Tomb raiding: following the plot while tearing up the script

Night, midnight

Next to the main courtyard, the courtyard shrouded by the array was as if the dust had been wiped off the crystal, the sky was clear and the moonlight freely spread throughout the entire courtyard.

In the middle of the courtyard, Black Bear, shirtless, sat cross-legged on the ground. His strong muscles, crisscrossed with old and new scars, exuded a wild beauty.

Around him were rows of black triangular banners embroidered with red fire patterns, arranged in an orderly fashion according to the constellations. The banners were interconnected to form a mysterious totem—the Vermilion Bird!

As one of the four primordial spirits, the Vermilion Bird not only represents the south, but also symbolizes fire and summer.

In the beliefs of the ancients, the Vermilion Bird was a "messenger of souls" who could guide the souls of the dead.

The Vermilion Bird totem on the ground, illuminated by the moonlight, faintly echoes the Vermilion Bird constellation in the sky, using the power of the stars to guide the wronged souls of the deceased.

With a Qingxin Pill in his mouth, Hei Xiazi nervously tightened his grip on Su Li's instructions, thinking back to what Su Li had told him. He feared that if the Juyin Jade Pendant in his hand hadn't been refined by a powerful being, he would have crushed it.

Before separating from the spirit on his back, he will experience everything the spirit went through. He must guard his mind and remain calm no matter how much pain he experiences, and not be assimilated by the memories.

Experiencing someone else's entire life memories is a very dangerous thing.

Experiencing everything from the other person's birth to death from a first-person perspective gives the illusion that it was all me.

Those with slightly weaker willpower will at least end up with schizophrenia.

Although Hei Xiazi was a little nervous, he wasn't afraid. After all, his reputation as "Master Hei" wasn't just for show.

He was led into the Bronze Gate by a pack of barking dogs when he was a teenager, and he was the only one who survived and escaped back with his ruthlessness. He even became an immortal because of this experience.

From a pampered young prince to a ruthless and vicious tyrant, the blind man has never been afraid.

As Su Li made hand seals, more and more moonlight, carrying the power of stars, gathered together. Xie Yuchen and Zhang Qiling, who were watching from a corner of the courtyard, saw for the first time the Yin spirit that had been tormenting Hei Xiazi for many years.

She wore a bright red wedding dress, her long hair was loose, and her hands were on Hei Xiazi's shoulders.

Where there should have been eyes, only two dark, round holes remained. The skin on both sides, from the corners of the mouth to the cheeks, was cut open and then sewn back on with black silk thread.

The lower half, where the legs should be, had actually merged into Hei Xiazi's body, and the entire soul looked as if it had grown out of Hei Xiazi's body.

Meanwhile, Hei Xiazi, who was being watched, was already immersed in the illusion.

"Baoyun".

"Baoyun, you're being naughty again."

"Baoyun, your father just returned from a delivery mission and is very tired. Come down and don't bother him."

A gentle female voice called softly.

"It's alright, our Baoyun is the best girl."

"Father isn't tired. Father can take our Baoyun to ride a big horse and go to the market right now."

A kind and hearty male voice then rang out.

The girl named Baoyun grew up in a pampered environment until she was fourteen.

Her mother was gentle and kind. From the time Bao Yun could remember, she had never seen her mother talk to anyone. Her mother always spoke softly and gently. Even when Bao Yun was naughty, her mother would only teach her gently and patiently, explaining the reasons to her.

My father was tall and strong, and was one of the best bodyguards in the town. Although he often left home to escort goods, he always thought about home. Whenever he saw something interesting or unique, he would bring it back. Whenever he came home, he would bring back lots of nice things for my mother and me.

Even a burly man would try to speak in a low voice in front of the mother and daughter, just in case he scared his two pampered little darlings.

But all of this was destroyed when Baoyun turned fourteen.

She was still a year away from her coming-of-age ceremony, and her father was still discussing with her mother the gifts to prepare for her before leaving home.

But Baoyun and her mother did not wait for the tall figure carrying large and small bags to return. Instead, they received a jar of ashes and twenty taels of compensation from the escort agency.

They thought it was just an ordinary escort mission, but the entire team of escorts never returned. When the agreed time passed, the escort agency followed the route, but only found the bones of their brothers. The goods they were escorting and the owner's whereabouts were nowhere to be found.

From then on, Baoyun's nightmare began.

First, her grandparents and uncle's family, who originally lived in the village, forcibly moved into her small courtyard and occupied her home. They kept saying that her mother and she had caused her father's death, and drove them to the woodshed.

A word of filial piety and a word of avoiding suspicion meant that even the uncles and elders of the escort agency could only come to intimidate her from time to time, but they had no other way to intervene. The frail mother endured her grief and struggled to protect her.

I thought this was the fall from heaven to hell, but I never imagined that a heartless person has no conscience.

Her uncle's family had already planned where she would go, and her increasingly beautiful appearance became a death warrant.

That day, the escort agency received a big order, and everyone except the few guards who stayed at home went out.

On that same day, they knocked her mother unconscious and kidnapped her.

They originally intended to sell her to a brothel. She was beautiful, of the right age, and clearly a pampered girl, so she could fetch a good price.

But at this time, the wealthy Liu family in town wanted to find a respectable girl for their recently deceased son to marry in the afterlife, and the price they offered was three times that of the girls in the brothel.

She was sent to the Liu family overnight, gagged, dressed in a wedding gown, and forced to perform a wedding ceremony with a dead man.

Seeing this, Hei Xiazi already knew what was going to happen next. The calming pill in his mouth kept him clear-headed, but what happened next still made his eyes widen in horror.

Just when the young girl thought everything was over after the wedding ceremony and that she would live as the widow of the Liu family's young master,

She was pressed down in the wedding hall, next to the coffin, her eyes were gouged out, her cheeks were slashed open with a sharp blade, her tongue was cut off, and her mouth was forcibly sewn back on.

Finally, they nailed her limbs to the coffin lid with coffin nails, sealing her face-to-face with the corpse of the Liu family's young master inside the coffin.

Help! She's still alive! Please save her!

Mother, Mother, Baoyun is in so much pain! Father, Baoyun is in so much pain!

After experiencing all of this, Hei Xiazi let out a muffled groan, his body convulsing in pain, veins bulging on his face, and he felt his mind becoming hazy.

If it weren't for the calming pill protecting him, he probably would have truly lost himself in this pain.

Baoyun struggled in this agony for an unknown amount of time, but in the end, she died in this absurd and vicious ghost marriage.

She died, but her soul was nailed to this small coffin. That young master Liu had probably already been reincarnated, she thought…

She was in a daze and didn't know how much time had passed when a group of tomb raiders dug up the tomb, looted the burial goods, and left her body in the wilderness.

Later, another group of people found her. This time, even the jewelry and the gold-embroidered wedding dress that the tomb raiders hadn't taken from her were looted. Her body was then thrown into the ancient well.

Hei Xiazi said he knew what was going on next. He took on the job for the Huo family. The group of people who threw her into the well were all dead. He carried her out of the well, and that's how he got entangled with her.