The author of the book "The Book of the Dead"

Chapter 76: Guarding the corpse and refining the body, waiting for the passing of time.

Yunmeng, also known as Dongting Lake.

The Dongting Lake is vast, with blue waves, mist and clouds.

Liang Yue couldn't help but be lost in thought.

If Xiang Jun is a corpse-transmigrating immortal, would he still be alive today? Would he hide in the vast lake, waiting for the years to pass, guarding his corpse and refining his body?

……

A luxurious mansion in the county town at the foot of the mountain.

This place is the residence of the Huang family, a merchant family. The Huang family is a low-ranking noble family in Baling County and one of the richest families in Changsha County. They almost monopolize all fur businesses nearby.

They used iron and salt to exchange furs with the barbarians, and if the barbarians needed people, they could also capture refugees.

This alley is also called Huangyi Lane, where most of the core members of the Huang family live.

As night fell, the sky was filled with fog. There were scattered figures on the road, but one could only see the people but not their faces.

A group of men in black came here quietly, and the muscular figure leading them was Zhang Wenzhi.

Liu Yifeng followed Tan Daoji holding a steel knife.

It's not that he doesn't know martial arts. On the contrary, his internal strength is very strong, but he has never used it himself.

The crowd set fires everywhere under the cover of night and rushed into the alleys to burn and kill people.

For a moment, shouts of killing and pleas for mercy shook the sky.

Liu Yifeng didn't know how many people he had killed until the last sound disappeared.

Gradually, he seemed to understand something.

"Killing people is also to save people."

During the trip to Changsha, Liang Yue taught Liu Yifeng a crucial lesson.

On the other side, Liang Yue returned to the place where the sacrifice took place last night.

Smoke rose from the cold altar, and the bodies of the people had turned to ashes.

Liang Yue stood by the water. The dark lake water was extremely creepy, as if it was hiding some ancient monster.

"I should have brought Xuanwu here earlier." Liang Yue secretly thought it was a pity.

He has a move called Indian Mantra, which he uses to connect with the senses of spirit beasts and explore the waters below.

Standing beside him, he scanned him for a long time.

The water here is bottomless, turbid, and has unknown aquatic plants.

After making sure there was nothing special or supernatural, Liang Yue dived into the water and used the river prison technique to explore and search underwater.

Dust, rotten wood and unknown fish are floating in the water.

The water here is as deep as a hundred feet. The deeper Liang Yue dives underground, the more he feels his true energy being consumed.

He held up a bubble and walked through the underwater mud.

"Diving a hundred feet deep, is there anyone in the world today who can do it?" I'm afraid not. In the previous life, diving alone at a depth of three hundred meters was an extremely difficult task, not to mention searching for things underwater.

This is the magical effect of magic.

Spells can ignore the laws of physics and logic to a certain extent.

While searching, he was always very vigilant, fearing that some corpse-reincarnating immortal would really appear.

Of course, even if it really existed, he would not be afraid of it.

After a long time, when Liang Yue was about to give up, he found that there seemed to be broken walls in front of him.

"Ok?"

Liang Yue walked forward and saw that it was an underwater stone house. The house had collapsed long ago and the stones used to build the house had been washed away more than ten meters away.

As we approached the ruins, we saw vacuum bubbles separating the water flow, and the surface of the stone walls was covered with mud, sand and green moss.

The collapsed stone wall seemed to be crushing an ancient jar, which shattered and exposed the decaying bones.

The bubbles separated the water flow, and the bones turned to ashes.

"There is a temple at the bottom of the lake, and there are bones in the temple. Could it be the place where Xiang Jun's corpse was disintegrated?"

There are ancient bell and tripod inscriptions on the stone wall, which record the life of the owner of the stone chamber.

The first sentence roughly means "Hello, gentlemen of later generations."

Quite polite.

"Hello, Xiangjun." Liang Yue replied solemnly.

Another seeker of truth. It seems there are really no more gods in the world.

Just as Liu An had speculated five hundred years ago, the spiritual energy was completely cut off and disappeared from all the blessed places.

This is not something that can be solved by a closed space.

As the cultivation environment becomes increasingly harsh, even the sealed ancient spiritual energy will slowly seep into the outside world under the influence of the Great Dao, disappearing and blending into the world.

Liang Yue came back to his senses and continued to read the words on the stone tablet.

This man called himself Xiangzi and lived during the reign of King Mu of Zhou.

King Mu of Zhou liked to travel around the world looking for traces of ancient immortals in order to seek immortality. It is said that he once met the Queen Mother of the West.

Of course, Xiangzi was just an ordinary alchemist and did not know the truth. He was only responsible for guarding the warehouse. When King Mu of Zhou traveled around the world, he put most of the items he got, real or fake, into the warehouse for King Mu of Zhou to identify.

Xiangzi also learned that spiritual energy was declining and that only a few caves in the world contained spiritual energy; some alchemists could only barely cast spells with the remaining spiritual energy and had no secret of immortality.

Until one day, Xiangzi found an ancient water-dissolving reincarnation pill in the warehouse. He stole the pill and discovered a water eye containing spiritual energy in Yunmeng Lake. He then took the pill and became an immortal through water dissolution.

From then on, Xiangzi became the god of Xiangjun, and with the help of the secret method of ghost immortals guarding the house and the remaining spiritual energy of the water eye, he became the water god for 180 years.

The stone carvings at the back are like Liu An, full of despair about the future. "All dharmas are declining, the end of dharma is hopeless, how sad!!"

What follows next is Xiangjun's longing for his wife and his confusion about the path to immortality.

Seeing this scene, Liang Yue was silent for a long time.

Finally, they buried the place and headed in eight directions to look for jade bricks.

The jade bricks looked like they were made of white jade, with gourd-shaped patterns on them. There were about eight of them, laid out in the shape of a gourd inside the mansion.

The method of the ghost immortals guarding their homes is to bind their spirit and soul. As long as their true qi is not lost and their spirit and soul are not dark, this area will become the "dojo" of the corpse-reincarnating immortals.

Within the dojo, the corpse-reincarnating immortal can sense anything and danger at will and appear anywhere at any time.

Liang Yue collected eight bricks and then floated to the surface.

Wow! !

The moon is bright, the wind is clear, and everything is as smooth as water.

Yunmeng Lake is no longer turbulent and seems very peaceful at this moment.

For some reason, Liang Yue suddenly didn't want to leave immediately, but floated on the water.

The west wind blows and the lake ripples.

The stars in the water are just reflections, or maybe he is lying in the sky.

The west wind blows the old Dongting wave, and Mr. Xiang has many white hair overnight.

After being drunk, I don't know that the sky is on the water, and the boat is full of dreams and the galaxy.

"Mr. Xiang, Madam Xiang..."

The Chu poet Qu Yuan told a mythological story about Lady Xiang who searched for Lord Xiang but failed to find him.

Madam Xiang sailed on the waves of Dongting Lake, waiting for Mr. Xiang to come for a long time, with both love and hate.

At this moment, Liang Yue seemed to understand why Xiangjun was hiding from his wife.

Maybe it’s not that he doesn’t love you, but he can’t bear to see you separated by Yin and Yang, so he didn’t come out to meet you.

Liang Yue could understand Xiang Jun’s emotions at that time.

Xiang Jun essentially turned into a ghost, even worse than Liang Yue. Liang Yue at least still had a physical body and could live his life completely.

“Just focus on the present and make the most of the years.”

Wow! !

Liang Yue flew into the sky and disappeared at the end of the horizon.

The martial art that he practiced was called Taiyi Corpse Guarding Method. Since it was named Taiyi, it must have a great origin. In ancient times, silkworms were regarded as celestial dragons, and they were a symbol of reincarnation from death and transformation from butterflies into immortals.

Therefore, Liang Yue concluded that the corpse-reincarnation method he practiced must be a superior method.

The status of a corpse-reincarnated immortal is relatively low, and his method of cultivation is at least the top method of this kind of immortal.

……

He and everyone else returned to Liuzhuang one after another.

"Daddy!!"

My daughter He Yunfei rushed over.

Today is his daughter's birthday, so Liang Yue is in a hurry to go home.

The banquet was ready and everyone was seated.

Except for a few who are busy with official duties, the rest of the resident "guests" are basically there.

"Come, birthday boy, have some longevity noodles!" Liang Yue picked up a bowl of noodles.

"Thank you, daddy."

The banquet was not big but very warm. Xu Jingming, Tan Daoji, Liu Jue, Xie Xuan, Zhang Wenzhi... most of the elderly people from Liuzhuang were present.

After drinking.

Liang Yue came to the lake alone to enjoy the breeze. Xie Xuan stood against the willow tree, folding his arms and facing the wind. He said coldly, "You are eight years old and old enough to practice martial arts. I am going to teach you the Crane Cloud Sword Technique."

Xie Lingyun can no longer be relied upon, as this kid doesn't like martial arts.

"Alright."

The children of the world, wandering around the world, may be the true nature of this world.

The way of the gods is just an accident.

With the demise of the aristocratic families, the martial arts that were once locked away by the aristocratic families flowed into the common people.

There are many talented people among the people, and as they bring forth new ideas from generation to generation, perhaps in the future the kind of martial arts world described in martial arts novels will really appear.

The birth of new internal force is more beneficial than harmful to Liang Yue.

night.

He Yun and Jing Ming took the couple and stood in front of the portrait that Gu Kaizhi painted for Liang Yue and his wife.

"Dad, Mom, look!"

There were crooked stick drawings beside the exquisite double portrait, and their expressions looked like He Yun and Jing Ming.

"Not bad, good-looking."

The sun sets and rises, and it's a new day.

The ghost immortals guard the house, quietly waiting for the passing of time and witnessing history.

(End of this chapter)