One person: Reborn as Huangxian, seeking the title of Feng Baobao at the beginning

After listening to Huang Miao's words, Wang Ye also pondered them seriously and felt that it seemed to make sense.

The location where the water-suppressing divine beast is kept is known only to a very few people in each of the guardian supernatural families; other supernatural families would never know the secrets of the other supernatural families.

The decline of the Xu family back then was not only due to their excessive righteousness and incorruptibility, but also because the location of the water-suppressing divine beast that their extraordinary family was guarding was leaked.

The saying "A common man is innocent, but possessing a treasure is a crime" perfectly describes the situation of the Xu family.

Huang Miao said nothing more, but silently continued forward along the passage.

Wang Ye followed behind him, seemingly lost in thought, and also remained silent.

These two were no ordinary people. Although they seemed to be walking slowly, their speed was actually quite fast.

Even so, it still took them more than an hour to reach the end of the passage.

What lay before them was no longer an invisible barrier, but a stone door standing there, waiting for someone to open it.

"Director Huang, the water-suppressing divine beast is behind this stone door, but it requires the blood of the Luo family to open it, and it seems that some kind of incantation is also needed!"

Standing before the stone gate, neither Huang Miao nor Wang Ye made any rash moves.

Wang Ye smacked his head hard, as if he had just remembered the incident, and hurriedly explained to Huang Miao.

He genuinely forgot; it wasn't intentional that he didn't inform me beforehand.

The main reason was that Huang Miao was like a god in Wang Ye's mind. No matter what, Director Huang could solve the problem on his own, so Wang Ye didn't think that the stone door of the Luo family was that difficult to open.

Wang Ye touched his nose, and the voices behind him grew softer and softer.

He did feel a little guilty.

Huang Miao remained silent, as if he hadn't heard Wang Ye's explanation at all. His gaze was fixed on the stone gate in front of him, a barely perceptible glint flashing in his eyes, as if he were deep in thought.

After a while, Wang saw Huang Miao directly cast a spell to summon a ghost.

Seriously? What good would summoning ghosts do in this place?
Immediately afterward, to Wang Ye's puzzled gaze, Luo Shuxiang fell straight down from the barrier above, landing right in front of the two of them.

The barrier above her head closed automatically after Luo Shuxiang passed through, preventing a single drop of river water from seeping in.

"Director Huang is looking for me?"

After Huang Miao turned and left, Luo Shuxiang sank into the river again. She was still unable to leave this place and could only passively stay here.

For Luo Shuxiang, if the water-suppressing beast truly cannot be purified, then when the conspiracy behind the scenes succeeds, she herself will be annihilated, which can be considered as her sacrifice for the water-suppressing beast.

Luo Shuxiang was submerged in the water and could do nothing.

In a state between sleep and wakefulness, an irresistible force of attraction arose from nowhere, forcefully binding Luo Shuxiang's body and drawing her deeper into the river.

She had previously accompanied the Luo family head to the location of the water-suppressing divine beast, and Luo Shuxiang was surprised to find that the summoning power actually came from the location of the water-suppressing divine beast.

Luo Shuxiang finally breathed a sigh of relief when she saw Huang Miao.

At least, it's not the person who controlled her before.

Only Huang Miao and Wang Ye were in the passage; no members of the Luo family were with them. Luo Shuxiang was somewhat puzzled, but she also knew one thing: since Huang Miao had summoned her, he must have something to ask of her.

"To open this stone door, we need the blood of the Luo family. Although your physical body is long dead, your soul is still imprisoned within it, and your blood has not truly congealed. Let some blood flow out to open this stone door!"

Huang Miao uttered these words of command lightly, looking at Luo Shuxiang with an extremely serious expression.

Wang was speechless, and could only give Director Huang a thumbs up! As expected of Director Huang, this approach was truly groundbreaking in the entire cultivation world!

Who would believe that Luo Shuxiang, a dead person, could still be used in this way?

Not only was Wang Ye shocked, but Luo Shuxiang herself was also stunned after understanding Huang Miao's meaning.

If Huang Miao's expression hadn't been so serious, Luo Shuxiang would have thought he was joking with her.

This joke is not funny at all!
Luo Shuxiang slowly walked to the stone gate. She saw that what was carved on the stone gate was not a totem, but an ancient way of writing the character "Luo," which was also the original totem of the Luo family. However, as time went by, this totem was no longer used, and only here was such an ancient totem still preserved.

There were faint traces of blood on the totem. Huang Miao said he would use Luo Shuxiang's blood to open the stone door, and that was indeed the right thing to do.

The blood of the Luo family gradually etched this ancient totem. Once the totem absorbed all the blood, the stone gate would naturally open.

In the past, it was always the head of the Luo family who personally performed the bloodletting; no one else was allowed to do it.

Luo Shuxiang felt a surge of inexplicable sorrow welling up in her heart.

As a woman, even though she is a direct descendant of the Luo family, she still has no right to come here.

She never imagined that, a century after her death, she would have to use the blood of this very body to open this door.

Luo Shuxiang painstakingly drew out blood stroke by stroke, meticulously carving the totem belonging to the Luo family.

After all, she was dealing with a corpse, so the amount of blood that could flow was limited. For anyone else, drawing a totem would only take a few minutes, but it took Luo Shuxiang a full half hour to barely finish.

The moment the blood touched the totem, it was swallowed up by the totem with a "whoosh".

Then, with a "click," the stone door slowly opened.

A bone-chilling cold emanated from the stone gate, instantly condensing into a thin layer of frost on the three of them.

They trembled slightly, and the frost scattered. Luo Shuxiang was covered in the most frost, and her limbs were stiff as she moved, as if she were a puppet being controlled.

Huang Miao was the first to step through the stone gate.

Wang Ye glanced at Luo Shuxiang, feeling a pang of pity, and stepped forward to help her inside.

Behind them, the stone gate slowly closed.

Inside the stone gate, a stone-carved water-suppressing mythical beast stands quietly in the center of the platform.

Surrounding the platform is a man-made river with a stone bridge spanning it. Only by crossing the stone bridge can one reach the water-suppressing mythical beast.

In front of the stone bridge, a bronze square zun stands alone. Countless sandalwood incense sticks once burned inside, but now only the ash remains.

Unlike the water-suppressing mythical beast that Huang Miao had seen in pictures before, this mythical beast was entirely black, except for half of its four hooves, which still retained the earthy gray color of stone.

"Tsk tsk, I never thought that the Luo family's water-suppressing divine beast had been polluted to this extent. No wonder the river is now filled with resentment. It's really not easy!" Huang Miao sighed.

Compared to the other three families' water-suppressing beasts, which were also corrupted, the Luo family's was clearly the most severely affected. Of course, the Xu family's water-suppressing beast no longer existed.

"Director Huang, when we came here last time, these four hooves weren't contaminated yet. The contamination rate is too fast!" Wang Ye had been here with the Luo family head before and still vividly remembered the original appearance of the Water-Suppressing Divine Beast. In just a few days, half of its four hooves have already been contaminated. At this rate, it's likely that the Water-Suppressing Divine Beast will be beyond purification in a few days, and even if the Luo family exhausts all its resources, it will be powerless to save it.

He was really terrified.

This is way too exaggerated!
Moreover, Luo Shuxiang has regained her memory; she no longer releases resentment into the river, and is even trying to absorb it.

Why has the rate of pollution not slowed down, but instead accelerated?
"What did Patriarch Luo do when you came last time?" Huang Miao stroked his chin, observing the bronze vessel and scrutinizing the water-suppressing beast, before asking Wang Ye.

"He didn't do anything, he just lit a sandalwood incense stick and inserted it into the bronze vessel, and then we left together." Wang Ye tried hard to recall the previous scene, and only remembered this.

According to the head of the Luo family, offering incense to the water-suppressing divine beast was the exclusive duty of the head of the Luo family, and they only needed to watch from the sidelines.

It was indeed because they lit incense!

Huang Miao walked up to the bronze vessel, took out a piece of white paper, folded it into a paper crane, and gently blew on it. The paper crane then flew above the bronze vessel.

Less than two centimeters away from the bronze vessel, the paper crane fluttered its wings, and a little bit of black substance was drawn out from the incense ash inside the bronze vessel and attached to the paper crane.

With just this small amount of black substance, the paper crane spontaneously combusted without fire.

In the blink of an eye, the paper crane was burned to ashes, leaving not even a trace.

Upon seeing this, Luo Shuxiang and Wang Ye stared wide-eyed, one with disbelief and the other in shock.

"Patriarch, why would he want to harm the Luo family?" Luo Shuxiang was completely baffled as to why it had to be the head of the Luo family.

"Director Huang, does this mean that before Patriarch Luo brought us here, his body had already been possessed by other souls?" Wang Ye's mind raced, and he immediately thought of this.

When Linglan mentioned the Soul-Devouring Gu, she said that once the soul completely occupies and merges with a person's body, the Soul-Devouring Gu's aura will completely disappear, and no one will be able to detect it.

The reason why Linglan could sense the presence of the Soul-Devouring Gu on Luo Hong's body was because the soul had not yet completely taken over Luo Hong's physical body.

However, what if the Luo family head's physical body had already been taken over before these things happened?

Even the lily of the valley couldn't see through this.

Thinking of this, Wang couldn't help but shudder.

"Oh no! Wu Xie and Linglan are in danger!" Wang Ye shouted, instinctively turning around to save them.

"Don't worry, even if the Luo family head is successfully possessed, he can't escape. There's a formation I set up outside the Luo family compound, and no one is allowed to leave!" Since Huang Miao had decided to check on the water-suppressing divine beast, how could he not make preparations in advance? Especially after he suspected that the Luo family head had been replaced, he would naturally be even more cautious.

Hearing Huang Miao say this, Wang Ye finally breathed a long sigh of relief.

Sure enough, with Director Huang around, he didn't need to worry too much.

"Director Huang, what should we do next? Can the water-suppressing beast still be saved?" Luo Shuxiang had completely collapsed to the ground. She raised her head and looked at Huang Miao with anticipation.

At this moment, she placed all her hopes on Huang Miao.

"The water-suppressing divine beast will naturally be safe!" Huang Miao did not directly answer Luo Shuxiang's question, but simply stared at the water-suppressing divine beast and said this.

Because he spoke with his back to Wang Ye and Luo Shuxiang, no one saw that Huang Miao's brows were already tightly furrowed.

He truly hadn't expected things to be so complicated!
"But now the water-suppressing divine beast has been so severely polluted that even if the patriarch sacrifices his life, he may not be able to purify it successfully. What should we do now?"

Luo Shuxiang knew she should trust Huang Miao, after all, since his arrival, Huang Miao's actions had been unexpected and completely beyond their expectations.

She tried to convince herself that she only needed to trust Huang Miao and the people of the Nine Gates Feng Shui Bureau.

Since the Luo family has already fallen to such a state, what else is there to care about?

"It's alright. The karma that the Luo family is involved in will eventually have to be repaid, and no one can escape it. Starting with you, and then with the rest of the Luo family, they will all have to pay the price."

Compared to Luo Shuxiang's worries, Huang Miao seemed much more composed.

Evil deeds will eventually be punished; it's just a matter of time.

Now, these events have fully erupted, and no family—whether Dong, Luo, An, or Du—can remain uninvolved.

Even if they were all tricked, so what? The evil was their own doing, their blood stained their souls, turning their originally pure and colorless spirits into a deep red that cannot be erased.

Just like a blank sheet of paper being dyed, no matter what color is added, it will eventually become a black sheet of paper.

Black encompasses all colors, thus forming the deepest black.

Once stained black, it can never be washed off; the stain will always remain.

Luo Shuxiang already knew about these things, and she even played the most crucial role in them, which led to the accelerated rate at which the water-suppressing divine beast was corrupted, until it reached this critical moment.

“Miss Luo, perhaps you should first tell us who this so-called master you’ve been talking about is?”

If you choose the wrong path, you'll have to crawl to the end.

Her soul was imprisoned within her body, leaving her to live almost as a living dead while constantly absorbing endless resentment.

Using her soul as a furnace to gather resentment and pollute the water-suppressing divine beast, this method is truly formidable.

Don't expect Luo Shuxiang to inexplicably forget the crucial things after regaining her memory.

On this point, Huang Miao did not believe Luo Shuxiang's words.

Previously, they all seemed to have deliberately ignored this matter. If, as they suspected, the Luo family head's physical body had truly been completely taken over, then he naturally wouldn't have proactively revealed the mastermind behind it to Luo Shuxiang.

Their goals are the same.

Which side is Luo Shuxiang on?

Huang Miao's gaze toward Luo Shuxiang carried a subtle, almost imperceptible probing, but it was so well hidden that no one noticed.

Upon hearing this question, Wang Ye's attitude subtly changed. He circled around behind Luo Shuxiang, forming an encirclement with Huang Miao, trapping Luo Shuxiang inside. If Luo Shuxiang made any sudden move, they could ensure she couldn't escape.

Luo Shuxiang seemed completely unprepared for Huang Miao's sudden question. She paused for a moment, then almost instinctively looked towards the water-suppressing divine beast.

Inside the bronze vessel, only incense ash remained. The water-suppressing divine beast was separated, and its appearance seemed somewhat illusory, making it difficult for Luo Shuxiang to see clearly.

"The Lord is indeed the Lord. I believe that when the time is right, Director Huang will meet with the Lord!" (End of Chapter)