Chapter Fourteen: A Wonderful Night

  This black sorcerer used the most toxic sorcery in Nanyang to kill thirty-five pregnant women to prolong the life of his own child and wife. However, for his child to be born safely, he needed the lives of thirty-six pregnant women. Later, when he was about to harm the last pregnant woman by nailing the last soul nail into her body, the sorcerer's friend arrived just in time, sacrificing half of his life's cultivation to save the last pregnant woman. This broke the black sorcerer's spell, and unable to cope with the consequences, he returned home to find that his wife and child had died. The black sorcerer then wore red clothes and lay down on top of his wife's corpse, transforming into a green-faced ghost after forty-nine days. His goal was to haunt the descendants of his enemy for generations, ensuring that they would never know peace.

  The wife and child of the ancestor's friend came to him when the child was already in his twenties, but he was still silly and foolish. The shaman's wife said that he had been like this since childhood, but the ancestor knew that he was being bewitched by the Green-Faced Ghost, whose mind had not yet awakened. However, the Green-Faced Ghost was a ghost king formed from the resentment of heaven and earth, making it difficult to deal with. The ancestor wanted to refuse, but couldn't bear to do so. Later, they clashed, and the two fought until they reached the gate of the temple, where the ancestor almost lost his life. However, when they reached the portrait of the "Great Man", the fierce ghost was injured by a golden light emitted from the photo. The ancestor took advantage of the ghost's injury to use the Demon-Slaying Sword to completely destroy it.

  Since the early days of the founding of the country, there have been rumors that one of the 'great men' who founded the country was a demon in disguise. However, after that incident, our ancestors firmly believed that one of them was absolutely sent by heaven, the Bodhisattva who saves suffering and difficulties as commonly referred to by ordinary people.

  Fu Chuan grasped the old man's hand, and at a glance, he didn't seem like a good person. His face was pale with fox-like eyes, a truly eerie visage. Adding to that his strange smile from earlier, Fu Chuan had reason to believe this wasn't an ordinary person.

  But after Fu Chuan muttered the incantation, he found that the old man had no reaction. Could it be that his own incantation was wrong? This couldn't be, the incantations were all passed down from generation to generation in the Fu family, and Fu Chuan couldn't have recited it incorrectly.

  "Monster! Watch me take you down!" Fu Chuan was about to draw the demon-slaying short sword from his waist, but just then Xing Chengtian grabbed him and pulled him aside. San Yang quickly ushered the old man away, handing him 50 yuan as he left. Xing Chengtian said to Fu Chuan, "It's not a good time to act now!"

  At this moment, Fu Chuan seemed to have come to his senses, and he looked at Xing Chengtian with a confused expression, "What's wrong with me?"

  Xing Chengtian was also confused about Fu Chuan's behavior and asked, "What were you doing with the knife just now?" At this time, San Yang also came up and said to Fu Chuan, "Master, you were so scary just now, like you wanted to eat people!"

  Fu Xiang completely forgot what he had just done, as if he was mesmerized. Jin Chengtian recounted the events of earlier to Fu Xiang in detail. Upon hearing this, Fu Xiang exclaimed that it was absolutely impossible.

  He said that although he hated evil and eliminated demons, it was also impossible to draw a knife in front of others and stab people directly. Cui Xiang Tian and San Yang heard his eight-character idiom, both corners of their mouths twitched, they gave Fu Chuan a white eye, then each returned to their room to sleep.

  Fu Chuan found it strange that if what Xing Cheng Tian said was true, why couldn't he remember anything about the events earlier. Why did he become so angry and lose his composure when he saw that old man? Fu Chuan's head throbbed with a sharp pain, "Ah~ my mother!" Only then did Fu Chuan realize that he had been put under a spell earlier, but he couldn't figure out when or where it happened, or who could have cast the spell on him without making a sound.

  It's getting weirder, Fu Chuan felt that this inn was quite interesting, but now a group of people had arrived, and he didn't know what their fate was. However, Fu Chuan calculated with his fingers and looked up at the blood moon in the night sky - they were entering the inn during the great calamity, so it was already destined that this journey would be one of nine deaths and one life, or ten deaths without survival.

  It's been a while since they arrived here, but Fu Chuan still hasn't figured out what's going on. The ghost hasn't been found yet, and it's unclear why it asked them to come. Everything that has happened since Fu Chuan arrived here is complicated, so for now, he can only take things one step at a time. San Yang often goes out and sometimes brings back essential items like beer. Fortunately, they brought an insulated box with them when they entered the forest, and there's an old refrigerator in the hotel that Fu Chuan uses to freeze water from empty mineral water bottles. When San Yang buys beer, he can put the bottles and beer in the insulated box. Then, he and Xing Chengtian can go fishing by the natural lake in the forest and drink beer. Anyway, Fu Chuan thinks that if he doesn't look for them, they will eventually come looking for him - it's just a matter of time.

  This unnamed lake has no name, not big but also not small, it should be a water pit formed many years ago, and then opened to more and more water to become this lake, which is also the lifeblood of people who lived here before.

  The fish resources in the lake are very rich, and the fish is also very delicious. Sometimes when they catch a fish, Fu Chuan and Xing Chengtian directly set up a fire on the lakeside to roast the fish or stew it in a pot. They would add some wild Sichuan pepper that can be picked anywhere in the forest, and the flavor would be both fresh and numbing, surpassing any delicious food in the world.

  The fishing rod is still motionless, and neither Fu Chuan nor Xing Chengtian has made a catch today. Xing Chengtian took a sip of beer and said with some emotion: "I'm not yet at the age of retirement, I didn't expect to be enjoying an early retirement here with you."

  Fu Jiang's mouth twitched slightly as he said with disdain: "There is a line of women waiting for me outside."

  "Hehe, yeah, waiting for you, you're not afraid of that little junior sister at your house."

  As soon as the little sister is mentioned, Fu Chuan becomes flustered. The little sister cannot be mentioned, mentioning her might lead to anything. Fu Chuan doesn't know what happened between him and Li Baobao, they used to be fine, but in recent years their relationship has been like he killed her whole family, it's a crazy and abrupt change. "I think I'm not wrong." In fact, Fu Chuan is very clear in his heart about what this is all about.

  Xing Cheng Tian snapped his fingers and said: "You're just too sharp-tongued. Women can't be yelled at, they need to be coaxed."

  Fu Chuan recalled the events of that year and found them laughable. At that time, he and Li Baobao were still young, with Fu Chuan being 18 years old and Li Baobao being 17 years old. The two had hit it off and mutually liked each other, having grown up together without any other women in their lives. Fu Chuan thought to himself that he didn't have much of a choice.

  "I didn't have a choice back then, I went out to study for a few years and saw many things. Actually, I think it's impossible for me to give up the whole forest for just one tree. Even if I were to give up, it wouldn't be now."

  "Do you know what she said when I told her that I slept with another woman abroad and told her the whole forest story?"

  "What?" Xing Chengtian thought that Fu Chuan, this bastard, would definitely not say anything good. Li Baobao said something and he could understand it all, "She actually told me she also wants to go to England to study forest management."

  "I was really scared at that time, I didn't want to be controlled by others so early."

  Fu Jiang was still having fun, but when he saw Li Bao Bao with other men, he felt uncomfortable and said, "You see that she has a boyfriend, what are you crying about?" Xing Cheng Tian sneered.

  Fu Xiang rubbed his lips and said: "Even if a man is bad or promiscuous, he still hopes to have a woman waiting for him at home."

  Xing Cheng Tian: "Trash..."

  Fuhe admitted that he was a scumbag, but although he was a scumbag, he wasn't lowly and wouldn't hit on every woman he liked. When Fuhe said this to Xing Chengtian, Xing Chengtian seemed very curious about Fuhe's words and asked, "Do you like Li Baobao?"

  Fu Xiang nodded very affirmatively and said: "There has never been a woman who made me like this."

  Fu Xiang was not equal to the punishment of heaven, and he continued to ask, "Alright, I know what you want to ask. You want to ask me that since I like her so much, why didn't I stay with her?"

  Xing Cheng Tian nodded in agreement, and Fu Chuan immediately raised his glass in a toast to Xing Cheng Tian. After putting down the glass, he said: "A person like me, who doesn't know what will happen tomorrow, can't give her a stable life."

  Xing Cheng Tian curled his lip and said: "Tell the truth."

  Fu Chuan said, "Alright, I admit that I haven't covered every tree in the forest yet, I'm reluctant to." This was the real answer that Xing Cheng Tian wanted. Xing Cheng Tian knew Li Bao Bao's position in Fu Chuan's heart, he could die for Li Bao Bao, but didn't have the courage to hold Li Bao Bao's hand and promise to only have her as his woman for the rest of his life.

  "You will regret it later." Xing Chengtian had seen many people who regretted and turned back to look for the ones they initially loved, but in the end, they either lived a life of remorse or died with regrets.

  Fuhe said he is not afraid of regret, from the moment he chose to inherit the position of Nandemen's leader, he has never regretted it. He said: "After I returned from England, I knew what was on my shoulders. If I would regret, I wouldn't have become the leader of Nandemen in the first place."

  "You can rest assured on this point."

  Xing Chengtian and Fu Chuan were schoolmates in the UK, but Xing Chengtian was two years senior to Fu Chuan. When Xing Chengtian graduated, Fu Chuan was only a sophomore, but by his junior year, he had been summoned back to Nanmen, where he became the leader of Nanmen after his master and second uncle passed away.

  Fuhe showed the family crest on his palm to Xing Chengtian, "I have five uncles and they all had sons, a total of eleven male cousins, but only I have this crest. It's innate, the head of the Nanmen clan has always been chosen by heaven. I'm also curious why it's me!"