Wang Qiang finally got the exact clue to the location of the Spirit Summoning Pearl. Now, he only has one last target left.
Following the clues, Wang Qiang finally got the coveted Spirit-Calling Pearl. At this time, he no longer knew how many years he had been searching for it. Fortunately, everything was over.
"Xiang Rong, wait for me!"
Wang Qiang returned to the place where Xiangrong was buried. Now Lihuo City was no longer there, replaced by a lonely dense forest.
The periphery of the dense forest is filled with highly poisonous miasma. Every bird and animal that passes by will turn into pus and blood and die.
Over the years, Wang Qiang has offended too many people. In order to ensure that the ritual of using the spirit summoning bead to resurrect Xiangrong can proceed smoothly, he brought a rib of Xiangrong that has been collected for unknown ages in a storage bag.
, walked into the dense forest surrounded by miasma.
In the dense forest, Wang Qiang built a huge underground palace, and personally set up a large array of iron puppets at the entrance of the underground palace.
After doing all this, he finally felt relieved.
However, when Wang Qiang was preparing to start the resurrection ceremony according to the method of using the Spirit Summoning Pearl, a line of big characters suddenly appeared in his mind.
"There is no resurrection from the dead."
Suddenly, Wang Qiang's heart was shocked. He had worked hard for countless years, could it be that these six words were all he got in return?
He probed his spiritual mind into the spirit-calling bead, and a voice told him that if he wanted to resurrect a person, he had to sacrifice the life force of the person's closest relatives to complete the resurrection ceremony.
And this is the truth that people cannot be resurrected after death.
Death is like a lamp going out. This is the power of rules. Rules are neither sad nor happy, just like the most ruthless person in the world.
In the eyes of rules, there is never any favor, only cause and effect.
The resurrection of one person heralds the death of another person. This is also the power of rules. This is also cause and effect!
Wang Qiang sat alone in the underground palace for a long time. After a long time, he gradually accepted the fact before him. Everything will eventually have regrets. Maybe he is destined not to stay with Xiangrong forever.
Then, let him sacrifice himself in exchange for Xiangrong's rebirth.
"call..."
The whole person let out a sigh of relief, and Wang Qiang had already made up his mind to start the resurrection ceremony.
The entire ritual process will last for seventy-seven forty-nine days. During this period, Wang Qiang cannot be disturbed in the slightest. One mistake may lead to the failure of all previous efforts.
He started like this, using one of Xiangrong's ribs as a root, his own vitality as a guide, and the power of the Spirit Summoning Pearl as a container to communicate the power of the rules.
Time is passing gradually, the first seven days, the second, the third seven days...
Wang Qiang felt that he was gradually becoming weaker, and the image in front of him was gradually completing its transformation.
He began to look forward to it with great hope, hoping that Xiangrong could reappear in this world, and that he could live well and work hard together with his life.
However, just as the resurrection ceremony was about to end, an accident happened.
The enemies that Wang Qiang had offended before got information about him from nowhere, and came together to break into the underground palace and besiege Wang Qiang.
The resurrection ceremony was forced to be interrupted. Seeing that Xiangrong had turned into a soul state, he would be truly reborn in a few days. However, because of the troubles of the group of people in front of him, Wang Qiang's lifelong efforts were all in vain!
Wang Qiang went crazy, and with most of his life force gone, he faced off against all his enemies.
No one knew how long that battle lasted. They only knew that in the end all the enemies were reduced to corpses, and Wang Qiang was about to die of exhaustion in this crazy battle.
Half lying on the steps deep in the underground palace, Wang Qiang's consciousness was gradually blurring.
The whole life's experiences in his mind turned into pictures, flashing before his eyes, and a bitter smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
"Cause and effect, so this is cause and effect?"
Wang Qiang was muttering to himself. He became a Thief Saint in order to resurrect Xiangrong. He offended too many people on the way to becoming a Thief Saint. However, when he finally found the Spirit Summoning Bead and was able to resurrect Xiangrong, he...
The resurrection ceremony was interrupted because of the enemies he offended back then.
Wanting to be resurrected is the cause, and the interruption of the final resurrection ceremony is the effect. There is a destiny somewhere, maybe this is the cause and effect, and this is the power of rules.
Wang Qiang lives within the rules, but in the end he is unable to resist. He can steal any treasure that exists in the world, but he cannot steal the words rules and cause and effect.
With infinite unwillingness and resentment, Wang Qiang injected the last bit of life force in his body into the Spirit Summoning Pearl. Then he slowly closed his eyes, and the underground palace fell into a long dead silence.
Through this last bit of vitality, the Soul-Calling Pearl independently completed the resurrection ceremony.
However, because it was interrupted before, this resurrection ceremony was incomplete.
Xiangrong then turned into a soul state and lost all her memory. She only remembered her name, remembered that she wanted to find her husband, and also remembered the unspoken wish from back then.
"There." Deep in Xiangrong's memory, a boy pointed to the endless sea and said to her: "There is a small island with beautiful scenery there. After everything is over, we will move to that small island to live.
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From then on, the boy's words became Xiang Rong's biggest wish in his life.
Even though she has died, even though she has been resurrected again after countless years and transformed into a soul state, she has never been forgotten.
Xiangrong really wanted to see her husband again, and wanted to tell her husband in person.
"She just wants two people to live happily together forever. She doesn't need to solve everything, because being with the person she likes is everything."
It's a pity that Wang Qiang doesn't understand this principle, and neither does A Niu.
She wanted to live a confused life in the underground palace. She tried hard to recall her husband's appearance and every moment she spent with her husband, but in the end, she couldn't get it.
Time is passing slowly, Xiang Rong has always existed in the underground palace, one hundred years, two hundred years, three hundred years...
In the end, Xiang Rong couldn't even remember the time. She just wandered aimlessly in the underground palace every day, accompanied by the decaying bones.
She didn't know that one of the bones belonged to her husband.
...
Wang Qiang slowly opened his eyes, and in front of him was Xiangrong's eyes full of concern.
For a moment, the memory began to rewind. The moment he saw Xiangrong, Wang Qiang actually wanted to step forward and hug her tightly, putting his arms through Xiangrong's body, but he failed.
However, staring at Xiangrong's face, Wang Qiang's memory became increasingly chaotic.
He didn't know who he was, Wang Qiang, A Niu, or... both.
In the memory of the past, it was because Wang Qiang knew the function of the Soul Summoning Pearl in advance that he was able to think of using the Soul Summoning Pearl to resurrect Rong Rong when she was about to die. However, it was Wang Qiang who experienced all that.
So what about A Niu, how did he know about the Soul Summoning Pearl back then?
Also, if Wang Qiang just experienced someone else's memory, why did he have such a real feeling, as if that was what he had experienced, and that was what he had done on the other side of the long river of time.