Chapter 1997: Struck Dead by Lightning

Little Taotie muttered gloomily, "Barely acceptable."

"At that time, we killed her many times, to the point of numbness. Just when we thought she would surely be gone for good, completely dead, she would always mysteriously come back to life. So, we thought of many different ways to kill her."

"Please... stop talking, I’m scared."

Little Taotie trembled, hugging his small and helpless self tightly, unsure of how many tortures and ordeals he would face in the future.

Feng Qi sighed, "I remember something. She once said we would meet again later, but just as she was about to continue, a sudden thunder tore through the sky, and amidst the deafening thunder, I couldn’t hear clearly what she said next, and then she was struck by lightning and disappeared."

Little Taotie: "...I will be struck dead by lightning again!"

"Don’t worry, you were bouncing back in no time," Feng Qi remarked. "You’re like an unkillable cockroach."

Little Taotie didn’t feel comforted at all. His mouth pouted, his eyebrows drooped in an eight-character shape, and his eyes were watery and pitiful.

Hua Jinyan couldn’t bear it, reached out and grasped Little Taotie’s little white chubby hand, soothing his voice, "It’s alright, it’s just a dream, you won’t feel any pain."

"Even though that’s the case, thinking about dying so many times makes me panic a little."

"This also proves it’s all real. Your dream is more like a traversal machine, allowing you to continuously travel to the past, where you can meet Feng Qi and encounter a version of yourself that appears to be from a past life. Isn’t that actually quite a novel and interesting thing?"

"That’s true, I can actually traverse time!"

Little Taotie was coaxed into happiness, his eyebrows curved, and his little dimple sunk in. "I can even pretend to be a ghost and scare Feng Qi. Feng Qi must feel anxious because I’m unkillable, afraid that one day I might come back and kill her instead."

Feng Qi: "...That’s actually true."

For them, "Lonely Wild Ghost" didn’t have any real destructive power, it was merely something they were able to kill unilaterally, but each time, they did it ruthlessly without hesitation.

The reason lies here; no one knows what this enigmatic Spiritual Body is about, and the fear of the unknown makes them urgently want to destroy the threat while it’s still a sprouting bud.

Cannot let this "ghost thing" have a chance to strike back.

Little Taotie sighed, "When I was struck dead by lightning, I must have wanted to tell you I’m the future Little Beast Bai Bai, and that I would meet you in the future, but because I revealed a heavenly secret, I got struck by lightning."

Feng Qi frowned, "But based on that logic, now you know you’ll be struck by lightning in a future dream, so clearly you wouldn’t say those things in the future. It must be for some other reason that you wanted to say something else. It’s just right now you don’t know yet what you will say nor what counts as revealing a heavenly secret that gets you struck by lightning."

Little Taotie tilted his head, "That does make sense. What will I say in the future that leads to lightning striking me?"

Feng Qi lightly patted her with his big tail, "Stop thinking about it. Thinking is in vain anyway. What you can think of now, you won’t say later, nor be struck by lightning; certainly, it will be something you can’t possibly think of no matter how hard you try now."

Little Taotie drooped his head, "Clearly there’s an opportunity to traverse, yet there’s so many taboos."

Feng Qi chuckled, "You should secretly rejoice that you can traverse to the previous life through dreams, and here you are already being picky."

"But if Little Beast Bai Bai is really my past life, then why did I die? But obviously the Little Beast Bai Bai in the ice coffin looks alive, just sealed inside the ice. If it was dead, how could there be a Primordial Spirit floating above? Then what do I count as now? An incomplete defective product with an incomplete soul?"