Chapter 343: Peeling Off the Tiger Skin

Countless ghosts, with nowhere to go after death, became ghosts.

Some leaned on grass and trees, or became ghosts, wailing under the sky. When they moaned in the wind and rain, the plague spread, and the livestock and silkworms were all disturbed by the yin energy. Suddenly, the village was full of roaring cattle and barking dogs, and the chickens and dogs were restless.

In the sky:

The clouds were like black ink, and blood fell like rain.

The smoke burned the sky, and its shape could not be distinguished.

The yin and yang were rolling, and the evil air was rolling.

Countless ghosts lurked in the black fog, surrounding this ordinary village.

In the village, the young men's faces tightened, and they rushed out with weapons, and the women hurriedly took the children and hid in the house.

At the same time, the village elder in the village, with his eyes wide open, held a pear wood cane, and suddenly stopped!

This is the hunchbacked old man just now, but now he looks particularly tall.

He shouted loudly: "Little Ten! Put the pigs away! Go in and ask all men over fifteen years old to come out, and hide the women and children. There are evil guests coming today!"

As he spoke, he saw a magnificent energy burst out from behind him, covering the sky and the earth, and even formed a gust of dark wind.

This is also a witch, but not a ghost witch, and his cultivation is not inferior to any of the three people outside.

It is just an ordinary mountain village, with only a thousand people anyway, but there is an eighth-rank village elder!

This shows the quality of the population in the hinterland of Wushen Mountain.

The eighth-rank village elder looked up at the countless wronged souls shrouded in the sky.

Behind him is the ancestral hall of this mountain village.

He walked to the front of the ancestral hall and shouted loudly: "Ancestors, Lijiazhai personally offers sacrifices every year, plows the fields, and prepares the rituals of offering sacrifices, silk, and wine. Now I am here to announce that there are evil guests who want to harm our descendants. Please show up!"

As he spoke, you can see that countless ancestors' ghosts suddenly reappeared in the ordinary ancestral hall.

With a loud bang, countless golden lights emerged from the ancestral hall.

Seen again:

The wind was thick and the golden light was shining.

Smoke was billowing and curses were roaring.

The air was clear and the ancestors appeared.

The ancestral tablets that were usually worshipped in the mountain village all began to tremble and heat up at this moment. Countless ghosts emerged from them, floating and confronting the ghosts outside.

They were all furious, pointing at the unworshipped evil ghosts outside and scolding them.

However, compared with those unworshipped ghosts, the ghosts in this ancestral hall were surrounded by incense, blessed by vows, and hung around with bamboo baskets, beans, deer jerky, pig entrails and silk, which clearly showed the difference.

The difference between people worshipping all year round and no one worshipping.

The ownerless ghosts outside heard the curses inside, and the curses bared their teeth at the mountain village. They smelled the smell of blood!

Without anyone to offer sacrifices, without incense, and being enslaved by ghost witches, they can only find blood food by themselves according to the ghost witches' instructions!

These lonely ghosts can no longer hold back. Without incense, they will want blood food!

This village is a good target!

If it were normal times, these lonely ghosts would never dare to invade these mountain villages.

As we saw before, the ancestral hall of this mountain village is blessed by the ancestors, and there is also an eighth-grade village elder guarding it. If ordinary lonely ghosts come in, they will definitely end up with their souls scattered.

To be able to gain a foothold in Wushen Mountain, these villages must have their own unique skills, which can be used at critical moments and have the power to protect themselves.

But now it's different.

These three ghost witches summoned them and backed them up. Now that they are united, they will definitely be able to eat this mountain village cleanly without leaving a bone!

With the support of the ancestors behind him, the eighth-grade village elder was much bolder. He took the initiative to step forward and said a blessing to the ghosts in the sky!

That's right, it was a blessing speech. Although this eighth-rank village elder was not a blessing person, he seemed to have picked up some blessing techniques from some places and used them here.

He shook his voice and shouted loudly to the ghosts outside: "Under the sky and above Hou Tu, there are people and ghosts everywhere. Although the ways of people and ghosts are different, the principles are the same."

"Now the village has set a custom for governing the people and gods. I still think of the many ghosts and gods who have no worship in the dark. On the fifteenth day of this month, I will set up an altar in the north of the village, prepare animals, wine, soup and rice, and offer sacrifices to the ghosts and gods who have no worship. Everyone will sit down and leave happily. Their hearts are dedicated to respecting the gods and making peace with the village!"

"Ghosts rely on people to eat incense, people respect ghosts and know justice, spirits must be selfless and report as one, so that ghosts and gods will have a clear vision, and all the ghosts and spirits present will go to the altar on that day and enjoy the sacrifice!"

As soon as the blessing speech came out, the momentum of the ghosts outside was seen to stagnate.

The eighth-rank village elder in front of him said very clearly that if they were willing to retreat, he would hold a sacrifice on the 15th of next month to provide incense for himself and others.

To be honest, they were gathered together, and all they wanted was a blood meal. If they could have incense sacrifices, why would they fight with the other side?

Looking at the ancestors in the ancestral hall, and then looking at the eighth-rank witch, they are not easy to mess with. They may win if they rush together, but everyone will definitely suffer heavy casualties...

However, at this time, two ghost witches came out from the group of ghosts with gusts of gloomy wind.

It was the middle-aged man and the bald man.

The middle-aged man in the lead smiled and said, "Old man, don't worry, we just come to ask some questions and leave after asking."

Seeing two eighth-ranks coming out, the village elder's face changed, but he still answered with a stiff upper lip: "What do you want to ask? Also, if it's just asking questions, why do you have to make such a big fuss and even summon hundreds of ghosts to surround them?"

"Oh, we brothers are ugly, and we are afraid that we will upset everyone, so we discussed it and decided to gather all the ghosts first, and then ask them. I think the old man should tell us everything, so there won't be any quarrels." The middle-aged man said with a smile.

The village elder certainly didn't believe such nonsense, but he still said: "It's not necessary. Why don't you disperse the ghosts? If there is anything, we can sit down and talk. If you want to ask anything, we will naturally not hide it."

"There is no need to sit down and talk. We will leave after asking. I just want to ask, has this village seen a green-scaled dragon colt flying across the sky before? We are here to ask on the orders of a big man." The middle-aged man said politely.

Hearing this, the village elder thought for a moment. While on guard, he said, "I don't know what a dragon colt is, but as for the green scale, a few days ago I saw a four-legged monster with green scales flying across the sky and heading east. I wonder if it's the green-scaled dragon colt you're talking about."

"Ah, yes, yes, that's it. It went east, right? Are you sure you're not lying to me?" said the middle-aged man.

"Of course I won't hide it. Lijia Village has always been honest with people!" The old man nodded.

"That's good. Then we'll go after it. Thank you, old man." The middle-aged man said, sneaking into the ghost group.

Then, the ghost group began to disappear.

Seeing the other party retreat, the old man was still on guard, but he subconsciously relaxed for a moment.

The ancestors of the ancestral hall also began to retreat.

But at this moment--

Underground, a strong man who had not appeared before suddenly appeared, and under the cover of the ghost group's retreat, he punched the old man!

This punch hit the target!

That strong man actually practiced martial arts! He punched the old man and broke his bones!

At the same time, all the ghosts roared! They rushed towards the village!

Moreover, the middle-aged man said arrogantly: "This village actually lied and tried to deceive the Wushen Mountain Zhuren. They deserve to be killed! We will deal with you for the adults!"

What? You said you went east, so you went east?

No matter what, you must be lying!

I said you lied, you lied! Seeing you sneaking around and looking alert, do you have any opinions about Zhuren?

You say you don't? I can't control it.

Anyway, the three of us brothers are helping that Zhuren!

Who dares to intervene with this tiger skin?

Who would offend the three of them for an ordinary village with no background?

Even if Zhuren asked about it later, he would directly say that it was to perform the secret method, so some blood sacrifice was needed.

Besides, we didn't want to sacrifice them, but they refused to cooperate, lied to us, and disrespected Zhu Ren.

The three of us were about to leave, but when we heard him insulting Zhu Ren, we were furious and killed the village to establish Zhu Ren's prestige.

How could he blame the three of us after we worked hard for Zhu Ren, used secret methods to find a mount for him, and killed the rural witch who disrespected him?

However... the other blood food, treasures, and the spirit tablet in the ancestral hall in this village...

Anyway, Zhu Ren of Wushen Mountain definitely didn't need them, so of course they belonged to us, and we picked them up.

We helped him find a mount, and this was just a little blood sacrifice for finding a mount. This blood sacrifice was asked for by the other party.

As for the Lijiazhai that was massacred?

They are dead, and the dead can't speak.

No matter who asks, they are all sinners who deceived and insulted Zhu Ren, and we acted out of righteous indignation, and if we find the dragon colt afterwards, we may even get a reward from Zhu Ren!

The great men who are high above would not look down at these ants.

They are very experienced.

Past experience tells them that the great men really don't care much about such things.

This sudden attack directly hit the eighth-rank village elder hard!

How could he resist being attacked suddenly and fighting one against three?

So, a few seconds later——

The wind was howling!

The black cloud collapsed, bringing an endless group of ghosts, and rushed into the mountain village!

The ancestors in the ancestral hall immediately emerged, roaring and welcoming the ghosts.

It was dark and nothing could be seen.

However, many sounds could be heard.

There were sucking, chewing, sucking flesh and blood, crying, laughing, roaring, mixed together, and spread for dozens of miles, and together with the black air, surrounded the mountain village.

An hour passed.

There were no more people who could move in this village.

The whole ground turned completely sticky pink, and countless evil ghosts lay on the ground licking and snatching each other.

On the way, the liver and lungs were rotten, and the intestines were hung on the building.

The stench covered the mountain, and no one knew who the bones were.

The human tendons were pulled into strings, and the souls were mourning.

The bones were all over the ground, and I didn't know whether they were human or animal, or perhaps both.

In the center of this village, a sacrifice was being held.

This was a typical blood sacrifice.

This secret method required the use of brain and blood as sacrifices to follow the cause and effect.

The specific method was also very simple.

Beat the red gold into a tube with a flat top and a sharp bottom, and burn it in a fierce fire until it burned red.

Then, the person whose memory was to be extracted was tied to a stake with his back cut, and his hair was separated. The hot hollow gold tube was taken and chiseled from the top of his head to suck the marrow and brain to eat.

Then the soul was forced out of the body, and refined with gold and fire, forcing the true spirit to appear, and extracting the cause and effect connection from it.

The true spirit is the key to the cause and effect connection, and the memory is the clue to guide.

In this way, with two approaches, cause and effect as the main trunk and memory as the end, you can find what you want in most cases.

However, this secret method is actually a bit useless.

Because... if the other party has this thing in his memory, he just needs to say it, and it is not difficult to find it along the way.

Besides, it is not necessary to kill people when it comes to things involving cause and effect. There are many secret methods that can find the cause and effect relationship from living people, and it is not necessary to kill people and then extract the true spirit.

So, this is really just a shabby secret method of a country witch.

But anyway...

It is still useful.

The other two people stared at the middle-aged man nervously, fearing that he would fail.

If he failed, it would be difficult to explain to Zhu Ren.

In their opinion, doing these things in the middle is a small matter. The important thing is to complete the things that Zhu Ren ordered, so that they can have someone to support them.

After a long time, the middle-aged man opened his eyes.

"Found it! No one is faster than us. Let's go, pack up the things here and go back to find those mountain gods." He urged.

He really sensed the location of the dragon horse!

The other two immediately became excited.

They immediately began to collect things that could be used here.

The first to bear the brunt were the dead ghosts. All the souls of the people who originally lived in this village were taken away by these ghost witches and could not reincarnate.

They will become one of the ghosts, will be filled with fear and resentment, and eventually driven by the ghost witches.

Then, there are the spirit tablets in the ancestral hall here.

Wipe out all the ghosts inside. These spirit tablets made of locust wood Yin water are containers that can hold many ghosts, which can greatly increase the number of ghosts they can control.

After that, there is a blood pill, which is refined with the remaining flesh and blood of these thousand people.

This village is too poor and there are no magic weapons, but there are still some herbs and minerals, which can also be collected.

It took about a quarter of an hour to pack these things up.

Then, they returned to the place where the mountain god had agreed to return.

They could inform the other mountain gods that they had found the location.

This merit was taken.

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At this moment, Li Qi, who was closing his eyes and thinking about the problems in his practice, suddenly opened his eyes.

"What is this... feeling? Why did my shoulders feel heavy and blood was rushing towards me?" Li Qi frowned.

Shamans often have sudden impulses, and this has been said many times.

Just now, Li Qi had this feeling.

It seems that there is a blood debt that has been attributed to him?

However, it should not be the whole thing, he only bears part of the joint cause and effect.

Ah? What did he do?