Blood kept flowing out of Qing Tanzi's mouth. The destruction of the paper figures one after another had a great backlash on him, especially the last one. The moment the backlash hit him, he felt that his life span was instantly cut in half!
The hook on my shoulder felt hot, and my collarbone felt like it was about to be torn from my body.
He took a deep breath, pulled out a dagger from his waist, and thrust it into the ground.
Jiang Yu chuckled, turned his wrist, and the chain circled around his wrist. He grabbed the chain with his slender and powerful five fingers and pulled it violently—
"Ah!" A scream came out of Qing Tanzi's mouth.
He no longer cared about the dagger and instead grabbed the chain and dragged it towards himself to relieve the pain caused by the other party's pulling force.
But the man was too strong and he couldn't resist at all. With a click, his collarbone was pulled out by the hook, piercing the skin and flesh, and sticking up in the air.
Not to mention the person involved, even Chen Ling couldn't help but shudder when he saw it.
This move of using his own method to treat others was too cruel, but Qing Tanzi deserved it. Those souls were locked in the porcelain jar by him and tortured for who knows how long. Today's degree was considered light for him.
Qing Tanzi's body was dragged all the way in front of the two people. He opened his eyes, first glared at Jiang Yu viciously, then turned his gaze to Chen Ling.
He gritted his teeth, with bright red blood between his teeth, "I underestimated you!"
Chen Ling looked down at him and said, "Your junior brother is suffering the consequences of his own actions. What does it have to do with me?"
Qing Tanzi almost personally raised his junior fellow apprentice, and they were as close as a brother. The moment he heard the bad news, his heart ached as if his chest was being cut open and flesh was being cut out.
He could never have imagined that the two brothers had been separated for only a dozen days and his junior brother would die at the hands of an unknown young man!
The hatred in Qing Tanzi's eyes became stronger and stronger. He spat out a mouthful of blood and said sternly: "If you hadn't meddled in his business, why would he have died?!"
He supported himself on the ground and sat up with great effort. One hand quietly reached behind his back, his face still showing resentment. "My junior brother took money to do things and helped me solve problems. It's not that his Wang family didn't give money compensation to the person chosen for the ghost marriage afterwards. You are so righteous that you insisted on interfering. The dead can't get compensation, and the living have died in vain! This is all your fault!"
Chen Ling was stunned by his remarks. What kind of bullshit logic is this!
"Human life is given by God, life and death are determined by the underworld. When will it be your turn to make the decision?" Chen Ling frowned slightly, realized something, grabbed Jiang Yu and dodged sideways.
A black silver needle flew out from Qing Tanzi's hand.
The silver needle did not hit the target and was pinched between Jiang Yu's two fingers. His eyes darkened and his voice was cold: "It's corpse poison."
Corpse poison is an extremely evil thing. Once infected, the consequences may be mildest: being bedridden, feeling weak all over, and having a severe reduction in yang energy; or severest: sudden death.
The man holding the silver needle suddenly chuckled, held Qing Tanzi's head with one hand, and stabbed the silver needle directly into one of the other's eyes.
Blood immediately oozed from the eye, and the capillaries hidden in the eyeball were exposed, turning from red to black.
Jiang Yu loosened his hand, lifted the chain in his hand, pulled the man up from the ground, and forced him to look at the six evil spirits that were grasped by the evil spirit.
Every evil spirit exuded a dark aura, baring their fangs and claws, silently telling of their pain and resentment. For some reason, Qing Tanzi suddenly felt at this moment that the resentment seemed to be directed at him!
"I have temporarily opened your Dharma Eyes for you, so you can see all causes and effects."
The voice was as cold as a glacier that had existed for thousands of years. The cold tone carried a sense of superiority and an irresistible pressure.
Qing Tanzi had a bad premonition and was thinking about how to escape when he suddenly felt the iron hook on his collarbone loosen.
There was a clanging sound beside my ear, and the iron hook and the chain were removed together.
He didn't have time to think about it, and his first reaction was to leave here quickly. However, he didn't know that at the same time, Jiang Yu released the shackles on the six evil spirits and easily cut off the chains that controlled them.
Just as Qing Tanzi stood up and tried to escape, the organs in his abdominal cavity suddenly felt a severe pain.
He looked at Jiang Yu and Chen Ling in horror, unable to believe how they had cut off his control over the evil spirit without his knowledge!
The exponential backlash took effect in Qing Tanzi's body, and he even heard the sound of his liver and gallbladder bursting.
Countless amounts of blood gushed out of his mouth. Through his eyes that were contaminated by corpse poison, he saw the cause and effect entangled with the evil ghost. Every cause came from his hand, and every effect was connected by a black line, all entangled around himself.
Qing Tanzi realized the impending danger, held the wound on his shoulder, and ran quickly.
The six evil spirits ran faster than him and caught up with him in an instant, wrapping around him.
Those ugly and bloody faces were stuck to him like plasters. One of them even got into his mouth. The dry hair was squeezed into his throat, causing him to retch painfully.
Chen Ling's scalp tingled as he watched. The other five evil spirits were not idle either. One pierced Qing Tanzi's stomach, while the other two used their nails to cut open his chest and poked the beating heart inside with their sharp nails. Another two tore his flesh with their teeth as if in revenge.
Qing Tanzi was already numb from the pain, and every bit of torture his body had endured was clearly engraved in his mind.
He felt like he had suddenly become a bystander, and what was unfolding before his eyes was a massacre that he was powerless to resist.
Jiang Yu moved his mind, and the powerful Yin energy emanated from his body, bringing the three captured Huangfu ghosts over.
The Huangfu ghosts were trembling. The flesh on the largest leg among them had completely disappeared, leaving only two hard leg bones.
Xie Dao and Huang Fugui were not put together for a meeting or chat. Chen Ling guessed that the ancestor wanted them to confront each other, so he kicked the big one directly: "Are you the ancestor?"
Huang Fugui gave him a fierce look, then looked at Jiang Yu who was looking at him coldly, and hummed in humiliation.
Chen Ling looked at Jiang Yu: "Do you want to ask or should I ask?"
Jiang Yu: “You ask.”
He walked to the side and snapped his fingers and the evil spirits stopped. They did not leave Qing Tanzi's body, but clung to him like maggots on his heels, making him feel the deepest fear all the time.
Chen Ling got the right to interrogate and immediately asked: "Do you know the middle-aged man over there?"
Huang's father ghost glanced at Qing Tanzi. Because his mouth was burned by the talisman paper, he spoke unclearly: "I know him."
Chen Ling nodded: "Who asked you to act like a ghost in the village?"
"It's Qingtanzi." As soon as Huang Fugui finished speaking, Chen Ling cursed him and said, "You are a liar."
He said, "When the fire broke out in the village decades ago, Qing Tanzi was not yet born. Tell me, who told you to lock up the souls of the people who died in the fire with chains?"
"I don't know." After saying this, Huang's father ghost was whipped and screamed in pain.
Chen Ling asked again: "Who is it?"
Who knew that Huang Fugui's answer would still be those three words.
Chen Ling glanced at Qing Tanzi not far away and saw that he was also paying attention to this side.
After a pause, he continued, "When did you start asking the village to sacrifice people to you?"
"I don't remember..." Huang's father ghost tried to make excuses, but was whipped hard again, so he had to answer honestly, "Two hundred years ago."
The bulging, deformed eyes of the Yellow Father Ghost were soaked with tears, and he shouted hoarsely with a burned throat: "I didn't do it voluntarily, someone told me to do it. Living sacrifices, animal sacrifices, feeding ghosts, and giving birth to new Yellow Father Ghosts, these were all things someone told me to do!"
Two hundred years ago... This time is too long ago to be traced back.
The only thing that is certain is that the other party is definitely not a human.
If it is a ghost, then he must have a strong willpower, and is not affected by his own hatred or the outside world. He retains his most complete will from beginning to end.
This is very difficult to do for a ghost wandering in the world.
But if it's not a ghost, then it could be a zombie.
Among the zombies, those that can speak and have self-awareness must be at least above the Mao corpse, excluding the Mao corpse. Because the Mao corpse has a single-minded thinking and does not have the qualifications to plan.
Next is the awakening of the corpse.
The awakened corpse can speak eloquently and has the same thinking as ordinary people. It does not need to sleep, but its appearance will be different during the day and at night.
After the awakened corpse there is the stone corpse.
The stone corpse is a drug taken by an evil master who has reached the end of his life and before his death, which can seal his tendons and veins. This drug can stop the heart from beating and the blood from pulsating, but the brain still has consciousness and can sense the external environment.
Meditating in this state is called the petrification stage.
After ten years of petrification, the power can be greatly increased, the life span can be extended, and the whole person can be said to be reborn. This kind of "corpse" is different from the ordinary meaning. The person has directly transitioned from a near-death state to a "living" state.
Rather than going from death to "rebirth" like ordinary zombies.
Chen Ling suppressed all the thoughts in his mind, glanced at Jiang Yu, and asked Huang Fugui: "Since you have never seen him, how did he give you the order?"
"I can hear him talking..." Huang's father ghost trembled as he thought of the other party's terrifying presence. "He is everywhere. Sometimes he is very far away, and sometimes he is very close, so close that he is right next to me, next to my ears, and in my mind..."
Chen Ling walked up to Qing Tanzi, and the ghosts that had been in his body for all those years showed greedy looks when they saw him, as if he was a hot dish.
Jiang Yu was angered by those covetous eyes, and his aura suddenly rose. In an instant, all six evil spirits lowered their heads and dared not look at Chen Ling again.
Chen Ling then squatted down and said to Qing Tanzi who was lying on the ground: "You haven't seen his true face either?"
"I have nothing to say." Qing Tanzi's mouth was very hard. Even though his whole body was in extreme pain and his mind was in turmoil, he still refused to say anything.
After being bitten by the evil spirit again, he laughed eerily, and his laughter filled the surroundings with wantonness and pleasure.
He stopped and stared into Chen Ling's eyes: "I can't take your life, but someone else can. Someone will avenge my junior brother for me!"
After Qing Tanzi finished speaking, he suddenly took out a small cup from his arms.
The Gu was only the size of a palm. He pushed open the lid with one hand, tilted his head back and poured the contents into his mouth. The thing slid down the root of his tongue quickly and bit through his throat in an instant.
Jiang Yu reacted quickly, grabbing his throat with one hand and thrusting his other hand into Qing Tanzi's mouth.
The lubricating effect of the blood made the thing slide faster, and it entered the stomach in the blink of an eye.
Chen Ling saw that there was a small, thin thing wriggling in Qing Tanzi's stomach, and his body was twitching violently, with blood and foam-like substances constantly flowing out of his mouth.
If you listen carefully, you can hear rustling sounds inside, similar to the sound of being gnawing.
Jiang Yu took his finger out of Qing Tanzi's mouth, released the seal with one hand, and used the other hand to press several acupoints from the chest down from top to bottom, and the thing stopped immediately.
… Unfortunately, Qing Tanzi still died.
His eyes were wide open, staring straight at the dark sky between the branches. Even though he had clearly lost consciousness forever, Chen Ling could still feel the madness in his eyes.
Jiang Yu wiped the still warm blood off his hands, unable to hide the disgust and hostility between his brows, "Turn around."
Chen Ling didn't understand, but he turned around and looked at the several Huangfu ghosts lying on the ground.
A strange sound rang behind my ears, as if something was stirring in something warm and wet. After a moment, Jiang Yu's voice came, "Turn back."
There was a slender black snake in the man's palm. The snake was pitch black all over, but from certain angles, it looked faintly dark red.
Chen Ling frowned, "Snake?"
Jiang Yu: “It’s a Gu.”
Chen Ling recalled the information he had read on the Internet on a whim: "Three Corpse Gu?"
The Three Corpse Gu is made by placing three blue, red and white poisonous snakes in a porcelain jar. After the three have finished fighting, the surviving snake eats the other two, and then a kind of blood-sucking soft worm is thrown into the jar.
If the insect can defeat the poisonous snake, suck its blood dry, bury it in the center of the cemetery for 49 days, then place it in water for seven days, and then take it out, it will become the Three Corpse Gu.
The Three Corpse Gu is ferocious and bloodthirsty. Once it enters the human body, it will release venom and bite at will. Then, after it has almost devoured the softest and tenderest flesh on the human body, it will suck the human's blood and essence.
The essence and blood here refers to the blood of the heart.
Once all the heart blood has been sucked out, the soul that has not yet left the corpse will also be annihilated. This is a very vicious insect that will not leave any way out for itself or others.
Whoever encounters it will be unlucky.
Chen Ling stared at the thing lying obediently in the man's palm with lingering fear, "Luckily you got it quickly, if you were a little later, Qing Tanzi's soul would have dissipated."
Jiang Yu held the head of the Three Corpses Gu and handed it to Chen Ling: "Take it."
Chen Ling stretched out his hand, his movements somewhat stiffly.
Jiang Yu also felt it was quite dirty, so he cast a cleansing spell, and the blood on the Three Corpses Gu disappeared immediately. The dark surface of its body actually reflected a little light, and with its straight body, it looked like a pair of dark metal chopsticks.
When I took the Three Corpse Gu, it felt icy cold. When I thought about how it had just eaten human flesh, I felt a little creepy.
Qing Tanzi must have a lot of secrets, so how could he be allowed to die so easily? Chen Ling took a look at Jiang Yu's actions and knew that he was going to bring Tianhun out for interrogation.
He took a step back to give the other party room to maneuver.
The man put his fingertips on Qing Tanzi's brow, a dark light flashed in his eyes, and the heavenly soul among the three souls was immediately lifted out of Qing Tanzi's body.
The Heavenly Soul represents conscience and memory, and Qing Tanzi's only kindness is hidden in it.
Jiang Yu pulled out the chain again, obviously intending to torture him to extract a confession, "Who is behind this?"
The body had just died, and the soul was still dazed. The Heavenly Soul said in a daze: "I don't know."
Chen Ling remembered what Huang's father ghost said, and asked anxiously: "Hasn't he shown his face to you before? Do you know him?"
"Thirty-five years ago, my parents died in a car accident. The perpetrator was powerful and not only was he not punished, he also turned the tables and said that the main responsibility for the accident was on our parents. We were unwilling to accept the result and filed an appeal. After losing the case, my grandmother was forced to sell all her family property to compensate him. Not long after the incident, she died of excessive grief..."
Qing Tanzi's soul recalled the past, and was deeply shaken. "Since I can do whatever I want with power, I must not be idle and let others trample on me! I must be strong so that those who have hurt me and looked down on me will pay the price! I want them to die, and I want them to kneel down and beg for mercy... God heard my request and desire, taught me magic, taught me how to be a human being, and gave me a new life, so that I can look down on those people's kneeling like a god."
"God is kind and merciful. He will not teach you to kill people and help the tyrants to commit atrocities." Jiang Yu chained Qing Tanzi's soul and almost broke it apart. "The God you are talking about is not a righteous God, but an evil God."
Tianhun laughed, "So what? Whoever helps me will be the one I will be loyal to."
Chen Ling's ears hurt from his laughter, and asked, "When were you sent here to take over the affairs of Fengling Village?"
"Twelve years ago," Tianhun said, "the people in that village were so easy to deceive. Huang Fugui used a little trick to make him, an ugly mountain spirit, worship him as a god."
Twelve years ago again? Chen Ling frowned and asked, "Did you take over because of the fire in Fengling Village?"
"Yes." Tianhun's emotions were unstable, sometimes excited and sometimes depressed, just like squeezing toothpaste, he needed to keep squeezing it to get all the words out.
Chen Ling had no choice but to ask: "What happened that day?"
He remembered clearly that in the fire, the bearded man held a torch and kept shouting "Burn you to death" and "ugly monster". These words made it hard not to wonder if he had seen some of the true face of Huang Fugui.
Tianhun said honestly: "The day of the fire in Fengling Village was the third day after the human sacrifice. The one sacrificed was the village chief's daughter... After his daughter was sacrificed, the village chief missed his daughter so much that he sneaked into the ancestral hall, regardless of violating the agreement with Huang Fugui. He went to a cave along the underground passage and happened to see Huang Fugui coming out of his daughter's belly..."
Anyone who sees this scene will be scared to death. The thing that has been worshipped as a god turned out to be a man-eating monster that came out of a person's stomach.
Chen Ling found it a little strange. "Both the old village and the new village have corridors and caves. Did Huang's father ghost make them himself?"
Qing Tanzi's soul suddenly stopped talking, and his confused soul seemed to wake up a little, with emotions changing in his eyes.
Jiang Yu refused to give him a chance to shut up. He clanged the chain down, and the Heavenly Soul dispersed immediately and then condensed again.
His soul, which had just regained a little clarity, returned to being confused again and continued to answer every question.
"There is an underground river between the new village and the old village, which just connects the two villages. The Huangfu ghost's lair is located in a cave connected to the underground river. The tunnel was dug by the villagers at the request of the Huangfu ghost, which made it easier for the Huangfu ghost to feed ghosts and obtain human sacrifices."
Chen Ling: "Did the village chief see anything else?"
Since the corridors under the ancestral halls of the new and old villages all lead to a nest, could it be that the village chief also saw the things that sank to the bottom of the pool
His guess was correct. Tianhun's answer was: "He saw the skeleton at the bottom of the pond."
Chen Ling closed his eyes, thinking of those densely packed bones. His scalp still tingled. "How many corpses are there in the pool below the nest?"
Tianhun: "Not many, more than 2,000 in total."
Isn't that a small amount?! Chen Ling laughed angrily: "How many of them are from the villagers, and how many are outsiders?"
Tianhun: "Except for the twenty or so that belong to outsiders, the rest are from the sacrifices in the past two hundred years."
"Who are these outsiders?"
"Mountain climbers, campers, and workers during the previous construction." Tianhun said, "They were all killed by the Huangfu ghost after the villagers stopped offering sacrifices. It's a pity that too few Huangfu ghosts can be successfully born from their corpses."
Chen Ling's forehead was throbbing, and it took him a long time to suppress his anger, lest a talisman fly out and destroy Tianhun.
He took a few deep breaths and said, "You and Huang Fugui have done so much work, you must report to your master, how did you get in touch?"
"No contact." Tianhun's face was filled with strong emotions. "The master comes and goes without a trace. He can see everything and control everything. We don't need to report what we do to him. He will naturally find out."
Chen Ling was stunned by the fanaticism on his face. He looked like a cult worshipper no matter how he looked at him.
He endured it again and again and asked, "How did he give you orders?"
Tianhun: "I said, the master comes and goes without a trace, I have never seen him. He exists around us and in my mind. Who else can do this if not a god?"
This is the second time I heard something similar.
First it was Huang's father's ghost, and now it's Qing Tanzi's heavenly soul... No, that's not right, it should be the third time!
Zhou Yuanxin also said something like this. He said that when he had the idea of committing suicide, he heard a bewitching voice that kept telling him to die, die...
Chen Ling suddenly felt a chill. He looked at Jiang Yu and said, "You said that this place and Rongshen Middle School are both places with deep yin energy. Could it be that..."
He frowned in confusion, and for a moment he couldn't think of how to express the strange feeling in his heart.
Jiang Yu said: "You want to say that this is a trap."
Chen Ling nodded. Places with heavy yin energy are prone to evil spirits. They can not only raise corpses and souls, but also ghosts.
This made him think of another place.
He said, "When I went to build a tomb for Mrs. Tang, I heard something about a wild cemetery in Pingshan, East Suburb. I don't know if you've been there, but the mountain has a strange shape, just an arc, standing high on the ground, just hugging the open space on the back of the mountain."
Seeing the other party looking at him, Jiang Yu nodded, motioning him to continue.
Chen Ling: "Mountains represent people and water represents wealth. If a place is surrounded by mountains on three sides and faces water on one side, it is indeed a good feng shui. But the bad thing is that there is no running water on that piece of land, only raised hills. The hills are square, like a coffin blocking the exit of the land. The whole place has become a closed dilemma on all sides."
The accumulated negative energy in such places cannot flow out, and because it is located on the back of a mountain, the sunlight is completely blocked and the positive energy during the day cannot enter.
Over time, a living person would easily feel dizzy if he entered the place, and a corpse lying there for a long time would easily breed evil spirits and even affect future generations.
He didn’t think much about it before because he was afraid of getting into trouble by meddling in other people’s business. But now it seems that the wild cemetery in Pingshan might have been related to Qing Tanzi and his gang
Chen Ling asked Tianhun: "Does the wild cemetery in Pingshan have anything to do with you?"
Tianhun grinned and was about to say something when he suddenly heard a shout from behind. It was Li Hongyu.
In addition to him, Li Daoxuan actually brought a few people from the Special Investigation Department following behind, apparently they were here to provide reinforcements.
The copper coin sword in Li Hongyu's hand had long been torn into a string, tying the two thin yellow father ghosts together. He had many wounds on his body, and the wound on the right corner of his forehead was particularly dangerous, almost injuring his eyes.
Huang Fugui moved too fast, and he beat him to his heart's content. Although it was difficult, he gained a lot.
He was walking in the front and said to Chen Ling from a distance: "I met my junior uncle on the way and brought them over to reinforce you." But at the moment, it seems that it is not necessary.
Li Daoxuan approached and nodded gently and politely to Chen Ling and Jiang Yu.
Then he glanced at the Heavenly Soul, raised his eyebrows, and looked along the iron chain hanging on the ground to Jiang Yu who was holding the chain. He said admiringly: "Mr. Jiang can actually separate the Heavenly Soul from the three souls. I, Li Daoxuan, admire you. I wonder if I can ask you for advice later?"
Jiang Yu glanced at him and said, "Yes."
Li Daoxuan then looked at the body of Li Daoxuan lying on the ground. Seeing that the clothes on his stomach were covered in blood, he asked, "His stomach..."
In order to remove the Three Corpse Gu, Jiang Yu directly made a hole in Qing Tanzi's belly. In order to avoid offending his young fiancé's eyes, he pulled down his clothes to cover the wound after the incident.
Jiang Yu has no feelings for Li Daoxuan and has been ignoring him since they first met.
Seeing that the ancestor didn't say anything, Chen Ling was about to tell the truth about the Three Corpse Gu when his arm was suddenly touched lightly.
Before I turned around, I heard the man say, "I was stabbed by a piece of wood during the fight."