Chapter 6 – The Incident Happened in Cattle-Fence Street (1/2)

Chapter 6 – The Incident Happened in Cattle-Fence Street

It was still early in the night, as the moon hung in the middle of the sky and the stars were blinking like naughty kids, as if they were interacting with the people beneath them.

In the small courtyard, Qinghan and Qingyu were sitting on a pair of stone chairs, side by side. They both looked towards the sky, trying to get a better view of the mysterious cosmos. They were completely silent, not even a word was spoken, as if both of them had something weighing heavily on their mind.

- Alas! -

Qinghan rubbed the bronze ring on his third finger, sighing cheerlessly.

Qinghan had spent the whole afternoon testing this ring, to see if there was something magical attached to it. Disappointingly, however, he had reluctantly come to the conclusion that this ring was a “three-no’s-ring”, no magical function, no economic value and no ornamental value. In simpler terms, it was just an ugly bronze ring, and nobody would care to pick it up once it was dropped.

…….

This afternoon, when he found out that the ring was broken, he was almost sure it was a fake one. However, this was still the inheritance of his father, so he wouldn’t give up so easily. He carefully scraped the golden surface off the ring, revealing the true appearance of this bronze ring.

On its murky surface, Qinghan had found the word “soul” sculptured. However, it wasn’t strange for a ring to have words sculptured on it, as this was usually the case.

Even though Qinghan wasn’t a fate-believer, he did enjoy to believe in miracles. In his previous life, he had read different genres of website novels. In these novels, a magical weapon would always disguise itself with an ugly appearance. While it also required some special method to activate its hidden power.

Therefore, from his reading experience, he decided to use his blood to activate this ring.

Clenching his teeth, Qinghan had held a sword and made a cut in one of his fingers.

One drop, two drops, three drops…

Sadly, however, the ring didn’t give a damn response.

Being afraid the quantity of the blood wasn’t enough, Qinghan even squeezed his wounded finger to let more drops of blood ooze out.

Now, the blood he had dropped on the ring could almost fill half a bowl. Finally, the response came… Not from the ring, but from his body – He felt light-headed, as if the stars were flying right in front of his eyes… Poor guy, he was suffering from an excessive loss of blood.

“Alright! It seems like giving it my blood only makes me feel dizzy. I’ll try something else.”

Qinghan racked his brains to find other ways to identify the ring’s value. He put the ring on fire, baked it and even smoked it. Yet nothing happened. Out of fury, he even went to the toilet, threatening the ring to flush it away if it still didn’t show any sign of magic.

Despite all of these methods he had used, the ring still didn’t show any kind of magic, however, it did become darker and darker… Disillusioned by the results, Qinghan gave up on trying. The moment when he was about to throw it away, he pondered for a moment, before he eventually put it on his finger. However, considering that it was still the inheritance from his father, he kept it as a souvenir.

As the number one cultivator of the Immortal Ranking List, as well as a master in the third level of the Realm of the Emperor, his father had left him two “valuable items”. One was an untested and risky account of his experiences; the other was a completely fake ring.

……

“Brother, I remember you once said that those who die will become another star in the sky, is this true?” Qingyu suddenly raised a question. In the silver moonlight, she looked like a fairy, elegant and peaceful.

“Stars? No, they’ll be decomposed into the soil…” Qinghan blurted out. In their childhood, he had once made up some fairy tale for his sister. And his innocent sister still fully believed all the stuff he had created with his imagination.

However, when Qinghan turned around and found the crystal clear eyes of his sister, he decided not to extinguish her beautiful illusion. “Errr… I mean, the body will decompose into the soil, but the soul will become a star in the universe. Like our dear parents, they are now among these gleaming stars, probably even looking at us at this very moment…”

“Sure, they will. And they’ll forever be the gleaming stars in the sky. If it wasn’t for my father’s benevolence, I would probably have been a homeless drifter in the streets by now. And mother also treated me as her own child. Now, they’re all gone… I have no chance to give back the love they gave me…” Qingyu choked on her sobbing words, as she replied. Finally, she stopped talking, as she hid her face in her arms.