Chapter 42 Qing Shui Town 14

  Those white smokes drifting out of the tomb mountain are actually vengeful spirits wrapped in dead air. The vengeful spirits, carrying the dead air, formed a posture that looked like white smoke and left the tomb mountain, but they didn't seem to be floating towards the sky. After leaving the tomb mountain, they seemed to be pulled by something and gathered towards the foot of the mountain. Before long, those eerie white smokes disappeared from the tomb mountain, and it returned to being a small black hill under the night sky.

  As Gu Yin walked through the town and onto the gravel path leading to the burial mound, the scene at the foot of the mountain finally appeared fully in his line of sight.

  Those vengeful spirits that ran out of the grave mound gathered together, coiled around a place, twisted into a white giant snake shape. Suddenly, the white giant snake collapsed, like a large bucket of dry ice scattered on the ground, turned into white mist, bringing an unbearable chill from the foot of the mountain. Before long, even Gu Yin, who was still some distance away from the foot of the mountain, was also shrouded in this rapidly spreading white mist.

  Gu Yin stopped in his tracks, narrowing his eyes to gaze in the direction where the white giant snake had coiled earlier. In the thick fog, visibility was only about two or three meters, and beyond that, he could only see vague outlines, unable to make out any details clearly. Even though Gu Yin's abilities in communicating with ghosts were exceptional, at the end of the day, he was still a human being, not a monster, and he didn't possess the ability to see through fog and mist.

  Although Gu Yin couldn't see what was happening at the other end of the white fog, just by looking at how it was spreading, he realized that something was off.

  The situation in Qing Shui Town had been investigated by Gu Yin long ago, and he could roughly guess what that person wanted to do. These days, the town has been shrouded in a faint aura of death, which is clearly preparation for the vengeful spirits coming down from the grave mountain. The person who set up this formation, it's unclear whether they're too bold or desperate, but they didn't intentionally conceal their purpose. Vengeful spirits, death energy, ghost-nurturing techniques, and a small town... these are the elements needed for an ancient borrowed momentum array. When these elements gather, it's clear that they want to borrow human momentum.

  A person's luck will change with the changes of various factors, and the only constant is that there is only one innate destiny. Destiny is part of a person's fate, as long as they are alive it cannot be separated, and even if borrowed, it can only be strongly borrowed, and it is also a loan without repayment. In other words, if you want to borrow away someone's destiny, the original master of their fate cannot survive. That person wants to use vengeful spirits to make the people of Xizhen's destiny float, and then use the ghost-nurturing technique to nurture a fierce ghost to kill the master of their fate.

  The current situation is that the borrowed troops have already been formed, but those vengeful spirits who should have rushed into Xizhen are gathered at the foot of the mountain, without any intention of entering the town.

  Is this situation... the object of being borrowed has changed? From a person in a town, to a single person? But can a person's fortune fill the needs of a town's people's fortune?

  The white giant snake collapsed, and the dead energy peeled off from around those vengeful spirits. Without the coiled white giant snake, it would have been possible to see what had gathered those vengeful spirits together, but the view was obstructed by a thick white fog formed by the dispersing dead energy. Looking at the white fog in front of him, Gu Yin furrowed his brow. This borrowed momentum array was ancient and sinister, but compared to the Ten Thousand Ghosts' Lamentation Array that trapped him seventeen years ago, it was like a small spell seeing a great one, fundamentally incomparable. Yet, he felt an inexplicable sense of unease and foreboding at this moment.

  The white fog around the Borrowing Power Formation was not dense, but rather very thin. Gu Yin saw Zhou Tian Tong standing at the edge of the formation from ten steps away, Zhang Zhi Xin being pressed to the ground by two white ghostly shadows, and... Qin Fei standing in the middle of the formation.

  In the array, the vengeful spirits and fierce ghosts transformed into a black-and-white mist that swirled around Qin Fei, making his figure indistinct. The only objects illuminating the surroundings were two oil lamps, whose dim glow was not enough to clearly see one's face from afar. However, when Gu Yin saw the person in the array for the first time, he immediately recognized it as Qin Fei, and a uncontrollable anger surged up from his heart.

  That anger came suddenly and caught him off guard, as if it was an instinct engraved deep in his soul. Gu Yin didn't even have time to think about why he was angry, the anger had already filled his mind, making him uncontrollably want to kill.

  Zhou Tian Tong quickly discovered Gu Yin's arrival. At this time, being able to pass through the white mist formed by the dead air and come here, Zhou Tian Tong would not naively think that this was just an ordinary person. He vigilantly stared at Gu Yin, guarding against Gu Yin making any bad moves.

  Gu Yin didn't give Zhou Tian Tong a glance, he quickly walked towards Qin Fei in the formation, he wanted to first pull him out of that damn formation.

  Gu Yin's intention was naturally not what Zhou Tian Tong hoped to see, he saw Gu Yin walking straight towards the borrowed force array, and hurriedly stepped forward to block Gu Yin's path.

  "Get out of here!" As Zhou Tian Tong approached, Gu Yin ruthlessly pushed him away.

  Zhou Tian Tong stumbled two steps, and fell to the ground in disarray, twisting his ankle. The pain made his eyes twitch violently, but he didn't have time to sit on the ground and moan. In the moment he fell, Gu Yin had already walked to the front of the formation, her right hand shining with silver light as she drew a mysterious talisman that Zhou Tian Tong couldn't understand. Although Zhou Tian Tong couldn't understand what kind of talisman Gu Yin was drawing, the Borrowed Momentum Formation was being torn apart, and he could see it at a glance.

  Zhou Tian Tong struggled to get up from the ground and limped towards Gu Yin.

  "Stop! You can't do that! Stop at once!" Zhou Tian Tong tried to stop Gu Yin's action, but was kicked in the chest by Gu Yin and fell to the ground, convulsing continuously.

  Zhou Tian Tong clutched his chest and fell to the ground, struggling for a long time but unable to get up. Meanwhile, Gu Yin had already broken through the Borrowed Momentum Formation in that brief unobstructed period of time, passing through the black and white mist woven from vengeful spirits and evil ghosts, and arrived in front of Qin Fei.

  Qin Fei stood in the center of the formation, straightened his back, slightly raised his head, and his eyes were a dull gray, dark and sunken, unable to see any anxiety. Gu Yin's heart trembled slightly, and he reached out to touch Qin Fei's eye corners. He remembered that in his previous life, when he was sentenced to the punishment of being flayed alive, Yuan Qing, who stood below the execution ground, also had eyes like this.

  "Qin Fei..." Gu Yin stretched out his hand and pulled the person into his own arms, softly calling out by his ear, "You can wake up now, it's alright..."

  The person in his arms didn't react, but Zhou Tian Tong, who had fallen to the ground, began to stir. He stared fixedly at Gu Yin's back, despairingly gasping for breath and making a sound like a broken bellows, then he started muttering incantations. The vengeful spirits that had originally lost their array and scattered, seemed to have received some kind of order, and shrieked as they charged towards Gu Yin in unison.

  However, those vengeful spirits had yet to come into contact with Gu Yin. When the silver light appeared in his hand, they seemed to have been startled and scattered once again.

  "I've ruined my only hope, you've made it so that Little Qing can't come back, I'm going to kill you..." Zhou Tian Tong stumbled and staggered as he got up from the ground, his turbid eyes full of hatred, grabbed the wooden stick that Zhang Zhi Xin had used for his painting array, and charged towards Gu Yin in a stumbling manner.

  Gu Yin almost effortlessly caught the end of the wooden stick that was swung at him, then with one hand wrapped around Qin Fei and the other grasping the stick, he pulled Zhou Tian Tong over, twisting his wrist to make him drop the stick. Before he could let out a cry of pain, Gu Yin had already pinched shut his throat with one hand.

  The suffocating pain made Zhou Tian Tong struggle constantly. Gu Yin just coldly stared at Zhou Tian Tong's twisted face, gradually tightening his grip.

  Zhou Tian Tong is the pawn laid down by that person, Gu Yin originally wanted to wait for this pawn to appear, and then find clues about the person from 17 years ago from this pawn. But now he doesn't want those clues at all, he just wants to kill the person in front of him.

  Zhou Tian Tong was completely unable to resist in Gu Yin's hands, his throat was pinched and he couldn't even make a sound, he could only twist and struggle painfully.

  Just as Zhou Tian Tong was about to lose consciousness from suffocation, the two white ghostly figures that were originally holding down Zhang Zhi Xin suddenly let go of him and turned to attack Gu Yin instead.

  At the same time, a gunshot rang out, and a white ghostly figure paused in mid-air before disappearing without a trace. Another white ghostly figure spun around in mid-air at the sound of the second gunshot, avoiding the bullet while also deviating from its original attack trajectory on Gu Yin, and swiftly fled northwest.

  Ren Qiaoqiao walked over from the direction of the grave mountain, carrying a gun. When she approached Gu Yin, she asked aloud: "Gu Yin, what are you doing? Those two white ones just now were yī guǐ (役鬼), right? There must be someone controlling them. If we chase after them now, we might still be able to find the controller."

  Gu Yin didn't bother to respond to Qiaoqiao, nor did he loosen his grip on Zhou Tian's throat, but it was clear that he had no intention of chasing after the fleeing yuren.

  "Hey, what you're pinching is... a person, right?" Seeing that Gu Yin didn't seem to be chasing after anything, Ren Qiaoqiao glanced in the direction that the ghostly figure had escaped and then turned back around, finally noticing Zhou Tian Tong whose neck was being pinched by Gu Yin. "If you don't let go, you'll strangle him to death."

  "What's it to you?" Gu Yin remained unmoved, gazing at Zhou Tian Tong who had already started rolling his eyes, without even lifting an eyebrow.

  "Hiss! Do you want to be a murderer?" Ren Qiaoqiao was not timid, but facing Gu Yin who calmly revealed his murderous intentions, she didn't dare to step forward and stop him. This attitude of being reckless with human life made her scalp feel numb.

  Gu Yin didn't want to kill because of impulse, he was very clear-headed wanting to kill that old man, he really would have killed him.

  However, in the end, Gu Yin still did not strangle Zhou Tian Tong to death with his own hands. Gu Wen Kai arrived at the scene with Gu Wen Qing and Zhou Jun just before Zhou Tian Tong was strangled to death by him.