The Undying Immortals of the Terrifying Heavens

Chen Xing suddenly opened his eyes and was immediately startled.

He was still wearing only a pair of shorts, with a large black lotus flower adorning his neck; the peach wood sword was gone.

This place is not in a pool, but in a wild forest of shrubs.

Night had fallen, and fireflies danced among the distant grasses, while cicadas and frogs chirped and croaked incessantly.

"Where have you been?"

Before this, Chen Xing had always thought that wearing the peace bracelet would quell his resentment. Even if he couldn't eliminate Chu Renmei, suppressing her a little would be good enough.

Isn't this how traditional Chinese vengeful ghosts are?

Chen Xing was so angry he wanted to grind his teeth.

As a result, the peace bracelet is useless now, and instead, Chu Renmei has gone berserk and brought herself to this godforsaken place.

At this moment, Chen Xing seemed to still hear someone singing opera, only it was fading away...

There was a village not far away, which looked like yellow mud bricks and blue tiles in the moonlight. The candlelight there was not as bright as the fireflies outside.

"Aunt Mei, what are you planning right now?"

Chen Xing had a vague idea in his mind, and then headed towards the mountain village.

Soon, he heard a commotion.

At the edge of the village, many people were holding torches and denouncing something.

As Chen Xing approached, he heard: "Chu Renmei, you shameless slut! What happened to your traditional virtues? You've disgraced our Huangshan Village!!!"

"Teacher Bu is highly respected and has been so good to you, is this how you treat him?"

Chen Xing stood in the darkness and saw through the crowd a woman in a cheongsam, disheveled and with her hair loose, slumped against the wall.

This is the situation.

This is actually the night a hundred years ago when Chu Renmei was schemed against by her husband!

The beautiful woman from Chu in this place sold herself to pay off her opium-addicted husband's debts, all because of the traditional virtues of obedience to father, husband, and son. But that's how she fell into his trap.

These villagers had actually conspired together long ago, with the aim of forcing Chu Renmei to die.

Forget about propriety, morality, and family/village rules; after all, Chu Renmei's husband is going to marry the daughter of the owner of Guangzhou's No. 1 money exchange, and Huangshan Village will prosper then.

The only price was the beauty of the people of Chu.

Human evil is nothing more than this.

Chen Xing saw the crowd's outrage, but he did not move.

Instead, he looked up at the moon in the sky. The moon was very round. After staring at it for a few seconds, a look of understanding flashed in Chen Xing's eyes.

He then set off, charging forward like a raging bull.

"Who goes there!"

Chen Xing didn't bother with any words and punched the villager in the head with all his might. The force penetrated the skull, and the skull shattered like a watermelon in the blink of an eye!

"Is your brain that fragile?"

Blood splattered all over the ground, but at that moment, nothing else mattered as much as what had happened to Chu Renmei.

Everyone present looked terrified, but Chen Xing did not stop at all.

Both fists and feet can take a person's life.

Skull crushed, throat severed, chest pierced, hand broken...

In less than half a minute, only two people were left alive: Chen Xing, covered in blood, and Chu Renmei, trembling with fear.

Just then, a series of disordered footsteps came from outside the door, and in the blink of an eye, the area was surrounded by villagers holding torches in layers.

An old man with a short beard, dressed in traditional attire, saw this and his eyes widened in fury: "What a pair of adulterous lovers!!!"

"He did such a thing, and even killed someone!!"

Hearing the accusations, Chen Xing was a little annoyed: "Adulterer... you old bastard, what are you barking about?!"

Unexpectedly, as soon as Chen Xing spoke, the villagers became enraged and rushed over with their weapons.

Chen Xing was furious. Not only had he been insulted, but the other party had even dared to attack him first.

His kung fu skills are no joke!

They were aggressive, but Chen Xing was not afraid at all and, as before, showed no mercy.

But soon, he noticed something was wrong; when he turned around, Chu Renmei was gone.

What about people?

Meanwhile, the villagers in front of him seemed tireless, unafraid of pain, and unafraid of fear.

One by one, their faces contorted in grotesque expressions, they engulfed Chen Xing like a tidal wave.

Normal people will feel fear when they see someone die in front of them, and even an army will collapse when the number of casualties exceeds a certain level.

Instead of being afraid, these villagers, with bloodshot eyes, stepped over the corpses of their predecessors and charged toward Chen Xing.

"Kill him! Kill him!!"

"Adulterous couple, you've ruined the village's reputation!"

They were shouting.

Upon seeing this bizarre situation, Chen Xing turned and ran away, too lazy to get entangled with them any longer.

He couldn't defeat so many villagers with his bare hands, but he was very fast at running.

Just as he successfully evaded the villagers, an unexpected person appeared.

"Old man, what are you doing here?!"

The person who appeared in front of Chen Xing was none other than Li Qiang.

Li Qiang's expression was calm, but he uttered a startling statement: "Because I am dead."

"ha!?"

Chen Xing was somewhat bewildered, then said, "Isn't this Chu Renmei's ghost realm? How did you die?"

Before Chen Xing even made a move, he realized that this was neither the real world nor some melodramatic story of traveling back to ancient times.

He had contemplated the sun and moon, so naturally he was familiar with the moon.

He looked up at the sky earlier, and the moon there was lifeless, completely different from the one in reality.

That's why he acted so decisively.

But to his surprise, Li Qiang, who was dead, was here again?

Li Qiang opened and closed his mouth and said calmly.

"I was killed by Aunt Mei. It doesn't matter that I'm dead, I'm over a hundred years old anyway. But you can't stay here too long, because this place will forever be stuck in the three days that Aunt Mei killed. If you don't leave within three days, you'll be completely assimilated!"

"I can tell you're not dead yet. Those two young men outside can't save you either, because Aunt Mei is going to kill them!"

"This is the other side of Huangshan Village. The people you just killed weren't their true forms; they're all trapped inside the ancestral hall. For centuries, they've been reenacting the events of that time. These ghosts have gone mad!"

As Li Qiang spoke, his body gradually became younger.

Judging by its speed, it will only take three days for the other person to completely revert to the appearance of a child...

He continued, "These ghosts can't leave Huangshan Village. When they appear here, ghosts in another Huangshan Village will also disappear. Aunt Mei is the same, and so am I."

So, Chu Renmei disappeared just now because she went out to kill someone?

Holy crap, that's so underhanded!

Chen Xing: "So, what should I do?"

Li Qiang shook his head expressionlessly: "I only learned these things after I became a ghost, but I don't know how you're going to get out."

Li Qiang looked younger, but his personality became even more lifeless.

Chen Xing looked at Li Qiang and suddenly said, "So you're a ghost now, right?"

"Yes."

"Is there anything else you want to say?"

"there is none left."

"Alright, then I won't worry about you anymore. I'll be going now!"

After saying that, Chen Xing ran straight to the center of the village.

Behind him, Li Qiang's last whisper could be heard.

"Remember, Aunt Mei is no longer Aunt Mei. Don't believe your eyes... Goodbye..."

Li Qiang stood there watching Chen Xing leave, mechanically and rhythmically waving his hand with a smile on his face.

Chen Xing ignored Li Qiang, because he had no way of verifying the truth of what the other party said.

Moreover, there's a saying that goes, "It's all nonsense," and Chen Xing believed it without a doubt.

Since they mentioned the ancestral hall, I'll go and take a look myself.

Strangely, Chen Xing did not see any more villagers along the way.

When he arrived at the center of the village, he passed through a large hall and finally saw the ancestral hall of Huangshan Village.

The surroundings were pitch black, except for the candles burning inside the ancestral hall, which illuminated the interior and filled the air with the distinctive scent of burning incense and candles.

Inside the ancestral hall, there was an eight-immortal table with many memorial tablets on it.

When Chen walked closer, he saw that the first memorial tablet clearly read:

[Memorial Tablet of the Benevolent Man Chen Xing]

"I'm dead?!"

Chen Xing frowned, then laughed in exasperation.

"You're trying to pull this trick on me!"

Chen Xing looked around and the only thing worth noting was the eight-immortal table. But no matter how he looked at it, seeing his memorial tablet in front of him made him feel unlucky.

Furthermore, this isn't the real Huangshan Village, so perhaps there are some special rules involved.

According to Chen Xing's experience with supernatural folklore, this might involve something like cause and effect, or reincarnation, with the effect preceding the cause.

"You're cursing me to die?"

He came here looking for ghosts, but there wasn't a single one in sight. Could they have all run away?

Let's see what happens if we overturn the memorial tablet!

Just do it!

Without saying a word, Chen Xing kicked the octagonal table over, sending the memorial tablets flying everywhere.

But at that moment, the candles in the ancestral hall went out simultaneously.

A loud thud was heard, but it wasn't the sound of an eight-immortal table falling to the ground; it sounded more like the beating of gongs and drums!

The surroundings were plunged into darkness, and even the moonlight could not penetrate.

Chen Xing heard a series of rustling footsteps all around him. He turned his head to look, but there was nothing there.

He was the only person in the ancestral hall.

The next moment, Chen Xing's body suddenly felt incredibly heavy, as if something was pressing down on his shoulders and back.

"What the hell?!"

Chen Xing gritted his teeth and straightened up, but every moment he felt the weight behind him increasing rapidly, as if Mount Tai was pressing down on him, and his body made creaking sounds.

Chen Xing's body pressed lower and lower.

At that moment, he realized that he didn't even have time to commit suicide; the force was pressing down on his body and deforming it.

It looks...it looks like the octagonal table that he kicked over!

"Did a ghost climb onto my back?"

The large black lotus flower that Chen Xing was wearing was constantly getting hot, indicating that it was working.

At this moment, he also possessed the ability to see ghosts, but there was nothing there.

He couldn't see that this force still existed.

"My act of kicking over the octagonal table just now violated the rules of this place, which caused something to happen... This ancestral hall in front of us is also problematic."

At that moment, Chen Xing suddenly recalled Li Qiang's last words.

Aunt Mei is not Aunt Mei; don't believe your eyes.

If the beauty of the people of Chu is no longer the beauty of the people of Chu, then is this ancestral hall no longer an ancestral hall, and this eight-immortal table no longer an eight-immortal table?

Li Qiang said the ghosts were trapped inside the ancestral hall, but Chen Xing didn't see them.

The unusual situation only occurred after he kicked over the octagonal table...

"I know!"