It's a long road.

Heaven and earth are long.

On the official road where there is no end in sight and no way back, facing the long shadow dragged out by the sunset, there is a strange combination of an old, a young and a sheep.

The old and the young are lightly dressed, and the sheep that look like calves carry heavy loads and bags.

At this time, it was two days after Jin An went to the Horn Urn Coffin Temple, dug up the bones of the Wang family's father and son and sent them home to reunite with their families, and buried the other victims.

Chang County, Jin'an's next trip, plans to go to the state capital to fulfill the obsessive last wish of the five visceral Taoists, but only to go to the neighboring counties of Chang County, can there be a ferry to take the big boat to the state capital.

Jin An was on the way to the ferry port in a neighboring county.

When he was walking in the yin, he heard the last wish of the five visceral Dao people, which may be the obsession that the five visceral Dao people have been dying and refusing to disperse.

Jin An planned to go to the state capital to find the deceased of the Five Visceral Dao people.

"Old Dao, your soul has recovered greatly from your injury, and Changxian is already in trouble, why don't you continue to travel around the world, why do you still follow me?"

Jin An was speechless, looking at the old Taoist priest who had relied on him all his life.

The old Taoist priest gently twisted his long beard, and said shamelessly and cheekily: "Little brother, you are kind-hearted, I think that little brother, you will be able to cast a meritorious golden body one day in the future, isn't there a saying that a person can ascend to heaven with a chicken dog, Lao Dao, I also want to see how cold it is in the Guanghan Palace." ”

Guanghan Palace?

"Lao Dao, are you a chicken or a dog?"

Jin An was amused by the words of the old Taoist, isn't it a derogatory term for a person to ascend to heaven, how can anyone use a derogatory term to describe himself.

The old Taoist priest's face was dark, and he said that he didn't do anything, saying that Jin An was scolding him for being an old dog, and that he was a metaphor, so he described it like that.

Sunset oblique accompaniment.

An old man and a young man walked on the official road to a neighboring county, chatting all the way, and holding a calf and a big goat behind them.

Baa

Mixing all the way, the stupid sheep occasionally finds a sense of existence.

There are about 100 miles from Chang County to the neighboring county, not a day or two to go, seeing that the sky is getting late, before dark, an old man, a young man and a sheep, plan to find a village to borrow for a night.

Finally, before it was completely dark, they finally found a place to stay.

It is a small mountain village built by the river, which is a branch of the Yinyi River, and the river is a little rapid.

The diversion passed just in front of the village.

This is a typical village built by the river.

The two of them and a sheep haven't entered the village yet, and suddenly, with a pop, in the river flowing beside them? Suddenly a wave? Faintly see that there seems to be a person floating in the river?

At this time, because the sky was about to get dark, I couldn't see whether there was a person floating in the river for a while? Jin An and the old Taoist priest hurriedly ran to the river? As a result, I really saw two people floating.

It should be said that there is a person floating, which is more accurate.

Because the other person is a floating corpse with a face down? A person grabs the ankle of the floating corpse and floats all the way down the river? Just floated to the bank of the river and was rescued by Jin An and the old Taoist priest.

Strange to say? When the person was rescued, poof, a wave started, and the floating corpse in the river was swept under the river by a wave? Missing? I didn't even see if it was a man or a woman at night.

The old Taoist priest shouted in surprise: "Old Dao, why do I think this floating corpse is to save people, and deliberately sent this person in front of us to let us save him?"

After hearing this, Jin An tasted it, and it really seemed that the old Taoist priest said so.

After all, everything was too coincidental.

But at this time, there is no time to think too much, it is important to save people? Jin An found that the person they rescued still had a pulse? But the body is cold, it is estimated that it has been soaked in water for too long? Excessive loss of body temperature, and the person is also in a coma with a high fever? Watching dying.

Even if this person is unconscious? Still holding a broken sword in his hand? It is estimated that he is a swordsman, he was seriously injured, the wound was on the back, a large piece of clothes and human skin on the back were gone, and the back was actually peeled alive, revealing that the back muscles were soaked white in the water, rotten, and parasitic with a lot of strange insects.

Such a serious and strange injury seems to indicate that the origin of the swordsman in front of him is not simple?

"Oh no, all the flesh on his back is dead, and he has to find a place to heal him and scrape off the rotten flesh on his back. ”

The old Taoist priest who is still a Taoist priest in Youfang has experience and is serious.

So, Jin An carefully carried the people and let the goats carry them to the village in front of them to find a doctor to save people.

But just as he was carrying the person on the back of the sheep, Jin An suddenly exclaimed: "Hmm, this person has so heavy corpse qi and yin qi... This is a dead man who has been transformed?"

"No, there is a pulse, and scraping a little soaked rotten flesh on the back does reveal fresh flesh, and it is still fresh and bloody. Why does this mysterious swordsman look covered with black and dead air, but he has the characteristics of a living person?"

"Is it a yin and yang person?"

Jin An stopped the sheep for the time being, and then told the old Taoist priest about his discovery, so that the old Taoist priest could see what was going on.

Professional things are naturally handed over to professional people to do, and Jin An is very self-aware.

And if the swordsman in front of him is really a dead man or a strange corpse or something, and he sends this swordsman of unknown origin into the village of ordinary people, then this is not to save people, but to kill more ordinary people.

The old Taoist priest listened to Jin An's words, and hurriedly checked the swordsman on the back of the sheep again, this time carefully checked it a few times, the old Taoist priest touched and looked and smelled, and after pondering for a while, he finally confirmed: "This swordsman young man is indeed a living person, but it is a little different from a normal living person, it should be a living person who is rarely seen on the rivers and lakes." ”

"The living and the dead?" Jin An looked at the old Taoist.

"The appearance of a living person is a living person, but it has the face of a dead person and a dead body. This kind of person is usually rare, because it is usually cultivated, and only two industries will spend a lot of manpower, material and financial resources to cultivate this kind of person from an early age. ”

"One is a corpse digger. ”

"The other one is a grave robber. ”

"And I just looked at this man's index finger and palm one by one, his ten fingers are slender, soft and boneless, and his fingers and palms are not as rough as the boatman's perennial wind and sun support, and they are covered with thick calluses. Therefore, I reasoned that this person should not be a corpse digger who eats with water and salvages corpses, but a tomb robber. ”

According to the old Taoist priest, whether it is a corpse digger or a tomb robber, he deals with the dead every day, and deals with all kinds of strange places and corpse hiding holes.

It is no exaggeration to say that all rivers must have drowned people, but wherever there are mountains must have buried dead people, if you encounter those special places, ordinary corpse diggers can't go to the strange waterways, ordinary tomb robbers can't go down the tomb of the king, which requires a specific master to take action.

So later, among the corpse diggers and tomb robbers, a special kind of person appeared, the living and the dead.

It is to adopt little beggars from an early age, or to abduct and sell children, and force them to grow up from eating dead corpses, dead corpses in seven days, dead corpses in ten days, and dead corpses in half a month......

One year, ten years, twenty years... 100 Years ......

Slowly increase the difficulty, endure the pain that ordinary people can't bear, eat until they grow up to adulthood, and when they are full of life, they can go to places where the living can't go, and they can get close to the tomb treasures that the living can't reach, and even ordinary people can't see this kind of person.

Because in the eyes of the shadows, only the walking dead are seen of the same kind, which are dead, not living.

However, this kind of person is not easy to cultivate, the mortality rate is extremely high, and there may not be one success in cultivating a thousand children from an early age.

After listening to the old Taoist priest's introduction to the living and dead, Jin An was stunned.

This is not a swordsman, but a thief who is more ruthless than a ruthless man!

"Shouldn't the tomb robber be the enemy of all the mausoleum owners in the world, the floating corpse just now should be from the ancient tomb, so why did the floating corpse just now save him?"

The old Taoist priest said that how do I know, I should be able to know if I wake people up, maybe the living and the dead have other skills, such as being able to manipulate corpses or something?

Jin An thought about it, although the tomb robbers were quite hateful, but after listening to the words of the old Taoist, he felt that these living people who had been cultivated by the day after tomorrow were quite pitiful.

In the end, he decided to save people first.

Fortunately, with money to open the way, Jin An found accommodation at the doctor's house in the village, and asked the doctor to save people.

However, how clever the village doctor's medical skills can be, it is conceivable that in the end, Jin An asked the village doctor to try his best to save people, and it is not to blame people if he can't save them, so the village doctor is willing to scrape meat and save people.

Scraping meat to heal injuries is not a matter of a short period of time, and it took nearly an hour to complete this huge process with the help of Jin An and the old Taoist priest who kept changing hot water and washing linen.

This didn't make the old Taoist priest tired enough.

But until he scraped the carrion on his back, applied hemostatic medicine, and then wrapped his upper body with a linen cloth to isolate the wound infection, the thief who was rescued by Jin An was still unconscious throughout the whole process.

After feeding a few more bowls of medicine, the village doctor told Jin An that whether or not people could be pulled back from the ghost gate was all up to his luck, and the injury was too serious, and he had done his best.

Jin An thanked the village doctor, and fell asleep in the exhaustion of several people that night.

......

Early the next morning.

The plan of the day lies in the morning, Jin An is facing the morning glow to breathe, when he is practicing the "Five Organs Secret Sutra", the old Taoist priest who can't go out early in the morning and doesn't know where he went, suddenly ran back in a hurry, and found Jin An nervously.

As soon as the old Taoist priest entered the door, he nervously closed all the doors and windows.

"Little brother, I just heard about something, you will never guess what I found. ”

"Little brother, do you remember the Mr. Yin and Yang who took you away from the Yin? Coincidentally, it turns out that he is from this River Valley Village!"

After listening to the words of the old Taoist, Jin An finally understood the whole story.

The village is called Riverdale Village.

Although it was built on a tributary of the Yinyi River, in previous years, when the rainy season came, there would occasionally be heavy floods, flooding the village, and many villagers were swept into the river.

The more people die, the more strange things tend to happen.

Every night during the rainy season, something strange happens.

For example, villagers can occasionally hear the crying of villagers who were swept into the river by the flood.

It wasn't until later, when a gentleman in the village begged for a knife and hung it under the arched bridge as a tool for the whole village, that there was no more strange trouble in the village of Hedale.

That knife is called a chopping knife.

But just a month ago, a group of antique dealers passed by in Hegu Village, and in the name of buying antiques, they targeted the antique knife that has been around for hundreds of years in Hegu Village.

At first, the group of businessmen bought many ordinary vases and porcelain bowls from the villagers under the pretense of buying antiques.

It wasn't until they got acquainted with the people of the village that the antique dealers finally revealed their true purpose, and they had been staring at the slasher from the beginning.

They want to take away the hundred-year-old slasher at a high price.

The villagers disagreed.

The group of antique dealers was polite at first, and continued to stay in the village, wanting to buy several times, but each time they were resolutely rejected by the village elders led by Mr. Yin and Yang.

But later, everyone suddenly found that strange things began to happen in the village, especially the cries of those villagers who were drowned by the river began to appear again.

At first, these cries were still outside the village.

Later began to enter the village.

Strange things are getting more and more.

The hundred-year-old chopping knife hanging in the village seems to have lost its effect.

It was at that time that Mr. Yin Yang was isolated and killed, and was killed by the antique dealer who was bound to win, and it seemed that there were other masters in that gang of antique dealers to help.

With the death of Mr. Yin and Yang, and the accidental death of several clan elders who took the lead in the resistance, the villagers of Hegu Village were afraid of things and sold the slashing knives.

And because Mr. Yin Yang was the one who took the lead in the most rebellion, these villagers were afraid of getting caught on fire, and they all began to alienate Mr. Yin and Yang's family.

"Just now, I inquired about the location of Mr. Yin and Yang's house, and when I passed, I found that the grandson left by Mr. Yin and Yang was no longer at home, and the house was empty, and he should have been picked up by the big head Taoist friend. ”

The old Taoist priest finally said.

After the old Taoist priest finished speaking, he couldn't help but scold these villagers for being white-eyed wolves, and it was in vain that Mr. Yin Yang had been sticking to the village.

After listening to this, Jin An lowered his eyebrows and thought about it, he couldn't imagine that there were so many strange things happening in Mr. Yinyang's death, and sure enough, he guessed correctly from the beginning, buried in a black coffin, Mr. Yin and Yang did die in vain.

"After so much time, those antique dealers who came to Hegu Village to forcibly buy Jiaojiao knives should have left, right? Do the local villagers know where those antique dealers went after leaving Hegu Village?" Jin An asked after a deep groan.

The old Taoist priest shook his head and said that the villagers didn't have time to hide from the antique dealers, so they would take the initiative to come up and inquire about the news.

To inquire about the matter of intelligence, the old Taoist priest, a Taoist priest wearing a Taoist robe, is the most suitable to do, and they still have to stay in Hegu Village for a few days, so Jin An asked the old Taoist priest to continue to inquire more.

The old Taoist priest is also a person who can't be idle, otherwise he wouldn't have run away early in the morning without a figure, so he agreed and took the initiative to take care of the matter.

In fact, according to the original plan, Jin An planned to leave after only staying overnight in Hegu Village, but he saved a thief halfway and saved people to the end, so he planned to wait until the tomb robber who was picked up halfway woke up before leaving.

In the next two days, Jin An's life trajectory in Hegu Village was simple.

Early in the morning, practice the "Five Organs Secret Sutra" to breathe and breathe.

Day and night are the practice of Jianghu martial arts.

During this period, he will also spend some energy, three or four times a day, to help the tomb robbers who have been picked up to save their lives and recover from their injuries.

The most fragile part of the human body is the internal organs, as long as the viscera injury can be stabilized and the viscera can be restored, this human life can be regarded as half of the life.

The old Taoist priest has been wandering around the village for the past few days, not only to inquire about the latest news about the overnight destruction of Chang County, but also to inquire if there are any big tombs nearby.

Since the tomb robbers were picked up from the river outside the village, they should have come from some ancient tomb in the vicinity, but there has been no new progress.

However, the tomb robber suffered the most serious injury, and after the first two days of the high fever that did not go away, the fever finally subsided, and I don't know if it was because Jin An insisted on crossing the dirty Qi every day, even if he was so seriously injured, he could survive. In the early morning of the third day, the village doctor happily ran to inform Jin An and the old Taoist priest that the man had woken up.

"You two should be mentally prepared, although your friend is awake, but it seems that he has a high fever for too long, and there is something wrong with him......"

The village doctor wanted to speak and stopped.

"He doesn't seem to be able to speak, and he's forgotten what happened before, it's kind of like his brain has been burned out with a high fever. ”

Does this mean that the brain is burned into a fool?

Jin An and the old Taoist priest entered the room full of the smell of traditional Chinese medicine, and saw the tomb robber whose upper body was wrapped in linen, sitting motionless on the bed, with no expression on his face. When he heard movement and saw someone coming in, his eyes would also roll, and he glanced in the direction of the door, and he didn't look like a fool's kind of sloppy gaze.

But man just sits still all the time.

Silent.

There are no joys and sorrows.

Like a man cutting wood.

You ask him if he is hungry, thirsty, is there any pain or discomfort? He will not take the initiative to respond to you, but when the village doctor handed him the medicinal soup and light gruel, he knew how to eat by himself and drink porridge with chopsticks.

People are not stupid at all.

It's just that the wood is like a wooden man, if you don't take the initiative to call him what to do, he can sit motionless in a daze for a day.

If you ask him about his identity, do you remember the past, why he fell into the water, what happened to the injury on his back, and the tomb robber was silent, as if he had lost his memory and seemed to be born dumb.

Jin An was speechless.

What's the difference between them and saving a dried salted fish? If you don't take the initiative to turn over the salted fish, people won't bother to move.

Now that the person has been rescued, Jin An and the old Taoist priest plan to continue on the road.

They said goodbye to the tomb robbers, and then left some loose money, ready to go on the road, it is already a good act of Jin An to save people's lives, and it is impossible to take the other party with them.

I don't know.

As soon as he said goodbye, Jin An and the old Taoist priest had just left the village, and the tomb robbers, who had been wooden and wooden people who would not take the initiative to move, actually took the initiative to follow.

Looking at the tomb robbers who took the initiative to follow, the old Taoist priest was happy: "Little brother, it seems that he is not really stupid. ”

"You go, don't follow us, I already have two mouths to raise, and I can't afford one more. Jin An replied to the tomb robbers.

Old Taoist: "?"

Silly Sheep: "Ahh ”

As a result, Jin An, the old Taoist, and the stupid sheep had just left, and the wooden tomb robber followed again, and they stopped, and the tomb robber also stopped.

They continued on their way.

The tomb robbers also continued to follow silently.

I can't get rid of it no matter how much I can.

Seeing that the other party was planning to touch him, Jin An asked the other party speechlessly: "Why have you been following us?"

Who knows, the tomb robbers who have always been mute and don't speak, this time they actually spoke, and they were not dumb.

"Master. ”

The tomb robber shouted at Jin An.

Jin An: "?"

Old Taoist: "?"

This master, shouted that Jin An was stunned.

The old Taoist priest looked at Jin An with a shocked face, I can't imagine that you are still a hidden tomb robber, the old Taoist I have a pair of fiery eyes that read countless people, and there is actually a time to look away!

Jin An didn't pay attention to the unserious old Taoist priest for the time being, because after the dead-faced thief called him master, that familiar avenue induction came again.

Jin An was completely stunned at this time.

"What did you just call me?" Jin An asked again.

"Master. ”

The grave robber shouted a second time.

Really.

Jin An was delighted.

It wasn't his delusion.

Sure enough, there was really a familiar avenue induction that befell him again.

Jin An has a qi looking technique for himself, Yin Deshu -

Sixteen thousand one hundred and four.

Among them, there are 1,000 yin virtues obtained by going to the yin and cutting the coffin in the temple.

Although the old body of the fierce master in the white coffin is powerful, his strength has been weakened by most of it, which is equivalent to a grade drop of several grades, so Jin An has not gained much Yin Virtue.

The coffin temple did not contribute much yin virtue to eliminate demons, but in the catastrophe that subverted the whole city of Chang County, the yin virtue he obtained from saving people accounted for the majority, more than 10,000.

Deducting the two yin virtues that he originally had left, it is equivalent to every time the wooden tomb robber calls him master, he can obtain one yin virtue.

Jin An was really confused now.

Can the master also take yin virtue?

"Lao Dao, you call me a master, try it. ”

The old Taoist priest naturally doesn't shout to death, he is a teacher for one day and a father for life, little brother, are you going to take advantage of the old Taoist me?

Jin An didn't force the old Taoist priest to call him master, he fell into deep thought.

"Could it be that this tomb robber who picked it up, knowing that I saved him, so his heart is sincere, every time he calls me Master, it is a heartfelt gratitude, and it is a yin virtue?" Jin An thought in his heart.

"But it's not right, I, Jin'an, have always been happy to help others, and I have always had my noble consciousness of being a human being, and I am not less thanked on weekdays, why do other people have no yin virtue? It should be that in addition to being sincere and full of thanks, it is also related to the living and dead physique of this tomb robber?"

If there is anything different between this thief and ordinary people, it is the physique of a living person and a dead person.

According to the old Taoist priest, this living person's dead physique grew up from eating corpse flesh, so the death gas in the body has accumulated seriously, not only the death gas of one corpse, but the death gas of many corpses, or even hundreds, is it because the tomb robbers are grateful once, which is equal to the gratitude of hundreds of people?

Jin An didn't have a clue for a while, but he didn't care about him.

There is yin virtue, which means that the heart is sincere, and this tomb robber did not have other intentions to approach him, but he did sincerely thank him, that is, his thanks were quite chic, a master......

At this moment, Jin An suddenly felt that it was not so difficult to accept that he had picked up an apprentice for nothing.

"Apprentice, shout a few more times, Master. ”

"Master. ”

"Master. ”

"Master. ”

Jin An smiled with joy, and the more he looked at the dead face tomb robber with an amnesia in front of him, the more pleasing it became.

The old Taoist priest was shocked.

What's the fuss about?

Just now, little brother, you obviously looked disgusted that you couldn't get rid of it, but now why do you suddenly have a deep relationship between master and apprentice?

"Disciple came, I have seen your senior brother. ”

Jin An has fully accepted this tomb robber who picked up halfway.

"Big brother. ”

"Third junior brother. ”

The tomb robber shouted Brother Goat.

Shouting the old Taoist priest and the third junior brother.

The old Taoist priest almost choked to death by his own saliva: "Why am I the third junior brother, Lao Dao, I am not as good as a sheep!"

The tomb robber was like a wooden man, and there was no joy or sorrow on his face: "Because the senior brother saved my life." ”

Old Taoist: "?"

The old Taoist priest's mentality couldn't be balanced: "I also have a credit to Lao Dao for rescuing you a few days ago, it was Lao Dao and the little brother who rescued you from the river." ”

This is clearly scolding him for being old-fashioned and not even as good as a beast?

The tomb robbers, as if they had no zombie faces, replied in four short words: "I forgot." ”

The old Taoist priest suddenly shook his head.

Along the way, the old Taoist priest was a little depressed, and he couldn't figure out why he didn't live as well as a sheep?

The goat is the senior brother, the old Taoist priest is the third senior brother, and the tomb robber is naturally the second senior brother.

"Apprentice, do you have a name?" Walking on the official road, Jin An asked the wooden flute tomb robber he had picked up.

Shake your head.

"And do you remember the old memories?"

Still shaking his head.

Jin An thought for a while and said: "People must have a name, then I will ask you to sharpen the sword, the day you picked you up, you have been holding the broken sword in your hand, and in the future, you will act as a swordsman in the rivers and lakes, don't let people know that you used to rob tombs, and tomb robbery is a capital crime." ”

"Sharpen the sword, why do you call me master?"

Jin Anzhong has always been puzzled by this question.

Sharpening the sword, which already has a new name, still has no expression of joy and sorrow on his face: "I seem to have a voice in my heart all the time, the most important person in this world is called Master, and the person who is most worthy of care in this world is Senior Brother and Senior Brother." ”

"So Master, you are the most important person to me. ”

"Senior Brother and Third Senior Brother are the people I care about the most. ”

Sharpening the sword is rare to say very solemnly this time.

The old Taoist priest, who had always been sullen that he was not as good as a sheep, heard the words of sharpening the sword this time, and suddenly reappeared with an old chrysanthemum-like smile on his face.

Sharpening the sword looks like a tomb robber with great ability, it is a living person who is dead in ten thousand, and can be used as a personal guard by this mysterious master, at least in the future, he will strayed into a forbidden place for the living, a corpse cave, a mass grave or something, and he doesn't have to worry about going in vertically and then coming out horizontally.

There are so many forbidden places in the world, why can't you go?

"Apprentice, shout a few more times, Master. ”

Long official road, just listen to Master, Master... And so on.

......

If you want to get to the state capital, there are two routes to take.

The first is the dry road where the boat is tired.

One is more convenient waterways.

A few days later, the three of them and one sheep boarded the mast passenger boat to the state capital at the ferry port in a neighboring county.

Although it is now spring, the wind on the river is still strong, so there are not many people on the deck of the passenger ship.

Jin An is not used to the narrow space of the ship's cabin, so he is one of the few people who does not stand on the deck much.

And the sword sharpening has always followed Jin An.

Jin An looked at the magnificent river in front of him, and suddenly felt something in his heart and wanted to chant a poem.

But after Jin An racked his brains, he suddenly woke up and found that he was not a copyist, nor did he have a stomach full of 300 Tang poems, and he held back for a long time before he finally held back only one children's song-

Goose goose goose, song to the sky. The white hair floats in the green water, and the red anthurium plucks the clear waves.

Boom!

Suddenly, the hull of the ship seemed to hit something, and the hull shook violently, and the impact force was very strong, and it directly knocked the passenger boat full of people across the river, and also slammed Jin An, who was just about to recite a poem, back into his stomach.

At this time, panic and screams arose on the ship, and many passengers ran out of the cabin, ran onto the deck and asked the crew in a panic? Is the ship hitting the rocks?

Jin An saw clearly what they had touched at the bottom of the boat, it was a broken log, and the broken wood was still fresh, as if it had just been washed into the water.

At this time, because of some seasickness, the old Taoist priest who was sleeping in the cabin was dizzy, also ran to the deck to find Jin An in a hurry.

When Jin An said that the bottom of the boat hit a crossbar, the old Taoist priest breathed a sigh of relief. Jin An only then did he know that the old Taoist priest was a landlubber, and he was most afraid of falling into the water and swimming in his life, and the old Taoist priest was worried all the way.

Soon after, the passenger ship continued to sail in the direction of Fucheng.

But in the next few days, the more I sailed to Fucheng, the more horizontal trees in the river, the broken logs began to increase significantly, and the hull of the ship accidentally shook from time to time.

made the old Taoist priest, who was already seasick, even more dizzy, Jin An asked the old Taoist priest to lie down in the cabin and not move, the more people moved, the more seasick they were.

Until this day, when there was only one day left before the state capital, the boat suddenly stopped in the center of the river and stopped moving, and there was no way forward.

Several boats in the vicinity were intercepted by a small government boat, and at this time, the boats were across the river, blocking outsiders from entering.

"What's going on, why is the river locked?"

"It seems that the official's ship is in front of it. ”

At this time, on the small boat of the official family, a local official of the state capital stood out.

"Ladies and gentlemen, there have been landslides on both sides of the river bank ahead, and the river channel has been blocked. The broken trees and branches that were washed down by the mudslide are now all blocked at the narrowest bend in front of the Yinyi River. ”

"Now our sailors are fully cooperating with the state government to clean up the river, and it will be cleaned up in about a day, and navigation should be restored tomorrow. ”

The other party spoke politely, but there was no arrogance of officials, so the emotions of the passengers and merchants on each ship were quickly calmed down.

......

The night is gradually sinking, and the river swallows the moonlight, reflecting the thick black water, which seems to respond to the sentence, the moon is dark and the wind is high for the night of killing.

The hull of the boat on the river rose and fell with the waves, swaying from side to side, and it took a lot of effort for Jin An, who tried to be out of body for the first time on the boat, to finally calm down.

Suddenly felt that his body was light, as if it was as light as a feather, and Jin An succeeded in going out of his body on the water for the first time.

Jin An looked around, in the narrow small boat room, the old Taoist priest snorted and shook the sky, and the sword sharpening was so noisy that he couldn't sleep and was sitting still in a daze, and he pretended to sleep, sleeping soundly with his face facing the wall of the boat.

The goat, of course, is not here, it is staying in the stern area with the other animals.

Even if Jin An wanted to bring the goats over, the boat owner would not agree, after all, this whole passenger ship was not only Jin An's business, and the strong body odor on the livestock would affect other guests.

Jin An's divine soul floated above the top of his body's head, and then took out two yellow talismans from under the palm of his hand, which were the six Ding Liujia talismans and the five thunder slashing talismans.

When the two yellow talismans were close to the body, the warm feeling of the divine soul that was warmed by the breath of the gods returned, and the divine soul was no longer cold.

Next, Jin An's spirit wandered, floated to the tail area, and found the goat.

When he found the goat, Jin An was immediately happy, the goat was seasick and dizzy, vomited all kinds of meat, and had no strength to make a fuss anymore.

Jin An's spirit floated around the passenger boat, and when he saw that there was no other situation on the boat, his spirit floated out and floated towards the direction of the river blockage.

He plans to see if the landslide is serious and if he can dredge the waterway tomorrow, if not, then he can only change the waterway to a dry road.

It was also a coincidence that Jin An had not drifted far when he actually ran into the ship where the official he had seen during the day was.

Even if it was night, these officials still dutifully guarded the river to prevent the night from dimming their vision and a ship that did not know the truth from entering the dangerous place.

Jin An continued to float in.

The more the spirit floated in, the more broken trees and branches on the river surface, sure enough, there were more and more, until after floating out of a mile, Jin An came to the bend and silt place that the official said.

This is indeed one of the most dangerous places in the Yinyi River, the bend is sharp, and the river water is more turbulent here, but at this time it is full of debris washed down from the mountain. If a ship accidentally enters here, the current here is so turbulent that you will never escape the fate of capsizing.

It's night, and the people in the government who were in charge of cleaning the waterways during the day are no longer there.

Because the river water at night is dangerous and the view is poor, it is not suitable for cleaning the waterway.

Jin An continued to float in, he wanted to see how long the river was blocked, and his spirit was fluttering, but on the quiet and calm river, Jin An actually found a fire in the distance.

The light of the fire was like a faint green phosphorus fire in a cemetery, flickering and extinguishing, flickering and shaking, and it was more or less terrifying on this dark river.

Jin An was slightly surprised, thinking to himself that on such a dark night, who else would run to the river?

He quickly drifted that way, and then found a canopy with a green candle lantern hanging from the bow of the awning boat.

The scene in front of me is so similar, isn't this the same as the soul-attracting lamp and soul-attracting boat when walking in the yin?

It's just that the soul-attracting ship here is not the same as the soul-attracting ship that Jin An walked in the underworld.

Jin An was surprised this time.

He held his breath and looked intently.

Ancient moon on the river.

On the ship, which imitated the soul attraction ship of the underworld, stood a pair of young and old, one of whom was about forty years old, and the other was a young man in his twenties.

Listening to the conversation between the two, the middle-aged man is the second uncle, and the young man is the former's own nephew, whose name is Zongren.

The middle-aged man stood at the bow of the boat, babbling in his mouth, probably reciting a spell or something, and then threw the copper coin in his hand into the river.

Jin An floated in the distance, looking at this pair of eccentric old and young, quietly watching the changes, and did not approach rashly.

Jin An didn't wait long, he suddenly found that a large number of splashes began to be made under the originally calm river, and then Jin An was surprised to see a blistered and pale human face floating under the water.

Their bodies were still underwater, only a swollen, pale face, looking up at the surface, a dozen dead faces surfaced, each dead without looking away, the strange thing is that each dead face has a copper coin attached to its forehead.

It was the copper coin that the middle-aged man had dropped earlier.

And the origin of these dead people is naturally the people who drowned in the river over the years.

"Is this a corpse?"

"Or summon spirits?"

Jin An was surprised.

"Could it be that Jiang is the corpse collector that Lao Dao mentioned to me?"

But Jin An always felt that the corpse digger in front of him was a little different from the corpse digger he imagined.

Soon, Jin An's conjecture was answered.

The copper coins on the foreheads of the drowned fell off, and then the drowned, who had been disturbed from their sleep, sank to the bottom of the river without looking at their sights.

And those copper coins flew into the hands of the middle-aged man.

This time, the middle-aged man let his nephew Zongren row an oar, and after changing a place, he threw copper coins under the river in the same way. Soon after, sure enough, other drowned corpses floated up with copper coins on their foreheads.

But strange to say, the middle-aged man took back the copper coins again, and then the drowned bodies sank back to the bottom of the river again.

The middle-aged man seemed to have been looking for someone for a purpose, but the person he was looking for never found had been found, and he had instead fished out some other dead people.

Out of curiosity, Jin An wanted to see what kind of person the uncle and nephew were looking for, so he followed them all the way, watching them change places again and again, and throw copper coins into the river again and again.

It wasn't until the middle-aged man changed places twenty or thirty times that the night was getting deeper and deeper, and the middle-aged man's eyes were happy, and he finally found the person he was looking for.

The middle-aged man reached out to grab the dead man underwater, but he couldn't catch it at first, and then asked his nephew to find a hemp rope and throw it into the water to hang the corpse's neck, which successfully salvaged the dead man underwater, which was a male corpse.

The male corpse looked like he had just died, as his body had not yet been swollen from the soaking.

Next, the middle-aged man began to grope up and down the corpse, looking for something purposefully.

In the end, he was overjoyed, and touched something from the man's body, and before Jin An had time to take a closer look, the middle-aged man had already hurriedly put it into his arms.

Poof!

The middle-aged man kicked the male corpse back into the water, and with unscathed and unwillingness, the male corpse sank to the bottom of the river again.

"Second uncle, we have wasted so much energy, why are we just looking for such a piece of broken jade?" his nephew Zongren muttered dissatisfiedly, as if he was dragged by his own second uncle to blow the cold wind on the river in the middle of the night, and he couldn't sleep, which caused this nephew's small emotions.

The second uncle patted the back of his nephew's head and scolded gently: "What do you know, this is a good baby." ”

The nephew disturbed the back of his head and hurriedly asked what kind of good baby it was?

"This piece of broken jade is a good treasure, and it is related to a secret of a corpse. ”

Perhaps because he finally found what he was looking for, the second uncle was a little smug and couldn't help but want to find someone to share his inner joy.

It turned out that in the winter of the early years, a certain section of the Yinyi River had the most serious dry period in a century, and the flow was almost cut off.

On the night when the flow almost stopped, another strange thing happened, when a nearby villager salvaged a stone coffin carried by a stone ox from the riverbed that was exposed to the riverbed.

The stone ox was lifelike, like a living creature, and it looked like a stone ox carrying a stone coffin walking under the river. It was only this once-in-a-century severe drought that exposed the riverbed, and it was discovered.

The stone coffin is sealed is a half-flesh and half-bone Taoist priest, many villagers are so frightened that they scream and fall to the ground, all say that this is a collision with evil spirits, they salvaged the stone coffin today, and opened the coffin to let the body in the coffin absorb the popularity, the corpse in the stone coffin is about to cheat the corpse and eat people, so a fire is all burned.

These villagers knew that they were in trouble, so they didn't dare to make a noise, but no matter how tight the doors and windows were, there was always a time for air leakage, and then this matter was poked out, and when the government rushed to the village, they only found the stone ox that was trapped in the riverbed and could not be removed by the villagers, and the body of the Taoist priest had already been burned clean by a fire.

Now the stone ox is still standing in the state capital.

In fact, that Taoist priest was not an evil corpse, but a master who was cultivating a corpse to solve immortals.

Taoist corpse dissolution of immortals, it is said that people are resurrected after 300 years, broken limbs and still alive, corpses and immortals have fire hydrolysis, water hydrolysis, military liberation and so on.

However, the conditions for corpse dissolution immortals are very harsh, so few people are willing to repair corpse dissolving immortals. Moreover, the corpse is against the sky, so in the past three hundred years, various catastrophes will fall, such as mudslides, river bursts, snakes, insects, rats and ants gnawing, or being stolen by people digging graves and occupying the magpie's nest as the ancestral land to steal the fortune of three hundred years... Wait to destroy the corpse.

It is in response to that sentence: those who obey the heavens are sad, and those who change their lives against the heavens die.

"Second uncle, you still didn't say a piece of broken jade, what's the use?" his nephew Zongren muttered.

The middle-aged man triumphantly took care of the broken jade, and then asked his nephew to quickly pack up his things and row away, while he himself got up and went into the canopy of the awning boat.

Bang!

Blood mixed with skull fragments splashed up, and the middle-aged man was split his head with an axe from behind, and the splattered blood and brain pulp splashed Zongren's face.

At this time, Zongren's face was devoid of the warmth of his uncle and nephew, only the indifference of seeing wealth.

Zong Ren was not taboo about dead people at all, and after finding the piece of broken jade from his dead second uncle's arms, he kicked his second uncle into the river with a kick, and the blood soaked the waters, and it was soon wiped out again.

Then, under the cover of night, Zongren began to row his oars and hurriedly left the Yinyi River in the night.

Just when Zong Ren hurriedly rowed away, he didn't notice that he didn't put it away when he used hemp rope to salvage the male corpse just now, and the hemp rope that he threw at the stern of the boat casually, at some point, fell into the black rumbling river water at night, hooked the wrist of a female corpse, and the canopy boat dragged a female corpse, and left the center of the river with him and left towards the shore.

The female corpse was young and beautiful, her long black hair was scattered in the water like ghost claws, and the person was lying flat on her back floating on the water, Jin An looked at the treacherous scene under her feet, only to feel that her scalp was numb, and a cold chill surged on her back.

And when the boat dragged the female corpse from under Jin An's feet, it seemed that the female corpse was blind and met Jin An's eyes, Jin An felt a kind of cold chill that was watched.

But this feeling of gaze was only for a short moment, and as the female corpse was dragged away by the boat, the feeling of gaze and peeping disappeared, and finally the female corpse was dragged by the boat in the direction of Fucheng.

And Zongren, who was against his own second uncle, was in a hurry to leave here, and never found that he was dragging a strange female corpse in the stern of the boat to leave with him.

At this time, he clutched the things in his arms tightly and couldn't wait to paddle away.

Jin An wanted to follow and take a closer look at what happened to the female corpse, but he found that his soul had reached the limit of distance, and finally he had to return to his shell with a heavy heart.

When Jin An returned to the shell, he saw that the sharpening sword was still in the same posture as before he left, and he hadn't even moved a finger, and Mu Leng was in a daze.

If Jin An doesn't call him to eat.

He can sit still for a day with such a salted fish.

This night, Jin An didn't sleep all night.

The strange female corpse that was unintentionally towed away by the ship always gave him a bad premonition, so after dawn, Jin An, who was worried, found a sharpening sword.

"Sharpen the sword, Master is a little upset now, you call Master a few more times, let Master know that there is still warmth and care in the world, and there is still Yin virtue in the world. ”

Sharpening the sword: "?"

The waterway was reopened until almost dusk on the second day, but it was only a small area of traffic, in order to avoid unsafe sailing at night, so it was not until the third day that the passenger ship where Jin'an was located passed through the narrow waterway where there were still a lot of debris floating.

After another half a day of sailing, the passenger ship finally arrived at the state capital ferry.

As the most prosperous place in a state, the state capital is naturally busy with commercial goods and pedestrians, and there are more porters on the dock than people disembarking from the boat.

There are also many sedan chair drivers and wheelbarrow drivers who stretched their necks, and as soon as they saw merchant ships and passenger ships docking, they immediately hula and surrounded a large group, eager to tear people into four pieces to do four orders.

Jin An, the old Taoist priest, the goat got off the passenger boat, squeezed through the crowded bustling wharf, the state capital wants to enter the city, the review is much stricter, you need to check the customs clearance documents to enter the city, the old Taoist priest took out the Taoist disc from the Taoist robe on his body, and handed it to the soldiers guarding the city gate.

At this time, Jin An, who had already changed into a five-organ Taoist robe, also took out a Taoist disc.

"Are you really a Taoist priest?"

The soldiers guarding the city gate, some looked suspiciously at the Taoist priest or not, the monk or not, the scholar or not, and the knights of the rivers and lakes were not like the Jin'an of the knights of the rivers and lakes.

"What's the matter with your sheep-like calf?"

No matter how this soldier looks at Jin An, he doesn't look like a serious Taoist priest.

Jin An hadn't experienced any battles in the past month, so how could he be frightened by the momentum of the ordinary soldiers in front of him, and replied unhurriedly: "Isn't there an allusion to the Taoist Sanqing saints who rode a green ox out of the customs and turned into a Hu, as a Taoist disciple, in order to pay homage to the saint's holy line, how could he not have a cow with him as a mount?"

"Mouth ......"

The stupid sheep hadn't finished shouting yet, and he was only halfway through the shouting, when he was hammered back into his stomach by Jin An.

"Let's go, let's go. In the end, the soldier impatiently let Jin An go.

Because at this time, Jin An was already waiting in line behind him, and the people in the queue behind him were already complaining, and they had been urging behind.

Only then was Jin An and the old Taoist priest able to enter the capital city of Wuzhou smoothly.

Sharpening the sword did not follow, Jin An asked the sharpening sword to find an opportunity to blend into the city, Jin An believed that the sword was a master of tomb robbers, and it was not difficult to infiltrate the city.

As the capital of Wuzhou, the state capital is naturally much more prosperous than the county seat, and the old and the young have just entered the city, and they will see the rows of buildings on both sides of the market, three-story pavilions, four-story pavilions, abound.

The prosperity of the state capital can be regarded as an eye-opening for Jin'an, such as Grandma Liu's entry into the Grand View Garden, a wider market, a more prosperous market, an antique pavilion with carved beams and paintings, and an exotic culture that makes Jin'an dizzy, especially the Goolan tile of the state capital is so lively, there is more than one......

Until, a tall stone cow stone statue came into Jin'an's eyes.

The stone ox is majestic and tall, magnificent, it bows its head slightly, its front hooves are raised, as if it is carrying something on its body, it is as heavy as a thousand pounds, and the heavy, the vicissitudes of history, the sad breath, come to the face.

The stone ox is carved to life, and the texture of each tendon muscle has been carved clearly by the stonemason, as if it is about to break out of the shell of the stone statue and come back to life.

Jin An looked up at this three-person stone cow, and surprise flashed in his eyes: "This is the stone cow that was mentioned to the uncle and nephew last night and carried the corpse of the immortal Taoist stone coffin?"

"Little brother, the craftsman who built this stone cow is really ingenious, and I look at this stone cow with the illusion that it is alive. ”

The old Taoist priest said in amazement, he was also shocked by the tall stone ox in front of him.

Jin An sighed with some regret.

It's a pity.

In the end, the master failed to dissolve the immortal.

Now you are left alone in the world, waiting endlessly, you must be very lonely and sad......

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