I Can Strengthen Infinitely-Chapter 149 - 129: Eldest Granny Wen

"Me?" Qin Yuesheng thought for a moment: "Master Sun, your mansion is indeed quite strange, but as for how exactly it’s strange, I haven’t figured it out yet. You might as well try this old man’s method first."

"Hehehe," the old beggar immediately laughed and said, "Yes, yes, try my method first, guaranteed to work every time."

Master Sun had no choice but to agree.

From the expression on his face, you could tell that Master Sun was quite unwilling in his heart.

After all, it was mud rubbed out from a man’s body, to smear it on the forehead and shoulders was utterly revolting.

Lady Sun saw Qin Yuesheng and the old beggar, one suggesting a plan, and the other having none, and said, "Please stay at my mansion in the coming days until my husband’s issue is resolved before leaving, how about that?"

The old beggar nodded repeatedly: "That’ll do, that’ll do, finally the old man doesn’t have to sleep on the street."

Qin Yuesheng shook his head: "I don’t like staying in someone else’s home, but don’t worry, madam. I’ll come back to check again at night, if Master Sun’s situation remains unclear, I’ll suggest another plan."

The old beggar pulled the little beggar over to Qin Yuesheng and confidently patted his shoulder with a smile, "Young fellow, I can definitely solve this, this one hundred taels of gold, the old man is determined to win."

Qin Yuesheng looked at his shoulder, which already had several black palm seals, with a helpless expression: "Then congratulations to you in advance."

...

Nighttime.

Recently, every night at midnight, it was the most nerve-racking time for everyone in the Sun Mansion, because after Master Sun fell asleep, strange things generally began to happen at this hour.

The old beggar sat on a stone chair in the courtyard with the little beggar, quietly observing the house doors not far away.

Because according to the servants, every time something strange happened to Master Sun, he would run out from the house and stand in the courtyard reciting nursery rhymes.

More than ten household servants stood nearby, watching the door with incredibly tense expressions, fearing that at any moment Master Sun would run out from it.

Whoosh!

A figure suddenly jumped over the wall and landed inside, and instantaneously everyone saw that there was another figure by the table, it was Qin Yuesheng.

"Why are you here? Worried that my methods won’t work?" The old beggar asked while munching on an apple.

"Not at all, just came to take a look." Qin Yuesheng casually replied.

At this moment, Qin Yuesheng glanced at the little beggar. It was strange, the old beggar really cherished this little beggar tightly, yet the little beggar seemed very timid and fearful, always holding onto the old beggar’s hand, timidly standing beside him, pursing his lips and daring not to speak.

"Old man, is this your grandson?" Qin Yuesheng asked.

"Hmm." When it came to the matter of the little beggar, the old beggar preferred not to talk much, merely nodding his head.

...

Master Sun lay peacefully asleep on the bed, he liked sleeping alone, which had long been his habit, even though Lady Sun was quite beautiful and graceful, with several beautiful concubines, Master Sun would only let them sleep alone. If he wished to favor any of them, he would stay overnight in their room.

Suddenly, Master Sun, who was initially sound asleep, abruptly opened his eyes and climbed out of bed by himself.

His expression at this moment was extremely blank, along with lifeless eyes, akin to a puppet.

"Mother covered my face, told me to bend down to pick up a knife, pressed the knife against the chest, no bloodshed just coins, mother praised me for being obedient, and said I’ll marry a pretty girl..."

Master Sun muttered the nursery rhyme, swayed his head and walked to the door, opening it and walking out.

Click!

As the room door suddenly made noise, everyone hurriedly looked over and saw the originally closed door suddenly open, and Master Sun’s figure walked out from inside.

"Hmm?" Qin Yuesheng, seeing Master Sun’s odd appearance, immediately turned puzzled and asked the old beggar, "Old man, your mud ball doesn’t seem to be working."

"This..." The old beggar paused his apple-eating, bewildered.

Just as the servants said, Master Sun began singing the nursery rhyme in the courtyard, this late at night, a man stood there singing nervously, and his body constantly twisted, making the scene utterly creepy.

The servants were evidently not seeing this for the first time, yet still paled with fear.

Qin Yuesheng, having gone through many experiences, immediately took out the Exorcism Toad and Spirit Fox Heart Eye, starting to observe Master Sun’s condition.

Compared to the morning, the ’accumulating virtue’ felt much thinner now, Master Sun seemed like a vortex continually emitting attraction, pulling all the fog in the courtyard towards him.

It was Qin Yuesheng’s first time seeing this kind of scene, he couldn’t help but ask the old beggar: "Old man, do you have any more ideas now?"

"Let’s see first," the old beggar replied with a mysterious smile.

Master Sun sang for a while, then suddenly fell to his knees and began to bow toward the air in the east, excitedly shouting, "Eldest Granny Wen, Eldest Granny Wen, you have come. Please grant your disciple a fortune, and your disciple is willing to build statues, temples, and monuments for you."

In no time, Master Su’s head was injured from bowing, and the mud smeared on his forehead started to fall off.

Qin Yuesheng turned to ask a household servant, "This isn’t right. You didn’t tell me that Master Sun would do this."

The servant replied with a shiver, "This is what the master said he saw—the red-robed old woman. But we can’t see anything. You’d say it’s like seeing ghosts."

Qin Yuesheng viewed through Spirit Fox’s eyes and saw, three steps ahead of where Master Sun was bowing, a hazy, shapeless figure that looked partly human, yet strangely not.

Looking again at the Exorcism Toad, the malevolent aura here had soared to over five hundred, and it was still rapidly increasing.

"Heart ghosts blind the eyes; common people cannot perceive them. To deal with them, you must take some risks," the old beggar suddenly took off his patched cloth shoes and began rubbing the gaps between his toes, dislodging a piece of grime.

He then threw it forcefully, and the grime hit Master Sun’s forehead accurately, covering about half of it.

"Hiss!" Seeing this, Qin Yuesheng felt a chill and secretly sympathized with Master Sun for a moment.

Soon after the grime covered his forehead, a red-robed figure gradually appeared on the ground in front of Master Sun. Qin Yuesheng looked carefully and indeed saw a red-robed old woman.

However, she had an ugly face, red hair, and an extremely vicious expression, breathing heavily toward Master Sun.

Master Sun’s accumulated virtue was seen drifting strand by strand into the mouth of this red-robed old woman, as she was stealing the good fortune left by the Sun family’s ancestors.

"How dare you create chaos and harm people."

Qin Yuesheng immediately took out the Soul-Swaying Bell and swung it. As soon as the sound rang out, the red-robed old woman’s body trembled and looked incredulously at Qin Yuesheng.

"You can see me?!"

The old beggar chuckled, "I covered the Three Yang Fire on him with grime; he can see me, and so can others."

Qin Yuesheng drew his saber and leapt, slashing toward the red-robed old woman. She instantly turned into a red mist, about to dissipate.

But at this moment, the old beggar acted again.

He took out a pitch-black mud pellet and threw it forcefully. As the pellet passed through the red mist, a piercing screech was heard, and the red-robed old woman fell from mid-air, clutching her face in pain.

The woman’s face now had a lychee-sized hole, caused by the item the old beggar threw.

Qin Yuesheng instantly slashed again, and seeing no way to dodge, six wings thin as cicada wings burst from her back to resist Qin Yuesheng’s saber.

Bang!

Despite the weak appearance of those six wings, they were surprisingly tough. With only a clang of steel, the Evil-Subduing Saber merely carved a crack on them.

The red-robed old woman opened her mouth wide, extending a deep purple stinger from within, aiming straight at Qin Yuesheng’s chest.

Qin Yuesheng immediately grabbed it, attempting to break it. But upon contact with the stinger, he felt severe pain in his hand—a multitude of hair-thin spikes on the stinger directly pierced his skin, ignoring the Inner Strength covering his palm.

"Such sharp spikes," Qin Yuesheng marveled.

"Young man, don’t get distracted," the old beggar reminded.

Seeing the red-robed old woman trying to rise with her wings, Qin Yuesheng abandoned the saber and struck with a single Great Vajra Palm.

The Inner Strength cultivated from the Profound Celestial Scripture had the power to expel evil. Combined with the force of the Great Vajra Palm, the red-robed old woman was engulfed in golden light before she could react.

Boom!

The ground shattered, debris flying.

Qin Yuesheng’s strike was terrifyingly powerful. When the dust settled, the red-robed old woman was nowhere to be seen.

Master Sun, who had been bowing, suddenly collapsed, lying limply on the ground.

"Young man, did you destroy that demon?" The old beggar walked over and asked.

"Not sure. It feels like I did, yet it also feels incomplete." Qin Yuesheng frowned, looking at the ground.

Master Sun had previously called out for Eldest Granny Wen. Qin Yuesheng initially thought it referred to the text character "Wen," but now, recalling the red-robed woman’s appearance, he thought it was more like the mosquito’s "wen."

The red-robed old woman indeed looked somewhat like a mosquito.

"Such a monster, hiding so deeply to steal Master Sun’s ’accumulated virtue,’" the old beggar lamented, "The world is getting increasingly chaotic."

Qin Yuesheng sensed hidden meaning in his words but did not inquire further. He simply said, "Do you think the demon is completely dead, old man?"