Chapter 398: Soul Change

Uncle Gui first prepared the sacrificial items and asked my grandmother and me to offer incense, because I was in a hurry to enter the Ghost Bone Gate, and I didn't explore why there was only one word in our ancestral hall for worship. After the worship, my grandmother asked Uncle Gui to open the Ghost Bone Gate, I wondered in my heart, although Uncle Gui has a ghost puppet, but he is not an onmyoji, can he also see the Ghost Bone Gate?! Speaking of ghost puppets, since the Soul Ascension Array, I haven't seen Uncle Gui's ghost puppet predecessor again, but her identity has become a mystery. I was thinking about it here, and Uncle Gui over there had already turned on the switch, which turned out to be a candlestick on the table, twisted in two different directions, and it could be opened.

The ghost bone door opened slowly, it turned out that this kind of ghost bone door actually had two layers, and the wall inside, in the eyes of ordinary people, was the wall, but the onmyoji could see the ghost bone door, so as to know the location of the entrance, and also know the way to open it to open it. The ghost bone door with intricate patterns slowly opened, and a gust of wind rushed in front of it, and the air was filled with a fragrance, which was a little weird, smelling a bit like perfume, and a bit like incense and candles used to worship at the grave.

"You've been using this jasmine for so long." Grandma said.

"I'm used to it, and I can't change it if I want to." Uncle Gui said embarrassedly.

"Such an object is long gone, which shows that you are also attentive and a nostalgic person." Grandma said.

"I'm an old man, and there's nothing about not remembering the old." Uncle Gui said.

"If you weren't nostalgic, you wouldn't have stayed here for so many years. She is waiting for you bitterly. "Grandma and your uncle's words made the second monk I listened to confused.

"Grandma, what are you talking about?" I asked.

"It's nothing, let's go, let's go in." Grandma said as she asked your uncle to lead the way in front. Uncle Gui walked in the front, this is a small corridor, the walls around it are lined with red bricks, which reminds me of the blue bricks in the ancient tombs we met before, but the red bricks here are very new, and it is obvious that people often repair and maintain them. There were sensor lights in the hallway, and we had just stepped into the hallway. And the lights came on. The lights were dim, and I only knew that there should be a room not far in front of me, but I couldn't see what was inside. I helped my grandmother to slowly follow behind Uncle Gui, and Uncle Gui's pace slowed down.

"Grandma. Have you been here before? I asked.

"Nope. I'm also here for the first time. Grandma said.

"Then you just said that the spices your uncle used?" I asked.

"I came back here when I was younger. He used that kind of spice to sacrifice, didn't you see just now, the incense and candles he used for incense were different from ours. Grandma said. Only then did I realize that it was indeed that when Uncle Gui was incense just now, he took out some spices of other appearances, which were different from those we used.

"Grandma, I look at your uncle's food and clothing, is the spice he uses rare and precious spices?" I asked.

"No, it's just the most common spice, and it could be the cheapest spice in the world." Grandma said.

"Why do you use such spices?" I was puzzled, and the further I went, the stronger the smell of that inferior spice became.

"Everyone always has something in their life that they can't give up." Grandma said helplessly.

As we spoke, we had already arrived at the room inside, which was about the same size as the ancestral hall outside, well-trimmed and square, and there was almost no light in the room, and by the faint light of the sensor lamp in the small corridor just now, we could faintly see that there was an offering table full of tablets. Uncle Gui walked around the room, he turned on a lot of dim lights, those halos were cast in different places, there were more than a dozen such small dim lights, and finally all the dim lights illuminated the whole room. I finally saw everything clearly, except for the offering table, which was full of tablets, and there was a bed in front of us, and the room was empty, and there was nothing but the offering table and the bed, let alone any decoration, and it looked eerie and eerie.

"Uncle, why is this bed here? You're still sleeping here, are you? I asked.

"Didn't you know you saw my bedroom outside?" Uncle Gui said.

"These tablets here......" Grandma has begun to look around the offering table over there, those tablets, I think in my heart is that it is very likely to be the tablets of our Kui clan's ancestors, but from the number of them, it seems to be a little wrong, is it possible that from the beginning of the pre-Qin period to the present, our family has only a few ancestors, and the number is probably only about twenty.

"Yin Yin ......" Grandma whispered to me, she lowered her voice very low, I had come to my grandmother's side by this time, and Uncle Gui seemed to be interested in a somewhat broken dark light next to him. Grandma picked up a tablet and handed it to me, and I saw that it was not a person's name, but a line of small red letters.

"Myocardial infarction."

"Grandma, what does this mean, why are these things written on the tablet?" I asked, and Grandma shook her head.

"I don't know, I think this should be asked, Gui."

"Uncle Gui, these tablets ......"

"Master, do you two want to know who these tablets are?" Uncle Gui has learned to answer.

"That's right, these tablets are not written on the names of people and the date of birth and death, but the names of some diseases, such as the one here, which is written about cerebral hemorrhage, what is going on?" I asked.

"Didn't you already know before, I have a ghost puppet, and my lifespan is different from ordinary people, but what do you think I have survived so long by, this is this, this is the secret of my survival for hundreds of years. Every tablet here is a death for me, but at the same time it is a new life. Uncle Gui casually took out a tablet, which said that liver cancer was in an advanced stage.

"For example, this is about ten years ago, that time I had a problem with my liver, although I have a ghost puppet, but you also know, my body has always been a mortal, my body will have all kinds of problems, it has long been unable to load my body, in the past hundred years, almost all the organs of my body have had problems, this time the liver cancer directly caused, I had no way to eat, repeated pain, and then vomiting blood. Finally I came to the end of my life again, and one of my ghost golems took my place and reincarnated superborn, allowing me to come back here. Uncle Gui said and lay on the bed.

"It's a simple wooden box, but it's the most comfortable bed in the world, because every time I can't hold it anymore, I come back here and lie on it, and wait for death to come. Of course, there were accidents, such as that one, I had a brain congestion. Uncle Gui pointed to the tablet of brain congestion, "That time was an unexpected situation without warning, if my ghost puppet hadn't discovered it in time and managed to get me here, maybe I would have stink." Uncle Gui was still talking like a joke.

"Uncle Gui, if you say this, doesn't that mean that you already have the ability to live forever?" I asked in surprise.

"Young master, if what I said is correct, you should have already probed me with yin and yang techniques, right, what did you see?" Uncle Gui asked.

"Your soul seems to be very weak." I say.

"That's right, I can indeed gain a long life by doing this, and besides, in this Jiang family's mansion, there has never been a shortage of souls who want to transcend and enter reincarnation, and being my ghost puppet is a good choice for them. But having a ghost golem does not necessarily mean having immortality, every time I die, every time I use a ghost golem, my soul will be missing a piece, this method of resurrecting from the dead and replacing myself with another soul to enter reincarnation is called soul exchange. The reason why none of your predecessors in the Kui clan has ever chosen such a method to live forever is that there will always be a day when the soul finally dissipates, and by that time, you can no longer enter reincarnation, and your soul is not scattered overnight, but in the process of replacing death with other people's lives again and again, it will continue to dissipate. Uncle Gui said sadly.

"More than twenty times, uncle, you have ......" I couldn't go on, and I didn't know what to say, and I felt that any word I said now was very cruel.

"Twenty-nine times, my body has been getting worse and worse in the past hundred and ten years, and I have reached a kind of verge of collapse, so the number of times I have used the ghost golem has become more and more frequent in recent times. Do you know why I want to build a small yard at the back of this mansion? Do you know why I am isolated? Uncle Gui smiled bitterly and said, "I'm not afraid of integrating into society, what I'm afraid of is that the world is no longer willing to let me integrate, I am an immortal person, and I can't let anyone know about this matter." I have experienced and known everything about the heyday and fall of the Qing Dynasty, the invasion of China by the Eight-Nation Alliance, the war of aggression by Japan, the War of Liberation, and the founding of New China, but in these events, I am not a participant, I am just a spectator. Ten years, eight years, for me, it's a blink of an eye. I don't need to think about anything else, the only thing I have to do is to hide in this wilderness, survive and survive, and hold on as long as I live. Uncle Gui said.

"Uncle, actually, you ...... It doesn't have to be like this...... Why are you bothered? I said sadly.

"Young master, this is a promise, some promises, not a lifetime can be fulfilled, these promises are greater than all things, even higher than history, higher than heavenly principles. Didn't you keep asking why I asked you to come here now? On the one hand, your grandmother's life is about to run out, and on the other hand, it's because of me. I had already written to your grandmother a few years ago, and I could understand her desire to spend a few more years with you, but at the same time I also told her that I had to make a decision this year, after all, I really didn't have much time. Young master, I am very grateful that you have appeared in this era, so that I can finally fulfill my wishes and fulfill my promises in my lifetime. (To be continued.) )