Chapter 136: Five hundred stories of Liaozhai, whether they are in the same line
In ancient China, there was a saying that the dead should not enter their ancestors' graves.
Although there is no clear timeline or detailed division of dynasties in the world of Liaozhai, many places have not changed, and some taboos are the same.
Hu Jiumei hanged herself to death, which is also a kind of violent death and is not eligible to enter the cemetery.
Under the leadership of Old Man Hu, Wu Ming came to a place called Luanshi Gang, which is the home of Shiliba Village where the dead were buried.
There are low trees, weeds everywhere, strange stones, and graves of all sizes.
Walking among the rocks, Wu Ming looked up and found that there were hundreds of graves here.
Many graves, due to their age, cannot withstand the erosion of rain, exposing the bones and coffins inside, which is really desolate.
"Woof, woof..."
A yellow-haired wild dog suddenly jumped out from behind a grave and assumed an attack posture.
Wu Ming looked at the dog and found that not only was the yellow dog not afraid of people, but his eyes showed greed, as if he was looking at his own food.
"I'm afraid this dog has eaten a lot of corpses. It's not even afraid of people anymore!" Wu Ming flicked his finger and immediately knocked the yellow dog away.
The beaten yellow dog fell to the ground and whined, struggled for a long time before standing up, and quickly ran away with its tail between its legs.
Watching the yellow dog go away, Wu Ming shook his head.
This world is not peaceful. People eat people out of necessity. After death, they return to the belly of a dog, so why not return to the paradise?
"Found it, found it!" Standing in front of a tomb, Old Man Hu waved his hands repeatedly, signaling Wu Ming to hurry over.
Wu Ming stepped forward, looked at the tomb without a tombstone, and asked, "Is this it?"
"That's right, I come to visit the grave every year. You can't be wrong." Old Man Hu said with confidence, which earned Wu Ming a smile.
A smile flashed across his face. Wu Ming asked Old Man Hu to take a few steps back, then stretched out his hand towards the grave and made an uplifting gesture.
With the lifting gesture, the tomb began to shake violently.
Under this earthquake-like shaking, a crack extended from the middle of the tomb, and a black coffin was lifted up.
Seeing this coffin, Old Man Hu hesitated, as if he wanted to say something.
But before coming, Wu Ming told Old Man Hu that Hu Jiumei was the ghost king who stole the bride. In order to eliminate the sins on Hu Jiumei, the bones must be moved to Wumen Center to ensure that the old Hu family's blessings will continue and that Hu Jiumei can be reincarnated.
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Of course, talk about blessings and reincarnation is pure lies.
It's just that Old Man Hu didn't know it was a lie, so he had fallen silent in the lies, thinking that he had done a good deed.
In fact, this is fine. Wu Ming has countless ways to make Old Hu take him to find Hu Jiumei's cemetery if he doesn't want to. At this time, both Old Man Hu and Wu Ming can be very satisfied.
This is already the best ending.
"Mr. Hu, please go back first and leave this place to me."
"Okay, then I'll thank you, Taoist Master Wu."
When Wu Ming heard Old Man Hu calling him Taoist Priest, the corner of Wu Ming's mouth twitched, but he did not explain.
After all, if he really had to explain it, Old Man Hu couldn't tell the difference between a Taoist priest and a magician, so he would be wasting his time.
Riding on the little donkey, Old Man Hu gradually moved away and disappeared from Wu Ming's sight.
Wu Ming watched the other party leave. After losing sight of Old Man Hu, he covered the coffin with the hand of a mage.
Click...
With a crisp sound, the coffin lid was lifted directly, revealing the dense bones inside.
After seeing the bones, Wu Ming took out a jar, pointed to the bones in the coffin, and pointed to the mouth of the jar.
The next second, a burst of suction suddenly came out, spinning around in the coffin in a whirlwind, rolling up all the bones, and quickly dropped them into the jar.
After putting the jar away and sealing it, Wu Ming nodded with satisfaction.
Now, Hu Jiumei's bones were in his hands. Wu Ming wanted to see how fierce she, the ghost king, could be.
"Done!" Wu Ming waved his hand, pushed the black coffin into the crack, and closed the earth again.
After doing all this, Wu Ming jumped into the sky and headed towards Jiuxiang Town in a happy mood.
Today's Jiuxiang Town lacks the prosperity of the past. The few pedestrians who occasionally take to the streets are all in a hurry.
Feeling something was wrong in the atmosphere, Wu Ming looked towards the shops on both sides.
At first sight, eight out of ten shops on both sides of the street were closed, and a large notice board was erected in the center of the street.
"Announcement: Special appointment. Master Pudu Cihang is appointed as the national preceptor of the current dynasty. All state capitals have mobilized migrant workers to build the Cihang Hall within three days, without any mistakes..."
After reading the notice, Wu Ming remembered the name Pudu Cihang without seeing it.
Pudu Cihang, the second villain BOSS in the A Chinese Ghost Story series.
His true body is a thousand-year-old centipede spirit with a terrifyingly high level of cultivation.
In the movie, Pudu Cihang has been in business for many years, and the civil and military officials of the entire dynasty have been sucked dry of their flesh and blood by him. He is only one step away from stealing the destiny of a country and reaching the point where he can transform into a dragon.
"Interesting, the fairy in the painting has not yet finished, and Pudu Cihang appears. It seems that the world is really chaotic, and I don't know how much of the story in Liaozhai has been substituted in this world!"
A layman watches the excitement, an expert watches the door.
When ordinary people saw this notice, they only knew that the court wanted to recruit migrant workers, but Wu Ming saw the story behind it.
You know, in the entire Liaozhai, there are more than 500 episodes of short stories.
Among them, there are not only classics such as Fairy in Painting, Nie Xiaoqian, Painted Skin, and Demon Fox, but also countless myths and legends.
For example, Lu Pan who cut off his head and changed his heart, Monk Changqing who reincarnated after his death, the evil dragon who lived on the wall, the Taoist priest who planted pears, the real man of Laoshan who traveled with his soul, there are really countless masters.
Compared with these experts, Wu Ming's memory is more profound, but it is a short story called Becoming an Immortal.
In the story of becoming an immortal, a man named Zhou Sheng obtained the inheritance method of Taishang Laojun from the Qing Palace on Qingcheng Mountain.
He learned skills in the mountains, and in just seven or eight years, he was able to travel thousands of miles as a ghost. With a flying sword, he could take a person's head from thousands of miles away and travel freely between heaven and earth.
"After calculation, the fairy in the painting belongs to the A Chinese Ghost Story series, and A Chinese Ghost Story belongs to the Liaozhai family. There are many places worth digging into! If this is really the same world, I really have to go outside and have a look. I can't limit my horizons.
Therefore, this mission itself is the right one!" Wu Ming's heart was full of passion. He had studied magic for more than twenty years in total. He suffered from the lack of guidance from a famous teacher, so he had to fumble forward on his own.
If only he could be like Zhou Sheng and be passed down by the Supreme Master of the Shangqing Palace.
Even if you don't give up the path of magic, you don't want to become an immortal in seven or eight years. You can broaden your horizons after all.
Wu Ming felt a little sad when he thought about the path to magic that he had been pursuing so hard but could never find, and when he thought about Zhou Sheng who had become an immortal in ten years.
This is not because Wu Ming blames others, but because of comparison, there are differences.
After all, Wu Ming was born in a wild school. How could he not be envious of the guidance of a famous teacher?