I have already acknowledged my identity. In the future, when we're all open with each other, no one will think I'm insincere, right?
After disconnecting, Hu Ma pondered deeply, ticulously sorting out his thoughts.
Ultimately, the situation had beco quite delicate. He needed the Reincarnators' help to defeat the ng family, and the Reincarnators, in turn, needed to leverage the na of Zhen Sui Hu to gain montum. Both sides were perfectly aligned.
Yet, he had to admit a lingering shadow always troubled his heart.
The reasons behind the first Reincarnator purge and the secrets of the Zhensui Mansion made him uneasy. He needed to investigate these matters quickly to find peace of mind.
After considering these matters, he called Miss White Wine.
She always paid close attention to her well-being, sleeping and waking early. Usually, when he called, she responded promptly. This ti, however, it took several attempts before he heard her sowhat tired voice. She asked directly, "Did you receive the prescription I sent you?"
"Yes," Hu Ma replied. "I wanted to consult you about it."
"Once you see the prescription, you should understand." Miss White Wine sighed softly. "Previously in Guazhou, after I received the prescription from the Store Manager at the Life Pavilion, I researched it carefully. Sifting through the books in the Grass Heart Hall, the more I studied, the more alard I beca. This legendary, supre Purple Tai Sui is actually..."
Hu Ma said softly, "A person, right?"
It seed like a shocking answer, yet whether it was when he first saw the prescription or now, he wasn't surprised.
"To be precise, it's a type of aura that can be refined from a person," Miss White Wine said in a low voice. "It's not evil energy. Evil energy is the turbid breath people exhale after death. This turbid breath, tainted with the sufferings of life, lingering obsessions, and unwillingness to depart, is the yin soul.
"Purple Tai Sui, however, is purer. It is an entity granted by the heavens that transcends matter. I struggle to describe it with words from our past lives. I can only use terms learned in this world, calling it the spiritual, or Yuan Soul, or things of that nature. Humans are born as they are; evil spirits, by acquiring the spiritual, developing wisdom, and obtaining Mana, all stem from this... It doesn't exist only within humans, but it is more easily found through them. It is, in fact, the spiritual of this world."
After speaking at length, she paused slightly, sighing softly. "The thod at the Life Pavilion back then was to extract this aura from a child's body while it remained relatively pure and untainted by worldly karma. They then used secret techniques of Pill Skill to refine it. Their prescription was incomplete, and the refined Purple Tai Sui might not have been pure enough. However, theoretically, the ng family and the Yan family are essentially the sa in their approach. One operates through the Earth Snake God, the other through the Lord of Official Zhou."
Listening to her, Hu Ma detected an intangible sense of oppression in Miss White Wine's usually cool deanor for the first ti. He slowly said, "I heard long ago that Tai Sui Blood and Flesh and humans were regarded as the two great treasures by those on the Path. Looking at it now, at the stage of Purple Tai Sui, have these two great treasures beco interconnected?"
"Yes," Miss White Wine said slowly. "But for now, I haven't figured out why. This world shares so many similarities with our past lives. Even so of the Strange Skills within the Path align with certain familiar cognitions and laws. But as you delve deeper, it becos increasingly chilling. You'll realize that everything familiar to us is built on an underlying logic entirely different from our past lives. The closer you get, the more bewildering it becos..."
"Then let's Shangqiao!" Listening to Miss White Wine, Hu Ma suddenly spoke in a low voice, "Once on the Bridge, you can see the scenery on the other side. The farther you walk on the Bridge, the more secrets you can uncover."
"Yes..." Miss White Wine also remained silent for a long ti before saying softly, "It's ti to go see that legendary Bridge. I think I've touched upon so crucial matters, but without performing Shangqiao, I cannot truly see them clearly." Pausing, she recalled sothing. "What about you?"
"I'm also preparing for Shangqiao; I'm ready to take that step at any ti," Hu Ma spoke slowly. "But before that, I need to visit Old Yin Mountain once, since... it's almost New Year."
"New Year?" The now sowhat exhausted Miss White Wine sounded surprised. "At a ti like this, you're still thinking about the New Year?"
"Mainly, there are many things I need to understand." Hu Ma smiled faintly, then chose his words carefully. "Miss White Wine, when we first t, it was also on Old Yin Mountain. You were preparing to go there to find sothing important. Later, I learned from Er Guotou that what you were looking for, just like him, was the Yin Yang Two Sceneries Plate in Fox Coffin Village—a treasure of the Walking Ghost Path. However, since Er Guotou follows the Walking Ghost Path, it's reasonable for him to know of this item. But you..."
He posed this question carefully, with due consideration. Interactions among Reincarnators were typically based on a sense of propriety. If there were matters for collaboration, they would work together. If favors could be exchanged or help offered, they would do so. However, they avoided prying excessively into each other's secrets.
Miss White Wine seed stunned for a mont, as if lost in thought, then suddenly said, "Actually, I wasn't looking for the Yin Yang Two Sceneries Plate. What I sought was the item suppressed by the Yin Yang Two Sceneries Plate. But when I reached Fox Coffin Village, t Er Guotou, and confird the nature of that item, I realized it was beyond my reach at the ti. So, I went along with what Er Guotou said, pretending I was also after it, and took back half of the Yin Plate. Of course, since it wasn't what I truly desired, I later found an excuse to give it back to him."
As expected... Hu Ma was sowhat surprised by Miss White Wine's answer.
"Then you..." he blurted out, then, fearing he had offended Miss White Wine—who usually maintained a cool distance from others—he hurriedly explained in a low voice, "I don't an to pry into your secrets; it's just that Old Yin Mountain is very important to ."
"It's fine," Miss White Wine replied faintly. "When Reincarnators work towards similar goals, their individual objectives often blur over ti. What you want to ask isn't a secret for anymore.
"Back then, I went to Old Yin Mountain searching for the Shangjing Twelve Ghost Altars." She slowly explained, "It's said that the Shangjing Twelve Ghost Altars were originally used to suppress peculiar entities of heaven and earth. Back in Shangjing, this item was once our target. According to our investigations, it was removed from Shangjing over a decade ago and replaced by the Ten Surnas Ancestral Hall. After being moved, it was kept in Old Yin Mountain, hidden from the world.
"At that ti, Reincarnators dared not Shangqiao. To protect themselves, they could only feign reliance on external items, and the most powerful of these were the Twelve Ghost Altars. These details were discovered by the leader of the Reincarnator Organization we followed in Shangjing, code-nad Nu'er Hong. She was an incredibly powerful yet mysterious individual, and both Miss Red Wine and I received her aid.
"In fact, after learning about the previous generation of Reincarnators, I once suspected she was the transmitter—likely the bridge connecting the previous generation of Reincarnators with us. Regrettably, she t with misfortune early on, and to this day, Miss Red Wine and I haven't found any trace of her."
"The Shangjing Twelve Ghost Altars are also in Old Yin Mountain?" Hearing this, Hu Ma's heart sank. He could infer even more from this information. Were the Twelve Ghost Altars also in Fox Coffin Village, suppressed by the original Yin Yang Two Sceneries Plate?
"Yes," Miss White Wine said slowly. "That ti, I did see the Twelve Ghost Altars. However, that object made realize it was sothing I couldn't touch, so I only managed to save Er Guotou."
This was sothing that once replaced the ancestral altar... More and more pieces were falling into place in Hu Ma's mind. And from so things Er Guotou unintentionally ntioned, the disappearance of the Bridge Crossing Walking Ghost seed related to this. And it now resides in Old Yin Mountain...
These revelations further convinced Hu Ma that it was ti to return to Old Yin Mountain. He now had the Zhensui Mansion firmly under his control, and Shangqiao was rely a matter of decision. The ng family was wounded, avenging the blood feud was in sight, and the hope of bringing Granny back was tangible. Thus, the only remaining concerns were so secrets of the Zhen Sui Hu Family. He had a strong intuition that the Shangjing Twelve Ghost Altars, closely linked to the disappearance of the Bridge Crossing Walking Ghost, were the final key to unraveling this mystery.
Seeing Miss White Wine's candor, Hu Ma paused briefly before saying, "Thank you. Miss White Wine, what you've shared is extrely important to . Since you've been so honest with , I feel I should also share one of my secrets with you..."
He paused, then said in a low voice, "Actually, I'm from the Hu Family..."
Miss White Wine said, "A descendant of the Hu Family, right? I know. I guessed it the first ti I saw you. And that fool, Miss Red Wine—I deliberately led her to think that way."
"Eh?" Hu Ma's thoughts were thrown into disarray by her statent. Another one who knows? No, wait! Just thinking about Miss Red Wine, Hu Ma suddenly realized sothing, a chill running down his spine. She... Does she truly know?
The next words escaped him almost involuntarily, "Then why did you..."
Miss White Wine replied faintly, "Because I was entrusted by soone to ensure your safety, no matter the circumstances."
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