"Come in and watch. We'll live in the corner of the yard. Just don't go in." Han Yaolu forced a smile and suggested. "The Red Master must have been afraid that we would become dependent, so he took the initiative to leave. He was just taking care of us secretly."
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"Definitely." Guo Zixuan also nodded with a sad face.
Ma Jingxuan tried hard to stabilize her mind, without the Red Master to rely on. A wave of fear and uneasiness kept rising in her heart.
But as the team leader, if she panics at this time, the entire team will be in chaos.
"It should be like this. We just concentrate on solving the task. Since the sect has assigned us this task, it means that we can solve it alone. As long as we are careful, there will be no problem."
"Senior sister is right."
Guo Zixuan quickly agreed.
"Let's make a fire first, and then put up the tent."
A few people entered the Taoist temple and started to get busy.
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Lin Xin walked alone in the dark forest. Looking around, he saw that everything was the same. The mountains and forests were continuous, deep and cold.
The sky gradually darkened, and the only light was the white light of clouds left in the sky after the sun had completely set.
Lin Xin walked slowly in the forest, stepping on the thick fallen leaves with his feet, making a crackling sound. It seemed that some branches or dry leaves had been trampled to pieces.
Just now, he suddenly felt as if someone was rushing past outside. The sound was so quiet that Ma Jingxuan and the other three could not hear it. He happened to want to act alone to prevent Ma Jingxuan from relying too much on him and being unable to truly face the task independently.
incident. So I took action and left instantly.
Unexpectedly, after he came out, he still didn't see anyone.
After walking around the Taoist temple, Lin Xin found a big tree trunk behind the Taoist temple. There seemed to be traces of rope binding.
There is nothing unusual about the rest.
He simply jumped up lightly and landed on a branch of a big tree. He cleaned the branches, sat cross-legged and meditated, and continued to explore the Nine Wounds of Eternal Sleep.
Soon after.
There were faint sounds of bonfires burning inside the Taoist temple, as well as the faint sounds of Ma Jingxuan and the other three talking.
Even with his eyes closed, Lin Xin could detect their movements with his keen five senses.
The time was getting late. The branch of the tree where he sat was completely dark, without any light.
Except for a few stars in the sky, even the moon was completely obscured by thick clouds. Only a little glimmer of light could be seen in the entire forest, which was blurry.
I don't know how long it took, but there was no more sound coming from the campfire, and Lin Xin slowly opened his eyes.
The tree branch he was sitting on was considered a high place. Looking into the Taoist temple from here, one could vaguely see the top part of the flames of the bonfire.
At this time, there was no one around the fire, but the fire was burning very brightly. Everyone seemed to have rested in their three tents. Some anti-beast medicine powder was sprinkled beside it. There was also a circle of talisman hanging on it.
silk thread surrounds the tent.
"It's fairly well-prepared." Lin Xin nodded approvingly, and was about to get up and go down to check.
But suddenly he felt his skin numb, and he suddenly looked under the tree.
I saw a vague figure in white clothes under the tree, looking up at him, with a pair of bulging eyes staring straight at him, as if the dark shadow had no hiding effect at all.
In the blink of an eye, the man disappeared instantly, as if it was just an illusion.
Lin Xin's face was expressionless. He carefully sensed the movement around him, but he couldn't feel any living thing approaching.
"Something interesting."
He gently dropped down from the tree and looked around.
There are no traces of human activity, and there is only a line of footprints left by himself under the woods.
He took out a high-level resentment talisman, but there was no movement on the talisman.
"If you don't have resentment, you are not a resentful spirit."
After pondering for a moment, he quickly looked towards the Taoist temple.
This Taoist temple does not seem to be as simple as the mission says.
"Monster, monster? There is actually a monster hidden inside, and there are traces of that thing's activities all around. It's just the person just now."
He recalled the figure just now.
It was all white and blurry, with very few hairs, and nothing else could be seen clearly.
"Definitely not a monster"
With a slight leap, he fell into the Taoist temple. He silently clicked on the moss-covered stone bricks.
Looking around, it seemed like a small garden. A few hoes and showerheads were placed aside. It seemed that not long ago, someone was planting flowers here.
On the right is the dark cloister of the Taoist temple, and on the left is a row of small houses like woodsheds.
There is also a well in the middle yard, with a wooden barrel leaning on the side.
Lin Xin walked to the barrel, squatted down and touched the edge of the barrel. It was cold and a little rough to the touch. It had a hard yet tough feel unique to wood. The most important thing was that it was not wet.
I walked to the mouth of the well and looked in. There was glistening water inside, but there was nothing there.
Snap.
Suddenly, in the darkness of the corridor over there, there was a sound of something falling on the wooden board.
Lin Xin looked up, but saw nothing. A thick layer of dust slowly accumulated on the wooden floor. With his eyesight, he could clearly see not to mention footprints, but even insect prints.
Less than one.
Slowly placing his hand on the red flower sword, Lin Xin suddenly thought that this was the little guy's task and he couldn't take the initiative.
After pondering for a moment, he let go of the red flower sword and walked directly towards the dark corridor.
Soon, I walked to the entrance of the corridor. It was pitch dark inside without any light.
He took out a fire stick, lit it with a flick of his tongue, then took out the prepared torch and lit it.
Suddenly a yellow fire ignited, illuminating most of the corridor.
Looking forward along the firelight, at the end of the corridor is a half-open wooden door. The door is constantly swaying with the breeze, giving people the illusion that someone has just passed through.
Holding the torch, Lin Xin slowly walked into the corridor, and soon arrived at the door, pulling it gently.
"?!"
The door swayed slightly and could not be opened!
Lin Xin was stunned. He clearly felt that someone was on the other side of the door. He also pulled the door hard, but the force was offset by him, so that the door could not be opened at all.
squeaky
The door kept shaking under the force of two forces. The man inside seemed to be frantically trying to close the door. Lin Xin wanted to open it completely.
let go.
Unexpectedly, the power on the other side of the wooden door also disappeared at the same time.
Lin Xin was a little surprised. He looked at the wooden door and had no intention of going in. After all, this Taoist temple was the mission of the little fat girl. If he figured it out, he would not achieve the purpose of letting the little fat girl experience it.
After returning to the Taoist temple, he found another big tree and went up to rest.
It wasn't until dawn and the crisp chirping of birds became more and more frequent that he slowly woke up.
There were faint sounds from the three little guys inside the Taoist temple, as if they were planning to get up and explore the entire Taoist temple.
Lin Xin fell down gently and followed behind them.
After entering the gate of the Taoist temple, I saw them walking into the main hall with the incomplete statue of the god. Then they murmured to each other and split up to investigate the situation.
After waiting for others to leave, Lin Xin walked to the main hall and looked up at the strange statue of a god that seemed to be smiling but not smiling.
"The four-armed demon god?"
He recognized this statue. It was not a true king, but simply one of the demon gods of the demon clan.
"In other words, this is not a Taoist temple for human beings at all, but for the demon clan." He carefully checked the incense candles used in the hall, and sure enough, they were all lavender. Only the demon clan would use lavender incense candles.
Worship the idol.
"Since it's a real person in person, the little demon won't hide it anymore." Suddenly a voice came from behind him.
Lin Xin turned around and saw behind him. Standing at the entrance of the hall was a beautiful woman in a pink petal dress, holding a red oil paper umbrella. Her long hair hung down from her waist, looking at herself quietly.
"Who are you?"
The woman smiled brightly, walked in holding an umbrella, and bowed slightly to Lin Xin face to face.
"The little girl Gong Shou Lian has been practicing here for more than four hundred years."
"Isn't this a place that a mere demon could create?" Lin Xin said calmly.
"The real person knows everything clearly." The woman who called herself Gong Shou Lian nodded. "This was originally a small Taoist temple dedicated to the Demon Goddess, but one day an uninvited guest came. From that day on, this place began to decline day by day.
The little demon died and scattered. Until now."
"As for the abnormal situation here, it was originally because of this phenomenon that the Taoist temple was built here." Gong Shoulian explained in a low voice.
"What's abnormal?"
Gong ShouLian hesitated.
"Since the real person asked, I will take you to take a look and you will find out. Anyway, most of the experts in the area know about this, but no one wants to come and wade through this muddy water."
"Oh?" Lin Xinyiqi, since he knew everything, he still didn't want to come. It seemed like it was really difficult.
"Take me to see you first."
The woman nodded quickly.
"Please come with me, real person."
She led Lin Xin out of the Taoist temple and walked a few hundred meters along the mountain path. She soon saw an extremely thick but unusually short strange tree.
This strange tree grows beside a silver-white stream. It has many strange tumors all over its body. Its bark is full of rough particles and protrusions. It looks like it is very old.
"Grandpa Tree, I brought a real person here to take a look." Gong Shouli shouted softly to the strange tree.
puff!
A puff of thick smoke exploded from the ground, and the white smoke quickly dissipated, revealing an old man with a white beard and a cane.
The old man has a big bump on his forehead. He looks like a child and has fair hair. He is very long-lived. He doesn’t know how many years he has lived.
"I've met Taoist friend." The old man bowed slightly to Lin Xin.
Lin Xin quickly returned the gift.
"Fellow Taoist, is he the mountain god who lives in this mountain?"
There are spirits in the mountains, who draw the earth as a prison and work hard for many years to finally become mountain gods.
Some of the mountain gods are Yin spirits, and some are monsters. They are all righteous people who accumulate the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and never kill any living thing. Therefore, most of them are righteous people.
"Exactly." The old man nodded, "The old man Murong Ci has been a mountain god for more than three hundred years. It was originally an old tree in this mountain."
"I'm Honghua, here to protect the younger generation." Lin Xin also introduced himself.
"The thing is like this. There is a monster here, named Sahan, who makes trouble here all the year round and disturbs living beings." Murong Ci sighed, "To tell you the truth, I have become a mountain god not long ago, and my Taoist practices may not be as strong as those of my fellow Taoists.
When this happened, Danggui naturally took action to solve it, but he didn't expect that there was a big demon behind Sahan, living in the Snake Cave in Wuchen Mountain. Then" (To be continued.)