In the dream, a whirlwind blew past, and Hu Xiangu's body was blown to pieces in an instant. I was like being poured with a basin of cold water. I shuddered and opened my eyes to find that my clothes were soaked with sweat.
I rubbed my face. In front of me was still the quiet little house. I took out my mobile phone and took a look. It was exactly 23 o'clock. Suddenly, there was a fierce barking of dogs outside the house, which reminded me of what Hu Xiangu said in the dream again.
I didn't even bother to put on my shoes. I ran out of the wooden house barefoot. I was very curious, why didn't my soul-destroying road work?
But when I rushed into the bamboo forest, I saw a middle-aged Taoist priest in a Taoist robe standing in the middle of the dense green bamboo. He brought a big yellow dog with him. The yellow dog kept digging the pile of soil under the bamboo while howling wildly, as if he had found something.
The Taoist priest and I stared at each other for a long while. He was in his early 40s, had a goatee, was very thin, looked like an immortal, but his eyes were rather fierce. When he saw me, his expression gradually turned into anger. He suddenly took out a peach wood sword and rushed towards me like crazy: "Give me back my son's life!"
When Taoist priests fight, their techniques are mostly soul-striking, which means that a seemingly random blow can kill someone. He was probably overwhelmed by anger at the moment, otherwise he wouldn't have come to hit me with a stick.
I picked up a piece of dirt and threw it hard, hitting the middle-aged man's forehead. The man staggered and blood flowed from his head. He said angrily: "I have no grudge against you. You killed my son. Today I will grind you to ashes!"
"Your son relies on magic to harm people. He deserves to die!" Seeing that the yellow dog was still digging desperately, most likely Mrs. Hu's body was under the hole. Looking around, there was no sign of the Soul-Destroying Road moving, but why was he okay?
Suddenly, the Taoist climbed up from the ground and offered two paper figures in his hands. I saw the paper figures slowly getting bigger, each holding a sword in his hand, floating to my front, and swinging the sword to chop my head.
I took up the Seven Star Sword to block, and it actually made sparks fly. The paper figure was strong and its body was extremely erratic, making it difficult for me to fight it. So I quickly fled, and the paper figure followed me closely. When I entered the house with a basin of cold water, when I came out, the paper figure was just outside the door, so I immediately poured a large basin of cold water on the paper figure.
The originally fierce paper figure was soaked by the cold water and fell to the ground unable to move.
The Taoist priest screamed in anger, and released three straw ropes in his hand like a magic trick. I saw that the straw ropes moved forward three to five meters and turned into three giant pythons.
I understood that this was a magical technique of Taoism. If I was bitten by the snakes turned from hemp ropes, I would most likely die.
So I went back to the house, took the unfinished white wine, ran towards the three pythons, dodged left and right, and I poured two bottles of white wine on the pythons. Then I offered a talisman paper, and the fire instantly burned the python into ashes.
Then, I bit my index finger, drew a cross on my forehead, sealed the spirit platform, and ran towards the Taoist priest with my fists. As the saying goes, the fist is afraid of the young and strong. We are all Taoist priests, and we all know that our bodies are relatively weak.
The other party looked at me strangely for a long time, snorted coldly and said: "So you are a disciple of Maoshan, what is your relationship with Hu Zongyan?"
"He is my senior brother!"
As soon as the voice fell, I rushed to the Taoist priest. I just broke his magic, and now I don't believe he has any other tricks, and everyone knows what the other party's weakness is. I locked the spirit platform and rushed over to fight. We are all made of flesh, and whoever gets beaten will hurt.
I punched him in the face, making him stagger. Then the Taoist turned around and kicked me. Suddenly, he said with a grim expression: "Even if I kill you today, Hu Zongyan won't know it was me."
Seeing the Taoist's eyes begin to shed blood, I remembered the so-called Wronged Soul Banner. I didn't dare to neglect it. I took out the talisman and wrote a Fenglongzhuan.
But before I could offer the talisman, he actually stepped up and fainted!
At the same time, a gust of cold wind blew around me, and the bamboos in the bamboo forest rustled in the wind. When the fog rose around me, I felt a sense of crisis for no reason. Coincidentally, a black cloud in the sky was like a pair of big hands, slowly floating by, just blocking the bright white moonlight.
Suddenly, I felt that the temperature around me began to drop, and the Tai Chi gong in the bamboo forest began to ring rhythmically like a timekeeping.
In the dim light, I saw two shadows walking into the path. They also stepped on my Tai Sui, but nothing happened! Each of them held a bucket and poured something on the Tai Chi Gong.
A gust of wind blew, and I smelled a fishy smell. It was blood!
The Tai Chi gong stopped, and a ball of white gas poured into the bamboo forest. Suddenly, I felt a chill on my neck. I raised my head suddenly and saw the ghost of the Taoist priest riding on my neck. His face was purple and he said frantically: "I practice ghost Taoism and can come and go freely with my spirit body. I can mobilize the souls on the Hundred Ghosts Banner. You are a Maoshan Taoist priest, what can you do to me! Today, I will let you pay for my son's life, and that slutty vixen must die!" Suddenly, he stabbed my eyes fiercely with his hands, and my eyes were blurred and tears flowed. Then he covered my mouth with his hands to prevent me from chanting and hurting him. I kept struggling with him. In the distance outside the bamboo forest, I saw a white soul banner hanging there. Most likely, this thing was the support of the Taoist priest's soul. Looking at those countless wronged souls, they actually gathered outside the bamboo forest and wandered around. Their eyes were all red like blood, and they looked hurried, as if they wanted to eat me alive immediately. I suddenly understood that the Taoist priest had used some means to avoid my Soul-Destroying Road, but he couldn't find the center of the formation and couldn't break it. As for those ordinary wronged souls, they just instinctively felt that this road was dangerous.
Ghosts are pressing on people's heads, which means they want to blow out the sky lanterns above people's heads. At that time, people will become the same as dead people. The reason why Grandma Hu said he couldn't handle it is because once the hundred souls are dispatched, they can instantly wipe out the vitality of any creature.
I pinched the diamond finger with my hand, stepped on the Big Dipper Tiangang, and pointed with my hand suddenly, and heard the Taoist priest continue: "Don't waste your thoughts. I am neither a ghost nor a human. Your finger technique is useless to me. You'd better go to the soul flag and be punished."
Suddenly, I felt my scalp numb, and the cross line on my forehead actually sent a strong burning sensation. That was a sign that the sealing technique was disappearing.
Damn it, this made me feel frustrated. If I, a dignified Taoist priest, die in the hands of ghosts, I will be laughed at to death if it is spread out!
Looking at the soul flags outside and the wronged souls floating around, I had my own plan while the yang fire in my body was still there, so I asked the Taoist priest above my head in a stern voice: "Can you come down!"
"I can't get rid of the hatred in my heart unless I extract your soul and refine your spirit!" He was still resentful.
"Okay, if you don't come down, you will never come down again!" I cursed and pasted six protective amulets on myself in succession.
After doing all this, I ran out of the edge of the hut formation, chanting the killing ghost spell, and the golden light flashed. Those wronged souls avoided me one after another, but I kept the spell in my mouth. Since the Taoist priest was neither a ghost nor a human, the killing ghost spell would definitely be useless to him.
And my goal was to let the wronged souls make way for me. Sure enough, it was difficult for the wronged souls to enter the range of ten meters around me, so I sped up and ran towards the wronged soul flag.
Because of the spell, every time the Taoist hurt me, it was blocked by an invisible barrier. I stumbled and ran to the front of the ghost banner. At least dozens of ghosts gathered around, making humming sounds and looking at me vigilantly.
Most of these ghosts retained their appearance in life, the only change was that their eyes were all red, and one of the six talismans on their bodies suddenly burned. The Taoist riding on my neck was still beating me and blowing the sky lantern above my head.
I took out the Seven Star Sword, cut my palm, and scared away the ghosts with the evil spirit on the sword. Then I rushed to the poplar tree and took off the ghost banners.
"You dare to touch my treasure, you are looking for death!"
The Taoist quickly formed seals with both hands, and then a black dog head suddenly jumped out from the front of the ghost banner, opening its mouth wide and biting me. Fortunately, I reacted quickly and dodged the attack. In order to avoid being bitten by the dog head again, I started to swing the soul flag randomly in a hurry.
I ran westward quickly, followed by a large number of wronged souls. If someone's family saw me in the middle of the night, they would definitely say that there was a fool with long teeth and five claws running around with a rag.
It took a lot of effort to finally reach the mass grave. The ghost fires floating around, the messy paper money on the ground, and the wronged souls chasing after me, I turned this place into a ghost place. I took several deep breaths. At this time, four of the six talismans on my chest had been burned. Once they were all burned out, my sky lantern would be in danger.
"Wait until the two amulets are broken, and then I'll see what tricks you have!" The Taoist laughed arrogantly, and then started to blow the lantern at my head.
"Damn it, let's see who will die today!"
After saying that, I threw the ghost banner on the ground, took out the Heavenly Master's Order in my hand, and fiercely stuck it into the ferocious dog's head. At the same time, the ghost fires burning around the graveyard were extinguished one after another.
Before the Taoist could react, I pinched my fingers with both hands and pointed to the Heavenly Master's Order: "I order the lonely ghosts here to gather quickly according to the order of Sanmao Zhenjun!"
Suddenly, many human figures floated above the lonely graves, and when the local ghosts met the wronged souls in front of them, it was like an enemy meeting, and they wrestled together madly.
I used the principle of yin repelling yin to mobilize the wild ghosts in the cemetery. Some of the ghosts in these cemeteries were the ancestors of the villagers, and some were villagers killed in the past wars. Most of them were local residents, while the Taoist had the wronged souls who killed people. If the wronged souls were allowed to occupy this mass grave, it would inevitably harm the souls and families buried here. This is why the wandering ghosts here are fighting desperately. They are fighting desperately for their descendants and are fighting a defense battle with the wronged souls.
The Taoist couldn't sit still anymore. After all, the wronged souls in the wronged souls banner were collected by him, but there were too many souls in the mass grave. It was obvious that the two sides were incompatible, so he jumped off my neck and prepared to run with the wronged souls.
Staring at the ghosts biting each other not far away, I walked to the wronged souls banner with a lighter and burned it with fire!
Then I picked up a plastic bag and held it above the flames. I heard a shrill howl from the Taoist priest, which instantly turned into a puff of green smoke. With the heat, it entered the plastic bag in my hand. I quickly tied the bag tightly and left the mass grave in a hurry.
As for the result of the battle to defend the grave, it was obvious that the wronged souls without the main soul would not be the opponent of the lonely ghosts here.
As for my return to the village and the matter with Hu Xiangu, I will talk about it in the next chapter.