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Chapter 9 - GHOSTS AND TOMBSTONES

"Láo Yuè?" I heard someone calling my name and opening my eyes I realised that Liú Shuài was seated right there beside me.

"Sit up." He said to me and compliantly, I acquisced as I shuffled the covers away and I tried to sit upright while Liú Shuài helped me with his hands.

I leaned against him while he surrounded me with his right hand and in his left there was a bowl of noodles while I found my comfort in his warmth I slowly raised my head and there I admired the beautiful glow that was within them.

"I brought you something." He said.

"How long has it been?" I asked.

"I realised that an hour's sleep would be worth it." Liú Shuài replied as he picked up the chop sticks and putting the pieces of pork to the side, something that I usually did on my own, he picked up the noodles and bringing them closer past my mouth towards his, I saw him blowing them.

"What are you doing?" I asked.

"They're hot and I'm cooling them for you." Liú Shuài replied.

"I can do that." I said.

"You already exhausted so much power at least once please allow me to do this for you." Liú Shuài replied.

"How much strength do I need to lift a pair of chopsticks?" I asked.

"Save it for later." Liú Shuài said.

"No, I want an answer now......" I was still saying when he fixed the noodles in my mouth.

"That's not how it works, you forced me." I muttered as I chewed them into my mouth.

"You talk to much." Liú Shuài said.

"I sure even in my past life I must have done the same so let me feed myself." I said.

"No." Liú Shuài replied coldly.

"I have my own hands and my eyes to see my mouth." I said.

"No." Liú Shuài said sternly once again.

"I..." was saying when he interrupted and tightened his right arm around me while he pulled me closer our faces were only inches apart and our eyes were looking at one another.

"You talk too much." Liú Shuài said in a somewhat calm and lonely tone that was domineering and in a way it was very easy for me to feel threatened.

"Liú Shuài, what are you doing?" I asked.

"If you keep on talking so much next time I am going to kiss you." Liú Shuài said.

"What?" I said and at that moment Liú Shuài moved closer and he crashed his lips into mine which took me by surprise.

For the first time I could analyze that his lips tasted like cherries and his breath was rich in mint, his wonderful scent was that of the wonderful roses and his entire skin was so smooth and flawless.

Hearing the door being opened my eyes were opened wide and I remembered to withdraw as it was taking longer.

"Liú Shuài?" I said.

"I warned you." he said to me and at that moment Huáng Xiāo was standing right there in the room.

"What are you doing?" He asked that immediately we turned and looked at him.

"Nothing." I said immediately as I tried to deny myself.

"I can't guarantee that there was nothing that happened between the both of you." Huáng Xiāo said as Liú Shuài placed the bowl of noodles and pork on the table and there he stood up from where he was seated.

"Thank you so much." He said as he kowtowed to our saviour.

"You don't have to thank me." Huáng Xiāo said, "I was doing if for Láo Yuè and not you." He added.

"Regardless of the reason that you did it, either way I owe you his life." Liú Shuài replied, "because had it not been for you then I don't know how I would have lived and I am uncertain if I would have ever forgiven myself." he added as he turned to me.

I looked the other way and cleared my throat.

"It's alright." Huáng Xiāo replied as he clapped his hands and there a group of maids walked into the room carrying a pair of clothes in their hands.

"What's that?" I asked.

"Your Clothes." Huáng Xiāo replied, "I had them specially prepared for you." He said.

"Thank you." I said.

"I'm sorry if I disturbed you but I'll also take my leave." Huáng Xiāo said.

"You didn't disturb us." I quickly said.

"Láo Yuè, every time that you are quick to deny it he has all the more reason to believe that we were in the middle of something." Liú Shuài said to me.

Huáng Xiāo chuckled and he kept his mouth hidden under his sleeve.

When I looked at him I could tell how modest he was in a glance and how dignified he treated himself to be.

"I have a question." I said.

"What is it Láo Yuè?" Huáng Xiāo asked.

"Me and you, what was our relationship?" I asked.

Liú Shuài immediately turned around and looking at me he said the most frightening words as he drew closer.

"I already warned you." He threatened.

"No." I said as I picked up my bed covers and then covering my head I coiled myself inside and everyone laughed except for Liú Shuài who at least I was certain must have smiled at me.

"It's settled." I could hear his voice saying.

"You rascal." I said as I recall how he had kissed me a couple of minutes ago and just that thought alone I touched my lips and there I smiled as I chuckled mildly.

"We are still here." Huáng Xiāo said and I turned around and looked at them my face still veiled.

"What?" I said so much surprised by their reaction.

"Can't I have some privacy here." I complained.

"Alright, we'll get going." Huáng Xiāo said as he walked out of the room with the other two girls leaving my clothes on the edge of my bed while Liú Shuài remained there looking at them along with me as they continued outside.

"What's wrong with you?" I asked when I noticed him smirking a little.

"Nothing." He replied.

"You have already fed me, are you going to now undress me?" I asked.

"I already did when we got here yesterday." Liú Shuài said.

"What?" I said surprised.

"Don't worry about it, there is nothing for you to be boastful about." He added as he slowly walked away while I lifted the bed cover and looking in between my legs there were a series of question marks that came in my head.

"Wait, if that is nothing then what about him?" I asked myself and my eyes could only widen with so much surprise that I held my forehead and pretended to dramatically faint

I hit my head on the bed post in the process.

"Ouch." I cried as I rubbed the back of my head.

"Láo Yuè?" I could here Liú Shuài saying.

"I am fine." I said.

"If you have trouble dressing up then you can come to me." I said.

"Don't worry, I can do it alone." I said after him.

I stood in front of the mirror as I wore my wonderful scarlet robes and I adorned my hair and organized it very well.

"Are you ready?" Liú Shuài said all of a sudden and my heart leaping up I was frightened that I nearly screamed as I looked at him.

"How long have you been standing there?" I asked.

"It doesn't matter." Liú Shuài said his personality cold once again.

"There's one thing I don't understand, how can you be so reserved and also very stubborn at the same time?" I said.

"You don't need to understand." Liú Shuài replied.

"Why?" I asked.

"Because you taught me to be that way." Liú Shuài said.

"Hmm." I muttered.

"It's getting Late." Liú Shuài said, "we'd better start moving or else we won't reach the Luó Graveyard by noon." he added.

"You seem so confident facing these ghosts and demons." I said.

"If we fly there we won't necessarily take that much time but at least I need to warn you that the distance being long we shall be expelling so much energy from our bodies." Liú Shuài said.

"I understand." I replied as I conjured my long scarlet cape and convinced that my attire was complete, I smiled at myself in the mirror.

"Let's go." Liú Shuài said as he turned around and walked through the door while I followed him outside.

It was at that moment that I realised the building in which we were was slightly raised on a small hill and with a couple of stairs that descended towards the back of the shores on which the Huáng Clan Cultivation school stood.

"Do you know the way?" I asked Liú Shuài.

"Trust me." Liú Shuài replied, "I've been here before." He confirmed me which gave me some confidence to follow him.

"Aren't we going to fly?" I asked.

"We'll travel on water the first couple of miles." Liú Shuài replied.

"Water?" I said as I froze in my footsteps and Liú Shuài noticing that I wasn't following he halted as well and he turned around and looked at me.

"What is it Láo Yuè?" I Asked.

"Water?" I said again wanting a confirmation from him.

"Yes." Liú Shuài replied.

"No." I said.

"Why?" Liú Shuài asked and at that moment I recalled that awful experience of being breathless that I had in my dreams, that feeling of sinking deeper and deeper into the dark of oblivion and crying out for breath and help but the water itself only going inside and choking me.

"I don't like water." I replied.

"Why?" Liú Shuài asked as he stared at me in my eyes.

"Five years ago I fell off a cliff and I drowned, I died but I was saved and that awful memory haunts me that I don't want to even dare." I replied.

"It's the best option to get you to remember." Liú Shuài said.

"We can still travel by other means." I said.

"Láo Yuè?" Liú Shuài said as he stretched out his right hand to me.

"No." I said.

"Come with me." He said.

"I've already said no." I insisted.

"I don't want to care that you drowned and I don't want you to remember yourself doing saw, you fell off the cliff and died because I wasn't there to hold you and lift you up, this time around here I have stretched my arm to you asking you to trust that nothing will happen to you because I won't let it." Liú Shuài said.

"How sure can I be?" I asked.

"When you stumble I'll hold you and when you fall I'll lift you up again, when you five I'll follow, and when you are drowning this time I'll be around to hold you tight and draw you from the water." Liú Shuài replied.

I was hesitant.

"Trust me." He said and seeing the sincerity that was in his eyes slowly I descended the stairs and taking his right arm he calmly led me away while I didn't even bother to look behind.

At last we were on the wooden dock and there Huáng Xiāo stood with a boat there waiting.

"You are here." He said.

"Yes." We both replied in Unison.

"It's in a very good condition don't worry and I have checked so you won't have to be afraid, as long as you can just keep travelling downstream in a very short while you shall find yourself on the bank right in front of the Luó Graveyard." Huáng Xiāo replied.

"Thank you." Liú Shuài said.

"You're welcome." Huáng Xiāo said as he walked closer to me and he looked me in the eyes.

"Are you afraid?" He asked me.

"A little." I replied sincerely.

"Of the water?" I he asked.

"Yes." I replied while Huáng Xiāo smiling with his left hand he held my right shoulder.

"You don't have to be." He said.

"Why?" I asked while he moved his face closer and then he positioned it right behind my right ear.

"You asked me how I owed you, one time in this very water you saved me." Huáng Xiāo said and at that moment a series of memories came back to me in my head as I remembered that it was a time where I was still a very young boy in my early teens and I dived into the lake when Huáng Xiāo was drowning and I pulled him out and placed him on the shore.

"Xiāo'Ang?" I said.

"You remember." He spoke up to me happily as he withdrew his face.

"Yes." I replied.

"I don't want to detain you any longer you'd better get going." Huáng Xiāo said.

"Thank you." I said as Liú Shuài led the way and we climbed down into the boat while Huáng Xiāo performing a series of hand movements he conjured a talisman which he telekinetically attached to our boat eventually it started sailing on its own downstream.

At that moment myself facing him I waved so enthusiastically while slowly and slowly he vanished from sight and at that moment tired of standing at the edge I quickly moved inside into the middle of the boat while Liú Shuài sat at the front.

We sailed for hours and hours as I looked at him while he played the Crimson Flower song on his Guqin and the birds that were around started flying as they accompanied the both of us.

Looking up at the sky it was beautiful when I realized that they possesed very many beautiful colours.

Their melodies blending with our own I was very much amazed I had never within the Barrier seen anything as beautiful as that.

"He was right." I kept on telling myself, "There really is nothing for me to be afraid." I said as I stood up and walking out right beside him, I spread my arms out and started feeling the cool breeze and air that was rushing over my head.

"At last." I muttered, "This is freedom." I said as my Scarlet robes flew.

At that moment, the melodies of the birds were distorted while I closed my eyes and I could feel them quickly flying away and scattering.

Opening my eyes I could see what looked like a flying dagger that was hurled at me and at that moment Liú Shuài held me and pulled me to himself while the dagger struck one of the birds that was fleeing away.

"What's that?" I asked Liú Shuài.

"We have company." Liú Shuài replied and at that moment from the water there emerged what to appeared to be a crude image of a young woman whose face was veiled.

Looking behind, I could see two thick dark clouds of smoke that were flying and headed our way.

"Assassins again?" I said.

"They must be." Liú Shuài said as he spinned around and flying into mid air with his Guqin he plucked the strings and conjured a very large energy wave at the two which struck them and they slowed down a little.

Looking behind me the woman from the water appeared to be flying in slow motion and as she had a whip which she was descending down towards me, I ceased it and swinging it I thrust her backwards into the direction of our attackers that were still in mid air but they dodged her.

While the two were still making an attack a third one landed at the back of our boat and at that very moment it's head was lifted Liú Shuài held my arm and then we flew and stood at the tip while the other two attacking us seemed to only draw closer and closer.

I finally pulled out my scarlet blades and as the third one jumped of and flew backwards I launched myself at one of the attackers and there with my blades made an attempt on his head which he guarded with his sword.

He was much faster than I had expected that missing him I withdrew and flew backwards a little bit higher while my senses very active I could hear a series of more flying daggers vibrating against the wind.

Turning around, I spinned as them missed me and conjuring multiple talismans from my hands around me I thrust them at the woman who with a wave of her hands she repelled them for a while and she launched them back towards me at the time that another of her fellows was attacking me from behind.

I summersaulted and moving out of their path she struck her fellow who landed in the water while I withdrew to that boat as Liú Shuài positioned himself right in front of me.

I joined my blades while he placed his Guqin diagonally and launching himself at the biggest that was in front of us with continuous speed plucking the strings he created a series of numerous tones that resulted into large energy waves which after colliding with the attacker they forced him behind.

Another was coming at me and I spinned my conjoined swords around like propellers there was a vast force that was scarlet in colour that resonated Throughout the waters eventually it struck my enemy away.

The biggest hadn't given up the attack and the woman that was standing right in front of us as well and while Liú Shuài took the man I launched myself at his female counterpart fist to fist we collided and there was an immense force that troubled the water beneath us the boat on which we had been sailing exploded while it slowly sank.

I was looking at the woman while my eyes and my veins started to glow and she herself instead of looking frightened she smiled as she ceased me by my hands and lifted me higher and higher as we approached the clouds.

I couldn't tell what she was entirely up to but one thing that I was certain about was that it couldn't have been something that had a good intention attached to it.

As the clouds above us appeared to be darker and darker I realised that I could see the graveyard not so far I smiled as I broke free while we exchanged a couple of fists mine flying much faster than her own at lightening speed I diffused into the air appeared and disappeared reappearing once again as I struck her back and fourth eventually facing the graveyard I struck her in her abdomen and she flew down into the midst crushing into a very large stele that was shaped in the form of a serpent.

Liú Shuài who was not far spinning around he conjured his sword from nowhere and bringing it down upon his attacker her slew his abdomen open and while his bowels fell out with his left arm spinning he struck him with a punch he landed into the graveyard as well.

The both of us still surviving we descended at the gates and we watched where our victims had fallen as a large mass of what appeared to be a thick dark smoke crept over them and the vines as well along with the roots held them screaming for help as they were consumed by the earth.

"Did you see that?" I asked Liú Shuài.

"I also have eyes." he replied as we stared at the arch that was right in front of us.

"This is it." I said.

"Luó Graveyard." Liú Shuài supplemented.

"Yes." I agreed.

"So we fly?" I asked.

"You need to be cautious." Liú Shuài replied, "It's important that we stand together." He added.

"Who were they?" I asked and Liú Shuài pulled out of his cloak what appeared to be a token and looking at it he must have identified what it was.

"The Féng Clan token?" I asked.

"Līngyuè Transaction." Liú Shuài replied.

"Why are they so interested in me?" I asked.

"Perhaps it's something to do with your powers." Liú Shuài replied.

"Why?" I asked.

"Remember what Huáng Xiāo told us." Liú Shuài said and my memory rewinding a little I recalled the very words that he'd said to the both of us.

"Your case is quite complicated but if there is one force that is much more superior than the other then it is likely that's the nature that you are bound to take by natural order." Huáng Xiāo had muttered to the both of us.

"I see." I said, "It's not coincidental." I added.

"I can conclude at the moment that there is someone that wants the Yīn energy in you to be aroused because come to think about it why have we been attacked multiple times and in all the attackers you seem to be the Primary centre of attention." Liú Shuài said.

"They want me." I said.

"It's not safer than we had expected but you are lucky that I am around though we need to know why the Līngyuè Transaction is after you because I don't think it's about the yīn energy alone." Liú Shuài said.

"Perhaps they also know that I have an idea on the whereabouts of the Seventh fragment of the silver Mirror." I said.

"How's that possible when I was the only one who knew about it?" Liú Shuài asked.

"If all other six fragments vanished then you need to first recall where they last appeared and see if you were close by, secondly whoever took them could have also desired to use them so they might have Logically merged them but realised that there was a seventh piece of the mirror that was missing." I replied.

"Perhaps there is someone else other than me that you told about." Liú Shuài said.

"I don't remember but that is likely." I said.

"Now that it's plausible that the Līngyuè Transaction is also after you because of the silver Mirror why would they want to turn you evil with the yīn energy?" Liú Shuài asked.

"To kill me." I said.

"That's not logical, all the times that I saved you it didn't seem that Po Xinēn was interested in using the yīn to kill you and if it was to turn you evil then what would it do to profit the Līngyuè Transaction?" Liú Shuài asked.

"If I am as powerful as I am told I am and I am thought to be then perhaps the Féng Clan and the Līngyuè Transaction would value my talents." I replied.

"Maybe." Liú Shuài said.

"Let's forget about that and first let's focus on the Graveyard." I said.

"Yes." Liú Shuài said as we both raised our eyes and looked up at the sky which was already darkened with thick clouds and lightening was streaking across.

"It doesn't seem to me that flying is any safer than walking through it." Liú Shuài said.

"Probably there's a much higher chance of being struck by lightening than sinking into the ground." I remarked.

"They're ghosts and the chance of being possesed is also very high." Liú Shuài said.

"Possesing." I said as something occurred to me and turning around I looked at Liú Shuài and smiled.

"What's the matter with you?" He asked.

"Possesing." I replied.

"You have said that twice." Liú Shuài said.

"What if we exorcise the graveyard." I said.

"That's a stupid idea, you'd be casting spirits out of it and there are forests nearby and in them there are animals." Liú Shuài said.

"We aren't going to chase them out but there is a type of Cultivation and exorcism with which we can repel evil spirits." I said.

"How?" Liú Shuài asked.

The spirits are trapped inside the graveyard and the demons, so if we are possesed by a few spirits then to the others we shall already be occupied so that it's like a reverse exorcism." I replied.

"You voluntarily want to get possessed?" Liú Shuài asked.

"It's our last best available option if we are to go through the graveyard but there is a precaution that we must take as well." I replied.

"Two spirits can not exist in one body and if one suppresses the other then the original shall be forcefully cast out." Liú Shuài said.

"How did you know?" I asked.

"I am smart." Liú Shuài replied as he walked closer to the gate.

"But how do we know which spirits are least harmful to posses us?" Liú Shuài asked.

"Don't worry." I said as I conjured a pair of talismans and attaching one on Liú Shuài's chest before he even had the opportunity to read out what it spelt , his body glowed red and walking through the gates I also attached a talisman onto my chest and was instantly possesed by my own spell as I followed.

The moment that we set foot into the compound of the graveyard, there was a small dark spirit that flew towards Liú Shuài and it possesed him while another also emerged and it possesed me.

My conscience was clear and looking at Liú Shuài he turned and faced me while he held the sleeve of his hanfu and he dragged it down while exposing his right upper shoulder.

His face at that moment changed as make up appeared on it and the way that he twisted his eyes and looked at me while blinking them there was so much blusher on him.

"Oh how are you handsome." He said as he twisted his small legs and exposing them he started walking around like a woman while he threw his legs recklessly while trying to shake his flat bum line.

I chuckled loudly right at the moment that my possessor also kicked in and looking around I noticed that I was being left behind that I held up my hanfu.

"Wait for me." I said as I leaped over the ground like a young boy chasing after Liú Shuài.

Eventually we had halted in the middle and it was already dark like night.

Liú Shuài and myself were holding each other closely while a lot of demons were rushing by that we leaped and screamed our way through.

"Look here." We could hear very many other spirits saying.

And slowly with our feet were still walking through until we halted right in front of a very large gravestone and there one of the ghosts took on the crude image of a man.

"Where do you think you're going." we could hear those whispers in our ears and turning around we noticed that we had been surrounded.

"What's this?" I finally spoke up myself resisting the charm a little bit.

"The enchantment, it's waning." Liú Shuài replied.

"What happens when weak spirits take on powerful bodies?" I suddenly asked as I looked at Liú Shuài who stared at me with his eyes wide open he'd realised what I was trying to say to him at that very moment.

"Do ghosts fight for bodies." I asked.

"Yes." Liú Shuài replied as he turned around and looked when from the graves a larger number of them emerged.

"Run." I said while Liú Shuài still stood frozen in one place he screamed like the lady that he was while crouching with his arms wide.

Being the only young and cautious boy I grabbed him by his hands and there I dragged him along with myself as we descended a small hill while the spirits in the form of dark mists started descending after us.

I was swifter on my feet while Liú Shuài on the other hand kept on screaming louder and louder while we were trying to get away.

"Could you quit being that way." I scolded.

"You practically got the ghost of a dead prostitute to possess me." Liú Shuài shouted resisting the charm a little but the fright must have been too much that the prostitute was in control once again.

Eventually certain that we weren't being seen, I stopped behind a tree and there we knelt down while Liú Shuài who was about to scream was silenced the very moment that I touched his mouth and stopped him.

I could hear the mists rushing by and I was certain that the ghosts and the spirits were going past us.

Sighing partly in relief I dropped my hand from Liú Shuài's mouth and while I looked at him he stared back a little bit scared while be held onto his chest like as if he had been molested.

"Stop." I said.

"Hero." Liú Shuài replied.

"Yes." I replied.

"My name is Yáng Huī." Liú Shuài said.

"I am Liú Shuài." He eventually gained control of his body that I chuckled while the prostitute's ghost inside him only seemed to examine his body.

"Stop it." Liú Shuài whispered to himself.

"I am now in control." Yáng Huī said as she ran her hands down his torso.

"Don't." Liú Shuài said.

"I want to know how big it is." Yáng Huī spoke through him.

"I am also curious." I said to them both.

"Láo Yuè?" Liú Shuài said.

"Let's do it." yáng Huī said through him afterwards.

"No." Liú Shuài rebuked.

At that moment there was another ghost that discovered us and staring at us all with the most frightening appearance, Yáng Huī screamed and at once I conjured a talisman that silenced the ghost and renewed the fading enchantment of the ones that we were wearing.

"Láo Yuè." Liú Shuài cursed.

"Thank you so much." Yáng Huī spoke through him shortly after.

"We've already wandered for long I trust that we are about to get out of the graveyard.

"In only thirty minutes we shall have reached outside." Yáng Huī said.

"Then let's go." I said as I raised my head and herself Through. Liú Shuài tightly holding onto my arm, we started sneaking behind the gravestones while the ghosts that I could at least see were barely moved and alert they were absent minded elsewhere to notice the both of us sneaking nearby.

We'd travelled for a while and I could see the gates that marked the exit of the graveyard, staring at them I noticed that a very large number of the ghosts and the demons was stationed right there.

"Oh no." Yáng Huī said.

"What?" I asked.

"There's too many and they could have known that we wouldn't remain hidden in the graveyard forever." Yáng Huī said.

"They knew that we were trying to get out." I said.

"It's impossible." Yáng Huī said.

"What's impossible?" I asked.

"They are all elderly ghosts and very powerful ones there is no way that I could possibly resist them." Yáng Huī replied.

"Why?" I asked, "what happens if you do?" I added.

"Even amongst ghosts there are slaves, those that can not submit to their will shall be enslaved." Yáng Huī replied.

"How did you end up in this place?" I asked.

"I was a young lady of the Luó Clan but in most cases spirits like myself that were never consecrated are bound to the earth we can never find Nirvana." Yáng Huī replied.

"But you were a prostitute." I said.

"A prostitute's daughter eventually when I was born I wasn't treated any differently by my cousins." Yáng Huī replied.

"Yáng Huī?" I called.

"I called myself Yáng." She replied.

"Why?" I asked.

"I got married as a fifth Concubine and my husband cousin Yáng treated me no different from the others he made me an object of playing amongst his friends eventually I lost it and became a prostitute.   

When his first wife Yáng Go'er found me in a brothel and she had me poisoned, I died and I was buried whereas no one looked for me even my own child that I had I was forgotten and this became my Eternal home." Yáng Huī replied.

I was so touched at that moment and there facing her I could see she was present with me despite the body belonging to Liú Shuài I hugged her.

"Don't worry." I said, "The moment that I am out of here I assure you that I shall burn incense for you and pray." I said as tears went through my heart.

"You have such a big heart." Yáng Huī said.

"Perhaps I feel like I can understand you, given that I know what it means to be forgotten and Sometimes lonely." I replied.

At that moment the both of us pulling apart I looked at Yáng Huī who smiled at me.

"What?" I asked.

"You know you are not alone and you are not forgotten." Yáng Huī said.

"What makes you say that?" I asked.

"You might not know but I can feel the joy within this heart and the excitement that it has looking at you, it's warmth and it's comfort every time, it's jealous when you are around others and it's absolute devotion it really loves you." Yáng Huī said.

"Really?" I asked.

"He's just to shy to say it but just because that is the case and he doesn't speak about it more often I hope that you can at least understand it through his actions." Yáng Huī said.

"I certainly shall." I said to her.

"Because you are willing to at least grant me the chance of going into Nirvana Perhaps I can help you get out of this graveyard." Yáng Huī said.

"How?" I asked.

"There is one thing that we ghosts don't like at all and we surely fear." yáng Huī replied.

"What's that?" I asked.

"Anything that is much bigger than a demon." Yáng Huī replied.

"There's very many things that are much higher than a demon, which one in particular?" I asked.

"You are the strongest person that I have ever seen and deep down within you there is a very great force and an indescribable power that is beyond any one's greatest expectations, if you can embrace it and let the light that is within you shine so pure then ghosts shall scatter and not a single one of them shall ever try to come any closer." Yáng Huī asked.

"But if that I do that what happens to you or any other ghost that is nearby or possessing me?" I asked.

"We hate the light and we can only live in the darkness because in the light we cease to exist and when we cease to exist people can not be afraid and Sometimes depending on the amount of power that's flowing about with a force like yours, we can be close to extinction." Yáng Huī said.

"Can you get out of the graveyard?" I asked.

"I am confined between it and Nirvana, where my soul can not depart to the latter the former shall remain my abode for eternity never to be reincarnated." Yáng Huī replied.

At that moment there was a ghost that crept over the tombstone and there Yáng Huī was ceased in its grip while a large number of them came between both me and her.

"Liú Shuài?" I shouted as I stretched out my hand towards his body but the ghosts were carrying me away.

I could hear his screams only getting louder and louder as he was being carried away and getting angry I could feel a certain force that was rushing through me.

The ghosts had ganged up on me and they were descending down upon us at that moment very moment with the darkness filling the air the mild light was starting to be blocked out.  

I could feel my feet sinking into the ground and the magic of the talisman wearing thinner and thinner every moment.

"I'm not going to die here, I can not." I constantly thought to myself and at that moment I heard Liú Shuài yelling out.

"Liú Shuài?" I said with his voice blending in with Yáng Huī's I was enraged that before I had noticed my veins starred glowing brightly and brightly and before I realised I let out a very loud help and an immense light consuming everything around me I launched myself in the last direction where I had seen Liú Shuài and Yáng Huī holding his hand as we possesed the sky in form of a red and yellow beam of energy.

We were flying high underneath the dark sky and there while the light slowly died out and vanished leaving myself glowing like a star as I descended Liú Shuài was in my arms there so peaceful with his eyes closed.

We fell onto the ground and looking at him I held his forehead and slowly tapped his cheek.

"Liú Shuài, wake up." I said and slowly he seemed to open his eyes and look up at me.

"Láo Yuè?" he called my name as he raised his hand and there he touched my cheek a little bit before his hand fell down and there he was unconscious before me.

"Liú Shuài, Liú Shuài?" I called but there was no response coming from him the only thing that was left for me to hear was Silence and his weak heartbeat while he lay there peacefully in my arms.