I picked up a ghost and took it home

This happened 400 years ago.

As an unrivaled talent in the Taoist world, Chu Nan of Gushan Dao is not only young, handsome and talented, but also hardworking, studious and dedicated to Taoism. He has been well-known in the Taoist world early on.Qing Mian, the head of Gushan Dao, once stroked his plump white beard at the annual Taoist world summit, and sighed with relief, "My apprentice, the only shortcoming is that I am too smart. It's unbearable!"

The heads of Maoshan Dao and Shushan Dao rolled their eyes towards the sky one after another, acknowledging the old daoism, let's see how proud you are!Pooh!

Daoist Qingmian seemed to realize that he was a little too complacent, so he coughed and said, "Actually, this kid, Chu Nan, has a shortcoming that bothers me a lot."

The heads of Maoshan and Shushan immediately pricked up their ears, and listened intently with bated breath. They also wanted to know what's wrong with Chu Nan?After all, it looks like this disciple is too perfect!It really makes people jealous!

"That's too focused! Do you know? Sometimes for the sake of cultivation, this brat doesn't even listen to my teacher!" Qing Mian continued to caress his white beard, and said with a smile, "I'm so angry ~ angry Got me~"

"..." Maoshan Dao and Shushan Dao's masters all thought in their hearts: ah!Old Daoist Qingmian, why don't you die laughing!

At this time, the patriarch of Ghost Dao who was sitting in the corner spoke, "Old Daoist Qingmian, I heard that your disciples of Gushan Dao have never been down the mountain? You have never traveled through the world of mortals, and you have never experienced the real tastes of the world. How dare you Make your disciple so perfect? ​​This is to make people laugh out loud, hahahahaha..."

For a moment, the entire venue was filled with the insolent laughter of the Patriarch of Ghost Dao.

Qingmian's face darkened: "..."

Their lonely mountain road has always aimed to be pure and ascetic, and to ascend to immortality. They don't advocate such things as going down the mountain to travel in the world of mortals.After all, the world of mortals is too dangerous, and those who are not strong-willed may not be able to come back in full, but Chu Nan should be fine, because this child is really strong-minded, even stronger than his master...

As people in the righteous way, ghosts have always been looked down upon by other Taoist sects, but for the sake of fairness, people in the right way will still send invitations to the ancestors of ghosts at the annual Taoist summit, although they wish that people from the ghost way will not come, But the patriarch of Guidao refused to let them get what they wanted, so they would come here every year to join in the fun.

The heads of Maoshan and Shushan really couldn't understand Qingmian's proud face. Although they were not happy, they still echoed the opinion of the ancestor of Ghost Dao: "Well, let your disciples of Gushan Dao also go down the mountain for a tour. If it is true that you are "pure with few desires and firm in Dao", then in the world of mortals, you should also be "pure in mind with few desires and firm in Dao."

"Let me think about it." Qing Mian stroked his white beard, left the table thoughtfully, and turned to the back hall.

Then Qingmian was stopped by his proud disciple in the back hall.

Chu Nan has always felt that the so-called "Taoist Summit" is where the heads of various Taoist sects sit together, chat and drink tea, and compare each other. It is too wasteful of practice time, so he never participates.But when he came back from practice today, he happened to hear the speech of Patriarch Guidao, and thought it was very reasonable, so he decided to go down the mountain for better practice.

Qing Mian raised her white eyebrows, "Let me think about it——"

Chu Nan said firmly: "Master, the disciple's burden has been prepared, and I'm here to let you know that I'm going down the mountain to practice." Then, he respectfully bowed to Qingmian, walked out of the back hall quickly, and breathed a sigh of relief. Yujian lifted off and disappeared in the blue sky with white clouds in the blink of an eye.

"..." Qing Mian stared blankly at the proud disciple who disappeared in front of him, almost spat out a mouthful of old blood, he was so angry~ he was so angry~ his white beard was raised up!

When Chu Nan was still in his infancy, he was thrown under a lonely mountain and was taken in by Qing Mian.Later, Qingmian discovered that the child was full of aura, so he accepted him as an apprentice and taught him to learn Taoism and practice.Chu Nan is also very competitive. After eighteen winters and springs, he has become a leader among the younger generation of the Daoist sects, and his ascension to immortality seems to be just around the corner.

But for Chu Nan himself, although he is focused on cultivating Taoism and becoming an immortal, he has never thought about what he should do after becoming an immortal, and he can't figure it out.He felt that he had encountered an unprecedented bottleneck on the road of practice.So after hearing the words of the Patriarch of Ghost Dao, he decided to go down the mountain to travel in the world. He thought that maybe he could find the answer after experiencing the legendary "Red World of Ten Thousand Zhangs".

...It coincides with the chaos of war, and life in the world is bitter... almost to death.

With a small burden on his back and a sword in his hand, Chu Nan walked from the dilapidated street to the wild village to the battlefield full of corpses and souls.As he walked, he performed deeds and prayed for disaster relief for the people and ghosts he met.

Three years have passed, although Taoist Chu, who was originally a celestial being, has a simple sense of vicissitudes, but his Taoism is higher and his Taoism is firmer. He wants to persist in cultivating the Tao, not to become a fairy, but to redeem this painful life. world.

But in the last two times, whenever Taoist Chief Chu got the news of the war, he rushed to the battlefield as soon as possible, only to find that the ghosts who should have existed in large numbers had disappeared. There were only a large number of corpses on the battlefield, not a single ghost.Daoist Chu felt that it was abnormal. For the third time, he sneaked into the battlefield directly, and then at the end of the battle, he found that... ghost cultivator.

The young ghost monk, wearing a goose yellow skirt, held a cloth bag full of black spells in his hand, like picking flowers, he took all the war dead ghosts into it without missing a beat.Daoist Chu jumped out to stop him, asking the ghost monks to release the war dead ghosts and accept his blessing!The ghost cultivator naturally refused, so the two had a big fight, and they forged incomprehensible... beams ever since.

By the way, this ghost monk who likes to wear goose yellow skirts, has big watery eyes, and fair skin, happens to be the most beloved disciple of the current ghost master, named Yue Fang.

Later, Daoist Chu and Daoist Yue often fought over the matter of robbing ghosts, and gradually even became acquainted with each other.In the end who will snatch the ghost, it depends on each person's ability.After the robbing, the two would occasionally sit together calmly to eat, drink tea, and discuss the "Tao" they insisted on.Of course, both of them are people with a firm heart, and at the end of the discussion, there will inevitably be another fight.

Yue Fang was no match for Chu Nan, and he beat Chu Nan halfway through the fight, habitually coquettishly coquettish, "The most annoying you are old-fashioned, saying that you are the right way and we are the evil way, but how come you are the right way and we are the evil way?"

Chu Nan put his sword back into its sheath, and repeated for the umpteenth time, "When people die and become ghosts, whether they should ascend to heaven or go to hell is under the control of the underworld. You shouldn't arrest them for cultivation."

"Then I am a preacher of ghosts, and I don't practice ghosts, how can I practice?" Yue Fang was puzzled.

"...so you don't want to practice ghosts—"

"—But I don't practice the ghost way, how can I inherit the master's mantle, how can I be the patriarch of the ghost way?"

"...so don't be the Patriarch of Ghost Dao—"

"That won't work. Master has high hopes for me, and I can't let him down."

"..." Chu Nan felt that it is good to have a firm mind, but this ghost cultivator in front of him is really too difficult to deal with.

The so-called way is different, do not conspire with each other.Gradually, the two ate, drank tea and chatted together, and they chatted casually, and no longer discussed their respective "Tao".

Until, Chu Nan snatched the super big ghost pill that Yuefang spent seven to seven days and carefully refined with 49 ghosts—Chu Nan used half his body to dissolve the big ghost pill, and the ghost that was transformed The crowd returned to the underworld——Yue Da was furious, chased him to the foot of the lonely mountain, and then... accidentally killed Chu Nan.

Knowing that the super big ghost pill was stolen, Yue Fang was angry, but she didn't really intend to kill Chu Nan, she just wanted to get her big ghost pill back.But she didn't expect that Chu Nan spent most of his cultivation to dispel her big ghost pill, and he would die in her hands in the end.

Before he died, Chu Nanwai was lying in Yue Fang's arms, spitting blood, and said dying, "I hindered your cultivation, I'm sorry, I can only pay with my life."

Yue Fang hated the stinky Taoist in her arms, but she didn't know why she was crying.Tears are like beads with a broken thread, which can't be wiped away.She really hates it.The hatred was so extreme that I couldn't express it. In the end, I could only hold the stinky Taoist priest and cry loudly.

... Her Okimaru never came back!

When Qing Mian rushed down the mountain, what he saw was the body of his precious apprentice, and the ghostly witch who killed his apprentice and enemy.

When the Patriarch of Ghost Dao rushed over, what he saw was the corpse of his precious apprentice, and Qing Mian, the master who killed apprentices and enemies.

So under the lonely mountain, the earth shook and the mountains shook, and a peerless battle broke out between Taoist Master Qingmian and Patriarch Guidao.

Three days and three nights later, the priests, who were both wounded, stopped fighting for a while to recuperate, only to find that the corpses of their lovers were a bit strange—the heads of both corpses were gone.

...I have searched the entire lonely mountain, and I can't find the heads of my disciples...

The one who went to ecstasy that day happened to be Xin Helpless.

At that time, Xin Naiyou had just started working in the underworld. Although her attitude was serious, she was not proficient in the business. She never noticed that the two souls she hooked back were incomplete until Yuan Sen took them from "Fang Zhongwen". I showed her the family portrait I brought, and asked her if she thought "Fang Zhongwen" was a bit strange, and she suddenly remembered this old story.

After all, back then, she brought back the souls of Chu Nan and Yue Fang on time and according to the amount, and her work was completed.Although after arriving in the underworld, Chu Nan still determined to practice Taoism and went directly to reincarnation, but Yue Fang felt lost. After serving his sentence in hell, he chose to seal up his memory and stay in the underworld to work—he became Meng by the bridge of Naihe. Xuan.

Anyone who works in the underworld needs to seal up the memory and name of the previous life and start over.Xin Helpless is no exception, she doesn't remember her events and her name when she was alive.

Xin helplessly concluded the story with one sentence: "Back then, Yue Fang should have sealed their souls in their heads with the technique of ghosts, and then escaped. But without a body, they couldn't survive, so the thousand For 400 years, they survived by combining with other people's bodies."

Ye Fan was fascinated by the story, and it wasn't until Xin Nai had finished summarizing and called him that he came back to himself lazily, and sighed, "Your Majesty, you are very good at telling stories."

Xin Nai was taken aback for a moment, and a trace of unease flashed across his usually icy face, "This is a real incident."

"...Sorry." Because it was too mysterious, Ye Fan unknowingly listened to it as a story, he thought to himself, "Since Yuan Sen asked you that, he also noticed the weirdness of this 'Fang Zhongwen'? "

Xin nodded helplessly, "Yuan Sen saw that 'Fang Zhongwen' had a soul and a soul. But last night Xuanxuan was here, so I couldn't talk and ask more questions, and I was not sure. I didn't really know Fang Zhongwen until I checked Fang Zhongwen's information today. Understand what happened that year - it seems that I made a mistake at work again."

As if thinking of something, Xin helplessly glanced at Ye Fan and then at Li Xuan, and repeated with self-blame, "It was my mistake at work. I should have been more rigorous and serious. I'm sorry."

"...I can't blame you for this. Mistakes at work are sometimes inevitable..." Ye Fan tried to comfort him, but he didn't know if it was an illusion. Just now, the Judge gave him an apologetic look and then at Li Xuan ?This story has nothing to do with him and Li Xuan, right?Why did your lord judge apologize to them?

Xin's helpless expression quickly returned to normal, and he said in a deep voice, "The most important thing now is to find the remaining souls of Yue Fang and Chu Nan, otherwise, people will die."

Ye Fan sorted out his thoughts in his head, and asked, "Why did Yue Fang take the head away and revive it in this way?"

Xin helpless: "Could it be that you want to continue practicing?"

"If you simply want to practice, then like Chu Nan, you can reincarnate as a Taoist priest, wouldn't that be enough?" Ye Fan asked.

Xin helplessly: "Then I don't understand either."

"Also," Ye Fan hesitated, and said cautiously, "You'd better tell Yuan Sen and Captain Pang about these things, it's useless to tell me—"

"Because Xuanxuan pays close attention to Yuansen recently, it is inconvenient for me to find him directly." Xin helplessly added, "I want to solve this matter without Xuanxuan knowing—she doesn't remember these things, and She's okay."

Ye Fan didn't understand what "Meng Xuan paid attention to Yuan Sen" meant, but he understood Xin Furui's intention to send him a message to Yuan Sen.He said, "Then I'll go see Captain Pang and Yuan Sen and tell them what happened."

"I'm sorry." Xin said helplessly, and added, "Xuanxuan, please pay attention to me, I'm still a little worried."

"...Okay." Ye Fan agreed, but he felt that he would not be able to help Mrs. Meng.

Xin Furuo suddenly took out a wallet from his pocket, took out three red banknotes, put them on the table, and said meticulously, "This is your reward."

"..." There is still a reward? !Ye Fan quickly refused, "No need, this is what I should do, and I don't need to be paid..." He doesn't want Mingbi or something...

"I still have something to do, let's take a step first. If you have any progress, you can call me." Xin helplessly disappeared into the living room in a white light without any explanation.

With difficulty, Ye Fan turned his gaze to the paper money on the table, and then fixed his gaze... Is it the real RMB, a hundred-yuan bill, not a Ming coin? !

...Could it be that the RMB is already strong enough to circulate freely in the underworld? !amazing!

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The author has something to say:

I saw that some friends said "confused circle" yesterday. Sure enough, did I not explain this story clearly?

Or is it because the timeline has been slightly adjusted?