Chapter 102: The Jade Sea Talisman

Chapter 102: Chapter 102: The Jade Sea Talisman

Chapter 102: The Jade Sea Talisman

My mother didn’t say anything. She took my finger in her hand and picked up the old bronze mirror with her other hand, revealing a groove on the back of the mirror where there was a spot where a finger could fit perfectly. She put my finger in there.

Before I could react to the sudden cold touch, the bronze mirror began to glow with a faint, dim purple light!

"This is!?"

I exclaimed in surprise. In this dark little room, apart from the beam of the flashlight, there was only the faint light emitted by the mirror. The light was not strong, and it surrounded the mirror, looking like a thick fog enveloping it, which was indescribably eerie and strange.

"Mom, what is this? What’s going on?" I exclaimed.

Mom crossed her arms, smiled slightly with her full red lips, and said, "Take the mirror, turn it over, and look at yourself."

My heart skipped a beat, and I thought to myself, "Could this be some kind of demon-revealing mirror or something?"

I panicked, but I didn’t dare to be careless. I quickly turned the mirror over, held it solemnly with both hands, and faced the mirror at myself.

Thankfully, the mirror still showed my face, not something else. However, a pale purple Tai Chi symbol appeared on my forehead, surrounded by a circle of dragons and phoenixes flying in the air. This symbol looked very familiar.

I quickly touched my forehead, but there was nothing there. However, I could see the symbol on my forehead through the mirror.

"What is this?!" I exclaimed in surprise.

Then Mom said, "Xiaobin, come and look at me in the mirror."

I picked up the mirror and looked at my mother. Her beautiful face was reflected in the bronze mirror. Like me, she also had this symbolic pattern on her forehead.

"This is called the ’Jade Sea Talisman,’ a mark left by our ancestors. If you have this mark, it means that the elders of the family have passed on the position of family head and the family treasures to you, and you have officially become the heir."

"Mom said from the side."

This sudden event left me completely bewildered. I said, "Mom, this... this is too outrageous! What... treasure, talisman, it’s like something out of a fantasy novel, how could it be related to us?"

My mother looked at the stone statue in the middle, put her hands together in a gesture of respect, and then said to me, "Our four families were all disciples of a Taoist master named ’Yu Hai Zhenren’. This stone statue was carved by our ancestor to commemorate Yu Hai Zhenren. However, times have changed, and the Taoist temple above this place has disappeared. The stone statue was mottled and damaged. Many years ago, an elder moved the stone statue to a lower place to prevent it from being damaged by people or things outside."

"Master Yuhai’s four disciples were surnamed Zhou, Yao, Gu, and Zhu. Among them, Gu was a woman, and the other three were men. They were not originally from here. They helped Master Yuhai do a great deed and settled down near Jingzhou. The local residents were grateful for their good deeds and respected and loved them very much. Over time, Jingzhou transformed from a small seaside village into a developed international metropolis. The descendants of the four disciples became a prominent family here, which has been passed down to this day. This is the origin of our four great families."

This was the first time I had heard these stories, and I was filled with shock. I said, "These four families are my family, Yao Liang’s family, Mom, your maternal family, and Zhu Yun’s family?"

The mother nodded, slowly pacing around the stone statue, and said leisurely, "Yes, for so many years we have lived and multiplied here, and have long become a prominent family in the area. The social resources and social status we have today are inseparable from the deeds of our ancestors."

"But what others don’t know is that there’s a very profound and important reason why our four families settled in this area," Mother said solemnly.

"What’s the reason?" I asked, looking at my mother’s beautiful face and listening quietly to her story.

My mother sighed softly and said, "Back then, our ancestor, Master Yu Hai, was a wandering Taoist priest. When he came to Jingzhou, he saw that the population was dwindling and the villages were empty. After inquiring, he learned that a demon had appeared in this place."

"A monster!?" I was startled.

"Well, the name of the demon is long forgotten. All we know is that this demon has a particular fondness for raping and abusing women, harming the human world, raping and plundering everywhere, and killing countless people. Our ancestor has always been a chivalrous and righteous man, so of course he couldn’t sit idly by. He and his four disciples worked together to find a way to get rid of the demon."

As I watched my mother speak so earnestly, if I didn’t know that she was always intelligent, quick-witted, and exceptionally intelligent, I would have been afraid that she had lost her mind and was telling some completely nonsensical myth.

"Xiaobin, I know you probably don’t believe what your mother is saying and think it’s a fantasy. Until a few years ago, your mother was just like you, kept in the dark and had no idea where all this came from. That’s why your mother brought you here so that you can see this treasure called the ’Diamond Mirror’ and you will understand that your mother is not talking nonsense."

I was completely disoriented. I looked at the treasure that my mother called the "Diamond Mirror." There was a purple halo around the mirror, but as the bloodstains on my fingers dried, the purple halo gradually dimmed.

My mother reached out and took my hand, giving me a gentle, alluring look before leading me upstairs. As we walked, she said, "This treasure and the mark on our foreheads can only be seen here, so I brought you down. It’s too stuffy up here; let’s go upstairs and talk."

My mother and I returned to the living room and sat down on the sofa. This time, my mother took my arm and sat next to me very intimately. Her pajamas were extremely loose, with the neckline opening very low to her chest, exposing most of her snow-white, plump breasts directly to my eyes. Upon closer inspection, I could see her deep red areolas and delicate pink nipples.

A faint fragrance emanated from her, making my heart race.

My mother breathed softly in my ear and pulled me close, saying, "I didn’t want to tell you this, but seeing that you’ve been dragged into this, I have no choice but to speak up."

"The patriarch and his four disciples, who were the ancestors of the four great families, captured the evil demon together. However, they found that the demon was extremely powerful and that their cultivation level was probably not enough to completely eliminate it. So they came up with a plan."

I thought for a moment and said to my mother, "Should we lock it up?"

Mother chuckled softly, pursing her full lips, picked up her teacup, took a sip of water, and continued, "Yes, they found a place to suppress that demon, and then the patriarch ordered his disciples, who were the ancestors of the four great families, to live here for generations as jailers guarding the demon."

My heart skipped a beat, and I realized what was going on. I asked, "Mom, are you saying that our family actually lives here to suppress that demon?!"

Mom nodded, and I felt a surge of emotion. I remembered what Dad had told me, what "600-year-old treasure" and what "mission" it was. Why didn’t he explain it to me earlier?

"When the patriarch captured and suppressed this demon, he used four treasures and gave them to his four disciples. The one given to the Zhou family is this treasure called the ’Diamond Mirror’. It can not only see through demons, but also turn bad luck into good and protect the safety of the Zhou family’s patriarchs throughout the ages."

My mother picked up the mirror from my hand and looked at it carefully for a while. The purple halo had disappeared. She then solemnly placed the mirror on the coffee table.

She sighed softly and said quietly, "It’s just that people’s hearts are not what they used to be, and times have changed. So many years have passed, and I’m afraid the family members have long forgotten their mission. They all have their own ulterior motives, which is why the tragedy of twenty years ago happened, and why so many things are happening now. Xiaobin, your mother was also appointed in a time of crisis. I’m really sorry for what I’ve done all these years, but..."

Looking at her bright face and listening to her whispers in my ear, I felt a surge of emotion and was speechless. Her eyes seemed to be filled with tears.

After calming down a bit, Mom sat up straight and said to me, "Alright, now Mom is going to tell you why you can no longer have any connection with the women of the Zhu family."

My heart skipped a beat. My mother said, "The power of the Ancestral Master to seal that demon will diminish over time. Therefore, it is necessary to hold a kind of ritual called ’Sealing Ritual’ to strengthen the seal. The ritual is held once every twenty years. Each of the four major families has a mission, but when the twenty-year agreement is reached, they will all gather together."

The corner of Mom’s mouth twitched slightly as she said, "As the eldest disciple of the ancestral master, the Zhu family was entrusted with an important responsibility. They were always the hosts of the ceremonies and the key figures in them. However, something happened to the Zhu family twenty years ago that directly led to the failure of the ceremony for our parents’ generation!"

"It failed!?" I exclaimed.

My mother’s face was stern, her small, pink hands gripping mine tightly, as if she were thinking of something terrible. Her lips trembled slightly, and she stared at me with her large eyes as she slowly said, "The people who participated in the ceremony last time were your grandfather, my mother, Yao Liang’s grandfather, and... Zhu Yun’s brother, Zhu Yu. The ceremony was proceeding normally, but the Zhu family had committed a major taboo, causing them to lose all their magical power in presiding over the ceremony, resulting in an accident on the spot."

"An accident?" I exclaimed, my heart pounding like a tidal wave, feeling as if I were approaching the heart of some conspiracy.

"That accident caused the ritual to fail directly. The elders who participated in the ritual were either killed or injured, and that monster escaped!"

A chill ran through me.

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