"What? Corpse?!" Mo Lingyan and Bai Qishan were shocked after being called by Xie Xuanyang, "You, you mean that the entire Cen family is... all?"
Although they have become cultivators, they are still young people in the end, and they can't take it easy for a while in the face of this kind of thing. They couldn't imagine that the seemingly normal Cen family members were all dead.
The two were so frightened that they knocked the tea in their hands to the ground.
"But, that's not right." Mo Lingyan rolled his Adam's apple and swallowed the horror that was surging in his heart, "They are different from the corpses we've seen before. Xuan Yang, you don't mean that corpses are unconscious, and their behaviors are all based on instinct. ?"
"That's right." Unlike the two who were so frightened that they didn't even dare to touch the tea on the table, Xie Xuanyang poured himself a cup of tea with a calm expression, "But those are living corpses, and the Cen family is all corpses, no accident. people."
A corpse person and a corpse person are just a word difference, but in essence they are very different. The living corpse, the living person is not dead, the living soul is stripped. Corpse, life is gone, the dead return to the body.
If the corpse acted by instinct, then the corpse had no instinct. Their bodies have long been dead. They have no temperature or blood, and they can't heal from injuries. They are real corpses. The corpse can move because of their souls locked in dead bodies.
But once a person dies, the soul becomes a dead soul. Although the dead soul is locked in the body and can move, the body still rots as usual, cannot eat, cannot drink, and cannot do all the same things as ordinary people.
As the so-called body is dead, consciousness still exists.
"The question now is how long has the Cen family been like this." Xie Xuanyang said, "How long have they been corpses."
It's good that these Cen family members are newly born corpses, as long as they use the methods of mortals and corpses, they can be eliminated. If these are more than 100 years old, it will be troublesome, and a spell made of cinnabar containing spiritual energy must be used to match the large array of exorcism. But if it's a thousand years...
Thinking of this Xie Xuanyang's eyes darkened, the hand holding the cup couldn't help but tighten it tightly, squeezing the cup out of cracks.
If it is a thousand years, these corpses will not be able to be dealt with by human beings, even if the monks use the Mahayana treasures to kill them. Their dead souls are blocked in every part of the body, and even if their bodies are destroyed, they will be led by their souls to regroup and get up under the yin of night.
The only way is to open the gate of Huangquan and send them to Huangquan Road, where they will be dealt with by those who come from the underworld.
Xie Xuanyang closed his eyes and took a deep breath, rubbed his temples, "It doesn't matter so much. Tonight, Miss An will be brought into the ancestral hall again, and we will go in behind. Be careful with everything, the corpse of the whole family is gathered here, there must be a big murderer here. The place. If you are not careful, you will die."
The two nodded repeatedly and said yes, they also knew the seriousness of it, so that Xie Xuanyang, who had a deep cultivation base, could say such words. The level of danger under the seemingly harmonious and peaceful surface here is probably no less than that of the secret realm of the Xiuxian world.
Bai Qishan's face suddenly turned pale, and she scolded secretly, "Ancestral hall! Brother Pop said this morning that he wanted to visit this villa, and the Cen family led him to the ancestral hall!"
Mo Lingyan was startled, "Senior brother, where is he now?"
"I don't know, I haven't seen him until now." Bai Qishan's brows furrowed into a ball, "Isn't he already in an accident? I just said how the Cen family would let people into the family ancestral hall casually, and I really feel uneasy. Be kind."
"Don't panic." Xie Xuanyang said, "Brother Pop's cultivation base is already a golden pill, even if they want to do something to him, they can't easily hurt him."
Even if the Cen family is a thousand-year-old corpse, they can't do it. Although the longer the corpse exists, the more difficult it is to deal with, but it is only difficult to destroy. If it is said to be lethal, it is really not comparable to the monks. Unless they have some special magic weapon to help, otherwise the monks in the foundation-building period will not be injured. .
Pop is no longer a cultivator in the foundation-building stage. When he met them a few years ago, he was already a cultivator in the heartbeat stage. After returning from the Lucao mission, he made a leap forward, skipping years of practice and directly advancing to the formation of elixir. Jindan cultivation base has reached the level of apprenticeship in other sects, and he is also a sword cultivator. Ordinary monks can't help him, let alone a corpse.
After being reminded by Xie Xuanyang, the two also remembered that the popular cultivation base was far higher than them, and they couldn't help much even if something happened. Besides, he also carried the life-saving jade pendant given by Daojun Qingxiao. With this fall, once he is killed, he can save his life, and Daojun Qingxiao will immediately know that he will come.
This also applies to Mo Lingyan. Mo Lingyan's cultivation base is not high, but he is also a disciple of Daojun Qingxiao, and he carries a life-saving jade pendant with him. But Bai Qishan is different. He and Xie Xuanyang are both disciples of the outer sect. Without a master, the life-saving jade pendant given by the master is definitely not available.
Mo Lingyan also remembered this, and hummed twice and said that Bai Qishan should follow him, don't run around and get lost. His life-saving jade pendant can protect more than one person, as long as Bai Qishan doesn't sway, he can't lose his life.
Bai Qishan's tone of voice made Bai Qishan's fire burst into flames. If he wanted to grab Mo Lingyan's hair, he pressed his face against the wall, and then slapped him with saliva.
Although Mo Lingyan made Bai Qishan very upset, there was nothing wrong with what he said. Bai Qishan never jokes about his own life, so at night he can only follow Mo Lingyan with a stinky face.
Several people squatted outside An Ran's room, sneaking like thieves.
Xie Xuanyang hid in the grass with the two of them, and wanted to touch his forehead and sigh several times. He swears he's never done anything like this growing up. He didn't know what the two were doing to hide in the grass, and he was so nervous that he had to put on night clothes to cover his face.
With their cultivation base enough to cover up their whereabouts, even if they wear white robes of disciples of the Heavenly Title Sect, as long as there are no monks above the foundation establishment, they will never be discovered.
"My legs are numb, why haven't they come yet?" Mo Lingyan frowned after squatting for a long time, and pinched her legs with a grin, "Mom, I don't feel my legs anymore."
"Idiot!" Bai Qishan slapped Mo Lingyan's hand and pinched it, "Why are you numb and pinching my leg? Don't do it for me."
Mo Lingyan took a deep breath after being beaten, and hurriedly retracted his hand, seeing that the back of his hand was red. "Are you a woman? Squeeze your leg and still kick someone. I seem to be taking advantage of you, but it's just a mistake."
"Shh—" Bai Qishan wanted to say something, Xie Xuanyang stretched out his hand and made a mute gesture, and said in a low voice, "They are here."
There were more than one or two people, all wearing strange clothes. Xie Xuanyang had read the documents when he was staying at the Mansion of the Third Prince, and these seemed to be the clothes of Beichen a long time ago. Now, only the occasional old man of a noble family wears it during royal celebrations.
A group of mighty people, half of them are female dependents. The heads of these female relatives all have huge golden hollow hair crowns, which are especially obvious in the dark night. There are several clusters of gold tassels hanging down from their hair crowns. It looks like a floating ghost.
The female family members walked into An Ran's house and came out in a short while with the gorgeously dressed An Ran.
At this time, An Ran was dressed more beautifully than when she visited the church yesterday, more like a bride. She is dressed in red clothes with golden phoenix patterns embroidered on her clothes. On her head is a winged phoenix crown decorated with many red glaze and orbs. A translucent red gauze is hung from the phoenix crown, and An Ran can be seen through the red gauze. His face was more indescribably hazy than yesterday.
If the royal family knew about this outfit, it would definitely have to be beheaded, which would be outrageous. No matter which country it is placed in, only the mother of the country can wear it.
Several people quietly followed behind them. The road to the ancestral hall was very long, and the group of people didn't even mention a lamp along the way. The beginning of the road was good, there were silk lamps on both sides of the road, but after a certain distance, the silk lamps became less and less, and the light became darker and darker. The last one disappeared, and they walked directly in the dark .
Fortunately, Xie Xuanyang and the others are monks, and their night vision ability is far superior to ordinary people, otherwise they would have been lost.
"Now I completely believe that they are not human." Mo Lingyan whispered, "How can a mortal who is not a cultivator walk in this light? There is no moonlight now."
"So you don't believe what Xuan Yang said before?" Bai Qishan rolled her eyes at him.
"It's just a metaphor." Mo Lingyan pouted and said.
Bai Qishan was too lazy to talk nonsense with him, stared at the group of people and entered the ancestral hall. Seeing that Xie Xuanyang was sure of safety, he made a gesture to them, dragged Mo Lingyan and followed behind Xie Xuanyang into the Cen's ancestral hall.
Entering the ancestral hall, a stench came to the face, and several people almost screamed out of smoke.
"What's the smell?" Mo Lingyan felt like pantothenic acid in his disgusting stomach and wanted to vomit.
"Corpse smell." Xie Xuanyang said, covering his nose with one hand.
It was the first time he had smelled such a strong smell. Although the uncles in his family did work similar to driving corpses, they rarely encountered this kind of smell, and most of them were just a terrible bloody smell.
"Such a strong corpse odor? This is an ancestral hall, it's basically a corpse storage room." Mo Lingyan pinched her nose and said in a dull voice, "No mortal funeral shop does not see this smell."
"Don't talk about it." Bai Qishan looked around for a while, and pointed to a place not far away, "Maybe this is really a corpse storage room."
The two looked at the place where Bai Qishan pointed. There were countless coffins there, and they were so neatly arranged that it made people panic. Looking back at the coffin, there was a mountain of white bones. It was impossible to tell if it was a human bone or an animal bone, but from the intuition of a few people, they were all human bones.
"Oops!" Xie Xuanyang's face suddenly sank, "Evil eyes!"