Chapter 0002 – Did You Push Me? -Absolute Return

“How did you …… you get the Secret Demon Soul?”

“Come on …… get it started ……”

He was so weak that he didn’t even have the strength to speak.

Ghost Spirit assisted him to a secret room deep in the manor.

There, everything was already prepared.

All that was missing was the last ingredient to activate the Backtracking Technique.

Ghost Lingzi placed the Secret Demon Soul into the center of the formation, only to see the Secret Demon Soul shine brightly, with countless strange runes and patterns surfacing around it.

Ghost Spirit stood in the center of the formation and mouthed the words.

Green light and red light intertwined, enveloping the entire chamber. The Sonic Thunder Bell emitted a deafening roar, and incense smoke curled up from the Divine Mysteries Incense Burner.

As Ghost Spirit’s incantations grew faster and faster, all of the materials fused together to form a constantly rotating door of light in the center of the formation.

“It worked!”

The ghost spirit son was thrilled, the family’s long-cherished wish for hundreds of years had finally been realized in his hands.

He walked over to the man and found him unconscious, presumably from blood loss.

“I’m sorry ……,” whispered the ghostly spirit.

He decided that he would go back in time himself.

“I’m really sorry ……”

He knew how much the man had put into collecting these materials, but he just couldn’t bear to pass up this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

“I will find you and tell you everything that will happen in the future, I promise.”

The oni stood up and walked towards the door of light.

“Going back in time has been a dream of my family for generations, and it’s my dream too.”

Just at the moment he was about to step into the door of light, a sudden change occurred.

“Uh ……”

Ghost Spirit stifled a grunt and stopped in his tracks.

At some point, the demonic qi in his body was actually sealed.

“How could you?”

The man’s weak voice came from behind him.

Ghost Spirit turned around and saw that the man had woken up at some point and was struggling to get up.

“How could you …… you do this to me?”

The man stepped in front of him and grabbed him by the neck.

“I …… I must have been crazy to believe you …… I’m sorry …… I’m sorry… …”

Ghost Spirit thought that the man was going to kill him, and if that was the case, he had nothing to say. After all, no one knew better than him what kind of nine deaths the man had gone through in order to collect these materials.

However, the man let go.

“I’m a selfish person, with only myself in my eyes, that’s why I’ve been able to get to this point. I understand if you do this.”

Instead of blaming the oni, he looked at him with a warm look.

“Thank you, for being willing to wait so long for me.”

Hearing these words, Ghost Spirit couldn’t help but burst into old tears, his heart filled with guilt and regret.

Just then, the whole world suddenly stood still.

“Hmm?”

The man looked around in surprise and realized that everything had stopped moving. The butterflies in the air were frozen in mid-air and the leaves swaying in the wind were still.

Even the ghostly spirit standing in front of him remained motionless in a tearful position.

The man wondered if he was hallucinating due to the loss of blood.

Just then, an old voice rang out in the still world.

“You passed all the tests.”

The man looked at the sound, only to see an old man with white hair, who had appeared in front of him at some point.

“Who are you?” The man asked in surprise.

“I can send you back in time.”

“!!!”

“Do you think that, with the power of a mortal, you can change your destiny against the heavens? Do you think that a mere few treasures can change the laws of time?”

The old man gently waved his hand, and the five materials that the man had spent his entire life collecting once again appeared in front of him, floating in mid-air.

At that moment, the man finally realized that the old man in front of him was by no means mortal.

“The real material of the Retrospective Dhamma is not these treasures, but the effort you put in to get them.”

The old man waved his hand again, and the five materials turned into green smoke and disappeared.

“You passed the test, you spent your whole life practicing your promise, you gave everything you had for a single goal. And the fact that you ultimately chose to forgive Ghost Spirit Son is even more remarkable. In fact, that was one of the most difficult tests, and you, on the other hand, passed it easily.”

The man was trembling, he had once thought that heaven’s will was wrong and that things were unpredictable. But now, he had seen the legendary immortal with his own eyes.

“Why are you …… you going to all this trouble?”

“Do not be angry, child. It is not difficult for the world to see me. In fact, people worship me every day. Your wish, however, is not easily granted.”

The man can’t argue with the fact that his wish is not for glory or silver or gold, but to go back in time and change what has happened.

“Send me back.”

“What are you going to do when you get back?”

“I will kill those who deserve to be killed and save those who deserve to be saved.”

He’s going to kill Hua Wuji and save all the innocent people.

Beyond that, he wanted to live for himself.

“I still want …… to live for myself once more. Perhaps the reason why I am so eager to go back in time is not only for revenge, but also to make up for the regrets in my heart.”

“What do you regret?”

“I regret my life, from birth until now, I have never lived for myself, I have always been pushed by fate. I can’t help it, I go with the flow, and I end up doing nothing …… Could it be that you have been manipulating my life?”

The old man smiled awkwardly.

“And what kind of life do you hope, to live?”

“I don’t know. Maybe I’ll inherit my father’s throne and become a generation of demonic father; maybe I’ll go incognito and live a life free from the world; maybe I’ll linger on flowers and become a prodigal son who plays with the world; maybe I’ll be righteous and eradicate the scum of the demonic sect; maybe …… I’ll turn into an unforgivable demon . …I don’t know, I really don’t know.”

“I’m looking forward to it, seeing the different choices you make.”

“Thank you.”

“Let’s have another drink sometime.”

After saying that, the old man disappeared.

“Another drink?”

The man’s heart fluttered; perhaps, they would meet again.

At the same time, the still world began to function again. The butterflies flapped their wings again, the leaves swayed with the wind once more, and the tears of the ghost spirit, too, dripped to the ground.

“I’m sorry …… really sorry ……”

The man looked at Ghost Spirit Zi who was crying in pain, and his heart was filled with mixed feelings. He never dreamed that Ghost Lingzi’s retrospective spell would actually be able to startle the Immortals in the sky. Although the final decision was still in the hands of the Immortals, at least, Ghost Spirit Zi’s spell had successfully built a bridge to communicate between heaven and earth.

“That …… old man is brazen to ask one more thing, you must help me to stop my marriage!”

The man couldn’t help but laugh, it was at a time like this that he was still thinking about it.

“It looks like your marriage, it’s really bad.”

“It’s more than bad, it’s simply hell on earth! Old me begs you, for the sake of me having worked so hard to prepare for you for so many years, you must help me!”

“Is it that much of a stretch?”

“There’s been more than enough!”

“Alright, since you’re so insistent, then I’ll reluctantly help you enter ‘Purgatory’ once more.”

“Don’t! I’m begging you!”

The man ignored the ghostly spirit’s wailing and turned to walk through the door of light.

Watching the light door slowly close, Ghost Spirit Zi had mixed feelings in his heart, and in the end, he could only yell out unwillingly:

“I want to go too! I want to go back in time too!”

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