Chapter 41: Searching for Relatives and Seeing Remains

Chapter 41: Searching for Relatives and Seeing Remains

Chapter 41: Searching for Relatives and Seeing Remains

Late at night, in the dark woods, through the mottled shadows of the trees, you can see the bright moon hanging high in the sky, quiet and dim, not like a jade plate, but like a ghost fire.

"Dingling, ringing, ringing..."

"The Yin people are on the road, strangers should stay away..."

The incessant ringing of bells and the intermittent shouts echoing in the woods should have created a rather eerie scene.

The deep male voice, however, carries a strange charm, giving people an inexplicable sense of security.

He walked in front holding the Seven Yin Huasha Banner in one hand and the Three Purities Bell in the other. Every step he took would leave a small spot of light on the ground.

Behind him was a long row of jumping figures. Looking closely, there were thirty-four corpses moved by magic.

At the end of these corpses, the tall Guo Shan was carrying a huge coffin on his back. He was scattering paper money while moving forward in a mysterious way, following the light left by Chu Tai.

With every step taken, the surface of the scattered paper money would glow green, like a ghost fire or fluorescent light, and wisps of white smoke would rise and spread around.

Many wandering ghosts trapped in the mountains bowed to Chu Tai and the other man. Every time they bowed, the aura of the grave in Guo Shan's body became thicker.

Chu Tai, who was watching from the front, nodded secretly, silently calculating Guo Shan's subsequent learning content in his mind.

"Although I'm diligent, unfortunately my spirit and soul are defective, and my intelligence is not obvious. It took me two months to get started with the Nine Palaces and Eight Trigrams. I also just memorized the 'Ji Tu Tong You Yang Shen Method'. Later, there is the 'Stealing Sun Essence and Returning It to Oneself to Transform Yin Method'. After I master these methods, everything will be on the right track."

Chu Tai glanced at the coffin on Guo Shan's back again.

Unlike the corpses following Chu Tai, the coffins contained incomplete corpses.

During his past travels, no matter what kind of corpse Chu Tai encountered, he would at most bury it and add a passage of scripture.

But now, for Guo Shan's practice, Chu Tai can only do some hard work and return to his hometown with these corpses.

The process of driving and carrying corpses is one of the keys to Guo Shan's future sublimation and return to the Nine Origins Tomb.

After all, this true Qi is named after the Nine Origins, which already indicates the concept of its essential core.

Actions such as corpse-driving and corpse-carrying, which allow people to return to their roots, invisibly conform to the concept of true Qi, or they can obtain some necessary vitality in advance and reduce the difficulty of sublimation in the future.

According to Chu Tai's calculations, as long as Guo Shan's true Qi is successfully sublimated, and then the "Ji Tu Tong You Yang Shen Method" is used to nourish the Yin Earth and warm the soul, and cooperate with the "Stealing the Sun's Essence and Returning It to Oneself to Transform Yin Method" to collect Yang Qi and neutralize Yin Qi, his sanity can be restored to a large extent.

If Chu Tai sends him back to Hezhong Village, he will be able to repay most of the favor he owes to the Guo couple.

"But before that, I have to take him back to retrieve the remains of his parents."

Thinking of this, Chu Tai looked towards the hillside ahead.

'Back then, Guo Shan's mother died of illness near here. Not long after his father and I buried her, he also died of illness due to overwork. Not long after I buried him and his wife together, I met the God of Tianmen there.'

Chu Tai looked towards another big tree, and in a trance he saw again the thin child who was grabbed by Tianmen God.

Chu Tai closed his eyes slightly and calmed himself down. He was about to ask Guo Shan to meet his parents when the Sanqing Bell in his hand suddenly stopped.

The light of the sun and the moon flowed in his pupils. Chu Tai saw that the mark he had left behind had been knocked down, the body of Guo Shan's mother was exposed, and the body of his father had disappeared.

Walking forward cautiously, Chu Tai looked at the scattered wreckage, which was less than one-third of the total, and couldn't help but take a deep breath.

"Master...what's wrong? I...are we...where are we going?"

Later, Guo Shan saw that there was no light on the ground, and thought he had reached his destination, so he ran forward excitedly. Seeing the exposed skeleton, Guo Shan was stunned.

Because of the special nature of the true Qi he cultivated, he knew the origin of the skeleton the moment he saw it.

The mouth, which was already clumsy, now looked even more knotted.

"Master, what's going on? Is this my mother?"

Faced with Guo Shan's questioning, Chu Tai couldn't help feeling a little guilty.

For a moment, he thought that it would be better to come and pay homage to the Lord of Heaven instead of worrying about an ambush here at the beginning of his wanderings.

Of course, this thought only flashed through his mind. With the memories of his past life, he didn't care that much about the remains of the dead.

As for the sacrifice to souls, according to the records in the Jinhua Sect's classics, as long as there is a specific impression and the other party's name is known, for a cultivator who has cultivated true Qi, the sacrifice is the same no matter where it is performed.

What's more, the skeleton in front of him had been dug out at least two years ago. No matter how early he came, he would not be able to arrive before the incident happened.

The only thing to be thankful for is that this time point also allowed Chu Tai to determine that the changes in the skeleton had nothing to do with Tianmen God.

He squatted down, took the Taiyi Ever-Bright Lamp in his hand, put his mind into the lamp, and transformed himself into Wen Lingguan using the method of transforming into a spirit.

As the one who was born from earth gods and ghosts among the four great spiritual officials, Wen Lingguan was once the chief of the gods under the Lord of Dongyue Prefecture and the first of the Ten Protectors of Dongyue. Among the four great spiritual officials, he is the best at tracing the whereabouts of the dead souls.

"Tian Ding, Tian Ding, urgently send down the spirit. Wen Shi Taibao, punish the divine soldiers. Dongyue has an order, carry it out immediately!"

Chu Tai first used the method of summoning to bless Wen Lingguan, who had transformed himself into a god, and then pinched his fingers to turn into a spell.

"The troops are marching in the sky, thunder and lightning... The orders are being issued from the ground, covering all directions... Clearly humane, search carefully. Hurry as ordered!"

As the spell was uttered, spiritual light splashed all around, and Wen Lingguan's divine power intertwined. Following the remaining breath on the bones, Chu Tai vaguely saw some traces of the grave being dug and the corpse being thrown away that day.

"East!"

Stretching out his hand and drawing a circle in the air, Chu Tai absorbed the remaining breath, took out a compass and sealed it in it.

Looking back at the sad Guo Shan, he was just shouting "Ahhhh" at this moment and temporarily lost the ability to speak.

Chu Tai couldn't help but speak to comfort her.

"I have found the scent of the person who destroyed your mother's remains. Let's collect her remains first, and then go find that person."

Upon hearing this, Guo Shan stopped crying and took out the incense burner and the offerings he had prepared in advance from the coffin.

Wisps of green smoke rise up, and the incense ashes in the furnace fall down. The power of wishes turns into golden sand, surrounding the bones, cleansing the bad luck while relying on the blood relationship to connect with the dead souls in the underworld.

Guo Shan carefully put away his mother's body and followed the guidance of the compass in Chu Tai's hand, walking towards the east.

On the way, in order to help Guo Shan calm down, Chu Tai still left spots of light under his feet.

But compared to his calmness before, Guo Shan's aura was much more gloomy at this moment, and he stepped into the wrong position several times.

He often forgot to scatter the paper money in his hand, which made the many wandering ghosts who gathered around him confused. Some of them were so anxious that they even bumped into him, causing his aura to fluctuate.

Seeing this scene, Chu Tai could only help by reciting pure scriptures and causing changes in the surrounding aura.

(End of this chapter)