Chang Xian was also stunned for a moment, and it took him a while to react: "Come on, chase them! No matter if they are dead or alive, take them all down! I think that girl has lost herself in the aftermath of the tribulation!"
Lao Chang's words reminded me that Guo Xiangrong's calamity was not over yet. Heaven would not let her use such an opportunistic way to overcome the calamity. Her human calamity was still there, and I was afraid it would come even more fiercely. Because she could no longer distinguish right from wrong in her actions, and she was bringing the human calamity to herself. This was Heaven correcting the mistakes in her destiny! No wonder there is a saying in the art of magic that "calamity can be calculated but cannot be avoided"!
I took a deep breath and said, "Whether they live or die is another matter. You should find a way to bring back Xu Shan alive after I cut off one of his arms."
Chang Xian nodded and said, "Okay, even if he's dead, I'll drag him back to the world of the living. Go find someone for me!"
After the poisonous snakes that had been surrounding us swam into the bushes, I turned around and walked up the hillside. Lu Xiaoying, who looked pale, sat on the hillside and looked at me calmly: "You win."
"No." I shook my head. "Xie Jingwen won. You just calculated his way out, right? Did you know that he would leave you behind and escape alone?"
Lu Xiaoying smiled faintly and said, "So what if I know? As long as he can escape, I'm glad. I'm sorry for causing you so much trouble."
I have to say that Lu Xiaoying is very special. No matter who it is, if they are ruthlessly abandoned by the person they risked their lives to save, they will not appear so indifferent. At that time, Lu Xiaoying would not tell me her thoughts, and my curiosity could only be curiosity.
I stared at Lu Xiaoying's calm expression for a long time before I said, "Go now. I hope we'll meet again."
Lu Xiaoying's expression remained calm: "Then we'll see each other later."
I couldn't help but have an extremely absurd thought in my mind - did Lu Xiaoying know that I would let her go? She could even figure this out
I felt that she was pretending to be calm, but I couldn't find the slightest change in her expression.
Just as Lu Xiaoying stood up, my grandfather's voice came from the ghost money: "Leave her here and interrogate the Heaven-Defying Hand!"
I said in a deep voice: "But I have promised to let her go."
My grandfather was so angry that he yelled, "You bastard! You are an idiot! What can you get if you let her go? Keep her here! Do you hear me?"
Lu Xiaoying frowned: "Senior, have you forgotten the agreement with the gods and ghosts?"
My grandfather roared, "I don't care about any agreement between gods and ghosts! Wu Zhao, leave her to me! If you don't listen to me, don't recognize me as your grandfather!"
I said in a deep voice, "Leaving her here now and snatching the Heaven-Defying Hand, what's the difference between us and wolves, tigers and leopards?"
"You idiot!" my grandfather scolded, "When you are in the underworld, you must have the heart of a tiger or a wolf. If you want to be gentle and kind to women, you might as well go home and hug your children."
I said in a deep voice: "You mean the heart of a tiger or a wolf?"
"Right!" the other party said sternly, "When you are in the martial arts world, if you are not a tiger or a wolf, you will become a pig or a sheep. If you can't even figure this out, you don't deserve to be a descendant of the Wu family!"
I raised my hand and took out the ghost coin and threw it on the ground: "You are not my grandfather! Who are you?"
The voice was stunned for a moment before roaring: "Bullshit! Who else could I be if I'm not your grandfather? I raised you from childhood, but now you don't even recognize me, you..."
I pulled out my Rakshasa before he could finish his curse, and put the tip of the knife against Qian'er's eyes: "I'll ask you one last time, who are you? If you still won't tell me, then there's no need to tell me!"
The voice seemed to be trembling with anger: "I am your grandfather!"
I said calmly, "My grandfather taught me that people should have the courage of tigers and wolves, but not the heart of tigers and wolves. I mentioned 'tigers and wolves' deliberately just to see if you know what my grandfather said."
The man roared: "This time is different from that time..."
I suddenly pressed the handle of the knife: "Don't mention now or then. My grandfather's words are as good as gold, and he will never change his words. Ever since you made the bet with me, I have suspected that you are not my grandfather."
"If my grandfather wanted me to be a tyrant who only cared about profit and not about affection, why did he keep teaching me about loyalty? Doesn't he know that once loyalty is deeply rooted in people's hearts, it will be extremely difficult to make them ruthless?"
The man argued: "Your character is brought over from your previous life. No matter how I teach you, can you change it?"
My voice gradually turned cold: "You don't have to argue. If you don't want to tell me, then die!"
As I held the handle of the knife and slowly stabbed at the ghost money, the man shouted at the top of his lungs: "If you kill me, the ghost money will be destroyed. Don't you want the Wu family inheritance?"
I hesitated for a moment, and then I heard Lu Xiaoying say, "If the ghost money is broken, it can be remade. The Wu family has more than just these three ghost coins."
"Bullshit!" the man said sternly, "Wu Zhao, don't listen to her. You want the Heaven-Defying Hand, and she wants the Ghost Eye Money just as much. She's trying to make you waste your own power!"
Lu Xiaoying sneered: "You don't even know the covenant between gods and ghosts, and you are still talking about the heir of the Wu family? Look at what this is."
As Lu Xiaoying spoke, she took out three ghost eye coins tied together with a red string. Judging from the appearance and aura, the ghost coins in her hand were even better, but the only difference was that there was no fluctuation of soul power in her ghost eye coins.
I said in a deep voice: "The ghost money is already there, you can die now."
"Don't kill me!" The man finally panicked, "If you kill me, you will be betraying your master and ancestors."
I held the hilt of the knife and said, "You have one last chance to make me trust you. My patience is limited."
The man said quickly: "I am also from the Wu family. If you think about it carefully, your grandfather should call me uncle. The ghost eye money must be occupied by a strong ghost, otherwise, it will not achieve the desired effect."
"But if the ghosts in the ghost money are not willing to be driven by others, they will definitely cause trouble for the Wu family sorcerers at the critical moment. At least ten people in the Wu family died under the calculation of the ghost money. Therefore, it is safest to use the souls of the Wu family's own people to reside in the ghost money."
"After the Wu family members died, they either entered the ghost money, or were sealed by their descendants, waiting to enter the ghost money. I am the last ghost sealed by the Wu family."
"At first, your grandfather wanted to join Ghost Money himself, but he was unwilling to give up and still planned to change his fate. After hesitating for a long time, he found me and the fourth brother."
"We two actually don't want to enter the ghost money. We want to reincarnate and get rid of the bad luck of the Wu family forever. But your grandfather said that he predicted that you will get the Heaven-Defying Hand in the future. Only when the Heaven-Defying Hand and the Ghost Eye Money work together can the Wu family curse be removed from us, and we will never be involved in magic in our next life."
"I didn't believe what your grandfather said, so he made a bet with us. He said he wanted to bet whether you would listen to him and chop off his head. If you did, he would get the money; if you didn't, we would get the money. In the end, he won."
I couldn't help but frowned. "So, the person who made arrangements for his final resting place in the secret room was indeed my grandfather?"
"Yes!" the man said, "You are a sorcerer. Can't you tell whether the person you are talking to is a resurrected spirit?"
No wonder my grandfather said, "Maybe we will meet again."
I thought he was saying that his soul hidden in the ghost money would come out one day, but I didn't expect he meant something else. Was my grandfather trying to postpone his own life
Probably. That person said, my grandfather was unwilling to give in to fate, but the only thing he could gamble on was to extend his life. Extending life is actually going against the will of heaven, but the price is relatively lighter.
If he wants to prolong his life, his soul and body cannot be separated. Only when the soul and body are united can his life be prolonged. Otherwise, the sorcerer can only live in the form of neither human nor ghost.
But my grandfather told me to get the Heaven-Defying Hand by any means necessary. What’s going on
At that time, my grandfather must not have finished his words. He should also know about the agreement between the gods and ghosts. He deliberately didn't say it because he was worried about the two souls in the ghost money. Those two souls wanted to fight against the heavens, and once they found the heir of the divine vein, they would force me to take action, and I would definitely find out that they were not my grandfather.
My grandfather did this because he was afraid that the two ghosts would join forces to deceive me, and he wanted me to discover the mystery as soon as possible so that there would be no future trouble.
Maybe even my grandfather didn't expect that I would discover the weirdness in the Ghost Eye Money so early
I held the long knife in my hand and slowly pressed it towards the hole of the coin and said, "You just said that you two ghosts. Then the soul in the other ghost coin is not my father?"
"No!" said the ghost, "Your second uncle's soul entered the ghost eye money because he had a lot of resentment and his soul was strong, so he was able to enter. Your father sacrificed himself voluntarily and was full of hope before he died. His soul lacked a sense of hostility and was not strong enough, so he failed when he entered the ghost money..."
I snapped, "What happened to my dad?"
The ghost whispered, "I don't know. Your grandfather and your second uncle haven't told me. If his soul wasn't seriously injured, he might be reincarnated. Of course, he might also die on the spot."
Although I didn't have much impression of my father, but once again hearing that he was willing to die for me, my heart was in agony, and the knife in my hand unconsciously sank into the ghost money. The ghost screamed: "Don't kill me! Don't! I am your ancestor, if you kill me..."
After the Rakshasa in my hand cut the ghost eye money into two halves, it stabbed into the ground for a few inches before stopping. When the dark green ghosts sprayed out from both sides of the broken ghost money, I threw the second ghost eye coin on the ground and chopped it down with a knife without waiting for the ghost inside to make a sound. As expected, the ghost in the coin was shattered.
I put away the knife and stood up, looking at Lu Xiaoying: "Sorry, I just took advantage of you, please leave!"
Lu Xiaoying handed over the three ghost coins in his hand: "It seems that you don't know about the agreement between gods and ghosts. I give you these three ghost coins to make it even between us. When we meet next time, I will tell you about the agreement between gods and ghosts."
Before I could reach out my hand, the old lady Dong who had disappeared a long time ago appeared silently not far from me: "I'm afraid you won't have the chance to see each other again. I just made a bet with that Wu: whoever wins in the fate calculation will be spared."
Old Lady Dong said slowly with a hint of murderous intent: "Although he won you, he destroyed his own ghost money. His fortune-telling skills were wasted, so you won. According to the agreement, he must die." (To be continued)