Chapter 1: Humans, Ghosts, and Ways

early morning

A woodcutter with a thin face, holding his own firewood knife that had been used for many years, walked up the mountain skillfully.

Boom!

Boom!

Bang - Click-

"Whewβ€”" The woodcutter exhaled heavily, looking at the branches and wood at his feet.

"That's probably enough. So saying, the woodcutter was going to cut the tree that had just been cut down into pieces.

"Go home after chopping!"

Picking up the woodcutter, the woodcutter slashed it hard.

Click-

The sound of the trees breaking sounded, but the woodcutter's expression was stunned.

He is an old woodcutter, and he doesn't know exactly what trees will make when they are cut down and what sounds they make, but he can do it by feeling.

The sound just now sounded a little strange to him.

Like, too crisp?

Looking suspiciously at the broken part of the trunk, the woodcutter narrowed his eyes slightly.

A piece of white seemed to be stuffed into the trunk of a tree, and at this point it was exposed by the vibration.

After looking at it carefully for a while, suddenly the woodcutter's expression froze, and he recognized what it was, it was very similar to a pig's bone, but it was actually more like a human bone.

Although he had never seen a human bone, the feeling in the dark told him that it was!

With a pop, the woodcutter sat down on the ground, and the familiar mountains and forests were so strange at this moment.

He ran down the hill with a machete and some of the wood he had chopped.

"It's daytime, and even if there's dirt, don't be afraid of them!" said the woodcutter to himself.

Hmmmβ€”β€”!

The woodcutter's face changed suddenly, and he saw a black shadow flash in front of him!

At that moment, the woodcutter gave up his luck mentality, and all the guys in his hands were lost, and the girl ran wildly.

Because it was going down the mountain, he couldn't wait to get down by himself.

Whoop -

Branches and leaves cut across his clothes and skin, and in the past, the woodcutter might have paid attention to it in order not to be nagged by his mother-in-law, but now he can't care about anything.

A face was full of horror, red from the vigorous exercise, and his eyes were round.

Soon his body began to sweat, his mouth began to dry, and his heart began to become irritable.

"Why haven't you reached the bottom of the mountain yet?!" After running for an unknown amount of time, the woodcutter looked at the seemingly endless mountain road and shouted angrily.

The mountain road below is still far in sight.

In the past, let alone running so fast, even if you walk, you can see your head.

"Ah!" the woodcutter accidentally stepped on a rock, and unfortunately broke his foot.

Whoa, whoa, whoa-

The branches of the trees not far away moved, and the woodcutter desperately moved his body backwards, turned over and lay on the ground, and was about to get up.

"What's wrong with you, Lao Wang?" asked a man dressed up in the woods, looking at the woodcutter on the ground in surprise.

"Lao Liu?" Lao Wang breathed a sigh of relief and collapsed to the ground.

Lao Liu walked over with firewood on his back, looked at Lao Wang with a tired face, and asked, "What's wrong with you?"

Lao Wang waved his hand, and said in a hoarse voice: "Don't say it, it's really a hell today!"

Lao Wang sat up and continued mysteriously: "Do you know what I encountered when I was cutting down trees?"

"What?" asked Lao Liu.

Lao Wang raised his arm and waved, and said in a low voice: "Hand." ”

Then Lao Wang leaned into Lao Liu's ear and said, "Moreover, I suspect that I met a ghost just now, and I can't finish running this mountain road for a long time!"

Lao Liu seemed to be stupid by Lao Wang's words, and didn't say a word.

And after Lao Wang told others about the matter, he suddenly felt a lot more relaxed.

Now that you have a companion, do you want to go back and pick up the things? Lao Wang thought to himself, so he had to tell Lao Liu.

But when he saw the firewood and machete that Lao Liu was carrying, he was suddenly stunned, why did these things look so familiar?

"Hey," when Lao Wang was stunned, Lao Liu patted his shoulders with both hands and said, "You said you met a ghost?"

Lao Wang shuddered all over, looking at Lao Liu's face, his voice trembled a little, "Yes, yes." ”

Lao Liu suddenly laughed, "But I remember, I didn't let you see me!"

As soon as the words fell, Lao Liu's face suddenly turned blue, his eyes widened in horror and rolled his eyes, his tongue slipped out of his mouth and drooped to his chin, and the picture suddenly became terrifying.

"Ahhβ€”β€”h

Then Lao Liu smirked and lay on Lao Wang,

Food.

This ghost is very smart, and the strength of the ghost will be suppressed very much during the day, and the weaker ones will even fly away directly when they are illuminated by the sun.

In order to prey, this ghost first used the "ghost hitting the wall" to consume Lao Wang's physical strength and yang energy.

Then he turned into someone familiar to Lao Wang, took the opportunity to approach him, and extinguished the two fires on his shoulder.

At this point, Lao Wang is in the bag of this ghost.

Of course, the main point is that the sunlight in the mountains and forests is not fully illuminated, and there are many places where the sun does not shine.

If it is in a plain and can be directly exposed to the sun, then this ghost will not be able to kill Lao Wang no matter what.

Greedily sucking the flesh and blood essence of Lao Wang, the ghost suddenly raised its head in a daze, and a woman in a red dress walked down the mountain.

The proportions of the woman in red are just right, and her face is not stunning, but it is definitely superior, and her petite and delicate jade feet are stepping on the ground, but they are not stained with half a stain.

The moment it saw the woman in red, the ghost who was originally sucking Lao Wang suddenly trembled, and it couldn't even think of resisting and escaping, so it bowed directly to the woman in red.

The female ghost in red glanced at the ghost faintly, and the next moment its body dissipated without a trace.

The female ghost in red didn't even bother to eat it.

A ghost like that kind of filth, eating it can only increase her own burden.

looked at the old Wang woodcutter who fell to the ground, and the female ghost in red blew lightly at him, and then saw that Lao Wang's body seemed to turn into a wisp of smoke and dust, and directly drilled into the mouth of the female ghost in red.

With a dissatisfied look on her face, the female ghost in red set her eyes on the bottom of the mountain, and she could feel that there were many people there.

Looking up at the bright sun overhead, the figure of the female ghost in red dissipated into the forest, as if it had never appeared.

Chopper and a pile of branches and wood, lying quietly on the ground.

......

Boom! boomβ€”β€”!

Crash!!

It's a day that says it's changing, and the sky is clear just now, and now it's raining.

The bright sky instantly turned gloomy, and a group of seven foot merchants advanced against the heavy rain.

"Big brother, let's find a place to shelter from the rain, we have to find a place to shelter from the rain!

The rain was so loud that there was no need to roar, and no one else could hear anything.

"Okay! Let's see if there's any shelter from the rain!"

"Big brother, there seems to be a temple in front of you!" shouted a man.

"I've never seen it before!" someone shouted.

"Big brother, what should we do, are we going?" someone asked.

Wow!!!

The rain was so heavy that the crowd could barely raise their heads.

The strong man in the lead bowed his head slightly and shouted, "Go! Everyone be careful of your step!"

"Good!"

The crowd began to run towards the temple.

Boom! Thunder rolls in.

The crowd came to the eaves of the temple and cleaned the rain from their bodies.

Looking at the rain curtain in front of them, where no one could see anything three meters away, the seven foot merchants suddenly looked embarrassed.

"Big brother, it's probably going to be late for us to deliver now, how should we explain to our employer?" asked one person.

The strong man, who was the eldest brother, snorted coldly and said: "What to explain, what is there to explain? Who can leave in such a heavy rain? If they dare to deduct money because of this, we will let them not eat and walk around!"

"Big brother is right! God is going to rain, and we don't have the final say?!"

"That's right! This time, we must let that Li Papi have a longer memory! If he dares to deduct our money again, our brothers will directly make him unable to do it!"

"That's right......" Balabala is another big one.

Everyone echoed a few words, and the eldest brother nodded slightly, looked at his subordinates and said, "Okay, don't stay here, so as not to provoke the cold." ”

With that, someone pushed open the dilapidated temple gate, kicking up a cloud of dust.

"Ahem!" waved the dust in front of them, and everyone gradually saw the scene in the temple.

There was dust everywhere, all with a thick layer of dust.

In the center of the room is a statue without a chest.

A thunderbolt flashed, making the scene in front of him inexplicably a little weird.

Stepping on the dust on the ground, seven people walked in.

Whirring - the cold wind is blowing.

"Who's still going to use the fire fold? Looking at the firewood in the corner of the house, the eldest brother spoke.

As he spoke, someone soon went to collect the firewood, and in a short time the dimly lit temple was lit up.

Everyone was wet and it felt comfortable to bake on the fire.

And so they rested.

"I wonder where you guys came from?"

A voice sounded suddenly, startling the seven people.

They looked in panic and saw a Taoist in a Taoist robe walking out from behind the stone statue.

"Where did the Taoist priest come from, what did you do to scare our brothers!" said one of them.

The firelight danced, and the Taoist priest did not speak, with a faint smile on his face.

However, the complexion of the foot merchant and his party changed, and no dust was raised under the feet of the Taoist priest.

No! There were no footprints on the ground when they came in! Why is this Taoist priest here?!

The dust on the ground was very thick, and they all left footprints on the ground when they came.

"He, he's the stone statue!" one shouted in horror.

Everyone's eyes instantly looked at the stone statue without a chest, their eyes jumped back and forth, and it was quickly confirmed that the faces of the Taoist priest and the stone statue were similar!

This Taoist priest is not human!

Everyone thought at the same time, and the next moment a coolness appeared in their hearts.

Under the firelight, the smile on the corner of the Taoist priest's mouth became brighter and brighter.

"Ahhhhh!!hh

The shrill screams of horror were drowned out in the rain curtain and did not cause any movement.

In the temple

The Taoist priest sat cross-legged on the ground, there was nothing around him, the ground was covered with dust, and the firewood hung with cobwebs was piled up in the corner.

Slowly opening his eyes, a light flashed in the Taoist priest's eyes, and he slowly exhaled a breath of turbidity.

Only a person who has died once truly knows how happy it is to be alive, and he can not care about everything in order to live!

The warrior who slays the dragon eventually turns into an evil dragon.

Standing up from the ground, the Taoist priest looked at the stone statue and waved his arm slightly, and suddenly the stone statue dissolved and collapsed, turning into a stone heart.

A stone that is no different from ordinary stones.

The only difference is that it's heavy, very, very heavy.

The Taoist priest reached out and grabbed it in his palm and swallowed it in one gulp.

"Well, even though it's already like this, it's okay to get rid of some ghosts if you want to. ”

I don't know when the rain outside has stopped, standing on the roof under the sun, the Taoist priest looked at the mountains in front of him and said indifferently.

"Ahem!" the Taoist priest suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood, which was the backlash of his murder, but the Taoist priest did not regret it, because those things deserve to die.

In the foot trader's rucksack was rain-soaked stationery stained with blood.

The Taoist priest shook his head, "I can't worry about it when I'm dead, why don't I look at their lifestyle, after all, I'm the same kind as them now." ”

Suddenly, the Taoist priest's expression became a little obscene, "Hehe, speaking of which, most of those female ghosts are good, there was no way to separate people and ghosts before, but now I am like this, I think there should be no problem!"

The Taoist priest nodded and continued: "Forget it, I don't feel anything in this body at all now." ”

Turning his head to look at his heels, the Taoist priest felt sorry for a while.

"So," the Taoist priest looked at the calm mountains and forests with his eyes like swords, "Are you ready?" ”

A gust of wind blows

The figure of the Taoist priest disappeared, and he had swallowed seven people, and he had recovered enough strength as a ghost.

After the priest left, the temple beneath his feet collapsed, burying the bones of seven bodies underneath him.

To be precise, it is repression, torture, destruction, and complete disappearance.

In this world where ghosts and monsters are rampant, and only Taoists, Buddhas, and other practitioners can contend with them, they are the greatest principle.