243: Chapter 243 The Curse of Bloodline

"What happens after jumping in?"

Helena asked.

"Afterwards?"

The High Priest gave a bitter smile.

"A girl possessing the purest bloodline in the world, carrying the most extreme resentment in the world, completely merged with the turbid qi and evil thoughts accumulated for tens of millions of years deep beneath the Ten Thousand Mountains."

"She didn't die."

"She transformed into the most terrifying and inescapable ultimate curse in this world—the 'Ten Thousand Calamities Gu'."

"That is a monster condensed from her flesh and blood, her soul, and her monstrous hatred for the entire tribe."

The High Priest pointed at the black well that was constantly venting purple qi.

"At the very moment Axi jumped into the Earth Eye, the curse of the Mother Gu descended."

"Whether it was those unhinged lunatics of the Leftist faction, or those bystanders of the Rightist ancestors—"

"Anyone who carries the bloodline of this tribe was firmly locked onto by this overbearing curse!"

"Overnight, those of the Leftist faction were completely backlashed by the rampaging Gu worms in their bodies, dying in extremely miserable ways."

"As for our ancestors, they were the Rightists who fancied themselves 'good people'. Although they managed to scrape by alive, they ushered in a punishment far more terrifying than death."

The High Priest looked at Ayugu, his eyes full of sorrow and helplessness.

"Before jumping down, Axi left behind her final cursed oath."

" 'Since you could watch me die with a clear conscience just to preserve yourselves, and since you are so infatuated with this filthy power, then your descendants will become slaves to this power from generation to generation!' "

" 'The purest and most talented female in your bloodline will become my vessel and the "stopper" of this black well!' "

"This is the true reason why our Wangu Ancient Tribe selects a Saintess every single generation."

"A Saintess is not some high and mighty messenger of the gods at all! A Saintess is simply a sacrifice used to plug the pit!"

"Because of our ancestors' cowardice and hypocrisy, we descendants must bear the sins within this bloodline."

"Inside the body of every generation of Saintess, a trace of the Mother Gu's split entity is planted at birth."

"This split entity will continuously absorb the poisonous miasma and spiritual energy of this land as the Saintess grows. Until the Saintess turns twenty-five, the Mother Gu's split entity within her will fully mature and reach a critical point."

"By that time, the Saintess must come to this underground altar, feed the Gu with her body, and voluntarily jump into this black well."

"Using her own physical body and soul to appease the Ten Thousand Calamities Mother Gu lurking at the bottom of the abyss."

"If she doesn't jump..."

The High Priest pointed at those intensely trembling dark iron chains.

"If she doesn't jump, the Mother Gu below will completely go berserk."

"It will break through this black well, devour all living creatures within a radius of hundreds of miles in the entire Hulu Ancient Village and the entire Ten Thousand Mountains, and turn everything into a completely dead zone!"

"The ancestors of our lineage committed sins."

"Therefore, our daughters must pay off the debt with their lives generation after generation!"

The truth had come to light.

It was absurd and desperate, yet it fit the cruel logic of this world.

The predecessors plant trees and the descendants enjoy the shade; the predecessors commit sins and the descendants suffer the consequences.

No matter how many extenuating circumstances those Rightist ancestors had back then, their bystander hypocrisy undeniably drove an innocent girl to her death.

And this karmic retribution was ultimately bound into the DNA of their descendants in a bloody manner.

Ayugu collapsed limply on the ground, tears silently dripping onto the bluestone slab.

If it were before, she certainly would have gone to her death willingly, but ever since she took a trip outside, she had developed many attachments and reluctance to leave.

"I... I don't want to die..."

Ayugu covered her face, her frail shoulders trembling violently.

"Boss... I really don't want to die... I still have so many games I haven't cleared yet... I haven't eaten enough of your Jiangzhou crayfish yet..."

The High Priest closed his eyes and turned around, unable to bear watching his daughter's despairing look any longer.

The two men, Eldest Uncle and Second Uncle, also had red eyes at this moment, their fists clenched tightly yet hanging limply at their sides.

Destiny.

This was an irresistible bloodline destiny.

Amidst this suffocatingly heavy atmosphere,

"Click."

A crisp lighter sound rang out.

Lin Ye lit the cigarette he had been holding in his mouth earlier.

The crimson cigarette butt flickered uncertainly in the gloomy underground altar.

He took a deep drag, exhaled a bluish-white ring of smoke, and the smoke curled upwards.

"Finished talking?"

Holding the cigarette, Lin Ye's dark, gleaming eyes held not a shred of reverence for this so-called "destiny", nor any pity for that tragic past.

He impatiently picked his ear.

"If you're done talking, hurry up and put away those mournful faces of yours."

Lin Ye strode forward on his long legs, stepping over the moss-covered ground, and walked right up to Ayugu.

Then, he grabbed Ayugu by the collar, forcefully lifting the limp Miao girl off the ground as if she were a little chick.

"Boss..."

Ayugu looked at him with a face full of tear tracks, her eyes dazed.

"What are you crying for? How do I usually teach you? When you get screwed over by AFKers in games, you know how to turn on your mic and curse back; how come in reality, you're resigning yourself to fate like a weakling?"

Lin Ye turned his head, his cold gaze sweeping across the High Priest and the black well venting purple qi.

"Heh! Whether in the past or the present, you haven't changed at all, still wanting to sacrifice innocent people..."

"However... Ayugu is an employee of Lins Funeral Shop."

"I don't care what sins your ancestors committed."

"Nor do I care how miserable or desperate that Axi of yours was."

"Every debt has its debtor, and every grievance has its perpetrator. Since it's a debt owed by those old bastards from two thousand years ago, then let that so-called Mother Gu go down to the underworld, dig up the souls of those old bastards, and flog their corpses!"

Arrogantly, Lin Ye flicked the half-smoked cigarette in his hand directly into the deep well venting purple qi.

"What kind of ability is it to use an employee of Lin Ye to plug a pit?"

"Using the lives of descendants to wipe the asses of their ancestors?"

Lin Ye sneered and spat in disdain.

"Such disgusting bully clauses—"

"I refuse to approve!"

The moment Lin Ye's voice fell,

"Rumble—!!"

Deep inside that black well, it seemed to be completely enraged by Lin Ye's words.

A violent dark purple resentment abruptly burst through the talisman seal at the wellhead!

The entire underground altar began to shake violently, and the stalactites overhead shattered and crashed down one after another.

"Not good! The Mother Gu has been enraged! The barrier is about to break!"

The High Priest shouted in panic, his walking stick instantly releasing a dazzling green light.

However,

Faster than the eruption of the Mother Gu was that familiar ripple in the void right before Lin Ye's eyes.

"Ding!"

The crisp system notification tone rang out abruptly in this collapsing underground world.

A light blue translucent light screen appeared before Lin Ye's eyes.

[Ding! Detected that the Extreme Bloodline Curse (Ten Thousand Calamities Mother Gu) is fully awakening, and the Yin-Pole Earth Eye of the Ten Thousand Mountains is about to go out of control.]

[The "My Lord, Please Behave Yourself" System has been triggered.]

[Facing this muddled bad debt spanning two thousand years, as a frantic protector of his own people and the extraordinary big boss of Great Xia, please make a choice befitting your status:...]