Chapter 24: Duotian Sect Master, before her, wouldn’t that be the reason why they split up…

A full moon, a few crooked trees, a sparse grassland, and a number of ownerless wild graves. Green ghost lights were floating in the graves, and from time to time two rough and strange cries could be heard.

The brothers Zhu Fu and Zhu Gui, dressed in short brown clothes, holding small white lanterns and carrying shovels, walked among the graves on tiptoe, breathing heavily and sweating profusely. Zhu Gui's calves were even shaking.

The two were scoundrels who made a living by gambling and stealing in Sizhou City. However, because the daughter of the governor was going to marry the prince of Quanyi recently, the law and order in the city was tightened. The two brothers had no way to make a living. They happened to remember that someone in the casino made a fortune by digging graves, so they also had the idea of digging up graves and turning over the meat dumplings.

But the two brothers had no experience after all, and they couldn't find a way for a while, so they thought of trying their luck at the mass grave outside the city.

After walking in the graves for a long time without finding any treasures, Zhu Gui couldn't help but complain in a low voice: "Brother, this mass grave is full of nameless ghosts, how can we find anything valuable? We are probably beggars who get up early and work hard for nothing."

"You're the only one with a big mouth, right?" Zhu Fu spat at him, "Listen to me, open your eyes wide, and look for a grave that's obviously newly dug, where the body inside hasn't decayed much yet..."

He looked around and saw no one around, but he lowered his voice even more: "Someone has made an offer. Three strings of cash for a fresh corpse."

"How much?" Zhu Gui's sweat stopped and his legs stopped shaking. He felt refreshed.

"What are you yelling about!" Zhu Fu stamped his feet anxiously, "I didn't tell you when we were in the city because I was afraid that you would shake the whole thing out!"

Zhu Gui quickly covered his mouth and made a three with his other hand to confirm again: "One corpse can be exchanged for three strings of money?"

Zhu Fu stressed: "They said it must be complete and fresh enough, and not even a single part can be missing."

Zhu Gui could no longer listen. He turned his head and looked around the wild graveyard. The grave mound that had looked so hideous just now had now become as cute as a gold ingot.

Zhu Gui murmured, "Oh my god, how much money must be hidden in here?"

Zhu Fu whispered to him, "We still have to make sure before we dig, and don't disturb anyone if we can avoid it."

"Brother, do you really believe that there are ghosts in the world?" Zhu Gui's eyes were shining, and he replied to Zhu Fu nonchalantly. Seeing a mound of earth in front of him with no grass yet, he quickly took the lamp to shine it.

The dim lanterns illuminated the fresh earth color. Zhu Gui took a deep breath. The moist earthy smell seemed like fine wine, which made him squint involuntarily.

"This is definitely a new grave." Zhu Gui said confidently. He put down the lantern impatiently, picked up the shovel and dug it into the bottom of the mound.

Just then, a few mice scurried past, making a squeaking sound. Zhu Fu was startled and couldn't help but curse in a low voice, "Can you be a little more cautious?"

"Brother, this is your problem." Zhu Gui was not willing to listen to him. He dug through the mound of dirt with a shovel. "Now that you are here, you are still afraid of this and that. You have time to think about it. I am almost done... Why are you poking me? What did I say wrong?"

After sticking the shovel into the ground, Zhu Gui turned around angrily and looked at his elder brother who was hesitating.

When he saw Zhu Fu's expression clearly, he paused.

"Brother, don't scare me. Why do you look so ugly?"

Zhu Gui didn't dare to say the rest of the sentence. His brother's expression was as if he had really seen a ghost.

He swallowed dryly, and in the dim light of the lantern in Zhu Fu's hand, he slowly glanced in the direction of Zhu Fu's sight.

At this moment, a female voice as vague as a ghost sounded faintly.

"My dear brothers, I have lost something important and would like to ask you for help."

When the woman's voice fell, Zhu Gui had already seen the face of the person who spoke.

She had her hair in a black bun, with no decoration except a wooden hairpin. A strange smile hung on the corner of her mouth, which made her dark eyebrows, starry eyes, and heroic face look a little more evil.

But these are not the point.

Zhu Gui's gaze moved downwards, and his eyes became like his brother's, dazed and dull.

This face is really just one face.

The body below the head had long disappeared.

It was exactly like a storybook that had been banned in a certain bookstore, with all the parts below the neck cut off, and the only parts that moved for all the characters were their mouths, which was very confusing.

After receiving no response for a long while, the lonely head, with dense blood vessels sticking out, moved a few steps towards the two brothers.

"You two?" She waved her hand with a few blood vessels. "I just want to ask, have you ever seen my body?"

Pop.

The lantern in Zhu Fu's hand fell to the ground and swayed. The white candle inside burned through the lantern paper in an instant. The pale flames shone from bottom to top, illuminating the woman's face very brightly.

A chilly wind blew past Zhu Fu and Zhu Gui from behind, causing them to shiver at the same time, breaking free from their stiff state of being unable to walk.

The lantern paper was quickly burned, and the ashes were blown up by the wind and fell down again.

All kinds of evil ghost stories flashed through the minds of the two.

They seemed to have seen the human head in front of them opening its huge mouth full of fangs, biting off their heads and taking away their bodies.

“No…”

Following a few screams of extreme terror, the two men jumped three feet high, no longer caring about the three strings of cash or the corpse.

It was as if they were stepping on a pair of Hot Wheels, and the Fugui brothers disappeared into the darkness in the blink of an eye.

Li Zhou quietly looked at the two people who were running around in a panic, and secretly thanked God that he didn't get too close.

How could a fine person suddenly go insane?

Don't infect her.

It was a pity that they finally found two living people but were unable to communicate. Li Zhou moved his blood vessels and was about to leave when he suddenly caught a glimpse of a slender hand next to the shovel that Zhu Gui had dropped.

As soon as he saw this hand, Li Zhou felt his blood vessels beating excitedly, as if he was responding to his other half in the world.

Li Zhou suddenly realized: "That's my body!"

She quickly crawled over, wrapped her blood vessels around the shovel handle, swung her head around the shovel, and started digging hard.

Fortunately, the graves in the mass grave were shallow, and Zhu Gui had already dug a lot of soil. It didn't take Li Zhou long to dig out a headless corpse.

She quickly dropped the shovel, climbed onto the neck of the headless corpse, inserted the blood vessel into the neck, and connected the head and body.

"I always feel like there's something a little bit out of harmony." Li Zhou climbed out of the pit and looked down at his body. When he saw his butt, he finally knew where the problem lay.

It turned out that the head was installed upside down.

She quickly stretched out her hands, one on the left and one on the right, to support her head, and turned it 180 degrees.

Now, the gaps between the head and neck fit perfectly.

You won't be able to see your butt anymore when you look down.

Li Zhou breathed a sigh of relief, dusted off the dirt on his body, bent down to pick up the lantern left by Zhu Gui, and walked steadily in the direction the two had left.

At the same time, lines of background information appeared in front of her.

[This time, the character you randomly picked is: the hot-tempered head sister]

[You are the current head of (please fill in your sect). Your sect was once the leader of the righteous path, with many talented people and heroes. However, it was almost overturned due to a natural disaster a thousand years ago.]

[Nowadays, the sect is lacking in talent, and no one in the world knows about your sect. As the head sister, you should recruit more disciples, revitalize the sect, and restore the ancestral tradition. It is your responsibility.]

[You have come to the prosperous Sizhou City and decided to make it the first stop for the sect's revival. You need to obtain official permission to rebuild the mountain gate. You also need to widely spread the sect's core philosophy to attract believers to join.]

[Although you are penniless now, you still have to tell yourself to believe in yourself, believe in miracles, and find a bright road to the sect's revitalization as soon as possible! ]

Li Zhou: “…………”

Where did this simulator copy the MLM copy?

It itself also felt that rebuilding a sect from scratch was outrageous, so it probably used this tone that seemed passionate but was actually full of guilt.

You have to think of the name of your sect yourself.

Li Zhou was in a dilemma and started thinking hard.

She walked and thought as she went, from the hazy moonlight to the dim morning light.

In the distance, a tall city came into her sight, with three powerful characters "Sizhou City" written on the top of the city wall.

The cold full moon has not completely disappeared, but a glimmer of the rising sun's light has already leaked out from below the horizon.

An idea suddenly came to Li Zhou's mind, and he remembered the famous poem "The Short Day".

"I do not know how high the sky is, or how thick the earth is,

I only see the cold moon and warm sun, which are used to burn people's lives. "

Between heaven and earth, the alternation of cold and heat consumes human life.

If one seeks immortality through the great Dao, isn't that just snatching life from the hands of heaven?

Li Zhou thought about it and filled in three words on the sect name on the simulator interface:

【Duotian Sect】

“Ding! Ding! Ding!”

Outside Fujiao City, in Ciyu Temple, the midnight bell rang 108 times in succession. The monks who were sweeping, chanting, and doing morning prayers all looked at him in astonishment and confusion.

The rosary in the hand of Abbot Yuanzhen suddenly broke and fell to the ground with a crackling sound.

He looked down for a moment, then walked to the window, looked toward the east, and muttered to himself, "The weather is going to change."

Next door, the abbess of Yehe Temple, Master Liaochen, who had borrowed a meditation room and had been talking with Li Sheng and Yue Niang for a day and a night, trying to get them to allow her to suppress the evil spirit, suddenly stood up and walked towards the door.

The sleepy Li Sheng and Yue Niang were startled. Li Sheng didn't even open his eyes, and subconsciously said, "Master, please forgive us. My wife will never change her mind if she doesn't agree."

Yue Niang tried hard to open her eyes and looked at the nun's back: "You..."

"Please allow me to go to your house to see the child in the name of a teacher."

Liaochen turned around, the sunlight was so blinding from behind that it was hard to see her expression.

Yue Niang's heart skipped a beat, and she lost all her sleepiness. Just as she was about to refuse, she heard Chen say again, "Don't worry, benefactor. I will never have the intention to kill that child again."

One hundred and eight bells rang at midnight, revealing a hint of divine secrets. Although Liaochen still didn't fully understand why she happened to hear the Taoist priest's discussion at Yuquan Temple while she was traveling, and then became particularly interested in the affairs of the Li family's youngest daughter.

But she already understood that there was a big cause and effect happening to the youngest daughter of the Li family.

In the Purple Palace in the capital, Chi Yangzi, the head of the Demon Hunting Division, was presenting the glowing Treasure Scroll of the Great Zhou Dynasty to the emperor. On the latest page, below the words "The gods will return, and retreat when they see daylight", a new line of words slowly emerged:

[Master of Duotian Sect, Rebuilding Suijian]

The emperor sighed softly: "Is the resurrection of the gods an unstoppable fact?"

Chi Yangzi said respectfully: "Your Majesty, the only hope for the human race is probably with this Duotian Sect Master."

"I am powerless to rule my country. I can only place my hopes on a person I have never heard of." The emperor's tone was inaudible. "It seems that this leader of Duotian Sect is worthy of being the master of the country."

Chi Yangzi immediately knelt down, pressing his forehead against the cold ground, but did not say a word.

The emperor glanced at him and sneered, "That's all."

"Take my private seal and send a secret letter to all the prefectures. From now on, you will unconditionally support all decisions made by the leader of Duotian Sect, no matter how ridiculous his/her demands are."

An old eunuch with a hunched back walked out silently from the dark corner, holding a small seal.

Before the emperor put down his seal, he seemed to have just remembered this question and said nonchalantly, "But how can I know who this Tianduo Sect Master is?"

The emperor lowered his eyelids, hiding the murderous intent in his deep pupils.

Chi Yangzi seemed unaware, raised his head, and said calmly: "Your Majesty will know when it's time to know."

At the gate of Sizhou city.

Li Zhou, who was stopped by the city gate guard and could not produce a pass, tried to persuade the young soldier: "I am the leader of the Duotian Sect. If you let me in, I will teach you the Duotian Sect's secret method and ensure that you live to be ninety-nine."

The city gatekeeper: "A cultivator? Do you have a certificate of ordination?"

Li Zhou: “Well…”

The city gate official said coldly: "According to the Great Zhou law, anyone who confuses the people with a cult shall be punished according to the law and executed immediately."

Li Zhou took a deep breath, touched his head, and thought to himself, could it be that this was the reason why she split up before?