Chapter 139 The Ouija Board (16) Bearing her deficiency, suffering her torment…
The white marble Guanyin statue has a delicate texture and a warm luster, which can rival the moonlight.
Placed on a glass chessboard, it reflects an opposite image, the compassionate face distorted by the black and white squares, like the dark side of the moon.
As the four floating ghosts stopped, Su Shao raised her eyes. A golden edge swept across her pupils, and the head of the Guanyin statue suddenly burst into flames. The melting part flowed out black mist, which seeped into the reflection of the chessboard. At the edge of the unharmed reflection of the Guanyin statue, layers of incantations were shaken apart, like meshing gears, rotating out of place.
Su Shao's single eye, as big as her palm, reflected this scene, but her thoughts drifted far away.
She remembered what happened before she entered this place.
She had been lurking around Four Seasons Mountain, monitoring its every move, when she was suddenly summoned back by the vice-leader.
She passed through the mirror, but instead of a pitch-black, boundless space, she arrived directly at the office in the University Library.
"There's something I need to give you privately." Sitting by the window, like a woman at the head of the table reading a book, she didn't look up and said calmly, "Read five things at a glance."
"Please give your orders, sir." Su Shao bent her old bones.
Behind her, four ghosts appeared at the same time and bowed down with her.
"No need for so much formality." Jiang Linji looked up from his book and stared quietly into Su Shao's terrifying eye.
Su Shao remained motionless, but the four ghosts felt a little uneasy, their figures swaying slightly.
Jiang Linji withdrew his gaze and smiled: "You're adapting well."
Several books were scattered on her table, one of which was "Zi Bu Yu," a collection of supernatural tales by Yuan Mei from the Qing Dynasty. The open pages recorded a monster called "Master One-Eyed Five," also known as "Five Strange Ghosts." The five ghosts were connected, but only one of them had one eye, while the rest were blind. The One-Eyed Ghost was in charge.
The "One-Eyed Five-Pointed Ghost" is for ordinary people who are neither good nor evil, neither blessed nor unlucky. During a plague, if one ghost smells it, the person will fall ill; if five ghosts smell it together, the person will die.
"Becoming a monster is not terrible, as long as you have power. But falling into the hands of that disgusting family means you will never have peace. Fortunately, you have shown me kindness, and my family is reunited. I will observe and refine you, and I will go through fire and water for you without hesitation."
“You must be careful of the fire. Although Observation is an unfinished product, not a part of the incarnation of God, and does not have complete divine power, it is still far from God. However, it is corrupted by the aura of God and has also transcended the realm of humanity. The moment it completely became Observation, the immortal curse in the Black Goat’s bloodline was burned away. You should remember how your kind were recycled by the Sun Fire.”
"yes."
No wonder she's a blind old woman; she's never quite mastered the art.
So, the older sister ran away, but unexpectedly, the black goat possessed the ability to live forever. Did the black goat imprison the younger sister to force the older sister to return?
[This observation was made by five people working together; the older sister was missing, so it couldn't be completed.]
[That makes sense. My great-aunt merged with the spirit of the princess in the tomb to become Observation Ten, not to mention Observation Two, which was created by a group of people.]
[Director Jiang means that although the observation is not within the eye of observation, it is still under the shroud of God, so it has transcended the mortal body and cannot be considered a black goat? Therefore, it can die, while the sun's fire can do so.]
No wonder none of the tribespeople who were sacrificed at the second observation point died or came back to life.
I suddenly had an idea!
When Xie Tan saw this, he was also struck by the same thought, which resonated with the forum.
[If observation could lead to death, did Mommy use this to her advantage and kill most of the black goats?]
【genius! 】
[But how do we operate? There are only eighteen observers, and they are all the last batch of sacrifices related to the awakening of the Smoke Mirror. Black Goat has only created these observers over the years, and some are dead and others are useless...]
The comic also confirmed their guess.
"Back then, Observation 6 relied on this..." Su Shao sighed.
"You're in a similar situation to her, so you must have known each other for a long time?"
“We only met a few times,” Su Shao said, “but we were able to leave Black Goat… she deserves a lot of credit.”
“Then let’s do her a favor,” Jiang Linji said. “How can she not feel a sense of regret for not being able to completely dismantle the Black Goat?”
"Whatever your command."
“Go to the Ghost Mother Temple and take Guanyin’s head.”
"Guanyin's...head?"
“There are ritual incantations she left inside.”
Su Shao hesitated: "The Guanyin who grants children turned into a ghost mother, could it be because of the curse she left behind?"
"No, that was the Black Goat retaliating for the curse she cast; she used to always go to the Guanyin Temple."
"Seeking a child?"
Jiang Linji touched the character "潭" on the page, a half-smile on his face. After a while, he said, "The Eye of Observation is the eye that fell from the smoke mirror. It can see the past, present, and future at the same time. It should be said that she has been looking forward to reuniting with an unborn child since a very long time ago."
Su Shao instantly understood. The child of Observation Six was also the Eye of Observation. Her ability to master Observation was a gift from that child who jumped through time.
No wonder, because of that little devil, when she first saw him in the mirror, she instinctively felt a chill run down her spine.
That is the suppression of observation by the eye of observation.
"The black goat polluted the Guanyin statue and cursed her child," Su Shao said, frowning. "What kind of curse?"
“To bear her deficiency and suffer her pain,” Jiang Linji said, lowering his eyes. “For her, it is truly the most vicious curse.”
Su Shao was taken aback. She was a generation older than the Observational Six and had only met her a few times. If the Eye of Observation were really in front of her, she would only be wary.
But she could understand. The black goat tormented her, but she only saw it as an enemy in the jungle, an obstacle to survival.
But the black goat took away her brothers and sisters, and she... hated it.
"Could it be that the child became..." Su Shao didn't finish her sentence.
“But she’s not one to be trifled with either. She used the twisted demon mother to curse the Black Goat.” Jiang Linji said as if he hadn’t heard, “In the past, present, and future, any member of the Black Goat clan who wants to break away from the Black Goat will be ‘cursed’ and their children will be burned to ashes.”
These words sounded terrifying at first, but Su Shao quickly realized: "So those marginalized members of the families were able to escape their families' immortality curse and live like normal people because of this curse... How can this be a curse?"
This is clearly giving freedom to children who cannot break free from the Black Goat tribe.
“That’s just how she is,” Jiang Linji said. “But many people don’t appreciate this, blaming her for taking away their innate power and glory. That’s how the Black Goat Diagram came about.”
Her faint smile vanished in an instant: "In that case, let them shine one last time."
Su Shao then realized that the incantation inside the Guanyin statue was not just a simple counter-curse: "Shall I bring you the head of the Guanyin statue?"
"Just take it. When the time is right, the child will naturally call you over."
"yes."
The field of observation was too vast. On her way to the Guanyin Temple, Su Shao recalled the book in the Vice Leader's hand, which discussed poetry writing. The one the Vice Leader had been reading was called "Refinement".
Those two words touched a nerve for a moment.
【Does Mommy often go to the Guanyin Temple?】
[My goodness! So, in the past of the Yin Peach Blossom arc, Mommy already knew that Atan was her child!]
[OMG, so when Sixth Sister was praying, the last thing she mentioned was Ah Tan. It must be different from before. She was praying as a mother, right?!]
[Mommy has been waiting for the kittens, sob sob]
[After running away, Mommy is living a wonderful life. She went to university, gave back to her alma mater, bought her own house, and is enjoying life to the fullest. Who has time to care about the Black Goat? He's probably been relentlessly pursuing her like a mangy dog, and he's even found out her weakness!]
[Mommy is the only one who sees through things. If the black goat can't have it, it will definitely destroy it, but it can't beat Mommy, so it can only resort to underhanded tricks. It's infuriating!]
[I suffer her pain and bear her burdens, sob sob sob sob]
[What Sister Peony said! Could it be! Could it be that A-Tan became the Eye of Observation because of this curse?]
[Case solved! It must be the side effects of the Eye of Observation, right?]
[The Black Goat used the Demon Mother to harm Mommy, and Mommy even seized the opportunity to liberate children in the family who might share the same fate as her... I can't take it anymore, sob sob. I've been through the rain, so I'm holding an umbrella for others.]
But some people just love torrential rain.
No wonder Ah Tan was so ruthless in killing the collateral branch's young master. From Ah Tan's perspective, what an ungrateful wretch...
[It's definitely not that simple; Director Jiang also mentioned the Black Goat image! Could there be more to the Bubble episode?]
Is Director Jiang reading this poem again?
[Hiss, everyone was crying their eyes out over the mother-child bond back then, but aside from the name being reclaimed, this poem is quite interesting. Just the title alone... refinement... refinement of what? Could there be a hidden meaning?]
The phrase "Spring waters pour into an empty pool, an ancient mirror reflects the spirit," taken out of context and disregarding its literal meaning, is essentially about Ah Tan and Lu Lu – the eye of observation and the fog mirror.
[I know this! The other shipping thread has included this point, haha, it's practically the formulaic expansion of our tangent theorem [sunglasses]]
[And then there's "The flowing water of today is the moon of yesteryear!" Sorry, but that's how smug the mathematicians are [sunglasses] ]
[I've accepted it all, it's a support poem! [doge emoji]]
[Okay! And the first two sentences mean to focus on smelting and thoroughly remove impurities. What are impurities? Do those who want to leave the Black Goat tribe count?]
Holy crap!
Holy crap!
[Were those things "washed away" by Sixth Sister?]
[This is washing, but what about refining? What exactly are we refining?]
This should be the key to eliminating the black goats.
[Holy crap, this was also something Atan was working on during the carnival...?]
Xie Tan slowly processed this information. Then, as he looked up, he saw Sun Enze wake up, hear a sound, and look up to see Chang Mingai's smiling face.
In her left eye, there seemed to be two clock hands, which disappeared in the blink of an eye.
Sun Enze's mind flashed back to the scene when Chang Mingai asked the last question.
At that time, she also had a pair of such pointers in her eyes.
The part about summoning the Ouija board is mostly from Chang Ming'ai's perspective, showing the abnormality of the Ouija board spirit Xi Rui. However, from Sun Enze's perspective, we can also see Chang Ming'ai's situation at that time.
She used the power of the pointer because she was afraid that Xi Rui would stop her, so she stopped the spirit of the pen and asked the question first.
But to my surprise, when I met him, he looked like that.
Was it really Xi Rui? Xie Tan thought, that smile was definitely his.
Chang Mingai's later appearance likely represents her replacing the original Xi Rui and becoming the new Ouija board spirit.
This body gave the cult leader an opening. By parasitizing it, the cult leader climbed into the future timeline to complete some kind of refinement with this "eye of observation".
No, that's not all.
Wait, doesn't that mean the clock's hands now belong to the cult leader?
That's what he came for!
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