Chapter 10: Refining Corpses

In the Shoushan town of Liaoyang, Liaoning Province, a pickup truck carrying a half-human-high bronze tripod was on the way at night.

The town of Shoushan is named after the mountain, it is the first mountain of the Thousand Lotus Mountains of the Liaodong Peninsula, although it is not high, but it is also very famous in the nearby area by the name of the head of the thousand mountains.

Nowadays, the hill of Shoushan is already full of green trees, and a lot of fitness equipment has been built on the mountain, and in the evening, many middle-aged and elderly people in the town come here for a walk. However, a few decades ago, Shoushan was not like this at all. At that time, almost the entire mountain of Shoushan was full of cemeteries, and after the government's transformation, those old grave circles were leveled and planted with vegetation.

There is another hill in the northwest direction of Shoushan, called Stone Mountain, which is different from Shoushan, the whole mountain of Stone Mountain is bare, and it looks like a large mound of earth from a distance. There used to be many graves here, and the government has renovated them, but because the soil of the mountain is thin, none of the plants have survived.

The old ghost and Fan Jiyun and others drove a pickup truck to this barren mountain, the night was dark, the grave on the stone mountain emitted a faint ghost fire, no one came here at night, and the whereabouts of the old ghost and others were completely unknown.

The car stopped at the foot of the mountain, and Liu Zhen and Ryazan went to move the tripod on the car. The tripod was very heavy, and the two of them had a hard time carrying it.

Liu Zhen complained: "What do you have to do to refine the corpse in this kind of place? ”、

The old ghost snorted coldly and said, "If you don't practice here, do you want to practice at home?" I chose the location of the corpse refining here, so naturally I have my plan. ”

The old ghost knew in his heart that the first thing to do in refining the corpse was to choose a place where the yin qi was extremely heavy, if the yang qi was too sufficient, then the corpse would probably have been burned to the point that only the ashes were left before the corpse was refined. Secondly, although the old ghost said that he was good at Taoism, but in the face of the old corpse thousands of years ago, he still didn't dare to be careless, in case something went wrong in the process of refining the corpse, the place where they are now is a tomb mountain, then there will be no shortage of lonely souls and wild ghosts here, if there is an accident, the old ghost can also quickly use the magic of the Yin Soldier Ghost Formation to compete with the old corpse.

According to the records in the silk book left by the six imperial attendants, the corpse of this turtle spirit must be refined in this tripod vessel to obtain the final magic weapon, that is to say, the magic weapon is hidden in the corpse of the turtle spirit.

Fan Jiyun said to the old ghost: "You brought something as important as the tripod from the organization this time, didn't the people of the organization stop you?" ”

The old ghost smiled and said, "They? ”

Fan Jiyun said again: "So, are you planning to completely give up your connection with the organization?" ”

After hearing this, the old ghost said: "My old ghost has always only thought about myself, and now I am equivalent to a complete break with the organization. You know, when I first came back from out of town, I had already heard some news. ”

"What's the news?" Fan Jiyun asked.

The old ghost said: "It's news about the deployment of personnel in the organization." It is rumored that Lao Guan, who had been in charge of operations before, would not continue to hold his position, and a young general surnamed Cao would take over the rest of the organization. Of course, the reason why I chose to leave the organization in the end was that the new General Cao, he didn't trust me. ”

Hearing this, Fan Jiyun also smiled and said, "I think that the general has already seen you through, and it is impossible for you to work hard for the organization." ”

"Yes, I will not do anything to anyone but myself, and everyone else is just a burden to me unless it is beneficial to me." The old ghost said, raised his eyes and looked at Fan Jiyun, suddenly showed a sly smile, and then continued: "Including you." ”

Fan Jiyun shuddered involuntarily when he saw the old ghost's expression. Since thirty-one years ago, he has laid out the bureau, and only the old ghost has made him feel uneasy.

Indeed, Fan Jiyun knows the old ghost too well. He knows the temperament of the old ghost of the Dao, he will not obey anyone's orders, in his eyes there is only the cooperation of interests, if he can't earn the benefits of the other party, he will not have any hesitation and leave. Of course, this is already a good result, and if the old ghost is not satisfied, he will even kill the other party. This is the old ghost.

Fan Jiyun was also very entangled when he chose to cooperate with the old ghost, he was afraid that the old ghost would bite him back one day, but he had no choice, in the game he laid out, there must be a powerful chess piece, otherwise, with the puzzle trap alone, he would not be able to deal with Nanwu and the people of the organization at all.

The old ghost decided to help Fan Jiyun because he felt that Fan Jiyun's plan had a very good feasibility. When Fan Jiyun was in Miao Village, he deceived Ashuna, saying that he would take Long Bujin and Jiling Demon Jade to the ruins of ancient civilizations and help Wuzong resurrect as soon as possible. After the last, Ajuna finally believed Fan Jiyun. Fan Jiyun was naturally very happy, but at this time, Peilin had already been intercepted and killed by Nanwu's people due to the failure of the mission, so he could only send Fan Peixi there.

His wishful thinking was to let Fan Peixi bring Long Bujin and the Spirit Demon Jade back to the Northeast together, so that both of them would be under his control, and he could also use Fan Peixi's body to study the mystery of immortality, and the old ghost could also get the Spirit Spirit Demon Jade that he had coveted for a long time.

However, none of the plans can keep up with the rapid changes. When he arrived in Yunnan, there were too many accidents, and Liu Zhen, who was sent out, was injured by the demon woman who raised the cat Gu arranged by Nanwu before he could play a role, and the old ghost also fled to Hong Kong because he was chased and killed by all the members of Nanwu, and he couldn't help Fan Jiyun realize his plan. Later, Teng Yi was very suspicious of Fan Peixi's identity, and all kinds of changes made them finally step into the Ghost Gu Underground Palace. Ryazan had no way to reveal his identity, otherwise everything would be worse, so he could only play the role of assisting Fan Peixi.

All of this is too complicated.

Now, though, it's all over. They were now going to take out the magic weapon hidden in the turtle spirit's corpse.

The old ghost sent Ryazan and Liu Zhen to put the tripod in a stable place, and then everyone began to collect firewood and throw it into the tripod. Although the dingware is only more than half a person tall, the bottom foot is very short, and the whole dingware is deep enough to hold an adult male.

"Why do you have to use such a thing to refine corpses?" Liu Zhen asked.

Ryazan smiled and explained: "Look at the patterns on the tripod vessel, do you think that those ancients carved those patterns in order to increase the roughness of the tripod vessel?" ”

Liu Zhen stepped forward to take a closer look and said, "These are also totem runes?" ”

|“ That's right," the old ghost hurriedly said, "These totem runes will serve as a corpse suppressor." ”

"Corpses?"

"Anyway, we'll know later." Ryazan said.

In this way, a group of people returned to the car and took out the dried corpse of the turtle spirit stolen from the priest's dirty pit of the ancient Shu Kingdom, and Ryazan carried the dried corpse of the turtle spirit into the tripod vessel.

Then the old ghost lit a torch and handed it to Ryazan, saying, "Go and light the fire." ”

Ryazan took the torch and walked back to the Dingqi, there was still a little nervousness in his heart, the thousands of years old corpse, although there has been no sign of corpse transformation these days, but in any case, since the people of Nanwu attach so much importance to this corpse, he will definitely not be simple.

Thinking of this, Ryazan closed his eyes and raised the torch and walked around the Dingqi, humming and chirping as he walked, as if he was chanting some incantation. Fan Jiyun and the others were dumbfounded, and Liu Zhen asked the old ghost, "Uh...... Old man, what kind of mantra did Ryazan recite? ”

The old ghost looked down at Liu Zhen and said coldly, "I can't hear clearly." ”

After reciting the mantra, Ryazan also walked around the tripod in a circle that was almost like dancing, and threw the torch into the tripod at once, and then hurriedly ran back to Fan Jiyun and the others.

Liu Zhen didn't know witchcraft, he was quite interested in those mysterious spells, and when he saw that Ryazan had returned, he asked, "Hey, Ryazan, what spell did you just recite?" ”

Ryazan looked back at Liu Zhen, as if he didn't understand what he was talking about, and asked rhetorically, "Spell?" ”

"Yes," Liu Zhen said, "that's what you muttered." ”

"Oh, I'm just muttering, just looking for some psychological comfort." Ryazan said with a smile.

Liu Zhen was defeated by Ryazan's optimist spirit, he looked at the old ghost, and said in his heart that this was the witchcraft he gave Ryazan.

However, the changes that took place in the tripod quickly attracted their attention. At first, the flames in the tripod took on a normal yellow color. However, as the air began to smell like roasted pig's trotters, the flames fluttered two or three times, and in the blink of an eye all the flames turned blue-yellow, and at the same time, thick black smoke erupted from the ding. When the smoke drifted in front of the eyes of several of them, it turned out that these were small granular objects.

Even the old ghost had never seen such a thing, but he knew that it would not be a good sign for such a thing to be produced. He didn't go to warn the others, seeing that this thing was not good, he hurriedly covered his mouth and nose with the placket of his clothes to prevent these things from being sucked into his lungs. When Ryazan saw the old ghost doing this, he hurriedly reminded everyone to do the same. 、

The black smoke had just hit, and suddenly, there was a sharp roar in the ding, the sound was empty and sharp, and it echoed throughout the valley for a long time, quite terrifying.

"Oh my God, it's not going to be a corpse!" Liu Zhen shouted.

"No, it won't." Ryazan muttered to himself. According to the theory of witchcraft, if a corpse is burned by fire, it will not produce a corpse, and even those zombies that have been transformed will be afraid of the flames and eventually burned to ashes. But the corpse of this turtle spirit is extraordinary. Nearly half a month has passed since the day Ryazan and Shu Jingcheng stole the body of the turtle spirit, but in the past half a month, this corpse has not shown any signs of corpse transformation, but it is in the process of refining and cremating the corpse that the corpse suddenly changed, which makes no sense at all.

Saying that, however, in the face of an emergency, no one will care too much about its unreasonableness, everyone just knows that we must find a way to deal with it as soon as possible.

The old ghost took out the copper coin string, shook it twice in the air, and then stepped on Yu Bu, chanting a spell in his mouth, and in an instant, several lonely souls flew out of the grave bag in the surrounding cemetery and flew in front of the old ghost to protect him.

It was at this time that the dry corpse in the tripod vessel suddenly stretched out a hand, which was now burned by the fire and was incomplete, but the dry corpse inside still seemed to want to crawl out of the tripod vessel.

Everyone looked at everything that was happening in front of them in amazement, a generation of kings thousands of years ago is now struggling in this small tripod.

However, when the arm of the dried corpse poked out of the tripod and was about to crawl out, the totem runes on the tripod began to emit a faint halo that forced the hand back.

The corpse tried many, many times, but without success, he could only keep howling, one more and more miserable, until the sides of the tripod began to spew out white smoke incessantly, and the howl weakened little by little, until it disappeared.

The whole process lasted nearly half an hour, and when it was all over, the old ghost let go of the lonely spirit he had summoned. Everyone slowly approached the Dingqi step by step, with apprehension.

Everyone looked inside the tripod vessel, but there was nothing except the bones of the dried corpse, and they didn't see the so-called golden scepter magic weapon.

Fan Jiyun was a little annoyed and said, "What's going on? Did you mistake the corpse? He turned his head to Shu Jingcheng and Ryazan, and his words were blaming.

"Impossible," the old ghost said for Ryazan and Shu Jingcheng.

"Then where is the so-called magic weapon now?" Fan Jiyun asked.

The old ghost couldn't help frowning when he saw this situation, and Liu Zhen said, "Could it be that this tripod is a magic weapon?" ”

"." Shu Jingcheng, who had not spoken, said.

"Call me, then you can explain!" Liu Zhen was unconvinced.

At that time, no one noticed that Ryazan was staring at the skeleton inside the tripod and did not say a word, he seemed to be attracted by something. Then, his hand began to reach into the ding, almost unresponsively.

The others were arguing when they saw Ryazan take out a wooden stick more than half a meter long, white and knotted from the ding.

Fan Jiyun was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly asked, "Ryazan, what are you holding in your hand?" ”

Ryazan didn't react for a moment, more precisely, at this moment he seemed to be fascinated by something, the thing he was holding in his hand was transmitting to him a very different feeling, a strange feeling, as if they were old friends who had known each other for many years.

After a long time, Ryazan said slowly: "This is ...... The vertebrae of a corpse. ”