"Okay. Since you are willing to help me, I will also take you out of here together."

Li Taiyuan agreed to Chuntao's request for cooperation.

After seeing that the other party agreed, Chuntao and Huixiang cried with joy, and the two girls hugged each other directly.

Li Taiyuan frowned and interrupted them: "Don't be too happy first. Do you know how to leave the Bai Mansion?"

"Well. I once heard an old chef from the kitchen say that the reason why the people of Shengquan Village have been unable to leave Youmiao Mountain for generations is that the Bai family was so brutally attacked by their enemies because there were traitors within the family who joined forces with the outside world.

Sneaking into the extermination family. Later, in order to prevent similar things from happening again, the ancestors of the Bai family deliberately set an extremely sinister curse here."

Chuntao said that the curse is the source of the power that envelopes Baifu and the entire Shengquan Village: "it" can blend into the shadows and monitor everyone's every move, almost everywhere.

Therefore, although outsiders occasionally broke through the formation and entered the village for hundreds of years, no one was able to leave the village.

When discussing the escape plan this time, Chuntao and Huixiang did the same thing as Bai Rong: they deliberately blocked the light source outside the house and plunged the house into darkness to avoid being discovered by "it".

As long as the curse is removed, Li Taiyuan can take them down the mountain without any worries.

It is said that fifty years ago, the saint sneaked into the forbidden area of ​​​​the North Courtyard and found a magic weapon that could seal the curse, and then successfully helped her husband escape.

As for the source of the curse - it is said that it is buried in a special formation in the mansion.

"The formation you mentioned is not under the mulberry tree in the east courtyard, right?" Li Taiyuan immediately reacted.

"Yes, uncle, you are really smart!" Chuntao nodded in surprise.

Since the attack under the mulberry tree, it took her several years to get clues about the mulberry tree. But Li Taiyuan had only been in the White Mansion for less than two days, and he easily saw through the mystery.

After listening to what Chuntao said, Li Taiyuan finally asked the question that he had been curious about for a long time: "What is the origin of that mulberry tree?"

"According to legend, at the beginning of the establishment of the Bai Mansion, the ancestors of the Bai family specially selected a pair of boys and girls from the clan, put them into a sealed purple teak box, and buried them alive head down in the formation."

Chuntao said that the Bai family renamed the two children; this was done to make the children forget their real names, prevent them from reincarnation after death, and their resentment would never dissipate.

Then, they planted mulberry trees above the formation to gather shade to increase the resentment of the boy and girl.

Over time, the curse enveloped the entire Bai Mansion and the village.

Once someone breaks the rules or wants to escape here, there will be torrential rain in the mountains.

That rain was no ordinary rain, but ominous water filled with the resentment of Yin spirits.

No matter who he is, as long as he gets wet in the rain, he will be cursed by the pair of boys.

For hundreds of years, only the voodoo people cultivated by the Bai family using voodoo techniques could leave Youmiao Mountain.

Those Gu people have been subjected to cruel punishments since they were young, and their brains have been controlled by silver needles. Although their bodies are still there, they have no thoughts and can only do what they are told, and they are no different from the walking zombies.

In addition, anyone else who wants to escape will be killed by the curse spirit without exception.

"I see."

Li Taiyuan finally figured out the truth about why it rains every night.

It seems that if you want to leave the village, you must find the legendary magical weapon that can seal the mulberry tree.

Now the reason why Chuntao dares to propose escape is because she holds the top secret information of the Bai family.

The old chef in the kitchen was one of the few survivors who had lived in the White House for more than fifty years. And this secret was what the old chef told Chuntao before he died.

The legendary magic weapon that can seal the mulberry tree is three magic-sealing nails made from the bones and blood of Bai's ancestors.

As the Bai family's house-holding instrument, this nail has been stored in the Baoyun Building in the North Courtyard.

Fifty years ago, the saint stole the demon-sealing nails from the secret room of Baoyun Tower and pierced them into the tree, destroying the formation set by her ancestors.

Three magic-sealing nails caused the mulberry tree to suddenly die, and overnight, the curse that shrouded the village disappeared.

"But didn't you say that shortly after the death of the saint, the mulberry tree came back to life again?" Li Taiyuan captured an unusual place.

Chuntao said that this was exactly what she found strange.

The old master swore to Chuntao that there was no curfew in the White House back then. A fire broke out in the house late at night, and the servants stepped forward to put it out, but found that ordinary water could not extinguish the green flames on the mulberry trees.

The fire was so powerful that it burned the mulberry trees to charcoal in an instant.

Even after the Bai family elders pulled out the demon-sealing nails from the tree, it still didn't help.

The mulberry tree was originally a yin object, growing by absorbing yin energy and resentment. Therefore, after it was severely damaged, the Bai family not only executed the saint, but also killed six other town girls to sacrifice the dying mulberry tree.

At first, as they wished, after offering the bones of six town girls, the nearly dead mulberry tree miraculously came back to life overnight.

However, with the resurgence of the mulberry tree's curse, the ghost of the dead saint also appeared in the White Mansion.

Because his skin was skinned alive and he was brutally killed, the ghost transformed by the saint was dressed in red and his revenge methods were extremely violent.

Not only did she devour all the elders involved in the incident, but even the innocent servants were not spared.

And after the ghost of the saint appeared, the supernatural power in the White House became increasingly chaotic.

After the saint's death, she became so violent that she devastated all living beings wherever she went.

Because she possessed powerful spiritual power during her lifetime, and because she had devoured many elders, her form gradually moved closer to the deity "Zhu Yin" worshiped by the Bai clan, and she became a monster with the head of a human and the body of a snake.

Faced with such a powerful evil spirit, the head of the Bai family used his life as a sacrifice, used three demon-sealing nails to restrain the saint's bones, and brought them to the altar for sealing, thus temporarily quelling the chaos.

However, the crisis in the White House has not been resolved at all.

Before his death, the head of the Bai family warned his people that the reason why the mulberry tree was resurrected was not because of human sacrifice; it was because the saint reached a deal with the mulberry tree at the cost of her own soul.

Part of Mulberry's resentment possessed the saint's bones and helped her get rid of the suppression of the altar; the saint turned into a ghost and killed the people of the Bai family, sacrificing their flesh and blood to Mulberry.

Although the Saint is now sealed by the Demon-Sealing Nail, she has become one with the mulberry tree and cannot be truly eliminated.

After absorbing a large amount of flesh and blood, the mulberry tree became stronger and more greedy.

The pair of boys buried under the mulberry tree were also completely awakened with the resurgence of the curse, turning into evil spirits and causing harm to the people living here.

In order to prevent the disaster, the Bai family has been trying every means to suppress this mulberry tree for fifty years.

Therefore, the Bai family gave Li Taiyuan the impression that they were in a state of despair and were about to die soon.

The large number of spells on their bodies are proof that they are used to absorb resentment and strengthen the seal; the reason why Bai Ruoyan is weak is because she has absorbed most of Mulberry's resentment.

It can be said that the current Bai family is in danger. Although it is bright on the outside, it is already completely decayed on the inside.

When Li Taiyuan first arrived in Yuhe Village, Bai Ruoyan was critically ill.

The seal that suppressed Mulberry was loosened and resentment leaked out, so he saw the scene on the bus where Youmiao Mountain was surrounded by the aura of death.

At this point, Li Taiyuan finally figured out the reason:

The reason why Bai Rong is anxious to get Li Taiyuan to break the cycle is because Bai Ruoyan has not given birth yet, and even though she is dead, she still has a lot of spiritual power sealed in her body, which can be used as a container to absorb the resentment of the mulberry tree.

If the resentment is saturated, Bai Rong can offer Li Taiyuan as a human pillar to reinforce the seal once the Zhongyuan Memorial Ceremony arrives.

But what Bai Rong did was tantamount to drinking poison to quench thirst. It could only bring temporary peace to Shengquan Village, but it could not completely eliminate the curse.

Now the Bai family is at the end of its tether. According to this cycle, within a hundred years, the mulberry tree will break through the seal sooner or later.

At that time, the entire Youmiao Mountain, and even all nearby villages, will be swallowed up by resentment and completely reduced to a land of nothingness.

Bai Ruoyan obviously expected this.

That's why before she died, she used her last strength to put Baifu into a time loop, in order to prevent Bai Rong from using her body as a container to seal the mulberry tree.

As a saint, she shouldn't mind what happens after her death. Bai Ruoyan's real purpose is to completely eliminate the curse that controls Shengquan Village.
Chapter completed!