Could this corpse-raising demon be surnamed Zhao? ...
Yan Huanyue's real test was to obtain the Rejuvenation Pearl.
She didn't ask Ning Wuyang to help her retrieve the Rejuvenation Pearl; she just wanted to know Tingnan's current situation, which had nothing to do with the test questions.
But since everyone knows she's here to take the exam, even if she reveals the questions, some people might think she made them up on the spot to hide the real questions.
Yan Huanyue decided not to press the matter further. She pointed to Lü Aolan, who was still standing by the wall, and said:
“Miss Lü’s parents are still looking for her. Senior Brother Ning, we need to remove the demon spirit hidden under her skin. I will give you two drops of her parents’ blood. Please ask someone to send her back as soon as possible.”
Ning Wuyang said, "You don't need to worry about that. I'll handle it. Get some rest."
He waved, and Lü Aolan floated slowly to his side. He gestured to the people around him, and they all bid farewell to Yan Huanyue and left the room.
Yan Huanyue sat cross-legged on the couch alone, pondering what she had seen and heard.
The chaos caused by the corpse demons in Tingnan was indeed reported to the sect; there is no doubt about that.
After that, the people of the Sky Patrol were not afraid of the people's fear, and even stirred things up by arranging for the Mysterious Demon Immortal to frighten people on dark and windy nights.
why is that?
But conversely, if scaring people is crucial for Tingnan, then its purpose must be to warn or intimidate them, to prevent them from approaching the area or doing anything.
Yan Huanyue recalled the place where she met the paper doll. Apart from the lush forest, there seemed to be nothing special about it.
Is that some kind of forbidden area? Or is the Corpse Demon there, and the local people want to get close to it for some unknown reason, so the Patrol Office had no choice but to resort to this drastic measure?
But if the Corpse Demon is so dangerous, why would ordinary people want to get close to it?
Is it just the mentality of busybodies watching the show?
It seems unlikely.
Yan Huanyue's gaze slowly fell on the wooden box beside her. She remembered that in that deserted village, Uncle Ge had once said something similar, "Tingnan was also obtained from us..."
What should we take?
Is it a baby?
Or is it this kind of insect?
If this kind of insect also appeared in Tingnan, wouldn't Senior Brother Ning and the others also look as if they've never seen such a thing before?
However, it's also possible that it hasn't been found yet.
However, literally speaking, the Rejuvenation Pearl is something that can bring the dead back to life. Infants are the most yang creatures, and this worm can absorb the blood and energy of others. Perhaps it can also revive the dead and heal the wounded through evil magic.
However, it seems unlikely that those behind the scenes, who want to introduce as many babies as possible into the world, will simply squander these children.
As for what this insect is...
She carried the wooden box into the black box where she imprisoned Fu Yinhuan.
The fat mouse that eats rice always looks carefree and leisurely.
As soon as she entered today, the fat rat suddenly darted over from Fu Yinhuan's feet, squeaking and circling around her on the floor, looking terrified.
Yan Huanyue understood immediately upon seeing him. She slowly walked up to him, looked down at him, and said with a smile, "You actually wanted to take this rat's life, Fu Yinhuan. What can one say about you? Hmm?"
Fu Yinhuan was so thin she was skin and bones. Her clothes and cloak were worn out and tattered, and many of her wounds were healing again, covered by the tattered fabric of her clothes.
The tattered black cloth made the wound red, swollen, and oozing pus, as if it had grown out of his body.
He looked up and stared intently at the blood-stained gauze around Yan Huanyue's waist. He took a deep sniff, then grinned with cracked lips, saying, "But you destroyed my cultivation, leaving me without even the ability to be a rat. Otherwise, would you have let a rat stay here?"
Yan Huanyue smiled and said, "Of course, I'm afraid you'll be lonely."
Fu Yinhuan's eyes flickered slightly as she said, "What are you planning to do now?"
Yan Huanyue opened the wooden box, held it up to him, and asked with a smile, "Do you recognize it? Let it keep you company."
Fu Yinhuan pushed herself back a short distance with her hands on the ground, staring intently at the worm with its bristly black legs scraggling inside the box. She said in a deep voice, "Black Blood Altar... it's grown this big. I dare to take it, but are you willing to give it to me?"
He knew about this evil and immoral thing, indeed.
With a "click," Yan Huanyue closed the lid and said leisurely, "Of course I won't give it to you. I'm just letting you see what it's like. I'm taking this back to feed my senior sister's cranes."
"Feeding the birds? You're really generous to your senior sister..."
Fu Yinhuan glanced at the white gauze wrapped around her abdomen, then suddenly raised an eyebrow and said, "Is this what you're raising?"
He chuckled silently, his peach blossom eyes gleaming with undisguised greed. "You've managed to raise the Black Blood Altar to such a size, and you're still alive. Tell me, with your innate pure spirit body, you were born to be thrown into a cauldron for alchemy. How can anyone not be drooling with desire?"
Yan Huanyue directly used her spiritual power to poke two small bloody holes in his neck with a hand seal, then fed him a bottle of pills, and said through gritted teeth, "Envious? Well, what if you're all alone here, silent and helpless, only able to hear the sound of your blood flowing?"
When the first two bloody gashes were pierced on his neck, Fu Yinhuan didn't feel anything. Gradually, the pain and blood flowed together, blood gushed from his lips, he had difficulty breathing, and his chest made a hissing sound.
He knelt on the ground, clutching his neck, looking up at her with chilling eyes.
She's too vengeful; what's good about that? She's suffered a little, so she has to retaliate.
Shouldn't she stay away from him out of fear of being abused by him again, or coax him to come because of his high cultivation level, so that he might like her a little more and be more lenient with her in the future?
How could she, an outer disciple, be so vicious, so relentlessly pursuing him, so scheming against him and bringing him to this state...?
Looking at his expression, Yan Huanyue couldn't help but sneer, "If I weren't already getting bored with you looking at me like that, I could skin you alive again."
With that, he turned and led the rat out of the black wooden box.
Now it seems that the insect was not some kind of elixir of life.
She had just returned to her room when she suddenly heard someone knocking on the door.
She had just moved to open the door when a food box was shoved into her hand.
Lu Shenchu smiled and said, "Fellow Daoist Yan, you probably haven't eaten yet, right? Little... Fellow Daoist Xiao Ning asked me to bring this. Eat it while it's hot. I'll head back now."
Yan Huanyue was initially surprised that Lu Shenchu would bring her food, but upon hearing that it was Ning Wuyang's request, she said, "Thank you for making the trip, Fellow Daoist Lu."
The food box was full of her favorite things. Yan Huanyue was indeed a little hungry, but because she was injured, she didn't have much of an appetite and didn't eat much.
She was now suffering from both qi and blood deficiency, but fortunately, the demon fairy helped her recover a great deal.
However, after staying up for three days and three nights, she was now exhausted, but the pain from her still-healing wounds forced her to stay awake despite her extreme fatigue, which was very painful.
She took a pill to relieve the pain and fell into a deep sleep the moment she lay down on the bed.
The next morning, after waking up, she applied the medicine to her wound again and went out to find Ning Wuyang, wanting to check on Lü Aolan's condition.
To everyone's surprise, when they met Ning Wuyang, he was threading the string onto his newly bought kite.
Lu Aolan was anxiously pacing around him, wanting to help herself every now and then, but Ning Wuyang kept blocking her. Tears were already welling up in her eyes.
Hearing footsteps, Ning Wuyang looked up at Yan Huanyue and frowned, saying, "Why aren't you resting your injuries right now? What are you doing running out here?"
Yan Huanyue said, "It's mostly fine now."
As he spoke, he walked over to Lü Aolan and took her pulse. Fortunately, she was alright.
Seeing her blinking her big, dark eyes at her curiously, Yan Huanyue took out a triangular talisman from her treasure pouch, hung it around her neck, tucked it into her clothes, and instructed her:
"Wear it properly, don't lose it."
Ning Wuyang handed the kite, now with its string tied, to the eagerly waiting Lü Aolan, then turned to Yan Huanyue and said:
"Director Ji arranged for one of his disciples from the Mingde Sect to escort her back. They will be leaving soon. I originally planned to take her to find you for your things before they leave."
Lu Aolan had no interest in them and didn't know what she had been through. As soon as she got the kite, she grabbed the kite string and dashed off, with the little eagle kite stumbling and fluttering behind her.
Yan Huanyue watched her play quietly, wondering how happy her mother would be to see her.
After a while, two drops of blood floated out of her sleeve and landed in front of Ning Wuyang. "Follow this and you will find her parents. Please give it to the disciple who will take her back. Also, thank you for the meal you brought last night."
Ning Wuyang's expression changed, and he said, "Last night I was interrogating the 'clothes person' under her skin with Director Ji, so I didn't bring you food."
Yan Huanyue said, "It was brought by Fellow Daoist Lu."
Ning Wuyang breathed a sigh of relief. "Him? Although he is a profit-driven person, he is a decent person. He probably saw that no one was looking after you last night, so he brought it to you himself."
Yan Huanyue understood and asked, "What were the results of last night's interrogation?"
Ning Wuyang rubbed his temples and said, "It's not much different from what we guessed last night. When those children are sent to different households, they will inevitably be unable to suppress their bloodlust when they come of age, but it will take a lot of effort to get rid of the violence in them."
Then he added, "If we hand it over to the Xuanjiang lineage, it will indeed be much simpler. Their lineage does not have high requirements for one's own spiritual root talent, and the souls of demon immortals can devour those evil things. We can also concentrate our efforts on finding the person behind it all."
The two major events happening in Tingnan now are indeed somewhat depressing.
Yan Huanyue said, "When I was in that deserted village, I heard someone in charge of the village say that Tingnan would also take something from them."
Ning Wuyang paused for a moment and said, "It should be fetal hair and placenta... I knew they were wondering where they got so many placentas to use as a place to raise corpses. When the people who went to that deserted village to clean it up come back, they will naturally find out."
Yan Huanyue was about to say something more when she heard a wail outside the door.
It was a member of the Zhao family, crying and shouting things like "Help!" outside the gate of the Xuntianliao.
Ning Wuyang glanced at Yan Huanyue and said, "Director Ji will take care of it. I'll send this silly girl to that disciple of the Mingde Sect."
Yan Huanyue followed Ning Wuyang and handed Lü Aolan over to a female disciple of the Mingde Sect, watching them leave through the back door.
When I returned to the front yard, the situation outside had not calmed down; in fact, it seemed to be escalating.
Through the crack in the closed door, Yan Huanyue could see a number of people outside.
Someone was making a fuss, saying, "Last night, someone saw Old Master Zhao emerge from that old grave. Look! Look! What Director Ji said is right. The Zhao family's grave is deeply polluted by evil magic. People buried there will return home to commit sins within a day or two. Zhao Lao Er's illness must be caused by Old Master Zhao's curse. He will die in a few days!"
"Could it be true that there are corpse demons that grow in unclean graves? If that happens, everyone will suffer! We should listen to the advice of the Heavenly Patrol. We shouldn't bury people in places where they shouldn't be buried, so as not to harm others and ourselves."
"I heard someone saw a paper figure chasing after someone? Was it Old Master Zhao?"
"Since they've all turned into corpse demons, couldn't Old Master Zhao have hidden under the paper skin of the paper figures?"
"It's not that I'm disobedient, but I regret it now. What if the corpse demon wipes out my family and comes after us? Damn it, I haven't lived enough yet!"
"Then let me say this: since the corpse demon is causing havoc on the world, it would be best if everyone died. I have nothing to say about that. But if I'm the only one who dies while everyone else is still alive, I'll die with my eyes open in disgrace!"
......
Yan Huanyue slowly walked to the door. With a slight turn of her head, she could see Ji Linsong drinking tea under the window of his room. The few people in the Xuntianliao who hadn't gone out were all busy with their own things and showed no intention of opening the door.
The crying and shouting outside almost shook the Xuntianliao building to its core, but they acted as if nothing had happened.
Yan Huanyue then jumped over the back wall, ran to the front door, squeezed into the crowd, and inquired everywhere.
Only then did they learn that after the arrival of the Heavenly Patrol, several burial sites had been sealed off, prohibiting the burial of people. It was only after the Zhao family made a scene at the gate that they revealed the matter of the corpse demon.
As a result, the Zhao family did not listen and asked someone from who-knows-where to break the seal, burying Old Master Zhao in the old ancestral grave. They even moved to a house near Xuntianliao.
Last night, the second master of the Zhao family, who had been the most vocal in cursing in front of the Xuntianliao gate, disappeared.
When I found him today, the second master of the Zhao family was lying on the ground in the room where the old master Zhao had lived in the Zhao family's old house. He was foaming at the mouth, convulsing violently, as if he were possessed, and I couldn't stop him no matter what I did.
Yan Huanyue was puzzled and asked the others about the location of the Zhao family's ancestral home.
According to others, isn't this the place where Lu Shenchu's demon fairy chased people and scared them last night?
The paper figure possessed by the legendary Master Zhao is none other than the demon immortal himself, isn't it? Could it be that this demon immortal's surname is Zhao?
That's impossible.
Yan Huanyue gradually realized that the Zhao family might be cooperating with the Xuntianliao. The Xuntianliao wanted to take advantage of the situation to stir up trouble, thoroughly expose the hidden corpse demon, make it infamous, and warn everyone of its harm before they even heard a sound from it.
What is the purpose of doing this? What is the necessity of it?
Just then, with a creak, the door of the patrol shed opened.
Ji Linsong led a few people to the eaves and looked at the Zhao family members who were crying in grief and full of remorse. He said, "I am aware of this matter. The Xuntianliao will handle your family's affairs."
Then he looked at the growing crowd on the street and said, "The fault for this lies entirely with the scheming people who are deceiving you all behind the scenes. It has nothing to do with anyone else. If any of you have been unlucky enough to have your ancestral graves defiled or have any bad omens, just report it here and we will immediately send someone to deal with it."
Yan Huanyue suddenly felt a chill run through her body.
Given that it was a demon spirit frightening people at the Zhao family's ancestral grave, coupled with the attitude of the patrolling officials, doesn't that mean that those who are knowingly and deliberately raising corpse demons are actually just some ordinary people hiding among the crowd on the street?
It's not that easy for a grave to be accidentally defiled.
Raising corpse demons is no simple matter.
What Ji Linsong meant was that you were already in deep trouble but didn't realize it. As long as you come and confess where you buried the body, your mistake of raising the corpse can be forgiven for the time being?
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