Chapter 3: Painted Skin

The branches are swaying, and the shadows of the flowers are swaying.

I don't know when, there is a trace of crying outside, mourning and earnest, teaching people to listen, and they don't feel sad.

But in Lanruo Temple, this voice can only be heard by Ji Xiao and Mu Qing.

Ji Xiao blew out the green lantern and said to Mu Qing, "I'll take a look." ”

The source of the sound is the mass grave behind Lanruo Temple, a place with a longer history than Lanruo Temple. Ji Xiao guessed that when the patriarch of Lanruo Temple built the Buddhist temple here, it was to use Buddhism to purify the grievances of the mass graves.

The dew is heavy at night, the mountain road is slippery, Ji Xiao walks in it, but there is no footprint left, if others see it, I am afraid that he will think that he is a lonely ghost floating from somewhere.

After a while, they arrived at the mass grave.

Ji Xiao walked ten zhang away, turned a boulder, and saw only an old locust tree standing alone in the moonlight. I can still see a little phosphorus fire wandering among the branches of the locust tree. The old locust tree has a large thick branch on the left and right, which is like a human hand clasping fists together.

"Hello Master Terrorist. ”

The old locust tree actually spat out at Ji Xiao, making a voice similar to that of an old woman.

It has been channeled and become a spirit.

Ji Yu nodded slowly and said, "Grandma Huaishu is good." ”

The locust tree can gather yin, and it grows in the place where the yin qi is extremely heavy in the mass graves, and as the years go by, it will naturally give birth to spiritual wisdom, and gradually be able to practice. It's just that its cultivation is all instinct, and it doesn't know how to separate the essence, and even the resentment of those who died has absorbed a lot of it.

When Ji Xiao saw it, it had been affected by resentment and began to have a tendency to transform into demons.

Fortunately, Ji Xiao is the big nemesis of all grievances and yin qi, purifying the grievances of the dead absorbed from his body for him, and passing on the meditation method of Buddhism, so that the practice of the old locust tree is on the right track, and it will not become an evil cult that harms people indiscriminately.

Therefore, this old locust tree is very grateful to Ji Xiao, and every time Ji Xiao comes, he is very respectful.

Lao Huaishu said: "In the evening, a charred female corpse was sent in outside, how do you know that she is very resentful, and at night, she actually relied on the yin qi around her to slowly condense the ghost body, which will make her cry all the time, I don't know how to persuade her." ”

Ji Xiao said: "I heard her crying, the resentment is really not small, it seems that it won't be long before she can turn into a ghost." Well, I'll go see what she's up to. ”

The old locust tree parted its branches, revealing a path.

It turned out that the female corpse was extremely resentful, if it wasn't for the old locust tree's deliberate suppression, I was afraid that before Ji Yu came, she would have turned into a ghost.

Walking through the corridor, a black-clothed woman was lying next to a charred female corpse, and her cry was her voice.

Ji Xiao saw that the yin qi around her was still converging on her, so he pointed out a finger, like a breeze coming slowly, dispelling the yin qi. The woman in black reacted immediately, and she turned her head to look at Ji Xiao.

Ji Xiao couldn't help but sigh, only to see that she was unrecognizable, and there were many burns on her body. This is also the image she had before she died, and it was manifested as she formed a ghost body out of resentment.

Just look at her figure, she is very graceful, if she is not ugly, she must be liked by many people.

When the ghost girl in black saw Ji Xiao, she was faintly afraid in her heart, stopped crying, and said, "Who are you?"

Ji Yu said: "I am a monk from Lanruo Temple next to me, and I heard you cry bitterly, so I came to take a look." ”

When the black-clothed ghost girl heard that he was the mage of Lanruo Temple, she said with a frightened face: "Master, you want to come to surpass me?"

Ji Xiao bowed his head lightly and said, "I hope you can go to reincarnation, which is a good thing for you or others." ”

The ghost girl in black hurriedly said: "Master, I have a grievance that has not been avenged, can you wait for me to take revenge and then surpass me." ”

Ji rarely saw that although she was extremely resentful, she did not have a very strong evil spirit, so she knew that she was only driven by the obsession of revenge now, and she was not a demon who did not harm people.

He didn't have to shout and kill when he saw demons and monsters, so he was ready to hear what grievances she had first, and then make a decision.

He said, "Tell me why you have fallen here." ”

Then the ghost girl in black told her about her.

It's a very old-fashioned story, she was originally a prostitute in Jiangzhou Mansion, fell in love with a poor scholar, the two swore an alliance, she also used money to fund each other's studies, and took care of each other's family from time to time. Later, the other party married a noble girl in high school, and returned to her hometown, and after she learned about it, she found a poor scholar and wanted the other party to redeem her and take her home. The other party refused, fearing that she would continue to entangle and let his wife know, so he designed to burn her.

After she was burned to death, her body was dumped in this mass grave.

An ungrateful person, a wolf-hearted and dog-hearted man, although it is not uncommon to see it and kill inexhaustibly, it stands to reason that he should not be surprised, but when he heard the other party's description, he still couldn't help but feel a trace of sympathy.

He said: "In that case, I will find out the truth of this matter, and if it is true, you will take revenge, and if what you say is not true, I will directly overtake you." He didn't say that he would avenge her if he found out the truth, just because there was a wrongdoer and a debtor, if she didn't lie, she would naturally be more willing to understand the grievances with her own hands, and Ji Xiao didn't have to go beyond the bounds.

After finishing speaking, Ji Xiao said to the old locust tree again: "You look at her, I will find out the truth and come back." ”

Before the ghost girl in black had time to say anything, she saw Ji Yu turn into a streamer and disappear into the sky.

"Don't worry, Master Palpitation is merciful, as long as you don't lie, he won't directly overdo you. The old locust tree said.

The ghost girl in black secretly breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Thank you, mother-in-law." ”

The old locust tree stayed in the mass grave all day long, and there was no one else to talk to except Ji Xiao, so it took this opportunity to chat with the ghost girl in black.

The two were chatting, and a streamer fell, it was Ji Xiao.

It was only one watch when Ji Xiao left, and now he came back just two watches. From Lanruo Temple to Jiangzhou City, there are 150 miles of land.

The ghost girl in black didn't expect Ji Xiao to come back so quickly, she was quite surprised.

She was about to be blessed with Ji Xiaoying.

Ji Xiao waved his hand and said, "Don't be polite, you didn't lie." Now there are only a few hours before dawn, and if you go to Jiangzhou Mansion, I'm afraid it's going to be dawn. I think you can take revenge sooner, and I can overtake you sooner, so that you don't have too many dreams at night. So now I will pass on a method to you, so that you can walk in the world in broad daylight, and you can take revenge now, and you can rush back during the day. ”

In fact, if her yin qi is thick enough, she will not be afraid of the sun. But after all, she is newly mourned, and the condensed yin qi is not enough, so naturally she can't walk casually in broad daylight. Ji Xiao was not prepared to wait for her to absorb more Yin Qi, anyway, she would overtake her at that time, and it would be a waste of time.

He pointed at the corpse of the ghost girl in black, and saw that the skin of the female corpse was peeled off.

Ji Xiao said again: "You now recall what you looked like when you were alive." ”

The ghost girl in black didn't quite understand the reason why Ji Xiao asked her to do this, but she still did it.

She tried her best to recall her appearance before her death, and gradually the burns on her body began to fade, and when all the scars were gone, she showed a stunning beauty, and she was really worthy of the sentence "Bright as a peach and plum, cold as frost".

Ji Xiao took out a pen out of nowhere, traced the human skin according to her appearance, and also repaired the burned parts of the human skin, and finally the human skin just reproduced the current appearance of the ghost girl in black.