Seeing that it was getting darker, I quickened my pace. I want to get home before it gets completely dark.

The place I call home is actually a Taoist temple on the hill near the village, and there are only me and my master in the temple, and I grew up in the Taoist temple.

It was getting dark, and the village that was usually dimly lit had become dark, and the whole village was deserted, without a trace of life. Seeing this lifeless village, a sense of foreboding came over me. I couldn't help but speed up, and finally came to the door of the Taoist temple.

Unlike the black lights in the village, which are blind and lifeless, the Taoist temple is brightly lit. A few people were huddled around whispering as if they were watching something.

I took off my backpack and shouted, "Master, I'm back." An old Taoist priest in a cyan robe squeezed out of the crowd and looked at me and smiled: "Youyu, are you back?" Are you okay on the way? I smiled and nodded: "Master, I'm fine, thank you Master for your concern!" ”

That old Taoist is my master, Wang Heyun. He was the one who picked me up and raised me. So in my heart, he is like my own father.

Master beckoned to me: "Come on, come on, come here, let me take a good look, I haven't seen you for a few years, my body is much stronger!" Hahahaha" laughed.

A middle-aged man next to him hurriedly motioned to the master: "Shhh Master Wang whispered, don't attract that monster. Master's eyes widened: "What are you afraid of it doing?" There are so many of us here. Besides, didn't I already hurt it just now? Rest assured, it won't be there again tonight."

I asked Master curiously, "Master, are you talking about the monster in the mass grave in the back mountain?" Is it coming up again? Master nodded: "Yes! How do you know? Have you also encountered it? ”

I shook my head: "I didn't see it, I heard from the old man in the village." When I came back, I met Lao Zhangtou in the town, and he told me. ”

Master nodded, then pulled away the people around me and said, "You Yu, look, this is the masterpiece that monster just came out of. But it's been beaten away by me. ”

I walked over and gasped. On the ground was a half-bloody corpse, broken from the waist and the upper half of the body gone. The lower half of his body was also blurred with flesh and blood, and only Bai Sensen's bones were gnawed on one of his legs.

I looked at Master, "Master, this is..." Master sighed, "Ever since the monster appeared, I've been telling them all to move out. But none of them listened! Later, the monster killed people several times in succession, and they moved away. After speaking, he pointed to the people next to him and said, "Several of them are people who have nowhere to go, so I let them stay in the Taoist temple first." The corpse on the ground was also one of them, and he had planned to go to the town in the morning to buy something, but he never came back, so I took someone to look for it, and found the half of the corpse by the river down the mountain. ”

I looked at the time on my phone, "Master, it's only 8 o'clock in the evening." Could it be that the monster can also come out and harm people during the day? ”

Master nodded: "Yes! The monster had only come out at night, just eating some poultry and beasts. I didn't expect it to come out during the day now, and I ate several people, so it seems that it is not an ordinary evil thing. "Master asked a few people around me to go back to the room to rest first, and then asked me to come to the incense hall.

Master poured me a cup of tea and sat down with me: "Youyu! Do you remember what I often told you about the rules of the mountain school? We can't let that monster continue to harm people here, we must find a way to get rid of it. Come with me to the mass grave tomorrow! I nodded, "Okay!" Master, I haven't forgotten the rules of the Mountain Sect, once we find that there is a monster that harms the world, we must get rid of it. Master nodded, and I continued to ask, "Master, do you know where that monster came from?" ”

Master turned around and went into the room and took out an old, yellowed book and flipped through it in the dim light. Seeing this scene, I hurriedly took out a pair of reading glasses from my backpack and handed it over: "Master, I don't know what you like. So I bought you a pair of glasses, hoping that Master will not have so hard to read the scriptures in the future. Come! I'll bring it to you! Master took the reading glasses and smiled: "Alas! It's not okay to be old! I think back then, my eyes were up to the sky and down to the earth. Not anymore, it's hard to read a few words. Looks like I'm really old! ”

I helped Master put on his reading glasses and said with a smile, "Master, you are not old, really, not old at all." Come! If you look at the book now, don't you want to be much clearer? Master nodded ecstatically: "This is really a good thing, hehe!" In the future, it will be much more convenient to read scriptures and books at night. ”

After speaking, the master carefully opened the book again, and turned it through several times but did not find the content he was looking for. I looked at Master with some distress: "Master, what are you looking for?" Let me find it! ”

The master waved his hand: "It's useless, it has already become a corpse, if you let it absorb the essence of the sun and moon for a few more days, it will become a real one." At that time, there will be no one in the world who can get rid of it, and even if you find a way, you may not be able to deal with it. "Corpses? What's that? Is it animal sperm? I looked at Master in bewilderment.

Master gently took off his reading glasses, closed the ancient book, and said, "It's still just a corpse, and there is still a way to get rid of it." If you wait for it to absorb the essence of the sun and moon for seven hundred and forty-nine days, eat a few more people. It will become a real shackle, and then the world will be in chaos. ”

"Huh?" I suddenly remembered that I had seen a record of the dragon in the ancient books, so I said: "The ancient books record that there is a strange beast called the dragon in the East China Sea, which is fierce and abnormal, and often fights with the dragon, and the dragon can spit out flames from its mouth to defeat the dragon. After defeating the dragon, it will eat the dragon's brain. Master, that's what you're talking about, right? ”

Master nodded: "You're right, but you're not entirely right. This corpse is buried in the place where the corpse is raised after the death of the person, and this place where the corpse is raised must be above the dragon vein. It is mainly formed by absorbing the surrounding corpse qi changes, plus absorbing the dragon qi and the sun and moon essence in the dragon vein, so it becomes a corpse calf. It smells angry and moves, and when it sees a living thing, it eats it. Fortunately, it is still a corpse and has not yet become a real one. The dragon is already a powerful being, and the dragon can be defeated casually. Think about it, just how powerful it is! ”

I smacked my lips: "Tsk, then if it becomes a shackle, isn't it invincible in the world?" The master shook his head: "I don't know about this, because corpses are already extremely rare, let alone corpses." The last time the corpse appeared was in the Ming Dynasty. At that time, all the people in the village were eaten cleanly, and not a single living food was left. Later, it is said that he was eliminated by Liu Bowen, a military advisor of the Ming Dynasty, with the Heaven and Earth Killing Demon Array. I didn't expect that there would be a corpse in our village. Alas! Providence makes people, and demons are abundant! ”