"Who?"
Fang Xing asked.
"It’s , the maid of Ba Yi, Maya!"
A girl’s voice ca from behind the door.
"Co in."
Fang Xing hesitated for a mont before speaking.
The door opened, and a maid who looked to be only seventeen or eighteen, brimming with youthful vitality, walked in.
"Did Ba Yi send you?"
Fang Xing asked casually.
"Yes... no, I ca of my own accord."
Maya looked at Fang Xing’s handso face, seemingly gathering her courage, "I wish to give you the most precious thing I have, rather than have it taken by just any lord..."
Fang Xing fell silent upon hearing this.
In a lord’s domain, the Lord possesses almost unlimited power.
For instance, the infamous right of the first night, as well as the authority to arbitrarily impose punishnts and collect taxes.
So bizarre lords even decreed that goods dropped by passing caravans on the roads belonged to them.
Besides, marriage tax, shoe tax, grass tax, poultry tax... all sorts of ingeniously nad taxes were the norm.
In this world, it was even more frightening.
One could simply use the precept of sacrificing to a spirit to send suitable ’sacrifices’ to the altar, and even carry out vigilantism to remove various organs...
"Thank you, but no need..."
Although Fang Xing felt pity, his tastes had long been spoilt by the fairies of the Cultivation World and the internet celebrities of the interstellar era. Perhaps this Maya was the dream lover of most young n in the village, but to him, she was as hard to swallow as coarsely made food.
Tears imdiately filled Maya’s eyes, and she turned and ran out.
"Ah... yet another innocent girl’s heart is wounded..."
Fang Xing oddly felt that if he had a rose in his hand at that mont, it would be particularly apt, "Perhaps... not so innocent after all."
...
Study.
The precious candle slowly burned, casting a warm glow.
"My Lord!"
Maya stood trembling before Ba Yi, "He... he rejected ."
"With your beauty, he actually refused..."
Ba Yi looked at Maya, his expression suddenly becoming fierce for a mont, "Co here!"
Maya imdiately lay on the ground, crawling under the desk like a dog...
Monts later.
Ba Yi exhaled a long breath, "Tomorrow... you go clean the bedroom, and bring his hair."
Maya’s head peeked out from under the desk, and she nodded softly.
After the maid left, Ba Yi’s expression instantly turned dark, "Although human Essence Blood is most suitable, hair will suffice; I hope the Great Wizard won’t bla ..."
...
The next day, at the breakfast table.
Fang Xing casually took an apple, releasing his Spiritual Power.
He saw the maid rummaging on his bed, finally finding a few strands of hair, which she brought to Ba Yi.
Ba Yi imdiately went to the stables, where the stable boy brought the only horse, and Ba Yi rode away at a gallop.
’This guide isn’t bad...’
Seeing this scene, he slightly curved the corners of his mouth, looking towards the middle-aged woman sitting opposite him, "Madam... after breakfast, I should also take my leave."
"Where does the guest plan to go?"
Ba Yi’s wife was curious.
"I am a foreigner from afar, I’ll likely wander from place to place."
Fang Xing looked at Ba Yi’s two children.
This boy and girl were as exquisite as dolls, a re four or five years old, filled with innocence and naivety.
He patted the girl’s head and bid farewell to the family, heading in the direction Ba Yi had left.
...
Ba Yi rode half the day until he reached a small city.
He bypassed the city, arriving at a manor on the edge of the town.
"Please inform that Ba Yi has urgent matters to discuss with the esteed nsa, the Great Witch!"
Ba Yi arrived at the manor’s gate, his face brimming with a sycophantic smile, speaking to a servant who was yawning at the gate.
The servant had dark skin and was wearing dirty braids.
Upon hearing the words, the servant glanced at Ba Yi with his eyes.
But it was just a glance that almost stopped Ba Yi’s breath, for the servant’s eyes had no pupils, only whites!
"Wait!"
Thankfully, the servant’s eyes returned to normal after a few seconds as he walked into the manor.
Before long, he ca out: "Ba Yi... The honorable nsa Great Witch has agreed to your request; this is your blessing..."
"Yes, yes..."
Ba Yi nodded and bowed, stuffing another Gold Coin into the servant’s hand.
The Gold Coin was of an ancient design, minted by the Bright Empire long ago. The portrait on it had long since blurred, but this did not diminish the value of the Gold.
Seeing this Gold Coin, a hint of satisfaction appeared in the servant’s eyes, "Go on in..."
A twinge of pain flashed through Ba Yi’s eyes as he quickly strode into the manor, arriving at the door of a room.
A variety of precious incenses imdiately filled his nostrils.
"Co in!"
He stood respectfully for half an hour before hearing an aged voice resonate from inside the room.
Ba Yi bent his back, entered the room, and imdiately saw multicolored silk ribbons hanging down at random.
In all four corners of the room, incense burners blazed, with various fragrances wafting from them.
A gaunt old man was sitting on a wool blanket, dressed in silk clothes.
"Ba Yi, paying respects to the noble Great Wizard nsa..." Ba Yi quickly knelt, performing an obsequious bow akin to prostrating himself.
"Ba Yi... The crow told that Bai Boluo is dead."
Wizard nsa spoke with a voice that betrayed neither joy nor anger, yet Ba Yi’s heart chilled, and he hastily said, "An outsider, using malicious ans, assassinated Wizard Bai Boluo... I have already obtained the outsider’s hair for the curse..."
"Not enough." Wizard nsa shook his head, "Rember, only the Great Master will save everyone... You must offer everything to the Great Master, including your flesh and blood, wife, children, land, wealth... everything!"
"Yes, only the Great Master... Next ti, I will bring my wife to visit." Ba Yi’s voice was raspy.
"Those who kill a wizard will be cursed by the Great Master!"
Wizard nsa stood up, his eyes swirling with malice and brutality, "I will turn that outsider into a Voodoo Corpse, imprison his soul forever within his body, to watch himself rot day by day, yet still labor for ..."
A chill ran down Ba Yi’s spine.
He followed Wizard nsa deeper into the room.
Inside, there was a small chamber, illuminated only by a single candle casting an eerie greenish glow.
Ba Yi suddenly saw the head of soone who had died with eyes wide open erge from the darkness, giving him quite a start.
As he stepped back, he realized it was just a wild boar’s head.
The enormous boar’s head was placed on an altar, its fresh blood flowing, filling the grey and white grooves on the altar’s surface.
Wizard nsa took a black leather bag from around his waist, which emitted the sll of alcohol when opened.
This was absinthe, the wizard’s drink.
He took a sip, then deftly took out paper, wax, cloth, straw, and other items from various pockets on his body. His hands, old and gnarled like chicken claws, surprisingly agile as he crafted a black doll with them.
"Hair!"
Wizard nsa suddenly demanded.
Ba Yi was startled, feeling as if countless eyes were watching him from the darkness; he quickly handed over a small paper package.
After Wizard nsa opened it, he mixed a few strands of hair into the doll and tightly bound it with red thread.
"Great Master... please unleash Your might to punish this outsider disrespectful to wizards..."
Wizard nsa’s voice, which was clear at the beginning, beca gradually indistinct, sounding as if two people were speaking at once, the words a complex and unintelligible spell.
Above the altar, the scents of various aromas mixed, making Ba Yi feel as if the wild boar’s head had co to life, smirking at him with mocking intent.
"I curse you!"
Suddenly!
While chanting the spell, Wizard nsa pulled out a pitch-black needle and jabbed it into the part of the doll representing the liver.
"Ah ah!"
Ba Yi suddenly felt a tearing pain in his stomach.
He scread, rolling on the ground, vomiting mouthfuls of fresh blood.
Amidst the blood appeared to be fragnts of his organs!
"This... Have I been cursed?"
Ba Yi looked to Wizard nsa, "Great Wizard... save ... I am willing to give you half of the village’s land..."
"Idiot, fool... Your brain dumber than that of a pig... to have been substituted with soone else’s hair."
After cursing Ba Yi viciously, Wizard nsa then assud a strange expression, "I accept your offering, and I will enable you to have your revenge... Your wife and children... they should all be offered to !"
"No..."
At this mont, Ba Yi’s face finally filled with regret, but it was too late.
His throat bulged, unable to utter a complete sentence.
Even as ti passed, his face gradually beca expressionless and stiff... had it not been for his eyes still moving, one might have mistaken him for a corpse!
After finishing the spell, Wizard nsa stepped forward, pried open Ba Yi’s mouth, and stuffed all manner of strange things inside.
This included unidentified dicine Powder, as well as living spiders, centipedes, and so on...
In the end, Wizard nsa even danced a bizarre dance around Ba Yi.
His body twisted, performing unimaginable movents, his face contorting as if wearing a mask, suddenly appearing to be soone—or rather, so ’evil spirit’—else!
This evil spirit had human features but a purple-black tongue shot out from its mouth, growing longer like a venomous snake, biting down on Ba Yi’s neck.
A strong sense of corruption erged, thoroughly ’imbuing’ Ba Yi through the ritual.
Monts later, Wizard nsa returned to himself, wiping his face and once again resembling the emaciated old man.
He observed Ba Yi and nodded, then shook his head, "A hastily made Voodoo Corpse, not as good as those truly laboriously created... Go, find your nesis!"
With Wizard nsa’s words, Ba Yi, now a Voodoo Corpse, stepped back several paces, fading into the darkness and gradually disappearing from sight...
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