Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
In moments, the two people were standing inside a strange house. There was not much space but there were four or five people standing around inside. They looked like older females who were bustling around, preoccupied. From time to time, they shouted encouragements like, “Keep going! It’s almost out! You’re nearly there! Give it all you got!” It was like a maternity ward.
“Big Sister Ghost Guard, thank you for sending me here.” The little ghost suddenly let go of her hand.
“…” I already said I’m not a ghost guard.
“I’m leaving!” Little Ghost smiled at her and disappeared into the pregnant woman’s stomach, as if she had done it a thousand times before.
The next moment, the sound of a baby crying filled the room.
“It’s out! You’ve given birth!”
Shen Ying finally figured out what was going on. Could this be… reincarnation?
She was only having a dream. Had she really become a ghost guard?
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She looked around her and then floated of the ward, only to realise that she had been in a cottage. There was a little yard outside the cottage. Even further out, there was a vast plain, on which people were working the soil.
Seeing as she had nothing to do, Shen Ying decided to roam around the little village. After she made one round, she realised she had a problem. That array seemed to have taken her directly into the mortal realm.
She was not an ordinary distance away from her body!
What’s more, she was not sure if she was mistaken but for some reason, she felt time passed much faster on this realm. As if a major change was taking place every second. The little ghost whom she came here with had already grown from an infant to a little child as tall as her waist in a span of a few days.
It was just that the little child had forgotten all that had happened before she reincarnated. Like the other people, the child could no longer see Shen Ying. Even the black Qi that surrounded her before was now gone.
They had spoken to each other for a bit after all – that was why Shen Ying was paying so much attention to her.
From her observation of the girl’s life, Shen Ying could tell that it was full of ups and downs. This was the first time she encountered someone this unlucky.
This little girl’s life could be summarised in one word: unfortunate.
The moment she stepped out of her house, she would either fall straight into a drain or down a hill. She could walk into a puddle of water even on straight, flat ground and encounter a wild beast in the smallest of forests. Even when she drank water, she would choke; when she attempted to sit down in her house, she would lose her balance and fall to the ground.
Her entire life seemed to be just like a silent film. She tripped and fell every three to five seconds. Apparently, this ill fortune was contagious as well. Anybody who got too close to her would inevitably be implicated. They would either be pulled into a drain or down a hill with her. It was the same for her relatives: During the harvest season, her family was the only one without a single crop harvest. They lived in the innermost regions of the village, yet their house got burgled every single month. Their house would also be flooded when it rained, and burned down when a volcano erupts, or buried in the event of a landslide.
She was like a living plague – everywhere she went, she brought her bad luck with her.
Shen Ying turned to glance at the girl beside her. She was standing on her tiptoes with her arm reaching upward, trying her hardest to reach for a fruit on the tree while swallowing her saliva. Shen Ying sighed.
What an unlucky child!
So she stretched out her hand and lifted the fruit by a millimetre, just out of reach of the girl…
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Heh heh, you’re just not tall enough!
The little girl’s flushed face became pale immediately. She looked longingly at the fruit which was beyond reach and pursed her lips. Her eyes began to well up and she looked like she was about to cry.
“The jinx is here again!” A male voice cried out from behind her.
The little girl was frightened. She turned around in fear and saw a fatty who seemed to have appeared out of nowhere. He looked vastly different from her – while she was unkempt, he appeared neat and tidy. He pouted angrily as he pointed to the girl and shouted to his companions behind him.
A few more children who looked about the same age as the fatty suddenly came running up the small round. They eyed the little girl standing under the tree with malice. One by one, they began to blame her for different things.
“My mother says she’s a jinx and a freak. She’s only good at causing harm to others. No wonder her parents don’t want her anymore.”
“I saw her trying to steal fruits from the tree.”
“She’s not going to harm fruit trees as well, is she? What if the tree can’t bear fruit in future?”
“Beat her! We can’t let her harm this fruit tree!”
“That’s right, the fruits are ours! Beat her!”
“No… no, I did not.” She was becoming increasingly scared. Unable to control them any further, tears began to flow down her cheeks. She retreated several steps, intending to run away, but she tripped on a tree root and fell to the ground.
“Stop her, don’t let her get away.” A few of the kids ran up to her and bent down to pick up stones from the ground. They looked ready to hurl them at the little girl.
Shen Ying frowned and silently stuck out one of her legs.
“Hit- Ahya!” The fatty leader suddenly flew forward and landed heavily on the ground. His forehead began to swell up. He paused for awhile, unable to process what had happened. Then, the pain began to sink in and he started to bawl.
Everyone around him stared in shock. They looked from the little girl to the little fatty.
“It was her, it must have been her! She has harmed yet another person! Beat her to…”
Bam!
Another child who had been charging toward the little girl tripped and fell to the ground.
There was a series of loud crashes. All the little children who had charged toward the little girl were now lying in a heap on the ground.
“Fre… freak!” The few children seemed to realise they were in danger – none of them dared to charge toward the girl anymore. They retreated and eyed the girl fearfully. “She really is a freak. Hurry, run… run away!”
Immediately, the proud children disappeared.
Hm, bullying little children… is indeed addictive!
The unlucky little girl slowly got to her feet and looked around, confused. Shen Ying could not tell what the little girl was thinking but watched as the little girl turned around and started to limp home.
Shen Ying did not think too much of this. She did not expect the little girl to sneak back onto the field that night to locate that exact tree. From out of nowhere, the girl took out half a sweet potato and put it on the floor. Then, the girl got onto her knees.
“You’re a Divine Immortal, aren’t you?” She asked in a low voice. She looked around carefully and said, “I heard the fat lady next door say that if one is obedient, the divine immortals would bless him. The one who protected me today was definitely a divine immortal, right?”
She looked around excitedly, as if expecting to find something. She did not, however. She kowtowed three times and said, “Thank you, Divine Immortal. I… I will come back regularly to pay my respects to you. So… so…” she dropped her voice even lower and stuttered. Awhile later, she found the words. “Can you please… can you keep… protecting me?”
After she finished speaking, she kowtowed three more times. She used so much force that Shen Ying could hear the sound of her forehead hitting the ground. “I will be obedient – very obedient!” She waited in silence for a few seconds. Seeing that nothing was happening, she left in disappointment.
Shen Ying: “…”
She looked to the ground and saw half a sweet potato. This was why… she hated little children.
But this child seemed to be addicted to giving gifts. What’s more, she had nobody left in her family. Since then she would return to the same tree every single night. Sometimes, she brought half a sweet potato with her. Sometimes, she brought half a potato. Sometimes, she brought half a radish. Other times, she brought some unknown flower or plant.
This night was slightly different. She brought with her a stone that was almost as tall as her thigh. Then, she carved something on the stone very seriously.
“Divine Immortal, Divine Immortal, I heard others say that I have to write the name of the divine immortal I’m making offerings to. Otherwise, you would not receive it. I caught this fish after a lot of hard work and learned a few words from Big Brother Da Jun from the family of scholars. You will be able to receive my offerings in future.”
When she finished speaking, she put down a flower and kowtowed three times.
This was when Shen Ying saw the words written on the stone: The Divine Immortal Who Protected Me.
She made her a tomb!
“…” Motherf*cker!
The little child seemed to have thought of something. Suddenly, the ground began to vibrate. The pitch black sky lit up at once as hundred of thousands of rays shone down onto the ground. Something descended from the skies with a loud crash, landing on the peak of the hill not far from where Shen Ying stood.
What the hell?
