Yin Yang Lantern Man

Chapter 288 Fu Zheng's Curse

Tu Ming's eyelids twitched. Was that a prediction?

He said nothing. He was sure that the other party was here to kill him. He had just seen it all in his dream.

"Tu Ming, I..."

As Zhu Hengrui opened his mouth, he saw Tu Ming rushing towards him.

"die!"

He roared like a wild beast and fell into Zhu Hengrui's arms.

In his hand, there was a sharp knife.

Zhu Hengrui's face turned cold. He originally came to investigate the situation, but now it seems that Tu Ming has completely turned into a demon.

He stepped back slightly, and a talisman on his body glowed. It was a wooden armor talisman, which could not be broken by a sharp knife.

But soon, he felt a sharp pain in his abdomen and Zhu Hengrui's eyes widened. The wooden armor talisman was broken?
How is that possible? It's just a child.

No! There was something else on the knife, a power he had never seen before, with a hint of blue.

Zhu Hengrui lowered his head. He felt no pain from his wound. Instead, it was itchy and unbearable. A black flower bud had actually bloomed on it!

"Evil!"

He gritted his teeth. Even though his master had taught him about such situations and how to deal with them, he was still nervous.

How deep did the knife pierce? He didn't know. He kicked Tu Ming away and gritted his teeth to stick a talisman on the wound.

The flower was withering, but the wound was in severe pain.

"Die!"

After Tu Ming took the initiative, he attacked again, which made Zhu Hengrui furious.

"Die!"

He threw out a talisman with his backhand, and it turned into a fireball as it flew.

Tu Ming screamed and was hit directly, but he was surprised to find that he didn't seem to have suffered too much damage.

"Get away! Get away!"

Zhu Hengrui found that the world was upside down, he felt dizzy, and there were strange noises in his ears.

In his sight, two visions appeared like an animal, one above his head, and the other one in his abdomen, looking at his pale face.

abdomen?

He lowered his head, and the withered flowers on the wound grew again, and the anti-pollution talisman was completely contaminated.

The flower bud has blossomed, and inside it is an eye, blinking at itself.

"what!"

He screamed in fear, reached out his hands to grab and pull, trying to pull his eyes out by the roots, only to be replaced by incomparable pain!
"It hurts!"

Zhu Hengrui shouted in horror. He wanted to run, but gradually he lost track of direction because his vision changed from two to three.

When I pulled out an eye flower, two more eye flowers grew.

There were more strange sounds in his ears, coming from all directions, and he couldn't even see where Tu Ming was.

"die!"

The still childish voice revealed ruthlessness. Zhu Hengrui widened his eyes, feeling that all the strength was leaving his body and it seemed as if his neck was leaking air.

He fell to the ground with a thump. Tu Ming took a deep breath and trembled all over. In front of him, Xin Fu, dressed in white, was lying in a pool of blood.

The blood was not red, but black. Not only that, eye flowers were blooming on the blood.

It was very similar to the grass he had eaten, but in a different form.

"It's a good harvest today."

The man walked out slowly beside Tu Ming, and used the sickle to cut the eyes flowers like harvesting crops. After being cut, they grew again, one crop after another, and finally the yard was full of eyes flowers.

"Aren't you curious why no one came despite all the commotion?"

Chen Ningan smiled at him and said, "Wake up quickly, eat an eye flower, and go draw today's lantern talisman."

Still awake?

Tu Ming opened his eyes dazedly and found himself still in bed.

It was already noon and Amma was still staying by his side.

"Son, what happened to you?"

Her face was full of tears and panic: "Just now the doctor said you were fine, but I couldn't wake you up no matter what I did."

"Or, let's just stop being Fu Zheng. Mom is scared."

"Mom, it's okay. I'm practicing."

Tu Ming stood up, but did not see Zhu Hengrui in the yard. He jumped up and said, "Look, I am alive and kicking. I am so energetic."

After eating the grass, his health got better day by day. It was simply a panacea.

My neck is a little itchy.

He scratched again and went to Fu Zheng's room, only to find that there were a lot of people gathered there.

"what happened?"

He walked over in two or three steps and heard shouting coming from inside.

"Fu Zheng, Lord Fu Zheng?"

"Fu Zheng, please wake up and don't scare us!"

"what happened?"

Tu Mingxiang asked the people around him, "What happened to Xin Fuzheng?"

"It's Xiao Tu, I don't know what's going on, Xin Fu Zheng can't be woken up either, how could this happen?"

"It's been really strange in our little mountain these past few days, including you. The old Fu Zheng has gone crazy, and you have been sleeping for several days. Now the new Fu Zheng can't wake you up either."

Zhu Hengrui was killed by Tu Ming in his dream, how could he appear here?

Tu Ming walked forward to take a look, and found that Zhu Hengrui was still lying on the bed, motionless.

Others didn't dare to disturb him and could only shout at the side.

At this moment, the head of the village finally reached out and touched it.

"Boom~"

The new talisman burst like a bubble and shrank directly, until only a piece of skin was left.

“It’s evil!”

Someone shouted, and everyone ran away in all directions. Tu Ming was bumped by many people.

But his physical strength is very high now, he doesn't feel any pain, and he can even walk against the crowd to Zhu Hengrui.

There are many densely packed small holes on this skin, as if something had grown inside.

That's not a dream.

I really killed him, an old-fashioned Fu Zheng, a Fu Zheng from the county.

A strange sense of self-confidence spread in his heart, and that day, he found the head of the village and took out his own lantern talisman.

"Mr. Lizheng, there is only one Fuzheng in this small mountain, and that is me. Do you understand?"

The head of the village looked at him, with fear and alarm in his eyes, but Tu Ming couldn't see it.

He only knew that his life would gradually get better.

There was meat every day and no one dared to disrespect him.

Once, because the villagers didn't say anything to him when they saw him, he was in a bad mood and simply didn't draw the talisman. Two people died that night.

Now no one can see him without being frightened.

"Mom, I'm back."

Tu Ming scratched his neck and said, "I think you should move in with me. I'm tired of running around all day."

Tu Ming scratched his neck. There were some fleshy buds on it, which he was used to.

In the room, Tu Mu was lying on the bed, her eyes were cloudy and her eye sockets were red.

"Ama is not afraid of trouble. Xiao Tu, I'm going to take a nap. You can put your things down and go back. You should focus on Fu Zheng's work."

"I know, I know."

Tu Ming put down the basket of food and turned to leave.

Only after hearing him walk away did Tu's mother dare to climb down from the bed, tears continuously falling.

The basket was filled with dried meat, tubers, and taro.

But... there were some skin fragments scattered inside, each about the size of a fingernail.

Her son was becoming more and more abnormal. "Mother Fu Zheng, are you there?"

After a while, the village head came over. When he saw the basket in the middle of the room, his pupils shrank.

"He's here again?"

"coming."

Mother Tu cried: "My child, how come the return has become like this?"

"Alas... he must have been contaminated."

The head of the village sighed, "I have already asked someone to report it to the county. Don't worry, just stay at home for the next two nights."

The head of the village sighed, holding a lantern talisman in his hand.

This is today's lantern talisman, but unlike the past, this lantern talisman no longer emits yellow light, but a blood-red light.

Holding it in your hand, it feels like holding a lantern.

It still has the effect of the lantern talisman, but in the past few nights, the villagers who came back with the lantern talisman behaved strangely.

"The pillar encountered an evil spirit last night, and he used the lamp charm."

The head of the village didn't know who to talk to. The three elders in the hill had died long ago, Fu Zheng had gone mad, died, or ran away. He was now alone and could not support the whole village.

"Zhu Zi? He's a good boy. What happened to him?"

Tu Mu stood up and asked, her steps a little unsteady.

She didn't dare eat the food her son gave her.

"Zhu Zi is crazy."

The village head handed her a piece of cake and said, "Eat some and come with me to take a look."

The two arrived at Zhuzi's house and heard bursts of howling from afar.

"It's itchy, I'm so itchy!"

Zhuzi was trapped on the tree at the door, with his hands and feet tied tightly, preventing him from moving.

Even so, Zhuzi was still twisting his body frantically, turning himself into a bloody mess.

"I'm so itchy, come and help me, scratch it for me!"

He clearly had nothing on his body, but he kept saying he was itchy.

"Village head? Village head, help me, help me scratch my back, something is about to grow out!"

He rubbed it madly, breaking his skin and flesh, and blood flowed down his limbs.

The ropes have all turned red.

"Zhu Zi, how could this happen?"

Tears were streaming down Tu Mu's face and Zhuzi's screams never stopped. He was really suffering inhuman torture.

Zhuzi's family cried, but had no one to turn to for help. They could only watch him struggle.

The next day, he stopped moving and everyone found that Zhuzi's face was distorted and there were no wounds on his body.

"Look in his mouth."

When they pried open his mouth, they found that Zhuzi had bitten his tongue off, chewed it into pieces, and then broke his teeth, crushing the bed.

His stomach was abnormally distended and he bled to death.

This way of dying... made many people vomit. Everyone was in a heavy mood. Tu Mu even knelt down and said it was her fault.

"Hey, why is everyone here?"

A childish voice suddenly made the place silent.

Everyone turned their heads and Tu Ming walked over slowly. When he noticed the person on the ground, he immediately ran away.

"Mom, why are you kneeling on the ground?"

He hurriedly helped them up: "What are you doing here? Who is this? Why are you tied up?"

He seemed to know nothing, but the more he knew this, the more frightened everyone became.

During this period, Fu Zheng was like a curse. Whoever touched him would get into trouble. No one dared to speak and could only look at the head of the village.

The head of the village was under great psychological pressure. He lied, "We are here to pay our respects to Zhuzi. Your mother is the most sincere."

"Yes, my mother is the best mother in the world, the most sincere person!"

Tu Ming nodded affirmatively: "Mom, I'll leave first if it's alright. I need to go practice."

He glanced at everyone and said, "You can't bully my mother, understand?"

"I know, I know!"

Everyone nodded hurriedly, and Tu Ming left.

"Why are they so afraid of me?" He looked around and asked in confusion, scratching his neck continuously.

"Maybe, it's because you are different from them."

Chen Ningan glanced at him and said, "Stop scratching. If you can't even handle this little itch, you won't be able to grow up."

During this period, through the conversations and descriptions between Tu Ming and the village head, he had some preliminary understanding of this world.

This is a vast and boundless world with vast boundaries between countries, and the mainstream of this world is talisman masters.

The talisman master mainly makes talismans, while also cultivating the body and worshipping gods.

The disaster of the world is evil spirits, which are spread throughout the entire lantern world. Ordinary people will surely die if they are contaminated by them, and evil spirits are divided into several levels.

White, gray, black, blue, blood...

Chen Ningan compared himself, the black level was the lantern man, the green level was the realm master, and the blood level was out of control.

This is the highest level they can understand. In fact, the most powerful person recorded in the entire Gushan County is the Black Evil. As for the Green Evil, it only exists in legends.

Bai Xie is the weakest, and this is what you need to guard against in the hill. Basically, as long as you have the lantern talisman, there will be no problem.

The gray evil is more terrifying, and they need to use lantern talismans to burn their own blood in order to fight against it and drive it away.

The black evil is enough to make people's drums ring. It is specially made to remind everyone to use it, and it can also provide a certain amount of protection.

Chen Li doesn't like the sound of human drums.

"So, I am evil?"

He talked to himself and let Tu Ming move in front.

The two of them had reached the entrance of the village. He squatted down and pulled off the golden flower pressure on his fingers.

The note lightly touched the willow tree at the entrance of the village. The next second, the willow tree twitched violently and the trunk opened its mouth wide.

"Ho..."

The sound was as loud as a pull in the air, and the willow tree came alive.

"Shut up."

Chen Ning'an glanced at it, and the willow tree suddenly fell silent, not daring to speak.

All the pieces of paper seemed to be frozen, not daring to move in the wind.

Retracting his gaze and letting the golden flower wrap his fingers again, Chen Ningan took out an eye flower and bit it: "Alas..."

The entire Daqi Kingdom is against him. No wonder those old Taoist priests he met before didn't let him come and tried every means to trick him into leaving.

“But I am different from the evil spirits.”

Chen Ning'an stood with his hands behind his back. The people sent by the village chief to Gushan County should be arriving soon. With the scent he left behind, those people should not be in danger.

…………

"Come on, after tonight we will be able to reach Gushan County tomorrow."

There are two brothers, Hu De and Hu Hai, and an old man named Duan.

The three of them were asked by the head of the village to go to Gushan County to report the news, and they had already obtained the certificates from the Lookout Pavilion and Guishan Township.

"However, we were lucky this time and didn't encounter any evil spirits."

Hu Hai took out some dry food and ate it: "It will be fine once we get to Gushan County tomorrow. Alas, our little mountain area is really plagued by disasters."

"Stop talking. Be careful not to attract the attention of evil spirits in this wild place."

Old Man Duan glanced around. They were living in a shabby thatched hut on the side of the road, making do.

"Wait, what is that?"

Hood pointed to the distance, far away on the country road, where something dark was approaching.

"Black? Oh no, it could be the Black Evil!"

Old Man Duan felt numb all over and said hurriedly, "Everyone, get down quickly and don't make any noise!"

I just hope I won't be noticed and escape with my life.

(End of this chapter)