My Mortal World's Guide to Godhood
Chapter 65

Pagoda trees in the courtyard, a weeping spirit tablet

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After following Yue Xiaodao for a while, Chen Guokun realized something was wrong.

Yue Xiaodao wasn't heading out of the orphanage!

"Is Yue Na's grave inside the orphanage?"

Chen Guokun sounded surprised.

Yue Xiaodao said nothing. He simply led the three of them toward the courtyard behind the orphanage building.

The moment they stepped outside, the three were drawn to the three pagoda trees in the backyard.

All three trees were enormous. Each trunk would take two people to encircle with their arms.

They had been planted very close together. From a distance, they looked like a single huge, luxuriant pagoda tree with a split trunk.

Many red cords were tied to the branches, and some branches bore what looked like wish plaques. Apparently, the orphanage children had turned these three great pagoda trees into a place to make wishes.

Apart from those, what caught their attention most was the little wooden house built on the small patch of open ground between the trees.

As they approached, the three gradually made out more details of the wooden house.

It was about half a person's height, with windows, a door, and wind chimes.

Its original color was impossible to discern, because its outer walls were covered in cartoon drawings.

There was no need to guess who had drawn them.

By then, Chen Guokun already had a guess as to what the little wooden house contained.

"Xiaodao, are Yue Na's ashes in that wooden house?"

"Yes."

"Why weren't they buried?"

Yue Xiaodao turned to look at Chen Guokun.

"Then why did you come looking here?"

His question left Chen Guokun speechless.

Exactly. Was it that they didn't want to bury her?

They weren't allowed to!

Even after she was buried, she had been dug up!

Looking at Yue Xiaodao, Chen Guokun was

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