Uncle Jiu's Senior Brother

When Uncle Jiu heard that it was a haunted place and someone had died, he quickly picked up his magic tools and talismans, locked the door, and asked the villagers to lead the way.

Qingfu Village is not far from Renjia Town, and it only takes an hour’s walk along the main road to get there.

The people here are relatively wealthy, and the main war has not yet spread.

As soon as I arrived at the entrance of the village, I saw several wealthy men in their sixties coming to greet me. The leader said, "This must be Taoist Priest Lin. We have finally got you here. Please save our village."

"I know everything. Let's go to Liu's house first and take the child with us."

Uncle Jiu also learned about the situation from the villagers along the way.

The cause of the incident was that there was a family surnamed Liu in Qingfu Village. There were three people in the family, a couple and a 10-year-old boy, and they made a living by fishing.

The family had two acres of land and lived a happy life. However, accidents happen. A strong wind capsized the boat and none of the three people who went out with them came back. No one was found, alive or dead.

When Liu's wife heard the news, she fainted and fell seriously ill.

The only silly boy left was unable to take charge. After three days, the villagers realized that this was not a solution and decided to have the village chief take charge of the man's funeral first. But while they were preparing, the man came back.

Of course the villagers were curious and asked the man how he survived. The man just said that he was holding on to a plank in the water and was rescued by a passing merchant ship. The woman saw that the man's illness had mostly healed after he came back, and thought that if he continued like this, he would be fine.

But since the man came back, the livestock in the village began to die in large numbers for unknown reasons, and their deaths were particularly strange. They all died of blood loss all over their bodies. At first, the villagers thought that some animal had invaded.

So they sent people to keep an eye on it. On the third night, they vaguely heard a rooster crowing and saw a dark shadow squatting in the livestock pen. They quickly turned on their lights and when they could see clearly what was inside, they were so scared that they screamed.

The man from the Liu family had blood all over his face, a hideous and terrifying expression, water dripping from his body, and the pen was filled with dead chickens.

From then on, people died in the village every night. Three people died in a row. Later, Liu's wife was found dead at home with her eyes open, and her body was still oozing with water.

Now there is only a 10-year-old boy left in the Liu family, who has been taken to live temporarily with a villager.

The group took advantage of the night and came to a private house. The door was closed and locked. The village chief called a boy over. Lu Li saw that the boy was Wencai, who was only ten years old.

It's just a smaller version of his grown-up appearance, with the same mushroom head and the same miserable face. It turns out Wencai's life was so miserable.

I just don't know if I and Uncle Jiu are destined to be master and disciple. Wen Cai opened the door, and a gust of cold wind blew out from the gate. Uncle Jiu asked everyone to stay outside the door and took Lu Li into the yard.

At this time, Uncle Jiu looked at the door and said to Lu Li, "Ghosts can be divided into green ghosts, resentful ghosts, and fierce ghosts. If a person is obsessed with something, it will become a resentful ghost. At this time, it can still have some rationality, but after the first seven days, the rationality will slowly disappear, and the ghost's bloodthirsty and vicious nature will be revealed."

"Until he devoured the Yang energy of others and finally turned into a fierce ghost, at this time he had no other thoughts except bloodlust, which is why he even killed his wife in the end. If we hadn't come tonight, I'm afraid even his son would not have escaped his clutches. He is a water ghost and cannot live without water, so he sucks blood at night to maintain his Yang energy. He doesn't have much rationality to begin with, so he naturally has no scruples after being caught. The Yang energy of livestock is not as much as that of humans."

After saying this, Uncle Jiu recited a spell: "Receive orders from heaven, ascend to the Nine Palaces, settle down all the gods, serve the gods, refine the soul and spirit, make the five internal organs flourish, fill all the wines, fill the seven liquids, exchange the fire bells, exterminate ghosts and eliminate evil, wish for the gods to live forever, command, capture!"

It was Maoshan's curse for exorcising ghosts and eliminating evil.

It was the first time that Lu Li saw someone cast a spell. As the spell fell, a brilliant golden light flew into the house in front, and then a scream was heard.

A dark shadow appeared. The man's clothes were torn and tattered, as if he had been burned. His flesh was churning, and there was blood at the corners of his mouth. Black air was lingering around his body.

Upon seeing this, Uncle Jiu handed the Heavenly Master's Nine-Ring Umbrella to Lu Li.

He asked Lu Li to stand behind, picked up the peach wood sword, and stabbed at the male ghost. The water ghost spit out a breath of black air at Uncle Jiu, and Uncle Jiu dodged and threw a talisman at the water ghost. The water ghost had already been injured by the ghost-killing curse, so he naturally couldn't dodge. He was hit by the talisman, and his whole body was burning with flames. He howled miserably, and disappeared after a while.

The yard no longer has that cold feeling.

Lu Li was really amazed this time. Suddenly, he saw a golden light entering his body, and a stream of air was generated in his body, flowing on its own. He quickly circulated the "Shangqing Dadong Zhenjing" to let the air flow follow the technique.

Uncle Jiu saw that Lu Li didn't move, turned around and saw that Lu Li was practicing martial arts with his eyes closed, and the aura of martial arts emanated from his whole body. He was shocked. He had just given the martial arts technique to Lu Li last night, and today he was about to cultivate the aura.

He has already stepped into the Qi Refining Stage. If he continues like this, he will surpass me in a few years.

In a few minutes, Lu Li had digested the energy.

I vaguely feel that it won’t be long before I can enter the Qi training stage.

He seemed to have some understanding of the golden light. It should be the legendary merit. If you make contributions to the heaven and earth, the heaven and earth will naturally bestow merit upon you. However, he didn't know why he could see the merit but Uncle Jiu couldn't. It should be related to his golden finger.

Uncle Jiu saw that Lu Li had completed his training and planned to go back and ask him again, so they walked out of the yard together.

The village chief and villagers were waiting anxiously outside the door, but they didn't dare to go in after hearing the screams from inside.

At this time, seeing Uncle Jiu and the other two coming out, he hurried forward and asked, "Master Lin, I wonder what's going on in there."

Uncle Jiu responded with a smile: "Don't worry, the water ghost has been dealt with, and there will be no more trouble in the future."

The villagers felt relieved and began to praise Uncle Jiu.

At this time, the village chief looked bitter, so Uncle Jiu asked, "Does the village chief have any other difficulties?"

The village chief said, "It's nothing else. It's just that the Liu family still has a boy left. We don't know what to do. If he stays in the village, it's inevitable that the villagers who have lost their families will embarrass him. Besides, the child is too honest."

The villagers nearby lowered their heads when they heard the village chief's words.

Lu Li thought about it and felt that without his parents, it would be difficult for Wencai to survive in this village where there was resentment towards the villagers.

Although Wencai and Qiu Sheng always cause trouble for Uncle Jiu, the three of them together also bring a lot of joy to everyone. Without Wencai, it always feels like something is missing.

He said to Uncle Jiu, "Master, why don't we let Wencai come with us? There are a lot of things to do in the charity cemetery. When we go out to do business, someone has to stay behind to look after the cemetery."

Uncle Jiu thought about it and said to the village chief: "In this case, let Wencai follow us back to town."

The village chief was overjoyed when he heard this, and quickly called Wencai over and asked him to kneel down and kowtow to Uncle Jiu.

Wencai was quite sensible. He knelt down respectfully and kowtowed three times to his uncle, and his uncle did not stop him.

So when they came, there were two master and apprentice, and when they left, there were three master and apprentice.

The three of them returned to the charity cemetery under the moonlight. This time, Qingfu Village gave Uncle Jiu ten silver dollars. After all, the village was close to the sea and the villagers had plenty of money for fishing and shrimp farming. Uncle Jiu accepted the money without saying anything and also gave Lu Li one silver dollar, telling him to buy whatever he needed.

Under Wencai's envious gaze, Lu Li put the money into his arms.

In fact, Wencai was not short of money. After paying compensation to the people killed by his father, there were still more than twenty dollars left in the family property, but they were all taken away by his uncle Jiu.

Uncle Jiu was worried that he would spend money recklessly at such a young age. He remembered that this would be Wencai's wife in the future. As he got to know his personality, Uncle Jiu estimated that the fate of this second apprentice would depend on Yi Zhuang in the future.

Originally, Wencai should have joined the sect after Qiu Sheng. It might be that in his previous life, Uncle Jiu brought him back but did not accept him as his disciple. After accepting Qiu Sheng as his disciple, he saw that he was honest and had feelings for him, so he accepted him as his disciple. Now that Qiu Sheng is gone and Lu Li is here, he is destined to be the second disciple.