Chapter 1: Lighting Incense Across the Worlds to Communicate with Gods
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At 4:30 in the morning, a new message popped up on Tu Huan’s WeChat.
[Xie Yuchuan, a criminal in Daliang Imperial Prison: Requesting to add you as a friend]
Tu Huan was busy adding color to the drawing, so she glanced at it and didn't notice.
After a while, the WeChat interface started jumping automatically.
A series of messages pop up:
[You have added Xie Yuchuan and can start chatting now.]
"Xie Yuchuan: The family deity is above! I, Xie Yuchuan, courtesy name Yuheng, am the eleventh generation descendant of the Xie family. Our ancestors were blessed by the divine presence and were saved from a desperate situation. Generations of descendants have remembered the family deity's grace and teachings, guarding the frontiers to protect the country and its people."
"Xie Yuchuan: Today, with a tyrant and a corrupt ruler, and treacherous officials in power, the Xie family has suffered a great disaster. I feel guilty towards my ancestors and my family. I will personally apologize to them in my grave. However, there are still many innocent people in the Xie family, including the elderly, the weak, women, and children."
"Xie Yuchuan: Yuheng sincerely asks the Xie family deity to protect us in this time of crisis!"
"Xie Yuchuan: The imperial prison is harsh, and finances are tight. Yuheng can only gaze at the ancestral hall's altar from afar, burn incense with sincerity, and pray that his thoughts can reach the gods. Heaven and earth are witnesses, and the sun and moon can observe."
Tu Huan picked up her phone after finishing her work:?
I knew every word, but I didn't understand any of it.
Xie Yuchuan, who is that?
How come WeChat has suddenly grown up and learned to add friends by itself?
Just as Tu Huan was trying to figure out what was going on, two mechanical voices suddenly rang out in her head:
[2 bloodline points collected, the almighty guardian system is activated! The bloodline protection operation officially begins! ]
Um? !
Before Tu Huan could react, a strange noise came from the house.
Could it be an earthquake? Tu Huan followed the sound and opened the curtains.
What comes into view is a Chinese-style mansion with five entrances and two cross courtyards.
There was a panic in the house.
The officers and soldiers were chasing and intercepting them with ferocious looks, and the servants in the mansion were frightened and trembling with fear.
Tu Huan heard someone shouting in front of her:
"I'm ordered by the Emperor to search the Duke of Huguo's mansion. Search it thoroughly inside and out! Not a single person from the Xie family is allowed to escape!"
"Yes, sir!"
So early in the morning, there's a film crew filming downstairs? And it's a house raiding drama!
These days, it’s hard to make money anywhere.
Tu Huan had no intention of watching others filming.
She is a freelance artist who recently accepted a project from a film crew and is in a hurry to submit her work.
but--
Something seems wrong?
Tu Huan stared at the knives in the hands of the officers and soldiers.
That's real blood!
The servants who were trying to stop them were just charging forward, but were chopped into two pieces the next moment.
Tu Huan turned around and rushed downstairs.
However, the first floor of her townhouse had long since changed.
The clean and comfortable living room was gone, replaced by an air-conditioned ancestral hall.
The gate of the ancestral hall was open, and dozens of guards with knives were blocking the way.
Qiu Suan, the assistant minister of the Ministry of Justice who came to confiscate the property, angrily swung his sleeves and walked forward.
"Xie Zhangting colluded with foreign nations and committed treason! I am conducting an investigation and confiscation of the property by imperial order. Madam Xie, are you, the Xie family, disobeying the imperial order?"
"You bastard! Stop your bullshit! My Xie family's ancestral hall is dedicated to the gods and ancestors. It's a quiet place. The late emperor even ordered that it should not be disturbed at will. You are brazenly and recklessly doing things. You are disrespecting heaven and disrespecting the late emperor's teachings. How audacious!"
Mrs. Xie doesn't believe this.
It is rumored that a hundred years ago, the Xie family god appeared and assisted the previous emperor in conquering the country.
The current emperor is incompetent and believed the slander that "if you want to stabilize your country, you must first destroy the Xie family god."
Unable to find any fault with the Xie family, they framed them in private, falsely concluding that the Xie family was colluding with foreign enemies. Today's grand confiscation of property was actually intended to destroy the Xie family ancestral hall.
The Xie family is smart and will naturally not let Qiu Suan and others in.
If the ancestral hall was destroyed by these evil people, wouldn't they become unfilial descendants?
"Good! Good! Good!" Qiu Suan sneered, "It seems you are stubborn and won't cry until you see the coffin!"
"The tablet was bestowed by the Great Ancestor himself, and it has the merit of saving the Xie family from death. Don't say that the Xie family is wrongly accused today. Even if they are guilty, disasters have always beenfallen upon the family temple. You will be struck by lightning for such actions!"
"What a joke! You, the Xie family, are digging your own graves by worshipping evil spirits. What does it have to do with me? Today, I will enforce justice on behalf of Heaven and destroy this evil creature! To restore the Qingming Festival!"
Qiu Suan raised his hand, "Imperial Guards, listen to my orders!"
Countless rocketeers rushed out from the surrounding walls, and clusters of flames pointed directly at the ancestral hall!
The arrow is on the string, ready to be fired!
This makes me wish they would die without a burial place!
Old Madam Xie was so angry that she held her cane horizontally and said, "If that's the case, then just step over my body!!!"
Tu Huan finally understood what those strange messages on her phone meant.
Xie Yuchuan "summoned" her and the system, apparently hoping that she could protect these people.
Seeing the two sides deadlocked at the entrance of the ancestral hall, Tu Huan was in a dilemma. How could she save them when she was unarmed?
Before I could think about it, I heard a loud shout from outside:
"Shoot!"
Countless arrows flew from all directions! Flames flew onto the ancestral hall, and in the blink of an eye, the small building was on fire, and the raging flames burned the hearts of the Xie family.
“What a sin!”
Old Madam Xie knocked the enemy away with her crutch, turned around and looked up at the fire behind her, heartbroken.
A rocket was coming towards her!
“Grandma, be careful!!!”
Tu Huan: Not good!
Madam Xie only felt her wrist sink, and then her whole body was lifted up by a warm force and brought into the ancestral hall.
The rocket beside me buzzed and flew forward, but seemed to hit some unknown force and was suddenly bounced back!
Several guards were pierced by sharp arrows and fell to the ground.
Tu Huan watched helplessly as the arrow nearly pierced her before being bounced back. She hurriedly asked the system, "Did you do this?"
【It is my responsibility to protect the host's life. 】
[You are currently in energy-saving stealth mode. If your energy level is less than 60%, please do not make physical contact with any external biological sources to prevent system paralysis.]
Tu Huan suddenly realized: "I understand."
[The security network is under attack. Should the emergency security system be activated for enhanced protection?]
Tu Huan: "Enable."
If you have a system for free, you might as well use it.
The next second, the phone screen automatically unlocked and lit up, and a security APP with gold letters on a purple background was downloaded instantly.
The program ran automatically, and Tu Huan saw that the entire ancestral hall was surrounded by a web of light. All the rockets shot from outside were inexplicably bounced back the moment they hit the ancestral hall!
The rockets flew back, and countless guards fell from the wall and lay dead at the bottom.
Qiu Suan collapsed on the ground in fear!
Among the detained servants, someone shouted, "The Xie family god is clearly working!"
The others followed suit and knelt on the ground and kowtowed.
Some of the officers and soldiers who were confiscating the property felt weak in the knees. Did they really anger the gods inside by setting fire to the ancestral temple?
The commander of the imperial guards, however, was filled with disdain: "The Xie family truly worships evil spirits. They dare to rebel under the majesty of heaven. Lord Qiu, please do not betray the emperor's trust."
Qiu Suan's spirits were rekindled. That's right! They were seeking death on purpose. What did it have to do with him? Today, he would eliminate all the roots of the evil for His Majesty!
He patted his butt and got up, pointing at the blazing ancestral hall and roaring:
"Burn them to death!"
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