Chapter 231 Excuses
Chapter 231 Excuses
Tian Lin didn't say much. He also held the black coffin and told Zhou Jin the answer with practical actions.
The three of them just left quietly.
After returning to Huilong Village, Old Man Ran asked someone to take care of the black coffin while he made tea for himself.
As soon as he sat down, he explained to Tian Lin and Zhou Jin:
"Such 'funeral teams' occur every year within the jurisdiction of Xiangxi Sect. And such funeral teams are 'organized' by the affiliated sects of Xiangxi Sect.
After the death of each clan leader of these affiliated sects, his body and coffin would be sent to the Xiangxi Sect as a "tribute" by the corpse slaves he had accumulated during his lifetime.
The group of zombies just now is the Wu family from Wuliang Mountain."
Zhou Jin listened to what he said, looked at Tian Lin and said, "What do you think Elder Gao wants the red coffin for?"
In fact, there is no need to ask more questions. It is just for the deceased Senior Brother Xue.
Tian Lin was somewhat puzzled and said, "The dead cannot be resurrected. Senior Brother Xue's soul has long been scattered. Now there is only a corpse left. Even if this corpse can move freely, can it still be considered 'Senior Brother Xue'? It is just a walking corpse."
After hearing what Tian Lin said, Old Man Ran on the side shook his head and said:
"Fellow Daoist Tian, what you said is wrong! As long as the human body still exists, a new consciousness will be born sooner or later. And when a new consciousness is born, a new soul will be born. It is nothing more than losing the previous memory -
As a corpse driver, I have always believed that the soul is only a temporary memory. If the body can grow consciousness again and live for ten thousand years, then the temporary memory is just a drop in the ocean of life. Even if it is gone, what is there to regret? "
Tian Lin knew that the philosophies of the corpse-drivers and the Xiangxi Sect were different from those of other sects, so he was too lazy to argue with Old Man Ran.
He said, "The key point now is, did Elder Gao come to the Xiangxi Sect's territory under the pretext of training us, and was he mainly here for the red coffin? Or did he come here to train us, and then he saw the red coffin and decided to use it temporarily?"
"If it's the former, then what will she do if she succeeds or fails in getting the red coffin this time? Should we go back to the Dao Sect?
If it is the latter, regardless of whether we succeed in getting the red coffin or not, we will have to stay in the Xiangxi clan's jurisdiction for a while."
After Zhou Jin finished speaking, he sighed and said, "Elder Gao is over a thousand years old, and she only has one son, Senior Brother Xue. In order to give birth to Senior Brother Xue, she even ignored her own cultivation.
I think she will be very sad when Senior Brother Xue dies."
Tian Lin glanced at Zhou Jin, there was no doubt that Elder Gao was upset.
But we can't let her do whatever she wants just because Elder Gao is upset. It's fine if she does whatever she wants, but she must not let it cause trouble for herself and others.
"We still need to get some information to see what the battle situation is like over there. If something is really wrong, we have to go to the Dao Sect to report the news."
As Tian Lin finished speaking, someone knocked on the door.
After Old Man Ran asked someone to come in, he heard the villager report: "Elder Ren of Xiangxi Sect has returned to the sect with the red coffin and the walking corpse."
Tian Lin asked the villagers: "What about Elder Gao?"
"That female elder also returned to the ship. She looked injured, but fortunately her injury was not serious."
Tian Lin and Zhou Jin both breathed a sigh of relief. Old Man Ran smiled and said:
"That's perfect. Xiangxi Sect and Wendao Sect are both big immortal sects. It's best not to cause any trouble because of a small matter."
Huilong Village is outside the jurisdiction of Xiangxi Sect. If the Daoist Sect wants to attack Xiangxi Sect, Huilong Village will inevitably be implicated.
Similarly, Tian Lin and Zhou Jin did not want any conflict to arise between the two immortal sects.
Whenever those big shots start a fight, it is often these cannon fodder who die.
What’s even more tragic is that even after these cannon fodders died, the big shots would most likely still be able to chat and laugh at the negotiating table.
Nothing happened that night. Early the next morning, Tian Lin and the other two went out to the mass grave as usual.
After that, they spent three days and finally captured two more zombies.
In just less than seven days, Old Man Ran looked much older, and even Zhou Jin's face turned dark blue. It was obvious that the corpse poison was difficult to eliminate in a short time.
But looking at the zombies in front of him, not only was Old Man Ran happy, Zhou Jin himself was also filled with a sense of accomplishment. He joked, "What do you think? Will we make a fortune by selling zombies in the future?"
Tian Lin shook his head: "I'm afraid you look down on this kind of business, Senior Brother Zhou. After a long time, most people can't sustain it."
At this point, Tian Lin said to Old Man Ran, "After we carry the corpse back to see Elder Gao, we will sell it to you, Daoist Fellow Ran."
Old Man Ran stroked the white hair on his face and said with a smile: "Don't worry, Fellow Daoists Tian and Zhou, we have been through thick and thin together, and I will not let you two suffer any loss."
He helped Tian Lin and Zhou Jin carry the two black coffins to the bottom of the building ship. In the valley below the building ship, there were black coffins parked everywhere.
Twenty black coffins were neatly stacked. Many people had already bought the corpses and had been waiting here for a long time.
Zhou Jin tugged at Tian Lin's sleeve and looked at his senior brother who was not far away.
Tian Lin understood what he meant. Zhou Jin was laughing at his senior brother Changxue for having "come to his senses" and knowing how to cheat by paying money.
But looking at the people present, most of them were zombies bought with spirit stones. Very few people were like Tian Lin and Zhou Jin, who tried to catch zombies to complete the task.
At this time, Zhou Mengjiao came over. She glanced at Tian Lin, then looked at Zhou Jin and said, "Brother, what's wrong? I see that you seem to be injured."
Zhou Jin shook his head and said proudly, "How can you catch zombies without getting hurt?"
Zhou Mengjiao looked at Tian Lin and asked, "Why aren't others injured?"
Zhou Jin looked a little embarrassed. With Tian's cultivation level at the middle stage of foundation building, his job was to guard the formation from the outside.
However, their performance was far inferior to that of Tian Lin, a cultivator in the early stage of foundation building.
Zhou Mengjiao did not ask any more questions. She just said, "A son of a wealthy family should not sit idle. If a spiritual stone can solve the problem, why would you risk your life? Fight to the end. Don't be sold out and help others count money."
After she finished speaking, she glanced at Tian Lin again before leaving.
Zhou Jin's face became even more embarrassed, and he said to Tian Lin: "My sister has been spoiled since she was a child, Junior Brother Tian, please don't be angry."
Tian Lin shook his head and smiled, saying, "This is all your fault, Senior Brother, for making random matchmaking. That's why Senior Sister Zhou has a prejudice against me."
When it comes to matchmaking, Zhou Jin gets an idea.
He had originally given up the idea of marrying his sister to Tian Lin, but seeing Tian Lin's performance over the past few days, this idea became active again.
"Elder Gao is coming down. Everyone, keep quiet."
Senior brother Changxue, who had been sitting cross-legged in meditation, suddenly opened his eyes and spoke something. The others looked up at the ship that was slowly descending from the sky.
The ship stopped in the valley, crushing countless trees.
Elder Gao was seen walking down from the ship. She had recovered from her injuries in a few days. Except for Tian Lin and Zhou Jin, no one knew that she had been injured in a battle not long ago.
"Very good, you put the coffin on the second floor of the ship."
Elder Gao was always aloof and serious, but this time he looked at a female student and asked, "Bai Qian, how is your injury now?"
The woman named Bai Qian was stunned for a moment, and quickly said to Elder Gao: "My disciple has taken the detoxification pill, and now his injuries are almost healed."
Elder Gao nodded and said:
"That day in the academy, I asked you, Senior Brother Xue, to come out just to let the other disciples know the role of funeral science. But your ability to respond is indeed a little poor. When you were in danger, you inhaled too much corpse qi. Otherwise, you wouldn't have been injured."
After hearing her words, Bai Qian felt ashamed and secretly annoyed.
But Elder Gao suddenly changed the subject and said, "You can rest in my attic for the next two days. You don't need to do any tasks for the time being."
After these words were spoken, not only Bai Qian was stunned, but even the disciples who had just come down from the ship carrying the coffin were a little surprised.
Bai Qian was delighted and quickly thanked Elder Gao, "Thank you for your kindness."
Zhou Jin tugged at Tian Lin's sleeve and whispered to him, "Tell me, if I tell Elder Gao that I'm injured, will I be treated the same way?"
Tian Lin shook his head and replied in secret:
"From what Elder Gao said, the next mission may be even more difficult. Otherwise, Bai Qian wouldn't be asked not to participate. If it really doesn't work, let alone saying you are really sick, even if you are faking it, we have to refuse it."
While the two were talking in secret, Elder Gao turned around, looked at everyone and said:
"What you do in the next twenty days will count as the monthly exam at the end of the month. But as for what to do specifically, disciples, take a good rest for two days, and I will tell you later."
Zhou Jin asked Tian Lin in secret, "What did we do that requires us to rest for two days? Or maybe Elder Gao hasn't figured out what we should do?"
Tian Lin shook his head and said, "Elder Gao asked us to move the zombies to the ship. It seems that he doesn't intend to return the zombies to us."
A low-grade walking corpse is worth hundreds of high-quality spirit stones.
How many spirit stones are twenty zombies and so many black coffins worth?
"We actually lost money on this trip - not only is it hard to get the corpse back, but we also have to pay for the coffin for Fellow Daoist Ran."
Zhou Jin asked again: "What does Elder Gao need so many zombies for?"
Tian Lin shook his head again, and secretly guessed that Elder Gao's trip to the Xiangxi Sect's territory was not for these students to learn funeral studies.
Elder Gao is a teaching elder and usually does not have many opportunities to leave the sect.
So they came up with some idea to make students pay attention to funeral studies, and went to the Xiangxi clan's jurisdiction in the name of "collecting folk songs".
She might have known for a long time that the patriarch of the Wu family in Wuliang Mountain had died, and that there would be zombies carrying the coffin.
For the sake of the red coffin, she had been guarding the only way from Wuliang Mountain to Xiangxi Sect.
But she was unwilling to leave even though she failed to get the red coffin. It seemed that she had other ideas in mind.
(End of this chapter)