Holy Bone

Chapter 1761: A poor family, a rainy day, a man digging a grave, a dead person being worshipped, and a cold and lonely man without a wife

knock--

knock --

In the night, the old wooden door of the fence was knocked repeatedly, breaking the silence.

Behind the fence and the thatched hut, the candlelight flickered quietly like charcoal burning, but no one responded or came out to open the door.

There was no reflection of any human activity visible through the window paper.

Everything is so peaceful.

It is like a thousand-year-old ancient pond in the deep mountains and old forests. No matter how windy or rainy it is outside, or how the leaves rustle, it is always quiet. On the contrary, if you stare at it for too long, you will feel a little chilly.

knock--

knock --

There was someone knocking outside the old wooden door of the courtyard wall, but the house was as calm as a thousand-year-old pond. The person knocking outside the courtyard door kept knocking persistently.

Time passed by bit by bit, and the knocking on the door never stopped. It not only broke the tranquility of the night, but also made people feel annoyed, as if there was a mosquito buzzing in their ears.

Knock knock, the knocking continues, and it looks like the knocking will continue forever.

If you say this person is polite, he is quite polite. He knows that he has to get the host's approval before pushing the door and entering.

If you say that this person is impolite, it is indeed very rude. How can one keep knocking on the door and no one comes out to open the door? It means that the host does not welcome you or there is something going on at home and it is inconvenient to receive outsiders.

The stalemate lasted for another cup of tea, and finally there was movement in the room. First, the candlelight flickered a few times, as if someone was walking in the room, causing the air to flow. A black shadow suddenly lay behind the window paper and looked towards the direction of the courtyard gate outside the window.

But this is the strange thing. How can you check what is happening outside through closed doors and windows? With your vision blocked, what can you see?

Instead, the silhouette of the person reflected in the window paper allowed people outside to see that he was a stocky man of short stature.

The knocking on the door continued at this time. The figure lying behind the window paper left after a while. Soon after, the friction sound of wood chips moving the door bolt of the house was heard, bang!

The door was pushed open heavily from the inside. Because too much force was used, the door panel hit the earthen wall heavily, suggesting that the owner of the house was very angry and opened the door angrily.

A man was shrouded in the shadow of the night. He did not carry a lantern, but walked quickly to the gate of the courtyard with a hoe in hand. Just as he roughly opened the gate and was about to swing the hoe angrily, he saw clearly that the person knocking on the door was a ghostly headless Taoist priest. His body stiffened suddenly, and the hoe in his hand stopped in mid-air. He did not dare to bring it down for a long time.

Is there anything more bizarre and spooky in the world than having a headless Taoist priest knocking on your door in the middle of the night?

No matter how angry you are, it will be extinguished in an instant. You will feel cold from head to toe, and you will feel a chill running down your back, and your hairs will stand on end.

At this time, the headless Taoist priest bowed to the man standing in the shadow of the door frame. The muscles on the man's face trembled. He looked like he was frightened by the headless Taoist priest who came to his door in the middle of the night. His body remained frozen in place and he did not move for a long time.

The patter--

Just at this time, a drizzle came from the sky, accompanied by a slanting wind. The wind and rain hit the two people under the courtyard gate, and the cold rain wet their faces. The man was startled and woke up with a start. He left the headless Taoist priest and ran into the house in the rain.

Looking at his hurried look, I don't know whether he was trying to avoid the rain, or because he was guilty of digging up graves and stealing corpses, so he thought the headless Taoist priest was a ghost knocking on the door in the middle of the night to take his life.

The headless Taoist priest stepped over the threshold, closed the gate, bolted it, and then followed the man's back into the house.

From beginning to end, the two men did not exchange a single word.

The one who knocked on the door in the middle of the night, in an endless loop, was naturally the headless Jin'an from the Wuzang Taoist Temple. Headless Jin'an followed the man forward, and halfway through he raised his neck to look at the six soul marks in the sky, and then looked at the man's back, and a little understanding rose in his heart.

The owner of this house has not noticed the soul mark floating above the roof since he left the house. It seems that he did not realize that his house had been targeted and marked by someone.

Naturally, the soul mark can only be seen by the soul.

The other family is just ordinary people, or they have practiced some skills and have some Taoism, but when their soul is not out of their body, the soul mark cannot be seen.

Of course, other possibilities cannot be ruled out. This is not a normal world, and many places cannot be judged by common sense.

I just want to say that the first two guesses are the most likely.

However, he was still most interested in the immortal corpse. He wanted to see with his own eyes what the immortal corpse looked like and whether there was a chance to get it.

Anyway, this family is capable of digging up graves and stealing corpses, so they are not good people. Therefore, it is reasonable for him to rob the corpse, and he does not feel any moral pressure in his heart.

The man rushed into the house with a hoe in his hand, and bang!

He slammed the door shut.

Huh, he just breathed a sigh of relief and turned around, only to find that Headless Jin An had followed him in at some point and was standing motionless behind him.

In the eyes of outsiders, Wutou Jinan was standing still. In fact, Wutou Jinan looked around the layout of the house as soon as he entered.

There was an oil lamp and two candles lit in the room. Although it was not very bright, it was enough to see the environment in the room clearly, and the man's appearance could finally be seen clearly.

This is a farmer whose skin is dark and rough due to years of hard work, exposure to the sun and rain. He has a sturdy body and a pair of strong arms.

However, this person's appearance is not good. His facial bones are too hard and his face is full of wrinkles. He has been poor and busy all his life. His mouth is crooked and his eyes are slanted. It can be seen at a glance that he is scheming, but his tricks are all small and petty.

There was an octagonal table in the room, and an old Taoist priest was sitting beside the table. However, the old Taoist priest was covered in mud, and his Taoist robe was stained with blood. Even the jade Taoist crown on his head was broken in half, and half of his hair was scattered like a ghost, hanging down to his waist.

The old Taoist priest was sitting with his back to them, so no one could see his front.

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Black blood kept dripping onto the ground from the old Taoist priest's body.

The two candles he had seen before were standing on the table in front of the old Taoist priest. There was also a bowl of raw rice with incense sticks stuck on it, with green smoke rising from it. There were also several fruit plates, which were all offerings used to worship the dead.

Looking at the dirt on the old Taoist priest's robe, there is no need to guess, this must be the body that was stolen, that is, the immortal corpse marked by the soul.

However, judging from the back, there is really no trace of immortal spirit in him, only a miserable demise.

There are several rooms in the house. The door of one of the rooms is covered with yellow talismans to ward off evil spirits. There is also a secret compartment under the door, which looks like it is used to deliver food.

But his focus was still on the immortal corpse. Just when he wanted to take a few steps forward to see the front of the immortal corpse, bang!

The sudden sound, like a body hitting a door, temporarily distracted him. He looked for the source of the sound and found it came from the room covered with yellow talismans.

A poor home, a rainy day, a man digging graves, a dead body being worshipped, a cold kang without a wife, a haunted room, an environment with a complex and strange smell... This is truly a very dangerous place, and the soul's mark did not deceive him.