Chapter 356: Youre a Burden

Chapter 356: You're a Burden

A beam of light arced across the horizon and fell to the ground. A swarm of paper snakes had brought Cui Haitang to a secluded valley.

The snakes roamed around, securing the valley, as the paper figure cursed effigy blinked into existence. It stared at Cui Haitang quietly.

There was a line of blood slashing across the center of Cui Haitang's forehead. Her body had already been bisected, but her ardent desire to cling to life had allowed her to temporarily keep the halves of her body stuck to each other.

"Dear Sister, my spirit's been cut apart. I'm about to die. Bring me to my husband, quickly!" Cui Haitang gasped out.

"With your spirit cut, your truesoul is about to dissipate. You are about to die," the paper figure said calmly.

"No! My soul might have been cut, but I can still be revived! I just need to be grafted to a cursed effigy. We retrieved a lot of shadow cursed effigies from the Spirit Emperor's hidden realm. We just have to force one of them to coexist with me. With my husband's abilities and your support, Dear Sister, I'll surely be able to succeed. Do it quickly!" Cui Haitang urged weakly.

The paper figure smiled in a ghastly manner. "And why should I help you?"

"You're my Dear Sister!" Cui Haitang's heart thumped. She suddenly felt a shred of unease.

"That's right. We're Dear Sisters, aren't we? Your enemies are my enemies, what's yours is mine, and your husband is my husband. We're Dear Sisters," the paper figure said calmly.

"What did you say?" Cui Haitang's eyes flashed with fear.

"After you die, your husband will be my husband. I'll take good care of him," the paper figure said calmly.

"You're my Dear Sister. How can you steal my husband?" Cui Haitang exclaimed. Then, she blanched. "The female voice I heard from my husband's meditation chamber—was that you? You're a cursed effigy, so you can instantly hide in my husband's mindscape. That's why I've never been able to find you. You were that wench!"

"Dear Sister, are you only realizing that now? You don't know how thrilling it is to have you keep hearing us from the outside." The paper figure gave Cui Haitang a sinister smile.

"You deliberately allowed me to hear it? You wanted the thrill of being caught? Why? Why would you want my husband?!" Cui Haitang thundered.

"Weren't you the one who kept telling me that your husband was the best husband in the world? Why wouldn't I want a husband like that?" This chapter is updated by nov(e)(l)biin.com

"No! You're only a paper figure. How could you have seduced my husband?!" Cui Haitang exclaimed.

"I'm a paper figure, but I can mold my appearance into that of anyone, for instance..." The paper figure smiled gently.

Then, it transformed into a facsimile of Cui Haitang.

Cui Haitang's eyes widened. She felt as though she had been trapped in an ice cellar.

"Exactly. We've been Dear Sisters for so many years now, haven't we? I'll at least make sure you know everything before you die. Then, I'll inherit all that belongs to you. Once your truesoul dissipates, I'll collect its remnant fragments. After all, when your father's in a demonic fit, I'll need them to awaken and control him. He's an Earth Immortal, and he'll be able to support my husband well."

"Dear Sister? 'My husband'?" Cui Haitang's face turned distressed.

Her vitality was rapidly draining from her body. As her truesoul dissipated, her past memories flitted across her mind. Back then, she and Han Bingdie were the best of friends. Although the Taiqing Sect had just suffered a calamity, her father's status meant that she was beyond the like of ordinary disciples. Nalan Qiankun had courted her persistently.

"Junior Sister Haitang, you're so beautiful! Your father's a leader of the Taiqing Sect, and you're the equivalent of its royalty. Everything that's good about the world has been concentrated in you. The lucky suitor who manages to win your hand must have saved the world in a past life."

"Junior Sister Haitang, if the heavens were to give me the chance to hold your hand, I'd never let you go. Even if the heavens were to split, the earth to crack, my love for you would persist for time immemorial!"

"Haitang, I must have begged the heavens for three whole lifetimes for them to allow me to marry you in this one. I promise to guard you my entire life. With me around, you'll never suffer a moment's grievance!"

"As for that paper figure cursed effigy that follows you around, don't chase it away. It might prove useful to us."

"Haitang, Xiao Hongye wants to split the opportunities within the Spirit Emperor's hidden realm among us all, but I want it all. If I can get all of it, our future will be all the more glorious. Can your Dear Sister help us out?"

"Haitang, Hong Lie's gone too far. He still can't forget about Xiao Hongye. Sooner or later, he'll ruin us!"

Cui Haitang's memories were filled with scenes with Nalan Qiankun. Moments before her soul dissipated, she laughed and she cried. She wanted to capture the beauty of her memories, but they all seemed to be tainted by deception. She had lived her entire life in a lie—no, only after meeting Nalan Qiankun.

She was worthless now, and nothing more than a burden. As her lips twisted into a smile, her hand fell limp to the ground. All the vitality had been drained from her body, and her heart was likewise ashen. Her soul finally split and cracked; her truesoul burst in a cloud of starlight and dissipated in the air.

The paper figure reached out and caught the remnant fragments of her soul.

It retrieved a coffin and placed her corpse within, then secured the coffin. With a wave, it caused all the paper snakes in the vicinity to disappear as well.

The paper figure flickered and transformed into an unfamiliar female Immortal. It flew back toward the periphery of the desert and found Tang.

"Pestilence Sage, why are you still here? Lead the black skeleton away!" the paper figure called out.

"It's you!" Tang recognized the figure as Cui Haitang's close confidante. Hiding a bit of his surprise, he explained, "The black skeleton won't listen to me at all. Only Her Majesty's voice or aura can awaken it. Only then can I suppress it and command it with the left division leader's token. I can't do anything as is!"

"I'll awaken it. Focus on suppressing it, and then we'll leave immediately!" the paper figure instructed.

"You'll awaken it?" Tang seemed a little incredulous.

Only Cui Haitang had been able to awaken the black skeleton before; no one else could.