About 1,200 years ago, there was a businessman named Hu Chen, who was talented and proficient in businessmanship.
When Hu Chen was in his prime, he relied on his own talent to become one of the few wealthy businessmen who became famous at a young age. Although he did not reach the level of wealth that rivaled the country, his scenery was unparalleled.
Money is a thing that nourishes people no matter what dynasty they are in. Hu Chen's model was not bad, and with the help of money, he was outstanding among the young people at that time in terms of temperament and appearance.
After a successful career, love naturally comes naturally.
At that time, the daughter of the Hubu Shangshu fell in love with the charming Hu Chen at first sight on the street. Although the status of the businessman was still very low at the time, the Hubu Shangshu could not resist his daughter's pleading. In addition, Hu Chen's family background It was also very good. Even if her daughter got married, she could continue to live a life of fine clothes and fine food, so she finally agreed to the marriage of these two people.
The married life of the couple can be considered harmonious. Hu Chen is rich and his wife has power. With the help of his father-in-law, Hu Chen's status has quickly risen a lot.
Even during those years, apart from the princes and ministers, the Hu family could be said to be the largest family in the country.
If you succeed too early in life, you will lose yourself after getting everything you want. Even if Hu Chen did nothing for the rest of his life, the wealth he accumulated would be enough for his family to live comfortably for ten lifetimes.
But Hu Chen, who should have been satisfied with this, inevitably became involved in a hobby that destroyed his family.
gamble.
From ancient times to the present, winning or losing in gambling has never been in your own hands. Not surprisingly, Hu Chen, who spent a lot of money in the casino, was soon targeted by the casino owner.
Ordinary small casinos could not catch Hu Chen's eyes, but the actual controllers of that famous large casino happened to be several princes in the palace. Although they had heard of Hu Chen, there were very few people in the country who could fear him as a prince.
Hu Chen took the initiative to fall into the trap, so naturally they would not let him go. Although the status of the prince is much higher than that of Hu Chen, when it comes to wealth, Hu Chen's family has more property than the rest of them combined.
Hu Chen had never been exposed to gambling, so he naturally didn't know about the secret operations in the casino. In addition, they deliberately let Hu Chen win a few games in the past few days, and Hu Chen became even more obsessed with this kind of casino. The pleasure of winning or losing.
Seeing that the situation was almost over, the casino began to take measures to close the network. In just half a month, Hu Chen not only spit out all the money he won, but even part of his own property was involved.
Hu Chen has been in the shopping mall for many years and has rarely failed. Naturally, he is unwilling to admit defeat.
In addition, under the stimulation of everyone, Hu Chen began to bet more of his family property, trying to win back all he had lost before.
In his mind, there are indeed losses and wins in gambling. The few times he loses may just be his bad luck, but when he wins, he shows his strength.
Once this kind of mentality appears, danger begins.
Finally, after Hu Chen kept placing bets, the last penny of his family was thrown into the casino.
If Hu Chen, whose family is just broke, gives up here, with his age and talent, it will only be a matter of time before he makes a comeback.
But Hu Chen, who was obsessed with it at the time, still wanted to win his money back in the casino.
His obsession at the time was so great that he attracted some crooked ghost cultivators to advise him.
Ghost cultivators, whose path of cultivation is too vicious, will use some very human means to make people die in great pain, and then absorb the pain from their souls to help them cultivate.
A ghost cultivator proposed to Hu Chen that he should kill his wife with his own hands, seal her body with a stone statue, and then build an ancient tomb to bury the stone statue inside. He would then use ancient secret methods to keep Hu Chen's wife's soul in the At home, so that his wife's soul can sit at home and help Hu Chen be invincible.
When Hu Chen first heard about this method, he was naturally unwilling.
He has been with his wife for many years and has three children, so they naturally have a deep relationship.
But at that time, Hu Chen had to endure the pain of losing money every day, as well as the temptation of the cheers of gamblers in the casino when they won money, and when he returned home, he had to see his wife who was in tears at home.
Finally, Hu Chen couldn't stand the temptation and agreed to the method of ghost cultivation.
One night, while his wife was asleep, Hu Chen strangled his wife to death with a silk ribbon. Then he and the ghost cultivator transported his wife's body to the border of what is now Yunnan, where the ghost cultivator had already ordered people to build a large building. tomb.
After pouring his wife's body with cement and sealing it in the tomb, the ghost cultivator and Hu Chen returned home. The ghost cultivator set up a formation at home to keep his wife's soul at home to help Hu Chen.
The secret method of ghost cultivation is naturally sinister and vicious, but it is indeed very useful.
With the blessing of the secret method, Hu Chen, who returned to the casino, found the feeling of being invincible in every gamble. Even if several princes joined forces to make a game, they could not stop Hu Chen's victory.
But greed is not enough. After Hu Chen won back his original wealth, he was not satisfied. Instead, he bet more and more, hoping to win more wealth in this effortless way.
But he didn't know that every time he won money in this way, his wife's soul would become more resentful and change in the direction of an evil spirit.
After the ghost cultivator realized that he would soon be unable to control the soul of Hu Chen's wife, he did not dare to tell Hu Chen the truth, but secretly left the Hu family.
Without the check and balance of the secret method of ghost cultivation, and as Hu Chen gambled more and more and made more and more money, his wife soon completely turned into an evil spirit and broke free from the shackles of the secret method.
Although the soul is still conscious after death, after becoming an evil spirit, it will forget everything in life and only know about killing.
She killed everyone in the Hu family overnight, including Hu Chen, Hu Chen's parents, and her three children.
Also on this night, a wandering practitioner discovered that the resentment here was soaring. He calculated that if no one stopped him, after killing all the Hu family, the resentment on this resentful spirit would only be greater, and he would suffer a vicious attack next. It can only be the rest of the people in the city.
So this practitioner came here, ready to disperse the evil spirits and save the innocent people here.
But after seeing the evil spirit and knowing the whole story, the practitioner hesitated.
The evil spirit was originally a young lady from a wealthy family. She was innocent and innocent, and she never had any bad thoughts. Even when Hu Chen lost all his family property and the Hu family fell from a luxurious mansion to living in a country house overnight, If he has any complaints, he is even willing to accompany Hu Chen to make a comeback.
Even though she had turned into an evil spirit and killed so many people, the practitioners felt that she should not be so distraught.
The most important point is that the evil spirit was even pregnant before death, and for some reason, the child in the belly still maintained vital signs after death.
Practitioners have never seen this kind of situation, but since there is still life, no matter what the situation is, it cannot be allowed to pass away.
So the practitioner used magic to take out the child from the evil spirit's body.
I was already prepared that the child was not a normal person, but I didn't expect that after birth, he was indeed an ordinary human baby, with no trace of evil spirit in him.
While the practitioners marveled at how miraculous this thing was, they also made up their minds to send the evil spirits into reincarnation.
But because the ghost cultivator suppressed the evil spirit for too long, the resentment of the evil spirit is now too strong. The cultivator tried many methods, but could not send it to the reincarnation path for reincarnation.
So the practitioners had to use a method that was only recorded in books. According to legend, there is a jade stone on Kunlun Mountain that existed at the beginning of the world, which can allow a person's soul to live in it and remain immortal for thousands of years.
The practitioner asked a friend to help him, took some jade from Kunlun Mountain, and made it into a jade statue of a woman. It was used as a medium to seal the evil spirits in it, and it was buried deep in the ground, ready to be taken out a hundred years later. By then most of the evil spirit's resentment should have been eliminated, and it shouldn't be that difficult to forcefully send it into reincarnation.
It's just that fate is really a trick of creation.
The child that the practitioner took out that night later left his hometown and came to the land south of the Yangtze River.
Perhaps because he inherited his father's talent as a merchant, the child quickly became a rich man in the prosperous Jiangnan area, established another Hu family, and passed down the family for a long time.
And because of his own life experience, the child also established family rules that no one in the family is allowed to engage in gambling, otherwise he will be expelled from the family.
Seeing that everything was on track, the child was not tainted by the cause and effect, but lived a peaceful life and enjoyed his old age.
But I didn't expect that about three or four hundred years later, the current head of the Hu family could not withstand the temptation, became addicted to gambling, and lost all his family property just like Hu Chen.
The younger brother of the head of the family of that generation was named Hu Xianyu.
Hu Xianyu is an expert in tomb robbing. He has a deep relationship with his brother. In order to prevent his brother from being expelled from the family, he is also afraid that the Hu family will decline.
Over fifty years old, he can only take risks again, trying to go to the tomb to find some rare treasures that can save his family.
But this time he only brought back a jade statue, carved with a delicate-looking woman.
Hu Xianyu told his brother that he only needed this jade statue to save the family without other treasures.
Then he locked himself and the jade statue in the ancestral hall dedicated to the family elders, signed a blood contract with the jade statue for life and death, and used his own flesh and blood to nourish the soul in the jade statue. If he died, his reincarnation would continue to support him. .
In this way, after absorbing the flesh and blood of countless reincarnated people, the jade statue will return to the world in a future life. As for what it will bring to the world at that time, no one knows.
Seeing that eight or nine hundred years have passed, in Hu Xianyu's life, as long as he signs a blood contract with the jade statue and supports the jade statue for a lifetime, the soul of the woman in the jade statue can escape from the jade statue and become a human again.
It's just that the reincarnation of Hu Xianyu's generation seems different from the previous one, and he doesn't remember the original oath, so the jade statue has been unable to sign a contract with him.
So the jade statue cast a curse, causing his children and family members to be infected with a strange fatal disease, and deliberately destroying his family industry.
If he doesn't make a decision, he won't even have to be addicted to gambling, and he will soon end up with his family ruined.
Hu Xianyu of this generation did not want to just sit back and wait for death. By chance, he met an expert, and this expert happened to know the ins and outs of this matter.
So the master took the reincarnation of Hu Xianyu's generation and the evil spirit to find the practitioner who had sealed the evil spirit into the jade statue.
