Inheriting a Taoist temple, the story begins with Wu Zetian offering incense.

Chapter 147 Blood Corpses Exist These Days?! [Requesting Monthly Tickets]

Blood flowing from the coffin?

It would be understandable if it were a newly buried body, because blood would seep out after the body decomposes. But in an old coffin that has been there for many years, even the bones have rotted away, so how could there be blood?
Zhou Yi really became interested:

"Take me to the construction site. If there are any problems, I'll deal with them before dark to avoid any unpleasant incidents."

From a metaphysical perspective, a coffin that is suddenly dug up and is bleeding is considered a very bad omen, especially after sunset when the yang energy is weak and the yin energy is strong, which would amplify the evil spirits in the coffin.

However, building highways is a project that concerns the fate of the nation. Even if there are some minor flaws, the fate of the nation will be shattered. This situation should not have occurred.

Seeing Zhou Yi's enthusiasm, the project manager was very pleased and immediately gave him a red envelope containing two thousand yuan.
"Mr. Han said this is a service fee. You can tell us how much it will cost after the service is completed. Our project team has the budget for this, so we won't let you down."

Zhou Yi felt that working with the blind man was really comfortable, as both Fang Hongyan and the project team paid him well.

If it were Uncle Ming who introduced it, it probably wouldn't even be worth two hundred yuan... Thinking of this, Zhou Yi realized that Uncle Ming hadn't been around for a long time.

After the project manager paid the money, he quickly started a construction vehicle parked in the yard and took Zhou Yi to the construction site.

The earthwork construction site is located in the southeast of the town. When the car arrives at the intersection in front of Huangniwa, turn east and drive a few kilometers to see a hill where excavators and dump trucks are working.

The project manager, surnamed Huang, brought up Xie Yukun while driving:
"I never expected that Consultant Xie would suddenly drive towards the Yellow River and even overturn his car and fall into it. That pontoon bridge is quite wide. My whole family walked across it when we went to Yuntai Mountain this spring. His good-for-nothing nephew actually drove into the river. He must have been scrolling through Douyin (TikTok) while driving, looking for pretty girls nearby. That kid is a habitual offender."

The project team actually remembered Lao Xie. It's a pity they weren't at the pile foundation site right now, otherwise Xie Yukun's spirit would be even more resentful if it heard them.

Even after you're dead, people still gossip about you. Who wouldn't be angry?
Upon arriving at the construction site, Zhou Yi saw that the entire earthen mound had been dug open in the middle, and the cleared soil was just right for paving the roadbed of the low-lying sections.

This project is huge, and Zhao Wei's excavator is also involved in making money.

But now, half of the machinery is parked, and the dump truck drivers are gathered together, smoking cigarettes and chatting.

Seeing this, Old Huang was so angry that he couldn't help but press the horn:

"Stopping for even one day will cost a lot of money. These people are really something. They just dug up a coffin and they're too scared to move. They're such cowards."

The Book of Changes says:

"It's only human nature, Manager Huang. If this coffin were an antique, wouldn't you be rich?"

Old Huang immediately began to pour out his grievances:
"It seems you don't understand our line of work. We're most afraid of digging up cultural relics. We can't touch this or that, and it will delay the entire project... Within our province, we can't take on projects in Luoyang and Anyang, and we're so-so about Kaifeng. We need to be careful about the Xi'an area outside the province. In places where a single shovel could unearth cultural relics, we'll push away or avoid them if we can."

The car drove up the road made by the dump truck and came to the front, where it saw an excavator parked alone, with a dump truck that was half-loaded with soil standing next to it.

In front of the excavator, half a coffin protruded from the mound; judging from its style, it was popular at least thirty or forty years ago.

After Lao Huang parked the car, Zhou Yi got out and strode to the coffin. He found that the coffin had almost completely decomposed; the coffin lid was cracked, and a little blood was dripping from the cracks into the soil, emitting an unpleasant smell.

The dump truck driver leaned over like a detective and said:

"Could it be that someone murdered someone and buried the body directly in the coffin? Several movies have similar plots."

Zhou Yi looked at the location; it was more than twenty meters from the top of the mound. Who would dig such a deep pit to bury a corpse? Besides, this dilapidated coffin couldn't withstand even the slightest disturbance. If a new corpse were to be placed inside, it would already be a pile of broken wood.

He took out a compass and said with a smile:

"It's unlikely. Let me first rule out the mystical factors."

No sooner had he finished speaking than the compass needle began to swing wildly at the coffin, startling the dump truck driver.

Zhou Yi reached into his satchel and pulled out several sealing talismans. With a flick of his wrist, the talismans flew over and sealed all the sides of the half-coffin.

Once it's applied, the frequency of the compass needle's swing decreases significantly.

The cigarette that Lao Huang had just lit fell to the ground with a thud.

"My goodness, there really is something dirty here?"

The Book of Changes says:

"You all stay away. Don't let this dump truck and excavator work for now. Tomorrow, go to Hunyuan Palace and get some amulets that symbolize peace and safety to put on the truck. That way, we'll be safe."

Old Huang is quite generous:

"Attach all the equipment to the vehicles and excavators; the project team will cover the cost."

Although buying a license plate for safety is expensive, it is still much less than the cost of delaying the construction period... For people in the construction industry, being able to complete the project safely and without incident is the most cost-effective way.

After Lao Huang led the onlookers away, Zhou Yi took a few steps forward, first measuring the feng shui around the coffin, and then discovered that this was actually one of the few ominous places in the vicinity.

What's even more interesting is that the ominous place wasn't on the surface or above the mound, but rather more than 20 meters below the mound where the coffin was located.

"Who would bother digging such a deep pit and burying someone in an unlucky location?" It's impossible to dig more than twenty meters by hand, and besides, it doesn't comply with funeral regulations. No one would do that.

If it wasn't dug by a person, did the coffin come down by itself?
Zhou Yi thought the idea was absurd, but when he grabbed a handful of soil from the coffin, he found it to be very soft, completely different from the dense soil around it.

"Damn, could the coffin have really come down by itself?"

At this moment, the village head from nearby also arrived on his electric scooter, presumably summoned to identify the coffin. However, upon seeing the coffin's wretched state, the village head immediately said:

"It's practically turned into fertilizer, how can anyone tell whose it is?"

Old Huang offered the other person a cigarette and asked Zhou Yi from a distance:

"Master Zhou, you're so skilled, can you tell whose coffin this is?"

The Book of Changes says:

"I'll try it in a bit. You guys stand further away, don't get too close, lest you get hit by the evil energy."

The village head who came recognized Zhou Yi's grandfather and said with a smile:
"Zhou Banxian has a successor; this is a blessing for the entire Yunwu Town."

With a reliable fortune teller around, things related to feng shui in the village become much easier.

Zhou Yi held the coin sword in one hand and the peach wood sword in the other, and inserted the two swords into the gap in the coffin. A muffled groan came from the coffin, as if a sleeping person had been awakened.

Upon hearing this sound, Zhou Yi took out another seal from his cloth bag and placed it on the coffin.

For those with a fear of insufficient firepower, redundancy in firepower is essential, ideally five or ten times the normal amount. The idea of ​​being evenly matched will never exist in their vocabulary.

And the Book of Changes (I Ching) is precisely a seasoned patient of this kind of disease.

As soon as the seal was placed on the coffin, a series of thumping sounds came from inside, as if someone was pushing the coffin lid outwards from the inside.

However, due to the presence of the seal, coupled with the sealing talismans surrounding it, the precarious coffin seemed to be under an extra layer of restraint, and it could not be pushed open no matter what.

Taking advantage of a lull in the battle between the magical artifacts, Zhou Yi took out a Primal Talisman and placed it on the coffin. After waiting for a long time, burn marks gradually appeared on the yellow talisman.

These traces became increasingly clear, eventually forming a name:
【Jia Siwa】

A few seconds later, the talisman burst into flames, burning the name along with it to ashes.

Zhou Yi turned to the village chief and said:

"His name was Jia Siwa, and he died less than forty years ago. Is there such a person in your village?"

The village chief was only fifty years old. He scratched his head, unable to remember. He then took out his phone and called the elderly people in the village, and sent messages to the village chiefs of several nearby villages, asking them to help find Jia Siwa's family.

While they were busy working, the template in the lower left corner of the coffin suddenly cracked, and a bloody human hand suddenly reached out.

Zhou Yi was startled by this scene:
"Holy crap, it turned into a blood corpse! Was it nailed to the coffin before it even died?"

It is said that blood corpses are zombies formed when people who did not die are nailed into coffins and, under the influence of resentment and feng shui, they become zombie-like... This is the first time Zhou Yi has encountered this, and he plans to study it carefully.

While he was dealing with the blood corpse, in the Kaiyuan world of the Tang Dynasty, Li Longji and Li Chengyi, with Princess Taiping's permission, knelt down and watched Wu Zetian's video.

It wasn't that the two brothers were particularly filial; it was mainly because the shadow in their hearts was too large. In addition, with Wu Zetian's aura fully unleashed, as soon as the video started playing, the two brothers felt as if they had returned to the era more than ten years ago when Wu Zetian held absolute power, and their legs began to tremble involuntarily.

After getting up from the ground, Li Longji spoke of the punishment for Princess Taiping:

"To the outside world, I will declare that I have ordered your execution, and your cronies will be wiped out in one fell swoop. Wu Chongmin, Wu Chongxing, and your son-in-law Tang Jun are involved with many court officials, and I cannot protect them. I can only leave their underage children and grandchildren alive... Xue Chongjian will change his surname to Li so that he can avoid being purged. What do you think, Aunt?"

Princess Taiping originally came here to confirm whether her mother was still alive in another world, and after settling her inner turmoil, she planned to commit suicide by poisoning herself. She never expected things to turn out this way:
"You've gone to great lengths, Sanlang. From now on, there will be no more Princess Taiping in this world."

She knew very well that Li Longji represented not only himself, but a large group of people behind him, and that he had already made a huge concession by doing this.

Gongsun Da Niang pointed to the Wuwei Garden behind Yiyuan Temple and said:

“From now on, this little courtyard will be inhabited by Xiao Taiping. Listen to your mother, learn to say goodbye to the past riches and honors, and pursue your true self.”

With everything settled, Li Longji bowed to Princess Taiping:
"In that case, I'll take my leave!"

Princess Taiping thought for a moment and then made a request:
“They have enjoyed a life of luxury since childhood, and everything they have now is the price they have paid… Try to give them a quick death, don’t torture them.”

Li Longji cupped his hands in reply:
"Don't worry, Auntie, I will!"

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(End of this chapter)