Chapter 122

Li Qingluo's whole body began to tremble, the shroud of terror over her heart pushing her to the brink of collapse.

135 Jin Lingzhi: I'm someone who's afraid of ghosts, and you give me the Yin-Yang Eyes?

"I was wrong! I was wrong! I shouldn't have killed the innocent! I... I..."

Li Qingluo's heart pounding with dread, her limbs went weak; her voluptuous body collapsed limply to the ground, pupils dilated, eyes vacant, as if her soul had left her.

Her cherry lips moved, mumbling something inaudible, the whole person like a walking corpse.

She feared death, but if death truly could not be avoided, it would only be a moment's pain either way.

But if even after death she could not escape punishment, that was something she simply could not accept.

For a moment, Li Qingluo's heart was filled with regret and despair.

Suddenly, light gathered in those unfocused eyes, and a spark of spirit returned to Li Qingluo's gaze.

"No! Heaven never seals off every path—I still have a chance!"

She scrambled up from the ground at once, clutching the diary copy tightly; a joy like 'a narrow escape from death' flooded her chest, making her hands tremble uncontrollably.

"Jiang Sishui! I still have him! If I follow him, perhaps I can still have a day of eternal life."

"So long as I don't die, even if there really are eighteen levels of hell, they can't touch me!"

Li Qingluo's heart suddenly cleared.

At this moment, what morality and Rites and Laws, what the great barriers between men and women, what lover Duan Zhengchun—to hell with all of it!

Compared with the possible tortures and sufferings after death, every person and matter was utterly trivial.

"If I follow him, surely he'll protect me well, won't he?"

As for Duan Zhengchun, on whom she'd doted for over a decade?

To hell with him!

Back then, if that scumbag hadn't deceived her feelings, how would she have become so extreme and cruel?

If she truly met a terrible end, that scumbag could not escape blame either.

At this moment, Li Qingluo cast aside every scruple.

But then, she could not help but begin to worry again: "But does he really mean it? Or has it been, from beginning to end, just my own wild imaginings, my own wishful thinking?"

People are like this—when they don't want something, they pray a thousand times for it not to come; but the moment they suddenly want it, they fret a thousand times that it won't come.

Li Qingluo's emotions surged and fell, her suspicions running wild beyond her control.

【Detected that Jiang Sishui has completed today's diary entry. Congratulations on obtaining one month of true Qi】

【Now drawing today's winner...】

【Congratulations to Jin Lingzhi on obtaining the special talent "Yin-Yang Eyes"】

Jin Lingzhi: "..."

Hearing this voice, the two people in the flower grove froze at the same time.

Then, Bai Feifei cast a sympathetic glance at Jin Lingzhi beside her.

This child—too pitiful!

She was already afraid of ghosts, and after finally drawing a reward, the system actually gave her a talent that lets her see ghosts.

They say "what the eye doesn't see is clean"—does the diary copy want Jin Lingzhi to scare herself to death?

And clearly, Jin Lingzhi thought of this too, and immediately screamed in terror: "No~! I don't want it! Aaah!"

Amid her shrieks, Young Lady Jin turned tail and ran.

Even when she had just learned the truth of the buried bones in the flower grove, she had never been as frightened as now.

But the system's power was beyond their resistance—two beams of divine light caught up to her directly and sank into her eyes.

Jin Lingzhi stopped dead.

Bai Feifei, who had arrived later, was stunned to see that her pupils had turned one black and one white at that moment.

The black was deep, like a bottomless abyss.

The white was dazzling, like the summer sun.

The black-and-white light flickered twice, then the divine radiance faded and her eyes returned to normal.

The "Yin-Yang Eyes" had fused successfully, yet Jin Lingzhi stood rooted in place, her gaze blank, motionless.

Bai Feifei felt even more sympathy.

Just as she was about to say something comforting, a smile suddenly appeared on Jin Lingzhi's face.

"Ha! Haha! Hahaha—"

Jin Lingzhi laughed inexplicably twice, then burst into full laughter.

Bai Feifei: "..."

This child couldn't have gone mad, could she?

And at this moment, Jin Lingzhi was already waving her arms and dancing about, and finally just threw her arms around Bai Feifei, bouncing and jumping.

Bai Feifei immediately sensed something was off, because she felt an irrepressible excitement and agitation radiating from Jin Lingzhi.

"Hmm? Could it be that this 'Yin-Yang Eyes' isn't what I imagined?" Bai Feifei murmured thoughtfully.

From the looks of it, only this possibility remained.

"Lingzhi, your reward is..."

"That's right! Feifei, let me tell you—we were all wrong! This 'Yin-Yang Eyes' of mine, it..."

Next, from Jin Lingzhi's somewhat incoherent account, Bai Feifei finally understood.

As she had thought, the system's "Yin-Yang Eyes" did indeed let Jin Lingzhi see ghosts and spirits, but this ability could be controlled.

Switched on and off at will.

However, in the "off" state, if a ghost or spirit approached, her eyelids would twitch as a warning.

If that were all, Jin Lingzhi would still be afraid.

But what the "Yin-Yang Eyes" granted her was far more than mere sight.

It was the ability to exert influence over the other party!

When the "Yin Eye" activated, it could nourish and strengthen the ethereal bodies of ghosts and spectres.

When the "Yang Eye" activated, it would burn and purify ghosts and spectres, like a blazing sun scorching snow.

In other words, although Jin Lingzhi could indeed "see ghosts," whether she saw them or not was entirely up to her — and she could also "nurture ghosts" and "kill ghosts"!

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It turned out to be a false alarm.

After learning the truth, Bai Feifei could not help feeling a twinge of envy.

Although her Classic of the Plain Girl seemed to be of greater value, this dual-cultivation method was destined to be shared out, for all the women to cultivate together.

But these "Yin-Yang Eyes" were a solid, tangible benefit belonging to Jin Lingzhi herself.

Bai Feifei's thoughts stirred: "Lingzhi, then take a look — is there anything unclean here in Mantuo Shanzhuang?"

With the "Yin-Yang Eyes," Jin Lingzhi brimmed with confidence, as if she had become an entirely different person.

She thumped her chest and promised with a full mouth: "No problem, watch me!"

But then, deep within Jin Lingzhi's pupils, two tiny dots — one black, one white — emerged, and the world before her eyes changed dramatically.

The brightness or dimness of the sky could no longer affect her; the flower forest before her had become far more ethereal, and right where she stood, strands of mottled airflow in different colours had abruptly appeared.

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Among them, black, grey, and crimson accounted for over ninety percent.

Jin Lingzhi watched for a while, then withdrew her talent and shook her head.

Bai Feifei did not fully grasp her meaning: "There aren't any?"

Jin Lingzhi chose her words carefully and said: "All I can see are some currents of qi — they seem to represent all sorts of negative human thoughts: pain, despair, resentment… things like that. As for ghosts and such, there aren't any."

"Negative thoughts?"

Bai Feifei guessed: "Then perhaps those were left behind by the people Li Qingluo killed. I've heard that after a person dies, some things linger in place and do not disperse."

"As for why you didn't see any ghosts, perhaps there simply are no ghosts in this world."

"But if ghosts don't exist at all, then what's the point of the system's reward of the 'Yin-Yang Eyes'?"

"Or perhaps it's not that they have no use, but that the time to put them to use hasn't come yet?"

Bai Feifei fell into deep thought.

Unlike her, Jin Lingzhi, the one directly involved, took a more open view. Hearing this, she patted Bai Feifei's shoulder and said carelessly: "Feifei-jie, what's the point of thinking so much?"

"If there are ghosts, then my 'Yin-Yang Eyes' will come in handy; if there aren't, then the 'Yin-Yang Eyes' won't be needed, and keeping them is the same either way."

"All this talk of gods and ghosts is too mysterious — it's beyond our understanding. Even that fellow's stories about some Divine Weapons and Marvels left me completely baffled."