Chapter 109 108. Paper-Tied Fairy (Part )
Burning incense to worship evil spirits?

So that's why. We need to burn incense and offer sacrifices to appease the evil spirits. No wonder Old Man Fang was so kind to remind everyone to enter the courtyard just now.

For things like this, the more people there are, the better.

However, the lantern flames here contain some kind of corrosive power, and those old guys don't seem to intend to tell others.

Old Man Fang's voice echoed faintly from the coffin: "Paper maker, take out your incense."

The "paper man" that Old Man Fang mentioned was exactly the old man who had previously released paper and straw men to deal with the black flower spirit.

The old man had triangular eyes, a hooked nose, high cheekbones, and an extremely pale face, almost without a trace of blood.

Hearing what Old Man Fang said, the paper-zha old man said nothing, but raised his hand to summon a big-bellied paper man.

The paper man staggered out, and used his palm as a knife to cut open his big belly. Inside was a shrine with a bunch of incense sticks inserted on it.

"This is the Paper-cutting Immortal, a casual cultivator." Mo Qingxue leaned in and whispered, "He was originally a woodcutter from the countryside. By chance, he received a legacy from a withered grave in the mountains. He mainly practices the two methods of 'Cut Paper to Become a Man' and 'Every Tree and Grass Sees an Enemy'."

Paper-cutting to create adults and seeing trees and grass as enemies are both first-class Taoist methods in the orthodox Xuanmen school.

But when Xu Qing looked at the old man, he was full of yin energy, and the paper figures he used also exuded a creepy chill, which was clearly closer to the Yin Bamen's secret paper-binding technique.

I guess the so-called "paper-cutting to become an adult" and "every tree and grass is an enemy" are just self-flattering remarks.

"Okay, two people come first." Old Man Fang's voice sounded again.

Everyone looked at each other, no one wanted to be the first one to burn incense and offer sacrifices.

"No one comes first? Well, I'll catch it."

As soon as the words fell, the two bronze corpses let go of the bronze corpse they were carrying, flew out, flashed into the crowd, grabbed two people at random and threw them into the hall.

"Burn incense, or let these two bronze corpses eat you now?"

The two people who were captured wanted to curse Old Man Fang in the coffin in their hearts, but the current situation did not allow them to say anything.

He had no choice but to take the incense stick tremblingly, looked at the two tablets placed on the highest master chair in the lobby, and lit the incense stick in his hand.

However, when the two men held the incense sticks and bowed down, they suddenly wailed. As the incense sticks burned at an extremely fast speed, their entire bodies became dry little by little.

"what--"

In the end, the two men turned into two mummies with only skin and bones left and fell to the ground with a "bang".

The people who saw this scene all changed color, and looked at the two tablets in the lobby with fear in their eyes.

"The appetites of these two evil beasts have become so big? Is it because there are so many people?" Old Man Fang said sharply, "The offerings from these two are not enough, give us two more!"

Everyone looked at the two people who died tragically. How could they not know that burning incense and offering sacrifices requires a certain price? This was clearly using their lives to sacrifice to those two evil spirits!
"It has come to this point. If we want to survive, we must all work together. We cannot be so selfish."

Old Man Fang's voice was heard as the two bronze corpses flew out again.

Xu Qing watched coldly. The two bronze corpses deliberately avoided the three of them, and it seemed that the two bronze corpses were not capturing people at random.

Those who were arrested were those whose clothes began to be stained with a dirty red color.

Xu Qing thought thoughtfully, was that the external manifestation of the corrosive power of the surrounding lights?

When all the clothes on the body are stained blood red, does that mean that the whole person is completely assimilated by the corrosive power contained in the light?
The two bronze corpses quickly captured two more people and threw them into the lobby.

"Those two evil spirits will indeed absorb your energy, but there is a limit. The two guys just died because they were too weak."

"If you burn incense and offer sacrifices, you may not die, but if you refuse, you will become food for my two bronze corpses."

At this point, do the two people still have any choice? They looked up at the people standing in the courtyard in front of the lobby. No one spoke for them. Since someone has to sacrifice others to survive, it would be fine as long as they were not the ones to sacrifice.

Xu Qing and the other two also had calm expressions.

Tianguangxu is a ghost market and a lawless place. The government and Taoist sects have no responsibility to protect anyone here. Everyone is responsible for their own life and death.

Now that Xu Qing and the other two are unable to take care of themselves, self-preservation is naturally their priority.

Moreover, the people who enter Tianguang Ruins are not all bad guys or practitioners of evil ways, but most of them are people who usually hide and have the blood of many mortals on their hands.

Under the threat of the two bronze corpses, the two men finally took the incense sticks and bowed down to worship the two tablets.

Fortunately, thanks to the offerings from the two above, the two evil spirits residing in the tablets did not suck all of their energy and spirit away, and they barely retained half of their lives.

Completing the offering meant that they had gained a temporary respite in this atrium.

Everyone then breathed a sigh of relief.

Xu Qing did not relax, but looked around carefully.

At this time, he noticed that the lanterns dropped by the two people who had just died because of offering sacrifices to the evil spirit were picked up by the two bronze corpses, blew out, and then put away.

Thoughts flashed through my mind.

Xu Qing roughly understood how the group of people led by Old Man Fang planned to hold out here until dawn.

The evil spirits in the hall will not come out to harm people as long as the offerings are completed. With so many people here, if they take turns to offer offerings, they should be able to hold out until dawn.

After entering the atrium, the problem of the corpse oil lanterns burning faster due to the flames just now was easily solved.

The dead no longer need corpse oil lanterns.
Now Xu Qing had only one question left: the flames from the lanterns and palace lanterns hanging around contained some kind of corrosive force.

Can those who are still alive here really hold out until dawn under the erosion of the flames?
If too many people die early, the group led by Old Man Fang will not be able to hold out in the atrium until dawn!

There was too little information known and Xu Qing couldn't figure it out. The only thing he could do now was to wait and see what would happen, while constantly trying to contact his master using the Thousand Mile Note Transmission Message.

As long as you contact the master, everything will be easy.

Time passed by bit by bit, and no one knew how much time had passed in the dim environment. The two evil spirits in the hall began to become restless again. Everyone's face changed, knowing that it was time to burn incense and offer sacrifices again.

It is still the Bronze Corpse that is arresting people.

The two evil spirits calmed down again after receiving offerings.

Then came the third time, but this time, even after four people died, the two evil creatures were still not satisfied, and the noise they made became more and more intense.

"These two ghosts are becoming more and more greedy. At this rate, unless we burn incense and make offerings, we won't be able to appease them." The bearded warrior said with a gloomy face.

"Only after they have had their fill can others continue to offer sacrifices!"

Old Man Fang, the Paper Fairy, and several other old monsters remained silent upon hearing this. After a short moment, they all looked at Xu Qing at the same time.

Possessing great supernatural powers, no matter what his cultivation level is, his fate must be extraordinary, enough to support those two evil spirits.

Xu Qing's eyes suddenly turned cold.

Silently summon the Ding Chou God and bless Him with Yin Fire.

The gazes of both parties seemed to carry some invisible power, which instantly made the atmosphere around them fall to freezing point.

(End of this chapter)