Jiuchen quietly packed his bags and returned to Xingyu Village, where he took the position of wizard.
Three years passed in a flash.
Jiuchen's abilities as a wizard gradually became apparent. He could not only predict good and bad fortune through the cracks in tortoise shells, but he could also communicate with forest spirits using blood. He could even set up an altar and chant scriptures to bring rain during droughts.
Nowadays, Xingyu Village is crowded with people coming from all directions to seek medical treatment and advice.
Some people brought their seriously ill relatives to ask her to use acupuncture to exorcise evil spirits, some people held gold and silver to ask her to predict business routes, and even government officials came to her with secret cases, asking her to solve the unsolved cases with witchcraft and incantations.
During these days, Ali stayed with Jiuchen every day, grinding medicinal materials, organizing medical records, and helping out.
The fresh flowers picked in the early morning would always appear in the celadon vase on her desk on time.
Sometimes it is camellia with dewdrops, sometimes it is wild chrysanthemums of various colors.
That night, Ali suddenly pushed the door open and saw Jiuchen flipping through a yellowed ancient book.
He was horrified when he saw the contents of the book. "Senior Sister! This is a sorcery that uses living people to increase the power of witchcraft!"
Jiuchen closed the book and said gently, "I'm just studying it, I won't actually use it."
"But this is too dangerous..." Ali was worried.
"I promise you, I won't watch it anymore."
Jiuchen put the book into the cabinet and said, "By the way, can you help me pick snow lotus in the snowy mountains? When you come back... we'll get married."
Ali was ecstatic, "Really? I'll go home and pack up now, and go early tomorrow morning!"
Looking at Ali's receding back, the smile on Jiuchen's face gradually disappeared.
She took out the ancient book and whispered, "The night of the nine stars aligning...is finally here."
Two days later, the entire Xingyu Village was shrouded in a strange red light.
The villagers fell one after another, and their blood gathered into strange patterns.
"stop!"
The Imperial Master broke in with his guards, followed by General Han and two deputy generals.
But the scene before them made everyone freeze in place.
Dozens of villagers' bodies lay in a pool of blood, and Jiuchen was standing in the center of the blood formation with his long hair flying.
"Finally here?"
Jiuchen turned around with a crazy smile on his face, "Master Imperial Master, are you satisfied with the surveillance we've sent over the past three years?"
The Imperial Master's hands trembled. "They're not monitoring you... I arranged for them to protect you."
"Protect me?"
Jiuchen suddenly laughed out loud, "Watching me cure one patient after another, watching me accept Ali's pursuit, are you very pleased?"
She yanked open her collar, revealing the hideous curse pattern on her chest. "But do you know that I torture myself with forbidden techniques every night? I work so hard to increase my witchcraft powers, just so that one day I can be worthy of you!"
The Imperial Master's face turned pale. "You are obviously living well."
"very good?"
Jiuchen's voice suddenly rose. "Ever since the day you chose to stay, my heart has been dead! I pretended to be hardworking and fall in love with Ali just to make you let your guard down!"
She pointed at the blood formation on the ground and said, "The blood of these ninety-nine villagers can give me enough sorcery power to match that of the Imperial Master... I had planned to find you after I succeeded."
The Imperial Master closed his eyes in agony. "I rejected you not because you weren't good enough... I shouldered the heavy responsibility of protecting the common people."
"Hahaha……"
Jiuchen's laughter stopped abruptly, and a hint of relief flashed in his eyes.
She reached into her arms tremblingly, as if to take something.
General Han's eyes flashed, and his sword was instantly unsheathed.
"don't want--!"
The Imperial Master's exclamation and the sound of the sword piercing flesh rang out simultaneously.
Jiuchen staggered backward, with glaring blood blooming on his chest.
A piece of paper slowly fell into her hand.
The Imperial Master caught the falling paper and saw that it was densely covered with prescriptions for regulating the heart meridian.
It was exactly the prescription he needed for his long-standing illness.
"Silly girl..."
He hugged the falling Jiuchen, and tears fell on her pale face.
Jiuchen chuckled in his arms: "Isn't this... exactly the result you wanted?"
She pressed her bloody fingers to the Imperial Master's heart, tears and hatred mingling in her eyes. "I want you. My family, for generations... has lived under the curse of 'love must kill the one you love'!"
Using her last bit of strength, she suddenly grabbed General Han's blade, blood gushing from her lips with every word she spoke.
"I curse your Han family... for eternity... and you will never get what you ask for!"
As the last word fell, her hands fell limply.
The prescription lightly covered her eyes that would never open again.
The Imperial Master hugged Jiuchen tightly, tears streaming down his face, muttering to himself, "If only... I had chosen to take you away..."
The picture gradually faded, and Ali slumped on the ground, his face as pale as paper.
Jiuchen looked down at him and sneered, "A-Li, those vows made to the wild flowers and snow lotus in the mountains, do you really think they were sincere? I was just using you."
Ali suddenly looked up, his eyes bloodshot. "Then what have I been up to in the past five hundred years? I've planned and schemed for you, my hands stained with blood, and in the end, I'm not even worthy of being a pawn?"
Jiuchen glanced at him with disdain, "You're not even a chess piece, just a container of the resentment I've been nurturing for five hundred years."
Ah Li stood up slowly, blood oozing from his throat. "Heh... I should have understood long ago. You need Gu Youran's body to accumulate good thoughts, the evil thoughts in me to gather resentment, and even more so, Shi Heng's heart blood, because he is the reincarnation of the Imperial Master. Only by combining these three can you be resurrected and have your wish fulfilled."
Jiuchen raised an eyebrow, "You're not stupid."
"Not only that," Ali looked her straight in the eyes, "you don't simply want to be resurrected. You want to become the 'curse itself', turning everyone Gu Youran has saved, everyone who loves her, and the power of faith within the Nine Star Ring into your puppets."
He turned to look at Shi Heng and said with a wry smile, "More importantly... you have to enjoy Shi Heng's love for Gu Youran."
Jiuchen agreed. She stared at Shi Heng's face with infatuated eyes. In a trance, she seemed to see the brilliant imperial teacher from five hundred years ago again.
His appearance today in a black suit overlapped with the image of the Chinese teacher in his memory wearing the ink-black robe.
"Even your impatient expression is the same as his back then..."
She stretched out her hand obsessively, wanting to touch Shi Heng's face, but he stepped back to avoid her.
She chuckled nonchalantly and turned her gaze to Gu Youran.
Jiuchen reached out to touch her veil, but was stopped by Shi Heng halfway.
She chuckled. "Why are you so nervous? I just want to say... the bride's eyes are so similar to mine back then."
Shi Heng's arm muscles suddenly tensed up, and he pulled Gu Youran into his arms.
This protective action caused a hint of gloom to flash in Jiuchen's eyes.
Shi Heng said calmly: "What exactly do you want to do?"
Jiuchen's eyes moved between the two of them, "Master Imperial Master, soon your wife and I will be able to become one..."
Shi Heng protected Gu Youran behind him, "Don't even think about it."
"So determined?"
Jiuchen tilted his head and suddenly changed his tone to sweet, "Why not let the bride choose for herself?"
She took a step forward, and her red skirt fluttered without wind.
"Gu Youran, would you like our bodies to merge into one?"
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