[If the gods of the four quarters will not save me, then what does Heaven's mandate matter? In this mortal world, beneath the great blue sky, without you, I... would rather become a demon.]
Heng Shang: "If one day this land runs red with blood and the four realms lie in ruins, Senior Sister, tell me, how should we clean up the mess?"
Yelu Wanxi sneered. "How else? Kill any god we meet, kill any Buddha we meet."
Heng Shang: "Then what if, hypothetically... the source of all this chaos... is a ghost? Is me?"
Yelu Wanxi froze. Her smile stiffened. After a long silence, she said only, "...!!! Get lost, and stop bothering me!"
Heng Shang / Su Ze...
Suddenly grabbed her hand. "Senior Sister / Master... do you know what scares you most when you fall for someone?"
Yelu Wanxi / Yancheng Chi: "What?"
Heng Shang / Su Ze: "Out of sight, out of mind... and still a pain in the neck."
Heng Shang pinned Yelu Wanxi's limbs tight against the Blood Moon altar. Then he suddenly raised a colossal sword that towered to the heavens and drove it through her from behind, piercing her spine and plunging straight through her chest.
Heng Shang grabbed her by the nape and hair, and gave a sinister, cold laugh. "Senior Sister, you'll never escape again. You will always be... mine!"
Yelu Wanxi was in such agony that it tore at her heart, yet she clenched her lips and gave a mocking smile. "Heh, is that all you've got? I thought the blood locust demon, feared by everyone in the realms of the living and dead, would be much more formidable. But this is all... Ah!?"
Heng Shang flew into a rage.
He drove his sword through her again. Yelu Wanxi's eyes rolled back, and her soul scattered in an instant.
Yelu Wanxi thought she had fooled Heng Shang.
At last, she had escaped.
But in the blink of an eye, the love-curse chains of the Blood Moon altar dragged her back.
Heng Shang laughed wildly, his face twisted with cruelty.
He raised his sword once more and plunged it into Yelu Wanxi below the chest. Blood flowed everywhere...
The last hex Heng Shang cast for himself...
Biting Through.
Success. It is beneficial to enforce the law.
Top nine: His neck is in the stocks, and his ears are destroyed. Misfortune!
Looking at the hexagram, Heng Shang burst out laughing. "The Book of Changes says that when something is lodged between the jaws, it is called 'Biting Through.' My soul and dreams are filled with her. Could it be that she really has to get lodged in my throat and choke me to death... before this can end?"
But as soon as Heng Shang finished speaking,
Yelu Wanxi appeared before him, and he suddenly became a mad dog, eyes bloodshot, mouth foaming with blood, crazed and stripped of all humanity and reason, like a beast.
He lunged at her.
And then,
Heng Shang realized
that Yelu Wanxi was someone he could never evade, not even in death, and could never escape.
It was like a maggot burrowing into his bones.
The most hopeless...
"Addiction."
So much so that...
Even after becoming a vengeful ghost in the underworld, he kept chasing her shadow in his dreams, though they were as far apart as the stars.
Even after he returned to the world of the living, Yelu Wanxi still clung to him like a love-curse, a vicious spell.
But at first, Heng Shang did not understand...
Until.
The tears of blood locust blossoms, a vast ocean of blood beneath the abyss of his soul, at the very end of his heart and bones...
Until...
His heart
was cleaved in two by her sword.
Only then did he suddenly remember: she was the one he had returned to the mortal world to hate above all others, and love above all others...
But Heng Shang was unwilling to accept it, even in death.
She was the one who had cast this love-curse, yet he could not escape the nightmare and curse she had brought him.
The more he imprisoned and tormented her,
the more addicted he became to keeping her captive, and the more he craved her in turn.
She left him utterly bewitched, possessed by her, confused between the living and the dead, between right and wrong...
And yet
he insisted on guiding her to the heavens.
But the path to immortality beckoned, and Heaven's gate opened...
In this mortal world,
there were still unfinished ties,
impossible to sever.
Su Ze / Heng Shang: "Master, I regret it..."
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