jdhmnovel Chapter 757 The Supernatural World (5)
Chapter 757 The Supernatural World (5)
A group of children searched together and actually found quite a few Starlight Grasses. If they could find other spiritual herbs, gathering a large batch of Illusion-Breaking Pills wouldn't be a problem.
After dinner, everyone gathered in the backyard of the village chief's house, quietly waiting for midnight to fall.
Before this, Wangyou did some preparatory work, injecting a soul-stabilizing talisman into the tree's body.
"Don't we need anything else? Like an incense table or offerings?" the village chief asked nervously.
"No need, it will be soon. The reason we have to wait until midnight is simply because that's when the damage to your grandson's soul will be minimal," Wangyou patiently explained.
The village chief's family didn't dare to disturb Wangyou any further, and just watched her eat her snacks while waiting for midnight to arrive.
"arrive!"
Wangyou placed the tree in the middle circle, then slapped it down and made it sit down. She then quickly raised her hand to draw a talisman and injected another causal exchange talisman into the tree's back.
Immediately afterwards, a strong wind blew through the courtyard, making it difficult for people to open their eyes. But in the wind, everyone seemed to see a golden beam of light appear, which then quickly disappeared.
"Alright, he'll be fine once he wakes up," Wangyou said, clapping her hands.
"That's it?"
"What else do you want?"
"Don't you need to get some sun or something?"
"If you're willing, that's fine too. I'm sleepy, I'm going back to sleep." Wangyou yawned and headed home.
They ignored Wangyou's worries, but things were far from peaceful at the village chief's house. They moved the tree inside, and the whole family stared intently at the sleeping tree with bright, alert eyes.
That night, another family, just like the village chief's family, couldn't sleep either. That family was the Ouyang family in the capital of Wu'an Kingdom. The eldest son of the Ouyang family head suddenly vomited blood and fell into a coma, and his body aged at a visible rate.
Even with all his scheming, the head of the Ouyang family could do nothing but watch his son grow old little by little until he finally lost all his life force and even his soul could not be found.
"How could this happen!" Madam Ouyang couldn't bear to look at her son on the bed, and cried heartbrokenly.
However, they soon lost their grief. The head of the Ouyang family felt his cultivation level rapidly declining and his appearance aging quickly. Madam Ouyang was the same. The fortune of the entire Ouyang family was dissipating, alarming the Ouyang family patriarchs who were in seclusion. But these patriarchs couldn't care less about anything else, because they themselves were also vomiting blood.
This backlash affected the entire Ouyang family, while those who were routinely bullied were largely unaffected.
In just one night, the once-great Ouyang family was decimated, with the head of the family and his entire clan dying mysteriously. On the contrary, several neglected illegitimate sons and daughters escaped this catastrophe.
"Such a severe backlash. It seems the other party found a Celestial Profound Master, otherwise the backlash wouldn't be so huge." The other family heads were quite moved by this, but that didn't stop them from kicking him while he was down.
Within a week, the once illustrious Ouyang family collapsed, with less than a tenth of its assets remaining. These assets were divided up by other families in the capital, with only a small portion going to the unaffected members of the Ouyang family.
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A year later, Grandma Xing'er passed away peacefully, and Xing'er and Wangyou buried her together.
“Sister Xing’er, don’t be sad. Grandma was actually holding on to her health all along. Now that she saw that you were able to take care of yourself, she was at peace when she passed away.”
Was she sad or not? Perhaps not, because she didn't even cry when she was abandoned, let alone Grandma Xing'er, with whom she had spent a year.
"I know, but I have no family left."
You can't persuade Wangyou, because she doesn't understand the concept of kinship at all.
"Sister Xing'er, I'm leaving now. Take good care of yourself. If you have the chance, you can go to the Royal Mystic Arts Academy in the capital to study. I've hidden your physique. Unless someone has a higher cultivation level than me, no one will find out."
Are you leaving too?
"I've stayed here long enough, and my fate with this place has come to an end. Farewell, Sister Xing'er." With that, Wangyou rode Xiaoyue and disappeared from Xing'er's sight.
Xing'er wiped away her tears. She remembered what Wangyou had said about the Royal Mystic Academy and decided to practice her magic diligently before going there to study.
Wangyou rode the Moon Shadow Wolf aimlessly, then stumbled into the territory of the Human-Faced Owl. The leader of the Human-Faced Owl was a monster, but its cultivation was not very strong, and Wangyou captured it in no time.
Then she had the owl perform various ventriloquist techniques for her. Although this demon had karmic burdens, it killed villains with beautiful voices, including scholars who deceived rich young ladies and pedophiles who appeared to be storytellers.
There are also those who are beautiful songstresses by day but murderous female demons by night, and so on. In short, none of them are good people, so this human-faced owl doesn't have much karmic burden.
"Stay true to your original intentions. If the law can't provide some justice, then you have to resort to extraordinary means." Before leaving, Wangyou, out of consideration for the human-faced owl's various ways of entertaining her, cleansed the karmic burden on it.
Wangyou continued on her way, riding the Moon Shadow Wolf, and unknowingly approached another village.
This village is not as eerie as Sifang Village; it's just an ordinary village where a funeral is being held.
Wangyou's first thought was that it was time to have a feast.
Then she fed Xiaoyue half a bowl of spiritual spring water and let it go into the mountains to find food on its own. Then she went straight to the big courtyard in the middle of the village, because that was where the funeral was held.
Then Wangyou successfully blended into the banquet. Although the dishes were average, the main focus was on the sense of participation.
"Whose daughter are you? You're so unafraid of strangers, and you even dare to come to this banquet." The old lady next to her noticed that Wangyouren had short arms and used serving chopsticks to put a lot of food on her plate.
"I'm from my family, thank you, Auntie." Wangyou ate her food while looking around, and then she was caught off guard when she saw two familiar yet unfamiliar figures.
Wangyou glanced at it and then looked away. She never expected that she would accidentally end up in the village where her adoptive parents lived.
Wangyou didn't have any special feelings towards them. After all, the karmic connection between her and them had been severed, and they would be strangers in the future, so it didn't matter to her.
"Auntie, how did this old man pass away?"
"Are you sick? You're a young girl, hurry home after you finish eating, or you might offend someone and cause trouble," the old woman said with a smile to Wangyou.
"Thank you, ma'am. But it's just a little kid; he can't possibly bother me," Wangyou said with a grin.
"You're such a little devil! Where do you live? I'll have my eldest son take you home later." The old woman thought Wangyou was joking and didn't take it seriously.
Wangyou sighed. "Children have no rights when they are young." That's true. Wangyou looked very young. Even if a child this young has a talent for mystical arts, it's likely that he has only recently awakened it. It's impossible for him to have any advanced mystical arts.