Chapter 164: Si Tingxuan
The last years of Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty.
It was the second year of the Anshi Rebellion, and countless soldiers were killed and wounded on the battlefield. Rivers of blood flowed, stained the wilderness, and dry bones everywhere.
At that time, Yan Anhe was still living in a small village. There were not many people in the village, but because of the conscription, there were very few men over the age of fourteen left. The rest are more of the elderly, women and children.
That year, there was also a big event in the village, that is, the village began to be haunted.
Many people were killed by ghosts, and their bodies hung on the crooked weeping willows, and the skin on their bodies was stripped off by the ghosts, leaving a red body. The blood-red flesh was exposed to the sun, and the blood on it pooled together and dripped down.
A shiny film of blood, shining with a layer of oil under the sunlight.
The old village chief invited a lot of Taoist priests, but most of them cheated on food and drink, but they didn't get rid of any ghosts at all. And from the month of the death, it lasted for more than two months, and a person died in the village every few days.
Whether it was an old man, a child, or a woman, the ghost did not let go.
At that time, the whole village was surrounded by terror, and when it was approaching night, the people of the village did not dare to walk around. There are also people who have relatives elsewhere and have moved out early, or they have fled and left here altogether. The whole village soon became a dead village, and there were very few people left.
Yan Anhe also wanted to take her old father away, but her old father's legs and feet were inconvenient, and she couldn't leave at all. And it doesn't mean that as long as you leave the village, you will definitely survive.
Yan Anhe saw a mother and daughter being stoned to death in broad daylight.
The next night, the bodies of the mother and daughter hung on the weeping willows of the village.
Therefore, Yan Anhe did not leave, and could only stay by his father's side.
At that time, even during the day, there were not many people in the village who could see it, and most of them hid in their houses. Finally, one day, the village chief came and said that he had invited a high-ranking person. This master is very young, but he is a disciple of Taoism, and he said that he traveled down the mountain to exorcise demons and subdue demons.
This person is Si Tingxuan.
That night, Si Tingxuan caught the harmful ghosts in the village. It's just that what Yan Anhe and all the people in the village didn't expect was that the ghost was caught in the village chief's house.
To be precise, it was the village chief who raised his son into a ghost.
The village chief's son was also conscripted and decapitated by the enemy, and was beheaded by the enemy after only a week on the battlefield. Maybe there was still a grudge in his heart, so his soul was found and found in the village chief's home. also loved his son and didn't want his son to leave, so the village chief raised his son's soul into a demon.
But raising ghosts requires "nourishment", so the old village chief turned his village into a Shura hell. It's just that he didn't expect that the person he invited this time, Si Tingxuan, originally thought that such a young Taoist priest would not have any real skills, but he didn't expect that he was really a master.
That is, he destroyed the ghost of the old village chief's son.
The soul of the old village chief's son was killed by Si Tingxuan, and the old village chief himself was burned alive by the villagers.
So far, the village has not been haunted anymore.
But Yan Anhe already fell in love with Si Tingxuan. When Si Tingxuan left the village, halfway through, Yan Anhe caught up with Si Tingxuan, and took the initiative to show him his love.
Unexpectedly, Si Tingxuan actually agreed to her.
The two became husband and wife in the presence of the villagers. At that time, Si Tingxuan was also a lay disciple, otherwise, official Taoist disciples would not be allowed to marry a wife and have children.
But the two had only been together for more than a year, and An Lushan's army had already been killed here. An Lushan and Shi Siming were the initiators of the "Anshi Rebellion". Although the army did not come to the village, the tragic situation of the battlefield had spread throughout the village.
What is even more tragic is that none of the men from the village who were taken away came back alive.
At that time, Si Tingxuan told Yan Anhe that he was going to the battlefield, but not to be a soldier, but to surpass those tragically dead "soldier souls" and send them to reincarnate into the Yin Division.
Yan Anhe loved her husband Si Tingxuan very much and didn't want him to leave her, so she cried every day.
Unexpectedly, he still didn't stop Si Tingxuan's footsteps. One night, Si Tingxuan left a letter and left the village and went to the battlefield to spend his soul.
Yan Anhe, who knew about this, ran out for dozens of miles, but still didn't catch up with Si Tingxuan.
She had no choice but to wait at home, washing her face with tears every day.
More than a few years passed, and the Anshi Rebellion was finally quelled. Many soldiers from nearby villages returned to their hometowns proudly, but among those people, Yan Anhe did not find her husband Si Tingxuan.
She felt that her husband must be dead.
It was in that year that Yan Anhe's old father died, which made the loneliness in her heart even worse. Yan Anhe, who doesn't think about tea and food, likes to do the most every day is to sit at the door of the house, reading the letters left to him by her husband Si Tingxuan over and over again.
After a long time, another year passed.
Yan Anhe was skinny, and finally fell ill in bed. The people in the village knew about Yan Anhe, and many people helped inquire about Si Tingxuan's whereabouts everywhere because of Si Tingxuan's kindness in killing the ghosts, but there was still no news.
In the end, Yan Anhe still did not resist the torture of the disease and the sadness in his heart. In her heart, she felt that maybe her husband had already died on the battlefield.
So it didn't take long for Yan Anhe to die at home.
The people in the village helped Yan Anhe to send him to the funeral.
Unexpectedly, on the day of the funeral, Si Tingxuan came back. Si Tingxuan, who came back, stopped the villagers and took away the body of his wife Yan Anhe, and disappeared from then on.
The people of the village did not know where they had gone, and they could not hear from them.
Yan Anhe's body was taken to a town, and Si Tingxuan used up all his mana and snatched Yan Anhe's soul out of the Yin Division. But Yan Anhe is already a dead person, even if her soul comes back, she is still a dead person, because her longevity has been exhausted.
Therefore, in order to renew the relationship with his wife, Si Tingxuan injected the corpse qi he obtained from the battlefield into his wife's stomach, and used Taoist magic to help his wife Yan Anhe condense the "corpse fragrance".
Because there were too many people who died in the "Anshi Rebellion", Si Tingxuan collected a lot of corpse qi.
Otherwise, relying on Yan Anhe's own corpse alone, I am afraid it would really take a thousand years to condense the corpse incense. It is precisely because of the assistance of Taoist mana, coupled with the majestic aura of corpses, that Yan Anhe was able to use the shortest time to condense the corpse incense.
Yan Anhe "lived", but in the end she was still a dead person. However, being able to see his wife again and live with her, Si Tingxuan is already very satisfied.
But the good times didn't last long.
Si Tingxuan brought out Yan Anhe's soul from the Yin Division, which was already a violation of the law of the Yin Division. In addition, he used Taoist mana to help Yan Anhe condense the "corpse incense", so that a dead person could exist in this world in another way.
These two points alone are already a violation of the taboo of the Yin Division.
So it didn't take long for the many Yin Gods and Judges of the Yin Division to come up.
At that time, Si Tingxuan knew that he had no way to escape, so he had to follow the people of Yin Si to the underworld. But before leaving, Si Tingxuan had told Yan Anhe that he had a way to let them meet again, a way to find her, and let Yan Anhe wait for him.
But that's a thousand years.
Yan Anhe has been lonely in his heart for thousands of years. But she didn't wash her face with tears all day long, but lived in this world year after year as a brand new person. She told herself that Si Tingxuan had promised herself that she would believe him.
They'll meet, definitely!!
In this way, in this kind of self-encouragement, Yan Anhe persevered.
Until now, until she was lying in the bell tower, her face was no longer there, and she was still waiting.
The picture of a thousand years ago kept flashing in Yan Anhe's mind, and the sense of loss in her heart slowly disappeared, with a smile on her face. What she thought of was more of a beautiful picture with Si Tingxuan.
Memories are short-lived.
"Squeak!"
may have sensed that the one-eyed immortal master had come, and the sky-striped insect in Yan Anhe's stomach began to chirp. The voice pulled Yan Anhe back from his memories.
The cry of the sky-striped insect shook Yan Anhe's ears as if they were about to be deaf.
The One-Eyed Immortal Master had just come to the bell tower not far when he heard the cry of the Skystripe Worm.
"It turns out that it is really hidden inside this bell tower."
A fierce look appeared in the one-eyed immortal's eyes.
He hurried up to the bell tower. On the fourth floor of the bell tower, he found Yan Anhe leaning against the wall.
"You...... Not dead!? ”
Yan Anhe was also surprised. You must know that the power of the previous corpse pill is extremely huge. And after seeing the one-eyed immortal master, her heart was already like ashes.
"What? Stinky woman, I'm not dead, aren't you disappointed....... Haha, as I said, the corpse incense in your belly is mine. ”
The One-Eyed Immortal Master slowly walked towards Yan Anhe, the greed in his eyes becoming more and more intense.
Yan Anhe tilted his head, with hatred in his eyes.
But she had no choice, the corpse aura on her body disappeared, and the strength in her body was also after entering the bell tower, and there was not much left. Now she really looks like a puddle of mud stuck to the wall.
The One-Eyed Immortal lifted his trouser leg, and a sharp dagger was hidden underneath.
"Hahaha... Corpse incense! As long as I have the corpse incense, I can heal my eyes, and I can improve my Dao Dharma. Although there are not many people left in the Northern Underworld Sect, as long as I am here, as long as I get the corpse incense, everything is worth it! ”
As he spoke, the one-eyed immortal master bowed down and violently ripped off Yan Anhe's clothes. Yan Anhe has already turned back into a carrion corpse, and there are no highlights to see.
Looking at Yan Anhe's lower abdomen, the greed in the eyes of the one-eyed immortal master was even worse, and the knife in his hand slowly approached Yan Anhe's lower abdomen.
Yan Anhe closed his cloudy eyes. My eyes, which had dried up many years ago, burst into tears for some reason.
"I'm sorry, Ting Xuan, we still haven't been able to meet after all, I can't wait for you! You still lied to me......" Yan Anhe said in a sad voice.
It was at this time that the one-eyed immortal master who bowed down was completely stunned on the spot.
The knife in his hand did not pierce Yan Anhe's lower abdomen, but his fingers fell to the ground as soon as he let go. Then the one-eyed immortal master hugged his head, knelt on the ground, and cried out in pain.
While shouting, a voice came out of his mouth: "I'm Si Tingxuan, I'm Si Tingxuan...... Anhe, I'm coming for you! I'm coming for you! ...... It's me, I'm back! ...... It's been a thousand years, and I've finally found you. ”
(To be continued)