The He family attaches great importance to the ancestral temple, according to the ancestral teachings, every day you are lighting the lamp, Mao is turning off the lights, Mao is to Zizheng these five hours will also light wax, every night there are people in the ancestral temple to prevent the candle from being extinguished, every day, never stop.

When Zhou Tong and they arrived, the night watchman was cutting candles for candles, after the candlelight flashed in a trance, the candle flame was raised, reflecting the tablets of the ancestors of the He family in the ancestral temple, and there was a Nanmu pear flower box between the tablets, with a seal on it, and the cinnabar inscription on the yellow background rune paper was located under the topmost ancestral tablet, as if it was held by the hands of the ancestors.

He Jianmin said to the house slaves who kept vigil: "These two are the masters I invited to see Feng Shui, you go down first, and then call you to come over to keep vigil, let those people below be careful, don't come here if you have nothing to do." ”

"Yes. ”

He Jianmin watched the house slaves retreat with his own eyes, and only after making sure that he couldn't see the figure could be seen did he close the door of the ancestral temple and lock it from the inside, he made a gesture of invitation to Zhou Tong and introduced Zhou Tong into the side hall.

In the past, this side hall was a room for the night watchman to rest a little, with a narrow bed of less than one meter, a table and a bench, and a painting imitating Wu Daozi's authentic work hanging on the wall.

He Jianmin explained: "We don't dare to publicize the fact that the family heirloom treasure is broken, so we can only temporarily seal it here according to the master who invited us before." ”

Inside the cabinet was a safe, He Jianmin twisted the combination lock, a subtle clicking sound came, He Jianmin opened the safe, and moved out of a box hidden inside.

He held the box and handed it to Zhou Tong with a stern expression, saying, "This is the treasure that our ancestors brought back from the tomb. ”

"I'll see. Zhou Tong took the box from He Jianmin's hand, He Jianmin's hand shook when he handed it over, and the small movement made Zhou Tong frown, and then saw He Jianmin take a step back cautiously, as if he was afraid of being hurt, something must have happened to the things in this box before, otherwise He Jianmin would not have this kind of action.

Ling Yuan took the box from Zhou Tong's hand and said, "I'll open it." ”

Zhou Tong was not strong, handed the box to Ling Yuan, Ling Yuan waved his hand, let them all stand behind the box, he was facing the box, the moment he opened it, Ling Yuan's face changed, he quickly closed the box, and looked at Zhou Tong with a bad expression.

Zhou Tong asked, "What's wrong?"

"It's a killing blade, broken, and there are traces of ghasts on it. ”

The so-called killing blade refers to the weapon that has been stained with countless blood and kills continuously, the killing blade generally comes from the underground, most of them are weapons held in the hands of ancient generals, as the general kills all the way, there are countless souls under the blade, and they are buried in the ground, full of yin qi but lack of blood irrigation, once dug out from the ground, the domineering anger on the killing blade is extremely heavy, and it is easy to hurt people.

According to Ling Yuan's statement, there was still a ghast attached to this killing blade, generally speaking, the murderous aura on the killing blade was extremely heavy, and the soul did not dare to approach lightly, and it was very likely that the dead soul could attach to the killing blade before it formed a killing blade.

The weapons of the Qin period basically did not have iron tools, due to technical limitations, although the iron smelting technology was preserved, but it could only be used for agricultural farming, most of the weapons were bronze, and the bronze tools were different from iron tools, they were living creatures, carrying the wishes of the first batch of ancestors, and were often used as sacrificial utensils in the Shang and Zhou dynasties, which were very suitable for ghosts to live in.

It is not uncommon for this bronze sword to have a ghast attached to it, but what is strange is that the bloodthirsty killing blade with the ghast soul did not turn the He family upside down, but made the He family prosperous, what is this saying?

Zhou Tong and Han Qiqing had the same considerations, both of them began to doubt the authenticity of He Jianmin's words, Zhou Tong looked at He Jianmin and said: "Mr. He, this evil ghost attached to the bronze sword cannot be underestimated, I hope that Mr. He can cooperate with us frankly and tell us everything, if something happens because of Mr. He's reservation, it is not the two of us who can save it." ”

He Jianmin's face became a little ugly, he grinned, and said, "Where is it, I also want to deal with this problem quickly, how can I have reservations." ”

Zhou Tong glanced at He Jianmin deeply, and made sure that He Jianmin must have something to hide from them, Zhou Tong nodded, and did not continue to ask He Jianmin, Han Qiqing asked a few more words uneasily, and He Jianmin vetoed several hypotheses put forward by Han Qiqing.

"Is there a body? I'm going to see the body. Zhou Tong diverted the topic and asked He Jianmin.

He Jianmin shook his head and said, "No, the stench emitted by the corpse is too strong, and we are all cremated." ”

At this moment, there was a sudden knock on the door, and He Jianmin asked vigilantly, "Who?"

"Brother Jianmin, something happened! Someone is sick again!"

He Jianmin hurriedly came out of the side hall, opened the lock, and after opening the door, he nervously grabbed the man's arm and asked, "What's wrong? Who is sick?"

"I'm sick in the forest!"

"Isn't there a rune paper sent by the master?" He Jianmin was very angry, those bullshit heavenly masters were useless at all.

"It's useless! it's useless, you can go and see Zailin!"

He Jianmin nodded, turned back to Zhou Tong and said to Zhou Tong, who came out of the side hall, "Don't you want to see the corpse? The expression was gloomy, as if Zhou Tong and a few of them had killed people.

Ling Yuan sneered and said, "Offering the evil soul possessed killing blade to their home, it is all their own evil retribution that they have created. I feel like I can leave this matter alone. ”

"Hmm. Zhou Tong also guessed a rough idea, and now what made him more curious was who destroyed this killing blade, and the method of destruction was not to kill the evil spirit, but to intensify the evil spirit in the killing blade and make it do evil everywhere.

followed He Jianmin into a room, pushed open the door and smelled a foul smell, screams were constantly coming from the bed, several big men stood on the edge of the bed, nervously looking at the young people lying on the bed and wailing, but a few of them didn't dare to approach within three steps at all, and they all watched the young people suffer in horror.

"Get out of the way. He Jianmin pushed aside the crowd and walked to the young man's side, and he was kicked half by the young man's struggle to the quilt under the bed, revealing the young man's body.

Shocking!

The eyes of everyone present widened and they stared at the cruel scene in front of them in amazement.

Several fat maggots were crawling on the young man's body, sometimes burrowing into his clothes, and the screams of the young man were heard.

Looking at his body again, his skin was ulcerated and thick, and he was scratched by the young man and was covered in blood, and there was not an inch intact.

He Jianmin muttered: "Yes, it's corpse poison...... Sure enough, it was corpse poison. ”

He Jianmin's fingers trembled, but he didn't dare to touch the young man, he looked at Zhou Tong and Han Qiqing, and begged: "Master, please save him, he is still a child, he has not even reached the age of eighteen, he is a good youth!"

Han Qiqing shook his head uncomfortably.

"It's not corpse poison. Zhou Tong said, "This is a curse, if it is corpse poison, everyone here will be infected, and the curse will only infect one person." ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone in the room trembled, they looked at each other, looking for traces of curses on each other's bodies, Zhou Tong said to He Jianmin: "Find a pair of gloves to come over, and then kill a rooster, take chicken blood, a basin of salt water or water soaked in grapefruit leaves." ”

"Good. He Jianmin nodded in response, and shouted at a few people standing outside the door who didn't dare to come in: "Go and get it!

Several people stumbled away.

After five or six minutes, before the things were delivered, the man on the bed was already dead, the young man stared at a pair of eyes, and even his face was full of pain after death, looking at the empty ceiling in isolation, his body convulsed, and he rushed to the Yellow Spring in a distorted posture, leaving only the strong stench of his body.

After Zhou Tong sent the things he wanted, he first washed his hands in the water of the grapefruit leaves, then put on gloves and poured all the pomelo water on the corpse, and the sound of scorching sounded, and the maggots that were still wriggling and climbing on the corpse were poured by the grapefruit leaves, and black smoke came out of their bodies.

Zhou Tong wore a mask, endured the stench, washed the young man's body with grapefruit water, and then smeared the rooster blood stained on the gloves on the corpse in an orderly manner.

He Jianmin couldn't understand what Zhou Tong was doing, he stared nervously at Zhou Tong's every move, Han Qiqing explained: "You don't have to worry, he is looking for a curse, only when he finds the mark of the curse, can he know what kind of curse it is, who it will infect, and how to lift it." ”

He Jianmin nodded and continued to stare at Zhou Tong's movements.

"Found it. Zhou Tong turned the young man's body over and found a distorted mark on his back near his armpit, "This is it." ”

He Jianmin looked over, and suddenly his face turned pale, he trembled, his footsteps shook unsteadily, and his lips trembled and said, "This, this is a curse?"

"Yes. Zhou Tong said, "The one with the same mark on his body is the next person to be cursed." ”

He Jianmin "......"

Zhou Tong looked at He Jianmin, took off the blood-stained gloves, and asked with a smile, "Mr. He, do you want to continue to hide it?"

He Jianmin pinched his palm, his eyes were full of fear of death, he endured the terrifying thoughts that kept rising, and said to Zhou Tong: "Mr. Zhou, please come here." ”

Zhou Tong followed behind He Jianmin, and when he arrived in He Jianmin's room, he just closed the door, He Jianmin suddenly knelt in front of Zhou Tong with a thud, and could no longer bear the tears, and begged: "Mr. Zhou, I don't want to die, save me, please save me-"

"You tell me first, what's going on with the Killing Blade. ”

"Yes, yes, I tell you all that the killing blade is an evil thing, and it is not at all what I told you. "He Jianmin cried miserably," After the old ancestor brought the killing blade out of the ground, he found that the killing blade was an evil thing, and he was going to kill people as soon as it came out, and he killed ten of his brothers before he stabilized down, and only the old ancestor was left alone, and the killing blade forced the old ancestor to take him home to offer, and asked the old ancestor to sacrifice blood to him regularly, at first the blood of cattle, sheep and chickens and other animals could still meet his requirements, but then he wanted to drink human blood, and every ten years he had to kill a person to provide blood for him to drink, if he didn't provide it, he would kill all the people in the He family, and there was no one left!"

Speaking of this, the expression on He Jianmin's face became more and more frightened, he swallowed hard, and eased for a moment before continuing: "The old ancestor had no choice, so he could only agree to his request, and the killing blade reached an agreement with the old ancestor, as long as the old ancestor regularly provided human blood for him to drink and enshrined him, he would never harm the people in the old ancestor's family, and he would also promise to be the ghost of the He family and protect future generations." The old ancestor didn't believe it at first, he only thought that it was to raise tigers, but later he made a lot of money by going down to several tombs, so he agreed to the request of the evil ghost and enshrined him in the ancestral temple to regularly supply blood to others. ”

Then the situation is basically clear now.

There was a ghast soul living in that killing blade, and the ghast soul was sucking the blood of the people offered by the He family, and at the same time absorbing the prayer power of the He family when they worshiped the ancestors and ancestors, to improve their cultivation. Now, the killing blade is broken, and the ghast has escaped, thinking that the people of the He family have broken the killing blade where he lives, so they have sent a curse to take revenge on the He family.

The ghast has lived on the Killing Blade for so many years and hasn't left the possible reason because he needs a carrier, and more likely because he can't leave the Killing Blade at all.

If the ghast was possessed by the weapon before it had formed a killing blade in the early stage, this second guess is very likely. In the process of forming the killing blade, the weapon will be contaminated with killing anger, and it will form a deterrent effect on the soul attached to it, and in the long run, the soul attached to the killing blade will form a traction force with the killing blade, and it will be difficult to overcome the suppressive force brought by the killing blade.

Now that the Killing Blade is destroyed, ghasts are naturally angry, and it is not uncommon for them to cast a curse.

Zhou Tong asked again: "Where did the blood of the person who sacrificed to the killing blade come from?"

"This ...... This ......" was asked the key point at once, He Jianmin panicked, his eyes wandered, and he couldn't say a word for a long time, Zhou Tong looked at He Jianmin with cold eyes, and asked: "Is it the blood of the He family? Or the blood of young adults around the age of thirty to fifty." The Killing Blade is thirsty for blood, and a little blood will definitely not meet its requirements, I guess it empties all the blood of the whole person, right?!"

The tail note was a little angry, and the last half of the sentence Zhou Tong almost roared out, He Jianmin's body shook suddenly, and he fell to the ground softly, when death is at the head, people always like to think nonsense, and the fear hidden deep in their hearts all came out, and the retribution for the evil things he did back then should be on his body, He Jianmin gasped for a few breaths and said: "Yes, yes...... You guessed it right, that's it......"

Han Qiqing was shocked after hearing this, he didn't expect that this He family looked glamorous on the outside, but it was rotten and dirty on the inside.

"Did you think about their situation when you encroached on the same sect?" Han Qiqing grinded his teeth and said viciously, "Are you now afraid of death and become panicked, or because of a curse from a ghast, but what about them? Can you understand the kind of unwillingness and despair they felt before they died? They were blood-related relatives in the north who died tragically in the fire pit!"

"I was wrong, I was wrong...... But there is no way, this is all handed down by the ancestors, we can only do it, if this is not the case, the entire He family will die, not to mention them, we can't even save a trace of blood!" He Jianmin was still quibbling.

"It's all excuses. Zhou Tong said, "You didn't even resist, you enshrined the ghast in the best position of the incense, and even took possession of the offerings that your ancestors should enjoy." He's done you a great favor, hasn't he?"

Zhou Tong's eyes swept in the room, and he said coldly: "Bronze goose fish lamp, Tang Sancai flower pattern pillow, Ming Chenghua Doucai high-foot porcelain cup, Tang Rui beast grape pattern bronze mirror...... A room full of treasures, any one can be sold for a high price, but it's really a million profits!"

"No, I don't have ......" The body had already begun to feel pain, the cursed seal in the lower abdomen was hot and hot, He Jianmin trembled and knelt in front of Zhou Tong, "Help me, master, I don't want to die, save me, please save me......"

"Do you know who cut the blade?"

"Yes, I know this. He Jianmin shook his body as if he saw hope, he stared at Zhou Tong with wide eyes, the curse invaded his body and made his mind very unclear, even his lips began to twitch when he spoke, He Jianmin said in a trembling voice: "Yes, it's him...... It's He Dong, it's He Dong. ”

"Who is He Dong?" asked Zhou Tong.

He Jianmin's mind was alive, and a weird smile appeared on his face, he couldn't control his expression at this moment, and the appearance that seemed to be smiling was eerie, "Hehe, you, you save me first, and then I'll tell you, who is He and He Dong......"

Zhou Tong sighed and said, "I'm not stupid. ”

Ling Yuan kicked He Jianmin to the ground, rudely ripped off He Jianmin's clothes, revealing the mark of the curse on his lower abdomen, Zhou Tong pasted the Liuding Liujia talisman on the curse, and gently covered it with the Yang Seal, and the surface suddenly emitted billowing black smoke, He Jianmin screamed in pain, and the screams caused the people outside the door to rush in, looking at He Jianmin with vigilant expressions one by one, and aiming their hands/guns at Zhou Tong.

Ling Yuan kicked He Jianmin, He Jianmin snorted, the power of the curse was suppressed by the divine power of the Liuding Liujia God, He Jianmin's mind was clear for a moment, he groaned and said, "I, I'm fine...... The master is helping me, you all go out, all go out. ”

"Yes, big brother. ”

"Big brother, are you really okay?"

"Get out!" He Jianmin yelled, and a group of junior brothers who rushed in immediately ran out and closed the door.

The residual pain in his body was still there, He Jianmin coughed, propped up the chair and stood up, he barely sat on the chair, poured himself a glass of water with trembling hands, warm water on his stomach, He Jianmin felt a lot more comfortable, he wiped the sweat on his forehead, a wet piece on his sleeve, He Jianmin didn't care about anything else, and said: "The master is a master, not everyone in the He family knows about this matter, most people are innocent." That ghast kills people everywhere, and most of the people who die under his hands are innocent people who don't know it, and I ask the master to save them. ”

"Otherwise, I wouldn't have saved you. Zhou Tong followed He Jianmin's words and said, he didn't believe that He Jianmin was thinking about the other He family, but he was just using these He family members as a guise to let him help.

He Jianmin nodded and said, "He Dong...... He Dong's mother was the last of the He family to sacrifice to the Killing Blade. As I said before, every ten years, the He family will sacrifice human blood to the Killing Blade, but the difference with what you said is that the He family directly sends the living to the Killing Blade, instead of killing people first and then taking blood. He Dong's mother's birth date is the most suitable sacrifice among the He family who meets the age requirements, so we pushed her to the He family's ancestral temple and sacrificed her to the Killing Blade...... Unfortunately, this scene was seen by He Dong, who came over, and he knew the secret of the He family. I decided to kill him and chase him all the way to the backyard pond, and he jumped into the pond, it was as cold as it is today, and the water in the pond was still alive, connected to the groundwater, almost below zero degrees Celsius, and I thought he was going to die but I didn't expect him to escape from He's house. This...... This is what happened about ten years ago. ”

"What happened ten years ago...... Zhou Tong pondered, and then asked, "How do you know that He Dong did it?"

"On that day every ten years, if the Killing Blade does not drink the blood of a living person, the evil qi will be greatly weakened, and it is very fragile, and the only person who knows this weakness is He Dong, who deliberately chose to destroy the Killing Blade on that day. And that day also happened to be the death day of his mother, we are ashamed of these He family who died in vain, so we prepared a table for them in the ancestral temple, He Dong took away his mother's ashes and tablets, this is his revenge on our He family. But he also harmed those innocent people!" He Jianmin looked up at Zhou Tong, his eyes full of resentment, "Master, I know that I deserve it, but the other He family members are not guilty, ask Master to save them." ”

"Alright. Zhou Tong really couldn't stand He Jianmin's face, and interrupted He Jianmin's nonsense, "Don't be coy here, I will save the He family." ”

He asked Han Qiqing, "Qi Qing, what do you think?"

Han Qiqing said: "We can wait directly next to the killing blade. ”

"Hmm. Zhou Tong smiled and said, "We want to go together." ”

Ling Yuan coughed, and Zhou Tong changed his words: "Although it's still a little close." ”

Han Qiqing, who didn't understand, hurriedly asked, "Almost?

"It's not about waiting for the rabbit, it's about fighting the phoenix and the dragon. Zhou Tong looked at Han Qiqing with a smile, as soon as Ling Yuan saw Zhou Tong's expression, he knew that Zhou Tong must be calculating again, and the unlucky child of the ghast was resentful and was bumped into by Zhou Tong.

If there is a traction between the ghast and the killing blade, it is destined to be inseparable from the killing blade for too long, and it will definitely be limited by the killing blade and come back, Zhou Tong only needs to make some moves on the killing blade to make the ghast come to his hand.