Mortal Mirror

The Fish City Burial Ground is located about two or three kilometers east of Fish City. This area features a huge valley covering hundreds of acres, known as Yellow Maple Valley due to the many maple trees planted there.

The entire valley is densely packed with tombs. Wealthy families build grand and imposing mausoleums, while those less fortunate settle for a simple coffin, a dug-out pit, and a mound of earth, marking the end of their lives. The poorest are simply wrapped in straw mats and left anywhere in the valley, their bodies left to rot or be scavenged by wild cats and dogs.

Death is the same for everyone; they know nothing, just a pile of soulless flesh. The wealthy's ancestors protect their descendants, while the poor have none, so no protection is needed. If they are lucky, a few bones might remain in a dog's mouth, and a dog that likes to bury things might dig a hole and bury the bones, which can also be considered a form of burial.

The nights in Yellow Maple Valley are the most terrifying around Fish City. The place is swept by eerie winds, and passing through the valley entrance, the wind often sounds like ghostly wails, sending shivers down your spine.

Tonight, the night is dark and the wind is high, almost pitch black.

At this moment, a streak of light flashes across the sky like a shooting star.

Shortly after, a figure lands in front of Yellow Maple Valley. It is none other than Li Ergou, who has rushed all the way from Orange Mountain. If you ask which place in Fish City has the heaviest Yin energy, it would be here.

Li Ergou puts away his flying sword and feels the icy wind, shivering all over. He sneezes and says, "This place is so cold, I wonder if it will breed any powerful ghosts."

Looking from the valley entrance, green ghost fires burn continuously in the valley, illuminating the dark valley with a green glow. Li Ergou raises his eyebrows, hesitates slightly, but finally grits his teeth and walks into the valley.

After all, nothing can stop his dream of becoming stronger and repairing his root bones. Is there anything more terrible in this world than being ridiculed by others?

Li Ergou considers himself to have a worthless life, not even afraid of death. As for ghosts, let the ghosts be damned.

"Aunt, Aunt..."

Li Ergou sees several pairs of green eyes looking over from the trees in the distance, unsure if they are owls or cuckoos.

The bird sounds do not frighten him but instead ease his tense heart. At least there are a few living things.

Li Ergou thinks for a moment, flies into the air, and searches around, heading towards the place with the most ghost fires, because this place has the densest Yin energy and is the best place to communicate with the underworld.

In his opinion, the Burial Scripture is a method of stealing the aura of the underworld. He has to admire the person who created this technique, who must be a genius of heaven and earth, capable of creating a method of the underworld in the human world. Li Ergou cannot help but admire such a person.

Soon, Li Ergou finds a place where the ghost fires are clustered together and descends.

Here, countless bones are scattered on the ground, forming a thick layer. It is unknown how many people have been thrown here.

Li Ergou bows to the place and says, "Dear ghost brothers, please don't be angry. I am just borrowing this treasure land and will definitely not disturb your rest."

As soon as he finishes speaking, he takes a step, and hears a cracking sound. Looking down, he sees that a dead man's head under his foot has been crushed into several pieces. Li Ergou smiles bitterly, thinking that he really did not do it on purpose.

Then, he finds a flat place, and uses a few dead men's heads to level out the uneven ground. With a wave of his hand, a black coffin flies out of the bronze mirror and lands on the ground with a bang.

The huge noise echoes through the valley, startling the birds in the trees, which squawk a few times and fly away.

Li Ergou ignores them and immediately jumps into the coffin.

He lies on his back, closes the coffin lid, and begins to run the Burial Scripture, constantly circulating it.

Burial means hiding, taking advantage of vitality. The world has Yin and Yang, and the interaction of Yin and Yang will become wind. This wind rises to become clouds and falls to become rain. This wind is called vitality, traveling through the sky and earth, breeding and nourishing all things.

The human body receives it from parents, and the body inherits the vitality of the parents. The body given by the parents will receive the protection of the parents' vitality.

Living people are the condensation of vitality, but after death, the vitality will not dissipate, but will condense in the bones, continuing to protect future generations.

This vitality, although not the bloodline energy that the parents originally condensed, can be absorbed by the power of the Burial Scripture, and then fused with the energy of the underworld, which can be used to nourish the Dao fetus and gradually complete the innate Dao fetus.

As he runs the technique, a powerful suction force emanates from the coffin, and the vitality in countless bones is extracted by the powerful magic power. At the same time, the surroundings of the coffin become darker.

A dark aura rises from the ground, and the entire valley seems to become quieter because of the arrival of this aura.

Li Ergou did not expect that the aura of the underworld would be attracted so easily. The dark aura continues to condense, forming a vague portal in front of the coffin.

After the portal is formed, more aura of the underworld begins to slowly arrive.

Li Ergou seizes the opportunity to absorb this aura into his body, and sees countless ghostly auras and vitality begin to fuse under the operation of the Burial Scripture.

They gather in Li Ergou's dantian, and then the innate Dao fetus opens its mouth and sucks in this aura, and all the aura is sucked into the body of the Dao fetus.

Seeing this strange scene, Li Ergou cannot help but feel amazed. He never thought that this Dao fetus could be like this.

At this moment, he suddenly has an idea, whether this Dao fetus is alive or dead, whether it will have its own ideas.

As soon as this thought comes out, he immediately feels ridiculous. He is really idle. It is better to keep his mind steady. If he is not careful, he will be completely finished if he goes crazy.

But he does not know why, his mind begins to constantly generate chaotic thoughts. Suddenly, he sees many, many life fragments of others. These fragments make his brain unable to stop. If this continues, going crazy is only a matter of time.

Li Ergou finally realizes that this Burial Scripture is not as simple as he thought. It can not only absorb the vitality and ghostly aura of those people, but also absorb the resentment, memories, and various thoughts of those people before they died.

Without a person of great perseverance, he cannot practice this technique at all. Before long, those things can drive people crazy. It seems that he was too happy too early.

He finally knows why the old man of the coffin shop sealed this technique in the coffin and did not let his descendants practice it. This may be the biggest reason.

He is clever but is mistaken by his cleverness. He thought it was a peerless skill, and he was fortunate to get it, but he did not want it to be the world's number one suicide skill.

No matter what Li Ergou does, he cannot stop those things. Those thoughts and various negative auras pour into his mind like a tide. Li Ergou only feels that if this continues, before long, even if he does not go crazy, he will go crazy.

What to do, what to do, a single mistake will cause eternal regret, all because he was too greedy, thinking that he had obtained a peerless treasure, but he did not want it to be an evil way that kills people without bloodshed.

Side door, side door, that is all, terrible, he is dead.