Zhou Sheng, whose original name was Zhou Fengchun, was a Taoist monk in the troubled times of the late Han Dynasty.
Like most mortals in troubled times, Zhou Sheng's original intention of practicing was just to earn a living.
In that era, if ordinary people wanted to survive, they could only rely on some heresies.
It happened that Zhou Sheng had some inspiration and was born with the ability to see ghosts in the Yin and Yang realms, so he was trained as a "cauldron" by a certain leftist monk.
It's a pity that the leftist monk only saw Zhou Sheng's potential as a "cauldron", but failed to see that he was also a thoughtful and calculating genius.
Just before the leftist monk was about to live for a long time and planned to seize Zhou Sheng's body, he was plotted by Zhou Sheng.
Not only were decades of cultivation ruined, but they were even backlashed by Zhou Sheng, becoming the "firewood" for him to officially step onto the threshold of the left path.
For a long period of time afterwards, Zhou Sheng wandered around the troubled times as a witch and sorcerer, collecting the bodies of those who died in the war, and then sending their bodies back to their hometown in exchange for rewards.
However, unlike ordinary shamans and sorcerers, Zhou Sheng would not only send the bodies of the deceased back to their hometowns, but also conduct some kind of transactions with those family members.
The soul of the messenger is summoned through psychic methods, so that the family of the deceased can say goodbye to the deceased in person.
In exchange, Zhou Sheng would take away the most precious and personal artifact from the family of the deceased and enhance his psychic abilities by absorbing the spirituality in it.
As time passed, many places knew that there was such a left-behind warlock who could summon the souls of the dead.
Such days continued until Zhou Sheng was twenty-seven or eight years old. During a transaction with the family of the deceased, he met the woman who was destined to be entangled with him for a lifetime - Wan'er.
As the daughter of a wealthy family, Wan'er has a similar experience to Zhou Sheng to some extent.
Wan'er, who can see ghosts, has been regarded as a monster by her family since she was a child, and has been coveted by left-right monks who practice evil practices.
Sadly, Wan'er did not have Zhou Sheng's wisdom and forbearance, and was eventually dismembered by the leftist monks in an extremely cruel way.
Zhou Sheng received a commission from Wan'er's family at that time, hoping that the other party could recover Wan'er's dismembered body and make her body whole again.
To be honest, Zhou Sheng didn't want to take this business at first.
Because the reason why Wan'er's family came to Zhou Sheng was not that they really cared about their daughter, they simply didn't want her to die with hatred and turn into a demon to haunt them.
After all, the evil monk was able to take Wan'er away because Wan'er's parents betrayed her for money.
In those troubled times when dynasties were changing and people were exchanging children for food, this practice was very common.
Especially under the premise that Wan'er can see ghosts, instead of continuing to raise this monster, it would be easier to sell it directly for money.
A family that has the gift of procreation but no love for procreation is destined to be unable to produce the "spiritual tools" needed for Zhou Sheng.
However, after learning about Wan'er's life experience, Zhou Sheng, who was always known for his "calmness", suddenly had some kind of impulse, an impulse to save Wan'er.
Zhou Sheng knew that it was Wan'er's life that was similar to his own that touched him.
Moreover, Zhou Sheng, who has practiced the art of Zhouyi, knows very well that this rare impulse is also a warning sign, indicating the arrival of disaster on his path of practice.
All practitioners must suffer from three disasters and nine tribulations, which are certain changes that naturally occur when they transform towards a higher level of life.
Because I became less and less human, I lost all love and desire...
Because he plundered a large amount of vitality, he was bound to suffer a backlash...
According to different methods of cultivation, practitioners have to face different disasters.
Zhou Sheng practiced the method of channeling spirits and also practiced the Zhouyi Ming Shu, so the disaster he encountered was Wan'er.
Of course, in words that Pei Wende could understand, Zhou Sheng, who had always been clean and self-sufficient, encountered a "love disaster" destined by God.
Zhou Sheng, who was unable to suppress the impulse in his heart, finally decided to agree to the deal with Wan'er's parents.
It's just that this time he doesn't plan to ask for any "spiritual weapons", but hopes that Wan'er's parents will cut off their relationship with Wan'er and pretend that they no longer have such a child in this life.
As you can imagine, they, who had been eager to get rid of Wan'er for a long time, immediately agreed to this request.
Because in their opinion, they had successfully gotten rid of the daughter who turned into an evil ghost without paying any price.
——Change your fate against the will of heaven, cut off the causes and insulate yourself.
So for the next ten years, Zhou Sheng took Wan'er's remaining skeleton and embarked on an arduous journey to collect her physical remains.
Because after Wan'er's body was dismembered by Zuo Dao monks, every part of her body was assigned to a different woman.
Or a high-ranking lady who is born with a weak heart, or a heroine who encounters a vendetta, or a femme fatale who is greedy for beauty...
In order to raise enough money for his own cultivation, the leftist monk almost regarded Wan'er's body as a "panacea" and sold it to all women who were willing to pay money.
Eyeballs, heart, lungs, limbs, and even skin...
When Zhou Sheng found all the women with Wan'er's organs, he was shocked to find that they had turned into beings that he could not understand at all.
Those women who possess some of Wan'er's organs are all Wan'er, but they are not Wan'er.
If the same body has different personalities and different wills, it is called "multiple personality".
Well, the situation between Wan'er and those women is exactly the opposite. They have different bodies and different personalities but have the same will.
In a sense, this special situation can be called "common personality".
Because those women who were originally from different parts of the world and had different personalities, after being transplanted with Wan'er's organs, miraculously had the same hobbies, the same choices, and even the same mate selection tendencies.
Moreover, these women can also sense each other's existence, and when necessary, can "possess" each other's body immersively.
Confused, stunned, helpless...
Zhou Sheng, who originally thought that his "love disaster" was just Wan'er's, realized that all the women who had Wan'er's organs transplanted were part of his own "love disaster".
What is the purpose of killing those women who have a good impression of themselves and who also have a good impression of them, and then resurrecting Wan'er with a "complete" attitude, and successfully survive the "love disaster".
Or should we silently accept this weird "polygamy" situation and indulge in the lust of men and women from now on?
Unwilling to accept his fate, Zhou Sheng finally found a third option - to look for the legendary "mirage" that can fulfill anyone's wishes, hoping to use his power to find the lost "self" of these women.
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