After a while, the sound of beatings gradually became closer, and a long funeral procession passed by on the road, but there was almost no crying. Li Boxen knew that he had probably guessed it right - either no one was crying, or the crying was particularly tragic, both of which were unusual.
If an old man cannot survive the winter and dies, his family members should be prepared. He has lived in this village for nine years and knows that these people live a very miserable life. When such an old man passes away, many people feel relieved and feel very peaceful.
The current situation can only show that the family members also feel fear and uneasiness. The custom here is to bury the person after seven days. I wonder if the ghost spirit has been taken away. Li Boxen held his breath and concentrated, his spirit body came out of his body, and he got closer to take a look.
not yet. Three families were having a funeral, and a dark spirit was following the thin coffin at the head. Most of the Yin spirits remained as they were before death. When Li Bochen looked at him, he found that he was bleeding from all his orifices, indicating that he had indeed been killed.
I went to see the other two, and they were found dead in exactly the same condition. In fact, he recognized all three of them - an old man, whom he used to call Grandpa Xu. The other two were a man in his fifties, whom he called Uncle Xu, and a woman in her forties, whom he called Aunt Zheng. The two people named Xu are father and son.
He remembered that when Chang Tingwei moved here, he bought a house in the east of the village. The house originally belonged to a wealthy family in the village, but the family moved there after their only son became a general judge in Fucheng. The house was a bit far away from other houses in the village. There were only two families closest to it - the Xu family and his son, "Uncle Xu" who was a bachelor, and Aunt Zheng, who was a widow.
These two families were very helpful to Chang Tingwei. She made money like water at that time, so the relationship between the three families was very good and they knew more things. Li Bochen thought that someone must have really come to ask these three people something, and then silenced them.
He woke up after returning to his body, watched the team go away, then led the horse and walked through the pear forest to the bottom of a slope. There are lush vegetation at the bottom of the slope and a shallow stream. An old willow tree lies across the stream, like a small bridge. He used to love coming here the most in the summer.
He tied his horse to a willow tree, found a grass nest and lay down, and the ghost spirit left his body again.
It was difficult to ask anything from strangers, but there should be tigers and earth masters here, so he wanted to ask them.
After leaving Zhangcheng, he tried Xu Cheng, but no results came out of the trial. I originally thought that Xu Cheng's use of monster flesh and blood to heal Sui Zi'ang would involve a lot of secrets, but in the end, I found out that using monster flesh and blood was not unusual anymore - at least among the senior officials of the Six Nations.
It is said that some noble people have more or less used the flesh and blood of monsters to extend their lives, and they have become specialized knowledge. He didn't know what to say, but luckily he got something else from him.
For example, now that his Yin spirit has left his body, he has begun to observe the Feng Shui and Earth Qi. According to what Xu Cheng said, since the spirit master has received the destiny of the mysterious spirit, he can also perceive the destiny of the mountains and rivers in the human world. For ordinary monks to achieve this step, they must obtain the spiritual illumination state, and they can only perceive the climate, but cannot understand the details.
But since the spirit master performs the power of the secret spirit in the living world, he is also blessed by the luck of the secret spirit. When doing these things, he is similar to the tiger, earth master, and water uncle. No wonder he could see the tiger's luck given by Zhang Shanjun on Mount Zhang.
He used the heart secrets he had learned from Xu Cheng and asked his mind to spread out and "see" just like he did in Zhangshan. After a while, I saw the "qi" spreading from everywhere like wisps of mist.
The largest one comes from the village, and it should be produced by the reproduction of people in the village. Other traces come from fields, streams, and vegetation. It seemed that there were some slightly stronger ones further away, and he guessed that they were brought in from further villages and towns.
In the end, these fortunes did not converge on the mountain, but gathered on a small mound in the northwest. Looking at it this way, the living spiritual god who governs this place is not the tiger king, but the earth master.
Li Boxen breathed a sigh of relief, because according to what Xu Cheng said, among the three living spiritual gods, Tiger Lord, Shui Bo, and Earth Master, Earth Master is the best to deal with. For example, tigers get most of their luck from the animals and vegetation in the mountains, which makes them paranoid and weird, not quite like humans.
But this place is mostly plains, and the mountains are not mountains at all, but hills at most. There are not many creatures hidden there, but most of the luck comes from people. In this way, the earth master's temperament is more like a human being. If he was really a human being before being granted the title, and not a demon cultivator, it would be more like it.
His heart moved, and he immediately floated forward without summoning the Yin soldiers. He had refined Xu Cheng before, and now he had twenty Yin soldiers under his command, who had refined Xu Cheng into the Dragon and Tiger realm, and the remaining nineteen were only at the Spiritual Enlightenment realm. He didn't come here to provoke. Although he brought them with them with great momentum, it would make the masters here wary. The Spirit Master is not a very popular character, so he might as well go to the meeting alone.
The mound was between two large fields, with a path around it and a peach grove beside it. It is not very high, even a five or six year old child can easily run up it. But as we got closer and closer to the mound, it became higher and higher. When we were almost on the road, it looked like a majestic mountain peak.
Originally there was nothing in front of the mound, but gradually there were two rows of black shadows that gradually grew larger. When Li Bochen stood on the road, he found that they were actually two rows of knights - each row had six people, all wearing heavy armor, riding large horses. The horse, holding a gun in its hand, glared angrily.
It's just that these twelve knights don't look like strangers. The skin and flesh on his face were withered, and there were only two holes left in his nose. The eyes were also cloudy and pale white, and without eyelids, they looked particularly terrifying.
But Li Bochen had seen many dead people, and this kind of battle did not scare him. Then he said in a deep voice: "Is the Earth Master here? Li Boxen came to pay a visit!"
After hearing what he said, the twelve knights swayed, their armors rustled, and their eyes began to move around. But he still didn't move in the same place, as if he was fixed by something. Li Bochen was dealing with the Earth Master for the first time. He didn't know if this was the right thing to do, so he said again: "Does the Earth Master know that people died in the nearby villages? They didn't die of old age or illness, but they were killed. Not by ordinary bandits. The gangsters killed him, but he should have been killed by the cultivators - since the earth master protects one side, should such a thing happen to his subordinates, but he should turn a deaf ear?"
But after saying this, no one responded to him.
In normal times, Li Boxen would have retreated. But today he had to ask something, and there was anger in his heart that had been forcibly suppressed, so he took two steps forward and wanted to say, "If you don't answer again, don't blame Mr. Li for being rude."
But even if he wanted to be "rude", he didn't know how to be rude. Although the majestic mountain peak in front of me looks like a cave, it is clearly just an illusion.
But then I finally heard the voice of an old man: "Go along the road, more than six hundred steps, and there is a big tomb, which is full of treasures!"
