More than half a year ago, Zhou Qing had just escaped from a bitter cold place in the northwest.

After he came out, he thought that it was time to go back to Tianyue and his hometown.

Because in Tianyue, there are two things that have always been around his heart.

One is the things in the savage forest, and the other is the Sumeru Temple in Dongguo Town.

On the way back from the bitter cold land in the northwest, he passed by the Tang Kingdom, so by the way, he took a look at the apprentice he had inadvertently accepted back then, and handed over the task of inheriting the Tianyi faction to his apprentice.

Speaking of which, the master-apprentice relationship between him and Yin Mao is also very casual, just like when he and Wu Lichen did, it was so natural, so breezy and light, and there were not so many dos and shouldn'ts.

And speaking of which, the inheritance of the Tianyi faction does not have so much attention, and the master and apprentice do not need to get along with each other for many years, because the inheritance of their faction is mainly inherited from things.

The spells and body methods are recorded in their own books, and the magic weapons and miscellaneous records can be passed on directly, so although he only got along with Yin Mao for a short time, he still decided to hand over the inheritance of the Tianyi faction to him.

Originally, this time he returned to his hometown, and he was still a little hesitant on the way, whether to hand over this burden to Yin Mao, but after he saw Yin Mao, this hesitation was dispelled.

Although he was an apprentice who was inadvertently accepted, and his qualifications were only average, this apprentice's character was excellent, and he was naturally relieved to accept such an apprentice, and he was naturally relieved about the inheritance of the Tianyi faction in the future.

The delicate and silent light rain fell intensively, and Zhou Qing in the rain slowed down the speed of his journey.

The closer he got to his hometown, the greater the feeling in his heart, and the greater the feeling, the slower his steps became.

When it was almost dark, he had already passed through Wujiang City and walked dozens of miles in a certain direction.

"Bell, bell, bell. ”

As Zhou Qing walked forward, a noisy sound came into his ears, and following the sound, he saw a group of people walking briskly towards him on the road in the distance.

Soon, Zhou Qing crossed paths with people, and on the way, he found that this group of people was doing something that only in the customs of Tianyue Kingdom, which was called 'chasing hanging ghosts'.

There is such a custom in Tianyue country, but anyone who hangs himself will turn into a ghost after death, so generally people who hang themselves will try their best to drive it away after their death, so as not to leave its ghost.

For example, the group of people in front of him, led by a Taoist priest, is holding a paper tie man, and there must be the birthday of the hanged person on the paper.

Behind the Taoist priest was followed by a group of villagers, all of whom held wooden sticks in one hand and gongs, drums, iron basins and other objects in the other.

These villagers ran after the Taoist priest and knocked the things in their hands against each other in order to expel the evil spirits.

In fact, this method has no effect, but in Tianyue country, these ordinary people are all convinced, and if you really want to talk about the result, it should be just for peace of mind.

After crossing with a group of villagers who were chasing ghosts, Zhou Qing continued to hurry, and soon, he came to a small village.

The dirt road in this village is strewn with white paper money, and when you sweep it away, you can see white curtains hanging in front of several houses in the village.

From this point of view, the group of people just now are from this village, and there is not just one family in this village that has an accident, but several.

Seeing such a picture, Zhou Qing unconsciously stopped on the side of the road.

There are white curtains hanging in front of several houses in the village, and it is obvious that someone in the family has died, and it is not strange to say that one person is lost, but it is strange that someone in several families died at the same time.

And just now on the road, he also ran into a group of villagers chasing hanged ghosts, which directly reminded him of something strange happening in the village.

"Eldest sister, can I ask you for some water?"

After taking a look at the roadside, Zhou Qing walked to the door of a family and asked a woman in the house.

The woman in the house glanced at Zhou Qing and didn't say anything, just nodded, and then went to the backyard by herself.

After a while, the woman returned to the hall with a bowl of water and handed the bowl to Zhou Qing.

"Hey, this water is so sweet. Taking a sip of the water bowl, Zhou Qing opened his mouth to say this, and then asked in a very calm tone: "What's going on in your village, eldest sister?"

"It's not a strange thing, it's a tragic thing. ”

Most of the women's nature is to like to take care of the family, and this woman is exactly like this at the moment, after Zhou Qing opened her mouth to ask, she talked about the things in the village in general.

In the woman's explanation, Zhou Qing also had a general idea of what was going on in the village.

It turned out that on the edge of this village, a mine was opened a few years ago, and just a few days ago, there was an accident in the mine, and seven miners in the village who worked in the mine died.

Among them, a woman hanged herself in grief because her husband died in a mining accident, and she had no relatives, no children, and no daughters.

originally thought it was an evil thing, but through this inquiry, Zhou Qing realized that there was a big accident in this village.

Just as he was about to leave after listening to the woman's explanation, not far away, a man with a wooden stick in his hand rushed towards him quickly.

Seeing this man who rushed towards him inexplicably and waved his stick, Zhou Qing was quite curious in his heart, didn't he just chat with this woman for a few words, as for it?

Seeing this, Zhou Qing did not dodge, but let the man smash him with a wooden stick.

"I'll kill you stinky man. ”

The man took the wooden stick and slammed it on the top of Zhou Qing's head, and at the same time said such a sentence in his mouth.

As soon as the man's words came out, Zhou Qing felt that there must be some misunderstanding in this, because he had the earth spirit root, so the man's stick did not cause the slightest damage to him at the moment.

"What should you do if you kill someone for your indiscriminate behavior? Thanks to the strange disease of copper skin and iron bones and invulnerability since I was a child, if it were not for this, I would have died at your hands today. ”

The man's stick fell on the top of Zhou Qing's head unbiasedly, not only did he not do anything, but after the wooden stick in the man's hand fell, he snatched the wooden stick in the other party's hand, folded his hands, and directly broke a thick wooden stick into two.

"You, you~" Seeing Zhou Qing's actions, the man took a few steps back and leaned against the earthen wall of the house, his face full of panic.

"What are you, let me ask you, what if someone dies?