This seemed to be the suburbs of a certain castle. From afar, towering city walls could be seen, with soldiers holding weapons standing on them.
The sun was scorching hot in the sky, and there was not a single blade of grass or tree around. The ground was already dry and cracked, but the blood of some unknown animal soaked the land beneath their feet.
It seems to be a famine in ancient times...
As Zhang Daoan was thinking this, a short and fat figure suddenly emerged from the ground in front of him.
"Master Jie!" The short and fat figure wiped the sweat from his forehead, with a subtle fear on his face, but also a sense of luck that he had seen reinforcements. "Master, that evil spirit has killed hundreds of people! We are really no match for it. Please help subdue the evil spirit and bring peace back to this place!"
Jie Fangcheng glanced at the sword in his hand, and vaguely felt that the swords were all golden these days, and his own should also be green...
How could he have such a strange idea
Jie Fangcheng swung his sword unconsciously.
"I see."
The short and fat figure breathed a sigh of relief, bowed to him, and quickly went back into the ground.
Jie Fangcheng flexed his wrist.
"Before doing business..."
He suddenly turned his head and looked straight at where Zhang Daoan was.
It was not until this moment that Zhang Daoan saw his appearance.
He has white hair and strange black lines on his forehead whose meaning is unknown, like countless sword shadows wrapped in thorns.
Under the scorching sun, the pale and dazzling light made his paler face look like a ghost. His lips were bright red, and under a pair of sharp black eyebrows, his eyes were one black and one white. His appearance was obviously gorgeous and a little ghostly, but there was a strange sense of solemnity.
Just as Zhang Daoan was distracted, the person in front of him suddenly approached.
It was clearly Jie Fangcheng's dream, so the "audience" Zhang Daoan should not have been noticed. However, Jie Fangcheng not only noticed it, he rushed to Zhang Daoan in the blink of an eye and grabbed his neck.
Strictly speaking, what was floating in Jie Fangcheng's dream was just a thought, not a soul. But even if it was just a thought without an entity, at this moment, Zhang Daoan still felt the feeling of his neck being strangled.
Zhang Daoan was completely unaware as he stared at the ghostly face that was only half a palm away from him.
So this is what he really looks like
"Huh?" Jie Fangcheng couldn't help but feel puzzled after pinching the person.
He felt like he was being watched, and after he rushed over, he did seem to grab something, but there was clearly nothing in his hands.
Is this another strange little ghost
Jie Fangcheng was scratching his head.
He could feel that the creature that was spying on him was very strange. It had a heavy yin aura on its body that only evil spirits would emit, but there was no stench, which meant that it had not done anything harmful to the world.
Strange thing.
The conditions for becoming an evil ghost are very harsh, and after becoming an evil ghost it is very difficult to control one's desire to kill, because the ghost's diet is very simple and can only be nourished by living people. There is almost no evil ghost that does not commit murder.
A new ghost? It doesn't look like one. The yin energy is so strong that even Jie Fangcheng, who is not very sensitive, can smell it.
And... why does this smell seem familiar
He pinched the thing, not knowing what it was, and finally let go.
"Forget it, you haven't committed any murder, so you'd better reincarnate as soon as possible." As he said that, Jie Fangcheng tucked the sword under his armpit and took it out of his pocket - yes, his black robe actually had a pocket, which was similar to a trouser pocket.
He took out a notebook from his pocket, used his fingertips as a pen, and wrote a few lines on the notebook. After tearing off a page of paper, he pushed it towards Zhang Daoan, and the paper fell into Zhang Daoan's hands.
Zhang Daoan looked down.
Reincarnation expedited recommendation book.
Today, in XX month of XX year, a fierce ghost was discovered during field work. It has no karma possessing it for the time being. Considering that it may acquire bad habits if it stays in the human world for a long time, we urgently recommend it to reincarnate into the underworld.
Recommender: Jie Fangcheng.
"Take this and go find the nearby city god and ask them to help you add a plug. Don't go through the normal reincarnation process."
Given how busy the underworld is right now, evil ghosts can't even find the service window when they enter and have to queue up with ordinary ghosts.
If anything goes wrong while waiting in line, it will affect your future in the next life.
I've told you before that the procedures in this crappy company are too complicated and something will go wrong sooner or later, but no one's listening now.
Some of them were recovering from their injuries, while others were in seclusion, so now Jie Fangcheng, who used to handle accounts underground, has to come out to work in the field from time to time.
Zhang Daoan couldn't help but be stunned when he received the message.
Just as he was stunned, he heard a whistle in his ear.
The sound of whistles echoed throughout the Yin and Yang worlds. In the distance, a Ferghana horse with blue ghost fire under its feet came galloping from nowhere. Black mist surrounded the horse. It seemed as if blood was dripping on the horse's feet with every step, forming burnt black hoof prints on the ground, which disappeared in the blink of an eye.
The horse galloped in front of Jie Fangcheng, neighed, and raised its front hooves high.
Jie Fangcheng jumped up, tightened the reins, and galloped towards the direction of the evil ghost.
The wind was blowing hard, the horse leaped a hundred steps, the scene in front of him quickly receded, the rider's black robe and white hair were blown by the wind, and the only audience in the dream also rushed forward with him.
In a flash, the horse crossed the dry land and entered a deserted village.
Under such bright and blinding sunlight, the village seemed like a rainy day, surrounded by a faint, impenetrable fog, in which one could faintly hear the mournful cries of humans.
Jie Fangcheng got off the horse. The horse lowered its head beside him, nudged him affectionately, and then disappeared into the air reluctantly.
The fog seemed to sense his arrival and rolled anxiously.
Jie Fangcheng walked into this ghost village with a sword in hand.
The village was littered with corpses.
The bodies on the ground could not be seen in their original form at all. They looked as if they had been torn apart by wild beasts, with their limbs, bodies, and heads all separated. Not a single body was intact. It was impossible to tell how many men, women, young, and old there were.
The lingering ghosts were crying sadly, and under an old tree in the village, next to a simmering blood pot, a woman in linen clothes was holding a skinny baby in her arms.
"Don't be afraid, little baby, don't be afraid..." She hummed a requiem and gently patted the lifeless child with her hands.
Xie Fangcheng sighed and walked across the land littered with corpses.
"Liu Yechun, you have killed 347 innocent people. Your sins are too severe. You will no longer have the chance to be reincarnated."
Liu Yechun raised his head.
Her eyes had turned white, there were bite marks on her face, and there were bloodstains on her neck.
"innocent?"
In the mist, the evil ghost let out a savage laugh, and the cries of wronged souls all around were deafening.
"Innocent... What's innocent about them?!"
There was a severe drought this year and the fields were barren. Farmers began to live frugally, but when they heard that the city was about to open its granaries to release grain, they stayed in the village, waiting for that life-saving food.
But they waited and waited, until the food at home was gone, until the only river dried up, until the bark of the trees on the mountain was eaten up, some people had starved to death in the village, and the city gates were still closed.
Liu Yechun's brother opened a shop in the city and secretly sent her the news.
Her brother remembered that she had just given birth to a child, so he saved some money from his teeth to give her a few bites of food.
Liu Yechun took the precious rations and discussed with the boss about escaping to another place.
No one expected that just as night fell, the woman from the neighboring house came to the door crying.
"My eldest and second sons died of starvation, and the head of the family also died. My son and I are the only ones left in the family. He is so hungry that he keeps gnawing on his hands. I could feed him my blood and flesh, but I don't have anything left to give him."
The two families used to have a very good relationship. This was Liu Yechun's first child, and this elder sister-in-law helped him a lot.
She softened her heart and finally gave her a meal from her luggage.
The other party left happily, and Liu Yechun thought he had done a good thing.
But she didn't expect that in the middle of the night, after the family fell into a deep sleep, several figures sneaked in.
Seeing that the bag of food was firmly pressed under Liu Yechun's husband's head, the gang, who had originally only wanted to steal the food and leave, decided to go all out and cut off his head with their knives.
Blood sprayed onto Liu Yechun's face and she finally woke up.
But what's the use
She hadn't had a full meal for a long time and had no strength at all. She looked at the familiar faces of her fellow villagers, each of which was filled with unfamiliar greed and murderous intent.
They grabbed the food, hesitated for a moment, and wanted to move her husband's body away.
Liu Yechun knew what they were going to do. Whenever someone died in the village, some families would have the meat to eat.
She wanted to cry, but she no longer had enough water in her body to cry.
She held Xiaobao in her arms in this room filled with the smell of blood, and she didn't know how she managed to survive until dawn.
After dawn, Liu Yechun struggled to get up and went to find his sister-in-law next door.
But when she went out, several young men from the village came out from the neighboring house and carried out two bodies.
The sister-in-law from the neighboring house was not the first Liu Yechun to be found yesterday. She knocked on countless doors while crying.
But who has extra food to share with her now
It was not until she came to Liu Yechun for help that the crying woman stopped crying. Not long after, it seemed that firewood was lit in the house.
Who doesn't know what happened
Liu Yechun collapsed on the ground.
Just then, the village elders came with their people.
They thought that since Liu Yechun could share some food with others, then their family might have other food.
But how could she have any other food? Her brothers in the city gave her whatever they saved.
After the house was searched but nothing was found, Liu Yechun was hung on a tree in the village and beaten with a whip. It was so painful, but her eyes were dull and she couldn't make a sound.
Seeing such a "granary" right in front of them but no access to food, the elder of the tribe simply asked someone to take her child out.
As soon as he saw his child, Liu Yechun kept begging for mercy and shouting in a hoarse voice, but it was of no avail.
These villagers set up a pot, boiled water, and let a mother watch her child being cooked.
Liu Yechun knew that he should be dead.
She "watched" tears of blood flow from her eyes, her mouth torn from crying and swearing, and "watched" her being taken down from the tree with her eyes open.
She also "watched" herself being put into the pot of soup in which her child was cooked.
The flames were blazing, the pot was full of soup, and a once kind-hearted mother and son died here.
There was a loud thunder in the sky.
Why…
Why?!
The wind blew so hard that it overturned the stewing pot.
The people holding bowls in front of the pot were anxiously trying to steady the pot, when suddenly, fog filled the air.
Liu Yechun appeared in the fog holding her child.
She patted the child in her arms frantically.
“Don’t be afraid, Xiaobao, I’m not hungry…” The white cooked eyes rolled around, looking at the “villagers” who were screaming and running away.
“Don’t be afraid… We will never be hungry again.”
The woman, who used to be afraid to kill even a chicken, now killed everyone in sight, regardless of gender, age or status, until there was no one left alive in the village, and the entire village became a ghost town.
not enough.
Everyone deserves to die!
The people in the village should die, and the people in the city should die too! Everyone!!
Her resentment increased rapidly as she killed people. Before Jie Fangcheng arrived, someone had already come to deal with it.
But while guarding this ghost village and these wronged souls, Liu Yechun's strength grew too fast, and the two newcomers sent by the underworld were almost killed by her.
It happened that Jie Fangcheng was nearby, so he came over to work overtime.
At this time, Liu Yechun was holding the resentful baby in his arms. His hair grew suddenly and his whole body turned white.
"What did I do wrong?!"
She and her husband, they have always been kind people, why!
The evil ghost stretched out its sharp nails and rushed over. Jie Fangcheng held the huge sword in his hand, and with just two moves, Liu Yechun flew backwards.
Two lines of blood and tears flowed from her eyes.
"Are you from the underworld? They say reincarnation is the law of nature! Why didn't these demons reincarnate when they killed my husband and cooked my own children?! Why did you come to stop me when I wanted revenge!!"
Jie Fangcheng was silent.
“Hahaha… You can’t answer that either, right?!” Liu Yechun laughed miserably, hugging the corpse of her child tightly in her arms, “Heaven’s Way? There is no Heaven’s Way!!!”
boom-
The sky was covered with dark clouds and thunder flashed.
Jie Fangcheng immediately rushed to her and swung the huge sword in his hand towards the incoming thunder.
The evil ghosts who cannot enter reincarnation can only have their souls scattered. What ordinary people call "being struck by lightning" means the souls being scattered.
At this moment, Jie Fangcheng's sword dispersed the thunder, and Liu Yechun looked at him blankly.
After striking with the sword, Jie Fangcheng hesitated for a moment.
"Want to meet your husband and son?"
(End of this chapter)