"You don't hate them?" Bi Xie looked up at her in surprise.
Peiqin gave a bitter smile: "Although we are just ordinary village women, we know to repay kindness and avenge wrongs. We are already unfortunate enough and do not want to see more people suffer. When I came back the night before last, I told them everything the Immortal Master had said. We do not want to cultivate into flying zombies. Even if we have that opportunity, we will be seen as monsters by others. We beg the Immortal Master to set a fire for us after saving them and free us from suffering."
Looking at her beautiful and graceful face, Bi Xie could not see any insincere expression.
They... genuinely wanted to find a way out.
Bi Xie suddenly didn't know what to say. In that instant, a flood of memories rushed into her mind. It seemed that many years ago, she often dealt with ghosts. She listened to their last wishes, fulfilled them, sent them to the underworld, and then embarked on a lonely journey herself, as if there was no end...
She wanted to say that she didn't know any soul-summoning techniques, but somehow the incantation for summoning souls popped into her mind.
She wanted to ask Ru Hua what was going on, whether she had made her receive the original owner's memories.
But then she remembered that ever since Ru Hua went into hibernation because she was afraid of ghosts, she couldn't summon this unreliable system no matter how she tried.
“Immortal Master…” Peiqin noticed that her expression was a little strange and asked her softly.
Bi Xie suddenly came to his senses and realized that this time, receiving the original owner's memories did not cause any headache. It was as smooth as remembering a part of the memories, rather than receiving someone else's memories.
"Have you thought this through?" Bi Xie asked, his voice low and hoarse. "Once you return to your original forms and your corpses are burned, it will be the same as you being reduced to ashes."
Peiqin nodded, looking relieved. "I only ask that the Immortal Master avenge me, and I have no other requests."
Bi Xie pursed his lips, his serious words sounding more like a joke: "His face is dark, his time is coming."
Neither of them smiled. Peiqin, with tears in her eyes, said, "Thank you, Immortal Master. I believe in you. You are a good person."
She paused for a moment, as if a long, long time ago, someone had often told her, "You are a good person."
"Sect Leader He, this is Full Moon Village. It is indeed filled with evil energy."
"Sect Leader Hua, proceed with caution."
Suddenly, footsteps and voices came from behind her. Bi Xie quickly snapped out of her reverie and hid behind an oxcart. She saw a group of Taoist priests walking towards the village entrance. There were five or six old Taoist priests, including some she had seen in the main hall of Xuanyun Temple. He Xi was accompanied by more than ten young Taoist priests. She saw Cheng Ling.
They carried peach wood swords, corpse-controlling bells, and some tools for exorcising demons and ghosts, and cautiously made their way into the village.
"Go to the back mountain," Bi Xie decided immediately. If these Taoist priests saw Pei Qin, they would probably bring up the theory that "a ghost is a ghost and only harms people" and take Pei Qin away without distinguishing right from wrong.
Peiqin looked at the yellow banners and talismans in the hands of the group of old Taoists and felt danger and fear to the bone. She immediately took Bixie to the back mountain.
The back mountain of Manyue Village is a barren mountain with sparse vegetation. When Bi Xie and Pei Qin ran up the mountain, they were startled to see the graves covering the entire mountain. Among the uniform graves, the thatched hut on the east side was quite conspicuous. Only then did Bi Xie remember that the evil Taoist seemed to live here.
Seeing her looking at the thatched hut, Peiqin guessed what she was thinking and said, "When I came back the day before yesterday, that evil path was gone."
Bi Xie frowned: "Do you know where he went?" If this kind of evil doctrine that incites people's hearts is not eliminated, it will only harm more people.
Peiqin shook her head.
Bi Xie didn't press further. Instead, he walked to the center of the grave mound and looked at Pei Qin, saying, "Tell them all to come out. If the zombies are burned to death, they will be completely annihilated in the world. I need to ask for their opinions. Also, lead out those souls that were frightened out of their bodies."
Thinking of the group of old Taoist priests who had already entered the village, Peiqin did not hesitate and immediately went to do her job.
In a short while, a ghostly figure appeared in front of each of the graves.
As night fell, a cold, eerie wind howled through the dimly lit back mountain. The last ray of light in the sky was completely obscured by the impenetrable yin energy. Bi Xie formed a hand seal and created a spiritual energy shield around his body, and the chilling sensation in his bones gradually disappeared.
"Immortal Master, we are willing to disappear from here..." the hundred ghosts howled in unison.
"Please, Immortal Master, grant us liberation."
"We don't want to be zombies, we want to be human."
"Sister Immortal, please help us!" A little girl, about five or six years old, looked at her crying, then tugged at the sleeve of the woman beside her. "Mommy, I don't want to sleep in the black coffin anymore. I'm afraid of the dark. I don't want to crawl into that green-haired corpse anymore. That's not me. I'm not like that, Mommy..."
Bi Xie looked up at the souls floating in mid-air. There were men, women, young and old. There were elderly people in their seventies, and ghost fetuses that were about to be born. They were all betrayed and killed by their loved ones. Their resentment was soaring. They were buried in this ominous place and turned into zombies. They couldn't even go to the underworld. They were all the most simple and honest people.
Her heart suddenly ached. They had never intended to harm anyone, yet after death their souls would be scattered, with no chance of reincarnation.
At that moment, her murderous intent suddenly intensified; she wanted to kill that wicked Taoist who was bewitching people, and she wanted to kill Cao Cheng.
The people of Manyue Village deserved to die.
"The yin energy is coming from this side, Sect Leader He. Those ghosts can't stay away from their own corpses for too long, so they must be hiding nearby. They've killed so many innocent people. Once I find these ghosts, I will definitely put them into a container and seal them with incantations..."
They came so quickly.
Bi Xie frowned and said to the ghosts, "Those who need to be guided, stay. The rest, go back first."
Even if she wanted to burn them, she would have to dig up the graves, take them out of the coffins, and burn them with fire, which would take a long time.
Not long after he finished speaking, a group of Taoist priests with otherworldly airs saw him.
Cheng Ling spoke first: "Master, it's Senior Sister!"
He Xi looked at her with surprise and excitement, and took two steps forward, almost blurting out the words "Grandmaster".
An old Taoist priest carrying a sword behind him noticed Bi Xie frown and said with some displeasure, "Sect Leader He, isn't this a disciple of your sect? How dare you act on your own? If we alert the evil spirits and they escape first, wouldn't our trip have been in vain?"
Bi Xie had a vague recollection of him; this was the old Taoist priest who had asked her to demonstrate the soul-summoning technique in the hall that day.
“Brother Hua, that’s too harsh,” He Xi said, displeased. This was their Xuan Yun Temple’s patriarch, and his impoliteness was a slap in the face to him.
Hua Qing snorted, his gaze toward Bi Xie filled with hostility.
Bi Xie glanced around and spotted Cao Cheng among a group of well-dressed Taoist priests. He was huddled behind a group of older Taoist priests, with several younger ones watching over him to prevent him from running away. He was already pale with fright and his lips were trembling when he saw Bi Xie and the honeycomb-like grave beside her.
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