Folk customs begin with the entire funeral procession

Chapter 77 Gathering Yin (Part Two)

Li Cai respectfully saw off the elderly, gray-haired deity, and then went to the cemetery with his driver.

Li Cai is a nouveau riche. In Longtang Town, his assets are visibly among the top ten!

As for the reason, it's naturally Longtang!
Originally, Li Cai's family only owned a piece of land around Longtang. It was impossible for him to acquire a large amount of wealth after the development of Longtang with just this piece of land.

But who would have thought that before Longtang was developed, he met an old fortune teller who could tell fortunes and feng shui, and bought a lot of land in advance according to the fortune teller's instructions.

Then, he turned his life around and became one of the few major beneficiaries of the development of Longtang Town.

From then on, he respected the old fortune teller very much, especially after his father passed away, when he even consulted the old fortune teller for a reading.

Finally, the old sage found him a blessed land!
Upon hearing that his father could be buried in this land and that he could live a carefree life for the rest of his days, Li Cai became excited.

To his surprise, the auspicious burial site the old man had shown him was already occupied!
How is this possible?

Immediately, Li Cai ordered the salesman to have the grave moved!
The salesperson got the job done for just over 100,000 yuan.

Money is such a wonderful thing!

Afterwards, he held a grand funeral for his father.

After everything was over, he planned to take his wife and ten-year-old son to a big city for a trip and to buy some property there.

But who knew that on that very night, things would suddenly get messy in his big villa?

His wife and children said they saw ghostly figures, but he didn't believe them at all.

In fact, just as he thought, he took his wife and children for a walk and didn't see anything at all.

But his wife and children were too scared to sleep anymore and kept making a fuss.

He's so annoyed, really annoyed.

He told his wife and children to be quiet, but they wouldn't listen.
So he killed them, and only then did things finally quiet down.

Looking at his wife and children's faces on the ground, he felt disgusted, so he cut off their skin and put it in his pocket.

After that, Li left his villa and wandered aimlessly through Longtang Town.

He didn't know where he was going, but as he walked, he seemed to know where he was going.

He didn't know how long he walked, but he arrived at a place and came to the ground under some very large trees.

He placed the faces of his wife and children into the brand-new little wooden house under the tree, and then he began to dig a hole, digging tirelessly.

He stopped digging a hole large enough for him to lie down in.

After throwing the shovel up, he lay down inside.

Then he saw the soil he had just dug out fall back down.

As the soil gradually covered his eyes, ears, nose, and mouth, Li suddenly remembered the old immortal's words.

"So this is what lying flat means."

"The old sage was right after all."

……

After waking up, Chen Miao remained silent for a while.

Although he didn't see any familiar faces in his dream, the person who buried Li Cai alive in the end must have been Yue Xiaodao.

"It seems that Yue Xiaodao learned a lot from his first adoptive parents."

Chen Miao subconsciously compared Yue Xiaodao with the already deceased Zhong Fa.

He discovered that if Zhong Fa didn't have that jumping zombie, he probably wouldn't be a match for a twelve-year-old child.

From this perspective, Yue Xiaodao's first adoptive parents must have been very capable!
Coincidentally, they encountered a talented child named Yue Xiaodao.

They hit it off immediately and taught all their skills to Yue Xiaodao.

Just as Chen Miao was lamenting the cruel twist of fate, he suddenly wondered if this was too much of a coincidence.
"What if the elderly couple adopted Yue Xiaodao because they recognized his talent?"

"What if the elderly couple had foreseen their own death, which is why they passed on all their skills to Yue Xiaodao within four years?"

Chen Miao felt that his guess was very likely correct.

But he still had a question: the elderly couple were already so capable, couldn't they have found a way to extend their own lives?
Or, how about living a life that looks neither human nor ghost?
After all, judging from Yue Xiaodao's skills, the elderly couple couldn't possibly be any kind people.

"I remember when Dean Wen talked about Yue Xiaodao's situation, he mentioned that Yue Xiaodao's adoptive father had cancer?" "Could it be that the person who truly understands these techniques isn't one of two people, but just one?"

"Yue Xiaodao's adoptive mother?"

"Because my spouse passed away, I didn't want to live alone, so I followed them in death?"

"That seems plausible."

"But can these kinds of people also experience pure love?"

"According to stereotypes, shouldn't one directly turn their spouse's corpse into a zombie, or turn their spouse's soul into a ghost to keep them alive forever?"

After a while of wild thoughts, Chen Miao finally managed to shake off those chaotic ideas.

He opened the book and looked at the status bar.

"what?"

Chen Miao looked at the status bar in surprise, but no new statuses appeared.

However, one thing has changed.

[Current Status: Ice Heart, Telepathic Connection, Gathering Yin (II), Hide and Seek, Perception of Good and Evil]

"two?"

Chen Miao was stunned for a moment.

"The state I'm experiencing from Li Cai's memory fragments is still one of Yin energy gathering, so they've all overlapped?"

Thinking this, Chen Miao reached out his hand.

The gathering of Yin energy is activated!

The yin energy, which had become thin due to the rising yang energy at dawn, continued to gather in Chen Miao's hands.

Upon this meeting, Chen Miao noticed something different.

It could only gather yin energy within a ten-meter radius, but this time, it seems to be even larger.

"Doubled?"

"So, it's possible that we'll encounter situations where we can achieve the Yin-gathering state again in the future, and that Yin-gathering can accumulate indefinitely, even exceeding the range of the Yin-gathering talisman?"

After sensing it, Chen Miao said this.

"However, the Yin-gathering Talisman is still indispensable."

Recalling how he had used the Yin Gathering Talisman in conjunction with the Yin Gathering state to draw out the dense Yin energy from the cabin, Chen Miao knew that nothing was useless.

"However, this state of Yin gathering seems to be more than just that."

With a thought, Chen Miao interrupted the gathering of Yin.

But the small clump of yin energy that had gathered in front of him, though not very concentrated, did not dissipate!

Previously, he had condensed such a mass of yin energy, but once the yin energy gathering state was interrupted, it immediately dispersed in all directions.

But this time, it didn't happen.

It wasn't until a minute later that the gloomy aura dissipated.

"It can actually maintain the yin energy mass for a minute?"

Chen Miao was somewhat surprised, but after thinking about it, he couldn't think of any possible uses for this ability.

If he really wanted to retain the Yin energy, Chen Miao could directly use the "Curse of the Buddha - Great Compassionate Soul-Suppressing Vow Sutra" to create a space to prevent the Yin energy from dissipating. In fact, as long as there were enough sutras drawn, creating a Yin-filled area wouldn't be a problem.

The scriptures seem to be better than the additional power of gathering yin.

But having something is better than having nothing; you never know when you might need it.

With that in mind, Chen Miao tidied up, took the eulogy and other relevant documents, and went to preside over the memorial service.

Life goes on.

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(End of this chapter)