The red umbrella ghost girl nodded and then uttered a string of spells.
After the spell was uttered, the corpses that were originally baring their fangs and claws became quiet.
They stood there dumbly, like wooden stakes. I stepped over and untied the ink lines from the rotten corpses one by one.
Then the red umbrella ghost's spell changed its tone again.
Following the tone, the corpses began to move, one by one walking towards the fire formation and stepping into it.
The orange flames burned fiercely, burning all the corpses that entered the fire-burning magic circle. But they had already died, so they could not feel the pain. The pieces of flesh on their bodies fell off piece by piece under the burning of the flames. The originally white rotten flesh had become charred.
The corpse worms felt the heat and kept crawling out of the corpses, but they were no match for the flames. After crawling out, they "crackled" and exploded like firecrackers. The black slurry splashed in the fire-burning magic circle and was burned by the flames, leaving black marks.
A strong smell of burning, accompanied by the stench of corpses emanated from the fire-burning magic circle.
My master Zhang Chu seemed to be fine, standing far away with a cigarette still in his mouth.
Flames rolled, and corpses walked into it one after another. After being roasted by the flames, even the bones were burned into dregs. At this moment, the fire-burning magic circle was like a huge furnace for refining people.
In order to maintain the heat of the flame, the good energy in my body was also continuously injected into the magic circle.
About a few incense sticks of time passed, and when the last rotten corpse crawled ashore from the yellow water and entered the fire-burning magic circle, I finally breathed a sigh of relief.
But just after the corpses turned to ashes, a "splash" sound suddenly came from the yellow water in the stone house.
Immediately afterwards, a huge black creature emerged from the yellow water.
When we saw the creature, my master Zhang Chu, the female ghost Lu Sujie and I were all stunned.
The creature actually had a human head and looked like an old woman, with black hair all over its body. It was quite large, with two rows of densely packed legs and feet stretched out. It looked like a centipede that had grown countless times larger.
And through my third eye, I discovered that the strange creature was covered with layers of corpse qi.
"Tian Wu! It's Tian Wu, she's still alive!"
The female ghost Lu Sujie screamed in shock, and her soul began to tremble uncontrollably.
Before I could figure out what was going on, the strange creature slowly crawled out of the yellow water.
There seemed to be curiosity in the eyes of its head. It looked left and right, and finally its gaze fell on the female ghost Lu Sujie above the stone house.
"It's you, the Lu family's kid. You're still alive and have turned into a ghost. This is really interesting, interesting!"
A sinister sound came out of the mouth of the monster's head.
I noticed that there was a layer of ghostly aura shrouding its head.
I looked at my master Zhang Chu anxiously and asked, "Master, do you know what this monster is?"
Zhang Chu threw away the half-smoked cigarette in his hand, stared at the monster with heavy eyes, and said: "I don't know what kind of ghost it is. However, its body is obviously that of a corpse worm, and its head should be the head of a ghost."
Hearing the sound, the monster turned its head, looked at me and my master, and sneered, "Yes, you guessed it right. My body is the body of a corpse worm. After so many years, this corpse worm has absorbed enough corpse qi and has grown up. As for my head?"
, that is formed by my soul."
"Now my soul has merged with the soul of this corpse worm, and I have firmly taken the initiative. Let's put it this way, I have been resurrected again through the body of this corpse worm."
However, the monster said angrily at this point: "But you two ruined my good deeds. If I could completely merge with this giant corpse worm, then I could devour these corpses, transform into a butterfly, and complete a new transformation. But I didn't expect to be interrupted by you."
"You two guys really deserve to die."
I was surprised. I didn't expect that this half-human, half-ghost monster could actually merge its soul with the corpse worm and revive. And it even said it wanted to transform. I really didn't know what it would become after the transformation, would it turn back into a human or a worm.
That's a bit scary.
Above the stone house, the female ghost Lu Sujie also had a look of disbelief on her face.
She asked the monster in a deep voice: "Tianwu, what do you mean by saying these words? Could it be that soaking these corpses in the river water of the stone house was part of your plan? Those are the corpses of the villagers of our Hongxiang Village. When they were alive, they believed in you so much. You actually trapped their corpses here for so many years."
A look of resentment appeared on the face of the female ghost Lu Sujie's soul.
But the monster sneered and replied: "That's right, I knew that the villagers in Hongxiang Village would die. And Lu's kid, let me tell you, I was the one who spread the disease into this cave."
Having said this, the monster seemed very proud and actually burst into laughter.
But its laughter made me feel cold.
The female ghost Lu Sujie didn't expect Tianwu to say this.
Her expression was somewhat agitated, her soul was trembling, and she asked coldly: "Why? Why on earth? Why did you kill so many villagers of Hongxiang Village? Don't you feel guilty towards them? Those are lives that were saved."
The head of the corpse worm, that is, the witch, glanced at the female ghost, snorted with disdain, and said: "Lu family kid, you don't know what happened back then. I can tell you now. I believe that after listening, you should understand why I want to destroy Hongxiang Village and why I created a disease to kill everyone in Hongxiang Village."
Later, Tian Wu told Lu Sujie and us about her experiences in Hongxiang Village.
That was many years ago. Qu Mingzhu was just 18 years old at that time, and she was considered a pretty girl in Hongxiang Village. There were many matchmakers who tried to find a date for her, but none of them found a man she liked.
Later, one day an ugly wandering Taoist priest came to the village.
The Taoist's skin was burnt, as if it had been burned. His face was covered with white skin that would occasionally fall off. One of his eyes was bloodshot, and the other was completely blind.
The blind eye looked like a shriveled raisin, embedded in the eye socket.
The Taoist priest was injured and fainted in front of Qu Mingzhu's house. Out of kindness, Qu Mingzhu and her family rescued the Taoist priest.
After careful care from Qu Mingzhu's family, the Taoist priest finally woke up a day later.
After waking up, the Taoist priest was silent, with vigilance in his eyes.
His favorite thing was to stare at Qu Mingzhu and asked her name. Although she was shy, Qu Mingzhu still told the Taoist her name. However, the ugly Taoist lived in Qu's house for a few days and never left.
At that time, Qu Mingzhu's father Qu Congren found something wrong. He noticed that when the ugly Taoist priest's eyes lingered on Qu Mingzhu, there was a hidden evil light in his eyes. Without knowing the Taoist priest's identity, Qu Congren could tell from his eyes that there was something wrong.
I sensed a sense of crisis.
So after a few days, Qu Congren drove away the ugly Taoist priest who refused to leave their house.
But what Qu Congren didn't expect was that Qu Mingzhu disappeared the very next day after the ugly Taoist priest left.
It's a big deal that my daughter disappeared without a trace.
Qu Congren quickly informed the village chief, who arranged for some people to search with Qu Congren.
Believe it or not, half a day later, Qu Mingzhu finally got news.
Qu Mingzhu was found in a cave. But when she was found, she was already unconscious in the cave, with dry grass under her and tattered clothes beside her. Her pants were stained with a lot of blood.
Qu Mingzhu was rescued but lost her virginity.
It turned out that Qu Mingzhu was not missing, but was knocked unconscious by the ugly Taoist priest and taken to the cave, and the ugly Taoist priest took over Qu Mingzhu's body wantonly.
What made the people of Hongxiang Village feel even more horrified was that after Qu Mingzhu's virginity was taken away, black spots appeared on her body. At first, those black spots were only distributed on her thighs, but soon spread to her whole body.
At that time, Qu Mingzhu did not dare to leave the house at all. She thought of death, but was saved by Qu Congren.
With the comfort of Qu's family, Qu Mingzhu's mental state improved little by little.
During that time, in order to seek justice for his daughter, Qu Congren began to look for the ugly Taoist priest. However, the ugly Taoist priest seemed to have evaporated from the face of the earth and disappeared completely.
With no other options left, Qu Congren gave up the search.
But the matter had not yet been settled. After a while, the Qu family discovered that Qu Mingzhu was pregnant. The child was that of the ugly Taoist priest. Qu Congren, who knew about this, was furious and wanted Qu Mingzhu to abort the child. But Qu Mingzhu refused.
But Qu Congren still tried every means to make his daughter abort the child.
So, Qu Mingzhu had no other choice but to flee from the Qu family in order to protect the baby in her belly.
About a year later, the child was born and Qu Mingzhu returned to Hongxiang Village.
She held her child in her arms, but her child was black all over, like charcoal, and his round eyes were full of blood like the eyes of a hungry wolf.
What was even more bizarre was that soon after the child returned to Hongxiang Village, things started to die in the village. At first, it was insects, rats, snakes, and ants that died, and the villagers didn't pay much attention to it. But later, it was large poultry such as chickens, ducks, geese, and dogs that died. In the end, even people started to die in the village.
People and livestock died, and the people in Hongxiang Village panicked. Someone mentioned the Qu family's child, so the villagers of Hongxiang Village pointed the finger at the Qu family and asked them to hand over the "black child".
Hei Hai was the nickname of the child who fed Qu Mingzhu.
Since the Qu family was outnumbered, they decided to hand over the child as a compromise.
But Qu Mingzhu refused to do so. She planned to escape. However, before her plan was implemented, the child was taken away by the village chief and a group of people.
Qu Mingzhu also heard about what happened later. She knew that her child was dead, burned to death.
Not to mention, after Heihai's death, Hongxiang Village really returned to peace and those horrible things never happened again.
As for Qu Mingzhu herself, she became mentally depressed and taciturn because of the tragic death of her own flesh and blood. Later, her mental state seemed to be in trouble. Because of this, the Qu family sought medical treatment and asked many people to come and see her, but to no avail.
Until one day, a witch passed by Hongxiang Village and said that she could cure Qu Mingzhu's illness. But the condition was that Qu Mingzhu must become her apprentice and inherit her legacy. In order to save their daughter, the Qu family had no choice but to agree.
Just like that, Qu Mingzhu was taken away.
(to be continued)
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