Chapter 461 Zou Family Ancestor
Although Xiao Ran is not a member of the Zou family, he has plenty of ways to deal with these five evil spirits.

Xiao Ran’s mind moved, and the corpse aura filled his body, enveloping his entire body. Then, he became like a corpse, lifeless.

It is the corpse technique, half of the Yin and Yang.

After transforming into a dead body, the five ghosts no longer bothered him, and Xiao Ran could move freely in the inner house.

Walking quickly along the corridor, Xiao Ran came to a rockery. According to Zou Zicheng’s memory, he found a secret door inside the rockery.

Pushing open the secret door, there was a tunnel.

Before I even walked in, I heard bursts of recitation coming from below.

“Old God, the star from heaven, has come down to earth to save three thousand people.”

“Karma is deep in the bones, evil is deep in the marrow, and the skin is like a golden lock…”

This is the God’s Scripture compiled by the Zou family. Not only must every servant recite it, but the children imprisoned in the dungeon must also recite it every day.

If even one word was wrong, the person would be severely beaten at the very least, or sent to be eaten as blood at the worst.

Although Xiao Ran had seen the dungeon scene in Zou Zicheng’s memory.

But when he really walked into the dungeon, he was still shocked by the scene before him.

In the dim cell, more than a dozen children were crowded in a narrow cell.

The posture is to sit side by side on the ground with your feet together and stretched out flat.

The four children were lined up in a row, with their feet tied into a heavy wooden yoke.

This posture makes you sit on the ground unable to move. You can lie down or sit, but you can’t even turn over. It will be very uncomfortable after sitting there for a long time.

The air was filled with a foul smell of urine, which was nauseating.

The environment was like a pigsty, and even the food they ate was the leftovers of the servants of the Zou family.

Imprisoning a group of children in such a place is already insane, not to mention that there are heads and broken limbs hanging on the walls, some of which are dripping with blood.

Some had been dried in a cool cellar and were covered with a layer of green mold, like bacon.

“who!!”

The dungeon guard noticed someone walking down and shouted with a frown.

According to the rules, the number of dungeon guards cannot be even at any time.

So there are certain rules for entering and exiting.

When the guard in charge saw someone coming down without saying hello, he immediately started cursing.

But before they could open their mouths, Xiao Ran’s figure appeared in front of them the next second.

With a swipe of the sword in his hand, a head flew up into the air.

Seeing the guards who usually showed off their might seeing their heads separated, these children showed no joy on their faces, but just looked at Xiao Ran woodenly.

After all, Xiao Ran was still wearing the clothes of a servant of the Zou family. For them, there didn’t seem to be anything worth looking forward to if one servant killed another.

After dealing with the guard at the door, Xiao Ran walked quickly inside and was very familiar with the environment of the dungeon.

In the blink of an eye, he got rid of the guard who was dozing off in the corner without anyone noticing.

The third, fourth…

These guards are not masters themselves. Facing a master like Xiao Ran, it is as easy as chopping melons and vegetables for them.

Some guards didn’t even know how they died. They just heard a breeze blowing behind them, and then their eyes went black and they completely lost consciousness.

After getting rid of these guards, Xiao Ran took out the key and quickly opened the door of the cell.

As they looked at the figure walking into the cell with a big knife in hand, a pair of wooden eyes stared straight at Xiao Ran.

They didn’t know what Xiao Ran was going to do, but everyone was surprisingly quiet.

Whether being caught and whipped, being pinned to the ground and violently assaulted, or even having their heads chopped off, these children were all accustomed to it.

Faced with this heartbreaking numbness, Xiao Ran sighed in his heart, but now was not the time to comfort these children.

He needed to get these kids out of this hellhole as soon as possible.

According to Zou Zicheng’s memory, these children were imprisoned here not only because it was safe here, but also because the Zou family needed these children to recite the God’s Sutra every day.

If they stop for too long, the old ancestor of the Zou family will be awakened.

There is not much information about this ancestor in Zou Zicheng’s memory. He only knows that this is a taboo of the Zou family and also the patron saint of the Zou family.

Over the years, there have been people in the underworld who want to wipe out the Zou family.

After all, the Zou family has offended too many people.

But as long as these people enter the Zou family, even if they are masters of Taoism, they will die silently.

No one in the Zou family even knew what had happened. It was only in the early morning when they saw several corpses kneeling in front of the ancestral hall that they realized someone had sneaked into the Zou family last night.

As for whether Zou Zicheng’s grandfather has seen this ancestor, maybe he has, but for others, this is a taboo topic that cannot be discussed.

The reason why Wu Man was afraid of the Zou family was because the Zou family had such an ancestor.

Xiao Ran has basically led most of the Zou family’s power out, otherwise he would not be able to sneak into the Zou family so easily.

But he was not willing to rashly deal with this unknown ancestor of the Zou family. Moreover, this was inconsistent with his original purpose.

But how to take these children out is a big problem.

Fortunately, Xiao Ran had already thought of a solution when he came.

Xiao Ran asked the children to stand in a row, then waved his hand and threw out a handful of Yin banknotes.

Stacks of Yin banknotes were floating in the empty dungeon. Xiao Ran took them with his fingers and silently recited a spell.

As the spell was chanted, the Yin banknotes floating around began to be ignited one by one.

Suddenly, wisps of green smoke filled the entire dungeon, and at the same time gathered into a cloud of gas that slowly condensed into the shape of a door in front of Xiao Ran.

This is one of the eight secret techniques passed down by the Zhou family, the Yellow Springs Wrong Path.

This magic technique is a secret technique to open up yin and yang, which allows the living to transfer and escape from trouble through the space of the underworld.

Of course, you can also go to the underworld like a ghost.

The only difference is that those who walk in the underworld rely on their talent to feel the weak point where the world of the living and the world of the dead meet at a specific time.

This technique completely utilizes Yin money to forcibly open a door for yourself, which is a krypton gold behavior.

Of course, this is not a cheap expense.

Back then, the old man of the Zhou family and his grandfather and their group were trapped in the tomb. It was the old man of the Zhou family who used this magic to bring them out.

It was this incident that caused the Zhou family to incur a huge debt, which had not been paid off until Xiao Ran took over.

Xiao Ran took out the [Seal of the Mysterious Place].

There was a cold luster flashing on the seal. It was only not long ago that the good deeds owed by it were repaid after the trip to the underworld, and there was still some left. But now it seemed that it was bound to owe a large amount of good deeds again.

But Xiao Ran had no choice.

The best option is to take these children out safely. As for the good deeds, you can earn money from them slowly in the future.

Xiao Ran took out the [Seal of the Mysterious Place] and slowly placed it on the gate in front of him where smoke and clouds were gathering.

Suddenly, the door trembled and made a “dong dong” sound, followed by a chill that overflowed from behind the door. The door, which was originally an illusion, began to become clear at this moment.

“Om!!”

Soon, the door slowly opened, revealing a pale world behind it. It was difficult to see where the road ahead was, but furtive whispers could be vaguely heard.

Even those children who had been tortured to the point of numbness began to feel uneasy as they looked at the door in front of them.

“Let’s go. Staying here may not be much better than hell.”

Xiao Ran did not speak to comfort the children. He just said something lightly and walked in front, entering the gate first.

Seeing that Xiao Ran had already walked through the gate, the other children hesitated for a moment, but still followed him forward.

Just as Xiao Ran said, staying here may not be much better than hell.

As the children stepped through the gate one after another, Xiao Ran also noticed that the good deeds on the [Tongyou Seal] were decreasing rapidly.

Obviously, for every additional person you bring, you have to pay an extra merit, and the standard of payment is also different.

According to what the Zhou family said in the Soul-Duling Sutra, the cause and effect for each person is different, and the amount of good karma that needs to be paid is also different.

For example, the leader of a country represents the cause and effect of thousands of lives. They themselves have enormous influence and may even affect tens of thousands of people one day in the future.

Then his price will be ridiculously high, but if it is an ordinary person.

A fat otaku who never leaves his house has very few causes and effects.

Oh, of course there are exceptions. If he is an online writer, there is still some cause and effect. After all, if he stops updating, it will still cause many people to send cordial greetings.

Fortunately, the causal relationship for these children was not strong, there were just more of them, and the long queue was already halfway through.

Xiao Ran’s remaining good karma also began to turn into negative numbers.

“Alas, another day of wasted work.”

Just when I was thinking about how to make up for the good deeds I had done in the future.

Suddenly, a low shout was heard from the end of the dungeon.

“Children, where are you going…”

The hoarse voice echoed throughout the dungeon.

An inexplicable clarity began to emerge in the minds of these children.

Some people began to squat on the ground and dared not walk anymore, while others couldn’t help crying.

At the same time, Xiao Ran also felt as if goose bumps were about to stand up all over his body.

His eyes looked towards the end of the cell behind him.

The same pair of lantern-like eyes were scanning from the darkness and colliding with Xiao Ran’s eyes.

In an instant, Xiao Ran felt his mind shake, as if a force was forcibly pulling his soul out of his body.

Suddenly, a black mountain appeared in front of Xiao Ran. The huge mountain swayed slowly, revealing a bloody mouth and a pair of eyes like fireballs, staring straight at Xiao Ran!

(End of this chapter)