Empty Grave.

Summary

The passage describes a mysterious journey through a willow grove with Qiu Shi Ren and other companions. They encounter a challenging environment with intense winds, which Qiu Shi Ren manages to control using a fierce-looking Buddha statue and incense. After emerging from the grove, they discover a grave site with snake skins arranged in a peculiar formation. Qiu Shi Ren instructs the others to wait while he takes the narrator towards the grave, leading to a horrific vision of slaves being brutally tortured and killed in a nightmarish hall, with the narrator experiencing the gruesome scene firsthand.

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