There is a saying in folklore that if a person is walking in a desolate place in the middle of the night and hears someone calling his name from behind, he must not look back.
Because under normal circumstances, there is a flame on each person's shoulders and head.
When you look back, the flames on your shoulders will go out. At that time, some monsters and monsters can take advantage of the situation and cause harm to people.
Of course, some people are born with low flame, so if they go out in the middle of the night, they will easily attract evil things and encounter some evil things.
Whether these statements are true or false has long been impossible to determine.
Anyway, Chen Hai himself, when his soul was out of body, had never seen any flames on other people's bodies!
When he heard someone calling his name, he not only turned around without saying a word, but also threw himself directly to the locust tree.
Now, he is an expert in art and bold, and coupled with his spiritual state, he naturally has no scruples about those things that should be paid attention to in folklore.
The locust tree is the ghost in the tree.
Chen Hai couldn't figure out how many years the locust tree, whose trunk was as thick as a bucket, had grown. After all, he had no research on this aspect at all.
Just by looking up and down at the locust tree, he was sure that this thing had not become a spirit.
In this case, the person calling his name can only be a certain existence living in this locust tree!
In the past, when he was walking around here, he had actually passed by this locust tree several times.
However, the being living in the locust tree must have been hidden deep enough, which was why Chen Hai did not notice anything unusual about the tree.
At this moment, under his deliberate attention, near the root of the locust tree, in a tree hole as big as a baby's head, a small ball emitting a pale green light had fallen into his sight.
"Chen Hai, don't do anything, it's me, Zhang Laizi..."
Perhaps it was because Chen Hai's spiritual appearance was a bit scary. Under the gaze of his row of ferocious compound eyes, the small ball trembled, as if it had encountered a natural enemy.
Hearing some tragic words, he slowly floated out bit by bit as they came out from the small ball.
After he finally floated out of the tree hole, the small ball slowly unfolded and turned into a vague and thin figure.
This figure, suspended near Chen Hai's leech soul, was like a small insect beside the mouth of a big rooster. The two were simply out of proportion.
As for which one of them is stronger and which one is weaker? It can be seen clearly at a glance.
"Who did I think was calling me? It turned out to be Uncle Lame!"
"What? You are also interested in leaving your body and swimming in the night sky..."
Seeing that it was Zhang Laizi, Chen Hai gave him a haha and joked.
However, his joking words were only halfway through when he stopped.
Then, with a suspicious look on his face, he looked Zhang Laizi carefully up and down again: "Uncle Lame, there is something very wrong with your situation!"
"Your divine soul is no longer tied to the physical body, and it seems that it may disappear at any time?"
"Tell me honestly, what is going on?"
Looking directly at Zhang Laizi, Chen Hai's row of ferocious compound eyes flickered with light, piercing the heart and lungs, as if he wanted to see through Zhang Laizi in front of him.
At the beginning of his words, his tone was relatively calm, but by the end, he was almost questioning.
"Chen Hai, I know that I can't hide my current situation from you!"
"When I saw your soulful appearance and passed by me, I knew that in your journey of cultivating Taoism, you have already outdone others and surpassed them by I don't know how much!"
"If I hadn't helped you exorcise evil spirits and had some impression of your soul aura, I wouldn't have been able to confirm that this powerful existence passing near me could actually be the incarnation of your soul, Chen Hai!"
Feeling extremely complicated, Zhang Laizi let out a long sigh and added: "Since we are all of the same kind, I won't hide it from you. I was actually dead more than ten days ago!"
"After the death of an ordinary person, the soul is in a state of confusion. Generally, the soul will disappear in about seven days."
"In any case, I have also entered Taoism, and I am only a hair away from the realm of night travel."
"With a soul that is much stronger than ordinary people, even though I am dead, I can still keep a ray of spiritual intelligence alive for the time being."
"Knowing that the locust tree can nourish the soul, I temporarily stayed in it and could barely resist the erosion of the Yang Qi between heaven and earth during the day."
"However, I have almost reached my limit after being able to hold on until now. If I can resist for another two or three days at most, my remnant soul will definitely be destroyed by ashes."
"Chen Hai, for the sake of the Taoist book I lent you and the kindness that really led you to the path of spiritual practice, can you do me a favor?"
After saying this, Zhang Laizi stopped. He looked expectantly and glanced at Chen Hai several times.
Chen Hai remained silent and did not answer the question.
Want to talk about love? He was unconscious that day, Zhang Zizi helped him exorcise evil spirits, and his parents were treated to good food and drinks. How much did Zhang Zizi ask for, and Chen Zhonghua and Jiang Meixian also did not miss him.
As for the unknown ancient book that guided him on the road, Zhang Laizi didn't want to lend it to him at all.
Chen Haineng borrowed the Taoist book from him. To put it mildly, it was purely a transaction.
How much favor did he owe Zhang Zizi? Chen Hai didn't think so.
Of course, based on this little affection, if the matter that Zhang Laizi begged him for was relatively simple and he could solve it easily, he wouldn't mind helping him in a small way.
"Uncle Lame, can you tell me how you died?" After a moment of silence, Chen Hai asked.
He originally thought that Zhang Laizi had already entered the night tour, but now it seemed that this guy was only in the out-of-body stage, and was weaker than he had guessed.
But even so, Chen Hai was still extremely curious about the reason why he, who was fine, suddenly died and turned into a remnant soul.
"What other reasons could there be? It's not because that bitch Wang Xiuhua is unreliable. As promised, her man Chen Er went to the county and won't be back for two days!"
"But in the end, in the middle of the night, Chen Er was stunned and came back to kill him, and he was caught at the scene!"
"If he just broke a leg, I would admit it. But when that guy caught me at the scene, he also brought two accomplices with him. They were deliberately trying to take my life!"
"No matter what, I can't swallow this breath!"
While talking, Zhang Zizi glanced at Chen Hai's reaction and saw that Chen Hai seemed to be indifferent.
He gritted his teeth and then spoke again: "Chen Hai, I still have an ancestral Taoist book hidden in my house."
"But that book is too profound. The things in it are beyond my level and I can't practice them at all."
"As long as you agree to help me avenge myself and bring Chen Erleng and the others to justice, the Taoist book I have hidden will be given to you for free!"
The ancestral precepts of their Zhang family are the Taoist scriptures passed down from family to family, and will never be passed on to other people.
But with all his own people dead, how could Zhang Laizi care about the ancestral precepts at this time?
Besides, it's not the first time he has violated the ancestral precepts.
The last time Chen Hai asked him to borrow a book, although he sent the book to Chen Hai through Wang Xiuhua, this action was also a manifestation of his violation of the ancestral precepts.