CHAPTER 64: CHAPTER 56: THE VILLAGE LEGEND

For her, this magnetic energy was energy itself!

The immense energy made the palm of her hand suddenly become burning hot!

By using her innate Magnetic Sensation to reel this energy in, she absorbed the magnetic energy from the Xiezhi Dagger into her body...

Oddly enough, as soon as the magnetic energy on the Xiezhi Dagger was absorbed, she felt a cold glint and a sinister shadow flash through her mind... Sen Sen echoed loudly!

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About an hour later, she had fully absorbed the magnetic energy, and the Magnetic Sensation inside her body had strengthened more than threefold!

Her bodily bones also felt many times more limber...

The distance she could project her Magnetic Sensation now stretched to a full meter and a half!

With a nimble movement of her fingers, the Xiezhi Dagger in her palm turned into an afterimage, shuttling and flipping rapidly, her arms whirled, the dagger swinging in the air to execute several exquisitely clever attack maneuvers...

Self-taught?

Rather, it would be more accurate to say that she hadn’t just absorbed the years of imprints from the Xiezhi Dagger, but also its Spiritual Energy.

Divine Weapons have their own unique Spiritual Energy and authority, they can communicate with spirits, and they have their own thoughts.

What Sui Yi touched upon were their thoughts.

Seeping into her heart, to be used by me.

What she gained were their most authentic usage techniques...

However, what she had received were merely the hard facts; Sui Yi needed more time to fully integrate and understand them.

"This Magnetic Sensation is really terrifying... not only did it increase my strength and speed by three to four times, but it also plundered these combat techniques... as if I was born knowing them, truly bizarre."

Sui Yi experienced the power of the innate Magnetic Sensation in her body from another perspective, and her heart grew increasingly wary of this world.

She put away the Xiezhi Dagger and realized that the body she had just cleaned was immediately covered with a layer of greyish-black grime again.

She was startled, the grey-black grime could be considered the impurities in her body, which might be explained away as washing the marrow and shedding impurities, but inexplicably, she remembered the green liquid that the monster had spat out in the water, and the green pool water below...

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Upon stepping out the door, she found A-A killing fish.

She was taken aback and apologized to A-A, "Sorry for troubling you, you must be hungry..."

"I didn’t really help much, and I’m not hungry; it’s you who’ve been busy all day... I’ll go cook, you rest."

After saying that, without allowing Sui Yi to refuse, he went into the kitchen with the fish.

Sui Yi’s eyes showed a hint of surprise, followed by a light chuckle, only to hear the old grandpa who had walked in commenting on the scene, "This boy is good, a family man, and takes care of his wife!"

Sui Yi laughed and asked the old man, "Has Seventh Uncle eaten?"

"He has..."

Seventh Uncle was what most people in the village called this old man, and Sui Yi, not being from this village, followed suit.

Seventh Uncle was helped to a chair by Sui Yi, who casually asked, "The last time you returned to the village, I saw you were all wet, did you fall into the water? Did you catch a cold? Are you feeling unwell?"

The string of concerned questions made Sui Yi a bit uncomfortable, so she shook her head and said it was nothing. Seventh Uncle looked at her and, seeing nothing immediately wrong, dropped the subject. Then, hearing noises from the house behind him, he asked, "The car at the village entrance, did your friend bring it?"

"Yes... he’s a physician, a good person, he was willing to come help check things out."

"That’s very good... ordinary physicians wouldn’t bother coming to a place like ours, you are capable, girl..."

After a moment, he sighed, "Your grandmother had a hard life, the only good fortune was having a good grandchild like you..."

Upon hearing this, Sui Yi slightly knit her fine, handsome brows and slowly said, "It’s my fortune."

Seventh Uncle didn’t inquire further, assuming Sui Yi was being modest as usual; he didn’t say much, just subconsciously compared the children of the Ye family with Sui Yi, his expression darkening.

"Your grandmother gave birth to six children, during the war, the first two didn’t survive, the next year, during the famine, another died. By then, your grandmother was already in very poor health... for the sake of the Ye family’s lineage, she still bore the last three children, Ye Zhun, Ye Zhang, and Ye Qiu, one boy and two girls over two years, and managed to raise them a bit, only for Ye Zhang to be unfilial, and your grandfather was also gone... regarding Ye Zhun-- let’s not talk about him, he was even more of a disappointment to your grandmother, only Ye Qiu..."

Ye Qiu, who was the aunt Sui Yi should rightfully call, was the youngest daughter of the Ye family, whom Sui Yi had never met, because many years ago, something had forced her to leave home... when she left, the old lady had secretly given her some money...

As a result, it gave Ye Zhang an excuse...

With things having reached this point, one could only say that the old lady was indeed very unlucky.

Sui Yi lowered her gaze, a faint chill appearing in her eyes as she shifted the topic, saying, "What’s the deal with that grave?"

Seventh Uncle seemed to have anticipated that Sui Yi would ask about this, and in fact, he had come specifically to discuss it.

"Not many people in the village know about this, and those who do have grown old or passed away over the years. I am relatively well-informed, but not by much... Your grandfather’s ancestors seemed to have been in the pawn shop business, possessing some heritage and ancient items. We didn’t understand these things. We could barely recognize a few characters, and we couldn’t even eat our fill. Back then, nobody wanted these items, so nobody paid attention to them. As time passed, these things were passed down from one to another, and who knows how much was left when they reached your grandfather... Then came the Cultural Revolution, the Red Guards came to search the house once, labeling your grandfather as the remnant of a landlord, and took him away. It caused quite a commotion, and it was then that your grandfather’s health declined... After he got out, he wasn’t well..."

Seventh Uncle said too much in one breath and struggled to catch his breath. Sui Yi patted his back, and after he caught his breath, he slowly continued, "I thought that would be the end of it, that the family could live peacefully, but unexpectedly... Ye Zhun knew that the items at home were valuable and started harboring crooked thoughts. He wanted to sell them off. Your grandfather refused, and in the dispute, Ye Zhun pushed your grandfather and stole the items. Unfortunately, that push completely ruined your grandfather’s health. Not long after, he was at death’s door, especially with Ye Zhang and Ye Qiu meeting with trouble soon after... It was too much to bear, and he passed away."

Sui Yi listened quietly, realizing these were all just preliminary details, and that Seventh Uncle had more to say.

"After he passed away, we set up a mourning hall for your grandfather. With all three children not at home and nobody else to mourn, only your grandmother was left, unimaginably desolate. Even now, I get chills thinking about it. On that night, I had a feeling something would happen..."

Something would happen?

Sui Yi instinctively looked into Seventh Uncle’s eyes, seeing deep fear within.

"That night, your grandfather’s corpse disappeared."

What!

Sui Yi was shocked. Disappeared?

"The pigs in the pigpen, the chickens, and the ducks, all were drained of their blood in one night... With two fang marks on their necks, the blood trailed along the path, dripping all the way into the mourning hall..." Seventh Uncle’s hands trembled slightly, his voice faint.

"Everyone in the village was terrified, and no one dared to go near the mourning hall. Your grandmother, anxious about her husband, insisted on checking on him despite being weak. Concerned about her being alone, I hardened my heart and followed her. Upon entering the mourning hall..."

Seventh Uncle tightly grabbed Sui Yi’s hand with some force, "Your grandfather, he...he was there again, lying there.... There was a lot of blood on the ground, and also around his mouth."

"I saw it with my own eyes, and so did your grandmother. Now, the elderly in the village who worked there at that time remember it all. I’m not lying!"

Elders fear most that their stories are doubted.

Sui Yi nodded, "I believe you."

Seventh Uncle was startled, "You believe?" Nowadays, these young people see themselves as educated and treat these stories as mere tales, never taking them seriously. Sui Yi, a girl usually mature and sharp-witted, how could she believe?

"There’s nothing absolute in this world," Sui Yi said subconsciously stroking her palm, a bittersweet smile on her face. Had she not experienced even stranger events?

"Well said..." Seventh Uncle nodded, continuing, "Your grandfather’s death was very tragic, with many disturbances, and then this incident occurred. We all said it was because he still had unresolved grievances, resentments that were not appeased. Thinking about it, none of Ye Zhang’s three were present to mourn, and he definitely had resentment, possibly leading to... to his corpse turning... We couldn’t delay this matter, the longer it dragged on, the more serious it would get, otherwise it would turn into something unclean. We scattered July spiritual rice, offered sacrifices to the myriad spirits, then sealed the mourning hall, even inviting a Taoist. It took great effort to finally bury your grandfather inside the coffin, and we also sealed the path near the grave, fearing someone would disturb the site... That’s why villagers haven’t visited that place for years, owing to this rule."

Sui Yi said subconsciously, "But there are always exceptions, people who would go there, right? I seem to have heard of a few..."

Especially children, who aren’t always obedient. It seems the taboos she had heard about involved children from the village mysteriously disappearing.

"Right..." Seventh Uncle sighed deeply, "The one who disappeared was my grandson..."

Sui Yi was taken aback.

"It’s also because of this that my son refuses to come back,"

In his voice was sheer loneliness, hard to distinguish between resentment and melancholy.

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Seventh Uncle was not in good health and couldn’t stay here long. Seeing him weary, Sui Yi urged him to go home. As the old man slowly walked away under the dark night sky, Sui Yi slightly closed her eyes and pulled back her gaze. Hearing the sound of a door opening from inside the house, she got up and walked inside.

Jiang Yunxiu stepped out of the room just in time to see a cup of tea presented before her eyes.

"Thank you, both of you,"

The female assistant behind her didn’t expect Sui Yi to be so polite, and entirely unlike typical patients’ relatives, who would normally press forward with numerous inquiries.

Impeccable manners and quality!

This was the female assistant’s second impression of Sui Yi.

"Is this tea you made? Then I must taste it properly~~" Jiang Yunxiu, previously somewhat fatigued, lightened up her expression, showing a teasing look.

Sui Yi glanced at her, casually replied, "Hmm."

Jiang Yunxiu laughed, took a sip, and was visibly delighted, "Excellent tea~~ your skill is truly extraordinary"