"No, I won't agree! Kui Ziyu, is this the solution you spent three years finding?"
Faced with Old Lady Wang's questioning, Kui Ziyu lowered her head.
He secluded himself for three years and consulted the oracle several times, but ultimately found no solution to the calamity that befell Kui Kui.
It wasn't until he sacrificed his own lifespan that he divined the meaning of "snake coffin".
He looked up and said, "Mom, the snake coffin is Kui Kui's only chance to survive."
"To live? When a person dies, they are put in a coffin. The snake immortal made a mistake and went mad, which is why he was sealed in a coffin."
"Not to mention how dangerous the snake demon is, with thousands of snakes in the coffin, how can one survive inside? And this snake coffin is not something ordinary people can come into contact with."
Yan Shi'an and Kui Ziyu both knew that the snake coffin was dangerous, with a nine-out-of-ten chance of death, but even if there was only a sliver of hope, she had to give it a try!
"Mom, there should be a snake coffin in the Liu family's immortal temple. We can borrow it from them."
Old Mrs. Wang glared at her fiercely and said irritably, "So that's why you two suddenly came!"
"You don't know how to cherish children who aren't around, do you? What's the difference between being devoured by a hundred ghosts and being devoured by ten thousand snakes?"
Yan Shi'an's eyes were slightly red, and before the tears could fall, Old Lady Wang's angry rebuke came down on him again.
"Stop crying! What's the use of crying? If you knew this would happen, you wouldn't have done it in the first place!"
Grandma Wang closed her eyes and forced herself to calm down.
After a long while, she opened her eyes and said, "Kui Ziyu, I don't understand those things from the Southern School. Tell me honestly, how confident are you?"
"Thirty percent. Kui Kui has the destiny of a snake immortal, so the snake spirit in the snake coffin might not necessarily harm Kui Kui. As long as the snake demon isn't alerted, and the snake coffin conceals Kui Kui's aura, we can survive the Night of a Hundred Ghosts and break through this calamity!"
"Mom, the Ghost Festival is coming soon. If the spirits are willing to invite a coffin, you can see if those little ghosts still dare to come when the snake coffin is there."
“KuiKui was a good child, she shouldn’t have died so young. I can’t bear to see KuiKui die like this, and I can’t bear to see KuiKui put into the snake coffin. Let me think about it some more.”
"Kui Kui, what's wrong?" Wang Xingwang looked at Kui Kui, whose expression was blank, with swollen eyes from crying.
Just now, Xiaobai repeated the entire conversation between Grandma Wang and the other two to Kui Kui's ears.
She blinked her big, dark eyes and murmured, "Wang Xingwang, I might be dying soon."
Wang Xingwang's tears, which he had finally managed to stop, suddenly burst forth again.
"No! I've already lost my grandfather, I don't want you to die, I don't want you to!"
Kui Kui snapped out of her daze, smiled, and said, "I'll try my best to survive. We'll still watch cartoons and play games together!"
She didn't know when she would die, but her grandmother had said that everyone dies, so she wasn't too afraid.
From a young age, she could see things that others couldn't, and she knew that death wasn't necessarily the end.
This could be the beginning.
If a ghost gets a chance and cultivates diligently, it can become a ghost immortal.
If she were to truly die one day, she would become a spirit of smoke, protecting her grandmother alongside the immortals.
If there is any hope of survival, she will try her best.
"Don't cry. Your eyes are already small, and now you can't see anything at all."
Wang Xingwang didn't want to cry, but he was too sad.
"If you don't cry, I'll tell you a secret! A secret that even my grandma doesn't know."
Curiosity overcame everything, and Wang Xingwang squinted at her.
"None of the kids in the village want to play with me, you're the first one. From now on, we're good friends, and I'll protect you."
Wang Xingwang felt a little pleased, but said aloud, "What kind of secret is this... Besides, I'm a man, it's my job to protect you."
"Alright, a real man keeps his word. You're not allowed to cry anymore."
"Come on, I'll take you to bed."
Wang Xingwang nodded and followed Kui Kui into the backyard.
The mourning hall was guarded by Wang Youcai and his wife, while Old Lady Wang and Kui Ziyu and his wife had something to discuss.
The two younger ones were put together.
Kui Kui spread out the quilt and pulled Wang Xingwang to bed with her.
Before long, Wang Xingwang's snoring could be heard.
She gradually drifted off to sleep.
Perhaps because she overheard the adults talking, she dreamed of a coffin crawling with snakes. It was quite eerie.
After thinking about it all night, Grandma Wang finally made up her mind.
She lit incense and reported the matter of the snake coffin to the immortals.
A middle-aged man, about forty years old and dressed in a blue robe, appeared in front of Old Lady Wang.
It was none other than Master Chang, who had possessed Old Lady Wang's body before; his true form was a green snake.
Master Chang's skin was sickly pale, and his eyes were full of helplessness and regret.
"Sweetie, I, Chang Huaiyuan, watched you grow up. I would never harm you. Why won't you listen to what I'm saying? Don't get involved in Kui Kui's affairs anymore. I won't help with the snake coffin either!"
Standing beside Master Chang was a beautiful woman of about thirty years old, wearing a white dress, with alluring eyes.
“Sweetie, the Chang family is a lineage of the Willow Immortals, and they are good at divination. Just listen to what they say.”
This is another deity worshipped by Old Lady Wang, Hu Sannai, also known as Hu Meier, whose true form is a white fox.
"Kui Kui is my granddaughter, I can't just stand by and watch her die! Please, Master Chang, grant my request!" Old Mrs. Wang said, kowtowing three more times.
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