The great witch, who had been thinking about it in her memories, suddenly came to her senses when she heard this sentence, smiled at Ling Shi and said:

"The Classic of Mountains and Seas·The Four Classics of Xici" records that there is an evil beast, which looks like a sheep but not a sheep, or a pig but not a pig. Eat the dead brain underground, and people can speak. You can only kill it with a cypress branch. This evil beast is called a mother. The records of the mother in the Classic of Mountains and Seas are just a brief introduction. Our witch clan's classics are more detailed. Mothers like to suck dead brains the most, but except for wars, no one will die every day. Mothers cannot maintain their lives by eating dead brains. In fact, when they cannot find dead people, they also eat living people and beasts. Usually, they will prefer to steal corpses and livers.

It will only attack humans when food is extremely scarce.

The reason why he is called a evil beast is not just because it will attack humans. In ancient times, there were many strange beasts that feed on humans. The strange beasts that can truly threaten human survival were called ferocious beasts. My mother is more than a ferocious beast.

The fact that the mother can be rated as a evil beast is not that it is so powerful, but that it is a disgusting thing that it does. It is not an exaggeration to say that both man and god are indignant.

Every night, it will come out to dig the grave to eat the corpse. The corpses of the cannibal ancestors will disturb the uneasy souls. If it weren't for the dreams of someone's ancestors, everyone wouldn't have known that there were such evil beasts.

This beast is flexible, has a fast movement, and is elusive, which makes people unable to guard against. Not to mention that he often chooses to stay in a quiet and deserted night, and the tomb is a place with few people. It is difficult to capture it. After all, no one will be fine and will not dig out his ancestors to see it, and it is even more impossible to go down to the ancient tomb to chat with his ancestors and explain dreams.

For a long time, how to prevent the body of one’s ancestors from being eaten by his mother became a big trouble for everyone. If it were said that the most hated evil beast in the Great Wilderness was only under the many ferocious beasts.

The mother made the public resentment, and in the end everyone had to discuss how to prevent the bodies of his ancestors from being destroyed by his mother. In the end, everyone decided unanimously to choose an unmanned tomb, put enough corpses on them, set up a trap, and everyone was ambushed in secret.

Finally, relying on this plan, everyone caught a living mother. After studying its habits, they learned that the mother was afraid of the divine beast, the white tiger, and was afraid of ordinary tigers. They were afraid of tigers and were stubborn in nature. They were between ghosts and creatures, and they were difficult to carry ordinary weapons and could recover quickly when injured. Unless they were inserted into a weakness in the center of the head, they could be completely killed and would not be reborn. Therefore, in order to avoid such evil beasts, the ancients often used cypress as coffins and planted stone tigers in the cemetery.

It was also at this time that everyone knew that cypress wood has the effect of suppressing souls and expelling evil spirits. It has been passed down to this day. Even if the mother has disappeared now, everyone is still used to using cypress wood as a coffin.

There is another advantage of cypress wood as a coffin, that is, cypress wood will absorb the corpse energy emitted by the corpse and nourish itself. Over time, what can some people grow fresh cypress branches and leaves on the coffin with strange fragrance? This fragrance is called the soul-returning fragrance. It is said that new dead people can be resurrected after hearing it. Over time, it has been spread as a rumor that cypress wood coffin can make people resurrect from death. The term eternal green comes from this.

Of course, cypress cannot bring people back from the dead, but it is an indisputable fact that cypress has strong vitality to absorb corpse energy and nurture itself. Leaves lose their vitality when they leave the big tree. Cypress has strong vitality and can remain vital for a while after leaving the mother tree. In addition, there is sufficient water vapor in the water, so the residual leaves of cypress can remain vital for a longer time.

If it is the evil spirit who is in trouble, somehow swallowed the cypress leaves falling into the water. It is a coincidence that the remaining leaves still have vitality. When the remaining leaves touch the corpse energy in the evil spirit's body, the dead energy began to absorb the corpse energy and live, and finally took root and sprouted slowly.

The effect of cypress wood's soul-relieving and evil spirits completely restrains evil spirits, making evil spirits unable to remove the residual leaves from their bodies, and can only allow the residual leaves of cypress wood to grow in their bodies. The relationship between the two is like a vine on a towering tree.

There is such a kind of vine deep in the towering Qinling Mountains that will produce sweet and tiny seeds to attract birds to eat. The seeds are eaten by the birds and discharged together with the feces on the trunk or branches of the red pine, and the seedlings will germinate and grow into thick shrubs. After that, many floating roots of the floating roots grow toward the ground. Some of the floating roots are attached to the trunk of the red pine, and some of the floating roots droop down from the host branches, and the downward roots gradually increase and merge with each other until the host's trunk is wrapped around its powerful wooden root net. At this time, the crown of the vine also increases and luxuriates, covering the host's crown, and the host is sucked dry because it cannot see the sunlight and its own nutrients, and it is eventually strangled and decayed. Later, the floating root roots of this vine plant have already taken root into the ground, and the thick root net becomes an empty tube, but it can still live a completely independent life.

The situation of evil spirits is exactly the same as the situation of the vine host. The cypress leaves survived by plundering its nutrients in his body. I had heard that evil spirits harmed more than a dozen lives in Lantian County. Their blood volume was far beyond the limit that evil spirits could accommodate. However, when catching the evil spirits, the evil spirit's body was no different from before, but the belly was slightly raised, as if a person was overeating. An adult qi and blood were enough to allow the evil spirits to digest for more than three months. During this period, the evil spirits could not drink or eat, and sink to the bottom of the water was no different from the dead. It was obvious that these qi and blood were not called

The evil spirit was digested. I guessed that the time was exactly when the cypress leaves were about to take root and sprout. The cypress leaves were complemented by the lack of defects and used the remaining leaves to form trees. The energy required was immeasurable. The cypress leaves themselves have no foundation. Where did so much energy come from? It can only plunder the origin of the evil spirit. It is most likely that the cypress leaves grow and plunder the evil spirit. The evil spirit felt that it was dangerous to overturn it again. Is there any way to take the cypress leaves out of the body, so I plundered the blood and used the plundered qi and blood to provide the growth of the cypress leaves!

Even if the evil spirit is not discovered, one day it will die because the cypress tree absorbs all its essence and is exhausted. At that time, a new cypress will grow out of the body of the evil spirit, and the whole body of the evil spirit will turn into the nutrients of the cypress. The new cypress tree is born to absorb corpse energy, ghost energy, and blood energy. It will be one step higher than other trees from birth. It can be cultivated into a monster without experiencing the hard work of the sun and moon essence for five hundred years. Due to the evil spirit, after cultivating into a monster, this cypress must be an evil monster. However, if it waits for it to practice for thousands of years to kill it, its wood heart is very likely to become the legendary soul-focusing tree.
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