From Joy of Life, the Tian Gang is reversed

Chapter 76 Ghost Infant
Salt merchants are a special group.

Because of the previous Daqing salt administration, they were considered half-official businessmen, and after several generations of accumulation, they accumulated huge wealth.

When you have enough money, in a sense, you can do whatever you want.

What to do if you have too much money to spend?
let's play!

An ordinary person can only play a limited number of tricks, while rich people can play more tricks. However, there are only a limited number of things to play in the world, especially in a dynasty like Daqing that was in the feudal era. These salt merchants were tired of all the tricks they could play, and coupled with the large number of people in the family, over time, the way they played became perverted.

Especially after one or two perverts appeared, the path went completely astray.

Things like pedophilia and young girls have become their regular way of playing. There are so many poor people in the world anyway, and they can buy a lot of them with just a little money. They can play with them however they want, with the young ones and the old ones too. The young ones play with them from childhood to adulthood, and then when they grow old, they still haven't had enough fun, so they start to imitate the emperor and want to live forever.

The emperor achieved immortality by refining elixirs, and they wanted to achieve immortality by relying on folk remedies, and they dared to try all kinds of folk remedies.

Among all the folk remedies, some are very perverted.

Some perverts have crossed the bottom line.

For example, eating babies!
Because things like placenta can no longer satisfy them.

Only full-term babies can satisfy their perverted desires.

As I said, there are many poor people, and many of them have children but cannot support them. What do they do? They spend money to buy them out.

As time went on, ordinary babies could no longer satisfy them.

Start looking for babies born on fixed dates, such as those born on the yang year, yang month, and yang day, those born on the yin year, yin month, and yin day, and so on...

The reason why they were not noticed by the government was, on the one hand, because they used money to build a huge network of relationships, and on the other hand, because they had a lot of money, most of their gains were bought with money, and there were not many victims.

A small number of victims were also secretly dealt with by them.

In this way, this folk recipe of eating infants for longevity was no longer a secret among the big salt merchants, but no one had revealed it.

But recently, the princess's inner treasury and the salt merchants were fighting each other, and she began to secretly make things difficult for the salt merchants, and discovered this matter.

It's not just this matter, there's also raising ghosts, refining human Gu, and nourishing Yin pills...

It was simply eye-opening.

To be honest, even a crazy woman like the eldest princess was frightened when she learned about this matter. She didn't even dare to expose it publicly, but just gave all the information she had collected to Li Chengqian.

Li Chengqian was not doing well at that time, so we felt sorry for each other!

"I used to say that Daqing was prosperous under my father's rule and had become a golden age. Now it seems that I was superficial."

Li Chengqian looked at the sullen Emperor Qing, then at Chen Pingping, who also looked dejected, and sneered, "Father, this prosperous age is just as you wished!"

"Shut up!" Emperor Qing kicked over the imperial desk in front of him and stared at Chen Pingping with a sharp and sinister gaze. "Does the Overwatch Council know about this matter?"

"Of course I don't know." Chen Pingping's eyes were bloodshot, and he suddenly raised his head. "The six major salt merchants are harboring evil intentions and intending to rebel. Your Majesty, I will go there myself." "Let Qin Yuan and his black cavalry go and let them see blood. As for Dean Chen, what are you going to do? It's not your turn to kill people." Li Chengqian said coldly, "I think you should stay in the capital and reorganize the Censorate. Look at the Censorate now. What a mess it is. They don't know what they should know, and they pry into things they shouldn't know. They keep silent beforehand, but when the emperor asks, they open their mouths and speak out. It makes you look bad, doesn't it?"

"I……"

For the first time, in this Linhu Palace, Chen Pingping was speechless when asked questions and could not utter a word. This time, the Supervisory Office was in great disgrace. The main reason was that his energy had been focused on various conspiracies and court affairs before, and he had never thought about investigating the salt merchants.

"Also, none of the officials who knew about this matter in advance can be used." At this time, Fan Jian silently put down the information in his hand and interjected.

"Leave no one behind," Emperor Qing said bluntly. "The Overseer Council must draw up a list. Not all of the Black Cavalry of the Eastern Palace can leave. Fan Jian, transfer 3,000 Black Cavalry to Qin Yuan. Also, have the Governor-General of Jiangnan come to Kyoto to report on his work."

This time, the Tubao Emperor was really angry.

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"Is this a ritual to refine the ghost baby?!"

“It seems like he’s still a modern person!”

Li Chengqian felt his heart throbbing when he returned to the East Palace. He knew that this was because his second soul had revived. As the connection was opened, Li Chengqian's consciousness once again entered that strange world.

This was quite unexpected, because after being chopped off, his second soul fell into silence immediately. He thought that his second soul had died, but unexpectedly it suddenly revived.

This time, the connection finally made him understand what happened.

In that world, the reason why he had such an experience was because someone was doing something similar to sacrificing ghost babies.

And judging from his dress, he is still a modern person.

His second soul was sacrificed as a sacrifice. Although he didn't understand much about this because he practiced martial arts instead of immortality, the other party's sacrifice process required collecting the pure resentment of an infant like his second soul.

Unfortunately, the other party didn’t know that Li Chengqian’s second soul contained not only resentment, but also ghosts!
The reason why the second soul was revived was because the other party had refined so much pure resentment as a sacrifice, which triggered the second soul's supernatural power, and the second soul began to revive.

Originally, the second soul was only relying on its slightly revived instinct to absorb the resentment of the sacrifices. As it successfully connected with the main body, Li Chengqian began to devour the surrounding resentment and refined it into supernatural power with the instinct of a ghost. As the supernatural power increased, Li Chengqian's consciousness began to extend from the bottom of the lake to the surface of the lake, and this blood lake gradually became clear.

The blood lake is not too big. It is better to call it a blood pool than a blood lake. In the center of the blood pool, there is a protruding blood-colored stone. An old man with messy hair is sitting on the blood stone. In front of him is a small table with a blue-black dead baby on it. He is pinching his fingers and muttering to himself.

As he chanted the spell, a large amount of resentment poured into the dead baby. Of course, because Li Chengqian intercepted a lot of it, the resentment absorbed by the dead baby was obviously not enough.

His current state is very strange. Rather than being a second soul, it is better to say that he is a ghost from a terrifying resurrected world.

Yes, it's a ghost.

A ghost with the rules of killing.

"It's not enough, not enough." Li Chengqian "stared" at the dead baby on the blood-colored stone, stopped absorbing the resentment, and disconnected from the second soul.

Joy of Life World, The East Palace
Li Chengqian opened his eyes, a strange smile forming on his lips. "Three days. After three days, everything will be mine. I want to see what kind of world this is."

(End of this chapter)