"Whether the ghost realm to the south is a place where evil spirits breed? How much do you know about that place? Tell me."
Lu Yuan took the old man out and chatted on the stone pier outside the house.
Seeing that the old man was very nervous, he looked at Nian Beast Dabai frequently.
Dabai stared at his innocent red eyes and listened obediently.
But the weight-bearing rings on its four legs reflected the moonlight, giving Jiang Bo a sense of invincible strength. He thought they were weapons, which invisibly added pressure to him.
Lu Yuan turned to Dabai and said, "Run around the village ten times with a heavy load and then come back."
"Ouch!"
Dabai objected. He was also curious and wanted to hear Uncle Jiang talk about things outside the village.
"I'll tell you when you come back."
"Ugh——"
Unable to object to his master's orders, he whined, wagging his low tail, and walked away slowly.
As the old man listened to the heavy footsteps getting further and further away, his heart twitched. The Nian beast wearing the leg ring was indeed extraordinary, and his leg strength was several times stronger than without it.
Master Lu's Nian beast is not simple. It actually comes with special weapons for the pet beast. If the Nian beast becomes powerful, how many people can stop it.
"Okay, Nian Beast has left, we can talk."
"Of course." The old man wiped the sweat from his head.
He couldn't understand why he had to talk about such a scary topic in the middle of the night. The Netherworld was a place of evil and forbidden to human beings. Ordinary people would not dare to talk about that land for fear of attracting the attention of evil things.
But when the master spoke, he did not dare to be disobedient, so he had no choice but to introduce the matter of the Netherworld Ghost Realm.
"I don't know much about this matter. I heard it from my ancestors. I will just say this and you will just listen."
Seeing that Lu Yuan was listening attentively and showed no sign of disgust, Jiang Bo continued:
"A hundred years ago, the south was not called the Netherworld. It was just an ordinary graveyard with the tombs of dozens of generations of people from Xuxi Village next door.
"Think about it, who are the people who can be buried on the graveyard? They are all mediocre people who cannot enter the ancestral temple.
"People who are somewhat normal these days are basically cremated and buried in ancestral halls, becoming ancestors."
“I don’t know what happened in that village, but after the death of a beast control master named Wang, he was buried on the grave instead of entering the ancestral hall.
"No one expected that the ghost-type pet beasts contracted by the master during his lifetime would come to the door. Knowing this, they cried at the grave every day and launched a curse on the next village.
"We in Liuhe Village were so far apart that we heard the cries of those pet animals.
"Every time they cry, the sky turns black and not even the sunlight from the double sun shines in.
"After crying for a few days, the crying over there stopped. My grandfather was washing clothes by the river and saw that the whole river was red. He was so scared that the whole village did not dare to use the river water or go south for a whole year. Confirm the situation..."
Speaking of this, Uncle Jiang's soul trembled. He felt that he couldn't talk any more and his throat was a little tight.
"Then what?" Lu Yuan asked.
"I don't know about it later. I was told when I was a child that I couldn't go to the land in the south. At that time, it was already called the Netherworld Ghost Realm." Uncle Jiang shook his head.
"Who decided on the word 'Netherworld'?" Lu Yuan asked.
"It was the name given by an expert from Qianshan City. We only found out about it when we went shopping there."
"Where is Qianshan City?"
"Take the small road to the north and go to the right. You can see Qianshan City after walking for about five or six days. It is a mountain city."
Uncle Jiang didn't dare to hide it. He had used Qianshan City to deceive Lu Yuan before, but now that he was talking about the real address of Qianshan City, he was inevitably a little embarrassed.
Lu Yuan was thoughtful when he heard this.
The local name is Liuhe Village, and the surname Liu is the common surname in the village.
The extinct village next door is called Xuxi Village, and the surname is Xu.
The surname Wang is the smallest surname in Xuxi Village next door, and there are only a few people there.
The master surnamed Wang became a master in his later years. His rise was short-lived and he did not leave any descendants.
Adou was unable to be supported by his relatives, so the whole family's prosperity and wealth were concentrated on him.
After his death, the Xu family pressed hard and used their power to suppress others, and buried him on the grave.
If that person was buried in the ancestral temple, the ancestors of the Xu family would be severely suppressed.
Unexpectedly, his pet beast came to mourn him and found that his master was not buried in the ancestral temple. He was so angry that he sacrificed the whole village alive, uprooting the ancestral temple and annihilating Xuxi Village.
In modern times, this kind of thing is basically unthinkable.
But in ancient times, it felt quite normal.
Another point is that after the beast master dies, the contract with the pet beast will disappear.
The natal spiritual beast that is connected to the life of the beast master will be implicated, and its lifespan will be drained quickly in a short period of time, instead of dying immediately.
Non-native spiritual beasts can regain their freedom after the contract disappears and can go wherever they want.
Most of the ancient beast-controlling skills were overbearing and straightforward. They liked to use forceful means to injure their pet beasts. After beating them until they were half crippled, they would use the beast-controlling skills to suppress the pet beasts, force a contract, and subdue the pet beasts.
bad relationship?
There is an old saying: A good cat comes out of a stick.
The ancients believed in stick education, not only to teach their sons to beat like this, but also to raise pet animals like this. It is simple, rough and practical.
Therefore, under normal circumstances, after the death of an ancient beast master, the pet beasts they contracted during his lifetime would run away and would never take a second look at the body of the beast master.
There are also pet beasts that hold grudges all their lives, endure it all their lives, and torture their masters to death. After the contract is terminated, they will eat the owner's body alive. There are very few incidents like Xuxi Village where loyal pets come to pay homage.
It can be seen from this that the master surnamed Wang is a caring beast master who knows how to communicate and how to maintain the feelings of his pet beast.
"He is a true master. It's a pity that we can't meet him." Lu Yuan shook his head, feeling a little regretful.
Carrying modern knowledge into ancient times, Lu Yuan subconsciously felt that he was superior to others. He felt that the ancients were all ignorant people who only acted recklessly and did not understand the heart of petting animals.
Now that he heard this story, Lu Yuan's contemptuous attitude became slightly more correct.
The reason why it is "slightly" is because after all, there are still too few ancient people who can match the brain waves of modern people.
Most of the ancients were empiricists who knew what was happening but did not know why.
I thought it would be no problem to control the beast like this.
The ancestors all control beasts like this, so it will be fine if you listen to the ancestors.
And so on.
After talking about the origin of the ghost realm to the south, Nian Beast Dabai came back panting.
Lu Yuan thought, Nian Beast Dabai had returned from training, it was time for him to go back to his house to practice, close his eyes and rest his mind.
"It's getting late, let's go back to bed."
"That's right, it's getting late, you should go to bed early."
Uncle Jiang was flattering on the surface, but he was sweating in his heart and said worriedly:
'You also know it's getting late, it's so late at night to talk about such horrible things. '
'I wonder if what we talked about tonight will attract the attention of the old guy in the Netherworld. '
Uncle Jiang was worried. He heard that there were some unspeakable powerful evil spirits in the world, and he could hear people talking about their names thousands of miles away.
Even if the name is not mentioned, just mentioning relevant events may still attract their secret attention.
In recent years, more and more people have died in the Netherworld. In the past ten years, no one knows what is going on there, and how many evil things are breeding there.
