Chapter 108 Wedding and mourning (39)
The village, which was bustling just now, has now become deathly silent.
All the sounds of suona and drums disappeared, leaving only the cold wind blowing over the corpses on the ground, bringing with it the smell of blood.
Zhang Wubing had tears in his eyes, and he was so scared that he almost clung to the brick wall behind him, looking like he wanted to find a crack to hide in. Yang Tu was not much better, if Yan Shixun hadn't scared him so much that he didn't dare to resist, he would have thought of a way to escape now.
Only Yan Shixun stood upright on the village road, confronting Yang Duo at the end of the road with neither arrogance nor servility.
The blood spread to Yan Shixun's feet, but he did not dodge at all. He just looked at Yang Duo coldly and asked, "You said you wanted to kill me, why didn't you move?"
Yan Shixun gently raised his hands and opened his arms, as if he had let down all his defenses and allowed himself to be slaughtered: "If I guess correctly, you are the so-called Yin God, right? Why, because you resent the gods for not doing anything, do you want to change this world you hate yourself? But in my opinion, what you have done does not match your identity - you are just the little girl who was powerless to resist back then."
A ferocious look flashed across Yang Duo's beautiful and enchanting face, and her sharp red nails hung down from her abdomen to her sides.
Zhang Wubing was terrified when he heard this, and didn't understand why Yan Shixun said such words that would anger Yang Duo.
But Yan Shixun chuckled nonchalantly, his unprotected chest wide open, as if anyone could take his life at will.
"What's wrong, Yang Duo?" He asked in a deep voice: "What are you hesitating about? Why don't you come and kill me? Or..."
Yan Shixun tilted his head, his eyes were cold, but with a hidden temptation: "Because the first seven days haven't really arrived yet, you haven't completely become a Yin God? Yang Duo is holding you back, and her memories as a human are still holding you back from truly becoming a Yin God, right?"
He sneered, his eyes disdainful: "Nothing more than that."
Yang Duo's face instantly became ferocious. Her originally beautiful facial features were wrinkled together, and she looked fierce and terrifying, almost unrecognizable.
Her ten sharp nails were like the sharpest knives, rushing straight towards Yan Shixun's chest, wanting to personally rip out the heart of this arrogant and offensive guy and kill him.
"Brother Yan!" Zhang Wubing exclaimed, his eyes bloodshot.
When Yang Duo rushed over, the wind she created at high speed blew up the strands of hair on Yan Shixun's forehead. He lowered his eyes and looked at Yang Duo's figure that appeared in front of him almost instantly, but a smile appeared on his lips, and his handsome face was calm.
Just when Yang Duo's fingertips were about to touch Yan Shixun's chest, he finally made his move.
The originally stretched arm suddenly closed with force, and the stone piece held in the palm of the hand slashed towards Yang Duo's neck sharply and accurately. Yan Shixun's eyes were sharp, but his posture was as agile as flowing wind and returning snow. He turned around to dissipate the force and let Yang Duo miss.
At the same time, he went behind Yang Duo, and the scratches left by the stone on Yang Duo's neck formed a perfect closed circle.
It's like the Tai Chi diagram.
At the moment when the starting point and the end point coincided, a light golden halo flickered and disappeared.
And the next moment, Yang Duo's shrill wail sounded.
The evil spirits wailed and the mountains shook.
Zhang Wubing and Yang Tu huddled together, trembling.
Yan Shixun took a breath, and a smile appeared on his stern face: "Thanks to my colleague who built the Killing Ghost Well before - although it was also him who forced Yang Duo to this point. But fortunately, the well still has some residual value."
He was originally very close to Yang Duo, but he stepped back slightly to create some distance between them.
Yang Duo kept reaching out to touch her neck, as if she had grabbed an invisible object and was trying to pull it off her neck, but she failed after several attempts.
She opened her bloodshot eyes and glared at Yan Shixun resentfully: "You, what did you do!"
Yan Shixun shrugged and spread out his palm, revealing a piece of remaining rubble inside, on which the remnants of the talisman and the burnt edges could still be vaguely seen.
It was exactly the fragments from the well in Yang Duo's yard.
When inspecting the well, although Yan Shixun lamented the inability of his colleague from decades ago to distinguish between good and evil, he also knew clearly that the ability to use such talismans and formations showed that Yang Duo decades ago was already so vicious that it frightened strangers.
The burn marks on the Ghost-Killing Well were caused by lightning. Yang Duo might have escaped from the suppression and gained even more powerful strength. He might even be able to leave the burial ground and walk out of the Moon Mountain Range, which was like a natural barrier, to Binhai City to possess Yang Hua.
Such behavior forced Yan Shixun to be on guard.
So, when he realized that his time was standing still and he couldn't even use the spells with full strength as usual, he kept it in mind and took the broken stone pieces on the main surface from the broken well.
Although this powerful talisman is almost scrapped due to its incompleteness, it is not completely useless.
As long as he uses the stone slab to hurt Yang Duo at close range when Yang Duo is off guard, the talisman on the stone slab will still be effective without the barrier of Yin Qi.
However, after being trapped in Yang Duo's world, where everything was dominated by her and the enemy was strong and he was weak, Yan Shixun would probably be killed by her before he could even reach Yang Duo.
So he angered Yang Duo - since he couldn't get close to Yang Duo, he would let Yang Duo come to him on her own initiative.
"There are funeral parlors everywhere in the village, and you haven't concealed it to this extent. Why do you think I will just do nothing?"
Yan Shixun jokingly said: "Did the Yin Qi not only swallow up your reason and memories of your previous life, but also your brain? Or are you too arrogant and think that no one can defeat you after becoming a Yin God? Let me remind you, the time has not come yet."
——Before the evening of the seventh day, the coffin has not been nailed shut. Things still have a chance to change.
Yes, Yan Shixun figured out the meaning of "Yin Shen".
The geographical location of Jiazifen Village is very strange. It is surrounded by mountains on all sides, and the Moon Creek splits it in two, like a scimitar cutting towards the back of Jiazifen Village.
An extremely dark and dangerous place.
This kind of terrain is most likely to gather negative energy, but it is not easy to disperse. In other words, all the resentment and anger of all those who died in Jiazifen Village over the past few hundred years will remain here, and eventually accumulate to a large amount that can no longer be ignored.
But even so, there would be no problems in Jiazifen Village in the short term.
Until the deep hatred of Yang Duo and Jiang Yanran appeared, the negative energy had a carrier. They were like standing on the spring, and all the water flowed towards them.
Yan Shixun was not sure whether it was Jiang Yanran or Yang Duo. Because in his opinion, although they both had resentment in their hearts, they were enough as evil spirits. Going up, the Yin Gods bred by pure and large amounts of Yin Qi were not enough.
Even though the Yin God is not a true god and should be more accurately described as a ghost rather than a god, it is still a deity after all and cannot be touched by ordinary evil spirits. Even in a place where extreme Yin gathers, it may take thousands of years to raise one.
Unless there has been a large number of deaths there, the corpses can produce the required large amount of Yin energy.
Unless the carrier of Yin energy itself has completely given up its expectations and goodwill towards the world of the living, and allowed itself to fall into endless darkness, never to be reincarnated.
Now it seems that this is Yang Duo's situation.
The Yin energy swallowed up her memories of being a human being, stripped her of all her human emotions, and turned her into an extremely vicious and evil person.
When the evening of the seventh day arrives, the yin energy will rise and the yang energy will fall, and Yang Duo will truly become a yin god.
And Jiazifen Village will completely become an extremely dark place and a den of ghosts in the world.
By then, all the living people near here will die. And this place is like a vortex, all the ghosts and yin energy nearby will be unconsciously attracted by it.
It's like a snowball and there's no possibility of stopping it.
When Yan Shixun saw Yang Duo coming towards him on his own initiative, he felt almost relieved and felt a rare sense of luck.
Fortunately, there is still time.
However, he still hadn't figured out why Jiazifen Village had gathered so much Yin energy in just a few decades? And among Jiang Yanran and Yang Duo, why was it Yang Duo who became the Yin God?
Although the weakened talisman could not kill Yang Duo, it was still able to trap her.
Under Yang Duo's hateful glare, Yan Shixun smiled calmly and said, "You know, I thought that if I encountered danger in Jiazifen Village, it would be from Jiang Yanran, but I didn't expect it to be you."
"No offense, but forgive me for being blunt. What I know about your experience so far cannot support you becoming a Yin God. Unless..."
His voice paused, and his smile faded: "You have also experienced other things that I don't know about yet."
"Let me guess."
Yan Shixun looked straight into Yang Duo's bloodshot eyes, without any fear or disgust on his face, only frank and pure inquiry.
"Although Yang Guang didn't tell me the whole truth, he didn't have to lie to me when it was beneficial to him."
Yan Shixun said slowly, "Yang Guang came back, and he also dug up the ground of the ancestral hall to save you. According to what he said, he saw you die with your eyes open, and then you had to flee in a hurry because you were discovered. Although he didn't know what happened afterwards, at that time, your facial features were still intact."
But Zhang Wubing said that the Yang Duo he saw was rotten all over, his ears and eyeballs were gouged out, and his mouth was roughly sewn up and then opened.
The only possibility Yan Shixun could think of was that the villagers were afraid.
This was not the first time he knew of living sacrifices, and for this kind of thing, the body would usually either be buried upside down, or someone would make some changes to the coffin, nailing the four corners of the coffin with nine-inch nails and then pouring molten iron into it to prevent the deceased from harboring resentment and rising up to seek revenge.
Since this was not the first time that Jiazifen Village had done such a thing, the people at that time would certainly not have missed such an important thing. The coffins that buried Yang Duo and her mother and grandmother alive must have been processed in this way.
However, it was ruined by Yang Guang.
The villagers saw Yang Duo's dead body, which had suffocated to death. So, out of fear, they dug out Yang Duo's eyes, cut off her ears, and sewed up her mouth.
She couldn't see her enemy's face or hear his voice, so even if she turned into a ghost, she wouldn't know who to seek revenge on. And when she got to Hades' Palace, even if she wanted to complain, she couldn't open her mouth to speak.
The villagers planned well, but they overlooked another thing.
——One thing that can allow Yang Duo to surpass Jiang Yanran and obtain the position of Yin God.
"Although you resented Yang Guang, he opened your coffin and allowed your soul to leave the burial site. The frequent deaths in Jiazifen Village in the years after your death were also due to this."
Yan Shixun said in a deep voice: "Yang Guang opened Pandora's Gate and released the devil, but he did not take your body away and fulfill his promise to take you away from Jiazifen Village. So, you avenged yourself and killed all those who decided that you and Yang Hua would marry."
"Of course, please don't get me wrong."
Yan Shixun raised his hand and smiled innocently, "If Jiazifen Village had asked me to change the name or build the well, I would never interfere, and I would even praise the killing. This is your own karma, and people outside of karma have no right to interfere."
Yang Duo's voice was as cold as a snake: "A sweet-talking liar is no different from Yang Guang. Since you agree, why are you trapping me now!"
"Because..." Yan Shixun sighed: "You killed innocent people."
"You killed people who were not in your karma, so the result that you should have repaid became your cause."
In those mourning halls, Yan Shixun saw piles of mourning couplets and portraits. Every household had not only one person who died, but had died one after another until the whole family was extinct. Among them, there were even many young children and young people who had just reached adulthood.
Those people came much later than Yang Duo and had nothing to do with her karma, but they were already dead.
At that time, Yan Shixun didn't know the reason for their death, but now he knows that he is trapped in Yang Duo's world, so he understands -
All the villagers were probably dead, even the young children were not able to escape. And among those young people, there were many friends of Yang Tu. He was sure that those young people had gradually broken away from the original customs of Jiazifen Village and started to connect with the outside world.
But even so, he could not escape death at the hands of Yang Duo.
"That's too much, Yang Duo."
Yan Shixun said in a cold voice: "You killed everyone. The Yin Qi in their bodies gave birth to the Yin God, but it also devoured you - do you still remember your name? Do you still remember your original purpose?"
"I don't care." Yang Duo grinned, tears of blood flowing down her cold face: "No one loves me, and I don't need to love them. Their life or death has nothing to do with me!"
"Except for my children, everyone else is only worthy of being my nourishment."
The evil ghost screamed, so painful and sharp that it almost made people want to cover their ears: "Everyone deserves to die, and everyone should experience the despair that I have experienced!"
child……?
Yan Shixun blinked slowly, doubts rising in his heart.
Yang Duo was only sixteen when she died. She married the god of the land and had no chance of having children. Besides, he had never heard of it?
He couldn't help but turn his head and look at the only person at the scene who might know about this, Yang Tu.
Yang Tu was already frightened to the point of trembling with fear, and the look from Yan Shixun almost frightened him to death. He spilled the beans without waiting for any further questions.
"It has nothing to do with me! Yang Yun, Yang Yun's father and others seemed to have done something, and then they all died overnight, and their lower bodies turned into a pool of blood. The clan leader and the villagers also knew that Yang Yun's father and his people seemed to have offended the village's sacrifices, so after Yang Yun's father died, the Yang Yun family was looked down upon by the village."
"I only heard adults talk about it when I was a child. I really don't know what I did specifically!"
Yang Tu didn't know, but Yan Shixun could roughly guess it.
He suddenly looked at Yang Duo, stared straight into her eyes, and asked word by word: "Were you pregnant before the burial?"
Ghost baby.
A woman who dies while pregnant is the most vicious of all ghosts. Not only the mother, but also the unborn fetus will resent the murderer. Between life and death, it is extremely evil.
No wonder, no wonder Yang Duo became the Yin God!
The pregnant woman was betrayed by all the people she trusted. She was buried deep underground in a bright red wedding dress, suffocated to death during the seventh month of the Ghostly Month, when the Yin and Yang alternated. The soul of the fetus was imprisoned in the coffin and could not leave. After a long time, it brewed into the deepest hatred...
With all the accumulated resentment, Yang Duo has become the most ferocious and troublesome among the evil spirits.
The continuous deaths of people in Jiazifen Village gave Yang Duo enough strength.
Yan Shixun's fingers hanging by his side trembled slightly.
He was afraid that Jiazifen Village had become a place where there was no hope of survival.
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