Chapter 38 The curtain falls
"I'm Lu Zhuo from Wudang." The person who appeared in the secret room was Lu Zhuo, who had just broken up with Ding Hai not long ago. Just as Lu Zhuo was about to introduce himself further, a bright starlight rose from the backyard of Yong'an Inn, connecting the sky and the earth.

Hiss, hiss, hiss.
The sound of layer after layer of paper being shredded echoed throughout the Yong'an Inn, and the surging starlight tore through all false objects.

The secret room that was originally hidden deep underground was also penetrated by the vast starlight.

"I thought you were only proficient in thunder magic, but I didn't expect you to be so powerful in the art of pulling stars. I'm afraid the director of the Imperial Astronomical Observatory in the capital can't compare to you in the art of pulling stars, Fellow Daoist Ding."

In the beam of light where the stars gathered, Ding Hai, dressed in a gray Taoist robe, walked out slowly. He did not immediately answer Lu Zhuo's question, but looked around the secret room that he had carefully sensed in his spiritual consciousness.

Then, he walked familiarly to an inconspicuous wall and touched one of the blue bricks with his hand.

There was a click.

The blue bricks sank inward, and a brick wall next to the blue bricks suddenly cracked to both sides, revealing a plain camphorwood box.

After reaching out and taking out the box, he slowly looked at the three people in the secret room.

"Friend Lu, if I remember correctly, you shouldn't be staying here. Aren't you tired after a busy day? How come you still have the leisure to come to Yong'an Inn?"

Facing Ding Hai's question, Lu Zhuo calmly replied: "After I dealt with the corpses at the door, I was going to go back to the inn to rest, but before I left, I found that resentment was rising in this direction, and it was about to turn into a strange place."

"The people of Maxiangping have been frightened enough by the corpse disaster. In order not to scare them too much, I came here to see what's going on.

I didn't expect that when I arrived, I saw this couple casting spells to harass Fellow Daoist Ding. Thinking that at least I had fought side by side with you tonight, I was just about to ask them to remove the trap and set you free.

I didn't expect that you, Fellow Daoist Ding, would come to me just after I opened my mouth." Lu Zhuo's explanation was insincere, and his tone was rather frivolous.

This made Lin Jiu, who followed Ding Hai into the secret room, couldn't help but wonder whether Lu Zhuo was involved in what happened at Yong'an Inn tonight.

But Ding Hai listened to it and nodded slightly to Lu Zhuo, as if he was doing him a small favor.

In Ding Hai's opinion, even if Lu Zhuo really had hostility towards them, he would not manipulate the two good-for-nothings, the proprietress and the old shopkeeper, to test them.

Because the threat these two pose to Ding Hai and his partner is almost zero.

He risked offending someone to death by staging a farce. If Lu Zhuo's brain circuit was really that amazing, Wudang would never allow anyone to walk down the mountain.

After explaining why he was here, Lu Zhuo slipped into the corner of the secret room and watched the show quietly.

After stuffing the one-meter-square box into the blue talisman bag, Ding Hai turned to look at the proprietress and the old shopkeeper who had been standing there in a daze.

"You two, the game is over now. You should think about how to end your life decently." As he said this, a blue light came out from Ding Hai's fingertips, and he looked at the proprietress and the old shopkeeper with a half-smile.

Faced with Ding Hai who appeared like a god from heaven, both the proprietress and the old shopkeeper were amazed.

They had clearly made so many preparations. The paper-made Yong'an Inn alone had five floors of preparations, one on top of the other.

He also captured all the living people in the inn and ignited their vitality to serve as a backup mana pool to maintain the Paper Inn.

Even outside the secret room, there are many traps and mechanisms that can easily kill a team of warlocks.

Why? All these arrangements haven’t even taken effect yet and this person has already found this place!

The two were very confused.

But under the pressure of the blue arc flashing at Ding Hai's fingertips, they soon woke up.

"We can pledge our allegiance to you, our wealth, our property. And we can acknowledge you as our Lord, and we will serve you at all costs."

When the old shopkeeper realized what was happening, he immediately knelt down and offered to sell himself as a slave in exchange for a way out for him and the boss's wife.

"He is a man with ideas. Unfortunately, the answer is wrong." Ding Hai mercilessly shot out an arc of electricity that pierced the old shopkeeper's heart.

"It's your turn, lady boss." After destroying the old shopkeeper's vitality, Ding Hai turned his gaze to the lady boss.

"I am willing to offer the puppet paper-cutting secret technique passed down from generation to generation in my family and the "Book of Bliss". Please spare my life." Compared with the old shopkeeper who had little knowledge of the spiritual world, the conditions offered by the proprietress were more targeted.

The secret art of puppet paper cutting is fine, but "The Mirror of Bliss" is the most important sincerity.

Ding Hai shook his head: "Sorry, the answer is still wrong."

Ding Hai snapped his fingers and another arc of electricity shot out.

But the proprietress was not an old shopkeeper who had no ability to resist. As early as the moment Ding Kai shook his head, she had already prepared to turn against him.

Several figures shot out from her like ghosts, and two of them ran towards the starlight one in front and one behind, trying to escape from the secret room through there.

Two figures pounced towards Lu Zhuo and Lin Jiu who were standing in the corner, raised their hands and shot out silver rays, trying to kill Lin Jiu and Lu Zhuo quickly.

But before these phantoms could reach their intended targets, the electric arc shot out by Ding Kai instantly expanded and turned into several electric pythons as thick as water tanks, strangling the several figures to death.

After a few breaths, the electric light dissipated, and only Ding Hai and three others were left in the secret room.

"Brother, is that the end?" Lin Jiu was a little uncomfortable.

Previously, in order to track down a black zombie, they had wasted countless time running around, and even the soles of their shoes had become thinner.

How come this time you finished the work without even using half the night?

"That should be it. After we go up and clean up the mess, there will be basically no problem." After getting rid of two hidden enemies, Ding Hai, in a good mood, started to take care of Lin Jiu again.

"Oh." Lin Jiu, who didn't know what else he had to deal with, said "oh" in confusion, and asked another question: "Brother, if the boss lady is really willing to be your slave, would you?"

Although he didn't finish his question, the meaning of Lin Jiu's words was very clear.

"Lin Jiu, first of all, there is a grammatical error in your question just now. The boss lady cannot be a maid. She can only be a slave at best."

"Why?" Lin Jiu didn't care that Ding Hai said there was a grammatical error in his previous question, but instead focused on why such a charming woman like the boss's wife couldn't be a maid.

"Because he has a gun just like us."

"What gun?" The inexperienced Lin Jiu was still confused.

Lu Zhuo, who was standing in the corner, couldn't help laughing when he saw this: "Haha, what gun? Of course it's the gun used to distinguish between men and women.

Fellow Daoist Ding, your junior fellow disciple is too naive. Could it be that he has never even heard of the name of the "Elysian Treasure Mirror"? "

"The Mirror of Bliss is the inherited magical skill of the Western Gansu Bliss Sect. The skill has a profound meaning and adheres to the principle of obtaining great joy and freedom in bliss.

When a practitioner of this skill first peeks into the gate, the Yang Fire in his body is ten times stronger than that of an ordinary person. After achieving some success, he can delay the aging of his body and obtain a youthful appearance. After the skill is fully mastered, his body becomes strong, his soul becomes solid, and his Yang Energy is like a vast ocean, and every move he makes is extremely powerful.

Legend has it that if this skill can be practiced to perfection, it can even give a Yin Shen Zhenren an extra 30% chance of breaking through the Yang Shen barrier.

But all of this has a premise, that is, this technique can only be practiced by men, which means that the boss lady you mentioned has actually always been the boss man. "

After listening to Lu Zhuo's explanation, Lin Jiu's three views suddenly collapsed.

Still carrying something like this?
No wonder the boss Lang rushed to feed the tofu to Ding Hai's mouth, but Ding Hai didn't show any reaction and had a cold face the whole time, as if his mother had died.

The emotional reason is here.

Recalling how he had once met his old acquaintance Chen Bo in his dream one morning because of the flirtatious behavior of his boss Lang, Lin Jiu wished he could carve out another three-bedroom and one-living-room apartment under this secret room.

Also, the old shopkeeper is the same, can't he take care of the boss Lang when there is nothing wrong?

You have special hobbies, but we ordinary people have normal hobbies.

Lin Jiu spat viciously at the remaining ashes of the old shopkeeper, despising him for being a grown man but unable to control his own man.

"Alright, Junior Brother Lin." Ding Hai didn't want Lu Zhuo to continue to laugh at Lin Jiu, so he raised his hand to stop Lin Jiu's behavior: "Go to the kitchen to get some oil and burn this secret room."

"There were many paper dolls stored next to this secret room. The whole secret room is filled with a lot of evil spirits. Burning them clean with fire is the best way to deal with it."

Afraid that Lin Jiu would continue to ask questions and reveal his true intentions, Ding Kai gave the reason before Lin Jiu was asked before giving him instructions.

“Yes, senior brother.” Lin Jiu was not an ungrateful person. He knew that he had already embarrassed himself in front of Lu Zhuo due to his lack of knowledge. If he didn’t want to embarrass himself further, it would be better for him to just work and not talk.

As a result, the people of Ma Xiangping, who were scared half to death by zombies in the first half of the night, were almost frightened to death by a raging fire in the second half of the night.

When Lin Jiu set fire to the secret room, he accidentally failed to take good care of the sparks and also set fire to the courtyard where the boss Lang and the old shopkeeper lived.

The wind blew again in the second half of the night, and the fire grew rapidly with the help of the wind, engulfing the entire Yong'an Inn.

Fortunately, at that time, only Ding Hai and two other people were still breathing in the entire Yong'an Inn, and although the fire was big, no one was injured.

As for those tomb robbers such as the Changsheng Mountain Bandits, the Wang family, and the Changsha local robbers who came for the Mausoleum of the King of Fujian, they had no chance of survival when the Paper Inn replaced the real Yong'an Inn.

When Ding Hai used the starlight to violently break into the Paper Inn, all the tomb robbers whose lives were tied to the five-story Paper Inn by the boss Lang met their death on the spot.

For this, Ding Hai, who indirectly gave them a ride, did not feel sorry at all.

We are all people who have come out to make a living on the edge of a knife. It is normal to be born and die in the world. Why should we feel sorry?

The next morning, three figures in Taoist robes left the turbulent Ma Xiangping.

When Lin Jiu left, he was reluctant to look back at Ma Xiangping, which was still quiet in the early morning.

This small town was the scene of most of the things he had encountered since he came down the mountain. There were many thrilling scenes, some of which were even worthy of him writing them down in his notes and passing them on to his disciples so that they could learn from them.

To be honest, he already had a slight liking for this town.

If he hadn't been thinking about his childhood sweetheart Bai Yueguang, he would even have thought of setting up a Taoist temple here to pass on the Bagua lineage after he left the mountain.

To Ding Hai and Lu Zhuo, Lin Jiu's sentimentality is no different from whining.

This is just a stop on the journey of life. It can be remembered, but not worth lingering on.

"Remember to look at the road when you walk." Ding Hai reached out and straightened Lin Jiu's head which kept looking back.

"Junior Brother Lin, do you believe that only after we leave Ma Xiangping can this town truly return to a peaceful life?"

"What do you mean?"

"What it means is that wherever we go, we will bring disaster there." Lu Zhuo, who was traveling with him, helped Ding Hai explain.

"This is superstition and is not advisable. The reason why we stay in Ma Xiangping is because Ma Xiangping itself is about to face a disaster." Lin Jiu quickly understood what Ding Hai and Lu Zhuo meant, but he did not agree with what Ding Hai and Lu Zhuo said.

In this regard, Ding Hai and Lu Zhuo had no interest in arguing with Lin Jiu, and the three of them quickly headed towards the Mausoleum of the King of Min.

Maybe it’s because all the bad luck has been experienced, or maybe Ding Hai and his friends’ luck has turned.

They did not encounter any difficulties when they went into the tomb for the first time, and they successfully searched the entire Min King's Tomb.

In addition to taking all the wealth from the Min King's Tomb, the three also figured out the origins of the thousand-year-old ghost.

This ghost was a relative of Yuan Gangtian, a great monk in the early Tang Dynasty. In order to avoid the war in the late Tang Dynasty, he moved his family to Fujian, a place not disputed by military strategists.

But he didn't expect that Fujian, a place known to be not contested by military strategists, was occupied by a military governor from Henan in the late Tang Dynasty.

When the King of Min, whose hometown was Henan, heard that a member of Yuan Gangtian's clan had come to his territory and was said to be proficient in feng shui and numerology, he was immediately overjoyed.

He immediately paid a large sum of money and asked the old ghost to come out of the mountain to choose an auspicious place and build a mausoleum for him.

Lao Gui had just settled down in Fujian with his entire family, so how could he dare to refuse the kindness of the King of Fujian?

He immediately rushed out of the mountain to search for dragon points and build a mausoleum for the King of Min.

When I got here, everything was normal.

But who would have known that the King of Min would immediately turn against his will after the mausoleum was built, and wanted all the craftsmen who built the mausoleum to be buried with him, in order to prevent someone from leading tomb robbers to dig up his grave ten thousand years later.

The superiors at that time did not treat people as human beings, so this did not come as a surprise to the old ghost.

But Lao Gui never expected that the psychopath King of Min actually wanted to kill him, the designer of the mausoleum.

He is a great Feng Shui master who can help people find dragons and points of acupuncture points. He also has some accomplishments and a long life. It is very possible that he can pass on his skills to three generations. Even after he passes away, he is still here.

The family is in the hands of others, so the old ghost cannot use his great abilities.

So, he was taken underground by the King of Min with a white silk.

But he was not a pushover. Before he died, he told his descendants that one day three years after his death, they would quietly go to the foot of the mausoleum mountain and block a fist-sized spring, thus completely ruining the feng shui of this dragon's lair.

　Chapter 2 today, make up for Chapter 2 on Wednesday with 1,000 words
　　
　
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