Chapter 242: Chapter 210: Saint Heir

Gray mist spread, Sang Que stood within it, her figure appearing and disappearing, able to sense and instant teleport away from any anomaly approaching.

“Miss Sang found this place so quickly, I wonder where I slipped up?” Cheng Ge asked.

The little boy Xingzhu looked wary and hostile, tightly gripping the gourd flute and glaring at Sang Que. Cheng Ge put away the erhu, giving Xingzhu a look, signaling him not to act rashly.

Sang Que couldn’t answer Cheng Ge’s question. If it weren’t for her opening the god-like perspective, she really wouldn’t have suspected Cheng Ge.

He Buning had mentioned that Cheng Ge lived a normal life in Tianliang City for years, making a living by singing, without hiding his mixed heritage.

His arrival and departure records, tax records existed, and neighbors knew him; he had little contact with the Evil Suppression Bureau.

After the Ghost Eye was lost, he didn’t leave the city directly, still stayed at his residence, living as usual, not appearing guilty.

Sang Que remained silent, and Cheng Ge knew she didn’t want to talk. Noticing the Night Travel Envoy Token on Sang Que’s waist, he asked, “I see Miss Sang as a kind person, not scorning those like me and Xingzhu, musicians of lower status, that day on the mountain road, willing to ride in the same carriage, unlike those from the Evil Suppression Bureau who disdain commoners and regard lives as trivial.”

“I’m really curious, Miss Sang, why would you join the Evil Suppression Bureau? Do you know how depraved and sinful your Da Xuan’s Evil Suppression Bureau is?”

Sang Que guarded against possible things appearing nearby, stated in a deep voice, “I came to reclaim the ’Ghost Eye,’ other matters are unrelated to me.”

Xingzhu suddenly shouted angrily, “The Holy Eye originally belonged to our Yun Country!”

The Xuan Dynasty referred to Yunzhou, seeing Yunzhou as an unrecovered territory.

Yunzhou’s various tribes regarded Yunzhou as one nation, their united country.

Sang Que knew this, but it was her first time hearing that the Ghost Eye was Yun Country’s belonging.

He Buning suspected Cheng Ge was a fourth layer Gu Master with strange and extraordinary methods, making Sang Que hesitant to act rashly.

Additionally, she was very curious about how her mother’s written beginning influenced the entire event’s development.

The more detailed her understanding, the more she could assist her mother in using the storyteller’s power.

“Why do you say that? Wasn’t the Ghost Eye always kept in the Evil Suppression Bureau?” Sang Que asked with curiosity.

Cheng Ge held Xingzhu’s hand, calming him, and addressed Sang Que, “Our Yun Country’s tribes worship different Holy Spirits, each possessing divine powers. Da Xuan fought against Yun Country for over a decade, committing acts of war, plundering those Holy Spirits, and turned them into powerful yin objects in your Evil Suppression Bureau, didn’t they?”

Sang Que realized that many yin objects in the Evil Suppression Bureau were acquired by paying the price of dismembering Evil Ghosts and also plundering from Yunzhou.

If the Ghost Eye was Yunzhou’s, then what about the other yin objects on the Yin Child? Were they also taken from Yunzhou?

“Besides,” Cheng Ge’s eyes suddenly turned cold, as if suppressing some emotion, he said with as calm a tone as possible to Sang Que, “Do you know where those captured from my Yun Country ended up? Do you know why I am of mixed heritage and considered lowly status?”

Sang Que shuddered, her eyes widened suddenly; she studied history and often heard her mother talk about it, immediately recalling something.

Yun Country’s women were likely made into military prostitutes, while men became labor.

“Most unforgivable is that Yun Country’s children were all captured into the Evil Suppression Bureau and never came out again!”

Sang Que’s heart skipped a beat. Could it be that the Yin Child was also a Yun Country child?

She suddenly recalled Yu Da mentioning how witchcraft in the Xuan Dynasty weakened due to the presence of the Taoist Sect and Buddhist Sect, becoming indecent—only tribes around Yunzhou still preserved and used the most primitive witchcraft.

Each tribe worshipped its respective Holy Spirit, essentially a certain ghost, and chose a Saint Heir or Holy Daughter to serve it.

These Saint Heirs and Holy Daughters were cultivated from infancy, chosen by the Holy Spirit using certain signs, and then raised beside the Holy Spirit, listening to voices from the Nine Netherworld’s depths.

Thus, these children, once grown, became unique, possessing special powers, turning into perfect vessels for the Holy Spirit’s descent.

Normal people, with established views, staring into the eerie existences deep within the Nine Nether Abyss, would experience a major shock to their formed perceptions, leading to a mental breakdown. But what would happen with a blank slate, an infant?

Their understanding of the world would be shaped by those existences within the Nine Nether Abyss, thus allowing them to gaze upon those existences unaffected.

They could learn various strange knowledge from those existences and pass it on to their tribes.

At this moment, Sang Que suddenly understood why the Yin Child, upon advancing to the third layer, would tear apart three bodies, forming such an indescribable and horrifying object—because that’s what he saw in the depths of Nine Nether Abyss.

For the Yin Child, that was ’normal.’

Cheng Ge looked directly at Sang Que, “I planned for three years, initially just aiming to reclaim the lost Holy Objects of our Yun Country tribes, but this year’s arrival of that Colonel disrupted my flawless layout, forcing me to gamble as a last resort.”

Cheng Ge remembered last year, this Colonel came to Xunzhou but didn’t discover issues within the Evil Suppression Bureau, instead being led away by cases of deceit, dealt with them, then left Tianliang City.

This year, something went wrong again, exposing everything, disrupting all his plans.

Fortunately, heavy snow descended, and that Colonel thought the Dragon and Snake Child Statue caused a natural disaster, investigating it, giving him a chance to change his plans.

Coincidental and bizarre, but he had no choice.

Da Xuan used the Holy Eye to thwart Yun Country’s counterattacks multiple times. His ultimate goal here was to retrieve the Holy Eye, even if only one.

As long as this one goes missing, the other would inevitably be sent to Tianliang City, providing an opportunity to retrieve a complete pair.

For this reason, he dared to contact Chi San, initially unplanned, Chi San being a Yin Walker, giving him a Gu easily exposed.

Perhaps fate was on his side; he succeeded.

Chi San, already affected by frequent usage of Evil Spirits around Tianliang City and suffering backlash, had unstable emotions, on the verge of mental breakdown. Also noted for being culpable in a loss within the Evil Suppression Bureau, he was punished and often drowned his sorrows in restaurants.

The Gu was administered gradually through his drinks.

As for Jia Shu’s Gu, Cheng Ge began administering it a year ago, because Jia Shu was a secret vault manager, requiring strict checks daily at the Evil Suppression Bureau, thus Cheng Ge took a year to embed the Snake Gu seed within Jia Shu.

Without activation, it wouldn’t be detected; once activated, countless poisonous snakes would emerge from Jia Shu’s body.

“Miss, you are a good person, I don’t want to act against you. If you leave voluntarily, after you do, I will quietly depart Tianliang City. Otherwise, if I unleash my full effort, few in Tianliang City will survive.”

Sang Que heard Cheng Ge mention his three-year plan and thought if her mother’s story beginning hadn’t been written, would all this still happen, just not encountered by her?

Thinking this, her guilt eased slightly, but…

“Sorry, I must acquire the Ghost Eye today.”

As the words fell, the yin wind suddenly intensified, petals from countless plum blossoms scattered and rained down, a hollow-eyed, blue-skinned Yin Child silently appeared behind Cheng Ge, gripping his wrist.

With one tug, Cheng Ge’s arm broke off, abruptly transforming into a vividly colored spotted venomous snake, striking at the Yin Child.

Simultaneously, Xingzhu who stood nearby changed expression, his pupils split open, turning his normal eyes into snake pupils, hissing, and spitting out a snake-like tongue.

Dragon and Snake Child!

Sang Que suddenly realized that Xingzhu was the vessel for the Dragon and Snake Child, the Saint Heir serving the Dragon and Snake Child.

The small courtyard’s scene abruptly shifted, within the mist, the rustling sounds everywhere, poisonous snakes abounded, while shadows resembling children laughed eerily, running through the mist.

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