Six Ears

The boy felt as though his whole sky was about to collapse.

After that immortal left, he could no longer feel happy, much less go out and play with his friends.

Then, when he was ten, a middle-aged man returned home and excitedly handed him a yellowed booklet.

That booklet contained a cultivation art, which now appeared in Lu Mingyue's mind without the slightest discrepancy, as though she had already comprehended it for many years.

From then on, the boy ate meat and bathed in medicinal brews every day, practicing that art in between to temper his internal organs.

The process was undoubtedly agonizing, and ordinary people would find it extremely difficult to persevere.

Yet whenever the boy wanted to give up, he was severely punished under the family rules, gradually giving rise to a twisted mentality.

Whenever the steadily aging middle-aged man went out, he would summon the household maids. After tormenting them and taking his pleasure, he would secretly kill them and dump their bodies outside the city to vent his resentment.

Nor did he stop practicing that art.

During this time, that once lofty immortal sect came again, but still took no one away.

They merely declared, "This city is mediocre. Not one person possesses a Spirit Mansion."

Before he knew it, ten years had passed in the blink of an eye.

The boy had become a young man. Years of practicing that art had given him a tall, slender figure and handsome features, making him truly the Shen Household's jade-like young gentleman.

And in his lower abdomen, a peculiar Spirit Mansion had appeared, allowing him to sense the wisps of mysterious power that existed between heaven and earth...

"Urgh-"

"Hah... hah... hah..."

The images before her abruptly vanished. Lu Mingyue gasped for breath, the instant when the executioner's great blade cleaved toward her neck still lingering in her mind.

No!

That wasn't my neck. It was Shen Yulang's!

With lingering fear, she touched the back of her neck. Only after confirming that her head and body had not parted company did Lu Mingyue's feelings settle somewhat.

But when she lowered her head to look at the Corpse-Wrapping Cloth in her hands, the writing on it had disappeared.

"This Corpse-Wrapping Cloth... it actually let me see... no! Not see! I experienced that jade-like young gentleman of the Shen Household's entire life!"

At that moment, Lu Mingyue's heart could not help pounding like a drum, and she instinctively looked toward the unbarred courtyard gate.

Because they worked as corpse collectors, the courtyard where she and her grandfather lived carried an air of ill fortune that warned strangers to keep away.

So Old Lu never needed to make a point of locking the gate when he took Lu Mingyue out or brought her home.

But now...

Lu Mingyue had already picked up the bar and shut the courtyard gate.

"Mingyue, why are you shutting the courtyard gate in broad daylight?"

Old Lu came out of the house and looked at what Lu Mingyue was doing with some displeasure.

"Our home barely has any sign of living people as it is. If you shut that gate too, your grandpa won't get to see more than a handful of living souls!"

Over all these years, because he had inherited the corpse-collecting trade, Old Lu had never even managed to start a family.

Even though he had secretly saved quite a bit of money.

So whenever there was nothing to do, Old Lu's favorite thing was to sit in the courtyard recliner, smoking his pipe and watching the neighbors pass by outside.

When there was work... meaning the authorities had called him away to collect corpses, he liked watching people come and go outside even more once he finished.

Lu Mingyue remembered it clearly, because her grandfather always said he had seen enough dead people in this lifetime, and only wanted to see a few more living ones while he was still alive.

That way, perhaps he would not end up doing this sort of work with the dead again after being reincarnated in his next life.

But right now, Lu Mingyue could not worry about her grandfather being angry. She hurried to his side, pulled Old Lu back into the main room, and helped him sit down before lowering her voice to say:

"Grandpa, I just saw..."

Lu Mingyue was still talking about that cultivation art, but horror rose in her heart.

Because she could not hear her own voice!

Old Lu's brows furrowed even deeper as he watched Lu Mingyue. Only after her mouth stopped moving did he ask with a frown:

"What did you just see?"

"I saw..." Lu Mingyue began again. Suddenly, she could hear her own voice, and her tightly clenched heart relaxed.

But!

When Lu Mingyue tried to tell Old Lu in detail about how she had obtained the [Qi-Feeding Spirit-Opening Art] from the Corpse-Wrapping Cloth, she once again could not hear her own voice!

Lu Mingyue grew a little panicked.

So much so that she dared not continue. Clutching the little tufts of hair on her head with both hands, she cried out in flustered confusion:

"What on earth is going on?!"

As the words rang out, Lu Mingyue froze.

Because she had heard her own voice again.

Even though Lu Mingyue was a transmigrator, she understood now.

-Whenever she mentioned anything about that cultivation art, she could not make a sound!

And when she suppressed that thought, she could speak normally, just as before!

"Grandpa..."

Old Lu looked at Lu Mingyue's aggrieved little face. An unusual light flickered in his cloudy eyes as he reached out and gently patted the little girl's head.

"It's all right. If you can't say it, write it down for Grandpa to see."

Old Lu was an orphan too. The grandfather who had taken him in back then had left behind quite a few books.

He had said that people in their line of work should stop dreaming of carrying on the family line. Even if they had money to spare, they could not go drinking, feasting, whoring, or gambling. Since they had nothing to do anyway, they might as well read and write.

Who knew? Perhaps some other turn of fortune would come along one day.

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Lu Mingyue's name was unlike those of girls called Lotus, Orchid, or Peach Blossom. It was also because Old Lu had read books that he had given her the name Mingyue.

So, after Lu Mingyue learned to speak, Old Lu had taught her to read and write too.

At present, Lu Mingyue could at least recognize and write this world's characters, which resembled traditional Chinese.

"Oh, Grandpa, you're so clever! I'll write it down for you right now!"

Lu Mingyue had only lost her composure because she cared so much. Her grandfather had taken her in and raised her to this day. Not only had he given her life, but he had also taught her to read and write.

And that cultivation art from Shen Yulang had appeared on the Corpse-Wrapping Cloth.

So, from the very beginning, Lu Mingyue had never intended to hide it from Old Lu.

Yet there seemed to be some mysterious power preventing her from telling Old Lu about that cultivation art aloud.

Now that Old Lu had reminded her, Lu Mingyue hurried into the inner room and brought out her brush, ink, paper, and inkstone.

Grinding the ink and lifting her brush, Lu Mingyue wrote the words, "Appeared on the Corpse-Wrapping Cloth..."

When she tried to continue writing, the uncanny scene repeated itself!

The brush in her hand seemed beyond her control, and she could not write another properly formed character.

Everything she wrote came out as ghostly scrawls!

"Grandpa..."

Lu Mingyue was so distraught that she was on the verge of tears.

She looked up at Old Lu, who stood beside her with his hands behind his back, and a phrase suddenly surfaced in her mind:

The art... must not reach six ears!

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