80: Inviting guests for dinner? Just coveting the skin!

“This is absolutely outrageous! These sorcerers, at first glance, seem to have no class distinctions, but their minds are filled with feudal superstitions!”

“Damn it!”

“Repaying kindness with enmity, worse than pigs and dogs!”

“For two thousand years… the souls of these Villagers have been suffering torment. What kind of scene is this, exactly?”

“A living hell?”

“Perhaps even that can’t describe it…”

“I’m shaking with cold!”

“These sorcerers not only stole our Chinese Dragon Vein but also massacred the common people and tormented their souls. Is that something humans would do?”

“Such people deserve to go to hell!”

“Host, hurry up and go in!”

“Let these scoundrels also experience the taste of having their souls tormented!”

...“The Eastern Jin Dynasty, that Fisherman?”

Wu Tian’s eyes lit up as he looked at the Faceless Man and asked in a low voice, “Was he really an accidental intruder?”

“Yes!”

“Heh heh…”

The Faceless Man seemed to sense the doubt in Wu Tian’s heart and explained with a smile to him, “I don’t know if it was luck or if he truly stumbled upon it by chance, but this Fisherman really did coincidentally find the Peach Blossom Garden and then coincidentally walked into it!”

“…”

Wu Tian’s gaze towards the Faceless Man began to become somewhat scrutinizing.

He seemed to be questioning the truthfulness of his words.

Two fingers twitched, and faint purple lights slowly began to gather… “Holy crap!”

“Sir!”

“My lord!”

The Faceless Man was almost in tears!

“Everything I’m saying is true! Can you please not keep raising those two fingers of yours? I really can’t take it anymore!”

“Please let me go!”

“…”

Wu Tian frowned, and the faint purple light in his hand instantly dissipated.

However… the doubt in his heart did not diminish in the slightest.

“Impossible!”

“Either you remembered incorrectly, or the information you received is simply false!”

“This Fisherman couldn’t have been that coincidental…”

“No!”

The Faceless Man slowly shook his head.

“It really was that coincidental. Listen to me, and you’ll understand once I’m finished!”

“…”

Wu Tian nodded, signaling him to continue.

But the two fingers of his right hand still showed no sign of relaxing!

The Faceless Man: “Cough cough…”

“I have lived in this form of existence for over two thousand years, from the Qin Dynasty until now. How did I spend these two thousand years?”

The Faceless Man tilted his head.

He seemed to be lost in reminiscence.

“There were three things!”

The Faceless Man said lightly.

“Ferrying all kinds of souls, and at the same time helping the sorcerers to guide all sorts of living people—that’s the first thing…”

“Reading books!”

“Reading all kinds of books. At first, historical records, then in the late Yuan Dynasty, I started reading ‘Romance of the Three Kingdoms’ and ‘Water Margin’, and then later…”

The Faceless Man gave a lewd smile.

“A novel called ‘The Plum in the Golden Vase’ deeply resonated with me!”

“And finally, I became obsessed with watching anime, the ‘fleshy’ kind, tee hee…”

“Whack!”

Wu Tian, with a dark expression, slapped the back of the Faceless Man’s head.

“Stop spouting nonsense!”

“Get to the point!”

“Ow ow!”

“Slurp…”

The Faceless Man let out a lewd sound, then said earnestly, “Getting back to the main topic, the third thing…”

“Is guarding my deceased wife’s tomb!”

“Sigh…”

The Faceless Man sighed.

“Let’s not talk about that.”

“I’ve said all this just to say, what kind of historical records haven’t I read? I’ve studied that stuff Tao Yuanming wrote countless times. All those things on Zhihu, Baidu, Douban, Sohu—those are all what’s left after my analysis!”

“Oh?”

Wu Tian was surprised.

“You even know about these things?”

“Then tell me, what’s your analysis…?”

“It’s very simple!”

The Faceless Man’s voice suddenly became low.

“Although at first glance, this Fisherman seems absurd—familiar with water systems yet got lost, fishing all year round yet going to a small stream?”

“Actually, it’s not like that!”

“The environment inside the Peach Blossom Garden is better than the outside world, so these fish also tended towards a better living environment. In my opinion…”

“The fish went downstream to the Peach Blossom Garden, and the Fisherman followed closely, accidentally entering!”

“This is explainable!”

“…”

“Hmm!”

“It’s explainable!”

Wu Tian nodded.

“Let’s get back to the main topic. This Fisherman broke into the Peach Blossom Garden, and then what?”

“Was he possessed by a sorcerer?”

“…”

The Faceless Man turned his head towards Wu Tian.

A face without eyes was directly facing Wu Tian. After a long moment, the Faceless Man nodded.

“You’re right!”

“This Fisherman really was an unlucky fellow!”

...Within two hundred years after the fall of the Qin Dynasty, the Villagers and sorcerers who were unwilling to marry close relatives, as well as their first generation of descendants, all died!

And it was at this time… the sorcerers began to imprison the souls of the Villagers and worked diligently.

By the time of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the souls of the Villagers were finally on the verge of exhaustion!

A Fisherman… however, by a strange twist of fate, accidentally stumbled in!

“…”

“When this Fisherman first broke in, all the sorcerers fell into a heated discussion!”

The Faceless Man continued.

“Discussing what?”

Wu Tian was startled.

“Discussing whether to kill this Fisherman and extract his soul, or to possess the Fisherman and use him to attract more people into the Peach Blossom Garden, providing them with a continuous ‘supply’!”

“Then…”

The Fatty scratched his head.

“Of course, choose the second option, it’s sustainable!”

“…”

“Not necessarily!”

The Faceless Man gently shook his head.

“You must know that they hid the Dragon Vein in their hands. No matter how many years passed, this Dragon Vein would be coveted by anyone in the world!”

“So, everyone got into a heated discussion about whether they could risk being discovered for a long-term, sustainable method!”

“Heh heh…”

“You already know the final outcome without me telling you.”

The Faceless Man turned his face towards Wu Tian and the other two.

“Desire triumphed over reason!”

“They… chose the second option!”

“After reaching a consensus.”

“They invited this Fisherman to ‘each return to their home and extend an invitation,’ with every household inviting him to eat. But what they talked about during dinner… historical records, or even ‘the peach blossom spring’ written by Tao Yuanming, never mentioned.”

“You guess…”

The Faceless Man lowered his voice.

“What did they talk about?”

“Wh-…”

“What?”

Zhang Meng was made uneasy by the tense atmosphere and instinctively edged closer to Wu Tian.

And the Fatty, seeing Zhang Meng’s action,

Immediately twitched the corner of his mouth!

He hugged himself, feeling a pang of heartache.

“They were all frantically asking about the Fisherman’s physical condition, whether he was married and had children, where he lived, how many people were in his family, who his good friends were, whether he had any enemies… and so on!”

“They asked about every single detail concerning the Fisherman’s information!”

The Faceless Man chuckled darkly.

“Heh heh…”

“Do you know why this is?”

“Because…”

Wu Tian replied, his eyes blank, “They were preparing to possess the Fisherman!?”

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