The one who spoke out to answer everyone's doubts was not Cui Yougui, but Monk Ma.
During this period, Monk Ma often took his horseman with him to travel around to observe the geographical situation in the name of training.
He had been here before and asked people in Zhuangzi why there were so many corpses here, so he knew the situation.
"The poor people here in Qingtang couldn't afford a coffin after death, so they invented three ways of burial. One is cremation, where the bones are burned with firewood and burned into ashes. The other is burial, where the body is wrapped in a straw mat.
Find a wild place to bury. The third is the wild zombie. After death, the corpse will be skinned cleanly and thrown into the mountains and forests, waiting for birds and animals to eat it. Among these three burial methods, wild burial is the most trouble-free.
It saves effort and money, so it has become the first choice for many poor families.”
Monk Ma clasped his hands together, recited 'Amitabha', and sighed: "If the family is not really poor and cannot even afford straw mats and firewood, who would be willing to abandon their relatives in the mountains and forests to feed birds and beasts?"
The gap between rich and poor in Qingtang is wider than that in Xia Kingdom. The big nobles and big-headed people in the tribe can live a very wealthy and luxurious life, but the people at the bottom live in poverty.
Not to mention that there are slaves here in Qingtang, and their lives are worse than those of cattle, horses, and livestock.
These people at the bottom have no dignity when they are alive, let alone think about it after they die. It would be good if they could find a beautiful place to be buried in the mountains and forests so that future generations can have a place to worship.
As time went by, more and more corpses were thrown away, and naturally a mountain col filled with dry bones was formed.
"No wonder there are so many rats and hungry wolves in this place. They don't hide when they see us coming. They are all waiting for new corpses to eat."
Su Jianqing glanced around and said coldly.
As a ghost cultivator, her vision is not affected by the night, and she can see the wild beasts waiting to be 'fed' in the nearby woods.
Soon, Qin Shaoyou and others also saw the wild beasts in the mountain col.
With red eyes and drooling, they surrounded us from all directions and stared at everyone.
"These guys think we are here to dump corpses. I'm afraid they not only want to eat the corpses, but also want to take one or two living people to eat."
Zhu Xiucai snorted coldly, and was waiting to release his blood energy to scare away these beasts. A powerful beastly aura rose up from Cen Biqing, who was standing next to him.
The wild beasts around were so frightened that they turned around and ran away, not daring to take any more chances with Qin Shaoyou and others.
When Zhu Xiucai saw this, he immediately turned his head, gave Cen Biqing a thumbs up, grinned and praised: "General Cen's flag is mighty."
When Qin Shaoyou saw this scene, he shook his head repeatedly and said to himself, "lick the dog."
Without the unsightly beasts, Qin Shaoyou immediately took Cui Yougui, Su Jianqing, Su Tingyu and other Taoist priests from Jade Emperor Temple to start setting up the place in the Wild Burial Valley.
They first threw incense ashes in the valley and 'drawn' a road to the underworld, and then planted rows of soul-calling flags on both sides of the ashes road.
The flags moved with the wind, like white ghost shadows, walking back and forth on the incense ash road.
Between each two soul-calling flags, they inserted a stick of incense with nine pieces of paper money strung on it.
In fact, with Qin Shaoyou's power as the ghost king, as long as he finds a place where ghosts gather, he can summon the souls of the dead and refine [war and horses] even without making these soul-calling arrangements.
But setting up a soul-calling field can not only attract more dead souls, but also attract rampant soldiers and ghosts raised by wild gods or wizards.
Tonight, Qin Shaoyou, in addition to testing the Ghost King's ability to recruit troops, also plans to ambush some wild gods or wizards.
So while he and the Taoist priests of Yuhuangguan set up the spirit summoning field, Zhu Xiucai and Monk Ma led others to set up traps and traps here one after another.
Finally, Wei Tu also released the power of truth to these traps, allowing them to "hide away from the scene" and "hide deeply without being exposed".
After making these preparations, Qin Shaoyou took out the command flag and horn.
He waved the command flag with his left hand, and put the horn in front of his mouth with his right hand. While inciting the power of the Ghost King, he activated his blood energy and blew the horn.
‘Buzz——’
A deep voice came from the horn.
Inside the Wild Burial Valley, gusts of cold wind suddenly blew, and the chill was bone-chilling. Even Qin Qiaoer, Zhu Xiucai and others had to activate the power of laws and blood energy to resist the cold air and prevent them from invading the body and causing damage.
Your own vitality and yang energy.
In the mountain forest, the beasts that were scared away by Cen Biqing also felt the cold wind and cold.
They were so frightened that they trembled, dug holes in the ground, or ran further away, not daring to peek around.
The soul-calling flags on both sides of Xianghui Road swayed crazily in the cold wind, making a crackling sound, just like the sound of footsteps.
The sparks of the incense sticks inserted between the soul-calling flags suddenly became much brighter under the blowing of the cold wind.
"coming."
Su Tingyu sniffed. When no one saw anything, she had already smelled the ghostly aura.
Sure enough, at the next moment, footprints appeared one after another on the incense ash road.
One by one, ghost figures appeared in front of everyone.
Most of them looked blank and expressionless, walking mechanically on the ashes road.
These are wandering ghosts wandering nearby. If there is no special opportunity, not only will they not be able to go to the underworld, they will also dissipate quickly.
Qin Shaoyou waved the command flag in his hand, collected these ghosts into the horn, and sent them to the altar.
His altar is enshrined in the Chenghuang Temple in Mianyuan County.
After these ghosts are sent over, Cai Guizhong and his underworld ghosts will help identify and select them.
The appropriate soldiers and horses were collected and trained by the black and white impermanence, bull-headed and horse-faced men in the City God's Temple.
Those who are not suitable will be sent to hell to be tortured or sent to queue for reincarnation based on what they did during their lifetime.
To be honest, these ghosts were lucky to meet Qin Shaoyou.
At least you don't have to worry about being turned into a ghost, and you still have the chance to be reincarnated. Not to mention, once you are selected as a rampant ghost general, you will be registered in the City God's Temple. Even if you are not a ghost, you will at least be an auxiliary police officer.
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But these ordinary wandering ghosts are not Qin Shaoyou's target tonight.
So he continued to activate his blood energy, causing the sound from the horn to travel farther and attract more ghosts.
This includes the rampant ghost generals sent out by the wild gods and wizards tonight to search for the whereabouts of Haibulu!
The sound of war horses neighing and the clash of swords suddenly sounded in the Wild Burial Valley.
Under the scarlet blood light, a group of fully armed Yin soldiers with ferocious faces appeared in front of Qin Shaoyou and others.
Suddenly, a strong wind blew, and incense ashes flew everywhere along with sparks.
The wandering ghosts, who were like walking corpses, were about to be exposed by the ghost knights. At the critical moment, Qin Shaoyou raised the command flag in his hand and activated the incense and ash soul flag to block these rampant ghost generals, but also angered them.
"Who of you dare to summon spirits here?"
The leading ghost general locked eyes with Qin Shaoyou with bleeding eyes, opened his bloody mouth, and spoke human words.
Without waiting for Qin Shaoyou's reply, it raised its bone-like fingers and ordered the rampaging soldiers behind it.
"Kill all the people here! Eat their souls, chew their bones, and take their heads back for questioning!"
Rampant Bing was not able to rush towards Qin Shaoyou and others as it wished.
A powerful force of ghost king swept over, frightening these rampant soldiers, and even the ghost generals trembled under this terrifying force.
"The power of the Ghost King? How can the power of the Ghost King appear on a living person?!"
The ghost general screamed in alarm, his eyes dripping with blood flashing with horror.
When Qin Shaoyou heard this, he opened his mouth and said in a ferocious voice: "I not only have the power of the ghost king, but I can also eat ghosts!"