When Old Qian heard that I had exposed his past, he stopped being angry and started laughing. He said with a smile, "I didn't expect that the tenth generation heir of Ghost Affairs still has some brains. However, I can only answer the first question of yours. Because the Lu family is destined to not live past the age of fifty since birth. Lu Fei's parents and eldest brother all died early because of fate. You can't blame me for harming them."
"You're talking nonsense!" Hearing this, Lu Fei refused to respect his master anymore. He jumped up from the ground and angrily cursed: "You have a reason to kill someone. Do you believe that I killed you today? It's your fate?"
Seeing that his disciple was scolding him, Old Qian immediately lost his temper and pointed at Lu Fei and scolded, "How dare you talk to me like that, you little bastard. Don't forget who taught you Taoist magic. Now that you've grown wings, you dare to challenge me, right?"
Lu Fei was silent for a moment. After all, the teacher's kindness was as great as a mountain. After his parents died when he was ten years old, he was basically raised by his master because his elder brother was afraid of his sister-in-law. In his heart, he always regarded him as a father.
I sneered and said, "You taught Lu Fei magic, but who knows what your intentions were? You killed his whole family, do you think he should thank you?"
These words reignited the flames of hatred in Lu Fei's heart. He bared his teeth and said to Old Qian, "Tell me, why did you want to harm my parents and my eldest brother?"
"To protect the Shijiazi Temple!" Old Qian said calmly, without any guilt on his face.
"What does this have to do with my parents?"
Old Qian's expression suddenly eased, his eyes softened, and he sighed, "This is a secret. Whoever knows it will be punished by heaven, and the disaster will spread to nine generations. Your grandfather called me from Guangdong because he knew this secret, and I never dared to go back. And your family is destined to not live past the age of fifty. I taught you magic and forced you to leave your hometown, hoping that you would break this destiny. Who knew that you still couldn't escape this disaster and abused the Nine-Character Mantra in the Haunted Tower Yinshan. You are destined to live no more than forty-five years old."
We looked at each other. What secret could bring about the punishment of heaven and bring disaster to nine generations? We couldn't verify whether what he said was true or not, but what happened to Lu Fei was true. I had also heard that people would be punished for abusing the Nine-Character Mantra.
Seeing that we were silent, Old Qian seemed to believe him, and looked at me and said, "It is said that the Xi family ghost master also knew this secret, and he was punished by heaven. According to him, nine generations after him all died at around fifty years old. That was because your Xi family helped the ghosts to accumulate merit, so heaven gave them a few more years of life. If you don't believe me, you can count the generations of your family and see if there is anyone who lived past sixty?"
Hearing him say that, I couldn't help but take a deep breath. It was really true. As far as I know, several generations of our Xi family died in their fifties. Let's not talk about the distant past. Let's talk about my grandfather and father. Grandpa was injured in Xiangxi and died at the age of fifty-five. And my father lived to the age of fifty-six. Before he died, he said that he had checked in the underworld and his life span had come to an end. It seems that he had known the fate of the Xi family to be short-lived.
I always thought that the death of my father and grandfather was related to the abnormal life of the descendants of ghosts. It turned out that the root of the evil was buried in my great grandfather.
However, if you count it, I am the tenth generation, and I should have gotten over the curse that lasts for nine generations.
But, Lao Qian knew this secret, and he looked to be at least 60 years old, so how come he was not dead yet? I asked him this question right away.
The old man said gloomily, "Because of Liu Lingnu."
"Liu Lingnu?" We both spoke at the same time. What does this have to do with Liu Lingnu
The old fellow said, "You don't need to know so much. Just wait to arrange the funeral!" After that, he didn't ask me for the wooden man, turned around and walked out of the Lu family's gate.