First Immortal of the Sword - Chapter 2818 - Bequeathing a Name
Chapter 2818 – Bequeathing a Name
When that tiny figure, a little girl, saw Su Yi crouch nearby, her guileless eyes revealed a hint of hesitation.
After a pause, she asked timidly, “Can you take me home?”
Su Yi stared at the girl with the ragged clothes and tangled hair in silence.
The moment he laid eyes on her, he felt as if he were gazing upon the source of all evil! Deep within those seemingly clear, guileless eyes, he saw utter ferocity and malevolence. It was as if he were gazing into a dark, turbid swamp. Resentment, fury, envy, and greed… all of the deepest, darkest facets of the human heart were gathered there. All of that sin and malevolence were enough to make one shudder. It was enough to make the little girl look like the incarnation of all evil!
Strangely, the girl didn’t seem the least bit affected by all of that concentrated wickedness and sin. Her heart was like a dried-up well, with no water or vitality. All that remained was deathly silence and darkness. No amount of malevolence could shift her heart in the slightest. It was deeply, utterly strange.
The girl seemed afraid to meet Su Yi’s gaze. She silently lowered her head, her gaunt hands clutching the hems of her tattered clothing. Even her scrawny frame curled into a ball.
Su Yi finally spoke. “Where is your home?”
The girl stared blankly at him. “I forgot.”
You forgot? Su Yi blinked. “In that case, I can’t help you.”
The girl said timidly, “Can you take me with you?”
Su Yi shook his head. The girl was utterly strange, and he was certain that she was dangerous. That tiny, thin frame hid the origin of all evil. If he took her with him, she would represent an unpredictable variable, and she would surely bring about endless disasters.
The little girl pursed her lips, her eyes welling with tears. She lowered her head in silence.
Su Yi approached the third floor, but just as he was about to fade from view, the girl cried out, “Are you homesick?”
Su Yi was stunned. “My home is wherever my heart is at peace.”
The girl looked at him with pity and murmured, “So, you’re just like me. You have no home to return to, either.”
As she spoke, she suddenly vanished into thin air. No trace of her remained.
Su Yi was initially startled. It was only after he confirmed that he wasn’t in any imminent danger that he calmed down.
He recalled Cen Xinghe’s earlier warning to watch out for the little girl on the second floor!
Cen Xinghe said the girl was the type to eat someone alive without pausing to spit out the bones. He said that even someone as powerful as Xuan Zhong wasn’t enough to fill the gaps between the girl’s teeth.
There was no doubt about it. This bony, disheveled little girl was the one Cen Xinghe had warned him about. She showed no outer indication of malevolence, but Su Yi naturally didn’t dare to lower his guard. Her presence was just too strange and out of the ordinary.
It was exceedingly rare for anyone to enter the third floor of the Sin-Severing Dungeon. It was considered a forbidden zone; cultivators dared not enter. That was especially true of the factions of the Five Great Continents. All of them strictly forbade their disciples from entering. This was for the simple reason that the third floor imprisoned the three most ferocious Sin Souls from the Devastation.
The first was called Liu Sheng. He was a saber cultivator and a natural-born Chaos Fiend, as well as a Heavenly Monarch.
The second was called Old Man Ru Ya. They said he had cultivated alongside Heavenly Sovereign Zhenyue during the Devastation, and that he was eccentric and capricious, with a penchant for refining skulls.
The third was called Si Xuanpin. His origins were the most mysterious. Some said he was once one of the Sword-Bearers of the Ancient Nine Luminaries City.
Of course, the three of them had died a long time ago. All that remained of them were their Sin Souls.
The third floor was all but empty, like an abandoned ground shrouded in darkness. Only three cells remained standing.
A strange scene greeted Su Yi when he arrived.
A hunch-backed old man crouched on the ground, gleefully piling skulls into a treasure tower. Each skull was only the size of a thumb, crystalline and translucent, as if forged out of snow-white jade. There had to be at least one hundred of them. The ragged little girl sat across from the old man, resting her little face in her hands as she watched the bone tower take shape. She watched with rapt attention, never so much as blinking.
A man in black watched from the sidelines, a bitter look on his face. He sighed deeply, then grumbled, “Playing house again? How many tens of thousands of years have you been playing that same stupid game? How are you still so enthusiastic?”
The man in black cut an extraordinary figure. A saber hilt hung from his waist, but it had no blade. The hilt was pitch-black and shaped like a crescent moon, and it hung there like a pendant.
A big-boned, valiant figure over ten feet tall sat languidly on a nearby rock. His hair and beard were curly, and as he drank, he shook his head and chanted a classic text. He seemed perfectly content.
Su Yi recognized them all at a glance. The old man piecing together the tower had to be Old Man Ru Ya. The black-robed man was the saber cultivator, Liu Sheng, while the stalwart man with the curly beard was Si Xuanpin.
But Su Yi hadn’t anticipated that the three most dangerous Sin Souls in the Sin-Severing Dungeon could freely leave their cells! Much less that they would gather in one place to entertain that ragged little girl! It was truly unexpected.
“You’re here too, Big Brother?” The girl looked up and waved in greeting to Su Yi.
She then said to the hunch-backed Old Man Ru Ya, “That big brother is really strong! If he’s willing to help, he might be able to get me out of here!”
Old Man Ru Ya placed a skull on the incomplete tower and smiled. “Our Fellow Daoist must be a truly talented, courageous figure for you to attach such importance to him. How rare!”
His turbid eyes turned toward Su Yi. He had an inscrutable look on his wrinkled face.
Su Yi keenly detected that he spoke to the little girl with the utmost politeness.
The saber cultivator, Liu Sheng, sighed. “It’s obvious that he’s here for the Laws of Rahu. How could he possibly be willing to take us away?”
The little girl suddenly looked at Liu Sheng. “I said he’d take me away, not us!”
Liu Sheng looked stricken, but before he could react, the little girl stretched out her hand.
Bang!
Liu Sheng exploded into pieces and transformed into a wisp of black smoke in the little girl’s palm. She then opened her mouth and swallowed. The black smoke vanished into her gullet.
Old Man Ru Ya just watched with a smile. He didn’t find this scene the least bit strange. Not far away, the stalwart Si Xuanpin went on chanting the classics. He wasn’t affected in the slightest.
Su Yi’s eyelids twitched, but he could just about tell that the black-robed Liu Sheng had been suppressed and refined a long time ago. That was why the girl could so easily restrict and devour him.
“Will you help me, Big Brother?” The little girl fixed her bright eyes on Su Yi.
She had asked for help on the second floor of the Sin-Severing Dungeon, too.
Su Yi’s gaze was strange. The girl’s clothes were ragged, and her hair was disheveled. She looked as scrawny as a child beggar. Who could have imagined that she was actually the most dangerous figure in the entire Sin-Severing Dungeon? Even Liu Sheng, Old Man Ru Ya, and Si Xuanpin, the most dangerous Sin Souls in the entire dungeon, obviously weren’t as dangerous as the little girl!
Su Yi pondered briefly, “Give me the Laws of Rahu, and perhaps…”
“I’ll give it to you.” The girl suddenly sat up and tapped the air. A bundle of dark mist gathered like water, then hovered there.
Su Yi was unwittingly stunned and completely caught off guard. He would never have imagined that good fortune would just deliver itself to him like this. He could tell at a glance that this was the real thing. These were the Laws of Rahu, dark, murderous, and malevolent. Their presence seemed vicious and sinister, as if they weren’t a power of the Grand Dao, but rather, the source of slaughter and malevolence.
After a moment’s silence, Su Yi said, “Might you tell me who you are first?”
The girl looked at Old Man Ru Ya. “Who am I?”
The old man lowered his head. “You’re the ruler of the Sin-Severing Dungeon, the spirit of the Laws of Rahu, the incarnation of all the world’s evils, the sovereign of sin, but… that isn’t the real you!”
The old man’s gaze was complicated. “No one in this world has ever been able to define who exactly you are, but… you’re you, the only one like you. You can become whoever you’d like to be.”
The girl looked enlightened. “So that’s it.”
She looked at Su Yi. “Now do you know who I am, Big Brother?”
Su Yi’s brow furrowed. The old man’s words contained numerous startling secrets, but when he thought about it, the true crux of the matter was this—the little girl was the incarnation of the Laws of Rahu, the Shadow Star! She was the embodiment of all evils, as well as the bane of all Sin Souls! However, he still didn’t quite understand, as according to Old Man Ru Ya, that wasn’t all there was to her!
Perhaps no one knows where she really came from, so no one can truly define her. After a moment, Su Yi shook his head. He didn’t have anywhere near enough leads to uncover the truth.
“What’s your name?” asked Su Yi.
“I don’t have a name,” said the girl. “You can give me one if you like, Big Brother.”
“You mustn’t!” Old Man Ru Ya looked stricken.
Si Xuanpin clamped his jaw shut and looked at the little girl in astonishment.
As the master of the Sin-Severing Dungeon and the spirit of the Laws of Rahu, her existence carried extraordinary significance. And someone’s name was directly intertwined with their fate! That meant that whoever gave the girl a name would have the power to influence her destiny!
Of course, they were nervous. Who wouldn’t have been?
Su Yi didn’t know any of this, but one look at Old Man Ru Ya and Si Xuanpin’s reaction, and it was obvious that naming the girl wasn’t as simple as it seemed!
“I just want him to take me home and give me a name. What’s wrong with that?” The girl frowned.
The moment her brow furrowed, the two Sin Souls quivered from head to toe, visibly overcome with fright. Both of them lowered their heads, too afraid to speak. But it was obvious from the pointed looks on their faces that if Su Yi agreed, they’d risk everything to stop him!
Su Yi sighed. “I don’t dare to give you a name.”
“Why?” asked the girl.
“Because those two old-timers are threatening me,” said Su Yi.
Old Man Ru Ya and Si Xuanpin didn’t know what to say.
