The Anarchic Consort c1-1376

by Warring Young Seven

  Even though he had never encountered that immortal being, he could feel the Buddhist aura surrounding Mount White.

  That kind of Buddhist aura, not knowing its real body could be felt even within a meter below ground in the magical realm.

  At that time, he was not interested in conquering the magical realm. He was purely living to hunt and kill.

  Most of them would pray out loud to their God, hoping for a savior to rescue them.

  God?

  He had always disregarded the idea of God.

  Instead of praying to God, they should pray to a demon like him.

  At the very least, he let them have their vengeance, and whatever they d.e.s.i.r.e most.

  Of course, all these were done in exchange for their souls.

  However, he did come to a realization that those souls were too much alike, everyone was the same.

  They were all filled with greed and it was boring to him.

  Hence, he remained unsatisfied until he encountered that familiar Buddhist aura, causing his impulsiveness to be slowly replaced with peacefulness…

  "Looks like Father is thinking about an old lover." The bigger fetus in Helian Wei Wei's belly moved and snorted, "I knew we couldn't count on him. Once I'm out of here, I'll take care of you and Mother, we'll go somewhere far away."

  The smaller fetus felt the urge to touch his forehead for his brother was always against their father. He could almost foresee that once they entered the real world, their father would not have any patience for them. He would probably just get the palace maids to care for the children. After all, Father has zero-tolerance to anyone who has ever offended him or Mother. But...

  "Elder brother, was there a change in your power today?" The smaller fetus asked with his eyes wide open.

  The bigger fetus carefully hugged the smaller fetus as if protecting him, his tone determined, "Yes. Once we enter the graveyard, I'll gain even more power. I know that you won't be able to adapt, so when the time comes, don't attempt to purify me. Just close your eyes and have a good sleep. You don't have to worry about those demons. Father won't let anything happen to Mother."

  "I'm not worried about the demons. If Father decides to show what he's capable of, they would run away with tails between their legs, just like the one under the waterfall today. It slid away faster than a mudskipper could. What I'm worried about is the very dense Yin energy in the graveyard that may cause Mother to be possessed. If that happens, I…" The smaller fetus had yet to finish his sentence.

  The bigger fetus interrupted him and said simply, "I'm here."

  The smaller fetus looked at the bigger fetus with his bright red eyes, then gave a smile as he nodded, putting all the trust into his guardian angel.

  The bigger fetus patted him on the back clumsily yet firmly.

  Those two then cuddled each other, forehead to forehead, such a heart-warming pair of siblings.

  It was apparent that what others said were true, the mother's heart is linked to her children. Helian Wei Wei must have noticed the movements in her belly as she smiled and c.a.r.e.s.sed her belly, her expression softened.

  Especially the old tomb raider who used to be a grave robber, his whole body was trembling as he led the way.

  The exorcists' expression started to turn gloomy.

  "No, we can't do this." The old man shook his head and said repeatedly, "We can't go in. Once you release something in there, we can never seize it and place it back where it belongs!"

  They had already entered the graveyard, hence Ni Biao could not turn back at this point. He stared at the old man and smiled as he said, "Old Zhang, please don't worry about that. We're all men with skills in Taoist art, and we're capable of putting everything back to where they belong." Then, he went on to his disciples without waiting for a reply, "You guys push the door open. Remember to hold onto the Dog Blood Red Rope. If there's anything strange, don't wait to act."

  "Yes, sir." The disciples of the Ni family were quick to respond.

  Zhuge Yun wanted to stop them, but he knew there was nothing he could say to convince others. All the other exorcists also wanted the door to be open in order to obtain the Sarira...

  Chapter 754 - Dreamed Of The Phoenix Girl

  The carved sphinx motif on the stone door gave out a rather scary yet gloomy feeling to others.

  As the people from the Ni family intended to walk slowly toward the door, a weird howling sound of the wind came out of nowhere.

  Someone shouted right after that, "Guys, look!"

  Helian Wei Wei directed her gaze toward the place where the person was pointing to.

  At dusk, she saw the originally empty tomb entrance suddenly popped out a river that flowed through both sides of the graveyard and was flowing deep down the hill. The water looked clean and there were aquatic weeds growing in it, making the river seem quite harmless.

  The only thing Helian Wei Wei felt strange was that there was not a single fish in the river.

  The most bizarre thing was that there was nothing alive in the water beside the aquatic weeds, not to say a single fish. Moreover, those aquatic weeds grew in the shadows and floated on the river surface, appearing like the hair of women who were drowned from afar...

  Moreover, all of them had kept an eye on the tomb entrance and there was originally no river here. Why would a river suddenly appear just as they wanted to enter the graveyard?

  Was it an early warning to them?

  Helian Wei Wei wrinkled her eyebrows with her eyes staring meticulously at the river to observe the changes in the river.

  The other exorcists had never faced a situation like this. They looked at each other and gripped the mahogany swords tightly in their hands.

  Ni Biao felt excited as he looked at the river in front of him and spoke in high spirits, "There is a saying that when the sun goes down, a Yin River will appear near the royal tomb. I was not lucky enough in the past to see it, but now that I get to witness it in person, it's miraculous that a river can connect the World of Yin and Yang!"

  The exorcists were amazed upon hearing Yin River as the Art of Exorcism manual once recorded about 'Yin River'.

  It was said that one could find the answer of eternity by crossing over the river that connected the World of Yin and Yang as crossing over the river also meant traveling through life and death.

  That was why the eyes of the exorcists were sparkling at the moment and they insisted on wading through the water without bothering about the warning.

  However, the people that came with Helian Wei Wei were all steady and did not hurry to go forward.

  At this moment, the old man looked at the surface of the river and started to shudder with fear. "Don't go there!"

  "Why?" Some of the exorcists turned around and asked.

  The old man pointed at the other side of the upstream with his trembling finger.

  The exorcists then found out a coffin was positioned vertically there!

  A coffin placed in water would easily cause great evil omen in Feng Shui!

  Not to mention that it appeared in the Yin River.

  The old tomb raider seemed to be very afraid of that coffin; he spoke plausible and volubly, "I saw it before, it already appeared back then, let's not open that tomb!"

  "I thought you have never been to a royal tomb before. How is it possible that you have seen the coffin here previously?" Ni Hu did not take his words seriously because, in his opinion, this old tomb raider was hired just in case something happened. Who would have thought that he was a busybody and always wanted to intercept them? Why doesn't he go and ask others about the ability of the Ni family before trying to lie to him?

  The old tomb raider knew Ni Hu did not believe in him, so he started to share about his past experience.

  He had indeed seen this coffin before.

  Back then, there was a village located halfway up the mountain.

  At that time, a rich state councilor came to their village for the purpose of getting into the r
oyal tomb.

  There was not a single villager who was courageous enough to go with him, so the state councilor hung around at the mountainside every day.

  He remembered clearly that one night, a coffin that came out of nowhere floated on the river. They thought that probably the research team of the state councilor had disrupted something in the tomb during that time.

  The state councilor insisted to take out the coffin from the river despite being obstructed by the villagers and refused to listen to the old man's advice.

  Getting the coffin out of the river in the day should be able to avoid some risks.

  Those flying bats seemed to warn them not to get any further!

  Those from the same field knew that it was a bad omen if something weird happened during the day of opening a coffin!

  Despite the fact that they might face dangers, the greedy state councilor did not listen to others and stated that they could find the immortal treasures in this tomb if they could lift up the coffin and find a way in.

  That was why even if he knew there were risks for opening the coffin, he still ordered his men to continue the process on the spot!

  When the old man realized that he could not stop the process, he told the state councilor that they must use a Dog Blood Red Rope to leave an imprint on the ancient coffin immediately after it was transported out of the canal!

  He thought that at least the dangers could be lessened by doing this.

  However, a rainstorm suddenly poured down in the forest before the coffin was successfully transported out from the river.

  Along with the increasingly chirps of the nightingale in the forest, a scary atmosphere was formed...

  The state councilor had no choice but to stop his project because a coffin which weighed a hundred grams was impossible to be pulled out from the river under that bad weather.

  However, out of his expectation, on the next day, all of them who were involved in getting the ancient coffin out of the river was dead one by one.

  Those who had poor destiny in life died that night while those who had good destiny in life were alive until the sunrise of the next day.

  The death of the state councilor was even fishier, first, he got extremely hungry and kept on eating relentlessly. Regardless of what he ate, it was tasteless. After that, he did not eat anymore, he told his men that he was sleepy and wanted to sleep.

  After the sunrise, no one came to open the door even though his wife knocked on his door many times, so she ordered the servants to break into the room through the window. It was during the time that the state councilor was found dead. He was sprawling on the ground with his face facing downward in a weird position. There were no wounds found on his body. It was just that his expression was twisted in an indescribable way as if he saw something that was extremely terrifying.

  Nobody knew what he saw, the thing that left them restless was that his whole body was drenched as if he had been immersed in the river before.

  In fact, the state councilor's wife said that he did not leave his room at all throughout the night.

  So how did the river water get to his body?

  No one dared to give assumptions and no one ever dared to go near the coffin again.

  However, this did not prevent the advent of disasters.

  Moreover, those who had seen the opening of the coffin would have nightmares at night even if they moved out of the village.

  At that time, the old man thought that he was going to die for sure too until he had a dream...

  A convincing woman with elegant and noble behavior appeared in his dream, with dazzling shine, her body seemed to be surrounded by gradual flowing Light of Buddha. The faint smell of sandalwood spread out from her body. She looked just like a vaguely shown Phoenix, making others cannot help but feel reassured when they saw it...

  Chapter 755 - Imitating As The Phoenix Girl

  The woman claimed that if they wished to overcome the crisis this time, each clan must offer their blood, no more or less, filling it up to one bottle and leave it outside their doors at midnight.

  The old man was still a teenager back then. Although he began his career as an official at a young age and was not an expert in Taoist art, he still roughly knew the way to deal with it.

  He had heard of people using dog's blood and Chinese talisman during the exorcism, but when did they ever use human blood to do so?

  Yet, the old man still called out to the villagers to do so based on the instructions of the woman. After all, beggars can't be choosers!

  Out of expectation, no one in the village had ever dreamed again since then and no one else died for no reason. The only thing that happened was that the bottle of blood left outside their doors were taken away by someone.

  After that, the water in the river overflowed that year and flooded plenty of lands. The ancient black wooden coffin was then drowned in the depths of the river.

  It was exactly 40 years since the flood!

  Now, this ancient coffin actually reappeared!

  The fear experienced by the old man was beyond imagination. His eyes trembled and his heart sank as he looked at the ancient black wooden coffin. He did not allow the exorcists to get near it at all costs.

  Ni Hu pondered for a moment after listening to the old man's story. His eyes then gleamed. "You mentioned that the girl you dreamed of has the features of a phoenix, right?"

  The old man nodded.

  "Then it must be the Phoenix Girl!" Ni Hu laughed. "There's nothing to be afraid of then, tell you what, my elder sister is the reincarnation of the Phoenix Girl. Take a good look at her, does she look similar to the girl in your dream?"

  Ni Hu pointed toward Ni Feng as he spoke.

  Ni Feng was wearing a veil with only her gentle eyes visible. Her aura, filled with indulgence, gave out a familiar feeling to the old man.

  Seeing that the old man did not deny his statement, he became even more pleased. He then looked at the group of exorcists and smiled as he said, "Rest assured everyone, with my sister here, anything can be solved." He even sneaked a peek at Helian Wei Wei and the rest on purpose and then continued with a cold tone, "Once we get into the tombs, we will start splitting ourselves into groups. Those who tagged along behind the Ni family will not have any danger. As for those who are against the Ni family, don't blame us if we do not lend you a hand!"

  Everyone knew clearly of who he was directing to in his last statement.

  At first, Ni Hu thought those two amateurs would feel sorry and come over to beg them.

  Yet, the other party had no signs of attempting to offer an apology at all, but instead, walked to the front to lead the way.

  When Helian Wei Wei walked past the old tomb raider from the side, she still remained a sluggish smile on her face. Baili Jia Jue was just standing beside her, looking egoistic with a gentle and calm temperament.

  The old tomb raider paused for a moment and went on to rub his eyes. He must have been mistaken, how could this person be the benefactor in his dream?

  He thought it would be impossible, yet he still laid his eyes on Helian Wei Wei's face, the more he stared at her, the more he could relate her to the image in his dream.

  However, he was sure that the other party would not possibly be that person.

  A person as such would be surrounded by a spiritual aura, just like Ni family's Eldest Young Lady who was wearing a veil.

  "Another person who has been fooled." Zhuge Yun said in a low voice. His clear eyes then looked toward the coffin in the middle of the Yin River. "The old man's dream was indeed related to the Phoenix Girl. However, if Eldest Young Lady is not the Phoenix Girl, we are bound to be in danger once we enter the graveyard. Brother Wei, Brother Jue, do watch out for yourselves. Especially Brother Wei, I know you are intelligent and have knowledge which normal people do not have. But after all, you don't have the protection of a spiritual aura, you should never act alone, and we should not get separated from each other as well."

  Helian
Wei Wei did not reject his kindness due to his sincerity, thus, she only returned a meaningful smile. "Alright."

  She never thought that she would have appeared in one's dream in her past life and found it quite interesting as her fluffy head moved in excitement.

  Baili Jia Jue held her close and asked with a faint voice, "You seem to be really happy?"

  "Listening to someone else talking about your own past life is something rather interesting." Helian Wei Wei answered him with a tone where only both of them could hear it.

  Baili Jia Jue stared at her smiling eyes; he was extremely unsatisfied with the current situation. If these people were not around, he could have kissed her cheeks. Moreover, she was even wearing a man's attire, hence, it was inconvenient for him to do anything.

  "If you want to hear stories about your past life, you can ask me."

  Upon hearing it, Helian Wei Wei paused for a second and then asked him in excitement, "You've met me in my past life? Did we know each other?"

  "Not really." Baili Jia Jue had a soothing deep voice. "Remember that the King of Hell's son mentioned about an exorcist whom I was afraid of?" He said leisurely in an imposing manner. "You were the Phoenix Girl back then, in your past life."

  Helian Wei Wei's lovely eyes squinted upon listening to him and smiled in delight. "This means that I was more powerful than you in my past life. I defeated you, right?"

  Baili Jia Jue thought to himself. This foolish woman is always so persistent when it comes to battles between us.

  "I thought you gave up on silly thoughts like that." Baili Jia Jue took a glance at Helian Wei Wei beside him.

  His eyes fully expressed his disapproval which led Helian Wei Wei to raise her eyebrows. "Was it not?"

  "Of course not! We have never battled before, we did not even meet." Baili Jia Jue's voice was as calm as water but was not as fluent as he stammered.

  Helian Wei Wei looked at his sunken eyes and made a sluggish smile as bright as light and with the stance of a queen, she said, "I thought so too, we wouldn't have met in our past lives. Otherwise, I would have seized you and make you my husband if I saw such a good-looking man. No worries, it's still the same if we are together in our current life."