This Liao Zhai is not right

This Zhao Hong must have been dead for quite some time. The coffin buried underground was thick but extremely rotten. With just a slight hit, the rotten coffin lid broke into several pieces.

Seeing this scene, the red-haired evil ghost became extremely anxious. His teeth, as sharp as knives, creaked and his body trembled constantly. The ghosts under his control attacked the people who were still digging graves.

However, ordinary ghosts only harm people by means of concealment, confusion and scaring. Once the victim is on guard, the trick of creating illusion will no longer work. In addition, these pedestrians who were encouraged to dig the grave were sweating profusely, and the blood was surging all over their bodies. The yang energy emanating from their bodies made the attacking ghosts feel like they were falling into a frying pan, and they fled with painful screams.

Everyone stepped on the lid of Zhao Hong's coffin, and when they saw that the ghosts driven by the red-haired evil ghost could not get close to them, they immediately became bolder.

"Indeed, we have more people and more power. As long as we don't get scared and lose our temper, he can't hurt us."

"Hurry, hurry, come over and give me a hand."

"Let us die without a burial place? Then we will grind his bones and scatter his ashes first!"

This cemetery beside a mountain road in the wilderness is not a natural place where evil spirits gather and corpses are raised. There are very few evil ghosts among the many graves buried here who have undigested their resentment and become troublemakers. The red-haired evil ghosts may look hideous and terrifying, but in fact their methods are not much stronger than those of ordinary ghosts.

After Su Su exposed his true identity, the dozen or so passers-by who had been victimized by him became defensive. Covering their eyes to confuse the people was no longer effective. They could only stand at a distance and pretend to be terrifying, intending to take advantage of the situation by scaring them.

It can be seen that when they saw that the minions were frightened by them and could not harm anyone, everyone present no longer showed any fear.

Inspired by the few people who had dug the grave earlier, most of the people rushed forward and in a short while they dug out the coffin from Zhao Hong's grave. Torches were lit one after another, illuminating every detail of the area surrounding the grave.

"Bang!"

Everyone pushed together, and the coffin lid, which had been broken into several pieces, was forcibly overturned.

The scene inside the coffin was clearly displayed in front of everyone. Although the coffin where Zhao Hong was buried was rotten, his body looked like a newly dead person, and the mourning clothes on his body looked like he had just been buried. But what made everyone who overturned the coffin lid gasp was that Zhao Hong's face was bloodshot, his eyes were wide open, and his tongue, which was a foot long, was sticking out of his mouth and was shaking at this time, as if he had died with his eyes open.

Such a scene is truly frightening.

But soon, an even more terrifying scene appeared before their eyes.

The moment Zhao Hong's body was exposed to everyone, turbid and sticky blood flowed out from the shiny new white mourning clothes, and in the blink of an eye, it submerged most of the coffin. The body of Zhao Hong in the mourning clothes shriveled up to a degree visible to the naked eye, and bursts of black smoke came out. Soon, only a head with its eyes open was left, rising and falling in the blood.

"This... this... this..."

"There is no body in the coffin, only Zhao Hong's head."

"He...Is he a death row prisoner who was beheaded in a formal execution?"

For a moment, everyone was speculating as they looked at Zhao Hong's head, which was left with his eyes open.

As for the red-haired evil ghost whose grave was dug up, when the turbid and dirty blood in his mourning clothes drained out, his hideous face disappeared without a trace, and was replaced by the appearance of a middle-aged man with a flat nose, narrow eyebrows, and a timid expression.

His ghostly body also only has a human head, and the body below the neck is made up of limbs and torso made from paper objects that contain faint incense and wish power.

Su Su looked at Zhao Hong, who had revealed his true form, and shook his head slightly, saying, "You died tragically, and not even your entire body was left. Only your head was buried in the tomb. However, someone made a paper object for you as a body, and often offered sacrifices to maintain the existence of this paper body. Logically, you shouldn't turn into an evil ghost and harm people. Could it be that you are an alien ghost who has taken over Zhao Hong's tomb and is now using his name to harm people?"

As he spoke, the fire within the red flower ornament between his eyebrows floated slightly, making Su Fu's simple question carry the divine power of King Biancheng.

"I am indeed Zhao Hong."

Zhao Hong's body, which was made of paper objects with hidden incense and wishes, knelt down uncontrollably, facing the direction where Su Fu was, and kept bowing, saying: "I have ended up like this today, all because of the Five-Power God."

Under the burning fire of karma, Zhao Hong had no room to hide anything in his mind, and he told everything in detail.

At this moment, everyone present realized that Zhao Hong was actually a businessman who ran a pawnshop in Wuzhong. His wife's surname was Yan, and she was quite beautiful. As a result, she was targeted by the Wutong God, who raped Zhao Hong's wife Yan while he was trapped in the pawnshop outside the city. Although Zhao Hong knew about this afterwards, he felt very ashamed and warned his family not to spread this scandal.

The hateful Zhao Hong's blind forbearance made the Wutong God more rampant. He came to rape Yan every few days, making Yan miserable. She even tried to hang herself once, but the rope broke as soon as she tried to hang herself, and she could not die.

She suffered like this for two or three months until a cousin of Zhao Hong named Wan came to visit. Zhao Hong was a brave and courageous man. When he saw Wutongshen enter Yan's room at night, he became so angry that he chopped off Wutongshen's head with a knife.

After more than a month, seeing that Zhao Hong's family was settled, his cousin named Wan, who had chopped off the head of Wutong God, left.

Who would have thought that just over a year after Zhao Hong's cousin left, the beheaded Wutong God would come back and annihilate Zhao Hong's entire family in revenge by also chopping off their heads. His body, which was pieced together from paper objects with hidden incense and wishes, was intentionally made by his cousin who felt deeply ashamed for the annihilation of Zhao Hong's entire family.

Unfortunately, Zhao Hong's ghost is controlled by Wutong God, and he needs to provide blood and food to him every few months. This body made up of paper objects has become Wutong God's accomplice.

Chapter 153 Jinhua City

There are Wutong in the south, just like there are foxes in the north. However, foxes in the north are still driven away by all means; but in Wutong, Jiangsu and Zhejiang, if there are beautiful women in the people's homes, they will be raped and taken away, and parents and brothers will not dare to stop, and the harm is even more serious...

This is the first paragraph of "Wutong" from Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio.

Ghosts and foxes are common in the world of Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, but the Five-Directional God is more powerful than the numerous ghosts and foxes that wreak havoc in the south, which shows how rampant the Five-Directional God is.

The so-called Five Gods, also known as the 'Five Saints', 'Five Manifestations of the Spiritual Lords' and 'Five Lang Gods', have been worshipped since the Tang and Song dynasties, but there are many different stories about their origins.

Some say it is a one-horned mandrill that has become a spirit, wantonly harming people and livestock as food. Others say it is a general term for nameless mountain ghost hairy gods, each of whom can be called a five-way god. Others say it is an evil god that was formed after the death of five brothers.

"If you can worship me, I will make you rich for the rest of your life"

The people of Jiangnan have a tradition of worshipping Wutong God. The fundamental reason for this is that they regard Wutong God as a god of wealth who can make people rich quickly with ill-gotten gains. Therefore, even though Wutong God has not been conferred an imperial title by the court and often causes harm to people, the private establishment of lewd sacrifices to Wutong God has been repeatedly banned.

But from what Zhao Hong said, the five gods who caused him to be torn to pieces were clearly five brothers. After his cousin named Wan chopped off the heads of the five gods, the five gods either turned into horses or pigs.

Not only that, Zhao Hong also slaughtered and cooked the pigs and horses that Wutongshen had transformed into, and feasted on them with his cousin. They found the taste extremely delicious, far surpassing ordinary delicacies.

He took out the seal of Yama and sent Zhao Hong, who had been causing trouble here for many years, to the underworld and imprisoned him, waiting for the trial after the capture of Wutong God. He also directed the way for a group of passers-by who were busy digging graves and bones. After they left the cemetery and came to the relatively spacious official road, Su Su was still wondering whether Zhao Hong was seeking death by eating the pigs, horses and his cousin that Wutong God had turned into after being killed.

You really dare to put anything in your mouth.

You must know that Tan Jinxuan was harmed by the book monster after only a slight contact with it, and almost encountered a disaster.

But Zhao Hong and his cousin named Wan managed to eat up all the demon body of Wutong God. How could the body of a mortal withstand such a strong demonic energy?

Considering that Zhao Hong's entire family was wiped out, but his cousin was not hurt at all, and his body could be pieced together using paper objects containing the power of incense and prayers, it is very likely that his cousin Wan had been killed by the Five-Directions God and had his body taken over.

"The disaster has already been eliminated, but trouble has to be created. I really don't know what to say about Zhao Hong's miserable end." Chang'e followed behind Su Su and whispered.

These words obviously confirmed Su Su's speculation that Zhao Hong's cousin was possessed by the Five-Power God.

"How could I know they were so bold that they even dared to eat the body of an evil spirit that appeared after its death."

Su Su complained weakly.

After all this, the eastern sky was about to turn white.

Walking along the official road, it didn't take more than a few minutes before the outline of Jinhua City came into view.

Jinhua City was built at the confluence of the Dongyang River and the Jinhua River, with rivers on three sides. The city was very popular and was the site of government offices. It also housed buildings such as the Supervisory Office, the Examination Hall, and the Confucian Temple. The Bayong Road ran through the city, and to the east of the city stood the Wanfo Pagoda, towering over the river.

As the sky was just beginning to brighten, there was already a constant stream of people walking on the official road.

In addition, because the provincial examination would be held in a few months, almost all the scholars and literati in Jinhua Prefecture set their sights on this place.

It was mid-spring, and there was still a long time before the provincial examination. There were countless scholars traveling to study, visit visitors, go outing and compose poetry. Those with wealthy families indulged in sensual pleasures in the capital.

"The Buddha's light shines everywhere in the east of Jinhua City. The evil spirit is lingering in the clouds, gathering and not dispersing. The imperial master of the evil monk Pudu Cihang must be at the Buddhist temple in the east of the city."

Chang'e gazed at Jinhua City from afar for a moment and whispered to Su Fu.

Disguised as scholars, Su Su and Chang'e mingled with the pedestrians on the official road at dawn. They did not attract as much attention as they did when they entered Yangzhou city, especially when they were about to reach the outskirts of Jinhua city. There were more and more scholars who also brought their servants with them to the provincial capital to prepare for the autumn examination, so they blended in with the crowd.

"There are only a few people who have been killed in the streets outside Jinhua City. The people from Guobei County who were rushing to Jinhua for business were indeed the ones who were affected."

Seeing that the evil monk Pudu Cihang had no intention of killing people in Jinhua City, Su Fu breathed a sigh of relief and continued, "In this way, as long as we keep a close eye on their movements, it will be easy to find the large group of people being hunted by Pudu Cihang."

Chang'e nodded slightly.

Walking into Jinhua City, looking up you can see smoke rising from the north of the city and the burning incense. After a few closer looks, Su Su knew that this was the location of the Jinhua City God Temple.

However, compared with the City God of Guangling Prefecture in Yangzhou City, the residence of the City God of Jinhua Prefecture is obviously much more shabby.

Walking north along the main street in the city, the Jinhua City God Temple, with its white walls and black tiles, facing south and resembling a courtyard in the south of the Yangtze River, soon appears on the roadside.

"The people of Bawu are in charge of rewards and punishments impartially, and they can see the fortunes and misfortunes of a lifetime."

Through the couplets outside the main gate of Jinhua City God Temple, Su Su could see that the incense and vows in the temple were extremely strong, and that divine light was shining through the top of the temple, lingering over the temple, accompanied by the Sun God who flew over the sky of Jinhua City from time to time. All events in Jinhua City were under the control of the City God.

"There is a demonic aura in the divine light that has not yet dissipated. The imperial master of Pudu Cihang came here yesterday."

Walking past the City God Temple in Jinhua Prefecture, Su Su frowned slightly.

Pudu Cihang holds the position of national teacher, so it is easier for her to command these city gods and local deities appointed by the imperial court than to give them food and water. When she saw that the divine light in the City God Temple was tainted with Pudu Cihang's evil spirit, she directly excluded the City God of Jinhua Prefecture from her plan to deal with Pudu Cihang.

In order to avoid alerting the enemy, Su Fu said meaningfully, "It's still early. It looks like we need to walk around Jinhua City and find a place to stay."

Chang'e, who was pretending to be a servant, naturally nodded in agreement.

The two of them walked around Jinhua City along the streets, and in less than two hours they had visited every place in Jinhua City except the east part of Jinhua City where Pu Du Ci Hang was located.

Through the ages, the eightyong building has been romantic, leaving Jiangshan to worry about future generations.

The water flows through the southern country for three thousand miles, and the pressure is states in Jiangcheng.

Standing in front of the Bayong Tower, listening to the scholar who was admiring the ancient monument reciting "On the Bayong Tower" written by Li Qingzhao, Su Su looked into the distance at the Thousand Buddha Pagoda built on the hillside east of the city. Needless to say, one can clearly see the Buddha's light reflected on the Thousand Buddha Pagoda at a glance, colorful like the sun.

When ordinary people see such a scene, they would only think it is the arrival of immortals or Buddhas, and would never know that it is actually the work of monsters.

"Very good, this area is quiet and peaceful, it's a good place to study hard, so we'll settle down here."

Su Su looked at the Thousand Buddha Pagoda in the distance and said with interest.

Chapter 154 Fame

The Wanfo Pagoda was first built in the seventh year of Jiayou reign in the Northern Song Dynasty. It has nine floors from bottom to top and is an octagonal attic built with brick and wood structure. Different exquisite statues of Tathagata are carved on each brick on the upper half of the outer wall of the pagoda, sitting cross-legged on lotus pedestals in rows. There are tens of thousands of them, so it is called the "Wanfo Pagoda".

Under the Thousand Buddha Pagoda, there is a Buddhist temple called "Miyin Temple".

The imperial master's chariot of the evil monk Pudu Cihang is right in the Miyin Temple.

Su Su rented a small courtyard near the Bayong Tower in Jinhua City in the name of a scholar preparing for the autumn imperial examination. The living space was not spacious, and even the side rooms on the left and right were not built. However, there was a garden of several acres behind the house, which had not been maintained for a long time and was left abandoned, with weeds and towering trees growing everywhere.

Standing in the courtyard, you can have a panoramic view of the Wanfo Pagoda in the distance and the Miyin Temple under the pagoda.

"There are endless carriages and horses outside the Miyin Temple, and dignitaries from Jinhua City are coming in droves. The evil demon that everyone hates has become a hot commodity after putting on human skin. When a person gains power, all things will come to him. Once he loses power, those things will leave the way they came. If these people get in touch with Pudu Cihang and benefit from it, then even if you beat the evil monk Pudu Cihang back to his original form, they will lie with their eyes open and righteously accuse you of being the monster that is causing chaos in the world."

Looking at the endless stream of people outside the Miyin Temple in the distance, Su Su couldn't help but sigh softly.

The world is full of goodwill, and the world is all good.

It is hard to imagine that Pudu Cihang, a centipede demon who does not cultivate human form but focuses on cultivating his own body, can actually manipulate power without any guidance. However, judging from the fact that Pudu Cihang can manifest the golden body of Vairocana Tathagata, this trick of manipulating power is nothing.

"After saying so much, when exactly do you plan to destroy that evil monk's imperial master?"

Chang'e made a seal with her hands and began to clean up the long-abandoned garden in the courtyard. She turned around and asked, "To deal with this evil monk, we should attack him unexpectedly and destroy his imperial master's carriage with the force of thunder and lightning. Only in this way can he not dare to have any evil thoughts towards Jinhua."

"That's true, but the evil monk is staying in the temple in the east of the city. We can't raze his imperial master's carriage, the Ten Thousand Buddha Pagoda and the Miyin Temple under the pagoda to the ground. If we make such a commotion, we may just defeat Pu Du Ci Hang and attract other more difficult and ruthless characters to come and exorcise demons." Su Su said, turning his head away.

As for the target of demon exorcism, it was not the evil monk Pudu Cihang at that time, but Su Su who razed the east of Jinhua City to the ground.

This is not because Su Su is hesitant and indecisive.

But it is indeed not easy to take action in Jinhua City.

Last time, the White Lotus demon was blamed for the rebellion outside Yangzhou city. This time, if the east of Jinhua city is razed to the ground and a few mountains are blown down, I don't know how many people will be affected given the dense population around the city.

Think for a moment.

Su Fu made up his mind and said, "Pudu Cihang needs to use political tactics to deal with the dignitaries in Jinhua City during the day. If we want to hunt down that large group of people, we can only do it at night. Keep a close eye on his movements. As long as he leaves the city, it will be our chance to get rid of him."

Needless to say, the timing of her actions to eliminate the Dharma Master Pu Du Ci Hang would definitely be another sneak attack without honorable martial virtues.

After all, the enemy is in the open and we are in the dark. If we don't launch a surprise attack, we must be crazy.

Seeing that Su Fu had made a plan, Chang'e said no more.

Time passes by every second.

The several acres of garden behind the house gradually revealed the pavilions and terraces hidden by the towering trees under Chang'e's cleaning. It only took half a afternoon for the entire back garden to be completely renewed, with corridors connecting the pavilions and terraces, pavilions for enjoying tea and the view, and artistic rockery and stone scenery.

"People only enter the Miyin Temple but no one leaves. I don't know what Pudu Cihang is doing in there."

After staring at the Miyin Temple in the east of Jinhua City for a long time, Su Su found that not only was there no sign of the imperial master of the evil monk Pudu Cihang, but even the followers of Pudu Cihang had not shown up. As he had been traveling all night yesterday and had no time to rest, he yawned without caring about his image, turned around and sat down in the pavilion in the garden, then pretended to take out the scriptures and read them.

"Hoohoohoo..."

A gust of cold wind suddenly blew in from outside the courtyard. Su Su glanced to the side and saw spots of divine light and strong incense. It was the Sun-wandering God under the command of the City God of Jinhua Prefecture who flew into the courtyard. With a wave of his hand, a dozen ghost messengers appeared on his left and right, turning into gusts of cold wind that blew towards the entire courtyard.

For a while.

The ghost messenger who had transformed into gusts of cold wind regrouped and reported to the Sun Travel God: "There are only this scholar and his servant in the courtyard, and no other suspicious people."

"After most of the day, we have searched almost the entire Jinhua City, but we can't find even a trace of the criminals that the Imperial Master ordered the City God to arrest. It is very likely that they are no longer in the city." The Sun Travel God said worriedly.

Arrest the wanted criminal?

Presumably, this so-called wanted criminal is the large group of people being hunted down by Pu Du Ci Hang.

Su Su sat in the pavilion, performing his acting skills without changing his expression, as if he did not notice the Sun-wandering God under the command of the City God of Jinhua Prefecture and the dozen or so ghost messengers around Him, who sometimes shook their heads and muttered a few words from a book, and sometimes stood up and walked a few steps in the pavilion, devoting himself wholeheartedly to the role of a scholar preparing for the autumn examination.

Therefore, the Sun God and his ghost messenger who were talking did not take her seriously at all.

The Sun-wandering God continued as if no one was around, "The national master is highly accomplished, and his cultivation is unfathomable. When he was preaching in the Secret Seal Temple, the sky was full of flowers, golden lotuses emerged from the ground, and Buddha's light suddenly appeared on the Ten Thousand Buddha Pagoda, just like the sun, no less than the incarnation of an immortal Buddha. Now it will be dark in at most three hours. If we fail to capture the wanted criminal, I am afraid that the City God will lose face. The civil and military judges and dozens of ghost soldiers under the command of the City God of Guobei County have solidified their ghost bodies and are blessed by divine power. They can also appear and move around during the day, and we may call them out of the city to search for the wanted criminal."