The reason why Gu Zhisang went straight to this courtyard without any guidance after entering Tianyun Village was because with her spiritual perception, the direction of this courtyard was exactly the place with the most yin energy in the entire village.
If Tianyun Village is the 'upside-down underworld', then this courtyard is the hole where yin and yang meet. It is the place with the most evil in the village which is already shrouded in a layer of gray-black fog.
From afar, the howling wind looked like a huge cocoon wrapped in evil.
This was indeed the case. The closer Gu Zhisang got to the house, the more evil spirits appeared hidden in the yin energy.
Finally, the place where the evil energy continued to spread outward was the master bedroom.
When he pushed open the bedroom door, Gu Zhisang was prepared for a fierce battle if there was an evil spirit inside.
The door was kicked open with a bang, hitting the moss-covered wall, and the dim yellow candlelight from inside overflowed, completely illuminating the gloomy interior.
The master bedroom is strangely decorated.
The walls and windows of the room were covered with upside-down "囍" characters and decorated with cheap red candles.
On the innermost bed, there was a figure in a red wedding dress sitting upright.
The moment he saw the person in red wedding dress, Gu Zhisang subconsciously clenched the peach wood sword in his hand, and with the vigilance he would face against evil spirits, he was ready to strike with the sword and kill at any time.
She had sharp eyes and could tell at a glance that the wedding dress was engraved with the marks of a deceased relative and was stained with dried, smelly, rotten blood.
The spread-out bed on which the figure sat was made of thin coffin boards, and the 'curtain' hanging on it was a layer of red gauze paper.
Looking from a distance through the window, it is difficult to see any clues, but after removing the sleight of hand and taking a closer look, you will find that the wedding bed, suites and other items in the room are not real furniture, but simulation objects made in paper-making shops.
The most crucial thing is that this 'bride' in red is full of murderous aura, which is the cause of the gust of wind that attracts Gu Zhisang.
The last time Gu Zhisang felt such a strong evil spirit from a ghost was eight hundred years ago when she strangled a ghost king-level ghost who escaped from the ice hell.
The 'bride' in red clothes with an evil look on her face, coupled with the eerie scene of red candles and paper beds in the house, it was no wonder that she mistook this person for an evil creature causing trouble in Tianyun Village at first glance.
But after being alert for a few seconds, the red-clothed 'ghost' sitting on the bed remained silent and did not react at all, nor did it pounce on her to deal with this uninvited guest.
Gu Zhisang frowned slightly, feeling a little strange.
She didn't seem to detect much resentment in this room.
When the atmosphere was tense, she suddenly thought of something.
In fact, she had encountered this kind of evil not long ago, but it was not from a fierce ghost, but from the Yan family, and from Yan Cheng who almost lost control and exploded to death.
Thinking of this, Gu Zhisang couldn't help but come up with an absurd guess in his mind.
Could the 'bride' sitting on the bed be Yan Cheng?
She herself chuckled at this ridiculous guess, but she did not let her guard down at all.
She raised the arm holding the peach wood sword, and used the tip of the sword to pick up the pottery jar on the table beside her. She swung the heavy hemispherical porcelain and smashed it directly at the red-clothed figure in front of the couch.
Gu Zhisang used a subtle and precise angle, allowing the porcelain to pass by the veil of the "bride". The airflow caused by it blew the red cloth crookedly, causing it to hang by her ears and precariously fall.
At the same time, the porcelain smashed hard against the innermost wall of the coffin bed and shattered into a handful of broken pottery pieces.
A sharp whistle came from the pottery jar, and a cloud of gray mist emerged from it, instantly expanding into a ghostly figure with a human upper body and a blurry lower body.
Seeing this, Gu Zhisang was a little surprised.
She didn't expect that there was such a slow-witted ghost hidden in the pottery jar.
It seems that it is a "jar ghost" that ran up from the hole that opened up between the Yin and Yang worlds after Tianyun Village became the "hell" on earth. This is a kind of ghost that specializes in living in jars and tubes, and its ability is not strong;
Just like the evil spirit she had just killed outside, they were all minions guarding this yard.
It must have been sleeping in the jar, and the loud noise outside did not attract its attention. It was only when the jar it was hiding in was broken that the ghost woke up.
The ghost who seemed to be furious with fangs and claws bared, rushing towards Gu Zhisang, was actually just bluffing.
Although the 'jar ghost' is slow, it is not stupid. When it saw Gu Zhisang appear in the master bedroom alone with a stern aura, and there were no other ghosts guarding him, it was obvious that he was a strong man.
After roaring twice, it quickly ran out of the bedroom, close to the ground, and escaped into the dark night.
"Boss, a living person from the mortal world has come to snatch your bride!"
Gu Zhisang: ...
Before she could react, the red cloth veil that was originally half hanging on the 'bride's' earlobe and was about to fall off was completely scraped off by the fleeing ghost and fell on the figure's legs.
The appearance beneath the veil was completely exposed.
When he saw the face of the person in the red wedding dress, Gu Zhisang's narrow eyes widened in surprise:
"Yan Cheng?!"
The man lying stiffly on the bed, wearing a bloodstained red robe, was none other than Yan Cheng, who was abducted by the deputy leader of the Qianqing Sect and disappeared in Tianyun Village!
When their eyes met, the pale young man did not expect that the intruder was Gu Zhisang. When he realized his situation, he subconsciously wanted to raise his hands to protect himself from such a miserable state, but his limbs were heavy and he could not move. He could only let the extremely surprised Gu Zhisang look him up and down.
Soon, the young man's face, which had turned pale due to blood loss from long-term torture and pain, began to show a thin layer of red, and even the corners of his eyes were covered with faint red marks.
Realizing that Yan Cheng was unable to speak or move, Gu Zhisang hurriedly took two steps forward.
As soon as she got closer, she felt the strong evil aura coming from Yan Cheng. Several acupuncture points of the young man in front of her were opened up, and the evil aura from all directions was madly gathering.
The pain of having his tendons, veins, blood and flesh corroded by the evil spirits made Yan Cheng, who was used to years of suffering, break out in a cold sweat.
When Gu Zhisang broke the confinement spell and the silencing spell on him, the exhausted young man fell forward and was caught by Gu Zhisang who was quick-eyed and quick-handed.
"Are you okay?"
As soon as her palm touched the young man's shoulder, Gu Zhisang pursed her lips. She took advantage of the situation and grabbed one of Yan Cheng's arms and pressed her palm against him.
The moment their skin touched, the evil spirit that was about to tear Yan Cheng's veins apart and on the verge of collapse seemed to have found an outlet for venting, and was completely dissolved and absorbed by Gu Zhisang.
The power of thunder and fire mixed in it tempered Gu Zhisang's bones, which was equivalent to strengthening her body.
About ten minutes later, the out-of-control Yin Sha in Yan Cheng's body was finally stabilized below the out-of-control line.
His thin, pale lips also had a faint red color, his red clothes were as red as fire, and with his jade-like face and straight nose, he looked like a handsome male ghost crawling out of hell.
After taking a closer look and touching it twice, Gu Zhisang understood what was wrong with the 'bride' covered with a red veil at first sight.
Yan Cheng has a slender figure, almost 1.9 meters tall, and is also quite tall when sitting.
He looked thin in his clothes, but when Gu Zhisang picked him up after he exhausted himself, he could clearly feel that underneath the thin wedding dress, the young man had broad shoulders and a narrow waist.
The muscles in his shoulders and arms are bulging but not exaggerated, and the muscles in his waist and abdomen are tough and firm.
She really doesn't look like a girl who was married off on behalf of others.
“Sangsang…”
Yan Cheng hadn't had water for a long time, so his voice was low and hoarse. When he subconsciously called out, both of them were stunned.
The first two times we met, he was dressed in a well-ironed suit, with a pair of serene eyes, and he called me "Master Gu" in a distant but businesslike manner.
Fortunately, Gu Zhisang was only stunned for a moment, and did not think too much about it. He responded and asked:
"How could you ..."
How could she be wearing a wedding gown and a red veil, and be forbidden to speak or be tied up in this empty room?
Yan Cheng understood the meaning of Gu Zhisang's unfinished question.
His almost fragile and embarrassing side was seen by the people he cared about, which made it even more difficult for this young man, who already had a strong self-esteem and an introverted temperament, to accept.
The redness on his ears never faded, but became even darker.
Gu Zhisang glanced at it, pretending not to see it and asked:
"Didn't someone from Xuanmen bring you in? Where are they?"
When it comes to Xuanmen, Yan Cheng's eyes showed some anger, and he said helplessly:
"We did come in together. That Xuanmen senior kept saying that the ghosts here were nothing to be afraid of, but they all fell after a short while."
According to Yan Cheng, he was handling company business at home when he was taken away.
After the large formation at home sounded the alarm, he looked up and found an old man with long eyebrows standing in front of him. He looked arrogant and took him away without any explanation.
Those people along the way didn't treat him very well, but Yan Cheng was already used to the people of Xuanmen treating him as a scourge;
Who would have thought that after arriving at the place, the old man from Xuanmen would actually let him be the center of the formation to absorb the negative energy outside the village.
For this reason, the spiritual team that was protecting him even came into conflict with the people from Xuanmen.
But the old man didn't listen at all. He stubbornly led his group into the village.
As soon as he entered, he was surrounded by hundreds of evil spirits.
At that time, Yan Cheng's body was still in the process of having its acupoints opened and was madly absorbing evil spirits. The old man who made him like this was busy dealing with hundreds of ghosts coming from all directions and had no intention of closing his acupoints.
Two hours later, all the people from the spiritual group and the Xuanmen who entered the village with him disappeared.
Only Yan Cheng was left there, still madly absorbing the evil spirits. He was surrounded by circles of ghosts with livid faces and different causes of death. They surrounded him in three layers, staring at him curiously like they were watching an animal.
Yan Cheng felt a little helpless when he said this.
“It seems that it is because the old man opened up my acupuncture points that allowed my body to absorb Yin energy uncontrollably, and those ghosts cannot get too close to me.
It can be considered a blessing in disguise, and it protects me in disguise.”
Because the soul of a ghost is also composed of yin energy and soul energy.
When a ghost with less power approaches Yan Cheng, some of its own power will be pulled away and absorbed by Yan Cheng.
The ghosts who noticed this situation naturally did not dare to act rashly, but they also felt very curious, so they surrounded Yan Cheng and asked him repeatedly.
It can be said that that day was the time when Yan Cheng saw the most ghosts in his life.
He continued, "I heard that the ghosts seemed to have mistaken me for a powerful being, saying that I was the reincarnation of the Ghost King..."
Gu Zhisang understood.
This is very normal, because Yan Cheng's physique is too special and there are too many evil spirits in his body.
Even the people of Xuanmen regarded him as the reincarnation of an evil omen when he was born, let alone the ghosts in the underworld.
They were afraid that their energy would be devoured by Yan Cheng, and they were also afraid that Yan Cheng would turn into a big ghost again after his death and would hate them, so they did not harm Yan Cheng.
Gu Zhisang asked: "Then what? How did you end up like this?"
Yan Cheng pursed his lips and said:
"Then a female ghost suddenly appeared. As soon as it appeared, the other ghosts around it seemed to be very afraid of it and their attitude towards it was also relatively submissive..."
He couldn't bring himself to describe what happened next, but Gu Zhisang had already guessed it.
After the female ghost came out, she must have taken a liking to Yan Cheng and pointed at him, wanting to form a bond with him. She asked a few little ghosts to carry Yan Cheng to the yard.
Whether he was willing or not, he could not resist. Like a puppet, he was dressed in a red wedding dress, covered with a red cloth, and guarded in the yard.
After hearing this, Gu Zhisang already had many guesses:
"The female ghost that suddenly appeared should be the key to this village becoming a 'hell' on earth. Do you still remember it?"
With just a few words from Yan Cheng, some information became clear.
Tianyun Village was destroyed by the birth of some extremely evil creature, which disrupted the Feng Shui and reversed the Yin and Yang, causing evil spirits from the underworld to run into the village and cause trouble.
Below the Windy City is the entrance to Hell.
Most of the ghosts in hell are evil and vicious. Even in the eighteen levels of hell, they will bite and devour each other. How can they respect and retreat from the same ghost at the same time?
Unless there is something special about the ghost itself.
For example, it is the reason for the formation of the 'Inverted Hell'.
Precisely because the ghosts in the underworld know all of this, their attitude towards it is rather subtle.
In addition, Gu Zhisang had been observing all the way into Tianyun Village.
Seeing the red paper money scattered all over the ground and some "囍" characters hanging upside down outside the doors, she understood what had happened in this village not long ago -
Someone held a very grand "Bai Xi" ceremony in the village.
This is what people commonly call "ghost marriage".
'Ghost marriage' is a type of ghost marriage, and it is also a very special one.
Generally, ghost marriages are arranged by calculating the horoscopes and forming a bond between the souls.
But there is also an older, more traditional and dregs form that requires the use of the corpse of the object of the haunting.
In the world of the living, red and white events are called "red weddings" and "white funerals". This sinister marriage in which the body of the deceased is carried to the hall for a wedding ceremony is called "white happiness" or "ghost marriage".
Judging from the crushed paper money and various traces on the ground in the village, it can be inferred that this "White Wedding" had already been held before the people from the Xuanmen entered the village, and it was a grand ceremony.
The couple was given a feast with wine and drinks, and the villagers gave their blessings. They also hired a paper craftsman to make a wedding bed made of coffin boards, paper cabinets and curtains, etc. for the 'newlyweds'.
Most villagers cannot afford such a grand ceremony.
It is obvious that the disaster in this village is also related to this "ghost marriage".
The evil spirits that form the "upside-down underworld" in the village are most likely the ones to be arranged for "ghost marriage".
Many speculations ultimately pointed to the female ghost who specifically asked to kidnap Yan Cheng.
Yan Cheng thought for a moment and described: "If I remember correctly, the female ghost looked to be in her twenties, not very tall, but very, very thin..."
After a pause, he explained seriously:
"This is the first time I've seen this ghost. I don't know why or why it wants to lock me up here and marry me."
The young man looked cold when he explained, but from his pale face, Gu Zhisang clearly felt a little aggrieved.
She said: "It probably doesn't really want to marry you, but it's attracted by your identity."
No matter in the eyes of the mystic or the ghosts, a man like Yan Cheng, whose evil aura is more intense than that of the big ghosts in the underworld, must be the reincarnation of a ghost king or above.
That's probably what the female ghost thought.
Although it has deep resentment and powerful abilities, its appearance happened to turn Tianyun Village into an "upside-down underworld" trapped by a barrier.
The ghosts in the barrier cannot leave, so they are naturally trapped inside and cannot cause trouble in the outside world.
Obviously, the ghost is not satisfied with this and wants to find a way to break through the barrier.
Coincidentally, at this point, Yan Cheng was abducted by the Xuanmen people and taken to the village.
The ghost was attracted by Yan Cheng's identity as the reincarnation of the Ghost King and his physique that could gather evil spirits.
As long as it becomes married to Yan Cheng, it will be able to make use of the Yin energy in Yan Cheng's body, in simple terms, it will be able to suck Yan Cheng dry and use it to break through to a higher level.
Then it will be able to attack the village's barrier and escape outside the village.
The reason why Yan Cheng had been trapped in the village for two days and had not been dragged away by the ghost to "worship the hall" was probably because the female ghost was waiting for his seventh day.
The first seven nights of the newly dead souls are also known as the 'Night of Returning Souls', during which their abilities will double again and their threat will increase greatly.
After sorting out his thoughts, Gu Zhisang took out the Tongbao coin from his arms, threw it out and patted it on the back of his hand.
Two yins and one yang is ominous.
She narrowed her eyes slightly and pulled Yan Cheng's wrist: "Come on, I'll take you out of the village."
We can't stay here any longer.
Yan Cheng's throat rolled, he lowered his eyes to look at his wrist being held by the slender white fingertips, and asked: "Don't we need to find someone else?"
Gu Zhisang said with a serious expression, "It is not my business to care about the lives of Xuanmen people. After I send you out of the village, I will come in again and find the teammates from the Spirit Group and take them away."
"But you can't stay here. They will die faster if you fall into the ghost cave."
She just had her fortune told and the reading wasn't good.
She calculated that once it’s midnight tonight, it will be the seventh day since the ghost girl’s death, and from that moment on, its power will increase dramatically!
If Yan Cheng was captured by it and married to it at this time, and his blood and energy were sucked dry, then the power of this ghost would increase greatly, and it might even surpass the Ghost King and reach the emperor level!
By then, not to mention the people in this village, I'm afraid the barrier of the entire Tianyun Village will be destroyed.
If thousands of ghosts are released, the living world will suffer.
After hearing what she said, although Yan Cheng did not understand metaphysics, he nodded seriously to indicate that he would listen to her.
Gu Zhisang looked at the young man's face, which looked weak due to being tortured by the evil spirit and not having eaten for two days, and asked, "Do you want me to help you?"
Yan Cheng didn't try to hold back for the sake of his own face, "I can walk by myself, but if I'm in a hurry, I may not be able to walk very fast.
"It's okay." Gu Zhisang stood up.
Because the kid who changed Yan Cheng's clothes thought his shoulders were too broad and it was difficult to button his shirt, Yan Cheng's shirt and jacket were stripped off.
When he stood up and ran away, the hem of the skirt that was supposed to reach the bride's ankles only reached his calves, revealing a part of his calves that were covered with trousers.
Because the shoulders of women's wedding dresses were narrow, he couldn't button up the upper body completely. He just buttoned up two buttons crookedly, revealing a beautiful collarbone and neck.
The two had just walked out of the yard and were moving quickly towards the road out of the village.
Gu Zhisang held Yan Cheng, who was wearing a red wedding dress, with one hand and tightly grasped the peach wood sword with the other hand, preparing to forcibly use the thunder spell to blow away all the negative energy like he did when he came in.
But before she could find the weak spot in the barrier, the air around her suddenly became much colder, as if the temperature had dropped suddenly, and it seemed as if a layer of ice condensed in the air with every breath.
She suddenly stopped in her tracks and stopped on the dark and silent village road, her fingers tightening around the hilt of the mahogany sword.
Feeling the aura around her condense, Yan Cheng also realized something and asked in a low voice:
"What's wrong?"
Gu Zhisang said coldly: "It's coming, we left a little late."
Although she didn't take out her cell phone to check the time, she knew it was probably past midnight when she felt the air around her quickly becoming abnormally cold, and the creepy, tangible feeling of being stared at.
A new day has arrived.
The seventh day after the death of the female ghost has arrived.
Obviously, it didn't want to let Yan Cheng go, nor did it want to let Gu Zhisang go. The moment the seventh day arrived, it rushed over and tried to surround Gu Zhisang and the other two.
Because the yin energy around was too heavy, the temperature on the scene dropped suddenly, and the wind blowing on Yan Cheng's face and skin made him feel a tingling sensation.
Perhaps it was because of his physique that attracted evil spirits, coupled with the extremely cold yin energy, that his five senses were also strongly affected.
There was clearly nothing around him, but he could hear a vague and sad suona sound that seemed to be coming from far away.
"Sangsang, did you hear..."
"I heard you." Gu Zhisang's voice was cold, "Don't be too far away from me for a while, within three steps, and if you really can't help it, grab my sleeve."
Her slightly upturned eyes were always looking in a certain direction, and Yan Cheng, who was aware of it, also looked over there.
A white shadow suddenly appeared on the village road which was originally empty in sight.
It was a tiny dot at first, and as the white shadow got closer, Yan Cheng could see that it was not a 'human figure', but seemed to be a piece of blindingly white banner fluttering in the wind, and the desolate and chilling sound of a suona was getting closer and closer.
It was a team of about a dozen ghosts.
Their feet were light and fluttering, as if they were invisible, and they were coming towards him and Gu Zhisang from a distance.
The most bizarre and terrifying thing is that every ghost is covered in white linen, with their faces painted pale, two lumps of solidified blood on their cheeks, with a crying face and a smiling mouth.
The four ghosts in the front were jumping and floating, carrying four long logs on their shoulders.
On top of the long wooden beam, there was a pitch-black coffin.
Gu Zhisang: "Water ghosts carrying coffins."
The moment she finished her words, another cheerful drumbeat that cut through the darkness came from the other side of the night.
Yan Cheng was slightly shaken by the sound of the drums and music. He turned his head and his pupils shrank slightly.
At the other end of the village road, a blood-red shadow appeared at some point.
A slightly smaller number of ghosts dressed in red wedding gowns, carrying a red lacquered sedan chair, beating gongs and drums, also came towards them.
These two waves of completely different ghosts suddenly appeared in the silent night and came towards each other, trapping Yan Cheng and Gu Zhisang in the middle.
"Five ghosts welcome the bride."
Gu Zhisang spoke in a cold tone, raising his sword:
"Red and white collide."
The author has something to say:
I went out to eat with my roommate again today, so it was even later. qwq I really won't go out tomorrow, and I will start writing during the day to make up for the word count.
Sorry for keeping you waiting for a long time, I wish you all a happy National Day!
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