed of his flight, and there were huge white wings behind him, holding her up and breaking through the clouds, but those in white cloaks still chased after them. In this way, they chased them all the way to a big lake. He landed with her, and the white cloaks also landed opposite them. A total of six people on the other side blocked their way.

"Who the hell are you?" After the Yuhe fairy put down Xia Qiu, he called out the long dagger and shouted.

The six white cloaks did not answer, but directly attacked them. The Yuhe Fairy pushed Xia Qiu back. First, he shook one of the white cloaks at a very fast speed and inserted a dagger into his heart. Strange things happened. The white cloak did not bleed, but turned into a cloud of smoke and disappeared in an instant.

Then he flashed the spear stabbed by another white cloak, and then turned around and waved the dagger in his hand to him. After the white cloak was injured by him, it turned into smoke and disappeared. The remaining four white cloaks poked the spearhead in his hand almost at the same time. He jumped up, kicked two of them, and then moved like a white smoke and killed the two white cloaks with daggers. The other two saw that they were not his opponents, exchanged glances, and then disappeared.

Seeing that they finally gave up and continued to pester the two of them, the Feather Crane Fairy was relieved. Then he held Xia Qiu's shoulder and looked back and forth. Seeing that she was still confused, he said, "Let's go to my back. Let's go to a safe place first!" I'm afraid they will send more people to us later!"

He flew into the air with Xia Qiu, crossed the lake and into a valley. At nightfall, he took her to land on the platform of a tree house.

"Is this place?" Xia Qiu asked.

"It's my foothold in this world." The Feather Crane Fairy hid the wings behind him and answered.

"Where on earth are we? I remember that I should have... died." Xia Qiu has countless questions to ask the Feather Crane Fairy, but he doesn't know which one to ask first.

"I'll think about how to explain it to you." The Yuhe fairy paused for a few seconds, and then continued, "The world we live in now is called the realm of soul separation. It can be regarded as a gap between the present world and the yellow spring."

"The realm of soul separation, is this the same as every time I enter the soul separation state?" Xia Qiu still can't quite understand his words.

"This place is closer to the place where the soul should eventually go than the space you are in after entering the state of soul separation, whether it is called Huangquan, heaven, or the infinite heaven where demons should go. This is very close to those places." The Feather Crane Fairy led Xia Qiu into the tree house and said.

With a wave of his hand, an oval lamp standing on the ground of the tree house lit up. Warm lights illuminate the whole tree house. The tree house is much more spacious than imagined in summer and autumn. The rattan furniture and lamps are quite chic, and the low couch is covered with a whole tiger skin. He asked her to sit down, then went out and took the dew-collecting bamboo tube from the platform and poured her a glass and said, "Drink a glass of water!" It's relatively simple here, and there's nothing to eat and drink.

Xia Qiu took a sip, and the sweet dew entered her body along her throat, as if it had awakened all her senses. Before, she felt that she was like in a dream. Although everything was clear but not real enough, now she felt that it was much more real than any place she reached when she left her soul.

After taking another sip of the dew, she said to the Feather Crane Fairy, "It seems to feel different from every time I leave, but I don't know why."

"Well, when you drink the water of this world or eat the food of this world, you will be truly accepted by this world, and then you will feel that everything around you is special and real, which is no different from the real world." The Feather Crane Fairy nodded and responded.

"Why did I come here?" Xia Qiu continued to ask.

"This is not a place where ordinary people with the ability of soul separation can come. I think you can come here because you have experienced a state of near death, or you have died, but you have been resurrected by someone in some way." The Feather Crane Fairy explained.

"Resurrection? Isn't that a violation of the law between the three worlds? Xia Qiu remembers that Ouyang Xiao Leng and others once said that life from death was not allowed by God Qiansu.

"Some people don't care about the laws between the three worlds, such as Qingyun..." The Yuhe Fairy replied. He poked a hand out to her face, as if he wanted to touch her but took it back.

"Well, when I was in the Red Palace in the dungeon, Ouyang Xiao Leng and Qingyun were the last ones to be with me. Also, how did you get here? Xia Qiu asked puzzledly.

"Do you remember that when you were still on Changsheng Island, I began to fall into a state of deep sleep from time to time, and I couldn't wake up for a long time. That was the first time I came here, and then I was able to get in and out freely. Later, I found something here that interested me, so I often came here to look for clues. This time, I didn't take the initiative to come. I heard your call in a state of separation. Although it was very weak, I still looked for your voice to find the dense forest.

"Is that the place where I just woke up?" Xia Qiu's eyes widened and asked.

"Yes, you were still in a coma when I came, tied up by those in white cloaks, and I don't know where to take it. I took you out when they were not paying attention. You should know what happened later.

"But in the past, I could go back to my body when my soul left, but this time I couldn't go back at all." Xia Qiu tried to wake up from the state of soul separation again, but still failed.

"In common sense, since you can enter the world, you should be able to go back. There is only one possibility that your body is occupied by other souls, so your own soul can't go back to the place that originally belonged to you, as if you were expelled."

"If it was really Qingyun who took me away from the dungeon at that time, then it must be something he did. What if he put other souls into my body?" The more Xia Qiu thought about it, the more terrible it became, and she couldn't help panicking.

"Don't worry. No matter how strong he is, it takes at least seven, seven or forty-nine days for a soul to occupy a body that does not belong to it. After that, I will ask Xianhe to send a letter to Ouyang Xiaolen and tell them that you are here. As long as you can find out where Qingyun took you within 49 days, you will have a chance to regain your body. The Feather Crane Fairy said to her confidently.

"You said before that there is something in the world that has aroused your interest. What is it?" Xia Qiu asked.

"Do you remember the things about my past that you helped me get back from the manager of the underground database of Ouyang Ancient House? Later, my memory recovered a little, and I also remembered many experiences in the divine world. The black crane that caused me to fall from the divine world is likely to be able to enter the realm of soul separation, and my intuition tells me that there is some connection between him and Qingyun, which is why I often come here. Also, I suspect that the people who caught you before were Black Crane's men. After saying that, the feather crane fairy saw that the cup in Xia Qiu's hand was empty, so he gave her another cup.