As if the heavens heard her prayers for the last time, it rained. Hard and heavy rain poured, causing the fog in the mountain to form shielding everyone's sight of the cliff.
As the the guards strive to drag her now muddy and soaked body, they also felt the tinge of warriness due to the ice cold rain. Thunder roared and lightning strike the sky, the wind hit wild everything it passed by. And so, the easy task of decapitating her and tossing her body became much more of a hurdle than it actually was.
This time however, one thing retained in the mind of Ling Xuan. If she were to die, even if it is in her last breath, she would keep her head and body intact. She'll never give these men the satisfaction of letting someone as lowly as them to kill her. This time, she will take her own life, by herself as also how she had sworn for heaven's revenge upon her enemies.
By the time the guards managed to bring her over the edge of the cliff, she was held down kneeling with the guard held her shoulders while the other unsheathed his sword.
In the act of decapitating her, before the sword even came contact with her nape, she summoned the last of her strength that she'd been saving since earlier and disappeared from the range of the sword. She had twisted her body and jumped back thus falling silently into the cliff.
This time a lightning strike the guards and in her last conscious moments, she suddenly felt warm and heard a voice from inside her head.
"Ling Xuan." Seeing no one near her, she reluctantly answered the voice.
"Who are you?" she don't know why would she talk to herself and assumed that maybe her brain was the damaged too, making her insane.
"The future you."
"Huh?" She laughed bitterly thinking this was madness.
"There's not much time." The voice answered again.
"What do you mean? Yes, there's not much time, I'm dying." Really, she must be insane.
"But I can save you. Let me take over you now, And I will collect their debts for you. I can hardly stop the flow of blood in this body and healing internal injuries will need much effort, if not, you will surely die."
"So you're that strong, but what can you do? What is it for me even if I survive, my soul won't last anyway. Only you will get to live here in this body."
"Don't you want to get revenge?"
"I do, but still I can, when I get reincarnated. However long that maybe but I will still be able to get my revenge. However if I let you take over my body then it means that you will be using my life in order for your soul to survive. Regardless of whether you get revenge for me or not, I will never.know, still, you.will reap.the benefit of living."
"I see, although you're average, you're very smart. Pity that you never used that for love. What do you want.to do.then?"
"Let's have a spirit vow. It will bind us as we vow that when the vow wasn't met, one will cease to exist. If you agree, I will hand my body to you and wait until my next reincarnation."
"Very well. Let's do it."