Chapter 11: The Tribulation
The female ghost's eyes never left the bead in the center of the altar from the moment she entered, as if she was looking at her lover through the bead.
Chen Jinnian, who realized something, raised his right index finger and bit it gently, and with a swipe in the air, the scenery in front of him suddenly changed, and in front of the beads of the altar stood a middle-aged man with unparalleled eyes, the man was full of life, but he was implicated by the beads.
When Chen Jinnian looked at the man's face, he couldn't suppress the shock in his heart at all, it was Uncle Luo, Uncle Luo who committed suicide six years ago!
With his still bleeding index finger, he drew a spell and hit the bead, only to see that the bead turned into a wisp of soul and stood in place after the blood light appeared.
"Why is he here?" Chen Jinnian asked the doubts in her heart, she really couldn't understand, Su Luoxi obviously watched him die in front of his eyes back then, how could his soul appear in a dry well in the Su family six years later.
The female ghost seemed to recall the past, and opened her lips and said softly, "I fell in love with him back then, but I was beaten by the old lady, and he was forced to die, and the love token of the two of us stored this wisp of my own soul......"
It turned out that the female ghost was the personal maid next to the old lady back then, and after falling in love with Uncle Luo, she was discovered by the old lady and asked Uncle Luo to choose one between himself and the female ghost.
He resolutely returned to the courtyard to commit suicide, when the two made a love bead with a wisp of their own soul, in exchange for love tokens, after Uncle Luo's death, she had been wearing the soul bead on her body until half a year later, when she went out, she met a few ruffians and hooligans, and was bullied to death, including using a hairpin to break her tendons, violently pulling out her tongue, and cutting her stomach.
She just turned into a ghost and took the lives of those people because of resentment, but because of this, she couldn't go to the underworld to reincarnate, so she just thought about returning to Su Mansion to find this remote and uninhabited courtyard, and finally chose this place where the two of them had a private meeting and made a love affair before, and practiced in the dry well in the courtyard.
Accidentally fused into the almost withered tree in the courtyard and became a soul body, but he was also implicated and couldn't leave Su Mansion.
After several years of cultivation, she was almost no different from a person except for the coldness around her, and after that, she often relied on sucking the essence of the people who were resting because of the shady courtyard caused by her existence, and found a cultivation method for the soul body.
She was unwilling to give up Uncle Luo in her heart, and used her soul to constantly nourish Uncle Luo's soul, but she also became weak because of the loss of her soul protection.
"Miss, I know I'm useless, but I don't want to see him die!" The female ghost took out the glass box hidden in her body, her face full of sadness.
Xiao Ke immediately took his hand and left the dry well, for fear that the potion would be taken away again, and the quicksand protected the Zhishu behind him, and never put the sword away.
"Quicksand." Chen Jinqing called and motioned for quicksand to leave with Zhishu, Quicksand nodded, and left the dry well with Zhishu.
Quicksand knew in his heart that Miss was not as simple as it seemed on the surface, and the young lady who was a waste four months ago was now a fifth-order spirit master, and she was already a leader among her peers in Xingwu City.
There is also a strange spell that she has never seen just now, which can make a female ghost without a tongue speak, maybe the head of the Su family doesn't know, right? Since you dare to show it, you won't worry about her saying it.
Chen Jinnian saw that everyone was gone, put his hand on Uncle Luo's chest, who was still in a state of awakening, and white light kept coming out of his hand, and he kept reciting spells in his mouth.
Suddenly, Uncle Luo opened his eyes, and a pair of deep, almost invisible eyes looked straight into Chen Jinnian's eyes.
Uncle Luo swept around, looked at his hand, flickered, and then looked at the girl in front of him who he had never seen before, with a puzzled face.
"Luo You ......" The female ghost spoke out, with two different emotions of joy and sadness on her face, Uncle Luo looked over and opened his mouth, "......" only to find that he couldn't make a sound at all, he could only express his thoughts with movements, hugged the female ghost with ruddy eyes, and caressed her back as if comforting.
The female ghost looked at Chen Jinnian helplessly, Chen Jinnian waved his hand helplessly, "I can't help it, I haven't spoken for too long, and I will recover after more practice." ”
"Uncle Luo, now you can only choose to become a soul body, and then reshape your body when you cultivate the Great Dao."
In her opinion, for Uncle Luo, becoming a soul body is the best result, as long as she cultivates properly, she can reshape her physical body sooner or later.
Uncle Luo let go of the hand holding the female ghost, nodded with a heavy face, and sat down directly in the center of the ready-made altar
Biting his finger again, Chen Jinnian drew a blood-colored talisman array, and a pitch-black pen slowly emerged from the formation, only to see that she took the pen very skillfully, without any precaution, and the spiritual power around her body drew a golden talisman on the altar.
Floating the pen above, Chen Jinnian's hands were slightly open, his two fingers were put together to form a seal, and his mouth kept reciting obscure charms, and the charms surrounded Uncle Luo, faintly glowing with blood.
The well became extremely cold, and for a moment the entire stone chamber was surrounded by the golden light of the rune array and the blood light emitted by the rune.
Outside the well, the originally sunny sky suddenly darkened, the dark clouds were closed, and a few lightning flashed from time to time in the dark clouds above the yard.
The spells in Chen Jinnian's mouth continued to be output, and Uncle Luo's body gradually became real, and suddenly, a thunderbolt fell from the sky, and the thunder passed through the trouser leg like a giant python and slashed straight down from Uncle Luo's head.
Uncle Luo's figure instantly faded a little, Chen Jinnian bit the tip of his tongue, the hand supporting the talisman trembled slightly, and the red blood dripped down Chen Jinnian's hand on the stone bed.
Immediately after the second heavenly thunder fell, Uncle Luo's figure almost became transparent, and Chen Jinnian spurted out a mouthful of blood, dyeing the tea and white dress on his body red.
In her heart, she secretly said that her strength was still too weak, and in the past, helping the little ghost to become a soul body could only be solved by casting a spell with her hands, and now she summoned the Flame Pen to only block half of the Heavenly Thunder.
"Use your soul power to protect Uncle Luo, the last thunderstorm is coming." Chen Jinnian was in pain with the sharp pain coming from his chest, and shouted at the female ghost.
The female ghost was about to lose all the soul power in her body to Uncle Luo's side, forming a protective shield.
The third heavenly thunder struck, and the rune array flashed with dark red light, almost sucking the spiritual power within a hundred zhang of the courtyard into the well, and continuously inputting it into Chen Jinnian's inner circle.
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The third heavenly thunder was only blocked and slashed at Uncle Luo in less than three breaths, and before that, the spiritual power in Chen Jinnian's hand was completely condensed into a substance in front of the heavenly thunder, consuming the power of the heavenly thunder.
After the spiritual power was shattered, the heavenly thunder struck Uncle Luo, only to see Uncle Luo dissipate in the stone room, and when he condensed the entity again, he was almost no different from a human.
Chen Jinnian hooked the corners of his mouth a little weakly and closed his eyes.
The funeral pen also turned into a ray of black light and landed at the end of Chen Jinnian's right eye, which looked like a tear mole.
In the City Lord's Mansion, Jiang Qingliang put down the spirit sword in his hand, looked at the menacing thunder cloud that stayed above the Su family, and lowered his eyes and smiled lightly.
On the Qidui Mountain, thousands of miles away from the Southern Dome Country, Yin Shijin looked at the chessboard in front of him and lightly dropped the chess pieces in his hand.
"I didn't expect to see such a superb talismane in this nether realm."
The man sitting in front of the Hidden World Jin was slightly stunned, and then smiled, "Who knows if it is a god monarch in the god realm who has come down to experience the tribulation." ”
Yin Shijin flicked his sleeves with a faint smile and spit out three words, "You lost." He got up and walked to the edge of the cliff.
"Huh! Young master, do you want to stop letting me have three sons? I'm going to win you!! Young Lord! The man got up in a hurry and was about to catch up with Yin Shijin.
But he found that the kung fu man disappeared in the blink of an eye, and he disrupted the chess game as if he was angry, and he slapped several palms at the mountain next to him, and almost at a glance, none of the mountains next to the Seven Decisive Mountains were intact.
As soon as Chen Jinnian opened his eyes, he saw quicksand with a cold face.
"What's the matter......" The hoarse and deep voice sounded a little infiltrating, and as soon as Chen Jinnian opened his mouth, he came over to feed Chen Jinnian with the medicine that was warmed by spiritual power.
Blinking and drinking the medicine obediently, Uncle Luo and Aunt Luo, who heard the movement in the back room, walked in, the two had changed into normal clothes, and almost no one could see that the two were not human beings when they stood like this, and only when they touched the two with their hands would they find that their hands were directly pierced.
"Miss, are you feeling better?" Aunt Luo saw that Chen Jinnian's face was pale, and her eyes were full of worry.
"It's much better, it's okay." Chen Jinnian seemed to want to wave his hand indifferently, but when he raised his hand, he found that he had several layers of gauze wrapped in his hand, "This is ......"
Quicksand glanced at the Luo family and the couple, and said angrily, "Pharmacist Xiao said that the tendons and veins in Miss's hands are almost broken, although there is a medicine, it is necessary to recuperate." ”
Chen Jinnian pursed his lips, and secretly slandered in his heart, "What kind of medicine is bitter to death!" ”
"Luo You, you have a relationship with Miss, you used to be by Miss's side, and now you are a soul or Miss's help." Aunt Luo leaned on Uncle Luo's shoulder and was intimate.
Uncle Luo looked at Chen Jinnian's expression with a somewhat complicated expression, "Miss, it's been six years, you are the same as I thought before, you have grown up very beautiful." ”
He looked at Chen Jinnian's eyes, full of the loving spirit of a girl in my family.
Chen Jinqing smiled and handed over the two beads, "This is a soul nourishing bead, and it will help you cultivate when you bring it to your soul body." ”
The soul nourishing bead was blue all over, and after the two took over the hand, it automatically conjured a chain and wrapped it around the arms of the two.
"Uncle Luo, you and your aunt can continue to live in the well and cultivate, and when I recover, I will help you build a spirit gathering array."
Chen Jinnian explained most of the secrets of soul body cultivation that he knew, and the two of them left only after it was getting dark.
Looking at the quicksand that had been standing on the side for a long time, he asked softly, "You're worried about me?" ”
Quicksand blinked, not daring to look directly at Chen Jinnian, the hand holding the hilt of the sword tightened slightly, and said in a muffled voice, "Miss was covered in blood at the time, Quicksand knows that Miss has a secret, but is it better for Miss to take care of herself and then take care of others?" ”
"Quicksand, you know what? A person who has nothing wants to grasp everything. Uncle Luo was my father-like existence in my childhood, taught me to read and write, taught me to refine medicine, and his death was inevitably related to me. Chen Jinnian's eyes showed a sad look, which quicksand had never seen before.
Thinking of what I saw before and what she has learned in the past few days, the young lady in front of me may have experienced too many unknown things, so she is still very temperamental when she is good to her now, right?
Chen Jinnian remembered the betrayal of her clan in her previous life, she lost everything on that day, and the only remaining dignity was crushed by that man.
"Quicksand, you know what? I am a person who you slash me, and I want you to pay for your life. Chen Jinnian smiled when he said this, but the cold light in his eyes made Quicksand a little stunned.
Quicksand looked at the girl sitting on the bed in front of him seriously, hooked his lips and said, "I, Quicksand, am willing to use heaven and earth as proof, and I will never betray Miss in this life." ”
Chen Jinnian glanced at the deed mark that fell on the palm of Quicksand, a trace of astonishment flashed in her eyes, she and Quicksand had only known each other for a few days, but she could feel that Quicksand was a little different to her, she was obviously just protected by Su Changfeng's name, why did she make a heaven and earth oath, Xu was aware of Chen Jinnian's incomprehension, Quicksand opened his mouth and finally fled with only one sentence, "Miss is very similar to my sister." ”
Looking at her figure of running away, Chen Jinnian couldn't help laughing, shook his head and unwrapped the gauze in his hand, and he could see that there were traces of blood spilling on his hands.