《Life Borrowing for Birthday》 18

Chapter Eighteen: Separated by Yin and Yang As the Shen family and the town mayor perished, the malevolent energy in Blackwater Town began to gradually dissipate. The blood moon in the sky vanished, replaced by a sliver of dawn before the break of day. Mu stood in the center of the ruins, the malevolent energy within his body gradually subsiding. Mu's consciousness regained control. He looked at his blood-stained hands and the devastated scene around him, his heart filled with sorrow and bewilderment. The vengeful spirits of his parents appeared before him, their expressions gentle and kind. "Child, your revenge is complete, and the Shen family's sins have been thoroughly cleansed. Your fate is too strong; you are destined not to live in the mortal world like ordinary people..." His mother's voice echoed softly in Mu's mind. Mu knelt on the ground and kowtowed three times towards the phantoms of his parents. "Father, Mother, Mu has no regrets!" The phantoms of his parents gradually turned into specks of starlight and disappeared into the dawn. Mu knew that although he had saved his life, due to experiencing the life-borrowing and possession by malevolent energy, his body was no longer that of a pure living person, but had become a "living corpse" wandering between the realms of Yin and Yang. To be continued in the next episode……