In ancient times, they secretly became gods in the deep mountains.

Chapter 83 The Life-Borrowing Ritual, Mother and Son Reunited

"How... how did I suddenly end up here?" Liu Sheng looked around in surprise, uttering a question.

Liu Xingchen had already knelt down in front of the coffin.

"No! Don't go over there!" Liu Sheng tried to stop him, but Liu Xingchen had already pushed open the last door, and his expression changed drastically in an instant.

"mother!"

Liu Xingchen lay on the coffin, inside which lay a woman. She was pale and dressed in mourning clothes, and her heaving chest indicated that she was still alive.

The familiar face sent a jolt through Liu Xingchen, his eyes welling with tears: "It's my mother! She's my mother!"

"Fairy Boy, save her! Please, please save her! She's alive! How can she be lying in a coffin?"

Fire Boy and Water Boy glanced at the furnishings in the room: a mourning hall, incense sticks, a coffin, and a living person...

This is an ancient ritual.

In short, this is a life-borrowing ritual.

It is said that if a dying person finds a woman born on the same day, month, and year, and spends more than three years with her to establish a close relationship, they can hold this life-borrowing ritual. A living corpse replaces the dying person, a mourning hall is set up, and long incense sticks are burned. This is a way to deceive the heavens and the sea, and use the life of another to change one's own inevitable fate.

Liu Sheng should have been dead long ago, but he found Lu Jinxiu, who was born on the same day, month, and year. He spent more than three years with Lu Jinxiu and after she gave birth to Liu Xingchen, Liu Sheng used her as a living corpse to perform a ritual sacrifice.

Liu Sheng used Lu Jinxiu to shield himself from death.

“We can’t wake her up, we can only ask the Goddess for help,” Huowa said, shaking his head helplessly.

"I beg the fairy boy to ask the Golden Saintess to intervene and save my mother!" Liu Xingchen cried, his voice hoarse.

Liu Sheng immediately stopped them, saying, "No! You can't do this! Xing'er, go back right now. You're frail and sickly; this isn't a place for you!"

"Father!" Liu Xingchen looked at Liu Sheng in disbelief. He had thought his father was just a little cold-hearted, but he never expected that his father would imprison his mother in such a strange place. His mother was still alive, how could she be lying in a coffin like a dead person?
"Father, why?" Liu Xingchen asked, tears streaming down his face. Originally, Shuiwa had channeled a lot of spiritual energy into him to dispel the demonic energy in his body, but now the dispelled demonic energy was gathering again. He frowned and spat out a mouthful of blood: "Pfft!"

"Xing'er!" Liu Sheng called out helplessly.

Shuiwa then infused another stream of spiritual energy into Liu Xingchen's body, and Liu Xingchen's complexion visibly returned to normal.

He thanked her, saying, "Thank you, fairy boy. I wonder when I can go to pay my respects to Your Majesty? I hope my mother will wake up!"

"Now that we've captured the demon and found the person, we'll go to Qihuang Mountain to report the whole story to the Empress," Huowa said without hesitation.

Fire Boy said to Water Boy, "I'll take them to Qihuang Mountain first. You go and take Old Madam Lu to Qihuang Mountain."

Shuiwa nodded and went to the Lu family's house.

Lujia
The old man learned that Madam Lu had gone to Qihuang Mountain.

Old Master Lu sighed, "Madam! Alas! Give up. If I could find my daughter, wouldn't I want to too? But so many years have passed, and Jinxiu..." He paused and advised, "One must always look forward."

Madam Lu snorted coldly: "Jinxiu is my daughter. It's one thing for her to disappear without a trace, but she's also been subjected to a lot of criticism. You can forget about her, but I, as her mother, can't let it go."

She stubbornly said, "You don't know that there really is a fairy on Mount Qihuang. She has promised me that she will bring me news of her daughter once she has news of her."

“Madam!” Old Master Lu shook his head in distress: “There are no gods in this world. You must have encountered a monster. Jinxiu has been missing for so many years. Perhaps she has already met with misfortune. Let her rest in peace.”

"That's easy to say. How can one rest in peace when their reputation is damaged? My daughter was beautiful and virtuous. I thought her life would be smooth sailing, but who knew she would disappear without a trace." Old Madam Lu sighed deeply, her heart aching.

"The Golden Saintess will surely find my daughter," she said with anticipation.

Seeing his wife so obsessed, Old Master Lu shook his head and stopped trying to persuade her.

Since her daughter went missing, the woman has missed her daughter every single day. She has tried everything to find her daughter, but to no avail.

Now they have also come to worship a Golden Saint Goddess.

Oh well, it's not like I haven't prayed to gods and Buddhas before.

Madam Lu uttered, "Amitabha."

After her daughter passed away, she ate vegetarian food and fasted every day for ten years, hoping that Buddha would bring her daughter back.

May the Golden Saint Goddess protect us.

After reciting the Buddhist mantra, she put her hands together and murmured something.

"Sigh—" Old Master Lu sighed deeply, leaning on his cane.

"brush!"

Suddenly, Shuiwa appeared. Grandpa Lu's expression changed drastically, and he cried out in panic, "Ah! A monster!"

After confirming that he wasn't seeing things, Old Master Lu trembled with fear.

Madam Lu was also frightened.

“I am a page of the Golden Saint Goddess, the spirit of the Golden Saint Mountain Range. We have found your daughter, Lu Jinxiu, and have come here specifically to ask you to come up the mountain.”

"What did you say? My daughter has been found!" Old Madam Lu exclaimed with delight.

Then she added, "You are a celestial attendant under the Golden Saintess? A celestial attendant!!"

"This humble woman has met the celestial boy."

Madam Lu knelt down and worshipped devoutly.

"Get up. Is it convenient for you to go to Qihuang Mountain now?" Shuiwa lifted her kneeling body.

Old Master Lu looked at Shuiwa, then at his wife.

Golden Saintess?

Isn't this the goddess that Madam has recently been worshipping?

The girl in front of me appeared out of nowhere; she's not human!
So, did the lady accidentally stumble upon a true deity?
Grandpa Lu took a few deep breaths, clutching his chest as he tried to calm himself down.

He quickly pressed, "Have you really found my daughter?"

Although he didn't think about his daughter as much as his wife did every day, she was still his beloved daughter.

How could he not care about his daughter?

“We’ve found her, but she’s in a bad state right now. We plan to take her to Qihuang Mountain to seek help from the Empress. I came here specifically to see Old Madam Lu.”

"Hurry, hurry, hurry!" Old Madam Lu cried out anxiously, tears streaming down her face.

She didn't expect it to be so fast.

The people sent by the Empress immediately found her daughter.

"I'm going too!" Grandpa Lu said excitedly.

"Come with me."

Shuiwa drew a magic seal in the air.

The scene changed, and suddenly they were at Qihuang Mountain from the Lu family residence.

"My goodness, this is amazing!" Grandpa Lu said in disbelief.

"The... Immortal Palace!"

Palaces rise one after another amidst the clouds.

It is sacred, solemn, and awe-inspiring.

Old Madam Lu rolled her eyes and said sarcastically, "Look at you, so useless!"

She then treated Shuiwa with great respect: "May I ask, fairy boy, where is my daughter?"

Shuiwa pointed ahead, and Old Madam Lu looked in the direction he was pointing.

Her son-in-law and grandson were there.

There was a woman lying in his grandson's arms.

She noticed a familiar birthmark on the woman's exposed wrist.

She rushed over, crying out, "Daughter! Jinxiu!" Her voice was shrill and mournful.

"Your Majesty, please save my mother!"

Liu Xingchen prayed fervently.

Gu Yuexi realized that Lu Jinxiu was unconscious because of the forbidden technique, as her soul had left her body, just like He Wanwan had been before.

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