Chapter (1) A Spirit or a human?

The rain was pouring down heavily, it was a silent night where else the human didn't dare to go out and the dogs didn't even dare to bark. Who would had thought that there would be a young girl with pale blue robe walking slowly under the pouring rain as if the rain didn't effect or bother her in the slightest. Her pale blue robe which was embroidered with sliver threads was intact, not even a drop of rain nor a spot of mud could be seen. In fact it was raining heavily, the ground was a little muddy and wet so there was no way her robe wouldn't be stained beside she wass walking under the rain and not only her robe but also she herself didn't get wet from the rain. Her face was pale but her facial features were out of ordinary with curvy eyebrows, red lip and white teeth. Anyone could tell at a glance she was a pampered lady of some wealthy family.

At some point, the rain which was pouring down like a furious beast stopped, the young girl walking calmly also stopped. There was the sound of metals clashing through each other resonate in the air, the young girl hesitated for a while before decided to take a look. She silently approached the place where the sound was coming without trying to cancel her movements because she knew no one could see nor hear her as she was just a body of soul, in other word a wandering spirit.

At first, she thought the fight would be serious but the scene where a middle aged man wearing brocade was one-sidedly defeated by the young man who was smiling gently entered her vision. The young man was wearing black fitting robe and there was also a round oval-shaped jade pendant hanging from his waist which a faint glow remitting from it's body.

It seemed that the middle aged man didn't have the strength to resist the fierce attacks from the young man and was stabbed by the sword. The middle aged man clutched his chest, he spatted out harsh words, "Li Cheng Yue, do you think you would be able to go the holy lands after killing Yan'er? You are a devil! Yan'er was your cousin, he had been by your side for a long time. Why would you kill him, he only want to go to the holy lands, Why?"

She now recognized the young man name through the middle aged man words, turned out he was the son of Lin Ye city lord, Li Cheng Yue. But why would Li Cheng Yue killed his cousin, she heard that Li Cheng Yue and his cousin, Li Qiu Yan were pretty close and had a harmonious relationship. As for the middle aged man, he must be a close relative of the two brothers. "Uncle, you are always biased towards Li Qiu Yan, clearly he was the one who tried to kill me in the holy lands' martial selection arena. Uncle I know you like Li Qiu Yan more but he killed my mother. Mother treated him sinerce but he repay her kindness with resentment. The truth is Li Qiu Yan is not dead because I had never killed him from the start".

Sure enough, she got the answer from Li Cheng Yue words, the middle aged man was the uncle of the two cousins but he seemed to hate Li Cheng Yue and biased towards Li Qiu Yan. In the past few months, she heard rumors that Li Qiu Yan's parents died when he was a little and the city lord and his wife decided to adopted the little Li Qiu Yue who was too young to stand on his own feet in the world where the strong eat the weak. But strangely, the city lord's wife suffer from a serious illness that year and died not long after adopting Li Qiu Yan. She never thought Li Cheng Yue's mother was killed by her nephew.

"What nonsense are u talking, when my sister died Yan'er was only ten years old. How could he killed someone. You clearly killed him and yet, here you are, still trying to frame Yan'er even after his dead!"

At the middle aged man's words, Li Cheng Yue smiled, although he was talking about the death of his mother he wasn't affected by it, there was no fluctuation of emotions nor anything just like he was talking about a stranger but not his mother.

Li Cheng Yue lightly touched the cold surface of the sword which was hovering in the air. The sword body was slightly narrow compared to other sword, it emitted a very powerful spiritual fluctuations to the surrounding. Li Cheng Yue caressed the sword with great admiration and said causally, "Li Qiu Yan, I know you're here. Why don't you drop your act? Uncle is no longer useful to you anymore. I'm afraid my intelligence might be drag down by his words, why don't you clean up your own mess?"

The middle aged man was confused by Li Cheng Yue, "What are u ...urg..." , before he finished speaking his eyes widened, his eyes filled with horror, she could see there was a bloody hole in his chest. The lifeless body of the middle aged man fall to the ground, blood gushing out endlessly staining the ground with pure red color and the air was filled by a strange fishy smell.

A young man with extremely pale skin stood under the moonlight, his pale figure was more striking contrast to his red clothes. Li Qiu Yan's phoenix eyes narrowed with a hint of seductiveness but his face was cold and emotionless like a demon crawling out from hell, "Brother Cheng Yue, you are always the same, still treating others like disposable tools". Li Cheng Yue looked at his cousin who was playing with the twitching heart in his palm but Li Cheng Yue was wearing the same gentle smile when she first saw him. She was even graping her robe tightly, she was really excited by the tension between these two brothers and her body was long gone stiffed. It felt like she was watching a dog blood drama, although these two brother were charming and pleasing to the eyes, it was too bloody for her to look at them ah!

Although she had watched many horror films and psychopathic killer movies in the past, they are all acting, not real. Lan Xia Yu was transmigrated to this place while she was acting as a villainess novel lady in ancient film called 'Fine jade'. After transmigrating, she thought she was not a human anymore because other couldn't see her no matter what and she was not hungry nor tired, it had been three whole months since she had been in this state.

Back then in her world, although she didn't get to act as the lead in most of the drama because she have terrible acting skill. Whenever she become excited, her facial features would turn stiff and she would read out her lines incorrectly. But because of her pretty face, she was famous in the intertainment industry compared to others actresses. She even got the award 'Shining Star' and 'Beauty Quee' tittle when she first debut all thank to her face! But it was all in the past, after she arrived in this world she realized this world had cultivators and immortals just like many fantasy novels she had read. But she could only wander inside this city and only knew a little about the outside world.

At first, she heard from a few cultivators that one could reshape their body using the Yin Yang lotus and other exotic treasures. She was hoping to form a body for herself, maybe she would be lucky enough to accept as a disciple by an immotal but the question was, did immortals accept spirits as their disciples? Her hope was shattered immediately after she tried countless times to leave the city, but no matter how much she tried she still couldn't leave, as if there was some kind of barrier preventing her from leaving. If she couldn't leave this city, the only other way was to reincarnate but there was no sign of grim reaper nor there was Heibai or Wuchang either! (Note - in ancient methodology, Heibai and Wuchang are called black and white impermanence. They are in charge of escorting the spirits of the dead to the underworld. They are subordinates of Yama, emperor of the underworld)

Although she knew, the two brothers couldn't see her, she was still nervous and scared. At that time, she didn't know that all of this were only the start of tragedies what she would encounter in the future.

This baby was too young to watch this scene, so this baby would leave quietly and won't bother these two big shots ba! Lan Xia Yu patted her chest a few time as she saw the two brothers fighting and prepared to leave but a sword flew towards her with lightning speed carrying unparalleable pressure, she had no time to dodge nor did she have the strength to do so. She could only stare at the sword with wide eyes filled with despair, her hair stood on end and goosebumps appeared as she felt a cold chill coming from the sword. Lan Xia Yu felt a burning pain from her chest, the sharp tip of the sword was penetrating her flesh and blood, wanting to break her body to pieces.

But the sword vanished suddenly as soon as it got close enough to pierce her heart as if everything that just happened was nothing but an illusion, there was also no wound on her chest. She once again realized the truth that she want to conceal when she first arrived in this world. This world was filled with blood lust everywhere, only the strong had the final say in everything. She had already encounter the cruel things happening in this unseemly peaceful city. Lan Xia Yu was very angry, she was so weak that even if the two brother could kill her with a flick of their fingers. She was helpless and angry. Although she wasn't stabbed to death by the sword, she was knocked down to the muddy ground by the powerful force carrying by the sword. Even if the ground was muddy, she could felt the pain from her delicate butt! She quickly forgot her fear and suddenly blurred out furiously, "F**k! Who dare to attack this old lady?". Even if she shouted loudly on top of her lungs, no one would hear her anyway. Lan Xia Yu want to ask the heaven. Why was she always unlucky? Heaven, you treat this old lady so poorly! What did this old lady do to provoke the heaven? At least, you should give this old lady a golden finger to comfort her heart. She also want to act cool, okay? (Note - A gold finger is basically a cheat. In game, it is something that could give you an advantage beyond normal gameplay)

Lan Xia Yu realized that the surrounding was a little quiet and slowly turn her head and saw the two brothers watching her with indescribable expressions. Li Cheng Yue eyes turned intense as murderous aura filled the air. "Who are you? Where is my sword?"

Hey come on, she was just a passerby, how would she know where his sword went to? Beside he was the one who knocked her down to the muddy ground with his sword! Please, don't put the blame on her, she is really innocent ba! This old lady ass was still hurting from that blow, you know? Although Lan Xia Yu want to cursed Li Cheng Yue but she was afraid that Li Cheng Yue might kill her.

Oh wait, there is something wrong! It seemed these two crazy men could see her and she could even felt the pain from her butt. Did she turned back to being a human? Oh my god, this suck! Normally, she would feel happy but this was not a good time to became a human. This is the first time she felt being a spirit is better than being a human! She felt like the heaven had evil intentions towards her! 'Hey, what happened to the promise of unable to seen by others? What happened to the promise of being a spirit?'

Lan Xia Yu glance at the two people and laughed awkwardly, "Ha..ha.., let me explain to this handsome brother...".

"Don't talk nonsense and just tell the truth". Li Cheng Yue cut her words coldly. Lan Xia Yu really want to cry, he didn't even give her a chance to explain! brothers I'm really just a passer by, I didn't do anything to your sowrd. It is not like he would believe her even if she said the truth.

Li Cheng Yue was calmed on the surface but he become nervous because he suddenly felt that there was a very powerful aura coming from the seemly weak girl. His sword was a spiritual sword, it was a family heirloom for century but no one in his family knew the origin of the sword beside the sword never recognized him as it's master from the start. He could barely use it by controlling the spiritual energy because the sword spirit had fallen asleep a long time ago. His grandpa said that the sword didn't recognize anyone from the Li family, if not for the fact that the sword spirit had fallen asleep, they might not be able to use it.

There were so many powerful cultivators that like to pretend to be a normal person so he was doubting that she might be one of those cultivators. Not anyone could control a spiritual sword that had it's own conscious, much less destroying one. Li Cheng Yue didn't clearly see what had happened but he felt the sword's spiritual power vanished suddenly when a white light flushed from the girl chest

Li Cheng Yue didn't actually believe what she said but he decided to retreat, no matter how rare or powerful the sword might be, it was not more valuable than his own life. Unlike Li Cheng Yue, Li Qiu Yan had different opinions about her.

Because Li Qiu Yan knew the origin of the sword, the sword was forged by Tang Liang Xian Jun, the great supreme elder of holy lands. It was lost after the war between the three realms, he didn't know how this sword ended up in Li family's heirloom. When his parents died, an old man with ragged clothes give him a mysterious cultivation manual and it turn out to be a forbidden demonic art from ancient time which was the forgotten demonic art of the demon king. There was also a piece of information and drawing of the celestial sword which defeated the demon king.

The demonic manual that the old man give him wasn't complete, it seemed there was some connections between the celestial sword and the demonic manual he was practicing. The old man also said if he want to get the second part of the demonic manual, he had to find the celestial sword.

Even if the young girl opposite him was a powerful person he didn't want to give up, if the situation turn out to be the worst, he had a few cards in his sleeve and use them to escape at a critical moment. The demonic manual he practiced was only the first art but it made him so much powerful and stronger than Li Cheng Yue quickly. He must get the sword. Li Qiu Yan smile sinisterly, beside he didn't believe that she was powerful enough to kill him. If not why would that person didn't made a move from the start since she was so powerful.

"Why should I believe you?".

As soon as he finished speaking, his figure flashed and appeared in front of her. Li Qiu Yan extended his sword like sharp fingers towards. As the cold bloody hand was about to touch her, a blinding white light ‌appeared and everything turned white for a moment. Lan Xia Yu was so scared till her facial expression become paralyze, her whole body ached and a splitting headaches come from her head. Slowly her vision turned dark, her soul also sinked into the dark.

She didn't know how much time had passed, there was the sound of cold wind blowing her body and face restlessly. On her long eyelashes and smooth face was a thin layer of frost. She almost thought that she would die from frozen, she tried to open her eyes and what appeared in her vision was a pair of white tander and jade like feet standing on the snow covering ground. The soles of the feet were flawless with a faint glow like pearls, Lan Xia Yu couldn't help but want to grapped that pair of feet to see if they were real. She extended her hand and the tips of her fingers touched the smooth skin but the owner of the feet seemed to be starleted by her actions, quickly taking a few steps back. Once again she fell into the darkness. Before she faint, the only thing she remember was that she was attacked by something that the bones in her body seem to be broken, she even coughed up a mouthfull of blood!

_ Hello, It is nice to meet you guys, I'm ColdRainOnMay19. This is my first publish work. To be a professional writer is my dream but I'm still amateur and I'm lacking in many aspects in regard with character building, world building and especially in the characters backstory. So please don't hesitate to leave a comment or suggestions for me if my writing cause you any inconvenience. See you next time, thank you guys for reading my novel.