Chapter 288 Immortality

Gu Qingyuan walked out of the statue of the Heavenly Official and stood in front of the hall. However, the man and woman seemed unaware of it and were focused on performing a big show.

Wang Chao was overjoyed as he looked at the strands of golden light. He crawled to the statue of the Heavenly Official and kowtowed repeatedly.

"God bless you, God bless you!"

The shrill screams outside the door had not yet stopped. The woman leaned against the crack of the door, no longer kowtowing, but just counted Wang Chao's sins one by one.

"That rich girl is so good, am I not even a fraction as good as her?"

"You are a fickle, heartless man. You are greedy for wealth and fame, so you want to do this to your wife!"

"You slandered my innocence and framed me for having an affair with someone else, but you tried to clear yourself of all your dirty deeds. You pity my innocent body."

"I was immersed in the water, and you were afraid that I would not die, so you tied my hands and feet, really leaving me no chance to survive. It is said that a husband and wife will be grateful to each other for a hundred days after they marry, but you are so cruel in repaying this kindness!"

The woman became angrier and angrier as she spoke: "Not only did you harm me, you also harmed your own flesh and blood. My poor child has to have a father like you who is so unscrupulous. He has never seen this world before and has fallen into that sinking pond with me!"

Wang Chao knelt down in front of the statue, his face blank, listening to the woman's words. Finally, a trace of malice crept onto his face: "A Lian! What's wrong with me wanting to pursue a better future!"

"Do you know who the father of that rich girl is? If I can climb up the social ladder, I will be able to rise to prominence in no time. I want to climb up. Can it be that my talent and knowledge will be buried in this small county?"

"As for you, you have been a lost child since childhood. If I hadn't treated you well in every way, how could you live the life you have now?"

"You are so ungrateful. You refused to accept my divorce letter and instead tried to ruin my destined marriage with the Heavenly Emperor. How can you, a humble person like me, be worthy of my talent as the top scholar?"

"You keep saying you love me, but why are you pestering me so much? Why won't you let me run towards a bright future? Wake up, you are just a bitch who only loves yourself!"

The words were like cold knives, stabbing the woman's heart and making her even crazier. She no longer cared about the burning gold wire on the door and slammed it hard, determined to rip open the heartless man who spoke such cruel words.

The sound of collision seemed to wake Wang Chao up. A trace of fear flashed across his face. He pressed his head against the ground and kowtowed to the statue of the Three Officials.

Another gust of wind blew by, but it was bone-chillingly cold, and the incense burning in the incense burner was blown out. Wang Chao looked at the three and two short sticks of incense in the burner, and couldn't help feeling shocked and happy in his heart. Only the statue of the Three Officials seemed to be smiling, quietly looking at the people under the altar.

Gu Qingyuan didn't care about the bloody ethical drama in front of him. The plot was already rotten. It was nothing more than a heartless scholar who killed his wife, causing the woman to turn into a ghost for revenge.

He looked at the two people and said they were ghosts, but they were very different from what he had seen before, and there was something else mixed in.

Gu Qingyuan finally looked at the statue of the Heavenly Official in the center and said with a smile, "I'm new here and I'm unfamiliar with the place. You're a Heavenly Official, and I'm also a Heavenly Official. Why don't you let me sit in your seat for a few years?"

The statue of the Heavenly Official showed no reaction. Gu Qingyuan cursed in his heart upon seeing this. Black gas burst out from the statue, dyeing its plain clothes dark. A rustling sound spread out.

Afterwards, the body of the Heavenly Official statue began to grow black hair and a layer of bone attached to the outside. Layers of light and shadow swayed behind it, like black tentacles with bared fangs and claws. Its eyes seemed to be open but not yet open, and black light was flowing. Even the other two statues began to tremble, as if something strange was about to happen.

"You are not very friendly. How can the local ghosts and gods be so rude? It's just life and death, how can you not understand it? I think you should go back!" Gu Qingyuan spoke softly, without any movement. Two lines of blood and tears flowed from the eyes of the three statues, and their wooden and stone bodies cracked slightly. All kinds of strange phenomena disappeared, and they returned to normal.

He took a look and saw that the essence of these three officials, a trinity, was actually ghosts and gods, yin gods, and not righteous yin gods, but rather they tended to be weird and evil, evil rather than righteous.

"The Heaven Official bestowed evil, the Earth Official brought punishment, and the Water Official inflicted curses. Everything was reversed, and the Three Officials who bestowed blessings became the officials who brought disaster."

Gu Qingyuan shook his head, opened his hand, seized the things in the Three Officials statue and put them into his pocket. He had just arrived here, so he naturally could not miss this rare specimen.

As three streams of gray gas sank into Gu Qingyuan's sleeves, the statue on the altar was surrounded and cleansed by spiritual light. When it reappeared, it had returned to its original state without any explosion.

The temple also began to reveal its true appearance. There was no solemnity and tidiness at all. Cobwebs were tangled, dust was everywhere, yellow paper and yellow talismans were densely pasted on every corner, all kinds of cinnabar edicts were scattered inside and outside the house, and three black iron chains were wrapped around the statues, as if someone had used a magic method to seal the three officials here.

In front of the statue, there was a dried corpse prostrating itself with its head on the ground. It was extremely skinny, with many bite marks on its body. There was a big hole in its chest, and some skeletons of rats and birds could be seen in its rotten abdominal cavity.

Outside the door, there was a female ghost with bloodstains all over her body, a slightly swollen abdomen, and she was parading around the Sanguan Temple with her head down.

As they walked a little, the female ghost swung out its sharp claws and grabbed a fleeing mouse. Then she came to the door and let the mouse in. The mummy quickly moved, and with its big mouth it sucked the bloody mouse that was squeezed into the crack of the door into its mouth.

Gu Qingyuan looked at this scene and shook his head. The two seemed to be behaving in a clear and orderly manner, but in fact they were filled with resentment. They were only driven by instinctive thoughts. Once they were stressed, their nature as evil spirits would be revealed. They would choose people to devour. In the end, they would become ghosts and no longer be human.

Wang Chao was trapped in the Sanguan Temple by A Lian and starved to death there. Due to the rules of the world, the strange creatures living in the statues and other coincidences, he turned into a mummy, burned by hunger every day, and even ate a lot of his own flesh, but he could never feel full.

A Lian did not feed Wang Chao with good intentions, but to make him suffer day and night, and used a little blood to keep him alive and not die. The two hated each other, and they were shackles for each other, absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, and their ferocity became stronger day by day, chasing each other and being extremely vicious.

Gu Qingyuan analyzed the gray energy of the Sanguan monster. This monster might have been imprisoned for a long time, with a weak consciousness and not even much memory. He only analyzed the essence of his power.

'Is this... immortality?'

He looked at the gray gas in his hand. The origin of this strange object contained a trace of immortality. Of course, it was not an advanced product like the immortal gold, otherwise Gu Qingyuan would be the one to run away.

The immortality of the monster is more like a stress response program. After its death, only a trace of immortality remains and transforms into other things.

"It's more like the weird rules of a strange story. It can't be killed completely, but it's a little different. Let's see what happens to these two ghosts."

Gu Qingyuan analyzed in his mind and revealed his figure. As soon as he appeared, the kneeling mummy suddenly raised its head, saliva flowed from the corners of its dry mouth, and it wanted to get up and pounce on Gu Qingyuan.

Gu Qingyuan shifted his gaze and looked at the mummy, which was then pressed to the ground as if it was kneeling, and then turned into black ash.

The female ghost outside the door was stunned, and then she burst into a violent aura and slammed the door hard, and the temple door opened in response.

(End of this chapter)