If I don’t become the last one, I will be immortal!

Chapter 78 Lin Yanling Xiang Liu
Lin rushed all the way back to his own tomb and returned to the secret room where Xiang Liu's body was.

He slowly pushed open the coffin, looked at Xiang Liu lying inside, and said apologetically:
"I'm sorry, A-Liu. I didn't listen to you and left, and I couldn't avenge you."

As he spoke, he reached out and gently stroked Xiang Liu's face, which had become completely wooden.

After a long while, he suddenly said with a wry smile: "A Liu, if I tell you that I'm not Lin, will you blame me?"

Then he said dejectedly, "If you can really wake up, then even if you blame me, I will admit it. I'm really sorry for deceiving you for two hundred years."

As he spoke, he sat down with his back against the coffin, his thoughts gradually drifting away, and he couldn't help but think of Lin, the person Xiang Liu had been obsessed with all his life.

The time goes back hundreds of years ago. At that time, there was no Hongguang City nearby, only a backward small village.

Although the technology and civilization of the outside world were already very developed at that time, it seemed to have nothing to do with this remote and backward place, because it had been isolated from the outside world due to the obstruction of the mountains.

Lin was born in this village, but his background was not good.

When he was born, the whole family loved him very much and were overjoyed at the arrival of this new life.

However, the family conditions were not good and his mother did not have enough milk. In order to provide him with milk, his grandfather planned to go up the mountain to find some meat for his mother to eat.

Who would have thought that my grandfather would never come back. When his body was found by the villagers, it was already cold. According to the villagers' speculation, he must have fallen off a cliff and died.

After Grandpa died, Grandma couldn't bear it anymore and fell seriously ill. She passed away soon after.

Lin's grandparents died one after another just after he was born, which cast a shadow on his birth.

People were very superstitious at that time, and gradually rumors began to spread in the village.

Lin is unknown.

Later, as if to confirm the rumors, a fortune teller came to the village. When she saw the infant Lin, she was horrified and said that Lin was the incarnation of evil. This spread even more rumors in the village.

However, in fact, the witch later found Lin's parents in private and threatened them to give her money so that she would be willing to perform a ritual to help Lin "get rid of" the evil spirits, and the rumors naturally disappeared.

Of course Lin's parents knew that the witch was a liar, so they angrily drove her out and exposed her ugly face to the villagers.

But the superstitious villagers had been bewitched by the witch and would never believe Lin's parents' explanation.

In fact, it is no wonder that the villagers are superstitious, because there is a mountain god on the mountain not far from the village, a real mountain god, and he has performed miracles many times.

Because of Lin's parents' insistence, the witch failed to gain the upper hand and left the village cursing.

Although the witch left, the rumors did not go away.

No one knew that these rumors gradually gave birth to a spirit species - the Word Spirit.

Unlike other spirit species that are easily affected by the weirdness, the Word Spirit is born from rumors, so it is not afraid of the erosion of the weirdness. Instead, the weirdness will become the nourishment for its growth.

Yan Ling was born because of Lin, and felt that he had the mission to protect Lin, so he always stayed by Lin's side, almost never leaving his side.

It is a spiritual seed, and the villagers cannot see it, so the rumors continue, and it grows stronger in the rumors.

In this way, Lin grew up safely until he was seven years old. His parents did not dislike him because of the rumors. On the contrary, they loved him very much and had no idea how many conflicts they had with the villagers because of him.

As the Word Spirit grew stronger, it could no longer tolerate others bullying Lin. So from then on, whenever someone bullied Lin, it would curse the other person and wish them death.

The power of the Word Spirit is that its words can bring about changes, so as long as it issues a curse, someone in the village will die soon. As time goes by, more and more people die, and the ways of death are different, but the common point is that they all die in strange ways.

Later, someone discovered that all the dead people had spread rumors about Lin, so everyone became afraid and believed that Lin was an evil spirit.

It’s just that everyone was afraid that something might happen to them, so they changed the rumors from being spread openly to being spread secretly.

But how could this be hidden from the Word Spirit? As the deaths continued to spread in the village, the villagers grew increasingly terrified, some even secretly going up the mountain to worship the mountain god, hoping to ask him to help dispel the evil spirit.

The mountain god did know about this, but he was afraid of being contaminated by evil, so he was unwilling to interfere in human affairs.

The "miracles" it showed before humans in the past were nothing but helplessness and coincidence. In fact, it had never really taken the initiative to help humans, nor did it ask humans to believe in and worship it. It just wanted to live its own life in peace.

The adults in the village didn't dare to spread rumors about Lin openly, but it was different for the children.

One day, Lin saw the children in the village playing games at the entrance of the village, so he wanted to join in.

He really wanted to be friends with everyone, but because of the rumors, he had no friends since he was a child.

When people see him, they stay away from him and are unwilling to play with him.

This time he mustered up the courage to step forward and try to talk to the children, asking them to take him to play.

But the children had long been warned by the adults at home not to have any contact with Lin. In order to scare the children, the adults described Lin as a bad boy who did all kinds of evil.

The children firmly believed what the adults said.

And sometimes, innocence is the cruelest. Children are ignorant, so they can say more hurtful words.

Not only were they unwilling to play with Lin, they also blurted out all the insults they had heard from the adults about Lin.

Lin was heartbroken, so he ran up the mountain crying, wanting to find the mountain god.

Everyone said that he was an evil spirit, and gradually he began to believe it, so he wanted the mountain god to help get rid of the evil spirit in him. Wouldn't that way everyone would stop hating him?

Seeing the sad and heartbroken Lin, the Word Spirit was extremely angry, so it issued the most vicious curse since its birth to those children.

At the same time, Lin also met Xiang Liu for the first time on the mountain.

Xiang Liu was originally just an ordinary willow tree, but because it was planted in front of the temple of the mountain god, it gradually became spiritual and became a spiritual species.

Lin naturally didn't see the mountain god on the mountain, so he hid in the mountain god temple and cried secretly.

Xiang Liu was advised by the mountain god not to have contact with humans.

But Lin was crying so sadly that he couldn't help but appear in front of Lin.

Perhaps it was because of the influence of the power of the mountain god, or because Lin had been in contact with the word spirit for too long, Lin actually saw Xiang Liu, who was a spirit seed.

He asked in surprise, "Are you the Mountain God?"

Xiang Liu shook his head and said, "I'm not."

Lin looked disappointed when he heard this, and then continued crying.

Xiang Liu had never interacted with people before and was very short of words. He had no idea how to comfort Lin and could only sit quietly by his side and accompany him.

After an unknown amount of time, Lin gradually stopped crying. He asked Xiang Liu in confusion, "Aren't you afraid of me? Everyone is afraid of me and says I'm an evil spirit."

Xiang Liu smiled and shook his head, "I'm not afraid. I know you're not evil."

Hearing this, Lin's eyes lit up. It was the first time he heard this from someone else. "Really?"

Xiang Liu smiled and said, "Of course, I never lie."

"Then would you like to be friends with me?" Lin said excitedly.

Xiang Liu was stunned when he heard this, and didn't know how to answer for a moment, but looking at Lin's eyes full of expectation and innocence, he nodded for some reason.

Lin jumped up and down happily in the mountain temple. "Great! I have friends! I have friends too!"

Just at this moment, Yan Ling finished cursing the children and rushed over. It was the first time for it to see Lin so happy, so a smile appeared on its face unconsciously.

However, he did not go near the mountain god temple because he had heard about the mountain god from the villagers and was afraid that the mountain god would actually appear and eliminate it.

However, Xiang Liu still saw the Word Spirit. The two spirits looked at each other from a distance and nodded at each other.

This is also the first time they meet.

So from that day on, Lin would come to the mountain temple every day to meet Xiang Liu.

Perhaps Xiang Liu was also lonely. It was the first time he had contact with a person (spiritual species) other than the Mountain God, which made him feel very novel. Gradually, they really became friends.

This pair of equally lonely people (spiritual seeds) would be very satisfied even if they did nothing every day but just sat in the mountain temple and chatted.

Every time at this time, Yan Ling would guard outside the mountain temple from afar, watching them quietly. Even though he couldn't hear what they were saying, he couldn't help but feel happy when he saw Lin's happy look.

The mountain god appeared several times and warned Xiang Liu not to contact humans, as nothing good would happen.

But Xiang Liu had already considered Lin as a friend, so he would not listen to what the mountain god said.

On the other hand, as the curse of the Word Spirit took effect, the children who had cursed Lin began to undergo strange changes.

The skin all over their bodies was festering bit by bit, emitting an unbearable stench, and they became unrecognizable in just a few days.

Moreover, this kind of festering will bring extreme pain. Their shrill wails can be heard almost every day in the village, which makes the atmosphere in the village gradually become solemn.

The villagers tried to invite witches, Taoist priests and other "talented people" from outside to come back to dispel the evil spirits, but they all failed without exception, and the sores on the children's bodies became more and more serious.

Finally one day, someone couldn't help but explode. He rushed into Lin's house and asked Lin's parents to hand over Lin. He would never tolerate Lin staying in the village.

His behavior was like a fuse, triggering the long-suppressed anger and fear of other villagers, and they surrounded Lin's house.

Lin's parents were naturally unwilling to hand over the child, so a fierce conflict broke out between the two sides.

As everyone's emotions gradually got out of control, the conflict escalated and Lin's parents were accidentally beaten to death by villagers.

Everyone was dumbfounded. No one expected things to turn out like this.

They wanted to punish the culprit Lin, and no one wanted to do anything to Lin's parents.

Looking at the bodies of his parents, Lin Hao threw himself on them and burst into tears.

Despite the protection of his parents, he was still in a mess. His clothes were torn, his forehead was bruised, and his face was bruised and purple. He looked very pitiful.

But the villagers did not feel any sympathy for him.

After thinking for a long time, the village chief finally made the decision. They decided to go all out. Since Lin's parents were gone, let Lin go to the underworld to accompany them!

So they captured Lin, fed him medicine, made him unconscious, and then prepared three coffins, intending to give Lin's parents a grand burial, after all, they were the ones responsible for the couple's death.

But why are there three coffins? Because one is prepared for Lin.

That's right, they wanted to bury Lin alive.

On the day when the villagers buried Lin's family of three, the Word Spirit erupted. It didn't understand why. It had been protecting Lin all along, so why was Lin going to die now?

Mingminglin did nothing, it's the villagers who are wrong.

If it weren't for them, how could things have turned out like this?

Lin is still so young. It is not Lin or Lin’s parents who should die, but these hateful and ignorant villagers!

In a rage, Yan Ling killed all the villagers and then took the unconscious Lin Lai up the mountain.

At the same time, Xiang Liu and the Mountain God also encountered an unprecedented crisis.

A masked man suddenly appeared on the mountain from nowhere and forcefully demanded that the mountain god follow him.

The mountain god naturally didn't want to do that. He was the spirit of the mountain, and his true body was right here. How could he leave?

Then the two sides clashed and fought fiercely.

The masked man was wearing a black fox mask, which exuded a strange power. It was obviously transformed from a spirit seed, which had merged with the masked man.

Moreover, the masked man was very powerful and easily subdued the mountain god.

It was the first time that Xiang Liu knew that there was such a powerful person in the world. He originally thought that the Mountain God was the strongest person in the world.

After the masked man captured the Lord Mountain God, he used some unknown method to extract the veins of the mountain, which is the foundation of the mountain, and merged it with the Lord Mountain God, and then took the Lord Mountain God away.

Xiang Liu was still very weak at that time, so the other party didn't give Xiang Liu too much attention, but just snorted at Xiang Liu.

However, with just this one hum, Xiang Liu's body suddenly exploded, leaving only a root less than one meter long, and he became dying.

When Yan Ling brought Lin to the mountain, what they saw was the lifeless mountain, the broken mountain temple and the dying Xiang Liu.

A weak Xiang Liu appeared in front of Yan Ling.

"What happened?" he asked Yan Ling with concern.

So Yan Ling told Xiang Liu everything that happened down the mountain. This was the first conversation they had since they met.

"Did I do something wrong?" Yan Ling asked Xiang Liu.

However, Xiang Liu didn't know how to answer.

At this moment, Yan Ling suddenly asked Xiang Liu, "Are you going to die?"

Xiang Liu was stunned for a moment, then nodded with a wry smile, "Yes, I'm about to die, and I won't be able to accompany you anymore."

Lin must be sad now that he knows this.

However, he heard the words say: "I save you, and you will protect Lin in my place in the future, okay?"