Translator: Atlas Studios
Editor: Atlas Studios
Night fell.
The Liu family left the ancestral temple one by one.
In the coffin, Liu Fan was counting the respect points excitedly.
“Respect points: 2520.”
In other words, he could use the respect points to exchange for 2520 minutes of awake time.
That was equivalent to a day and a half.
With that, Liu Fan heaved a sigh of relief and did not have to worry about falling back asleep.
The coffin was pitch black. Apart from opening his eyes, Liu Fan could not do anything else.
He asked the System again, did he really have to remain as a living dead in the coffin for the rest of his life?
“As long as there are sufficient respect points, the dead will be able to walk out of the coffin and reappear on earth!”
Liu Fan felt helpless when he heard that!
The System needed respect points. However, goodness knew how many respect points he needed!
The only thing he could do was to attract more people to pay respects to him to accumulate his respect points.
“However, how should I get them over…”
Liu Fan thought about it. Then, he remembered how he made use of The Rage of the Ancestor that afternoon…
Night fell.
When the moon rose above the tree, the ancestral temple’s door creaked and opened!
Two figures scurried into the garden sneakily.
When they realized there was nobody in the ancestral temple, they rushed in and began to pay respects to Liu Fan’s spirit tablet.
“Ancestor, please forgive us. Our children are really hungry and want to eat, please lend us your pig’s head to feed our children. After they grow up, we will rear more pigs to pay respect to you…”
Then, they began to wrap the roasted pig’s head on the table.
In the coffin, Liu Fan opened his eyes and recognized the two of them.
One of them was Liu Daquan and the other was Liu Erquan. They were biological brothers and each had a child.
When Liu Fan heard what they said, he was shocked.
Was the situation of the Liu family so bad that they had no money to buy food?!
Under his lead a thousand years ago, the Liu family was renowned across the nation. There were many experts in the family, and they were deemed a “royal family” by the dynasty back then. The Liu family owned many territories all over the City of Scorpio and was extremely honorable.
“Looks like I have to understand the current plight of the Liu family!”
Liu Fan kept silent.
Then, at this moment, a cough was heard from outside the courtyard.
Liu Daquan and Liu Erquan were shocked. They turned around and saw Liu Wuhai, the Fifth Elder, standing there with his walking stick.
“Fifth Elder, we… we…”
The two of them panicked and did not know what to do with the pig’s head in their hands.
Liu Wuhai sighed and waved his hands. “Take it, take it! The kids are still growing. If anyone asks about the pig’s head, just say that the cat took it away in the middle of the night.”
“Yes, yes, yes!”
The two of them replied excitedly and was about to leave when Liu Wuhai said, “After taking our ancestor’s food, are you not required to pay your respects to him?!”
Both brothers turned around and paid their respects to Liu Fan by praying, burning incense paper, and kowtowing to him. Then, they left hurriedly with the pig’s head.
Liu Fan received 50 more respect points in the coffin.
Liu Fan liked Liu Wuhai.
This descendant was very respectful. He was very sincere when he paid his respects in the afternoon and had contributed the most respect points. However, he did not know why he came to the ancestral temple in the middle of the night.
It was already autumn and wind blew in the night, causing the leaves to fall to the ground.
Liu Wuhai stepped on the leaves and walked over.
Under the moonlight, his body seemed to be more hunched.
He walked into the ancestral temple and added oil to the oil lamp. Then, he lit three more incense sticks for Liu Fan, burned some incense paper, and kowtowed. After that, he sat on the praying mat as he touched Liu Fan’s coffin.
His respect points increased by 200.
Liu Fan felt relieved.
Liu Wuhai, his descendant, was very respectful to him. He was very sincere whenever he paid his respects.
Liu Fan looked past the coffin and examined Liu Wuhai carefully.
Liu Wuhai, who was in his 70s, had a face wrinkled like a tree bark. Under the oil lamp, he looked extremely tired as he sat beside Liu Fan’s coffin.
He slowly took out a pipe bowl, lit it with the oil lamp, and smoked.
As he huffed and puffed, the fire lit up and dwindled in the pipe bowl. It was extremely obvious in the dark ancestral temple.
“Ancestor, the Liu family is getting worse! It is almost winter, but we have very little rice left in the storeroom. Our business is also dwindling. How can we get through this winter? Sigh!”
“Although we killed many people with your dead body, the money we got from that is not enough at all!”
Liu Wuhai sighed and puffed out smoke, blurring his face.
“During winter two years ago, seven family members died from the cold. Last winter, six more family members died. I wonder how many more people will freeze to death this year.”
“How is it possible for our family clan to end up in this plight?!”
“Our generation is dwindling. If not for your body, goodness knows how many times the Liu family would be attacked.”
“Today, our Fourth brother died. It’s all because of me. If I had not buried you too deeply, he would not have died.”
“Fourth brother, I am sorry!”
Liu Wuhai’s eyes turned red when he talked about this. He wanted to cry but choked on the smoke and began to cough violently.
After a long time, he recovered. He took deep breaths while sitting on the praying mat and made grumbling sounds.
“It was written in the clan book that you are the first generation of the Liu family. You are extremely well-trained and will never die. If you are listening to this, please advise your descendants!”
Liu Wuhai put down his pipe and kowtowed repeatedly to Liu Fan.
“Ancestor!”
“Ancestor!”
“Ancestor!”
…
He sobbed as he kowtowed. He had completely given up hope in the Liu family.
In the coffin, Liu Fan was agitated.
“What exactly happened during these thousand years? Why did our family end up like this?”
He was depressed. He could not believe that even after he died, his body was still helping the Liu family kill their enemies.
He looked at Liu Wuhai and got a shock when he saw him crying and looking extremely disappointed.
“He is carrying a lot of burden. He also seems to be suffering from depression — severe depression — this is terrible…!”
He called out to the System and spent 100 respect points to exchange for a spell.
“The Love of the Ancestor — the Spell of High Spirits! Go!”