Rules of the Strange: I Became a God in a Bizarre World Through Taoist Arts

Pei Xi kept her eyes fixed on Shen Xingzhuo, her hand nervously clutching her mother's sleeve.

A gust of wind blew by, making the longevity lock around Pei Xi's neck jingle.

Shen Xingzhuo looked at Pei Xi and saw dozens of different faces on her face.

The facial features of these people can sometimes be combined to form the face of the same person.

But more often than not, the pairings are a mess, resembling Cubist portraits.

Shen Xingzhuo's ears twitched.

"The longevity lock rings, the life string vibrates..."

Pei Xi's fate has been thrown into chaos.

Someone wants her dead!

Shen Xingzhuo shielded Pei Xi behind him with one hand.

But in the next instant, her pupils suddenly dilated.

At the end of this straight road, the outline of the ancestral hall on the back mountain came into view.

Shen Xingzhuo's nerves tensed instantly.

She had been here before on that past timeline!

At that time, she was Pei Jinyu, who stood in for her in the wedding ceremony with the fake Liu Jin!

At this time, the fake Liu Jin was dead, and the Liu Jin from the previous line was also dead!

With Liu Jin's past completely severed, what will he do next?

Shen Xingzhuo raised her hand to shield her eyes from the blinding light.

The ancestral hall appeared both near and far in her field of vision.

At times, it filled the entire frame, revealing the spiderwebs on the beams; at other times, it shrank to a tiny square, as insignificant as a speck of dust.

But Shen Xingzhuo still saw it.

Inside the ancestral hall, two dragon and phoenix pillars support the dimly lit roof on either side.

The pillar was stained with black grime, almost completely obscuring the blackened wooden core beneath.

A crack appeared in the dragon's eye, and its scales fell off in disarray.

Phoenix, however, shimmered with golden light, providing illumination for a region.

Liu Jin stood between the two pillars.

But he was facing away from the door, so we couldn't see his expression.

Shen Xingzhuo closed his eyes briefly, and when he opened them again, he used his Qi Observation Technique to clearly see the aura emanating from Liu Jin.

The eerie aura nearly overwhelmed the fortune he had plundered.

"Xi'er, are you afraid of your grandfather?"

Shen Xingzhuo lowered his head and asked Pei Xi.

Pei Xi thought for a moment, then shook her head seriously.

"We've won many times already."

Although Pei Xi has grown much taller, her voice still sounds childish.

She pointed to Pei Jinyu and Shen Guantang.

"Ever since Xi'er met her grandmothers," she clutched her chest, "this pain has been getting worse and worse."

Pei Xi looked up and met Shen Xingzhuo's eyes.

"Xi'er knew it; we've already let the outsider...let him lose!"

An unusual glint appeared in Pei Xi's eyes.

"So, Mother," she soothed the emotion between Shen Xingzhuo's brows, "don't worry, we will win. Xi'er will let you win!"

Pei Xi reached out and hugged Shen Xingzhuo.

"Xi'er..."

Shen Xingzhu stood there, stunned, and a tear fell from her eye onto Pei Xi.

……

[What, what does that mean... If Sister Shen wants to win, does she have to kill Pei Xi?]

[Waaaaah, 3, 2, 1, start crying!]

[Calm down, Pei Xi is acting strangely!]

But she... but...

The chat fell silent.

They seemed unable to reach a conclusion on this topic.

Some people seemed to have thought of Shen Xingzhuo's mysterious abilities in their eyes.

[Sister Shen's Taoist arts are so powerful! Maybe she can find a way?!]

[Don't you all understand? Sister Shen is the chosen one, while Pei Xi, Pei Jinyu, and Shen Guantang are supernatural beings; they're all dead!]

At the same time as this comment was accompanied by the sound of a ghost story.

【Chosen One Shen Xingzhuo, are you pitying the Weird?】