Zombies?

Cao Cheng's eyes widened suddenly.

How did it turn into a zombie?

Master Shoukun clearly stated that the back mountain was a blessed land, and burying Peiqin there would protect the peace and safety of her descendants.

He ran, panting heavily, but the yang energy he exhaled aroused "Moon Goddess." Her eyes turned emerald green, and she became even more ferocious. Cao Cheng was panicked, frightened, and exhausted. He slowed down even slightly, and his back was slashed open by a woodcutter's knife. He fell to the ground screaming in pain, "Immortal Master, Immortal Master, I'll tell you everything! Please, please use your magic to trap her again! I'll tell you everything—"

Bi Xie then chanted the incantation again, trapping the enraged "Moon Maiden".

Cao Cheng looked at the "Moon Maiden" so close to him, and took a few steps back in fear. He collapsed to the ground, his face covered in cold sweat. After catching his breath, he looked at Bi Xie, unsure whether she was helping a human or a ghost. "What the Immortal Master said is true. I... I do know her. She is not the Moon Maiden, but my first wife, Pei Qin."

“I’m not a local either. I was originally a villager from Manyue Village. I learned the craft from a carpenter to support my family. Peiqin is my master’s daughter. We were childhood sweethearts. At first, our life was very sweet after we got married, but soon we were always worried about money. My master is a gambler. Every time he owes money, the creditors come to me to collect. My master said that since he sold his daughter to me, I should pay off his debts for him—”

"Master Cao, this lightning net won't trap your wife for long. Are you sure you want to rack your brains and give a long speech?" Bi Xie smiled coldly. Even when facing death, he still wanted to shift the blame onto others and never thought he was wrong.

She walked up to Peiqin and saw green mist constantly oozing from her mouth and nose. Peiqin looked furious, as if she wanted to tear Cao Cheng apart. Peiqin lowered her long eyelashes and looked down at Cao Cheng. "I'm not interested in what you're saying. I just want to ask you, how did your wife die, and how did she turn into a green zombie?"

He just said he was a villager from Manyue Village. Could it be such a coincidence?

Cao Cheng's expression changed slightly upon hearing her question. He was about to find the right words when Bi Xie casually asked again, "Have you heard about the nighttime attack by the hundred ghosts on Full Moon Village?"

Cao Cheng froze, his eyes widening as he stared at the languid-looking girl.

Bi Xie smiled slightly: "It seems you know, and you must also know about the incident where more than a hundred villagers in Manyue Village were frightened out of their wits." She raised an eyebrow as if she remembered something. "You went to the small town at the foot of Liangyi Mountain to sell wontons, actually hoping to find a Taoist priest with profound Taoist skills to help you, the one who escaped the net, right?"

"Immortal Master, Immortal Master, save me! We were bewitched by that evil path, which led to this terrible mistake!" Cao Cheng saw that she had guessed most of the truth, and then looked at Peiqin, who was about to take his life. Recalling the corpses he saw when he returned to the village, his defenses completely collapsed, and he cried as he told her the whole story.

Full Moon Village is a poor little village. Strangely enough, no matter how hard the villagers work, they can never get rich and they always suffer from various natural and man-made disasters. But no one in the village ever thought about feng shui. Until three years ago, a wandering Taoist priest suddenly came to the village, who called himself the Master Shoukun.

As soon as he entered the village, he asserted that the village had excellent feng shui, especially the land on the back mountain, which was an excellent feng shui treasure. He said he would stay in Manyue Village to cultivate.

Few people in the village were literate, but Master Shoukun was knowledgeable in astronomy and geography. After learning that Manyue Village had not seen rain for almost a year, he cast a spell to bring rain. After showing off this skill, the villagers almost revered him as a god and warmly offered him the best food from their homes. However, Master Shoukun refused to accept it, saying that meat and grains would cause impurities in his body and that he no longer needed to eat.

The more he said this, the more the villagers regarded him as a living god. They built him a thatched hut on the back mountain for him to cultivate, and when they encountered something unpleasant, they couldn't help but go to him for fortune telling.

As a result, when all the men in the village had their fortunes told, they were all destined for poverty and hardship.

People can live their lives in a daze if they don't know their fate, but once they know their fate, they can't help but want to change their miserable destiny.

Who doesn't want to be rich and powerful, dressed in fine clothes?

Master Shoukun told them that he indeed possessed the art of changing one's fate.

He can transfer the fate of the dead to them by killing their closest relatives.

The men in the village were unable to accept killing their loved ones they had spent every day with. The Master Shoukun then said that the mountain behind the village was a blessed land, and that if a person died and entered this blessed land, they would not only be spared from the burning of karmic fire, but would also be reborn into a life of wealth and prosperity, enjoying a smooth and successful life.

Master Shoukun said this was a win-win solution.

The men in the village gradually convinced themselves to believe and made excuses for their actions—they were just trying to prevent their loved ones from suffering with them and to ensure they would be reborn into a better family in the next life.

So, on a dark night, the men of Full Moon Village tacitly carried out a bloody and cruel massacre.

The next day, the whole village was filled with the smell of blood. The strips of cloth used to clean up the bloodstains stained the stream in the village red. The corpses were buried in the auspicious burial ground in the back mountain.

Originally, they only needed to kill one relative, but if every household in the village lost someone, it would inevitably arouse suspicion from the others, so they ruthlessly killed all their relatives.

Upon hearing this, Bi Xie was so angry that his chest ached.

She knew Cao Cheng wasn't a good person, but she never imagined he would be so ruthless!

Is it possible for a human being to slaughter their own family members for their own future and wealth?

Bi Xie laughed in anger, grabbed Cao Cheng by the collar and lifted him up, saying, "Take me to Manyue Village."

Cao Cheng was horrified: "Immortal Master, we can't go! The village... it's full of corpses. They've come back for revenge. We can't go back, we can't go back..."

Ignoring his struggles, Bi Xie raised his hand and tore open the lightning net.

The green zombie then raised its wood-chopping knife and slashed at Cao Cheng again. Cao Cheng cried out and hurriedly begged for mercy, saying, "I'll take the immortal master with me."

For the next few hours, no one slept. The old man in the main room was awakened by Cao Cheng's screams. He mumbled incoherently. He must have been too ill to get out of bed, otherwise he would have come out to check. Because he was unable to move, he kept asking what was going on and why it was so noisy. He also called out Yue Niang's name and asked Cao Cheng if he had woken her up and taken her back.

Cao Cheng had been slashed on the back, and was covered in blood. Other parts of his body were also scratched raw by Pei Qin's sharp nails.

Bi Xie ignored him and chanted an incantation to extract Pei Qin's soul from Yue Niang's body.

She has now become a green zombie, but her original body should still be sealed in the coffin. Only her soul has escaped, which is why she can possess Yue Niang's body.