The man's clothes were messy, his hair was disheveled, and his face was covered with stubble, like a beggar on the roadside begging for food.
Xiaodao looked at the figure in surprise and asked: "Are you..."
He only uttered two words and met the man's eyes unexpectedly.
Those eyes were as sharp as an eagle, with a strong murderous aura. Xiaodao's heart trembled when he saw it, and he knelt down, forgetting all the rest of his words.
The other Xiaodao reacted faster, kowtowed, and asked cautiously: "Old, ancestor?"
When he was eight years old, he was sent to guard the attic. Before he came, his superiors told him that the person lying in the coffin was an ancestor of the Chen family, a powerful Taoist with the ability to bring the dead back to life, and asked him to watch over him carefully.
He has never believed these words. Life and death are determined by fate, wealth and honor. How can they be changed at will?
Who would have thought that someone actually climbed out of the coffin!
Xiaodao lay on the ground and secretly observed the man in front of him, his face full of shock and admiration.
The man is muscular, slender, with cold facial lines and sharp eyes like knives. He looks nothing like a Taoist priest who is practicing stealth, but more like a god of death carrying a sword on the battlefield.
While I was thinking wildly, a man's hoarse voice sounded from the attic: "Who killed my spirit beast?"
The volume was not loud, but the power was so powerful that it made people break out in cold sweat on their foreheads.
Xiaodao curled up and became more and more frightened, "The younger one was just ordered to guard the attic. He didn't know anything else." He didn't even know what a spiritual beast was.
The man gave him a cold look, and the anger in his eyes grew stronger, "The Chen family is getting worse and worse than before. Even people with this level of cultivation are being accepted into the family."
After he finished speaking, he flicked his sleeves and started to walk out. As soon as he made a move, his body suddenly froze, and a mouthful of hot blood spurted out from his throat, falling to the floor like dots of red plums.
The man looked at the mottled blood on the ground, a flash of shock flashed in his eyes, and then he took a deep breath and tried to operate the technique. When his breath flowed to his heart, he suddenly lost control.
"puff!"
The man spat out another mouthful of blood, swayed violently, and almost fell down.
Xiaodao guessed correctly, he was Chen Bitian, the ancestor of the Chen family and the general who led the ghost army to sweep through several countries a hundred years ago.
In the Battle of Xiangcheng, he outnumbered the enemy and stole the limelight. After returning in triumph, he was named the general of the country by the emperor. He then went on to conquer various countries without any defeat, and his popularity was unparalleled for a while.
Such outstanding military exploits and prestige also made his ambitions expand rapidly. Finally, three years later, he proclaimed himself "Chen Qing Emperor" and launched an army to rebel.
As a result, he and the group of people in the capital fought fiercely, and when both sides suffered losses, a force named Qi suddenly appeared among the people and reaped the benefits.
The new emperor ascended the throne, exempted and exempted taxes, granted amnesty to the world, and won the support of all people.
Winner takes all, loser for Kou.
Chen Bitian could only lead his men to flee around the border fortress. He knew that his fate was over and that he would die in the hands of the new emperor sooner or later, so he wrote a letter of surrender cruelly and exchanged the tens of thousands of remaining troops under his command for a whole corpse for himself.
Then he drank the intestinal poisonous wine.
The man is dead, the threat is gone, and tens of thousands of troops can be obtained for free, so the new emperor is naturally willing to sell his favor.
So Chen Bitian's body was transported back to his hometown of Xiangcheng by his subordinates.
However, he did not actually die.
Before drinking the poisonous wine, he used a secret method to forcefully seal a ray of remnant soul into his body. Even if other souls left the body, he could use the eight-hole soul-inducing lamp to retrieve the scattered souls.
Reviving is inevitable.
As for when he will be resurrected, it is a matter of time.
In order not to waste the time waiting for resurrection, he ordered someone to send his contracted spirit beast to Fan Yue Mountain in advance.
The ability of the contracted spirit beast is closely related to the master's cultivation level. If the master's cultivation level is high, the grade of the spirit beast will naturally not be low. Similarly, if the spirit beast's spiritual power increases, it will also be of great benefit to the owner.
Therefore, during these years of coma, his body and cultivation not only did not deteriorate at all, but became stronger and stronger with the nourishment of spiritual beasts.
According to the plan, it would take some time for him to wake up, but Cheng Yaojin showed up halfway and actually killed his contracted spirit beast!
Now without the help of spiritual beasts, his soul has just been collected and is not yet stable. Under the double blow, he is almost the same as a useless person who just entered the Taoist sect!
"Call the head of the Chen family here. I want to ask him how he guards Fan Yueshan!"
Chen Bitian squeezed out a sentence through his teeth, his face filled with anger.
Xiaodao didn't dare to hesitate and ran out quickly.
Not long after, Chen Xiuyuan, the new head of the Chen family, hurried over.
Chen Xiuyuan was the young man who spoke on the high platform before. He was just over thirty years old and extremely talented. After Chen Qiankun's death, he used his superb formation skills to overwhelm the others and win the position of head of the family.
He had just become the head of the family, and before his buttocks got too hot, the ancestor woke up.
Chen Xiuyuan cursed his mother in his heart, but he still had to kowtow respectfully and say hello.
Chen Bitian did not give him a good look, and said in a harsh tone: "The Chen family is really in decline, and they actually chose a young boy as the head of the family."
Chen Xiuyuan choked and did not dare to answer the question while smiling.
Chen Bitian snorted coldly and continued: "I chose a geomantic treasure land for you and left behind countless gold and silver treasures and secret books and magic weapons. In the end, this is how you repay me?"
"If you can't even stand a mythical beast, what's the point of raising a bunch of trash like you?"
Chen Xiuyuan didn't even dare to raise his head. He knelt on the ground and kept saying five words: "This junior realizes his mistake."
Chen Bitian scolded him a few more times, but finally found it boring. He waved his sleeves to flick down the lamp in the room and said sternly: "Go and catch the thief who killed my spirit beast. I will skin him and twitch his tendons!"
Chen Xiuyuan said "yes" respectfully, and left the attic holding back his anger.
"Isn't he just a dead man crawling out of a coffin? Why are you crazy? If you can, go into the mountain and catch him yourself!"
Chen Xiuyuan was cursing as he walked. On the way, he met a little Taoist boy who was calling people everywhere. He raised his hand and called the people over, "Tell Elder Tongzhen that you don't need to go into the mountain after gathering people. Just wait at the exit of the formation."
It turned out that he had noticed the unusual movement in the back mountain a long time ago and was about to summon his men to go into the mountain to check the situation.
As a result, he was ridiculed by Chen Bitian before setting off. He did not dare to refute him face to face, so he naturally had to find other opportunities to vent his dissatisfaction.
Aren't you in a hurry for me to arrest people? I want to take my time!
When Elder Tongzhen learned that he was not allowed to enter the mountain to catch people, he quickly came to persuade him: "The loud noises just now were extraordinary. They seemed to be the sound of the mountain collapsing. Ordinary people cannot make such a noise. I guess it is
The first group of people entering the mountain should include capable people and strangers."
"To be on the safe side, we'd better go into the mountains and eliminate the roots as soon as possible. Otherwise, when they break out of the formation and let out the news that we have harmed our fellow sect, the Chen family's reputation will be ruined."
"Wait until they break out of the formation?" Chen Xiuyuan sneered disdainfully, "Taoist Master Tongzhen doesn't believe in my ability to set up the formation?"