Su Yuan and Furina returned to Yuehai Pavilion together, where Neuvillette seemed to have been waiting for quite some time...
Su Yuan handed Furina over to Neuvillette, then prepared to make a trip to the boundary between life and death in Wuwang Hill.
Although his body could seemingly only host three soul forms at once, with Tartaglia having been taken away by the Sustainer of Heavenly Principles, one slot was now vacant...
And Hu Tao was still alone at the boundary.
Su Yuan planned to retrieve her first, then discuss with everyone what to do next.
But when Su Yuan arrived at Wuwang Hill, at the entrance to the boundary between life and death, and called out Hu Tao's name—he received no response.
"Strange... Didn't Hu Tao say that as long as I came near and called her name, she would open the door and guide me into the boundary?" Su Yuan muttered worriedly.
"Yeah, why isn't Hu Tao responding at all? Did something really happen to her?" Xiangling's voice echoed in Su Yuan's mind, filled with concern.
"But... Hu Tao is a soul form now, she's technically already dead. What kind of danger could she even be in?" Su Yuan said with a hint of doubt, then suddenly thought of a possibility:
"Oh no... What if Hu Tao figured everything out during this time, let go of her regrets and attachments, and already left the boundary to reincarnate?"
"No, I have to confirm it right away..."
So Su Yuan called out:
"Director Hu, are you there?"
"Something serious has happened! The status of the Wangsheng Funeral Parlor is under serious threat!"
"Holding a funeral is a solemn and serious matter. It should be treated with proper care..."
"But now, a new funeral organization has suddenly arrived from abroad, and they specialize in joyful funerals—how outrageous is that!"
"The people from that organization have dark skin, wear sunglasses, dress in suits, and call themselves a 'professional team'..."
"They carry the coffin containing the deceased on their shoulders, play upbeat music, and dance in a lively manner—as if a funeral were some kind of joke!"
Yet despite everything Su Yuan said, the area near Wuwang Hill remained eerily silent—there was still no sign of Hu Tao...
"I even went that far, and Hu Tao still hasn't reacted at all..."
Su Yuan let out a soft sigh and said helplessly:
"Sigh... It looks like Hu Tao may have truly let everything go and gone on to reincarnation..."
"Even though I really want to enter the boundary between life and death one more time to check if Hu Tao is still there, without her guidance and help, I still can't get in..."
But just then, a familiar voice echoed in Su Yuan's mind—it was the little boy, Shaotore:
"Big Brother Su Yuan, maybe I can help you enter the boundary between life and death!"
"Huh? Youngtore? Didn't you say before that your previous method could only be used once and it already stopped working?"
"Yeah, that method doesn't work anymore—but I have a new one now..."
Shaotore replied cheerfully:
"When Big Sister Hu Tao was chanting her spell and forming hand seals earlier, I watched the whole thing very carefully!"
"As long as Big Brother Su Yuan lets me take control of your body for a bit, I can perfectly replicate the incantation and hand seals. That should allow us to enter the boundary between life and death again!"
"My god, Youngtore, you only saw that complicated spell and those hand signs once and you already memorized them?" Su Yuan said in disbelief. "Are you actually a genius?"
"Oh wait, you are a genius... Though, the adult version of you took a bad path, no one can deny that Dottore is a genius…"
But as soon as Su Yuan said that, it seemed to upset Youngtore.
"Don't lump me together with that bastard Dottore! I don't want to share even the slightest resemblance to him!!!"
"If he can be called a genius, then I'd rather be a total idiot!!!"
Hearing Youngtore's words, Su Yuan didn't know how to respond.
He really hated Dottore...
"Sorry, sorry—that was my bad…" Su Yuan quickly apologized.
"Let's work together and crush Dottore into the ground!"
Then, Su Yuan gave control of his body over to Youngtore.
Youngtore took over and carefully reproduced the chant and hand seals Hu Tao had performed before—finally succeeding in opening the gateway to the boundary between life and death.
"Actually, based on my calculations, it's not just copying the spell and hand seals that opens this gateway…"
Youngtore spoke up:
"There might be a form of recognition involved—one that only the current Director of the Wangsheng Funeral Parlor can pass to open the gateway…"
"But Big Brother Su Yuan, your body is special—capable of accommodating everything. Naturally, that means you can complete this recognition too."
"Previously, Sister Hu Tao could control your body to open this gateway, so of course I can do it too. That's where my confidence comes from!"
Su Yuan nodded, thinking to himself that his body truly was something else—it could accept Neuvillette's blood with almost no harm, absorb the power of Azhdaha the Geo Dragon Sovereign, let Tartaglia summon his Foul Legacy form, and even digest the strange insects created by the Eerie version of Furina, and so on and so forth...
But the moment Su Yuan entered the boundary between life and death, he noticed something strange…
Why was there not a single person—no, not even a single soul—in sight?
This place should have been filled with wandering souls who still had regrets and lingering attachments… Why did it suddenly feel so empty?
Could it be that Hu Tao had helped them all move on, and they had reincarnated together?
"Ah… ahhhh… no!!!"
Just then, a scream rang out from somewhere ahead, behind a fake rock outcropping.
Su Yuan was baffled—why would a scream echo in this place?
But he didn't have time to think it through.
He rushed forward—and what he saw left him utterly shocked…
A soul-shaped figure was being consumed by a pitch-black, crimson power.
His spiritual body was slowly disintegrating, bit by bit…
That aura—there was no mistaking it—it was Eerie power!
"I don't want this… I don't want to die like this… I don't want to forget my wife and child…"
But his wails were in vain.
The Eerie power completely devoured his form in mere moments.
He didn't reincarnate, nor pass on—instead, he vanished from this world entirely…
The Boundary of Life and Death… what on earth had happened here?
Why had this place also been invaded by Eerie power?
And Hu Tao—what had happened to her?
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