I know that they already know that I am the descendant of the Yellow Emperor, they all rely on me for this catastrophe, I know that I have a heavy responsibility, and I dare not slack off to speed up to the mountain temple, at this time grandpa and the village chief have arrived in the temple, and the villagers have gradually arrived, grandpa said: "The corpse swallowing box is extremely thick at night, I didn't expect the Holy Emperor and all the mountain gods to join forces and can't resist it, it seems that we are doomed."

I said, "Isn't there any way to crack it?"

Grandpa said: "Only we can save ourselves, now notify everyone to prepare to transfer."

At this moment, a black yin wind drifted in, and from the wind came a familiar disgusting laugh, which was made by the witch.

Grandpa said: "The old demon is going to be rampant, wait for the old way to subdue you."

The witch appeared, and the villagers saw a commotion, and when they saw the witch's face that had been crushed by the car, everyone could no longer calm down. This time, the witch brought the protectors and masters of the Jiuli clan and dozens of blue-headed elves. The witch's sleeves waved, and a black wind drifted by, and more than a dozen villagers had already died unconsciously. I only heard the witch say: "Stinky Taoist priest today is the death period of your whole village, unless you hand over the cheap seed of the descendants of the Yellow Emperor."

The village chief said: "You don't think that even if we die, we will not agree to hand over the descendants of the Yellow Emperor, because only he can break the corpse swallowing box."

The witch said: "Today you all have to die, including that scumbag, none of you want to run, all the exits in the village have been sealed by spells."

I saw the witch pointing with his hand dozens of green-headed monsters collectively rushed towards the villagers, the green-headed monster green-faced fangs body like a ball with the size of a bowl, grandpa saw this and urged the spell in his hand to shoot towards the green-headed monster one by one, there were more than a dozen green-headed monsters could not resist the power of the golden light fell to the ground and turned into a yin wind to disperse, the green-headed monster that flew over bit the necks of the villagers and sucked blood frantically, the villagers screamed and died in pain, all of which I saw in my eyes.

The village chief said in a loud voice: "Where is the blind Tao?"

The witch laughed and said: "The dead blind man has already been frightened, and fled with his idiot nephew, the gods of the Holy Emperor and the mountain gods are all seriously injured and crawling to find a place to cultivate, in the coffin is the god you can't afford to provoke, the Yellow Emperor killed my Jiuli tribe back then, today I will let the Yellow Emperor's descendants die under my hands, as long as he dies, our Jiuli tribe will have no worries, and it will not take long for the great god to be resurrected, and then the world will be unified and the rules of life and death will be redefined."

A lot of poultry and people in the village have died, grandpa and the village chief are very anxious, all because of me, the witch thinks that I am the one who can break the corpse swallowing box, so he wants to try to get rid of me, the people in the village understand that if what the witch said is true, then I can't die, if I die, the corpse swallowing box will scourge more lives, and when the corpse swallowing box has collected enough yang energy, then the demon in the ghost coffin will be resurrected, then the world will be devastated.

Someone in the village said: "Tao Yi can't die, we fought with this group of monsters."

The people in the village shouted in unison: "Yes, Tao Yi can't die, we fight with the monsters."

The villagers threw themselves at the witches with torches, and the witches had a wicked smile on their lips. I saw that the witches of the Jiuli tribe cast spells together to urge the spirits, and the villagers fell to the ground one after another, and the corpses were instantly sucked into the corpse swallowing box one by one. The people in the village desperately protected me, my eyes were full of tears, I couldn't hold back anymore when I saw this scene, and shouted loudly: "The old witch stops my life, you take it, we will solve the feud between you and me ourselves, please don't hurt the innocent."

The witch sneered: "It's too late, I'm going to kill everyone here now to pay tribute to the great god of Chiyou in the coffin, none of you can escape"

At this time, only a dozen people died in the village, and the grandfather said: "Tao Yi, you can't die, if you die, everyone in the world will become a slave of the corpse swallowing box, don't forget your mission."

The village chief said, "We fought with the witches for the rest of the villagers."

The village chief held the idol of the father-in-law of the land and threw himself towards the ghost coffin, and the ghost coffin sent out an evil wind to suck the village chief in, and the witch urged the demon blue-headed monster to kill again, and the villagers all died tragically, and only me and my grandfather were left at the scene.

The witch said: "How about the stinky Taoist, today at midnight when the black clouds cover the moon is the day of your two deaths"

Grandpa said: "There is a reincarnation in the way of heaven, even if Tao Yi dies, there are other people who will break this ghost coffin, the Qi family of the Xuanmen faction in Yunnan, and the Mei family of the Bamen clan in Guangxi, all have the strength to eliminate harm for the people."

The witch said: "The stinky Taoist is lonely and unheard, the Qi family has long been down, and now they have taken refuge in my Jiuli clan, and the Mei family is also vulnerable." The resurrection of the great god of Chiyou is fate, as long as the descendants of the Yellow Emperor are refined tonight, the essence of the great god of Chiyou will break through the seal and be resurrected by my body, for this day we Jiuli people have waited for 3000 years. ”

I saw that the Big Dipper in the sky emitted shining starlight, and the black clouds covered the moon's cold air.

Grandpa said: "It seems that our ancestors and grandchildren are in a catastrophe."

The witch let out a strange laugh, and suddenly a blue light flashed in the palms of all the witches of the Jiuli clan, and the witch said, "The time has come."

As soon as the words were finished, dozens of blue lights pounced on grandpa, and grandpa forcibly took the trick, but the witches were too powerful, and all the blue light hit grandpa's body, and grandpa spit blood and fell to the ground.

My heart is on the verge of breaking, am I going to die? As a descendant of the Yellow Emperor, he brought a catastrophe to the villagers, and how to face them after death, the witches gradually approached. The witch said: "Tao Yi, your grandfather is dying, I can let go of the dying person, but tonight is your death, accept your fate."

Suddenly, the witch's palm flipped and urged all the spirits to rush towards me, I knew that I was about to die, my eyes were closed, just between this lightning and stone fire, there was a sudden tremor in my arms, an object flew out of my arms, it turned out to be a nine-legged civet cat, I saw the jade pendant and the light of the shining Big Dipper fused together, the jade pendant suddenly transformed into a black tanuki with a length of 6 feet and a height of 4 feet, the tanuki was exactly the same as the jade pendant, with a horn on each side of the four legs, and two eyes as big as a lantern emitted golden light, only to hear the civet cat "meow". All the green-headed monsters trembled as if they had heard a spell, and stopped in mid-air, and the tanuki barked again, and all the spirits disappeared.

Seeing this, the witch was taken aback and said: This, this is the Yellow Emperor's mount, the nine-legged tanuki. ”

All the witches flinched when they heard this, only to see the ghost coffin suddenly tremble. The nine-legged tanuki jumped onto the ghost coffin, and the coffin stopped shaking in an instant. The nine-legged tanuki took the initiative to attack like an arrow, and the witches worked together to form a wall of qi to protect themselves, but the nine-legged tanuki directly broke through the wall of qi, spitting flames at the witches, and the witches were injured by the flames and screamed endlessly, turning into a black wind and disappearing into the endless night, and the corpse devouring box and the qi wall that closed the village also disappeared. The light of the Big Dipper in the sky dimmed, and the clouds around the moon also dispersed, followed by a circle of moon halos around the moon, and the nine-legged civet cat also turned into a jade pendant, which gently fell into my arms. Everything was calm again, I heard my grandfather's cough, and hurriedly ran to my grandfather's side, and my grandfather took out a letter from his arms tremblingly, and I quickly picked it up. Grandpa said angrily: "I have only one breath left now to listen to what I said, you take this letter to Miaojiang to find your uncle, this is the letter I wrote in advance, you call him to read." You represent the hope of this world, remember to break the Gu poison and stop the corpse swallowing box from harming the world, don't be sad after I die, as long as you become strong in the future, our villagers still have hope to return to the yang, everything depends on you. ”

After saying this, grandpa closed his eyes, I knew that my grandfather died, he left with regrets, he couldn't see me break the corpse swallowing box with my own hands, my heart was colic, in front of me was originally a lively village, and now it is indeed lifeless, all because if I died 15 years ago, maybe Taojia Village is a different scene today, the remains of the villagers were all refined by the corpse swallowing box, their souls should be so uncomfortable, I swear to avenge the villagers and uphold justice in this world, We must eliminate the calamity brought by the descendants of Chiyou. Suddenly there was a pain in my back, and I fainted.

I don't know how long I slept I opened my eyes, the first light came into my eyes, I actually lay on the ground and stood up after all the scenes made me feel strange, the village became dilapidated, the statues of the gods in the land temple fell to the ground, the entrance of the cave was sealed by cobwebs, at this time I found that my grandfather's body was also missing, I hurriedly looked around. There was no sign of life in the village. As I walked in the direction of my home, it was as if no one had walked in decades, overgrown with weeds and rocks, and along the way, villagers' houses collapsed, and a 30-foot-high, 18-foot-long stone mountain protruded from the middle of the canal.

I thought to myself, "Did it all happen overnight?" Who knocked me unconscious, who stole my grandfather's body, and who was behind everything? Could it be the Jiuli tribe? No, if it is absolutely impossible for me to be alive now in the Jiuli Clan, how long have I been asleep? ”

God seems to have played a big joke on me, I just knew that I was a descendant of the Yellow Emperor and suffered this catastrophe, and this land that raised me for 15 years will be extinct in Xiangxi from now on. When I walked to the door of my house, the door opened with a slight push, the gate and the courtyard seemed to have experienced decades of wind and rain, everything was so strange and so familiar, the draft well water source in the courtyard had dried up, the three houses had lost the aura of the past, and the house was covered with a thick layer of dust. I opened the secret door and went to the house dedicated to the Holy Henzi, and my grandfather said that there was a basement in this house where the remains of my parents were buried, but where was the switch in this basement, I searched for a long time to no avail. I walked to the courtyard and sat down at the stone table, thinking that my grandfather had sat here again and again to tell me stories before his death.

Before my grandfather died, I asked me to go to Miaojiang to join my master uncle, I heard my grandfather say that his second junior brother was far away in Miaojiang's generation of Yunnan "Wang Fengshan" surname is Li name is rebirth, he adopted a boy and a girl age and I don't go up and down, Wang Fengshan according to this 2000 miles of my life for the first time since I go out, there must be many difficulties along the way, but I think I have no relatives in this world, no matter what, I have to go to Wang Fengshan, There is no one in the village anymore, so if you don't leave, when will you wait, and after paying attention, you will set off for Yunnan.

There is no passing boat in the canal, only to take the rugged mountain road, over two mountains to Miaojia Village, there are some strange things happening here, Miaojia Village has a large population, the market is full of carriages, only to hear an aunt to another old man said: "The third child, you just came back from the field, do you know that our side is not very peaceful, ten days ago Taojia Village everyone mysteriously disappeared overnight, do you know?"

The third said: "Halfway, I heard that it was the ghosts and gods who offended the Hades, and the king of Hades took all the living beings in Taojia Village, and there was no living mouth left, how pitiful you say."

The aunt said: "I didn't offend the underworld, I heard that I offended the evil ghost, and the evil ghost ate the whole village."

I couldn't help but be surprised: "What, ten days ago?" Did I sleep for ten days? ”

I said, "Hello aunt, do you know what happened when a big mountain suddenly appeared in the canal of Taojia Village?"

The aunt and the third child looked at me and said, "Where are you asking why this is this?"

I said, "I'm from out of town, I just heard the two of you talk about Taojia Village, and I feel very curious, so I asked."

The aunt said: "Now it's a ghost village over there, no one dares to go to the mountain you said, I don't know, some people in our village have hid out to take refuge, I'm afraid that Taojia Village will affect us, young man, I see that you are still young, I advise you not to do too much, where did you come from, or go back."

After saying that, the two of them chatted and left, I felt a sadness in my heart, no one in this world will know the specific situation of Taojia Village's disappearance, if even I die, then Taojia Village will be buried by history.

At this time, when the sun was setting in the west, a person dressed as a Taoist priest appeared on the street, and a group of six people hurriedly walked away, only to hear an uncle who sold vegetables say: "Alas, I don't know which foreigner died here again, it is really eventful."

I said, "Why did my uncle make such an exclamation?"

The man said: "The famous corpse chaser in Xiangxi, Master Miao Buling, is here, it's not a foreigner, what else is there to die here."

After some understanding, it turned out that five of the people in the group just now were corpse chasers, and I followed curiously. I saw a person in a non-Taoist robe in front of him leading five people into the tulou, and there were more than ten people around the tulou to watch the excitement, only to hear the man: "This is my distant relative, who would have thought that he would die here a few days ago." It is said that people who die in the earth must be buried in their own homeland, and Master Lao Miao must drive the body of my poor cousin back to Yunnan. ”

As he spoke, he stuffed a small cloth bag of silver into the Taoist priest's hand and said, "My family is poor and I don't have much to thank the master, and after the master drives the body back to Yunnan, his rich parents will give the master a reward."

Master Miao said: "Please mourn, I will drive the body of the deceased back, but there are rules for driving the body, I must know the cause of his death, we have three to drive the body, in general, it is like being asked for life by a ghost, frightened to death, hanged and beheaded people can drive the body, because they are forced to die, the body is very resentful, the soul does not belong and misses the family, so the body can be driven away." But those who die willingly or according to nature are not allowed to drive out the corpses, and if they forcibly drive out the corpses, their souls will have no place to return, and they will not be able to be reincarnated. ”

After saying that, he lifted the quilt, only to see that the corpse's face was blue, his face was distorted, his eyes were rolling, his pupils were dilated, and his hands were stiff.

Miao Buling said: "Has this cousin of yours been anywhere recently?"

The man said: "I don't know where he went, 5 days ago he had been lying on the bed at night with trembling hands and talking to himself and I don't know what he was talking about, I looked for the witch and Lang Zhong, the witch burned some incense ashes and did the ritual, Lang Zhong also prescribed a few herbs but to no avail, this morning he died violently after screaming, and his eyes couldn't be closed."

Miao Buling said: "Compared with the corpse of natural death, this corpse is the most suspicious of being scared to death, you can see that the expression on his face is more hideous, because the moment he is scared to death, the blood flow hits the heart, causing damage to the heart function, accompanied by great pain and fear, which will be reflected in the facial expression." Secondly, the mouth would be slightly more open than a normal dead corpse, so I concluded that he was scared to death by something or something dirty. ”

The man said: "My cousin is quite honest and hasn't done anything bad, why is he scared to death by dirty things?"

Miao Buling said: "It may be Taojia Village, it is a ghost village and no one dares to go now, all the people in the village mysteriously disappeared overnight, this is inseparable from ghosts, I speculate that this cousin of yours should have been to Taojia Village and saw something terrible happening, but his heart is still strong and lasted for five days before he died, he is now very resentful, if he returns to his hometown quickly, I am afraid that he will deceive the corpse and hurt the safety of our whole village."

The man was very nervous and said, "When does the mage think he can set out to drive his body back?"

Miao Buling said: "Tonight, the clouds cover the moon, and the weather is cold in the cloudy aisle."

The man said, "Did the mage mean to leave tonight?" Is there anything I need to prepare? ”

Miao Buling said: "I need someone with the body of a boy to accompany me."

The man scratched his head and said, "Where to find this, besides, my family has no relatives in the village, and Yunnan is so far away that other people's families refuse to go."

This is indeed an opportunity for me, and it just so happens that I am also going to Yunnan, and I have a good response on the way to set off with these Taoist priests, and when the person is in trouble, I came out and said, "Just let me go with the master, it just so happens that I am also going to Yunnan Wangfeng Mountain for a generation."

All the eyes of everyone are focused on me, and everyone is talking about who this person is, where is he coming from, where is he going to Yunnan, and the demons and monsters are not afraid of their lives at most, everyone, you say a word, I don't say a word, wait for Miao Buling to speak.

I only listened to the man: "Young man, where are you born in the eyes of the family, you and I have no relatives and no reason to let you go."

Miao Buling said: "This journey is very hard, and it takes twenty days at the earliest, and at night it is when the gate of the Netherworld is open, and the ghosts and ghosts will come to ask for their lives to find a substitute, aren't you afraid?"

I said: "I am from Yunnan, I came here to enjoy the mountains and rivers and my companions got lost, so I also want to find someone to go back together, I just saw the mage go to Yunnan, I recommended myself, my ancestor is also a Mr. Yin and Yang, and he also knows a lot about driving corpses and walking at night, so he is not afraid."

Na Miao Buling said: "In this way, it is best on your terms, but there is one thing I must say in front, you must be a child, otherwise you will be killed."

I said, "I am indeed a child, but I don't know what would have happened if it were not for the body of a child."

Miao Buling said: "We have personnel arrangements for chasing the corpse, originally I had an apprentice who was a boy who was infected with wind and couldn't get up, so I wanted to ask the master to find a person with the body of a child, the body of the boy Yuan Yang is not discharged Yang Qi is very vigorous, especially in the middle of the night when the wind is high and the moon is dark and the weather is cold, it can suppress the resentment of the corpse, and the corpse will not cheat the corpse, but if the body of the non-boy is not strong and the body of the underworld is open, there will be ghosts when the door is open, and it will be easy to hook your soul, and secondly, the resentment of the corpse will use your body to cause trouble."

I said, "The words of the mage are true, and I have also heard my father's generation talk about the skills and taboos of chasing corpses, and this time I can just see it."

The man said, "Come inside, please sit down."

After saying that, the man invited me in, and after dispersing the outside persuasion, he closed the door.

A few of us sat down and listened to Miao Buling's words: "Legend has it that thousands of years ago, Chi You, the ancestor of the Jiuli tribe, led his troops to fight against the Yellow Emperor tribe by the Yellow River, until the corpses were all over the field and the blood flowed like a river. After the battle was about to retreat, the soldiers carried the wounded soldiers away, looking at the corpses all over the ground, Chi You said to the military advisors around him: "We can't leave the brothers who died in the battle alone, you can use some spells to let these good brothers return to their hometowns." So the military advisor stood in the middle of the corpses that were all over the ground, and began to do so by reciting incantations and praying to the gods. After the military advisor did this, the corpses that were originally lying on the ground all stood up at once, and followed the "talisman" held high by Chi You and walked southward in a regular manner.

After the era of Chiyou, the Jiuli people had a great process of advancing to the north, until later it reached the Central Plains, after the Central Plains came to the Yellow River Valley, the Yellow Emperor came from the west, and there was another one in the south that was the Yan Emperor, the Yan Emperor and the Yellow Emperor Chi You and their three big representatives of the patrilineal era of the emperor tribe formed a relatively large battle in the Central Plains, Chi You was defeated in the Ninth War, after defeating he was defeated and returned to the south, and returned to the two lakes basin after returning to the south. After the defeat, the soldier's corpse itself was carried by a person named "Kuafu", and some people said that he carried it over, and some people said that he rushed over, so it may be deduced as we now say that the corpse was driven over.

Therefore, the Jiuli people are the first people to invent weapons, criminal law, and witchcraft; Among them, the exorcism of corpses is a kind of folklore and a part of witchcraft. The expulsion of corpses on our side has a lot to do with the geographical environment of Xiangxi.

In the upper reaches of the Yuanjiang River in Xiangxi, the place is barren, and the poor mostly go to the eastern Sichuan or Qiandong areas to collect medicine or hunt for a living, and also do some small business, those places are mostly lofty mountains and mountains, the miasma in the mountains is very heavy, falciparum malaria is often prevalent, and the living environment is extremely bad. Except for the Miao people in Xiangxi, outsiders rarely go. None of the people who died in those places were wealthy, and traditionally, the concept of transporting corpses back to their hometowns for burial was very deep, but on the rugged mountain roads of thousands or hundreds of miles, even if they had money, it was difficult to transport them by vehicles or stretchers, so some people created this strange method of transporting corpses back to their hometowns. And this strange custom is also popular in Xiangxi.

After a person dies, it is impossible for the corpse to walk, it is lifeless, but we use some special seedlings to keep it fresh, so that it does not rot, and the seedlings can be embalmed, but the real zombie can make it through the corpse chaser After casting spells and witchcraft, it can stand up and walk, this is a secret in our industry that cannot be passed on. ”

I said, "Is the mage going to let the corpse walk on its own?"

Miao Buling said: "The method we use now is different from the method that allows the corpse to walk, in which the blue lantern is used to open the way in front, one can walk in a planned way, and the second person will know that we are driving the corpse when he sees the blue lantern, so he will avoid it to prevent bad luck, and the other two people need to "carry the corpse", and two black bamboo trees are tied to the two arms of the corpse, and the two people carry forward one after the other. ”

I interrupted Miao Buling and said, "Could this be that we here in Xiangxi have improved it according to the method of driving out corpses?" So what about the other three? ”

Miao Buling said: "The risk of chasing the corpse is much greater than carrying the corpse, the first trick needs several people who are very advanced in Taoism to cooperate together to prevent the corpse from being unable to control it after encountering the thunder and lightning to deceive the corpse, and the second is that my current apprentices have just been collected for a long time, so they dare not use the magic trick to drive the corpse, because the black bamboo wood has a strong exorcism effect, so it is tied to the corpse's arm even if it encounters thunder and lightning to deceive the corpse, The other three people have a child's body tied to the wrist of a red rope to ward off evil spirits, and the other end is tied to the neck of the corpse, this yang energy will stop the yin energy from going up, and the other two people need to shake the soul bell from time to time to calm the resentment of the corpse, and I walk in the last one to observe if there are any ghosts who want to borrow the corpse to resurrect the soul. ”

I said, "I understand, thank you Master for patiently explaining the history of our corpse expulsion in Xiangxi, my role is to connect the evil rope to prevent the yin qi from going up."

Miao Buling nodded and said, "I don't know what your name is?"

I said, "My surname is Li Yuankui, and I asked the mage to take care of me along the way."

Before we knew it, it was midnight, and the main family prepared the meal on the road, and after a few of us had eaten, we began to prepare for the corpse, and put on a big straw hat on the dead man's head, covering the whole head, and even the outline of the face was difficult for people to see clearly; Dressed in a blue-faced robe and coat; The arm is draped in hanging paper, like the lonely ghost in the old drama; The limbs are tied with spotted bamboo strips, and its function is not to bend the joints of the hands and feet, so that the legs and strides look like a stiff corpse! The state is terrifying, the seeer is afraid to avoid it, the two bowl-sized black bamboo wood tied to the arm of the dead body, and finally pasted a charm on the head of the deceased, after all the preparations are completed, the "warlock" leads the way and walks in front, always obliquely, from time to time turn around to take care of the "dead man" who follows behind, and throws paper money while walking, called "buying road money"; The people behind us move forward along the "road money", and in fact the paper money becomes a signpost. The guide also carried a blue lantern, and the fire was half-lit and half-extinguished, flickering erratically, which was also a code to indicate where the "dead man" went. On the back towering on the back is a clip back; It was full of paper money and incense wax. In this way, we walked one after the other on the barren mountain paths, or in the secluded woods. When the chicken crows, he stays in the chicken feather shop, lights the incense wax, burns the paper money, and is full of a miserable atmosphere for a while, so that no one dares to approach it. After chasing the corpses all night, everyone was very tired, Miao Buling arranged for everyone to rest, and he sat in the morgue, sitting cross-legged as if suppressing the ghosts.