After Wang Dongyue and I climbed to the top of the tomb, we pulled the rope with the village chief and pulled the coffin lid directly out.
Now the situation inside the coffin can naturally be clearly seen.
The corpse inside was indeed not decayed, but the corpse was not in a very well-preserved state. Instead, the whole body was a little shriveled. The cheeks were deeply sunken, and the skin and flesh on the face were all attached to the bones. It looked a little bit dry. Scary.
Moreover, there were actually many tree root-like things in the coffin. I looked carefully and confirmed that they were tree roots, extending directly from the side of the coffin and growing into the coffin.
Those tree roots were also intricate, entwining the corpse layer by layer, and one root even extended into the mouth of the corpse.
It seems that the corpse must have been sucked dry by the tree roots, so it became such a skinny and skeletal state.
No wonder this old tree has become a spirit. It turns out that it has absorbed the corpse and yin energy of the dead.
Once this kind of thing has a relationship with people, it is very likely to produce spirituality. Human beings are the primates of all things, and their spiritual intelligence is higher than most living things. Therefore, anything that has gained popularity will easily become more popular over time. Become a spirit.
I think this old pear tree must have grown spiritually because its roots grew into the coffin. By chance, it absorbed the corpse energy from the dead body, so it became spiritual. It absorbed a large amount of corpse energy and yin energy from the ancestral cemetery, and then Slowly becoming a monster.
If this is the case, then the people buried in this ancestral cemetery may have more than one coffin with tree roots extending into it.
With so many dead people buried in this place, the gathered corpse energy and yin energy are quite terrifying. Who knows how many years they have been nourishing this thing?
The older this thing gets, the more powerful it is and the more difficult it is to deal with.
After watching for a while, I formed a fire-bending talisman and threw it down. The tree roots and corpse in the coffin were immediately burned by the Samadhi True Fire.
But there was no reaction from the corpse. It seemed that the demon spirit was not attached to the corpse.
The roots of the trees underground are intricate. If that thing were to escape along the roots, the layout of the Twelve Heavenly Gangs and Earthly Demons would not be able to trap it.
As soon as the fire started, the tree roots coiled in the coffin seemed to come to life. They shrank back very quickly, and in the blink of an eye they all shrank to the ground.
In the end, only the coffin and the body in the coffin were burned to ashes.
It seems that this old pear tree still needs to be cut down. Even if the monster has left its body, the old tree still has some self-responsive consciousness. This is not a reaction phenomenon that a tree should have.
"Let's cut down this tree first."
I turned around and said hello, and the village chief and the villagers immediately stepped forward and continued cutting down the trees.
At this time, the trunk of the tree stopped bleeding, but every time I cut it, the branches on it would keep twitching, and it looked like it was in pain.
Everything in the world has its own spirituality, and flowers, plants and trees are no exception. Originally, such spiritual things should not be killed. This is something that is detrimental to one's morality. But after all, this thing has begun to harm people, so the only choice is to kill it. Removed.
We are born as human beings, and we are ultimately human-centered, competing with all creatures in the world for the right to survive. This is natural selection, the foundation of survival.
This old tree, which had existed for who knows how many years, was finally cut down. The village chief and the others took turns cutting it down for nearly an hour.
The big tree fell over, its huge branches crushed down, and the ground shook.
So far, the spirited old tree has finally been solved, but it only destroyed the monster itself. The monster spirit escaped after all, which is a big trouble.
By the time we returned to the village, it was almost dark.
The funeral of the village chief's daughter-in-law is still being prepared. Funeral supplies such as wreaths have been purchased and placed in the mourning hall. A carpenter has also been invited to make a coffin in the yard.
There are people running in and out of the house all the time, and it looks very messy.
It was not until after dinner that the people from the village who came to help gradually dispersed, and the village chief's house suddenly became deserted.
Wang Dongyue and I will probably have to take care of the funeral, but we don't need to do the wake, because there are several people from the village who came to help with the wake, all of them young people.
The main problem now is that this cave may not be in good condition. Although the old pear tree in the ancestral cemetery has been cut down, the wind has also broken, so no more people can be buried in it.
In the mountains surrounding the village, most of the Dragon Vein Earth Qi has been drained away, and basically no good acupoints can be found.
In this case, the only option is to bury him far away.
But I just thought about it in my mind, and Wang Dongyue still had to do the acupuncture. After all, this job was taken over by Feng Shuiling. I was just here to help. There are many things that cannot be rushed to the front.
In the evening I went to the mourning hall to have a look. When I saw that there was nothing wrong, I went back to the house to sleep.
I didn't sleep all night last night, and by this point I was already a little overwhelmed.
Wang Dongyue and the young people drank some wine in the mourning hall again, and the village chief's wife prepared some snacks for them.
Before going to bed, I specifically told Wang Dongyue not to drink too much. Otherwise, like last night, he would sleep to death after drinking too much, and he would not even know that such a big thing happened.
Wang Dongyue naturally agreed wholeheartedly, but judging from his posture, I think it would be difficult to hold back.
I almost fell asleep on the bed, and I don't know how long I slept. Then I was suddenly awakened by a burst of intermittent crying.
I got up and took a look, and found Wang Dongyue sleeping next to me. I didn't know when he entered the room, but it looked like he was drunk again and slept like a dead pig.
I quickly went to the window and took a look, and found a woman squatting in the corner of the yard. The intermittent crying sounds must have come from this woman.
The moonlight was very good tonight, and it was as bright as day outside, so I could see the woman clearly. However, because she was squatting in the shadow under the eaves, I couldn't see her face clearly, and I couldn't see her face for a while. Don't know who it is.
I frowned and thought for a moment. I guess the person who didn't sleep in the middle of the night and squatted in the yard crying was not a normal person, right?
Or to be precise, it should not be a human being.
Liu Xiaoman's wife just died last night, so it is easy to think that Liu Xiaoman's wife has returned to spirit.
Under normal circumstances, it is the seventh day for a person to return to the soul after death, because according to superstition, after death, the soul will be taken to hell for a trip, and then its punishment will be determined according to the various sins it committed during its lifetime. Which level of hell will you be sent to, what kind of punishment will you suffer, etc.
And after all these procedures are completed, the deceased will be escorted back by the underworld to see his relatives again. This time is exactly seven days.
There is even a saying that if the family spreads a layer of ash on the kitchen floor on the seventh night after death when the soul returns, the footprints left by the deceased and the iron on his body can still be seen the next day. The mark left by the chain.
Of course, this is just a legend. What happens after death? It's actually hard to say. After all, no one has actually seen hell or understands the process after death.
No one has seen all this after death and then comes back to life.
All we can be sure of is that people do have souls. Even if the body dies, the soul will exist for a period of time. This is also commonly known as a ghost.
As for whether ghosts ascend to heaven, fall into hell, or wander around the world? This is difficult to determine.
Liu Xiaoman's wife did not die in a normal way. It was possible that her soul was directly taken away by the ghost refiner, so it makes sense that she returned to her soul the next night.
I hesitated for a moment, and finally opened the door and went out to take a look. The main reason was that I wanted to ask Liu Xiaoman's wife if she knew anything about the ghost refiner?
Even if she didn't know, at least she should know how she was killed.
