After being forced to debut in metaphysics, I became popular
Chapter 297 Jinjiang
After confirming the relationship between Ye Li and Yan Shixun, Li Chengyun suddenly realized what the fortune chart he had calculated for Yan Shixun meant.
And he finally realized that maybe Yan Shixun was able to survive successfully because of the Lord of Fengdu in front of him.
The ghosts and gods bestowed their power on Yan Shixun, so that the life that should have been gradually weakened by the ghost energy reinjected vitality and vitality, and grew smoothly.
Because of this, Yan Shixun had cause and effect with ghosts and gods.
When Li Chengyun thought about all this clearly, he couldn't help being a little surprised, the karma of ghosts and gods is really not easy to pay back.
——In the end, it turned out to be repayment with the body?
Li Chengyun didn't expect that when he heard the news of his own Xiao Xun, Xiao Xun was already with ghosts and gods.
But seeing Ye Li's attitude, he felt a little relieved.
The words of ghosts and gods are the witnesses of heaven and earth, and the oath shall not be broken.
The Lord of Fengdu's attitude towards Xiao Xun is serious and solemn even Li Chengyun can see, which makes him feel disappointed and happy that Xiao Xun is no longer alone.
Ai Wuji Wu, because of his love for Yan Shixun, Li Chengyun did not hide anything when he told Ye Li about his experiences in the past few years.
In addition to his own judgment on Ye Li, he also trusts Xiao Xun's judgment.
He believed that since Xiao Xun had successfully found the old Fengdu, Xiao Xun must have grown enough to support the world during the few years he left.
Even if Xiao Xun is not good at emotions, he will not mistake people's hearts.The Lord of Fengdu is trustworthy.
Li Chengyun walked unhurriedly on the battlefield that had been cleared. He flipped up his gown and sat down on the boulder casually. He smiled lightly and told Ye Li what he had seen before and after his death.
Yan Shixun has always felt guilty towards Li Chengyun. He thought that if he didn't study at Binhai University that year, he would go to the southwest with Li Chengyun as usual, and go to Baizhi Lake to solve the evil spirits.
In that case, perhaps Li Chengyun would not die.
At the very least, he won't die alone in a strange mountain.
But what Yan Shixun didn't know was that even if he was by Li Chengyun's side at that time, Li Chengyun would not bring him here.
Some roads can only be walked alone.
Such as death.
During the Lantern Festival that year, the winter plums were slanting outside the small courtyard, and the snow fell on the palace lanterns.
Li Chengyun stood at the gate of the small courtyard with his sleeves folded, quietly watching Yan Shixun's figure go away.
It wasn't until the tall and straight figure of the young man could no longer be seen in the field of vision, and the gentle and gentle smile on his face gradually faded away, and he sighed desolately.
It was at that time that my old friend called and told him that the method of exorcising ghosts in the Southwest that he had been looking for had found its whereabouts.
Li Chengyun immediately set off from Binhai City, knowing that the exorcism method that the Southwest exorcists chose in desperation had already leaked out.
It's called the method of replacing bones.
The group of ghosts in the southwest cannot be reincarnated, accumulated for thousands of years, and have severely squeezed the living space of ordinary people.
Although the exorcists were forced to have no choice but to extradite the ghosts into the wooden carvings with living mouths and eyes, and then exorcised them.But before they did this, they had already foreseen their own ending.
——Destroying people's souls has a cause and effect.
The ghost exorcists knew it well, but for the peace of ordinary people, they still made up their minds and chose to clean up the group of ghosts.
They are running to a known death.
What happened later also proved that the ghost exorcists were right.
The ghost exorcists know that using bone substitutes to destroy people's souls is beyond the scope of the ghost exorcists' power.
Therefore, after the ghost was successfully expelled, several sects involved in this matter silently sealed up the spell and destroyed all records. Even the woodcarving with a living mouth and living eyes that was used as a carrier at that time earnestly asked the carpenter not to spread it to the outside world and forget about it. Just pretend it never happened.
In the following years, all participants died in accidents one after another.
Only some young disciples in the sect who were not directly involved were left, and survived by a lucky escape.
However, the secret that should have been silently forgotten by everyone has resurfaced.
Near Baizhi Lake, some tourists saw wood carvings with living mouths and eyes.
The tourist who was chased by the wood carving in the forest fled in a hurry, and finally before the wood carving killed him, just as the sun was rising and the rooster crowed three times, the wood carving turned into a dead thing that could not move again, allowing the tourist to save his life.
After he left Baizhi Lake, he immediately went to the master, cried out all his experiences, and begged the master to save him.
That master happened to be Li Chengyun's old friend. After realizing the seriousness of the matter, he called Li Chengyun immediately
After Li Chengyun learned the ins and outs of the year, he discovered that an old friend of his own happened to be a descendant disciple of one of the sects.
The sect has long since withered, and the former young disciples have already covered their hair, but they are still silently guarding this secret, wanting to keep silent until they die.
Li Chengyun found this old friend, and solemnly told him everything he knew, and asked him to go with him, and go to the White Paper Lake where the evil spirits are most concentrated, and jointly guard the evil spirits in the White Paper Lake.
The ghost exorcist never expected that, with all precautions, the secret was leaked because of the carpenter back then.
In his astonishment, he agreed to Li Chengyun without the slightest hesitation.
Only when he turned to leave, the exorcist supported the door frame and looked back at his sleeping disciple with complicated eyes.
He knew that once he went... perhaps, he would not be able to come back.
And the only disciple who is dependent on him is still too young, and has not yet grown to the point where he can be independent.
In the future, the child can only walk alone.
Even if it is young, even if it is difficult, there is only that child left.
Li Chengyun also saw this scene.
He suddenly remembered that his own Xiao Xun was also young like his old friend's disciple.But the difference is that he believes that one day Xiao Xun will grow up to a height that can protect all living beings, and support the falling world after his death.
The little boy was picked up at the market ten years ago, but he was not the one who gave the boy a home.
It was the child who gave him a home.
Since then, the leisurely You Yun has a place he wants to stay, and Yunhe, who is at home everywhere, also has someone he misses. No matter how far he goes, he will always come back.
But, finally, it was time to leave.
Li Chengyun sighed, closed his eyes, and concealed all the memories in his eyes.
When he opened his eyes again, it was still the layman in white with a light smile.
Li Chengyun didn't urge him, but just stood quietly outside the door, waiting for his old friend to bid farewell to his disciple.
The old friend just shook his head, sighed, turned and closed the door.
"The wind is cold, the child is sleeping soundly, don't freeze him."
He didn't look back, and stepped out firmly: "Let's go to Baizhi Lake."
"Don't worry, your disciple is a good boy."
Li Chengyun sighed and comforted softly: "Even if we are not here, he will grow into an excellent ghost exorcist. He will continue what we have not done, and lead this dead end..."
"Step down into the sky-reaching avenue."
The old friend couldn't help looking at Li Chengyun, and the expression of the layman in white was extremely serious.
He was thinking, what the layman Chengyun said was his disciple, or the disciple of the layman's evil ghost?
The old friend can't tell the difference.
But he knew that Li Chengyun was right.
One day, his disciples will find him.
Maybe there is only a handful of bones left, maybe there are no bones left, only a handful of ashes... But his disciple will take him home.Then, continue what he didn't finish.
The inheritance of the Dao has never been cut off.
Before going to Baizhi Lake, Li Chengyun had already figured out that this lake is very dark, and there are grievances lingering on it.
But when they really saw the White Paper Lake with their own eyes, the two were still shocked.
It's not just the Yin Qi... It's clear that the entire lake seems to be transformed by Yin Qi.What others saw was a lake, but what the two of them saw was a stagnant pool full of resentment.
It seems that all the ghosts that have been exorcised from the southwest have all returned to this lake, and the evil ghosts howl day and night.
In the desolate village beside Baizhi Lake that has long been uninhabited, everything is there. It doesn't look like moving, but it looks like the owner of the house had an accident and never came back.
Based on those remaining objects, Li Chengyun calculated the cause and effect of Baizhi Lake.
He clearly saw what those people who used to live in the village had done to bring about the massacre of the village.
But at the same time, Li Chengyun was also shocked to find that the ghosts of the villagers had not been lured to reincarnate by the ghosts, but also left here.
Instead, they were still left in the deserted village.
The sky is bright, but the creeper green plants that climb along the walls and wrap the doors and windows of the house tightly make the house still dark.
Those ghosts stood quietly behind the window of the house, looking out silently with empty eyes, watching Li Chengyun and the exorcist.
Like a jackal waiting for an opportunity.
The ghost exorcist sighed when he saw this, saying that the Southwest was rumored to be a ghost town, but it happened to be this ghost land, but he couldn't even see the ghost, and all the dead souls were trapped here.
But Li Chengyun could tell at a glance that there was something wrong with the ghosts of those villagers.
——They are not wandering here because there is no chance to guide them, they are controlled by a certain existence, and they are not allowed to leave here.
From the divination results, Li Chengyun saw that these villagers had directly or indirectly caused the death of others, so they were burdened with sins.
But not only that.
The consequences of the ghosts of the villagers are far beyond the limit of killing one or two people, but as serious as killing people in a village and a city.
After a moment of confusion, Li Chengyun immediately realized that it wasn't the villagers who killed a whole city.
It was the villagers who killed someone, and that person turned into a ghost because of resentment, and finally killed countless lives.
Heaven and Earth attributed this cause and effect to the villagers, and their sins weighed down their souls.
The place where they used to live and do evil, now after their death, has become a cage to imprison them, so that they can only wander here day and night, gradually muddling around, forgetting who they are but still remembering their sins, suffering from pain The torment has no end.
But the village wasn't really empty.
When he saw the man named Zheng Shushu, Li Chengyun noticed that the ghosts were trembling, and they scrambled to retreat into the darkness, as if they were afraid of being discovered by Zheng Shushu and would cause new torture.
But the next moment, Li Chengyun saw a slight gap.
Those ghosts were indeed afraid of Zheng Shushu, but not to the extent of fear. The obvious directional emotions were more like resentment for Zheng Shushu for killing them.
What ghosts really fear...
It was the cute little girl who was held by Zheng Shushu's side.
The little girl was wearing a beautiful dress, holding Zheng Shushu's hand in one hand, calling out to her brother with a smile, and holding a lifelike puppet in the other.
The little puppet walked with her bouncing and bouncing, while shaking its thin hands and feet up and down.Its exposed wooden joints make it instantly recognizable as a wooden sculpture, but the face...
But it is the pinnacle of wood carving skills with live mouth and live eyes.
At first glance, it is no different from real people.
The ghost exorcist followed Li Chengyun's line of sight, and when he saw the wood carving with live mouth and live eyes, he was so shocked that he immediately wanted to ask.
But was stopped by Li Chengyun.
He smiled lightly and slowly shook his head towards his old friend, making seals in his hands so that the slightly weird brother and sister would not notice the two of them.
Brother and sister Zheng Shushu walked past Li Chengyun, but they didn't notice that there were two strangers here.
But when the younger sister walked over, the little puppet in her arms moved its hands and feet, and raised its hand to grab her hair.
"Ok?"
The younger sister uttered doubts, stopped in her tracks, turned around slowly, and looked straight at the hiding place of Li Chengyun and the two of them.
When he saw the little girl's eyes clearly, the exorcist was shocked, and quickly raised his hands to cover his mouth and nose, so as not to make any sound.
This time, without Li Chengyun's reminder, he lowered his sense of existence as much as possible, for fear that the little girl would discover their existence.
Compared with the nervousness of his old friend, Li Chengyun seemed so calm, through an invisible formation, he even looked down at the little girl with a smile, and saw her true identity in a few glances.
This child...is a ghost baby.
He died full of resentment before he was born, but he was unwilling to lose the chance of rebirth, so he tore open his mother's belly and crawled out.
But he was raised as a human being and grew up to the age of innocence.
Then, the ghost baby awakened, remembered the resentment he had had, and became an extremely vicious ghost.
Even, control the entire village.
That's why those ghosts are so afraid of her.
Li Chengyun raised his eyebrows, looking at the little girl with deep and probing eyes.
Not all dead fetuses can become ghost babies.
The right time and place are indispensable.
The most important thing is to support the immature soul of the fetus to become a ghost baby.
It was not the first time that Li Chengyun had seen ghost babies, and in the books he had collected, there were many magical records of "making" ghost babies.
In order to increase their own strength and make up for their lack of talent, some ghost exorcists who take a slanted sword will hit their ideas on fragile pregnant women.
By controlling the time, place and ghost aura, killing the pregnant woman at the most sinister moment, taking out the suffocated fetus by caesarean section, and sending power to the stillborn fetus, ghost babies can be artificially created.
Because they died at the moment of birth and failed at the last moment of successful reincarnation, ghost babies often have extraordinary resentment and the power brought about by it.
Those ghost exorcists who use sorcery bring the ghost baby with them, manipulate the ghost baby for their own use, they can frighten the group of ghosts, and even plunder the luck of others to serve the big benefactor who pays.
But Li Chengyun has never seen a ghost exorcist who used this method to end well.
Although many people do not believe in cause and effect, cause and effect have always existed, invisible but ubiquitous.Even small good and small evil can accumulate into mountains.
What's more, it is this method of using ghost infants to rob.
Those who steal from others will be doubled.Those who harm others will die unexpectedly.
Whether it's the resentment of the ghost baby itself, or the karma of stealing other people's belongings, most of the exorcists in the end died because of the ghost baby's awakening.
Although many people don't know about it.
Including those big money owners who pay for luck, many don't know the specific operation method, but they are moved to pay after hearing the ghost exorcist's promise.
But Li Chengyun was obviously not among those people.
Li Chengyun has seen and even solved the problem of ghost infants rebelling against ghost exorcists until the end can't be resolved.
Therefore, he can easily distinguish the subtle differences between the ghost babies, and with a little discrimination, he can see the specific reason for the ghost baby's formation, whether it is a man-made disaster, or...
Ghostly.
And it is obvious that the little girl in front of her is not a man-made ghost baby.
The black air around her almost engulfed her completely.
Even if she stands in the sun, in Li Chengyun's view, she is still a ghost shadow that cannot be penetrated by the sun.
The only reason why such a strong and powerful ghost aura reminds Li Chengyun is the old Fengdu.
——Another important reason why he came to the village surnamed Bai is the Southwest Shadow Puppetry originated here.
According to legend, the location of Fengdu, which no one can find, is hidden in the drama of Southwest Shadow Puppetry.
Because the predecessor of Southwest Shadow Puppetry was a ghost show.
Although Li Chengyun came here for this, he maintained a wait-and-see attitude towards this statement.
It wasn't until he saw the ghost baby that he suddenly realized that the rumors were very likely to be true.
Otherwise, it is impossible to explain where the ghost energy that forms the ghost baby comes from.
The little girl is like a cat eyeing a fish, staring at the empty darkness but refusing to leave.
Her beautiful eyes were wide open, but they didn't have the beauty and innocence of a child. Instead, they were terribly hollow and silent, like two inorganic black glass beads.
The ghost exorcist who was hiding behind the formation was also shocked by the little girl's eyes looking up with her head down, her heart was pounding, and the fear of being discovered followed her everywhere.
Li Chengyun folded his sleeves and lowered his eyes, the smile that had been hanging on his lips had long since faded away, leaving only his quiet eyebrows and eyes, looking at the little girl through the formation.
"Sweet."
At this moment, Zheng Shushu saw his younger sister who had been refusing to leave, and called out in doubt to his younger sister to go home.
The little girl pursed her lips, took a final deep look at the air in front of her eyes, and then bounced and followed Zheng Shushu away.
However, Li Chengyun noticed that when Zheng Shushu was taking his sister away, his gaze swept over him vaguely, and then quickly looked away.
It seems to be just a coincidence under a casual glance.
But it was still captured by Li Chengyun keenly.
Zheng Shushu's eyes are different from that of Guiying.
The ghost infants can probably feel that their hiding place seems to be a little abnormal because of the existence of ghost energy.
But the sight she looked over was unsteady.She knew there was something here, she knew something was wrong, but she couldn't see what it was.
But Zheng Shushu's sight had already found the target when he looked over.
——Zheng Shu saw them, but did not tell the ghost baby, and even took the initiative to help them lure away the ghost baby who would find them soon.
He didn't know their exact identities, but wanted to leave a way out for them.
Li Chengyun watched Zheng Shushu's receding back with interest, and remembered this carpenter who inherited the woodcarving with a lively mouth and vivid eyes.
The old friend was also frightened so weak that it took a long time to finally recover from the ghost baby's eyes, but he still couldn't help his legs go weak.
When Li Chengyun asked about it, his old friend smiled wryly, saying that he had never seen such a terrifying existence in his decades of exorcising ghosts. Just a look in his eyes was far better than ordinary evil spirits.
No, the child was more like a collection of all ghosts than a ghost.
It was as if all the ghosts in the Southwest gathered to resent, and they all gathered in her eyes.
Hearing what his old friend said, Li Chengyun strengthened his guess.
He explained his guess to his old friend, and then decided to postpone the search for the descendant of the ghost show, and instead to verify the relationship between Fengdu and the ghost baby.
The old friend immediately said yes, and reached into his bosom to get out the compass.
But the compass exploded in the hands of the old friend just after untiing the cloth strip.
The ghost aura in the village has far exceeded what Compass can bear.
Fortunately, at the moment when the compass exploded, Li Chengyun saw sharply that the direction of the source of power that detonated the compass pointed to the outside of the village.
And the most cloudy place there... is Baizhi Lake.
When the villagers died due to "accidents", they left the village on the road near the lake and went to the ancestral graves on the mountain to bury them.During the funeral, paper money was sprinkled into the sky one after another, and then fell all over the lake.
Layers of paper money cover the lake so that there are no gaps, like the ghosts of the villagers, who will never leave the lake to see the sun.
Li Chengyun had doubts about the center of the white paper lake, and decided to check the entire deserted village before sunset.
For ordinary ghost exorcists, knowing that the entire village is dead, and even full of ghostly aura everywhere, but still staying here, it is no different from seeking death.
But whether it is Li Chengyun or the ghost exorcist, both of them are experienced people, and they are even more fearless of death, so when they walk in the village, they are also very frank.
When turning around the village road, but suddenly face to face with a ghost standing silently in the darkness in the corner, Li Chengyun took two steps back unhurriedly, opening the distance between him and the ghost.
He even smiled and gently asked the ghost if he knew anything about the ghost baby.
When the ghost heard Li Chengyun say the word "little girl", it was frightened and turned around to run away.
But he was dragged back by Li Chengyun holding his head, and said to the ghost with a smile: "If you don't want to tell me, I'll go and tell the baby ghost that you told me everything. On the contrary, if you tell me, I'll keep it a secret for you."
The ghost looked at Li Chengyun with hurt disbelief in his eyes, never expecting that a stranger is even more like a ghost than a ghost.
If the ghost baby finds out that it leaked the secret, the ghost who was already imprisoned here by the ghost baby will only face even more terrifying torture.
Li Chengyun took advantage of Guiying's power to frighten Guiying's pawns, and without wasting much effort, he learned exactly from the ghost what had happened in the village surnamed Bai.
But he didn't feel the joy of the smooth progress of the plan, only the emotion of "as expected", and with compassion for what happened to the ghost baby, he took the ghost and threw it into the white paper lake.
The ghost roared and cursed, desperately trying to struggle away from the fear of Baizhi Lake, but an invisible force grabbed it, dragged it down to the surface of the water, and was gradually submerged by the lake.
Li Chengyun stood on the shore with his sleeves folded, watching all this happen calmly.
When the ghost scolded him, he still smiled and replied: "Where did you lie to you? Didn't you agree that after you tell me, I will keep it a secret for you? You see, this method of keeping secrets is absolutely foolproof, even if the ghost baby I know, but I can't find you either."
Li Chengyun smiled lightly and said to his old friend: "Young ghosts nowadays, how can they believe in people's words? Don't we teach our disciples not to believe in nonsense?"
He spread out his hands, with a calm posture, it was not at all obvious that he had just played an evil ghost into a dizzy state.
And the evil ghost thrown into Baizhi Lake by Li Chengyun confirmed his guess about Baizhi Lake.
The evil spirits are like the first raw meat thrown into the crocodile pond to explore the way, so that the people on the shore can fully see the danger under the pond.
Under the stunned gaze of his old friend, Li Chengyun turned around and re-entered the village, and thoroughly searched all the families mentioned by the ghost that were related to the death of Carpenter Zheng's family.
In addition to the traces of burning in the house, Li Chengyun also saw wood carvings hidden in the darkness.
The wooden carvings with living mouths and eyes of each family are exactly the same as the former owner of this family.
The old friend concluded that this must be Zheng Shushu's revenge, so after the death of the villagers, he stuffed the ghosts of the villagers into the wood carvings, hoping to completely clean up the ghosts.
But Li Chengyun had another guess.
"It's not Zheng Shu."
Li Chengyun remembered that Zheng Shushu was still willing to rescue them even though he clearly saw them, and said calmly: "It was the ghost baby."
The old friend was shocked: "But, will the ghost baby be able to live a woodcarving with a living mouth and eyes?"
"Guilty."
Li Chengyun slowly said his answer: "Guilty towards others will become a hell that binds oneself."
Li Chengyun could see it clearly. Judging from the results of the divination, it was not the ghost baby who killed the villagers, but Zheng Shushu.
But many years ago, when that young man massacred the entire village to avenge the death of his parents and sister, he did not return to the world.
Instead, he fell into a deeper hell.
Zheng Shuming was smiling, and his sister was beside him.
But he is always in hell and suffering.
Therefore, Li Chengyun guessed that the villagers' wooden carvings were carved by Zheng Shu, and then controlled by ghost babies.
——Out of guilt towards his sister, Zheng Shu will not refuse any of her requests.
For him, being able to be used by his sister is also a way to alleviate his guilt, which is his redemption.
Li Chengyun sighed: "It's also a poor person."
However, the wood carvings in every household also aroused Li Chengyun's vigilance.
He immediately set off with his old friend to the ancestral grave in Bai's village.
The white-clothed layman rolled up his sleeves, folded the branches next to him, recited a spell, and began digging his family's graves.
The old friend was so startled by Li Chengyun's operation that his mouth grew wide, and he couldn't recover for a while.
"Digging someone's grave, isn't that good." The old friend hesitated.
But Li Chengyun moved quickly and skillfully. When his old friend hesitated, he had already dug up all the graves whose death time was the same as the time when the village was massacred.
The coffin opens.
The old friend's eyes widened in astonishment, and he rushed over in disbelief, grabbed the coffin and looked inside, confirming it several times.
—the coffin was empty.
There were no rotting corpses, no bones, not even the pus stains left by the rotting flesh.
From the very beginning, the body was not buried in a coffin.
"The brothers and sisters hated the villagers. They didn't even want to give them the peace of their souls after death. How could they allow their bodies to be buried safely?"
Li Chengyun was not surprised by this result.
With a kick of his feet, he jumped up from the grave, lightly landed on the ground, brushed off the scattered dust on his body, and he was still the layman of the idle cloud and wild crane.
It's not like the person who dug the grave and opened the coffin below decisively and quickly, it's not him.
Before the old friend came to his senses, Li Chengyun had already raised his head and looked towards a forest behind the ancestral grave.
He asked his old friend, do you think these trees look familiar?
"Acacia tree."
"The wood carvings we saw in the village just now were also carved from locust trees."
Li Chengyun lowered his eyes slightly and thought everything through in an instant.
The locust tree is the tree species most likely to be parasitized by ghosts, plus the wood carvings with living mouths and eyes that were originally created to allow ghosts to parasitize...
In this little-known village next to Baizhi Lake, a huge ghost aura is brewing.If it is not stopped, it will erupt completely one day and affect the entire southwest region.
On the way back from the mountain, the two saw the same deserted temple.
The statues inside had long since disappeared, leaving only crooked ritual vessels, already covered with thick dust.
What is painted on the murals are not the gods who were once enshrined here, but the faces of the villagers who paid for the construction here.One by one was beaming with joy and high spirits.
The old friend leaned over and picked up the ritual vessels one by one, placed them on the altar, wiped off the dust, and then bowed respectfully and solemnly to the altar without the statue.
"It's all made of gold and silver. This village used to be rich and beautiful, but unfortunately, people have no morals and can't keep their money."
"There is no god statue in the temple, or the ghost baby has already resisted and shattered when it appeared."
Li Chengyun said calmly: "If we want to suppress the evil spirit of Baizhi Lake, we can only find another treasure."
"Can you suppress that kind of ghost baby?"
The old friend smiled bitterly: "It's easier said than done."
The old friend was still racking his brains to think of a solution, but Li Chengyun remembered this sentence.
He couldn't help but think, if Fengdu is indeed here, then why no one can find no matter what kind of eminent monks are powerful for thousands of years?
Maybe... because Fengdu was also suppressed by Zhenwu?
It's not that no one can find Fengdu, but that Fengdu can't set foot in the world again, so no one has seen Fengdu except the rumors spread.
With such a guess, Li Chengyun went to find Zheng Shuhu early the next morning.
Standing in front of Zheng Shushu, his figure was tall and straight like a green pine, and the corners of his snow-white gown fluttered lightly. He smiled and said to Zheng Shushu, "You have the ability to save more people."
"You know your sister's situation very well, so you must also know what will happen if she loses control."
Li Chengyun sighed softly: "Why don't you let yourself go? You have been in prison for a long time. Now that you have revenge, you should live a quiet and happy life like an ordinary person for a few days."
From the moment Zheng Shushu took the initiative to rescue him, in Li Chengyun's mind, apart from being the inheritor of the woodcarving with a lively mouth and eyes, and a son who avenged his parents, there was one more evaluation about Zheng Shushu.
——A person who still has a little kindness towards the world.
Although Zheng Shushu had hatred, it was towards the villagers of the village surnamed Bai.
When he left Bai's village to survive, many kind people extended their hands and gave him a hand.For those people, Zheng Shu didn't intend to kill them.
But there is a sister on one side and a stranger on the other.
Zheng Shu hesitated on both sides of the balance.
Only Li Chengyun saw the goodwill hidden in Zheng Shushu's heart, and was willing to take the initiative to add weight to one side of the balance.
Li Chengyun temporarily stayed in the village surnamed Bai.
Besides Zheng Shushu, he also found another person living here.
It is Master Bai who has inherited the Southwest Ghost Opera.
From Master Bai, Li Chengyun heard the complete inheritance, had a glimpse of the truth thousands of years ago, and also knew about the change of Fengdu.
At that moment, Li Chengyun thought about everything like a blessing to his heart.
He was even more certain that the old Fengdu might be under the Baizhi Lake, and there were towns guarding the old Fengdu, not allowing the old Fengdu to reappear.
After getting the answer he wanted, Li Chengyun bid farewell to Zheng Shushu.
Although we only got along for a few days, Zheng Shushu was really impressed by this layman in white. He not only regarded Li Chengyun as a close friend, but also regarded Li Chengyun as his mentor, which solved his many years of doubts , to channel his pain.
Knowing that Li Chengyun was leaving, Zheng Shushu was very worried.
He knew Li Chengyun's purpose, and because of this, he knew that if Li Chengyun left, he might... never come back.
"Some people live for a hundred years, but they are depressed every day, but they are no different from pigs and dogs."
Li Chengyun looked at Zheng Shushu gently, and persuaded him for the last time: "No matter what kind of past and karma you have, no matter what your identity is, as long as you stick to your own way and protect all living beings, you are enough to become a Taoist."
"Martyrdom is also a kind of happiness."
Li Chengyun slightly nodded to Zheng Shushu: "After I leave, the safety of the Southwest is up to you."
"Brother Tree."
Zheng Shushu watched Li Chengyun leave the Bai village.
But what Zheng Shushu didn't know was that Li Chengyun jumped into the white paper lake after leaving the village.
He let himself sink to the bottom of the lake.
At the last moment before losing consciousness, Li Chengyun had a clear view of the bottom of the lake.
——There is an abandoned city there.
The city was surrounded by a strong ghostly aura, and there were scattered bones scattered around, but there was not a single fish.
There are rotting corpses that follow the smell and swim towards Li Chengyun.
But Li Chengyun laughed.
A series of bubbles rose up, and the white gown floated in the water, as beautiful as an illusion.
At the bottom of the dark lake, Li Chengyun's eyes were calm, and he stretched out his arms calmly, letting those carrion corpses surround him.
On his lips was a smile of a successful plan.
And he finally realized that maybe Yan Shixun was able to survive successfully because of the Lord of Fengdu in front of him.
The ghosts and gods bestowed their power on Yan Shixun, so that the life that should have been gradually weakened by the ghost energy reinjected vitality and vitality, and grew smoothly.
Because of this, Yan Shixun had cause and effect with ghosts and gods.
When Li Chengyun thought about all this clearly, he couldn't help being a little surprised, the karma of ghosts and gods is really not easy to pay back.
——In the end, it turned out to be repayment with the body?
Li Chengyun didn't expect that when he heard the news of his own Xiao Xun, Xiao Xun was already with ghosts and gods.
But seeing Ye Li's attitude, he felt a little relieved.
The words of ghosts and gods are the witnesses of heaven and earth, and the oath shall not be broken.
The Lord of Fengdu's attitude towards Xiao Xun is serious and solemn even Li Chengyun can see, which makes him feel disappointed and happy that Xiao Xun is no longer alone.
Ai Wuji Wu, because of his love for Yan Shixun, Li Chengyun did not hide anything when he told Ye Li about his experiences in the past few years.
In addition to his own judgment on Ye Li, he also trusts Xiao Xun's judgment.
He believed that since Xiao Xun had successfully found the old Fengdu, Xiao Xun must have grown enough to support the world during the few years he left.
Even if Xiao Xun is not good at emotions, he will not mistake people's hearts.The Lord of Fengdu is trustworthy.
Li Chengyun walked unhurriedly on the battlefield that had been cleared. He flipped up his gown and sat down on the boulder casually. He smiled lightly and told Ye Li what he had seen before and after his death.
Yan Shixun has always felt guilty towards Li Chengyun. He thought that if he didn't study at Binhai University that year, he would go to the southwest with Li Chengyun as usual, and go to Baizhi Lake to solve the evil spirits.
In that case, perhaps Li Chengyun would not die.
At the very least, he won't die alone in a strange mountain.
But what Yan Shixun didn't know was that even if he was by Li Chengyun's side at that time, Li Chengyun would not bring him here.
Some roads can only be walked alone.
Such as death.
During the Lantern Festival that year, the winter plums were slanting outside the small courtyard, and the snow fell on the palace lanterns.
Li Chengyun stood at the gate of the small courtyard with his sleeves folded, quietly watching Yan Shixun's figure go away.
It wasn't until the tall and straight figure of the young man could no longer be seen in the field of vision, and the gentle and gentle smile on his face gradually faded away, and he sighed desolately.
It was at that time that my old friend called and told him that the method of exorcising ghosts in the Southwest that he had been looking for had found its whereabouts.
Li Chengyun immediately set off from Binhai City, knowing that the exorcism method that the Southwest exorcists chose in desperation had already leaked out.
It's called the method of replacing bones.
The group of ghosts in the southwest cannot be reincarnated, accumulated for thousands of years, and have severely squeezed the living space of ordinary people.
Although the exorcists were forced to have no choice but to extradite the ghosts into the wooden carvings with living mouths and eyes, and then exorcised them.But before they did this, they had already foreseen their own ending.
——Destroying people's souls has a cause and effect.
The ghost exorcists knew it well, but for the peace of ordinary people, they still made up their minds and chose to clean up the group of ghosts.
They are running to a known death.
What happened later also proved that the ghost exorcists were right.
The ghost exorcists know that using bone substitutes to destroy people's souls is beyond the scope of the ghost exorcists' power.
Therefore, after the ghost was successfully expelled, several sects involved in this matter silently sealed up the spell and destroyed all records. Even the woodcarving with a living mouth and living eyes that was used as a carrier at that time earnestly asked the carpenter not to spread it to the outside world and forget about it. Just pretend it never happened.
In the following years, all participants died in accidents one after another.
Only some young disciples in the sect who were not directly involved were left, and survived by a lucky escape.
However, the secret that should have been silently forgotten by everyone has resurfaced.
Near Baizhi Lake, some tourists saw wood carvings with living mouths and eyes.
The tourist who was chased by the wood carving in the forest fled in a hurry, and finally before the wood carving killed him, just as the sun was rising and the rooster crowed three times, the wood carving turned into a dead thing that could not move again, allowing the tourist to save his life.
After he left Baizhi Lake, he immediately went to the master, cried out all his experiences, and begged the master to save him.
That master happened to be Li Chengyun's old friend. After realizing the seriousness of the matter, he called Li Chengyun immediately
After Li Chengyun learned the ins and outs of the year, he discovered that an old friend of his own happened to be a descendant disciple of one of the sects.
The sect has long since withered, and the former young disciples have already covered their hair, but they are still silently guarding this secret, wanting to keep silent until they die.
Li Chengyun found this old friend, and solemnly told him everything he knew, and asked him to go with him, and go to the White Paper Lake where the evil spirits are most concentrated, and jointly guard the evil spirits in the White Paper Lake.
The ghost exorcist never expected that, with all precautions, the secret was leaked because of the carpenter back then.
In his astonishment, he agreed to Li Chengyun without the slightest hesitation.
Only when he turned to leave, the exorcist supported the door frame and looked back at his sleeping disciple with complicated eyes.
He knew that once he went... perhaps, he would not be able to come back.
And the only disciple who is dependent on him is still too young, and has not yet grown to the point where he can be independent.
In the future, the child can only walk alone.
Even if it is young, even if it is difficult, there is only that child left.
Li Chengyun also saw this scene.
He suddenly remembered that his own Xiao Xun was also young like his old friend's disciple.But the difference is that he believes that one day Xiao Xun will grow up to a height that can protect all living beings, and support the falling world after his death.
The little boy was picked up at the market ten years ago, but he was not the one who gave the boy a home.
It was the child who gave him a home.
Since then, the leisurely You Yun has a place he wants to stay, and Yunhe, who is at home everywhere, also has someone he misses. No matter how far he goes, he will always come back.
But, finally, it was time to leave.
Li Chengyun sighed, closed his eyes, and concealed all the memories in his eyes.
When he opened his eyes again, it was still the layman in white with a light smile.
Li Chengyun didn't urge him, but just stood quietly outside the door, waiting for his old friend to bid farewell to his disciple.
The old friend just shook his head, sighed, turned and closed the door.
"The wind is cold, the child is sleeping soundly, don't freeze him."
He didn't look back, and stepped out firmly: "Let's go to Baizhi Lake."
"Don't worry, your disciple is a good boy."
Li Chengyun sighed and comforted softly: "Even if we are not here, he will grow into an excellent ghost exorcist. He will continue what we have not done, and lead this dead end..."
"Step down into the sky-reaching avenue."
The old friend couldn't help looking at Li Chengyun, and the expression of the layman in white was extremely serious.
He was thinking, what the layman Chengyun said was his disciple, or the disciple of the layman's evil ghost?
The old friend can't tell the difference.
But he knew that Li Chengyun was right.
One day, his disciples will find him.
Maybe there is only a handful of bones left, maybe there are no bones left, only a handful of ashes... But his disciple will take him home.Then, continue what he didn't finish.
The inheritance of the Dao has never been cut off.
Before going to Baizhi Lake, Li Chengyun had already figured out that this lake is very dark, and there are grievances lingering on it.
But when they really saw the White Paper Lake with their own eyes, the two were still shocked.
It's not just the Yin Qi... It's clear that the entire lake seems to be transformed by Yin Qi.What others saw was a lake, but what the two of them saw was a stagnant pool full of resentment.
It seems that all the ghosts that have been exorcised from the southwest have all returned to this lake, and the evil ghosts howl day and night.
In the desolate village beside Baizhi Lake that has long been uninhabited, everything is there. It doesn't look like moving, but it looks like the owner of the house had an accident and never came back.
Based on those remaining objects, Li Chengyun calculated the cause and effect of Baizhi Lake.
He clearly saw what those people who used to live in the village had done to bring about the massacre of the village.
But at the same time, Li Chengyun was also shocked to find that the ghosts of the villagers had not been lured to reincarnate by the ghosts, but also left here.
Instead, they were still left in the deserted village.
The sky is bright, but the creeper green plants that climb along the walls and wrap the doors and windows of the house tightly make the house still dark.
Those ghosts stood quietly behind the window of the house, looking out silently with empty eyes, watching Li Chengyun and the exorcist.
Like a jackal waiting for an opportunity.
The ghost exorcist sighed when he saw this, saying that the Southwest was rumored to be a ghost town, but it happened to be this ghost land, but he couldn't even see the ghost, and all the dead souls were trapped here.
But Li Chengyun could tell at a glance that there was something wrong with the ghosts of those villagers.
——They are not wandering here because there is no chance to guide them, they are controlled by a certain existence, and they are not allowed to leave here.
From the divination results, Li Chengyun saw that these villagers had directly or indirectly caused the death of others, so they were burdened with sins.
But not only that.
The consequences of the ghosts of the villagers are far beyond the limit of killing one or two people, but as serious as killing people in a village and a city.
After a moment of confusion, Li Chengyun immediately realized that it wasn't the villagers who killed a whole city.
It was the villagers who killed someone, and that person turned into a ghost because of resentment, and finally killed countless lives.
Heaven and Earth attributed this cause and effect to the villagers, and their sins weighed down their souls.
The place where they used to live and do evil, now after their death, has become a cage to imprison them, so that they can only wander here day and night, gradually muddling around, forgetting who they are but still remembering their sins, suffering from pain The torment has no end.
But the village wasn't really empty.
When he saw the man named Zheng Shushu, Li Chengyun noticed that the ghosts were trembling, and they scrambled to retreat into the darkness, as if they were afraid of being discovered by Zheng Shushu and would cause new torture.
But the next moment, Li Chengyun saw a slight gap.
Those ghosts were indeed afraid of Zheng Shushu, but not to the extent of fear. The obvious directional emotions were more like resentment for Zheng Shushu for killing them.
What ghosts really fear...
It was the cute little girl who was held by Zheng Shushu's side.
The little girl was wearing a beautiful dress, holding Zheng Shushu's hand in one hand, calling out to her brother with a smile, and holding a lifelike puppet in the other.
The little puppet walked with her bouncing and bouncing, while shaking its thin hands and feet up and down.Its exposed wooden joints make it instantly recognizable as a wooden sculpture, but the face...
But it is the pinnacle of wood carving skills with live mouth and live eyes.
At first glance, it is no different from real people.
The ghost exorcist followed Li Chengyun's line of sight, and when he saw the wood carving with live mouth and live eyes, he was so shocked that he immediately wanted to ask.
But was stopped by Li Chengyun.
He smiled lightly and slowly shook his head towards his old friend, making seals in his hands so that the slightly weird brother and sister would not notice the two of them.
Brother and sister Zheng Shushu walked past Li Chengyun, but they didn't notice that there were two strangers here.
But when the younger sister walked over, the little puppet in her arms moved its hands and feet, and raised its hand to grab her hair.
"Ok?"
The younger sister uttered doubts, stopped in her tracks, turned around slowly, and looked straight at the hiding place of Li Chengyun and the two of them.
When he saw the little girl's eyes clearly, the exorcist was shocked, and quickly raised his hands to cover his mouth and nose, so as not to make any sound.
This time, without Li Chengyun's reminder, he lowered his sense of existence as much as possible, for fear that the little girl would discover their existence.
Compared with the nervousness of his old friend, Li Chengyun seemed so calm, through an invisible formation, he even looked down at the little girl with a smile, and saw her true identity in a few glances.
This child...is a ghost baby.
He died full of resentment before he was born, but he was unwilling to lose the chance of rebirth, so he tore open his mother's belly and crawled out.
But he was raised as a human being and grew up to the age of innocence.
Then, the ghost baby awakened, remembered the resentment he had had, and became an extremely vicious ghost.
Even, control the entire village.
That's why those ghosts are so afraid of her.
Li Chengyun raised his eyebrows, looking at the little girl with deep and probing eyes.
Not all dead fetuses can become ghost babies.
The right time and place are indispensable.
The most important thing is to support the immature soul of the fetus to become a ghost baby.
It was not the first time that Li Chengyun had seen ghost babies, and in the books he had collected, there were many magical records of "making" ghost babies.
In order to increase their own strength and make up for their lack of talent, some ghost exorcists who take a slanted sword will hit their ideas on fragile pregnant women.
By controlling the time, place and ghost aura, killing the pregnant woman at the most sinister moment, taking out the suffocated fetus by caesarean section, and sending power to the stillborn fetus, ghost babies can be artificially created.
Because they died at the moment of birth and failed at the last moment of successful reincarnation, ghost babies often have extraordinary resentment and the power brought about by it.
Those ghost exorcists who use sorcery bring the ghost baby with them, manipulate the ghost baby for their own use, they can frighten the group of ghosts, and even plunder the luck of others to serve the big benefactor who pays.
But Li Chengyun has never seen a ghost exorcist who used this method to end well.
Although many people do not believe in cause and effect, cause and effect have always existed, invisible but ubiquitous.Even small good and small evil can accumulate into mountains.
What's more, it is this method of using ghost infants to rob.
Those who steal from others will be doubled.Those who harm others will die unexpectedly.
Whether it's the resentment of the ghost baby itself, or the karma of stealing other people's belongings, most of the exorcists in the end died because of the ghost baby's awakening.
Although many people don't know about it.
Including those big money owners who pay for luck, many don't know the specific operation method, but they are moved to pay after hearing the ghost exorcist's promise.
But Li Chengyun was obviously not among those people.
Li Chengyun has seen and even solved the problem of ghost infants rebelling against ghost exorcists until the end can't be resolved.
Therefore, he can easily distinguish the subtle differences between the ghost babies, and with a little discrimination, he can see the specific reason for the ghost baby's formation, whether it is a man-made disaster, or...
Ghostly.
And it is obvious that the little girl in front of her is not a man-made ghost baby.
The black air around her almost engulfed her completely.
Even if she stands in the sun, in Li Chengyun's view, she is still a ghost shadow that cannot be penetrated by the sun.
The only reason why such a strong and powerful ghost aura reminds Li Chengyun is the old Fengdu.
——Another important reason why he came to the village surnamed Bai is the Southwest Shadow Puppetry originated here.
According to legend, the location of Fengdu, which no one can find, is hidden in the drama of Southwest Shadow Puppetry.
Because the predecessor of Southwest Shadow Puppetry was a ghost show.
Although Li Chengyun came here for this, he maintained a wait-and-see attitude towards this statement.
It wasn't until he saw the ghost baby that he suddenly realized that the rumors were very likely to be true.
Otherwise, it is impossible to explain where the ghost energy that forms the ghost baby comes from.
The little girl is like a cat eyeing a fish, staring at the empty darkness but refusing to leave.
Her beautiful eyes were wide open, but they didn't have the beauty and innocence of a child. Instead, they were terribly hollow and silent, like two inorganic black glass beads.
The ghost exorcist who was hiding behind the formation was also shocked by the little girl's eyes looking up with her head down, her heart was pounding, and the fear of being discovered followed her everywhere.
Li Chengyun folded his sleeves and lowered his eyes, the smile that had been hanging on his lips had long since faded away, leaving only his quiet eyebrows and eyes, looking at the little girl through the formation.
"Sweet."
At this moment, Zheng Shushu saw his younger sister who had been refusing to leave, and called out in doubt to his younger sister to go home.
The little girl pursed her lips, took a final deep look at the air in front of her eyes, and then bounced and followed Zheng Shushu away.
However, Li Chengyun noticed that when Zheng Shushu was taking his sister away, his gaze swept over him vaguely, and then quickly looked away.
It seems to be just a coincidence under a casual glance.
But it was still captured by Li Chengyun keenly.
Zheng Shushu's eyes are different from that of Guiying.
The ghost infants can probably feel that their hiding place seems to be a little abnormal because of the existence of ghost energy.
But the sight she looked over was unsteady.She knew there was something here, she knew something was wrong, but she couldn't see what it was.
But Zheng Shushu's sight had already found the target when he looked over.
——Zheng Shu saw them, but did not tell the ghost baby, and even took the initiative to help them lure away the ghost baby who would find them soon.
He didn't know their exact identities, but wanted to leave a way out for them.
Li Chengyun watched Zheng Shushu's receding back with interest, and remembered this carpenter who inherited the woodcarving with a lively mouth and vivid eyes.
The old friend was also frightened so weak that it took a long time to finally recover from the ghost baby's eyes, but he still couldn't help his legs go weak.
When Li Chengyun asked about it, his old friend smiled wryly, saying that he had never seen such a terrifying existence in his decades of exorcising ghosts. Just a look in his eyes was far better than ordinary evil spirits.
No, the child was more like a collection of all ghosts than a ghost.
It was as if all the ghosts in the Southwest gathered to resent, and they all gathered in her eyes.
Hearing what his old friend said, Li Chengyun strengthened his guess.
He explained his guess to his old friend, and then decided to postpone the search for the descendant of the ghost show, and instead to verify the relationship between Fengdu and the ghost baby.
The old friend immediately said yes, and reached into his bosom to get out the compass.
But the compass exploded in the hands of the old friend just after untiing the cloth strip.
The ghost aura in the village has far exceeded what Compass can bear.
Fortunately, at the moment when the compass exploded, Li Chengyun saw sharply that the direction of the source of power that detonated the compass pointed to the outside of the village.
And the most cloudy place there... is Baizhi Lake.
When the villagers died due to "accidents", they left the village on the road near the lake and went to the ancestral graves on the mountain to bury them.During the funeral, paper money was sprinkled into the sky one after another, and then fell all over the lake.
Layers of paper money cover the lake so that there are no gaps, like the ghosts of the villagers, who will never leave the lake to see the sun.
Li Chengyun had doubts about the center of the white paper lake, and decided to check the entire deserted village before sunset.
For ordinary ghost exorcists, knowing that the entire village is dead, and even full of ghostly aura everywhere, but still staying here, it is no different from seeking death.
But whether it is Li Chengyun or the ghost exorcist, both of them are experienced people, and they are even more fearless of death, so when they walk in the village, they are also very frank.
When turning around the village road, but suddenly face to face with a ghost standing silently in the darkness in the corner, Li Chengyun took two steps back unhurriedly, opening the distance between him and the ghost.
He even smiled and gently asked the ghost if he knew anything about the ghost baby.
When the ghost heard Li Chengyun say the word "little girl", it was frightened and turned around to run away.
But he was dragged back by Li Chengyun holding his head, and said to the ghost with a smile: "If you don't want to tell me, I'll go and tell the baby ghost that you told me everything. On the contrary, if you tell me, I'll keep it a secret for you."
The ghost looked at Li Chengyun with hurt disbelief in his eyes, never expecting that a stranger is even more like a ghost than a ghost.
If the ghost baby finds out that it leaked the secret, the ghost who was already imprisoned here by the ghost baby will only face even more terrifying torture.
Li Chengyun took advantage of Guiying's power to frighten Guiying's pawns, and without wasting much effort, he learned exactly from the ghost what had happened in the village surnamed Bai.
But he didn't feel the joy of the smooth progress of the plan, only the emotion of "as expected", and with compassion for what happened to the ghost baby, he took the ghost and threw it into the white paper lake.
The ghost roared and cursed, desperately trying to struggle away from the fear of Baizhi Lake, but an invisible force grabbed it, dragged it down to the surface of the water, and was gradually submerged by the lake.
Li Chengyun stood on the shore with his sleeves folded, watching all this happen calmly.
When the ghost scolded him, he still smiled and replied: "Where did you lie to you? Didn't you agree that after you tell me, I will keep it a secret for you? You see, this method of keeping secrets is absolutely foolproof, even if the ghost baby I know, but I can't find you either."
Li Chengyun smiled lightly and said to his old friend: "Young ghosts nowadays, how can they believe in people's words? Don't we teach our disciples not to believe in nonsense?"
He spread out his hands, with a calm posture, it was not at all obvious that he had just played an evil ghost into a dizzy state.
And the evil ghost thrown into Baizhi Lake by Li Chengyun confirmed his guess about Baizhi Lake.
The evil spirits are like the first raw meat thrown into the crocodile pond to explore the way, so that the people on the shore can fully see the danger under the pond.
Under the stunned gaze of his old friend, Li Chengyun turned around and re-entered the village, and thoroughly searched all the families mentioned by the ghost that were related to the death of Carpenter Zheng's family.
In addition to the traces of burning in the house, Li Chengyun also saw wood carvings hidden in the darkness.
The wooden carvings with living mouths and eyes of each family are exactly the same as the former owner of this family.
The old friend concluded that this must be Zheng Shushu's revenge, so after the death of the villagers, he stuffed the ghosts of the villagers into the wood carvings, hoping to completely clean up the ghosts.
But Li Chengyun had another guess.
"It's not Zheng Shu."
Li Chengyun remembered that Zheng Shushu was still willing to rescue them even though he clearly saw them, and said calmly: "It was the ghost baby."
The old friend was shocked: "But, will the ghost baby be able to live a woodcarving with a living mouth and eyes?"
"Guilty."
Li Chengyun slowly said his answer: "Guilty towards others will become a hell that binds oneself."
Li Chengyun could see it clearly. Judging from the results of the divination, it was not the ghost baby who killed the villagers, but Zheng Shushu.
But many years ago, when that young man massacred the entire village to avenge the death of his parents and sister, he did not return to the world.
Instead, he fell into a deeper hell.
Zheng Shuming was smiling, and his sister was beside him.
But he is always in hell and suffering.
Therefore, Li Chengyun guessed that the villagers' wooden carvings were carved by Zheng Shu, and then controlled by ghost babies.
——Out of guilt towards his sister, Zheng Shu will not refuse any of her requests.
For him, being able to be used by his sister is also a way to alleviate his guilt, which is his redemption.
Li Chengyun sighed: "It's also a poor person."
However, the wood carvings in every household also aroused Li Chengyun's vigilance.
He immediately set off with his old friend to the ancestral grave in Bai's village.
The white-clothed layman rolled up his sleeves, folded the branches next to him, recited a spell, and began digging his family's graves.
The old friend was so startled by Li Chengyun's operation that his mouth grew wide, and he couldn't recover for a while.
"Digging someone's grave, isn't that good." The old friend hesitated.
But Li Chengyun moved quickly and skillfully. When his old friend hesitated, he had already dug up all the graves whose death time was the same as the time when the village was massacred.
The coffin opens.
The old friend's eyes widened in astonishment, and he rushed over in disbelief, grabbed the coffin and looked inside, confirming it several times.
—the coffin was empty.
There were no rotting corpses, no bones, not even the pus stains left by the rotting flesh.
From the very beginning, the body was not buried in a coffin.
"The brothers and sisters hated the villagers. They didn't even want to give them the peace of their souls after death. How could they allow their bodies to be buried safely?"
Li Chengyun was not surprised by this result.
With a kick of his feet, he jumped up from the grave, lightly landed on the ground, brushed off the scattered dust on his body, and he was still the layman of the idle cloud and wild crane.
It's not like the person who dug the grave and opened the coffin below decisively and quickly, it's not him.
Before the old friend came to his senses, Li Chengyun had already raised his head and looked towards a forest behind the ancestral grave.
He asked his old friend, do you think these trees look familiar?
"Acacia tree."
"The wood carvings we saw in the village just now were also carved from locust trees."
Li Chengyun lowered his eyes slightly and thought everything through in an instant.
The locust tree is the tree species most likely to be parasitized by ghosts, plus the wood carvings with living mouths and eyes that were originally created to allow ghosts to parasitize...
In this little-known village next to Baizhi Lake, a huge ghost aura is brewing.If it is not stopped, it will erupt completely one day and affect the entire southwest region.
On the way back from the mountain, the two saw the same deserted temple.
The statues inside had long since disappeared, leaving only crooked ritual vessels, already covered with thick dust.
What is painted on the murals are not the gods who were once enshrined here, but the faces of the villagers who paid for the construction here.One by one was beaming with joy and high spirits.
The old friend leaned over and picked up the ritual vessels one by one, placed them on the altar, wiped off the dust, and then bowed respectfully and solemnly to the altar without the statue.
"It's all made of gold and silver. This village used to be rich and beautiful, but unfortunately, people have no morals and can't keep their money."
"There is no god statue in the temple, or the ghost baby has already resisted and shattered when it appeared."
Li Chengyun said calmly: "If we want to suppress the evil spirit of Baizhi Lake, we can only find another treasure."
"Can you suppress that kind of ghost baby?"
The old friend smiled bitterly: "It's easier said than done."
The old friend was still racking his brains to think of a solution, but Li Chengyun remembered this sentence.
He couldn't help but think, if Fengdu is indeed here, then why no one can find no matter what kind of eminent monks are powerful for thousands of years?
Maybe... because Fengdu was also suppressed by Zhenwu?
It's not that no one can find Fengdu, but that Fengdu can't set foot in the world again, so no one has seen Fengdu except the rumors spread.
With such a guess, Li Chengyun went to find Zheng Shuhu early the next morning.
Standing in front of Zheng Shushu, his figure was tall and straight like a green pine, and the corners of his snow-white gown fluttered lightly. He smiled and said to Zheng Shushu, "You have the ability to save more people."
"You know your sister's situation very well, so you must also know what will happen if she loses control."
Li Chengyun sighed softly: "Why don't you let yourself go? You have been in prison for a long time. Now that you have revenge, you should live a quiet and happy life like an ordinary person for a few days."
From the moment Zheng Shushu took the initiative to rescue him, in Li Chengyun's mind, apart from being the inheritor of the woodcarving with a lively mouth and eyes, and a son who avenged his parents, there was one more evaluation about Zheng Shushu.
——A person who still has a little kindness towards the world.
Although Zheng Shushu had hatred, it was towards the villagers of the village surnamed Bai.
When he left Bai's village to survive, many kind people extended their hands and gave him a hand.For those people, Zheng Shu didn't intend to kill them.
But there is a sister on one side and a stranger on the other.
Zheng Shu hesitated on both sides of the balance.
Only Li Chengyun saw the goodwill hidden in Zheng Shushu's heart, and was willing to take the initiative to add weight to one side of the balance.
Li Chengyun temporarily stayed in the village surnamed Bai.
Besides Zheng Shushu, he also found another person living here.
It is Master Bai who has inherited the Southwest Ghost Opera.
From Master Bai, Li Chengyun heard the complete inheritance, had a glimpse of the truth thousands of years ago, and also knew about the change of Fengdu.
At that moment, Li Chengyun thought about everything like a blessing to his heart.
He was even more certain that the old Fengdu might be under the Baizhi Lake, and there were towns guarding the old Fengdu, not allowing the old Fengdu to reappear.
After getting the answer he wanted, Li Chengyun bid farewell to Zheng Shushu.
Although we only got along for a few days, Zheng Shushu was really impressed by this layman in white. He not only regarded Li Chengyun as a close friend, but also regarded Li Chengyun as his mentor, which solved his many years of doubts , to channel his pain.
Knowing that Li Chengyun was leaving, Zheng Shushu was very worried.
He knew Li Chengyun's purpose, and because of this, he knew that if Li Chengyun left, he might... never come back.
"Some people live for a hundred years, but they are depressed every day, but they are no different from pigs and dogs."
Li Chengyun looked at Zheng Shushu gently, and persuaded him for the last time: "No matter what kind of past and karma you have, no matter what your identity is, as long as you stick to your own way and protect all living beings, you are enough to become a Taoist."
"Martyrdom is also a kind of happiness."
Li Chengyun slightly nodded to Zheng Shushu: "After I leave, the safety of the Southwest is up to you."
"Brother Tree."
Zheng Shushu watched Li Chengyun leave the Bai village.
But what Zheng Shushu didn't know was that Li Chengyun jumped into the white paper lake after leaving the village.
He let himself sink to the bottom of the lake.
At the last moment before losing consciousness, Li Chengyun had a clear view of the bottom of the lake.
——There is an abandoned city there.
The city was surrounded by a strong ghostly aura, and there were scattered bones scattered around, but there was not a single fish.
There are rotting corpses that follow the smell and swim towards Li Chengyun.
But Li Chengyun laughed.
A series of bubbles rose up, and the white gown floated in the water, as beautiful as an illusion.
At the bottom of the dark lake, Li Chengyun's eyes were calm, and he stretched out his arms calmly, letting those carrion corpses surround him.
On his lips was a smile of a successful plan.
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