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I wanted to scream for help, but I couldn't make a sound. I wanted to push away the Ghost Infant immediately, but my hands were too weak to lift my arms. I could only use my nails to scratch the bed.

The Ghost Infant looked at me with its dark eyes. It extended its tongue to lick her fangs, then lowered its head to bite at my throat once more.

I threw my head back and finally screamed.

The pain came from my throat and I fainted.

When I woke up again, it was already noon of the second day. The Ghost Infant was already gone, and Zuo Mu was currently sitting beside me with a cold expression, frowning as he looked at me.

I'm still alive?! Seeing Zuo Mu surprised me and I couldn't help but smile. The piercing pain from my neck reminded me of that terrifying scene at night and I couldn't help but cry again.

Zuo Mu stood up in a fluster, looking at me while laughing and crying while scratching his head.

"Gan Mei, that Ghost Infant didn't really suck your blood." Zuo Mu took a long time to force out these comforting words.

When I stopped laughing and crying, Zuo Mu told me that the Ghost Infant had already left the night before when he heard my screams rushing into my room.

After he had bandaged my wounds, he stayed by my side.

In the future, whenever I live in the temple, he will do his best to accompany me day and night so that I won't be sucked in by the Ghost Infant again.

"But, Ghost Infant is very powerful, she might be able to suck your blood." Hearing that Zuo Mu said that he would accompany me, aside from being moved, I started to worry about his safety.

I sat up in bed, my head bowed and my fingers entwined.

Although I warned Zuo Mu about Ghost Infant, I still hoped that he would accompany me.

"Don't be afraid, I have a lot of health left." Zuo Mu rubbed the top of my head and laughed.

After I eat lunch, Zuo Mu will be preparing to leave to find the ingredients needed to detoxify the poison.

I was afraid that the Ghost Infant would suddenly come back to find me, and I strongly requested that I follow Zuo Mu.

My body was very weak, and I was already panting from exhaustion after not walking far away.

Whenever I couldn't move, Zuo Mu would patiently stop and wait for me to rest before continuing on his journey.

The poison ingredients that Zuo Mu found were all on the mountain. Those poison ingredients were very complicated and strange, he even brought back a crow nest.

By the time he had collected all the poison materials, it was already dusk.

On the way back, Zuo Mu had been carrying me on his back the entire time.

Although Zuo Mu is only a head taller than me, he has a lot of strength.

Zuo Mu said that as a big brother, you have to act like a big brother.

Zuo Mu's words made my heart feel even more warm. After I took the initiative to mention my relationship with the Ghost Infant, Zuo Mu said, no wonder the Ghost Infant chased me to the temple and sucked my blood.

Because I am from the same father and mother with Ghost Infant, Ghost Infant can easily perceive my location and my blood is also the most delicious for Ghost Infant.

Ghost Infant was bloodthirsty, and its main food was blood.

Hearing Zuo Mu's words, I couldn't help but shiver. Zuo Mu said, with him here, I don't have to be afraid of anything.

Returning back to the temple to eat dinner, Zuo Mu used the detoxifying ingredients he collected to boil a big pot of hot water, and then poured the hot water into a bath barrel in my room.

I followed along behind Zuo Mu. From time to time, I would look around, afraid that the Ghost Infant would come look for me.

When the hot water was slightly hot, Zuo Mu sat down with his back facing the wooden barrel and let me take off my clothes to soak in the bath barrel. He warned me repeatedly that I would have to wait until there was no longer any black juice flowing out from my body before I could come out of the barrel.

I did as I was told, and as soon as my skin touched the water in the tub, it began to burn.

Enduring the discomfort I soaked my neck and all the way down in the tub, and not long after, a thick black juice began to flow out of my pores.

When my whole body was soaked in the water of the bath barrel, I trembled in pain.

After staying in the water for a while, I began to feel drowsy again.

Zuo Mu kept on telling me about his matters, and from time to time, he would ask me to remind me not to fall asleep.

From Zuo Mu's words, I knew that Zuo Mu had never seen his parents before and that his master never mentioned his parents to him either.

His master's whereabouts were unknown. He only came to this monastery with his master three years ago, and after coming here, his master often left him alone in the monastery.

In these three years, he had followed his master's instructions and never went down the mountain once.

His master didn't allow him to go down the mountain so easily, it was to prevent him from committing murder before he turned twelve. This slaughter not only affected humans, but also included ghosts, demons, and animals.

The translucent thing that sucked my blood before was actually a demon. Other than having nothing to do with absorbing human blood, it didn't cause too much damage to people. That demon is good at stealth, making it hard to detect.

His master had said that if he killed anyone before he was twelve, the consequences would be very, very serious.

Under normal circumstances, as long as his master used two extraordinary words in a sentence, it would mean that those words were absolutely true.

"Gan Mei, call me big brother Zuo." When I couldn't hold on any longer and was about to fall asleep, Zuo Mu made me pronounce it once again.

I called Big Brother Zuo to wake up a little, and after seeing that there was no longer any black juice flowing out of my body, I left the bath barrel to dry my body, then put on the clothes that Zuo Mu had found for me.

The clothes I wore to the top of the mountain were a little too dirty. The clothes Zuo Mu found for me were his autumn clothes and pants.

Zuo Mu told me to stay in the room and rest, he scooped out the water from the bathtub and poured it into the courtyard.

When I came out of the bathtub, my skin was still burning with pain. Adding on that Zuo Mu was still in my line of sight, I did not follow Zuo Mu any further and listened to his orders to stay in the room to rest.

When I inadvertently looked at the window, I saw that the Ghost Infant was actually outside the window, looking at me with its black eyes.

I exclaimed and ran towards Zuo Mu. When Zuo Mu turned to look at the window, the Ghost Infant had already disappeared.

I didn't dare to stay half a step away from Zuo Mu. When we slept at night, I insisted on letting Zuo Mu and I squeeze into the same bed.

Zuo Mu blushed and hesitated for a long time, then lay down right beside the bed.

The Ghost Infant did not come find me. Zuo Mu only meditated and played with me every day.

Every night, I would have to soak in Zuo Mu's boiled bath until no black juice flowed out of my body.

Every time I take a bath, the black juice coming out of my body becomes less and less.

The night before Chunxi's funeral, she told me that I no longer needed to take a bath and that I only needed to slowly recuperate.

The dark parts of my body had returned to normal. My wounds had mostly healed, but my body was still weak.

On the day of Chunxi's funeral, I said to Zuo Mu that I wanted to send him off the mountain, but Zuo Mu refused me no matter what.

Zuo Mu kept his eyes on me throughout the entire day, to prevent me from going down the mountain without permission.

At night, just as I was about to go to sleep, Chunxi's ghost came to my room.

Chunxi wore white clothes and black pants as she braided her hair, just like how she looked the first time I saw her. It was just that the tip of her foot was suspended vertically in the air, causing her face to turn deathly pale.

She stood at the door and looked at Zuo Mu with fear.

Seeing Chunxi, my tears started to fall. I ran to Chunxi's side and wanted to hug her, but my hands had passed through her body.

I was a little dazed and didn't understand what was going on. I remembered that when I beat my father with the peach branch earlier, the peach branch really hit my father's body.

When I ran to Chunxi, he was still looking at me fearfully.

After Zuo Mu cut a long story short, Chunxi began to cry and told me that her corpse was gone. She couldn't enter Aunt House nor Aunt Tao, so she could only find me and beg me to help her find her corpse.

Tell Chunxi that when I can go down the mountain, I will ask Aunt Tao to help me find her corpse.

Chunxi thanked me, and she would go look for me first. When she had news, she would come back to notify me.

I said I'm sorry to Chunxi, but Chunxi shook her head and said she never blamed me, and it was my father's fault that had nothing to do with me.

After Chunxi finished speaking, she bowed deeply towards Zuo Mu, then turned and left through the door.

I looked towards Zuo Mu in confusion, and saw that he was smiling at me with his white teeth bared.

I asked Zuo Mu why he seemed to be afraid of him. Zuo Mu scratched his head and said that he didn't know the specific reason either. It was as if all the ghosts he saw were afraid of him.

My heart was filled with worry that Chunxi's corpse had disappeared, and I did not linger over the issue above.

I mentioned to Zuo Mu what happened the day Aunt Tao and I moved my father's grave for him and told him that my father's body had also disappeared.

Zuo Mu thought for a while and asked me, "What are my father's and Chunxi's birthdays?"

I carefully thought about what Aunt Tao had written on the red paper on the night of Chunxi and my father's wedding, but I was unable to remember it.

Zuo Mu smiled and told me to rest early, he said that I would only be able to go down the mountain and help Chunxi if I had enough time to recuperate.

After I laid on the bed obediently, I asked Zuo Mu why did my hands pass through Chunxi's body and why did the peach branches really hit my father when I was beating my father previously.

Zuo Mu told me that ghosts only exist in physical form when they are at their highest level. The majority of ghosts that we meet are virtual body s.

The Ghost Birth was a special kind of existence, the Ghost Birth was born with a physical entity.

The peach branches could avoid impurities but could also avoid evil. When objects could cause material damage to ghosts, the virtual body ghosts would appear to be solid.

After Zuo Mu finished speaking, he took out a small peach wood dagger with the word "Left" engraved on it and handed it to me. He told me to take care of my body and that the peach wood dagger was made from the branches that had the sun on the peach tree and the shadow on the tree, so that I could have the benefit of Yin and Yang.

I carefully put away the peach wood dagger that Zuo Mu passed to me, and repeatedly thanked Zuo Mu.

Zuo Mu laughed at how easy it was to get rid of her. I said that I would be satisfied easily anyway.

In the period of time that followed, Zuo Mu took advantage of me falling asleep at night to suppress the remaining Ghost Infant poison in my body. Chunxi didn't come look for me again, and the Ghost Infant also never appeared again.

As Zuo Mu helped me recuperate my body, he taught me how to meditate and meditate. He also taught me how to use a peach wood dagger to deal with ghosts.

On the evening when I stayed in the monastery for half a month, Aunt Tao came up the mountain to pick me up.

After Zuo Mu came to the temple from the Aunt Tao, he returned to his ice-cold mode.

Aunt Tao did not immediately bring me out of the temple after thanking Zuo Mu with a gift. She wanted to invite Zuo Mu to come down the mountain to our village.

Aunt Tao said that while I was at the monastery, many things happened in my village again.

Old He's corpse disappeared for no reason during the morgue. She was still unable to find his three lost souls. In our village, there were frequent cases of poultry and villagers being sucked to death.

As the owner of the Aunt House, she had the responsibility to find out the culprit behind Chunxi's death.

During this period of time, she would frequently come to our village, wanting to investigate the recent events in our village and see if she can find any clues related to Chunxi's accident.

During her investigations, not only was she unable to find any clues related to Chunxi, she was also unable to find any clues related to the frequent accidents in the village.

The more it was like this, the weirder she felt.

After Zuo Mu quietly listened to Aunt Tao, he did not immediately reject Aunt Tao's request to go down the mountain. Instead, he coldly asked Aunt Tao to begin the story of his marriage with my father.

When Aunt Tao told her about me being bitten by the ghost, Zuo Mu interrupted her and asked her what the two words "birthdate" for my father, Chunxi and Elder He were.

After the Aunt Tao answered, Zuo Mu told the Aunt Tao that Chunxi had come to the temple before and her corpse had also disappeared.

Aunt Tao frowned her forehead as she thought deeply about it. When Zuo Mu mentioned the Five Tombs Technique, Aunt Tao's eyes were filled with shock.