Infinite Throne

"Brother Li, I know you have grievances in your heart. Now that Wei Zhifu is dead, there are many immortals in the town, and they all know that you are innocent..." The innkeeper's hair stood on end, and tears were about to fall.

"What...innocence?" Li San's expression was sluggish, as if he didn't know what happened. After thinking for a while, he stood there straight, his scarlet mouth opened and closed, revealing half of his bloody and severed tongue from time to time:

"The script...hasn't finished yet."

The blood froth flew around with his mouth open, and Li San didn't seem to notice the pain, and continued to talk about the unfinished book:

"It's said that Qin Xianglian didn't see her husband coming back home. She took her two children with her and traveled thousands of miles to the capital to look for her..."

The innkeeper shuddered, and wanted to close his eyes, but his eyelids seemed to be supported by someone, and he couldn't close them no matter what.

Looking back, it was still Yunlai Inn.It's just that the Yunlai Inn before the ghosts made trouble, really answered the sentence that the guest is like Yunlai.

It was full of people, shoulder to shoulder, all craned their necks to hear the scene where Chen Shimei's heartless high school champion married a princess, and Qin Xianglian brought her children into the capital to be hunted down.

The faces of these people were a bit strange, they were inexplicably out of harmony, they didn't speak much, they just stared at Li San, their clothes were of the same style, as if they were bought in the same shop.

The innkeeper stood in the crowd and wanted to leave temporarily, so he patted the person next to him: "Excuse me—"

There was a deep dent on the opponent's back, which looked a little scary.Only then did the innkeeper realize that something was wrong with them, the whole face was actually flat, as if the facial features were drawn by someone with a brush.

The innkeeper shivered. When the photo was taken, he felt empty. The man only had one layer of skin, and the inside was actually hollow.

This weird man has a good temperament, even if he was sunken, he didn't get angry, but gave way instead.The other eccentrics also made way for the innkeeper to leave as he did.

Li San stopped and asked word by word:

"Where are you going...I can't speak well?"

"Of course, brother, I admire your storytelling ability. If you want to make people cry, you can cry. If you want to make people laugh, if you tell something funny, everyone will laugh too. This is your skill."

The innkeeper was in a trance at first, but now he became sober after being frightened one after another.Li San was dead, and he arranged for the body to be buried, and he even paid for a thin coffin for Li San.

He thought he was worthy of Li San, but he was so soft-spoken that he didn't do much to help Li San when he was arrested.This Li San is probably an evil spirit, different from normal people.Talk to him well, don't provoke him, maybe you can survive.

"It's good...it's good..." Li San smiled and coughed, the laughter was vague, and it seemed to be crying, which made people feel a little sad for no reason.

"How is my mother?" Li San asked again after hesitantly.

The innkeeper hesitated for a while, but still told the truth: "The old lady has gone west."

"My mother is getting old and has a son who is worthless like me. I have never enjoyed happiness in this life. I really feel sorry for her old man..." Li San really cried this time, probably ghosts have no tears, no matter how sad he is , can't shed a single tear.So these grievances and regrets are still stuck in my heart, and my eyes are bloodshot.

"It's not easy for everyone. Now that the matter has come to this point, you just want to open some. Every year after Qingming, I will bring some thin wine to weed the old lady's grave." The innkeeper was thinking about his words, and his desire to win Climb to the top.To hang Qingming every year, it must be a living person. If he dies here, no one will remember to pay homage to Li San and the others.

"That's really troublesome for you. I have taken care of you, but I can't repay your kindness. Let the child kowtow to you." Li San swept back, revealing a five or six-year-old boy, thin and thin , with a pale face and stiff limbs, was Li San's son.

The child knelt down and kowtowed firmly to the boss.

"This head is for your grandmother, and another head for your father and me."

The child knocked again.

The innkeeper's legs were so frightened that he had only heard people kowtow to a ghost begging for his life, but he had never seen a ghost kowtow to someone.He wanted to avoid it, but he couldn't move, he was terrified to death, his face was pale, like a ghost, but he just blended into the atmosphere here.

"Knock one for yourself at the end." Li San urged.

After kowtowing three heads, the child shrank behind Li San, very attached.

"Listen here from now on, don't run around." Li San's strange voice came, with a chill in it.

"I..." Before the innkeeper had time to refuse, he suddenly became cold and opened his eyes.He was still in the inn, lying on the Bafang table, with a quilt covering his body.Because of posture problems, my arms and legs were cramping, sore and numb, as if I had been run over by a carriage.It was still raining outside the window, and it was already daylight.

The fairy with outstanding looks sat in front of the window, looking at the hanging bell in a daze.

"Those are the waiting halls of the small shop. They lived here during the famine years. I don't know if they have any relatives. They hang around here." The innkeeper explained, always respectful in his heart.

As expected of a fairy, he didn't know what he dreamed at first, but when he woke up today, he clearly remembered what happened in the dream, even the words that Li San said in the notebook, he remembered every word.At this time, I want to tell the immortal in detail, but I don't know how to start.

Lin Yebai performed a mind-clearing technique casually, and the innkeeper seemed much calmer.Last night, he stabilized the boss's soul, so that the boss would not fall into a state of ignorance, and he really gained something this morning.

"The little one did dream about Li San last night, and he was telling stories in this Yunlai Inn..."

He told Lin Yebai everything about the dream, still a little scared:

"I don't know what Li San means? If I fall asleep again, I won't stay there forever..."

"You don't have to worry, he just wants to protect you." Lin Yebai calmed down casually.If Li San really wanted to kill someone, the boss wouldn't be able to wake up this morning.

"Anyway, I don't have any business, so I'll go to brother Li's grave today and offer incense sticks to him." The innkeeper was in a complicated mood. He really didn't help Li San. Can get the asylum of Li San.Ghosts are more moral than humans.

"I'll go with you." Lin Yebai still had to collect auxiliary materials for refining Jidan, and he had to go to the grave to find some of them.

"Thank you fairy."

Many people died in the town last night, all of them died in dreams with their eyes open.

When Lin Yebai and the innkeeper went out, they encountered many funeral processions.Some people suspected that it was a plague, and even if it wasn't, the corpse might be stained with evil spirits, so it was burned directly into ashes, which saved a lot of money for the coffin.People who died suddenly cannot enter the ancestral grave, just buy a columbarium and choose a place to bury in the wilderness.

"There are more and more people dying..." the innkeeper sighed.

"The troublesome ghosts will be resolved soon." Although Lin Yebai thought so, he felt not very optimistic in his heart.With so many immortal cultivators coming in, the death toll has actually increased, which is a bit suspicious.

Neither Wangyue Xianzong nor the group of people who participated in the test took the life and death of ordinary mortals seriously, and seemed to deliberately condone ghosts to kill people.

Although the immortal cultivators are looking for ghosts, their purpose is to refine the foundation building pills with their limbs after killing the ghosts.The quality of the Foundation Establishment Pill refined by stronger ghosts is higher, and more people will die... Maybe it is more in line with their wishes.

Lin Yebai didn't sleep the whole night last night. After the innkeeper fell asleep, his soul left his body and disappeared, only to reappear this morning.

Lin Yebai looked at the other residents in the town. As soon as it got dark, they all fell into a deep sleep. They also left their bodies and returned in the morning.Don't they all go to listen to the book like the boss?If you can't get valuable clues, go to sleep tonight to investigate.

"Why does Li San want to tell this script? What's so special about it?" Lin Yebai asked.

"This is about He Juren." The boss suddenly showed contempt in his eyes, and whispered: "This is Chen Shimei."

"He was from a poor family and couldn't afford to read, so he made an appointment for a marriage. The woman's parents died, and she lived with her elder brother and sister-in-law. She was good at embroidery."

"After the two got engaged, the girl did embroidery work for him to study. He originally planned to get married, but as a result, He Mengwen's father died, and he kept his filial piety for three years."

"After the filial piety period passed, he got the job, and immediately withdrew his marriage, and became engaged to the magistrate's daughter, even the date was fixed."

"Poor girl, both of her parents died, and her elder brother and sister-in-law are like wolves. Once the marriage was retired, she left early."

"Everyone said that she was unlucky, and she got a strange disease and was dismissed."

"I don't think it's unlucky. It was He Juren who killed her." The innkeeper looked angrily, wishing to spit on He Juren.

Lin Yebai understood, it seems that Li San's crime was also related to his preaching of this script.It is false to offend His Majesty, but it is true to affect the official voice of Wei Zhifu and He Juren.

"Did He Mengwen marry Wei Shishi later?" Lin Yebai was a little curious because he didn't see Wei Shishi's body behind the county office.

"On the day of the wedding, Wei Shishi got into the sedan chair, and when she got off, she turned into a piece of human skin."

"But she didn't realize it, and instead pestered He Juren to come to worship, which scared He Juren crazy."

"That day, when the chickens were flying around, someone accidentally knocked over the lamp and burned Wei Shishi's human skin. I heard the screams across six alleys. It was so creepy."

"Everyone says that Wei Zhifu and Wei Shishi are evil ghosts in human skin. I think there is some truth to it."

"It was also the day when all the people in the county government died, and no one even collected the corpses. I think it's better to burn the whole county government directly. Maybe Wei Shishi is hiding in the county government, crying every day."

"Is He Mengwen dead?" Lin Yebai asked.

"He's not dead, but he's crazy. He seems to be a beggar. I haven't seen him for a few days."

Lin Yebai suddenly thought of the old beggar at the gate of the county government office. Now that he thought about it, he might not be very old.It looked too messy, dirty and smelly, and didn't have a good rest, so it became what it is now.

"Is he often at the gate of the county government office?"

"Then I don't know. Immortal, if you are interested, I will take you to He Juren's residence after I finish offering incense to Li San's family."

"If you kill him, you can get rid of the ghosts in the town. I will do it myself and keep him alive." The innkeeper rubbed his hands expectantly.

The innkeeper went to offer incense, and Lin Yebai collected auxiliary materials at the cemetery.

The ancestors of the residents of Qingxi Town regarded this place as a treasure suitable for burial, and accumulated thousands of years of yin and death energy, which has reached the standard for refining foundation building pills.There are traces left by other immortal cultivators on the cemetery, and other people should have come to pick them up recently.

None of the auxiliary materials were murdered, they only took what they needed.If it is completely destroyed, the monks who have auxiliary materials in their hands will become the target of public criticism.

The really fierce struggle is about the evil spirits, there are too many monks, and it is not known how many evil spirits there are in this town, and whether there are enough to make alchemy.Speaking of the body, only a part of it should be needed. I don't know if the whole body will be better?

The innkeeper saw that the immortal looked blank, as if he was thinking about some important issue, so he didn't dare to make a sound, thinking that the evil spirits in the town would be difficult to deal with, so he became worried.

"Are you ready?" Lin Yebai asked.

"Okay, I'll show you the way." The innkeeper hurriedly put away his things and went directly to the place where He Juren lived.

It was a courtyard with two entrances, and there was a well in the courtyard.Now it's dirty and there are flies flying around.

The old beggar that Lin Yebai met yesterday was in the yard, drawing something on the sand with a bamboo branch.

"That's He Juren. He looks normal at the moment, but it's scary to go crazy. I haven't seen you for a few days, but he is very old. Sure enough, bad people have their own rewards."

Soon, He Juren drew the outline. It was a woman's side face, gentle and beautiful, with clear eyes, and she looked a bit bookish.

"Who is this?" Lin Yebai looked at the innkeeper.

"It's a bit like that..." The innkeeper scratched his head, unable to speak for a while.

"Zhiyin..." The old beggar choked with tears, and when he called out, the eyes of the woman on the ground moved.