Folk custom: At the beginning of the wedding, the bride takes off her painted skin

"I fucking believe it!"

Li Daoxuan cursed in a low voice and threw away the hatchet in his hand.

Zhou Yaya didn't turn into a ghost this time, because the ghost was not outside, the real ghost was inside the house!

Li Daoxuan waved the hatchet in his hand like a sickle harvesting human lives.

Zhou Yaya saw the hatchet flying towards her, but she didn't panic at all, and even used her control ability to make the hatchet fly faster.

In just the blink of an eye, the hatchet flew over her head, and the sharp blade struck the ghost's hand without any deviation.

Coupled with the huge force Li Daoxuan slashed.

There is no doubt that the ghost hand will be cut off.

Zhou Yaya felt the huge force above her head disappear in an instant. Just now, she felt that her head was about to be crushed.

But when she saw Guishou falling next to her, she breathed a sigh of relief.

Li Daoxuan had already passed by her and picked up the hatchet on the ground.

"You protect the oil lamp and follow me."

Li Daoxuan's voice sounded in her ears. Fortunately, she was not a novice. She was not the kind of woman who would just scream and hide behind a man when she saw a ghost. She even said that she was a ghost herself.

It is still an extremely powerful existence among them.

"it is good."

Li Daoxuan entered the house, and she followed him in while protecting the oil lamp.

Unlike the howling wind outside, it was extremely quiet inside the house, you could even hear a pin drop.

Li Daoxuan looked at the ground by the light of the oil lamp.

At some point, there was a series of black footprints on the ground, leading straight into his room from the door.

The ghost came in at the beginning.

Li Daoxuan frowned slightly, this was indeed a bit beyond his expectation.

Weird, indeed a little weird.

The door is closed.

Li Daoxuan put his hand on the doorknob and looked back. Zhou Yaya, who was protecting the oil lamp, was right behind him, which made him feel relieved.

What you need to watch out for now is opening the door and encountering love.

For this kind of thing, no matter how big-hearted Li Daoxuan is, no matter how powerful he is, he is still a little worried and a little afraid.

So I really encountered this situation, and it really came to this time.

The scariest thing was opening the door slowly. He pushed the door hard and the door... opened.

He opened all the doors at once, and the room was empty.

The ghost was not behind the door, nor on the bed, but there was a big hole in the window.

"The ghost is out."

After Zhou Yaya said that, she turned around and was about to go out, but when she was about to lift her leg, she found that her wrist was grabbed by Li Daoxuan.

"Don't worry."

"Don't panic."

Li Daoxuan did not turn around or look back, he just glanced around his room silently.

"I may not be good at other things, and I don't know much about them, but when it comes to killing ghosts... I do have some expertise."

His room only had a palm-sized area in total, and he couldn't see the ghost as far as he could see, so there were only two places left.

Either under the bed or under his quilt.

Li Daoxuan naturally hopes that this thing is under his bed. He doesn't want such a disgusting thing to get into his bed.

He didn't even enter the room, he squatted down at the door of the room and bent over.

Zhou Yaya put down the oil lamp at the right time.

It's good that Li Daoxuan didn't see that disgusting thing under his bed. Apart from a few pairs of his shoes and two wooden boxes, there was nothing else under the bed.

That would be even scarier. If this thing is not under the bed, then there is only one place left.

Li Daoxuan walked into the house in a few steps and stood beside the bed. Zhou Yaya blocked the door behind him.

He stretched out the hatchet in his hand, reached into the bed, and then suddenly opened it.

To his surprise, the bed was also empty.

"Look, I told you, that ghost must have left long ago." Zhou Yaya curled her lips, as if she was upset that Li Daoxuan didn't believe her.

"No, it must still be in my room."

Li Daoxuan said firmly.

Immediately, he looked around, and just when he was a little confused, he saw the prompt on the panel again.

[If you believe it, it is false. If you don’t believe it, then it is here. 】

So...is this the key to the weirdness?

At first, I was still immersed in what the Taoist priest said. I didn't believe that there were ghosts in this third world, so I could see it.

After he got out, he believed in the existence of ghosts.

So I couldn't see it anymore, and I almost thought Zhou Yaya was a ghost.

Then when I felt that there were no ghosts, just hallucinations, it appeared again, and even took the opportunity to cut off its hand.

Therefore, as long as you believe it, you will never find it.

But if you don’t believe it, it will come out.

After thinking about this, Li Daoxuan took a deep breath, tightened the hatchet in his hand, and at the same time forced his mind to be clear.

"I'm thinking that this ghost may not exist. There are no ghosts on this level, only hallucinations."

Li Daoxuan was talking to Zhou Yaya and himself at the same time.

He had to find a way to give himself a psychological hint so that he could believe that the ghost did not exist.

Then talking to Zhou Yaya is undoubtedly the best way.

"Yes, yes, that's what I thought too. That's what I thought when you always thought of me as a ghost in the beginning."

Zhou Yaya nodded vigorously, agreeing with what Li Daoxuan said.

"Then we should think about how to break this illusion. At present, you are the only one who has fallen into this illusion. I am fine."

"I think so. After all, this hallucination was originally caused by you not completing the task, and it has nothing to do with me... But putting it this way, this hallucination is a bit like seeing the truth."

Zhou Yaya seemed to enjoy this process of using her brain instead of using her hands. After hearing that Li Daoxuan asked her for her opinion, she became even more excited.

Chirping incessantly.

Li Daoxuan followed her thoughts and felt more and more that this was what happened.

There are no ghosts, everything is your own illusion.

As he became more and more convinced of this idea, the scene in front of him slowly changed.

The old woman he saw at the door now appeared in front of him again.

It was no longer Zhou Yaya, but actually appeared at his feet, squatting next to him.

Judging from its appearance, it seemed like it wanted to take a bite of it, and it had even opened its mouth, revealing a mouth full of fangs.

Li Daoxuan smiled slightly at him.

It also saw Li Daoxuan's smile, leaned back, and wanted to escape.

But... it's too late.

The pig-killer found out that he was being killed so close that he couldn't escape.

Li Daoxuan raised the hatchet in his hand and chopped it down.

"Boom-"

A dull sound sounded in the room, and the hatchet in Li Daoxuan's hand chopped straight on the top of its head.

And then...downward.

"The ghosts in this third world seem a bit weak."

Li Daoxuan sighed as he looked at the ghost that was chopped to death by himself and then turned into putrid corpse water and seeped into the ground.

Zhou Yaya walked forward, took out a handkerchief from her sleeve, and picked up a copper plate from the place of the ghost's body.

The sky is round and the place looks a bit old, as if it is covered with patina.

She used the light from the oil lamp to see clearly the words on the coins.

"Shouyuan Tongbao."

Li Daoxuan had also seen the copper plate a long time ago and reached out to take it.

After the encounter on the previous two floors, when he took the copper plate, he also took out the Tower Ascension Order.

Sure enough, a line of text appeared above again.

[Season: 8]

[Shouyuan Tongbao: 1]

"You should keep this thing, it has no effect on me." Zhou Yaya was very generous, even though Li Daoxuan originally got this thing.

"Ah."

Li Daoxuan thought of the Jigui crystal from before. That thing was... addictive.

"Are you still absorbing the Jigui Crystal?"

"It's gone now. This body is not mine. What else should I absorb?"

"Um……"

Li Daoxuan did not raise his head and did not dare to persuade here. If the weapon spirit heard something or knew something, it would be troublesome to attack him directly. "Okay, you should go back and rest early. The fact that you didn't complete the task should be over. Let's go to Mr. Qi's house early tomorrow morning."

Zhou Yaya could feel that he had something to say to her, but she didn't know why.

But he didn't say it.

She didn't ask, just nodded, "Okay, I'll go back first, be careful and call me if you need anything."

"Ah."

After Zhou Yaya left, Li Daoxuan was no longer sleepy, not to mention that there was a strong corpse smell in the room.

He thought... This ghost is not very strong, but in some ways, he is very strong.

At least in this world where everyone is an ordinary person, the ghosts here... are already strong enough.

Not to mention the mysterious method, the ghost's own strength alone is no longer something ordinary people can deal with.

Coupled with the law of "believe it, it doesn't exist", if a grain eater who doesn't know the situation encounters it rashly... it can be said to be a certain death.

I think a lot of grain eaters will die tonight...

……

The next day.

After finally getting up at dawn, Li Daoxuan spent a while explaining why the window was broken. They definitely didn't believe it if it was ghost, so he had to say that it was Zhou Yaya who did it.

The result was a painless beating anyway, so he simply didn't bother to explain.

After Zhou Yaya came over, the two of them said hello to their families and went out.

Because he didn't know whether he was going to rob a tomb, Li Daoxuan didn't bring anything with him and went empty-handed.

On the contrary, Zhou Yaya also took a written couplet.

Li Daoxuan also opened it and read it. Judging from the handwriting, it was very consistent with her status as a lady in the ninth-rate world.

Excellent, classy.

"Yesterday, my father saw me coming back from Mr. Qi to write blessing characters. Then he said that we also have pen and ink at home, so I wrote a few and brought them to Mr. Qi. We can't both come to the house empty-handed." Zhou Yaya is a man and a ghost. , completely different style.

Li Daoxuan clasped his hands behind his head, raised his head when walking, and took a figure-eight step.

His pace was even more like that of disowning his relatives.

"We are both the same. Since you brought something, I won't bring it."

"No one is like you."

Zhou Yaya rolled her eyes.

But having said that, when the two of them were walking on the street, everyone who met them would smile and ask them if they would be able to drink their wedding wine this year.

Zhou Yaya blushed and couldn't say anything, while Li Daoxuan told them to write more gift money, otherwise there would be no wine.

The two of them just talked and laughed and came to the bamboo forest in the southwest of the town. From a distance, before they got closer, Li Daoxuan saw Mr. Qi wearing a green shirt standing in front of the bamboo forest, as if he was integrated with the bamboo forest. .

Before knowing his true identity, when Li Daoxuan saw this scene, he would only feel that he had seen a real scholar.

But after knowing his identity.

Li Daoxuan only had what Li's father said before in his mind.

"A native master can also be considered a master, right?"

So now when I look at Mr. Na Qi, it seems strange.

But Zhou Yaya obviously didn't know about this yet. She walked up and bowed as a junior, then presented a couplet she had written and said a few words of blessing.

Mr. Qi accepted it with a smile and thanked him repeatedly.

But when he looked at Li Daoxuan, it was no longer like this, but he smiled meaningfully.

He seemed to know that Li Daoxuan had seen his identity.

The two of them nodded, "Please come in."

Zhou Yaya also noticed the subtlety between them, looked around, and finally blamed Li Daoxuan for not telling her.

The three of them entered the bamboo house in the bamboo forest one after another. The first thing Li Daoxuan said was, "Mr. Qi's house should not be inhabitable in summer."

The bamboo forest is full of mosquitoes in summer.

Mr. Qi stroked his beard and said with a smile: "When I was young, I found some good things in steamed buns, so I am not afraid of these."

Steamed bun……

Tufuzi does not call the tomb a tomb, but usually calls it a nail, a tomb, a pier, a mushroom, a steamed bun, a pit, a pile or a hole.

So, Mr. Qi is having a showdown?
Li Daoxuan looked at him laughing and leaned back on his chair, "I wonder what Mr. Qi wants to do with us?"

"Recognize the eyes, or step on the plate?"

To recognize one's eyes is to find a tomb.

Stepping on the spot means stepping on the plate.

Zhou Yaya had obviously never heard of this in the middle-9 world, so she was confused at the moment.

As for Mr. Qi... after hearing this, he smiled with understanding.

There was also some joy in his eyes.

"May I ask this... little brother, which school did you belong to when you were outside?"

Mr. Qi asked tentatively as he spoke: "Faqiu Tianguan, Banshan Taoist, Xiling strongman, or Mojin Xiaowei?"

Zhou Yaya has stopped talking because she doesn't understand and doesn't know how to interrupt. It's better to listen silently.

Li Daoxuan rubbed the armrest of the bamboo chair and said with a smile: "Instead of asking me so many questions, why don't Mr. Qi tell you about his own situation first?"

Mr. Qi sat upright and said in a deep voice: "That's right."

"I should be regarded as a half-baked gold captain."

Touching Captain Jin, Li Daoxuan also knows something about this group.

Compared with the other three groups, Mojin Xiaowei is the most well-known. They are a technical group and can be regarded as professional tomb robbers.

The skill of finding dragons and dividing gold to fix acupoints are their special skills.

They often have specialized logos, cuts and techniques and are very disciplined.

Good at positioning by collecting information and observing Feng Shui.

"Me? I'm just a dabbler." Li Daoxuan smiled, "I don't have any sects, I just play by myself."

The joy in Mr. Qi's eyes faded slightly.

Zhou Yaya took the opportunity to ask: "Mr. Qi, how did you know that we came from outside?"

Mr. Qi did not answer in a hurry, but stood up and poured a glass of boiled water for both of them, and then continued: "This has to do with a bucket I poured back then."

Li Daoxuan held the tea cup and felt the warmth of the tea inside.

"Grain-Eater's Tomb?"

"Correct."

Mr. Qi smiled and said: "It's easy to talk to smart people, but..."

As he spoke, his face suddenly darkened, and there was still fear and fear in his eyes, "But that fight... is definitely the most terrifying tomb I have ever seen in my life."

"So you called us here because you want us to help you steal the grain eater's tomb?" Zhou Yaya understood better and asked aloud.

"Of course it's either... it's... it's..."

For a moment, Mr. Qi couldn't explain why.

But Li Daoxuan understood clearly and asked directly: "You don't know why, but you just know that you want to lead us outsiders to rob tombs, right?"

"Correct."

Mr. Qi nodded simply, "That's it."

Zhou Yaya was still confused.

Li Daoxuan looked at her, pointed to the sky, opened his mouth and said silently: "Item Spirit."

Zhou Yaya understood everything immediately, just like before, she had to collect dead people's money on the first floor, and collected ghost crystals and incense on the second floor.

This third level is probably where you have to go to the tomb and collect the Shouyuan Tongbao.

There are reasons, but not many, and they, the outside grain-eaters, just do what they are told.

"Okay, then when do we set off?" Li Daoxuan was even more straightforward. Since he knew that he was going to fight upside down, he just went straight to it.

Mr. Qi was obviously relieved. He originally thought that it would be very difficult to persuade them to go to the grave, but he did not expect that they agreed so easily.

"It's still early, we have to prepare a few things, and...it will be Human Day in a few days, and you must have passed Human Day before you can leave."

"Today is the second day of the Lunar New Year, and Human Day is the seventh day of the Lunar New Year. There are less than five days left. The next festival after Human Day is the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the Lunar New Year, so there are eight days left."

"In eight days, I can take you to the nearest steamed bun to have a look."

Mr. Qi seems to know a lot.

As for the festival of Human Day, Li Daoxuan heard about it for the first time.

Zhou Yaya took the opportunity to ask: "By the way, Mr. Qi, what were the customs of the Spring Festival yesterday?"

"We sat and posted couplets, pasted blessing characters, posted door gods, worshiped ancestors, ate glutinous rice balls, won money and set off firecrackers. There should be another one coming."

After hearing this, Mr. Qi stroked his beard and said with a smile: "According to your custom in Shuangqiao Town, there is another requirement to sweep dust during the Spring Festival."

"This is usually done naturally after your parents get up. So over time, everyone forgets about sweeping the dust and just regards it as a normal thing."

"So you just had to sweep the floor?" Zhou Yaya looked at Li Daoxuan and said quite speechlessly.

"who cares."

Li Daoxuan didn't bother to care about what had happened in the past.

"Four or five days are actually about the same. I will go back and prepare now. We will set off later."

Li Daoxuan was too lazy to wait any longer. (End of chapter)