Chapter 234 It’s easy to ask God but hard to send him away

As the sound of suona sounded, the young men of Yujia Village, led by the village chief, hurriedly walked towards the valley not far away.

Tian Lin and Old Man Ran mixed with the boys from Yujia Village and followed a group of adults into the valley.

There is a stream in the valley, which flows out of a cave deep in the valley.

Tian Lin noticed that starting from the entrance of the valley, broken iron chains kept protruding from the stone walls and hanging between the two walls of the valley.

These iron chains have array patterns engraved on them.

Perhaps a long time ago, the entire valley was set up as a large formation by someone.

However, this formation was later destroyed by someone, causing the iron chain to break.

So what was the reason for the establishment of the formation, and who destroyed it?

A group of people arrived at the entrance of the cave. All the villagers of Yujia Village were divided into two rows to guard the entrance, leaving only the village chief and eight old foundation-building cultivators to enter the cave.

Not long after, Muramasa's voice was heard from the cave, shouting, "Please come in, Master Qian, Madam!"

Tian Lin probed his spiritual consciousness into the dark cave and saw eight thick iron chains connected to the cave, being pulled fiercely in eight directions by eight old men.

As the iron chain was stretched straight, a red sedan chair that looked like a coffin was pulled out of the ancient pond.

After a burst of splashing water, the sealed sedan cabin was finally freed from the water.

The cabin is covered with moss, and the delicate carvings are covered with green plants.

The eight foundation-building monks pulled the iron chain with great effort while taking out large iron pillars from their storage bags. They set up poles in the shape of a "well" under the coffin-like sedan.

Eight people carried a sealed sedan chair, and when Muramasa shouted "Play music", they all carried the sedan chair and walked out of the cave.

This time the suona did not sound, but the sound of the person playing drums at the entrance of the cave.

Suona and drum bands led the way in front, and in the middle, eight villagers carried the sedan chair of Goddess Qianshi.

And in the end, it was Tian Lin and a group of children from Yujia Village who followed.

The group walked out of the valley and headed towards Yujia Village with the sound of gongs and drums.

But on the way, a group of people from Yujia Village happened to encounter zombies carrying a coffin.

Old Man Ran and Tian Lin looked at each other, and both were somewhat surprised.

In just a few days, the two encountered zombies carrying coffins twice.

Although this happens every year in mass graves, it has never been so frequent.

The walking corpses are carrying the coffin. The deceased must have been at least a powerful Jindan master when he was alive.

Moreover, only a large family in a mass grave could have such a grand ceremony of burying hundreds of corpses.

"It's the Hu family!"

A villager from Yujia Village asked, "What should we do? The ancestor of the Hu family has passed away. Should we give way to them?"

The village chief of Yujia Village shook his head after hearing this: "Although our Yu family is not as good as the Hu family, there is no reason for Master Qian to give way to the Hu family. Let's continue on our way."

After he finished speaking, he let the "chuida" continue to move forward.

With every step forward taken by the people from Yujia Village, the zombies carrying the red coffin would take a step back.

Finally, after walking more than a mile and the villagers had already carried the sedan chair to Yujia Village, the Hu family's group of zombies were able to get back on the road.

Tian Lin knew that the zombies were completely unconscious, so how could they give way to the villagers of Yujia Village?
It was simply Master Qian Niang in the sedan chair who forced those zombies and the walking zombies in the red coffins to give way.

If I could have such a statue, wouldn't I be able to walk freely in a mass grave like a deserted person?

Tian Lin thought so in his heart, and followed Old Man Ran to the temple of Goddess Qianshi in Yujia Village.

We invited Master Qian Niangniang back to the village from the ancient cave. Although we encountered zombies carrying a coffin on the way, fortunately there were no setbacks.

At this point, the sacrifice to the gods can be said to be halfway completed.

Muramasa breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile, "Now we need to invite Master Qian Niangniang to get off the sedan chair. Let everyone line up in two rows and take turns to burn incense for Master Qian Niangniang."

Some village elders began to arrange people to line up according to their age, and the two outsiders, Tian Lin and Old Man Ran, were naturally not included in the line.

As a result, the two of them were able to watch the eight old men carrying the sedan chair as they placed it on the stone platform.

One of the old men rubbed his sore shoulders and looked at the sedan chair and said, "It's strange, this sedan chair has only been in the pond for less than two days, how come there are so many green plants and mosses.

Also, the amount doesn’t seem right.”

Muramasa's smile froze, and he seemed to have noticed something was wrong.

At this time, an old villager took out a wooden knife from his storage bag and gently scraped away the green plants and moss on the sedan chair, revealing an old wooden sedan chair.

The wooden sedan chair is certainly not made of ordinary wood, but the patterns on it have been soaked and rotted away.

The shape of this sedan was the same as that of Master Qian's, but the characters and images on it were completely different. Tian Lin and Old Man Ran came over, and a group of village elders spent a quarter of an hour to finally clean up the green plants and moss on the sedan.

Besides the strange characters on the sedan chair, there were also pictures of children.

"This, this looks like the sedan chair in the mass grave!"

After an elder finished speaking, he looked at Muramasa uncertainly and asked, "Chief, do you still remember the mass grave we went to when we were young?"

Muramasa looked very unhappy and said, "How could I not remember? If I remember correctly, that mass grave forest was originally a village, facing our Yu family from east to west.

This sedan chair was originally the sedan chair of that village, and the statue in the sedan chair was also the deity they worshipped.

Unfortunately, all the people in that village died, and the village became a mass grave. The sedan chair was also left in the village, and no one cared for the statue.

After saying this, he asked again, "But why did the sedan chair from the Mass Burial Forest appear in the cave of Master Qian Niangniang?"

He glanced at everyone, but no one present could answer him.

The village chief made a prompt decision and said, "Hurry up and take the sedan chair away."

Following Muramasa's order, the eight old men, who had no time to rest, had to kneel down and move their shoulders under the four iron pillars.

But even though the eight men tried their best, they could not stand up or lift the sedan chair at all.

The four large iron pillars were bent by their lifts, but the sedan chair remained motionless on the stone platform.

Muramasa's face became increasingly uglier, and he finally took action himself, gathering all his inner energy to hold up one end of the sedan and try to lift it up.

But even with his Golden Core cultivation level, he was unable to move the sedan chair at all.

This small sedan chair looked ordinary, but at this moment it was like a mountain pressing on everyone's heart.

Old Man Ran looked at Tian Lin and whispered, "You can't be so unlucky, right? I finally got a chance to see Master Qian Niangniang, but something like this happened."

Tian Lin shook his head and replied in a secret voice: "I'm afraid it's not advisable to stay here for long. Let's find a chance to say goodbye to your uncle."

"Who is it? Who wants to harm the people of Yujia Village?"

Seeing that he couldn't move the sedan chair, Muramasa had to give up with a gloomy face.

He glanced at everyone again and said:
"This sedan chair is in the mass grave forest. It is impossible for it to run to the ancient pond of Master Qian Niangniang for no reason. Someone must have a grudge against my Yujia Village, so they came up with a trick and hid this spirit in the ancient pond of Master Qian Niangniang to confuse us."

Strictly speaking, Muramasa bears some responsibility for the current situation.

If they had observed carefully when the sedan was being lifted, they might have discovered something strange about it.

But who made them hold this kind of spirit-inviting activities all year round? They have become accustomed to it and have ended up just going through the motions instead of taking it seriously?
It was strange that there were zombies blocking the road, so the people carrying the sedan and other people from Yujia Village focused their attention on the zombies from the Hu family.

Now the sedan has entered the village, and the spirit inside it refuses to leave. Everyone realizes that something is wrong, but it is too late to regret.

"As the saying goes, it's easier to invite a god than to send him away. Now that we have invited this god here, he refuses to leave. Muramasa needs to make a decision soon."

The village elder reminded him, and the village chief made a prompt decision: "Put the sedan chair here first, and the rest of you follow me back to Gutan to invite Master Qian back."

"Then is Master Qian's sedan chair still in the ancient pond?"

Someone asked this question, and Muramasa said:
"Master Qian is different from this unknown deity. She has been worshipped by my Yu family for a thousand years. If you are not from my Yu Village, it would be difficult to take her away from the ancient pond."

Seeing this, the group of men had to play the suona again and head towards the valley far away outside the village.

But this time Tian Lin and Old Man Ran did not travel together. It was getting dark, and Tian Lin did not plan to stay overnight in Yujia Village.

Furthermore, the arrival of that unknown spirit was extremely strange. Just as Muramasa had said, it must be someone who was trying to mess with their Yujia Village.

After a while, Goddess Qian was invited back by them. The scene of two gods fighting was indeed a rare sight.

But when gods fight, the ghosts suffer, and Tian Lin didn't dare to take the risk to watch such excitement.

The two of them hurriedly said goodbye to Old Man Ran's aunt, and then rushed back to Huilong Village before dark.

When Zhou Jin heard about Tian Lin's experience, he couldn't help but exclaim that it was wonderful and wished he had not experienced this scene with Tian Lin.

Zhou Mengjiao felt sorry for Tian Lin. She said, "The ginseng soup must be very good. Junior Brother Tian didn't drink a sip. It was a waste of an opportunity."

She changed the subject and asked Tian Lin, "However, what secret method did Junior Brother practice that forbids eating meat?"

Tian Lin couldn't explain why he didn't eat the ginseng soup, because old man Ran, who had eaten the ginseng soup, was still by his side.

He could only prevaricate and say, "If Senior Sister Zhou is interested in this secret method, I will tell you in detail after we return to the sect."

Zhou Mengjiao's face turned cold, thinking that Tian Lin wanted to take this opportunity to get close to her alone, so she turned her head away and stopped asking about it.

But the one called Zhang Rou, she didn't care what secret method Tian Lin practiced, and couldn't help but said:

“The strange thing is, who invited that unknown god out of the mass grave forest and placed him in the ancient pond?
The stone statue of a god cannot be moved just by asking for it. This person who stole the statue must be very powerful. "

(End of this chapter)

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