Chapter 196 - 185: Thirty-Three Heavenly Officials Fight Over Auspicious Land
Xie Lian asked, "Is this your grave? Am I drinking your wine?"
He was a drunken mess, and didn't really hear clearly if that ghost fire said anything, and had thought the master of the grave was displeased, trying to chase him away. He grumbled, "I get it. I'll go."
Xie Lian hugged the wine jar and crawled up, swaying and wobbly as he took his steps. Yet unexpectedly, he didn't go very far before he lost his footing and THUD – he fell all over himself.
Turns out, there was a giant pit in this graveyard. It was probably pre-dug to prepare the burial of a deceased, though, the deceased hasn't yet been buried before Xie Lian himself came lying in.
Xie Lian's forehead knocked on the outer edges of the pit and it hurt, worsening his dizziness, his head throbbing. He was woozy for a while before he struggled to get up, both his hands muddied and bloodied with scrapes and cuts somewhere.
He held out his hands and looked at them without really registering anything, then tried to climb out of the pit. However, he had just downed an entire jar of wine, his limbs were limp, he couldn't exert any power, so while he attempted to climb out a few times, he'd slip down every time. Xie Lian fell back to the bottom of the pit and glared at the moon-covered cloudy night sky for a bit, growing very angry.
This pit wasn't even that deep so why couldn't he climb out no matter how he tried?
The more he thought the angrier he became and he started mumbling in spite of himself, "...What the fuck."
Xie Lian had never cursed before. This was the very first time such words came out of his mouth. But the curious thing was, after he cursed, the stifling tension in his chest seemed to have dispersed instantly. Thus, like a child who had tasted sweets, Xie Lian clung on to the side walls of the burial pit and used all his strength to yell with a deafening voice, "GOD FUCKING DAMMIT!"
He slapped at the ground and yelled, "IS ANYONE THERE? IS THERE ANYONE WHO CAN HELP PULL ME OUT??"
Of course there wasn't anyone. There was only a small ball of haunting ghost fire, blazing unceasingly. After Xie Lian had fallen, that ball of ghost fire came rushing over seeming to have wanted to grab him, but it could never make contact. Xie Lian didn't bother with it at all and said angrily, "Someone might as well just come and bury me!"