"This is actually a temple. I thought it was an ancestral hall."
In the deserted temple hall, Zhou Fan and Zhang Yuanhua were looking at a statue of a god curiously.
It was a statue of a female god wearing palace clothes. The woman was wearing a red hijab and her face could not be seen clearly.
The woman held a jade vase in one hand, and made a strange orchid print in her other hand.
The reason why the orchid print is strange is because the fingers of the woman's jade hands are only half-closed.
"Is this worshiping Guanyin?"
After Zhang Yuanhua looked at the statue for a few times, he couldn't help but murmured a guess.
"Does your Guanyin wear a hijab?"
Zhou Fan rolled his eyes when he heard this and couldn't help but complain!
"Forehead......"
"Maybe the masters who carved the statues have never seen what Guanyin looks like, so they simply put on a red hijab to save trouble."
Zhang Yuanhua's unreasonable speculation left Zhou Fan speechless.
"There are so many wooden signs here!"
"Strange! Why are they all engraved with the same ancient characters?"
Just as Zhou Fan was silently looking at the statue, Zhang Yuanhua's voice came from one side of the hall.
He didn't know when he had already run to the table where the memorial tablets were enshrined in the hall, curiously looking at the wooden tablets that looked like tablets.
After Zhou Fan heard this, he walked over and found that all the memorial tablets had ancestors of the Jiang family written on them.
It is not difficult to guess from the tablet that all the villagers in this village are probably named Jiang.
There are about dozens of tablets. Some of them look very primitive and show their age at first glance, and some of them seem to be very new, as if they were carved in recent years.
"The smell of blood!"
At this time, Zhou Fan suddenly became vigilant, and he smelled a faint smell of blood.
And the faint smell of blood seems to come from those brand-new tablets.
"Look, there seems to be blood stains behind this tablet!"
Zhang Yuanhua picked up the two brand-new tablets at this time, and after looking at them, handed them to Zhou Fan.
Zhou Fan discovered that there were some dense patterns carved behind the tablet, and there was solidified blood inside those patterns.
"This is human blood!"
After getting closer and smelling it carefully, Zhou Fan couldn't help but frown and said.
However, the solidified blood behind the tablet seems to be covered by the light woody fragrance of the wooden tablet, locking the smell. Unless you get very close, you can barely smell the smell of blood.
So Zhou Fan concluded that the smell of blood he smelled did not come from those tablets.
His eyes instantly fell on the sacrificial cloth covered under the altar table. When he signaled Zhang Yuanhua to take a few steps back, he slowly lifted up the sacrificial cloth with the tip of his sword.
"Meow!"
I saw a black shadow instantly rushing towards Zhou Fan, but was cut in half by the swift sword light in the blink of an eye.
Only then did he see clearly that the black shadow attacking him was actually a black cat.
"Zhao Zhuang!"
At this time, Zhang Yuanhua exclaimed and rushed to the desk.
I saw a blood-stained figure lying under the altar cloth on the desk. It was a middle-aged man with short hair and a body that looked like pimples.
When he was carefully pulled out of the altar table by Zhang Yuanhua, Zhou Fan stepped forward to check the middle-aged man's pulse.
"He still has a weak pulse, please keep an eye on the surrounding area and I will treat his injuries."
Zhou Fan reminded Zhang Yuanhua, and then released the bone whip to help him alert his surroundings.
As wisps of forbidden energy poured into the burly Zhao Zhuang's body, his dying pulse gradually increased.
Zhao Zhuang's cultivation should not be weak, at least he was in the early stage of the Spiritual General Realm. There was a weak forbidden energy in his body that was healing himself, which was how he was saved.
He was seriously injured. Not only did he suffer serious internal injuries, he also suffered extremely serious external injuries.
However, his physical body obviously has a strong self-healing ability, and the scarred external injuries have almost scabbed and stopped bleeding.
The injuries on Zhao Zhuang's body looked like knife marks and sword wounds, as if he had experienced a tragic fight.
There were several missing pieces of blood-stained flesh on his butt, and the bite marks were probably from the previous black cat.
"Tsk, tsk! That black cat really has a strong taste, and he even chose the butt meat to bite!"
Just when Zhou Fan was distracted looking at the wound, Zhang Yuanhua gasped and couldn't help but made a teasing voice.
Zhou Fan couldn't help but smile when he heard this. If he and Zhang Yuanhua hadn't arrived in time, I'm afraid that even if Zhao Zhuang could barely survive, he would eventually become the black cat's food.
As the sky gradually darkened, Zhou Fan instilled a lot of forbidden energy into Zhao Zhuang. When he saw that he was no longer in serious trouble, he took back the forbidden energy and stood up.
"I've searched the entire temple, and I didn't see anyone else."
"We can only wait for him to wake up and then ask what's going on."
Zhang Yuanhua walked up to Zhou Fan and said that he had searched the entire temple and found no one else.
A whole day passed, and the injuries inside his body were basically healed.
This was also thanks to some healing elixirs given by Zhou Fan, which shortened the time it took for him to recover from his injuries.
"See if you can wake him up. I'll go around the village to see what's going on."
Zhou Fan reminded Zhang Yuanhua, then stood up and walked out of the hall.
At this moment, a pair of green eyes suddenly appeared outside the dark hall.
Those eyes are all hiding in the darkness, like wild wolves at night, ready to attack at any time.
When Zhou Fan saw this, he quickly stopped and looked warily at the pair of green eyes outside the hall.
"cough!"
"Ahem..."
At this time, a violent coughing sound came from outside the hall.
Zhou Fan heard the news and went to find Zhang Yuanhua taking off his smelly socks and putting them in front of Zhao Zhuang's nostrils.
Zhao Zhuang probably choked on the strong smell, and then he coughed violently and woke up slowly.
"He's too deep in coma and can't wake him up, so we can only use this method."
Zhang Yuanhua seemed to notice Zhou Fan's gaze and couldn't help but explain.
"What does it smell like! So smelly!"
"Did I fall into the ditch?"
Zhao Zhuang, who had recovered from his repeated coughing, subconsciously pinched his nose and muttered to himself.
Zhang Yuanhua's cheeks twitched slightly when he heard this, thinking about your stinky mouth, can my socks be compared to a smelly ditch?
Zhang Yuanhua, who couldn't stop complaining, brought the socks in front of him and took a whiff. He almost died on the spot. He was so frightened that he quickly held his breath and put the socks on quickly.
"Ahem!"
"It's just a little over the top!"
After putting on his socks and shoes, Zhang Yuanhua did not forget to explain.
Zhou Fan walked forward and rolled his eyes. Now that the air was polluted, there was still a smell of smelly socks.
"Captain Zhang! Why are you here?"
At this time, Zhao Zhuang, who had gradually woke up, finally saw Zhang Yuanhua and Zhou Fan.
"Stop talking nonsense! Where are the others?"
Zhang Yuanhua quickly asked!
"Everyone else was killed!"
"We were controlled by a strange wooden sign and involuntarily came to this deserted village."
"If I hadn't broken free of control halfway, I might have been doomed."
Zhao Zhuang explained with a lingering fear, and then looked at Zhou Fan who was standing aside.
"He is the right protector's cousin Zhou Fan!"
Zhang Yuanhua seemed to notice Zhao Zhuang's alert look and couldn't help but explain.
"I'm afraid we're in trouble!"
At this time, Zhou Fan said with a solemn expression!
"not good!"
Soon, Zhang Yuanhua also reacted and immediately helped Zhao Zhuang up and pulled him behind him.
I saw that all the tablets on the desk were floating at this moment, and strange blood lines emerged one after another, and actually condensed into pairs of blood-colored eyes on the wooden tablets.
If this were an ordinary person, he would probably either be scared to death or run away at this moment.
Fortunately, Zhou Fan and others had seen strong winds and waves, so they did not act rashly at this moment. After all, those things with green eyes outside the hall were not a good thing at first glance.
"Just like this wooden sign! Don't get close to them, they will suck human blood and pour it into the nerves to dominate our bodies!"
Zhao Zhuang reminded Zhou Fan and Zhang Yuanhua that he had taken the lead in condensing a scimitar and was ready to fight at any time.
"You two, pay attention to those things outside the palace! Don't let them run in!"
Zhou Fan reminded Zhang Yuanhua and the other two, and rushed forward with his sword.
"Boohoo!"
Just as he swung his sword to slash at the many wooden signs, countless bloody threads shot towards him in an instant.
Those bloody threads were extremely tough, but they were still cut off by Zhou Fan's white sword.
"Clang!"
"Qiang Qiang Qiang!"
Zhou Fan cut off countless blood-colored threads and slashed at the wooden plaques with his sword. He found that they were extremely tough and difficult to break, and could only barely leave a series of sword marks.
Before dozens of tablets could counterattack, Zhou Fan had already taken out the green lantern and activated it.
The flame of the green lantern has a restraining effect on the tablet that already contains negative energy.
Fire defeats wood, no matter how strong and hard the wood is, it still cannot withstand the burning flames.
As soon as the bloody thread touched the flame, it was instantly burned to ashes.
Dozens of wooden signs were once again enveloped in green flames, and soon began to burn and crackle.
"Clang!"
"Bang, bang, bang, bang..."
As the sound of falling wooden signs sounded one after another, Zhou Fan frowned and glanced at the statue in the distance.
Only then did he withdraw his gaze and look at the many wooden signs that had turned into charcoal.
"Done, done?"
Zhao Zhuang, who was watching the battle on the sidelines, was a little dumbfounded. He didn't expect that he risked his life to escape from being chased by several wooden signs.
But Zhou Fan actually took a dozen breaths to kill them all easily.
"Stay here and don't run around! I'll go outside and take a look!"
Zhou Fan did not explain, but instead told the two people not far away, and then turned into an afterimage and flew out of the hall.
Soon there was a roar of fighting outside the hall, and Zhang Yuanhua and Zhao Zhuang inside the hall felt their scalps go numb.
At this moment, I saw that the outside of the palace was full of eyes glowing with green light, and Zhou Fan was killing everyone in the green light.
As a ball of blue flame turned into a long snake and illuminated the outside of the palace, Zhang Yuanhua and Zhao Zhuang saw clearly that those who besieged Zhou Fan were some wild beasts or even skeletons.
There were actually more than a dozen humanoid corpses among them, with wooden signs attached to their backs, and the green eyes were a pair of eyes condensed from the wooden signs.
Soon, the blazing flames outside the palace gradually became quiet.
All the wooden signs were burned to ashes, and Zhou Fan took advantage of the night to fly out of the temple and soon entered an attic.
There was no one in the dead attic, and the objects on the first floor were all daily necessities.
He walked slowly to the second floor and found that the layout of the second floor was exactly the same as the attic he saw during the day.
When he came to the third floor, he also saw the Buddhist niche.
It's just that the Buddhist niches on the third floor are empty and don't enshrine anything.