I was forced to cultivate immortality when I just wanted to lie down

Chapter 133 Ghost, Thin Tiger

In the middle of the night, a healthy and alive person was gone in the blink of an eye!

Sun Erzhuang was so scared that cold sweat broke out.

There was a constant rustling sound in the woods, and there seemed to be faint roars of tigers and wolves mixed in.

No one is going to survive this!

Sun Erzhuang was almost in tears. His voice was trembling, like an old lady wailing at a funeral, and he asked in a hoarse voice: "Brave man? Big brother? Are you still alive? If you haven't been taken away by the tiger, please make a sound and don't leave me here alone and scared."

As soon as the fat man finished speaking, a thunderclap exploded, shattering the clouds. A bright flash of lightning streaked across the night sky, and cold raindrops fell like abacus beads.

The rain fell into his collar, and Sun Erzhuang shuddered all over. He didn't dare to wander around outside anymore.

He obeyed the big man's words, carried his mother's body on his back, and hurried back to the dilapidated temple to shelter from the rain.

There were lightning and thunder outside the temple, and inside the incense hall, the sudden flash of lightning illuminated the majestic and angry statue on the altar.

Fatty Sun hadn't paid much attention to the statue before, but now that God was lighting up the sky, he looked up and realized that it was a statue of a tiger with a human body and a tiger's head!
Looking at the statue, Sun Erzhuang suddenly recalled something.

In his memory, there was indeed such a popular temple here when he was a child. The name of the temple was called Tiger Temple!

However, due to the incident of a tiger eating a man in Laotaishan, the Mountain Monarch Temple was neglected by everyone.

Ordinary people only worship useful gods. It would be fine if you, a mountain king, did not work for the welfare of the villagers, but why did you condone the tigers in Lao Taishan to hurt people?

That is to say, everyone is in awe of supernatural things. If it weren't for this, the Tiger Temple would have been razed to the ground long ago.

However, even if it had not been demolished, the temple would have become almost abandoned due to the long period of time when no one was worshipping or repairing it. Otherwise, it would not have been used as a charity cemetery to store corpses.

Now that Sun Erzhuang recalled this incident, he thought of the monster that the big man had mentioned earlier.

I felt a chill in my heart at that moment.

Could there be any tigers near this temple?
Sun Erzhuang was terrified. He went up to his mother and looked at the wound on her neck that was bitten by the tiger. His eyes inevitably looked at her remains.

It's strange to say, looking at the wounds on my mother's body, the tiger should have attacked her from the front, but the old lady didn't look frightened at all. Instead, her brows were furrowed and her face looked sad, as if she was very sad.

Sun Erzhuang sat close to his mother and gradually felt less afraid.

As long as this person has an open and honest mind, he will be physically healthy.

No wonder people say that this fat man has a kind heart and a plump body. In just a short while, Sun Erzhuang fell into a drowsy sleep.

But after all, he was outside, and although he fell asleep, he was not sleeping too soundly.

About half a cup of tea later, when the fat man was half asleep and half awake, a donkey's bray suddenly came from the dilapidated little temple outside the incense hall.

The donkey's bray was miserable, just like a helpless donkey that had human nature but was sent to the slaughterhouse.

"Just come back, why are you shouting?" Sun Erzhuang heard the noise outside but didn't take it seriously.

It's raining so hard outside, and the donkey is not afraid of the rain. But if he goes out, he will be drenched by the rain and blown by the wind, and he will definitely get sick!

After mumbling something, the fat man turned over and started snoring again.

You say he has a big heart, no wonder he is so sturdy.

Seeing that he couldn't wake the sleeping person, the donkey outside simply ran into the incense hall and continued to howl.

Sun Erzhuang felt something was wrong. He sat up, rubbed his eyes, and took a closer look.

There is no donkey in the incense hall!
"Am I dreaming?"

Sun Erzhuang lay down on the straw mat with suspicion. This time, when he started snoring, the sound of a donkey's bray was heard again in the incense hall.

When I woke up, it was gone!
"This is truly evil!"

Sun Erzhuang really couldn't sleep this time.

The thunder continued outside the temple. He observed the incense hall with the help of the occasional pale flashes of lightning.

On the altar, the tiger's eyes were as wide as bells, looking down.

On the left, a paint-chipped coffin covered with dust and cobwebs lay quietly with its lid half open.

There was a familiar rope hanging on the beam not far from the dilapidated coffin.

Sun Erzhuang felt that the rope looked familiar.

Isn’t this the hanging rope hanging on the crooked tree in the temple!

How did he get into the incense hall in the blink of an eye?
Sun Erzhuang took a closer look and discovered that there was a small iron buckle on the rope.

The fat man opened his eyes wide and took two steps forward courageously.

"This button"

Fatty Sun came closer and was shocked.

No wonder when he saw the rope hanging on the crooked tree in the yard, he felt inexplicably familiar. Isn’t this the rope he used to tie his donkey!

Looking at the rope loop, thick blood was oozing out.

Sun Erzhuang cried out in surprise and stepped back.

Combining the donkey's bray in the dream, I thought of the donkey I raised at home and the strange rope in front of me.

The outline of the matter vaguely emerged in Sun Erzhuang's mind.

Could it be that the donkey disliked his fatness and didn't want to be ordered around by him all the time, so it became depressed and hanged itself?
No one knows what's going on in this fat guy's mind. He just keeps thinking about random things all day long.

Looking at the blood-stained rope, Sun Erzhuang felt sad. This donkey was raised by him and his mother. It was hardworking and willing to pull any heavy objects and do any kind of work.

He had been an orphan since he was a child, and apart from his mother, the donkey was his only relative.

As the fat man thought about the past, tears began to fall.

"Donkey, I'm sorry. I failed to take good care of my mother, and I can't even take good care of you."

The rope on the beam swayed, and drops of dirty blood fell to the ground like tears.

The fat man was feeling sad when suddenly a creaking sound came from outside the door of the incense hall.

A cold wind mixed with heavy rain blew in. Sun Erzhuang looked back and saw that the broken door of the temple had opened a foot-wide crack.

Sun Erzhuang sniffed his nose and felt a little suspicious.

He clearly remembered that he had propped up the door bolt, so how come the bolt and the stick were both missing?

Sun Erzhuang was just wondering when suddenly a pale white hand reached in from the crack in the door.

"Who?!"

Just as Sun Erzhuang started to ask questions, the person outside the door walked in.

She was wearing a gray robe, had white hair, and was hunched over. Judging from her figure, she looked like an old lady.

Why do I say "seem"? Because the man walked in backwards and Sun Erzhuang couldn't see the other person's face.

But this back figure looks very familiar.

"Er Zhuang, the demon is coming soon, you should leave from behind the temple quickly, or it will be too late!"

Hearing the familiar voice, Sun Erzhuang was obviously stunned.

He opened his tiny eyes, and asked in a trembling voice, "Mom, is that you?"

The old lady at the door sighed softly with her back to him. Then, in a flash of lightning, the old lady disappeared from the incense hall.

Sun Erzhuang was anxious and scared, and he couldn't understand why this happened.

The big man told him to hide in the temple, and then he disappeared in a flash.

The donkey was braying in his dream, but when he opened his eyes, the donkey was gone.

Now, a person with a voice and figure similar to his mother appeared at the door of the temple, reminded him to run quickly, and then disappeared out of thin air.

Why is this happening? Even if the money in your pocket keeps disappearing on its own, there has to be a reason for it.
Sun Erzhuang turned his head to look at Guan Huapo's body, but it would have been better if he hadn't looked at it. Once he looked at it -

Well, the door bolt and the door stick are right next to my mother!

Sun Erzhuang cried out, then slapped his forehead with his hand, and suddenly understood.

This is his mother reminding him to escape quickly!
Now that I think about it, the donkey rope that ran from the yard to the incense hall and bleated was probably reminding its master to leave here quickly.

"Maybe there really is a goblin coming!"

Sun Erzhuang knew that it was not advisable to stay here for long, so he wrapped his mother's body in a straw mat again and put it in the old coffin next to him. After finishing all this, he hurried to the door of the temple, intending to leave in the rain!

With a creak, the palace door opened halfway. Sun Erzhuang was about to escape, but before he rushed into the rain, he saw a man standing outside the door!
The man was wearing a white shirt with a green collar and holding a compass in his hand. The key point was that he was dry as usual, without any signs of having been caught in the rain!
Sun Erzhuang was suddenly startled and his heart jumped into his throat.

He just thought that he ran too late and ran into the goblin!

It was dark at night, and Sun Erzhuang couldn't see the specific appearance of the person who came. He cried out in surprise, raised his fist, and swung it at the goblin in front of him!
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Outside the palace gate, Xu Qing, who had just found this place, had no time to enter when he saw the customer swinging his fist towards his face as if he had seen a ghost.

What is the plan?
Xu Qing grabbed Sun Erzhuang's fist with his backhand, took two quick steps, and put the other's hand behind his back.

Just like that, Xu Qing controlled the fat man who screamed like a pig being slaughtered and dragged him into the hall.

The reason why the fat man screamed so miserably was not because of the pain, but because he was scared!
Xu Qing loosened his hand and snapped his fingers, and the candles in the temple suddenly burst into flames.

After shouting for a while, the fat man lowered his voice when he saw that no one paid attention to him and no goblin wanted to eat him. When the firelight came on, the fat man turned his head and this time he could see the appearance of the "goblin" clearly.

"Are you the funeral gentleman?"

Xu Qing said angrily: "If it's not me, could it be a ghost?"

Sun Erzhuang looked at him warily, his expression and words revealing distrust.

"That's not necessarily true. You came from outside, so how come you're not wet at all?" Sun Erzhuang took a step back calmly, his voice rising a notch. "Could it be that you are that demon?"

"If the rain doesn't wet my clothes, then it must be a fairy? How can that make sense? Besides, have you ever seen a fairy before?"

"That's not true."

Xu Qing laughed: "That's all, there are no demons in this world, don't be afraid, wait until the rain stops and the sun rises, I will help you deal with the old lady's funeral."

Seeing that Xu Qing's words and actions were organized and like a normal person, Sun Erzhuang's doubts were alleviated a lot.

But remembering what his mother had said, he said nervously, "We can't stay here for long. We'd better leave quickly!"

"Leave? Where to?" Xu Qing seemed to have a built-in sense of corpses and walked straight towards the old coffin in the incense hall.

"My mother appeared in my dream and told me that a demon was coming to the temple. Of course we had to run for our lives!"

Xu Qing looked at Sun Erzhuang in surprise, then said, "Since I'm the funeral director you hired, I have to fulfill my duties. Your mother's coffin is now in this temple, so this temple is the old lady's mourning hall. How can I let the old lady's coffin be left alone while she is here?"

"We can't keep vigil without someone. Who knows if there are any rats or wild animals in this temple? If they damage the body, wouldn't I be unfit as a teacher?"

Sun Erzhuang heard this and asked anxiously, "Aren't you afraid that some demons might come?"

Xu Qing raised his eyebrows and was about to reply, but suddenly glanced sideways behind Fatty Sun.

"The goblin you're talking about, isn't it the thing behind you?"

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As soon as Xu Qing finished speaking, the candles in the temple suddenly went out, leaving only a wisp of white smoke drifting away.

The fat man swallowed his saliva and smiled as if he was about to cry.

"Mr. Xu, don't scare me. I'm a timid person."

"I didn't scare you. If you don't believe me, turn around and look."

Sun Erzhuang turned his head stiffly. Without the candlelight, the entire hall was pitch black.

Outside the hall, the wind and rain knocked on the broken windows and doors, making clanging and creaking sounds.

Sun Erzhuang looked behind him and saw a flash of lightning outside the hall, illuminating the windows of the incense hall.

On the window in front of me, which looked like a shadow puppet, there was a tall and thin black figure reflected on it.

Although Sun Erzhuang was scared, the fat man was kind-hearted. He looked at the shadow on the window and saw that it looked like a human figure, not a goblin, so he suppressed his fear and spoke to the other party.

"Brother, it's raining heavily outside, why don't you come in and take shelter?"

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The person outside the window was silent for a moment, but when the next flash of lightning illuminated the incense hall, the window in front of him was empty and no one was seen.

Only Xu Qing's mind moved slightly, and he turned his gaze to the outside of the palace gate.

A strange wind came with a fishy mist, and the two dilapidated palace doors in front of him were knocked open by the fishy wind in an instant.

Outside the door, a tall and thin man shrugged his shoulders and stood in the rain, letting the wind and rain blow on his body.

Sun Erzhuang didn't understand what was going on. He took two steps forward and wanted to ask something, but Xu Qing stopped him.

The tall and thin man in front of him seemed to be injured, and there was a strong smell of blood coming from his body. Xu Qing opened his eyes and saw a skinny tiger figure emerging behind the man. The tiger had its ears folded back, its head drooping, and smelly saliva flowing from its mouth.

After feeling Xu Qing's undisguised aggressive gaze, the tall and thin man seemed to be stimulated by something. He growled and rushed towards Xu Qing without saying a word.

Less than ten steps away, the tall and thin man first ran two steps like a normal person, and then he ran like an uncivilized savage, using his front legs to help him run.

When they were five steps away, the man who was originally in human form suddenly jumped up, and in the moment he was in the air, he turned into a skinny tiger waving sharp claws, and pounced towards Xu Qing with his smelly mouth open.

Xu Qing narrowed his eyes slightly, and the fishy wind brought by the thin tiger in front of him made his clothes rustle.

Facing the tiger's mouth so close to him, Xu Qing did not panic at all. He just bent his knees slightly and took a horse stance commonly used by martial artists.

Then came a standard straight punch!

Xu Qing, who has mastered the Tiger Seal Dragon Elephant boxing technique, has long been able to incorporate its meaning into any ordinary boxing technique.

At this time, the phantoms of dragons and tigers appeared behind Xu Qing. On his thrusting fist, there was also a ferocious tiger head with its mouth wide open, rushing towards the skinny tiger!

There is a saying that there cannot be two tigers in one mountain, and it is also said that when two tigers fight, one of them will be injured.

Now that the Tiger Fist is facing a real vicious tiger, there must be a winner.

Finally, the two tigers collided, and the entire incense hall was shocked.

It was like the sound of thunder that shook the small temple, and the dust that had been accumulated in the dilapidated temple for a long time was instantly stirred up.

Sun Erzhuang was affected by the aftermath. The wind from his fists mixed with dust made it impossible for him to open his eyes.

When he opened his eyes, Xu Qing, who was not far away, had already put down his fist and stood up.

Opposite Xu Qing, there was a big hole in the wall of the incense hall.

(End of this chapter)