Chapter 191 Until He Met You
The mummy was severely dehydrated, and only the human shape and bones could be barely seen. Its limbs were stretched out and suspended in the air, with its empty eyes and big mouth facing the ground, which was very horrifying.
The silver wire connects the energy ball, the dummy and the mummy, continuously transmitting energy to the mummy.
"Ah, let me introduce you." The Grand Master pointed enthusiastically at the beams, "This is Prince Zheng of our previous dynasty."
"Prince Zheng in the ancient tomb of Tailing?!" Hearing these words, Xu Chuchu suddenly recalled many things.
In order to help Shao Mingjie investigate a tomb robbery case, she and Xiao Yu once sneaked into a huge underground ancient tomb in Tailing. Later, they discovered that the tomb belonged to a prince named Zheng from the previous dynasty.
Prince Zheng also left some words on the wall of the tomb...what were they?
"The child of destiny, the reincarnation of an evil spirit." Xu Chuchu recalled and muttered aloud.
She looked at the mummy floating above her head and suddenly realized: "Are you trying to resurrect him?!"
A great state teacher of the dynasty actually resurrected the prince of the previous dynasty at the feet of the emperor!
The Grand Master chuckled again: "You indeed found quite a few clues in the ancient tomb."
"You're crazy!" Xu Chuchu said, "The dead cannot be resurrected. Even if you force your soul to be resurrected, it will just be a walking corpse. It doesn't have normal human thinking and can't even be called a human!"
"Ah, no, no." The Grand Master shook his head and offered a pious Buddhist salute toward the corpse. "You don't know Prince Zheng yet. He was a great physiognomist in his lifetime, his understanding of Buddhism unprecedented and unparalleled. He was once the closest person in our Buddhist community to achieving instant enlightenment... Unfortunately, he fell short in the end, his physical body annihilated, and he can only wait for future generations to awaken him."
"Are you kidding me?" Xu Chuchu retorted. "Buddhism emphasizes salvation. After death, the soul rests in peace and enters the six realms of reincarnation! What will you bring by resurrecting an evil spirit? Death, plague, and disaster!"
"This is the narrowness of your Taoism." said the Grand Master.
Xu Chuchu rolled her eyes. The old man still knew how to drag people down.
"My Buddhist sect has worked hard to resurrect Prince Zheng for generations," he continued. "Our predecessors have made countless attempts, and finally, my generation has found the perfect method for resurrection. Resurrection requires a huge amount of energy, and it cannot be achieved through human cultivation alone. We can only refine the soul."
At this point, he sighed sadly: "I chant sutras every day to pray for these souls, hoping they will be liberated soon. They sacrificed their lives for the great cause, and it is glorious for them."
"There's no salvation at all." Xu Chuchu shook her head. "People whose souls have been scattered don't even have the chance to reincarnate."
She also thought of Chen Zhaozhi, the guy who was still waiting stupidly to be brought back to be the emperor.
Little did he know that the Grand Master already had another ruler of the world in his mind.
"I won't argue with you about your Buddhist teachings anymore," Xu Chuchu said. "I just want to ask you, what does what you did have to do with Xiao Yu? Why are you torturing him?"
"That kid Xiao Yu? He is also the key to the resurrection process." The Grand Master walked to the side of Xiao Yu's dummy and straightened its slightly tilted body.
"Prince Zheng is a rare serpent-scaled anaconda, a rare creature found only once in a thousand years. His body bears snake markings, not the traditional dragon markings. To revive him, we must find a body with the same snake markings as a medium."
"Serpentine patterns are originally mutated dragon patterns. For this reason, I pledged my loyalty to the royal family and became a Grand Master. I wanted to see if the royal family, where dragon patterns often appear, would mutate into useful snake patterns."
Xu Chuchu continued: "So you have your eyes on Xiao Yu."
"No, no." The Grand Master actually denied it. "The Xia Dynasty's royal family has already declined by the time of the current emperor. There are more than a dozen brothers, and none of them have dragon markings, let alone serpent markings. To prove that the dragon markings weren't lost in his generation, the current emperor sought out several talented female physiognomists to carry on the family line. He even ordered me to capture a shapeshifting female fox demon, control her, and place her on the dragon bed, hoping to test the half-human, half-demon combination... but it didn't work. The Crown Prince, the Second Prince, Zhaozhi... they still don't have dragon markings."
"Until Xiao Yu was born," he said, "a baby born with dragon markings."
"Impossible!" Xu Chuchu blurted out, "I've seen his fate, it's a golden-scaled anaconda, not a dragon!"
"I changed it for him." The Grand Master said lightly.
Xu Chuchu's scalp tingled when she heard this: "You...you are simply not a human!"
Xiao Yu should have been a child of destiny born with dragon patterns, but because the Grand Master changed his fate, he contracted a strange disease and endured so many years of pain and inferiority.
The Grand Master was unfazed by Xu Chuchu's accusations and continued, "I believe you know how difficult it is to change your fate, young lady, so I don't need to elaborate."
"But the ending disappointed me. The snake pattern I gained from changing my fate didn't inspire any evil thoughts in Xiao Yu's heart."
"He has evil thoughts in his heart, but he never lets them out. When faced with bullying and humiliation from others, he doesn't know how to resist and only keeps avoiding them."
"Hey, Xiao Yu, you need to be a real man and stand up. Hiding all the time will only make others more aggressive... I hinted at him, found someone to provoke him, and tried everything, but nothing worked."
"He couldn't even unleash half of the power of a perfectly good snake pattern. Back then, Prince Zheng relied on the snake pattern to become the most powerful physiognomist... but it's become a burden to Xiao Yu."
"Such snake patterns are not strong enough to support being a medium. I tried many times and failed. In the end, I gave up and let it go."
"Until..." He smiled gently at Xu Chuchu, "I knew you existed."
Xu Chuchu's heart skipped a beat: "What do you mean?"
"Don't you know it yourself? You are the only one who can arouse Xiao Yu's evil intentions." The Grand Master explained, "Because of love, he desires you; because he wants to monopolize you, he becomes jealous; because he cannot monopolize you, he becomes impatient."
"Of course, these emotions are what a normal man would experience when he meets the one he loves, but the snake pattern can infinitely amplify these emotions."
Xu Chuchu pursed her lips and said, "So you asked your disciple Chen Zhaozhi to keep showing his affection to me, and then provoke Xiao Yu?"
"I don't want to use such a despicable method." The Grand Master spread his hands innocently, "But this is the most effective and convenient way."
"I also prepared these." He pointed to the bottles and jars behind him. "To be honest, when Xiao Yu was younger, he was much more obedient and well-behaved than Zhao Zhi. I like him very much and don't want him to suffer so much. It's just that his willpower is too strong. Without a large dose, it won't be stimulated at all. It's really incredible that he can hold out for so long under the triple blessing of the snake pattern, the altar, and the curse."
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