Chapter 1 First Meeting
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Heli Village.
It was just getting dark when Gu Yuan squatted on the creaking old wooden door of his house, as if he had no bones.
He held half a hard, cold steamed bun in his hand and nibbled on it bit by bit.
People in the countryside eat dinner early, so the little oil in my stomach has long been used up.
"Tsk, that's so dry."
He muttered, took a sip of the cold soup, and swallowed the last piece of steamed bun.
The soup was left over from lunch.
There's no way around it. With no love from his father and mother, he's been surviving on the leftovers from his uncles and aunts in the village since he was a child.
So poor!
At this moment, his right eyelid started twitching wildly.
"Left eye twitching brings good luck, right eye twitching brings disaster..."
Gu Yuan's heart skipped a beat, and he subconsciously recited the old sayings that the old people in the village often said.
He raised his hand and rubbed his right eye hard, and the flesh under his eyelid jumped even more vigorously, as if a small drumstick was beating inside.
"It's been going on for almost half an hour, and it's not going to end yet?"
He was a little panicked and looked up at the dark sky: "Could it be... an earthquake?"
When this thought came to his mind, he felt that he was a bit ridiculous.
The place called Heli Village hasn't been shaken once in eight hundred years.
But it can't be said that Gu Yuan is not an ordinary person.
Counting on his fingers, today he is exactly eighteen years and eleven months old.
There are only thirty days left before the deadline that Grandpa Lin said that "he will not live past the age of nineteen."
Why don’t you live long?
Because he was born with an "extremely yin body".
To put it simply, it means a physique that attracts ghosts, a weak and sickly body, and a body so light that it can float.
This physique allowed him to see things that others could not see since he was a child.
Those things that wander between the Yin and Yang worlds and should not appear in front of the living.
When he was six years old, he was thrown into a remote corner of Heli Village by his biological parents.
If it weren’t for Grandpa Lin, the grass on his grave would have been replaced several times.
"hiss……"
His right eyelid twitched violently again, making him feel uneasy.
"That's not right! Why didn't Grandpa Lin come today?"
This old man is more accurate than an alarm clock.
At this time every day after dinner, he would definitely walk slowly to his doorstep, leaning on his shiny peach wood cane.
Every day she would come and scold him for being "unruly".
It was a weird day today. It was completely dark and there was not even a ghost at the door.
Oh, that’s not right. He had seen many ghost shadows, but he had never seen Grandpa Lin’s shadow.
An inexplicable panic suddenly gripped Gu Yuan's heart, making him feel more uncomfortable than the twitching of his right eyelid.
He stood up from the threshold, wrapped his thin coat tightly, and walked towards Grandpa Lin's yard next door.
As soon as he stepped out of the dilapidated courtyard of his home, a cold wind blew the yellow fallen leaves on the ground and hit him in the face.
"Pah, pah, pah!"
Gu Yuan was choked and coughed, and frantically tried to remove the rotten leaves stuck in his mouth.
After he wiped his face, he looked forward carefully.
The whole person froze in place instantly.
Grandpa Lin’s low tiled house was now tightly wrapped in a thick, indissoluble black fog!
The fog rolled and swirled, exuding an evil aura that made one's hair stand on end.
What was even more creepy was that the only window that let in light, the light reflected from inside was not a warm and dim color, but a faint, miserable green!
"Fuck!"
Gu Yuan's scalp suddenly exploded with a buzzing sound, and a chill rushed from the soles of his feet to the top of his head.
No matter how scared he was, his body's reaction, which had been trained from seeing ghosts since he was a child, was much faster than his brain.
Almost instinctively, he quickly formed a seal with his fingers to exorcise evil spirits.
Three wrinkled yellow paper talismans with cinnabar runes painted on them appeared silently in his palm.
This is his most valuable weapon, called "Palm Thunder".
The name sounds intimidating, but unfortunately he is not very skilled and is mute five out of ten times.
"Calm down, Gu Yuan, calm down..."
He encouraged himself while his palms sweated with nervousness: "Even Grandpa Lin can't handle this thing, so how can I rush in with my limited skills? It's like delivering takeout and adding extra dishes to someone's meal."
Free of charge?
That being said, can you let him turn around and run?
That's impossible.
Grandpa Lin is his only relative in this world.
Gu Yuan gritted his teeth.
I only have one life, what am I afraid of?
When he reached the door, the cold air became even stronger, giving him goose bumps.
Looking at the tightly closed broken wooden door, Gu Yuan had an idea. He raised his toes and quickly drew a formation on the muddy ground at the door.
He was muttering some incantation in his mind, and suddenly slammed the three sweaty talisman papers in his hand towards the wooden door!
The action was so fast that he himself didn't react.
"Xiao Yuan! Don't move—!"
Grandpa Lin's hoarse and anxious roar suddenly came from the house.
The voice sounded weak and it seemed like he was going to die in the next second.
Unfortunately, it’s too late!
"boom--!"
There was a muffled sound that was not particularly loud, but definitely powerful enough, and it exploded!
Gu Yuan staggered a few steps.
He fell heavily on his butt in the center of the crooked Bagua formation he had just drawn!
My butt hurts so much from the fall.
At the same time, there was a creaky sound and the wooden door opened by itself.
The thick black fog that had been covering the house condensed into a blurry, distorted human figure at the door!
It had no distinct facial features, only two scarlet eyeballs that were like red-hot irons, emitting pure malice and greed, and were fixed firmly on Gu Yuan who was lying on the ground!
All the hairs on Gu Yuan's body instantly stood up in salute!
My scalp was tingling and a chill ran down my spine.
He got up from the ground in a hurry, not caring about any rules, and took out all the yellow talismans he could touch from his arms, sleeves, and trouser pockets.
Regardless of whether they were useful or not, he took them all out and threw them madly at the terrifying human-shaped black fog at the door like scattering flyers!
"Xiao Yuan! Stay away from him! Don't come near!"
Grandpa Lin's voice sounded again, weaker than before, and filled with worry and fear.
Only then did Gu Yuan see the situation in the room clearly.
When he saw this, he felt like his heart was about to stop!
Grandpa Lin slumped straight on the worn wooden bed, his face pale and his chest barely rising or falling.
A dying look!
Above the old man's head, a translucent, blurry shadow was slowly floating out of his body.
That's Grandpa Lin's soul! It's already leaving his body!
“Grandpa Lin——!”
Gu Yuan didn't care about anything else and just wanted to rush in.
“Chuckle…”
The humanoid black fog at the door let out a creepy laugh, and its jagged fangs were faintly visible in the black fog.
It swung violently, like a moving, foul-smelling wall, blocking the door and blocking Gu Yuan's way.
The scarlet eyes greedily locked onto Gu Yuan, this "fresh" target.
"Xiao...Xiao Yuan..."
Grandpa Lin on the bed seemed to have used up his last bit of strength and spoke with a weak breath:
"Listen...listen, after I...I die...you must bury me at...at noon, when the yang energy is at its...highest..."
He breathed hard, the rise and fall of his chest almost disappearing: "Grandpa is useless... He made a deal with the evil spirit... He used forbidden techniques... That's why he is still alive and breathing..."
He now wants to use his last value to leave a way out for Gu Yuan.
Gu Yuan's tears fell in an instant.
He should have thought of it earlier!
Ten years ago, Grandpa Lin said that his time was coming to an end, but for the sake of this unwanted burden, he insisted on living for so many more years!
It turns out that this is a weird method.
"Grandpa..." Gu Yuan choked with sobs, his heart aching.
The black fog blocking the door seemed to be attracted by Gu Yuan, the "fresh food".
A violent tumbling rushed straight to Gu Yuan's face!
The speed is too fast!
Gu Yuan had no time to react, and his magic circle was of no use.
Right at this moment!
“Puff!”
With a slight sound, a drop of scalding blood shot out from Grandpa Lin's bitten fingertip and splashed onto Gu Yuan's brow with incredible precision!
"With my blood, I will bind your soul..."
Grandpa Lin's weak voice suddenly became clear: "Yin and Yang are born together, souls and spirits are connected - the contract is complete!"
There was a strong wind outside.
Dust fell from the roof.
Gu Yuan felt a burning sensation instantly spreading from the place where the blood splashed on his brow.
The drop of blood did not slide down at all, but seeped into his skin and condensed into a rune mark under the skin!
"ah--!!!"
The black mist that flew into the air seemed to be grasped tightly by an invisible giant hand, and it let out a shrill scream!
It struggled desperately but could not escape the powerful force.
"Xiao Yuan..."
Grandpa Lin's soul had become very transparent after leaving his body. Before it was completely swallowed by the frantically struggling black mist, it uttered a sentence: "Live well..."
"grandfather--!"
Gu Yuan cried out loudly.
However, at the moment when Grandpa Lin's soul was completely absorbed, the black mist suddenly solidified!
Then——
"Bang--!!!"
It exploded!
A powerful energy wave sent Gu Yuan flying.
"Ugh!"
Gu Yuan was hit hard against the door frame behind him and fell to the cold ground.
"Wow"
He spat out a mouthful of blood foam.
"hiss……"
It hurts so much!
Gu Yuan's vision went dark, and he felt as if all the bones in his body were falling apart.
He curled up, groaned in pain, and struggled to stand up.
At this moment, he caught a glimpse from the corner of his eye that there seemed to be an extra person next to Grandpa Lin's body in the room?
Gu Yuan blinked hard.
I saw that on Grandpa Lin’s shiny armchair, there was a... man sitting there?
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