Chapter 114: The Dead Become Ghosts

The True Lord of the Profound and Subtle Manifestation? What is that?

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe didn't quite understand why the grandmother had such a huge reaction after hearing about Ji Taimi's encounter, so he had to reach out to steady the old woman's swaying body, placing one hand on her back to feel her heart rate with his palm.

"Grandmother, what's wrong?" Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe asked with concern.

Ji Taimi's grandmother was small and thin, and her advanced age had already caused her frame to shrink. Her health wasn't very robust; if such an elderly person were stimulated to a certain degree, it wouldn't be impossible for her to be frightened to death on the spot.

Facts proved that Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe's worry was correct.

It was unclear what "The True Lord of the Profound and Subtle Manifestation" meant to the grandmother, but from her trembling shoulders, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe could feel that the old woman had suffered extreme shock. Her back twitched, and her throat made a rattling sound, as if she were choking on food.

Consequently, the palm resting on her back failed to feel her next heartbeat.

The old woman's heart had stopped.

"... Grandmother?" Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe's expression turned serious. He steadied the old woman's thin shoulders with one hand and placed his fingers on her carotid artery with the other to confirm repeatedly. The body that had just died still had residual warmth, but there was no heartbeat or pulse in her chest.

She was truly dead.

"Grandmother, what's wrong?" Ji Taimi's sister, Yin Lishang, asked softly and cautiously.

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe turned his head to look and saw that the two dull eyes on Yin Lishang's face, covered in red spots and acne, were still looking here timidly. Her unfocused pupils lacked focus, looking very curious. "Can't you see?" Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe asked.

Yin Lishang shook her head: "My eyes are bad, I can't see things very clearly. Brother, what's wrong with Grandmother?"

"She's dead." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe said lightly: "Do you know what the True Lord of the Profound and Subtle Manifestation is? She seemed to have a big reaction to it."

"That's the Earth God's name." Yin Lishang's unfocused eyes looked at Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe with some confusion: "Don't you remember? The Earth God's honorific title is 【The Great Emperor of the Profound and Subtle Manifestation, Mighty Suppressor of Monsters】."

"What a shitty name... I really don't remember." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe closed his eyes, took a light breath, and opened them again: "Let's take Grandmother home first."

"Okay." Yin Lishang nodded obediently and reached out to grab the corner of Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe's clothes.

Her eyesight was very poor, and she had to hold hands with people to avoid getting lost, but Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe was currently supporting the grandmother's corpse with both hands, so she could only pull on his clothes.

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe bent down, scooped up the grandmother's corpse, and turned to walk back the way he came. As he walked, he whispered a name that no one else could hear: "Nianjun."

Before the words had even faded, a flash of red appeared directly in Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe's field of vision. He Nianjun gently lifted her delicate, mutton-fat jade-like hands and displayed an almanac before Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe:

【Lunar 29th of the 5th Month】

【Suitable: Nothing is suitable】

【Taboo: Planting, Sacrificing, Trading, Burial】

"Damn it." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe felt a secret shock in his heart. Since obtaining the rules of the Serpent God Zhao You, this was the first time he had encountered a situation where "nothing is suitable." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe had summoned He Nianjun to see what was suitable for today, hoping to find a way to improve his luck, but the "nothing is suitable" almanac cut off his delusions of improving his fortune through Zhao You. Opening the almanac this time, apart from a few restrictive taboos, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe gained nothing.

"Huh?" Yin Lishang opened her eyes wide in confusion, releasing the hand that was tightly clutching Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe's clothes to rub her eyes vigorously.

Just as Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe felt troubled by the "nothing is suitable" in the almanac, a flash of paper-white color suddenly intruded into his vision. It was a bloodless, aged human face that appeared abruptly beside He Nianjun's feet.

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe subconsciously took a step back, only to see an old head with disheveled hair drilling out from nowhere. Beneath the neck, which dragged along blood vessels and lymphatic tissue, was connected to a snow-white spine and 12 pairs of complete human ribs.

It was a long snake made of human bone, soaked in blood on the snow-white bone, with a face full of wrinkles and a look of resentment. It climbed up along He Nianjun's legs, and the sharp ribs bit into her body, which was wrapped in a wedding dress, like the pincers of a spider, *crack, crack*.

The human bone snake climbed onto He Nianjun's shoulder, its resentful gaze full of hatred for the "Complete One." It opened a pitch-black mouth and bit its remaining few teeth toward He Nianjun's fair neck.

Without the slightest hesitation, without a moment's delay, Ji Taimi's tall, thin teenage body seamlessly switched into a mature, beautiful woman wearing a deep purple dress. Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe lifted a foot and stepped lightly onto the ground.

To be precise, he stepped onto the shadow of that human bone snake.

When Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe's shadow made contact with the human bone snake's shadow, the rule of "Special Permission" was triggered. The pitch-black mouth on the pale face was about to bite into He Nianjun's neck in the next moment, but at this instant, it had already dissipated into a wisp of blue smoke.

As the instant-death rule of "Special Permission" was triggered, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe heard a mournful, vicious, and resentful cry, as if it were drifting faintly from the other side of a distant mountain. The human bone snake wrapped around He Nianjun struggled and convulsed, its snow-white bone joints *crackling*, and finally disappeared.

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At the same time, Feng Yushu's body changed back into the appearance of Ji Taimi.

It was a long description, but all of this happened in the blink of an eye, so fast that Yin Lishang beside him didn't even notice that her brother had changed his appearance and changed back. Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe held the grandmother's corpse with both hands, feeling lingering fear.

"What was that thing just now?"

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe saw it very clearly. The face of the human bone snake clinging to He Nianjun had no scars, the eyes were not nailed shut, the ears were not stuffed with clay, and the lips were not sewn shut with needle and thread. It was not the Earth God.

Where did that snake pop out from? Why hadn't he discovered it before?

Apart from the Earth God in the Earth Temple outside the village, were there other human bone snakes in the village?

Why could this kind of eerie monster make direct contact with a ghost that only existed in his own field of vision—"Zhao You"?

All kinds of doubts came rushing in with a massive amount of information. Even Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe couldn't help but feel a bit of confusion and bewilderment for a moment, but even more surprising things were yet to come.

Because after "Special Permission" killed that human bone snake, the grandmother's corpse he was holding in his arms suddenly moved.

*Thump-thump, thump-thump. * A strong, powerful heartbeat came from the old woman's chest. Ji Taimi's grandmother opened her eyes with effort and muttered: "Good grandson, you've provoked the True Lord of the Profound and Subtle Manifestation..."

That's right, that's right, this village was the territory of 【The Great Emperor of the Profound and Subtle Manifestation, Mighty Suppressor of Monsters】.

There was no "death" here.

(End of Chapter) ===== CHAPTER 115 =====