CH 84

Chapter 84: Unusual Healing Abilities.

Bian Zhonghua was stunned. After reciting several incantations, he finally found that he could no longer feel any hint of his internal energy inside his body.

‘Did I actually become an ordinary being?’

Bian Zhonghua didn’t feel flustered, but he was indeed a bit surprised. As he concentrated his mind, Bian Zhonghua tried to move his qi, but by doing so, he was only able to find that his internal meridians were in disarray. At that, his whole body began to hurt again, and the pain was so extreme it even made him feel dizzy, so he had to give up.

‘In this state, I won’t be able to walk or send a message.’ Anxious, Bian Zhonghua kept telling himself: ‘Stop worrying.’

Fortunately, Bian Zhonghua’s unusual healing abilities were different from ordinary people. Ordinary people would have to lie in bed for an entire month, but Bian Zhonghua just needed to rest and change the medicine bandages for four days. In no time, he could get out of bed and walk again!

That day, Granny Yao decocted the medicine for Bian Zhonghua, and when she entered the wooden house to give it to him, she saw Bian Zhonghua limping around the table.

Granny Yao was shocked: “You can already get out of bed?!”

Bian Zhonghua nodded, took a few steps forward, and grabbed the bowl of medicine from Granny Yao’s hands. He said gratefully: “It’s all thanks to Granny Yao’s excellent medicinal skills.”

Granny Yao was self-aware, and no matter how effective her medicine could be, it was completely impossible for it to make Bian Zhonghua’s wounds recover so fast.

Granny Yao marveled at Bian Zhonghua’s natural healing power, and after her initial shock, she scolded him again, telling him again and again that he should rest. All of a sudden, Granny Yao seemed to remember something, and her expression became bitter, for which she let out a long sigh.

‘Today is….the seventh day1 after Qi Ci has died.’

Granny Yao had already prepared the yellow paper2 and the red candles, and in order for Bian Zhonghua not to see them, she put them together with Qi Ci’s belongings inside the wooden cabinet in the outer room. Originally, Granny Yao thought that Bian Zhonghua would be lying in bed for at least half a month, so she hadn’t worried that he might see things in the outside room….until now.

Therefore, after she finished decocting the medicine, Granny Yao looked for a wooden basket to put the red candles and yellow paper that were hidden inside the wooden cabinet in the outer room.

As she did that, Qi Ci’s belongings caught Granny Yao’s attention.

Granny Yao sighed heavily. Since she didn’t know how to tell Bian Zhonghua that Qi Ci had passed away, she could only try to keep it a secret for now. After all, she at least wanted Bian Zhonghua’s wounds to heal quickly, instead of telling him now and causing him to fall apart with a broken heart.

But now that Bian Zhonghua was able to get out of bed, Granny Yao knew that she should hide Qi Ci’s belongings somewhere else.

However, Granny Yao couldn’t find a good place to hide them in her small wooden house, so she decided to go and pay her respects to Qi Ci first, with the intention of coming back later to hide Qi Ci’s belongings. By dusk, when the sun was setting on the horizon, Granny Yao found the place where she left a mark on that day, lit the red candles, and burned the yellow paper. Then, she paid her respects to the calm lake. As the yellow paper burned into ashes, it rose in the air with the wind, until finally, it fell into the lake.

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When the unburned part of the yellow paper lightly touched the surface of the lake, it stirred little ripples in the water, and gradually sank into the lake. The depths of the lake were dark and quiet, and besides the partially burned paper money sinking deeper and deeper, nothing else was seen.

The more the yellow paper sank, the deeper the lake seemed. The further it went down, the darker and quieter it looked.

At an unknowing time, the yellow paper finally sank to the bottom of the lake, gently landing on the cover of a coffin.

The moment the yellow paper touched the coffin, the water at the bottom of the lake rippled, as if something huge had swung its tail.

At the same time, the coffin board gently rang for quite some time, until it was finally slowly pushed away by unknown forces.

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A faint golden light emerged from the coffin, but it was engulfed by the darkness of the lake.

If one were to look carefully at it, they would find that the faint golden light was coming from the chest of the person lying inside the coffin. After another wave of water, the golden light gradually became brighter, to the point where it was able to illuminate the bottom of the lake that was near the coffin.

Within the darkness of the lake, a pair of eyes as red as blood and fire, and as big as a stone mill, could be seen.

At that moment, the person lying inside the coffin slowly opened his eyes.

Qi Ci never thought that when opening his eyes again, he would find himself at the bottom of a lake.

Strangely enough, he wasn’t suffocating, and he didn’t even feel fear. In front of him, there was nothing more than the dark green water of the lake. But then, Qi Ci felt something huge moving slowly around him.

Qi Ci looked forward, only to see a huge, scaly, and ferocious-looking cyan fish tail slowly passing in front of his eyes.

Then, a pair of terrifyingly large red eyes appeared in the depths of the darkness of the lake, staring quietly at Qi Ci.

It was a rather bizarre situation, but Qi Ci never felt afraid. On the contrary, those eyes felt strangely familiar….like reuniting with someone after being apart for several years.

Involuntarily, Qi Ci stretched out his hand, and the strange ‘fish’ slowly approached Qi Ci.

As soon as the palm of Qi Ci’s hand caressed the spine of the strange ‘fish’, the golden light in his chest shone brightly, illuminating the bottom of the lake for a brief second.

Come back….come back….

There was a voice calling at Qi Ci from the depths of his mind.

Do you remember?

A question resounded inside Qi Ci’s ears.

‘Remember what?’ He thought.

Remember….

Suddenly, Qi Ci felt as if something had pierced into his head, causing it to explode in pain, and making Qi Ci have to hold onto his aching head.

Then….he actually saw something.

Qi Ci saw himself. He was kneeling, pounding on the ground as he cried desperately with a voice that sounded both hopeless and sorrowful.

Two people were in front of him.

One held the hilt of a sword that shone with a blinding light, stabbing into the other person’s chest.

Then, scarlet red blood spilled onto the ground.

All of a sudden, an overwhelming sentiment of suffocation and grief swept through every inch of Qi Ci’s blood, bones, and nerves. At that moment, he could feel the warm tears falling down his eyes and melting into the cold water of the lake, spreading out his powerlessness, grief, sorrow, and pain. Qi Ci even felt that if he were to have a dagger in his hand right now, he wouldn’t hesitate to slit his own throat.

At that instant, the voice resounded inside his ears again.

I don’t want to remember…

I don’t want to…

After that, the golden light dimmed considerably, and the bottom of the lake fell back into darkness and a deathly silence.

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After paying her respects to Qi Ci, Granny Yao was preparing to go back to the wooden house, when all of a sudden, she noticed that a strange faint golden glow had begun to shine at the bottom of the lake!

Granny Yao was shocked to witness something like this and went over to observe the lake carefully. However, because the lake was too deep, she couldn’t distinguish anything at the bottom of the lake, only the golden light. Not long after, the golden light disappeared as suddenly as it had appeared, and the lake returned to its usual calm.

Utter shock overflowed Granny Yao’s heart, thinking that as soon as the golden light disappeared, something dangerous would happen. However, after waiting for some time, nothing appeared.

The lake remained as calm as ever, looking like a mirror reflecting the sky….

Granny Yao had no other choice than to pick up the wooden basket and walk back to the wooden house. Unexpectedly, as soon as she reached the wooden house, she saw Bian Zhonghua standing in the courtyard, staring into the lake not far away. Granny Yao was startled to see him outside and hurried to say: “Why did you come out?!”

Bian Zhonghua replied: “Granny, I saw a golden light coming from the lake from inside the house and thought that something had happened, so I came to see.”

Granny Yao waved her hand: “I was close to the lake just now, and after waiting for quite some time, nothing came out. Don’t worry so much, you should go back to bed and rest. It’s important for you to rest so that your wounds can heal faster.”

Bian Zhonghua looked at the lake and nodded thoughtfully.

When the two walked into the wooden house together, Granny Yao thought that it was time to change the bandages again, so she simply asked Bian Zhonghua to wait by the outer room while she went to get the external medicine for him. Granny Yao then walked to the wooden cabinet in the outer room and searched for a while until she found a white porcelain bottle, walked back, and handed it to Bian Zhonghua: “Here, take it and apply it on your wounds.”

However, this time, the always well-mannered Bian Zhonghua didn’t reach out for the white porcelain bottle.

Instead, he stared blankly at the wooden cabinet.

Granny Yao sensed that something wasn’t right, and when she suddenly remembered Qi Ci’s belongings, her heart thumped.

However, it was already too late. Bian Zhonghua stared closely at that place, and then hurriedly staggered a few steps, almost running towards the wooden cabinet. Once there, he took down the things hidden inside.

A wooden box with broken corners containing incense, a token stained with black blood, and a copper coin tied with a red rope.

‘These are the objects I gave to Qi Ci….’

As if he had suddenly guessed something, Bian Zhonghua raised his head to look at Granny Yao with fierce eyes. Granny Yao, who had always shown him a smiling face, was now expressing a face of panic and helplessness.

Granny Yao knew that Qi Ci’s matter could no longer be concealed, and after sighing a long sigh, she said: “I will tell you what happened to Qi Ci, he….”

However, before she could say anything, Granny Yao’s words were interrupted by a sudden knock on the door of the wooden house.

Alright! The clues we have so far:

Bian Zhonghua is the Demon Emperor, and when Granny Yao told the legend of the Dragon Buried in the Lake, she mentioned that the Demon Emperor killed the Dragon

Bian Zhonghua already had some dreams/memories of someone dying in his arms, and someone who was chained to a bed not allowed to leave

We already knew Qi Ci wasn’t ordinary ever since he was attacked by the man in feathered clothes and the golden light glowed in his chest throwing that weirdo away.

Then it was revealed that he wasn’t Qi Rulan’s biological son and that she found him….in the lake and then Granny Yao found the book of paintings Qi Rulan left behind and saw…. a baby floating in the air, on top of the lake

NOW! Qi Ci was supposed to be dead, and he isn’t! He even saw the Dragon buried in the lake and saw a memory in which someone is stabbing someone else with a….shining sword! Who has a shining sword that we know of ?

Also let’s not forget that Bian Zhonghua wasn’t supposed to love anyone, or even know what love is….coincidentally, who has he fallen in love with? Yes! Our Qi Ci! And Lin Baihu even mentioned once that it was impossible for Qi Ci to be him (the one in BZH’s dreams) bc he saw him disappear with his own eyes….but did he tho?

All the pieces are fitting together hehe. Ah~~ the drama