"Come here! Put out the fire!" Shouts swept out in the dark night, and the entire Hu family was in chaos.
Young Master Huwei stood up from his seat in Wenwen Township and staggered towards the ancestral hall. The ancestral hall, which used to be so large and prosperous, seemed to have turned into a sea of fire.
Young Master Huwei hurriedly rushed into the sea of fire, but Master Hu stopped him with a sad look on his face, "Weier, don't rush, your spiritual veins have been broken."
Huwei's legs went limp and he slumped to the ground. He tried hard with both hands, but couldn't summon even a breath of wind.
Hu Wei murmured, "How could this be? The spiritual veins of our Hu family ancestral hall are caused by the upper world. How can ordinary fire touch the spiritual veins? This is impossible!"
"This is the ultimate true fire, which can only be obtained by those with the most spiritual power. But now it seems that only Ye Kong can grasp it." The steward on the side has already found out.
Mr. Hu slapped Hu Wei on the face, "It's all because of you, who has taken advantage of people's daughters over the years, failed to do good things, and caused resentment in people's livelihood. That's why we suffered this disaster."
"Ye Kong did it? Then let's go kill him and use his body to recreate the spiritual veins." Huwei stood up directly.
Master Hu looked up to the sky and smiled, "If we had a hundred years of strength, we could still fight with Ye Kong. But now, the Hu family's spiritual power is gradually dissipating, and they are no match for Ye Kong. If you want to keep a whole body, don't act rashly.
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When they heard that the Hu family's ancestral hall was burned down, the residents of the town who had been suppressed for many years all rushed into the Hu family, demanding justice.
At this time, the Hu family, whose spiritual veins were destroyed, could only ask for forgiveness in a low voice. The instigator of all this, Hu Wei, was even tied up by Wu Hua Da and paraded in the street. Anyone on the street could throw him a piece of cabbage or a rotten egg.
Ye Kong was hidden among the crowd, waiting for the Hu family's next move.
The Hu family has been in the small town for many years, and old and new grudges have to be settled slowly. However, this peach blossom debt must be paid off one by one.
Then, under the custody of everyone, Huwei led everyone up Fengyang Mountain to identify the place where his body was buried.
No one in the town would have thought that they would go in and out of Fengyang Mountain many times a year and not even know that their daughter was sleeping here in her wedding dress.
Talismans were posted on the cave to imprison the souls of the dead. With a command, these talismans were stepped on, and everyone rushed in. The dark cave was filled with torches, and there were horrifying scratches on the stone walls, which was shocking.
Everyone exited, and the entire cave was leveled. As the excavation deepened, bones were completely dug out from the ground, and they were able to see the light of day again.
One thousand and one corpses were neatly stacked on the open ground. It was easy to put them together because they were not buried at the same time. Many people recognized that this was their beloved little daughter based on the jewelry worn on the corpse.
Still holding on to the last glimmer of hope, maybe the little daughter was just imprisoned, maybe living somewhere in the world. Such illusions all came to nothing at this moment.
Suddenly, cries echoed throughout Fengyang Mountain.
After crying, everyone identified the body, returned it to its roots, and sent it back to its ancestral home. As for the subsequent disposition of the Hu family, it will be decided unanimously by all the villagers when the new mayor of the town takes office.
Life or death, it has nothing to do with Ye Kong.
After everyone left, Ye Kong carefully wrapped up the last unclaimed body, dug another meter deeper where everyone had dug, and put the body inside.
Then, he took out the bamboo hat in his arms, which still contained the last bit of Asakawa's soul. Ye Kong put the bamboo hat on the corpse's hand, then climbed out and began to fill the grave with shovel after shovel.
After all this, Ye Kong sat down, as if facing an old friend he hadn't seen for a long time, and began to mutter to himself.
In fact, there was nothing to say between them, it was just a chance meeting.
"Okay, I'm leaving. I'll see you again when I have the opportunity." Ye Kong stood up and patted the dirt on his body.
Suddenly, another strong wind blew over Fengyang Mountain. In the wind and sand, Ye Kong saw a man in black holding the hand of a man in red.
The wind blew the empty leaves down the mountain with great force.
Ye Kong went down the mountain, and the appearance of the mountain had changed drastically.
Both sides of the street were lined with towering sycamore trees, and fallen leaves were falling one after another. No one was cleaning the streets. Wherever they went, there was not a single person among the bustling crowds in the past.
Ye Kong casually pushed open a door, which was already overgrown with weeds and the house was dilapidated.
It was so strange that Ye Kong quickly left the town.
Going forward was still a waterway, and Ye Kong took a boat with the wind. The boatman rowed leisurely, not forgetting to recite poems.
"There are many divergent roads in life, from north to south. You go to Xiaoxiang and I go to Qin."
Ye Kong stood up and said, "What a poem, what a poem!"
"Young master will still appreciate it!" The boatman looked at Ye Kong and suddenly looked surprised, "Sir, what are you doing..."
"What's wrong?" Ye Kong looked over.
The boatman pointed to the mirror behind him. Ye Kong walked over, picked up the mirror, and found that most of his hair had turned gray at some point.
"This is..." Ye Kong didn't know when to start.
"Young master, this was not the case before you got on the boat. Did you touch something that shouldn't be touched?" the boatman asked.
"No." Ye Kong suddenly remembered that small town, "But I just came out of a small town."
"Time Town?" The boatman looked at Ye Kong, "Have you come into contact with the people inside?"
"Forget it, guess it." Ye Kong replied.
"That's bad. People who come into contact with Time Town will spend the rest of their lives according to the time in Time Town. Once you go out, time will flow at three times the speed, and it must have been a long time since you came out, right?"
The boatman shook his head, "I have transported a person before, but before the boat reached the shore, he had reached the end of his life and died on the boat."
"Ah?" Ye Kong saw the half-rowed boat, "Is it too late for us to go back now?"
Obviously it's too late.
"But my friends." Ye Kong suddenly thought of Qishan and Liu Rushi. Wouldn't they already...
Thinking of this, Ye Kong said, "Please send me there quickly."
The boatman was puzzled, there are still people rushing to die?
Soon the boat reached the other side, and Ye Kong's hair was completely gray. Before leaving, the boatman gave Ye Kong a bowl of water, which would ensure that his time would be suspended for the day.
"Why else would I be on the river all day and never dock?" the boatman joked, and then rowed the boat in the opposite direction.
Ye Kong rented a carriage and quickly drove himself to the foot of Zhongnan Mountain.
With the help of wind chimes, Ye Kong quickly found the whereabouts of the three of them. At this time, Liu Rushi and the others were staying in the inn, looking at Zhongnan Mountain outside the window in a daze.
The door suddenly rang, Qishan opened the door, and gray-haired Ye Kong stood at the door.
"Ye Kong, how could you do this?" Liu Rushi exclaimed.
Ye Kong looked at several people carefully and found that none of their hair looked strange.