As soon as those evil things that besieged me retreated, the strength I had just gathered was dissipated by half, and the wounds on my body began to hurt. I looked down and almost fainted. There were thirty or forty wounds on my chest, legs, and waist. All of them were caused by scratching. They were very deep in the flesh. I could see that the skin and flesh had rolled up. Because I had always been facing those evil ghosts to protect Hua Mulan, the wounds were almost all on my front. When the wind blew, the wounds felt like being scraped by a knife. The pain made me shiver all over, and I couldn't even stand straight. But now the door was opened and the real owner had come. Even if I was at the end of my strength, I could only use the Baipi Knife to support my body so as not to fall down all of a sudden. My eyes were fixed on the position of the door.
At this time, the shadow had slowly walked out of the mist.
This was a woman wearing a bright red palace dress, with hair like clouds and a good figure. She was definitely a beautiful woman with a slender and tall figure now.
When I saw this woman, I couldn't help but be stunned, because the clothes on the ghosts are almost always what they wore when they died. This woman was wearing palace clothes, which seemed to be palace clothes from the Tang Dynasty. This thing is not something that can be worn casually. In the feudal era, anyone wearing palace clothes must have a close relationship with the royal family! !
Palace dress, as the name implies, is what people in the ancient palace wore. If we want to divide it specifically, it is very particular. There are princesses, and there are three thousand beauties in the harem. Among them, the queen, concubines, and nobles are strictly divided into different levels. Anyway, the status of ancient people is basically reflected in their clothes. For example, the official uniforms of the Qing Dynasty look similar in pattern on the chest, but in fact, there are a lot of details. The formal name of the pattern is "patch". The "patch" of civil officials has flying birds, while the "patch" of military officials has walking animals. The patches of each grade and level are different. This is also the case with the palace dress of the Tang Dynasty. When I saw the palace dress on this woman, I vaguely guessed the identity of this woman in my heart-most likely she is a princess! !
There is no doubt that this should be the woman who ordered those evil spirits to attack me. Even though I knew it was not a person at all, I couldn't help but be stunned after seeing it. There is no other reason, just because it is really beautiful.
Of course, it's not as pretty as my wife!
"A female ghost with a thousand years of cultivation."
At this time, Hua Mulan, who was sitting behind me, suddenly said, "Husband, it seems that you should be more careful. This female ghost has a thousand years of cultivation, but she has killed people, so she didn't turn into a spirit ghost!"
My head was big when I heard it.
A thousand years of cultivation? It's useless to be careful with this level of dirty things. The two sides are not on the same level. She just moved her fingers and killed me instantly! ! Hua Mulan is a thousand-year-old ghost. I have seen her abilities before. She killed ghost soldiers like slaughtering dogs, and she could fight against the ghosts in the ten evil tombs. This ability is beyond my reach. I have to stand still when I meet her. What's more, the thousand-year-old ghost has no life-threatening behavior, so its nature is similar to that of living people. At least it maintains the most basic good intentions. However, this thousand-year-old evil ghost that has hurt people is different. This kind of thing doesn't mind killing one more person. After all, it's better to have more debts than to be afraid of birds.
But since I have been forced to this point, I don't have much to say. I lean on the Baipi Knife and wait quietly to see what tricks the thousand-year-old female ghost will come up with.
Unexpectedly, the beautiful and messed up thousand-year-old female ghost stopped right in front of me. She didn't look ferocious at all, but looked friendly. She looked at me for a long time and said slowly: "What a fearless warrior! I have been waiting here for a thousand years, and finally I have found the person I want!"
The person I want?
What is this female ghost waiting for?
I was full of doubts, but I absolutely couldn't lose momentum at this time, so I imitated Qingyi's righteous tone and shouted loudly: "The Yin and Yang worlds have their own order. You have been dead for thousands of years. You should have entered the reincarnation. Why do you stay in the Yang world and not move forward? Instead, you harm the lives of Yang people!"
"Harm the lives of Yang people?"
The palace-dressed ghost was stunned, and then laughed softly: "What the Taoist priest said is humorous. Why can't the lives of Yang people be punished by Yin people? Is it because Yang people have done so many evil things that we Yin people can't ask them for debts?"
This question really stumped me, because Qingyi didn't tell me the answer at the beginning. He only told me that the rules of the Yin and Yang worlds cannot be messed up. If there is a cause and effect on Yang people, it should naturally be handled by the laws and rules of Yang world, and it is not the turn of Yin people.
It's just...
Are there not many cases in this world where Yang people have made mistakes and done things that are harmful to the world but have not been punished? Is it wrong for a ghost to come forward to claim a life in such a situation?
The most difficult thing to judge in this world is probably good and evil, right and wrong!
But after thinking about the question of Old Master Zhao, I couldn't help but say, "Is Old Master Zhao wrong? I know his life experience very well. He is just an out-and-out farmer, facing the loess and back to the sky. He has hardly done a single evil thing. If he must say that he has done something, it was that he was so hungry during the great famine in the 1960s that he went up the mountain to hunt a few prey. This is considered killing. Is it because of this that he will be possessed by a ghost and end up with a bad death in his old age?"
When I said this, the female ghost in palace dress was stunned, and she was nervous. Then, a trace of guilt flashed across her fair and somewhat exaggerated face. She bowed deeply to me and said, "Master, I am indeed a little too protective of my shortcomings in this matter. I need to apologize to you here. The ghost you cast on the old man before was my personal maid when she was alive. However, after her death, her ghost accidentally merged with the ghost of a fox, and finally formed a half-human, half-beast monster. Sometimes even I can't command it at all..."
After saying this, the female ghost in palace dress explained to me the cause of this matter.
The dead fox was actually named Xiao Cui when she was alive. Xiao Cui and the woman in palace dress both died in the fire, but Xiao Cui was special. After she died, her body was eaten by the ghost of a fox, so she merged with the fox and turned into a monster. It has the hatred and resentment of Xiao Cui when she was alive, but it does not have Xiao Cui's thinking mode, so even the woman in work clothes can't command it.
In that disaster, too many people who shouldn't have died were killed, so all those who died in the fire died suddenly. Their ghosts were too resentful and lingered in the place where they died, refusing to enter reincarnation. Needless to say, the place where they died was the place where the Zhao family's house was built.
This place had always been a wasteland before. The Zhao family was the first to build a house here, and after they built the new house, they set up a "family dinner" on the Qingming Festival. The ghosts of the palace-dressed woman mourned their former residence, so they came to the Zhao family's house to "eat for free" on that day. Who knew that the Zhao family child was also fierce, and his shouting startled these ghosts, and even the dead fox. The dead fox had long lost its thinking ability, and the palace-dressed woman couldn't control it, and it directly possessed the body of the old man of the Zhao family!
The following events are easy to explain. The woman in palace dress was thinking about the relationship she had with Xiao Cui when she was alive. Even though Xiao Cui was constantly doing evil things in front of Old Master Zhao, she had always turned a blind eye. Until I showed up and beat the dead fox that Xiao Cui had transformed into, the woman in palace dress was furious and came to me to claim her life. The sudden yin energy during the day was her way of expressing her anger!
I was also a little annoyed when I heard this. It was wrong to linger in the world of the living after death. It was a mistake to indulge the dead fox under her command to harm the living. Now she has the nerve to come to me to claim her life? Anyway, I was desperate, so I shouted directly: "Since you want to kill me, come on. Even if I can't beat you today, I will fight you to the end!"
"You are a good person, an upright person, and a person who can protect his woman fearlessly. No matter how bad you are, you can't be that bad."
The palace-dressed ghost shook her head gently: "I respect you, so I showed up to see you. In fact, I mainly want to ask you for something."
At this point, the palace-dressed ghost actually bowed slowly to me!
I am a person who is soft-hearted and not hard-hearted. As the saying goes, you can't hit a smiling person. So the bow of the palace-dressed ghost made me less interested in fighting to the death, so I asked: "What do you want to ask me for?"
The palace-dressed woman laughed bitterly: "I wonder if the Taoist priest is interested in listening to my story? Or, Taoist priest, do you want to know what happened to the fire that plundered countless lives a thousand years ago?"