Folk customs begin with the entire funeral procession

Chapter 67 Living Corpse Qi
As the layer of smoke surrounding Chen Miao frantically burrowed into the Ghost Cube in his hand, Yue Xiaodao had already stepped into the shade of the locust tree.

Ignoring Chen Guokun and Tong Yu who were approaching, Yue Xiaodao stared intently at Chen Miao, his cheeks twitching and tightening. When he opened his mouth again, he spat out a mouthful of blood mixed with his tongue onto the ground.

The blood hissed as it hit the ground, turning into a blood mist that rose rapidly towards the locust tree.

Chen Guokun paused in his rush, watching the blood mist that was about to pass by him. His eyes flickered, and he reached into his pocket and took out a spray-like object, spraying it at the blood mist.

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The white mist collided with the crimson mist, as if the two substances had neutralized each other.

The crimson mist instantly diminished by more than half.

But the rest flew towards the wooden house under the locust tree.

Seeing that he couldn't stop him and knowing that something bad might happen, Chen Guokun sprayed the remaining spray onto his hands.

At the same time, Tong Yu also launched a flying kick at Yue Xiaodao.

Just then, as the blood mist approached the wooden house, it turned and plunged straight into the ground below.

A chilling feeling that everyone could sense appeared for a moment, and the door of the wooden house, which had been silent until now, began to creak.

With a 'bang', the door of the wooden house was forced open from the inside.

In an instant, the shade of the tree, which was originally of normal size, suddenly expanded several times over, completely enveloping Chen Miao, who was about to take out a second stick of incense.

Click!

The Ghost Cube, shrouded in incense smoke, cracked.

A chilling sensation appeared behind Chen Miao, making the hairs on his neck stand on end.

As the first peach wood talisman shattered, Chen Miao rushed forward and, without hesitation, swung the century-old peach wood sword blank backward.

As expected, the sword struck the materialized Yue Na, sending up a cloud of gray mist.

However, Yue Na did not rush forward as described in the book. Instead, she was stunned for a moment after being hit by the sword before heading towards Chen Miao.

Chen Miao knew that this was probably the reward he received for saving Tong Yu and for performing a ritual to help the Ghost Cube pass on.

Immediately, with his other free hand, he reached into his pocket and tossed out a handful of sawdust.

As Yue Na crashed into the wood chips, puffs of gray mist burst from all parts of her body. In the blink of an eye, all that could be seen where Yue Na was was a cloud of gray mist, and her appearance was no longer visible.

In response, Chen Miao once again stirred up a storm of century-old peach wood shavings.

After completing the procedure, Chen Miao turned around and ran towards Chen Guokun.

As they passed each other, Chen Miao tossed the century-old peach wood sword to Chen Guokun.

He then reached both hands into his bag.

When he came out again, he was holding four incense sticks in one hand and a windproof lighter in the other.

With a snap, the incense stick was lit again.

As the ethereal voice rang out from Chen Miao's mouth, Chen Guokun had already wielded the peach wood sword and struck Yue Na, who had just coalesced.

After the sword strike, came the punch.

The fist, which had been spewing mist, slammed into Yue Na, unleashing a burst of gray mist no less powerful than that produced by a century-old peach wood sword.

Immediately afterwards, Chen Guokun threw a new Ghost Cube at Yue Na.

Yue Na was instantly sucked into it, but before Chen Guokun could relax, the ghost cube shattered again.

After realizing that the Ghost Cube was ineffective, Chen Guokun stopped reaching for his last Ghost Cube and instead took the century-old peach wood sword blank and began to wield it wildly.

Compared to Chen Miao, who only knew how to stab and slash, Chen Guokun's sword dance was very methodical, and even his footwork was orderly, dodging Yue Na's occasional lunges.

Seeing this, Chen Miao felt that he didn't need to take action.

Just as he was thinking this, he heard Tong Yu groan from his side and behind.

Turning his head, Chen Miao saw Tong Yu, who had been thrown and landed on the ground.

The one who threw him was none other than Yue Xiaodao.

At this moment, Yue Xiaodao had changed completely. His eyes were as black as ink, and his fingernails seemed to have grown longer.

Just as Chen Miao looked at Yue Xiaodao, Yue Xiaodao also looked at him.

Immediately, Yue Xiaodao rushed over.

Chen Miao's face darkened. He took out the short peach wood sword blank, glanced at it, and then put it away.

It's too short; he's afraid that before he can even stab someone, Yue Xiaodao will kill him.

Without any hesitation, he threw a handful of peach wood shavings forward, and the incense smoke around him rushed over as Yue Xiaodao approached.

However, apart from the peach wood residue bursting and blocking Yue Xiaodao's path, the incense smoke entering his body only brought out a large handful of black mist!

Chen Miao frowned, took out all the remaining peach wood scraps from the book's inventory, and casually tossed a rough peach wood amulet blank to Chen Guokun.

At this moment, Chen Miao couldn't care less about being stingy.

If Chen Guokun and the others don't die, the probability of Chen Miao surviving is even higher.

After throwing away the peach charms, Chen Miao used a handful of peach wood shavings to force Yue Xiaodao back, and then ran directly towards Tong Yu's direction.

At this moment, Tong Yu had already gotten up and rushed towards Yue Xiaodao. During the process, he also sprayed some spray on his fists.

When Chen Miao met Tong Yu, he directly handed him a peach wood short sword prototype and a peach wood amulet prototype.

Tong Yu had already seen what was happening on Chen Guokun's side, so he didn't hold back. As soon as he took the sword, he thrust it at Yue Xiaodao, who was chasing after him.

The peach wood dagger pierced through the tofu as easily as it had pierced through it, disappearing completely.

When it was pulled out again, instead of blood, streams of black smoke flowed from the wound.

Chen Miao, who had just stopped to take out incense sticks, was startled when he saw the black aura.

He had felt the black aura was familiar just now, and now, looking at the wound, he remembered!

At Tianmen Funeral Home, when they dealt with that hopping zombie, this black aura emanated from its body!
But that's a jumping zombie, a real zombie!
Yue Xiaodao is a human being!

At most, he's someone who's been possessed by a ghost!

If it's a zombie, what level would a zombie that can live like a normal person be?

Chen Miao, who was about to recite the Six Mantras of Subduing the True One, hesitated.

What if it really is a zombie?

Thinking about how little effect the incense smoke had on Yue Xiaodao, Chen Miao put away the incense sticks, took out the box containing talismans, and took out a corpse-controlling talisman and a spirit-suppressing talisman.

After staining the talisman with blood, Chen Miao folded the two talismans into a triangle and threw them at Tong Yu.

"then!"

After Tong Yu knocked Yue Xiaodao back with a punch, he turned around and caught two triangular talismans.

"Find a way to put it on him!"

As Chen Miao spoke, he had already picked up the corpse control bell in his hand.

Without saying a word, Tong Yu accurately plunged the corroded, pitted peach wood dagger into a wound in Yue Xiaodao's chest that was emitting black smoke.

After enlarging the wound, they quickly stuffed two talismans into it.

The moment the spirit-suppressing talisman took effect, it was completely consumed by the black smoke, leaving only the seemingly ineffective corpse-controlling talisman remaining in the wound.

During this process, Tong Yu was caught off guard and was hit on the arm by Yue Xiaodao, who had reacted quickly.

Tong Yu's left arm made a crisp cracking sound, and his body involuntarily staggered.

Just as Tong Yu was feeling like he was about to explode, he suddenly heard a 'ring' sound.

Where did the ringtone come from?

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(End of this chapter)