Zheng Xiu finally understood.
Why does the cotton slough appear here? Why is there no dark tent formed here, wrapped in ghosts?
The conditions for the formation of ghosts are obvious: dead people. A certain number of dead people will make this place extremely close to the eternal darkness, forming the interface between the eternal world and the eternal darkness, which is called ghosts.
When a large number of human souls with "direction" move towards Chang An in a short period of time, the barrier between the two realms will be opened and the entrance to Chang An will be opened.
Although there are many dead people in the sky burial forest, the area is remote. Most of the sky burials here are locals and cannot form a certain scale.
Of course there are no ghosts anymore.
But from time to time, someone dies, and a small amount of human souls opens up "small passages" that are almost negligible.
These small passages are as thin as pinholes. Zheng Xiu can't even feel the odor. Normally, they will not have any impact on the world.
But there is a kind of insect called "cotton slough" secretly. Its silk can pass through these "needle eye channels". Through these small channels, the cotton slough can absorb human nutrients here to thrive and grow again.
Various clues gathered in Zheng Xiu's mind, and he gradually cleared up his thoughts.
The only thing he didn't understand was why this cotton slough appeared once every hundred years, and why, only twenty years after its last appearance, it had another chance to return to the ordinary world.
"I see."
At this time, Zheng Xiu remembered the "purification ceremony" in Jingtang Town. During the purification ceremony, pregnant women and human velvet were burned to death. According to local customs, they would also transport the bodies here and hold "sky burials." It is this move that makes these tiny "needle eye channels" more stable, which actually encourages cotton shedding.
Ruchen stood aside obediently and listened to Zheng Xiu's words, "Don't come here." He then made a few complicated gestures out of curiosity, not knowing what he wanted to express. He asked, "Brother Zheng, is there something in front of you?"
Ruchen was a little scared.
"Yeah, something."
Zheng Xiu's eyes fell on the hanging cocoon again.
The facial features attached to the wall of the cocoon actually showed some fluctuations in a humanized way.
It looked like he was crying.
It's like begging for mercy.
"It's just a monster."
Zheng Xiu raised his eyebrows, flicked his wrist, and with a crisp sound of bones, a long black knife appeared in his hand.
"Zangyue."
Zheng Xiu swung his knife and cut off the cotton threads one by one.
Every time one was cut off, the black shadow in the cocoon twitched, and gradually the worms in the cocoon became weaker and weaker.
Ruchen saw Zheng Xiu swinging his knife into the air and vaguely understood something.
He sat cross-legged on the ground, clasped his hands, and remained silent.
After cutting off all the cotton threads, Mian Shei was already dying. Zheng Xiu stepped forward, using only one sword move among the Eighteen Coiling Dragon Slashes. After the derivation, it passed over the cocoon.
The straight blade was like a thin line, gently sliding over the cocoon.
Zheng Xiu had already turned around, Duan Yue was lying in front of him, and he was slowly sheathing it inch by inch.
Click.
Tsk tsk tsk!
The sound of being sheathed and the sound of the cocoon exploding sounded at the same time.
"Super speed."
The moon-breaking knife disappeared into smoke.
All of Zheng Xiu's moves were derived from the "Eighteen Coiling Dragon Slashes" under the "variables" brought by the "Surprise Cage". Zheng Xiu started with Treasure King, and he is evolving the "Eighteen Coiling Dragon Slashes" created by Treasure King into a move that is truly his own.
Zheng Xiu closed his eyes and mourned for a few seconds for the treasure king Cangyun who passed away twenty years ago. Zheng Xiu thought silently in his heart.
Thank you, Treasure King, Cangyun!
Ruchen heard the sound and opened his eyes, staring dumbfoundedly at the back of the clearing. All the trees were broken at the same height, and the breaks were as smooth as mirrors.
Zheng Xiu cut most of the forest with one stroke.
"Brother Zheng, if we go back to town, will we be beaten?"
The stunned Ruchen asked stupidly.
You destroyed other people’s sky burial forests!
"No way."
Zheng Xiu's tone was not too sure either.
Ruchen: "Are we settled now?"
Zheng Xiu looked back and saw the mess all over the forest. Then he turned on [Spiritual Vision]. The "spores" in the sky quickly withered, lost their luster, fell in the forest, and dissipated into dry ash.
All the silk threads from the cotton slough were cut off, and the small passages leading to the constant darkness were closed at the same time.
Zheng Xiu nodded after confirming: "It should be solved, but there is one more thing, which is to warn them not to hold any more celestial funerals in the near future, otherwise the Chang An entrance may still be opened. Or... change another place."
When Ruchen heard this, a bright smile appeared on his face.
The two walked back happily.
Ruchen felt like he had done a good thing and was in a happy mood.
Zheng Xiu walked for a while with his eyes closed and took a short nap while walking.
This is a new skill he unintentionally unlocked - sleep walking.
Return to Jingtang Town.
Zheng Xiu, who was dozing off in a daze, suddenly opened his eyes.
There were bursts of wailing and crying in the town.
The streets were still empty. Eight corpses were neatly placed in the open space where the "purification ceremony" had been held.
The corpse was covered with white cloth. Judging from the swells on the chest and abdomen, it seemed to be a pregnant woman from Jingtang Town.
Zheng Xiu's heart sank.
Ruchen's bright smile froze on his face.
"What's going on? Didn't we solve the problem of cotton sloughing?" Ruchen panicked, with a gloomy cloud ahead like a waterfall. Listening to the cries of the people, Ruchen pulled Zheng Xiu's sleeves and asked with a sad face at a loss.
Zheng Xiu's face was as dark as water, he pushed away the crowd and stepped forward to check.
The people who were pushed away were filled with grief and anger, and were about to curse. When they looked up, they saw the fierce man who had punched and kicked them in the town not long ago. They were so frightened that they shrank and fell silent.
Zheng Xiu lifted up the white cloth on one of the corpses and saw that the pregnant woman's eyes were bulging and the mold on her skin had peeled off into fine flakes. She had obviously been dead for a long time.
All pregnant women die in the same way.
The people gathered in a circle with complicated expressions.
Anger, fear, blame, sadness.
Everyone looked at the macho man with such complicated eyes.
When Zheng Xiu looked at the eight corpses and remained silent, Ruchen stepped forward and explained loudly: "Brother Zheng took care of Mian Shei for you, Mian Shei is dead!"
"Fart!" A man with red eyes and bloodshot eyes pointed at Zheng Xiu in the center: "He killed my mother-in-law!"
"If he hadn't intervened and used the purification ritual, they wouldn't have died so miserably!"
"murderer!"
"Asshole!"
"Son of a bitch!"
"Get out of Mirror Pond!"
"Outsiders get out of Jingtang!"
A dead person is emboldened, and the crowd surrounding the corpse in the open space became more and more emotional.
Ruchen became anxious, blushed and spat back: "You are the farts! Aren't you going to burn them alive too! Why did we end up killing them? Farts, farts, farts, farts! You are the farts!"
The curses in the crowd became even louder.
The sound was loud.
Someone was bold enough to throw a pottery bowl at the macho man.
With a bang, the pottery bowl hit the tough man's head. The pottery bowl shattered, but the tough man's head was intact.
When someone reminded him, the people suddenly woke up and found a new way to vent their anger, so they frantically threw many hard objects at the macho man.
"Stop! It's none of our business! We're here to save people! It's none of our business!"
The situation in front of him was beyond Ruchen's expectation, and he tried his best to explain to the people in Jingtang Town.
Ruchen's face became more and more distorted, and veins appeared on his forehead. Suddenly, Ruchen's five fingers hooked up into claws, making a clicking sound. His pupils suddenly shrank like a beast, and he raised his five claws towards the man who scolded him the most - his wife was lying on the ground. The dust is not far away.
"Still want to kill people? You have the ability to kill us all!"
"Yes, yes, if you have the ability, do it!"
Ruchen suddenly let out a strange cry: "You asked for it yourself. I have never heard of such a ridiculous request! Then kill them all! Kill them all!"
After saying that, Ruchen's figure rushed forward like lightning.
Boom!
Zheng Xiu was faster than Ru Chen and punched Ru Chen on the back of the head.
Ruchen rolled his eyes and fell face to the ground.
Zheng Xiu knew that the ghost on Ruchen's head was very strong, so the punch used 50% of the force. So much so that the sound when Zheng Xiu hammered Ruchen's head was like hitting a copper bell, deafening.
When Ruchen fell to the ground, his face was smashed down, and the floor cracked, creating a "face pit."
The angry people were suddenly speechless and took a breath of cold air.
They were suddenly awakened as if they had been doused with ice water.
The monk is an honest man and easy to bully. But a strong man is not easy to bully. Look at him, he is so fierce that he can even kill his own people.
After the macho man rang the bell, the crowd surrounding the macho man and the monk fell into dead silence and remained in a stalemate for a long time.
At this time.
There was another commotion on another street. A man holding a sickle ran towards this side angrily, shouting as he ran.
"Everyone, come here quickly! The people from the Cuihua family are still alive! The people from the Cuihua family are still alive!"
(End of chapter)
