Chapter 40

If we use a fan-shaped description, Qi Yue looks more than two points, almost three points, like Xue Tinghe. Beyond these three points, Qi Yue looks nearly five points like the Taoist priest in green.

Qi Yue's resemblance to Xue Tinghe could be described as a coincidence of having similar names and the same thing, but his resemblance to the Taoist priest in green was to the point where anyone who saw him couldn't help but ask, "Are you two brothers?"

But Qi Yue was very sure that his mother had only given birth to him as a son.

When the Taoist saw him, his eyes lit up and his face was filled with joy, but the surprise soon turned into confusion, bewilderment and disgust.

He looked at Hu Lijing, who was barely maintaining her human form on the ground, then at Qi Yue and the unconscious Gu Yunshuang held in his arms. He questioned his life with a look of shock on his face. "Have I been trapped here for too long and haven't kept up with the times? The descendants of my Qi family have become so rebellious! Putting aside the gay relationship and the fox demon, how did you get yourself into this state?"

How could he not look like a ghost after becoming one? The problem was that the Qi family was a family of metaphysics. No matter how tragic their death, no one in their history had ever transformed themselves into a fierce ghost or even a ghost king. Qi Yue was truly unprecedented and unparalleled.

Qi Yue: “…”

It was confirmed that this was the ancestor of their Qi family. Furthermore, their ability to coordinate seamlessly and jointly mobilize the Qi family's formations proved that they all had a deep understanding of the Qi family's formations.

Qi Yue coughed dryly and said without a trace of guilt: "I want to explain. First of all, this fox is not raised by me. Secondly, Shuangshuang is my childhood friend and a good brother since childhood, so I am not a homosexual."

Taoist priest: “Again?”

Qi Yue: “No more.”

Taoist priest: "So you won't explain how you became like this?"

Qi Yue was silent for a moment, then asked, "That's a long story. Why don't you first tell me how you got trapped here, how long you were trapped, and how you ended up like this."

The Taoist priest paused for a moment, then coughed dryly and said, "This is a long story. We don't have much time now to discuss it in detail. Since you've discovered this place, you should quickly call the rest of the Qi family. The seal here won't hold for much longer."

"Oh, that's not necessary."

The Taoist priest thought this young man was too arrogant because of his talent, and was about to teach him a lesson when he heard Qi Yue continue slowly: "Now the Qi family is extinct."

"Dead... all dead?" The Taoist thought he had misheard and stared at Qi Yue in a daze.

"Yes, they are all dead." Qi Yue nodded calmly, as if he was saying that he had just eaten.

The Taoist priest couldn't believe it. He had been waiting here for more than two hundred years, hoping that one day other members of the Qi family would discover this place and his existence and come to help him solve the troubles here so that he could be free. He didn't expect that after finally waiting for a descendant of the Qi family, he got the news that the Qi family had all died out.

The Taoist priest was shocked and murmured softly: "How could this happen? Could this be..."

Qi Yue coughed lightly and reminded him, "We can discuss the Qi family's affairs later when there are no outsiders around. Let's deal with the matter at hand first!"

Hu Lijing was so close to hearing the Qi family's secrets that she was utterly disappointed. Suddenly, she noticed two pairs of eyes fixed on her. Suddenly, she realized, what else was there that needed their attention? Of course, it was her, a wild vixen who didn't belong in a domesticated household.

She quickly spoke before their gazes turned cold, "Wait! I'm the fox raised by Gu Yunshuang's grandmother, and I'm also a member of the Gu family. To be exact, I'm also a fox raised by the Qi family! Not counting the outsiders!"

Qi Yue was suspicious: "Why haven't I heard Grandma Gu say that he has ever raised a fox?"

Hu Lijing said, "This all happened when she was a child. Back then, she was a little girl living in the mountains, crawling around looking for mushrooms. She happened to find me, injured by lightning while undergoing a tribulation, and hid me away to raise me. After my injuries healed, I asked her for a title, and was given the opportunity to transform into a human. I said goodbye to her and left for the mountains to practice in seclusion. Unexpectedly, there's no such thing as a sixty-year cycle in the mountains, and that seclusion lasted for decades. When I transformed into a human form and came looking for her, she was no longer in that village."

Speaking of this, Hu Lijing felt very sad and regretful.

"To repay her kindness, I searched everywhere for news of her, and only found her in the past two years. I learned that she had passed away, leaving behind only two sons. Later, I learned that Gu Yunshuang was his grandson, and that he seemed to be being deliberately targeted and suppressed by someone with ulterior motives. I wanted to take better care of him in secret, so I agreed to Sun Zhanyuan's request to participate in the childhood variety show."

Hearing her reminder, Qi Yue recalled a lot of the plot about Hu Lijing. This is a supernatural novel, so before the seal of the Ghost Gate is completely broken, more and more supernatural events occur.

As a villain who deserves to be slapped in the face, Gu Yunshuang was often involved in supernatural plots because of Xue Tinghe and Jiang Mingshuang, but he was always able to escape danger in the end. This was not only because of the amulet that Qi Yue left him before leaving, but also because someone was secretly protecting him.

At first, Qi Yue thought that the people from the Tianshi Association might not have forgotten him completely and sent people to protect Gu Yunshuang. Later, he found out that they were not from the Tianshi Association at all.

Now I think it was most likely Hu Lijing. Also, when the seal on the Ghost Gate was broken and Gu's parents were attacked by ghosts, a giant fox suddenly appeared and saved them, trying to take them away, but they were eventually caught up. Even to the very end, the giant fox refused to abandon Gu's parents and escaped on its own. In the end, they all perished together, torn apart and devoured by the ghosts.

After that, actress Hu Lijing never appeared in the plot again.

Moreover, Hu Lijing did not show any hostility towards Gu Yunshuang, and she protected Gu Yunshuang openly and secretly. Even when she was chased by the group of zombies just now, her first reaction was to pull Gu Yunshuang to escape together.

The demon woke up at this time and questioned him, "You're lying! You clearly have bad intentions towards that old lady. Otherwise, why would she be the one you love most? Even though she's so old, you don't mind her?"

Hu Lijing was furious: "You little devil who has never seen the world, who told you that the one you love most must be that kind of love? The one you love most can also be your most important family and friends. If you don't believe me, go find a child and see if his favorite is his parents?"

Qi Yue nodded in agreement. So if this demon turned into the person Gu Yunshuang loved most, wouldn’t it be like him?

Didn't Hu Lijing say that her aunt had passed away after she left the confinement? How could she possibly know what Grandma Gu looked like when she was old? However, judging by her reluctance to speak, it could be a private matter between her and Grandma Gu, unimportant and unnecessary to inquire further.

Then he thought of the fact that this enchantress had a handsome face like his, but was wearing a cheongsam, and even her voice was so charming, and his face turned green instantly.

The demon continued with a clear and foolish expression, "...Oh, that's right. So every time I transform into the Master's favorite form, it's either a cat or a dog. Is it because the Master's favorites are cats and dogs? Not because the Master has some special fetish?"

"Ahem!" The Taoist in green coughed violently and quickly changed the subject, saying, "Since we're all family, I won't say any more. You can see that this ancient house is a large seal, but the seal has loosened and it might be broken soon. This young man surnamed Gu is still an ordinary person, so it's not appropriate for him to stay here any longer. Xiao Mei and this girl, please quickly take this young man and the other ordinary people out of the ancient house."

Hu Lijing thought of the rotten corpses that rushed out of the dry well. Her hair stood on end and she asked in a lost voice, "Those rotten corpses?"

The Taoist smiled bitterly and shook his head: "If it were just these decaying corpses, there's nothing to be afraid of. There's no time for further discussion. Please leave immediately. I'll leave Xiao Mei in your care for the time being."

As he spoke, he injected two streams of spiritual power into Hu Lijing and the black cat's bodies respectively, allowing their injuries to recover quickly and their cultivation to increase significantly.

Hu Lijing regained her human form and stood up from the ground, then bowed obediently to the Taoist priest to express her gratitude.

The demon didn't really want to leave, but she didn't dare to disobey the Taoist's order, so she could only transform into Qi Yue, carry Gu Yunshuang and Hu Lijing on her back, and leave reluctantly.

Qi Yue tore out another ghost mist clone without any concealment and stuffed it into Gu Yunshuang's shadow, which made the Taoist priest in green frown.

After they all left, leaving only him and the Taoist priest in green, Qi Yue said seriously, "Now that everyone who's not important has left, can you explain why this place is so solemn? What exactly is sealed here... Ancestors?"

The Taoist priest in green clothes did not keep the secret and said straight to the point: "A blood evil is sealed here."

"Blood evil?" Qi Yue was very skeptical about this answer.

After death, people become ghosts. Ghosts become evil ghosts due to their strong obsession and resentment. Once an evil ghost starts killing people, it will gradually become crazy and addicted to killing, its strength will increase dramatically, and it will become a fierce ghost.

If a fierce ghost wants to increase its strength, it does not necessarily have to kill people. It also has to devour other evil ghosts to absorb the negative energy and resentment to practice. When its strength reaches a certain level, it will become a ghost king.

When the ghost energy of the Ghost King becomes dense and condensed to a certain degree, it can transform into a ghost demon.

But not all evil spirits are ghosts.

Ghostly evil spirits are only a small part of the evil spirits.

Most evil spirits are formed from the condensation of various resentments. For example, in the Red and White Twins, the Red Spirit is formed from the resentment of a bride who died on her wedding day, and the White Spirit is formed from the resentment of a young man who drowned.

There are also infant evil spirits formed by the resentment of babies who were killed at birth.

Although he had never heard of the Blood Demon, but...

"It's just a demon. Is it necessary to mobilize so many troops?"

Not only must the entire ancient house be covered with sealing runes, but members of the Qi family must also enter the formation, and their souls must be transformed into formation spirits, never to be reincarnated.

Just to deal with a single evil spirit? That's like using a cannon to kill a mosquito, a waste of talent.

Taoist priest: "This is not an ordinary evil spirit. It can devour countless lives and rapidly increase its own strength."

Qi Yue was very unconvinced: "That's it?"

Isn't it the same as his black fog ability? What's the big deal? In the ghost world, he not only devoured many ghost kings, but also devoured many evil spirits.

The ghost world is filled with strong negative energy and resentment, which naturally gives rise to all kinds of evil.

He had been there for seven years. What kind of evil had he not seen?

The Taoist priest continued in a gloomy voice, "What's the point of eating humans? To these powerful demons and monsters, eating humans is the most useless thing. It's not even enough to fill their teeth. People like us, the Heavenly Master, and those great demon kings are the tonics they crave. What's more, this blood demon eats more than just those. It has even devoured gods."

Qi Yue: “…”

He had never seen such a bloody evil before.

The Taoist priest's name was Qi'an. During his lifetime, he was also a leader among the young people of the Qi family's generation. At that time, the Qi family was still very prosperous, with hundreds of young people.

At that time, the Qi family had a rule that all the children of the Qi family had to go out and gain experience when they reached adulthood.

Qi'an had just reached adulthood, so he went out to gain experience with three other members of the Qi family.

Along the way, they caught ghosts and exorcised evil spirits, fought against the strong and helped the weak, accumulated a lot of merits and gained a lot of experience.

Then they were invited by a general's wife to exorcise evil spirits in the general's private mansion.

At first they thought it was just an ordinary ghost haunting the house, but when they arrived at the house they found something was wrong.

Although no murder had occurred in the house, the evil aura was so strong that even they were frightened.

Although the people in the house and the nearby manor did not die, the evil spirit had entered their bodies and they had already become the walking dead, unknowingly becoming puppets manipulated by the people behind the scenes.

After careful investigation, they finally targeted one of the general's illegitimate sons.

The mother of this illegitimate child was once the general's favorite concubine. She was discovered intending to poison the mistress and should have been beaten to death, but she was five months pregnant at the time and the doctor diagnosed that the baby must be a boy.

The general had few children and was reluctant to give up his son, but the general's wife's family was powerful, so he had to give his wife an explanation. So he sent his concubine here to be confined to take care of the pregnancy, and wanted to wait until she gave birth to a son before taking any action.

The concubine also hoped to turn her life around with this son.

But what was unexpected was that the general's wife was not a good person either. As soon as the concubine arrived at the farm, she suffered from abdominal pain and the fetus died in the womb.

"This concubine couldn't accept the fact that her child was stillborn. She acted mad all day and refused to allow the doctor to induce labor. Her family found a sinister cultivator who set up a formation on a grave site where many stillborn babies were buried. This formation drew resentment into the concubine's body and forcibly turned the dead baby in her womb into a demonic infant."

Qi Yue: ...Why does this sound familiar?

Qi'an: "The evil infant was reborn in the womb, which was unacceptable to heaven and earth. However, with the protection of the mother, it actually managed to evade the heavens. Day after day, it relied on the mother's vitality to grow like an ordinary fetus."

Qi Yue: “…………” This sounds even more familiar.

"When it reaches full term, which happens to be the middle of July, when the Yin energy is at its peak, it completely drains the mother's vitality and breaks out of the body, becoming a blood demon. It looks like an ordinary baby, but it's actually half human, half ghost... Hey, Xiaoyue, why is your forehead sweating? So ghosts can sweat too?"

Qi'an was very surprised.

“………………”

"Maybe it's because the weather is too hot!" Qi Yue wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and asked vaguely, "Then what? Although it's a blood demon, it's still half human. As long as it doesn't do evil, it can grow into a human, right?"

Qi An said very seriously, "Qi Yue, you absolutely cannot think like that! The Blood Demon is formed from the resentment of countless babies who died prematurely. It is an extremely evil existence. Even if it has a human body, it cannot change its inhuman nature.

"Perhaps it still had a human side when it was first born, but it wouldn't be long before its ghostly nature overwhelmed its human nature, completely losing it. It was also extremely cunning and cruel. From a young age, it knew how to disguise itself with human nature and secretly strengthen its own strength.

"By the time we discovered it, it had already devoured many demons and deceived Heavenly Masters. It even used disguise and deception to devour a divine spirit, greatly increasing its strength. To prevent it from coming out to wreak havoc on the world, we didn't have time to notify the clan and had to hastily set up this sealing formation. Three of my brothers resolutely risked their lives to lure it into the formation, while I, as the center of the formation, sacrificed myself, transforming into a formation spirit and waiting for the rest of the Qi family to discover this place. Then, we could gather the strength of the entire clan to eliminate this blood evil."

But I didn't expect that this wait would last for more than two hundred years, and I got the cruel news that the entire Qi family was wiped out, and even the last young man became a ghost king after his death.

Qi'an was overwhelmed with emotions.

Qi Yue was silent for a long time, then asked, "Is it possible for the Blood Demon to retain his humanity?"

Qi An said firmly, "Impossible. Although it was half ghost when it was born, its ghost side has been absorbing all kinds of negative energy, resentment, and evil thoughts from heaven and earth all the time since its birth. Even ordinary people will have their minds twisted by absorbing these negative energy, resentment, and evil thoughts day and night. Not to mention that the blood evil is itself a fierce evil. Sooner or later, it will return to the cold-blooded, cruel, and bloodthirsty nature of a ghost. Therefore, you must not take chances. Once you encounter this kind of newly born blood evil, you must not be soft-hearted. Otherwise, once you let it grow up, it will bring terrible disasters to the world!"

“…”

Qi Yue continued to ask: "Ordinary people can't do it, but what if the baby is a member of Qi's family, or is born with extraordinary talent?"

Qi An shook his head. "That's impossible. Even though he's the Qi family's ultimate genius, he was just an ordinary baby when he was born. His mind hasn't yet fully developed. How could he possibly withstand the resentment and evil thoughts coming from all sides of heaven and earth? He just held out longer than others. Moreover, once a blood demon like this grows up, his strength will be even more terrifying."

Qi Yue refused to give up: "How long do I have to hold on? Maybe he can hold on until he grows up, matures mentally, and becomes more resolute, and then he can suppress his evil nature."

Qi An's eyelids twitched wildly. "Why do you insist on delving into this issue? Have you ever seen such a bloody evil with your own eyes? A member of the Qi family? Who? Besides you, which other member of the Qi family has turned into a ghost? Could it be you?"

“…”

Qi An was horrified: "Fuck! Grandson, don't just agree with what you say!"

“…”

Very good, this ancestor was so frightened that he burst into swear words, and even threw away the gentlemanly demeanor he tried hard to maintain in front of the younger generation.