Master Wang trembled all over, and it could be seen that he really felt a little guilty. He looked at several of his subordinates who had fallen on the ground, and then at the place where he had been injured by Taigong, and roared angrily,
"It's a bad move. I didn't expect you to notify this old immortal in advance. Haha... But your end will not be much better!"
After saying these cruel words, the man surnamed Wang actually ran away with his tail between his legs in despair, not even having the courage to stay and meet the man at the entrance of the village.
"Don't run!"
The second uncle still wanted to catch up, but as soon as he stood up, he was blown back to the ground by the cold wind blowing from the back mountain. He could only pick up the black knife with a miserable face, sit on the ground helplessly and sigh.
The thick fog is no longer as exaggerated as before. The cold wind surrounding the village is slowly turning, and the cold atmosphere is slowly disappearing.
About half a minute later, a slender, white-haired old man with a bronze mirror in his hand appeared on the path leading to the village entrance. He had an unkempt beard and was wearing a tattered linen coat. His cheeks were as dark as the bottom of a pot. , looks old, ugly, and rather wretched, but his eyes are sharp and strong, as if they can discharge electricity.
I was stunned. It was hard to imagine that this little old man with an unattractive appearance could actually frighten Master Wang's courage.
Who is he?
While I was still in a daze, my grandfather had already sat up with great difficulty, cupped his fists and saluted the dark and thin old man, and called out "Senior Brother" with great difficulty.
The thin, dark old man put away the bronze mirror, looked around and said, "Where are the people?"
"Ran!"
The Taigong laughed miserably, shook his head and said, "You made too much noise to break the formation. That guy knew he was no match for you, so he fled into the mountains in advance."
The thin black old man nodded silently, then slowly walked towards the Grandfather, leaned over and looked at the wound on the Grandfather's stomach, his eyelids twitched.
"Junior brother, you..."
"I was invaded by corpse energy, and I spent my lifespan to forcefully set up the formation. I won't live long."
The grandfather shook his head numbly, with no trace of sadness or joy on his face, and leaned gently under my mother's coffin.
The thin, dark old man hesitated to speak. He looked at the dying grandpa, then at my mother's coffin, and said with a look of regret,
"I've warned you a long time ago, but you didn't listen to me and ended up like this...is it worth it?"
Two lines of clear tears flowed from Taigong's eyes, and he said in a faint tone, "It's worth it...cough, cough! At least I can live up to my mistress and live up to the family master's trust."
Before he could finish his words, he coughed desperately and coughed up a large piece of black blood.
I no longer cared about looking at the strange old man. I held my grandpa’s arm hard, tears streaming down my face. “Grandpa, it’s all my fault that has caused you harm. I, I will take you to the town to find a doctor right now.” .”
"That's too late."
The grandpa gave a sad laugh, gently pressed my shoulder, and murmured in a low voice in a kind and sad tone,
"Young Master, this old slave has failed the master's trust and cannot personally protect you when you grow up. Moreover, because I mistakenly trusted the traitor, I committed such a big mistake, causing you to almost fall into the hands of the villain. I can't forgive you. you……"
I was dumbfounded, "Grandpa, what did you just call me? I am Zhou Xuan, are you confused?"
"He's not confused."
The second uncle suddenly stood up and said in a faint tone, "You, Grandpa, were once a retainer of the Wang family, and you are the only remaining bloodline of the Wang family. It is not too much to call you Young Master."
My second uncle's words made me look confused, and I stared blankly at the grandfather's pale face, shocked, sad, numb, and deeply puzzled.
Countless emotions surged into my heart, causing my mind to become confused. I knelt down in front of Grandpa and shouted hoarsely,
"What the hell is going on? How did I become a descendant of the Wang family? My surname is Zhou."
"Alas! In history, there have been eight cultivating families, known as the 'Heirs of the Eight Meridians'."
Grandpa let out a long sigh, his vision was blurred, and he explained the reason to me with a recalling tone.
"The Wang family that your mother belongs to is one of the 'Eight Meridians'. This family was once very glorious, but more than ten years ago, due to an unexpected change, the Wang family ushered in the tragic disaster of annihilation."
When the grandfather received the news and hurried back to the Wang family, it was too late.
The grandfather found my mother in a ruins. At that time, her spiritual roots were damaged. Not only was her cultivation broken, but she also became dementia.
"The scene was very chaotic. In order to save your mother, I had no choice but to fight out with another retainer and find a suitable place to place her."
The grandfather put his head under the coffin and said with a painful look on his face, "The enemies of the Wang family are very powerful. Even if they hide to the ends of the earth, they will still find a way to find your mother. I had no choice but to come up with this method and marry your mother to the Zhou family. "
As for why she had to marry into the Zhou family? The reason is that the ancestor of the Zhou family was once one of the "Eight Lines", but it declined earlier than the Wang family, and future generations no longer know the origin of the ancestor.
"Although the Zhou family has also declined, the luck accumulated by the ancestors of the Zhou family is still there. I asked your mother to hide in the Zhou family to protect her Zhou Wen with the help of the Zhou family's remaining blessings. It's just... "
Having said this, the grandfather showed an even more painful expression and said through gritted teeth,
"It's just that I didn't expect that the descendants of the Zhou family would fall to this level. It's so shameless. I married your mother into the Zhou family, but instead pushed her into a pit of fire!"
I stopped talking and closed my eyes with a painful look on my face. Thinking back to what happened to my mother in the Zhou family, I felt a wave of discomfort in my heart.
Taigong shook his head feebly, glanced at his second uncle who was silent next to him, and said with difficulty,
"Actually, I planned to leave your mother to Zhou Yuan (second uncle's name) to take care of her at first, because Zhou Yuan is very smart and has a certain talent in practicing magic. When necessary, he may be able to protect your mother."
But precisely because my second uncle was very smart, he noticed early on that my mother’s background was unusual, so he didn’t want to take the blame.
In desperation, my grandfather "sold" my mother to my grandmother and asked her to marry my father.
Fortunately, the second uncle did not continue to stop him, because he wanted to repay the Taigong's favor.
He was disabled since he was born. His grandmother disliked his second uncle's frailty and left him to fend for himself in the mountains. It was his grandfather who kindly took his second uncle back and fed him with goat's milk for three months before he regained his life.
Therefore, although the second uncle refused to "take over" the responsibility, he had no reason to stop the grandpa, so he simply ran away from home and went to work outside.
"So that's it."
I looked at Taigong bitterly, "You tried so hard to 'sell' my mother into the Zhou family, but didn't you think about how she would be treated in the Zhou family?"
"I was wrong, but I have no other choice but to continue to be wrong."
The Taigong lowered his head regretfully, "When the Wang family was wiped out, your mother was also plotted by the enemy. Not only was she even damaged, her vitality was also severely damaged. Only with the help of the Zhou family's luck can we ensure your safe birth."
At this time, the second uncle added with a cold snort, "You brought her into the Zhou family and allowed Zhou Xuan to be born smoothly by plundering the Zhou family's luck, but you never thought that doing so would bring harm to the Zhou family." What consequences!”
The Taigong was speechless and said with a sad smile, "I can't care about so much anymore. I only know that as a retainer, I must do everything possible to leave a seed for the Wang family."
But Grandpa still made a miscalculation. He didn’t expect that the descendants of the Zhou family would be such bastards and use such an excessive method to force my mother to death!
After hearing the news that my mother was forced to die, Grandpa was so furious that he wanted to destroy the entire Zhou family.
But in the end, he didn't choose to do this. Instead, he agreed to my grandma's request and performed rituals for my mother to dispel her resentment.
On the surface, Taigong helped grandma deal with my mother's troubles, but in fact, he secretly made second-hand preparations.
"I built that fake grave in the back mountain just to hide it from others. In fact, I had secretly buried the body in the Zhou family's ancestral grave."
The grandfather said that my mother died in a painful way, so we couldn't just let it go.
He buried my mother's body in the Zhou family's ancestral grave in order to continue to steal the Zhou family's luck and raise the corpse demon!
I was shocked and asked my grandpa what a corpse demon was?
Grandpa looked numb and did not answer my question.
However, the thin black old man who rushed to help coughed and said in an old tone, "The corpse demon is a very special existence. The three souls are complete, but the seven souls are incomplete. Once the climate is developed, it can become a living dead. You will be resurrected, but there is a price to pay for raising a corpse demon. Anyone who bullied your mother in the past will become a sacrifice."
I opened my mouth in a daze and said, "So the third aunt and uncle and the others..."
"That's right, not only your three uncles and three aunts, but also your grandma and your father are all sacrifices I use to help your mother resurrect her soul!"
The grandfather gritted his back molars with a sinister look on his face and said that this was retribution from the Zhou family.
"They forced your mother to death in such an excessive way. I let them live for three more years. I am already very kind!"
I didn't know how to describe my mood, so I had no choice but to remain silent. Then I turned to look at my second uncle's face, and found that his eyes were becoming more and more gloomy, and the way he looked at the grandpa was particularly complicated.
The Taigong laughed miserably and said, "Originally, this plan was very successful. After three years of nurturing, your mother has successfully formed the Corpse Pill, and she only has the last step to break out of the coffin. But I didn't expect that this bastard named Wang would actually You had second thoughts, and while I was raising your mother into a corpse demon, you secretly plotted against everyone!"
I was confused and said, "Then what is the identity of Master Wang..."
"He is a retainer of the Wang family just like me!"
The grandfather spoke out from between his teeth, "When the Wang family was wiped out, this beast was the one who escorted your mother to escape with me."
Later, my grandpa sent my mother to the Zhou family, and he set up a school in the East Village, silently paying attention to me as I grew up.
The man surnamed Wang went to the town and opened a coffin shop, and guarded my mother with the grandpa.
"I thought that he, like me, would swear allegiance to my mistress and protect you as you grow up. Who knew that this guy had already had second thoughts and secretly colluded with your mother's enemies to completely erase all traces of your mother's existence? .”
Grandpa looked at me numbly, "He wants to get two things from your mother. One is a token inherited from the Wang family, and the other is the corpse elixir in your mother's body."
"Fortunately, the plan did not succeed. Despite all the trouble, these two things were still left on you in the end. It's just that I pity the mistress, because she forcibly gave the Corpse Pill to you, and she could only end up in a state of disgrace..."
