White Bone Monkey King

Tonight, this rainy night, is destined not to be peaceful.

Just like this rain.

When it doesn't come, it's calm.

It came hard and fast.

Just when Jin An and the old Taoist priests were performing religious rituals for Zhao Ping, who was still in the coffin, suddenly, there was a loud noise in the dark night.

Boom!

It sounded like something heavy hitting the ground.

When the old Taoist priest saw the legs of the stool on which the coffin was placed shaking, he thought that the dead man in the coffin was going to fake his body. He screamed, "It's not good, little brother. Zhao Pingfa won't accept our trick. He will definitely fake it tonight." Dead!

After the old Taoist priest yelled anxiously, he grabbed a pile of yellow talismans on the yellow cloth ritual table and lit it, then threw it into an earthenware bowl filled with Sanyang wine. The yellow talisman mixed with the Sanyang wine turned into talisman water, and the old Taoist drank fiercely. A mouthful of talisman water was sprayed into the coffin.

Good guy.

The old Taoist priest has a lot of water in this talisman.

Even Zhao Pingfa was really unlucky today. He would not be able to survive the next burial. Unlucky things happened to him frequently. At night, he was unjustly accused and spat on by an old Taoist priest.

"Old Taoist, it's not Zhao Pingfa who faked the corpse. It's from outside. The noise came from outside the Taoist temple." Jin An looked at the old Taoist priest speechlessly, and looked sympathetically at Zhao Pingfa's corpse in the coffin, which was sprayed with talisman water by the old Taoist priest. This Zhao Pingfa He has such a good temper that he doesn't even bother to strangle the old Taoist priest.

"This movement reached the Taoist temple, and there was still such a big movement. The ground was shaking. This movement is definitely not small."

"Something big must have happened somewhere in the city."

Jin An put down the paper money in his hand.

I easily jumped up to the roof and looked up and into the distance, but in the city where it rained continuously on a continuous rainy night, it was completely dark, surrounded by the hazy outlines of buildings under the rain curtain, and further away there was only pitch black.

However, this sudden movement and the feeling of shaking on the ground woke up some people who were not yet asleep. They saw the lights of every house being lit sporadically on a rainy night.

suddenly.

Jin An screamed in surprise. On a rainy night, many torches suddenly lit up in a place, surrounding the place.

Looking at the situation, it looked like it had been lying in wait for a long time.

After seeing clearly where that direction was, Jin An's eyes aroused strong interest. If he remembered correctly, wasn't that place the direction of the stone cow left by the senior Corpse Execution Immortal in the world?

call out!

Just as Jin An was thinking, a loud arrow shot into the sky, and then exploded in the sky, like a rising sun lighting up the night sky during the day, which was unusually eye-catching.

The sound of the arrow was like a signal, and the sound of the rapid march of a large number of troops began to be heard in the city.

Under the dark curtain of rain, the city gate was wide open, and strings of fires were as bright as fire dragons, illuminating the night and gathering rapidly in one direction from outside the city toward the city.

Look in that direction.

It was heading towards the square where the Xiang Arrow was located.

Jin An's expression changed.

It doesn't take much thinking to know that those who can act so blatantly in the city and can easily mobilize such people and horses are only the imperial army and captains stationed in the military camps outside the city who have such great capabilities.

"Old Taoist, the captain seems to be making a big move tonight. You and Xiejian stay in the Taoist temple and guard Zhao Pingfa's body to prevent another accident with Zhao Pingfa's body. I'll go over and see what's going on."

With the mentality of watching the fun, Jin An's body jumped quickly in the dark night, and quickly moved away. In just a few blinks, the person disappeared into the thick darkness.

As we get closer to the square, we hear louder noises.

It seems that the butcher saw the stone cow coming to life during the day. The ordinary yamen servants did not pay attention to it, but it attracted the attention of the captain.

The captain had sent people to hide near the stone cow in the square, and he had already planned and urgently mobilized the army to rush to the stone cow in the square. This was clearly aimed at the stone cow left by Senior Corpse Jie Xian in the world.

Because Jin An took a shortcut and jumped quickly from the roof, he arrived at the square before the garrison outside the city.

Hua Hua Hua——

The rain washed the ground, and a large pool of blood flowed on the ground. The scarlet blood mixed with the rain dripped down, and on the sharp horns of the tall, mighty, majestic and desolate stone cow, which was two people tall, the chest cavity was penetrated. A dead man was hanging on his back.

It was a half-century-old man wearing linen clothes of ordinary people. The old man was already dead, with a look of horror on his face, as if he had seen some extremely horrifying scene before his death, which frightened him so much that he opened his eyes wide with fear.

His death was miserable. His chest was penetrated, and his heart and lungs were torn apart by carved stone horns. After his death, his head and limbs were weak and drooping. The air and blood in the alveoli flowed backwards along the weak and drooping head, and foam poured out of his mouth and nasal cavity. Such blood dyed the linen clothes and the water on the ground red.

On the ground at the feet of the corpse, a large stack of yellow talisman papers, a dozen coffin nails, a Taoist mirror, and a golden iron rod were scattered.

Good guy.

Jin An took a closer look at the golden iron rod. It turned out to be a demon-conquering rod made of pure gold. Gold can suppress evil. Since ancient times, monks have had a tradition of enshrining golden Buddhas in temples to ward off evil.

Such a big gold demon-conquering stick weighs less than ten or twenty kilograms. Jin An dared to take off his head and let the stone bulls in the square step on it.

Jin An pondered that this demon-suppressing stick should be the same as the golden coffin of Wutou Village, which was an evil-suppressing weapon plated with gold on the outside.

After all, who else would really want to run around with so much gold every day? Why else would a practitioner with his head in his waistband deal with stinky corpses, evil spirits, and filth all day long? The whole ascetic life is equally miserable haha.

With so much gold, he would buy a few big houses in big cities for retirement, buy a dozen shops, buy more than a thousand acres of fertile land, and finally marry a wife with ten or twenty bedrooms, and have a little beauty and a maid to warm the bed every day. Doesn’t he enjoy living a luxurious and corrupt life?

obviously.

The old man in front of him, who was dressed in ordinary clothes and deliberately did not want to attract attention, was a capable person hidden among the people.

As for why this person appeared in Shiniu Square at night?

No need to guess.

He must have come for the stone ox.

Jin An felt that a butcher passed by the stone cow in the square during the day and saw the news that the stone cow came to life. He didn't know who leaked the news, which attracted the attention of interested people.

Even the captain saw some clues and sent people to ambush nearby. It is impossible that others are too stupid to see the clues about this stone cow.

only……

Looking at the dead body hanging upside down on the horns, this scene is somewhat intriguing.

Was it the captain and the others who killed him?

Or... the stone cow really came to life? This stone cow has changed from a dead stone to a living creature with spirit?

If it's the latter...

Thinking of the sound of heavy objects hitting the ground that he heard in the Taoist temple before, Jin An couldn't help but frown.

As the Cave Heaven Paradise Passage is about to be born, all kinds of moths start to rush together.

…

…

The square was very lively at this time.

Jin An saw dozens of cavalry guards holding torches, surrounding the stone ox. His eyes swept over these people, and he also noticed the captain.

And beside the captain, there were two familiar figures.

They are the two very funny mourning brothers.

The younger brother wears a long pointed hat with the words "I'm catching you" written on his head and holds a mourning stick.

The elder brother wears a long pointed hat with the words "You are here" written on his head and holds a soul-beating stick.

Jin An was not surprised to see these mourning brothers here. This time, so many folk exorcists responded to Master Fu Yin's call and went down to the Yinyi River to pacify the Dragon King. They were originally aiming to gain promotion to the imperial court. Going to be an official.

Some people like to be free and unrestrained.

There are also people who are tired of running around and like to be officials, hoping to change their destiny and leave a rich blessing to their descendants.

There are also people who desire great wealth.

Everyone has his own ambitions.

Just like Jin'an's visit to Yinyi Jiangping Dragon King this time, he went to the group of antique dealers. He had no interest in becoming a minor official.

"These mourning brothers do have some abilities, and they are good-hearted. Following a captain who treats his subordinates as brothers and loves his soldiers as sons is a good future."

Jin An sincerely wishes Brother Weeper to have a bright future and become a high official by following the good general Du Wei.

Well.

The old Taoist priest had saved the mourning brothers many times.

From now on, when he lives in Fucheng, he can be regarded as a privileged person with someone in the court. Thinking of this, Jin An was happy and asked the old Taoist priest to show the brothers' faces and their official career someday.

Tick-tock——

Tick-tock——

The blood on the corpse was still dripping.

The blood on the ground continued to expand.

As the blood in the body dries up, the blood flow slowly slows down, solidifies, and turns into a slow drip.

square.

The captain refused the umbrella and raincoat offered by his subordinates. He was soaked in the rain and stood in front of the stone cow with his hands behind his hands. Like Jin An who was hiding in the distance, he carefully looked at the stone cow in front of him with a solemn expression.

The stone cow is still the same stone cow.

The posture has not changed.

It’s as if it hasn’t moved for more than ten years, maintaining the same posture as it has for more than ten years——

The cow's head is slightly lowered, its thick horns are slightly tilted up to the sky, and its front hooves are raised, as if it is carrying something heavy, as heavy as a thousand stones. The momentum is majestic, vicissitudes of life, sad, and lonely.

The stone cow was carved lifelike by stonemasons, and the texture of each tendon and muscle was clearly visible.

vivid.

Ingenuity.

The captain was soaked in the rain, and looked at the two tall stone cows in front of him with an expressionless face... It is said that the eyes are the psychological world, and the eyes can see through a person. He seemed to want to use this to see whether the stone cow in front of him was alive or not. thing?

But it's a dead thing that doesn't move.

Still didn't move.

In fact, the dead man hanging on the horns in front of him was not killed by the captain. He did not even see how the man died, and neither did his men who were ambushing nearby.

He sat at the back, closing his eyes and recuperating, recharging his energy. When he heard the huge noise in the night, he got up and came to the window, and he saw a dead man hanging on the horns of the cow.

Asked the other men lurking by the window, no one could tell how the man died.

So many pairs of eyes.

Surprisingly, no one saw how the man walked into the square, how he approached the stone cow, and how he died on its horns.

Everything was too sudden.

It's so bizarre.

It reveals a strangeness and weirdness that is far beyond the understanding of ordinary people.

"Brother, why is the captain standing motionless, staring at a dead thing in the rain?" At this time, the mourner's younger brother, who had many questions, quietly asked his elder brother beside him.

The eldest brother of the mourner glared at his younger brother: "We are already members of the official family. I have told you many times that our words must be cultured and have connotation. We can no longer talk indiscriminately. What does it mean to be a captain? The general is staring blankly and speaking uneducatedly!"

"Have you not heard the saying that scholars often say, 'If you look at mountains, they are not mountains, and if you look at water, they are not water. If the mountains are not high, there will be immortals, and if the water is not deep, there will be dragons singing.'"

"You think General Duwei is admiring the rain? Wrong. In fact, General Duwei is looking at the stone cow. Do you think General Duwei is looking at the stone cow? You are wrong again. General Duwei is not looking at the stone cow, but It’s the casual cultivator who failed to resolve the corpse more than ten years ago.”

"Why do you think this stone cow is so famous? What is famous is not the stone cow, but the immortal hidden behind the stone cow. This stone cow has an immortal, so it is famous all over the world."

"?"

Standing in the rain with his hands behind his hands, the captain stared at the stone cow until his eyes became a little dull, and blue veins popped out on his forehead.

Other cavalry guards around: "..."

The younger brother who was mourning did not notice the strange atmosphere in the others around him. He looked at his elder brother with bright eyes and said excitedly: "Brother, I understand what you mean. You want to tell me that we are mourning in front of this stone cow. You can cry out for an immortal who can dissolve corpses!"

A miserable rainy night.

Bursts of miserable mourning began to sound.

The crying made the people around them panic and couldn't sleep at night. The men were so frightened that they hugged their wives to warm their beds. The men without their wives held back their peeing, and the more they held it in, the colder they became.

Tap tap tap——

Armor clashes.

The torches lit up the night sky like a long dragon. Groups of troops with strict military disciplines finally marched from outside the city to the square. They surrounded the square with murderous intent. Their weapons were unsheathed and they were ready to prepare for the surroundings under the dark night.

Then the leading soldier dismounted and came to the front of the captain. Because of the distance, Jin An could not hear the conversation between the captain and the captain. After a while, the soldier walked away and came back. He found a ladder and climbed up the stone cow. Move the body.

But the corpse was hung tightly on the horns, and the ribcage bones were firmly stuck with the horns. In the end, some strong cavalry masters joined forces to move the dead man hanging on the horns.

At this time, Jin An was staring in the direction of the stone cow in the square. He was curious, could this stone cow come back to life and kill people?

Just when Jin'an was paying close attention to the direction of the stone cow in the square, suddenly!

Jin An seemed to have noticed something, and his eyes turned solemnly. In the dark, cold rainy night, on another roof two or three feet away from him, there was a scholar silently appearing at some point.

The scholar appeared silently.

It was like it suddenly appeared.

The scholar was weak in writing and had a sallow complexion. At first, Jin An thought this man was sinister, but this man was not afraid of the yang energy in him. Jin An sensed the yang energy in the scholar's body that only living people have.

But there's something wrong with this scholar.

The muscles on his face and body were losing weight at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the three yang fires on his body were weakening rapidly. Only when Jin An took a closer look did he notice that there was a wriggling mass of something unknown lying on the scholar's back. thing.

It was a human face that had been skinned off!

Jin An's eyes flashed, but it was already too late when he tried to save the scholar.

The scholar's little Yang Qi had been sucked out by the wriggling human-skinned face behind him, and he died suddenly, skinny and skinny.

Just when the scholar died, the lump of human skin and human face crawled onto the scholar's face, replacing the scholar's facial features with the human face.

The scholar was possessed by evil spirits.

The skin and flesh were replenished and "resurrected", and the yin energy surged to the sky. Even Jin An felt a sense of threat with his skin slightly cold.

He noticed Jin An's gaze, his neck stiffened and he turned his head. The scholar whose face had been changed smiled seductively at Jin An, showing his pale teeth.

When Jin An looked at the scholar, a cold glow appeared on his back.

His hand was like lightning, and he grabbed his back, and the hot inner energy steamed up from his hand. There was a pagoda air mask attached to his palm, and the palm with the pagoda's black flame inner energy crushed a person who was trying to get on him along the roof tiles. Leather face.

Avenue induction!

A hundred virtues!

And just after Jin An crushed the human-skinned face that was trying to attack him from behind, in the darkness around him, on the roof, on the walls, on the window sill... in various invisible dark corners, another piece of human flesh squirmed out. A human-skinned face, they flew back to the evil-possessed scholar in an insidious manner.