The Three Spirit Stones

who am I?

where am I?

Where do I come from? Where am I going?

When Cheng Yu asked these soul-searching questions, he was just waking up from chaos and confusion.

Below the cliff, at the bottom of the cold lake, dozens of bodies were lying in a mess, their bodies full of arrows, and their deaths were tragic.

They were all Song soldiers who were killed!

A ghost floated between them, it was Cheng Yu.

He was very confused. They all died together, so why was he the only ghost? Why didn't the others become ghosts?

He was sure he was a ghost.

During the day, he tried to get out of the water, but was immediately forced back under the water by the scorching sun. He also went back to the place where he died in battle, but there was no one there except bloodstains. He wanted to go back to the barracks, but the yang energy of the living was unbearable for him.

He could only stay underwater for one day, two days...

He watched as the bodies of his brothers slowly became swollen by the water. Some of them floated up, but some were wearing armor and could not float, including his own body.

Then, they were eaten bit by bit by the big and small fish that came and went, until only skeletons were left.

After staying in the water for a long time, he felt bored. Although he was a ghost, he couldn't stay in one place forever, so he decided to leave.

After thinking about it, he chose a mass grave not far from the foot of the mountain in the north.

That day, as the sun set and night fell, he said goodbye to his comrades and emerged from the water.

He headed north and soon arrived at the mass grave.

He now feels that being a ghost has its advantages. In the past, it would take him several days to walk such a long distance, but now he can get there in a short while.

As he approached the mass grave, he actually felt a little hungry.

It's incredible, isn't it? I'm a ghost, how can I feel hungry?

He looked around and was surprised to find that there were clumps of gas floating on the ground of the mass grave. He estimated that these should be the negative energy emitted by the dead.

What's even more outrageous is that he actually thinks this Yin energy is delicious. He feels like he's crazy!

But the feeling of hunger was getting stronger and stronger, and he could not care less. He floated over and sucked it with his mouth.

Ah! ~ So comfortable! ~

Everything has a beginning, and once it has a beginning, it’s not a problem.

One group, two groups, three groups...

Uh……

He burped, and before he knew it, he had swallowed up almost all the Yin energy in the land.

"Gone?"

He muttered something and glanced down inadvertently.

"Ah~~"

But he was frightened.

"Why is my stomach like this?"

At this time, his abdomen was transparent, with a faint white light shining through, like a glowing crystal.

"What's going on? What's wrong with me?"

He looked down at his body in surprise. After a while, the phenomenon slowly disappeared and his body returned to normal.

It was really confusing, and he thought he should think about it carefully. Then he jumped onto a branch, and the branch actually moved slightly.

He held his chin up to his hand and looked at the moon, thinking and thinking but he couldn't figure it out.

It was not until the early morning that he heard the crowing of roosters in the distance. He was immediately awakened and said to himself, "Oh no!" He had to find a place to hide, otherwise he would be burned to ashes when the sun came out.

He looked around and saw a cave not far away in the ground with a coffin buried inside.

I could hide in the coffin, although I felt a little disgusted with the corpse inside. But then I thought helplessly, why should I be so picky? They are all wandering ghosts, so why should I be disgusted with others having a grave to stay in?

The sound of roosters crowing was heard again. He could no longer care about anything else and jumped into the coffin.

……

……

Time flies like an arrow, year after year, generation after generation, more than nine hundred years have passed!

Cheng Yu now works as an administrator in a public cemetery. This job requires living in the cemetery, which is taboo for ordinary people, but it suits him very well.

After more than nine hundred years of practice, he now has the body and weight of an ordinary person, and his appearance is the same as when he died. His skin is dark and sallow, his lips are cracked, and his limbs are cold. Apart from being a little uglier, he is no different from a living person.

He has no sense of smell, taste, or pain. He doesn't need to eat or drink water. He just goes to the cemetery at night to prey on the clusters of negative energy.

He was no longer afraid of the sun. He could go out in the early morning and evening, but had to hide back in the house at noon.

He had figured it out a long time ago that he was not a ghost, but because of that spirit stone,

When the Taoist priest said that the spirit stone had the ability to bring the dead back to life and regulate yin and yang, I thought he was talking nonsense, but I didn't expect it to be true.

The spiritual power of the spirit stone had long been hidden in his body. At the moment of death, this power protected his soul. Although his body died, his soul was immortal.

The spirit stone transformed the Yin Qi he absorbed every night into spiritual power. After nearly a thousand years of practice, his soul gradually became real.

As long as he continues to practice, he will become a real person!

……

As long as a person lives long enough, he will encounter everything.

One morning, he was surprised to find a cardboard box at the door of his residence, and inside it was a newborn baby.

Cheng Yu was stunned!

He had never thought that someone would put an abandoned baby in a cemetery.

There was no choice but to bring the child back into the house.

He frowned as he looked at the abandoned baby!

How to do?

throw it out?

That won't work. What if a stray dog ​​takes it away? I'm not that cold-blooded.

Should we send him to an orphanage, or find a good family to adopt him?

That's what we'll do. Take her away tonight.

He felt better after thinking of the solution. He moved closer to the cardboard box and carefully observed the baby. It was a baby girl, very cute. She was probably abandoned because her family favored boys over girls or could not afford to raise too many children.

He reached in and searched, hoping to find some information about the child.

But there was nothing inside except the colorful quilt wrapped around her body. It seemed that the child's parents were determined to abandon her, otherwise they would not have left behind even her birth date.

"Alas! How pitiful," he sighed.

At this time, the child was awakened by him. She opened her black eyes and grinned at him, so cute!

"Tsk, tsk,"

Cheng Yu couldn't help but teasing her with his fingers, and the little one actually started to talk.

At this moment, he suddenly felt like crying!

It turns out that a baby’s voice can be as beautiful as the sound of nature!

I have been lonely for too long, so long that I have become numb!

It turns out that there is a child's voice in the house that is so healing!

It feels like pouring a stream of fresh spring water into a pool of stagnant water!

He suddenly felt a little attached to this feeling!

Just like a child getting a new pet, he squatted beside the cardboard box, grinning and teasing the child, and the more he played, the more he couldn't let the child go!

He felt a little reluctant to send his child away, so he decided to let him stay and play for a few days. This decision made him very excited!

Since we have decided to keep the child, we have to solve her eating, drinking, defecating and urinating problems.

While the child was asleep again, he went back upstairs, opened the drawer, took out the salary that he had never spent, rode his old 28-bar bicycle, and headed straight to the small supermarket in town.

When the saleswoman heard that he wanted to buy baby products, she enthusiastically introduced a lot of them to him.

After the purchase, the old bicycle was filled with bags of all sizes, and then he went to the bookstore and bought two baby-raising guides.

On the way back, Cheng Yu was very emotional!

This era is really good. As long as you have money, you can buy anything.

If he was born in the era when a rich family wanted to raise a child, they would first have to hire a wet nurse, and then all the clothes and daily necessities would have to be made by hand. It was even easier for poor families, as the child would be born and raised by nature, and after death, all that would be left was like cattle and horses. It was not like now, where you can have everything by spending a few hundred dollars.

As he was about to return to his residence, he heard the heart-wrenching cry of a child from afar. He was so frightened that he rushed into the house without even parking the bicycle at the door.

Pick up and touch the little butt,

Oops! I pooped!

I quickly took out the things I bought at the supermarket, followed the instructions of the supermarket auntie, took out wet wipes, wiped the little butt clean and put on a new diaper.

After it was cleaned, the little one stopped crying. I watched him babbling and talking again.

Cheng Yu smiled, pointed at the little guy's nose and said, "You cry so hard just because you poop? What would you do if you were hungry?"

Now that I think about it, I really need to prepare food for her.

It has to be said that some men are born with maternal genes, just like Cheng Yu, who has been raising a child with the help of two baby-rearing guides,

I prepare milk powder, feed my baby, bathe and change clothes for my child and coax him to sleep. When my child grows up a bit, I can automatically unlock the vegetable-growing and cooking genes in the Chinese people.

He named the child Cheng Acai because when he adopted her, he had nothing except the colorful quilt.

With children, there is concern, and this residence becomes a home, a place with warmth and laughter.

During the long process of cultivation, Cheng Yu sometimes wondered: everyone wants eternal life, but is eternal life a punishment or a blessing?

Does it really make sense for a person to face this endless loneliness alone?

Many times, loneliness is like endless damp rainy days, which makes people feel lonely, depressed and desperate, and touches the madness deep in their spirit in silence.

In fact, most of the time, people just live in numbness!