A few seconds later.
The howling hurricane vanished.
Pieces of debris rained down.
The apocalyptic scene, just like that, abruptly stopped!
Another few seconds later.
"Crash."
A pile of rubble scattered, and a disheveled figure emerged.
It was Liang Rujing!
The wind earlier had been too strong, even dissipating the spectral image behind her.
Of course.
She herself didn't know any of this.
She only knew that initially, for reasons unknown, she hadn't been affected by the hurricane.
Then, before she could figure out what was happening, she was suddenly blown over by the wind…
Fortunately, the terrifying hurricane disappeared quickly, otherwise she would have been blown to who knows where.
The miserable part was that she was buried alive by falling debris and dust…
Now her entire body was covered in dirt and fragments, looking like she'd just escaped from a coal mine…
Her face and hands were bruised and battered, clearly from being hit by stone fragments…
"Ptooey, ptooey, ptooey!"
Liang Rujing spat forcefully, spitting out a lot of dirt…
After a simple cleanup, Liang Rujing looked around.
Everything she saw.
Everything had been leveled by the earlier hurricane!
Not a single thing was left.
It was as flat as a plain!
And the large pit where Ye Fan had met his demise was now even more prominent!
Recalling the feeling from earlier, Liang Rujing immediately walked towards the pit.
Initially, she had been near the pit, but the earlier gust had blown her thirty to forty zhang away…
Still five or six zhang away from the pit, Liang Rujing suddenly stopped.
Because in the pit, a hand suddenly emerged!
Following closely.
A second hand!
The next moment.
The two hands tightly gripped the edge of the pit.
"Heave!"
Accompanied by a voice, a shadow climbed out of the pit!
Upon seeing the person's appearance, Liang Rujing was stunned!
It was no one else!
It was Ye Fan, who had been dead before!!!
"Rujing?" a familiar voice sounded. "What are you doing here?"
"Ah—!"
Liang Rujing screamed and suddenly turned around.
"What's wrong?" Ye Fan was immediately bewildered.
"You, you, you…" Liang Rujing stammered, "You're not wearing any clothes…"
Hearing this, Ye Fan looked down.
His clothes were long gone.
He looked like an exhibitionist now…
"Damn…"
Ye Fan quickly retrieved a set of clothes from his ring and put them on haphazardly.
After a moment.
"Alright," Ye Fan gestured. "You can turn around now."
Liang Rujing then turned around and walked towards Ye Fan step by step.
Upon getting close, Liang Rujing scrutinized Ye Fan from all angles, repeatedly.
With a very serious and solemn expression.
"What's wrong?" Perhaps feeling a bit uncomfortable being stared at, Ye Fan teased, "Does my face have a smudge?"
"Ye Fan, tell me the truth," Liang Rujing said seriously and earnestly. "Were you bullied?"
Liang Rujing's inexplicable words left Ye Fan completely bewildered.
"It must have been."
Liang Rujing nodded heavily, then took out a pile of things from her ring.
Brazier, candles, joss paper money, and so on.
There was no way.
Her previous shrine had been blown away somewhere…
"If you weren't bullied, how could you be in a state where you don't even have clothes to wear?" Liang Rujing lit a stack of paper money and threw it into the brazier. "But don't worry, I'll burn more for you!"
"Ye Fan, I…"
"Don't be polite with me!" Liang Rujing interrupted, "Just tell me what else you need down there, and I'll burn it for you! Coincidentally, I know a paper effigy shop owner whose craftsmanship is excellent; his creations are lifelike! Oh, and why don't I have him make you some beautiful girls as well, so you'll have someone to take care of you down there…"
As Liang Rujing rambled on.
Ye Fan's expression grew increasingly dark…
"Smack!"
While talking, Liang Rujing slammed her right fist into her left palm.
"Almost forgot, I need to get you some powerful helpers!" Liang Rujing suddenly realized. "But I don't know how to infuse true qi into paper figures. I'll ask my master when I get back to see if she has any methods."
Ye Fan's face had turned extremely dark…
"Huh? Why are you looking at me like that?" Liang Rujing asked innocently. "Are you sick? Strange, can ghosts get sick?"
Ye Fan could no longer stand it!
He strode a few steps forward to Liang Rujing and pulled her up from the ground.
"What are you doing? We were talking properly…"
Mid-sentence, Liang Rujing suddenly stopped.
Ghosts had no physical form.
At least newly deceased ghosts like Ye Fan couldn't touch people.
However, from the wrist Ye Fan was holding, she felt the most real touch and warmth!
Unless…
"You…"
Thinking of this possibility, Liang Rujing couldn't help but tremble slightly!
"What do you think?" Ye Fan immediately rolled his eyes at her.
Damn it!
To meet like this again.
If not to cry tears of joy, you should at least act somewhat normal, alright?!
But you, you silly girl, actually took me for a ghost…
Liang Rujing extended her trembling hand and gently placed it on Ye Fan's chest.
Feeling the warmth and heartbeat under her fingertips, Liang Rujing was finally convinced!
Ye Fan was alive!
He was truly alive!!!
"Waa—!"
Liang Rujing lunged into Ye Fan's arms, crying hoarsely.
She opened her mouth, seeming to want to say something.
But her body was trembling so violently that she couldn't utter a single word.
In the end.
All her unspoken words turned into a cathartic cry.
The emotions she had suppressed for about a month erupted completely at this moment!
Ye Fan sighed.
He gently patted Liang Rujing's back with his right hand.
He didn't offer any words of comfort.
After all, in her current state, she probably wouldn't be able to hear anything anyway…
Liang Rujing cried for over fifteen minutes.
Fifteen minutes might not seem long.
But for someone crying at the top of their lungs, it was extremely draining.
So much so that even Liang Rujing, a Foundation Establishment realm cultivator, couldn't endure it.
In the end.
With tears on her face, she fell into a deep sleep in Ye Fan's arms.
Ye Fan then sat on the ground holding Liang Rujing and began to think seriously.
To be honest.
He was still in a daze.
He had clearly seen his body disintegrate into fragments before.
Theoretically, he should have been dead beyond any hope.
But now…
He had inexplicably come back to life.
His body was exactly the same as it was before he died.
It was as if he had dreamt it all.
Ye Fan found it rather incomprehensible.
This wasn't a game where you could resurrect with full health and mana after dying.
What exactly was this…
What was going on?
Besides this, there was another thing he couldn't understand.
The time interval between his previous death and his current resurrection was about a month.
This wasn't something he had conjured in his mind, because his consciousness had disintegrated along with his body at that time.
It was his body that told him!
That's right!
It was his body!
His body, lacking the ability to think, was clearly conveying this fact to him!
This was a completely new experience for Ye Fan!