Chapter 27 (2/2)

Their conversation made the long-sleeved water ghost suddenly think of something. It seemed to understand something now. Then, it smiled, and there was a bright glow in his eyes.

[Ding-Dong: Water ghost Zhao Yuan, vengeful ghost of 106 years. Fulfill his dying wish and be awarded 10 years’ worth of Dao Attainment]

Shua!

Chen Hao suddenly got up, a drastic change in his countenance.

Dao Attainment! He finally saw Dao Attainment!

Damn, damn, damn, damn, damn! I’ll take this! Whatever it takes!

Chen Hao couldn’t contain his excitement as he looked at the long-sleeved water ghost with a scorching gaze.

Were the heavens finally opening their eyes? There was no action for a long time, and suddenly, a double voice cracker! What’s more, there was also the Dao Attainment that he had been longing for. Awesome!

The long-sleeved water ghost Zhao Yuan was startled, unable to understand why this master was so excited.

“You understand your obsession now, right. Tell me about it.” Chen Hao tried his best to calm down. He sat down, then guided him with a teacher-like voice.

Zhao Yuan didn’t dare hesitate and quickly recounted his story.

Different from Li Meng, this Zhao Yuan had a tragic story. But similarly, his obsession was his mother.

One hundred over years ago, during the feudal period when great changes were taking place, Zhao Yuan was born in a large family, the Zhao family. That was a large family that occupied a large plot of land.

Zhao Yuan’s father was a collateral relative of the Zhao family and originally was under the protection of his collateral family. Zhao Yuan’s father made a living with his farmlands and was also a pretty good hunter, so his family led a passable life.

But during that era, the chaos caused by the war was commonplace. In order to ensure its family’s prosperity, the Zhao family organized a convoy. Because Zhao Yuan’s father had pretty good marksmanship skills, and also in order to obtain some meager wages, his father joined the convoy. But too bad. During one joint attack of ruffians, Zhao Yuan’s father died during the chaos. Although the ruffians were ultimately defeated, the Zhao family suddenly lost their pillar of support and lived in hardship thereafter.

Thankfully, Zhao Yuan loved learning since young and displayed great talent in studying. His mother had pinned all her hopes on him and worked hard to raise him.

If it weren’t for the fact that it was a turbulent era, perhaps Zhao Yuan might have had the chance to bring glory to his ancestors and become an important pillar of strength for the large Zhao family.

But after Zhao Yuan grew up, the feudal dynasty dissolved. With that, he lost his chance to seek scholarly honor or official rank. Plus, a weak and defenseless scholar like him could only drift with the tide during that era. Never mind reviving his family, he even had difficulty feeding himself.

Zhao Yuan had no choice but to accept the invitation of a scholar friend to go to a rich man’s house in the city to work as a private tutor, in order to earn some money and support his family.

That was the last he saw of his loved ones, and they were since separated by life and death. The two scholars ran into bandits on their way and were murdered and robbed of their money, and their corpses were discarded into the river.

Nonetheless, the two scholars were indeed influenced by the teachings of Confucius, so even though they died an unnatural death, they didn’t turn into ferocious ghosts. They had been hiding their yin bodies under the Willow River and receiving protection from the spiritual aura of the river all these years.

But time changes everything. Just a year ago, Zhao Yuan’s good friend finally could no longer tolerate this endless waiting. Seeing no end in view, he thought of a vicious method.

And that was to find a scapegoat so that he could be reincarnated as a human and get to enjoy a wonderful life in this prosperous age.

Zhao Yuan tried talking him out of it, but his efforts were in vain. In the end, Li Meng was killed.

Too bad that good friend of his wasn’t reincarnated as he had hoped. After his good friend caused the death of the boy, no reincarnation opportunity appeared. Thus, it became more hot-tempered and vicious and even started brewing even more sinister and evil plans.

Later, Chen Hao appeared. One magical artifact and he made that good friend go back to square one. Never mind what vicious plans, he was now hiding in Willow River and didn’t even have the guts to come out anymore.

Zhao Yuan’s obsession was to see the mother who painstakingly brought him up one last time.

“Are you pulling my leg?” Chen Hao was speechless.