185, Ghost

"Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you..."

"Xiao Chu, make a wish now. After today, you will be eight years old."

"Who?"

"Bang——"

"Xiao Chu, run quickly, go find your uncle, don't look back."

"Ah——"

The heavy shadows, the screams, the sound of flesh being cut, the sound of porcelain ornaments being smashed to the ground and the wall breaking, a little boy tightly grasped the jade pendant hanging on his chest, and ran forward with tears in his eyes.

The long street was still bustling at this time in the past, but on this day, every household was closed and he could only hear his own panting and the bottomless black abyss at the other end of the street.

The little boy remembered his mother's warning, don't look back.

******

"Ah Chu, I have taught you everything I can. From today on, you should go down the mountain."

In a slightly dilapidated Taoist temple, an old man with white hair and a youthful face sat on a cushion, closing his eyes to rest. Although he was talking, he did not pay any attention to the young man not far away.

"Uncle Master."

The young man was thin and tall, wearing a Taoist robe that was slightly ill-fitting. His eyebrows and eyes were handsome and full of divine light. His waterfall-like long hair had not been trimmed for a long time. It was just fixed into a bun on the top of his head with a wooden hairpin.

He was born with a widow's peak, which made his face more seductive.

Yan Chu half-knelt on the ground, with a bit of inexplicable entanglement in his deep eyes.

"Ah Chu, you must remember that people are good or bad, ghosts are good or evil, and everything in this world is predestined."

The old Taoist priest, whom he called his uncle, opened his eyes, looked at his expression at this time, and sighed slightly: "Forget it, forget it, you go down the mountain."

At the beginning, his senior brothers and sisters gave him a warning that the sect should not be passed on to others in a crisis. Unfortunately, when he arrived, his senior brother's house was already full of corpses. He could only rely on the remaining traces to judge that it was a ghost.

He arrived too late and could not find the trace of the ghost.

Their lineage traced back to the sect of Li Chunfeng, a great master of Xuanmen. Unfortunately, Xuanmen declined. When it came to his generation, there were only three descendants, including his senior brothers and sisters.

The three of them were orphans. They had a deep relationship since childhood, but the old Taoist was obsessed with metaphysics, and his senior brothers and sisters fell in love with each other during their growth, and gradually they had the idea of ​​living an ordinary life.

Xuanmen knows yin and yang, and knows the Eight Diagrams. Because they can spy on the secrets of heaven, people in Xuanmen usually have five disadvantages and three deficiencies, and they always have one of them.

In order to get rid of the punishment of heaven, the old Taoist's senior brother and junior sister voluntarily gave up the skills they had learned in the past twenty years, and willingly entered the secular world, got married and had children.

The old Taoist couldn't understand the thoughts of the senior brother and junior sister, but he wouldn't stop them from doing so. His senior brother and junior sister were more talented than him. The old Taoist at most felt sorry for Xuanmen, and lost two more successors.

Although the brothers had not been in contact for many years, the old Taoist would not think that the senior brother and junior sister had forgotten all their skills after entering the secular world. Even if they didn't use the heavenly means on weekdays for fear of being contaminated by cause and effect, it didn't make sense not to use all those skills at the critical moment of life and death.

Especially before the master died, he gave the three brothers and sisters some life-saving treasures. It didn't make sense that in the end, except for the young Yan Chu, none of them escaped, and died so miserably.

When the Taoist priest found Yan Chu, his nephew, he had been wandering outside for dozens of days, living on picking up leftovers from the trash can. He was covered with scars, and no one knew what had happened to him in these ten days.

The Taoist priest only knew that this nephew seemed to have grown up overnight, but his temperament became paranoid and cold, and he hated all ghosts.

Although he hid well at that time, he was only an eight-year-old child after all. The Taoist priest saw it in his eyes and was worried in his heart.

Originally, he was unwilling to teach this child to learn the Xuanmen magic of their school, but this child was so talented that he had never heard of it.

Their lineage had long been lonely. In him, the Taoist priest saw the legacy of Master Chunfeng. Perhaps their lineage would recast its glory in this child.

But everything has its pros and cons. It is also possible that this child will be lost in hatred and become a great enemy of Xuanmen.

In the end, selfishness and the love for this nephew prevailed. The old Taoist took him back to the Taoist temple and did not let him perform the apprenticeship ceremony. He just regarded him as a disciple on behalf of his senior brother who was killed by the evil spirit and taught him the mysterious magic.

In a blink of an eye, fourteen years passed.

During these years, the old Taoist always went down the mountain every year to find the trace of the evil spirit, but unfortunately he never got any results. He also met the enemy he made when he was young and was seriously injured.

When the old Taoist was young, his master once said that he would have two life and death disasters in his life. If he could not get through them, there would be one less person like him in the world. The old Taoist guessed that one of the disasters should be in this matter.

In the days to come, he will break through the life and death barrier, and Yan Chu has already learned a lot and it is time to go down the mountain.

"This magic whip is your mother's relic and the inheritance treasure of our sect. From now on, it will be yours."

The old Taoist took out a rope from behind, which is the magic whip he mentioned.

The handle of the whip is made of wood with a snake head-shaped pattern carved on it. The whip is made of ramie and looks like a real snake.

The head of the snake is painted with vermilion lacquer and engraved with the Five Elements and Eight Trigrams. Looking inside from the mouth of the snake, you can faintly see a human head held in the mouth of the snake, which is quite terrifying.

However, such a seemingly evil whip is indeed a Taoist treasure, capable of whipping demons and getting rid of evil spirits.

In the catastrophe in China decades ago, Taoism and Buddhism suffered countless casualties. Xuanmen also began to decline from that time. The valuable magical artifacts left by our ancestors were wantonly damaged in those ten years and their inheritance was broken. Now the sect There are very few magic weapons left in the hands of each faction.

The old Taoist sighed. The three magical weapons that his sect had preserved were his Gangtian Ruler, the Bagua Luo Yi in the hands of his senior brother, and the other one he had in his hand right now. Magic whip.

At the scene where the accident happened to the senior brother and junior sister, Bagua Luo Yi had already been broken into pieces, and the demon-killing whip was also broken into several pieces.

Many of the Five Elements Bagua on the clothes have been lost and cannot be repaired by experienced experts. The damage to this demon-killing whip is relatively minor, and it is still possible to repair it. However, in the past ten years, he has found many treasures of heaven and earth, and he has only been able to find them. It is only 50% repaired.

But even so, ordinary evil spirits would not dare to approach his nephew.

He taught what needed to be taught and persuaded what needed to be persuaded. What he would do next would all depend on his own destiny.

After saying that, the old Taoist closed his eyes. He handed over this apprentice, and the cause and effect has been established. If something he doesn't want to see happens in the future, I'm afraid he will be the only one who understands the cause and effect.

Yan Chu took the demon-killing whip and kowtowed three times, then picked up the luggage that had been prepared and turned around to walk outside the Taoist temple.

"Why--"

The old Taoist let out a long sigh. He didn't know whether it was right or wrong to teach this child Xuanmen magic because of his selfish motives.

I really hope that day doesn’t happen.

*****

"Look, that man is so handsome, but what kind of clothes is he wearing? Is it a costume?"

"I don't know. We don't have any crew filming here. Is it cosplay? How about we ask for his Weibo account? With his appearance, he will become a big star sooner or later."

Yan Chu went down the mountain wearing the Taoist robe, and got on the long-distance bus under the strange eyes of others, and arrived at Nanshi, the place where he was originally born.

He knew that his current outfit was a bit out of place, but for the time being, he didn't have any money left to change his outfit.

For the little girls who were looking at him and whispering, he could only pretend that he didn't hear what they were saying.

The original parent's parents died at the hands of evil spirits, and the death situation was extremely horrific. Even if some capable people from the National Security Bureau noticed this and suppressed the news about this matter, the nearby neighbors would not have seen that scene. Young Master, the old house of the Yan family, No. 47 Huaifang Road, has become a ghost house among others.

Many people think that the young couple in this family died so miserably that they will turn into ghosts and stay in the house. There are even rumors that the couple is looking for a scapegoat. Anyone who dares to live in will be haunted by the ghosts of the couple. .

Only those who truly understand this know that this house is cleaner than any other place because ordinary ghosts dare not approach it because of the residual aura of evil spirits.

As for the souls of Yan Chu's parents, the old Taoist once tried to invite them, but there was no trace of their couple in the underworld. It is more likely that they were swallowed by evil ghosts and disappeared between heaven and earth.

When ghosts eat ghosts, especially if they eat the souls of two Taoist priests who have some cultivation, the ability of that evil ghost will make a qualitative leap. No wonder the old Taoist can't find any trace of that evil ghost after searching for so many years.

But as the souls that were eaten, Yan's father and Yan's mother were truly out of reincarnation and completely annihilated.

Yan Chu looked at the abandoned house. Due to its age and disrepair, vines had already climbed all over the walls, and the gaps between the eaves and stone steps were covered with moss.

In the past ten years, high-rise buildings have been built nearby, but this street has not been able to wait for demolition because of the existence of this ghost house.

Most of the people living on this street now are elderly people. When they saw Yan Chu, a strange young man, stopping in front of the ghost house, they kindly gave Yan Chu a few words of advice.

"Hunter, please go back. Many masters have been here, but they have not been able to subdue the two ghosts inside."

Yan Chu was wearing a Taoist robe, and those superstitious old men and women thought he was someone who heard about the reputation of the ghost house and wanted to get rid of ghosts. There have been many such masters over the years, but all of them came out in disgrace and never came back. Pass.

It is precisely because of this that the reputation of the haunted house has become so popular.

Yan Chu knew in his heart that this was a formation set up by his uncle to protect the home where he grew up before he grew up.

"Those masters don't know that this family's child is missing, and that couple is still waiting for their son. How could they be willing to leave."

An old man sighed. The couple died in such a miserable way, but they just didn't know where the eight-year-old child had gone and whether he was still safe.

They are all parents, so they can naturally understand the thoughts of the two ghosts in this haunted house. Although they cannot dismantle the haunted house because of its existence, but comparing their feelings, there is nothing to complain about.

Especially after getting older, many of the old neighbors are looking forward to the day when the child comes back. The resentment of the two evil ghosts will dissipate, and their area will resume its former liveliness. .

Yan Chu nodded to the old men, then left with his bag.

"Do you think that child looks familiar?"

After Yan Chu left, the old men who were enjoying the cool outside the yard and had just advised him suddenly spoke up.

"Yes, he looks familiar, but I don't know where I've seen him before."

This sentence drifted away with the wind, just an episode, and was soon forgotten by the old men.