In the morning, the weather is slightly chilly, and the cool morning breeze blows on people's bodies, which makes people have the urge to tighten their clothes.
Especially Qian Zhikun and Li Longjiang, who were standing in front of the haunted ghost forest. Looking at the deep and dark woods, they felt faintly like poisonous snakes crawling on their backs.
cold.
Xiaoye was wearing a white casual suit and stood proudly in the morning breeze. His faint calm demeanor was heart-wrenching.
Suddenly, Xiao Ye said: "Director Qian, Director Li, I'll go in then. If nothing unexpected happens, I will definitely be back before night."
Qian Zhikun wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and hurriedly warned, "Okay, Comrade Xiaoye, you must be careful. No one here is familiar with the road inside, so you must be cautious."
"I know, I'm going to find out what kind of ghosts and monsters are here." Xiaoye smiled confidently, bathed in the morning breath, and strode into this daunting ghost forest!
As soon as we entered the woods, it suddenly became dark around us. The huge crowns of ancient trees that had grown for hundreds of years blocked most of the sun's rays, making the woods as hazy as evening. People instinctively gave birth to
A sense of fear.
Although Xiaoye was bold as a skilled artist, and was sweating slightly on his forehead at this moment, he thought to himself: After all, we are also a prominent figure in the underworld, and our skills are nothing to say among the Zhongnanhai bodyguards.
Thinking of this, his courage became stronger. His steps became more agile, and he walked deeper into the woods, stepping on the dead trees and fallen leaves that had been accumulated on the ground for countless years.
After walking slowly for hundreds of steps, Xiaoye couldn't help but frown a little while smelling the disgusting smell of rotting leaves.
Suddenly, a winding path appeared among the dense leaves, extending deep into the woods.
The trail was built along the mountain, but since no one has walked on it for many years, the dusty and plain steps are covered with moss and dirt, and there are even some happy toads and insects that have made this place their home. Displeased
They looked at the stranger in front of them who disturbed their tranquility.
This should be the road leading to Phoenix Temple. Xiaoye thought to himself, and walked up without hesitation. Although the soles of his feet were a little slippery.
After walking for more than two hundred steps, the winding path along the mountainside suddenly disappeared in front of a bush, as if the road only led here.
Xiaoye touched his nose, squatted down, and rummaged through the thick weeds with his hands, and suddenly saw an ancient and dilapidated stone tablet.
The stone tablet is very old and has a corner missing. The body is lying half buried in the wet soil, with three large bloody characters clearly engraved on it: Phoenix Temple!
Xiaoye's pupils immediately shrank slightly: Sure enough, it was indeed the Phoenix Temple! It seemed that because no one had walked around for a long time, the road was cut off by thick trees when it extended here.
At this moment, suddenly a strong wind blew in the surrounding woods, causing leaves to dance all over the sky, and a shrill howling sound, which could not help but add a third degree of coldness to the already weird atmosphere.
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With keen awareness, Xiaoye felt that there was a faint evil aura in this sudden dark wind, as if something dirty was snooping around him.
Xiaoye stood up, with a sneer on his lips, and looked carefully at the trees in front of him.
There is a difference in size between the trees that grow first and those that grow later, and there are still faint traces of the ancient road on the ground. The small leaves break through the grass and slowly search inside.
After walking another two or three hundred steps, suddenly everything went white in front of me, and a heavy fog strangely arose. In front of me, behind me, and even ten steps away, I couldn't even see my fingers.
Xiaoye was a little surprised: Hey, what's going on? There was obviously no fog this morning! He immediately figured it out: it was that dirty thing doing something strange again.
Xiaoye sneered: If you want to stop me from going to Phoenix Temple, there is no way. If you have the guts, you can come out and fight now. What is the ability of someone who is timid!
Stubbornly, he immediately mobilized his consciousness and slowly spread it around. Although this took more energy, the fog was dangerous and the enemy's situation was unknown, so he really couldn't be careless.
Xiao Yexuan continued to explore forward, but the evil aura that he had always felt hidden beside him seemed to have suddenly disappeared, and he could not catch any trace.
After walking about two to three hundred steps, Xiaoye suddenly stopped because he was shocked to find that after walking for a long time, he had returned to the place where he stood when the fog started.
Yes, that's right, exactly where it is.
Because Xiaoye clearly remembered that there was a split old locust tree next to him at that time, and there was a big black tree hole in the middle trunk. But now, this ugly old locust tree was right in front of Xiaoye.
"Hey, what's going on? Did you take a wrong detour?"
Xiaoye touched his nose in embarrassment. Although he could feel the approaching danger and the breath of life, he didn't know where the other party was, or where he was hiding.
"Let's walk again."
Xiaoye waved his fist angrily and walked forward again. He was not someone who gave up easily.
In the blink of an eye, five minutes passed, and Xiaoye suddenly saw that extremely annoying old locust tree again.
Unexpectedly, he turned back to where he was.
This time, no matter how stupid Xiaoye is, he still knows that something is wrong.
What's going on? Is it magic, hallucination, or formation?
Xiaoye felt a little headache for a moment. He was not afraid of head-on confrontation, but this kind of hide-and-seek contest was what he hated the most.
If it is a magic spell, then you can break it by finding the demon who cast the spell. But the problem is, there is no trace of the demon now.
It's an illusion, so use copper coins to resolve it. But the problem is, the copper coins don't seem to react.
It's a formation, so Xiaoye only needs to know how to crack it. But the problem is, it doesn't look like a formation.
For a moment, Xiaoye's expression suddenly became fierce, he puffed up his chest proudly, and shouted: "Monsters in the Phoenix Temple, listen to me, I'm already here. I'm here to conquer the demons and catch them. If you have land, come out and compete in person. It's always the same."
What kind of skill is it to do some heretical skills?"
Xiaoye's voice was quite loud, because he felt that even his eardrums were shaken to the point of buzzing, but in the deep woods and in the thick white mist, there was no response for a long time.
"hateful!"
Xiaoye was so angry that he stamped his feet. He really wanted to set fire to the bird forest. Let's see what other tricks the demon in the dark could play.
But after thinking about it, it seemed a bit unreasonable for him to burn all the original ecology of his place to develop the tourism industry. After all, he was invited to solve the problem, not to destroy it.
After getting angry for a while, Xiaoye suddenly sat down against the old locust tree and said coldly: "Okay, why don't you come out? I will spend time with you here to see who is afraid of whom."
Immediately, Xiaoye sat cross-legged and meditated, his consciousness slightly spread to ten steps away, and he maintained a state of pretending to sleep.
And in the deep woods, in the thick white mist, there was still no reaction at all, as if the thing hidden in the dark was quite afraid of Xiaoye.
As time passed, the sun moved from mid-air in the east to the center, and then from the center to the west. Ouyang Xuan, who had been sitting for five or six hours, finally couldn't stand it any longer.
"hateful!"
Xiaoye jumped up and gritted his teeth and said: "You really got into trouble with me. It really pissed me off. I don't care what rotten temples or tourism industries you have, I will burn them all."
But after getting mad, Xiaoye still didn't take action. He thought for a while and said: This dirty thing trapped him here and ignored him for a long time. Why? Is he seeing that he is simple, or is there another reason?
Xiaoye looked at the faint light cast from the huge canopy of trees above his head, and knew that the sun had turned to the west. Suddenly, his heart moved. Could it be that this dirty thing is waiting for time? Waiting for the night that the monsters and monsters like most?
"Humph, that's right. Look at the movements of this ghost Chong Chong. It's definitely not someone who dares to appear in broad daylight. Okay, then I'll wait and see what it is."
Xiaoye made up her mind and waited patiently, although she was indeed a little hungry at this time.
Time passed by little by little, and the sky slowly became dark. Just after five o'clock in the afternoon, the thick night fell on the earth, and the woods became darker and darker.
As the light became dimmer, the woods became more humid and gloomy. Coupled with the howling mountain wind, a terrifying sound like howling ghosts and wolves echoed in the woods.
The yin energy has become heavier.
Xiaoye judged silently, and suddenly felt that the thick fog around him seemed to be receding with his keen consciousness. He opened his eyes quickly and saw: Sure enough, the thick fog around him seemed to be pulled desperately by a huge black hole and quickly retreated. In the blink of an eye,
Then it disappeared dry and quietly, just as abruptly as when it came.
"Okay, it's time to play, right?"
Xiaoye jumped up and clenched his fists. He had now made up his mind that no matter what kind of monsters he encountered later, he would definitely vent his bad breath.
Suddenly, Xiaoye's sensitive ears caught a strange sound in the howling mountain wind: "Dingling bells!"
"It's a ringtone!"
Xiaoye couldn't help but be surprised. Could it be that he was still showing off in front of the demon field here?
With a puzzled look on his face, he quietly sneaked towards Suzune's direction, pulled away the thick weeds and looked forward.
Then I saw a group of people suddenly coming on another rugged Xinchang trail. There were about eight people in this group, all wearing Taoist robes. Some were holding torches for lighting, and some were holding peach wood swords, Yin-Yang mirrors and other various magic tools.
The leader seemed to be older, holding a rattle in his hand to open the way.
"Taoist priest?"
Xiaoye couldn't help but be stunned. Where did these Taoist priests come from? What are they doing here?
Just as he was thinking about it, the group of Taoist priests had already come closer. Suddenly, he saw a young Taoist priest in the team saying to the older Taoist priest at the front: "Master, is the Phoenix Temple almost here?"
Unexpectedly, as soon as the words "Phoenix Temple" were spoken, a fierce wind suddenly blew in the surrounding dense forest.
This dark wind was so fierce that it caused the woods to sway, the torches swayed wildly, and even the crows and other birds that lived in the huge tree canopy were frightened and flew around.
For a moment, the air was filled with a very strange and uneasy atmosphere, as if the three words "Phoenix Temple" actually contained a terrible and inviolable magic power.
In an instant, all eight Taoist priests stopped in their tracks.
Except for the leading elderly Taoist priest, the other Taoist priests were all very young, with frightened looks on their faces, and they looked uneasily at the deep and dark forest around them.
"Ahem!" The elderly Taoist priest coughed suddenly. He said with a serious face: "Why are you panicking? I have taught you all this before. People are 70% afraid of ghosts, and ghosts are 10% afraid of people. Everyone chants a spell for me to see what evil spirits dare to come to kill me.
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"Yes, Master!"
Several young Taoist priests nodded hurriedly and began to mutter something. As for what they were reciting, Xiaoye could not hear clearly.
However, for a while, the dense forest began to be filled with a solemn sound similar to Sanskrit sounds, which was quite powerful.
And the strange dark wind seemed to be frightened by the solemn sound, and suddenly subsided, and the four or five torches suddenly returned to light.
"Hmph, it is indeed an evil spirit and cannot be brought to the fore." The elder Taoist priest sneered: "Disciples, continue on your journey. We must level the Phoenix Temple tonight."
"yes!"
When several young Taoist priests saw that the mantra was effective, they suddenly felt bold and they all responded angrily.
Although Xiaoye still doesn't understand the origin of these Taoist priests, he at least understands that these Taoist priests also come to bring bad luck to Phoenix Temple.
In line with the principle that multiple allies are not at fault, Xiaoye suddenly pulled away the grass and walked out.
Youdao scares people to death. When all the Taoist priests were suspicious, a man suddenly jumped out of the grass in front of them. The Taoist priests couldn't help but jump. They all immediately held their weapons in their hands, as if they were faced with a formidable enemy.
The Taoist priest at the end of the tunnel shook the copper bell in his left hand, waved the whisk with his right hand, and shouted: "Humph, where is the monster? Tell me your name."
Xiaoye was stunned for a moment and looked at his clothes. Although it was a little stained, he was still a standard modern handsome man. How could he be equated with a monster?
He couldn't help but smile bitterly and said, "Let me tell you, Taoist priests, please open your eyes and see clearly. Are demons as handsome and kind as me?"
The elder Taoist priest looked at Xiao Ye carefully by the light of the fire. He was indeed a mortal. He couldn't help but blush and said with a smile: "This donor, it's all because of the old Taoist's eyesight that he is so dizzy."
Several young Taoist priests also bowed, their young faces blushing a little, "Donor, please forgive me."
"It's okay." Xiaoye smiled and said politely: "Taoist priests, may I ask what you call me? What is your origin? What are you doing in this ghost forest at night?"
The old Taoist said very politely: "Well, the old Taoist's name is Qingzhenzi, and they are my disciples. Recently, the old Taoist took these disciples to travel in the mountains, and happened to pass by here. He heard that the people in the town talked about the ghost temple here, so he
Go to the government and invite yourself into the forest to succumb to demons.
Originally, the old Taoist wanted to rest for the night and go back to the forest tomorrow, but then he heard from several leaders that a comrade sent by the superiors had not returned yet. They were very anxious, so the old Taoist went into the forest overnight, hoping to help. Could it be the little donor?