Master handed me a simple lantern with nothing inside.

I widened my eyes and said, Master, are you kidding me?

"Of course it's not a joke. The will-o'-the-wisp is put into the lantern, and it can last for three years once it's full. It's much easier to use than a flashlight." Master threw the lantern to me.

I had no choice but to do what Master asked me to do.

That night I used a talisman to force the will-o'-the-wisp into one place, then turned on the lantern and burned a soul-attracting talisman in the lantern, and the will-o'-the-wisp came naturally.

According to the explanation in "Qingwei Shuzhi", will-o'-the-wisps are formed by the karma after death, and will contain some of the spirits of the deceased. Apart from scaring people, they have no real effect.

There were a lot of will-o'-the-wisps in the back mountain, but I installed the lantern all night and there was only a trace of flame.

It wasn't until I kept pretending for seven days that the will-o'-the-wisps in the back mountain turned around and ran away when they saw me, and the lantern finally got a little light.

The lantern filled with will-o'-the-wisps has no temperature and has a light blue flame, which looks quite beautiful.

The next day I placed the lantern in front of Master. Master took one look at it and said that it was not bad. It seems that you are a natural-born monk.

"Master, can we go down the mountain now?"

The master handed me the wooden sword he had sharpened that day and said, "Take this. This is lightning strike wood. I also inlaid the head of a killing blade on the top. It is a good magic weapon for dealing with evil spirits."

I do know this. Thunderbolt wood is the best material for magic weapons, and the life-killing blade is the best thing to deal with evil spirits. This is because weapons with murderous intent are the best at repelling evil spirits.

Even a pig-killing knife is much more powerful than a mahogany sword, let alone a sword that has killed people.

"Thank you, Master. Can I go down the mountain now?" I took the dagger, which was only three inches long. The sword felt slightly hot to the touch, as if it had just been taken out of the stove.

The master nodded and said, "You go ahead. Remember, the first thing you do when you return to the village is to visit Liu Qian'er's graveyard to see if the grass is not growing and the trees are not growing."

"Master, won't you come with me?" I was stunned for a moment.

The master shook his head and said: "Taoist temples cannot leave people unless they have to. I can't always trouble the guardian general. I will come to you the day after tomorrow at the latest. You have to remember, don't be brave when things happen. If someone wants to help you,

I can never agree to fortune telling."

I said I remembered.

Before I left, I kowtowed three times to Master. Master smiled and said, "It's not a separation of life and death. What is this?"

The tip of my nose was sore and I said, "If it weren't for Master, I wouldn't be alive today. Master is my reborn parent."

The master waved his hand and said: "Go."

I turned around and left the Taoist temple. I thought I would practice at Baiyun Temple for two and a half years, but now I have left the mountain in three months.

The road to Baiyunguan is now as smooth as walking on flat ground. Even if I get to the village entrance, it will take less than an hour.

Ligou Village is still the same as when I left it, except that it is now the coldest month of winter and drizzle is still falling from the sky. The village is in a state of depression. The old camphor trees by the river are still lush and leafy, and the Crock River has entered the dry season, and many

Mud was exposed everywhere.

The old locust tree at the entrance of the village has become bald.

I stepped into the village and didn't even return home. I walked straight to the edge of the mountain forest not far from my home.

That was the place where Master and I buried Liu Qianer.

I remember very clearly that Liu Qianer was buried at the junction of two woods, which happened to be an open space in the bushes.

According to Master, Liu Qian'er has a lot of resentment and nothing will grow around the tomb, so it should be easy to find.

However, when I went there, I found that the open space was overgrown with weeds, and it was impossible to tell where Liu Qian'er's cemetery was.

I secretly wondered, could it be that Master made a mistake in his calculations?

I took out the compass and tried to check the direction, but found that the compass needle was jumping around and I couldn't see anything.

Since I couldn't see anything from here, I immediately went home.

I didn't lock the door when I left because Master said that my mother would wake up on her own, but now I stand at the door of my house and find that the door is closed.

I took out my mobile phone and dialed my dad's number, but no one answered. I felt a little nervous. Could something have happened to my dad?

Just when I was thinking wildly, my dad actually called me back.

"Gu Zhou? We are at your fourth uncle's house."

After hanging up the phone, I hurried to my fourth uncle's house.

The fourth uncle is considered a capable person in Ligou Village, and he is one of the few people who can build a two-story house.

The door to my fourth uncle's house was open, and I walked straight in.

He shouted loudly: "Mom, Dad, I'm back."

No one responded to me, so I walked in and took a look, only to find three red coffins placed in my uncle's hall.

When I saw this situation, I immediately felt something bad. Let alone the red coffin, the three coffins that appeared out of nowhere were also unlucky.

I was just about to retreat when the door slammed shut.

Two people staggered out of the back room. They were dressed in black, and even their heads were covered with black cloth.

Their movements are mechanical and weird, their limbs are not coordinated at all, and they don't look like normal people at first glance.

I looked at them nervously and shouted, "Who are you? Where are my parents and fourth uncle?"

The two men didn't answer, but they opened the three coffins one after another. I immediately smelled a strong and pungent smell of rotting corpses.

The two people made a gesture of invitation, asking me to come over and take a look.

When I took a closer look, my head was suddenly filled with blood and my eyes were about to burst. There were three members of my fourth uncle's family lying in the coffin.

Moreover, they had obviously been dead for many days. Maggots were already crawling on the bodies of the fourth uncle and fourth aunt, while their fifteen-year-old son's eyes were wide open, with a fat white maggot crawling out of his eye socket.

I'm not even afraid of ghosts now, but when I saw the miserable condition of my fourth uncle's family of three, I still couldn't help but tremble all over.

There was a crack in the fourth uncle's neck, which was obviously broken.
Chapter completed!