Chapter 636: Ah Shi's Closure
Seeing her losing consciousness, Noah waved his hand and used his qi to bring Ah Shi's body towards him and turned around to look back to the front.
They were standing in the middle of a dimly lit room. The makeshift walls were made of sand and clay.
There was nothing in the room beside a platform, not just any platform but an altar. The altar was drenched in blood and lit with blood-red flames at five different corners.
In the center there were 13 bodies lying one over the other, forming a small heap. The bodies belonged to men, women, children, and old people alike.
All of them had their throats slit and their eyes hollowed out.
And all of them had a look of horror on their faces.
The magistrate slowly stepped forward from behind, walking right past Noah and Xin Yan.
"Yu'er…" His voice choked; he wanted to rush forward, but Noah used his power to stop him.
"If you step on the altar, you will die instantly." He warned with a somber tone.
The plump man did not reply, but he knelt on the cry and sobbed, looking at the body of a teenage boy lying in the heap with his head tilted to the side and his limbs spread around lifelessly.
"Noah." Xin Yan nudged Noah from the side with a tone of urgency. "Her heart… it stopped beating!"
Noah, who seemed to be in some kind of daze, snapped out of it and looked at the woman in his arms.
He hurriedly let go of the woman, but instead of falling, she started floating in the air.
His hands glowed with an ethereal glow, sending a pulse through her body, but despite his tries, there was no response.
'She is resisting.' Noah's lips trembled as the realization hit him.
Being not the one to give up, he tried another approach. Once he blinked, his eyes changed, the dragon pupils took over, and the original golden iris suddenly gained a green tint on the corners.
The vibrant aura around his body suddenly turned deathly cold. His vision had also changed with the change.
The world grew darker and colorless in his sight.
The fading colors gave off a sense of despair and loneliness, yet among this lone world there was a color that burned brighter than anything else.
A figure that looked like Ah Shi but more translucent and illusionary was standing right in front of Noah.
She did not lack any colors, but her body was entirely made of a faint blue-colored mist.
She was not looking at her body, which was still hovering in the air; instead, she kept looking at the corpse of a three-year-old boy lying on the top of the pile.
His situation was no different from other bodies, but it was her son, the one she had been looking for all this time.
"I was late." Noah suddenly spoke, catching the attention of the woman.
In the back, a gray-looking Xin Yan seemed to be confused by his words and the place he was looking at, but she said nothing and silently watched him.
Ah Shi was startled when she felt that Noah was looking straight at her, but realizing that he was the immortal reverend, she thought it was only natural and did not pay much attention to it.
"nhnn." Shaking her head, she said, "You were on time."
She showed Noah a sweet yet pained smile and said, "If it had not been for you, I would not even have found out what had happened to my child."
"I can still save you; you don't have to die." Noah urged, taking a step towards her. "I am sure there are still some people alive who were behind this incident, and you can see them die with your own eyes."
"Immortal master…" Her eyes drooped, but the smile on her face became a bit more genuine. "You don't look much older than me."
"I heard Miss calling you Noah." She looked at Xin Yan behind her silently looking at Noah with a worried look on her face and chuckled, " Can I call you that too?"
A mortal calling a cultivator directly by their name would usually get them killed in this world, but neither Ah Shi nor Noah cared about any of that.
Seeing Noah nod, Ah Shi took a step toward him and said, "Noah, I don't care about revenge." Her voice was eerily calm. "Nor do I have any wish to live."
Noah saw the blank look in her eyes; he understood her lack of drive to live and silently pursed his lips.
"Right now I just want to see my son again." She continued, her voice filled with desperation and plea, "Can I find him there?"
She pointed at a dark portal with ominous-looking purple mist curling around it. From the portal, faint sounds of the rattling of chains could be heard.
Noah looked at the portal and froze for a few seconds before he shook his head.
"His soul would have been called by the realm of the dead, but the altar had already stripped his body of his soul and had bound it to another place."
Seeing the broken look that started to replace the woman's face, he hurriedly added,.
"But his soul is still fine! I promise you I will free it." His eyes shone with power and determination.
Just hearing him say those words, Ah Shi smiled as if he had fulfilled his promise.
"I believe in you." She stepped closer and hugged Noah.
"Thank you," she whispered right next to his ear. "I will wait for my son on the other side."
Clatter!
Suddenly ghastly chains hurled out of the portal, moved towards Ah Shi, and wrapped it around her soul before she could even react.
But when she did see the chains, the woman did not panic and looked at Noah.
"I pray that you reach the greatest of heights in your life and everything you want may come to you."
"Goodbye, Master Noah."
Noah could only stand there in silence as Ah Shi walked towards the portal herself without paying attention to the chains.
The closer she got to the portal, the chains loosened their hold over her. Upon reaching the edge of the portal, she looked over her shoulder and mouthed 'goodbye' to Noah as the portal swallowed her body.
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