Chapter 137 Mass Grave

“Yan, Brother Yan?”

Nie Xiaoqian was worried that her act of leaking the information would be discovered, so she left in a hurry.

As soon as Shi Potian turned around, he saw Yan Chixia standing behind him. He was startled and asked, “Are you awake?”

After a meal and a few drinks, the way he addressed Yan Chixia changed from “Master Yan” to “Brother Yan”.

Suddenly, Shi Potian seemed to have thought of something. He opened his eyes wide and shouted, “Are you pretending to be drunk? Are you trying to trick the tree demon out?”

Yan Chixia said, “You are not stupid.” Looking at the direction where Nie Xiaoqian left, he said, “It’s a pity that we only caught a lonely ghost. Do you think what the female ghost said was true or false?”

Shi Potian said without hesitation: “Really.”

Yan Chixia retracted his gaze, looked up and down at Shi Potian, and asked suspiciously: “Boy, you are not attracted to that pretty female ghost, are you?”

Shi Potian hurriedly shook his hand and said, “Brother Yan, you can’t say that. I have a family, how could I fall in love with someone else? I just think what she said is true, and it has nothing to do with other things.”

Yan Chixia said: “This is the best. The ghost girl has been able to stay in Lanruo Temple for so long, she is not a good person, don’t be fooled by her tricks!”

Shi Potian nodded and said “hmm”. He also felt that Nie Xiaoqian’s last words were not sincere, but…

Shi Potian hesitated for a moment and said, “Brother Yan, I know she is using us to deal with the tree demon. But you said before that the tree demon cannot leave Lanruo Temple too far. If we can rescue these wandering ghosts, it will be like cutting off its arm, and it will not be able to continue to harm people.”

Yan Chixia thought about it and felt that what Shi Potian said made sense, so he said, “You don’t have to worry about this. Let’s leave here first. When tomorrow morning comes, I will go to the mass grave to dig out the corpses of those ghosts and send them away, so that they can be reincarnated into the next life.”

Although he was not afraid of the Black Mountain Master, he did not want to stay here and be a sitting target.

Shi Potian nodded and was about to agree, but Yan Chixia suddenly changed his mind and said, “No! That tree demon has been in Lanruo Temple for so many years, and I don’t know how many wandering ghosts it has. I may not be able to dig them all out by myself. You should come with me tomorrow.”

Shi Potian naturally had no objection and nodded in agreement.

The two men then left Lanruo Temple and hurried to Guobei Town, preparing to buy some shovels and hoes and go back to dig up the bones after daybreak.

Outside Guobei Town.

Ning Caichen stood at the intersection, looking towards Lanruo Temple with a worried look on his face.

It was already late summer and early autumn, and there had just been a heavy rain during the day. The temperature dropped sharply, and Ning Caichen was shivering with cold, but he still didn’t want to leave.

“My benefactor, Taoist Master Yan.”

As soon as Ning Caichen saw Shi Potian and Yan Chixia, he hurried over to them. Seeing that they were safe and sound, a hint of joy appeared on his frozen face: “It’s great that you are okay! Where is the monster? Did you get rid of it?”

Yan Chixia was regretting that he had let the tree demon go due to his carelessness, which led to the attraction of the Black Mountain Old Demon, the ghost king whose background he didn’t know. When he heard this, his face darkened and he walked past him without paying any attention to Ning Caichen.

Shi Potian didn’t expect Ning Caichen to be waiting here. He raised his hand and sent a stream of Qi into Ning Caichen’s body, saying, “Brother Ning, didn’t I give you some money and tell you to go to the town to find an inn to rest? Why are you still here?”

Ning Caichen only felt his body warm up and he became more energetic. He said, “I was worried that something might happen to you…”

Yan Chixia snorted coldly and said, “What’s the point of worrying? Can you help us in any way? Go and rest wherever it’s cool! Don’t cause us any trouble, and that will be a great achievement for you!”

Ning Caichen’s face flushed, but he was powerless to refute.

Shi Potian couldn’t bear it and said, “Brother Yan, Brother Ning also has good intentions. Let’s go to the town and find an inn to rest first.” Yan Chixia said, “The people in this town have long been frightened by the tree monster. Which inn dares to open the door to you in the middle of the night? Come with me.”

There are only two inns in Guobei Town, and it is difficult to check in late at night. However, the court has been levying heavy taxes and there are many corrupt officials over the years, so most of the houses in Guobei Town are empty, so it is very easy to find an empty house.

Yan Chixia led the two into the town, found an empty yard, and walked in.

Yan Chixia was too lazy to waste words with Ning Caichen, so he said to Shi Potian, “It’s not convenient for me to show up in Guobei Town. Go buy some hoes tomorrow.” Then he found an empty room and went to sleep.

Shi Potian told Ning Caichen what happened in Lanruo Temple.

Although Ning Caichen was weak and powerless, he was still full of righteousness. He could only grit his teeth and was furious at the tree monster. When he heard that Shi Potian and Yan Chixia were going to the mass grave to dig up corpses and pull the ghosts out of the tree monster’s hands the next day, he also wanted to help.

Shi Potian rejected him without hesitation.

Yan Chixia’s words were a bit hurtful but they were all true. Ning Caichen really couldn’t help them at all.

It took Shi Potian a lot of persuasion before Ning Caichen gave up the idea of ​​helping, and then they each found an empty room to sleep.

The next morning, Shi Potian went to the blacksmith shop in the town to buy a shovel and hoe, and set off for the mass grave with Yan Chixia.

The mass grave is located on a piece of wasteland on the back mountain of Lanruo Temple. It is overgrown with weeds and the tombstones are tilted here and there. The air is filled with a smell of decay and the cold wind makes people’s backs cold.

Shi Potian looked at the graves all over the ground and didn’t know where to start.

Yan Chixia took out a talisman from his bosom, held it between his fingers, and chanted: “The heaven and earth are boundless, the universe borrows the magic!”

The talisman spontaneously ignited without fire, turning into a ball of blue flame, which was thrown into the air by Yan Chixia.

boom!
The flames exploded, and stars scattered all over the sky and landed all over the graveyard.

Yan Chixia said: “Where the flames are, that’s where the corpses of those lonely ghosts are.”

Looking up at the sky, Yan Chixia saw that it was gloomy and gray. He frowned and calculated with his fingers. He frowned and said, “In half an hour, no matter whether we can dig out all the corpses of these ghosts or not, we must leave. This mass grave is full of resentment and yin energy. If we fight with the tree monster here, we will suffer a great loss.”

Shi Potian clenched the shovel in his hand, nodded, and said, “Brother Yan, I understand. Let’s hurry up and dig as much as we can.”

The two men acted quickly and began digging according to the location where the blue flame fell.

As the soil was turned over, an even stronger smell of decay hit us in the face, making us feel sick.

Not long after, Shi Potian’s shovel hit a hard object.

He squatted down and used his hands to push away the soil, and found an urn with countless roots entangled on it, as if it was tied up by these roots.

Shi Potian did not dare to act rashly and called out, “Brother Yan.”

Yan Chixia walked over quickly, took a look at the urn, took out a small cloth bag from his arms, and sprinkled some cinnabar over it. There was a “hiss” sound, and the roots melted quickly like snow meeting the sun.

Yan Chixia handed the bag to Shi Potian and said, “If you encounter this situation again, just sprinkle the cinnabar on it. Let’s rescue as many people as possible before the tree demon comes back! Once he notices what’s going on here and rushes over, it won’t be so easy!”

(End of this chapter)