Wu Yansheng, who enjoys collecting antiques, received a very old-fashioned parchment scroll from a member of a fallen royal family.
The parchment scroll was covered with patterns that looked like some kind of writing, which were incomprehensible to the knowledgeable Wu Yansheng. He judged that it was a kind of magic, so he invited his close friend, Nangong Qian, who was quite knowledgeable in this area.
As soon as Nangong Qian opened the scroll, he was captivated by its contents. He remembered that one of the books in his family's collection of books from various dynasties contained text that was identical to that on the parchment scroll.
After comparing and translating, Nangong Qian and Wu Yansheng figured out what was recorded on the parchment scroll.
The written record states that in a snow-capped mountain in the Western Regions, there is a method of achieving immortality left behind by an alien race from a distant past.
The very first sentence captivated Wu Yansheng.
Do you want to achieve immortality?
He didn't listen to a word of his close friend Nangong Qian's subsequent advice; his mind was filled with nothing but "growth, growth, growth, growth."
What use is money during times of war? You still have to hide everywhere. Wu Yansheng was known for valuing his life, and he kept many bodyguards to protect him.
Wu Yansheng witnessed the weapons in the hands of those foreigners; a single cold bullet could easily take a life. This made him live in constant unease, even though he had raised assassins.
He used the excuse of feeling unwell to ask Nangong Qian to leave, and locked himself in his room to study and formulate a detailed plan. Wu Yansheng wanted to find the method of immortality.
During the translation process, Nangong Qian secretly wrote down the text on a parchment scroll, and he also locked himself in his room to study it.
"Does such a mysterious method really exist? Why would it be left behind by a race from another world?"
The more he thought about it, the more terrified he became. He quickly wrote down a letter of advice and planned to have his servant deliver it to Wu Yansheng.
Write down the last sentence.
Immortality is a trap; do not be seduced.
But as the signature fell, an assassin dressed in black, his mouth and nose covered so that his face could not be seen, broke in through the window and killed Nangong Qian with a single blow.
The assassin was a trusted lieutenant sent by Wu Yansheng to kill Nangong Qian. He couldn't let anyone else know about this miraculous method, not even his own brother who had grown up with him.
This letter of advice never reached Wu Yansheng's hands and was eventually buried in the tomb along with Nangong Qian.
From then on, the Nangong family was burdened with a terrible curse: no newborn in the clan would live past the age of twenty-five. But the Nangong family still tried their best to continue the bloodline and carry this bloodline filled with sin into the future.
Wu Yansheng, as Nangong Qian's close friend, did not attend his funeral. He had already secretly gone to the Western Regions on the day Nangong Qian was killed.
Snow Moon Village.
This is a small village with a history spanning countless years. The villagers who have lived here for generations strictly follow their ancestral teachings and guard something here.
Wu Yansheng used some money to persuade the young man who wanted to leave the village with his beloved girl. Under the cover of night, the young man led Wu Yansheng to a cave under the village.
Because of ancestral precepts, the young man refused to move forward, so Wu Yansheng, under the protection of his bodyguards, ventured deeper into the area.
It was cold and damp.
Wu Yansheng was dressed warmly, but as he went deeper, he still felt a bone-chilling cold.
After walking for quite some time, Wu Yansheng and several assassins finally arrived at the end of the cave.
There was nothing at the end. Compared to the journey, it was even colder and more gloomy here. As an ordinary person, Wu Yansheng shivered as he looked around.
The light from the torches held by the assassins illuminated the pitch-black end.
Looking at the empty end, Wu Yansheng felt agitated.
"Could the secret to immortality be a hoax?!"
But it's too late for him to turn back.
Enraged, Wu Yansheng took out the parchment scroll and threw it forcefully on the ground.
"Damn it, I killed Ah Qian for a worthless scroll! How utterly despicable!!"
The parchment scroll, thrown on the ground, slowly unfurled to one side. The ancient characters on it strangely flickered with a red light, which reminded the Martial Saint, who was still cursing in a fit of madness.
Wu Yansheng looked up at the scroll on the ground. The eerie red characters suddenly burst out with a strong red light. The red light flashed by, and Wu Yansheng, who was an ordinary person, suddenly lost consciousness and his body moved uncontrollably toward the parchment scroll.
He picked up the scroll from the ground, bit his finger, and splattered his blood onto the brownish-yellow parchment. The already dim red light burst forth again, blinding the assassins.
After the assassins adjusted to their surroundings, they looked at their master, Wu Yansheng, who was emanating black energy. One of the assassins stepped forward to check on him, but Wu Yansheng reached out and ripped out his heart, killing him instantly.
The other assassins were stunned by what they saw, their eyes filled with a bloodshot thirst for killing.
"Die for me."
Wu Yansheng looked at the group and said these words. The assassins seemed to have been summoned. They walked in front of him in an orderly manner, knelt on one knee, and then one by one their heads were removed, their hearts were pulled out, and they lost their lives.
Fresh blood flowed throughout the entire end, and Wu Yansheng's lips gradually turned up, his voice becoming neither male nor female, indistinguishable from hers.
"This is the last token of our gratitude to our lowly slaves. You should thank us, the Ghost Clan."
The ancient parchment scroll is the key to activating the seal at the end of this cave. As the assassin dies, his blood is absorbed by the land at the end, and a dark purple magic circle appears, bursting with intense purple light.
Wu Yansheng's shrill laughter echoed at the end of the empty cave.
On the ground, the village chief of Snow Moon Village suddenly woke up. He hurriedly ran out of the house and looked up to see the eerie blood-red full moon hanging high in the night sky.
"Oh no."
The village chief was so frightened that he collapsed to the ground, remembering his ancestral teachings.
The secrets of the cave must be guarded by generations of Snowmoon Village. The seal of the alien race must not be allowed to weaken even slightly, or the entire world will be plunged into a terrifying curse.
At that moment, the people of the whole country, still engulfed in war, saw this beautiful red full moon in the sky.
Looking at the blood moon overhead, the village chief kept repeating, "It's over, everything is over."
After calming down, the village chief immediately went back into the house to wake up the children, and had them go from house to house to wake up the villagers. At the same time, he rushed to the ancestral hall, where there was a magic sword left by the ancestors.
Every newly appointed village chief will receive a teaching on how to use this magic sword.
After obtaining the magic sword, he gathered the able-bodied men of the village and headed to the underground cave.
The remnant soul attached to Wu Yansheng has dissipated, and at this moment he has become the world's first corpse demon, an origin corpse demon that did not experience the process of death.
Origin ghouls do not feel hunger, have no craving for flesh and blood, and possess extremely strong regenerative abilities and formidable strength. However, they also have weaknesses, such as an inability to suppress their desire to kill and the lack of hard bone spurs.
The village chief and the able-bodied men reached the end and saw Wu Yansheng adapting to the power.
Upon seeing a living person, Wu Yansheng's bloodlust was ignited, and he vanished from everyone's sight in an instant.
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