Can’t go out on the street during the day?
Xu Jiujun didn't understand, so he joked, "What's going on, sir? Is there something dirty going on during the day?"
"Hey, shh!" The old man quickly made a gesture to keep quiet and looked around, afraid of provoking something he shouldn't.
Seeing his expression, Xu Jiujun knew he was right, so he asked, "Can you tell me more, sir?"
"There's nothing to be ashamed of." The old man said, and motioned Xu Jiujun to follow him.
Xu Jiujun followed the old man back home. There was a middle-aged couple and a young man and woman in the house who looked like brother and sister.
Two men were doing handicrafts, and two women were doing needlework.
"Hey, grandpa, are you hungry? Do you want me to cook something for you?" The young girl stood up and asked when she saw the old man.
"Grandpa is not hungry. You guys go about your business. Prepare something delicious for lunch. Kill a chicken, duck, or goose to entertain this little brother."
"Okay, grandpa." The girl looked at Xu Jiujun with some curiosity. His skin was smoother and more delicate than hers. He didn't look like an old man at all, but he had a head full of white hair. He was a strange person.
"Little brother, please." The old man invited Xu Jiujun into the inner room.
The inner room was very simple, with only a wooden bed and a wooden table.
"Master, can you talk now?"
The old man didn't say anything. He just closed the door silently before saying, "Our village is a cursed village."
"During the daytime, people between the ages of fifteen and forty are absolutely not allowed to go out."
"Otherwise, at best, you could die suddenly, or at worst, your family would be affected."
"So weird?" Xu Jiujun was a little surprised. Is this an alternative Lone Star City?
Xu Jiujun immediately launched a comprehensive search using his spiritual sense, but unfortunately, after covering the entire village with his spiritual sense, he found nothing unusual.
This means that the situation is not the same as in Lone Star City.
[A curse has been detected in Huanxin Village. Quest issued: Break the curse of Huanxin Village.]
[Quest Reward: Mother-child Teleportation Array, Child Array: 100, Mother Array: 1.]
"Mother-child teleportation array? Does it mean two-way teleportation?"
[Yes, the final destination of the sub-arrays is the mother array.]
"It's really good. You can take it back and use it in the sect."
Just as Xu Jiujun finished talking to the system, he heard the old man speak.
"Isn't it?" The old man sighed and added, "And it's not just in the village, it's the same even outside."
“It all starts from the moment you step into this village.”
"Whether you are from the village or not."
"As soon as you come, this evil thing will happen to you!"
"Until you are no longer young, that is, until you are older than I said."
"You mean, from now on, I can no longer go out during the day?" Xu Jiujun's brows furrowed deeper and deeper.
"Right." The old man sighed again and said, "The meaning of not being able to go out is quite simple. It just means you can't be exposed outside the eaves."
"Even if it's just a moment, it can be fatal."
“…”
"Uncle, you just said, over how old?"
"Forty years old? What's wrong?" The old man was stunned. Did he just say something wrong?
"Uncle, how old do you think I am?" Xu Jiujun asked.
The old man looked at her carefully and said seriously, "If you don't look at the white hair, I'd estimate she's about twenty-five."
"Uncle, I'm over two hundred years old." Xu Jiujun said with a smile.
The old man looked clearly unconvinced, so Xu Jiujun asked, "Then why did nothing happen to me just now when I was walking down the street?"
"This..." The old man couldn't say it.
"Uncle, what's your name?"
"Zhou Guan."
"Everyone in our village has the surname Zhou."
"week?"
Xu Jiujun wondered if it was related to the ancestors in this village.
"When did this weird thing start?"
"My father said it started with our ancestors." Zhou Guan thought for a moment and continued, "It is said that they settled here because of the relationship between several ancestors."
"They say you just need to stay here for forty years."
"If you stay here for less than forty years, you will be tortured to death by this curse no matter where you go."
"Is there any record?" Xu Jiujun asked.
"Yes, at the village chief's house." Zhou Guan replied.
"I'll take you there."
Zhou Guan knew what Xu Jiujun was thinking, and at the same time he was thinking, what if what this young man said was true.
To be able to live for over 200 years and still look so young, he must be a god!
Maybe it can help break the curse on the village.
The two went out again and went to the village chief's house.
The village chief just returned home at this time. It was almost time for dinner, so it was important to eat.
"Old Guan, why are you here?" The village chief jokingly said, "You're known for never visiting unless there's something important to do."
"Tell me, what's going on this time?"
"Village chief, this young man said he wanted to see the records from that year." Zhou Guan didn't say hello and went straight to the point.
"Young man?" The village chief squinted his eyes at Xu Jiujun and asked, "How did he get out?"
"It's daytime!"
"he......"
Just as Zhou Guan was about to explain to the village chief, Xu Jiujun spoke up himself: "I am a Taoist practitioner and can help your village get rid of the curse."
"Practicing Taoism?" The village chief couldn't help but shake his head and laughed. "Decades ago, when I was still a child, there was a Taoist priest who claimed he could break the curse."
"But the final result was that the Taoist priest died, and along with the Taoist temple he left behind, everything was reduced to ashes."
"His disrespect has brought trouble upon the forces he supports."
"Why......"
Xu Jiujun just smiled when he heard that and didn't take it seriously. He was afraid of no one.
But in order to reassure the village chief, Xu Jiujun said, "It's okay. I'll just watch and won't take action rashly."
"Okay then." The village chief said and walked into the inner room. After a while, he came out with an old blue book in his hand.
“It’s all written in here.”
Taking the village chief's blue book, Xu Jiujun began to read it.
Three hundred million years before the New God Calendar, I traveled here with several junior brothers and sisters. Seeing the beautiful scenery and strong spiritual energy here, we practiced here for three hundred years.
During the three hundred years, two junior brothers and two junior sisters each got married and gave birth to six children.
The six descendants happened to be three boys and three girls, who later got married. The number of offspring continued to grow, but the younger brothers and sisters were greedy for pleasure and were unwilling to return to the sect.
I had no choice but to return to the sect alone to report. After hearing what I said, the sect master wanted to handle the affairs here personally. According to the sect master, he wanted to bring all the descendants here back to the sect, regardless of whether they had the talent for cultivation or not.
However, the four junior brothers and sisters were unwilling to go back. They did not want their descendants to suffer the pain of cultivation, so they refused the leader.
Seeing that his four junior brothers and sisters were so stubborn, the sect leader actually beat them to death!
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