Secular world: My destiny has no taboos

Chapter 44: Mansion

Today is a very good day.

Lin Beixuan stood up from the ground. The darkness was like a veil draped over his body, seeming particularly intimate to him. The originally gloomy environment of the secular night also became gentle at this moment.

Born in darkness, enjoy darkness.

Now Lin Beixuan can see normally in the dark, which is no different from daytime. What makes him discouraged is that he wanted to be a magician, but ended up developing more and more in the direction of a warrior.

He took a deep breath, and the huge force cracked the floor tiles under his feet. Suddenly, with a "bang", Lin Beixuan rushed towards the infant spirit at a high speed, muttering to himself.

"carnival!"

The moment the skill attached to his fate was used, a group of people's crazy shouting seemed to be heard in the darkness. His hand moved lightly, and the hand holding the Ghost Hall became smooth and natural, and even the air resistance disappeared.

The Ghost Hall rushed towards the infant spirit with billowing black smoke.

At this time, the infant spirit's sharp claws were filled with negative energy, and it happened to grab the old beggar's throat, but it sensed the danger coming from behind, so it immediately turned around and attacked the person who came later.

"boom……"

Charge and critical hit!
The sharp claws collided with the Ghost Hall, making a low explosion. A huge force was transmitted along the palm to the back of the infant spirit, and a fierce cold wind blew up.

The palm was broken with great ease and exploded into gray mist.

Taoist Akagi was surprised to find that the inconspicuous black wood in the other party's hand not only caused damage to the infant spirit's body, but even his own soul living in the infant spirit's brain was affected.

His soul was trembling wildly, and the punishing aura emanating from the Ghost Hall made him feel as if he was being tortured.

As his vision became blurred, he seemed to see a dignified and upright man with a long beard and wearing an official robe in the hall, throwing a punishment order at him, and the surrounding yamen runners came forward and dragged him into the punishment room and put down a big board on him.

"what……"

This time, the howling of the infant spirit was mixed with the painful cries of Taoist Akagi. Lin Beixuan almost knocked him out of the infant spirit's soul body.

"Why didn't you die?"

Taoist Akagi looked at Lin Beixuan in shock. The infant spirit had already roared with all its strength. An ordinary person would have his soul immediately left his body after being attacked like this.

But now not only is the opponent fine, but his strength has strangely increased to the point where it can threaten his soul.

He had been practicing for his entire life, but had never seen anything like this, a way to drive out the consciousness of another person from a soul.

"What the hell are you!"

Taoist Akagi was already feeling fear in his heart. He couldn't guess Lin Beixuan's origins, and he didn't understand why the other party was just an ordinary person who he could manipulate at will some time ago, but in just a few days he had the strength to reach the threshold of establishing a government.

But it took him nearly twenty years and cost countless money to barely reach this point.

A raging fire of jealousy burned in Taoist Akagi's heart. His eyes were greedy, wanting to obtain the secret of Lin Beixuan's strength from him.

Lin Beixuan noticed the greedy look in Taoist Akagi's eyes and raised his eyebrows. He had obtained the other party's fate and had guessed what Taoist Akagi was thinking.

Lin Beixuan couldn't help but laugh at this. He stepped lightly and arrived in front of the baby spirit in an instant.

The infant spirit's pupils shrank and it began to cry loudly. The sound was mixed with many different human voices, some of them were screaming and some were crying.

The sound waves overlapped one after another, as if with a strange magic. Anyone who heard the sound would quickly lose their vitality and their movements would become extremely slow.

Lin Beixuan was bearing the sound waves. He was closest to the infant spirit and the damage he suffered was unimaginable. His hair gradually turned gray from the top of his head.

This is the cry of a baby. The Twelve Ghost Infants have this ability since birth. It will take the lives of people within range every second. Ghosts and evil spirits will be frightened by the cry and want to escape.

The solution is very simple, just plug your ears.

But a glance at the old beggar not far away showed that his aura had quickly weakened due to the crying. Lin Beixuan's face showed a fierce look, he gritted his teeth, and did not retreat at all, but went straight to meet the sound wave.

The Ghost Hall in his hand suddenly erupted at this critical moment, and immediately a terrifying punishment aura climbed up to Lin Beixuan's face as if it had consciousness, forming strange lines.

The black smoke swirled behind him, gradually gathering into a strict and law-abiding mansion. The mansion was mainly decorated in cold colors, and it was looming in the black smoke, making it difficult to see clearly.

But the moment the mansion appeared, the infant spirit jumped up from the ground as if it was furious, its face filled with fear, and even its crying stopped.

Even Akagi Taoist couldn't control this action. It was like the thing that the infant spirit feared most in its subconscious mind. When the mansion rose, the infant spirit's instinctive thought was to escape.

"Damn it, why are you running!" The angry rebuke of Taoist Akagi came from the mouth of the infant spirit.

However, when he looked into Lin Beixuan's eyes, his soul consciousness suddenly jumped, and he had a vague feeling of being pulled out.

This time even he was a little scared.

But there was no way Lin Beixuan would let him go. The black smoke in front of the mansion turned into an icy-cold, thick chain, making a clanging sound of metal rubbing against each other, and extended towards the infant spirit.

"no no!"

"Wow……"

The chain was wrapped around the infant spirit, and the frightened voices of Akagi Taoist and the infant spirit were heard at the same time.

The moment he saw the black chain, Taoist Akagi finally knew what the mansion behind Lin Beixuan was.

His memory went back to when he was seven or eight years old. At that time, he was still a Taoist child in Senluo Temple, and Senluo Temple was not what it is today.

……

"Master, why are there so many evil spirits in this world?"

In the simple and crude Taoist temple, a Taoist boy with a straight hat and rosy face was sitting next to his master, breathing cool air in the winter. In front of them was the statue of the ancestor that had been wiped clean.

There was a cold wind outside the temple, and fluttering snowflakes occasionally blew in through the cracks in the door and into the neck of the Taoist boy, causing him to hold his clothes tightly.

The old Taoist priest looked down at the Taoist boy and gently helped him pull up his collar. "There are so many evil spirits in the world. In fact, they are all caused by people. In a peaceful and prosperous era, people live and work in peace and contentment, so there are fewer evil spirits. In wars that last for years, people are displaced, so there are more evil spirits."

"Master, do you mean that people will turn into evil spirits after they die?" asked the Taoist boy with a frown.

The old Taoist shook his head and chuckled, with a hint of reminiscence in his eyes.

"Yes and no."

"There are several types of evil spirits, and we humans are only some of them. In the past, when the gates of hell were not closed and the underworld was not cut off, the place we went to after death was called the underworld, and we rarely turned into evil spirits in the world."

"Hades?"

"Yes, it is a very strange place. It shelters the souls of the dead who died unjustly. If you are a good person, it will send you to the Naihe Bridge to reincarnate. In the future, you will be rich and powerful, and you will have fewer illnesses and disasters in your life.

But if you are an evil person, you will be punished terribly, buried in the land where the red spider lilies bloom, or forever fall into the underworld river..."

The old Taoist priest described the story vividly, and the Taoist boy couldn't help shuddering after listening to it. He blurted out: "Then I must be a good person in the future and cross the Naihe Bridge."

"You will!" The old Taoist laughed with relief, but then sighed silently.

"If it's still there."

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(End of this chapter)