The Husky and His White Cat Shizun - Chap 237
Unlike when he was in the Peach Blossom Spring, this time he was no longer involved. He was just a bystander, and no one in the memory could see him. He walked to the cavalrymen, lowered his head, and looked at the young man who was crying while touching the corpse.
A blue vein in his skull kept twitching and throbbing.
He felt a chill down his spine, and goosebumps rose all over his body.
Seeing this scene again, he knew very well what kind of role the young man played in the end in Lin ‘an. He betrayed Chu Xun, the young master of the prefecture. In order to bring his adoptive father back to life, he did not hesitate to sacrifice the lives of the entire city.
“Young Man, the dead can’t be brought back to life. Don’t be too sad. We can’t stay here for long. Let’s go back quickly.”
“No … No … I’m not going anywhere. I want my father … He, he went to find food for me, so he died. I’m sorry for him. Dad! Dad! ”
Mo Ran stared at the young man.
Who was this person?
Was he Huaizui’s father? Or …
His eyes fell on Young Man’s left hand. There was a black mole the size of a grain of rice between the thumb and index finger of her left hand.
He suddenly thought of Master Huaizui’s hand. It was also in the same position. There was also a mole in the exact same place.
Mo Ran was shocked.
At this time, the distant voice slowly sounded again.
“I was born in Lin ‘an when I was young. I had no parents and was adopted by a groom in the prefecture. When I was fourteen years old, the Ghost World cracked, and Lin ‘an suffered. There was no rice or food at home. I was hungry, so my adoptive father took the risk to go out of the city to find food for me. He didn’t come back in the evening. ”
He was frightened.
Huaizui, was he really the Young Man from two hundred years ago?!
Huaizui said softly, “When I went out of the city and found him, he had been killed by evil spirits. His intestines were overflowing, and his eyes were pecked out by crows. I will never forget that scene for the rest of my life. ”
Mo Ran’s ears were buzzing. He followed Young Man into the city. At that time, Lin ‘an was cracked, and the Ghost King threatened everyone to hand over Chu Xun. He had seen all these things once before, but when he saw them again, he still felt that they were miserable and desolate, and that people’s hearts were sinister.
He saw that on the night of the incident, Young Man begged everyone not to kill her foster father. She begged the housekeeper to let her wait for Chu Xun to come back and see if she could leave her father’s body intact.
“I beg you, just wait a little longer. The young master will be back soon. I’ll definitely keep an eye on his corpse. If he rises, I’ll definitely stop him. I beg you ….”
“You won’t be able to stop him if he revives. You need to know what’s more important!”
“No! Don’t tear him apart, please don’t tear him apart … ”
In the torrential rain, Young Man kept kneeling and kowtowing. Her head and face were covered with blood, but she still couldn’t stop it. Her father’s body was violently pulled out of her arms and dragged out of the government office by the steward of the government office. They surrounded the body, which could change at any time.
Young Man’s sight was blocked. After a while, she saw the blood flowing out from under the feet of the crowd, which was instantly washed into a light pink by the heavy rain.
“I was selfish at that time. I only felt disheartened and full of resentment toward everyone, so I betrayed Lin ‘an and recommended myself to be the Ghost King’s subordinate. I wanted to revenge on them.”
As he narrated, Mo Ran once again saw the scene that had once shaken him to the core.
The mother ate the child’s intestines.
The townspeople betrayed their hero.
Chu Xun knelt on the stone steps in front of the City God Temple, bent into the mud, and cried silently.
He saw the mob escorting Chu Xun to the temple. Like vultures eating rotten meat, they surrounded him in a mass. In order to prolong their lives, they didn’t hesitate to sacrifice Chu Xun’s life.
He saw Chu Xun take out his heart and spiritual nucleus together and hand them to the scattered people who were crying for him. He told them to leave here as soon as possible and not to stay any longer …
Young Man also saw all of this.
“Later, I went to the Ghost Realm. Many times when I was alone, I would think of Childe Chu’s miserable situation at that time, think of his heart, and think of how he used to … treat us well. Every time I think of this, I feel uneasy, and I can’t escape the condemnation in my heart. ”
Huaizui paused.
His voice became extremely pained.
“I am a traitor.”
Mo Ran couldn’t tell what he felt in his heart.
Sometimes, good and evil were just a matter of a thought. Some people actually regretted it the moment the knife was stabbed, but so what?
There was no way to retreat.
“Not long after, I heard that Chu Xun’s soul entered the Nether World. He was a good man. Although his cultivation didn’t reach the peak and he couldn’t become an immortal, it was enough for him to enter the reincarnation cycle. He would be rich in the next life and enjoy a peaceful life. But he didn’t leave. His child and his wife were torn apart because of the catastrophe that year. He went to the Nether World and begged, willing to use his three lives of good fortune in exchange for the release of his wife and child. But in the end, it didn’t go so smoothly. ”
Mo Ran saw Huaizui running around the Ghost Realm. He was ashamed and couldn’t face Chu Xun, so he carefully avoided Chu Xun. But he tried his best to pull the ghost soldiers and ask, “What about the wife and child? What did the Nether World say in the end? Can you think of a way to piece together their souls and let them enter the reincarnation cycle? ”
“Can you think of a way? I beg you. ”
“I beg you to help Childe Chu Xun think of a way, we can discuss the price …”
A ghost soldier laughed at him, “I’ve heard of your glorious deeds. Didn’t you help the Ninth Prince and kill Chu Xun’s family? Why did you suddenly change your mind when you came to the Nether World? Are you afraid that Chu Xun will become a ghost and come to settle the score with you? ”
Mo Ran followed behind Huaizui, watching him beg and kneel to many people. Perhaps they shouldn’t be called people, but ghosts. But most of the time, the nature of people and ghosts was actually the same.
Just like what Chu Wanning said, the soul may change its character, hobby, and temperament, but its nature would never change because of the reincarnation cycle.
Huaizui asked around about the reincarnation of Chu Xun’s wife and child, and the Ninth Prince soon found out.
Lord Nine had lost one of his eyes when he fought with Chu Xun. He had long hated Chu Xun. When he heard that his subordinate Young Man secretly asked about the method of reincarnation for her former master out of guilt, he couldn’t help but be furious.
He took back the token that allowed Huaizui to freely travel to and from the Ghost Realm, ordered him to return to the human world, and took away Huaizui’s eternal life as a ghost soldier.
“Go back to the world of the living. When all the Qi of the Nether World in you dissipates, you will die. After death, you will fall into the Infernal Hell forever, and your soul will never be reincarnated. ” The Ninth Prince stared at Huaizui with the only eye that could still be used, “This is the price you pay for helping the old master.”
The darkness of the Nether World disappeared.
Mo Ran heard the patter of rain. It was spring, and the drizzle was soft, moistening the green buds.
He saw Huaizui walking in the spring rain with his hair down as a monk.
“I returned to the human world. At this time, a hundred years had passed in the human world. Although the Ghost King took away my token, the remaining Yin Qi in my body allowed me to return to the Ghost Realm at midnight, when the Yin Qi was at its strongest. However, if I stayed for too long, the consumption would be great. In fact … I am still very afraid of death, so I dare not stay in the Ghost Realm for too long. Only when I really need some clues and help, will I secretly return to the Nether World. ”
Mo Ran listened to his narration and looked at Huai Zui, who was walking alone in the bamboo forest. Plum blossoms were lying in the snow in winter, and lotus flowers were listening to the rain in summer. He walked alone, from ten thousand trees to the frosty forest.
His hemp shoes were worn out one after another.
Huaizui searched everywhere and inquired, hoping to find a little bit of record that could give the mother and son whose souls he destroyed a chance to reincarnate.
Huaizui said, “That is also a chance for me to redeem some of my sins.”
Others might not feel anything and only think that Huaizui was ridiculous, but when Mo Ran heard this, his eyes suddenly became wet.
Atonement.
Everyone who made a mistake and wanted to repent was like a fish thirsting for water, eager to atone for their sins.
He was like this, and so was Huaizui.
They were not good people. Their hands were dripping with blood, and there were broken heads at their feet.
How to atone for their sins?
Using the hands that had once killed people to put life into the Pool of Merit, could their sins be written off? He hoped that the good and evil of the human world, and the karma of good and bad, could be so simple.
But he knew that was not the case.
“I have been in the human world for almost a hundred years.” Huaizui sighed slowly, “In these hundred years, I helped when there was trouble, I saved when there was trouble. I knew that it was useless. No matter how many good deeds I accumulated, I would still go to purgatory after death and suffer all kinds of torment. But I just wanted to make myself feel better. I just thought that if Master was still in the human world, he would definitely … worry about people’s worries and make things difficult for people, right? ”
In these hundred years, many past events flowed by.
He saw Huaizui carrying a blind orphan walking in the mountains. He saw him helping in the fields. He saw Huaizui mending old clothes under a lonely lamp, but he donated all his money to repair the village that was destroyed by evil spirits.
“Master Chu has never been reincarnated. Later on, I plucked a brilliant begonia in the human world. Thinking that this was his and his wife’s favorite flower, I felt dizzy and mustered up the courage to go to the ghost world to see him once. The result was needless to say, he shut me out and told me not to come back in the future. ”
In the picture, Huaizui stood in the alley of the ghost world, his thin back.
At this time, his back was already faintly hunched.
“I didn’t dare to annoy him, so I never appeared in front of him again. But he didn’t throw away the begonia. I thought that he might still like things in the human world. He couldn’t find it in the netherworld, so I asked someone to give it to him. I hoped that his hatred for me would lessen because of this, even if it was just a little bit. ”
“Later on, I heard that Madam Chu’s soul could recover, but it would take some time. But Master Chu’s three souls and seven spirits had already been shattered. I’m afraid that he would no longer exist in heaven and earth. After hearing this news, I felt even more guilty and regretful — until one day, I got something. ”
On a moonlit spring mountain, on the Smoky Wave River.
Huaizui sat in the cabin of the boat. The sparks of the fishing fire were reflected in the river, and also reflected the object in his hand.
Mo Ran walked over to take a look. He sat down next to Huaizui. When he got closer, he realized that it was a piece of wood. The wood grew strangely. The branches of other trees had rough bark and fine lines, but this one didn’t.
It was only the size of a palm. The bark was smooth and delicate, exuding a faint luster. Even in the illusion, Mo Ran seemed to be able to feel that this piece of wood seemed to be flowing with a kind of delicate fragrance.
“Divine Wood of Yan Emperor.”
“！”
Mo Ran suddenly opened his eyes wide, looking at the piece of broken branch that was flowing with splendor in disbelief.
This is … Divine Wood of Yan Emperor?!
Legend has it that at the end of the East Sea, where no one has ever reached, the sacred tree that grew for thousands of years? Mo Ran had lived two lives and traveled the Jianghu for many years. How could he not know the legend of Divine Wood of Yan Emperor?
It could revive the dead and make flesh grow on bones.
It could be refined into a divine weapon that was more powerful than a divine weapon.
It could even help mortals to ascend, directly escape the suffering of reincarnation, and become immortals forever.
Huaizui obviously also knew about these rumors. He said softly, “The Divine Wood has a spirit. If it is refined into a spirit core, it will not only allow one to ascend, but also become an immortal. … I will no longer be cursed in purgatory. From now on, I will be free. ”
Mo Ran suddenly remembered the rumors about Huaizui.
It was said that he rejected the invitation of the Heavenly Realm and stayed in the human world forever.
Could it be that the truth was that he failed to refine Divine Wood of Yan Emperor?
“I really … really want to take this piece of Divine Wood for my own use. For a period of time, I even thought that this was the will of the heavens. The heavens took pity on me and forgave me. They didn’t want me to fall into hell and suffer, so they let this piece of Divine Wood come to my side by chance. ”
In the cabin, Huaizui stroked the piece of Divine Wood, his eyes flashing with desire and confusion. His expression was so contradictory, just like the voice that echoed in Mo Ran’s ears.
“But, I once read in an ancient book that Divine Wood of Yan Emperor is the same as Nuwa’s remains. With this piece of Divine Wood, you can create a living person.”
