Chapter 1010: The Disappearing Corpse

"Missing? Stolen?"

"have no idea."

"I don't know? Boy, do you think I'm easy to talk to?"

With a sharp look, Feng Zixuan immediately leaned against the back of the chair. The indescribable pressure made him breathless, and the omnipresent spiritual energy of heaven and earth around him suddenly disappeared, as if it had all left him.

After desperately stimulating his Dantian circulation for three times, the pressure was slightly relieved. He didn't bother to wipe the cold sweat from his forehead, and waved his hands quickly: "Senior, please calm down. I know that I don't believe it, but I swear with my Taoist heart, what I said is true." There is absolutely no intention of deception. The body of Third Disciple Han has indeed disappeared, but we don’t know how he disappeared. This is also the reason why my father is so sad. I hope our seniors will learn from it!"

The pressure subsided and the Taoist priest's expression softened again.

"Speak more carefully."

"yes!"

Feng Zixuan hurriedly responded, glanced at the Taoist priest with lingering fear, and took a long breath to calm down.

"That day, my third brother died of love. In grief, my father upheld the ancestral system and decided to take the third brother's body back to the family for burial. Because this place is too close to the ghost land, the death energy is much stronger than the inner realm. In order to prevent the third brother from being resentful, it is difficult to The corpse turned into a ghost, so after discussing with the clan elders, my father decided to open an altar to perform the 7749 Days of Transcendence before letting the third brother rest in peace."

"Everything was fine at the beginning. It was not until the 49th day when the ceremony was over that we were about to seal the coffin and put it into the coffin. We realized that something was wrong. The weight of the inner coffin had become lighter!"

"After my father learned about it, he immediately ordered the coffin to be opened for inspection. When he opened it, he found that there was nothing in the coffin, and the body of the third brother was missing! There were more than a hundred clan members who were keeping watch during the salvation, and my father never left even half a step. Except for my father, me and my second brother, no one else had the chance to come into contact with the third brother, but the third brother still disappeared under our noses, and the matter is still an unsolved case! "

"Fortunately, not many people opened the coffin for inspection. Apart from us, father and son, only three clan elders were present. In order to prevent rumors from causing panic in the clan, and to safeguard the reputation of my third brother after his death, my father and After discussion, the three clan elders jointly suppressed the matter, and the empty coffin was placed in the coffin and buried in the Feng family's ancestral mausoleum, and the third brother's tablet was included in the day and night incense in the ancestral hall."

"Outsiders thought that the matter was over, but only a few of us knew that the matter was not over at all. Since then, my father has been secretly searching, trying to find out the whereabouts of the third brother, but unfortunately he has been unsuccessful. As time goes by, my father gradually fell into heart disease. Then my temperament changed drastically for unknown reasons. I thought my father was suffering from depression and had become ill. I had explicitly or implicitly reminded him several times to be careful, but he scolded me every time until that day. Late at night, when my father was about to kill me, he suddenly woke up, left those words in a hurry, then typed me out, and died together with the others. "

"Actually, I had suspected that my father's matter was related to the disappearance of my third brother's body, but there was no evidence, and it was impossible for my father's cultivation to be haunted by resentful ghosts, so I put this idea aside. But today I heard my senior mention this matter, I don’t want to step on this, but I urge you to help me find out the cause of my father’s death and the whereabouts of my third brother!”

Feng Zixuan stood up and bowed to the ground, speaking sincerely.

When the dignified head of the Feng family performed such a grand ceremony, most people would be unable to sit still, but the Taoist priest seemed unaware that the old god was sitting there, stroking his chin and thinking about his own thoughts.

After a long time, the Taoist priest suddenly asked: "You mean you pulled Feng Zixuan's body back and then transcended it for seventy-seven forty-nine days without leaving even half a step?"

"Yes!" Feng Zixuan nodded affirmatively.

"Are you sure you brought him back? There was no accident on the way? Are you sure the body was still there when you brought it into the house?"

Feng Zixuan nodded and said: "Confirmed! The third brother was brought back in the arms of my father. He never left his body along the way. The second brother and I were always with him. In addition, hundreds of Feng family disciples who were traveling with us saw it with our own eyes! It was the same when we put the third brother into the coffin after we came back. My father put the third brother into the coffin with his hands. My second brother and I arranged the remains of the third brother. We also closed the coffin lid with our own hands. The three of us, father and son, kept doing this. The mourners did not move away from the coffin, and no one opened the coffin lid until the ceremony was over. Because the weight of the coffin was not right, we noticed something was wrong. After opening the coffin lid, the body of the third brother had disappeared. To this day. It’s extremely weird to think about it.”

"Well, it's really scary."

After muttering something to himself, the Taoist priest asked again: "If you are to be saved, just be saved. Why are you sealing the coffin lid? Whoever offers salvation does not seal the coffin after the ritual has been completed. Is it a person or a coffin that you are saving?"

Feng Zixuan said helplessly: "Senior, this is a very thin line between life and death! Even if my Feng family is strictly sealed and guarded, there is no guarantee that evil spirits will penetrate in. If it causes a corpse transformation, it will be troublesome. Therefore, when our Feng family performs salvation, we seal the coffin first and then open the ceremony. In this way, even if the grievances cannot be completely resolved, at least the possibility of corpse transformation is eliminated. Everyone who can enter the clan ancestral hall is a proud member of the Feng family, and his cultivation level is at least high. On top of the Tao womb, if this kind of Taoism transforms into a corpse, seniors should know the result."

"Well, at least the corpse in the Dao embryo stage is an old zombie with copper skin and iron bones. If the corpse in the ascension stage becomes either a zombie king or a ghost king. I say the same to you, you can just burn it to ashes, and you don't have anything to worry about. , If you insist on setting up some kind of soul-sacrifice guard, aren’t you causing trouble for yourself?”

The Taoist priest's words hit the nail on the head, and Feng Zixuan smiled bitterly in silence.

He knew that the method taught by the Taoist priest was the safest, but what could he do if his ancestors made it like this?

Besides, the Feng family's ancestral mausoleum is not that simple. The ancestors buried in it are not only buried intact, but also have other unspeakable uses. This use is what Taoists call a sacrificial spirit guard.

The higher the cultivation level of a cultivator, the more he needs to find a Feng Shui treasure land as a burial site before the deadline. The reason is not that he hopes that the Feng Shui there can bless him to reincarnate in the next life, as ordinary people think, but he is afraid that his corpse will change strangely and harm innocent people.

Unless a Taoist fire is completely burned, as long as there are corpses left, it is possible to cause all kinds of unpredictable changes.

For example, the corpse becomes a fierce and evil ghost, and the corpse is used by people to refine things such as corpse puppets and magic weapons. Although death is like the extinguishing of a lamp, no one wants his body to be so abused.

The Feng family used a similar principle to turn the remains of their ancestors into sacrificial spirits to protect the family. The difference is that the Feng family's sacrificial spirits are all voluntary. For example, in some cases like Feng Zihan, the resentment will be resolved through salvation before being buried. After the blood-related clansmen worship day and night with incense, and some other secret methods that are not passed on to others, the soul of the deceased ascends to heaven and enters reincarnation, and the body left behind will undergo strange changes. The residual thoughts left on the body will combine with the power of worship to turn into a touch of divinity, which is the sacrificial spirit.

Sacrificial spirits have no subjective consciousness, only a little fighting instinct and a strong desire to protect the family. As long as the sacrificial spirits are not extinguished, they will swear to defend the safety of the family. When the family encounters a major change, after awakening them through special means, they will combine with the corpses they have deposited, turning into sacrificial spirit guards who are not afraid of life and death, and protecting the family and their blood relatives without hesitation.

Sacrificial spirits are not good or bad, they only exist to protect the family. But they are dead spirits after all, no matter what name they are created under, they are despised by upright monks.

Super powers like Taixu Palace and the Four Sects of Mobei do not have the habit of raising sacrificial spirit guards because of their large number of disciples and constant incense. However, the Dayan Dynasty did. Perhaps to beautify itself, or perhaps to appease the emotions of other cultivators, the Dayan Dynasty gave the sacrificial spirit guards a nice and decent name - "Yingling".

The practice of being a whore and setting up a memorial archway has made many people secretly laugh.

The Feng family raises heroic spirits because of their ancestors' rules, and secondly, there is no other way.

The line between life and death is longer than the sky. There are only two families guarding here, the Feng family and the Gong family. They have no external aid and refuse any external aid. They can only rely on themselves. It's okay to fight small fights on weekdays. Once a large-scale war breaks out, how can the two families defend it?

Therefore, sacrificial spirits became their only means and their main fighting force.

For countless years, countless people of the Feng family have shed their heads and blood, and then turned into sacrificial spirits and fought again, until their bodies disappeared and their thoughts dissipated and turned into ashes. Therefore, the sacrificial spirits, which have always been despised by people, are sacred and worthy of respect in their eyes, and only the clansmen above the Daotai period are qualified to become sacrificial spirits, which makes the status of sacrificial spirits invisible higher.

Sacrificial spirits are not only a tool to protect the family, but also a way for them to commemorate the dead. Every time they think of their ancestors and relatives who are still protecting them even after death, every descendant's heart is full of admiration and heroism, and the morale before the battle is also higher, turning into elite soldiers who are fearless of death.

So the Taoist said that they were asking for trouble, and Feng Zixuan also had a hard time. If they did not rely on the sacrificial spirit guards, they could not withstand the pressure of life and death with only the combat power of the two families and many secret formations and prohibitions. It would be good enough to be able to protect themselves.

"Let's go, take me to see your brother's coffin."

The Taoist took Ziyuan up, and his tone revealed that he could not refuse.

Feng Zixuan hesitated. It was not proper to let an outsider enter the family ancestral hall, even if the man was Tianyi Daozun. According to the ancestral system, it was considered as an insult to the ancestors.

But after weighing the pros and cons, he nodded and agreed.

Not only because the Taoist priest was Tianyi Daozun, he also wanted to find out what was going on.

Since his father and the elders died, the Feng family had been peaceful since he took over the position of the head of the family. Until this meeting of Wolong, the Feng family sent people to the meeting as usual, and what happened to Feng Daolin happened again.

In Taixu Palace, the Feng family monks and the ghost clan joined forces. When Feng Zixuan learned about it, his first reaction was to think of Feng Daolin and several elders, and his heart was shocked.

He found that the death of his father and the elders was not the end of the strange thing, but just a paragraph. The strange thing was still lurking in the Feng family, waiting for an opportunity to erupt at any time.

Fortunately, this time it was in Taixu Palace. If it happened in the battle with the ghost clan, the consequences would be disastrous.