Chapter 9 The Bride

Chapter 9 The Bride

Chapter 9 The Bride
Chen Shi hid behind the window of the dilapidated temple and happened to see this scene.

In just a short moment, dozens of cultivators in the Divine Embryo Realm were killed, which really shocked him.

Under the moonlight, the little girl met his gaze and looked at him with an indifferent expression, without the slightest human emotion. She raised her hand, took a bite of the apple, and turned away.

Chen Shi heard his grandfather's voice from behind: "Don't be envious. With your current body, you can also defeat these yamen runners."

Chen Shi was slightly startled, and then he said in surprise and joy: "Am I now as powerful as the godmother in Fangdian Village?"

Grandpa was lighting a fire, patiently boiling the medicine, and said without even looking up, "Godmother can kill you with just one branch. Even if those yamen runners look weak, they can still kill you with one spell."

Chen Shi was puzzled.

"Have you noticed? Once these Divine Embryo Realm monks are approached by the tree branches, they will surely die. They have no time to resist. Their Divine Embryos are indeed powerful, but their bodies are too weak. As long as you get close to them before they use magic, you can kill them."

Grandpa stirred the medicine and said calmly, "Those who practice the Heavenly Heart Righteous Qi Art often only cultivate their spirits, not their bodies. Your body is already strong enough, and it is getting stronger. Of course, if they attack first, a low-level spell can easily kill you. You don't have any true energy to resist spells now. When facing such an enemy, all you have to do is to seize the initiative and not give the enemy any chance to attack!"

Chen Shi nodded.

These yamen runners outside were all scholars, and they all practiced the Tianxin Zhengqi Jue. However, the Tianxin Zhengqi Jue is a method of training Qi and building the foundation, and it is not so powerful for physical training.

But the Three Lights Righteous Qi Jue he practiced was different. The Three Lights Righteous Qi Jue required the cultivation of a holy fetus and a body. The so-called holy fetus refers to the divine fetus, which means to cultivate a body like the divine fetus. The body refers to mana and true qi, which means that the mana is powerful and equal to the body.

Chen Shi does not have a divine fetus, so even if he cultivates magic power, it will dissipate. However, if he uses all his energy to strengthen his body, his progress will be twice as fast as the normal speed of cultivation!
Coupled with the medicine cooked by his grandfather and the strange "meals", Chen Shi's progress was even faster!

Soon, the medicine was ready. Chen Shi took it and continued to practice the Three Lights and Righteousness Skill. Unconsciously, he entered a state of meditation, forgetting everything else.

The moonlight poured in from outside the door, passed through the window lattice, and fell on the ground, appearing quiet and mysterious.

Grandpa avoided the moonlight, sat in the corner, his body shaking constantly.

"Hungry, so hungry... It smells so good, so good, the smell of human flesh..."

Under the bamboo hat, a pair of blood-red eyes fell on Chen Shi. The bonfire in the dilapidated temple suddenly turned green, and the air temperature dropped sharply, as if snow could fall.

The black dog couldn't help but shiver, and crawled down, not daring to move.

In the dark corner, grandpa stood up at some point and stared at Chen Shi who was practicing.

"I'm really hungry, I want to eat someone!"

Suddenly a window opened, and grandpa had disappeared from the dilapidated temple and appeared outside the temple.

He ignored the corpse on the ground, and with a few leaps, he disappeared into the moonlit night.

When Hei Guo saw the open window, he quickly raised his head and barked twice.

Chen Shi was awakened by it and hurried forward to close the window.

"Grandpa is out again?"

Chen Shi was slightly startled. He did not find any trace of his grandfather in the temple. He looked outside quickly, but saw the bright moonlight outside, shining on the corpses of dozens of yamen runners and white horses.

Suddenly, a corpse shook a few times.

Chen Shi rubbed his eyes and looked carefully. Indeed, there was a corpse slowly crawling up under the moonlight.

Chen Shi's heart skipped a beat: "Is he a fake corpse?"

Just as he thought of this, he saw corpses shaking on the ground and then slowly getting up one by one.

Even the eight horse corpses stood up on all fours!
There were blood holes all over their bodies and they should have been dead, but now they were moving as if they were alive!
Chen Shi's heart was pounding. At this time, Hei Guo also came over, raised his front legs, leaned on the window and looked out.

Faint music could be heard in the moonlight, and the corpses staggered in the music as if they were drunk.

The man and the dog were extremely nervous. They looked around hard, trying to find the source of the music. After a while, the sounds of trumpets and suonas became clearer and clearer, and two opera troupes actually came out of the forest dancing!
Chen Shi had seen many wedding scenes, and they were always lively and the host would invite an opera troupe to play music to celebrate.

The scene outside looked like a wedding procession welcoming the bride, except that the troupe was actually a group of foxes, standing on their hind legs like humans, with their cheeks puffed out, and blowing the sheng, reed and trumpet with all their might.

There were also foxes holding cymbals with their two paws, clapping them loudly, making a deafening sound. Several others had drums tied around their waists and beat them vigorously, making a booming sound.

They swayed as if dancing under the moonlight.

Following them was a big red sedan, which was not carried by anyone. It just floated in the air, swaying along with the music.

The dozens of corpses in front of the temple actually danced to the rhythm of the music, which was indescribably strange under the moonlight.

"It's not evil, it's evil spirit!"

Chen Shi took a deep breath. He had heard from his grandfather that evil spirits were more powerful than evil spirits, and even the village godmother could not defend against them!
Every time there was a haunting, several villages were wiped out, and the villagers, including the godmother, died overnight!

"I'm afraid the peach charms my grandfather left behind won't be able to ward off evil spirits!"

Chen Shi looked towards the wedding procession. The curtain of the red sedan chair was fluttering, and he could vaguely see a woman in a red wedding dress sitting inside. She had clean white hands, and her head and face were covered by a shawl.

"Please invite the groom——"

The foxes suddenly turned their heads and looked in the direction of Chen Shi. They straightened their necks, raised their heads and spoke in human voices, "Please get into the sedan chair, bridegroom—"

The corpses that were dancing to the music all looked towards Chen Shi, their gray eyes fixed on the young man in the temple, and they said in unison: "Please invite the groom to the sedan chair!"

Chen Shi and Hei Guo quickly lowered their heads, their hearts almost jumping out of their chests.

Outside, the wedding procession was playing music and singing, and the red sedan was floating towards the ruined temple, to welcome the groom!

Chen Shi retreated quickly, his eyes fixed on the peach charms hanging on the doors and windows.

Although the peach charms are engraved with runes, the runes outline the form of a door god. The peach charms drawn by monks who have achieved divine fetuses can drive away ordinary evil things.

Grandpa Chen Shi’s strength is even more extraordinary. Although he is old, his cultivation is still there. The peach charms he draws have never failed in warding off evil spirits!
Suddenly, everything outside became quiet. Hei Guo stood in front of Chen Shi, lying on his stomach, staring at the front, grinning and making threatening noises.

Suddenly, the peach charms hanging on the doors and windows caught fire and burned to ashes in an instant!
The temple gate opens.

A red sedan was parked in front of the temple gate.

"Woof, woof, woof!"

Hei Guo rushed to the door, grinning like a madman. At this moment, a slender hand stretched out from the sedan chair, gently opened the curtain, revealing the bride sitting in the sedan chair.

Black pot's body was covered with black hair and it screamed even louder.

"Hei Guo is really loyal!" Chen Shi saw it and praised it in his heart, "I wrongly blamed it before."

The bride's delicate hands slowly lowered the curtain of the sedan chair. Chen Shi was startled: "Could it be that this evil spirit was frightened by the black pot and retreated in the face of difficulty?"

Just as he thought of this, he suddenly saw another person beside him.

Chen Shi turned around and saw the bride in the sedan chair.

Chen Shi was stunned and looked around. Everything around him was blood red.

Hei Guo was relieved when he saw the curtain of the sedan chair fall, but he saw another person in the sedan chair, also wearing a bright red robe, and it should be the groom.

The curtain of the sedan chair fell and it caught a glimpse of the groom in the sedan chair, who looked exactly like Chen Shi!
Hei Guo was horrified and turned back quickly, but saw that Chen Shi was no longer in the temple!
The red sedan slowly floated up, and many foxes beat drums and gongs, played musical instruments and sang, happily surrounding the big red sedan as they walked out of the temple.

Hei Guo didn't care about anything else, rushed out of the ruined temple, ran towards the red sedan, and was determined to save Chen Shi.

At this moment, a scream came from the sedan chair, followed by a gust of cold wind. It was so dark that it was difficult to tell the direction. Hei Guo stopped hurriedly, only to see that as the cold wind blew, the big red sedan chair, the fox troupe and the corpses all disappeared, leaving only Chen Shi sitting on the ground.

Hei Guo rushed forward. Chen Shi looked confused and had no idea why he appeared in the sedan chair.

He just saw the bride and found himself in the sedan chair.

As for how he got out of the sedan, he had no idea.

At that time, the bride beside him tore off his clothes, but suddenly seemed to be frightened and shrank into the corner of the sedan chair, as if she was afraid that he would do something bad to her. She let out a shrill scream, and then she moved from sitting in the sedan chair to sitting on the ground.

The man and the dog returned to the dilapidated temple, still feeling frightened.

Chen Shi looked at the open temple door and the peach charms that had been burnt to ashes, still a little dazed. He shook his head quickly to calm himself down.

He hurried forward, closed the temple door, and moved a thousand-pound stone to block the door.

Hei Guo jumped into the wooden cart and rummaged through the drawers. He soon jumped down from the cart, bit his grandfather's knife and threw it in front of Chen Shi. He raised his front paw and gestured at his neck, indicating that he should stab here, as the black dog's blood here had the strongest yang energy.

Chen Shi took out the writing brush, ink, paper and inkstone, but instead of wiping the black pot's neck, he carefully took some black dog blood and imitated it to draw the peach charms.

Chen Shi had already memorized the peach charms drawn by his grandfather, and he immediately started painting after grinding the cinnabar.

Drawing a talisman requires mobilizing true energy. Chen Shi activated the Three Lights Positive Energy Technique, pouring his hard-earned true energy into the brush and ink. He focused his mind on the tip of the brush and soon completed a peach talisman in one go.

It was already late at night, and evil creatures might come looking for him at any time. He had to draw enough peach charms as soon as possible to seal the doors and windows!
Chen Shi wrote as if inspired by God, and soon he had drawn six peach charms, two of which were hung on the door and four on the windows.

He didn't know whether the peach charms he wrote were useful or not. He felt very worried and couldn't fall asleep.

Hei Guo couldn't sleep either, so he and his dog lay by the window, quietly looking out, to prevent any more evil creatures from attacking them.

"It's really strange, why would that evil spirit let me go?"

The more Chen Shi thought about it, the more puzzled he became. If the evil spirit could easily destroy a village and his godmother, a hairy kid like him would probably be sucked dry in an instant.

But the bride ghost seemed to be very afraid of him, so she left him and ran away.

Chen Shi couldn't figure it out, so he just stopped thinking about it and vigilantly observed the movements outside the temple.

After a long time, everything outside was peaceful.

Hei Guo put his two front paws on the window and looked out. Just as he was about to put down his paws to relax, he heard Chen Shi's voice: "Hei Guo, grandpa may not be a human anymore."

Hei Guo pricked up his ears and looked at him in confusion.

Under the moonlight, a few tears hung on the boy's face, but his eyes seemed a little deep. He looked into the distance and whispered, "More than half a month ago, my grandfather said that his time had come and he had to hold a funeral for himself to trick the ghosts who came to capture him and send him to the underworld. When the ghosts saw that he was dead, they would not come to capture him."

Black Pot remembered this.

The old man had planned to deceive the ghosts for a long time. He had already prepared a mourning hall and his own spirit tablet, not to mention gold ingots, candles, and paper money.

"Grandpa said that he would set up a mourning hall and lie in the coffin pretending to be dead. As long as he could survive this day and deceive the ghost, he could live a few more years. He couldn't bear to leave me alone."

Chen Shi stared blankly into the distance. After a moment, he continued, "But after that day, Grandpa came out of the coffin and changed. He no longer ate food, but liked to eat candles. He didn't like the taste of food, but liked the smell of incense. He also liked to eat some weird things, such as... people!"

He shuddered and said sadly, "Maybe after that day, grandpa was already dead when he came out of the coffin. Maybe he didn't deceive the ghost."

Chen Shi was mature beyond his years and whispered, "He didn't want me to know about this. He wanted to stay by my side to protect me and watch me grow up. But he is no longer a human being. He is a corpse and always wants to eat people."

Hei Guo had a serious look on his face, frowned, and nodded solemnly.

"No matter what, he is still my grandpa. Even if he turns himself into a zombie, even if he tries to eat me many times, he is still my grandpa."

Chen Shi's eyes were sparkling, and he whispered, "I only have this one relative...Hei Guo, you go and rest first, and come to replace me later."

Black Pot put down his paws and lay on the ground to sleep. At this time, the boy by the window sill whispered: "...The dog knows too many of my secrets. He might tell Grandpa. Should we kill the dog to silence him?"

Hei Guo immediately stood up, walked quickly to Chen Shi, motioned him to go to sleep, and he would keep watch, and wagged his tail to indicate that it was his duty to do so.

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