Gu Immortal Returns

Chapter 4 Gu Immortal’s Backlash
The patriarch asked people to carry me down from the red sedan chair.

As soon as noon arrived, the witch pulled off the red cloth covering my body.

The hot midday sun burned my rotting body, and the squirming maggots in my body instantly turned to ashes when exposed to the sun.

Seeing white smoke coming out of my body, the witch took out a handful of incense ash and threw it at me.

After the dust passed, I couldn't tell the appearance at all.

Two men chopping wood in the distance looked at everything on the top of the mountain.

The witch walked to a large stone tablet and drew a circle on the ground with a wooden stick. The villagers behind threw packages of yellow burning paper into the circle drawn by the witch.

The patriarch stepped forward and shouted to the stone tablet, "Thank you ancestors for your blessing..."

A match was lit, and the clan leader threw the lit match onto the burning paper in front of him.

As the burning paper burned, a heat wave hit me.

The poisonous insects in my body suddenly became restless, and the bone-eroding pain came again.

After the fire burned out, the witch and the clan leader took the people in the village and carried me down the mountain.

The two people hiding in the dark also hurried down the mountain.

After a whole day of hustle and bustle, I returned to the silent ancestral hall again.

The cold wind blew in from outside the remaining walls of the ancestral hall, and the biting coldness and loneliness tortured my heart.

Four figures in the distance sneakily came to the vicinity of the ancestral hall. Seeing that there were no villagers around, they entered the ancestral hall directly.

He carried me out of the ancestral hall and ran quickly outside the village.

When I left the village boundary, the newly born children in the village started crying one after another.

Lights came on in the village, and the witch woke up from her sleep. She looked out the window, and saw in the distance like a black cloud covering the sky.

"Not good! There is something wrong with Gu Immortal."

The witch got off the wooden bed, put on her clothes, picked up the gong by the corner, knocked on it, and ran towards the ancestral hall.

Hearing the sound of the gong, the villagers knew that something serious must have happened in the village and ran out of the village quickly.

Lanxiang held the crying child and didn't know what to do.

Aunt Wang entered the room and looked at the infant boy.

The baby boy's face was livid, and his face was wrapped in a cloud of black air.

"No, something happened to Gu Immortal!"

Aunt Wang ignored the baby boy and ran outside.

Four men carried me over the western mountain outside the village and walked quickly into the distance.

My body began to rot, and the rotten body gradually turned into thick water and flowed into the large tank under me.

The moonlight penetrated the dark clouds and shone on the vat.

The maggots on my body turned into black smoke visibly to the naked eye and disappeared into the vast night.

As the maggots and my body decomposed, my body finally lost the piercing pain and felt an unprecedented sense of joy.

When the four of them saw me decaying rapidly, they were so frightened that they stopped running and put the vat on the ground.

With the clear sound of the steel needle being inserted into my head falling into the vat, the four of us didn't know whether it was fear or because they were covered in sweat from the rush.

My soul flew out of my body and stayed in mid-air.

I leaned over and looked at the body turned into pus beneath me, and then I realized my death.

The witch beat the gong and ran outside the ancestral hall. When she saw me disappear, she looked horrified.

"It's over, it's over..."

The clan leaders and villagers came to the ancestral hall one after another, and they all looked horrified when they saw my disappearance.

Lan Xiang's screams came from her courtyard, and then she rushed out of the room with the child who had just lost her breath in her arms. "Son, my son——"

Women's cries were heard in the village one after another. After my soul left my body and lost control, the children I gave birth to during this period lost their breath one after another.

The patriarch quickly received the news, and he collapsed on the ground in shock.

The witch shouted to the people around her: "Chase, chase! We must find the Gu Immortal..."

When the patriarch led the villagers to find the large tank where I lived, there was no trace of me in the tank.

The four people who stole me left the vat on the spot and fled after I rotted into corpse water.

My soul is still floating on the big tank, watching the villagers approaching in the distance.

The witch quickly rushed to the big vat, saw the corrupted corpse water in the vat, and cried to the sky.

The witch asked people to carry the vat back to the village. Those holding the lifeless baby boy stood in front of the village, crying so hard that they had run out of energy.

Seeing the baby boy who had been crying loudly before, the patriarch was extremely angry and walked up to the witch angrily.

"Is there any other way to save these babies?"

The witch looked dull and could not say a word despite being pressed by the clan leader.

Two days later, the clan leader ordered the male infants to be buried together, and the villagers built more than a dozen thin coffins in the past few days.

The women of the village, under the command of the witch, placed the baby boy in a thin coffin.

The chief asked the men in the village to carry the coffin to the top of the mountain.

A dozen holes of the same size were dug on the top of the mountain, and the clan leader asked people to put the thin coffins into the holes one by one.

During the burial, countless snakes, insects, rats, and ants suddenly crawled out of the coffin.

Snakes, insects, rats and ants crawled around quickly, and those who could not escape were instantly surrounded. People who were alive just a moment ago were turned into bones in an instant.

The people around were shocked and ran for their lives down the mountain.

As if she had expected it, the witch took out a handful of powder and threw it into the air.

When the medicinal powder comes into contact with the hundreds of millions of snakes and insects in front of you, the snakes and insects disappear instantly.

"The Gu Immortal counterattacked——"

The witch sprinkled the powder on her body and escaped back to the village. She prepared the powder in advance and had people pour it near the village to prevent snakes and insects from entering the village to take revenge.

The witch told the people in the village that no one could leave the village without finding a solution.

The miko returned home in a hurry.

It was getting late, and people in the village fled home one after another.

Aunt Wang was sitting in the room, looking at the swaddled baby boy with extremely cruel eyes.

Aunt Wang's eldest granddaughter Niandi walked in from outside.

Seeing Niandi, Aunt Wang glared at Niandi angrily, "It's all your fault, you are such an ominous person. It was you who killed your brother. If it weren't for you, wouldn't our Wang family have any sons?"

Niandi lowered his head and did not dare to say a word. His body was shaking with fear and nervousness.

Aunt Wang hit Nian Di hard with a broom in her hand. Nian Di didn't dare to hide or steal, and allowed Aunt Wang to vent her anger.

Lanxiang sat on the old wooden bed, watching Niandi being beaten and not daring to say a word, for fear that her mother-in-law would take out her guilt for not keeping the baby boy on her.

Aunt Wang stopped until she was tired and said, "Get out, I'll be angry when I see your bitter face!"

Niandi came to the courtyard with wounds all over her body. She looked up at the red moon that had changed color in the sky, her body trembling helplessly.

The witch returned home, found hay and pierced a straw man.

The witch placed the straw man on the altar table where she usually worshiped the evil god, "Lord Evil God, the ancestors of Poqiao Village must bless the village to successfully tide over the difficulties."

After the shrine maiden paid her respects, she stood up and walked to the altar table. She wrote my birthday and birth date with cinnabar on yellow paper, and then attached it to the straw man.

(End of this chapter)