Chapter 42: Soul Exchange

She felt that her feet were no longer her own, and it was dark before her eyes, and in the darkness she felt as if she had returned to the day when the bronze soldiers of Enma had come to the village of Hongshan to select two boys and girls to perform the ritual of sacrifice, the boy tied to the pyre and burned to death, and the girl tied to a stone and drowned in water.

She was thrown into the river with a stone tied to her, and the stone smashed into a boulder in the water, and she miraculously survived, and it was pitch black again before her eyes—she was picked up by human traffickers and taken as a slave, and she was branded with two red cross slave symbols on her back with iron, and in the cage, she was whipped by the iron whip of the bronze soldier, and she was bruised all over her body, and she cried and cried until she had no more strength......

Despair, fear, resentment, injustice...... These emotions filled her mind in an instant, she wanted to scream desperately, scream angrily, tear everything in front of her to pieces, want to have more power to crush everything she could to pieces!

"Come and help me put out this light. ”

The old woman's voice came from the darkness, and then she saw a green ghostly fire, as angry as she was, as full of hatred, but as if full of vengeance. Xia Yuqian sucked the ghost fire into it violently, opened her eyes suddenly, her pupils became blood-red, and her brain suddenly sobered up.

"What did I do?" was her first reaction when she woke up, but she knew that it was too late and that she would turn into a burning ghost......

She felt that she could no longer breathe, her hands subconsciously touched her neck, and her vision gradually began to blur, and her eyes turned from blood red to darkness......

"It's okay, those terrible things are over," a gentle and beautiful voice like an angel suddenly came from the darkness, softly comforting: "Don't worry, everything will be fine." ”

In the dark, Xia Yuqian suddenly saw the little princess standing in front of her, the breeze blowing through her silver hair, with a beautiful smile on her face, and her voice was like a spring breeze blowing through Xia Yuqian's heart, instantly melting the ice in her heart and calming the anger and resentment in her heart.

"Everything will be fine......"

Her pupils returned to their original blackness, and the ghostly fire was assimilated by the peace in her heart.

The old woman looked at the little girl in front of her in disbelief, and as if she suddenly remembered something, she looked up at the room of Her Royal Highness the Princess—she was standing in front of the window and looking at them, and when she saw that Xia Yuqian was fine, she closed the window again.

The old woman glanced at Xia Yuqian again, but sighed helplessly and turned to leave.

Xia Yuqian looked at the old woman's back, and then looked at the princess's window, and the words that the little princess once said seemed to come to her ears again: "From today on, you will be a member of my Enma clan." ”

But she didn't care anymore, now she only looked forward to the three years passing quickly, and for some reason, she firmly believed in the little princess's promise, and she believed that the princess would fulfill her promise and take her home in three years.

[Three years later] Emperor Yan Luogu rode a black-haired horse, stepped on a golden phoenix, held the dragon in his hand, and led the spirit clan and the various clans of the Xuan Realm to join forces to defeat the Enma clan and seal the Yama King underground......

There was chaos in the Golden Purple Palace, a raging fire broke out in the palace, and the servants fled in all directions, surrounded by black smoke, mixed with piercing screams and painful wails.

Xia Yuqian followed behind the maidservants, fled to the back of the hall in a panic, they ran down a long and dark staircase, and when they went down to the corner of the staircase, a pair of hands suddenly stretched out in the darkness and grabbed her tightly.

"She's here!" the man who grabbed her shouted behind him.

He dragged Xia Yuqian to the end of the dark corridor, Xia Yuqian screamed and struggled desperately, but it was useless, his strength was too great, she couldn't break him at all! Her screams were gradually buried by the sound of the burning fire around her and the sound of the servants fleeing in panic, and her consciousness began to gradually blur......

"What the hell is going on, why can't that knife rally the Praetorian Army?"

In the midst of the confusion, she heard the angry and shrill voice of a woman.

“...... No, the ceremony has been completed, and the boys and girls have been sacrificed......," said an old voice.

Xia Yuqian opened her eyes in a daze, only to find herself lying on a wooden table in a dimly lit room, Yan Mei was standing next to her, and behind her, there were three elders of the Enma clan.

"She's awake......" Yan Mei said to the elders on the side, "Go and call the ghost woman over, it's too late!"

Xia Yuqian wanted to move her body, but she was horrified to find that her hands and feet had been tied to the table, she wanted to shout but found that she couldn't shout, she looked at Yan Mei in fear, not knowing what she was going to do to herself.

"Alright, baby, lie down. Yan Mei turned around and said to the little princess behind her, the little princess was also lying on a table, and that table was placed side by side with the table where Xia Yuqian was lying.

Xia Yuqian's heart began to beat wildly, she looked at the little princess in disbelief, and the little princess also turned her head to look at her, but her face once again showed that weird smile, but she looked much weaker than usual.

"Your Highness, the ghost woman is here!" said an elder who hurriedly pushed the door open.

Xia Yuqian turned her head and saw the old woman she saw in the yard that night, she was still holding a black light in one hand and a dead wooden cane in the other, and her ugly face was mixed with cloudy mucus in her gray-yellow eyes.

"You deceived us," Yan Mei first looked at her angrily and said, "We completed the ceremony as you said, but that knife is useless at all!"

"It will definitely be useful, unless the ritual is not completed......"

"We have sacrificed the chosen boys and girls!"

"Are you sure they're all dead?"

Yan Mei was stunned for a moment after hearing this, the boy was burned to death, and he definitely didn't have to run, but the girl who was thrown into the river ......

“...... Anyway, the top priority now is to help the princess be reborn," Yan Mei's gaze fell on the little princess again, "Her current body is too weak, which limits her powerful soul power, so she needs a new body." ”

"After Princess Enma is reborn, her soul power will reach its peak, in that case, you Enma clan may still have a chance to fight to the death against the Yanluo army. After the old woman finished speaking, she walked between the little princess and Xia Yuqian. Lifting the black boat lamp, the black light slowly floated into the air, and the ghost fire inside lit up the whole room.

Xia Yuqian didn't know what they were going to do, she tried her best to break free from the rope tied to her, but it was useless. Seeing that she was lying on the table, about to be slaughtered, she was so anxious that cold sweat oozed from her forehead. Turning her head, she found that the little princess was still looking at her, but she had a gloating smile on her face. At that moment, Xia Yuqian felt that she had been greatly deceived!

At this moment, the surroundings suddenly shook violently, and with a loud tearing sound, a crack suddenly opened in the protective barrier that had been set up around it, and from the crack came the sound of burning fire and screaming.

"Hurry up! It's too late!" Yan Mei commanded sharply. Beside her, three black-robed Enma elders did their best to support the barrier.

The old woman lifted her deadwood cane, and the tip of the crutch showed a sharp tip at the bottom.

She lifted her cane and wrote a blood-red spell in the air, and then she slammed the tip of the knife straight down into the little princess's heart......