CXnovel Chapter 429 Yin Yang True Essence Cutting Lamp
Chapter 429 Yin Yang True Essence Cutting Lamp
Shopkeeper Hu's hands were trembling. The paper of the white paper lantern was licked black by the flames, but she stuck the silver hairpin talisman on the lamp handle, letting that bit of old silver light shine into the wick along with her childhood name.
"I can't bear to see her called the wrong name by you for twenty years."
Mo Chengyue watched the silver light enter the crevice and poured his Yin-Yang True Essence into it.
A faint crackling sound emanated from deep within the wick.
Manager Hu's breathing became erratic. She wanted to look ahead, but Mo Chengyue stopped her.
"Don't look into the cabin!"
Manager Hu immediately shifted his gaze back to the white paper lamp.
The seventh eye laughed fiercely.
"Don't look at it yourself."
Mo Chengyue looked down at the array plate, avoiding the reflection of the cabin in the red light.
"I look at the account books, not the bridal chamber."
With a flick of the seventh eye's finger, the faces of all the missing people in the black water simultaneously uttered the name Hu Shuang'er, layer upon layer of old names pressing down on the white paper lamp, trying to squeeze the childhood name back to the bottom of the water.
The color drained from Manager Hu's face, but only that one name remained on his lips.
"Ah Sui".
Mo Chengyue then spoke up: "Ah Sui."
The Seventh Eye shrieked, "What right do you have to call her by her childhood nickname?!"
Mo Chengyue held the array hook firmly at the edge of the crack, the blood-stained plaque on his palm glistening from being bitten by the red lamp.
"Authorized by family members, for temporary matters."
With tears streaming down his face, Manager Hu still managed to squeeze out a sentence: "I didn't authorize you to be so sarcastic."
"Then I'll owe you for now."
The crack in the wick was finally opened by the Yin-Yang True Essence. A piece of the three pseudonyms of Hu Shuang'er was peeled off from the bottom of the lamp and fell into the black water, where it immediately burned into red ash.
The man in the red light opened his lips.
Manager Hu leaned forward anxiously.
"Ah Sui?"
Mo Chengyue raised his hand to stop her.
"wait."
The broken face remained silent, but a crack appeared in the wick, revealing not the sobbing of the girl's remnant soul.
A deeper ray of red light peeked out from the crack, gently touching Mo Chengyue's Yin-Yang True Essence.
The water and fire in the abandoned shipyard all quieted down, and even Seventh Eye stopped his mixed crying and laughing.
From deep within the lamp's wick, Yu Lin Hong's voice fell through the crack: "I've finally met you."
The moment the crack in the lamp wick caught Mo Chengyue's Yin-Yang True Essence, all the red flames in the abandoned shipyard receded inward, and even the faces of the missing people in the black water quieted down, leaving only Yu Lin Hong's voice falling through the lamp wick into the threshold talisman array.
"I've finally met you."
Mo Chengyue gripped his right wrist, the soul-protecting talisman burning on his skin until it smelled of burning, but he didn't give him a single opening to speak.
"You need evidence to stage an accident; what you're doing is remote harassment."
Manager Hu was still thinking of Ah Sui when he heard this, and tears welled up in his eyes and he almost couldn't catch his breath.
"What time is it? Why are you still being sarcastic?"
Mo Chengyue moved the array hook a little further away from the crack in the lamp wick. The Yin-Yang True Essence did not break; instead, it circled around that deep red voice line.
"She wants me to be serious, but I won't."
Yu Lin Hong's laughter slowly spread from the lamp, and the red lantern tassels at the four corners of the abandoned shipyard all lowered. Water and fire clung to the ground, tentatively probing the edge of the threshold's talismanic light.
"You're even more slippery than the case file suggests, and you're even better at feigning fear."
Mo Chengyue looked at the red-hot patterns on the array plate and casually pressed a discarded talisman into the gray lines.
"Who wrote the file? Are there many typos? Can it be rejected?"
Seventh Eye stood in the center of the wrecked ship, her wet hair, wrapped in red thread, dangling into the black water beneath her red veil, her voice hoarse from the lingering resentment of Yu Lin Hong.
"You still dare to ask that?"
Mo Chengyue looked up at her, the blood-stained patch on his palm gleaming in the lamplight.
"Yes, I dare to. I have a strong sense of after-sales service."
Yu Lin Hong ignored his nonsense. The red light from the crack in the lamp wick protruded forward, following the Yin-Yang True Essence all the way to the edge of his wrist bone.
"With yin and yang in harmony, your body tempered by thunder and fire, and your soul bearing the remnants of cold evil, Xuan Shuang Valley has been searching for a living array core like you for a long time."
Shopkeeper Hu's hand, which was holding up the lamp, froze in mid-air. The lamp paper was blackened by the heat, but she did not put it down.
What does "活阵心" mean?
Mo Chengyue didn't look at her, but gently pushed the white paper lantern in her hand towards the wick with the scabbard of his sword.
"Don't ask her, keep reading."
Manager Hu pressed on with that question, holding the white paper lantern steady again, his voice hoarse and irritating.
"Ah Sui, Ah Sui in front of the stove, don't recognize the name of the ship."
The remaining face in the lamp wick was illuminated by her childhood name, the marks on her lips began to loosen, and the three old characters "Hu Shuang'er" swayed more and more chaotically in the black water.
Yu Linhong's voice suddenly drew close, and the sound of water near Mo Chengyue's ear was drowned out by her words.
"Leng Yuexin can't protect you."
Mo Chengyue's finger, which was originally going to move the array plate on the south side, stopped on the talisman ash. Then, as if nothing had happened, he smeared the ash into the water line.
"Whether she can protect him or not has nothing to do with whether your Xuan Shuang Valley accepts scrap metal or not?"
Yu Lin Hong smiled softly.
"She broke through to the Nascent Soul stage using the Ice Soul Profound Technique, and borrowed your Yuan Yang to make up for the deficiency. Her Cold Meridian is no longer pure. If Xuan Shuang Valley really wants to take you, the first thing she will have to face is the crack in her own technique."
Manager Hu couldn't understand these sect secrets, but he recognized that the name Leng Yuexin was related to Mo Chengyue, and immediately pulled his gaze away from the lamp wick.
"Is she using the people around you to scare you?"
Mo Chengyue used the back of his sword to block the reflection of the red light and answered decisively.
"The same old trick: it sounds expensive, but it's actually wholesale."
Yu Lin Hong's lingering voice did not intensify, but the black water in the abandoned shipyard began to seep under the threshold, as if countless wet, cold fingers were touching the gaps in the talisman array.
"It's no use if you don't admit it. Your Yin-Yang True Essence can stabilize the Corpse Frost and suppress the Water Fiend. If you are the center, the old formation in Xuan Shuang Valley can be reopened."
Mo Chengyue slung the array hook back onto the back of the Yuhua Sword, his eyes fixed on the tightening red thread beneath the seventh eye's red veil.
"That sounds like a lot of job responsibilities. How much is the monthly salary?"
The Seventh Eye's laughter shrieked.
"The Jade Master tells you the secrets of heaven, yet you ask about your monthly salary?"
Even secrets of heaven must be taxed.
After Mo Chengyue finished speaking, he pressed the soul-protecting talisman onto the red lines on his palm again. The red light of the blood talisman was burned and shrank back, but it did not completely sever the wick.
Yu Lin Hong's voice entered his mind, and the sound of water from the abandoned shipyard faded away. The threshold talisman fire turned into a circle of dark red ripples in front of him.
"Admit it, Mo Chengyue."
The lines of the array plate in front of Mo Chengyue began to blur, but he placed his left hand on the hilt of his sword and traced the talisman ash he had hidden earlier along the hilt with his fingertips.
"Admit what?"
"I admit that Leng Yuexin can't protect you, I admit that the Hehuan Sect can't protect you either, and I admit that you will come to Xuanshuang Valley sooner or later to become my living array core."
Manager Hu noticed that the red lines on the back of Mo Chengyue's hand were climbing higher, and his expression turned ugly.
"Mo Chengyue, can you hear me?"
Mo Chengyue lifted his eyelids slightly, his voice squeezed out through clenched teeth, still carrying that debt-collecting edge.
"Yes, don't stop, keep saying Ah Sui's name."
Shopkeeper Hu immediately handed the white paper lantern forward, the talisman on the lantern handle glowing red from the heat.
"Ah Sui, don't listen to what the water says. Mother says you're destined to have food, the stove fire recognizes you, the firewood recognizes you, and your sister recognizes you too."
The remaining part of the lamp wick finally made a clearer movement, as if she were struggling out from the depths of the red flame, the marks on her lips being worn thinner by her childhood name again and again.
Yu Lin Hong turned her lingering regret to Manager Hu, from which came a low laugh from the lamplight.
"You can't save Hu's daughter."
Manager Hu clutched the silver hairpin talisman, his hand reddened by the lamplight, but he didn't pull it away.
"I can't save her, and you're not allowed to keep calling her by the wrong name."
"She has long since become the seventh eye."
"Then gouge out her eyes and give her back her name."
Upon hearing this, the seventh eye heard a cacophony of a girl's sobs and a damp, wooden laugh mingling from beneath the red veil.
"Sister, are you going to gouge out my eyes?"
Shopkeeper Hu's voice, which was reciting the nicknames, almost stopped, and the white paper lamp swayed.
Mo Chengyue held the sword sheath horizontally, blocking her view of the red veil.
"Don't answer. She's just using your soft heart to smooth things over."
Manager Hu's throat moved, and he forced back the old pain.
"Ah Sui, don't recognize her crying, don't recognize that veil."
Yu Lin Hong spoke softly.
"Do you really think a childhood nickname can break a ship owner's twenty years of hard work?"
Mo Chengyue slowly pushed the array hook back into the crack of the lamp wick, and the Yin-Yang True Essence merged from the black and white strands into a single line, rubbing against the old red mark.
Whether it can be broken or not is another matter, but first I'll make you uncomfortable.