Sendoff by Nian Zhong (年终)

Author:Nian Zhong (年终) [Nian Zhong (年终)]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-03-24T10:03:09.600000+00:00

Sendoff Ch82

Author: 年终 / Nian Zhong

Translator: Kinky || https://kinkytranslations.com/

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Chapter 82: Reunion

The pain of addiction was as agonizing as the torture of skinning.

The young Shi Jingzhi closed his eyes. Silence enveloped everything, and the maple forest disappeared. Only intense pain and darkness remained in his memory.

When the crucial memories returned, the pain pierced through time like splitting a bamboo*. Completely recalling that moment from the past, Shi Jingzhi’s mind was almost torn apart.

*(势如破竹) Metaphor referring to something so powerful it’s unstoppable, just like how bamboo can be split with ease when using great strength and momentum.

In that fleeting moment, he finally understood the danger of breaking the ban.

Accompanied by the sweeping fragments of memories, the pain continued without end. It felt like sinking into a swamp, unable to breathe or move. It was as if he was forcefully crammed into a small iron cage, and his entire body was in excruciating pain.

Shi Jingzhi tried his best to maintain a shred of clarity in his mind.

It wasn’t for the sake of the truth; for a moment, desires and bets were thrown to the side. Amidst the growing chaos in Shi Jingzhi’s mind, only one thought remained.

What happened afterward? What happened next?

Yin Ci would return in haste with medicinal herbs, only to find a scene of carnage. Faced with the scattered internal organs and shattered bones, what emotions would he experience?

This was the second time Shi Jingzhi didn’t wait for him to return.

Would Yin Ci fall into madness again? Without him by his side, Yin Ci would be alone once more. At the moment of Yin Ci’s utmost suffering, there would be no one to hold him.

They only had one short month. The best day would be their last meeting.

Twenty-four years later, they encountered each other again at Kushan, but an invisible ban separated them, making them strangers despite seeing each other.

As far as he knew, Yin Ci’s “three generations” of relatives were all on Kushan… After the dispersal at the gathering in the Juyi Valley, did Yin Ci never leave the vicinity of Kushan again?

The heartache and sorrow overshadowed even the intense pain caused by the ban. The sadness didn’t solely stem from their separation…

On the day of their forced separation, the eerie battle between Yin Ci and the giant monster was still vivid in Shi Jingzhi’s mind.

According to legends, the immortal body restored its physical form through blood-red fine roots, thus achieving immortality. In Shi Jingzhi’s mind, the ink characters that recorded the legends swayed, and the scattered clues assembled like pearls at this inopportune moment.

Yin Ci was also an immortal.

For a long time, Shi Jingzhi had been seeking the path to longevity, but he had never heard of an immortal body. Chen Qianfan had studied this path for thirty years and only discovered a rumor. The immortal body wasn’t as common as mushrooms after the rain, impossible to appear so frequently.

A near-absurd conjecture gradually took shape.

…What if there had been only one such person since ancient times?

Since their reunion, regardless of the situation, Yin Ci never showed obvious external injuries.

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