Chapter 110: Corpses Hidden at the Bottom of the River, Dead Souls Refining Pills

Chen Shi and Fu Leisheng walked along the river towards Qiaowan Town. Before they reached Qiaowan Town, they saw several boats floating not far from the shore. There were people on the boats, stretching out bamboo poles with hooks tied to them, which were slapping the water.

On the shore, there were people carrying white flags, scattering paper money, and calling for the souls of the dead to return.

There were not many people, just over a dozen, men and women, old and young, all with pale faces.

This is the bay below Qiaowan Town. The river is wide and there are usually many fishing boats with fluttering sails and swarms of seagulls.

The water in Dejiang River is fast-flowing, but it becomes calmer here, with picturesque scenery and green hills, making it seem like a fairyland on earth.

Chen Shi and Fu Leisheng arrived and saw a little old woman performing a ritual in front of the river. She was shaking the King Wen drum in her hand, dancing and performing a ritual to summon souls and find corpses. Waves of evil energy were rising from the river.

The little old lady was none other than Grandma Sha from Gangzi Village. I guess someone had paid her to find the bodies of their relatives.

The old woman's magic was profound and mysterious, and finding a corpse was just a small matter for her. But when she finished her magic, she pointed her finger and saw the river water surging, and a white and swollen corpse rose from the bottom of the water.

When it rose up, its posture was very strange. The head of the corpse emerged from the water first. The hair was like black sea plants, covering the head. Then most of the body floated up, as if it was standing on the water.

After a while, the body fell down and fell on its back on the water with a splashing sound.

The corpse's hair was spread out, revealing its face, vaguely a woman's.

The body was washed down by the flood. All the clothes on the body were gone, but the body was intact, with no signs of being bitten by fish or shrimp.

More than a dozen people on the shore burst into tears.

The people on those boats were the corpse recovery team, who were used to recovering corpses in the river. Upon seeing this, several speedboats rushed over, trying to grab their business.

From a distance, they raised bamboo poles, ready to hook the body with iron hooks and drag it to the side of the boat.

The rule on the riverside is that when the body is dragged to the side of the boat, it will not be taken ashore until the relatives of the deceased give money. The amount of money given depends on their wishes.

If the amount given is too little, some unscrupulous corpse lifters will deliberately cut a few big holes on the body, so the money given is generally not too little.

Suddenly, the river water rolled, and another body rose from the bottom of the water. It was also washed down by the flood and had no clothes on its body.

When the body surfaced, it stood on the water, then fell back into the water with a splash.

Then came the third body, which also rushed out of the water, stood on the water, paused for a moment, and then fell into the water.

Then the fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh...

The river water was like boiling water in a pot, bubbling with bubbles. Corpses rose from the bottom of the water one after another and stood on the surface of the water, like water ghosts, which was unspeakably horrifying.

In just a short moment, thousands of corpses stood on the river, with their arms and legs spread out, without a single piece of clothing on their bodies, and swollen and white from being soaked in the water.

Their heads were wrapped in hair, and it was impossible to tell which side was front and which was back.

"Pfft!"

……

The sound of heavy objects falling into the water continued to be heard, and soon thousands of corpses fell down and floated on the water, forming a white mass.

Even though Chen Shi had refined the Golden Elixir and Fu Lei had refined the Nascent Soul, they still felt frightened at this moment and had goose bumps all over their bodies. They felt that this scene was indescribably weird.

"Were these corpses standing when they were in the water?" Chen Shi was horrified.

The corpse-recoverers on the small boats on the river were also stunned. Thousands of white corpses surrounded their small boats like dead fish. They had never seen such a scene before.

On the shore, a dozen men, women, old and young were stunned for a moment when they saw this scene, wondering who was their relative?

Upon seeing this, Granny Sha immediately mobilized the four ghost kings and ordered them to fish the body out of the river.

Chen Shi walked up and asked, "Granny, where did all these dead people come from?"

"There was a flood upstream and he was drowned."

Granny Sha pointed her mouth upstream and said, "There's a dragon going off upstream. A dragon wants to transform, so it caused floods and drowned people. This isn't the first time it's caused floods and drowned people. It must have happened many times, so there are so many corpses. There should be a dragon's nest below, and the dragon lives in it. The beast drowned these people, transported them here, and then used their souls to refine the inner elixir... Xiao Shi, I have to deal with these corpses as soon as possible, otherwise the moon will come out and the corpses will transform!"

She was quite nervous. If more than a thousand corpses were to transform into zombies, it would be a spectacular sight.

These people died in vain. Some of their entire families suffered misfortunes and are full of resentment. If they turn into ghost corpses, they will definitely be very fierce.

"You have eliminated this dragon. There will be no more wandering dragons."

Fu Leisheng looked at the corpses on the river, shook his head and said, "We are just animals raised by the powerful..."

"Mr. Fu, we are not animals."

Chen Shi looked at him and said seriously, "We are human beings. Our ancestors fought against the heavens, the earth, and evil spirits, not to let us live like animals. I think they wanted us to live like human beings."

Fu Leisheng was deeply touched. He shook his head and asked the same question again: "Chen Shi, this is the way the world is! Can you change it?"

Chen Shi stopped without realizing it.

Fu Leisheng was walking in front and saw him stop. He knew that he was struggling with his conscience and did not try to persuade him.

Back then, he was just like Chen Shi, thinking that he had a scale in his heart that could measure right and wrong and judge the truth in the world. It was not until he was taught a lesson by the world and became extremely embarrassed that he finally figured it out.

After he figured it out, he became much more tactful and smooth, hiding his principles beneath his smoothness. As a result, he felt like a fish in water and lived a happy life.

Now, Chen Shi has been exposed to this world earlier than him and has recognized the truth of the world, which may be a good thing for Chen Shi.

"He will figure it out." Fu Leisheng walked towards Qiaowan Town.

Chen Shi stood by the river for a long time, and the sound of the river came to his ears, sometimes surging, sometimes low.

"I can't figure it out!"

Chen Shi suddenly took a step forward and said, "Black Pot, I just can't figure it out! I really can't change the way the world is, but I can change it a little bit! If I do nothing, I can't change anything! Don't you think I'm right? I only do what I can do!"

Black Pot nodded vigorously and asked doubtfully: "Woof?"

Chen Shi went upstream along the Dejiang River and said, "I'll go take a look upstream."

Hei Guo hurriedly followed him, and the man and the dog followed the river.

Across the river from Qiaowan Town is Baisheng County, which is under the jurisdiction of Xianzhou Province, but going upstream along the Dejiang River is still under the jurisdiction of Xinxiang Province. However, leaving Xinxiang County, it is the territory of Lei County. Many villages along the river in Lei County were flooded, and many houses were washed away. In some villages, nine out of ten houses were empty, which was probably caused by the wandering dragon.

Chen Shi walked in the muddy village. Some places had not dried up yet. There were fish in the puddles. They were very small and floated on the muddy water with their mouths open, trying hard to breathe air.

The people in the village are like these little fish.

They stared blankly at Chen Shi, the passerby.

Chen Shi walked through the village and stopped for a moment in front of his godmother in the village.

The godmother in this village was just like the villagers, with a pale face, and there were not many incense sticks in front of her temple. The villagers could hardly even support themselves, let alone support her?

Chen Shi lit a few sticks of incense for her and continued on his way.

Not far away was the town of Lei County. The flood must have just broken through the godmother's defenses and swept away many people. Wreaths and paper money were everywhere, mixed with the mud on the streets, making it very uncomfortable to walk on.

There are also trumpets and suonas playing in the town, which are funeral music, very sad and touching, reminding people of their loved ones.

Chen Shi walked through the town and found a mass grave a few miles outside the town. Some of the drowned people were not swept into the river and were thrown here. They were just hastily buried without anyone burying them.

"If these corpses were dug out by wild beasts and exposed to the moonlight, I'm afraid ghosts would come into being."

Just as Chen Shi was thinking about this, he saw ghost lights flickering in the mass grave and was startled: "There's a ghost haunting the place!"

He signaled Gouzi to slow down, sneaked forward and looked from afar. He saw a young Taoist sitting between the graves in the mass grave. Ghost fires as big as his head were flying around him. Ghost fires kept drilling into the shrine behind his head, and ghost fires flew out from the graves.

In the shrine behind his head, a divine fetus sat with its eyes closed and concentrated. In front of the divine fetus floated a round, finger-sized golden elixir of emerald green color, which should be the seventh-level golden elixir.

"So he is a cultivator! Judging from his clothes, he should be a scholar. But why is he practicing in a mass grave?" Chen Shi thought to himself.

Although both scholars are scholars, they have different status and dress differently, so they are easy to distinguish.

This scholar was wearing a wine-red robe, a square scarf on his head, a jade pendant on his waist, and a golden crown on his head with a golden hairpin inserted in the middle of the crown.

He was about to leave when he suddenly saw the scholar's head make a cracking sound and slowly fly up from his neck.

Chen Shi stared with eyes wide open, not wanting to blink.

Hei Guo followed carefully, and when he saw this scene, his eyes widened and he almost cried out.

Chen Shi quickly pinched the dog's mouth and signaled it to be quiet.

The head of the scholar in red flew up, with his trachea, blood vessels and other objects hanging under his neck, swaying in the air.

Then, another head grew out from his neck.

Chen Shi almost cried out, and Hei Guo hurriedly covered his mouth. Chen Shi slapped the dog's paw away and looked with wide eyes, only to see that the scholar's newly grown head actually rose up from his neck with a click!

This happened again and again, and twelve heads floated in the air, looking back and forth and in all directions.

However, the body on the ground did not grow a new head from its neck, but instead sat cross-legged and continued to practice.

"What kind of weird martial arts is this?" Chen Shi was shocked.

"call--"

A ball of ghost fire flew past Chen Shi. It was green with a hint of white, and had human features, but they were blurry and unclear. Its mouth was wide open, as if it was screaming.

"This person is using the souls of the dead in the mass grave to make elixirs!"

Just as Chen Shi was thinking of this, a head suddenly discovered Chen Shi and made a sharp and piercing cry.

One of the heads immediately fell and landed on the headless man's neck. The scholar in red immediately activated his golden elixir, and a series of pale green sword lights crisscrossed and attacked Chen Shi.

Chen Shi immediately activated the Ziwu Zhanxie Sword, and several sword energies shattered the opponent's pale green knife light. However, the Ziwu Zhanxie Sword did not change much, and three knife lights broke through the sword energy blockade and came in front of Chen Shi and Gou Zi.

Chen Shi used his palms to slap, block or smash, shattering the three pale green knife lights.

He suddenly felt a burning sensation on his hand, and the skin that touched the pale green light of the knife began to rot.

Chen Shi was shocked and stimulated his blood and qi to expel the evil energy that had invaded his skin, so that his skin stopped festering further.

Eleven heads flew in the air. One of them opened its mouth and a pale green tongue of fire spurted out. Chen Shi immediately turned over and jumped away to avoid the fire attack.

The flame was also extraordinary. Wherever it touched, even the grave was melted into a large piece. The melted area was covered with green slurry, and no one knew what it was.

"So weird? Has this scholar transformed himself into an evil spirit?"

Other heads attacked from all directions, flying around in the mass grave with great agility. Some shuttled between the graves, and some attacked from the sky. Chen Shi dodged everywhere with the black pot, but when he saw the trees were sprayed with green flames, they would immediately break and fall down.

Chen Shi frowned and was about to fight back when he heard a voice laughing, "Stop! Yan Fang, stop! This little brother is not an outsider, but Chen Shi, the first in the Xinxiang County Examination, Chen Xiucai! Stop it now!"

When the red-robed scholar heard this, the flying heads immediately stopped and returned to his side.

Chen Shi was in a state of confusion, when he saw several fast horses galloping on the post road on the other side of the woodland. On the horses were also scholars in red robes, each of them sitting upright in the stirrups, holding the reins and looking at them with a smile.

These people were all strangers, and Chen Shi didn't know any of them.

The head of the red-robed scholar Yan Fang on his neck shrank into his stomach. When it disappeared, another head fell down and also shrank into his stomach.

After doing this over and over again, only a head was left on the neck. He apologized to Chen Shi, "It turned out to be Chen Xiucai. I thought someone was spying on me practicing martial arts and intended to harm me, so I rashly fought back. Please forgive me, little brother, and don't blame me."

He is polite and hard to be angry with.

Chen Shi glanced at the faces of these people, still extremely vigilant, and said, "Brothers, I don't recognize you."

On the post road, the red-robed scholar who had just spoken laughed and said, "It's normal that Brother Chen doesn't recognize us. We are disciples of the Xuanwu Pavilion in Lei County. I am Yan Rong. This is my third brother Yan Qing, and this is my seventh brother Yan Shuo. Brother Chen Shi rarely comes to our Lei County, but we have been famous for a long time."

Yan Fang reminded him, "My aunt is the second grandmother of Li, the governor of Xinxiang Province."

Chen Shi realized that these people were the nephews of Li family's second wife, Yan Jingshu!

"I killed your cousin Li Tianxiu."

Chen Shi thought for a moment and said, "Don't do evil. If you practice like this again next time and fall into my hands, I will kill you like I killed Li Tianxiu. Black pot, let's go."

Yan Fang, Yan Qing and the others could not help but get angry and were about to take action. Yan Rong raised his hand and watched Chen Shi go away with a smile on his face. He said with a smile: "The Li family has not touched him yet, so why would our Yan family touch him first? Brothers, business is more important. We must find the lost dragon of my uncle today no matter what!"

——Sorry, the update is a bit late. I won’t update again next time!
(End of this chapter)

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