Chapter 184： transfer causation

After hearing the village chief’s words, a flash of ridicule flashed in the Taoist’s eyes:

People are so greedy.

For example, he himself and these people in the village are all the same.

Because he was greedy and wanted to get the remains of Liu Xian, he lied and deceived the villagers to help search for it. As a result, he accidentally dug up the grave of the female body.

Out of greed, the villagers dug up the grave and concealed it, misappropriated the jewelry and property of the female corpse, and even brought the female corpse back, causing a massacre in the village.

It was all caused by greed, and he has already paid the price for it.

But these villagers are not satisfied yet. It is not enough to deal with the female corpse. They even want Liu Xian to come back.

Don't say Liu Xian is dead, even if Liu Xian is alive, he will not come back after seeing such a sinful village.

But the Taoist priest did not say this. He only said lightly:

“My cultivation has been exhausted and I have no ability to help you.”

“You guys should stop looking for Liu Xian. If you dig out anything unclean again, I won’t be able to help you.”

The villagers are a little disappointed, but now it is the best result. At least not many people died and everyone is still alive.

When the Taoist priest saw this, he spoke again:

"You should find a place to dispose of the female body. The matter has been resolved and it's time for me to leave."

After saying this, the Taoist priest left the village, and this time, no one stopped him.

But what the villagers didn’t know was that the cause and effect of releasing the female corpse and causing the murder had been transferred to these villagers by the Taoist priests.

Even if there is any problem with the fetus in the future, it will not affect him, it will only come back to bite the villagers.

why?

Because the fetus is the offspring of the female corpse and the villagers.

Although Taoism attaches great importance to cause and effect, this cause and effect can also be light or heavy.

The cause and effect of blood relationship is far greater than the cause and effect of Taoist priests digging up female corpses out of greed.

With the blood and karma of the villagers at the forefront, even if the fetus does something sinful, Heaven will not punish the Taoist priest. On the contrary, it will even spare the Taoist priest.

After all, the main responsibility for the whole thing does not lie with the Taoist priests.

In fact, the Taoist priest worked hard to seal this abnormal fetus and exhausted his cultivation. In the face of this merit, his initial greed can actually be ignored.

The Taoist priest got rid of the cause and effect and left in a big way. He still had a lot of time to find a way to restore his cultivation.

The villagers survived from the hands of the female corpse, and their hearts were immediately relieved.

However, no one cares about the fetus, the fetus sealed at the bottom of the well, a child born in deception and tragedy from beginning to end.

After the Taoist priest left, someone asked the village chief:

“What should I do with the female corpse’s bones? Should I bury them back for her?”

"Why bury her back?" The village chief waved his hand indifferently, "She has turned into bones. The Taoist priest also said that she can't make any waves, so just find a place to dispose of her. I think her body The coffin is pretty good, I’ll keep it for someone else’s wedding and use it…”

Look, once people become greedy, they can no longer control their desires.

Even though they had just narrowly escaped death, they were still trying to figure out the coffin for the female body. It was hopeless.

But the villagers did not object.

They didn’t even want to go to too much trouble, so they carried the female body’s bones and threw them directly into the well they had just built.

“We have done our best to reunite mother and daughter,” the villagers said.

Subsequently, they found a huge stone and covered the mouth of the well to prevent anyone from falling in and being frightened. The well has since become a taboo in the village.

Liucun gradually returned to calm.

The villagers continue to live here. Year after year, they seem to have forgotten that terrible things have happened here.

The well has been silent for a long time.

***

When the female ghost in red said this, she stopped talking and raised her eyes to look at Pei Anzhu:

“You should know my identity now, right?”

"You are the fetus, the baby girl born after the villager had **** with the female corpse." Pei Anzhu said, "I didn't expect that not only did you grow up, but you also died."

“That’s right.” The female ghost in red nodded and introduced herself, “My name is A-Puppet.”

"Puppet? Half human, half ghost?" Pei Anzhu nodded, "It's a realistic name. Did you choose it yourself?"

“No, my mother got it for me.” Ah Pup smiled.

"But your mother turned into bones when she gave birth to you." Pei Anzhu said.

“I have to thank those ignorant villagers. They threw my mother’s bones to the bottom of the well, so that I can get my mother’s memory and inheritance...”

A-Pup had a sarcastic smile on his face, laughing at the villagers who were self-defeating—

Before leaving, the Taoist priest asked the villagers to find a place to dispose of the female body’s bones. This meant digging a hole in the mountain and burying it.

But the villagers were lazy and didn't want to put in the effort, so they just threw the woman's body to the bottom of the well.

Between the female corpse and the fetus, mother and daughter are connected heart to heart. The handover of life is completed by the breath from the heart and mouth. As long as the breath is still there, there will always be a connection between the two.

After the female corpse was thrown down, the fetus relied on instinct to drive the energy in its body to get closer to the female corpse, and also received the memory and inheritance of the female corpse—

The female corpse was originally a princess from a small country hundreds of years ago.

That country was so small that it was just a passer-by mentioned in history books, and it was not worthy of historians spending a lot of pen and ink to describe it in detail.

Therefore, there is no record of why the princess of a country was buried alone in such a wilderness. However, Ah Pup learned from the memory of the female corpse that the princess was forced to die.

The story is very cliché, and it can be summed up in just two words:

Love, hate, love and enmity, family, country and world.

This princess and the son of the country's general were originally childhood sweethearts. They loved each other and only waited until they were old enough to get married.

But I didn’t expect that another country was calling, and the reason used was “I heard that the princess is stunningly beautiful. My emperor was very happy and sent special troops to welcome her.”

Doesn’t this mean that the princess is to be taken away and sent to the harem of the emperor of a great country?

In order to avoid being engulfed, the emperor of a small country chose to become a vassal and pay tribute. The princess was also sent to a big country for marriage and was escorted by a small general.

I originally thought that would be the case, but unexpectedly, the big country went back on its word.

After getting the princess, he still sent troops to attack the small country, killing the princess's relatives, leaving the people of the small country devastated, and even the general died in the battle.

Before the young general had time to go back, he heard the news and chose to assassinate the emperor of the great country.

It failed without any surprise.

In order to kill a chicken to scare the monkeys, the young general was sentenced to death and had his body chopped up with three thousand knives, even in front of the princess.

Overnight, the princess's country was ruined, her family was ruined, and her lover died. She was filled with hatred.

No one knows that the royal family of that small country has mastered a powerful secret technique. Once this secret technique is successfully used, it can fulfill the user's wish.

But if you want to use the secret technique, the conditions are very harsh—

First of all, the performer needs to be a woman and a virgin.

Secondly, the preliminary preparations require ninety-nine and eighty-one days. Every day, the woman must take out the heart blood and make offerings with the blood of the woman in the nine yin months and yin days of the yin year.

Finally, at the moment when the spell is successful, commit suicide and state your wish before death.

So the princess found a way to escape from the palace. It took ten years to find a qualified woman and started this secret technique.

After the secret technique was successful, she drank poison and died, making a wish before her death:

Let the big country that destroyed her country continue to have natural and man-made disasters from now on; let the royal descendants of that country, regardless of male or female, be riddled with diseases and destined to die early.

Since then, the world has happened according to the princess's curse.

The princess herself was buried in a remote wilderness by her entourage. Although she could not be buried in the imperial mausoleum, she was still given the best treatment.

The finest golden nan coffin, gorgeous clothes, and precious jewelry were used as burial companions...

In this way, the princess was buried.

But no one knows that this secret technique actually has a sequelae:

The performer will not really die. It is said that he died by suicide, but in fact there is still a breath left, and the existence of this breath can ensure that the corpse of the performer does not rot.

In the following years, this breath can also allow the caster to absorb power from elsewhere, including all kinds of yin and evil spirits not limited to the world, to strengthen himself.

As long as the caster has enough strength, he can wake up again and become a human again.

But even the royal family where the princess belongs is not clear about this matter, because the secret technique has been passed down and has become incomplete, and no one has even succeeded in it for so many years.

Even the princess herself started this secret technique with a desperate mentality.

She was lying in the coffin, relying on the instinct of this breath to inevitably absorb all kinds of power around her. Even the lonely ghosts nearby were attracted by her and suppressed, becoming cattle and sheep in captivity.

The ancestor of the Tao family, Tao Xingyun's grandfather, said before that his soul was trapped, probably because of this princess.

According to time calculation, this princess should be resurrected soon.

Unexpectedly, someone dug up the grave and what happened next.

Hence, she did not marry the young general she loved hundreds of years ago, nor did she devote herself to the emperor of the enemy country. Instead, she lost her virginity to the ignorant villagers hundreds of years later and gave birth to a child.

How ridiculous and how sad.

***

"I accepted her memory and inheritance. At the last moment when she completely disappeared, she gave me the name Apu." Apu said.

From then on, Ah Pup relied on the instinct left by that breath to absorb all kinds of energy.

Over time, she grew up slowly.

She is very special. She has a human body, but she was born from the belly of a corpse. From the beginning, she was half living and half dead.

The body grows up like a living person, and the soul cultivates like a ghost.

With the passage of time, she has slowly grown into a young girl of seventeen or eighteen years old. She has studied her mother's memories all over and is very yearning for the human world.

But she can't get out, so she can only be trapped here.

If it were just like this, and the bottom of the well and the village did not interfere with each other, then nothing would happen later, and Pei Anzhu would not have followed the clues to find him.

The incident occurred decades ago—

The villagers of Liucun continued from generation to generation. Although outsiders came and settled in the process, there was never another Taoist disciple.

The specialness of this place has also been slowly forgotten.

With the complete decline of Xuanmen, almost no one remembers things like Taoist priests, female corpses, and fetuses at the bottom of wells.

They only remembered that their ancestors had told them not to remove the stone from the well.

But nothing happened for so many years, which aroused great curiosity among the villagers. They wanted to know what was in the well and why it was blocked by stones.

So, with the consent of the whole village, they moved away the stone.

What appeared in front of them was a perfectly normal well. The water in it looked clean and clear, and when they tasted it, it was still very sweet.