Chapter 9: The Corpse Monument

On the way to the old ancestral hall of Yutang Village, Zhang Shouqing told Zhang Zichen and his brothers about the corpse monument in this town.

It turns out that the story of this town's corpse monument has been going on for some years.

As early as the Cultural Revolution in 1966, due to the persecution of the Red Guards, the Dragon and Tiger Taoist Temple was once destroyed, and feudal superstitious ideas like this were the key targets of that year.

Zhang Shouqing's master, Zhang Tianxi, could not escape this catastrophe, and the Red Guard group in the county town wreaked havoc on some ancient buildings in Yutang Village, including the Dragon and Tiger Taoist Temple.

After the demolition of the Dragon and Tiger Taoist Temple, only a few broken walls remained, and the only Taoist priest in the Taoist temple, Zhang Tianxi, was hung from a pillar in the old ancestral hall of Yutang Village.

Hanging up with Zhang Tianxi, there are several people in the village who are 'at fault', even the oldest man in Yutang Village.

It is said that this old man lived for more than 200 years, he was a person who lived from the Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China, he was the ancestor of the people of Yutang Village, and everyone called him that.

It is precisely because of this that this old ancestor was convicted by the Red Guards of a feudal superstition and demagogic crime, and was hanged.

The Red Guards' indiscriminate arrest, killing, burning, and looting angered many people, but because their rights still existed, many people just dared to be angry but did not dare to speak.

The Red Guards decided to execute the old ancestor, Zhang Tianxi, and several other people in the village who had been found guilty.

But unexpectedly, that night, the ancestor of the Li family used a secret method that even Zhang Tianxi had never seen and turned himself into a zombie-like monster.

The next day, when the Red Guards untied the ancestor from the rope he had hung up, his bloodthirsty nature began to be revealed.

This old ancestor, who had lived for more than two hundred years, was full of white hair, had a hideous face, and had two big blood teeth, and there was not a single one of the fifty Red Guards who were killed.

But this still couldn't stop the old ancestor's desire to kill, the old ancestor also wanted to kill other villagers and innocent people, and it was only then that Zhang Tianxi made a move to surrender the old ancestor.

Later, the county sent people down to inspect, but they were all deceived by Zhang Tianxi's use of Taoist secret techniques.

Zhang Tianxi did not incinerate the body of the old ancestor, first, the old ancestor is the oldest of the villagers in the Li family's fish pond, and he is also the person they admire the most, Zhang Tianxi will not be forced to burn his body.

Second, for this reason, Zhang Tianxi later lamented that he had done something wrong, originally Zhang Tianxi could have stopped the ancestor before he killed him, but Zhang Tianxi waited until the ancestor killed fifty Red Guard teams. Zhang Tianxi took this opportunity to get rid of the Red Guards and save his life, although this was a despicable method, but for the situation at that time, if you want to survive, you must use a little means. In order to repay the ancestor for saving his life, Zhang Tianxi decided to keep the complete body of the ancestor.

Third, Zhang Tianxi, the secret method of the old ancestor, still does not know its principle, he only knows that the use of this secret method by the old ancestor is equivalent to trapping his three souls and seven spirits in the body, and he cannot go to the underworld to reincarnate. If Zhang Tianxi cremates the ancestor at this time, I am afraid that the soul of the ancestor will be destroyed along with his body in the future.

In order to repay the ancestor for saving his life, Zhang Tianxi decided to seal the ancestor, and the location of the seal was under the old ancestral hall of the Li family.

When the villagers heard that this was the only way to preserve the body of their ancestor, they dug a huge pit without complaint.

In the deep pit, Zhang Tianxi arranged a lot of spiritual talismans to dispel anger, and at the same time found a stone that has been exposed to the sun all the year round and has the power of the sun as a corpse monument to seal the corpse of the ancestor underground.

From this day on, in addition to rebuilding the Taoist temple, Zhang Tianxi went to the Li ancestral hall to meditate and chant scriptures, to expel the anger of the old ancestor, hoping that one day his body could be corrupted, so that the soul of the old ancestor could enter the underworld and be reincarnated.

Now that decades have passed, the Li family in Yutang Village has changed three or four generations, and after Zhang Tianxi finished repairing the Dragon and Tiger Taoist Temple, others now do not know where to go, leaving only Zhang Shouqing alone.

Zhang Shouqing accepted Zhang Zichen and other three disciples, which was purely unintentional, these three apprentices were all orphans abandoned by others at the gate of the Taoist temple, Zhang Shouqing's heart softened, and he had three apprentices.

Therefore, those who know about this matter are generally some old people in the village, even Zhang Shouqing and Li Changgen, they are all under the advice of the previous generation, so they are so attentive to the affairs of this old ancestor.

Li Changgen was in a hurry, that was because what the exploration team was digging now was the ancestor of their Li family, the ancestral grave. And what Zhang Shouqing is worried about is the ancestor who has become a strange creature, and if he is released, I am afraid that many people will die.

After listening to this story, Zhang Zichen and his entourage of four people also came to Yutang Village, and the village chief Li Changgen did not hesitate to take Zhang Shouqing straight to the old ancestral hall in the west of the village.

The old ancestral hall to the west looks old, and this old building is about half the size of a basketball court, and it is all made of wood and planks. But now, the old ancestral hall is in a dilapidated state, it was destroyed by the Red Guards, and then it fell into disrepair, and gradually, except for a few wooden walls, almost only its foundation remains.

When Zhang Zichen and the four of them came to the edge of the old ancestral hall, they found that it was already crowded with people.

On the third floor of the inner three floors, hundreds of people surrounded the old ancestral hall, and Zhang Zichen, who had just arrived, couldn't even see the edge of the ancestral hall.

At this old ancestral hall, the police have made a fence zone and cordoned off the villagers outside the fence.

"Changgen, you're finally here, they're about to excavate!" When Li Changgen squeezed into the crowd, an old man who was at least ninety years old seemed to have found a savior, took the hand of the village chief Li Changgen, and said tremblingly: "Changgen, where is the Taoist chief?

Li Changgen pulled Zhang Shouqing behind him over and said, "Uncle, the Taoist chief is here, he and his two apprentices are here!"

When the old man saw Zhang Shouqing, his eyes immediately filled with tears, and he hurriedly knelt down for Zhang Shouqing: "Dao Chief, you must stop it! This is the grave of the old ancestor, let's not talk about this ancestral grave, if the old ancestor is dug up, I don't know how many people will be killed!"

This old man, Li Da, was one of the villagers who witnessed the murder of the Red Guards, and is now 95 years old.

The long fangs of the old ancestor, the sharp fingers, and the monster-like face were all deeply engraved in Li Da's heart.

Li Da is a grandfather-level elder, Zhang Shouqing didn't dare to accept his big gift, before Li Da knelt down, Zhang Shouqing helped him up, and said: "Old man Li, I also want to stop this matter, but this old ancestor is the ancestor of your Li family, if you don't let you dig it, then you have to do it?

Li Da was very thin, with old age spots all over his body, and he trembled: "These people say that the things under the old ancestral hall are helpful for research, or some antiquities, which belong to the state." No, they promised that every household in Yutang Village could go to the county government to receive 3,000 yuan as compensation. These damn sons and grandchildren, they don't know how powerful their ancestors are, and for this little money, let these bandits dig their ancestral graves!"

Seeing that Li Da was so angry that tears flowed, Zhang Shouqing was helpless, after all, this was the territory of the Li family, since their Li family had agreed, Zhang Shouqing, who was an outsider, could not interfere.

"What to do with the corpse of the old ancestor?" Zhang Shouqing was most worried about the old ancestor.

"They promised to return the corpse of the old ancestor to us and let us rebury it, but under this old ancestral hall, those formations and those spirit runes made by your master are probably all forcibly taken away by these gangsters. "Li Da is old, but he thinks clearly and speaks clearly.

"Hey!" Zhang Shouqing sighed, these formations and spirit runes were taken away by the exploration team, and it didn't have any special significance.

In fact, this tomb has no archaeological significance, it is not worth digging up the corpse of the ancestor at all, some of the most common formations and spirit runes to deal with ghosts, which sect does not have it?xh118