Despite its enormous size, the Night Wanderer was surprisingly easy to talk to. Upon learning there was no suitable place to put him, he simply sat down on the toilet floor, like a stool.
Gu Wang pondered what kind of scene to arrange for him. The Night Wanderer was a deity that patrolled the night, in charge of the nighttime wanderings of hundreds of ghosts. He felt it would be a pity to give him a fixed scene.
Before he could figure out what was going on, a special phone call came in, asking him to meet up.
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In front of me were two young people, a man and a woman, both of whom looked capable and calm.
Gu Wang felt spiritual power from the two people. They were two sorcerers.
The door creaked open and the candle girl came in to serve tea to the two of them.
As the Candle Girl approached, the two seemed very nervous. Gu Wang could feel that their muscles were tensed and their spiritual energy was unconsciously rolling.
Gu Wang gestured for the two to have some tea and asked, "What brings you two here?"
The man said solemnly, "We are from the National Special Affairs Administration. We are here to ask Master Gu for help."
Pei Zirui's disappearance had been referred to the Special Bureau for investigation after they detected traces of a sorcerer. The Special Bureau investigated for a long time, but the sorcerer was very cautious, and they were unable to track him down.
It was the last time that Gu Wang broke that man's spell, and they finally found that man's trace.
The man said, "We've found that the sorcerer was last seen in Tiancui Mountain in Jiguang Province. But you also know that there..."
Looking around, he understood. Jiguang Province is home to a hundred thousand mountains, and Tiancui Mountain, known as the mountain within the mountains, is exceptionally steep. Furthermore, because it's so rarely visited, who knows how many spirits and ghosts may be hiding within.
When a sorcerer hides in it, it is like a drop of water hiding in the ocean; it is not easy to get it out.
The man smiled bitterly and said, "I believe Master Gu has also noticed that for some reason, more and more ghosts have awakened recently. The Special Bureau is already short-staffed to handle these matters. We have no choice but to seek help from experts in the community."
Gu Wang nodded and asked, "When do we leave?"
The man was stunned for a moment, then his brows lit up with joy. "If possible, the sooner the better!"
Gu Wang made an appointment with him for tomorrow.
After coming out, he found Lu Wu and told him what happened. "That's it. We're going to Jiguang Province tomorrow. Do you want to come with me?"
He thought Lu Wu would be very happy, but he saw this man was stunned and shook his head.
Gu Wang was surprised, "Not going?"
Lu Wu was also a little disappointed, "I can't go, I can't leave here."
Looking around, I suddenly realized.
He had previously wondered why Lu Wu could freely travel between the two realms, but when he later learned of the passageway between the three realms, he realized that Lu Wu was probably similar to the ghosts and gods like Night Wanderer. Since Ghost Lady and Night Wanderer couldn't leave the amusement park, Lu Wu naturally couldn't leave either.
Thinking of this, he quickly reacted, "I wanted to take you out to play, but if I can't go, forget it, I'll be back soon."
The next day, Gu Wang and the two staff members rushed to the airport and flew to Jiguang Province on a special plane of the Special Bureau.
At the foot of Tiancui Mountain, the staff of the Special Bureau rented several houses for accommodation.
When Gu Wang arrived, there were already several people in the room who were dressed unusually, with surging spiritual energy around them. Judging from their age, Gu Wang was the youngest.
A woman of indeterminate age, dressed in a gorgeous purple robe, suddenly opened her eyes and looked at Gu Wang. "Little boy, where are you from? Do you have a master?"
Gu Wang saluted and said, "To reply to your words, senior, I am the descendant of Shouyang Mountain."
The woman closed her eyes again. "So he's the apprentice of that old man Shou Yangzi. How boring."
An elderly man nearby, dressed in colorful clothes and adorned with bone ornaments and bronze bells, smiled and said kindly, "Don't be afraid, young man. We are all acquaintances of your master. Over a decade ago, your master said he had found a disciple he was very satisfied with. He then hid away in the mountains, teaching his apprentice and rarely came out. That's why we haven't been in touch."
Gu Wang nodded and saluted everyone.
Soon, everyone arrived.
The staff of the Special Bureau took out a piece of cloth and said, "We found this in the mountains. It is very likely left by the sorcerer. Please take a look, Masters."
Everyone was a sorcerer, so they could easily sense the evil aura from the cloth.
The woman who had spoken earlier said with great interest, "Shou Yangzi's formations are pretty good. Come on, kid, draw a formation to find objects."
Everyone laughed in good-natured laughter.
Gu Wang was helpless, feeling like he was performing a show for relatives during the Chinese New Year. He didn't refuse, took the piece of cloth, and drew a magic circle on the spot, "Heaven commands my heart to return, and I will use this object to chase my soul!"
An arrow appeared on the rag, pointing in a certain direction. Then it slowly dissipated. After all, he was a sorcerer, so it was not easy to track him down.
A master smiled and said, "Very good, very good. You are indeed the disciple that Shouyangzi has kept hidden for more than ten years. You have received his true teachings."
Gu Wang looked at the cloth thoughtfully. The aura of this thing seemed a little strange...
Everyone took enough supplies and went into the mountains in the direction indicated by the arrow.
When they were surrounded by trees, the old man with the bone ornaments walked to the front.
Gu Wang understood that this old man was a shaman, and the mountains and forests had always been the shamans' territory.
The old man closed his eyes and meditated for a while. Then he opened his eyes and said, "The creatures in the mountains said that no strangers have come here recently."
The staff member asked, "Could it be that they didn't see it?"
The shaman shook his head. "They are the wind in the mountains, the rain and dew, the mountains and forests themselves. They are not visible to the eyes."
The staff were scratching their heads. Could they have found the wrong place? An entire special bureau had been chasing after a sorcerer for almost six months, and they hadn't even caught a single one?
Gu Wang said, "Let me try again."
He set up the formation again and while chanting the spell, he flicked his fingertips and actually pulled out a wisp of purple air and threw it into the formation.
Pei Zirui had been pestering him for fun recently, so he'd inevitably picked up some purple energy. It was just the right time to use it to find the sorcerer who'd harmed him, a perfect return of karma.
The formation started, and purple arrows floated in front.
The group hurried to catch up.
Tiancui Mountain is a sparsely populated area, with trees deep within reaching heights of tens of meters and thick enough to be embraced by ten people. From time to time, small animals scurried through the surrounding bushes, making rustling noises.
Suddenly, the old shaman closed his eyes and said palely, "The forest tells me that there is a very terrifying existence ahead."
Everyone looked at each other, and the woman in purple robe frowned, "I don't sense anything."
She has the blood of an Eastern witch and should have extremely strong sensitivity.
And the purple arrow is still floating in front. Who should I listen to?
Gu Wang frowned and calculated for a moment, then suddenly said, "There seems to be someone in front."
In the deep mountains and old forests, where there are few people, suddenly a voice came: There is someone ahead.
If those present were not sorcerers, they would probably scream in fear.
Gu Wang took the lead and walked forward first.
There was smoke on the wind and the smell of burning trees.
The team leader panicked, "Who set the fire on the mountain? They don't want to live anymore!"
The rest of the staff looked at each other, "It's not us, our people are here."
"Then..." The leader was about to lose his temper when he suddenly remembered that they had already sealed off the entire mountain in order to capture the sorcerer. He couldn't say more, but no one would come up the mountain for at least half a month.
Could it be that the person who came up half a month ago has never come down?
Gu Wang waved his hand, asking them to follow behind, and then gently pushed aside the branches.
It was a very strange scene inside:
There was a flat depression, with a tattered carriage that looked like a ghost carriage on the side, and a young couple in the middle.
Both were dressed in ancient attire. The wife sat on a raised rock, her head lowered, her long black hair drooping, obscuring her face. Her belly was slightly protruding, suggesting she was pregnant, the first signs of which were just beginning to show.
The man was about twenty-four or twenty-five years old, wearing a simple long gown. He diligently picked up firewood from the surrounding area and lit a fire in the middle.
The firewood crackled and the green smoke drifted away.
The people who were traveling with him fell silent when they saw this scene, and Gu Wang walked forward.
The man heard the voice and turned around. "I didn't expect to see a companion in this deep forest. Brother..."
He was a little surprised to see what Gu Wang and the others were wearing, but he didn't say anything. He just said, "If you don't mind, why don't you sit down and warm yourself by the fire?"
Gu Wang imitated him and bowed rudely, then asked, "Where are you and your wife going?"
Man: "Well, it's embarrassing to say the least."
"I'm the head chef at Baiweilou. The old owner passed away years ago, and the new owner took over. He's not happy with me, and there have been a lot of setbacks. Now I can't stay in the main building of Baiweilou anymore, so the new owner asked me to move to a branch building. I have no choice but to take my wife and leave."
The man sighed, "Fortunately, the young shopkeeper was kind enough to lend me a carriage and a driver before I left. Otherwise, the journey would be so long, and I wouldn't know what to do."
Gu Wang glanced around and asked him, "Where is the driver?"
The man replied, "He had walked this way several times before. He said there was a water source nearby and went to get some for us."
Gu Wang didn't say anything else, and the people behind him also fell silent.
A local staff member from Jiguang Province whispered, "Baiweilou...is that the Baiweilou I know? This place is very famous here, said to be a century-old shop, and yet something like this happened."
Gu Wang looked at the man's face—pale complexion and black lips—and asked him, "Did you drink the water?"
The man was puzzled. "The water man hasn't come back yet, how can I drink... That's not right..."
A look of pain appeared on his face, and a picture seemed to flash through his mind. The honest-looking driver returned with a bamboo tube. He took it and first gave it to the pregnant woman to drink, then took a sip himself, and then...
The scene in front of me suddenly changed.
At night, a violent storm was about to come, and the bonfire on the ground was blown all over the place, casting eerie shadows, twisted like poisonous snakes.
The woman's cries of pain could be heard from far away, but unfortunately, there was no one here. "My child... Save my child... It hurts so much..."
Black poisonous blood flowed from beneath her.
Blood oozed from the man's mouth and nose as he desperately clung to the driver's feet. A sudden realization struck him: it was the young shopkeeper. Why... He pleaded, "It doesn't matter if you want my life, I'll give it to you, but please don't hurt my wife. Please spare her life..."
The driver, who had been quiet and taciturn all the way, kicked him away fiercely. "The young shopkeeper has ordered that neither of you two will survive! So that you know that every wrong has its perpetrator and every debt has its creditor. Don't blame me if you go to hell!"
He watched coldly as the couple wailed on the ground for half the night and eventually lost their voices.
The rainstorm finally came. The driver dug a hole casually, buried the two men, and drove away in the carriage.
The innocent couple who died had no idea how long they slept in this cold and dark place, and they even forgot that they were dead.
The sound of chanting sutras could be heard: "On the day of the Eighth Festival, chant this sutra. When merits are fulfilled and virtues are achieved, one will ascend to the Pure Land..."
The illusion dissipated, and the two ghosts finally revealed their true appearance... The male ghost was bleeding from all seven orifices, and his lips and nails were black; the female ghost finally raised her face, with a pair of bloodshot eyes and bloodstains on her skirt.
Her stomach gradually deflated, and the child was gone when she was poisoned.
The male ghost was stunned for a long time, "So I'm already dead... Already dead..."
Gu Wang slowly opened his eyes and turned around, and several masters nodded at him.
He said to the male ghost, "Yes, you are already dead, and you have become a ghost here. Do you want to come with me?"
The man was stunned and asked, "Where to go?" He looked at himself and thought, "Is it impossible to reincarnate in this state?"
Gu Wang: "Of course, you are still obsessed with it, so reincarnation is impossible. We are traveling with Buddhist and Taoist masters. If you want to follow them, you have to go back and suppress it in front of the altar to be influenced by the incense."
"If you come with me..." Gu Wang thought for a moment, "How about I open a restaurant for you?"
The male ghost was stunned. "What restaurant?"
The more Gu Wang thought about it, the more he felt that there was a way. What the tourists in their amusement park were most dissatisfied with was that there was no place to eat.
Although there are snack stalls outside the amusement park, snacks are not meals after all. After a day of fun, tourists also want to sit down and have a proper meal.
Gu Wang: "I'll open a restaurant specifically for you, but it will serve food to strangers. You'll be the manager and chef, and your wife will be the assistant. You'll have the final say in the restaurant, and I won't be involved in the management. As for wages, it'll be according to..."
Before he could finish, the male ghost said firmly: "I'll go!"
He bowed deeply and said, "Thank you for your appreciation, boss. I will do my best to work hard!"
He was not an ungrateful person. The reason he had a disagreement with the shopkeeper was that the shopkeeper replaced the purchasing person with his own, who enriched himself and replaced the raw materials with inferior ones.
For the sake of Baiweilou's century-old reputation, he confronted the man in front of the shopkeeper, but ended up being secretly hated by the shopkeeper.
When he died, he was thinking, how great it would be if the boss could trust him... Now, a boss who can trust him and use him has fallen from the sky, so of course he will rush to curry favor with him.
Gu Wang smiled so much that his eyes curved up, "No thanks, no thanks."
I didn’t expect to get a chef for free!
Being able to become the head chef of Baiweilou at such a young age and making the young shopkeeper so afraid that he not only drives the chef away but also kills him, shows that his cooking skills are at least impeccable.
Gu Wang happily put the couple into the requiem bottle.
When he turned around, he saw that several masters were looking at him with strange expressions.
The old shaman said slowly: "My friend, you, you... you can't feed food to strangers. You will be responsible if something goes wrong..." He gestured to look at the staff.
Gu Wang was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "You misunderstood."
He introduced his amusement park and finally invited them to come and play.
The woman in the purple robe smiled and said, "That sounds good. I'll go take a look someday."
After the earthbound spirit was taken away, the yin energy at the original place dissipated, revealing its true appearance.
Everyone in the group was stunned, "This is..."
Behind the depression, where there was originally a towering tree, a huge stone statue appeared.
This stone statue is ten meters tall. It looks like a human, but also like some kind of animal, but there is no trace of human carving at all.
More importantly, the stone statue seemed to be contaminated by something. Half of its body was covered with sticky, black, and dirty traces like oil, and the traces were still spreading to the other side at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Gu Wang immediately noticed the difference in the stone statue: "This is a divine fetus!"
“It’s a divine fetus!”
Gu Wang and the old shaman spoke at the same time.
The team leader began to gasp. A divine fetus... a divine fetus... In Tiancui Mountain, there was actually a divine fetus being conceived, and it had already been contaminated...
Gu Wang was afraid that he would faint, so he comforted him, "Don't be afraid. Although it is still in the process of being conceived, it is not possible to successfully conceive in this Dharma-Ending Age without thousands of years."
The old shaman also said: "And this must be the mountain god that was born here. In order to protect the mountain, it is reluctant to draw too much spiritual power, so the speed of birth will naturally be slower."
The team leader breathed a sigh of relief and asked, "What are these black things? Can they be removed?"
This thing looks very ominous!
An old Taoist priest who was traveling with us closed his eyes and calculated for a few seconds, "It must be some kind of evil thing that can pollute the divinity. I want to get rid of it..."
The old Taoist priest continued to calculate, and suddenly his face turned pale and he vomited blood. "If you want to get rid of it, you need to strengthen the divine power of the divine fetus to fight against the evil."
The black stains are now covering half of the stone statue. The abilities of the two sides are increasing and decreasing, which can enhance the energy of the divine fetus, and the stains are naturally forced out.
The leader scratched his head again, "How can we increase it?"
Suddenly, the stone statue over there trembled a few times, and the black stains spread even faster!
Gu Wang frowned, "Someone is controlling this! Could this be the work of that sorcerer?"
"It's possible!" said the team leader. "When we were investigating this sorcerer, we discovered that he had a clear goal of heading to Jiguang Province. At the time, we suspected that he had companions in Jiguang Province, but we never found them. Now it seems that he is looking for this divine fetus."
The purple-robed woman said coldly, "In that case, we must not let him succeed."
The leader sighed, "Masters, is there anything you can do? If I need anything, I can request support now."
The masters all frowned and thought.
Suddenly, the stone statue began to shake again, and this time the shaking did not stop. The black stain spread faster and faster...
The old shaman suddenly opened his eyes, waved the copper bell in his hand, and a green aura flew towards the stone statue, trying to help it.
Unexpectedly, the black stain seemed to have eyes. It suddenly stretched out a piece, blocked the spiritual energy, swallowed it, and spit out a black light that bounced back.
Gu Wang stepped forward to block the black light. The old shaman paused, his face pale as he spoke, "That sorcerer is not right. He has discovered us and wants to end the battle quickly."
Gu Wang pursed his lips and said nothing. Something was wrong. So many masters on his side hadn't noticed the other party, yet the other party had actually discovered them first... Unless the other party was the reincarnation of an evil god, it was impossible for him to have such a high level of cultivation.
The stone statue was still shaking, and black mist was spreading out from the black stains. Wherever the black mist went, all the plants withered, and the insects in the grass were turned into powder before they could escape.
The old Taoist priest and the purple-robed woman stepped forward and together with Gu Wang blocked the black fog.
However, the black mist spun in front of the three of them and suddenly rushed towards Gu Wang. It seemed that because of his young age, they guessed that he was the one with the lowest cultivation level among the group.
Gu Wang smiled coldly, raised his hand and cast a talisman, and the black fog in front of him dissipated.
But more black fog rushed towards him.
A cold voice echoed over the woods. "I see a power within you that doesn't belong to you. You're troubled, aren't you? Hehehe... If you lose control and accidentally kill these old guys, it will be very interesting..."
The black fog wrapped around Gu Wang like a snake.
Gu Wang's expression turned cold, "Then I'll kill you first, old thing!"
Under the pull of the spirits of people from all over the world, the Yin energy suddenly erupted.
Gu Wang really couldn't control the Yin energy now, but it was not a problem to make them avoid a certain direction.
The Yin energy exploded like black smoke, but it accurately avoided the people traveling with it.
The purple-robed woman curiously reached out and picked up a wisp of Yin Qi. "Hmm, very interesting."
Gu Wang felt helpless, wondering why the people protected by his Yin energy were so unreliable. Should he be thankful that his sister didn't take a bite?
The cold voice was also surprised. "Humph, you're lucky... No, something's wrong. What's going on?"
Gu Wang also discovered that after the Yin energy erupted, a strong suction force came from the stone statue!
Then, he felt that the stone statue was swallowing his Yin energy in big gulps, and some spiritual consciousness was connected to him.
That consciousness was somewhat kind, yet also somewhat mischievous, like an old naughty boy...
He heard the voice say, "Good boy, I finally waited for you. I am so tired!"
He continued to swallow a few more mouthfuls and sighed comfortably, "Enough, enough..."
Gu Wang felt the divine consciousness caressing his head, and the voice said, "Grandpa's tombstone should be carved into a peach. The monkeys in the mountains love to give me peaches the most, haha!!"
And then——
A golden light as dazzling as the sun flashed by, and Gu Wang couldn't help but close his eyes, feeling that the spiritual consciousness dissipated like mist.
Before he could even grieve, he felt a surge of warm and compassionate energy rushing into his body, not only warming his flesh and blood, enhancing his spiritual power, but also helping to suppress the Yin Qi...
In the eyes of his companions, Gu Wang suddenly burst out with negative energy. After the statue absorbed a few breaths of negative energy, it suddenly flashed with a fierce golden light.
Then, the stone statue and the black stain cracked at the same time, as if they were destroyed together, and the remaining ball of light rushed directly into Gu Wang's chest.
In mid-air, the voice said angrily: "No——"
Gu Wang opened his eyes, and a golden light flashed in his eyes.
He felt that something was different about himself: his spiritual power was stronger, his body was lighter... and more importantly, his spiritual awareness was broader.
He didn't look back at the broken stone statue, but just looked around coldly in a certain direction: "Get out!"
A stream of spiritual power swung over.
There was no movement in the dark forest.
Just when the masters thought Gu Wang had made a mistake, a strong stench of decay spread out. Leaves rustled, and something flew out.
Looking closely, it turned out to be a human head with a bag of something hanging underneath... intestines.
A master in a black robe said with an ugly expression: "Fei Tou Man."
The author has something to say:
At this moment, Lu Wu stood at the entrance of the amusement park, tearing petals: He misses me, he doesn’t miss me, he misses me…
Master Gu: Busy, don’t Q.
I started writing early today, but the renovations upstairs were so noisy that I couldn't continue. I wanted to go upstairs and start a fight! (I didn't, I didn't dare. QAQ)
I forgot whether I mentioned it before. The scriptures are all from Taoist scriptures. I have made up some adaptations. Some chapters are not marked with citations. I will mark them here (after typing this sentence, I feel like I have said it before). Thanks to the little angels who voted for me or irrigated nutrient solution during 2022-06-13 11:03:04-2022-06-14 21:52:12——
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