Yunhualin is a famous spiritual place in Yangzhou and Jingzhou, so naturally there are some people who come here to settle down.
Moreover, this place is a holy land for spiritual cultivation. The earth's aura is pure, there is little turbid evil aura, and the number of spirits is very small. Some minority races that are not seen in ordinary counties have taken root and established villages nearby.
The first village that Ling Shuang brought Milo to was a typical example.
The village has a huge circular earth building as its core.
The earth building is three feet high. The structure below one foot is mostly made of rock with various runes carved on the surface. The structure above one foot is mostly made of soil. There are small windows, which do not look like lighting and ventilation, but are used for lighting and ventilation.
Throwing, or scouting, the normal window is two feet above.
The circular roof is about three feet high. Milo can see from a distance that on each tile, there are strange runes that resemble abstract patterns of some kind of animal. They are connected in series to form a whole, preventing outsiders from entering from above.
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Ling Shuang saw Milo staring at the earth building, thought for a while, and explained to Milo: "Yun Hualin...Although there are...relatively few spirits nearby...but they are only relatively few...when they should appear, there will still be...and
The people who moved here...mostly there were only about a hundred people at the beginning...they built earthen buildings to protect themselves."
Ling Shuang's words became smoother and smoother, and in the end there was no pause at all: "When the number of people exceeds 10,000 and can be called villages and towns, and after the statues of emperors and gods are built, new houses will be built around the earth building with the earth building as the center..."
"Who are you?"
A slightly childish voice sounded, and then both Milo and Ling Shuang felt a little bit in danger.
Turning around, he saw a girl less than five feet tall standing on the treetop, staring at Milo and Ling Shuang with a pair of cat eyes that were twice larger than an ordinary person's.
This girl is wearing a warrior-like outfit. The biggest difference from other girls of her age is that she has a pair of snow-white cats on her head and a tail of the same color on the back of her body.
She held a special bow and arrow in her hand, and there seemed to be light flowing on it. It was the light arrow on the bow that gave Milo a sense of danger.
"Raccoon clan?"
Milo whispered softly, while Ling Shuang beside him stared at the bow in the girl's hand and said, "Liu Guang Bow, who are you, Li Yao?"
"Do you know my father?"
"I even helped you build the flowing light bow in your hand."
Hearing Ling Shuang's answer, the girl seemed a little confused, but when she saw the Yun Hualin token emerging from Ling Shuang's hand, she immediately put down the flowing light bow in her hand, jumped down from the tree, and said with cupped hands: "Banlixiang Li
I’ve seen you two, are you here to deal with the strange things that happened recently?”
When Milo heard this, he thought of the reason why Mrs. Yunhua asked Ling Shuang to come out, and asked: "Can you explain the specific matter in detail?"
"I'm not very clear about this. I'll take you to see the elders."
When Li Quan spoke, the ears above his head twitched and his tail behind him swung unconsciously, as if he was a little embarrassed. After he finished speaking, he immediately walked in front to lead the way for Milo and the others.
Along the way, Milo saw many Tanuki youths wearing armor and holding weapons. They all looked very vigilant.
Some residents who came and went were wary at first when meeting outsiders like Milo and Ling Shuang, but after Li Quan explained, they became excited and happy.
Milo asked: "Has anything big happened recently?"
"Fifteen people have died, including five children. Most of them disappeared while fishing or collecting medicine. We have been looking for them for a long time, but we have not found them. Three days ago, the elders divined for them.
For a moment, he said he was killed."
When Li Quan said this, his snow-white ears drooped down, his tail stopped wagging, and he looked very depressed.
"Have you told the county about this?"
Milo asked, but Li Quan pricked up his ears and said with some displeasure: "I don't know, but the clan leader should have said it. It's useless for me to tell the county. They don't do anything except at the end of each year, the beginning of the year, or
When the official changes, he will come to our place for a walk, and other times he doesn't care about us at all. As long as we don't all die at once, it can be regarded as an accident to them. After all..."
Before Li Quan finished speaking, a slightly older voice sounded: "A Quan, what are you talking about with the guests?"
"Elder!"
Hearing that sound, Li Quan's tail froze, his snow-white hair stood up one by one, and he jumped back a foot.
It was like a cat that was eating, and when he turned around, he suddenly found a cucumber next to him.
The person who scared Li Quan was a short old woman with an old face wearing a robe and holding a cane.
She is about three feet tall, and has snow-white ears similar to Li Quan's on top of her head. A moon-like pattern is drawn between her eyebrows. She is surrounded by strong willpower, a little bit of moonlight-like mana, and here.
The aura of the earth lineage clearly indicates that this is a monk who inherits the folk dharma lineage.
However, this elder of the raccoon tribe is much more powerful than the two that Milo saw at Xiangyan.
Among the three powers entangled in his body, the weakest mana power is equivalent to that of a Foundation Establishment monk. The earth vein aura and incense wish power are both inferior to Milo's current mana accumulation.
She looked at Miluo and Ling Shuang, bowed slightly and said, "I think these two are the envoys of Yun Hualin. Please come in and have a seat."
After saying that, he took the lead in walking towards the earth building. When Li Quan saw this, he also hurriedly followed.
The few people were not slow, but they walked for about a stick of incense before reaching the earth building.
The internal structure of this earth building is somewhat different from what Milo imagined.
There are also two smaller earth buildings inside, which are two feet high and one foot high respectively.
The middle of each earth building and earth building is about one foot and two feet wide, and is paved with bluestone slabs with holes. Listen to the sounds and watch the breath, and there is clear water flowing underneath.
In the center of the earth building is the ancestral hall of Banli Township, which enshrines all the ancestors who sacrificed their lives for the continuation of the ethnic group over the years.
The strong wish power formed a small incense barrier here. As soon as the raccoon clan elder entered it, the wish power on his body merged with the surroundings, and the power rose to a higher level again.
Milo suspected that in this ancestral hall, this raccoon clan elder could fight against a monk in the Ningzhen Realm.
The old woman invited the two of them, Milo, to sit down. Immediately beside them, young raccoon boys and girls came forward with tea, cakes and spiritual fruits, and placed them on the table beside the three of them.
Qing Ling looked at the fairly well-made pastry and couldn't help but pick up a piece, put it at the end, and tasted it carefully.
Seeing this, the elder of the raccoon tribe in the main seat turned his attention to Milo.
"This Taoist priest is not a spiritual practitioner of Yun Hualin, right?"