Yama Reborn-Chapter 511 - 508 [I Only Care]

Happy New Year’s Day, best wishes to everyone!

Wishing you all great luck in the Year of the Rabbit and good health to your entire family!

Hands clasped, bow~

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Chapter 508: All I Care About

"The second half already started ten minutes ago!" After turning on the TV, Fox glanced at Seed with dissatisfaction.

Seed didn’t say anything. He dragged out a case of beer from underneath the sofa and gestured, causing a box of pizza to fly over from the kitchen automatically.

Just as Fox was about to reach for a beer, Seed slapped his hand.

"What’s a kid like you doing drinking beer? Drink this instead," Seed said, casually tossing over a can of cola.

Fox snorted unhappily but still obediently took the cola. He glanced at the time. "Mom will be off work and back in half an hour," he said, pointing at the beer cans on the table.

Seed, engrossed in the soccer match on the TV screen, said indifferently, "Don’t worry, she’ll be back half an hour late today."

"How do you know?"

Seed thought for a moment. "On her way home from work, she’ll run into two broken traffic lights, causing a traffic jam. The expected delay is about half an hour," he said.

"When did the traffic lights break?" Fox stared at Seed.

Seed casually snapped his fingers.

"They’re broken now."

* * *

"COUGH, COUGH, COUGH, COUGH, COUGH, COUGH..."

Chen Nuo was coughing desperately, occasionally spitting out bloody sputum.

When Chen Nuo saw Lu Xixi reach for his wrist, he frowned and shook his head. "Don’t waste your spiritual power. My Consciousness Space isn’t damaged. It will gradually recover its spiritual strength on its own, and then I’ll mobilize my body to heal the physical injuries."

After exhaling, Chen Nuo slowly said, "Plus, the shot of Self-Healing Serum I received earlier will continue to work. These external injuries might look severe, but I’ll recover over time."

The two of them had already landed on the rooftop, while Xicheng Xun stood quietly to the side.

Only then did Chen Nuo turn his head to look at the Neon swordmaiden.

"Just now... thank you," Chen Nuo whispered. "But I told you not to follow me. It’s too dangerous."

Xicheng Xun shrugged her shoulders, saying nothing.

But Lu Xixi sighed, walked up to Xicheng Xun, and looked intently into the girl’s eyes.

Xicheng Xun suddenly felt immense pressure and involuntarily averted her gaze.

However, Lu Xixi suddenly smiled. She patted Xicheng Xun on the shoulder and spoke in an earnest tone, "No matter what, you risked your life to save Chen Nuo—thank you! I’m very grateful!"

Xicheng Xun’s lips moved slightly. "I... don’t need..."

"I know you don’t need my thanks." Lu Xixi seemed to read Xicheng Xun’s mind. She shook her head and continued, "Whether you need it or not is one thing. Whether I’m grateful or not is another."

Xicheng Xun hesitated, about to say something when she suddenly seemed to remember something important, her face abruptly changing. "AH!! I almost forgot something important!"

Chen Nuo frowned. "What?"

Xicheng Xun’s face was pale as she looked towards Chen Nuo. "I... told Niveer and Li Yingwan to go..."

* * *

「One second later...」

* * *

Chen Nuo’s face abruptly changed. "Hurry over!"

He grabbed Lu Xixi quickly. "My spiritual power is exhausted! You search quickly! Along the perimeter of Xuanwu Lake, starting from the southwest corner towards the north! Quick!!"

Xicheng Xun looked frantic. "I-I didn’t mean to harm Sun Keke... I just heard your conversation with that guy—something about a Chosen One, something about two of them... I deduced that his strength is so formidable, beyond what you can match, because he has Sun Keke as a Chosen One, so..."

"Did you find them?" Chen Nuo urgently asked Lu Xixi.

Lu Xixi exhaled. "Found them!"

"Quick, take us there!" Chen Nuo gripped Lu Xixi’s hand. "Quick!"

"Right! Let’s hurry! Maybe Sun Keke is still okay..." Xicheng Xun also hurried forward and grabbed Lu Xixi’s hand. "Please take me with you too!"

Chen Nuo’s expression was grave. "Let’s go!"

Lu Xixi took the two of them and soared into the sky.

Xicheng Xun was still busy explaining to Chen Nuo, "I didn’t want to hurt Sun Keke. I had no other choice at the time, so..."

"Don’t worry, Sun Keke... won’t be harmed," Chen Nuo said with a wry smile. "She’s not the one I’m worried about."

"Ah?" Xicheng Xun was taken aback.

"I’m worried about the other two," Chen Nuo said, his face grim.

* * *

What a joke. That wasn’t Sun Keke; that was Yun Yin! Yun Yin was a battle-hardened, top-tier expert who had lived for three hundred years! In London, she had single-handedly nearly crippled both him and the Son of the Sun—two Controllers! Even if she had lost her supreme strength, her combat awareness was entirely preserved! Just Niveer and Li Yingwan, two inexperienced girls who had never even seen blood—could they kill Sun Keke? What a joke! It might have been feasible for the Hummingbird and Firefly of his past life. But these two girls, in this life, were far from capable enough.

* * *

When the three of them landed on the lakeside road north of the southwest corner of Xuanwu Lake, Chen Nuo breathed a sigh of relief as they touched down.

Because he had already seen Niveer and Li Yingwan.

The two girls were still alive, though they were in a rather sorry state.

On a large willow tree by the lake, the girls were bound tightly with strips of cloth torn from their own outerwear, hanging from a branch.

As the three landed, they saw the two girls still swaying there.

Li Yingwan was still cursing furiously, while Niveer was sighing and rolling her eyes.

Only when Chen Nuo and the others arrived did the two girls finally begin to scream.

Chen Nuo sighed, went over to personally untie them and let them down, then asked, "Where is she?"

Li Yingwan and Niveer looked at each other, both a bit embarrassed.

Lu Xixi picked up a short knife from the ground and examined it. "Whose blood is on this?"

The two girls, especially Li Yingwan who was still ranting, were clearly suppressed by the Star Sky Empress’s aura and obediently quieted down.

Niveer whispered, "Anyway... it’s not hers. I don’t know when she got so strong. I’ve been training in combat for a whole year and a half."

Lu Xixi gently pulled the two girls over and examined their wounds. She administered half a dose of Self-Healing Serum to each, then said, "Your wounds will heal by tomorrow at the latest. Now, tell me what happened."

Niveer sighed. "I don’t know either. The fight just now was chaotic. That person was clearly not Sun Keke; Sun Keke could never fight like that. And... in the end, despite our desperate efforts, we both couldn’t hold her down. Then suddenly, after a few claps of thunder from the sky, she seemed spooked by something, released us, jumped straight from here into the lake, and fled, disappearing."

Leaping into the lake to escape? That was quite a cunning method. If one intended to evade an unsuspecting foe, jumping into the water could indeed increase the chances of evading detection by a superior’s broad spiritual power search. After all, when a superior covers a large area with their spiritual power to search, they tend to unintentionally overlook some areas, like the depths of a lake.

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Chen Nuo’s face darkened. "We have to get her back..."

He took a deep breath, but at that moment, severely injured and lacking strength, his footing was unsteady, and Lu Xixi came forward to support him.

Chen Nuo glanced at Lu Xixi.

Lu Xixi’s expression was very calm. "Before we look for her, shouldn’t you first clarify some things to me? What exactly is all this about?"

Chen Nuo sighed. "Let’s find the person first. I..."

"No!"

Unexpectedly, Lu Xixi firmly refused.

Chen Nuo was taken aback.

Lu Xixi took a deep breath and looked at Chen Nuo. "Chen Nuo, you need to understand one thing: the person I’m worried about is you. What I care about is your life and safety! As for her... whatever problems she has, whatever has happened to her—does that directly concern me? The person I’m worried about is you! You’re injured like this. Do you think I care more about her, or whether you live or die?"

As she spoke, Lu Xixi bit her lip hard. Slowly, she said, "Not only are you my man, but you’re also the father of my child! Your safety, your life and death, matter to me a hundred, a thousand, a million times more than Sun Keke or any other woman! If you were fine now, I’d willingly go along with you. But you’re seriously injured! So, in my eyes, there’s no one and nothing more important than you!"

Chen Nuo’s expression was complex. He finally sighed. "So, what do you mean?"

"First, we go back and treat your injuries, so I can be completely sure you’re out of danger. As for her... I don’t care if she’s Sun Keke or someone else. Now that The Fourth Seed has retreated... even these two girls could fight her to a standstill. With her current abilities, even if we let her run for two days, how far could she get? I can always catch her."

* * *

「An hour later.」

* * *

In the penthouse suite of the hotel that belonged to the three young women.

Chen Nuo had taken off his tattered shirt, which was torn into strips. His body was smeared with a lot of anti-inflammatory medicine and then wrapped in gauze.

Originally, Niveer had asked the hotel to send a medical kit to treat the external injuries. However, once the items arrived, Lu Xixi took them and personally attended to Chen Nuo’s wounds the entire time.

Throughout the process, the three young women didn’t have the slightest opportunity to intervene.

Clearly, Lu Xixi had no intention of letting them touch her husband’s body.

Xicheng Xun, however, was unperturbed, quietly kneeling in the room and calmly restoring her strength.

Li Yingwan and Niveer had also sustained some injuries and could only tend to themselves on the side.

During this process, Chen Nuo slowly recounted what had happened to Lu Xixi.

"...The situation is roughly like that."

When Chen Nuo finished speaking, he exhaled. "So, you should understand the problem I’m worried about now."

But in his heart, he still held back some details.

At least, Chen Nuo hadn’t told Lu Xixi everything about Yun Yin’s origin—especially the fact that Yun Yin was the original owner of Lu Xixi’s current body.

* * *

Lu Xixi squinted, cut and tied the gauze on Chen Nuo’s shoulder, then straightened his fractured shoulder bone. The movement caused Chen Nuo to grit his teeth in pain.

But Lu Xixi remained calm and nodded. "Understood. So the current Sun Keke isn’t Sun Keke; rather, a woman named Yun Yin has performed Body Seizing on her."

Chen Nuo nodded. "Mm."

"And you haven’t figured out why Yun Yin from 1982 would suddenly perform Body Seizing on Sun Keke in 2002."

"Mm," Chen Nuo nodded again.

"This situation is very similar to the last time you suddenly turned into... that Chen Nuo."

"It’s actually different. After all, my situation is different from Sun Keke’s," Chen Nuo shook his head. "And besides..."

"So what are you worried about?" Lu Xixi pressed. "Are you worried that Sun Keke will never change back from being Yun Yin? Or perhaps, you’ve already thought of a solution? How to swap Sun Keke’s soul back? Or maybe, you have a way to transfer Yun Yin’s soul somewhere else?"

Chen Nuo shook his head. "I don’t have solutions to these problems."

"There’s one thing Yun Yin said that wasn’t wrong." Lu Xixi sighed, her tone tinged with helplessness as she looked at Chen Nuo. "She asked... does she deserve to die? I don’t think she was wrong to say that."

After a pause, Lu Xixi spoke slowly, "Indeed, from our standpoint, saving Sun Keke is right. But from Yun Yin’s standpoint... Does she deserve to die?"

Chen Nuo didn’t speak—he couldn’t refute this.

Lu Xixi frowned and said, "Then maybe we could find Yun Yin’s original physical body? If we can find it... maybe we can let Yun Yin’s soul return to her own body?"

Chen Nuo glanced at Lu Xixi with a complex expression, then averted his gaze. "...Uh... well..."

* * *

On the north shore of Xuanwu Lake.

In the lakeside park, Yun Yin sat under a tree, cross-legged with eyes closed.

She had swum across the lake underwater. Her clothes, once soaked to the bone, were now dry, as she had utilized the spells of the Qingyun Sect, her body’s surface emitting heat like a dryer.

In just over ten minutes, her clothes had dried.

Yun Yin stood up and exhaled. The injuries she had sustained during the fight with the two girls were largely inconsequential by now.

Under the cover of nightfall, Yun Yin slowly walked out of the park and stood by the roadside to check the road signs.

She had learned the map of Jinling City by heart over the past few days, which allowed her to quickly determine her bearings.

The north bank of Xuanwu Lake was the land transportation hub leading out of Jinling City.

The train station and long-distance bus terminal were located here.

Of course, in such a place, there were also plenty of unlicensed taxis.

Sun Keke crossed the street, walked for over ten minutes, and arrived at Jinling City’s long-distance bus terminal, where she immediately flagged down an unlicensed taxi driver standing by the roadside.

"Need a ride? Where to, miss?" the unlicensed taxi driver asked, somewhat surprised. Judging by the girl’s appearance, she didn’t seem to be traveling far; she didn’t even have luggage or a backpack.

"To Hui Province..." Yun Yin slowly stated an address.

The driver laughed. "I don’t know about this Cross Slope place you mentioned, but I can take you to the county town. Then you can ask for the local address there. However... it will cost a little extra."

"How much in total?" Yun Yin asked calmly.

"...Eight hundred."

After calculating the distance in his mind, the driver quoted a price, adding, "That doesn’t include bridge and road tolls! Those are extra!"

Yun Yin nodded and reached into her pocket.

She pulled out her wallet, counted some cash, and threw it to the driver. "Let’s leave immediately."

Overjoyed, the driver caught the money. Then, with a gleam in his eye, he smiled and said, "Miss, if you’re not in a hurry, can we wait another fifteen minutes or so? My car can take two more people. I’ll see if anyone else needs a lift... It’s on the way, after all, and business isn’t easy..."

Yun Yin coldly snatched the money back from the driver’s hand. "Then I’ll take another car."

As she turned to leave, the driver immediately became anxious and quickly stopped her. "Alright, alright! We won’t wait! I won’t pick up anyone else. We’ll leave immediately! Okay?"

Seeing Yun Yin coldly walk around the car and get into the back seat, the driver grimaced.

It was the long-distance bus station, after all, with an on-duty police post nearby; he couldn’t easily force things here. Once they were on their way, he’d collect the money first. Then, after driving out of the city to the outskirts where unlicensed taxis gathered, he’d stop the car and pick up a few more passengers to earn extra money. At that point, even if he made her wait an hour or two... what could a frail little girl like her do to him? Tch!

* * *

「A few hours later.」

* * *

It was past midnight.

At the entrance of Cross Slope Village.

A dusty Jetta with a Su A license plate, having driven through the darkness, came to a stop at the foot of the hill.

The car door opened. The unlicensed taxi driver, now sporting a swollen nose and a bruised face, hobbled out of the car and respectfully opened the back door with both hands.

"We’re here! Please exit the car. Please, please, be careful not to hit your head... uh... please..."

As Yun Yin stepped out of the car, the driver bowed and scraped. "Well, now that you’ve arrived, could I... could I go now...?"

Yun Yin, however, didn’t even glance at the driver. She tossed a wad of cash on the ground and turned to walk up the hill.

In the dead of night, from the base of the hillside, one could vaguely make out a cluster of buildings on the slope.

And there stood the beautifully and impressively constructed mountain gate.

"Qingyun..."

Yun Yin sighed.