Chapter 40 Spiritual Vein Reshaping
Liu Haoyu naturally understood the meaning of the Long-Tongued Ghost.
They had found nothing in the temple, and now Qin Liu had brought him to this well, which meant his father had gone down into the well.
But as the saying goes, one must see the person alive or dead.
Having come this far, it was impossible to give up halfway.
“If you’re scared, you can go back first.”
After speaking, Liu Haoyu pushed open the stone slab at the well opening little by little.
The stone slab was very heavy. Liu Haoyu exerted all his strength, but could only widen a small opening to the size that a person could go down.
As the opening widened, the chilling aura from the bottom of the well became even more intense, as if countless whispers were coming from below, making one’s scalp tingle.
Liu Haoyu took out a high-intensity flashlight and shone it towards the bottom of the well.
The beam penetrated the darkness, but the well seemed bottomless, and the flashlight beam could not reach the end.
The well walls were also covered with those dark red patterns. They seemed to be wet, and when the flashlight shone on them, they reflected a faint radiance.
The demon-sealing patterns on the well walls were much older than the ones on the stone slab, as if they were decades old.
“It’s so deep…” the Long-Tongued Ghost muttered.
“How are you going to get down?”
Liu Haoyu naturally had a way to solve this problem. He opened his backpack and took out a climbing rope.
The rope was very long. Liu Haoyu tied a stone to one end and threw it down.
After a while, the rope with the stone stopped, but only a small segment was left hanging.
This meant that with this rope, one could just reach the bottom of the well.
Liu Haoyu breathed a sigh of relief. If it wasn’t enough, he could ask Qin Liu to protect him and then take a leap of faith.
“You’re really going down?” The Long-Tongued Ghost’s eyes widened. “Is that white shadow your dad? It’s not worth it, brother…”
“He’s my biological father.”
As Liu Haoyu spoke, he secured one end of the rope to the stone slab next to the well opening. After making all preparations, he said to the Long-Tongued Ghost.
“I’ll go down first. After confirming that there is no danger below, I will pull the rope twice, and then you can come down.”
The Long-Tongued Ghost nodded after hearing this. Although it was reluctant, it still guarded the well opening.
“Be careful. If there’s any danger, pull the rope three times, and I’ll pull you up immediately.”
Liu Haoyu said nothing more.
The taciturn, emotionless Qin Liu was on his back, holding a lantern to illuminate his way down the well.
Liu Haoyu, on the other hand, gripped the rope and began to descend little by little.
The incantations on the well walls appeared exceptionally strange under the dim blue light of the lantern. Coupled with the narrow and claustrophobic dry well, Liu Haoyu’s mental pressure was pushed to the extreme.
As he descended, the coldness from the bottom of the well grew stronger, and inexplicable whispers began to appear in his ears, as if something was disturbing his mind.
“Are you okay?” Qin Liu, lying on Liu Haoyu’s back, had one arm around him and held the lantern in the other. Fortunately, Qin Liu was just a little ghost and weighed nothing, so Liu Haoyu could carry her. Otherwise, if it were a normal person on his back, he would have collapsed long ago.
“I’m fine. It seems these demon-sealing patterns are causing trouble.” Liu Haoyu gritted his teeth, trying to overcome the effects of the demon-sealing patterns and continued to descend towards the bottom of the well.
However, the impact of the patterns was not as simple as Liu Haoyu imagined. He felt his consciousness becoming blurred, the auditory hallucinations becoming more severe, and he even experienced strange visual illusions from time to time. It was as if he was not descending into a dry well but was falling towards the Eighteen Levels of Hell.
At this moment, the lantern in Qin Liu’s hand turned from a dim blue to a jade green, and the young girl chanted obscure incantations.
As soon as the voice came out, Liu Haoyu felt his strained nerves relax significantly. When he calmed down, he realized that Qin Liu was chanting a modified version of a calming spell.
How did she know something like this? Liu Haoyu was a little surprised. In his memory, Qin Liu had never come into contact with ghost exorcism techniques, so it was impossible… Wait a moment?
At this moment, Liu Haoyu suddenly remembered something. According to what was described in the Black Book, Qin Liu had become a guide by teaching herself ghost exorcism techniques. She had sealed her own memories, which allowed her to remain in the mortal world. And now… she seemed to have recalled the ghost exorcism techniques she had learned before.
Did this mean that Qin Liu’s condition might have already… Liu Haoyu’s expression became extremely solemn. He took a deep breath and began to increase his descent speed.
Finally, he successfully landed at the bottom of the well.
Once his feet touched the ground, Liu Haoyu said to Qin Liu.
“Qin Liu, stop singing for now. Quickly check your physical condition.”
“Me?” The young girl tilted her head and said, “My physical condition is very good?” Saying this, the young girl jumped off Liu Haoyu’s back and spun around in place on the balls of her feet.
“Gurgle~” Looking at this adorable, emotionless ghost, Liu Haoyu couldn’t help but cover his face.
What the *hell*! He needed to check if the girl in the Black Coffin was still alive or not as soon as they got back!
Liu Haoyu sighed and then took out a piece of paper and wrote two lines on it.
“Don’t come down. The demon-sealing patterns in this well might cost you your life.”
“Wait for us up there. It should be safe there.”
He then tied the note to the rope and pulled it three times. The Long-Tongued Ghost above began to pull the rope upwards.
After doing all this, Liu Haoyu looked around the bottom of the well.
He was surprised to find that due to the previous collapse, the entire well bottom had appeared with many cracks. This seemed to be a dry underground river, extending downwards. Liu Haoyu felt a strange sense of familiarity in the air, and he walked along the riverbed, moving downwards.
After walking downwards for an unknown amount of time, the dry riverbed appeared with a small stream, which flowed downwards. At this moment, Liu Haoyu finally remembered something. If he remembered correctly, continuing forward from this place would lead to where he had seen the Night God Palace before! He did not expect the dry well on the mountaintop to connect to this place.
“Liu Haoyu,” Qin Liu tugged at Liu Haoyu’s sleeve and pointed at the rock wall, “Look there.” Following the direction Qin Liu pointed, Liu Haoyu saw an extremely massive spell circuit.
As a ghost exorcist, Liu Haoyu naturally knew what kind of spell this was. He took a deep breath, his face full of solemnity.
“Spiritual Vein Reshaping… No wonder such a severe supernatural event occurred here.”
