White Bone Monkey King

"Collection of Corpses" records many miraculous techniques for corpse burial.

One of the miraculous techniques divides the corpse into nine steps, one virtue, two life, three talents, four limbs, five internal organs, six internal organs, strange meridians, eight meridians, and nine palaces.

These nine steps not only mend a person's mutilated corpse, but also mend the person's fragmented soul and destiny.

That's why it can be called thaumaturgy.

But Jin An, who practiced the art of exorcising corpses, added the last step to the nine arts, bringing the dead back to life, which was perfect, allowing the deceased to come back to life to fulfill his last wish.

This operation was not the first or second time for Jin An, so this time he was very familiar with the process of enclosing and removing corpses.

Even if there is no tool box for sewing corpses, using fine hemp ropes and other materials sourced from the local area instead, the corpse can be stitched neatly like a rejuvenated hand.

After the corpse was sutured, a headless corpse appeared on the spot. It was the headless corpse of a scholar with fine skin and tender flesh.

The matter had to be solved step by step. Jin An first hid the headless body of the scholar aside so as not to disturb the middle-aged man's waiting corpse-eliminating technique. After everything was ready, the eighth transformation! The art of exorcism!

Unexpectedly, the middle-aged man didn't respond at all.

"Is it because this is the Taoist Yellow Courtyard after the death of the ancient immortals? It is different from the underworld and the world of the sun, so your martial arts zombie immortal's corpse exorcism technique failed this time?" Thousand-Eyed Taoist Statue Qianmu thought.

Jin An didn't answer immediately and waited patiently.

Because even he couldn't answer it, he could only rely on luck, hoping that the corpse exorcism technique would work this time.

This kind of fruitless waiting is the longest, and you have to stick to your will during the time that has no results. It is obvious that there is not much time in the past, but it gives people a sense of suffering that the days are like years, and it wears away people's willpower bit by bit.

As if to test Jin An's temperament, this time Jin An waited longer than before for the corpse exorcism. Finally, the emperor paid off, and the middle-aged man's rotten corpse changed.

Familiar scenes reappeared, the corpse exorcism technique resurrected human flesh and white bones, turning the dark-skinned dead into rosy-complexioned living people...

"It's here! It's finally here!" The Thousand-Eyed Dao Lord Statue was even more excited than Jin An.

It was clearly Jin An who performed the corpse exorcism technique, but this evil god showed that he felt the torment of time even more than Jin An.

Well, Jin An chuckled and nodded.

Leaning under a big tree, he looked like a middle-aged man who accidentally took a nap after being tired from hiking. He woke up from his dream with bleary eyes. He held his neck, which was stiff from long sleep, and looked around blankly, as if Memories are emerging rapidly, and the dazed eyes gradually gain focus.

Then, the middle-aged man stood up, holding his neck with one hand and the tree with the other, and patted the dust on his clothes.

Then he picked up the torch and ran deeper into the mountain as fast as he could.

Jin An, who was hiding in the dark, saw the middle-aged man not running to his former residence outside the mountain, but unexpectedly running directly into the depths of the mountain, with a slightly surprised expression on his face.

The art of exorcism is to help the deceased fulfill their last wishes and obsessions during their lifetime, but it does not explicitly mention that the deceased will go home to reunite with their relatives after resurrection. The fact that the middle-aged man did not run towards his residence outside the mountains can only mean that his obsession lies deep in the mountains, and there are people or things deep in the mountains that make him feel more important.

"It seems that their whole family was infected with the plague, and they were expelled deep into the mountains together with other infected people." Jin An expressed his conjecture, and the Thousand-Eyed Taoist Statue nodded in agreement.

Perhaps it was due to his memories during his lifetime. Although the mountain road was rugged and complicated, making it easy for people to get lost, the middle-aged man walked with ease and familiarity. He had a clear destination in mind and kept running on the rugged mountain road.

During this period, he also picked an herb and chewed it in his mouth. It was probably an antidote to the mountain poisonous miasma, and he had to chew it again every once in a while.

The deeper the middle-aged man went into the mountain, the darker and gloomier the surrounding environment became. The surrounding area was covered with ancient trees that blocked the sky and the sun.

The bark of those ancient trees is wrinkled as if carved by knives and axes, bearing the marks of time, and the tree trunks are covered with old vines and finger-thick roots.

The deeper you go, the more primitive and wild it becomes.

There is a claustrophobic feeling that the whole body is wrapped in a deep black ocean. It is dark, dead, and creepy. All kinds of dark emotions creep into my heart.

During this period, I also came across several talismans, red silk ribbons, and bamboo signs with prayers written on them hanging on the branches. However, these were all badly decayed and had existed for a long time.

When a middle-aged man passes by these, his eyes will look sad, but he will only stop for a moment and continue on his way, as if there are more important things waiting for him to do deeper in the jungle.

Finally, he stopped under a century-old locust tree with a crooked neck. A long belt hung from the old locust tree and was tied with a muff. He remained motionless in the night forest, giving the already claustrophobic and dark mountain forest It suddenly became very scary.

Because anyone can see that it is a hanging rope.

In the deep mountains and old forests, suddenly seeing the rope used for hanging is not a good atmosphere.

However, there was a hanging rope at this time, but no body.

The moment the middle-aged man saw the hanging rope, he looked sad and shed tears. Perhaps he recognized who the belt on the tree belonged to.

He rubbed the fallen leaves under the rope, which was thick with dead leaves, as if he was looking for a corpse, but even after smoothing the leaf pile, he could not find the body.

The middle-aged man's eyes turned to the still and ominous belt on the tree again, then he took off the rope and started to cry with regret.

This belt looks more and more familiar. The embroidered patterns on it make it look like it belongs to the corpse of a headless scholar.

At this point, it is not difficult to guess that the person who hanged himself here is the headless body of the scholar.

But there is still one thing that doesn't make sense. Why do people who hang themselves lose their heads and separate their bodies?

The middle-aged man was completely immersed in sadness and had no intention of observing these details.

This is very confusing. Since the middle-aged man was very concerned about the life and death of the scholar who owned the belt, and the scholar was not found at the beginning, how was the scholar's body later found?

It was even brought back to life by a middle-aged man, and he was taken out by the middle-aged man...

It is worthy of the name of the Little Underworld. The more you explore the details of the Little Underworld, the more you find that it is full of absurdities and weirdness.

The middle-aged man held the scholar's belt and cried for a while. Suddenly there was a breeze in the forest, and the leaves rustled. The middle-aged man got up and left in despair.

It is not difficult to guess the relationship between the middle-aged man and the scholar. They must be brothers whose blood is thicker than water. Based on the age of the skin of the scholar’s ​​headless corpse, the scholar should be the younger brother and the middle-aged man the eldest brother.

As the old saying goes, an elder brother is like a father.

The brothers must have a deep bond.

The middle-aged man's biggest obsession after resurrection is to return to dangerous situations to find his younger brother.

It stands to reason that since the scholar has not been found, the middle-aged man's obsession should be over. The effect of the corpse-exorcism technique has disappeared and it is only right to die. However, although the middle-aged man has experienced great sadness and backwardness, and is devastated, the effect of the corpse-exorcism technique is still there. Still there.

Is it because the obsession to find his younger brother, the scholar, is more important than his own life?

Or is it because he has other obsessions that continue to support his desire to live?