Just as we were puzzled by Si Jiangchen's bewildering phone call, Lu Tianchang's phone rang again.
"Hello?!"
Lu Tianchang answered the phone. His old-fashioned mobile phone was extremely loud, and a girl's urgent cries came through like thunder: "Grandpa!! Grandpa! Something's happened here! Come quickly!"
"Baby!! What's going on? Explain clearly what happened?"
Lu Tianchang's face instantly turned ashen. Lu Xiyu was the apple of his eye. As soon as he heard that something had happened to his daughter's family, he grabbed the phone and jumped up, running outside.
"Stop!!"
I reached out and grabbed Lu Tianchang's arm. "Have you forgotten what Si Jiangchen just said?! Don't act rashly!"
"Grandpa!! Two evil ghosts suddenly appeared at home. We can't stop them at all."
The voice on the phone sounded familiar to me. The little girl's voice was tinged with a panicked sob.
"Baby, is that you?!"
Seeing that Lu Tianchang was about to lose his mind in anxiety, I snatched the phone from his hand and shouted into it: "Don't you have any wards at home? How could you let evil ghosts get into the house at will?! Xixi is too weak after giving birth. What's her husband doing?"
"Is... is that Xiao He?" It was indeed Baby, the little fox fairy, on the other end. We had met in the capital, so she naturally recognized my voice. "I don't know! Because of Xiao Liu, we've sealed all the places in the house that can be protected with talismans, but those two evil ghosts aren't afraid of us at all!! Even Uncle Gu's golden light talismans are useless against them!"
Baby was almost in tears.
"Gu Fancheng is really a fool! He can't even protect his wife and children!!"
Hearing that Lu Xiyu was in urgent danger and that two evil ghosts were trying to harm his precious daughter and grandson, how could Lu Tianchang bear it any longer? He turned around, grabbed a yellow cloth bag from behind the counter, and rushed outside without even bothering about the phone.
"Stop! Master Lu!!"
I tried to reach out and grab Lu Tianchang again, but he had already rushed out. By the time I chased him outside, all I saw was a taxi waiting by the street starting its engine and speeding away in a cloud of dust.
"We can't catch up."
Bai Yu, who had been silent all this time, followed me out. "Don't think that just because Grandpa is a cultivator, his temper isn't bad. If we don't let him go, his Dao heart might be destroyed!"
Bai Yu was a spirit from the mountains and rivers of the north, so his way of speaking was that of a northerner. He always called Lu Xiyu's father "Grandpa", while the little fox named "Baby" called Lu Tianchang "Grandpa" according to the southern custom.
"...Actually, I don't think there'll be any problem with Xixi."
I sighed and looked back at the slender young man behind me. "Her husband is the so - called Great Demon. How could he be helpless against just two ghosts?!"
Gu Fancheng was a guy who wasn't even afraid of the great messengers from the underworld. I really couldn't imagine that two evil ghosts could break into his house.
"I think so too!"
Bai Yu smiled. "However, Grandpa won't listen to these words. Since we can't stop him, let him go and guard them."
"...Then, what should we do?"
I was suddenly brought to Green City by Sheng Shixun and the others. Everything was out of my plan. My good habit of planning every step before taking action was disrupted, and now I was a bit at a loss.
"We'll stay here."
Bai Yu pointed in the direction of the Grand Avalokitesvara Temple. The burnt Avalokitesvara Pavilion surrounded by the red wall looked eerie and strange even in the bright sunlight of the day. "The Grand Avalokitesvara Temple was burned down the day before yesterday. It's said that a mouse ate the lamp oil in the glass jar of the offering, causing a fire."
"Ah?!"
I was a bit surprised by what Bai Yu said. Nowadays, almost all the temples and historical sites in China don't allow the use of an open flame. So the ever - burning lamps for offerings are usually placed on a separate brick and stone ground, with glass or porcelain jars filled with lamp oil. Those jars are big and smooth. Not to mention a mouse, even a person might not be able to carry one with one hand.
"Think it's unbelievable...?"
Bai Yu frowned deeply. "We also think it's strange. Just when Xixi's mother gave birth to little Lu and returned to Green City to recuperate after childbirth, the Grand Avalokitesvara Temple burned down! And inside, there's the archenemy of Xixi's mother suppressed!"
Archenemy?!
My heart suddenly sank a bit.
Lu Xiyu was a friend I had just met recently. Although I didn't know much about her, just from the fact that her child was one of the most powerful judges in the underworld, I knew that she was definitely not an ordinary woman.
Later, I even found out that Lord Bai Lang Mu Yuan was Lu Xiyu's biological father, and her husband was a mysterious figure.
In this world, who would have the guts to be her enemy?!
"Great - grandma, you don't know. Under the white jade Avalokitesvara statue in the Grand Avalokitesvara Temple is suppressed Xixi's mother's aunt. She not only killed Xixi's mother's biological parents but also almost destroyed our Bai family. If it weren't for Grandpa Lu going to our hometown to help our family withstand the thunder calamity, hundreds of lives in our whole family would probably have been reduced to powder by the thunder."
...
After hearing Bai Yu's words, I couldn't help but think of that place of ghosts and demons from which there was no return. If I hadn't met Lord Mu Yuan and his wife there, and if I hadn't relied on the power of that ten - thousand - year demon pill, how could I have left smoothly?!
Could it be that Lu Xiyu's aunt was an extremely powerful figure who could even drive the already deified Lord Mu Yuan to a state where his soul couldn't exist in the world? In that place, they couldn't practice cultivation, nor could they be reincarnated. Even the prisoners in the Avici Hell in the underworld still had a chance to be liberated by the Bodhisattva Ksitigarbha, but they would never have a chance to turn things around in the place of ghosts and demons...
Thinking of this, I couldn't help but shiver several times and suddenly cried out in a startled voice, "In the Grand Avalokitesvara Temple, Sheng Shixun and the King of Mount Tai invited today... they're here to help that suppressed villain!"
There are no so many coincidences in the world!
Lu Xiyu gave birth to a baby and returned to Green City, and then the Grand Avalokitesvara Temple caught fire.
A Wen, Granny Bai, and I were framed by Bai Wei and ended up in the hospital for no reason!
All these coincidences together formed a huge conspiracy.
As an expert in ancient architecture, Sheng Shixun would naturally be invited to repair the burned Avalokitesvara Pavilion, but his purpose was probably to release the evil ghost suppressed under the Avalokitesvara statue. He had bad intentions!!
Since that evil ghost had the ability to drive Lord Mu Yuan into eternal damnation, it might have extraordinary powers.
Sheng Shixun wanted to become a god. He had already befriended the King of Mount Tai. If there was another evil ghost suppressed under the Avalokitesvara seat to help him, he wouldn't have to bear the heavenly tribulations and ghost punishments that a person had to go through to become a god by himself.
As long as he rescued Lu Xiyu's aunt, with a god, a ghost, and that demon pill, there might be no one in this world who could stop his path to becoming a god!!