Chapter 2: The Tragedy of the Village
At night, the three golden full moons hang high in the sky, which is the wonder of the March round that occurs once in a thousand years. After dinner, Li Zhe was still thinking about what happened during the day, and he had no intention of accompanying his father to admire the moon, so he returned to his room early. Lying on the bed, tossing and turning, unable to fall asleep for a long time, I don't know how long it took before Li Zhe fell asleep in a daze.
As the saying goes, there are thoughts in the day and dreams in the night, and Li Zhe unexpectedly had a dream of entering the cave room. However, after revealing the red hijab, a girl with squinted eyes and a pockmarked face appeared in front of Li Zhe and scared Li Zhe to jump out of bed. This frightening made Li Zhe make up his mind, he must make it clear to his father tomorrow, and he will not let himself meet Miss Liu first, and he will not agree to this marriage if he lives or dies. It's really terrifying to get married like this, and if this nightmare comes true, there will be no good life in this life.
Having made up his mind, Li Zhe lay back on the bed and wanted to continue sleeping. But I don't know why, I just can't settle down, and my mood is extremely irritable, as if there is an invisible hand trying to pull my soul out of my body.
Anyway, he couldn't sleep, so Li Zhe simply got out of bed and wanted to pour a glass of water to drink first. At this moment, Li Zhe heard Rhubarb roaring in a low voice in the courtyard, and his voice was miserable and miserable, which made people's hairs stand on end.
Li Zhe hurriedly pushed open the door and looked into the courtyard, although it was already past the hour, but the three full moons were in the sky, and under the silver moonlight, the courtyard was not dark.
I saw that the rhubarb was like a drunk, staggering in the yard, screaming as he crawled, and fell to the ground without climbing a few steps, and there was no movement. Li Zhe hurriedly walked to Rhubarb's side, and after a closer look, Rhubarb had no breath.
Li Zhe guessed: Why did Rhubarb die suddenly, it shouldn't be. During the day, he was still fierce, how could he die all of a sudden, could it be that Rhubarb accidentally ingested rat poison and was poisoned to death.
At this moment, a miserable green ball of light flew out of Rhubarb's body, slowly rose into the air, and flew towards the door. Li Zhe looked up at the sky, only to find that there were hundreds of miserable green light clusters flying slowly over the entire village. Li Zhe couldn't help but shudder, such a strange scene, let alone a thirteen-year-old child, even an adult would be afraid.
After hesitating for a moment, Li Zhe was not an ordinary child after all, he was naturally bold, picked up the iron halberd, and chased after the light group of rhubarb. Following the light group, Li Zhe chased all the way to the open space in the center of the village where he practiced martial arts in the morning.
At this time, a man in black was sitting in the clearing, and there was a white spirit flag on the ground in front of him, and those light clusters were flying towards the spirit flag, and those who flew close were all sucked into the flag.
Li Zhe couldn't help but blow up his scalp, Rhubarb's death must be related to the man in black. Seeing this strange scene, Li Zhe suddenly remembered that in the stories told by Second Uncle Liu, there were not some demons who used soul flags to suck people's souls, and this sky full of light, I am afraid that the souls of the whole village have been sucked in.
We must stop this demon, thinking of this, Li Zhe no longer hesitated, raised the iron halberd and rushed towards the man in black, and shouted: "Where did the demon come from, dare to cast a demon spell in my Lijia Village, look at the halberd." ”
The man in black raised his eyes to look at Li Zhe, and thought in surprise: "This soul refining banner is indeed newly refined, and it absorbs very few living souls, and its power is very limited. In any case, it is also a magic weapon, once it is used, within a radius of several miles, even ordinary cultivators in the spiritual induction period will be unstable, come out of their bodies, and be sucked over. This kid obviously doesn't have a trace of spiritual power fluctuations on his body, how can he not be affected. ”
The man in black was wondering, Li Zhe's iron halberd had been chopped off the head, and the man in black was about to die. However, the man in black did not panic, did not dodge or dodge, but raised his right hand and waved out a black qi. The black qi met the iron halberd, Li Zhe only felt a huge force rushing up from below, the tiger's mouth was numb, the iron halberd took off his hand and flew into the sky, and the person also retreated seven or eight steps in a row, and sat on the ground with a butt.
"Sure enough, it's a demon," Li Zhe said secretly, a hundred and ten catties of iron halberd, plus the divine power of his two arms, I am afraid that the strength is no less than a thousand catties, and the other party only used a ball of black gas to dissolve it lightly, which is not the strength of human beings at all.
Li Zhe also forgot to be scared at this time, got up from the ground, searched left and right on the ground around, and couldn't find where his iron halberd flew for a while. Without weapons, Li Zhe couldn't take care of much, ran to the big stone mill used by the villagers to grind grain in the open field, and with all his strength, picked up the big grinding disc weighing hundreds of pounds, turned around and threw it towards the man in black.
"Huh", the black-clothed people were also surprised in their hearts, and let out an exclamation. Although the black-clothed people were surprised in their hearts, they did not stop in their hands, and waved a black gas at the grinding disc in the air, and the flying grinding disc was immediately hit back by the black gas, and smashed it at Li Zhe, Li Zhe hurriedly rolled on a lazy donkey and dodged it.
Getting up from the ground, Li Zhe still wanted to fight again, but the man in black obviously didn't want to be entangled any longer, and a cloud of black gas floated in front of Li Zhe. "Bind", the man in black snorted lightly, and the black gas turned into a strong black rope, tying Li Zhe strongly, and Li Zhe couldn't earn a single inch even if he had a divine power.
The man in black beckoned to Li Zhe, and Li Zhe couldn't help but fly towards the man in black. Flying in front of him, Li Zhecai saw the face of the man in black clearly, it turned out to be an old man in his fifties, with a disheveled hair and a face full of meat, and at first glance he was a fierce and vicious person.
The man in black carefully examined Li Zhe's body, and after a while, showed a satisfied smile.
"It seems that the old man has picked up the treasure today, this kid Yuan Shen is so powerful, not much weaker than the average monk in the spirit seed stage, and the soul refining banner fed to me can increase its power a lot. The physical body is even rarer, and the pure physical body can have such power, presumably those guys who play corpse refining will definitely give me a good price. The man in black said with a wicked smile.
When Li Zhe heard this, he couldn't help but feel creepy, and shouted: "You demon, let your young master go, otherwise this young master won't let you go." ”
"Be a ghost, well, don't worry, you'll get your wish in no time. Wait for me to cast a spell to extract your soul. As he spoke, the man in black stretched out a hand wrapped in black gas to the top of Li Zhe's head. Seeing that black hand wrapped in black gas getting closer and closer to the top of his head, Li Zhe only had despair in his heart, he hadn't become a hero yet, and he was going to die here today.
At the last moment, a white light flew in the distance, and someone in the white light shouted coldly: "Fellow Daoist, if you slaughter mortals so wantonly, aren't you afraid of karma in the dark?" As he spoke, a white line shot towards the man in black. The man in black didn't care about Li Zhe, grabbed the white bone banner in front of him, shook his hand, and spewed out a lot of black gas from the flag, instantly condensing into a hideous ghost head, against the white line.
"The so-called karma is just a small trick to deceive mortals, and we who cultivate the truth are originally going against the sky, so how can we believe it. The man in black replied with a sinister smile. The ghost head was no match for the white line at all, but after a few breaths, it was scattered, turning into a cloud of black mist and dispersing in the air. However, the ghost head still bought time for the man in black to escape, and the man in black turned into a black light and fled into the distance.
The man in black shouted as he fled: "Fellow Daoist of Yunmeng Sect, there will be a period later." ”
"In the realm of this sect, Tu Village wants to leave, and Daoist friends are too underestimate Yunmeng Sect. The figure of the white light roared. The white light didn't stop, chasing the black light and speeding away.
Li Zhe was blown away by the air wave generated by the explosion of the ghost head, and his head hit a big tree and fainted.
The next morning, Li Zhe was woken up by the morning dew, rubbed his head and was still dizzy, and sat up from the ground staggeringly. No, at this time of day, the farmers have already gone to work in the fields. But now that no one in the whole village has risen, there is a deathly silence in the village, not to mention human figures, not even a single livestock has been seen, and an ominous premonition envelops Li Zhe.
Li Zhe hurriedly jumped up from the ground and ran home. Running into the yard of his house, Li Zhe shouted "Father, father", but no one answered. ran all the way into his father's bedroom, and saw Li Bowen lying on the bed, still maintaining a sleeping position, but he had already died of anger.
Li Zhe cried, grabbed Li Bowen's arm and shook it vigorously, shouting: "Dad, don't die, you get up", "Come on", "Fubo, come quickly"...... Li Zhe called for a long time, but no one answered.
Li Zhe ran to the next person's room, pushed open the door, and found that all the family members were dead in bed like his father. After running all over the village, Li Zhe found that all the 279 people in Lijia Village were dead except for himself. Li Zhe returned to Li Bowen's bedroom in despair, looked at his father's body, couldn't help but feel sad and cried loudly.
Crying until noon, Li Zhe had to accept this cruel reality, people can't be resurrected after death, let's do the funeral first. Li Zhe went to the county seat to prepare to hire some people to the village and buried the villagers, but as soon as everyone heard about it, the whole village died overnight, which was either a haunting or a plague, and no one dared to come no matter how much money was given. There was no way, Li Zhe had to buy a good coffin, buy a carriage, and drive the carriage back to the village alone.
Back home, Li Zhe carried his father's body to the hall, gathered it into the coffin, wore linen and filial piety, and turned some paper money.
"Father, please forgive the child for being unfilial, the father passed away, the child should not be so hasty, but there is still a village in the village where no one takes care of it, so he can only grieve his father. Li Zhe gave his father a few snorts, wept blood in retribution, and begged for forgiveness from his deceased father. After speaking, Li Zhe pulled the coffin to the back mountain and buried it in the ancestral grave.
When he returned to the village, he tearfully dragged the dead in the village to the back mountain and buried them one by one. coincided with a torrential rain, and the icy rain poured on Li Zhe, who felt nothing, as if he had become a walking corpse, repeating this tragic work mechanically. Rao Li Zhe has a divine power, and he worked tirelessly for three days to bury the dead in the whole village.
Facing the new graves full of mountains, Li Zhe was grief-stricken, and swore on his knees with blood-red eyes: "Father, Fu Bo, Second Uncle Liu, little fat...... , the villagers and elders of the village, you go all the way, Li Zhe swears here, even if you go to the ends of the earth in your lifetime, you will find that demon to avenge you. ”
How can we take revenge? Li Zhe sat and calculated, his good martial arts were useless in front of the man in black, and the gap between the two was like that of a baby and an adult. From this point of view, no matter how high he practiced martial arts, it was impossible to defeat the man in black. Thinking about it, when he was half asleep, he vaguely heard the conversation between the man in black and the figure in the white light mentioning the Yunmeng Sect. Yunmeng Sect heard this name, it must be on Yunmeng Mountain, it seems that the story of Second Uncle Liu is not nonsense, there are indeed immortals on Yunmeng Mountain. The man in black ran away as soon as he saw the immortals of Yunmeng Mountain, it seems that the immortal methods of the immortals of Yunmeng Mountain must be stronger than the demon methods of the men in black. If you want to take revenge, you can only go to Yunmeng Mountain to find immortals and learn the immortal law. After making up his mind, Li Zhe decided to leave tomorrow morning.
In the early morning of the next day, Li Zhe bid farewell to the deceased, returned home, took some silver taels, packed his luggage, carried the iron halberd, and set off on horseback.
When packing his luggage, Li Zhe saw the jade pendant given to him by the Liu family and decided to go to the Liu family to report a message. After all, if you go by yourself, life and death are boundless, and you don't know what the opportunities are, and most of them will not come back. In case, that Miss Liu family is really a dead-eyed person as her father said, and if she doesn't marry, it will really be a mistake for life. Although the marriage contract between himself and Miss Liu is only verbal, with the family style of the Li family, the oral marriage contract is no different from the formal engagement.