Chapter 1
Thunder roared violently, one after another, and lightning tore through the sky, as if to tear apart the thick darkness and illuminate the world with light.
But the black clouds were like spilled ink, and soon the areas illuminated by the lightning would be dyed black again, and the black would be even darker.
Someone recorded the fierce battle in the sky into a video and posted it online: Which fellow Taoist is undergoing the tribulation?
Soon, countless "fellow Taoists" came to like, joke, and laugh under the video.
Little did they know that many great Taoist priests were terrified when they saw the lightning in the sky.
The president and elders of the Tianshi Association far away in Kyoto were alarmed. They looked at the thunder and lightning in the sky above Jiang City in horror, which looked even more terrifying than the legendary Nine-Nine Thunder Tribulations. They all used their best skills to calculate and divine, their brows furrowed tighter and their faces became more solemn.
A pale-haired old Taoist priest spat a mouthful of blood onto the compass and spoke in a hoarse voice with extreme horror, "Heaven's punishment has come upon the world. It must be the birth of the Ghost King! The world is in great danger!"
The crystal ball in the hands of the wrinkled medium shattered to the ground. She staggered a few times, and was only saved from collapse by the quick-witted disciples. Her face was filled with deep fear. "I saw it, a blood-red. That is the monstrous hatred that wants to annihilate all living things in the world! This is a ghost king who has returned with hatred for revenge!"
The others were anxious and worried, and they started discussing the matter one after another.
"The world has already cleared away so many grievances, how could such a powerful Ghost King be born again? We must send someone there immediately. We absolutely cannot let the Ghost King descend to wreak havoc on the world!"
"We also need to inform the Special Management Bureau. They've always wanted to control our Tianshi Association, and they've been making frequent moves recently. This time, let them take the lead and see what they can do. Humph! If they don't have the ability, they should just recognize their mistakes and go home to feed their children."
The Special Management Bureau, which was established only a few years ago, also monitored the abnormal lightning over Jiangcheng and received news from the Tianshi Association. It immediately dispatched a special affairs handling team to Jiangcheng: to defend the lives and safety of the people to the death and kill the Ghost King at all costs!
In Jiangcheng, on the streets with lightning, thunder and heavy rain, an old bus that looked a little mottled was moving quickly in the rain. From the bus came the screams of a woman, one louder than the other, each one urging the driver to drive faster and faster.
There were not many passengers in the car, and they were all very worried about the woman's condition. They kept cheering her up: We'll be at the hospital soon, hold on!
The woman was only seven months pregnant and shouldn't have given birth so early. But just as she was about to return home, something hit her foot hard, knocking her down, and blood immediately flowed from under her body.
A passing bus driver saw this and immediately stopped the bus. He and the other passengers lifted her into the bus and all agreed to send her to the hospital as quickly as possible.
Fortunately, it was raining heavily and there were few pedestrians on the road. The driver honked his horn all the way and ran through the traffic lights. The few vehicles on the road saw that the bus was in an emergency and quickly gave way.
Seeing that the hospital was just around the corner, the driver gradually felt relieved.
At this moment, a white car suddenly appeared on the opposite side, driving fast. No matter how the driver honked, the car seemed not to hear and rushed straight towards the bus.
The driver's eyes widened. As an experienced driver who had encountered all kinds of emergencies for many years, his mind suddenly went blank at this moment and he forgot that he could turn the steering wheel to avoid it.
The fashionable woman driving the car wasn't much better. Her face was pale, her body stiff and unresponsive. The heater in the car was turned up to maximum, but it felt as cold as a morgue.
She wanted to turn the steering wheel, but her hands seemed to be out of her control and she couldn't move them at all. Her feet seemed to be rooted to the accelerator.
"Hehehe!" The mini shaking Maitreya Buddha placed in front of the car shook its head happily, making shrill laughs, and its squinted eyes flashed an ominous red light.
No matter how stupid Sun Jiayuan was, he knew that he was being plotted against.
As the bus got closer, she lost all hope. She thought with a wry smile, "Perhaps she'll die miserably after this collision. Even if she survives, she'll be the target of widespread condemnation."
They would only say that the female driver had big breasts and was brainless, speeding in the rain, stepping on the accelerator instead of the brake, and crashing into a bus. Not only was she seeking her own death, but she also implicated a bus full of innocent people.
The mastermind behind this will definitely not give up and will disclose her identity. Then everyone will know that she is the heir of the Sun family and that she had just taken over the family company and became complacent when such a thing happened.
Her parents would be ashamed of having a daughter like her. They might even become ill from anger. The Sun family's company's equity would plummet, and the rival companies that had been eyeing them covetously would rush in like sharks smelling blood, trying to tear a piece of the Sun family's fat meat off...
And the ultimate beneficiary of all this will be...
"Sister, this is something I prayed for a long time. It has been blessed. Put it in your car. It will surely bless you with safe travels."
Her gaze moved from her brother's silly face to the weird smile of the mini Maitreya Buddha held in her silly brother's hands.
The despair of giving up calmed down again. She was absolutely certain that her foolish, second-generation rich brother was still thinking of relying on her to lie down and eat dividends. He would definitely not want to harm her! Someone must be taking advantage of him!
Perhaps it was out of a strong will to survive, or perhaps because she didn't want her naive and gullible brother to be accused of killing his sister, she actually mustered up some strength, controlled her hands, turned the steering wheel a little, and slightly changed the direction of the car, just enough to pass by the bus.
However, before she could feel relieved, something even more bizarre happened. The car turned its front end horizontally without slowing down, as if an invisible big hand had instantly turned the front end of the car so that the direction of the car remained in a straight line with the bus.
All this happened in an instant. At this time, the distance between the car and the bus was very close. The two drivers could see each other's pale, frightened and desperate faces through the lights.
Just as the two cars were about to collide, suddenly, two pale bony hands gently rested on the hoods of the two cars, and a white skeleton appeared between the two cars.
Miraculously, the two cars that were running madly suddenly stopped. Even the people inside the cars could not feel any inertia, as if the two cars had been stationary.
Rumble!
Thunder exploded, and a bolt of lightning struck violently, landing on the skeleton standing between the two cars. The lightning instantly ran through the two cars along the outstretched bone hands, and both cars were completely wrapped in lightning.
After the lightning disappeared, everyone in both cars was stunned. They had thought themselves doomed, but now not only were they safe and sound, but their entire bodies felt as if they had just received electromagnetic therapy, warm and comfortable.
Sun Jiayuan felt a sense of relief, the fatigue from days of overtime work gone, his shoulders relaxed, as if a heavy burden had been lifted. The miniature shaking Maitreya Buddha statue in the car also shattered into pieces.
They all subconsciously looked towards the middle of the two cars. The skeleton had disappeared, as if it was just a fleeting illusion.
Everyone in the two cars looked at each other in surprise and doubt, as there was only enough space for one person to stand between the two cars. They also looked at each other's frightened and confused expressions. For a moment, no one dared to move, and the air around them seemed to be still.
"Boom, boom, boom, boom."
There was a sudden knock on the car window. Sun Jiayuan turned her head abruptly and saw a young man standing outside the window. He was bending over, looking at her from outside the window with dark, emotionless eyes.
"Hello... miss, can you... give me a ride?" The man's voice was hoarse and his tone was a little strange. He spoke very slowly, making people mistakenly think for a moment that he had not spoken for a long time and had forgotten how to speak normally.
Sun Jiayuan forced himself to calm down and looked at him carefully. He saw that the man was tall and slender, wearing a slim black windbreaker. Sun Jiayuan could tell that this was a popular style among young people seven or eight years ago.
The man was extremely handsome and looked somewhat familiar. His features were deep and neat, with a pair of eyes that were more black than white. His eyes were deep and cold, not like those of a human.
Under the flickering lights, the crystal clear raindrops fell on the man's skin, making it look even paler and bloodless, giving people a stronger sense of inhumanity.
"Okay, okay." It's not that Sun Jiayuan is brave, in fact she is almost scared to death.
At this moment, a strange man suddenly appeared and asked to get on the bus. Everyone could see that he was abnormal. But she knew that if it weren't for this strange man who suddenly appeared, she would be dead now.
That's right, she thought it wouldn't be such a coincidence that two inhuman monsters suddenly appeared in a short moment. One of them suddenly appeared to save them, and then suddenly left, and then another one soon appeared and asked for a ride.
It is very likely that the skeleton that saved them just now is the mysterious man who wants to hitchhike.
Therefore, it is only right to give a ride to our savior.
The benefactor seems inhuman, with unclear intentions? That's fine, anyway, that's the worst that can happen.
After preparing himself mentally many times, after the man, still damp with sweat, got into the trunk of the car, Sun Jiayuan was able to calmly start the car and drive to the man's destination.
After the white car drove away, the people on the bus were still in shock until a loud baby cry broke the silence and woke everyone up.
Everyone came back to their senses, and the first thing they thought of was, "Where's the baby? I don't remember anyone carrying a baby on the bus."
The pregnant woman exclaimed, "Ah! It seems to be me! I, I, I gave birth! Why didn't I feel anything?"
Everyone was shocked and there was chaos in the car.
The driver also continued to drive quickly to the hospital.
After arriving at the hospital, the doctor examined the mother and the baby and was surprised. The baby was clearly born prematurely in July, and it looked tiny and thin, weighing less than five pounds. Babies like these are usually placed in an incubator, where their survival is uncertain.
But this baby is very healthy and full of energy. Its physical qualities are much better than those of full-term babies. Even the pregnant woman who fell and bled profusely is so healthy that she seems to have just had a bowel movement instead of giving birth to a baby.
Doctors called it a medical miracle.
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The white car arrived at its destination smoothly and stopped in front of an apartment building. The man thanked the car politely, got out of the car, and simply turned and walked towards the apartment building.
Sun Jiayuan mentally steeled himself, mustered up the courage to call him over, and said in a trembling voice, "Sir, thank you so much for saving my life. What's your name? Could you please leave your contact information so that my family and I can thank you later?"
The man hesitated, not answering the first question, but then gave the phone number that he had remembered so well after all these years. He then walked back toward the apartment building without looking back.
Sun Jiayuan's eyes lit up. He did not deny the man's life-saving grace. It seemed that he was indeed a benefactor.
Sun Jiayuan was daydreaming when he saw the mysterious and powerful man suddenly appear at the car window again.
Sun Jiayuan's heart skipped a beat nervously, and then he heard him ask in a much smoother voice, "Hey, look at me, do I look more like a human now? No, I mean a normal human, not the kind that would scare people by mistakenly thinking I'm a ghost."
Sun Jiayuan: ...
Seeing the uneasy look on the man's face, which was very similar to the look on her silly brother's face when he went out to see his sweetheart, Sun Jiayuan was suddenly not afraid anymore. So what if he was not a human? He was also her savior, and he seemed to be about the same age as her brother.
She smiled, a relaxed smile. "It looks fine. If only your eyes weren't so cold and your expression wasn't so stiff. Also, remember to keep your feet on the ground. A little mud on your shoes would make it look more natural."
“…”
Qi Yue, who thought he had been trying hard to act normal, realized that his feet had been floating. He felt a little embarrassed and quietly put his feet down.
Qi Yue, who believed that nothing was wrong, walked towards the apartment building again.
Sun Jiayuan secretly cheered him on, wishing him good luck and not scaring anyone.
As Qi Yue walked into the apartment building, he heard a "hiss~"
Suddenly, all the lights in the apartment building went out and it was plunged into darkness.
Sun Jiayuan: ...
It's hard not to be frightened by such special effects when he appears. I wonder who could have made the benefactor care so much about him.
She suddenly remembered that this apartment building was the residence of the artists under Xinchao Entertainment. She heard from her silly brother that there was an artist whom he hated and he participated in a supernatural variety show together. There will be a warm-up supernatural game live broadcast before the variety show starts at 12 o'clock tonight, and it will be around this time. I hope that poor artist was not scared by the benefactor!
When he looked up again, Sun Jiayuan found that the rain had stopped at some point. The sky, washed by the heavy rain, was cloudless. Even in the brightly lit big city, he could clearly see the twinkling Milky Way in the sky. The stars were shining brightly and hanging so low that it seemed as if he could touch them with his hand.
In Jiangcheng, countless people looked at this unprecedented wonder in amazement, and took out their mobile phone cameras to take photos and record videos frantically.
What is even more surprising is that the special armed forces and the heavenly masters who were summoned are already prepared to sacrifice and are on their way to Jiangcheng.
Didn't they say that the Heavenly Punishment would begin and the Ghost King would descend? Why did the Heavenly Punishment disappear so quickly? Where's the Ghost King? Why does it feel more like what netizens are saying about a Taoist friend successfully overcoming the tribulation?
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