Chapter 37 Bridal Chamber
The complete process of marrying the River God in Baidie Town should be: "matchmaking", "matching horoscopes", "preparing gifts", "welcoming the bride", and "worshipping in the hall". All the "worshipping in the hall" is to make a paper man to act as the groom River God and then marry him with a beautiful girl in the dilapidated temple.
The window was half open, and a peach-pink skirt was hanging on the shelf next to the window.
Outside the window, the deep blue river water seemed frozen, unable to flow into the courtyard.
He looked into the room. It was hung with white gauze from top to bottom, long enough to drag on the ground. A faint red light could be seen in the room, and the light was reflected on the white gauze, swaying back and forth.
He narrowed his eyes slightly and moved his gaze deeper. As the white gauze swayed, he saw a very long altar at the end of the room, with tablets arranged in circles on the altar.
Han Zhi walked over. There were as many as a hundred tablets on the stage, each with a number written on it. The last tablet with the number one hundred on it also had "My beloved wife Zhang Yier" written on it.
There were several rooms here, and he could vaguely hear banging sounds coming from the next room. It must be the groom who was matched with someone earlier who had arrived.
What about Chi Changyuan?
What was he doing?
He looked out the window again. The gurgling water outside was not fake, and there was not a trace of life in here.
Only then did he feel relieved. He suddenly pulled out his whip and whipped the pile of tablets without hesitation.
With a loud "crackling" sound, the tablet fell down, revealing a coffin as black as ink.
Unlike the foul stench outside before, the coffin was filled with the fragrance of osmanthus. The coffin was pitch black with white butterflies carved on it.
A cluster of golden flames ignited at his fingertips, and he drew a line across the coffin. The flames touched the coffin lid and burned a big hole in it.
When the corpse in the coffin was exposed, Han Zhi's pupils dilated slightly. He saw that the woman had skin as white as snow, was wearing a bright red wedding dress, and had a carved golden phoenix crown on her head. If she could not breathe, she would look like a living person.
Han Zhi thought that this should be the "Zhang Yier" written on the sign.
He cut his finger and blood dripped onto the corpse's face, gradually blending in.
The originally pale face suddenly flashed with a golden light. Han Zhi withdrew his hand and said coldly: "Zhang Yier, why don't you come out to me!"
What about marrying a river god?
There is no river god in this river anymore!
This ghost thing is not getting married at all, but relying on corpses to worship in the hall over and over again so that it can become a demon early!
He looked unfriendly, a wisp of black smoke rose faintly from the coffin, and a shrill scream emanated:
"Ah ...
"Let me go!"
“Let me go!!”
"Let him go..."
"You killed the Devil River God?"
Han Zhi said coldly: "Tell the truth, otherwise I will kill you right now."
"...Yes." Then she screamed again: "She deserves to die! Damn it!"
Han Zhi: "Why?"
"She deserves to die! Ughhhhhhhhhhh! She deserves to die! Damn it!"
The voice seemed to have completely lost its mind. Han Zhi frowned. Just as he was thinking about what to do, a voice came:
"She shouldn't have died, and neither should you."
Chi Changyuan had arrived at this underwater courtyard at some point. He looked tired, still wearing his foul-smelling white wedding gown. He whispered, "If I'm not mistaken, you blame the Moyan River Goddess for not caring about the people of Baidie Town marrying the river gods, so you resent her?"
Zhang Yier stopped moving.
"You were the bride of the River God just last year, weren't you? Before you married the River God, you were also arranged to marry in the afterlife." Chi Changyuan pointed at the coffin and said, "Have you ever thought about why they would choose a woman who was arranged to marry in the afterlife to marry the River God? It was the River God Mo Yan who told her in a dream that she loved you and didn't want you to be arranged to marry in the afterlife. But she didn't expect the villagers to mistakenly think she wanted you to marry the River God."
“Wha…what…”
"She felt guilty towards you, so she's been helping you. Transforming into a demon through the spirit path is a thousand times more difficult than transforming into a demon." Chi Changyuan said calmly, "Yet you killed her before you became a demon."
“No…no!”
"impossible!!!"
"She's a deity. If she didn't trust you, how could you have killed her so easily?" Chi Changyuan continued, "Actually, you shouldn't blame her. There's no need to set up hundreds of tablets here to rebuke her. She's just a minor river deity, only in office for less than a year, and you're the first person to be married off to a river deity. And the previous river deity was already punished for dereliction of duty."
Zhang Yier stopped talking.
Han Zhi was stunned, not understanding why Chi Changyuan knew so much.
Chi Changyuan tucked Zhang Yier, who had stopped resisting, into his sleeve and sighed, "I personally dismissed the guy in front."
At that time, he sent people to hunt down Han Zhi, and accidentally discovered that the Moyan River God was an accomplice of the evildoer, allowing local people to marry their daughters into the river, so he investigated and dealt with him.
Unexpectedly, after a year, the river god here had to be replaced with a new one.
"That Moyan River God..." Han Zhi hesitated and said, "Is she okay?"
"It's okay. Fortunately, I went there in time. The divine nature has not been completely broken. I will take it back and nurse it for a few days and it will wake up." It's just that his magic power has been greatly reduced. I guess he is too weak to defeat any monster.
"That's good."
Hearing that the Moyan River God was fine, Han Zhi guessed how he knew that. Chi Changyuan then said, "The one hundred pairs of corpses should correspond to these one hundred tablets. The corpses she drove here were all extremely evil people who had sinned against the "water". She wanted to practice while letting them taste the suffering that she and the other ninety-nine women had experienced after their death." Therefore, the one hundredth pair of corpses that met her requirements could not be found, and she chose Fairy Hua and the boatman who had killed Zhao San in the water in prison.
Han Zhi nodded: "If that's the case, then what should we do with those who cheated and deceived people?"
Chi Changyuan said, "According to the regulations of various countries, ghost marriages involve pairing the dead with the dead. What Baidie Town is doing is a serious crime. I have already notified the priests in charge of this area in the Jin Kingdom, and they will take care of the relevant individuals."
"As for Zhang Yier..." He hesitated. "According to Hanxu's rules, she killed someone and her ashes should be pulverized."
"Give it to me." Han Zhi said, "Nine Lands doesn't have such rules. She killed a bad guy and is innocent. I will wait until she regains consciousness and ask her personally about her fate - will she go through reincarnation or become a wandering ghost?"
Chi Changyuan thought the same thing. He handed the golden light in his sleeve to Han Zhi and said thankfully, "Thank you for your help."
Han Zhi took Zhang Yier over. At this moment, she had fallen into a deep sleep, and the evil spirit in her body was slowly being purified.
Chi Changyuan also noticed this and sighed: "You are also involved in the art of purification?" This is a spell created by the Ice God, and even Leng Xiangyu doesn't know it.
"...My master taught me this. He's popular and knows a little bit about everything." He just took the initiative and used his own blood to draw the Rebirth Purification Mantra. Even if a demon came, he would be stunned by him, not to mention Zhang Yier who was only halfway into the demon world.
It’s better to be a good ghost, Han Zhi thought. Any demon in this world will be targeted and branded by Fenjin. From then on, he will have no freedom and can only listen to Fenjin’s words.
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