222: Chapter 218: Totem Spirit?
222: Chapter 218: Totem Spirit?
Frowning, Buck Teeth Zhu pondered for a long time.
He shook his head and said, “My enemies are primarily from the local gangs of Hao River and Xiangjiang.”
“The ones most likely to use supernatural powers against me, aside from the Inagawa Gang, I can’t think of anyone else.”
“Of course, I can’t absolutely guarantee anything about this matter.”
“After all, I know nothing about the circles some of my enemies belong to.”
“It wouldn’t be surprising if some insignificant character just happens to have those contacts, right?”
Shaking his head, Buck Teeth Zhu looked helpless.
Whether it was witchcraft or curses, it didn’t much affect him personally, and that was a good thing.
But any woman he became involved with would end up afflicted by horrible boils and abscesses, which depressed him to no end.
He couldn’t just indulge in one-night stands without ever forming emotional attachments to any woman, could he?
Yet often, he couldn’t control these matters himself.
In the past year, his affairs with women had primarily been one-night stands, and under these circumstances, such boils and abscesses did not appear on women who merely slept with him.
Until he met Miaomiao, and the two fell in love at first sight and truly moved in together.
But in less than a week, those same boils and abscesses appeared on Miaomiao again.
Faced with this situation, Buck Teeth Zhu felt utterly helpless.
“Is that so?” Chen Hai smiled indifferently, neither confirming nor denying.
With a flip of his right hand, the special copper coins he used for divination appeared in his hand.
Face Reading wasn’t very useful for figuring out the specific reasons behind Buck Teeth Zhu’s situation.
But through divination, Chen Hai could still discern some things.
Of course, to be cautious about unknown entities that might cause some inexplicable rebound effect on him during divination,
Chen Hai’s divination focused only on the general location and related people involved in Buck Teeth Zhu’s troubles.
Not wanting to weaken himself too much, ever since he realized he could still divine some information without giving his all, just by casually performing a divination,
He rarely exerted his full efforts when performing divinations for others and generally did them hastily.
In Buck Teeth Zhu’s eyes, Chen Hai was just casually tossing those three copper coins.
But in reality, he had already completed six divinations and had even formed the Gua.
Closing his eyes slightly, he silently recited the deciphering of the Gua a few times.
Soon, some general information related to Buck Teeth Zhu’s situation appeared in Chen Hai’s mind.
“Brother Zhu, five years ago, when you fled to Black State, did you hook up with a girl named Lianna in a nearby tribe?”
With a meaningful glance, Chen Hai looked at Buck Teeth Zhu with deep disapproval and huffed.
“Lianna?
That black girl?”
Buck Teeth Zhu blinked, then realizing, let out a chuckle and explained, “Buck Teeth Zhu in Hao River also has a reputation to maintain.”
“If I stayed single, that would be one thing, but if I really wanted to marry, it would definitely only be a girl with yellow skin and black eyes.”
“That black girl, at night, you could only see her teeth; I was just messing around with her.”
“If it weren’t for that place being so remote and other colored girls being so rare to come by,”
“Even if Lianna lay naked on the bed waiting for me, I wouldn’t be very interested.”
“I just had a fling with her a few times; she took it seriously.
The day I came back to Hao River, she kept pestering me to take her back with me.”
“What kind of person is Buck Teeth Zhu to bring back such a black girl to Hao River?
Was I waiting for others to laugh at me?”
“Annoyed by her clinging, I rushed up and kicked and punched her…”
He roughly recounted his incident with Lianna to Chen Hai.
They say a couple owes each other grace for every day they are together, but Buck Teeth Zhu was truly cold-hearted.
When Lianna grew annoying, he beat her bloody and didn’t stop until she barely moved on the ground; then he walked away without looking back.
Although Chen Hai wasn’t fond of black people and wouldn’t be interested in black girls either,
He couldn’t condone Buck Teeth Zhu’s actions and even viewed them with some disdain.
“That Lianna was the Priestess of that small tribe, serving their Totem.”
“Three days after you left that place, she bled to death under their Totem Pole.”
“When she died, she was three months pregnant, and if I’m not mistaken, that child was yours.”
“Before you left, the things you did drove her to despair and plunged her into darkness.”
“Some tribes in Black State still retain some traditions of Black Witchcraft.”
“The black girl Lianna you abandoned initiated a curse on you using her blood and life through a secret ritual.”
“This curse, if not lifted, will only leave you to die alone; otherwise, any woman by your side will suddenly develop malignant sores and meet a horrific end!”
…
Expressionless, Chen Hai gazed directly at Buck Teeth Zhu, slowly uttering each word.
Previously, he had mistakenly thought this guy was a truly good man.
But now, Chen Hai felt some contempt for Buck Teeth Zhu’s character.
It wasn’t wrong to not like Black Sisters or to feel no love for them.
However, to toy with someone’s feelings, abandon them mid-way, beat them black and blue until they were half-dead—that was the wrongdoing of Buck Teeth Zhu!
Chen Hai’s words caused Buck Teeth Zhu’s face to change dramatically, looking somewhat frightened.
“Young Master Chen, Master Chen, since you can pinpoint the source of my problems, you surely have a way to resolve my issues.”
“Please help me this time for the sake of Master Hou!”
With a hint of pleading on his face, Buck Teeth Zhu begged earnestly.
Although the curse didn’t harm him personally, the thought that every woman he found would end this way deeply depressed and saddened him.
For him, he was absolutely willing to pay any price if it could remove this curse from him.
“Brother Zhu, too many wrongdoings will lead to self-destruction!”
“The curse of Black Witchcraft from Black State involves the totems of those tribes.”
“These things are troublesome, as nobody quite understands what these tribal totems actually represent.”
“I don’t want to refuse to help you, but helping could potentially bring me tremendous trouble!”
“The source, I have already found for you.
There are certainly several capable masters in Xiangjiang and Hao River you could consult.
Try asking them; perhaps they have some better solutions…”
Waving his hand, Chen Hai shook his head and said in a deep voice.
Those tribal totems from Black State vary widely—some are revered as ancestral spirits, others honor fierce beasts, and some even consider plants and trees as their protective totems.
Overall, those tribal totems are eclectic and sundry.
If they were merely ordinary totems with no real spiritual manifestation, they would be nothing but psychological comfort, ineffectual at their core.
However, if they encountered powerful totem spirits, dealing with them would indeed be quite troublesome!
Unless Chen Hai had the capability to use the military to completely destroy the entire tribe, letting the power of the totem spirit fail to project further.
Otherwise, as long as the tribe remains and the belief survives, the totem spirits are nearly equivalent to being undying.
The character of Buck Teeth Zhu in front of him had already caused Chen Hai some disdain.
To battle with the totem spirits for such a man?
After much thought, Chen Hai felt it might not be worth it.
That was why, having such thoughts in mind, he finally spoke those words.
“Young Master Chen, Master Chen…” Buck Teeth Zhu said in a panic.
Unfortunately, Chen Hai ignored him, opening the bedroom door and walking straight out.
“Master, is there any hope for my situation?” Outside in the living room of the suite, Miaomiao had put her coat back on and covered her face with a black veil.
When asking Chen Hai, even though her face wasn’t visible, she likely had a hopeful, expectant look.
Originally prepared to leave, Chen Hai sighed deeply, his heart unable to bear it entirely.
His Divine Soul departed, hovering above Miaomiao, and powerfully drew in.
Threads of invisible black qi, emanating from Miaomiao’s body, were directly absorbed into Chen Hai’s own.
The totem spirit responsible for Miaomiao’s ghastly condition emitted traces of demon qi.
If nothing unexpected happened, this tribal totem probably worshiped some fierce beast that ultimately transformed into a type of demon spirit when combined with their faith.
The threads of demon qi on Miaomiao’s body could render her between the semblance of human and ghost.
But for Chen Hai, consuming this bit of demon qi was like eating a spicy snack, even slightly beneficial.
Once the demon qi no longer emitted from Miaomiao, and Chen Hai’s soul returned to his body, he conservatively estimated that the demon qi he just absorbed was roughly equivalent to three to five days of his arduous cultivation.
“Go back and rest well for a while.”
“Your face is ruined and can’t be restored.”
“If you avoid seeing Brother Zhu in the future, perhaps you can still save your life.”
“That’s all I have to say, take care of yourself!”
…
With her body severely corrupted by demon qi, there was no turning back.
Chen Hai helping Miaomiao draw out the demon qi and barely saving her life was already the utmost he could do.
Having done all this and dropped a few words, he directly strode out of the suite.