Why would ordinary parents choose such a name?
Rong Yu's eyes darkened slightly, but his expression remained unchanged. He silently memorized the two words, and after a moment of silence, he said, "It's also the 'qi' in 'jiuqi'."
Geng Qi was taken aback, turned his head in surprise, and then smiled.
With his hands clasped behind his head, he leaned against a pillar and looked up at the bright moon hanging high in the sky.
The Nine Stars (九鬿) refer to the stars in the sky.
He was born with the name Gengqi. Jie Beiying said that it was given to him by the former Demon Lord, who was his father. However, it is unknown what the two characters he chose actually mean.
He looked up at the bright moon, and the people around him turned their heads to look at him.
The two spoke softly, and no one else dared to eavesdrop or peek. The courtyard was noisy, but the area under the eaves was quiet.
Suddenly the gate was pushed open again, and Qinghan walked over and said, "Brother, they're back."
The person who pushed open the door was leading the living dead from the secret passage to find Yu En's family. If they knew Yu En, his family might recognize who it was.
However, when Yuan Xin returned with her men, they were nowhere to be seen.
Geng Qi watched the people approach step by step, glanced behind them, and asked suspiciously, "Where are they? Are they missing?"
Yuan Xin shook her head, then looked at Rong Yu, her delicate eyebrows slightly furrowed, and said, "Grandmaster Uncle, the person you brought out from the secret passage was Yu En."
"..."
Qinghan exclaimed in surprise, "Wasn't Yu En already burned to a crisp and buried by his family?"
Yuan Xin turned her head to meet his gaze and shook her head in equally confusion.
They led a group of people to knock on the Yu family's door. The Yu family members recognized him at a glance as their son, and after repeatedly confirming, they were absolutely certain that there was no mistake.
Geng Qi and Rong Yu exchanged a glance.
If the person who survived was Yu En, then who was the one whose body was burned to a crisp and buried in Yu En's name?
Something flashed through his mind, and Geng Qi asked, "How are the identities of charred corpses confirmed?"
"The body was brought to the victim's doorstep on the third day after the victim went missing, and the identity was confirmed by neighbors or family members using their personal belongings."
"Only personal belongings?"
"……yes."
This kind of disguise is the easiest thing to do.
If a person goes missing for three days and does not return, everyone will assume that the person could not have survived. If a charred corpse and personal belongings are returned, the family will assume that it is someone from their family. Unless there are clear physical characteristics, who can guess that the charred corpse is someone else's?
Yuan Xin pondered for a moment and asked, "Why would they switch the bodies of the deceased?"
"Of course, it's to cover up their real purpose."
Geng Qi suddenly sneered, "Do you still remember those living dead we encountered in the secret chamber?"
Yuan Xin: "...I remember."
What do they have in common?
"..."
“Spiritual power! They all have spiritual power.” Geng Qi said, “And those who disappeared in Ge Feng Town also have spiritual power. If the bodies of all the cultivators who disappeared were found, no one would think to investigate where those people went for the three days they were missing, and no one would think to what was done to them during those three days. They imitated the killing methods of the Gu Huo Ghost, misleading the people in the town into thinking that the Gu Huo Ghost had come to take revenge, thus covering up the fact that they captured those people and turned them into living dead or even made them go mad.”
Yuan Xin was still puzzled: "But why did they do that?"
"For power?" Qing Han suddenly asked, with a hint of hesitation.
Geng Qi smiled: "That's right. For the sake of power, cultivators lose their seven souls, go into qi deviation, and become living dead. They have no fear or pain. While they are not difficult to deal with people with low cultivation levels, what about those in the Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, or even Nascent Soul stages? A Nascent Soul cultivator who is not afraid of pain or death and has gone into qi deviation is like a fighting machine that only knows how to fight. Can you imagine how much of a role they can play on the battlefield?"
Upon hearing this, everyone around gasped. Only after Geng Qi finished speaking did they realize that the people who had been surrounding Gu Huo Gui had somehow gathered in front of them.
Someone mustered up the courage to ask, "Then...where did those corpses come from?"
There were over thirty charred corpses in the town, but no one noticed anything amiss.
Geng Qi laughed and said, "What's so difficult about finding a corpse? There are countless people in the world who go unnoticed and have no presence. Beggars, thieves, even death row inmates in government prisons and corpses in mass graves—long or short, old or young, fat or thin, what kind can't we find? Anyway, when a person dies, their spiritual power dissipates, and once they're burned into a charred corpse, who can tell the difference?"
As for why they imitated the Guhuo Ghost, it's probably because capturing this monster gave them the opportunity to frame the Demon Realm!
Geng Qi suddenly stood up and walked towards the half-cooked Gu Huo Gui, his eyes flashing with fire. He narrowed his eyes and said, "They shouldn't have exposed those living dead so early. I think those who appeared in the secret room only had two purposes: either to make the person who found the secret room die there, or to turn those living dead who could be used as evidence into real dead people."
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