Chapter 39: Riding the White Fox
Gong Mengbi was in a daze for a moment. To some extent, this name was also well-known to him.
Gong Mengbi smiled and said, "If that's the case, I'll know after I try it."
Chen Shan said, "If he can win your favor, it is also his good fortune. After my friend passed away, I wanted to help him, but he said that he would not accept the reward without merit and refused to accept my kindness for nothing. He just made a living by copying books and selling calligraphy."
After sending Chen Shan away from his dream, Gong Mengbi went out and headed to the cemetery outside the city.
There is a mass grave outside the city.
But theoretically speaking, Jiaying still had relatives at home before her death, so she would not end up in a mass grave, so there was no need to go.
The cemetery is full of graves. Although it is overgrown with weeds and trees, having a grave is much better than a mass grave.
There were a few old ghosts in the cemetery. When they saw Gong Mengbi coming there, they immediately disappeared.
After releasing Jiaying from the umbrella, Gong Mengbi asked, "Can you sense where your body is?"
Jiaying stood in the cemetery with a confused expression: "I don't seem to sense any corpses."
Gong Mengbi frowned: "Could it be that he is not buried here?"
Jiaying shook her head: "I don't know either."
After her death, in order to avoid the ghost, she fled all the way to Longpan Mountain and never returned for more than ten years. She didn't even know where her body was buried.
But even if we don't know where the body is buried, we should be able to sense its approximate location. If we don't even have an approximate location, that would be very strange.
The corpse is the anchor of the ghost in the world of the living.
Especially for ghosts with resentment, if they have no other place to stay, corpses are their natural place to stay.
Jiaying used to hide in the peach branches, but now the branches are withering. Even if she finds a spiritual object to rely on, it will not be as convenient as her own corpse.
Jiaying felt a little depressed and guessed, "Maybe it's been so long that the remains are gone."
Gong Mengbi shook his head, knowing that he could no longer rely on her.
He took out a stick of incense from his sleeve, blew on it, and the incense was lit.
A warm fragrance lingered in the abandoned graveyard. Jiaying only took a sniff and felt relaxed all over.
When the incense stick was lit, a cold wind began to blow.
Wandering ghosts came out of the graves and surrounded Gong Mengbi, looking at the fragrance surrounding him, their eyes full of desire.
The old ghost who had hidden himself when he saw Gong Mengbi coming could no longer bear the desire for incense, so he stood on his own grave and looked at Gong Mengbi.
Gong Mengbi waved away the fragrance, and the wandering ghost immediately followed the fragrance and inhaled it.
The four old ghosts came in front of Gong Mengbi, inhaled the fragrance obsessively, and asked, "What are your instructions, Immortal?"
Gong Mengbi asked, "You've been here for so many years, do you know where Chen Jiaying's grave is?"
"Chen Jiaying?" The four old ghosts chattered among themselves, then said, "Sir, follow me."
Gong Mengbi followed them and soon found a small earthen grave.
One of the old ghosts said, "Goddess, we have lived here for decades, and we are very familiar with all the wandering ghosts that come here. When we have nothing to do, we will count the graves to see who is in them."
The old ghost pushed aside the weeds, revealing a piece of wooden tablet buried in the grass.
Gong Mengbi pulled out the wooden tablet and saw that the carvings on it had almost been corroded away, with only a few traces still visible. It was indeed Jiaying's name.
Gong Mengbi asked, "Is this your grave?"
Jiaying stood on the grave, under the cold moonlight, there was a hint of peach blossom fragrance.
After a moment, she shook her head and said, "I didn't feel it."
This is interesting.
Gong Mengbi looked at Jiaying's grave and said, "I'm sorry."
Jiaying knew what he meant and said, "No problem."
Gong Mengbi pressed on her grave mound, chanting a spell silently, using the Tongtian method to sense the earth's energy, and using his magic power to pry the earth's energy into surges. Then the loess surged, and the grave mound continued to rise. Soon, the coffin covered with loess came out of the grave mound.
Gong Mengbi only felt a slight consumption. He had not learned any earth magic, but the Tongtian method could communicate between heaven and earth, and he could also use the five elements to do some simple things.
He waved his hand and opened the coffin. As the coffin lid creaked, a dusty and rotten smell emanated from the coffin.
Jiaying looked into the coffin and said in surprise, "How could this happen!"
The coffin was empty, with only some rotten paper money and cloth, but no bones.
Gong Mengbi took a look and said, "Empty? How strange! You're already dead, who would have stolen your body?"
Gong Mengbi summoned the old ghost who was addicted to the fragrance and asked, "Do you know where the bones in here have gone?"
The old ghost shook his head: "We have never seen anyone digging this grave, unless it was dug during the day, which we can't see."
Gong Mengbi said, "Robbers in broad daylight are too brazen. Or maybe your remains were never brought in in the first place."
Jiaying was anxious and frightened: "But the person is dead, what's the use of the corpse?"
Gong Mengbi said: "Then we can only ask your family."
Gong Mengbi returned the coffin to the grave and said to Jiaying, who looked dazed, "Don't worry, we'll go find your blood relatives."
Gong Mengbi lit another stick of incense as a thank you to the ghosts before taking Jiaying back to the east courtyard of the Shen family.
After lighting a stick of incense as a protection, Gong Mengbi said, "It's been too long, and your family doesn't know where you are now. I would like to borrow your soul and cast a spell to find your blood relatives."
Jiaying had no choice but to agree.
Gong Mengbi lit three incense sticks again, and the fragrance turned into white smoke, enveloping the pavilion.
"Close your eyes." Gong Mengbi said.
Jiaying closed her eyes when she heard that.
Gong Mengbi turned into his original form, opened his mouth and inhaled, sucking Jiaying into his stomach like smoke.
Then the red fox rolled up its long tail and fell into a sleep.
When the red fox fell asleep, Gong Mengbi's soul came out, wrapped in a cloud-like robe, and the smoke turned into a white fox, while Jiaying's soul turned into a piece of peach branch.
Gong Mengbi sat on the tail of the white fox, holding a peach branch, and then practiced the Tongtian method. He then sensed countless hidden inspirations, like stars in the sky.
With a thought, he grasped one of the inspirations and rode the fragrant white fox out of the East Courtyard.
The white fox transformed from the white smoke was like a chariot, parading through the streets and alleys, and then leaving the county gate.
The little ghost patrolling the county caught a glimpse of a giant beast leaving the house and immediately exclaimed in surprise, "Where did the fox god come from? It's hiding in the county."
The patrolling ghost immediately hurried to the City God Temple to report.
Gong Mengbi had already flown out of the city and headed straight for the countryside.
Riding the white fox, Gong Mengbi felt an unprecedented sense of exhilaration. It was the exhilaration of shedding his physical form and breaking free from all restraints.
The Tongtian method is to become one with the heaven and earth, giving rise to a sense of happiness that the heaven and earth are within one's heart.
But Gong Mengbi kept his mind focused and was not confused by this feeling.
He was very clear about his abilities. If he really shed his physical body, he could only become a fox ghost, which would not be much better than the three sisters of Meiren Ridge.
The peach branch points the way, the white fox flies away, and the heavenly clothes protect the body.
After a moment, it stopped in front of a house.
Gong Mengbi tapped the peach branch and it turned into Jiaying again.
"Why don't you go and ask clearly."
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