Walking along the mountain road, not far away you can see the smoke column rising straight into the sky.
The lingering smoke mixes with the clouds and mist in the sky.
"Right ahead."
Lu Bo tightened the reins.
There should be a village market.
As the saying goes in the Southern Dynasties, the village is called a market. It looks like there are dozens of families living here. Looking from a distance, you can see white circles painted on the walls to prevent wolves.
The fireworks rise from deep inside.
“The smell is weird.”
Martial arts practitioners have keen senses, so Lu Bai sniffed the smell in the air.
"The energy is dense," Su Che shook his head and said, "It doesn't look like a ghost."
Lu Bai looked at Su Che beside him.
"Again..."
The two of them have killed a lot of ghosts along the way, but the ones that are really troublesome are not the ones that escaped from the Yin and Yang Realm. evil spirits.
In the Yin and Yang Realm that day, even though there were Sikong Tu sitting in charge, Su Che didn't take these evil spirits to heart.
The real trouble is something else.
Those hungry ghosts who escaped because the hungry ghost path is connected with the Yin and Yang Realm.
"It should be them."
Su Che shook the reins and rode the horse slowly toward the village.
The eaves are low, and there is a strong smell of blood in the air.
Sure enough, something happened.
Su Che got off his horse, and Lu Bai followed closely behind.
The reason why these guys who came out of the Hungry Ghost Realm make people feel bad is because they don’t even do the minimum to cover up.
"It's late at night. I don't know why the guests are here."
Su Che turned his head and looked in the direction of the sound. He saw an old man who was not tall and slightly stooped. He was wearing a linen garment worn by Cizhou farmers, with a turban on his head and a cane in his hand.
Behind him stood two very agile men.
"What about cooking?"
Su Che raised his legs and walked inside.
"We were hungry on the road, so we need something hot to eat."
"Guest."
The old man stood still in front of Suche.
"It's late at night, and there aren't many people here to eat. Please..."
"Stay away."
Lu Bai snorted from behind. A sound, deep and powerful, like the roar of a tiger and leopard.
The old man felt as if his backbone had been taken away when he heard the harsh words. He trembled and took a few steps back.
"Guest, it's hard to persuade with words..."
"Since you are already a dead ghost, don't worry about others."
Su Che glanced at him, led the horse and continued walking inside.
Wall corners, eaves, wellheads, treetops.
In an inconspicuous corner, a pair of eyes looked at the two people with hatred, compassion, or numbness.
HereIt should be the ancestral hall in this village, with white walls and black tiles. On the plaque at the door are the four characters "accumulate good deeds and celebrate more".
The folk customs in Cizhou emphasize living together in groups. A village is basically a family, so ancestral halls are usually the buildings that have been built with the most effort in the village.
There is fire rising inside, and the thick smoke rises from here.
A group of men and women were kneeling on the ground. A pitch-black kid sat cross-legged on the plaque at the door. His skin was like black iron, with blue incantations engraved on it. There was a single horn on his head. Laughing there.
"If you want to eat, just scream if you want to eat. Whoever learns more like you can eat it."
He was holding a small arm in his hand, the color of It looks like fresh lotus roots dug out of the fertile mud in early spring. The pink and white exposed are carefully washed with clean water.
That was the baby's arm. Dots of dirty blood were dripping from the section of the arm. The men, women, and children below were frantically licking the dripping blood.
For even a drop, they would even blame each other and bite each other.
"Barking, barking well."
Woof, woof, woof... barks came out from the mouths of this group of people.
"Good dog, what a good tailless dog."
It laughed playfully.
The dark pupils caught a glimpse of Su Che and Lu Bai in the distance.
It's a bit confusing.
"Hey, why don't you scream?"
Su Che ignored it and walked inside.
There is a large pot on the patio of the ancestral hall. Tongues of fire surged under the cauldron, and black fireworks poured out from all sides of the cauldron, rising straight into the sky.
A hungry one-horned ghost with skin like black iron was tearing apart the furniture there. He turned his head to look at Suche and broke the wooden table into several pieces with a little force on his hand.
"Monk?"
He grinned and licked his lips with his red tongue.
"It's late at night and you're still walking around. Do you want to slay demons and defend the law?"
"I'm hungry and want to eat something hot."
Suche raised his eyes and looked behind the big ghost.
There is another stranger in the ancestral hall, a naked man who has been washed and stripped and is tied to a wooden pole used to knock pigs. His eyes are full of numbness.
"Water or human flesh?"
The big ghost pointed behind him.
There were two large vats filled with minced meat.
"You have a lot of courage, but you are not smart enough. I will choose a good heart for you and boil it and mend it."
The big ghost split his hand open The firewood was still behind him, he stood up and clapped his hands.
It moves its shoulders and neck.
"No wonder people say that Middle Earth is so good. You don't have to look for blood food, you can just get it into your mouth."
Lu Bai sneered and slowly drew out the long sword from his waist. Put it in Suche's hands.
"Master."
Su Che held the sword horizontally and looked at the sword in his hand under the bright moonlight.
"What a pity."
"Huh?"
The big ghost looked at Suche.
"It's a pity that a good sword cannot meet the heroes of this world, but it comes to kill such filthy things."
"Death!"
Su Che took action at once, and the sword energy flew out, causing a sword roar, like a ghost crying in the Yinshan Mountains.
The big ghost realized that the power of the sword was dangerous. Even though he tried to stretch out his hands to catch the sword, the sword power was too fast. Before he could reach out, it was already on his body. Take a walk.
Su Che flicked the long sword with the middle finger of his left hand, closed his eyes and listened to the sword chant for a moment.
He changed his hand and put the sword back into the scabbard on Lu Bai's waist.
Su Che took out a small silk handkerchief from his sleeve and wiped his hands.
"Humph."
The big ghost smiled contemptuously.
"What a filial child, why are you here to scratch Grandpa's itch? Remember clearly, Grandpa is Naduo from the Vajra Yaksa Department, and his whole body is Vajra Indestructible, which is better than anything in the world..."
Su Che looked at the big ghost.
"Left ear."
"Yeah."
The sound of a bow string breaking was heard. The big ghost reached out to touch it, and his left ear suddenly fell off. , fell to the ground.
"Right eye."
A scarlet eyeball rolled down from its socket.
"Right arm, fifty-four."
The big ghost found that various parts of his body no longer seemed to obey his orders and could not move a step.
His right arm hit the ground hard and turned into a ball of flesh.
Su Che stared at this right hand and stretched out his fingers to count carefully.
"Fifty-two, fifty-three, fifty-four, fifty-five."
He shook his head. The Prison Abi Sword was indeed not that easy.
Legs, chest, shoulders.
Every time Su Che thought about a part, a place next to the big ghost would break away and break into pieces.
At the end of the split, only one head of the big ghost remained, but all the facial features had been flattened.
"To get started with the Taiyu Abi Sword, one must refine the sword's energy to a subtle level. With one sword strike, the big ghost must be chopped into 3,600 pieces. That's enough. Now that I have killed more than 3,700, I still have some trouble."
Su Che sighed and had to keep up his efforts.
"Vajra Yaksa is the so-called protector in the realm of hungry ghosts. He is born with supernatural powers. There is a relic of a hundred medicines in his head, which can revive the dead, leaving flesh and bones white."
Master Su saw it Holding the head.
"Are you going to grow up yourself, or should I help you do it again?