Chapter 36: Husband and Wife Worship
He was so anxious that he even forgot the respect he had always addressed Chi Changyuan. He turned to Chi Changyuan and said, "This thing is not an ordinary ghost or goblin. I guess... it's about to become a demon!"
A single demon is not something that an ordinary priest like Jiang Mo can handle.
"What?" Jiang Moyi didn't expect this thing to be so difficult to deal with. He just said that the Demon God controls all demons, but the Demon God is the Demon God, and he doesn't have that kind of strength. When encountering such a ferocious creature, he can only run away.
"How do you know?" Everyone used to categorize these things into four levels: goblins, monsters, demons, and ghosts. Monsters and ghosts were at the same level, and Chi Changyuan's previous judgment was that this was just an ordinary ghost.
Han Zhi didn't have time to explain too much. He couldn't say that he had seen the demons raised by Fenjin before and was deeply impressed by them. He also couldn't say that he was thrown into the demon pit by Fenjin and was eaten. In order to survive, he cut the flesh on his arm just to lure away the demons and kill them. Therefore, he could tell whether it was a demon or a ghost at a glance.
"Ordinary ghosts can't control so many corpses." He had to make up an excuse and grabbed Chi Changyuan and ran towards the group of corpses. The closer they got to the corpses, the stronger the stench became. Chi Changyuan felt so disgusted that he almost vomited. Han Zhi looked at him with disgust: "Can you hold it in? These corpses are slow to react, but you're too obvious and it's too easy to be exposed." If he had known this, he would not have brought him along.
As if he could see the disdain in the other person's eyes, Chi Changyuan said embarrassedly: "I... I'll try my best."
Seeing Han Zhi standing still, he asked curiously, "Doesn't the smell bother you?"
Han Zhi: “I can’t smell it.”
"ah?"
Han Zhi's face darkened in an instant. Why else could it be?
He had been tied up among the dead for several months and was already very familiar with this smell.
"That's none of your business." He said coldly.
"...Because your true form is stone?"
Han Zhi: "Are you sick?"
It seemed like he was getting angrier the more he spoke, so Chi Changyuan had no choice but to keep quiet.
His temper has improved a lot.
Han Zhi thought that if he had dared to speak like this before, Chi Changyuan would have beaten him so hard that he would not be able to get out of bed for three days.
He ignored Chi Changyuan and followed the end of the team, grabbing the dead body in front of him and trying to take off his clothes.
"You're going to..."
"Shut up!"
Han Zhi glared at him and said, "It's still not too late for you to go find Jiang Mo now."
"Why should I leave? I know what you're going to do." Chi Changyuan thought his temper had improved considerably over the past year, but he hadn't expected it to break down again and again after meeting Cheng Yu. He forced himself to suppress his discomfort and reached out to tug at the clothing of the corpse in front of him.
!
Han Zhi's expression suddenly changed, and he loosened his grip on his clothes. Chi Changyuan, who had finally prepared himself mentally, was startled by Han Zhi's words and asked angrily, "What are you doing now?"
Han Zhi had a complicated expression as he stared at the face of the corpse turning around.
Only then did Chi Changyuan realize that the corpse seemed to have died not long ago. The skin on its face was still like that of a living person, and its body was intact, except that its eyes were dull and its face was pale.
"This is Fairy Hua." He gritted his teeth and decisively grabbed the corpse on Chi Changyuan's side. The corpse's face slowly turned towards him. It was the boatman from that day.
These corpses had no intelligence. When they were grabbed, they would just tilt their heads and then walk forward as if nothing had happened.
Chi Changyuan also realized that something was wrong: "They were killed?"
Han Zhi hummed, and then said: "According to the degree of preservation of the corpses, those who died earlier should stand in front. I just saw these two people this morning, and now they are dead so soon... This does not conform to the trial process." It seems that the two of them should have been killed by it, but what happened to make this "thing" target them?
The group of corpses quickly climbed up the stairs. Han Zhi didn't think too much and quickly took off the clothes of Hua Xianzi and the boatman and put them on himself and Chi Changyuan. The strange thing was that as soon as the outer clothes were taken off, the two corpses seemed to be frozen and could not move.
"It's just as I expected." Han Zhi cursed inwardly. Using objects to capture souls was the magic spell invented by Fenjin to control the "devil", but now this ghost thing had learned it and was causing trouble.
He was wearing the same white wedding gown that Fairy Hua wore, with murderous intent flashing in his eyes. Chi Changyuan stood aside, looking at him inexplicably angry, and wanted to ask him if he knew something. Just as he was about to speak, he heard a sharp voice:
"Bow to Heaven and Earth——"
Han Zhi suddenly grabbed him and bowed behind him.
Chi Changyuan staggered when he was pulled by him, and when he reacted, his head was pressed down.
"No……"
"Shut up."
Han Zhi raised his head, and then another high-pitched voice:
"Two bows to the parents—"
They both worshipped the Golden God.
After the third bow, Han Zhi and Chi Changyuan met each other's eyes and said unhappily, "Is this what you meant by sending someone alive tonight?"
Chi Changyuan had nothing to say.
He made such an inference based on the local customs, but he did not expect that this time this "thing" would actually gather a bunch of corpses to get married.
"There are a hundred pairs of these corpses in total. It's not difficult to find them, but it killed living people. Could it have other demands?"
Require?
Han Zhi looked at Fairy Hua and the boatman lying on the ground in the distance. The two of them colluded with each other to kill Zhao San, which was a heinous crime.
Han Zhi said: "These corpses seem to be dressed as a man and a woman." Perhaps they were guilty before they died. He didn't say this. It was not in his style to make arbitrary decisions based on just one pair.
But it is true that, regardless of whether the corpses are actually pairs of men and women, just looking at their attire, those standing in Han Zhi's row are indeed all wearing skirts.
"...Could it have been a matchmaker in its lifetime? Why did it love to set people up so much?"
Monsters and demons transform from animals, ghosts transform from mortals, and only mortals with great obsessions after death can become ghosts that even cultivators have to fear.
"Don't worry about that for now. What should we do after the worship?" Han Zhi thought for a moment: "Enter the bridal chamber?"
As if to confirm Han Zhi's words, as soon as he finished speaking, a sharp "enter the bridal chamber" was heard. Han Zhi let go of Chi Changyuan and whispered, "I'll go see what's going on."
After he finished speaking, he followed the corpses of his team and walked over with stiff movements.
“Eh—”
Chi Changyuan was just about to say that there was no bridal chamber here when he saw Han Zhi walking and disappearing at the temple entrance.
!
He knows!
No wonder he and Jiang Mo couldn’t find it in the Moyan River after searching for a long time. It turns out...it turns out!
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