Wanbao Lady

Guangning Prefecture.

In the City God’s Palace in the underworld.

The judge of Guangning Prefecture, wearing a red official robe and holding a judge's pen, was writing and drawing on a book.

A little kid stumbled in carrying a book.

"Report! Judge Shen, I found something unusual about this Yin-Yang Book!"

The little ghost respectfully presented the book with both hands and showed it to Judge Wen.

"Oh?"

Judge Wen looked down and saw, as expected, a faint black gas rising from the book, which was obviously ominous.

He frowned and waved his left hand. The Yin-Yang Book began to turn pages automatically and then stopped at one of the pages.

I saw the black ink on the names gradually fading away.

The judge's eyes narrowed.

"Is this... the soul gradually disappearing?"

He was confused for a moment.

Generally speaking, the names of the living are written in black on the Yin-Yang Book, which is pure ink color.

When a living person dies, his or her name will be crossed out, which will be reflected in the Yin-Yang Book as a large vertical line above the name.

In a situation like this where the ink color gradually fades away, it either means that the person's soul is gradually disappearing, or that person has become a cultivator and is gradually separating from the Yin-Yang Book.

And when the ink color disappears completely, it means that either the person's soul has been destroyed, or that person has reached the celestial stage and is no longer recorded in the Yin-Yang Book.

But what was recorded in this book were all the names of ordinary people, and it wasn't just one person's name that faded in color, but the names of dozens of people.

It can't be that these dozens of people have reached the celestial stage at the same time, right?

That’s outrageous!

So there is only one possibility.

Their souls are gradually dissipating!

And as time goes by, the number of people is still increasing!

In just a short while, he saw dozens of such people appear!

"Huh? Why did you stop again?"

I saw that the black ink on some people's names suddenly stopped fading.

Although you can still see that they are fading if you look closely, the speed is much slower than before.

Judge Wen felt a little relieved, but he could no longer sit still.

He immediately cast a spell to sense the locations of the owners of these names, and then turned into green smoke and disappeared.

Before leaving, he said to the little ghost: "Give this book to the City God and tell him that I am leaving first!"

"I understand, little one!"

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The suburbs of Guangning Prefecture.

There are several villages scattered here, and most of the people living here make a living by farming.

Some people are more business-minded and choose to build tea shops or inns along the wide roads to accommodate travelers.

Because the population is not enough to form a town, this place is theoretically under the jurisdiction of the provincial capital.

In the village.

A puff of green smoke emerged from the ground and took the shape of Judge Wen.

He used his divine sense to cover the village and found that there was almost no living person in the village. All of them had mutated!

But the difference is that some people’s houses are extremely silent.

But from some people's houses a hoarse sound of "ho ho ho" could be heard.

Judge Wen took a step forward and came to the house where strange noises were coming from.

I saw a woman lying on the ground, and next to her, a man was buried in her neck, seemingly doing something.

There was also a "gulp gulp" sound coming from the throat.

Judge Wen slapped out with his palm, and an invisible air wave knocked the man over, revealing the woman under him.

The woman's mouth was wide open and her eyes were bulging.

And on her neck, two big holes were still oozing blood.

The man got up from the ground and rushed towards the direction where the air wave came from.

"Bold evildoer!"

Judge Wen shouted loudly, and with the judge's pen in his hand he pointed at the air, freezing the man on the spot.

Then a drop of ink flew out from the judge's pen and hit the man's forehead.

The man instantly turned into ashes.

He has completely lost his soul, and only a monster-like body is still alive.

Therefore, the judge had no burden to take action.

After that, he entered a quiet house next door.

But as soon as I entered, I found something wrong.

"what?"

The judge walked towards the man lying on the ground in the room, and saw that his body was covered with a light frost and his movements were extremely stiff.

Although it has grown nails and fangs, its face shows a look of panic.

There is still hope!

A gust of cold wind blew into the house, and suddenly several people from the underworld appeared in the house.

One of them had a purple beard and tiger eyes, and was wearing an official robe with a dark green base and golden patterns embroidered on it. He was the City God of Guangning Prefecture.

And beside him, there was not only Judge Wu, but also a team of ghost messengers following him.

The City God waved to the ghost messengers behind him. The ghost messengers immediately understood, bowed, and then disappeared in a few whooshes.

"Greetings to the Lord City God!"

Judge Shen bowed.

"Well, how's it going?"

"Reporting to the Lord, these people have been poisoned by the corpse demon. Some have completely turned into corpse demons and there is no way to save them. However, some still retain their self-awareness, just like this man."

As he spoke, he moved aside, revealing the man lying on the ground behind him.

"what?"

The City God walked quickly to the man and observed him carefully.

Then he used his divine power to enter the man's body and explore.

"How strange! The corpse poison in his body was suppressed temporarily. Who did this?"

He glanced around and saw a statue of a god on the table with three incense sticks stuck crookedly in front of it.

Normally speaking, it is impossible for ordinary people to stick incense in such a crooked shape, as this is disrespectful to the gods.

It is impossible for people who burn incense not to know this.

So, was it not intentional for the man to light the incense like this, but he had no choice?

Could it be that when this man suddenly mutated, he thought of seeking help from the gods, but because of the outbreak of corpse poison, his body was in too much pain and his hands and feet were out of control, so he turned the incense into this shape?

After a while, a ghost came to report that all the corpse demons and the livestock poisoned by the corpse demons had been killed.

But there are still some people who are in a half-corpse state and still have their own consciousness, and ask the City God to make a decision.

The City God's mind moved, and an invisible force enveloped the entire village.

In his "sight", those people in the half-corpse state were all covered with a light white frost on their bodies.

This cream does not harm the human body, but only makes the body stiff, curbing the spread of corpse poison and restricting their movements.

What’s even more coincidental is that every one of these people’s homes worships the same statue of deity!

And he was in the same room with the statue!

This cannot be called a coincidence.

The City God slowly walked towards the statue, with scrutiny in his tiger eyes.

Judge Wu, who was standing by, saw that his City God was staring at something. He looked in the direction he was looking and uttered a sound of surprise and doubt.

"Isn't this statue the Wanbao goddess?"

He walked closer quickly, took a closer look, and said with certainty: "Yes, this is the statue of Wanbao Niangniang of Yudu Mountain!"

"Oh?"

The City God thought about it and quickly found the name in his mind.

"Is that the master you told me about before, the one who killed the half-transformed snake demon with his sword?"

"That's right!"

The City God looked at the statue and fell into deep thought.

Could it be that this method of curbing frost and cold was created by this master?