Myriad Paths

Countless ghosts, with nowhere to go after death, became ghosts.

Some leaned on grass and trees, or became ghosts, wailing under the sky. When they moaned in the wind and rain, the plague spread, and the livestock and silkworms were all disturbed by the yin energy. Suddenly, the village was full of roaring cattle and barking dogs, and the chickens and dogs were restless.

In the sky:

The clouds were like black ink, and blood fell like rain.

The smoke burned the sky, and its shape could not be distinguished.

The yin and yang were rolling, and the evil air was rolling.

Countless ghosts lurked in the black fog, surrounding this ordinary village.

In the village, the young men's faces tightened, and they rushed out with weapons, and the women hurriedly took the children and hid in the house.

At the same time, the village elder in the village, with his eyes wide open, held a pear wood cane, and suddenly stopped!

This was the hunchbacked old man just now, but at this moment he looked particularly tall.

He shouted loudly: "Little Ten! Put the pigs away! Go in and ask all men over fifteen years old to come out, and hide the women and children. There are evil guests coming today!"

As he spoke, he saw a magnificent energy burst out from behind him, covering the sky and the earth, and even formed a gust of dark wind.

This is also a witch, but not a ghost witch, and his cultivation is not inferior to any of the three people outside.

It is just an ordinary mountain village, with only a thousand people anyway, but there is an eighth-rank village elder!

This shows the quality of the population in the hinterland of Wushen Mountain.

The eighth-rank village elder looked up at the countless wronged souls shrouded in the sky.

Behind him is the ancestral hall of this mountain village.

He walked to the front of the ancestral hall and shouted loudly: "Ancestors, Lijiazhai personally offers sacrifices every year, plows the fields, and prepares the rituals of offering sacrifices, silk, and wine. Now I am here to announce that there are evil guests who want to harm our descendants. Please show up!"

As he spoke, you can see that countless ancestors' ghosts suddenly reappeared in the ordinary ancestral hall.

With a loud bang, countless golden lights emerged from the ancestral hall.

Seen again:

The wind was thick and the golden light was shining.

Smoke was billowing and curses were roaring.

The air was clear and the ancestors appeared.

The ancestral tablets that were usually worshipped in the mountain village all began to tremble and heat up at this moment. Countless ghosts emerged from them, floating and confronting the ghosts outside.

They were all furious, pointing at the unworshipped evil ghosts outside and scolding them.

However, compared with those unworshipped ghosts, the ghosts in this ancestral hall were surrounded by incense, blessed by vows, and hung around with bamboo baskets, beans, deer jerky, pig entrails and silk, which clearly showed the difference.

The difference between people worshipping all year round and no one worshipping.

The ownerless ghosts outside heard the curses inside, and the curses bared their teeth at the mountain village. They smelled the smell of blood!

Without anyone to offer sacrifices, without incense, and being enslaved by ghost witches, they can only find blood food by themselves according to the ghost witches' instructions!

These lonely ghosts can no longer hold back. Without incense, they will want blood food!

This village is a good target!

If it were normal times, these lonely ghosts would never dare to invade these mountain villages.

As we saw before, the ancestral hall of this mountain village is blessed by the ancestors, and there is also an eighth-grade village elder guarding it. If ordinary lonely ghosts come in, they will definitely end up with their souls scattered.

To be able to gain a foothold in Wushen Mountain, these villages must have their own unique skills, which can be used at critical moments and have the power to protect themselves.

But now it's different.

These three ghost witches summoned them and backed them up. Now that they are united, they will definitely be able to eat this mountain village cleanly without leaving a bone!

With the support of the ancestors behind him, the eighth-grade village elder was much bolder. He took the initiative to step forward and said a blessing to the ghosts in the sky!

That's right, it was a blessing speech. Although this eighth-rank village elder was not a blessing person, he seemed to have picked up some blessing techniques from some places and used them here.

He shook his voice and shouted loudly to the ghosts outside: "Under the sky and above Hou Tu, there are people and ghosts everywhere. Although the ways of people and ghosts are different, the principles are the same."

"Now the village has set a custom for governing the people and gods. I still think of the many ghosts who have no worship in the dark. On the fifteenth day of this month, I will set up an altar in the north of the village, prepare animals, wine, soup and rice, and offer sacrifices to the ghosts and gods who have no worship. Everyone will sit down and leave happily. Their hearts are dedicated to respecting the gods and making peace with the village!"

"Ghosts rely on people to eat incense, people respect ghosts and know justice, spirits must be selfless and report as one, so that ghosts and gods will have a clear vision, and all the ghosts present will go to the altar on that day to enjoy the sacrifice!"

As soon as the blessing speech came out, the momentum of the ghosts outside was seen to stagnate.

The eighth-rank village elder in front of him said it very clearly. If they were willing to retreat, he would hold a sacrifice on the 15th of next month to provide incense for himself and others.

To be honest, they were gathered together, and all they wanted was a blood meal. If they could have incense and sacrifice, why would they fight with the other side?

Looking at the ancestors in the ancestral hall, and then looking at the eighth-rank witch, they are not easy to mess with. They may win if they rush together, but everyone will definitely suffer heavy casualties...

However, at this time, two ghost witches came out from the ghost group with gusts of gloomy wind.

It was the middle-aged man and the bald man.

The middle-aged man in the lead smiled and said, "Old man, don't worry, we just come to ask some questions and leave after asking."

Seeing two eighth-ranks coming out, the village elder's face changed, but he still answered with a stiff upper lip: "What do you want to ask? Also, if it's just asking questions, why do you have to make such a big fuss and even summon hundreds of ghosts to surround them?"

"Oh, we brothers are ugly, and we are afraid of making everyone unhappy when we come out, so we discussed it and summoned all the ghosts first, and then asked questions. I thought that the old man should know everything, so there won't be any quarrels." The man said with a smile.

Of course the village elder would not believe such nonsense, but he still said: "There is no need for it. Why don't we retreat from the ghost group? If anything happens, we sit down and talk about it. Of course we won't hide anything we want to ask."

"There is no need to sit down and say it. We will leave after asking. We just want to ask, has this village seen a green-scaled dragon colt crossing the sky before? We are here to inquire on the order of a big shot. "The middle-aged man said politely.

After hearing this, the village elder thought for a while, and while he was on guard, he said: "I don't know what a dragon colt is, but when it comes to green scales, I saw a four-legged monster with green scales flying from the sky a few days ago. I passed by and went all the way to the east. I don’t know if it’s the blue-scaled dragon colt you mentioned.”

"Ah, yes, that's right, it went east, right? Are you sure you didn't lie to me?" the middle-aged man said.

"Of course I won't hide it. Lijiazhai always treats people with sincerity!" The old man nodded.

"That's good, then we'll go after him. Thank you, old man." The middle-aged man said, sneaking into the group of ghosts.

Then, the ghosts began to disappear.

Seeing the other party retreat, although the old man was still wary, he subconsciously relaxed for a moment.

The ancestors in the ancestral hall also began to retreat.

But, at this moment——

Under the ground, a strong man who had never appeared before suddenly appeared. Under the cover of the retreat of the ghost group, he punched the old man!

This punch was a hit!

That strong man actually practiced martial arts as well! One punch directly broke the old man's muscles and bones!

At the same time, all ghosts chirped! Howling towards the village!

Moreover, it was accompanied by the middle-aged man's arrogant words: "This village actually lied and tried to deceive the people of Wu Shen Shan Zhu. You should be punished for your crime! We will deal with you on your behalf!"

What? If you say you are going east, you are going east?

No matter, you must be lying!

I said you lied, you lied! Seeing that you are sneaking around and looking wary, do you have a problem with Zhu Ren?

You said you didn't? I can't control that.

Anyway, the three of us brothers are here to help that person Zhu!

Who dares to take care of this tiger skin?

Who would offend the three of them for an ordinary copycat with no background?

Even if the benefactor asked about it afterwards, he would directly say that it was for the purpose of performing a secret technique, so some blood sacrifices were required.

Besides, we don’t want to sacrifice our lives to them, but they refuse to cooperate, lie to us, and are disrespectful to others.

The three of them were ready to leave, but when they heard him insult Zhu Ren, they became angry and took action, destroying the village and venting their anger to Zhu Ren's prestige.

Why, he and others tried their best to wish people a good life, used secret techniques to find mounts for them, and even killed village witches who were disrespectful to him. Why should he still blame the three of himself?

But...the other blood foods, treasures, and the spiritual tablet in the ancestral hall in this village...

Anyway, that person from Wushen Mountain will definitely not need it. Of course it belongs to us. We picked it all up.

We helped him find the mount. This was just a small blood sacrifice to find the mount. The other party asked for this blood sacrifice.

As for the Lijiazhai that was massacred?

Even the dead are dead, and dead people cannot speak.

No matter who asks, they are all sinners who deceived and insulted Zhu Ren, and they only acted out of righteous indignation. Moreover, if they find Long Ju afterwards, they might even get Zhu Ren's reward!

A high-ranking man would not look down at these ants.

They are very experienced.

Past experience tells them that big shots really don't care much about this kind of thing.

This sudden attack directly severely damaged the eighth-grade village elder!

He was suddenly attacked by a sneak attack, and it was one against three. How could he stop it?

So, a few seconds later——

The wind is howling!

The black cloud collapsed, bringing with it an endless swarm of ghosts and pounced into the stronghold!

The ancestral spirits in the ancestral hall immediately appeared, shouting angrily and facing the ghost group.

It was dark and nothing could be seen.

However, a lot of sounds can be heard.

There were sounds of sucking, chewing, slurping flesh and blood, cries, laughter, roaring and angry sounds, mixed together, spreading for dozens of miles, and together with the black air, surrounded the village.

An hour passed.

In this village, there are no more people who can move.

The entire ground turned completely sticky pink, and countless evil spirits lay on the ground, licking and snatching each other.

The liver and lungs are rotten on the road, and the intestines and stomach are hanging upstairs.

The stinking filth covered the mountain, and no one knew who the bones were.

People's tendons are stretched into threads, and their souls are in mourning.

There were bones all over the ground, whether they were human or animal, maybe both human and animal.

And in the center of the village, a sacrifice was being held.

This is a typical blood sacrifice.

This secret method requires using brains and blood as sacrifices to follow cause and effect.

The specific method is also very simple.

Beat the red gold into a tube with a flat top and a sharp bottom, and burn it in the fire until it burns red.

Then, tie the person whose memory is to be retrieved to a stake with a back scissor, separate his hair, take a hot hollow gold tube, cut it into the center of his head, and suck in the marrow and brain to eat.

Then force the soul out of the body, refine it with gold and fire, force its true spirit to appear, and extract the causal connection from it.

The true spirit is the key to causal connection, and memory serves as a clue to guide.

In this way, with a two-pronged approach, with cause and effect as the backbone and memory as the tail link, you can find what you want in most situations.

However, this secret method is actually a bit tasteless.

Because...if the other party has this thing in his memory, he only needs to tell it, and it is not difficult to find it along the way.

Besides, when it comes to things like cause and effect, you don’t necessarily have to kill people. There are many secret methods that can find out the cause and effect connection from living people. You don’t have to kill the person and then draw out the true spirit.

So, this is really just a broken secret method of a country wizard.

But anyway...

Still useful.

The other two people stared at the middle-aged man nervously, fearing that he would fail.

If it fails, it will be difficult to explain to Zhuren.

In their opinion, doing these things by pulling the skin of a tiger is just a trivial matter. The important thing is to complete the things that Zhu Ren ordered, so that they can have someone to support them when they do these things.

After a while, the middle-aged man opened his eyes.

"Found it! There must be no one faster than us. Let's go, pack up the things here, and let's go back to find those mountain gods." He urged.

He indeed sensed the position of the dragon colt!

The other two immediately cheered up.

They immediately began to collect things that could be used here.

The first to bear the brunt are the ghosts of the dead. All the souls of the people who originally lived in this village have been taken away by these ghosts and witches and are not allowed to reincarnate.

They will become one of those ghosts, instilled with fear, resentment, and ultimately driven by ghosts and witches.

Then, there is the spiritual tablet of the ancestral hall here.

Erasing all the ghosts inside, these spiritual tablets made of locust wood Yin water are containers that can hold many ghosts, which can greatly increase the number of ghosts they can control.

After that, there is a blood pill, which is made from the remaining flesh and blood of these thousands of people.

This village is too poor to have any magic weapons, but there are still some herbs and minerals that can be collected.

It took about a quarter of an hour to pack these up.

Then, they returned to the place where the mountain god had agreed to return.

You can notify other mountain gods that they have found the location.

Get this first merit.

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At this moment, Li Qi, who was thinking about spiritual problems with his eyes closed, suddenly opened his eyes.

"This...what does it feel like? Why do my shoulders feel heavy and blood rushes towards me?" Li Qi frowned.

Wu Jin often has whims, I have said this many times.

Just now, Li Qi had this feeling.

It seems that there is a blood debt on his head?

However, it should not be the whole, he only bears part of the joint cause and effect.

ah? What did he do?