Holy Bone

Chapter 133 Those who obey the fate are sad, those who change their fate against the sky die (12k chapters, please subscribe and ask for a monthly ticket)
Long way to go.

The world is long.

On the official road with no end in front and no way back, facing the long shadows drawn by the setting sun, walking a strange combination of one old, one young and one sheep.

The old and the young are lightly dressed, and the sheep that look like calves are carrying heavy loads and luggage.

At this time, it was two days since Jin'an went to the Trumpet Urn Coffin Temple, dug up the bones of Wang's father and son, sent them home to reunite with their families, and buried the other victims.

Something happened in Chang County, and Jin An planned to go to the state capital to fulfill the last wish of Taoist Wu Zang for the next trip, but only when he went to the neighboring county of Chang County would he have a ferry to board the big boat to the state capital.

Jin An was on his way to the ferry in the neighboring county.

When walking in the shadows, he heard the last wish of Taoist Wu Zang, which may be the persistent obsession that Taoist Wu Zang refused to let go.

Jin An intends to go to the state capital to look for the old man of Taoist Wu Zang.

"Old Daoist, your soul injury has healed, and Chang County is over, why don't you continue to travel around the world, why are you still with me?"

Jin An was quite speechless looking at the old Taoist priest who had depended on him all his life.

The old Taoist twirled his long beard lightly, and said shamelessly, "Little brother, you have a kind heart, old Taoist, I think little brother, you will be able to cast a golden body of merit one day, isn't there a saying that says that one can ascend to heaven, old Taoist?" I also want to see how unbearably cold it is in Guanghan Palace."

Guanghan Palace?
"Old Daoist, are you a chicken or a dog?"

Jin An was amused by the old Taoist's words. Isn't it a derogatory term for one person to achieve Taoism? No one would use a derogatory term to describe himself.

The old Taoist's face turned black, and he said nothing, saying that Jin An was calling him an old dog, and that he was a metaphor, so to describe it.

With the setting sun oblique.

An old man and a young man walked on the official road to the neighboring county, bickering all the way, with a calf and big goat behind them.

BAA Baa baa.

During the bickering all the way, Sha Yang occasionally found a sense of existence.

It is about a hundred miles from Chang County to neighboring counties, and it is not possible to walk there in a day or two. Seeing that it is getting late, before dark, one old, one young, one sheep, plan to find a village to stay for one night.

Finally, before it was completely dark, they finally found a place to stay.

It was a small mountain village built by the river. This is a river branched from the Yinyi River, and the water in the river is a bit turbulent.

The diversion just passed in front of the village.

This is a typical village built along the river.

The two of them and the sheep hadn't entered the village yet, suddenly, there was a plop, and a wave was blown in the river passing by, and they faintly saw a person floating in the river?

At this time, because it was getting dark, it was not clear whether there was a person floating in the river for a while, so Jin An and the old Taoist hurried to the river, only to see two people floating in the river.

It should be more accurate to say that there is only one person floating.

Because the other person was a floating corpse with its face down, one person grabbed the ankle of the floating corpse and floated all the way down the river, just in time to float to the bank of the river and be rescued by Jin An and the old Taoist priest.

Strange to say, when the person was rescued, there was a splash, and a wave hit, and the floating corpse in the river was swept into the bottom of the river by a wave, and disappeared. It was not even clear whether it was a man or a woman at night.

The old Taoist exclaimed in surprise: "Old Taoist, why do I think that this floating corpse is to save someone, and deliberately sent this person in front of us to let us save him?"

After Jin An listened to it, he thought it was really like what the old Taoist said.

After all, everything is too coincidental.

But there is no time to think too much at this time. Saving people is the most important thing. Jin An found that the person rescued by them still had a pulse, but his body was cold. He had a high fever and was unconscious all the time, looking at his deathbed.

Even though this person was in a coma, he was still holding a broken sword tightly in his hand. He must be a Jianghu swordsman. He was seriously injured. The wound was on his back. It was skinned alive, revealing that the back muscles were soaked white and rotted in the water, and many strange insects were also parasitized.

Such a serious and strange injury seems to indicate that the origin of this Jianghu swordsman in front of him is not simple?
"Too bad, the flesh on his back is dead. We must find a place to treat him quickly and scrape off the dead flesh on his back."

The old Taoist who is still a wandering Taoist has experience and said solemnly.

So, Jin An carefully picked up the man and let the goat carry him to the village ahead to find a doctor to save him.

But when he was lifting the man onto the sheep's back, Jin An was suddenly startled: "Huh? This man has a lot of corpse and yin energy... Is this a dead man who has transformed into a corpse?"

"No, there is a pulse, and scraping off a bit of soaked carrion on the back, it does reveal fresh flesh and blood, and it is still bleeding. Why does this mysterious swordsman look like he is covered with black and dead air? Has the characteristics of a living person on his body?"

"Is it a hermaphrodite?"

Jin An stopped the sheep for the time being, and then told the old Taoist priest what he had found, and let the old Taoist priest see what was going on. Jin An has always admired the old Taoist priest in terms of knowledge and knowledge.

Professional things are naturally left to professional people, and Jin An is very self-aware.

And if the swordsman in front of him is really a dead person or a strange corpse, and if he sends this unknown swordsman into the village of ordinary people, then this is not saving people, but killing more ordinary people.

Hearing Jin An's words, the old Taoist hurriedly checked the swordsman on the back of the sheep again. This time, he checked carefully several times. The old Taoist touched, looked and smelled, and after contemplating for a while, he finally confirmed: "This The young swordsman is indeed a living person, but he is a little different from a normal living person, and he should be a living person who is rarely seen in the Jianghu."

"Live and dead?" Jin An looked at the old Taoist priest.

"The dead face of a living person means that he is clearly a living person, but he has a dead person's appearance and a dead breath. This kind of person is usually rare, because it is usually acquired, and only two industries will spend a lot of manpower and material resources. Financial resources, cultivate this kind of person from an early age."

"One is a corpse hunter."

"The other one is the grave robber."

"As for the old Taoist, I have just seen this man's index fingers and palms one by one. His fingers are slender, soft and boneless. The fingers and palms are not as rough as the boatman's perennial wind and sun, and are covered with thick calluses. So the old Taoist I deduce that this person should not be a corpse hunter who lives on water and salvages corpses for others, but a grave robber."

According to what the old Taoist said, no matter the corpse hunter or the tomb robber, they deal with the dead every day, and deal with all kinds of weird places and water holes where corpses are hidden. It is also more fierce.

It is no exaggeration to say that every river must have drowned people, and every place with mountains must have buried dead people. If you encounter those special places, the strange waterways that ordinary corpse hunters cannot go, and ordinary tomb robbers cannot get down. The tomb of the king, this requires a specific master to take action.

So later, among the corpse hunters and tomb robbers, a special kind of person appeared, who looked like the living and the dead.

It means adopting little beggars from childhood, or abducting and selling children from Huazi, and forcing them to grow up from eating dead corpses, dead corpses in seven days, dead corpses in ten days, dead corpses in half a month...

One year, ten years, 20 years...a hundred years...

Gradually increase the difficulty, endure the pain that ordinary people can't bear, and eat until you grow up and become an adult. Even ordinary ghosts can't see this kind of people.

Because in Yin Xing's eyes, he only saw the walking corpses of the same kind, and they were dead people, not living people.

However, this kind of person is not easy to cultivate, and the fatality rate is extremely high. It is not possible for one child in a thousand to be successful.

After listening to the old Taoist's introduction to the death of the living, Jin An was taken aback.

This person in front of him is not a swordsman, but a robber who is more ruthless than a ruthless man!

"Shouldn't the tomb robber be the enemy of all the tomb owners in the world? The floating corpse just now must have come from the ancient tomb, so why did the floating corpse just save him instead?"

The old Taoist said, how do I know the old way, I should be able to know after resuscitating people, maybe there are other skills in the appearance of living people and dead people, such as being able to manipulate corpses or something?

Jin An thought for a while, although tomb robbers are quite hateful, but after hearing what the old Taoist said, he felt that these people who were cultivated by the day after tomorrow to be living and dead are quite pitiful.

He finally decided to save people first.

Fortunately, with money to clear the way, Jin'an found accommodation at the doctor's house in the village, and asked the doctor to help him.

However, it is conceivable how good the village doctor's medical skills can be. In the end, Jin An asked the village doctor to try his best to save people.

Scraping the flesh to heal the wound is not something that can be done in a short period of time. It took nearly an hour to complete this huge process with the help of Jin'an and the old Taoist priest who kept changing the hot water and changing the linen.

This didn't make the old Taoist priest tired enough.

But until after scraping the carrion on his back, applying hemostatic medicine, and wrapping his upper body with sackcloth to isolate the wound from infection, the thief who Jin An rescued was still unconscious the whole time.

After the village doctor gave him a few more bowls of medicine, he told Jin An that whether a person could be pulled back from the gate of hell depended on his own luck. The injury was too serious, and he had tried his best.

Jin An thanked the village doctor, and fell asleep exhausted by several people that night.

……

The next morning.

The day's plan is in the morning, and Jin An is breathing in the morning glow. When he was practicing the "Secret Biography of the Five Viscera", the old Taoist priest who couldn't stay idle early in the morning and didn't know where he went, suddenly came back in a hurry, nervous. Find Jin An.

As soon as the old Taoist entered, he nervously closed all the doors and windows.

"Little brother, old dao, I just inquired about something. You will never guess what I found out, old dao."

"Little brother, do you still remember that Mr. Yin Yang who took you away? Coincidentally, he is from this Hegu Village!"

After listening to the old Taoist's words, Jin An finally understood the whole story.

This village is called Hegu Village.

Although it was only built against a tributary of the Yinyi River, when the rainy season came in previous years, there would occasionally be floods that flooded the village, and many villagers were drawn into the river.

The more people die, the easier it is for some strange things to happen.

Every night during the rainy season, strange things happen.

For example, the villagers can occasionally hear the cries of the villagers who were swept into the river by the flood before.

Until later, a gentleman in the village begged for a knife and hung it under the arch bridge as a township for the whole village, and there were no more strange things in Hegu Village.

That knife is called Jiaojiao Cutting Sword.

But just a month ago, a group of antique dealers passed by Hegu Village. In the name of buying antiques, they set their sights on the century-old antique knife in Hegu Village.

At the beginning, this group of businessmen bought a lot of ordinary vases and ordinary porcelain bowls from the villagers at the price of antiques under the guise of buying antiques.

It wasn't until they became acquainted with the villagers that this group of antique dealers finally revealed their true purpose. They had been following Zhan Jiao Dao from the very beginning.

They want to pay a high price to take away the knife that has a history of hundreds of years.

The villagers disagree.

The group of antique dealers were polite at first, and continued to stay in the village, wanting to buy it several times, but each time they were resolutely rejected by the village elders led by Mr. Yinyang.

But later, everyone suddenly discovered that strange things began to happen in the village every now and then, especially the cries of those drowned villagers by the river began to appear again.

In the beginning, these cries were still outside the village.

Then began to enter the village.

More and more strange things followed.

The hundred-year-old Zhenjiao knife hanging in the village seems to have lost its effect.

At that time, Mr. Yin Yang was isolated and was killed by that group of antique dealers who were sure to win. It seemed that there were also some experts in that group of antique dealers to help.

Following the death of Mr. Yin Yang, and the accidental death of several clan elders who took the lead in rebelling, the villagers of Hegu Village were timid and fearful, so they sold the Jiaozhan Dao.

And because Mr. Yin Yang was the one who took the lead in rebelling the most, these villagers were afraid of getting caught up in the fire, so they also began to alienate Mr. Yin Yang's family.

"Just now, the old Taoist, I inquired about the location of Mr. Yin Yang's house. When I went there, the old Taoist, I found that the grandson left by Mr. Yin Yang was no longer at home. He went to the empty house, and he should have been picked up by the big fellow Daoist as promised."

The old Taoist finally said.

After the old Taoist finished speaking, he couldn't help scolding these villagers with white-eyed wolves, it was a waste of time for Mr. Yinyang to stick to the village.

After hearing this, Jin An lowered his eyebrows and pondered. He never expected that so many strange things would happen after Mr. Yin-Yang's death. Sure enough, he guessed right from the beginning, and buried in a black coffin, Mr. Yin-Yang's death was indeed in vain.

"It's been so long. Those antique merchants who came to Hegu Village to forcefully buy Zhanjiao should have left, right? Do the local villagers know where those antique merchants went after they left Hegu Village?" Jin An asked after pondering.

The old Taoist shook his head, saying that it was too late for the villagers to hide from the group of antique dealers, so they would not take the initiative to ask for news.

Inquiring about information, the old Taoist priest, a wandering Taoist priest wearing Taoist robes, is the most suitable to do it. They will stay in Hegu Village for a few days, so Jin'an asked the old Taoist priest to continue to inquire.

The old Taoist is also a person who can't be idle, otherwise he would not run away early in the morning without a trace, so he agreed and took the initiative to take care of this matter.

In fact, according to the original plan, Jin An planned to stay in Hegu Village for one night before leaving, but he saved a robber on the way, and saved people to the end, so he planned to wait until the tomb robber picked up halfway woke up before leaving.

In the next two days, Jin An's life trajectory in Hegu Village was simple.

Practicing the "Secret Biography of the Five Viscera" in the morning to breathe and breathe.

Day and night are practicing Jianghu martial arts.

During this period, some energy will be spent, three or four times a day, to cross the visceral energy of the tomb robbers who have been picked up, to help them save their lives and recover from their injuries.

The most vulnerable part of the human body is the internal organs. As long as the injury of the internal organs can be stabilized and the vitality of the internal organs can be restored, half of the human life can be recovered.

The old Taoist priest has been wandering around the village for the past few days, not only asking for the latest news about the overnight destruction of Chang County, but also asking if there is any big tomb nearby.

Since the tomb robber picked it up from the river outside the village, it should have come from an ancient tomb in the vicinity, but there has been no new progress.

It was the tomb robber who suffered the most serious injuries. After the first two days of having a high fever, the fever finally subsided. I don't know if it was because of Jin An's insistence on crossing the viscera every day that he could survive even such a serious injury.In the early morning of the third day, the village doctor happily ran to inform Jin'an and the old Taoist priest that he had woken up.

"You two have to be mentally prepared. Although your friend is awake, it seems that he has a high fever for too long, and something has happened to him..."

The village doctor hesitated to speak but stopped talking.

"He doesn't seem to be able to speak anymore, and he has forgotten the past. It's a bit like his brain has been burned out by a high fever."

Does this mean that the brain is burnt into a fool?
Jin An and the old Taoist entered the room full of the smell of traditional Chinese medicine, and saw the tomb robber with his upper body covered in sackcloth, sitting motionless on the bed, with no expression on his face.When he heard the movement and saw someone coming in, his eyeballs would also roll, and he looked in the direction of the door, and he didn't look like a fool's distracted gaze.

But people just sit still.

Not a word.

No emotions.

Like a woodcutter.

Did you ask him if he was hungry?Are you thirsty?Is there any pain or discomfort?He will not take the initiative to respond to you, but when the village doctor handed over medicinal soup and light gruel, he knew how to eat by himself, and he also knew how to drink porridge with chopsticks.

People are not stupid at all.

It’s just that he’s as stupefied as a wooden man, and if you don’t take the initiative to tell him what to do, he can sit in a daze for a whole day without moving.

If you ask him about his identity, whether he remembers the past, why he fell into the water, and what happened to his back injury, the tomb robber remains silent, as if he has lost his memory or was born dumb.

Jin An was speechless.

What's the difference between them and saving a dried salted fish?If you don't take the initiative to flip this salted fish, people won't bother to move it.

Now that the person has been rescued, Jin An and the old Taoist plan to continue on the road.

They bid farewell to the tomb robbers, left some loose change, and prepared to go on the road. It was Jin'an's kindness to save someone's life, and it was impossible to bring the other party with them.

But who knows.

Just after saying goodbye, Jin An and the old Taoist priest had just left the village. They had been following the tomb robber who was a wooden man who would not take the initiative to move.

Seeing the tomb robber who took the initiative to follow, the old Taoist was happy: "Little brother, it seems that he is not really stupid."

"You go, don't follow us anymore, I already have two mouths to feed, and I can't afford one more." Jin Anchao refused the tomb robber.

Old Taoist: "?"

Silly sheep: "Baa."

As a result, just after Jin An, the old Taoist priest, and Sha Yang left, the Mulen tomb robber followed up again. They stopped, and the tomb robber stopped too.

They continued on their way.

The grave robber also continued to follow silently.

No matter how hard you rush, you can't drive away.

Seeing that the other party was planning to rely on him, Jin An asked the other party speechlessly: "Why have you been following us?"

Unexpectedly, the tomb robber, who had always been mute and silent, actually spoke this time, and he was not dumb.

"Master."

The tomb robber shouted at Jin An.

Jin An: "?"

Old Taoist: "?"

Shouting master, Jin An was stunned.

The old Taoist looked at Jin An with a shocked face. He never thought that you, little brother, are still a deep-seated tomb robber. The old Taoist, I have a pair of piercing eyes that have read countless people, and I sometimes go astray!
Jin An ignored the dishonest old Taoist for the time being, because after Dead Face Thief called him Master, the familiar sense of Dao came again.

Jin An was completely dumbfounded now.

"What did you call me just now?" Jin An asked again.

"Master."

The grave robber yelled a second time.

really.

Jin An was delighted.

That was not his illusion.

Sure enough, the familiar sense of Dao came to him again.

Jin An used a qi-watching technique on himself, counting Yin virtues——

Sixteen thousand one hundred and four.

Among them, one thousand yin virtues are obtained by walking the yin and beheading the old body in the coffin temple.

Although the old body of the murderer in the white coffin is powerful, most of his strength has been weakened, which is equivalent to a drop in grade by several grades, so Jin An has not gained much virtue.

The coffin temple didn't contribute much Yinde to eliminate demons. On the contrary, in the catastrophe that overthrew the entire city of Chang County, the Yinde he gained from saving people accounted for the majority, more than 1.

Deducting the remaining two yin virtues, it means that every time the mulen tomb robber calls him master, he can gain one yin virtue.

Jin An was really confused now.

Calling someone master can also get Yin virtue?
"Old Daoist, you can call me Master and give it a try."

The old Taoist naturally didn't call out for beating him to death. He was a teacher for one day and a father for the rest of his life. Little brother, are you trying to take advantage of the old Taoist?

Jin An didn't force the old Taoist priest to call him master, he fell into deep thought.

"Could it be that the tomb robber who was picked up knew that I saved him, so sincerity is true, and every time I call master, it is a heartfelt gratitude and a sinful virtue?" Jin An thought in his heart.

"But it's not right. I, Jin'an, have always been happy to help others. I have always had the noble consciousness of being everyone. I am often thanked by others on weekdays. Why do other people have no morals? So... it should be because of my heart. Sincerity is spirit, besides sincere thanks, is it also related to the physique of the living and dead of this tomb robber?"

If there is any difference between this robber and ordinary people, it is the physique of a living person and a dead person.

According to the old Taoist, the body of this living person grew up eating corpses, so the accumulation of dead energy in the body is serious, not only the dead energy of one corpse, but the dead energy of many corpses, even the upper body. Hundreds, is it because the tomb robbers are grateful for one time, which is equal to the gratitude of hundreds of people?
Jin An didn't have a clue for a moment, but who cares.

Having Yin virtue means that sincerity leads to spirit. This tomb robber did not have any other ulterior motives to approach him, but he really thanked him sincerely, but his gratitude was very unique, one master at a time...

At this moment, Jin An suddenly felt that it was not so unacceptable for him to pick up an apprentice for nothing.

"Disciple, call Master a few more times to listen."

"Master."

"Master."

"Master."

Jin An beamed with joy, the more he looked at the tomb robber with the amnesiac dead face in front of him, the more pleasing he was.

The old Taoist was shocked.

What's the trouble?

Just now, little brother, you clearly looked disgusted that you couldn't drive him away, but now why do you suddenly have a deep master-student relationship?

"Come here, disciple, I have met your senior brother."

Jin'an has fully accepted the tomb robber who was picked up halfway.

"Big Brother."

"Third Junior Brother."

The tomb robber called Brother Goat.

Call the old Taoist third junior brother.

The old Taoist almost choked to death on his own mouthful of saliva: "Why am I the third junior brother? I'm not as good as a sheep!"

The tomb robber is like a wooden man with no emotions on his face: "Because senior brother saved my life."

Old Taoist: "?"

The old Taoist couldn't balance his mentality: "The old Taoist is also responsible for rescuing you a few days ago. It was the old Taoist and the little brother who rescued you from the river."

This is obviously calling him old-fashioned and inferior to animals?
The tomb robber seemed to have a zombie face with no emotions, and answered the question and answer in short four words: "I forgot."

The old Taoist suddenly drooped his head.

Along the way, the old Taoist was a little bit lost. He couldn't figure out why he was not as good as a sheep?

The goat is the senior brother, the old Taoist priest is the third senior brother, and the tomb robber is naturally the second senior brother.

"Teacher, do you have a name?" Walking on the official road, Jin An asked the Mulen tomb robber he had picked up.

Shake his head.

"Then do you still remember the old memories?"

Still shaking his head.

Jin An thought for a while, and said: "A person must have a name, so I will tell you to cut the sword from now on. On the day you were picked up, you kept holding the broken sword in your hand. From now on, you will act as a Jianghu swordsman." Don’t let people know that you used to be a tomb robber, and tomb robbery is a capital crime.”

"Shajian, why do you call me Master?"

Jin An has always been puzzled by this question.

Jian Jian, who already has a new name, still has no expression of joy, anger, sorrow or joy on his face: "I always seem to have a voice in my heart that the most important person in this world is called Master, and the most caring person in this world is my brother and brother. "

"So, Master, you are the most important person to me."

"Eldest brother and third junior brother are the people I care about the most."

It was rare for Shajian to speak seriously this time.

The old Taoist priest who had always been unhappy that he was not as good as a sheep, this time he heard the words of cutting the sword, and the smile of an old chrysanthemum suddenly appeared on his face.

Cutting the sword, it looks like a tomb robber with great ability, but he is a living person who is unique in ten thousand. If he can be used as a personal guard by such a mysterious master, at least he will stray into a forbidden place for living people, a corpse cave, or a mass grave in the future What, don't worry about going in vertically and then coming out horizontally.

There are so many dark and forbidden places in the world, why worry about not being able to go?
"Disciple, call Master a few more times to listen."

Long official way, only listen to master, master... endlessly.

……

If you go to the state capital, there are two routes to go.

One is the dry road that is exhausted by boats and cars.

One is more convenient waterways.

A few days later, the three of them and one sheep boarded a passenger ship with a mast to the state capital at the ferry crossing in a neighboring county.

Although it was spring now, the wind on the river was still strong, so there were not many people on the deck of the passenger ship.

Because Jin An was not used to the narrow space of the cabin, he was one of the few people who rarely stood on the deck.

And the sword has been following Jin An.

Looking at the majestic river in front of him, Jin An suddenly felt something and wanted to chant a poem.

But after racking his brains, Jin An suddenly realized that he was not Wen Chaogong, nor did he have a stomach full of [-] Tang poems. After holding it in for a long time, he finally managed to hold back only one nursery rhyme——

Goose goose goose, song to the sky.The white hair floats in the green water, and the anthurium clears the waves.

Boom!
Suddenly, the hull seemed to hit something, and the hull shook violently. The impact was so strong that it knocked the passenger boat full of people across the river, and also gave Jin An a hard time when he was about to recite a poem. He slammed back into his stomach.

At this time, there were panic screams on the ship, and many passengers ran out of the cabin, ran to the deck and asked the crew members what was going on in a panic.Did the ship run aground?

Jin An could see clearly what they hit on the bottom of the boat. It was a broken log, and the broken log was still fresh, as if it had just been washed into the water.

At this time, because of some seasickness, the old Taoist priest, who was dizzy and sleeping in the cabin, also ran up the deck in a hurry to find Jin'an.

When Jin An said that the bottom of the boat hit a crossbar, the old Taoist breathed a sigh of relief.Only then did Jin An know that the old Taoist priest was a landlubber, and he was most afraid of swimming in the water in his life, and the old Taoist priest was worried all the way.

Soon after, the passenger ship continued to sail in the direction of Fucheng.

But in the next few days, the more we sailed towards Fucheng, the crossbars and broken logs in the river began to increase significantly, and the hull of the ship accidentally shook lightly from time to time.

The old Taoist who was already seasick became even more dizzy. Jin An told the old Taoist to lie down in the cabin and stop moving. The more people move around, the more seasick they will become.

Until this day, when there was only one day left before the state capital, the boat suddenly stopped in the middle of the river and stopped moving forward, unable to go forward.

Several boats nearby were intercepted by a government boat. At this time, the boats lay across the river to prevent outsiders from entering.

"What's going on, why is the river locked?"

"It seems that the official's boat is blocking the front."

At this time, a local official from the state capital stood up on the official boat.

"Everyone, there are landslides on both sides of the river ahead, and the river is blocked. The broken logs and branches washed down by the mudslides are all blocked at the narrowest bend in front of the Yinyi River."

"Now our navy is fully cooperating with the state capital to clean up the river channel. It will take about a day to finish cleaning up, and navigation should be resumed tomorrow."

The other party spoke politely, but not arbitrarily official, so the emotions of the passengers and businessmen on the ships were quickly appeased and calmed down.

……

The night is getting darker, the river swallows the moonlight, reflecting the thick black water surface, it seems to be in response to the sentence, the moon is dark and the wind is high, suitable for killing night.

The hull of the boat on the river heaved up and down with the waves, swaying from side to side. It was the first time for Jin An to try to get out of his body on the boat, and it took a lot of effort to finally calm down.

Suddenly he felt his body light, as if he was as light as a feather. Jin An succeeded in getting out of his body on the water for the first time.

Jin An looked around and saw that in the narrow cabin, the old Taoist was snoring loudly, and he was sitting still in a daze, pretending to be asleep, and fell asleep with his face facing the wall of the boat.

The goat wasn't here, of course, he was staying in the stern area with the other animals.

Even if Jin An wanted to bring the goats, the boatman would not agree. After all, the entire passenger ship was not just for Jin An's business, and the strong body odor of the animals would affect other guests.

Jin'an's soul floated above his head, and then took out two yellow talismans from under the palm of his pressed hand, which were the Six Ding Liujia Talisman and the Five Thunder Slaying Evil Talisman.

When the two yellow talismans were close to the body, the warm feeling of the spirit being nourished by the breath of the divine way came back, and the spirit was no longer cold.

Next, Jin An's soul wandered, and he floated to the tail area of ​​the cabin, and found the goat.

When the goat was found, Jin'an was overjoyed. The goat was so seasick that he vomited so badly that he no longer had the energy to make a fuss.

Jin'an's spirit floated around the passenger ship, seeing that there was no other situation on board, then the spirit floated out, and drifted towards the silted river.

He intends to see if the landslide is serious and whether the waterway can be dredged tomorrow. If not, then he can only change the waterway to a dry road.

It was a coincidence that Jin An hadn't drifted far, and unexpectedly bumped into the ship where the official he had seen during the day was on.

Even at night, these government officials still guarded the river with all their heart and soul, preventing unidentified ships from straying into dangerous places in the dark.

Jin An continued to float inward.

The more the spirit floated inward, the more and more broken trees and branches on the river surface. It was not until after drifting for a mile that Jin An came to the silted corner that the official said.

This is indeed one of the most dangerous places on the Yinyi River. It turns sharply, and the river flows even faster here, but at this time it is full of debris washed down from the mountain.If a ship accidentally strays into this place, the current here is so fast that it will definitely not escape the fate of capsizing.

It is night now, and the government officials who were in charge of cleaning the waterways during the day are no longer there.

Because the river water is dangerous at night and the view is not good, it is not suitable for cleaning waterways.

Jin An continued to float in. He wanted to see how long the river was blocked, and his mind wandered. As a result, on the quiet and calm river, Jin An actually spotted a fire in the distance.

That ray of fire was like the dark green phosphorous fire in the cemetery, flickering and extinguishing, flickering and swaying, on this pitch-black river, it was more or less scary.

Jin An was slightly surprised, thinking to himself, who else would come to the river in such a dark night?
He drifted there quickly, and then found a black-covered boat with a green candle-flame lantern hanging on the bow of the black-covered boat.

The scene in front of me is so similar, isn't it the same as the soul-inducing lamp and soul-inducing boat when walking in the shadows?

It's just that the soul-attracting boat here is different from the soul-attracting boat that Jin'an went to the underworld that time.

Jin An was quite surprised this time.

He held his breath and focused on watching.

Gu Yue faced the river.

On the ship imitating the soul-inducing ship of the underworld, there stood a pair of old and young, one of them was about 40 years old, and the other was a young man in his 20s.

Listening to the conversation between the two, the middle-aged man is the second uncle, and the young man is the former nephew, whose name is Zong Ren.

The middle-aged man stood at the bow of the boat, muttering, probably reciting a spell or something, and then threw the copper coins in his hand into the river.

Jin An floated in the distance, watching this weird old and young couple, quietly watching the changes, and did not approach rashly.

Jin An didn't wait long, when he suddenly found a lot of water splashing under the originally calm river surface, and then Jin An was surprised to see pale human faces swollen by blisters floating out of the water.

Their bodies are still underwater, only one pale face swollen with bubbles, raised to the surface of the water, a dozen or so dead faces surfaced, each of them dead with unrepentant eyes, the strange thing is that each dead face A copper coin is pasted on the forehead.

It was the copper coin that the middle-aged man dropped into the water earlier.

And the origin of these dead people is naturally the people who have drowned in the river over the years.

"Is this a corpse?"

"Or call the soul?"

Jin An was surprised.

"Could this be the corpse hunter that the old man mentioned to me?"

But Jin An always felt that the corpse hunter in front of him was a bit different from the corpse hunter he imagined.

Soon, Jin An's conjecture was answered.

The copper coins on the foreheads of those drowned corpses fell off, and then these drowned corpses whose slumber was disturbed, sank to the bottom of the river again.

And those copper coins flew into the hands of the middle-aged men.

This time, the middle-aged man asked his nephew Zongren to row the oar, and after changing the location, he threw copper coins into the river in the same way.Not long after, there were indeed other drowned corpses floating up with a copper coin on their foreheads.

But it was strange to say that the middle-aged man took back the copper coins again, and then those drowned corpses sank back to the bottom of the river again.

This middle-aged man seemed to have been looking for someone purposefully, but he never found the person he was looking for. Instead, some other dead people were fished up.

Out of curiosity, Jin An wanted to see what kind of person the pair of uncles and nephews were looking for, so he followed them all the way, watching them change places again and again, and throw copper coins into the river again and again.

It wasn't until the middle-aged man changed places twenty or thirty times, and the night was getting darker and darker, that the middle-aged man's eyes lit up, and he finally found the person he was looking for.

The middle-aged man reached out to catch the underwater dead man, but he couldn’t catch it at first, and then asked his nephew to find a hemp rope and throw it into the water to hang the corpse’s neck. Then he successfully salvaged the underwater dead man on board. It was a male corpse .

The male corpse looked like he had just died, because his body hadn't been swollen yet.

Next, the middle-aged man began to grope around the corpse, searching for something purposefully.

In the end, his eyes showed joy, and he touched something from the male corpse. Before Jin An could take a closer look, the middle-aged man hastily put it into his arms.

Pfft!
The middle-aged man kicked the male corpse back into the water, with reluctance and resignation, the male corpse sank to the bottom of the river again.

"Second Uncle, we have spent so much effort, why are we just looking for such a piece of broken jade?" Nephew Zong Ren muttered dissatisfiedly, as if he was dragged by his second uncle to blow the cold wind on the river in the middle of the night, and couldn't sleep, causing this nephew small emotions.

The second uncle patted the back of his nephew's head, and cursed gently: "What do you know, this is a good baby."

The nephew disturbed the back of his head, asking what kind of baby it is?

"This piece of broken jade is a treasure, and it is related to a secret story about the corpse detoxification immortal."

Perhaps because he finally found what he was looking for, this second uncle was a little smug and couldn't help but want to find someone to share his inner joy.

It turned out that in the winter of the early years, a certain section of the Yinyi River experienced the worst dry season in a century, and the flow was almost cut off.

On the night when the flow was almost cut off, another miracle happened. A nearby villager salvaged a stone coffin carried by a stone ox from the river where the river bed was exposed.

The stone ox is lifelike, like a living thing, and it looks like a stone ox walking under the river with a stone coffin on its back.It was only this time that the severe dry water once in a hundred years exposed the river bed, and it was discovered.

Sealed in the stone coffin was a half-flesh and half-bone Taoist priest. Many villagers screamed and fell to the ground in fright. Popularity, the corpses in the stone coffin were about to cheat and eat people, so they burned them all.

These villagers knew that they had run into trouble, so they didn't dare to say anything about it. However, no matter how tight the doors and windows are, there will always be air leakage. Later, this matter was exposed. When the government rushed to the village, they only found the dog stuck in the river bed. The bodies of the stone cows and Taoist priests who could not be removed by the villagers had long since been burned clean.

Now the stone ox is still standing in the state capital.

In fact, the Taoist priest is not some evil corpse, but an expert who is practicing corpse detoxification.

The Taoist dissection of immortals refers to the resurrection of a person after [-] years, with limbs severed and still alive. The immortals of corpse dissection include fire, water, and soldiers.

However, the conditions for dissolving corpses are very strict, so few people are willing to repair corpses and immortals.Moreover, the corpse is against the trend of the sky, so in these 300 years, there will be various catastrophes, such as mudslides, river bursts, gnawing by snakes, insects, rats and ants, or people digging graves and doves occupying magpie nests as their ancestral land. Steal away 300 years of fortune...wait to destroy the corpse.

It's exactly what the saying goes: Those who obey the sky will be sad, and those who go against the sky and change their fate will die.

"Second Uncle, you still didn't mention a piece of broken jade, what's the use of it?" nephew Zong Ren muttered.

The middle-aged man took good care of the broken jade triumphantly, then asked his nephew to quickly pack up his things, and rowed away, while he himself got up and entered the awning of the awning boat.

boom!
Blood and skull fragments splattered up, and the middle-aged man was split open from behind with an axe. The blood and brains spattered Zong Ren's face.

At this time, Zongren's face lost the warmth of his uncle and nephew, only the indifference of seeing money.

Zong Ren didn't shy away from the dead at all. After finding the piece of broken jade from the arms of his second uncle who died with regret, he kicked his second uncle into the river with a puff. net.

Then, taking advantage of the cover of the night, Zongren began to row the oars, and hurriedly left the Yinyi River under the night.

When Zong Ren hurriedly rowed away, he didn't realize that when he used the hemp rope to salvage the male body just now, he didn't put it away, and threw the hemp rope casually at the stern. A female corpse was caught by the wrist, and the black-padded boat dragged a female corpse, and they left the center of the river with him and headed for the shore.

The female corpse was young and beautiful, her long black hair fluttered in the water like ghost claws, she was lying on her back on the floating corpse on the water, Jin An saw the strange scene under his feet, his scalp went numb, and a cold chill surged up his back .

And when the boat dragged the female corpse past Jin An's feet, it seemed that the dead female corpse met Jin An's eyes, and Jin An felt a chill of being watched.

But this feeling of watching was only for a short moment. As the female corpse was dragged away by the boat, the sense of prying eyes disappeared, and finally the female corpse was dragged by the boat to the direction of Fucheng.

And Zong Ren, who was against his own second uncle, was in a hurry to leave here, but he never realized that he was dragging a strange female corpse at the stern of the boat to leave with him.

At this moment, he clutched the things in his arms tightly, and couldn't wait to paddle away.

Jin An wanted to follow up and take a closer look at what happened to the female corpse, but he found that his spirit had reached the limit of the distance, and finally had to return to his shell with a heavy heart.

When Jin An returned to his shell, he saw that Chi Jian was still in the same posture he had left before, not even moving a single finger, Mu Leng was in a daze.

If Jin An didn't ask him to eat.

He can sit still for a day with such a salty fish.

That night, Jin An didn't sleep all night.

The strange female corpse that was unintentionally dragged away by the ship always gave him a bad feeling, so after dawn, Jin An, who was full of worries, went to Sharpen.

"Shajian, Master is a little upset now, you can call Master a few more times, let Master know that there is still warmth and care in the world, and there is still virtue in the world."

Sword Shaving: "?"

The waterway resumed traffic until almost dusk on the second day, but only in a small area. In order to avoid unsafe night boats, it was not until the third day that the passenger ship where Jin An was on passed. Narrow waterways with less debris.

After sailing for half a day, the passenger ship finally arrived at the state capital ferry.

As the most prosperous place in the state, the state capital is naturally busy with commercial goods and pedestrians, and there are more porters on the dock than people disembarking.

There are also many bearers and wheelbarrow drivers who stretched their necks. When they saw merchant ships and passenger ships approaching the shore, they immediately huffed and surrounded a large group, wishing to tear them into four pieces to do business in four pieces.

Jin'an, the old Taoist priest, and the goat got off the passenger ship and squeezed through the bustling and bustling pier. If the state capital wants to enter the city, the censorship is much stricter, and you need to check the customs clearance documents before entering the city. The old Taoist priest took out the Taoist dish from his Taoist robe and handed it to Soldiers guarding the gate.

At this time, Jin An, who had already changed into a Taoist robe with five viscera, also took out a Taoism plate.

"Are you really a Taoist priest?"

The soldiers guarding the city gate looked suspiciously at the Taoist or not, the monk or the monk, the scholar or the scholar, and the knight-errant like Jin'an.

"What's the matter with your sheep-like calf?"

No matter how this soldier looked at Jin An, he didn't look like a serious Taoist priest.

Jin'an hadn't experienced any battles in the past month, so how could he be frightened by the aura of ordinary soldiers in front of him, so he replied unhurriedly: "Isn't there a saint among the Taoist Sanqing saints who rode a green bull out of Guanhuahu?" As a Taoist disciple, how could he not keep a cow as a mount in order to pay homage to the holy conduct of the sage?"

"mouth……"

Silly sheep hadn't finished baaing, and just halfway through, he was punched back in the stomach by Jin An.

"Let's go, let's go." The soldier let Jin'an go impatiently.

Because there was already a long queue waiting behind Jin An at this time, and the people in the queue behind were already complaining and urging behind him.

Only then did Jin An and the old Taoist priest successfully enter the capital city of Wuzhou.

Jian Jian did not follow, Jin An asked Jian Jian to find an opportunity to sneak into the city by himself, Jin An believed that Jian Jian, a master tomb robber, would not have difficulty in getting into the city.

As the capital of Wuzhou, the state capital is naturally much more prosperous than the county seat. As soon as the old and the young entered the city, they saw row upon row of buildings on both sides of the market, with three-story and four-story pavilions everywhere.

The prosperity of the state capital can be regarded as an eye-opener for Jin’an who entered the Grand View Garden like Grandma Liu. The wider market, the more prosperous market, the antique pavilions with carved beams and painted buildings, and the exotic culture make Jin’an dizzying. Especially the state capital The Goulan tile shop in Goulan is so lively, there is actually more than one...

Until, a tall stone bull statue came into Jin'an's eyes.

The stone ox is mighty, tall and majestic. It lowers its head slightly and raises its front hooves, as if it is carrying something heavy on its body. The heavy, vicissitudes and sadness of the historical years rush to the face. come.

The stone ox is carved lifelike, and the texture of each tendon muscle has been clearly carved out by the stonemason, as if it is about to break out of the stone statue and come back to life.

Jin An looked up at the three-person stone ox, and his eyes flashed with surprise: "This is the stone ox that the uncles and nephews mentioned last night, carrying the corpse on the stone coffin of the Taoist priest?"

"Little brother, the craftsman who built this stone ox is really ingenious. I am an old man looking at this stone ox, and I have the illusion that it is alive."

The old Taoist said in amazement that he was also shocked by the tall stone ox in front of him.

Jin An sighed regretfully.

Pity.

In the end, the expert still failed in dissolving the corpse.

Now you are left alone in the world, waiting endlessly, you must be very lonely and sad...

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Ps: There are 12k words in this chapter, only 6k words are charged, and the other 6k words are the free words added later. Honestly, a certain person rushed to the street to ask for a monthly ticket ~ thank you guys.

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