"Good. Remember your promise."
At that, Li Ling said those words to Zhao Ziren, then asked, "What do you plan to do from now on?"
Zhao Ziren rose and said, "I will follow all your arrangements, True Lord."
Li Ling said, "There is no need for that. I want to know what you had planned before this."
After a moment's consideration, Zhao Ziren told him what he had in mind.
Li Ling nodded slightly and spoke to him through a private voice transmission. Only then did he float upward, dissolve into the void like ethereal smoke, and disappear.
"Husband, this... what exactly is going on?" Watching this unfold, Du Shi could not help feeling bewildered and alarmed.
Zhao Ziren said, "My dear, have you forgotten? You were killed by the righteous... by a Night Watcher of the righteous path..."
He then briefly told her what had happened during this time.
After hearing him out, Du Shi was even more astonished. "It feels as though I had a dream, and when I woke, I was reunited with you. I never imagined I had actually died once. And you, husband-you encountered such extraordinary fortune that you leaped from a mortal straight into the realm of a Ghost King, and even served as the Ward Master of Mirage Tower..."
Zhao Ziren said with feeling, "I never imagined things would turn out this way either."
When a ghost died, it became a ying. This was true death, something even the people of the Netherworld Sect could not withstand.
He had never, ever imagined that he would encounter a true mighty being who could fish him out of the depths of the Netherworld.
Since his awakening, he had been naturally clever and possessed exceptional wisdom, which had given him a faint pride in his uniquely