Chapter 99
Although she thought so, she didn't say it out loud.
After inquiring about the specific location of the Lin family's old house, the four of them bid farewell to the worried Lin's father and mother and embarked on a journey to the mysterious Lin family's old house.
The old house is located in a remote mountain area. It is far more desolate and gloomy than the forest where they live, and it exudes a suffocating sense of oppression and ominousness.
A chill and oppression that penetrated deep into the bones enveloped me heavily. There was no sound, and it was terrifyingly dead silent.
"This is it..." Lu Yinzhou lowered his voice and glanced around.
Qin Yu couldn't help but shudder, subconsciously moving closer to Meng Mian. Ning Yuan also tensed up, his face turning even paler, but the look he gave Lin Ruo was remarkably firm.
Lin Ruo stood at the front. She could clearly feel the resentment and death in this place. This was the source of the curse!
Carefully, I walked through the half-collapsed red stone gate and stepped into the courtyard of the old house.
As soon as I stepped into the courtyard, a chilling wind swept up! It carried a bone-piercing chill and a thick resentment, making it nearly impossible to stand still. On the wind, countless sobs and wails seemed to echo.
"Ah!" Qin Yu screamed in fear, clutching Meng Mian's arm tightly. Ning Yuan's expression also changed suddenly, and he subconsciously clenched his fist. Lu Yinzhou immediately protected Lin Ruo behind him, his eyes as sharp as a knife.
Lin Ruo's brow furrowed. She could see more clearly than anyone else! The gloomy wind was filled with translucent gray shadows! They bared their fangs and claws, attempting to pounce on the living and absorb their vitality!
Lin Ruo snorted coldly, quickly forming seals with her hands in front of her chest. A glint of light flickered at her fingertips, and she muttered a spell. Then, a soft golden light instantly spread out from her center, enveloping the group.
The golden light seemed to have the power of purification. The cold wind hit the light shield, making a crackling sound. Most of the twisted wronged souls disappeared in an instant, and the sound suddenly weakened a lot.
"Follow me, don't leave here," Lin Ruo growled, maintaining the golden seal as he headed towards the dark gate of the main house. Lu Yinzhou followed closely behind, followed closely by Ning Yuan, Qin Yu, and Meng Mian.
Pushing open the main door, an even more decayed atmosphere hit me. It wasn't the hall I'd imagined, but a deep, endless corridor lined with cobwebs. Closed doors lined both sides of the corridor.
They walked cautiously along the corridor, their footsteps echoing clearly in the dead silence. After about ten minutes, they still saw the same door they had walked through. Qin Yu couldn't help but whisper, "Are we... just going in circles?"
Lu Yinzhou stopped, frowning. He then tried to carve a mark on the wall. The group continued forward. However, not long after, they suddenly discovered that the mark had reappeared on the wall ahead.
"Is this a ghost wall?" Ning Yuan took a breath.
"Not entirely." Lin Ruo glanced around sharply, "The space is distorted and superimposed with illusions. The people who built this place are vicious." She closed her eyes, concentrated her mind, mobilized the little spiritual power she had left, formed seals with her hands again, and muttered to herself.
Then, a silver beam of light shot out from her fingertips, splitting the void in front of her. The scene before her eyes began to distort and blur. Faintly, there seemed to be a sound of something breaking.
As the space calmed, the scene changed. The endlessly repeating corridors vanished, and they found themselves standing in the center of an empty, dusty hall. An unholy aura permeated the air. They had indeed been standing still, trapped by an invisible force.
Directly in front of the hall was a tightly closed stone door. Beneath it, several dried, blackened bloody handprints were imprinted! The handprints were distorted, as if their owners had experienced immense pain and struggle before death.
Just as they approached the stone gate to take a closer look, a faint voice came over. The voice was filled with venom, repeating over and over again: "Die... all must die... curse... the Lin family... the bloodline shall be cut off..."
"Ugh..." Qin Yu clutched his head in pain. Ning Yuan and Meng Mian also turned pale, as did Lu Yinzhou.
"Don't listen, this is resentment." Lin Ruo noticed it, turned around and looked at the four people and shouted sternly, but her face was also extremely ugly. Then she bit her tongue and began to form seals again. The red light quickly spread out and swept across the entire hall!
The vicious words stopped, and Qin Yu and others felt their minds clear up, and the nauseating dizziness disappeared instantly.
However, at the moment the whisper disappeared, the stone door slowly opened.
There is darkness behind the door, and a faint light is visible deep inside the door.
Lin Ruo wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth, her eyes solemn. She knew the answer lay right there. She took a deep breath and said solemnly to the four people behind her, "Follow me closely. No matter what you see or hear, don't leave me more than three steps away!"
She took the lead and stepped in. Lu Yinzhou followed without hesitation. Ning Yuan, Qin Yu, and Meng Mian looked at each other, suppressed their fear, gritted their teeth, and followed in resolutely.
The scene inside the house was not as shabby as the outside. On the contrary, it was extremely luxurious. The tables were arranged very neatly, as if someone lived there.
The five people continued to move forward, and what came into view was a study. When they pushed open the door of the study, Lin Ruo's feeling became stronger and stronger. The secret of the curse must be here.
She turned to look at the four of them and pointed to the side. Perhaps it was a tacit understanding they'd developed through practice, but they all understood what she meant and began to search.
Lin Ruo also began searching, and finally found an ancient scroll made of special animal skin in a very hidden secret compartment. The scroll recorded the secrets of the Lin family's ancestors' rise to power and the origin of the curse that brought about the catastrophic disaster.
Lin Ruo flipped through the pages from front to back with trembling hands, and when she finally saw the name of the ancestor of metaphysics who was portrayed as a god or demon and who single-handedly created the Lin family curse, she felt like she was struck by lightning, and she froze in place, her face instantly turning as pale as snow!
This name... was the name of her most respected master in her previous life, who was like a father to her.
How could he? How could this be?
"Master... Master? How could it be..." Lin Ruo was extremely shocked. He staggered back a step, almost unable to breathe. Why was it him?
"What's wrong?" Qin Yu was the first to notice that something was wrong with her and immediately ran to her and asked.
Lin Ruo shook her head slightly, clenching the scroll in her hand. Wasn't she transported into a book? How could she still have her master? All of this filled her with confusion, but she knew that now was not the time to think about it. The most important thing now was to find a way to break the curse.
She lowered her head and flipped through the scroll. At the end of the scroll, written in blood-red handwriting was the only way to break the curse: only the life of a direct descendant of the Lin family could change the curse and gain peace.
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