"When we met her, she was squatting on the ground picking up wild fruits. Maybe her eyesight was bad. She couldn't pick up a few after searching for a long time, so Mr. Lin went over to help her pick them up."
"After picking it up, she asked Mr. Lin to take her across the river. I was about to say where is the river, but when I turned around, I saw a small ditch next to the road we just walked."
"Mr. Lin was kind-hearted and carried her directly. Then she forced him to give him some wild fruits as a thank you gift and invited him to visit her home in the future."
Hearing this, Shen Qingqing couldn't help but interject: "Master Lin promised her?"
"This..." Mr. Chen stroked his beard in confusion, "Master Lin seemed to have replied 'I'll do it when I have time'. It was just a polite word. Does this count as an agreement?"
"After harvesting wild fruits and saying such words, it must be regarded as an agreement."
Master Chen was still confused, "So what will be the consequences of agreeing?"
Shen Qingqing pointed at the unconscious Lin Ziyan on the bed, pursed her lips, "Well, that's it."
"Why? Is there any connection between the two?"
"If I guess correctly, the old woman you and Mr. Lin met should not be human."
Master Chen's heart tightened: "Ghost, ghost?"
Could it be that he really had to guess?
"But it was noon when we met the old woman, and the sun was shining brightly. Don't ghosts like to be active at night?"
"This statement is originally wrong. Noon is indeed the time when Yang Qi is at its strongest, but everything that reaches its peak must decline. When Yang Qi is at its peak, it is also when it peaks and then declines. The alternation of yin and yang makes it the time when ghosts and ghosts are most active."
Shen Qingqing looked back at Lin Ziyan with a solemn expression, "Based on this situation, Mr. Lin should have been exchanged for his life by a Yin man."
"Change your life? How?" Master Chen was shocked.
"The old ghost gave Mr. Lin some wild fruits in exchange for chips. Mr. Lin accepted the wild fruits and promised her to go to her house when she was free. After coming back and forth, wouldn't the deal be concluded?"
"Huh?" Master Chen's jaw dropped in shock, "A few broken fruits can be exchanged for a life, why doesn't she go rob him?"
"Now that the matter has come to this, it's useless to talk about it anymore. Let's find a way to break the contract first." Shen Qingqing raised her eyes and looked around, "Where are the wild fruits that the old ghost gave you? Just give them back to her."
Master Chen turned his head and asked the little thin man, "Where are the wild fruits?"
The little skinny man said obediently, "Eat, eat..."
"Eat?!" Master Chen exploded and raised his arm to hit someone, "Why are you so greedy? Why are you so greedy!"
That’s Master Lin’s life!
The little thin man's neck tightened, "You gave me the fruit, didn't you just let me eat it?"
It really is……
Master Chen stamped his foot and was so angry that he could not speak.
"It's okay, the fruit is gone, there is another way."
Master Chen immediately became energetic, "What can we do?"
Shen Qingqing raised her head, her eyes burning, "Kill that harmful old ghost."
To make sure nothing went wrong, she took out the purple gold gourd to collect Lin Ziyan's soul, and then asked Master Chen: "Do you still remember where the incident happened?"
Master Chen was gearing up and excited, "Of course I know, I can recognize that road even if I'm blindfolded!"
Half an hour later, Master Chen stood at a fork in the road, looking left and right. He was dumbfounded, "I clearly remembered that I should go north. Where is the road to the north?"
"Perhaps there is no road in the first place?" Shen Qingqing stepped into the grassland and walked north through the tangled weeds.
After not walking far, we came to a deserted cemetery.
There are small protruding graves all over the place, one next to another, about a hundred graves. The Yin air hovers above the graves, and it is a dense black mass, as thick as ink.
Master Chen shivered as soon as he arrived at the place, and said stumblingly: "It feels like this, it's eerie and scary, but..."
He looked around and asked: "Where did the village go? There are still small ditches, why are they gone?"
Shen Qingqing raised her chin, "Isn't it the one in front?"
Master Chen followed her line of sight and saw only many dusty graves. "You mean... that cemetery is the village where Mr. Lin and I met this morning? Didn't we walk around the cemetery?"
Daquan, did you also have lunch by the way?"
"Maybe there's a kid sitting around watching you eat." Shen Qingqing deliberately scared him.
When Master Chen heard this, he ran away from Lao Gao and hugged Meng Yuan's neck tightly like a koala and refused to let go, "Master Shen, will I be okay?"
"It will be fine for the time being, but it may not happen next." Shen Qingqing suddenly threw a talisman towards him and said loudly: "Take it and hide away."
While speaking, he pulled out the Soul-Suppressing Ruler and slashed forward to the left. The Soul-Suppressing Ruler drew a sharp golden light, breaking through the black mist and stabbing at the ferocious old ghost behind the mist.
With a "puff" sound, golden light entered his body, and the old ghost was beaten until black blood spurted out from his mouth, and he staggered a few steps.
Shen Qingqing retracted the ruler blade and looked at her sharply: "Can't you afford a sneak attack?"
The old ghost was irritated by her arrogant and arrogant attitude. He clenched his fists and roared: "Death! Die! Everyone die!"
Its sound became louder and louder, causing black air to surge around it, causing people's faces to hurt like surging waves.
"die!"
"Die! Die all!"
Several crazy echoes sounded in the black fog.
Old and ugly evil spirits crawled out of the graves, waving wooden sticks and pounced on Shen Qingqing one after another.
When Meng Yuan saw this, he also drew his dagger and stood up, "It's still the same as before, I'm responsible for catching and you're responsible for killing."
The two of them have fought together many times and have a tacit understanding of each other. Sometimes they know what the other person is going to do just by looking at them without speaking.
Although there were many little ghosts in the cemetery, they were all little ones with no cultivation. They only knew how to charge blindly. They were quickly cleared away by the two of them, leaving only the old ghost with a face that was droopy to his chin.
Shen Qingqing played with the soul-suppressing ruler, walked slowly to it, and asked: "Who taught you the life-changing formation, and who ordered you to harm Master Lin?"
The old ghost shook his head and kept retreating with a horrified look on his face, as if Shen Qingqing was the evil ghost who killed people without blinking an eye.
"You're not telling the truth, are you? Then I have a way to deal with an old guy like you." Shen Qingqing snapped her fingers, and the lazy ball sprang out from behind her with great cooperation, and roared "Ouch!", which frightened her.
The old ghost trembled a few times.
"Don't eat me, I'll tell you everything, I am..."
As soon as he started talking, Meng Yuan's exclamation suddenly came from behind him: "Be careful!"
Without thinking, Shen Qingqing jumped to the open space on the left. A sharp arrow passed through the place where she was standing and pierced into the trunk of the poplar tree standing in front of her.
On the other side, Meng Yuan was already fighting with the man in black who was shooting arrows.
In addition, dozens of men in black suddenly appeared in the grassland outside the cemetery, gathering towards them in an encirclement.