Immortality Path: From the Blind Man at the Pharmacy
Chapter 180 - 117, 118. Passed the Noble Family test, this... is the Yin Residence? (Big Chapter - subscription requested)

Chapter 180: 117, 118. Passed the Noble Family test, this... is the Yin Residence? (Big Chapter - subscription requested)

An Residence, inner chambers...

Inside the house, it was dead silent.

An Chenyu’s expression visibly turned to terror; her first reaction was that her daughter had been possessed by an evil spirit.

Could it be that she had turned into a ghost servant?

After all, such strange abilities, in her impression, could only belong to ghosts.

In the next moment, that terror turned into anger and sadness.

Miss An’s almond-shaped eyes turned red, her brows knitted tightly, then she looked at Song Cheng, not to question him... but because, when it came to dealing with such matters, her man was much more professional than she was.

"Song, what’s going on?"

Song Cheng immediately understood his wife’s worry and beckoned her over.

Miss An sat beside him, looking worryingly at the tiny little girl.

Song Cheng looked at Ting. Her data was all black, and during their time together, he had never noticed any unusual behavior. He then held Miss An’s hand tightly, squeezed it gently, and said, "Sister An, don’t worry, this is a power our daughter was born with; she is not a ghost servant."

An Chenyu was slightly surprised but remained silent.

Song Cheng said, "Think carefully, didn’t Ting start asking you for animal skins to draw on early on? And then asked me to cut animal skins to make little animals?"

An Chenyu was taken aback, her memories suddenly pulled back to several months ago.

Since Ting was born, she loved to draw. At first, she drew on paper, then she asked for animal skins. At that time, An Chenyu didn’t think much of it, assuming it was a child’s curiosity about the world. And coincidentally, there were leftovers from the inn’s lamb and pork, so she brought the skins home.

But now...

When those eerie skinned rabbits and birds stared at her on the ground, other memories were triggered.

She remembered the "creatures" that flew into the city during the Ghost Tide early last year.

They were "Human Skin Ghost Servants" sewn together from human and bird skins.

She also encountered such ghost servants in Shanghe County.

These ghost servants appeared no different from ordinary people on the surface; they could chat with you, laugh, and even think. But if you cut open their bodies, you would find that they had no internal organs, only a bloody, horrifying human skin...

As for the owners of these skins, they were those "Flesh Beings" wriggling outside the city.

Human Skin Ghosts were her nightmare.

She didn’t show panic on the surface, but just thinking about the existence of such ghosts would make her brim with uncontrollable fear.

And now, she suddenly realized that her daughter’s actions of drawing on skins, then cutting and sewing them... weren’t much different from those of Human Skin Ghosts.

An Chenyu’s face turned deathly pale in an instant, and she stammered, "Is it... is it a Human Skin Ghost?"

Song Cheng nodded.

An Chenyu, heartbroken, said, "How... how could this happen?"

"Sister An, it’s a Human Skin Ghost, but not entirely." Song Cheng had pretty much figured it out. He bent down, picked up the skinned rabbit.

The rabbit’s legs kicked restlessly in his palm.

Song Cheng said, "Ting, stop kicking."

The rabbit instantly settled down.

Song Cheng placed the skinned rabbit in front of An Chenyu and ran his fingers along its skin, revealing unmistakable water stream patterns.

He brought the rabbit’s head in front of them, and under the light seeping through the window, they could clearly see two eyes on the rabbit’s face "weeping."

The "tears" kept flowing out, then re-entered through its mouth and ears, creating a bizarre cycle.

Before Sister An could ask, Song Cheng revealed the answer directly: "This should be a Drowning Ghost, also known as Yune.

Our daughter has the powers of both a Drowning Ghost and a Human Skin Ghost, but there seem to be many changes.

For example, no ghost can speak through their ghost servants, but Ting can easily make the rabbit and bird speak.

For instance, a Human Skin Ghost must use the target’s skin to make ghost servants that inherit the memories and characteristics of the person before death. If the ghost servant is made from mixed skins, it will lose its rationality but become more powerful.

Ting’s, however, are not self-aware or powerful.

I have been thinking; maybe it’s because Ting is still young.

As she grows up, these supernatural powers may change."

An Chenyu listened in shock.

She began to realize.

No wonder Ting was so difficult to give birth to.

No wonder the day Ting was born was precisely the day of the Ghost Tide outbreak.

Perhaps, it was even at the same moment as the Ghost Tide.

A child born in the peak of Taiyin, on the first day of the year...

She gently shook her head and said, "No matter what, she is our daughter.

No matter how she is, we love her.

This must not be discovered by others.

There are too many people in this world who have grudges against ghosts. If anyone finds out that Ting has the powers of a ghost, especially a Human Skin Ghost, the consequences... would be unimaginable.

People’s hatred is easily redirected. They can’t kill the Human Skin Ghost, but they will take out their anger on Ting..."

Miss An understood human nature.

Song Cheng added, "People from Noble Families would also see her as a rare item and snatch her away. After all, Ting’s situation is extremely rare."

An Chenyu turned sideways, lying on Song Cheng’s chest and sternly said to their daughter, "Ting, from now on, no more sewing rabbits, no more sewing birds, no more sewing anything."

Ting: ???

She understood.

Her little mouth curled, and she immediately started wailing, her tiny body trembling non-stop.

Song Cheng held the trembling, crying Ting in his arms, gently stroking her fine and thin hair.

An Chenyu also felt heartache, so she said, "I’ll go and buy more toys..."