The Female Cannon Fodder With Boundless Merits-Chapter 229 - 233 The Haunted Old House (Part 2)

Gu Family sought remedies far and wide for Gu Shi, and at that time, the Su Family’s original owner caught the eyes of the Gu Family.

The master invited by the Gu Family had determined that the original owner’s physical attribute could suppress the Evil Qi in Gu Shi’s body.

At that time, the original owner was only ten years old when the Gu Family forcefully took her to Gu Shi’s side.

Although the Su Family’s parents dearly loved their daughter, they did not dare confront a top-tier clan like the Gu Family.

As compensation, the Gu Family also took good care of the Su Family.

At the tender age of ten, the original owner had been by Gu Shi’s side, and before her own set of values had been established, her entire life, her entire world, consisted only of Gu Shi.

She spent such days for ten years, and gradually Gu Shi became the most important person in her life, even more important than her own parents in her heart.

However, as she grew older, her special constitution seemed to be losing its effect. When the original owner was twenty and Gu Shi twenty-five, the Evil Qi inside Gu Shi once again became uncontrollable and erupted.

This time it was more violent than when he was a child; three masters were crippled just to save Gu Shi’s life, at the cost of Gu Shi falling into a coma for a full month.

The original owner was anxious but powerless.

After Gu Shi woke up, the now useless original owner was supposed to go home, but she accidentally saw a method in an old book in Gu Shi’s study.

A harsh method could completely change her original physique into an extremely high-quality vessel.

Not to suppress, but to directly absorb the Evil Qi for her own use, achieving the same effect as the previous suppression.

Similarly, such a constitution was extremely attractive to ghosts and goblins. With an excellent vessel, they could openly walk the Mortal World after taking it for their own.

Delighted by such a method, the original owner was ecstatic, thinking only of the fact that Brother Gu Shi could be saved, without a single thought as to why, coincidentally, this Ancient Book appeared when Gu Shi’s Evil Qi could not be suppressed, and why she was the one to find it.

That day, she took the Ancient Book home and used the method it described, despite her family’s opposition.

Originally special but still normally constituted, her body became the most coveted by ghosts and goblins, with the inherent dangers being self-evident.

On the night after the original owner succeeded, she was attacked by a female ghost in white. Had the master not arrived in haste the next morning, the original owner’s body might have been taken over by the female ghost.

After much effort, the master eliminated the female ghost inside the original owner, but also injured her innards. Having been invaded by yin energy, her body became extremely frail. Even the slightest sudden change in temperature could leave her bedridden for a long time, and she became a regular at the hospital.

But she was still happy, for her act of self-sacrifice had made Gu Shi treat her much more tenderly.

This satisfaction, however, did not last long. Following the incident where Gu Shi’s car hit Lin Mianmian, a particularly naïve and innocent Little Taoist who had just come down from the mountains, the original owner’s days of suffering finally arrived.

Seeing how Lin Mianmian always blundered into trouble, the original owner always showed her a cold face; yet such actions only provoked Gu Shi, who in turn always showed a cold face to the original owner.

Lin Mianmian, as a Little Taoist, took it upon herself to catch ghosts and exorcise demons, but unfortunately, she hadn’t fully mastered her Taoist Skill and always fancied poking her nose into danger.

In the course of their interactions, Gu Shi, who had grown fond of Lin Mianmian, naturally sought to protect the one he cherished. Wherever Lin Mianmian ran, Gu Shi would always drop what he was doing and follow.

Because of her condition as a vessel, the original owner had to follow as well.

The places Lin Mianmian ran to were never short of ghosts and goblins. Lin Mianmian had Gu Shi’s protection, and Gu Shi had the protection of the master with him, but only the original owner, a pitiful child very attractive to ghosts, was left unattended.

Only when they were sure that Gu Shi was safe could the two masters free up their hands to come to the aid of the original owner.

Although every time it ended up turning danger into safety, the original owner indeed always had to suffer greatly.

Naturally, it was within reason that the original owner would develop a strong resentment.

Gu Shi was the one she had loved for a long time, and she couldn’t bear to blame him, but Lin Mianmian, who caused all this, became the target of the original owner’s complaints.

The original owner didn’t hesitate to trip up Lin Mianmian, but that only brought on a deeper aversion from Gu Shi, and it was the reason he couldn’t leave the original owner that made him despise her even more, indirectly causing the Su Family to no longer receive the Gu Family’s conveniences.

The original owner turned a deaf ear to what was happening in her household, as by this point Gu Shi had become her obsession.

And when Lin Mianmian once again heard of disturbances in an ancient house in Su City, packed her bags, and rushed there, Gu Shi followed closely behind.

Even though she was reluctant, for Gu Shi’s sake, the original owner also went to Su City, but this time, she never came back.

The ancient house in Su City truly had anomalies; the Taoist Association had merely thought there was a climate-formed ghost or ghoul nesting inside, so several Sect Leaders with profound Taoist skill brought their disciples along to investigate.

One reason was to rid the place of monsters, and another was to broaden the disciples’ horizons.

With one of the top-ranked Daoists from the entire Taoist Association leading the team, naturally, the dangers inside were not taken seriously by others, and surely Lin Mianmian would not miss this opportunity and followed them in.

But what the others didn’t know was that the ghost they encountered was just a lackey of the Ghost King, and the entire ancient house’s foundation had been breached to open a pathway to the underworld, becoming a nest for great ghosts.

Those who entered were merely filling the belly of the Ghost King.

In the end, to protect Lin Mianmian, Gu Shi charged forward covered in Evil Qi.

Evil Qi was exactly what the ghosts sought to plunder, but an overwhelming amount of Evil Qi could also harm the ghosts.

Gu Shi’s Evil Qi managed to block the Ghost King’s movements momentarily, but it really wasn’t of much use; after all, facing a King-level great ghost, Gu Shi might as well have delivered himself to his own demise.

Seeing Lin Mianmian about to be harmed, Gu Shi, in a moment of desperation, grabbed the original owner and threw her towards the ghost.

The original owner probably never imagined Gu Shi would do such a thing; the two had been together day and night for ten whole years.

Ten years, that’s enough to grow attached even to a cat or a dog.

In shock, before the original owner could react, she was devoured by the great ghost, and at the moment the Ghost King completely tore her apart, the Evil Qi she once absorbed from Gu Shi also dissipated, the energy several times greater than what Gu Shi had exploded with, catching the Ghost King off guard and directly causing his violent death.

And the remaining little ghosts and ghouls, under the combined efforts of the other Daoists, were also wiped out one by one.

Instantly, the ancient house cleared up, and Gu Shi, because of this mishap, saw the physical attribute issue that plagued him for over twenty years completely dissipate.

Moreover, through this life-and-death crisis, his heart connected with Lin Mianmian’s, and he ended up winning the Beauty and returning home.

It seemed like a perfectly happy ending for everyone except for the original owner who had sacrificed her life.

The others surely felt gratitude for the original owner’s sacrifice, expressing their condolences a few times, before moving on.

The Gu Family did indeed provide the Su Family with some compensation, but how could it ever make up for the heartbreak of the Su Family’s parents, who had lost their daughter in midlife?