He looked thin in his clothes, but when Gu Zhisang picked him up from exhaustion, he could feel that under the young man’s thin wedding dress, there were broad shoulders and a narrow waist.
The muscles in his shoulders and arms were bulging, but not exaggerated, and the muscles in his waist and abdomen were also tough and tight.
He didn’t look like a girl who was married on behalf of others.
“Sangsang…”
Yan Cheng hadn’t drunk water for a long time, so his voice was low and hoarse. When he called out subconsciously, both of them were stunned.
The first two times they met, he was dressed in a well-tailored suit, with jade-like eyebrows and eyes, and he called her “Master Gu” in a distant and businesslike manner.
Fortunately, Gu Zhisang was just stunned for a moment, without thinking too much, and responded and asked:
“How could you…”
How could you be wearing a wedding dress and a red veil, and be forbidden to speak and tied up in this empty room?
Yan Cheng understood the meaning of Gu Zhisang’s unfinished question.
His almost fragile and embarrassing side was seen by the people he cared about, which made it even more difficult for him, a young man who had a strong self-esteem and introverted temperament, to accept it.
The blush on his ears never disappeared, but became more and more serious.
Gu Zhisang glanced at him pretended not to see him and asked:
“Didn’t someone from the Taoist Sect bring you in? Where are they?”
When mentioning Xuanmen, Yan Cheng’s eyebrows showed some anger, and he said helplessly:
“We did come in together. The senior from the Taoist Sect kept saying that the ghosts here were not to be feared, but they all fell after a short resistance.”
According to Yan Cheng, he was at home handling company business when he was taken away.
After the big formation at home sounded the alarm, he looked up and found an old man with long eyebrows standing in front of him. He looked proud and took him away without any explanation.
Those people didn’t treat him well along the way, but Yan Cheng was used to the people from the Taoist Sect treating him as a scourge.
Who would have thought that after arriving at the place, the old man from the Taoist Sect would let him be the center of the formation to absorb the yin energy outside the village?
For this reason, the Special Spiritual Department team that protected him also clashed with the people from Xuanmen.
But the old man didn’t listen at all, and he stubbornly led a group of people into the village.
As soon as they entered, they were surrounded by hundreds of evil spirits.
At that time, Yan Cheng’s body was still in the process of having his acupoints opened and was madly absorbing evil spirits. The old man who made him like this was busy dealing with hundreds of ghosts from all directions and had no intention of closing his acupoints.
Two hours later, all the Special Spiritual Department team and people from the Taoist Sect who entered the village with him disappeared.
Only Yan Cheng, who was still madly absorbing evil spirits, was left there. He was surrounded by circles of ghosts with livid faces and different death situations. They surrounded him in three layers inside and outside, staring at him curiously, like watching an animal.
Yan Cheng was a little helpless when he said this and said:
“It seems that it’s because the old man opened up my acupuncture points that my body can absorb yin energy uncontrollably, and those ghosts can’t get too close to me.”
“It can be regarded as a blessing in disguise, protecting me in disguise.”
Because the soul of the ghost was also composed of yin energy and soul energy.
When the ghosts with shallow yin approach Yan Cheng, their power will be pulled away and absorbed by Yan Cheng.
The ghosts who noticed this situation naturally didn’t dare to act rashly, and at the same time they felt very curious, so they surrounded Yan Cheng and repeatedly asked.
It can be said that day was the time when Yan Cheng saw the most ghosts in his life.
He continued: “I heard that those ghosts seemed to mistake me for a very powerful existence, saying that I was the reincarnation of the ghost king…”
Gu Zhisang understood.
This was very normal because Yan Cheng’s physique was too special and there were too many evil spirits in his body.
Even the people of the Taoist Sect regarded him as the reincarnation of an ominous omen when he was born, not to mention the ghosts in the underworld.
They were afraid that their energy would be devoured by Yan Cheng, and they were also afraid that Yan Cheng would hate them after he died and turned into a big ghost again, so they did not harm Yan Cheng.
Gu Zhisang asked: “Then what? How did you end up like this?”
Yan Cheng pursed his lips and said:
“Then a female ghost suddenly appeared. When it came out, the other ghosts around seemed to be very afraid of it, and their attitude towards it was also relatively submissive…”
He couldn’t talk about the scene that followed, but Gu Zhisang had guessed it.
After the female ghost came out, she must have taken a fancy to Yan Cheng, pointed at him wanted to form a bond with him, and asked several little ghosts to carry Yan Cheng to the yard.
Whether he was willing or not, he couldn’t resist. He was put on a red wedding dress and covered with red cloth like a puppet and guarded in the yard.
Hearing this, Gu Zhisang had already made many guesses:
“The female ghost that suddenly appeared should be the key to this village becoming a ‘hell’ on earth. Do you still remember it?”
With just a few words from Yan Cheng, some information was very clear.
Because of the birth of some kind of evil creature, Tianyun Village destroyed the feng shui of this place, reversed the yin and yang, and let the evil ghosts in the underworld run to the village to cause trouble.
Under the wind city was the entrance to hell.
There were mostly evil ghosts in hell. Even under the eighteen layers of hell, they will bite and devour each other. How can they respect and retreat from a ghost at the same time?
Unless there was something special about the ghost itself.
For example, it was the reason for the formation of the ‘Hanging upside down underworld’.
Because the ghosts in the underworld know all this, their attitude towards it is more subtle.
In addition, Gu Zhisang has been observing Tianyun Village.
Seeing the red paper money all over the ground and the “囍” characters hanging upside down outside some doors, she understood what happened in the village not long ago.
Someone held a very grand “白囍” ceremony in the village.
This was also known as “ghost marriage” in folklore.
“Ghost marriage” was a type of marriage, and it was also a very special one.
Generally, ghost marriages are based on fortune-telling and the souls and spirits form a pact.
But there was also an even older traditional dregs form, which requires the corpse of the ghost to be married.
The red and white affairs in the world are “red wedding” and “white funeral”. This kind of insidious marriage in which the corpse of the deceased was carried to the hall for marriage was called “ghost marriage”.
Looking at the crushed paper money and various traces on the ground in the village, it can be inferred that this “白囍” was held before the people from the Taoist Sect entered the village, and it was a big one.
The villagers gave their blessings and invited a craftsman who made paper-made funerals to make a wedding bed made of coffin boards, paper-pasted cabinets, and curtains for the “new couple”.
Such a grand ceremony was beyond the reach of ordinary villagers.
It is obvious that the disaster in this village is also related to this “ghost marriage”.
The evil ghosts that formed the “upside-down underworld” in the village are likely to be the objects of the “ghost marriage”.
Many speculations eventually point to the female ghost who specifically asked to tie up Yan Cheng.
Yan Cheng thought for a while and described: “If I remember correctly, the female ghost looks only about 20 years old, not tall, but very, very thin…”
After a pause, he explained seriously:
“This is the first time I have seen this ghost. I don’t know why it wants to lock me up here and marry me.”
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