Chapter 1 "Keeping the Year" Enters the Estate, Nourishing the Divine Soul!

While the Ugong Clan Chief outside revealed his true colors, and the mine owner Zhuang Erchang invited helpers from the One Coin Sect, nearly destroying the Ugong Clan Chief's Gu, but ultimately caused a chaotic scene due to Wu Song's appearance, Hu Ma had been quietly sitting inside the wooden house.

He listened to everything happening outside, both big and small, understanding the cause and effect, but he didn't pay any attention to it.

He simply couldn't afford to.

This was originally an opportunity for him to refine blood food and complete his entry into the Estate, borrowing the power of the Golden Silkworm Gu to accelerate the digestion of the blood food pills and complete the nourishment of his head.

But he never expected this accident to occur when entering the next step, the nourishment of the divine soul.

His divine soul left his body, enjoying the offerings of blood food like a guest of honor.

He could feel the surging qi and blood pouring into his body, or rather, his divine soul enjoyed this qi and blood, which also gave his divine soul a sense of sublimation, completing the nourishing process more smoothly than originally imagined.

He even thought that the blood food he had prepared was not enough, and Hu Ma was prepared to make up for the last bit...

But as it turned out, it was enough.

Because the Black Tai Sui made up for this final deficiency.

But the key was that throughout this entire process, Hu Ma himself refined and completed the activation of his head, but later on, it seemed faintly as if his divine soul was directing things from an instinctive level.

"My divine soul... actually completed this step of cultivation on its own?"

Unconsciously, Hu Ma's head was in a mess. He was a little dazed for a moment, not knowing what was going on. Neither the cultivation of "Keeping the Year," nor the path of walking the ghost gate, nor even the Town Year Book, had any records of this situation. There was nothing similar.

But just now, he had done this as a matter of course…

…Even borrowed the power of the Black Tai Sui to complete the final step of his entry into the Estate?

From the Great Goat Village, Hu Ma understood that both Second Grandpa and Little Hongtang had told him that the Black Tai Sui could not be eaten, as it would cause problems…

So what about himself now…

Taking advantage of the opportunity to enter the Estate, he entered his own Natal Spirit Temple and looked at the natal statue behind the incense table, which could now be used to illuminate the reincarnated self. It was now fully lit.

Strands of golden silk ran through the entire statue, showing its appearance sitting in the darkness, its body radiating light. However, what he could see now was only a meridian diagram, a human body outlined by golden silk.

There was no skin, no bones, and of course, he couldn't see what the statue looked like.

In addition, the statue was sitting on the ground, one hand raised, and one hand pointing forward, the palm in a virtual grip, which seemed to indicate that the statue should originally be holding something in its hand.

But it was all black, and it was impossible to tell what was originally held in these two hands, or…

…Carefully staring at the golden meridian lines that outlined the statue, especially under the ribs, Hu Ma suddenly thought: "It's not two arms at all?"

"This statue is incomplete, severely incomplete. Now I have only barely refined a human form. So, outside this human form, are there some things that should not belong to a human?"

"Other reincarnators say that this statue reflects themselves, but... does this statue reflect me, or am I seeing it?"

"..."

While thinking, he looked at the statue behind the incense table. He didn't know if he was looking too intently, but he suddenly felt that the statue seemed to move, faintly revealing a mysterious smile, slowly looking at himself in front of the incense table, his body leaning forward.

A ghostly voice, with a strange meaning, echoed in his Natal Spirit Temple:

"The Azure Sky is dead, the Yellow Sky shall rise."

"The year is Jiazi, great luck to the world!"

"..."

Hu Ma was almost frightened by this sentence. He straightened his chest and looked again, only to see that the golden silk statue was still standing steadily in the darkness, with no change compared to just now.

However, these inexplicable sixteen words suddenly made his heart skip a beat. The more he thought about it, the more creepy he felt, the more his scalp tingled.

He even subconsciously looked outside, his gaze penetrating the layers of wooden houses, and suddenly fell on the ore vein covered with red cloth outside, and his heart suddenly trembled. Some information that flooded into his mind along with the Black Tai Sui quietly emerged:

"Tai Sui Grandpa has life, it is waiting for the appearance of a new emperor…"

"…To fulfill what the world once promised it!"

"..."

He couldn't explain how this consciousness appeared. It seemed that he had been infected with a kind of consciousness because of contact with the Black Tai Sui, or it seemed that the statue in the Natal Spirit Temple had inexplicably aroused a ripple with a sentence.

Hu Ma didn't understand for a moment, and couldn't explain it. He eagerly wanted to figure it out, but the more he thought about it, the more terrifying he felt, and he wanted to subconsciously stay away from his Natal Spirit Temple.

This chaotic feeling, like tangled hemp, and anxious like ants, until a burst of pain suddenly hit his arm, Hu Ma trembled violently, opened his eyes, and all the strange things in front of him disappeared. Only the real and chaotic scene in the wooden house remained.

And Little Hongtang was staring at him with big eyes, her little face…

…She was opening her mouth wide, biting on his arm. Seeing him wake up, she jumped away with a whoosh, looking at him vigilantly.

"This is…"

Hu Ma was a little surprised. After a pause, he slowly lowered his head to look at his arm. There were dark tooth marks on it, the marks of being bitten by a little ghost.

"Brother Hu Ma went crazy. There wasn't enough blood food to eat, so he went to eat Black Tai Sui. He seemed to be going crazy, and he looked scary…"

Little Hongtang said, while secretly hiding her hand behind her. She rolled down her sleeves. In fact, Hu Ma had just seen her raise her hand. It seemed that one bite couldn't wake him up, so she was about to slap him.

"So just now, it was just a strange hallucination caused by contact with the Black Tai Sui?"

Hu Ma took a deep breath and looked around again. The chilling feeling just now could not be found. Everything seemed to be just a dream. Once he woke up, it was gone.

But was it really just a hallucination?

Hu Ma didn't think so in his heart, but he decided not to delve into it here for the time being. He just slowly smiled on his face, pretended to be relaxed, and said to Little Hongtang: "Okay, things are done. Little Hongtang helped a lot this time."

Hearing that she had been praised, Little Hongtang tilted her head and looked at Hu Ma. Seeing that he didn't seem as scary as he had been just now, her eyes弯弯弯 with joy.

"My business is done, so it's time to deal with the things outside."

Hu Ma took a deep breath and, after a slight thought, said to Little Hongtang: "Little Hongtang, let me see your basket!"

Little Hongtang didn't know what he was going to do, so she obediently gave him the basket she had on her arm. Hu Ma took off the red cloth covering the basket, and saw that there were all kinds of things in it, including many that he had given her to play with.

But after flipping through it a little, he still took out a piece of black bone from it, and then nodded in satisfaction, ignoring Little Hongtang's widened eyes, and stuffed it into his sleeve.

After thinking about the matter of making a move, Hu Ma then got up,整理一下衣衫, and then took out Red Lantern Granny's lantern from the parcel next to him. This was something that Red Lantern Society disciples must bring with them every time they arrived in a new place.

Taking off the lampshade, he lit the oil lamp inside the lantern with a fire folder, and Hu Ma held it in his hand, and grabbed the serrated knife with the other hand.

He coughed lightly and nodded to Little Hongtang.

So the unknowing Little Hongtang hurriedly opened the door for him. In the eyes of outsiders, the door seemed to open automatically.

Hu Ma carried the red lantern and walked out of the wooden house, looked at the ravaged valley, and sighed softly: "Monkey Wine, this guy, his head is really hard…"

……

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Affected by the Black Tai Sui, the strangely inexplicable Wu Ya, the evil Gu worm refined by the Ugong Clan Chief using himself as a vessel, the One Coin Sect Dharma King who invited the descent of the Nine Heavens Lotus Mother, and an old "Keeping the Year" who had entered the Estate, all joined forces to attack Wu Song.

And he, in the form of seven incarnations, stood in front of the ore vein, with countless Gu worms flying around him. Each body reflected a blurred and changing shadow, intertwined and crisscrossing, almost submerging half of the valley.

This mysterious and unpredictable Gu technique allowed him to withstand the joint attack of these four people. But countless Gu worms fell to the ground, and the incarnations collapsed one by one. Even the stones and mountain walls around him were silently cracking piece by piece.

Now, as these people from different camps approached together, the interwoven pressure was all on Wu Song. His seven incarnations had been destroyed four of them, and even the remaining three witch human incarnations were showing signs of collapse, looking like they were only勉强支撑.

Seeing that as the distance closed, Wu Song would definitely be the first to die.

The Ugong Clan Chief on the back of the Gu worm, watching this scene, was both surprised and excited. The ore vein covered with red cloth in front of him seemed to be right in front of him.

He seemed to hear the mysterious call inside, and felt the urgent will of the Witch God's descent.

Everything was so close at hand, within reach.

But he didn't expect that, just at this moment, a low voice suddenly sounded in the valley. Then, a gleam of red lantern light appeared faintly, quietly tearing open a gap in the heavy darkness like a deep night.

A figure carrying a lantern slowly walked out of the depths of the darkness, his eyes swept across the ravaged valley, and shook his head.

He sighed softly, "A bunch of guys who don't understand the rules, what have you done to our Lady's blood food mine?"

ps Recommend a book about the era of reading: 《重生后，我家娇妻越来越漂亮》 (Reborn, My Wife is Getting More and More Beautiful)

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