Lin Jiusan had deeply experienced the misfortune brought by the Black Cat Sculpture. He choked on water, got fish bones stuck in his throat, and broke five chairs and stools, which made him hurry to transport the Black Cat Sculpture without delay.
On the way, he had three flat tires, one scratch, and narrowly avoided a car accident.
Li Cunxu smiled. It was no wonder that whoever took it would be unlucky. The Black Cat Sculpture was a safe left by a Saint Curse Master.
The Black Cat Sculpture was entirely made of Cursed Black Gold. Any Curse Master who wasn't completely incompetent would recognize it. Unfortunately, the Forest Wood Lin Family had never produced a Curse Master. They had a treasure at home but didn't recognize it.
This was also due to the Lin Family's Hundred Wood Eyes being too powerful, causing the family to specialize in wood-based techniques and disdain the minor path of curses.
"You'll bear the misfortune for now. Hurry and bring your daughter here. I'll help her transfer the curse tonight," Li Cunxu said casually to Lin Jiusan while fondling the Black Cat Sculpture.
Lin Jiusan was a bit uneasy. "Isn't that too fast?"
Li Cunxu didn't bother to explain kindly. He knew that as a young man, the more he explained, the less reliable he would seem, and the less people would trust him. On the contrary, not explaining and maintaining an arrogant attitude would make people feel more assured.
"Do you understand, or do I?"
"Or maybe you should do it?"
Li Cunxu glared at Lin Jiusan.
Lin Jiusan chuckled awkwardly. "You do it, you do it."
"By the way, it's best if you don't go to pick up your daughter. Your bad luck might affect her."
Lin Jiusan said, "I'll have my wife bring her."
"Once she's here, you should leave! Otherwise, I'm worried that your parental love might disrupt the transfer ritual."
"Huh?"
Lin Jiusan was extremely reluctant.
Leaving his beautiful daughter alone with a young man didn't seem reliable at all.
"Moreover, the Curse Transfer Ritual involves many of my secrets, and I won't let you watch."
Li Cunxu's tone was firm.
Lin Jiusan hesitated, still somewhat unwilling.
"Your bad luck affects those around you, especially your family. You don't want your daughter's curse transfer to fail, do you?"
This sentence was very effective.
As night fell, the boundless sky was enveloped in darkness. Under the black curtain, a wooden house on the quiet grassland was brightly lit.
The Enslavement Collar was placed around Lin Qingwei's neck, which was as white as jade. During this process, Lin Qingwei did not resist.
To be precise, she was unable to resist.
She had been under the Evil Dragon Curse for too long. Her body was transforming from a humanoid Dragonkin to a draconic Evil Dragon, and her mind was being eroded by the Evil Dragon's malevolent thoughts.
Her current state was muddled, and she didn't even know where she was.
Fortunately, Lin Jiusan didn't see Lin Qingwei wearing the Enslavement Collar, or he would have been furious.
In the past, the Enslavement Collar was used to control slaves. Now, with no slaves, it had become a fetish item.
Either way, the implication wasn't good.
Li Cunxu pinched her mouth and roughly poured the Clarity Potion into it.
Her turbid eyes gradually cleared, and Lin Qingwei regained consciousness, only to see Li Cunxu grinding the horn of the Honesty Beast.
He poured the powdered horn into water and stirred it, creating a bowl of Honesty Water that would make people tell the truth.
Holding the Enslavement Ring that matched the Enslavement Collar, Li Cunxu commanded:
"Drink it."
Under the control of the Enslavement Collar, Lin Qingwei drank the Honesty Water.
Li Cunxu sneered coldly, "Lin Qingwei, you've finally come to this day!"
Lin Qingwei's eyes were blank, not understanding what he meant.
"Don't you recognize me? Li Cunxu, the one you bullied from kindergarten to junior high."
"I recognize you."
Lin Qingwei carefully examined Li Cunxu, her eyes lighting up with joy as she exclaimed in surprise.
Li Cunxu was puzzled; this reaction wasn't right!
Logically, someone who had been bullied by him since childhood, now caught and fitted with an Enslavement Collar, should be reacting with fear and terror.
Li Cunxu voiced the question that had been hidden in his heart for years.
"Why did you bully me back then?"
"Because... I liked you."
Lin Qingwei's face turned red, as if she was shyly confessing.
What on earth?
Li Cunxu couldn't believe it and asked again, but the answer remained the same—Lin Qingwei liked him.
Li Cunxu never expected this answer. She bullied me for years because she liked me?
What the hell?
Could she be lying?
He glanced at the unicorn horn; it was indeed the horn of the Honesty Beast, no mistake there.
"If you liked me, why did you bully me and hit me?"
"I wanted to get your attention."
Lin Qingwei fidgeted shyly.
"Then why did you drive away my new friends?"
"I wanted to have you all to myself."
"If you liked me, why didn't you say it? Let me know?"
"I did."
"You did? Are you sure?" Li Cunxu had no memory of this.
"Yes, I did, but it was too soft for you to hear."
Li Cunxu frowned, pondering for a moment, and came to a conclusion.
"Are you a yandere?"
Lin Qingwei's eyes darted around, "Not exactly~"
Only a bit of the Honesty Beast's horn had been ground, so the effect of the Honesty Water didn't last long.
Li Cunxu made her drink another bowl.
"Are you a yandere?"
"Yes."
Li Cunxu grabbed Lin Qingwei by her slender neck, pinned her against the wall, and said angrily,
"Do you know your perverse actions nearly drove a young man to his death?"
Because of Lin Qingwei, the original person had spent from kindergarten to junior high alone, standing in the crowd with no one to talk to. That prolonged loneliness almost led him to take his own life, if not for the thought of his paralyzed sister at home, which kept him going.
Lin Qingwei didn't answer this question, not because she didn't want to, but because she was under external attack, lost her rationality, her pupils turned into vertical slits like a beast's, and due to the Enslavement Collar, she couldn't attack Li Cunxu.
Recalling recent events, Li Cunxu regained his composure, released Lin Qingwei, and muttered to himself:
"Perhaps it's not entirely Lin Qingwei's fault, but I can't be sure. I'll verify it later, and then I'll know the truth."
Recent events and Lin Qingwei's perverse behavior had led Li Cunxu to a bold conjecture.
He just wasn't sure if the conjecture was true.
Verifying the conjecture wasn't difficult; after transferring the curse, he could verify it.
Li Cunxu pressed the right eye of the Black Cat Sculpture, turned it counterclockwise three times, then pressed the left eye and turned it clockwise six times. After completing the turns, both eyes popped out and were set aside for later use.
The cat eyes were crucial, the core of the Curse Transfer Ritual.
He shook the cat body up and down three times, and a clear line appeared between the cat body and the cat head.
He turned the cat head clockwise nine times and the cat body counterclockwise nine times, separating the head from the body, revealing that the center of the cat body was hollow, containing a black heart.
This heart was the perfect masterpiece of the Saint Curse Master.
The Curse Celestial Heart.
It could suppress curses.
However, the method of suppression was a bit special.
"A heart transplant is necessary for the Curse Celestial Heart to take effect."
Li Cunxu poured a bottle of Inferior Revival Water, bought by Lin Jiusan, into his mouth.
The Water of Rebirth can heal any injury as long as the brain remains intact. Even if only a head is left, it can restore the body.
Such an extraordinary item naturally comes with limitations—it can only be consumed once in a lifetime; a second attempt would be ineffective.
As for the Inferior Revival Water, its effects are the same as the Water of Rebirth, but with an additional cost: healing injuries consumes one's lifespan. Regardless of the s
everity of the injury, it starts by consuming ten years of life.
The more severe the injury, the more lifespan is consumed.
However, using it for a heart transplant is worth it.