Chapter 2157: Truth Hard to Tell (2)
Cheng Lin wasn't surprised. He nodded to his father without any intention of introducing Qin Shu and me.
Cheng Jiu didn't keep his attention on Qin Shu and me for long, either. He turned back and gazed lovingly at the half-woman, half-fish in his arms.
I watched for a long while, letting my eyes roam over the woman.
I saw the chains of her soul. Like an ordinary person, she had only nine rings. But unlike an ordinary person, the chain extending from the end of the ninth ring was visibly scratched. One mark after another scarred its surface, robbing the chain that stretched into the void of its luster. It looked old and damaged.
The woman also bore the aura of a Ghost King. The yin energy radiating from her dispersed into particles that drifted through the air.
All three members of this family had yin energy, but it was different for each of them.
The yin energy on Cheng Jiu was the kind found in an ordinary Ghost King. The woman's seemed unable to cling to her body, so it kept spilling out. Cheng Lin's, on the other hand, was unusually restrained—the most condensed kind of yin energy.
The three of them had different origins, different souls at their core, and had gone through very different things.
They had become three different kinds of Ghost King.
It was as if I stood at the dividing line of history, watching the future branch off in different directions.
No, it was more like I was seeing different Ghost Kings along a single timeline.
Cheng Jiu, his wife, Cheng Lin... It was like watching two worlds merge.
The only question was whether Cheng Jiu's wife would remain as she was, or change as the