What kind of Journey to the West is this?

All I can say is that it’s the ability to eat.

The thin coffin stopped behind the brazier, and the filial son and grandson kowtowed three times.

Yan Xia also had a look of deep mourning on her face, but her gaze always stayed on the two wizards.

Xue Shi'er whispered, "Something's wrong with those two wizards."

Yan Xia narrowed her eyes, "I know. I have to go find out more about them."

Xue Shi'er asked in surprise, "Isn't that a bit risky?"

"What's so risky about this?"

Yan Xia shook her head, looked around, and found a child with a runny nose.

The child, about eight or nine years old, with horns tied in his hair, was staring blankly at the funeral. He might be the child of a relative of the Li family.

At this age, he may not know what a funeral means at all, he only knows that he has to eat a feast... With a swish, the big snot bubble was retracted, which was quite similar to the feeling of ginger diarrhea.

Yan Xia dodged and patted his shoulder fiercely.

"Ah! Ghost!"

The child was frightened and had tears in his eyes.

Yan Xia took out a candy and tempted, "Eat it!"

The child saw the candy and became greedy, staring at the beautiful sister in front of him.

"Eat when I tell you to!"

Yan Xia snorted in a fierce voice, bullying a child.

Forcing the candy into the child's hand, she asked, "Are those two opera singers from our area?"

"I don't know..."

Yan Xia threw the candy to him and asked in a low voice, "When did you start singing opera?"

"Several days." The child seemed to be unable to count.

Yanxia took out two candies.

"It's been at least five or six days! My dad went to the building with the red lanterns without telling me, and I saw some opera singers going there too! My mom was very strict and never let my dad go, but he went anyway. I remember it clearly."

"Hanging a red light? Are there many beautiful sisters?"

An Yanxia looked strange.

The little brother nodded vigorously.

"Okay! Eat it. Remember to tell your mother about this, too."

"it is good!"

The child didn't understand what was going on and was very happy holding the candy.

Yan Xia turned back to look for Xue Shi'er and said with a smile, "Look, I've found out the details!"

Xue Shier hesitated to speak.

Anyway, I did find some useful information.

A cold wind blew by.

Yan Xia turned her head to look at the corner, knowing that there were ghosts and gods watching her there.

Xue Shier also knew it, she had just smelled the salty smell in the wind.

The sky has five elements, the earth has five directions, and the tongue has five flavors. The official evil spirit tastes salty, the wealth evil spirit tastes bitter, the blood evil spirit tastes spicy, and the talent evil spirit tastes sour.

One can smell the wind and know the taste, and then distinguish the clear and turbid in the world. Therefore, the Yue Mansion has the position of "Wind-hearing Spirit Officer".

It tastes salty, and it’s also a ghost. It must be the ghost of the City God’s Mansion.

As expected, the ghost slowly materialized, dressed in an official uniform with bird-patterned patterns. He bowed and said, "Greetings to Officer An Tian, Great Immortal Tieshi. I am Bai He, the Chief Officer of the Rebirth Department."

"No need to be so polite. I just came to take a look."

Yan Xia shook her head slightly and had no intention of getting involved in this matter.

Old Mrs. Li has lost her soul, and this is a matter that the Department of Rebirth should take care of.

It was indeed strange that two wizards from out of town had come. But they were just attending a funeral, so she couldn't just kill them all because they looked suspicious, right?

That's a bit unreasonable.

But when Bai He heard that An Yanxia was unwilling to intervene, he took a deep breath and said respectfully, "Heavenly Official, I am deeply ashamed that something like this has happened just as we were about to hold a ceremony to pray for blessings. This matter is inextricably linked to our dereliction of duty, but I am afraid I have no choice but to ask for your help."

Donghuang suddenly sends a jade talisman: Chapter 185 [The corpse thief comes again]

"Nothing was found?"

Yanxia was shocked when she heard Baihe say that there was no clue.

She exchanged three candies for a little information. In such a huge City God's Mansion, with two very smart wandering gods, a wise chief officer, dozens of ghosts and gods, and hundreds of ghost soldiers, she didn't find out anything?

Yan Xia stared at Officer Bai for a few seconds.

Bai He said awkwardly, "Tianguan, do you have anything to tell me?"

Yan Xia shook her head. "I don't have any instructions. I just feel like you guys are really smart..."

"It really makes me ashamed..."

"......"

Yanxia was too lazy to pay attention to these smart guys. How could they govern Cangzhou City with a bunch of insects like this?

She turned her head, looked at Xue Shi'er, and said, "You should go to the City God Temple first. Qinghuai will be burning incense and bathing tonight, and holding a prayer ceremony. Xue Shi'er, go and help keep an eye on it."

"When I think of praying for blessings and fasting, I always feel uneasy."

The Three Emperors Fast is used for blessing and rituals, which is dedicated to the Three Emperors: the Emperor of Heaven, the Emperor of Earth and the Emperor of Man, namely Suiren, Fuxi and Shennong.

To prepare for the Three Emperors Fast, one must bathe and burn incense the night before, and wear specially made incense balls made from a mixture of agar, rhinoceros horn, and ambergris. One must bathe in the fragrant water and have their hair tied together to prevent the body's filth from contaminating the altar.

The altar is 24 feet square, with four gates in the east, west, south and north. Nine eternal lamps are displayed on each side, and nine incense burners are arranged in sequence. Offerings are made day and night for a total of three days.

This is a relatively simplified version. The original version required an altar of ninety-six feet and nine tripods. Each lamp required dozens of monks to offer sacrifices day and night and chant scriptures for one hundred and forty days before the altar could be set up.

Later, the ritual was simplified to "simplify everything". However, even in the simplified version, if there was an error, the ritual would be burned.

It so happened that at this moment, a demon appeared and stole the old lady's soul away. There was also a wizard from another place who happened to sing funeral lyrics at the funeral.

It's so confusing, as if something mysterious is hidden in the fog.

It seems confusing, but it can be solved with just one sentence.

Use strength to defeat cleverness!

Yanxia asked Xue Shier to check out the situation at the City God Temple, and then called Bai He, the chief officer of the Department of Rebirth, to take her to find the Day and Night Wandering God immediately.

Over there, the snot-nosed kid looked at the beautiful sister who was talking to a ball of air, his face pale.

There's clearly nothing there!

.............................

"Let's go and see!"

Yanxia chanted a spell and disappeared.

Seeing this, Officer Bai from the Department of Rebirth followed closely.

The old lady's remains were placed in a room, guarded by her filial sons and grandsons. They would carry the coffin for burial at dawn around four or five tomorrow.

The girl disappeared, looking elegant and dashing. She stepped into the house in a few steps and saw a thin coffin with a yellow carving of a phoenix.

Yan Xia took a few looks and said in surprise, "This isn't a resurrection!"

Bai He said cautiously, "I can't guarantee it."

"Tsk, we have to ask Uncle Nine to come!"

"Excuse me, Uncle Jiu is..."

"The big boss of the Underworld Bank. A Taoist priest of the Maoshan Sect."

Yanxia talked nonsense casually.

The one issuing paper money in the underworld now is probably Lord Cai Lun. Of course, the prototype of Uncle Jiu has nothing to do with the Maoshan Sect.

The Maoshan Sect, also known as the Shangqing School, is a sect that follows the path of the upper class and powerful people. Its ancestral temple is in Jiangsu, and it also produced a "Prime Minister in the Mountains" Tao Hongjing.

The true masters of demon exorcism and ghost exorcism are the Maoshan Sect, a Jiangxi folk cult, and the Southern Maoshan Sect, a folk cult in Guangdong and Guangxi.

Bai He didn't know whether it was true or not, and was secretly shocked: This heavenly official actually has a friendship with the God of Wealth in the underworld, he really has both good and bad sides.

He was thinking about how to please An Yanxia, but suddenly he heard a creaking sound.

The coffin lid shook.

This was originally a thin coffin, and the paper figures and paper money on it were instantly shaken apart and scattered all over the floor.

There was a sound of teeth crunching, but the filial son and grandson guarding outside the door were sleeping soundly, looking very comfortable.

Yan Xia said strangely, "I was right."

Bai He swallowed his saliva and said regretfully, "Heavenly Official, why don't you call the Day and Night Wandering God to come and help?"

How strange! They even encountered a rare zombie!

It is impossible for a dead person to resurrect from the dead. Once dead, they are dead. Only when a person is about to die can they resurrect from the dead. This also happens to correspond to the situation of the old lady's lost soul.

When the three souls and seven spirits are gone, the body is without a master. When evil spirits invade again, the body will be occupied by the evil spirits, which is called resurrection of the corpse.

Zombies are actually not difficult to deal with, but those on the scene are all civil servants, one is from the Department of Rebirth and the other is from Miaoyan Palace, which are equivalent to the master of ceremonies of the funeral home and the clerk of the Human Resources Security Bureau.

"What are you asking them for, please."

Yan Xia shook her head, made hand seals, chanted the "lock the door and close the window" technique, and immediately picked up two bronze maces.

Wipe it!

The bronze mace drew a spark on the ground, then sealed the door, isolating the sound from inside.

"Tianguan, what are you doing..." Bai He was just about to say calm down when he saw the girl rushing forward with a bronze mace in her hand.

At that moment, the coffin lid stopped for a moment.

Then he took two steps forward and stepped on the coffin lid!

——With a click.

There was no skill involved, it was all done with sheer strength. His boots stepped on the wooden board, tearing the painted coffin board into pieces, which fell heavily on the face of the zombie monster.

The girl took a step back and couldn't help but look at the face of the old lady pretending to be dead. She exclaimed in surprise, "The old lady with a cat face!"

The last time she saw this thing was on the Tianya Forum...

The old lady stared with her eyes wide open. Her neck was cracked by An Yanxia's foot, and her head and body were loosely connected, as if she was about to fall off in the next second.

The wide-open eyes were all white, covered with a thick layer of flesh-pink cataract.

Yan Xia closed the old lady's eyes and said, "Be quiet."

Bai He looked at the boots that were still dripping with blood, then at the bronze mace that didn't move at all, and swallowed his saliva.

It is indeed quiet...

Yan Xia didn't despise her and lifted the old lady's body onto her shoulder, reminding her, "Remember to repair the coffin and put a dummy in it. I'll take this body back to study."

.......................

At this moment, a black cat paced on the wall of Li's yard and jumped down.

The black cat took advantage of the cover of night and easily slipped into the room where the coffin was placed.

It meowed twice, but got no response, and was stunned.

The black cat showed fear on its face and immediately scratched the coffin.

With a series of creaking sounds, it pushed the coffin lid open a crack and saw a painted wooden dummy inside.

The black cat suddenly became angry.