Terrifying Heavens: I'll directly worship the Black Law of Fengdu!

Chapter 321 When the cleaver falls, you run forward.
Wang Ying's gaze fell on the faces of the men on night watch outside. Seeing that they were drowsy, she lowered her voice and said, "I have a secret method to help you return to your hometown. Remember, before the executioner's blade falls tomorrow, you should form the 'Netherworld Finger' with your hands, look in the direction of your hometown, and when the blade falls, close your eyes and rush forward without regard for any obstacles in front of you. Do this for thirty breaths, and then open your eyes, and you will be able to go home."

She chanted an incantation: "The primordial energy pervades the Three Pure Ones, the golden spear severs the neck but the soul remains unyielding! The spirit locks the altar, condensing true intent, the soul departs the execution ground, breaking free of worldly ties. The heart is drawn to the homeland, guided by its light, the will is set, the path home is clear. The three souls, unwavering, return to their homeland; the seven spirits, without scattering, return to the gate! With my essence and blood, I open your path home, I command..."

This incantation was not from the book she found.

The incantation came from a piece of paper in a dilapidated Taoist temple. The temple was empty except for a letter addressed to a stranger. It said that demons were running rampant down the mountain. They couldn't stay on the mountain and had gone down with their weapons. If a destined person came to this Taoist temple, they could write down the incantation. If they were captured and beheaded or shot, reciting this incantation would allow them to return home.

The abbot knew that the world was about to descend into chaos, and only hoped to use the incantation he left behind to send innocent souls home, but he did not expect to fall into Wang Ying's hands.

Wang Ying never expected that the Taoist incantation she had memorized in less than three months would come in handy so soon. She bit her tongue and spat the blood onto the necks of the wild boar and the eagle.

The next day, at dawn, in the open space of the village.

After Ah-Qiang embellished his account of the fight against the bandits, Uncle Jiu went on stage to give a speech, and finally invited a respected elder from the village to jointly sentence Wang Yingshan, Zhu Yingtou, to death.

Beheading! Immediate execution!

In this era, with the emperor far away and the mountains high, in remote villages or even county towns, clans and families often formed their own systems and could decide the life and death of their members...

For example, promiscuous women would be put into pig cages and thrown into the river to drown, while men who committed crimes were even more ruthless, being dragged to the mountains and burned alive, their deaths were extremely gruesome.

Compared to these two options, beheading is actually the most compassionate approach.

Wang Ying and her two younger brothers knelt before the execution platform, which was actually just three large tree stumps with dried black bloodstains faintly visible on them, suggesting that they had killed quite a few people in the past...

The wild boar with the eagle head trembled violently, even wetting its pants.

Ah Qiang sneered and slapped their heads with his machete, saying, "When you were killing others, you didn't wet your pants. Now that you're about to die, you're scared?"

His words reflected the thoughts of most people, including Uncle Nine, so he did not reprimand him.

Noon has arrived!

Under the blazing sun, the executioner spat a mouthful of liquor onto his cleaver, raised it high, and then brought it down with a vengeance…

Blood gushed out like a fountain, and the heads of the three siblings rolled one after the other into the bamboo basket, their eyes wide open, a horrifying sight of them dying with their eyes wide open...

Li Xuan sat on the execution platform. From his perspective, the souls of Wang Yingshan, Zhu Yingtou, and others rose from the three corpses. Unexpectedly, the ghosts of the newly deceased should have been in a daze, as if they were drunk and didn't know which way was which, but the eyes of these three souls were filled with a tangible obsession.

Just then, Wang Ying suddenly rushed towards Li Xuan!
Li Xuan: "Huh??"

He quickly understood, because the spirits of the wild boar and the eagle-headed creature rushed in another direction, passing through houses and trees at an astonishing speed. A faint light could be seen attached to the spirits, indicating that they had been cursed...

Wang Ying's body was ashen, and her soul, freed from the corrosive effects of practicing evil arts, even appeared somewhat delicate. She lunged at Li Xuan with open arms, shouting, "Let my brother go home! I'm willing to be annihilated to atone for my sins!" Knowing she couldn't overpower Li Xuan, she still charged forward without hesitation to buy precious time.

Uncle Nine sensed something was wrong, immediately activated his Yin-Yang Eyes, and roared in fury, "Insolence!"

He untied the hemp rope belt around his waist, and made a move to pull Wang Ying down from the air. Then he bit his middle finger, drew a talisman on his left palm, and slapped it on Wang Ying's crown!
Smoke billowed out, hissing and crackling!
Li Xuan gently grasped Uncle Nine's hand: "Fellow Daoist, be gentle. Such violence will damage the soul. After it's sent to the underworld, the ghost messengers will need to spend extra effort to gather the soul fragments..."

As a judge, he should also consider the workers in Fengdu. Not every incomplete ghost can be quickly brought back like Qiu Sheng and Wen Cai in "The Ultimate Zombie".

Wow!
The Soul-Locking Chains bound Wang Ying's soul and stored it inside the talisman.

Li Xuan got up, walked to the corpses of the wild boar and the eagle-headed creature, squatted down, drew two talismans on their backs with his index finger and chanted a spell. The corpses twitched twice, and two blood-red chains shot out as if they had a positioning function. After a while, they pulled the fleeing eagle-headed creature and the wild boar back.

He really couldn't understand it. The body was left at the scene. They could run away, but the temple couldn't. Did they really think the soul could escape?
The wild boar and the eagle-headed man were completely bewildered. The crimson light in their souls gradually faded, and their senses returned. Looking around at their surroundings, they realized they were still there: "Why? Shouldn't we be home? Why are we still at the execution ground...?"

Li Xuan used a small amount of lightning to find out what had happened.

It turns out that Wang Ying cast a spell, telling them that if they were beheaded, they could run away and return to their hometown. However, she didn't expect that while this trick might work on ordinary people, it would only increase their suffering if Li Xuan was present.

In ancient ghost stories, there are also stories of people who can run home after being beheaded. One such story is about a scholar who was framed and beheaded. Unaware that he had been beheaded, he ran home and lived with his wife for a long time. One day, the executioner who beheaded him passed by and saw him. He revealed the truth about the beheading. Upon hearing this, the scholar screamed and his head was severed, causing him to die on the spot.

This story is similar to the one about Bi Gan having his heart removed, which was used to prove the saying, "A person cannot live without a heart."

Li Xuan never expected to encounter such a classic situation.

Unfortunately, these kinds of things never have a result from the start.

Uncle Nine sat in his chair, looking at the fate of Wang Ying and her two siblings with deep emotion, thinking to himself, "Once a person chooses the wrong path, the consequences are truly irreversible."

He felt extremely fortunate that he had not yet included A-Qiang and A-De in the Maoshan roster.

Just then, a paper butterfly fluttered over from afar. He opened it, frowned, and said, "How could this be? Have they become enemies?"

Someone nearby asked, "What happened?"

Uncle Jiu looked at the contents of the letter and said, "Alas, the two fellow disciples of Maoshan, Junior Brother Qian and Junior Brother Xu, are disciples taught by the same master! Because Maoshan cannot support too many disciples, many fellow disciples have gone down the mountain to make a living in recent years. However, Junior Brother Qian and Junior Brother Xu had a conflict in Tanjia Town, which even reached the point of life and death."

Junior Brother Xu asked me for help, hoping I could assist him in dealing with Junior Brother Qian; otherwise, given his skill level, even if he won, he would pay with his life.

As he said this, the atmosphere suddenly felt off. He turned around and saw that the person asking the question was actually Li Xuan!
Uncle Nine's mind went blank for a moment, and only two words came to mind: "We're doomed."

(End of this chapter)