The villagers’ house-building ceremonies were most grand during the raising of the beam.
Once the beam was in place, the house was considered built, and a full ceremony was usually conducted with fireworks exploding, and the wealthy households would even invite neighbors for a feast.
Such ceremonies were mostly carried out by the carpenters.
Of course, most of them were not from the Mystical Sect; it was just a tradition passed down orally to bring good luck and joy.
Unexpectedly, trouble really arose.
"This, this..."
The carpenter’s ink container fell from his hands as he stumbled back in fright.
The hoowner was even more terrified and sat down abruptly on the ground, his face pale and trembling as he said, "How... how could this be?"
"Why is the wooden beam bleeding!"
"This is an ominous on..."
The surrounding villagers also exclaid, all dumbfounded.
"Make way!"
Guan Peide was initially perplexed as to why Li Yan and the others had stopped.
Seeing that sothing had happened, he quickly scolded everyone to disperse, then turned around and uneasily asked Young Hero Li, "What’s going on here?"
The Headless Knight issue was yet unresolved, and now this ominous sign in the village made him increasingly uneasy.
Li Yan stepped forward to examine and saw that the wooden beam was dark and old, and slling the corpse energy emanating from it, he already had so guesses. Turning around, he asked, "Where did you find this item?"
"This..."
The hoowner’s eyes flickered, "I cut it down from the mountain."
Wang Daoxuan, standing nearby, shook his head and said, "This item is from a tomb, and it is quite evil. Since the incident has already happened, do not hide it anymore."
"Old man Wu!"
Guan Peide, hearing this, was furious, "After all that has happened, you still dare to hide the truth, I wondered why you suddenly had money to build a house, it turns out you were robbing graves!"
The nearby villagers also angrily cursed.
"Just great, Old man Wu, daring to be a grave robber!"
"I said how did this lazy bum suddenly get rich?"
"Catch him and send him to the governnt!"
Guan Family village was not far from Guan Ling, and villagers here considered themselves Tomb Guardians, reluctant to let anyone damage the trees near the tomb and abhorred grave robbing even more.
"No no no, I didn’t!"
Seeing the situation, the hoowner was terrified and hastily explained, "I found these items."
"Found them?"
Guan Peide’s eyes flared with rage, "You think I’d believe that?"
What should have been a joyous occasion turned into a disaster. Seeing the people around cursing, his wife and children ca running over, weeping bitterly.
"It really was just picked up!"
The hoowner was trembling all over, kneeling on the ground, with snot and tears, explaining what had happened.
"A few days ago, I settled my work pay, happened to et Liu the cripple in the city and we got together for a drink. When we left the city it had already grown dark..."
"We had drunk a bit too much and were groggy as we headed halfway when suddenly we heard soone talking behind us, but looking back, we couldn’t see anything. The voice asked us to help, and then promised us wealth..."
"We were scared and wanted to run, but no matter what, we couldn’t get out of the mountain path, knowing we had encountered a Ghost Wall, we could only follow the instructions."
"Oh?"
Wang Daoxuan looked thoughtful, "What did that thing want you to do?"
Old man Wu, with a mournful face, said, "We are still sowhat confused, just following the voice, we walked and walked, and eventually arrived at a Divine Temple."
"The Divine Temple was large, many people were inside, each wearing yellow robes, their faces as pale as the dead, not speaking, just staring straight at us."
"We were scared and didn’t dare ask more, following the voice’s instructions, we pulled a few flags from outside the temple, and then feeling dizzy, found ourselves back on the mountain path."
"This ti we managed to walk out, but not far off, we found quite a few dead bodies, as if killed by so beast."
"Liu the cripple said, this was the great fairy of the mountains rewarding us with riches, so we searched those bodies and took quite a bit of silver, splitting it, and hurried out of the mountain path."
"These people were also carrying several logs, I saw one that looked good, thought it could be used as a beam, so I went back, carrying the log ho."
Guan Peide said coldly, "There are clearly ghosts in this matter, didn’t you think to report to the authorities?"
Old man Wu mournfully replied, "That Liu the cripple is an old bachelor and also connected to the city gang, threatened that this matter must not be leaked, or he would co looking for trouble."
Guan Peide frowned deeply, "Old man Wu, you’re still not being honest!"
"I’ve grown up in Guan Family village since I was a child, I’ve wandered everywhere, other than Guan Ling, where have I seen any Divine Temple, what really happened?"
"Clan leader, every word I said is true."
Old man Wu was desperate, swearing hastily, "If there’s a half-lie, may I be struck by lightning. It’s just that those bodies disappeared, the governnt doesn’t know about it."
"Right, later when the Headless Knight appeared, that Liu the cripple ca looking for again, he had gambled away all his silver, asked to lend him so, also asked if I rembered the way from that night."
"He took the silver and hurried off, not seen around these days, perhaps he went to find that great fairy again..."
Listening to his story, the surrounding villagers were dumbfounded.
An elder shook his head, "You all are too daring, that thing might be so mountain demon, daring to take money from the dead, not fearing bringing disaster to your family."
Guan Peide’s face was dark as he glanced back at that wooden beam.
At the mont, the wooden beam was no longer bleeding, but was still filled with a sinister Yin Qi, standing beside it felt unsettling.
He bowed to Li Yan and said, "Young Hero Li, how should we handle this object?"
Li Yan, not knowing what to do, hastily looked to Wang Daoxuan.
Wang Daoxuan stroked his beard and said, "This object is a ’Tomb Blood Beam,’ originally its Yin Evil Qi was not apparent, only because the blood of a strong rooster has drawn out its Yin Evil Qi."
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