After waving his hand to signal Liu Asheng not to worry, Xu Junming took a few steps forward.
"Go to Maoshan Nanzong Xu Junming again, and be entrusted by Luo Taibao, the mayor of Anyuan Town, to eliminate the recent zombie disaster in the town."
"My name is Maria. I am a nun from Xiangjiang and the dean of this church."
After the two parties greeted each other.
"Abbess Maria, may I see your church?"
Maria hesitated for a while. Although there was nothing shameful in the church, what if a foreign teacher could visit casually if it was blasphemy?
"Dean Maria, six people have died in the town now. All houses in the town that have been vacant for a long time will be searched. If you don't agree, I'm afraid the entire Anyuan Town residents won't agree." Xu Junming said.
"The Taoist priest is right. Anyone who prevents us from catching zombies is the enemy of Anyuan Town."
Liu Asheng echoed.
Maria considered that she had just arrived and her foundation was not deep. She was going against public opinion and was afraid that it would be difficult to gain a foothold here in the future.
"The church is the sanctuary of the Almighty Lord, and there can be no evil spirits. But since the Taoist Priest wants to see it, please come in."
"Thank you very much."
Xu Junming strode towards the earth building in the middle, where the gloomy atmosphere was the strongest in the entire church.
Climb the three stone steps and push open the somewhat decayed wooden door. Directly opposite the narrow stairwell, a staircase made of thick wood leads to the second floor.
The door to the left is closed with an iron lock. The dust on the door has soaked into the wood. Although there are traces of cleaning, it still looks dirty.
"What is this place?"
"This was the previous priest's retreat."
"Open it, go in and take a look."
"I don't have the key."
"This lock looks brittle than a vegetable, and it opens as soon as you touch it."
"No, this is the most solemn and sacred place in the church. Doing this is disrespectful to God."
"Oh well."
Xu Junming put his left hand behind his back, and a ray of spiritual light popped up and quickly disappeared into the wooden door. Soon, the smoke of fireworks came out from inside.
"It seems like there's a fire somewhere?"
The fat female cultivator soon discovered the firelight coming from under the wooden door, and was instantly shocked.
"Oops, there's a fire inside, hurry up and put out the fire."
Xu Junming picked up the brick next to him at the right time and handed it over.
Without enough time to express her gratitude, the fat female cultivator took it and smashed it with her wave without hesitation. With such force and eagerness, she smashed the entire iron lock down in just a few strokes.
"Clang!"
Due to excessive force and age, the entire wooden door fell off.
The fat female cultivator was unable to catch up and fell to the ground following the wooden door.
Countless dust was kicked up.
"Ahem...!"
Fat girl can't stop coughing.
Xu Junming waved his sleeves, and a strong wind flew in, picking up the dust and flying it outside.
He reached out and helped the fat girl up.
"Are you okay?"
"Where's the fire? Where's the fire?" After shaking her head, the fat female cultivator quickly looked around.
"Maybe it was suppressed."
The entire ashram is about five to sixty square meters in size. There is a sarcophagus in the middle, and the beams are covered with dried garlic heads.
A withered skeleton knelt on the ground, with a circle of dried garlic beside it.
In front of him is a small table with an altar placed on the table and a black cross above the altar.
"oops…!"
The fat female cultivator shouted and quickly hid behind Xu Junming.
Apparently she also saw the kneeling corpse.
But Xu Junming also didn't expect that the fat female cultivator, who looked tougher than men, was actually afraid of the bones of someone who had been dead for many years!
"His clothes look a bit like the person in the photo."
Xu Junming pointed to the photo frame hanging on the wall.
The fat female cultivator came over and looked at the photo.
"Father Qi? He is the previous missionary."
The fear on the face of the fat female cultivator disappeared, she walked around Xu Junming, walked behind the corpse and knelt down.
"It turns out you didn't give up your priesthood. The church thought you were absent without permission. In fact, you have been fighting here against the devil. I will help you explain to the church. Rest in peace, pray priest!"
Xu Junming saw another photo on the wall.
"There should be another priest."
The fat female cultivator turned her head and took a look.
"More than ten years ago, two priests came here to spread the glory of the Holy Lord. Father Qi was attacked by the devil. I think the other priest could not escape the evil disaster."
Xu Junming nodded and walked to the corpse. Seeing that his hands were held behind his back and the one-foot-long wooden sword was deeply embedded in the heart of his sternum, he understood.
"It turned out to be suicide."
The wooden sword is also a magical weapon, but it has not been warmed and maintained for more than ten years and is basically useless.
I looked around with a bronze mirror and found no ghost.
He stretched out his hand to grab it, and a trace of dark red mist flew into his hand from the shriveled heart of the corpse.
As soon as his spiritual consciousness touched him, a bloodthirsty desire arose from the bottom of his heart.
"What a rich blood, and the power to stir up desire."
The light of the Pure Heart Talisman flashed, instantly suppressing the bloodthirsty desire in the heart. Temporarily sealing the blood energy into a dream of yellow beams.
After more than ten years, there is still a trace of vitality left, which shows how powerful it was in the beginning.
"Being able to commit suicide to resist, this Father Qi can be considered a profound believer."
Go around the empty sarcophagus and come to the back of the room.
There is a bed here, but Xu Junming's eyes are not on the bed, but looking up.
The roof was densely covered with bats.
The bats all carry that weird blood energy, the corpse energy is even thicker, and they also have a weird soul power.
When Xu Junming looked over, he noticed that all the bats opened their mouths and screamed, their red eyes showing bloodthirsty.
"So many bats!"
The fat female cultivator heard the sound and looked over.
I was instantly frightened by the dense swarm of bats and screamed.
"Ignorant fool."
With a slap on the bag, countless yellow rice grains flashing with colorful lights flew out, passing through the bodies of all the bats as if they were illusory.
Anyone who is touched by this yellow rice will have their soul taken away.
Without a soul, all that's left is just a pile of motionless flesh.
With a wave of his sleeves, all the bat corpses fell into the open sarcophagus next to them. In just a moment, the sarcophagus with a space of two to three cubic meters was filled to the brim.
He stretched out his hand to grab it, and a thick wisp of blood energy, mixed with the strong corpse energy, rolled out, fell into the palm of his hand, followed the meridians, and fell into the dantian to grind the yin and yang.
The millstone rotates, and the blood is ground into pure qi and blood and a pure spiritual power.
The former was absorbed by Xu Junming's body, and the latter was transferred to Yi Meng Huang Liang.
Dealing with corpse aura is even easier.
However, he did not refine all of these strange blood energy and corpse energy, but retained a trace to suppress it in the Yin and Yang Great Mill.
A wisp of sparks popped up and touched the sarcophagus, and the bat corpse inside burned instantly.
Within a matter of seconds, it was burned to ashes.
"I'll leave it to the layman to deal with these ashes. I'll take my leave."
The fat female cultivator nodded subconsciously.
She is still immersed in Xu Junming's powerful magic, and is filled with shock and unable to extricate herself.
After looking around with the help of the bronze mirror and seeing that there was no more filth in the room, he turned around and walked out.
"Taoist Master, how are you?" Liu Asheng came over quickly.
"Let's go, let's go look elsewhere."
"Then this church...?"
"The church is fine."
The two left, and four young female monks swarmed around the fat female monk.
"Dean, why is he gone?"
"Yes, yes, why didn't you look at those two houses?"...
The fat female cultivator said impatiently as her brain ached from the noise.
"Oh, stop arguing and come with me."
Finally, he glanced at Xu Junming's back and led the four female disciples into the retreat room. He wanted to deal with Father Qi's bones and the bat ashes.
In addition to the bats in the church, he also cleaned up a large number of 'corpse bats' in the shade of the trees by the river. After using a yin and yang grinder to absorb the corpse air mixed in the river water, he found no other abnormalities.
Returning to the town office, Luo Taibao, Lou Guangnan, and several squires from Anyuan Town were waiting for him here.
"Taoist Master Xu, how are you?" Luo Taibao asked.
"Two batches of 'corpse bats' have been cleaned up, but the zombies have not been found yet." After a pause, "Mayor Luo, where are the people who have been bitten by the zombies?"
"Caught and burned to death."
"Where are the ashes?"
"Buried in the mass grave at the east end of the village."
"I want to take a look."
"It's just some ashes, what can the Taoist priest see?" Luo Taibao said.
"Pindao has his own means, so he asked Mayor Luo to help lead the way."
"I'll come. Director Xu, I'll show you the way."
Lou Guang Nanyue came out of the crowd, rubbing his hands with a flattering smile on his face.
Obviously, the one hundred taels of gold before had completely changed his attitude towards Xu Junming.
"Captain Lou is willing to help guide the way, that would be great."
Lou Guangnan nodded.
"Mayor Luo, I know the place where the ashes are buried, so let me take Director Xu there."
"No, it's okay. Let's go together... Taoist Master Xu, please," Luo Taibao said.
Xu Junming nodded unequivocally, turned around and walked out of the town hall.
The group left Anyuan Town and came to the mass graves on the outskirts.
There are overgrown weeds, tombs everywhere, and old pines growing alternately, looking strange and weird.
Crows stood on the branches and watched these people coming from afar, showing no intention of hiding.
A cool breeze blew by. Lou Guangnan, Luo Taibao and other people who had arrived all shivered and looked around suspiciously, with panic in their expressions.
If it weren't for the fact that the sun was still hanging above our heads, even if there were many people, we might not have the courage to come here.
"Daozhang Xu, that's it. I remember very clearly that I asked them to bury the ashes there."
Lou Guangnan pointed to the land next to a crooked locust tree.
Xu Junming nodded and walked over.
Judging by the color of the earth, it seems that it has just been touched for a few days and the grass has not grown yet.
He reached out and grabbed it, and a wisp of light red blood and corpse energy flew out from the ashes under the soil layer.
Taoists who practice qi are very sensitive to all kinds of qi. As long as there is a trace of it, they can be found.
His spiritual consciousness took a moment and compared the blood energy and corpse energy he got from the church bat.
"It's indeed the same origin!"
He took out the Bagua disc from the magic bag, and when the magic power was activated, the blood energy and corpse energy were sucked in.
“Tracing the Qing Dynasty’s patriarchal tradition back to its roots!”
The pointer spun rapidly.
Finally, it points to the northeast. After freezing for two seconds, it points to the southeast again.
"Two places?"
"Daozhang Xu, how are you?" Luo Taibao stepped forward and asked.
"I found it. Come with me."
Luo Taibao nodded, watched Xu Junming walking in front, then fell a few steps behind, grabbed Lou Guangnan, and whispered.
"Captain Lou, have you called the entire security team?"
"Why?"
"Although Taoist Xu seems to be somewhat capable, he is still younger. We don't know whether he can catch that 'zombie'. If he catches it, everything will be fine. If he fails to catch it, there will be security guards If the team is here, we won't be buried with him."
When Lou Guangnan heard this, he nodded in agreement. He was also a person who cherished his life.
"What Mayor Luo said makes sense."
"come over!"
Recruiting a soldier, he said, "Go back and ask the brothers to take the guy and wait at the entrance of the town."
After the soldier nodded, he hurriedly ran towards the town.
Xu Junming's five senses were sharp, so he naturally heard their whispers, but he was left to their own devices, as long as he could kill the demons and earn merit.
Returning to the entrance of the town, twelve soldiers carrying rifles came forward.
Seeing his men, Lou Guangnan's face glowed with pride.