The King of Curses

Chapter 213 If the mountain doesn't come, I'll be there

But if you want to defeat the owner of the haunted house, you have to find out his true identity.

The first haunted house that Cen Dongsheng experienced was the Xiaokang Building. He walked around it several times alone before he found where the core ghost was.

Fortunately, Jiang Yunmei was with him this time, and the girl quickly discovered the clues.

When the three were about to leave, Jiang Yunmei's ears moved slightly and she heard a familiar voice that made people worry. She looked in the direction of the ghost banquet.

According to Jiang Qi, the guests at this banquet were all its subordinates; but compared to the palace guards who were completely under its control, these guests were leaders who each led a ghost army and had a certain degree of independence.

The waiters who moved between the tables were servants of even lower status.

Among this group of ghosts emitting a faint glow, Jiang Yunmei saw a familiar silhouette: a middle-aged man with a sad expression.

"...Jiang Zhifeng?"

"you know?"

Cen Dongsheng looked over there. Compared with the other ghosts around him, this ghost did not show any signs of death before death. It was as if his life was taken away in an instant.

There is a slight resemblance between her eyebrows and Yun Mei's. This is...

"It's my third uncle."

"It turned out to be him."

The former head of the family who disappeared after the Chao Working Committee intervened in the affairs of the Jiang family is said to have come to revive his ancestors.

But now he is a lonely soul, and the person who would do such a thing...a ghost, there is no need to think about who it is.

"Wait, why are there still those old people I met in the ancestral hall today?"

They soon discovered several familiar faces among this group of ghost waiters.

They are slightly different from other ghosts. Their bodies are dark in color and they look weak as if they could disappear at any time. At the same time, the old people have wooden faces and the faint green light flickering in their pupils is almost extinguished. You can tell at a glance that they are newborn ghosts.

"... Jiang Qi didn't lie. He really treated his descendants as objects that could be exploited and used at any time." Song Yutang's tone was full of disgust. "What a lunatic."

……

The ghosts of the old men were temporarily unable to communicate, so Jiang Yunmei led them to follow Jiang Zhifeng's ghost and came to the deserted courtyard behind the mansion.

Jiang Zhifeng's perception became noticeably dulled, his facial expression switching between confusion and pain and brief periods of lucidity and misery. His condition looked only slightly better than those old men.

Until Jiang Yunmei appeared in front of him.

When the ghost saw the living person appearing in front of it, it showed a greedy and ferocious look, but when the girl next to the target silently raised her hand, emitting strong yang energy and electric light from her whole body, it was frightened and retreated. Finally, Cen Dongsheng grabbed it by the neck and threw it to the ground.

After struggling several times, Jiang Zhifeng was still unable to move. His expression gradually became dazed, as if he had temporarily broken free from his ghost instinct. His dark green pupils regained focus, and after staring at Jiang Yunmei in front of him for a long time, he revealed an expression of realization.

"Yes... it's you..."

The ghost's voice was hoarse and unpleasant.

"Jiang...Jiang...Yun..."

Jiang Zhifeng spoke word by word with great effort. It seemed that after becoming a ghost, the memory of the previous life would be severely damaged, and how much he could remember was entirely up to fate; just like now, he could no longer remember Jiang Yunmei's name.

"My name doesn't matter."

Jiang Yunmei said.

"The important thing is, can you still remember who you are? Also, can you guess why we are here?"

She pointed to the man behind the ghost.

"This is the Curse Master sent by the Super Working Committee."

"Super...Working...Committee..."

After mumbling the word again, the ghost remained silent for a long time. Perhaps he was hesitating about how to answer, or perhaps it was not easy for Jiang Zhifeng to regain his normal thinking.

"You...are here...to defeat Jiang Qi..."

"That's right. I know that you escaped from the Super Working Committee in your lifetime just to show your filial piety to our ghost ancestor. What about now? Even you have become a ghost, have your thoughts changed?"

"I... don't want to... help it... but I... can't refuse..."

A strong sense of resentment gradually gathered on the ghost's face.

Unlike living people, for resentful spirits, the resentment in their previous life is the key condition, and it is indispensable to the yin energy in the environment. A considerable number of ghosts and monsters are initially condensed with "resentment" as the core.

Jiang Zhifeng gradually remembered his obsession before his death. His memory became clearer and clearer, and his speech became more fluent and logical.

"I was completely fooled... I thought that no matter how evil this person was, he was still the ancestor of our Jiang family and would not harm his own people. I never thought that he would use the entire family as firewood to fuel his obsession!"

The ghost's face is completely distorted, just like the image in the famous painting "The Scream", and his hatred for Jiang Qi is obvious.

"It seems that we have a common enemy. Why don't we cooperate first? You were turned into a ghost by Jiang Qi. With your ability, it should be difficult for you to resist your master."

Jiang Yunmei said. After asking Cen Dongsheng for his opinion, she quickly made a decision.

Judging from Jiang Qi’s performance, it is difficult for ghosts to go against their core obsessions during their lifetime, which is worth exploiting.

"Why don't you tell us the information, and then we can go and kill Jiang Qi."

Jiang Zhifeng stared at his niece with his green eyes for a long time, then nodded slowly.

"...Okay. Ask whatever you want to know... But I only helped him for a few days, so I may not know everything..."

"First of all, what's the situation with those old men outside who turned into ghosts? We only saw them during the day, but they died at night."

"...Jiang Qi asked me to give my family members as sacrifices. I was reluctant at first, but...I really couldn't resist him, so I told him the names of these people. Then, Jiang Qi sent them dreams and tricked them here..."

"So, you killed them?"

"It's better than sending young people to die." Jiang Zhifeng replied in a deep voice, "I have no other choice."

"No wonder, all the dead are old people... and they are all from separate families."

Jiang Yunmei murmured, and Song Yutang couldn't help but frown.

"I know what you think of me. Yes, I am selfish. If I am not selfish, it will be you and my family that will be sacrificed. Would you..."

"…Let's put this topic aside for now."

Cen Dongsheng interrupted the ghost's complaints.

"I have another question. Why does Jiang Qi prefer to use his own people? Is it purely out of emotional factors?"

"The reason is unclear... but I guess it's probably because he used some kind of ritual to do something to his descendants when he was alive, leaving us powerless to resist."

The ghost's voice is eerie.

"The bloodline of the Jiang family is cursed, and the source of the curse is Jiang Qi."

……

"Do you feel like you're cursed?" Cen Dongsheng asked through "Clairvoyance".

Jiang Yunmei shook her head slowly, her expression solemn.

Cen Dongsheng patted her shoulder.

"It's so cruel. They are the descendants, but they don't get any benefits at all. It's incomprehensible."

Song Yutang said in a low voice.

"Even if you are an emperor who is the only one who is supreme, you will care about your descendants, right? The ancients wanted their descendants to enjoy wealth and glory forever..."

"There is no need to empathize with the way ghosts think. Living people cannot understand that."

Cen Dongsheng said.

"For a ghost like Jiang Qi, when it sees the continuation of its bloodline, it will not feel happy, but extremely hateful, because the world and warmth of the living are something it will never be able to enjoy."

……

"Tell us everything you know about Jiang Qi."

"All I know is that it has the ability to transform living people into ghosts."

Jiang Zhifeng was a curse master during his lifetime, so he must be knowledgeable about ghosts and monsters.

"Over the past hundred years, it has accumulated a large number of ghosts as subordinates, such as the group of guards it keeps in the palace. It is a very difficult threshold to get close to it..."

"I can handle that number of ghosts by myself. The real problem is that the person in the palace is not its real body. Where should I look for it?"

Jiang Zhifeng looked at Cen Dongsheng with some suspicion, and seeing that Jiang Yunmei had no reaction to the man's words, he still seemed to find it hard to believe.

"...You're right. But I thought you were trying to get out of the haunted house and pass on the message to ask for support, but I didn't expect you were really planning to kill it..."

"Forget it. To be honest, I have never seen its true form. This is Jiang Qi's biggest secret and weakness. It is impossible for him to tell anyone else."

"In order to realize his ambition of becoming an emperor in his next life, Jiang Qi set up a Feng Shui formation during his lifetime to change his fate. As a result, he suffered a severe backlash, which was not eliminated even after his death. He could only hide in a coffin to recuperate... This is all I have heard during this period."

"If we just find that coffin, can this all end?"

Jiang Zhifeng nodded.

"But Jiang Qi himself knows that his inability to recover is his biggest weakness, so he built this haunted house into a base and formed a huge ghost army to protect himself. He also built a huge barrier, which is located in the most conspicuous place in the haunted house."

The ghost's gaze looked up at the night sky and fell into the distance.

"That mountain..."

Cen Dongsheng's huge shadow standing in the darkness.

"That is the most heavily guarded place in the entire 'haunted space'. I guess Jiang Qi's real body is on the mountain."

The monster transformed from the mountain was as majestic as a giant, standing silently in the darkness, making people subconsciously stay away from it; but on the other hand, this might be the result Jiang Qi wanted to achieve.

"It's coming...something is coming...soon!"

At this moment, before they could react, Jiang Zhifeng suddenly shouted, his dark green pupils suddenly widened, revealing cold madness, his face distorted, and blazing green flames spread and burned from his feet, all the way to his head and radiated from his eyes.

"Jiang Qi...I'll wait for you in hell!"

Jiang Zhifeng wailed, obviously suffering terrible torture.

Kill to silence them... No, kill the ghost to silence them.

Cen Dongsheng watched this scene silently.

Although he found it difficult to sympathize with Jiang Zhifeng because of what he did, he still felt uncomfortable with the culprit's reckless behavior.

The man stretched out his hand, letting the green flames burn his skin, and then crushed the ghost Jiang Zhifeng's head without mercy.

"ended."

He clapped his hands and said to his two teammates:
"Let's go, it's time to deal with the business."

……

When they left the Jiang family's ancestral home and stepped out of the threshold, they heard a loud noise erupting behind them. All the guests received some kind of order and took collective action.

But when Cen Dongsheng turned around, the door of the Jiang family was like the mouth of a giant beast, tightly closed and could not be opened from the outside.

How could this be difficult for him? There was no door that could be locked in front of the man, and he raised his hand and threw a fierce punch with great force and power.

"boom!"

The door that was blocked by Yin Qi was smashed by a punch, but what appeared in the field of vision was no longer the bustling mansion where the banquet was just held, but an empty and long-abandoned house.

"Tsk."

Cen Dongsheng was slightly shocked.

All that could be heard was the sound of someone giving instructions from a faraway place, as well as the ghosts' thunderous responses, and the strange roars and screams merged into one.

I don't know if it was intentional, but the volume was just enough for them to hear it but not clearly.

"...Yun Mei?"

"Jiang Qi is giving orders."

Their behavior just now seemed to have completely angered Jiang Qi, and he planned to send his ghost army to hunt them down.

Not only in the area of ​​the Jiang family's ancestral home, but in every corner of the town, the shrill screams of ghosts could be heard one after another, and they all woke up from their slumber.

The atmosphere was shaking, and the dark clouds overhead were spinning like an underwater whirlpool.

Those originally uninhabited houses have long since become dens of evil spirits. Their numbers continue to expand, waiting for the master of this world to give an order, and then they will come out in full force...

……

The current situation seems to be full of dangers and frightening; but with the strength of their team, even if they are in a dangerous place, they can still fight their way out at any time.

Seeing that his two teammates looked serious but did not show any fear, Cen Dongsheng was satisfied. He said:
"Let's split up. You go to the mountain over there and take a look. I'll take care of the ghosts that Jiang Qi sent out."

"……May I?"

Song Yutang looked excited.

Given the relationship and personalities between the master and the apprentice, they would not harbor resentment over which side's mission was more dangerous, but would only care about which side's mission was more critical.

Cen Dongsheng was willing to entrust her with the task of finding Jiang Qi's true form, which fully proved his trust in her. This made the girl happy. She thought that her master would take on the responsibility again this time.

"Yun Mei will act with you. You must rely more on her special abilities and spiritual perception and act with caution. Also, it doesn't matter if you can't find Jiang Qi's real body. Your first task is..."

"I know, Master, you have emphasized this several times." Song Yutang grabbed his teammate's hand and promised seriously, "I swear, I will protect you."

(End of this chapter)