Chapter 2574 The Zhu Family’s Difficulties

"When I heard the news from Xiang'er's servant, I immediately flew to the Ghost Cave of Youwu, just to catch up with them before they entered! But until I release my spiritual consciousness, where will there be any trace of them? I'm afraid My consciousness was wrong, and before I rushed to the ghost cave again, I still couldn't find it..." The old man replied hurriedly.

"Are you sure they have entered?" Zhu Cheng asked anxiously. After all, Zhu Xiang is his son, and there is You Zhongquan who Xiao Hua is looking for.

"I can't be too sure..." The old man hesitated and said, "After all, today is July 15th, so I can't get too close to the ghost cave..."

"Oh? Why is it July 15th again??" Xiao Hua, who was listening carefully next to him, was stunned, but no, when Xiao Hua met Huang Yi in Tianmen Mountain, it was the Ghost Festival on July 15th, and now Hidden Immortal On the mainland, I met Huang Yi's reincarnation Chang Yuan again. Just after he accepted Chang Yuan as his disciple, he encountered the Ghost Festival again. And coincidentally, although Zhu Cheng has not yet told the truth at this time, Xiao Hua already has a feeling that this matter must be related to Li Guiyouhun again! But this time the person involved... was You Zhongquan.

"July 15th?!" While Xiao Hua was stunned, Zhu Cheng's face turned extremely pale, but when he saw him clenching his fists with both hands, he said angrily, "What a traitor! How can you act rashly now that you know today is the Ghost Festival?" Entering the ghost cave? Isn’t this looking for death?”

"Brother!" the old man whispered, "If you want to seal the ghost cave, you can only use the blood and essence of my legitimate son of the Zhu family during the Ghost Festival!"

"I don't dare to do such a thing, how can he achieve his cultivation?" Although Zhu Cheng called him a traitor, he still cared about Zhu Xiang's stability in his heart.

"This... wasn't this all forced by big brother?" The old man glanced at Zhu Cheng secretly and muttered in a low voice.

"Friend Zhu Xian, at this point...don't you want to tell the truth?" Xiao Hua said lightly. "If that's the case, don't blame Xiao for letting go!"

"Oh, my benefactor!" Zhu Cheng bowed and said, "It's not that I dare not reveal the truth to my benefactor, but my benefactor is a Taoist monk. Although he is proficient in Confucianism and cultivation, but... this matter involves ghosts and ghosts in the underworld, and extraordinary monks can Deal with it, I don’t want to drag my benefactor into such trouble!”

"Oh, it turns out Xiao blamed you wrongly!" Seeing Zhu Cheng being so sincere, Xiao Hua nodded. "But since Xiao came here because of You Zhongquan, this matter has something to do with Xiao. Unless Xiao withdraws and leaves and no longer cares about You Zhongquan's life or death, do you think Xiao can avoid getting involved?"

"Woo..." Zhu Cheng started to speak again. The dark wind rose again in the hall, and even a strange hissing sound was heard in the night sky outside the hall.

"Hundred Ghosts Night Parade!!" Xiao Hua raised his eyebrows and asked in a low voice.

"Yes, if today is July 15th,

This is the precursor to the Night Parade of Hundred Ghosts! Zhu Cheng smiled bitterly and said, "But now that the time has come, the ghosts are still in the ghost cave and are ready to move!" "

"Si... The ghost cave is near Zhujiazhuang? Is the famine in Wuyuan County... related to this ghost cave?" Xiao Hua suddenly woke up and asked with a breath of cold air.

Zhu Cheng looked at Xiao Hua. Biting his lips, he nodded first and then shook his head, and said: "Master Xiao. The famine in Fengxiang Country is similar to that of Zuojin Countries, and the famine in Wuyuan County is also similar to that of Zuojin Counties. It is true that the famine in Wuyuan County is related to ghost caves. It's a bit far-fetched. But... I don't know what the situation is like in Wuyuan County, but the evil in the dark is more serious than anywhere else. Wuyuan County often finds some things that are difficult for ordinary people to deal with. Things to understand, these should be related to the ghost cave. "

"Do people in Wuyuan County know?" Xiao Hua narrowed his eyes. Looking at the night sky outside the hall, he asked thoughtfully.

Zhu Cheng shook his head: "How dare you let them know about this?"

"Although the people in Wuyuan County are ordinary people, they are still human beings after all, and they should have the right to know!" Xiao Hua said word by word, "You should not hide it from them."

"But..." Zhu Cheng wondered, "These ghost caves must be suppressed with the Yang Qi of living people. If people in Wuyuan County knew about this, wouldn't Wuyuan County be empty? Without Yang Qi, these ghost caves It will definitely become more raging, and I, Zhujiazhuang, cannot..."

At this point, Zhu Cheng suddenly woke up and hurriedly shut up.

Xiao Hua's expression changed slightly, he looked away from the night sky, stared at Zhu Cheng and said: "Friend Zhu Xian, your Zhu family has been guarding this place, could it be that... you are guarding the ghost cave?"

Zhu Cheng did not answer. Instead, he raised his head and looked at the portrait of Zhu Xi. For half a cup of tea, the dozens of Zhu family disciples behind Zhu Cheng who were qualified to enter the hall lowered their heads. Staring at the ground, he seemed a little sad and aggrieved, but there was more pride in his eyes.

"That's right!" Zhu Cheng said, "The ancestors of the Zhu family have taught us that this matter is a mystery of my Zhu family and must not be leaked by the disciples of the Zhu family. Now that my benefactor has been kind to my Zhu family, he is not considered an outsider. Since my benefactor has seen it, it is not a violation of the ancestral precepts for me to say it.”

"Well, Xiao understands. You are the backbone of the Confucian cultivators, and you are the support of the Hidden Immortal Continent!" Xiao Hua sighed, "Only if you pay silently and bear the burden silently can the human race of the Hidden Immortal Continent prosper. . Thank you for your hard work.”

"Thank you, benefactor!" Zhu Cheng blushed and shook his head, "Although our ancestors left a legacy, ordering our disciples to guard Zhujiazhuang for generations. But the curse of our Zhu family... can only be alleviated by the Yin Qi of this ghost cave. Therefore, even if our descendants want to leave Zhujiazhuang, they can't! To be honest with you, the king of Tongzhu State arrested more than a dozen people from my Zhu family that day. I was determined to die and didn't want to fall into this burden left by my ancestors! This burden is not something that ordinary people can think of!!"

Looking at Zhu Cheng's slightly old appearance, Xiao Hua suddenly understood the pain in the old man's heart. This pain was not only the physical labor, the pain of the talisman, but also the pain of responsibility in his heart, the responsibility that could not be told to others and was harmed by others. If the Zhu family had given up the mission of guarding the ghost cave because of the spell and the rejection of the Confucian family, they could have allowed the evil spirit of the ghost cave to spread and turn Wuyuan County and even Fengxiang Country into a ghost den. However, the Zhu family chose to endure the humiliation and bear the burden for thousands or tens of thousands of years. How could the suffering within be borne if it were not for the great Confucian family that produced the Saint Zhu?

Suddenly, Xiao Hua seemed to have thought of something, and hurriedly stood up and said: "Zhu Cheng, since Zhu Xiang has fallen into the ghost cave, you... why are you not in a hurry? You said before that only the blood of the Zhu family's eldest son can seal the ghost cave... What does this mean?"

"My benefactor, everything is too late!" Zhu Cheng's face flushed, and he shook his head and said, "The yin energy of the ghost cave is very heavy. It must be sealed once every hundred years, and the seal is the blood of my Zhu family's eldest son! And the most glorious mission of the head of my Zhu family is to seal this ghost cave! Use your own flesh and blood to block this ghost cave that can devour the Tibetan Immortal Continent!!"

Zhu Cheng's words once again shocked Xiao Hua's heart like a sea of ​​​​overturned. What he saw today was really beyond his expectation. Every time a layer of veil was lifted, the things in Zhujiazhuang would shock him.

"Xiong'er is the legitimate son of my Zhu family. Although he is not the head of the family yet, as soon as he enters the ghost cave, he will be immediately attracted by the seal inside the ghost cave. There is no other ending except to trigger the seal with his life! Even if the real person rushes to the ghost cave now, he can't change this ending!" Zhu Cheng smiled bitterly again, "This ending... I haven't explained it to Xiang'er completely, I only told him vaguely, I just want him to know that his father's life is not long, he must correct his shortcomings, be prepared to take over the position of the head of the Zhu family, and take on the heavy burden of the Zhu family's ancestral precepts. However, he must have misunderstood and thought that as long as the seal of the ghost cave was closed, young cultivators such as You Chongquan were probably invited by him to come and reinforce the seal, right?"

"Alas!" Hearing this, how could Xiao Hua not understand the filial piety in the heart of the indecisive Zhu Xiang? He wanted to blame Zhu Xiang, but in the face of such filial piety, how could he still speak?

"Zhu Cheng!" Xiao Hua waved his hand and said, "Come with me..."

"What is this, benefactor..." Zhu Cheng asked a few steps in confusion.

Xiao Hua had already walked out of the hall at this time, squinting his eyes and looking at the full moon that was poking its head out from behind the dark clouds in the sky, and said lightly: "Since I have encountered this, how can I not help? And You Chongquan is in the ghost cave at this time, I have to go and see it!"

Seeing this, Zhu Cheng said anxiously: "Benefactor, you don't understand! This matter is far beyond the current magical power of the benefactor..."

"I understand it very well!" Xiao Hua's figure flew into the air and said loudly, "Take me to the ghost cave!"

"Woo..." Almost at the same time as Xiao Hua, it seemed that someone in the distance was screaming loudly with his throat pinched, and the screaming sound was transmitted very far in the night sky.

"How could it be?" Zhu Cheng's face turned pale, and clouds also appeared under his feet. His figure rushed into the sky, and the purple light and cloud silk between his eyes flashed slightly.

Xiao Hua went up to the air first, and looked towards the source of the sound with his mind, but strangely, except for the ordinary rocks and trees, there was no strangeness in his mind.

Looking at Zhu Cheng again, his face was pale, and his lips were trembling, as if he had seen something incredible.

Xiao Hua looked at Zhu Cheng flashing purple light, and his mind thought of what he saw in Tianmen Mountain that year. He knew that the Taoist mind had no effect in front of ghosts. So he touched his eyebrows with his hand, and scolded softly: "Ji...", the delusion-breaking Dharma Eye opened, and the Buddhist sect's heavenly eye was used, "silk..." When Xiao Hua saw everything clearly in front of him, he took a breath again... (To be continued)