Chapter 613 9.36

Chapter 613 36

The origin of Mo Kui is quite mysterious in the eyes of the people of the West.

But for the people of the East, it is a very simple story.

The research on ghosts and spirits by the ancient philosophers of the East began as early as the pre-Qin period.

The Yin-Yang School inherited the Qi people Zou Yan, and the main research directions are Yin-Yang divination, the five elements and eight trigrams, and the art of exorcising demons and catching ghosts. Yin-Yang teachers believe that after the death of mortals, most of the people's bodies perish and their spirits enter the underworld.

But there are still a few people who stay in the human world. Most of them are extremely powerful people with strong obsessions during their lifetime. The spirits that should belong to the underworld are forcibly retained in the Yang world.

In the eyes of mortals, they are fear and disaster. But in the eyes of Yin-Yang teachers, they are rare good materials on the road of cultivation.

They can turn the dead souls and evil spirits into Shikigami that can be controlled by mortals through reincarnation rituals, and use them for fighting or as materials for breaking through the realm.

Gui Huzi, the wandering "Yin Yang Mentor", accidentally found Mo Kui, who had a lot of spiritual roots, and took him and other disciples to travel around the world in the name of disciples, looking for the ultimate law hidden in the world.

As the number of disciples increased, young children with strong qualifications emerged in an endless stream.

Among the many disciples, Mo Kui gradually became a marginal person.

After reluctantly following his master for a few years, when Mo Kui found that he could only do miscellaneous work such as washing clothes, cooking, ironwork and leading horses, he finally chose to bid farewell to his master Gui Huzi.

Among the six schools in Donglu, the "Yin Yang School" is the most mysterious and has the fewest people.

Gui Huzi is a powerful hermit who has survived from the pre-Qin era to the present.

By the Kaiyuan period, his life span was close to a thousand years.

In his long life, Gui Huzi accepted countless disciples. For those with mediocre qualifications, he might not even be able to call out their names.

Looking at this strange yet familiar face, he vaguely remembered that this person had been following him for 10 years.

Gui Huzi had been trying to find a successor all his life. He gave up on this young man in the second year of following him. In the following 8 long years, although he had the title of disciple, he was doing servant work.

"Okay."

"Your talent is mediocre. If you continue to catch ghosts and monsters, you are likely to be attacked by evil ghosts.

It is a blessing to keep a life, live in the world with a mortal body, and experience normal birth, aging, illness and death.

Considering that you have been following me for 10 years, it is not easy to forge iron and clean every day. Before you leave, I will give you a set of tortoise shell compasses from the pre-Qin era, and a few mountain-moving ghosts, so that we can be master and apprentice for a good time."

From that day on, Mo Kui left Gui Huzi and never saw this group of wandering brothers again.

After 10 years of traveling around the world with his master, he had unknowingly gotten used to living in wandering.

After leaving his master's team, his life was completely different from that of his relatives in the East Continent. At that time, the East Continent was still in a chaotic situation of separatist regimes. Mo Kui followed a caravan to the West Continent, and then began to experience the life of a mortal in the West Continent as a mortal.

He is 52 years old this year. He has entered many houses of merchants and nobles in the West Continent, but he has not seen many "yin houses".

Although he is an abandoned disciple, Mo Kui has studied and lived with the most orthodox "yin and yang mentor" for 10 years. He has a very mature method for judging feng shui, perceiving spiritual energy, and catching evil spirits and ghosts.

According to the theory of the yin and yang mentor, living people need to generate spiritual energy to survive, and the corresponding psychic energy is the food of evil spirits and ghosts.

Wherever there is sufficient psychic energy, there are evil ghosts.

The Nicholson Mansion is a place with abundant psychic energy.

The most popular version of the story says that 72 years ago, when the poor woman escaped by chance, she was imprisoned in the basement.

When the Crusaders rushed into the Nicholson mansion, they encountered fierce resistance from the Nicholson family. They were indeed a group of necromancers, and the girl who escaped did not lie.

But when the battle was over, the Crusaders searched the entire manor and did not find the basement mentioned by the girl.

According to the girl's description, the basement had a total of 3 floors, which was the same height as the house on the ground. All those who were lured into the manor like her were locked in cages and lived like wild animals.

Several elders of the Nicholson family would enter the basement from time to time, cut their wrists or throats, and kill them in extremely cruel ways. The souls that died after enduring extreme torture would be imprisoned by them using strange magic and transformed into powerful evil spirits.

The elders would tame the evil spirits around them, or simply seal them in their bodies.

In the following years, the Nicholson mansion fell into disrepair, and Lord Jiaoling had been trying to sell the manor for cash. Indeed, many noble merchants had entered the manor to explore.

To ensure safety, the lord personally led them on a tour.

Whenever the merchants and nobles who came to see the house mentioned the mysterious basement, the lord would personally lead them into the mansion to visit, to "confirm" that what they heard was all groundless.

Even so, the house remained idle for more than 70 years, until Concubine Xue came, and finally welcomed the next owner.

The Holy Army under the Holy Church has been hunting down foreign gods and ancient gods for years. They thought they had enough knowledge about the believers of the ancient gods, but they didn't know that was just the tip of the iceberg.

In the eyes of the real masters of magic, they can see if there is anything strange in the mansion just by looking at the air.

Mo Kui guessed that the evil spirits of the Nicholson family are very likely still hiding in it.

Mortals will subconsciously avoid hearing the word "evil ghost", but this strange creature is the best material for the "soul refiner" under the Yin-Yang school.

Mo Kui urgently needs to find a ghost of good quality to make a medicine to save his wife who is getting thinner and thinner due to the torture of the rotten magic potion.

He can't wait any longer.

On the first night when Concubine Xue went out, he chose to take action.