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    Chapter 237 [Dragon Blood Mountain] Sacred Tree

    Different from the time in Peach Blossom Spring, this time he was no longer involved, he was just a bystander, and no one in the memories could see him. He walked to the cavalry, he lowered his head and looked at the young man who was caressing the corpse and crying.

    A vein in his skull was twitching and beating.

    He felt chilled to the bone and had goosebumps all over his body.

    Seeing this scene again, he knew clearly what role this young man played in the Lin’an incident – he betrayed the prefect’s son Chu Xun and sacrificed the lives of the entire city in order to bring his adoptive father back from the dead.

    “Xiao Man, people cannot be resurrected. Don’t be too sad. We can’t stay here for long. Let’s go back quickly.”

    “No… no… I’m not going anywhere, I want dad… he, he was looking for food for me, that’s why he died. I’m sorry for him, dad! Daddy!”

    The ink burned and stared at the boy.

    Who is this person?

    The guilty father?Or…

    He’s eyes fell on Xiaoman’s left hand. There was a black mole the size of a rice grain at the tiger’s mouth of his left hand.

    He suddenly thought of Master Huaizui’s hand, which was also in the same position, exactly the same place, and had a mole, exactly the same.

    Mo Ran was shocked.

    At this time, the distant voice slowly sounded again.

    “I was born in Lin’an without parents, and was adopted by a groom from the prefect’s mansion. When I was fourteen, the ghost world broke apart, and Lin’an suffered. There was no rice or food in the house, and I was very hungry. My adoptive father took the risk of going out of the city to look for food for me, and he still hadn’t come back in the evening.”

    Heart-stopping——

    Is Gui Gui really Xiao Man from two hundred years ago?!

    Huaisui said softly: “When I left the city and found him, he had been killed by evil spirits, his intestines were overflowing, and his eyes were pecked out by crows. I will never forget that scene in my life.”

    With a buzzing sound in Mo Ran’s ears, he followed Xiao Man into the city. Back then, the sky in Lin’an split and there was a bloody storm, and the ghost king threatened everyone to hand over Chu Xun.He has seen these things once, and looking at them again, he still feels miserable and desolate, and the human heart is sinister.

    When he saw the night of the incident, Xiaoman begged in every possible way, begging everyone not to dismember his adoptive father, and begging the housekeeper to let him wait until Chu Xun returned to see if he could keep his father’s body intact.

    “Please, wait a little longer. The young master will be back in a while. I will definitely look at his body. If it is picked up, I will definitely stop him. Please…”

    “You can’t stop the body from being picked up. You have to know clearly what’s more serious than what’s more serious!”

    “No! Don’t tear him to pieces, please don’t tear him to pieces…”

    The heavy rain was pouring down, and Xiaoman couldn’t help but knelt down and kowtowed, until his head and face were covered with blood, but he still couldn’t stop it. His father’s body was roughly pulled out of his arms and dragged outside the government office by the stewards of the prefecture. They surrounded the corpse that might mutate at any time.

    Xiaoman’s sight was blocked, and after a while, he saw blood flowing out from everyone’s feet, which was instantly washed into a light pink color by the heavy rain.

    “I was selfish at that time. I just felt disheartened and full of resentment towards everyone, so I rebelled from Lin’an and recommended myself as a subordinate of the Ghost King. I wanted to take revenge on them.”

    With his self-narration, Mo Ran once again saw the picture that once shocked his heart.

    The mother took out the child’s intestines.

    The citizens betrayed their heroes.

    Chu Xun knelt on the stone steps in front of the City God’s Temple, hunched over in the mud, and burst into tears.

    He saw the mob escorting Chu Xun to the temple, like vultures eating carrion, and they were surrounded by a huge crowd. They did not hesitate to sacrifice Chu Xun’s life in order to survive.

    He saw Chu Xun taking out his heart and spiritual core and handing them into the hands of a few people who were mourning for him, telling them to leave here as soon as possible and not to stay any longer…

    Xiaoman also saw all this.

    “Later, I went to the ghost world. How many times when I was alone, I would think of Mr. Chu’s tragic situation at that time, the heart he gave, and the kindness he… treated us in the past. Every time I think of these, I feel uneasy, and I can’t escape the condemnation in my heart.”

    Huai Gui paused.

    his voice became extremely painful.

    “I’m a traitor.”

    Mo Ran couldn’t tell what it felt like.

    Sometimes good and evil are just in a thought. Some people actually regret it the moment the knife is stabbed, but so what?

    There is no way out.

    “Not long after, I heard that Chu Xun’s soul was thrown into the underworld. He was a good man. Although his cultivation had not reached its peak and could not be transformed into an immortal, it was enough to enter the reincarnation. He would be rich and glorious in the next life and enjoy a peaceful life. But he did not leave. His child, his wife, because of the great catastrophe that year, his soul was confused and torn apart, heSo he went to Yama and begged, willing to use his fortune for three lives in exchange for the liberation of his wife and children.But the final result was not so smooth.”

    Mo Ran saw Huai Zui running around in the ghost world. Because he was too ashamed to face Chu Xun, he had been carefully avoiding Chu Xun, but he tried his best to pull the ghost soldiers and asked: “Where are the wives and children? What did Yama say in the end? Can you find a way to piece together their souls and let them re-enter reincarnation?”

    “Can you think of a way? Please.”

    “Please help Mr. Chu Xun think of a way. You can negotiate whatever price you have to pay…”

    A ghost soldier laughed at him and said: “I have heard about your glorious deeds for a long time. It was not you who helped the Nine Kings and killed Chu Xun’s family? Why did you suddenly change your temper when you got to the underworld? Are you afraid that Chu Xun has become a ghost and will come to settle accounts with you?”

    Mo Ran followed Huai Zui and saw that he begged many people and knelt down many people.Maybe we shouldn’t call people, but ghosts.But many times, the nature of humans and ghosts is actually the same.

    As Chu Wanning said, the soul may change its personality, hobbies, and temperament, but its essence will never change due to the cycle of life and death.

    Huaisui inquired about the reincarnation of Chu Xun’s wife and children, and the Nine Kings soon found out.

    The Nine Kings fought with Chu Xun at that time and lost one of their eyes. They already hated Chu Xun. When they heard that Xiao Man, his subordinate, was filled with guilt and helped his old master secretly ask about the method of reincarnation, he couldn’t help but become furious.

    He took back the scepter that allowed Huaisui to freely travel back and forth to the ghost world, scolded him back to the human world, and took away Huaisui’s eternal life as a ghost pawn.

    “Go back to the earth. When all the energy of the underworld dissipates from your body, you will die. After death, you will fall into the eternal hell forever, and your soul will not be able to be reincarnated for all eternity.” The Nine Kings stared at the guilt with the only eye they could still use. “This is the price you pay for plotting things for your old master.”

    The darkness of the underworld disappeared.

    The ink burned and heard the patter of rain. It was spring. The drizzle was like crisp, moistening the green buds.

    He saw a sin-possessed monk who became a monk and walked in the spring rain.

    “I returned to the human world. At this time, a hundred years have passed in the human world. Although the ghost king took away my scepter, the remaining Yin Qi in my body allowed me to return to the ghost world when the Yin Qi was at its strongest in Zishi. However, if I stayed for a long time, the loss would be great. In fact, I… am still very afraid of death, so I don’t dare to stay in the ghost world for a long time. I will only secretly return to the underworld when I really need some clues and help.”

    Mo Ran listened to he’s low-pitched self-narration, and looked at Gui Gui, who was walking alone in the bamboo forest with a cane in front of him. Winter plum trees lay in the snow, and summer lotuses listened to the rain. He walked alone, from thousands of trees growing in spring to the frost forest dyeing through.

    The hemp shoes were worn out one after another.

    Huaisui is searching and inquiring everywhere, hoping to get some scraps of records that can give the mother and son whose souls were destroyed by he a chance to be reincarnated.

    Huai Zui said: “That’s also my chance to atone for some of my sins.”

    People may not feel anything at all, only that it is ridiculous to be guilty, but when Mo Ran heard this, his eyes suddenly became moist.

    Atonement.

    Everyone who has made a mistake and wants to repent is like a fish thirsting for water, longing for atonement.

    This is true for he, and so is guilt.

    None of them are good people. They have dripping blood on their hands and broken heads at their feet.

    How to atone.

    If you use the hands that have killed someone before and release your life into the pool of merit, can your sins be wiped out?he I wish that right and wrong, good and evil, blessings and cause and effect in the world could be so simple.

    But he knows it’s not the case.

    “I have been walking for nearly a hundred years in the human world.” Huai Zui sighed slowly. “In these one hundred years, I have to rescue people when I am in trouble and rescue them when I see trouble. I know that it is useless. No matter how much good deeds I accumulate, I will still go to purgatory after death and suffer all kinds of suffering. But I just want to make myself feel better. I just think that if the master is still in the world, he must… also worry about other people’s worries and difficulties, right?”

    So many past events have flowed by over the past hundred years.

    He saw Huaisui walking in the mountains and forests carrying a blind orphan on his back, and he saw him helping to work in the fields. He saw Huaisui mending old clothes under a solitary lamp, but he donated all his money to repair the village that was destroyed by evil spirits.

    “Mr. Chu, there has never been reincarnation. Later I picked a begonia that bloomed brilliantly in the human world. Thinking that it was the favorite flower of he and his wife, I became dizzy and mustered up the courage to go to the ghost world to see him once. Needless to say, he shut me out and I was not allowed to come again in the future.”

    The picture shows Qingyi’s back, standing in the alleyway of the ghost world with a guilty conscience.

    At this time, he’s back was already slightly rickety.

    “I didn’t dare to annoy him, so I never appeared in front of him again, but he didn’t throw away the bunch of crabapples. I thought he might still like these things in the world. He couldn’t see them in the underworld, so I picked them up and asked someone to give them to him. I hope he hates me less because of this, even a little bit.”

    “Later, I heard that Mrs. Chu’s soul can be restored, but it only takes time, but the young master’s three souls and seven souls have been shattered. I am afraid that there will be no more in heaven and earth. After learning this news, I felt even more guilty and regretful – until one day, I got something.”

    Spring Mountain on a moonlit night, on the Yanbo River.

    Huaisui was sitting in the cabin, and the scattered fishing fires were reflected in the river, and also reflected the objects he was holding in his hands.

    Mo Ran walked over to take a look, and he sat down next to Huai Zui. When he got closer, he found that it was a piece of wood.The wood looked strange. Other trees had rough bark and fine lines on their branches, but it didn’t.

    It is only as big as a palm, and the bark is smooth and delicate, exuding a light luster. Even in the illusion, Mo Ran seems to be able to feel that this piece of wood seems to be flowing with a fragrance.

    “The Flame Emperor Sacred Tree.”

    “!”

    Mo Ran suddenly opened his eyes wide and looked at the broken branch where the brilliance flowed in disbelief.

    This is… the Flame Emperor Sacred Tree?!

    The kind of sacred tree that is said to be thousands of years old growing at the end of the East China Sea, where no one has ever reached?Mo Ran has lived for two lives and traveled around the world for many years. How could he not know the legend of Emperor Yan’s sacred tree?

    It can kill human flesh and bones.

    It can be tempered into a magical weapon that is more powerful than the divine weapon.

    It can even help mortals ascend, directly escape the suffering of reincarnation, and become immortals forever.

    Huai Zui obviously knew these rumors, and he said softly: “The sacred tree has a spirit, and if you refine it into the spiritual core, you can ascend to the immortal in a day. … I will no longer have to suffer the curse of purgatory, and I will be free from now on.”

    Mo Ran suddenly remembered the rumors about guilt.

    It is said that he rejected the invitation from heaven and stayed on earth forever.

    Could it be that the truth is that he failed to refine the Yandi Sacred Tree and failed?

    “I really… really want to take this piece of sacred tree for my own use. There was a time when I even felt that it was God’s will. It was God who took pity on me and forgave me. He didn’t want me to fall into hell and suffer, so he allowed this sacred tree to come to me by chance.”

    In the cabin, Huaisui stroked the piece of sacred wood, his eyes shining with desire and confusion, and his expression was so contradictory, just like the voice echoing in Mo Ran’s ears.

    “However, I once read in an ancient book that the sacred tree of Emperor Yan is the same as the remains of Nuwa. With this sacred tree, a living person can be created.”

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