CH 532

532: The Price of a Resurrection

But life and death are predetermined by God and resurrecting the dead goes against the natural laws of the world. It’s impossible to bring someone back without paying a price.

This resurrection cost seven lives. The one making the wish must sacrifice the lives of seven people close to them; it doesn’t have to be blood relations either. As long as it is someone close to the person, it will be accepted.

The seven people must choose their method of death while on top of the Soul Sacrifice formation for the formation to activate. Then a part of the god of death’s essence will come through the formation. The god’s essence will use the agreed upon method of death to reap their souls. Once the last sacrifice is made, the wish will be granted and the target soul to be resurrected will leave the underworld and return to the world of the living.”

“Seven sacrifices... choosing their own deaths...” Shui took two steps back in disbelief. She suddenly crouched down on the ground with the hands over her head as if in great pain.

“This... don’t tell me someone really came and activated the formation!” Ai Lin muttered.

Ai Lin was surprised things had already progressed so far. Based on the way she was acting, it was obvious the girl crouching was probably one of the sacrifices. She was so pitiful, Ai Lin forgave her for earlier.

“Yes, it’s been activated. Five people have already died in the city. Their deaths were all strange and related to the horror stories they shared when they were in this cave. They died in the same manner the people in their stories died.”

“Five died, so the last two. . . ” Ai Lin considered how Juntian had brought Feng Wu and the other girl who had grabbed her shoulder earlier. Was Feng Wu one of the sacrifices? What a crazy coincidence!

Ai Lin was really surprised. She never expected Feng Wu to be so unlucky. She couldn’t remember the names of the seven people from the story, so she wasn’t sure if Feng Wu had been one of them.

Juntian nodded with a heavy expression. If the one doing all the killings was a human being, then they could deal with it by catching the person. But if the murderer was the god of death entering the human world through a formation. . . How would he go about dealing with that?

“Miss Ai Lin, is there a way to break it?” Juntian asked.

The words immediately raised Shui’s hopes and she looked expectantly at Ai Lin with a pitiful look on her face.

Ai Lin knew so many things, maybe she would know how to break the formation.

“It’s not impossible to break the formation – you have to kill the one making the wish. But remember, even if you kill the wisher, it won’t bring back the people who already died. It’s just that the ones still alive won’t have to worry about their souls being taken.”

It was everything she knew from having read the original story. She remembered the information came from a hermit necromancer.

“I understand. Thank you, Miss Ai Lin.” Juntian solemnly thanked Ai Lin.

Shui and Ai Lin returned with Juntian and Feng Wu back to the Feng family home. Juntian didn’t dare let Ai Lin go before verifying the method she outlined, so he had asked her to stay over temporarily and had a room arranged for her.

Ai Lin’s stay made her realized how prominent Feng house was. Her family was peanuts in comparison.

There was no one in charge at Qui house and Shui didn’t dare stay alone because she was afraid the god of death would reap her soul at any moment. She took the initiative to live with the Feng family even though the two families were not on good terms because of the very bad fight between her and Feng Wu. They had torn each other’s faces away, so there was none left to consider.

Even if you twisted her arm, Shui would never have thought there’d be a day she’d beg to stay over at the Feng’s family home. But this was a truly unexpected event. Compared to dying, begging to stay over was nothing.

Besides, the one helping her was Juntian, not Feng Wu, Shui fooled herself into thinking.

Shui didn’t dare stay too far from Feng Wu and strongly demanded the room next door. Madam Lan had been worried she was up to no good at first, but Juntian reassured her it wasn’t the case.

Madam Lan didn’t know Feng Wu was a sacrifice target. If she knew, he was sure she would cry.

But the matter was a big thing and Juntian couldn’t conceive of not telling his father and grandfather. So he located them and explained the entire situation.

Neither Father Feng nor Grandfather Feng thought Ning Bi would be so bold as to use a Feng descendent as a soul sacrifice. They really wanted to destroy the Ning family for raising such ludicrous female. But the important thing right now was to save Feng Wu, destroying the Ning family could come at its on time.

Father Feng and Grandfather Feng were worried something would happen to Feng Wu so they sent a large number of people to find Ning Bi. They also had guards stationed outside Feng Wu’s room to keep her from being taken away without their knowledge.

Juntian contacted Bai[notes] to pass on the information to the Qui’s family head, but even Bai couldn’t locate his father to contact him. As for Madam Qui, her face turned deathly white upon hearing her son’s explanation. She immediately took her people and left her mother’s house and returned home. But upon returning she learned Shui had left and was staying with her old rival, Madam Lan.

This incensed Madam Qui, but it wasn’t like she could make a fuss about it since the Feng family were helping her daughter. She had no choice but to rush to the Feng’s as quickly as possible.

Shui’s older sister, Bing, had gone out with the head of Qui house and she was not around either. The only ones to go to the Feng’s were Madam Qui and Bai.

The Qui family sent a large number of people to look for Ning Bi. The Ning family were also put under surveillance though they didn’t know what Ning Bi had done or where she had gone. There was nothing the Feng or Qui families could do but slowly search for her.

The problem was no one knew when the god of death would strike.

Juntian and Bai thought about destroying the black formation to prevent the god’s divine sense from coming through, but Ai Lin knew from the original text that it would be useless. The god of death was already in the mortal world, it was just that it had not reaped all the souls yet. When all seven souls were reaped, the god’s divine sense would naturally dissipate. Until then, destroying the physical formation wouldn’t do anything.