Ji Jiang went back to the tomb after she finished speaking. She was able to leave the tomb because she was resurrected. As the center of the formation, Wei Xuan could not leave the tomb, so if she wanted to go to Bijia Mountain, she had to move the entire Thirty-Six Passes to it.
Wei Xuan stood at the entrance of the tomb and waved to them. His little face was full of sweet smiles, and the tomb door slowly fell down.
Kou Xuanling put her hand on Chen Yang's shoulder and said, "From 3,000-year-old elders to children and voodoo dolls, everyone likes you. You are extremely popular."
Chen Yang glanced at Kou Xuanling, then turned his gaze to Lu Xiuzhi. Lu Xiuzhi seemed to inadvertently pull down Kou Xuanling's hand on his shoulder, and Chen Yang smiled silently a few times.
The three of them left the tomb door and found that it was built on the top of the mountain. They thought it was a flat tomb, but it was actually shaky and slanted. When they got down to the middle of the mountain, they found many lights in the mountain. When they got closer, they found that they were the Kou family and the townspeople.
The Kou family found that the three people were missing, and they guessed that Kou Xuanling, the one who slipped through the net, had sneaked into Tiewei Mountain with the other two. When Kou's father saw Kou Xuanling, he was happy at first, but then his face suddenly darkened: "Go home. Inform the others that the person has been found, and go back to rest."
In front of so many people, Kou's father didn't show any displeasure to Kou Xuanling. As soon as he got home and the door was closed, Kou Xuanling was twisted by the ear and scolded: "Kou Xuanling, what are you capable of? You dare to break into the ancient tomb that your uncle and I dare not go to?"
Kou Xuanling felt seven points of pain, and deliberately twisted his face to pretend that it was very painful. He also took the time to wink at Lu Xiuzhi, telling him not to worry and not to come up. He can dance by himself! Kou Xuanling cried, "Dad, Dad, don't twist so hard... How did you learn this from Mom?"
Father Kou frowned and said, "Because I found that beating you up doesn't work, I might as well learn from your mother and break your ears. Then you will listen to everything I say from now on."
Uncle Kou: "After you twist your ears, it's my turn to beat you up."
"No, no—" Kou Xuanling made jokes and begged for mercy for a long time, and coaxed Kou's father and the elders of the Kou family. After he finally coaxed them into not being so excited, he told them what happened in the ancient tomb, and finally let them turn the page for the time being.
As soon as Kou's father loosened his grip, Lu Xiuzhi pulled Kou Xuanling over and gently rubbed his ears. Kou's father sighed, "He still has a pure heart. His experience is pitiful, but it was right not to bring the flying zombie out. Fortunately, you didn't get carried away."
Kou Xuanling asked: "Is there really no way to bring Wei Xuan out of the ancient tomb?"
Father Kou hesitated and said, "It's not that there is no weapon, it's just that it's troublesome. Zombies are as strong as iron walls and iron walls, especially when they reach the flying zombie level, ordinary magic weapons cannot hurt them. But if someone has ulterior motives, they can use the peach trees next to the thousand-year-old Taoist temples to make peach wood cones, which can also pierce the heart and draw the blood from the heart." Peach wood can drive away evil spirits, and the thousand-year-old peach tree is even more spiritual, so the effect of driving away evil spirits is better.
Chen Yang suddenly asked: "What is that method?"
Father Kou shook his head: "It's very troublesome."
Chen Yang: "Tell me."
Hearing this, Kou's father's face became serious. "Do you want to take the flying zombie out of the ancient tomb? Now I'm a little suspicious that the flying zombie deceived you with the appearance of a child. After all, she is a child in appearance, but a monster that has lived for more than 2,000 years. She has been eager to leave the tomb for more than 2,000 years, so it's okay to deceive you who are not experienced in the world."
Chen Yang shook his head, and after thinking for a moment, he said: "For now, I am still quite determined and will not take Wei Xuan out of the ancient tomb. I know the danger of taking her out of the ancient tomb, and I know that I cannot bear this responsibility. It's just-" Ji Jiang's words made him hesitate and waver. He realized that if he knew some of the truth that Ji Jiang said, he might really take Wei Xuan out of the ancient tomb.
If she could bring Wei Xuan out of the ancient tomb, it would be her responsibility.
Father Kou shook his head: "Then I can't tell you. Your attitude tells me that you are hesitating." He was very persistent, because compared to the sympathetic Wei Xuan, her danger and the lives of other ordinary people were more important, enough to obliterate his sympathy.
Chen Yang understood and did not ask any more questions. If he insisted on taking Wei Xuan out of the ancient tomb, he would eventually find out what he wanted to know.
Father Kou looked at his son again and found that Lu Xiuzhi was snuggling very close to his son, and he was rubbing his ears and comforting him softly. His son seemed to be spoiled and complained. The atmosphere between the two was a little too intimate. Father Kou pulled Uncle Kou and asked in confusion: "Are there really no problems between the two of them?"
Uncle Kou waved his hand and said, "No problem." Then he looked at Father Kou with disdain, and said, "A lewd man will be lewd to the hilt."
Father Kou suddenly wanted to kill his brother, but Uncle Kou suddenly pinched his ear and said, "You were pinched by your mother before, and later by your wife. I was the one who comforted you when you were wronged. Brother, you need to refine your dirty thoughts and become as pure as me."
Father Kou pried open Uncle Kou's hands with a very cold expression.
Chen Yang returned to his room and sat there for a long time. He had never known that Grandpa Wu was actually the City God, the City God of Pingcheng, not far from the imperial capital. After Grandpa Wu passed away, the two still had exchanges. Some situations were understood. Grandpa Wu sometimes appeared in his dreams, mostly with words of concern, but he didn't say too much about himself.
Sometimes when Chen Yang asked, he would always change the subject. After a while, Chen Yang stopped asking. At this time, he thought about Ji Jiang's words, so he sent a message to Du Shuo to ask the name of the Pingcheng City God. When Du Shuo saw the message, he had a rough guess in his mind and told him frankly: "Wu Kui."
It was indeed Grandpa Wu. Chen Yang simply asked: [Why didn’t you tell me before?]
Du Shuo asked him: [What happened?]
Chen Yang told Du Shuo about his encounter with Wei Xuan and Ji Jiang in the ancient tomb, but Du Shuo didn't reply for a long time. Chen Yang typed a line of words and was about to send it out, when he suddenly looked up as if he had something in his heart, and saw Du Shuo pushing the door in. He stood up and walked over to hug Du Shuo's waist, burying his face in his arms without saying a word, as if he had been wronged outside and couldn't help wanting to rely on the person closest to him when he came back.
Du Shuo actually enjoyed Chen Yang's dependence on him. He hugged him tightly, pinched his neck, smoothed his hair, patted his back, and then picked up Chen Yang like a child and sat down. The atmosphere was quiet and warm. After a long time, Du Shuo broke the silence: "If it is Wei Xuan, it may have solved a doubt of mine."
Chen Yang looked up: "Hmm? What's your doubt?"
Du Shuo kissed Chen Yang on the cheek, and then said in a cold voice: "Pingcheng City God will come soon."
The lights in the room flickered a few times, then suddenly went out, and then suddenly lit up again in the blink of an eye. Chen Yang blinked and saw Grandpa Wu in an old man's Zhongshan suit.
When Wu Kui died, he was over 70 years old. He had a head full of white hair and a flowing beard. He could pretend to be a hermit and go out to cheat people by wearing a Zhongshan suit and not talking. He had a beautiful beard, but he was actually very impatient to take care of it. In the summer, he often shouted that he wanted to shave it off. But he still didn't shave it off, saying that it was easier to cheat people with a beard. He often said that what he did was to cheat people.
Chen Yang left Du Shuo's embrace, stood up, and felt his nose sore. He was at a loss, looking at Wu Kui eagerly: "Grandpa Wu..."
Wu Kui immediately showed a distressed look, opened his arms and hugged Chen Yang, and cried out: "Yangyang, I miss grandpa so much. Hey? You've become fatter and taller. Your face has grown and is so handsome. I said that Yangyang will definitely be that... beautiful boy when he grows up!"
Du Shuo tapped the table with his index finger, making a light "knock knock" sound. Wu Kui glanced at Du Shuo, coughed twice, let go of Chen Yang, and said respectfully, "Pingcheng City God Wu Kui, I greet the emperor."
Du Shuo stretched out his hand, opened his palm and looked at Chen Yang. Chen Yang obediently put his hand into his palm and was led to sit beside him. Du Shuo nodded to Wu Kui and said, "Sit down." Then he whispered in Chen Yang's ear, "Ask."
Chen Yang came back to his senses and told Wu Kui about the ancient tomb of Wei Xuan and Ji Jiang. Wu Kui was not too shocked, as if it was not unexpected: "I knew that one day you would come to ask me about this matter, and I also knew that one day you would meet Wei Xuan. This is the inevitable trajectory of fate, and it is also the cause and effect between you and Wei Xuan."
Chen Yang was puzzled: "What's going on? Wei Xuan said she knew me a long time ago."
Wu Kui said, "Ji Jiang told you that Wei Xuan has a special fate. It takes someone with the same strange fate to bring her out of the ancient tomb." Chen Yang nodded, and Wu Kui continued, "You have a very yin fate, which attracts things with heavy yin energy. Wei Xuan is actually very painful as the center of the Thirty-Six Stages of Evil. Because the Thirty-Six Stages of Evil have caused countless killings, all the sins of killing have been fed back to Wei Xuan. She has to suffer the pain of the feedback of the sins every night. That kind of pain is like being roasted on fire. And you can make her feel cool and not be roasted by the fire."
Chen Yang was stunned. He couldn't imagine that Wei Xuan's small body could endure such terrible torment. It was like being in hell. Unfortunately, the Thirty-Six Stages of Evil could not be broken until now. The sin of death due to the Thirty-Six Stages of Evil was all counted on Wei Xuan, who was the core of the formation. Therefore, she had to endure the pain like being roasted by a raging fire, and she would endure it endlessly.
Chen Yang's heart seemed to be tightly grasped, and he almost suffocated.
In fact, Wei Xuan was the most innocent. She did nothing wrong. She was imprisoned in an ancient tomb for more than 2,000 years by a selfish person for revenge. The person who killed her was her biological father, and she had to bear all the sins that did not belong to her.
No wonder Ji Jiang was beheaded as a princess, but was willing to be imprisoned in the ancient tomb for more than 2,000 years as a retainer of Wei Xuan. Because she also felt sorry for Wei Xuan and hoped that he could leave the ancient tomb. When she was deceived by Wu Lingjiu, she might not have been unable to see that Wu Lingjiu had ulterior motives, but compared with Wei Xuan being able to leave the ancient tomb and return to the world of the living, it seemed insignificant.
Wu Kui said, "I once accidentally fell into an ancient tomb. There was a door inside that could be opened from the inside at a certain time. At that time, Wei Xuan opened the door and stood at the door looking at the moon. I saw her identity and was very afraid, but she did not hurt me."
Wu Kui was still young at that time, a half-baked man, and his witchcraft was far less powerful than it was later. He was timid and fearful. After observing for a while, he found that Wei Xuan had no intention of harming him, so he tried to crawl out secretly, but he was a step too late, and the tomb door was closed. Wu Kui collapsed and cried on the spot. Wei Xuan stopped and looked at Wu Kui curiously.
She asked, “Are you crying?”
Wu Kui complained desperately, and lost his temper. Wei Xuan looked at him quietly, her eyes were particularly beautiful. She took Wu Kui into the tomb and did not let him leave the back room: "It is safe here. The tomb door will be opened next month. You can go out then."
Wu Kui had been with Wei Xuan for a month, and he knew everything he should and shouldn't know. He also felt sorry for Wei Xuan, and when Wei Xuan was weak and in pain, he hugged her and broke down crying. Little Wei Xuan comforted him in return, saying that she was actually used to it and was not afraid of pain.
Ji Jiang was not as open-minded as Wei Xuan. She would use everything she could, including Wu Kui's kindness and his sympathy for Wei Xuan. She told Wu Kui how to take Wei Xuan out of the tomb and how to prevent him from suffering this pain. Wu Kui was determined to help Wei Xuan, and Wei Xuan was very happy when he found out that he was a descendant of the Wu clan, and seriously speaking, he was also her descendant.
So Wei Xuan taught Wu Kui the long-lost ghost magic for two or three years. In Wu Kui's mind, Wei Xuan could even be said to be his master. It was just that Wei Xuan didn't recognize him.
"Ji Jiang has been looking for someone with extreme yin. She knew it when you were born. She would visit you every year and tell Wei Xuan about you. You are Wei Xuan's hope, so she would unconsciously have a good impression of you. She watched you grow up slowly and become the person she longed for. She increasingly didn't want you to bear such a big trouble for her... In fact, the reason you were able to grow up safely was partly because of your relatives, and partly because of the evil-suppressing magic weapon that Wei Xuan asked Ji Jiang to bring you every year."
Chen Yang recalled that when he was a child, his parents would change his magic weapon every year to protect him from evil spirits and to help him grow up safely. His throat was a little hoarse: "Those... were all given by Wei Xuan?"
Du Shuo hugged Chen Yang and comforted him silently.
Wu Kui nodded, "Yes. Those devices were originally very good magic tools to suppress evil, but they have been placed in the ancient tomb for many years and have been corroded by the Yin energy, and their magic power has lost its effect. Therefore, they can only be replaced every year, and even so, they still cannot completely protect you."
"It's...very good." Chen Yang's nose felt a little sour and his eyes were a little hot.
"After Wei Xuan sent me out of the ancient tomb and didn't allow me to go back, I wandered around, saving people and curing illnesses. It was a coincidence that I met you. Maybe I'm too soft-hearted because I'm old. I hesitated for a while whether to ask you to bring Wei Xuan out. If you bring her out, she will be your responsibility, but at the same time she can protect you. I can also rest assured. Later, when I met Ji Jiang, I knew that you two had a cause and effect." Wu Kui reached out and touched Chen Yang's shoulder, looking at Du Shuo. The latter lowered his eyes and acquiesced. Wu Kui then patted Chen Yang's shoulder with relief: "Yangyang, don't be too sad, and don't feel guilty about it. This is the cause and effect between you two."
Chen Yang raised his eyes: "You didn't tell me for so many years that you were the City God of Pingcheng. Are you afraid that I would go to Pingcheng? How did I become a ghost relative of the Emperor of Fengdu? You are not allowed to speak first." He warned Du Shuo in advance, telling him not to speak and not to explain.
Du Shuo opened his mouth and then closed it awkwardly.
Wu Kui stroked his beard faster and faster, obviously very happy. He said: "When I was going to marry you in the underworld, I wanted to find you a big backer. Who in the underworld is bigger than the Emperor of Fengdu?"
"Don't lie to me!" Chen Yang glared at Wu Kui, thinking that Wu Grandpa was no longer reliable. He turned to Du Shuo and said, "You tell me." He didn't believe that the great Emperor Fengdu would care about this little Yin marriage. If he didn't want to get married, who could force him? Not only could they not force him, but they might also make him furious. When they first got engaged, Du Shuo didn't necessarily like him.
Du Shuo touched his nose, then withdrew his hand under Chen Yang's cold eyes and said, "At that time, I was curious about your Extreme Yin Fate. Seven hundred years ago, Wu Lingjiu turned 100,000 people into zombies... Although he failed, 100,000 wronged souls refused to enter the underworld to reincarnate, and even the Bodhisattva Ksitigarbha did not help. This incident alarmed the entire underworld Fengdu, and people with Extreme Yin Fate were redefined. At that time, the underworld tried its best to prevent people with Extreme Yin Fate from growing up, but unfortunately it could not prevent the way of heaven."
He paused and said, "Later, I saw zombie blood on your chest."
What Du Shuo didn't say was that when he first saw Chen Yang, he wanted to kill him directly. The time of reincarnation is determined by heaven, and even he cannot change it. Therefore, people born with the Extreme Yin Fate will most likely be killed and then arranged to reincarnate to avoid causing harm to the world. To put it bluntly, people with the Extreme Yin Fate will not survive adulthood anyway.
But he saw that there was zombie blood on Chen Yang's chest, and that zombie blood was absorbing the Yin Qi from his body to protect him. Out of curiosity, Du Shuo did not take action. A thought made him fall in the end.
Chen Yang's face changed: "Zombie blood?"
Wu Kui stroked his beard more frequently. He would stroke his beard when he felt guilty or happy. His mood changes were all reflected in the frequency of stroking his beard. Chen Yang had been with him for several years, so he naturally knew: "Grandpa Wu, tell me quickly!"
"Oh! Just, just as you think." Wu Kui turned his back and dared not look at Chen Yang, feeling guilty. "Otherwise, how could you have held on until the time when you could have a Yin marriage with the Great Emperor? For people with a Yin destiny, as they grow older, their Yin energy does not decrease but increases. You don't know how thick the Yin energy on you was at that time. When I looked over, I couldn't see your figure at all. The area within three meters around you was full of thick fog-like Yin energy, and this Yin energy was spreading, pushing and pushing with the ripples of the sea, attracting all the fierce and evil ghosts. Zombie blood is extremely Yin and poisonous, and zombies are outside the six paths, so evil ghosts are afraid of them. If you bury zombie blood in your heart, those things will be afraid. Even if the more powerful evil ghosts see through the disguise, they will be a little afraid."
The witch leader kept talking: "You don't know, zombie blood is really useful. Wei Xuan is a genius. She can even invent new witchcraft, take out the blood from the heart and put it into your heart without hurting you..."
Chen Yang interrupted him: "Will it cause great harm to Wei Xuan?"
"Not big. No harm, really." Wu Kui quietly turned his head to look at Chen Yang, who was staring at him quietly, like a teenager of fourteen or fifteen who was harassed by evil spirits and lost his loved ones. His eyes were stubborn, firm, optimistic and full of hope.
Wu Kui was sad but also relieved that Chen Yang survived, was healthy and happy, had family, lover and friends, just like every ordinary person. He sighed and said softly: "The most painful thing is when the blood from my heart is taken out."
After Wu Kui died, he was granted the title of City God because of his outstanding merits during his lifetime. He applied for transfer to Pingcheng. Protecting the city and the people, eliminating evil and evil, monitoring the people's sentiments, and judging life and death are the duties and powers of the City God. However, he couldn't even let Wei Xuan walk out of the ancient tomb.
Chen Yang was stunned, holding his chest and asked: "Are you still there?"
Wu Kui knew what he was asking, so he didn't answer. Instead, he looked at Du Shuo. Du Shuo said, "He's gone."
"Why?"
Du Shuo: "Zombie blood is extremely poisonous and sinister. If you keep it for too long, you will turn into a zombie too. So I took it out," and then put his own heart blood in it. The heart blood of the god is enough to ensure that Chen Yang will never be coveted by evil spirits.
Chen Yang was silent.
Du Shuo and Wu Kui considerately kept quiet, allowing Chen Yang to sort out his thoughts in silence.
To Chen Yang, Wei Xuan was a little girl whom he had just met and who made him feel sorry for her. But he found out that they were not just acquainted, and the cause and effect between them was so deep. So deep that he had to bear the responsibility and repay the cause and effect.
After a long while, Chen Yang asked, "I want to take Wei Xuan out of the ancient tomb."
Since it was his karma, he must pay for it.
Du Shuo smiled gently, "The danger of Wei Xuan lies in her zombie blood. Just draw out her zombie blood and replace it with normal blood. It won't hurt, but it will reduce her magic power, and it needs to be replaced every six months."
There is no blood in zombies' blood vessels. All zombies' blood is stored in their hearts, so zombies' blood is heart blood.
Chen Yang grabbed Du Shuo's sleeve and whispered with gratitude: "Thank you."
Du Shuo pinched the back of Chen Yang's neck, his eyes gentle.
Wu Kui left quietly, and when Chen Yang didn't know, he said to Du Shuo: "I thought you wouldn't agree."
Du Shuo put his hands behind his back, looked at the night sky and said: "She saved Yangyang, and I am grateful to her. Besides, if she doesn't repay her, the karma between the two of them will never be eliminated."
Wu Kui looked a little strange. He had always thought that in the relationship between Du Shuo and Chen Yang, Du Shuo was the dominant one and Chen Yang also relied on him. Du Shuo saw his thoughts and said, "Yang Yang relies on me, but never depends on me."
Wu Kui smiled silently, bowed to him, and left in stealth.
The next day, Chen Yang explained the matter to the Kou family. After all, the Kou family had been guarding the ancient tomb for many years, so they should be informed of this matter. The elders of the Kou family sighed after hearing this, especially after hearing that the hidden danger of zombie blood could be solved, their sympathy was overflowing, and they completely lost their opposition in the early morning. Uncle Kou cried so hard that he couldn't speak, and hugged his brothers for comfort.
The brothers endured it and let Uncle Kou rub his snot and tears on their clothes. Seeing that he was more sensitive than a little girl, they threatened him: "I'll call your sister-in-law over!" Uncle Kou was so scared that he hiccuped and tried to pretend that he was not crying.
There were four people when they entered the tomb, Chen Yang and Du Shuo, Kou Xuanling and Lu Xiuzhi. Du Shuo and Lu Xiuzhi nodded when they met, and their attitudes were originally very cold. But Du Shuo saw that Lu Xiuzhi pretended to be weak to deceive the straight man Kou, and Lu Xiuzhi saw that Du Shuo occasionally showed fatigue and attracted Chen Yang's concern, but he turned around and became energetic, so they felt a little sympathy for each other and had more exchanges.
When Wei Xuan saw Chen Yang, his eyes lit up and he was obviously very happy. He was very timid when he saw Du Shuo, and became a little unhappy after knowing his and Chen Yang's identities: "If I had saved Chen Xiaoyang earlier, Chen Xiaoyang wouldn't have to suffer."
Chen Yang smiled and said, "I haven't been wronged."
Wei Xuan: “Really?”
"Yeah." Chen Yang nodded.
"Okay." Wei Xuan took Chen Yang's hand and wanted to give him the treasure again: "Jiang said that there is a need for currency outside. I can give you a lot of gold and silver treasures."
"No need." Chen Yang held Wei Xuan and told her about exchanging zombie blood and asked her if she was willing.
Wei Xuan asked doubtfully and gently: "Can I go out?"
Chen Yang nodded heavily: "Yes. Wei Xuan can leave the ancient tomb, go outside, see more people, play many games, and eat many delicious foods."
Wei Xuan shook her head: "It's good to be able to go out." She hugged Chen Yang's arm: "It's also good to see Chen Xiaoyang."
She has always had very little, and even if she wanted something, she wouldn't know what to want, because she has no idea what is out there, and it's rare for her to get something she wants, so she's satisfied when she gets it.
Who wouldn't love such a well-behaved child
The author has something to say: I feel like I am no longer pure. When I wrote this line, "Who in the underworld is greater than the King of Fengdu?", I couldn't stop laughing! How could I be like this?!
The next chapter - "Purple Placenta", in the next chapter, Wei Xuan changes blood and leaves the ancient tomb.