White Bone Monkey King

It’s a long road.

Heaven and earth are long.

On the official road with no end in front and no path behind, facing the long shadow dragged out by the setting sun, a strange combination of an old man, a young man and a sheep was walking.

One old man and one young man were lightly dressed, while a sheep that looked like a calf carried heavy loads and luggage.

At this time, it was two days after Jin'an went to the Trumpet Urn Coffin Temple, exhumed the bones of the Wang family and his son and sent them home to reunite with their families, and buried the other victims.

Things have happened in Chang County. Jin An plans to go to the state capital to fulfill the Wu Zang Taoist's last wish. However, only by going to the neighboring counties of Chang County can he get a ferry to the state capital.

Jin'an was on his way to the ferry in a neighboring county.

When he was in the yin world, he once heard the last wish of Taoist Wu Zang. Perhaps that was the obsession that Taoist Wu Zang had lingered on and refused to let go.

Jin An plans to go to the state capital to find the old friend of Wu Zang Taoist.

"Old Taoist, your soul has recovered from the injury, and Chang County is also in trouble. Why don't you continue to travel around the world? Why are you still following me?"

Jin An looked speechlessly at the old Taoist priest who had relied on him all his life.

The old Taoist priest gently twirled his long beard and said shamelessly and shamelessly: "Little brother, you have a kind heart. Old Taoist, I think that little brother, you will be able to build a golden body of merit one day. Isn't there a saying that a person who has achieved Taoism can ascend to heaven?" I also want to see how miserable Guanghan Palace is."

Guanghan Palace?

"Old Taoist, are you a chicken or a dog?"

Jin'an was amused by the old Taoist priest's words. Isn't it a derogatory term for a person to achieve the Tao, chickens and dogs ascend to heaven? How can anyone use derogatory terms to describe himself?

The old Taoist priest had a dark face and said nothing. He said that Jin An was calling him an old dog and that he was using metaphors to describe it.

The sunset is accompanying.

An old man and a young man were walking on the official road to a neighboring county, bickering all the way, and leading a calf and a goat behind them.

BAA Baa baa.

While bickering all the way, Shayang occasionally found a sense of presence.

It is about a hundred miles from Chang County to the neighboring county, and it cannot be reached in a day or two. Seeing that it is getting late, before dark, an old man, a young man and a sheep plan to find a village to stay for one night.

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

It was a small mountain village built next to a river, which was a branch of the Yinyi River. The water in the river was somewhat fast.

The diversion just passes in front of the village.

This is a very typical village built along the river.

The two people and the sheep had not yet entered the village. Suddenly, there was a splash, and a wave suddenly appeared in the river passing by. I could faintly see someone floating in the river?

At this time, because it was getting dark, it was unclear whether there was a person floating in the river. Jin An and the old Taoist priest hurried to the river, and they saw two people floating in the river.

It would be more accurate to say that a person is floating.

Because the other person was a floating corpse with his face facing down, one person grabbed the floating corpse's ankle and floated it all the way down the river. He just happened to float to the river bank and was rescued by Jin An and the old Taoist priest.

It is strange to say that after the person was rescued, there was a pop of waves, and the floating corpse in the river was swept under the river by the waves and disappeared. It was so late at night that he could not even see clearly whether he was a boy or a girl.

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

After hearing this, Jin An thought about it and realized that it really seemed like what the old Taoist priest said.

After all, it's all such a coincidence.

But there was no time to think too much at this time. Saving people was the most important thing. Jin An found that the man they rescued still had a pulse, but his body was cold. He probably had been in the water for too long and had lost too much body temperature. He had a high fever and was in a coma, looking like he was dying.

Even though this man was unconscious, he still held a broken sword tightly in his hand. He must be a swordsman. He was seriously injured. The wound was on his back. A large piece of clothes and human skin were missing from his back. His back was actually It was skinned alive, and the exposed back muscles were soaked in water until they turned white, rotted, and were infested with many strange insects.

Such serious and strange injuries seem to indicate that the origin of the swordsman in front of him is not simple?

"Oops, the flesh on his back is all necrotic. We need to find a place to treat him quickly and scrape off the necrotic flesh on his back."

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

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 just as he was carrying people and putting them on the back of the sheep, Jin An suddenly said in surprise: "Huh? There is so much corpse energy and yin energy in this person... Is this a dead person who has transformed into a corpse?"

"No, there is a pulse, and scraping off a bit of soaked rotten flesh on his back did indeed reveal fresh flesh and blood, with fresh and fine blood streaks coming out. Why does this mysterious swordsman look so full of deathly aura? But it has the characteristics of a living person?"

"Are you intersex?"

Jin An stopped the sheep for the time being, and then told the old Taoist priest what he had discovered so that the old Taoist priest could see what was going on. Jin An had always admired the old Taoist priest for being well-informed.

Professional matters are naturally left to professionals, and Jin An is very self-aware.

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

After hearing what Jin An said, the old Taoist priest hurriedly checked the swordsman on the back of the sheep again. This time he checked it carefully several times. The old Taoist priest touched, looked and smelled. After thinking 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. It should be a life-and-death look that is rarely seen in the world."

"What are the signs of living and dead?" Jin An looked at the old Taoist priest.

"The appearance of a living person dying means that he is obviously a living person, but he has a face like a dead person and a body full of death. Such people are usually rare, because they are usually cultivated, and only two industries will spend a lot of manpower and material resources. Financial resources, cultivate such people from an early age.”

"One is a corpse hunter."

"The other one is a tomb robber."

"As for the old man, I just looked at this man's index finger and palm one by one. His fingers are slender, soft and boneless. His fingers and palm are not as rough and covered with thick calluses as those of a boatman who is exposed to wind and sun all year round. I reasoned that this person is not a corpse collector who lives by water and salvages corpses for others, but a tomb robber."

According to the old Taoist priest, no matter whether they are corpse collectors or tomb robbers, they deal with the dead every day, and deal with all kinds of weird places and caves where corpses are hidden. The more evil the person died, the more sinister the place will be, and the more trouble there will be. The more fierce it becomes.

It is no exaggeration to say that people must have been drowned in any river, and dead people must have been buried in any place with mountains. If you encounter those special places, strange waterways that ordinary corpse hunters cannot go to, and ordinary tomb robbers cannot enter. The Tomb of the Tomb King requires a specific expert to take action.

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

They adopt little beggars from childhood, or kidnap and sell children, forcing them to grow up eating corpses, seven-day corpses, ten-day corpses, half-month-old corpses...

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

Slowly increase the difficulty, endure the pain that ordinary people cannot bear, and continue to eat until they grow up and are full of death energy. They can go to places that living people can't go, and can get close to the treasures in the tombs that living people can't. Even ordinary sinister people can't see this kind of people.

Because in the dark eyes, he only sees the walking corpses of his kind, they are dead people, not living people.

However, it is difficult to train this kind of people, and the fatality rate is extremely high. If you train a thousand children from an early age, you may not be able to succeed.

After listening to the old Taoist priest's introduction to the living and dead, Jin An was startled.

The man in front of me is not a swordsman, but a thief who is more ruthless than a ruthless man!

"Shouldn't tomb robbers be the enemies of all tomb owners in the world? The floating corpse just now probably came from the ancient tomb, so why did the floating corpse just save him instead?"

The old Taoist priest said, "How do I know this? I should be able to find out by resuscitating people. Maybe there are other abilities of living and dead people, such as being able to control corpses or something?"

Jin An thought for a while, although tomb robbers are quite hateful, but after listening to the old Taoist priest's words, he felt that these people who were trained to look like living and dead were quite pitiful.

He finally decided to save people first.

Fortunately, with money, Jin'an found accommodation at a doctor's house in the village and asked the doctor to rescue the person.

However, one can imagine 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 the person, and it was not his fault if he could not be saved. Only then did the village doctor agree to scrape the flesh to save the person.

Scraping flesh to heal wounds is not something that takes a short time. With the help of Jin An and the old Taoist priests, they constantly changed hot water and washed linen, and it took nearly an hour to complete this huge process.

This did not tire the old Taoist priest who was old and frail.

But after scraping the rotten flesh on his back, applying hemostatic medicine, and wrapping his upper body with linen to isolate the wound from infection, the thief who was rescued by Jin An was still unconscious throughout the entire process.

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

Jin An thanked the village doctor and fell asleep that night amidst the exhaustion of the others.

…

Early next morning.

The day's plan begins in the morning. Jin'an is taking in his breath in the morning glow and practicing the "Secret Sutra of the Five Internal Organs". The old Taoist priest, who had gone out early in the morning and didn't know where he had gone, suddenly came back in a hurry and was very nervous. Find Jin An.

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

"Little brother, I just inquired about something. You will never guess what I discovered."

"Little brother, do you still remember Mr. Yin Yang who took you out of Yin and Yang? What a coincidence, it turns out that he is from this river valley village!"

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

This village is called River Valley Village.

Although it is only built on a tributary of the Yinyi River, during the rainy season in previous years, there would occasionally be floods that flooded the village, and many villagers were swept into the river.

The more people die, the more strange things will happen.

Every night during the rainy season, something strange happens.

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

Until later, a gentleman in the village asked for a knife and hung it under the arch bridge as a weapon for the whole village. No strange things happened again in Hehe Village.

That knife is called the Jiao-Zhan Dao.

But just a month ago, a group of antique dealers passed by Hehe Village. In the name of purchasing antiques, they set their sights on the hundreds of years old antique knife in Hehe Village, the Jiao-Zhan Dao.

This group of businessmen initially bought many ordinary vases and porcelain bowls from the villagers at the price of antiques under the guise of purchasing antiques.

After getting acquainted with the villagers, this group of antique dealers finally revealed their true purpose. They had been eyeing the Jiao Dao from the beginning.

They want to take away the dragon-killing knife that has a history of hundreds of years at a high price.

The villagers disagree.

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

But later, everyone suddenly discovered that strange things began to happen in the village from time to time, especially the cries of the villagers who were drowned by the river began to appear again.

At first, the cries came from outside the village.

Later we started to enter the village.

More and more strange things happened.

The dragon-killing knife that has been hanging in the village for hundreds of years seems to have lost its function.

It was at that time that Mr. Yin Yang was in isolation and was killed by a group of antique dealers who were determined to win. It seemed that there was another expert among the antique dealers to help him.

Following the death of Mr. Yin Yang and the unexpected deaths of several clan elders who had led the resistance, the villagers in Hehe Village were timid and sold their dragon-cutting knives.

And because Mr. Yin Yang was the one who led the most powerful resistance at the beginning, these villagers were afraid of getting into trouble, and they began to alienate Mr. Yin Yang and his family.

"Just now, I inquired about the location of Mr. Yin-Yang's house. When I went over, I found that Mr. Yin-Yang's grandson was no longer at home. The house was empty. He must have been picked up by the big-headed fellow Taoist as promised."

The old Taoist priest finally said.

After the old Taoist priest finished speaking, he couldn't help but scolded these villagers as white-eyed wolves. It was in vain that Mr. Yin Yang had been sticking to the village.

After hearing this, Jin An lowered his eyebrows and thought. He didn't expect that there were so many strange things happening in Mr. Yin Yang's death. Sure enough, he guessed right from the beginning and was buried in a black coffin. Mr. Yin Yang's death was indeed in vain.

"It has been so long. Those antique merchants who came to Hehe Village to forcefully purchase the Jiao-Zhan Dao must have left, right? Do the local villagers know where those antique merchants went after they left Hehe Village?" Jin An asked after pondering.

The old Taoist priest shook his head and said that the villagers had no time to hide from the antique dealers, so they would take the initiative to get information.

The old Taoist priest, a wandering Taoist priest wearing a Taoist robe, was the best person to inquire about information. They would stay in Hehe Village for a few days, so Jin An asked the old Taoist priest to continue to inquire more.

The old Taoist priest is also a person who can't sit still, otherwise he wouldn't be gone so early in the morning, so he agreed and took the initiative to take care of the matter.

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

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

Practice breathing and exhalation in the "Five Zang Secret Sutra" in the early morning.

During the day and night, he practiced Jianghu martial arts.

During this period, he would also spend some energy to transfer the internal energy of the tomb robbers he picked up three or four times a day to help them save their lives and recover from their injuries.

The most fragile parts of the human body are the internal organs. As long as the injuries to the internal organs can be stabilized and the vitality of the internal organs can be restored, half of a person's life can be saved.

The old Taoist priest has been wandering around the village in the past few days, not only inquiring about the latest news about Chang County's overnight destruction of the city, but also inquiring about whether there are any big tombs nearby.

Since the tomb robbers picked it up from the river outside the village, it should have come from an ancient tomb nearby. However, there has been no new progress.

On the other hand, the tomb robber suffered the most serious injury and had a high fever for the first two days. The fever finally subsided. I wonder if it was because Jin An insisted on recuperating his internal organs every day that he was able to survive even such a serious injury. In the early morning of the third day, the village doctor happily came to inform Jin An and the old Taoist priest that he was awake.

"You two must be mentally prepared. Although your friend is awake, he seems to have had a high fever for too long and has some problems..."

The village doctor hesitated to speak.

"He seems to be unable to speak and has forgotten past events. It's a bit like his brain has been burned out by a high fever."

Does this mean your brain is burned into a fool?

Jin An and the old Taoist priest entered a room filled with the smell of Chinese medicine and saw the tomb robber whose upper body was wrapped in linen, sitting motionless on the bed with no expression on his face. When he hears movement or sees someone coming in, his eyes will also move and he will glance in the direction of the door. His gaze does not look like a fool's.

But people just keep sitting still.

Not a word was spoken.

There is no joy, anger, sorrow or joy.

Like a wood cutter.

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

People are not stupid at all.

He is just as wooden as a wooden man. If you don't take the initiative to tell him what to do, he will sit motionless for a whole day.

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

Jin An was speechless.

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

Now that the man has been rescued, Jin An and the old Taoist priest plan to continue on their way.

They said goodbye to the tomb robber, left some loose money, and were ready to go on the road. Saving someone's life was already a good deed by Jin An, so there was no way he would still be keeping him with him.

But who knows.

Just after saying goodbye, Jin An and the old Taoist priest had just left the village. The tomb robber, who had been following a wooden man who couldn't move on his own initiative, unexpectedly followed them.

Looking at the tomb robber who followed him, the old Taoist priest was happy: "Little brother, it seems he is not really stupid."

"Let's go, don't follow us. I already have two mouths to feed, and I can't afford to feed one more person." Jin An refused to the tomb robber.

Old Taoist priest: "?"

Shayang: "Yeah."

As a result, just as Jin An, the old Taoist priest, and Shayang left, the Muleng tomb robber followed him again. They stopped, and so did the tomb robber.

They continue on their way.

The tomb robber also continued to follow silently.

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

Seeing that the other party was planning to seduce him, Jin An asked the other party speechlessly: "Why do you keep following us?"

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

"Master."

The tomb robber shouted to Jin An.

Jin An: "?"

Old Taoist priest: "?"

This shout of master made Jin An instantly confused.

The old Taoist priest looked at Jin An in shock. He never thought that little brother, you are still a tomb robber who hides his secrets. I, the old Taoist, have a pair of fiery eyes that have seen countless people, but I can also make mistakes sometimes!

Jin An ignored the unscrupulous old Taoist priest for the time being, because after the dead-faced thief finished calling him master, the familiar Taoist feeling came again.

Jin An was completely confused now.

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

"Master."

The grave robber shouted a second time.

really.

Jin An was delighted.

That was not his imagination.

Sure enough, the familiar feeling of the great avenue came to him again.

Jin'an used a qi-gazing technique on himself, Yin De Shu——

Sixteen thousand one hundred and four.

Among them, there are a thousand yin virtues obtained by walking in the yin and killing the old body in the coffin temple.

Although the old body of the murderous master in the white coffin was powerful, most of his strength has been weakened, which is equivalent to his grade being dropped by several grades, so Jin An did not gain much Yin De.

The coffin temple didn't contribute much in slaying demons, but in the disaster that overturned the entire city of Chang County, he gained the lion's share of the yin virtue by saving people, more than 10,000.

After deducting the two remaining Yin virtues, it means that every time the Muleng tomb robber calls him master, he will get one Yin virtue.

Jin An was really confused now.

Can you get Yin De by calling someone Master?

"Old Taoist, try calling me Master."

Of course, the old Taoist priest will fight to death without shouting. Once he is a teacher, he will always be a father. Little brother, are you trying to take advantage of me, the old Taoist?

Jin An did not force the old Taoist priest to call him master. He fell into deep thought.

"Could it be that the tomb robber he picked up knew that I saved him, so he is sincere and sincere. Every time he calls me master, it is a heartfelt expression of gratitude and a act of kindness?" Jin An thought in his heart.

"But it's not right. I, Jin'an, have always been willing to help others, and I have always had a noble consciousness of serving everyone. I am often thanked by others. Why don't other people have moral virtues? So...it should be because of my heart. Sincerity is the spirit, apart from sincerely thanking you, is it also related to the tomb robber's physique of living and dead?"

If there is anything that is different about this thief master from ordinary people, it is that he has a physique similar to that of a living person and a dead person.

According to the old Taoist priest, this living person's constitution has grown up eating corpse flesh, so the death energy in the body is seriously accumulated. It is not just the death energy of one corpse, but the death energy of multiple corpses, and even the death energy of several corpses. Hundreds of objects, could it be because the tomb robber was grateful once, and hundreds of people were grateful?

Jin An had no idea for a moment, but who cares.

Being virtuous means being sincere and sincere. This tomb robber did not have any other motive to approach him, but he really thanked him sincerely, but his gratitude was quite unique, saying that he was a master...

At this moment, Jin An suddenly felt that it was not so difficult to accept that he had picked up a disciple for nothing.

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

"Master."

"Master."

"Master."

Jin An beamed with joy, and the more he looked at the amnesiac-faced tomb robber in front of him, the more he liked him.

The old Taoist priest was shocked.

What's the fuss about?

Just now, little brother, you looked so disgusted that you couldn't drive away, but now why are you suddenly developing a deep relationship between master and disciple?

"Disciple, come here, I have met your senior brother."

Jin An has fully accepted this tomb robber picked up halfway.

"Big Brother."

"Third Junior Brother."

The tomb robber calls Big Brother Goat.

Call the old Taoist priest Third Junior Brother.

The old Taoist almost choked to death on his own saliva: "Why am I the third junior brother, Taoist? I am worse than a sheep!"

Tomb robbers are like wooden figures with wooden faces. There is no joy, anger or joy on their faces: "Because senior brother saved my life."

Old Taoist priest: "?"

The old Taoist priest lost his balance: "Lao Tao also had a share of credit for rescuing you a few days ago. It was Lao Tao and his little brother who rescued you from the river."

Is this obviously a scolding that he is even worse than a beast?

The tomb robber had a zombie face that seemed to be devoid of joy, anger, sorrow, and joy. He responded with a short four-word answer to each question: "I forgot."

The old Taoist priest suddenly withered his head and drooped his brain.

Along the way, the old Taoist priest felt a little lost. He couldn't figure out why his life was worse than that of a sheep.

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

"Disciple, do you have a name?" Jin An asked the tomb robber who picked up Muleng while walking on the official road.

Shake his head.

"Then do you still remember the past memories?"

Still shook his head.

Jin An thought for a while and said: "Everyone has to have a name. From now on, I'll call you Sharp Sword. The day I picked you up, you kept holding a broken sword in your hand. From now on, you will act as a swordsman." As for your identity, don’t let anyone know that you used to be a tomb robber. Grave robbing is a capital crime."

"Xie Jian, why did you call me master?"

Jin An has always been puzzled by this question.

Jiajian, who already had a new name, still had no expression of joy, anger, sorrow or joy on his face: "There seems to be a voice in my heart all the time. The most important person in the world is called Master, and the most worthy of care in the world is the senior fellow apprentice. "

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

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

It was rare for me to say sharpening my sword very solemnly this time.

The old Taoist priest who had always been depressed because he was not as good as a sheep, this time when he heard the words "Sharpen the sword", his face suddenly reappeared with a smile like an old chrysanthemum.

The sharp sword shows that he is a tomb robber with great skills. It is a unique image of a living and dead person. If he can be used as a personal guard by such a mysterious master, at least he will accidentally enter a forbidden area, a corpse cave, or a mass grave in the future. You don't have to worry about it going in vertically and coming out sideways.

There are so many yin-filled forbidden places in the world, why worry about not being able to go there?

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

In the long official road, I just listen to the master, and the master... is always in my ears.

…

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

One is the dry road that is full of traffic and travel.

One is more convenient waterways.

A few days later, three people and one sheep successfully boarded a mast passenger ship bound for the state capital at a ferry in a neighboring county.

Although it is already spring, the wind on the river is still strong, so there are not many people on the deck of the passenger ship.

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

And Jiajian has been following Jin An.

Jin An looked at the majestic river in front of him, and suddenly felt something in his heart and wanted to recite a poem.

But after racking his brains, Jin An suddenly realized that he was not a copycat, and he did not have a full stomach of 300 Tang poems. After holding it in for a long time, he finally only managed to choke out a children's song——

Goose, goose, goose, singing to the sky. White hair floats on the green water, and anthurium stirs the clear waves.

Boom!

Suddenly, the ship's hull seemed to hit something. The ship's hull shook violently. The impact was so strong that it knocked the passenger ship full of people across the river and knocked Jin'an, who was about to recite a poem, from his knees. The whole thing was stuffed back into his stomach.

At this time, there were screams of panic on the ship. Many passengers ran out of the cabin and ran to the deck to ask the crew in a panic what was going on? Did the ship hit the rocks?

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

At this time, the old Taoist priest, who was dizzy and sleeping in the cabin because of some seasickness, also hurriedly ran to the deck to look for Jin An.

When Jin An said that the bottom of the boat hit a horizontal beam, the old Taoist breathed a sigh of relief. Only then did Jin An realize that the old Taoist priest was a landlubber. He was most afraid of falling into water and swimming. The old Taoist priest was worried all the way.

Soon after, the passenger ship continued sailing towards Fucheng.

But in the next few days, as we sailed towards Fucheng, the number of broken trees and logs in the river began to increase significantly, and the ship's hull accidentally shook from time to time.

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

Until that day, when there was only one day left to travel from the state capital, the boat suddenly stopped in the center of the river and stopped moving. There was no way forward.

Several ships nearby were intercepted by a government boat. At this time, a ship was lying across the river, blocking outsiders from entering.

"What's going on? Why are you locked in the river?"

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

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

"Everyone, there are landslides on both sides of the river bank ahead, and the river is blocked. The broken trees and branches washed down by the mudslide are now 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 be completed in about one day, and navigation should be resumed tomorrow."

The other party spoke politely and without any arrogance, so the emotions of the passengers and businessmen on each ship were quickly calmed down.

…

The night was getting darker, and the river swallowed up the moonlight, reflecting the thick black water. It seemed to be in response to that sentence, the moon was dark and the wind was high, which was suitable for a murderous night.

The hull of the boat on the river rose and fell with the waves, and it swayed from side to side. It was the first time that Jin An had experienced an out-of-body experience on a boat, and it took him a while to finally calm down.

Suddenly, he felt a lightness in his body, as if he was as light as a feather. For the first time, Jin An successfully escaped from his body on the water.

Jin An looked around. In the small and narrow boat room, the old Taoist priest was snoring loudly. He was so noisy that he couldn't sleep while sharpening his sword. He was sitting in a daze, but he pretended to sleep and fell asleep with his face facing the wall of the boat.

Of course the goat is not here, it is staying in the aft area with the other animals.

Even if Jin An wanted to bring goats over, the boatman would not agree. After all, this entire passenger ship was not just for Jin An's business. 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 his pressed palm, which were the Six Ding Liujia Talisman and the Five Thunder Evil Killing Talisman.

When the two yellow talismans are close to the body, the warm feeling of the soul being nourished by the breath of Shinto comes back, and the soul is no longer cold.

Next, Jin An's spirit drifted to the stern area and found the goat.

Jin An was overjoyed when he found the goat. The goat was so seasick that it vomited all kinds of meat and meat and had no energy to make a fuss anymore.

Jin'an's soul floated around the passenger ship. When he saw that there was no other situation on the ship, his soul floated out and drifted towards the direction of the river siltation.

He planned to see if the landslide was serious and whether the waterway could be dredged tomorrow. If not, he would have to change the waterway to a dry road.

It was a coincidence that Jin'an drifted not far away and unexpectedly came across the ship where the official he had seen during the day was on.

Even at night, these officials still loyally guard the river to prevent unidentified ships from straying into danger due to dim vision at night.

Jin An continued to float inside.

The further the soul floated in, the more and more broken trees and branches on the river surface became more and more numerous. It was not until one mile later that Jin An came to the corner and blockage the official had mentioned.

This is indeed one of the most dangerous places in the Yinyi River. It turns sharply and the river becomes even more turbulent when it reaches here. However, at this time, the place is filled with a lot of debris washed down from the mountain. If a ship accidentally enters here by mistake, the current here is so fast that it will never escape the fate of capsizing.

It's night now, and the government officials who were responsible for cleaning the waterways during the day are no longer here.

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

Jin An continued to float in. He wanted to see how long the river was blocked by siltation. His soul was wandering. As a result, on the quiet and calm river surface, Jin An actually spotted a fire in the distance.

That wisp of fire was like the green phosphorus fire in the cemetery, flickering and extinguishing, and it was more or less scary on the pitch-black river.

Jin An was slightly surprised, thinking who would come to the river in such a dark night?

He quickly drifted towards that side, and then he found a awning boat with a green candlelight lantern hanging on the bow of the awning boat.

The scene in front of me is so similar. Isn't this just like the soul-inducing lanterns and soul-inducing boats used in the underworld?

It's just that the soul-drawing ship here is different from the soul-drawing captain in Jin'an who went to the underworld.

Jin An was quite surprised this time.

He watched with breathless concentration.

The ancient moon faces the river.

On the boat, which was a replica of the soul-drawing ship from the underworld, there was a pair of old and young people standing. One was about forty years old, and the other was a young man in his twenties.

Listening to the conversation between the two, it turns out that the middle-aged man is his second uncle, and the young man is his nephew, named Zong Ren.

The middle-aged man stood on the bow of the boat, mumbling something, 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, watching the changes and not approaching rashly.

Jin An did not wait long. He suddenly discovered that a large amount of water began to rise under the originally calm river surface. Then Jin An was surprised to see human faces that were swollen and pale from the water surface.

Their bodies were all still under the water, with only one swollen, pale face rising from the water. A dozen dead faces surfaced, each with a dead look on his face. What was strange was the shape of each dead face. There is a copper coin stuck on their foreheads.

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

And the origins of these dead people are naturally those who fell into the river and drowned over the years.

"Is this a corpse drive?"

"Or summoning souls?"

Jin An was surprised.

"Could this be the corpse collector that the old man told me about?"

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

Soon, Jin An's guess was answered.

The copper coins on the foreheads of the drowned corpses fell off, and then these drowned corpses, whose sleep was disturbed, sank to the bottom of the river again with their eyes open.

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

This time, the middle-aged man asked his nephew Zong Ren to row the oar. After changing the position, he followed the same pattern and threw copper coins into the river. Soon after, as expected, other drowned corpses surfaced with a copper coin on their forehead.

But strangely enough, the middle-aged man took back the copper coins, and then the drowned corpses sank back to the bottom of the river again.

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

Out of curiosity, Jin An wanted to see what kind of person the uncle and nephew 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 became darker and darker, that the middle-aged man's eyes were filled with joy. He finally found the person he was looking for.

The middle-aged man reached out to catch the dead person underwater. He couldn't fish it out at first. Then he asked his nephew to find a hemp rope and throw it into the water to hang the body's neck. Only then did he successfully fish the dead person out of the water and onto the boat. It was a male corpse. .

The male corpse looked like he had just died, because his body had not been seriously swollen by the soak.

Next, the middle-aged man started groping up and down the body, searching for something purposefully.

Finally, his eyes lit up with joy and he touched something from the male corpse. Before Jin An had time to take a closer look, the middle-aged man had already hurriedly put it into his arms.

Plop!

The middle-aged man kicked the male corpse back into the water. With a look of regret and reluctance, the male corpse sank to the bottom of the river again.

"Second uncle, why did we waste so much effort just to find such a piece of jade?" My nephew Zong Ren muttered dissatisfiedly. It seemed that his own second uncle had dragged him to the river in the middle of the night to blow the cold wind and prevent him from sleeping, which caused this nephew little emotions.

The second uncle patted his nephew on the back of the head and cursed gently: "What do you know? This is a good baby."

The nephew scratched the back of his head and asked what kind of treasure it was?

"This piece of broken jade is a good treasure, and it is related to the secret of the corpse-dismantling immortal."

Perhaps because he finally found what he was looking for, the 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 earlier years, a certain section of the Yinyi River experienced the worst dry season in a century and almost stopped flowing.

On the night when the river almost stopped, another strange thing happened. Some nearby villagers salvaged a stone coffin carried by a stone cow from the bottom of the river that was exposed on the river bed.

The stone cow is lifelike, like a living creature. It looks like a stone cow carrying a stone coffin and walking under the river. It was only this time that a serious drought occurred once in a century, exposing the river bed, and it was discovered.

What was sealed in the stone coffin was a half-flesh, half-bone Taoist priest. Many villagers were so frightened that they screamed and fell to the ground. They all said that it was because of an evil spirit. Today they fished out the stone coffin and opened the coffin to let the corpse in the coffin be sucked. Popularity, the corpse in this stone coffin was about to pretend to be a corpse and eat people, so they were all burned in a fire.

These villagers knew they were causing trouble, so they didn't dare to tell anyone about it. However, no matter how tight the doors and windows were, there would always be air leaks. Later, this matter was exposed. When the officials rushed to the village, they only found the bird stuck in the river bed. The bodies of the Taoist priests and stone cows that could not be moved away by the villagers had long been burned clean.

The stone bull is still standing in the state capital.

In fact, the Taoist priest was not an evil corpse, but an expert who was practicing corpse-dissolving immortality.

The Taoist corpse-dissolving immortality refers to the resurrection of a person after three hundred years, with limbs severed but still alive. The corpse-dissolving immortality includes fire solution, water solution, military solution, etc.

However, the conditions for becoming a zombie are very harsh, so few people are willing to cultivate the corpse to become an immortal. Moreover, the Corpse Execution Immortal goes against the will of nature, so in these three hundred years there will be various kinds of disasters, such as mudslides, river collapses, being bitten by snakes, insects, rats, and ants, or people digging up graves and occupying magpie nests as ancestors. The earth took away three hundred years of luck... and waited to destroy the body.

It is in line with the saying: Those who follow the destiny will be sad, and those who go against the destiny and change the destiny will die.

"Second uncle, you still didn't tell me what the use of a piece of jade is?" his nephew Zong Ren muttered.

The middle-aged man proudly kept the broken jade, then asked his nephew to quickly pack up his things and row away while he got up and entered the awning of the awning boat.

boom!

Blood and skull fragments flew up, and the middle-aged man's head was split open with an ax from behind. The blood and brain splattered all over Zong Ren's face.

At this time, Zong Ren's face lost the warmth of uncle and nephew, only the indifference of being motivated by wealth.

Zong Ren was not afraid of the dead at all. After finding the broken piece of jade from the arms of his second uncle who was still looking at death, he kicked his second uncle into the river. The blood soaked the water red, and soon it was all gone again. net.

Then, under the cover of night, Zong Ren began to row the oar and hurriedly left the Yinyi River under the cover of night.

Just as Zong Ren hurriedly rowed away, he did not realize that he had not put away the hemp rope when he used the hemp rope to recover the man's body. He did not know when a section of the hemp rope thrown at the stern of the boat fell into the black Gulongdong River at night, hooking it. A female corpse was caught on the wrist, and the awning boat dragged the female corpse away from the center of the river with him and headed towards the shore.

The female corpse was young and beautiful, with long black hair spread out in the water like ghost claws. She was lying on her back and floating on the water. Jin An looked at the strange scene under his feet and felt his scalp go numb, and a cold chill surged up his back. .

And when the boat dragged the female corpse past Jin An's feet, Jin An felt the coldness of being watched as the dead female corpse met Jin An's eyes.

But this feeling of gaze was only for a short moment. As the female corpse was dragged away by the boat, the sense of voyeurism also disappeared. Finally, the female corpse was dragged by the boat towards Fucheng.

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

At this time, he held 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 soul had reached the limit of distance, and finally had to return to the shell with a heavy heart.

When Jin An returned to the shell, he saw that Xiejian was still in the same position as before he left, without even moving a finger, and he was stunned.

If Jin An doesn't call him to eat.

He could sit still for a whole day like this.

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

The strange female corpse that was accidentally dragged away by the ship always gave him a bad feeling, so after dawn, the worried Jin An came to sharpen his sword.

"Sharp sword, Master is a little upset now. Please call Master a few more times to let Master know that there is still warmth and care in the world, and there is still kindness in the world."

Sharpening the sword: "?"

It was not until almost dusk on the second day that the waterway resumed traffic, but it only restored traffic to a small area. In order to avoid unsafe sailing at night, it was not until the third day that the passenger ship Jin An was on passed, and it was still floating. Narrow waterways with less debris.

After another half-day of sailing, the passenger ship finally arrived at the ferry at the state capital.

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

There were also many sedan bearers and wheelbarrow drivers who stretched their necks. As soon as they saw the merchant ships and passenger ships docking, they immediately gathered around them and wanted to tear them into four pieces to do business.

Jin An, the old Taoist priest, and Goat got off the passenger ship and squeezed through the bustling pier. If the state capital wanted to enter the city, the censorship was much stricter. It was necessary to check the customs clearance documents before entering the city. The old Taoist priest took out a Taoist disk from his robe and handed it to Soldiers guarding the city gate.

At this time, Jin An, who had already changed into a Taoist robe with five internal organs, also took out a Taoist disc.

"Are you really a Taoist priest?"

The soldiers guarding the city gate looked suspiciously at whether the Taoist priest was a Taoist priest, the monk was not a monk, the scholar was not a scholar, and the Jianghu knight-errant was not like the Jianghu knight-errant Jin'an.

“What’s with your calf that looks like a sheep?”

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

Jin'an had not experienced any battles in the past month, so how could he be intimidated by the momentum of the ordinary soldiers in front of him? He answered calmly: "Among the three pure saints of Taoism, there is a saint who rides a green ox out of the pass to transform into a barbarian." Is it an allusion? As a Taoist disciple, in order to pay homage to the saint's holy deeds, how could he not keep a cow as a mount with him?"

"mouth……"

Silly Sheep hadn't even finished shouting. Just halfway through, Jin An punched him back in the stomach.

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

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

Jin An and the old Taoist priest were able to successfully enter the city of Wuzhou.

Chi Jian did not follow, Jin An asked Chi Jian to find a chance to sneak into the city. Jin An believed that Chi Jian, a master of tomb robbers, would not have difficulty sneaking into the city.

As the capital of Wuzhou, the state capital is naturally much more prosperous than the county seat. As soon as an old man and a young man entered the city, they saw rows of buildings on both sides of the street, including three-story pavilions and four-story pavilions.

The prosperity of the state capital opened up Jin'an's horizons when Grandma Liu entered the Grand View Garden. The wider streets, more prosperous markets, antique pavilions with carved beams and painted buildings, and the exotic culture made Jin'an dizzying, especially the state capital. The Goulan House is so lively, and there are more than one...

Until, a tall stone cow statue came into Jin An's eyes.

The stone bull was tall and mighty, with a majestic momentum. It lowered its head slightly and raised its front hooves, as if it was carrying something heavy, as heavy as a thousand stones. The heavy and desolate atmosphere of the vicissitudes of history hit its face. Come.

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

Jin An looked up at the stone ox that was three people tall, and his eyes flashed with surprise: "Is this the stone ox that the uncle and nephew mentioned last night, carrying the stone coffin of the Taoist priest Xie Xie?"

"Little brother, the craftsmen who built this stone cow are really ingenious. When I looked at this stone cow, I actually had the illusion that it was alive."

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

Jin An sighed with regret.

Pity.

In the end, the expert failed to resolve the corpse.

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

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