Then Yu Bao, and this brother here, established a connection.

Once the connection is made, it can help out, at least adding a thirty percent chance of success.

"Eighty percent?"

"The remaining twenty percent is up to me and your help. If we still can't succeed, I might as well go back home and plant sweet potatoes."

"No... brother, don't jinx it." Wen Yan quickly stopped Chen Tao from jinxing it.

"Ptooey, ptooey, ptooey..." Chen Tao spat twice and patted his mouth.

A few minutes later, they picked a location, in the new basement beneath Wen Yan's house.

The place is big, and the chosen position is right underneath the place where the Wen Yan family worships those four tablets.

Chen Tao, like a Taoist, set up an altar there and waited for the auspicious hour.

"As for this person, you knocked him unconscious, which actually works in our favor. If he weren't unconscious, he wouldn't be able to cooperate, because we're being sneaky, so we must use sneaky methods."

"Brother, you tell me, but I don't understand, just tell me what to do." Wen Yan was clear about his role.

"I still need to tell you what needs to be done."

Chen Tao had Ren Yubao sit on the meditation cushion in front of the altar, while he did something Wen Yan couldn't comprehend, continually writing something down.

The only things Wen Yan could understand were Brother Ye's birth chart and Ren Yubao's birth chart.

With Chen Tao's actions, Wen Yan saw the aura on Ren Yubao gradually shift towards Brother Ye's until it was entirely identical to Brother Ye's.

At that moment, the dark aura from Brother Ye started to flow towards Ren Yubao.

Ren Yubao looked sullen and increasingly withered, seemingly suffering more and more.

But even so, Ren Yubao sat there, unmoving. 𝒻𝑟𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝑛𝘰𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝘤𝘰𝘮

Seeing this, Wen Yan immediately stepped forward and applied an Explosive Great Sun Blessing.

Ren Yubao's head was shielded by immense yang energy, preventing the dark aura from invading.

"Yu Bao's abnormality relies entirely on Master Ye, whose serendipity granted him a new life.

In other words, his current appearance is bestowed by others. Without this appearance, he'd actually have no appearance and wouldn't turn into a ghost, wouldn't exist at all.

Now, removing this appearance means he's actually rare without a birth chart or appearance.

Changing his birth chart, expanding his appearance becomes much easier and more likely to succeed.

With your help and Master Ye's approval, he now uses this brother's birth chart and appearance, allowing him to do some things for this brother, but not others.

This is just right, letting him handle the curse matters, but he can't substitute for him in everything.

Come, brother, bring out that mountain of yours."

Wen Yan took out the Black Mountain Stone Sculpture and placed it atop the altar.

They took Brother Ye's middle finger blood and let it mix with ink in a bowl.

Then Ren Yubao went forward, took up a brush dipped in the blood ink, and wrote on a bamboo slip three fingers wide.

"With Black Mountain Stone as contract father and contract mother, surname changed to Hei Shan, inscribed as proof."

He then added the time and place beside it.

After writing, he placed it before the Black Mountain Stone Sculpture. Ren Yubao lit incense, raised it overhead in respect, and bowed respectfully.

Upon finishing, he inserted the incense and continued kneeling in reverence.

At that moment, Chen Tao gave Wen Yan a look.

"Brother, it's your turn."

Wen Yan stepped forward, reached out his right hand, and touched the Black Mountain Stone Sculpture.

"Give us a hand, I often chant scriptures and transcend with you guys, if you can help, please do."

"..." Chen Tao opened his mouth, finally letting out a bitter smile without saying anything.

At first sight of the Black Mountain Stone Sculpture, he knew what it was.

That overwhelming heavy aura coupled with the special atmosphere as if countless faces overlapped.

He knew it was a mountain turned sentient, and the process likely involved being drenched in blood, with possibly countless lost souls inside.

Something like this, casually brought out by Wen Yan, made his scalp almost explode.

Watching Wen Yan speak, he confirmed in his heart one thing, the great demon that this sentient mountain turned into was definitely taken down by Wen Yan.

Otherwise, no one else would dare speak like that.

But Wen Yan speaking this way was actually very polite.

After Wen Yan spoke, Chen Tao's expression turned solemn as he went forward to complete the remaining procedures.

Since they were being sneaky, this matter couldn't be handled by Brother Ye himself; doing so would afford a mere fifty percent chance of success.

Going around in a circle, leveraging Ren Yubao's traits and the connections among them, to be sneaky makes everything much smoother.

This way, no matter what the curse is truly about, they can deceive the heavens and the earth.

Chen Tao personally stepped in, and after Ren Yubao finished his forty-nine bows, he reverted the altered birth chart and appearance.

The dark aura covering Ren Yubao was forced back as Chen Tao changed it again, reverting Ren Yubao to the state without a birth chart or appearance, and the dark aura returned to Brother Ye.

The dark aura roiled, seemingly very unwillingly, gradually retracting back into Brother Ye.

Chen Tao watched with a serious expression, and only after a while did he let out a quiet sigh and approach Big Sister Ye.

"Remember, from today, your brother is renamed Ye Heishan. Afterward, not to say every festival, but at least every New Year, he must personally pay respects to his contract father and mother."

"Thank you, Master Chen, my brother..."

"Your brother now has a very strong fate, he can definitely withstand this curse, before he passes away of old age naturally, none of your clan members need to worry about the curse anymore."

"But my brother..." Big Sister Ye worriedly looked at her brother, who hadn't woken up yet.

"..." Chen Tao was tongue-tied, too embarrassed to say that her brother hadn't woken up because Wen Yan was too heavy-handed.

Facing Big Sister Ye's gaze, Chen Tao hesitated for a while before squeezing out a sentence.

"For now, there's no issue with the curse, as for the rest... better send him to the hospital..."

Wen Yan chuckled dryly on the side, thinking, the man was nearly dead, and he used Grandma's offerings to stabilize him, ensuring he wouldn't die.

Who would've thought, one slap and the man was knocked out, still unconscious till now.

He picked Brother Ye up quickly to send him to the hospital.

They arranged for him to be hospitalized and conducted a CT scan, which indicated mild concussions and spinal misalignment injuries that had been treated, though there wasn't much serious.

Once Big Sister Ye was completely reassured, Wen Yan wheeled her out of Brother Ye's hospital room.

"Big Sister Ye, tell me about your clan members' stories, especially about those two Golden Pagodas I sent back this time, what were they like when they were alive."

"Are they related?" Big Sister Ye was very perceptive.

"Your brother doesn't have much to do with them; it's just my curiosity." Wen Yan replied with a smile, casually.