"Evil ghosts, don't leave, I'm here to take you in!"
The old Taoist priest raised the copper bell in his hand and rang it. Sure enough, Jiang Laosan's body suddenly shook and his movements slowed down.
The old Taoist priest muttered something in his mouth, surrounded Jiang Laosan with his feet on the Beidou, and kept shaking the bell in his hand rapidly. At the same time, a yellow paper talisman appeared on his waist. He raised his hand and threw the pinching technique, and the yellow paper talisman turned into a
The yellow light stuck to Jiang Laosan's eyebrows, and Jiang Laosan, who was still agitated and twisted, suddenly calmed down.
"Disciple, get the Dharma Sword and wait for me to kill the evil ghosts!" The old Taoist priest stopped his movements, hung the copper bell on his waist and stretched out his hand.
The Taoist boy quickly handed over the long sword wrapped in linen. The old Taoist priest reached out and pulled out a red sword. He muttered the same words, and then stabbed Jiang Laosan between the eyebrows with the sword.
However, before the sword arrived, there was only a bang, and the yellow talisman stuck between Jiang Laosan's eyebrows exploded out of thin air, and a stream of black energy rushed out and hit the old Taoist priest.
Xu Chen, who had been observing from the side, was already prepared. At the moment when the black energy burst out, he suddenly rolled up his vitality and threw the old Taoist priest behind him. The bat shadow transformed by the black energy lost its target, and at the same time, he might feel him.
It was a more suitable object to possess, so I rushed towards him.
Xu Chen didn't care, and allowed the bat shadow to rush into his sea of consciousness. At the same time, he condensed his spiritual consciousness into a small sword. With a few strokes, he chopped the bat shadow into pieces and turned it into a ball of black air. In an instant, it was again
Dissolved by the light of the blue light vase.
"Plop!" Jiang Laosan fell to the ground and lost his breath.
"Master, are you okay!" the little Taoist priest exclaimed and rushed to the old Taoist priest's side.
"Quickly, help me get up and go to see the immortal master!" The old Taoist priest was surprised and happy. He struggled to stand up with the help of the little Taoist priest, then limped to Xu Chen and knelt down excitedly to worship: "Heming Mountain
Zhu Youshun, a Taoist priest from Changchun Temple, paid homage to the immortal master and thanked him for his help."
Xu Chen opened his eyes, flicked his hand, and a soft vitality lifted the old Taoist priest up and nodded with a smile: "Old Taoist priest, there is no need to be polite. I didn't expect that you, a mortal, have good magic skills, but this is not evil.
Ghosts are not ordinary monsters, but beasts from the underworld, which cannot be easily killed by ordinary mortal magic."
The old Taoist priest was shocked when he heard this, and said with fear on his face: "So that's it, I said that the magic talismans and spells have failed. I rarely failed to catch ghosts and eliminate demons before."
Xu Chen pointed at Jiang Laosan's body and said: "I have got rid of the underworld beast that possessed me just now. There is no danger here anymore. But you can't deal with this underworld beast. You'd better take your apprentice and leave as soon as possible."
If you encounter something like this, try not to get involved, otherwise the consequences will be unpredictable!"
The old Taoist priest saluted and thanked him repeatedly, put away the dropped copper bell sword, and was about to leave. However, Xu Chen called them back and said, "I heard that many people have died in and outside the city recently. It may be due to these underworld beasts.
Does the Taoist priest know what other places are more suspicious?"
The old Taoist priest thought for a while and said: "The city is relatively chaotic. The situation only occurs in the past two or three days, and the location is not fixed. However, it is said that the earliest disappearance of people and animals was in a village five miles north of the city. Some people speculate that these disappearances
All the people and animals were dragged away by wild beasts, so the villagers went to the mountains to hunt down the wild beasts, but only two of the more than ten people came back alive. Then these two quickly went crazy and killed people crazily in the village, causing a huge tragedy.
People possessed by evil spirits slowly began to appear in villages and cities..."
After listening to the old Taoist priest's words, Xu Chen frowned, turned to look at the quiet Lan You and said: "Fellow Taoist Lan, it seems that the spirit beast has escaped here from the vicinity of Black Wind Ridge, and this spirit beast seems to be still here.
It has mutated and is able to control ordinary people to kill people, and the situation has become a bit out of control!"
Lan You also showed some concentration on his face and nodded: "It is true. There are many kinds of soul beasts. Although the number of soul beasts that can invade the soul is very small, this kind of bat-like soul beast is indeed the most difficult to deal with. When I was on the ground
This kind of soul beast invaded the sea of consciousness in the cave. If Fellow Daoist Xu hadn't rescued him in time, Lan You would have died long ago!"
The person who knows the most about soul beasts is none other than Xu Chen.
The weirdest and most difficult thing to deal with was not the giant spider soul beast whose strength exceeded the Dan Yuan realm, but the bat soul beast that was not big in size and not very strong in itself.
Because only this kind of soul beast can invade the sea of consciousness and directly attack the soul of a monk, even a strong man in the Danyuan realm cannot prevent it. Once the soul beast invades the sea of consciousness, he can only resist forcefully.
But for a group of monks who are in the stage of refining and transforming into qi, the soul is the most vulnerable place. The soul is not yet mature, and the protection is weak. In addition, there are few magical weapons like the soul, so it is even more difficult to deal with.
Fortunately, this time the Spirit Fox Canyon and Black Wind Ridge formations opened gaps to release black energy, spewing out a total of tens of thousands of soul beasts of various sizes, but there were very few of this bat type.
But it was this rare and strange soul beast that caused the most casualties among the monks.
Among the more than fifty death monks in total, almost half died after this kind of monster bat invaded the sea of consciousness and devoured their souls.
And he died extremely quickly, with almost no ability to parry.
Therefore, as the news spreads, whenever they encounter this kind of monster bat in the two large formations, all the monks will immediately run away. The only ones who can deal with this kind of soul beast, except Xu Chen, are a few Danyuan realm experts or those who hold
A true elemental monk with a soul-like magic weapon.
This kind of monster bat soul beast is not very strong in itself, basically only having the strength of a first-order monster beast. The two-headed bat like the one that helped Xu Chen fight against the giant spider soul beast last time has not appeared, so most of them ended up being
They were all trapped in the formation and killed, but some of them still slipped through the net, and now they have traveled thousands of miles away and started causing trouble in the world.
What worries Xu Chen the most is that this kind of soul beast can actually parasitize in the body of a mortal like a ghost without having a physical body, and it can be infected repeatedly. If you kill one, it will quickly invade the body of another and continue to live.
Xu Chen is still unclear about the infection and parasitism method of this soul beast, because he cannot carefully identify the breath of the soul beast through his spiritual consciousness from a possessed mortal, so he cannot use his spiritual consciousness to search and kill on a large scale.
Although the soul beast in front of him was dealt with, he still felt uneasy. According to his inference, the bat soul beast he just killed seemed incomplete and very weak, as if it was just a part of a bat soul beast.
Then the matter becomes more complicated.
If the bat soul beast is really able to split on its own and infect mortals, then as time goes by, the situation will become increasingly uncontrollable, and eventually thousands of people will die.
What worries Xu Chen most is whether the soul beast will continue to increase its strength through this method and eventually become completely uncontrollable!
Therefore, after careful consideration, Xu Chen said to Lan You: "Fellow Taoist Lan, this matter is not trivial. We cannot ignore it and must investigate it carefully. Otherwise, we may leave a huge hidden danger and more people will die in the future."
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Lan You nodded and said: "I support whatever Daoist Fellow Xu wants to do, and I'm not in a hurry to go back to the mountain anyway!"
Xu Chen breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this. After a brief discussion, the two of them asked the old Taoist priest and his apprentice to lead the way out of the city to the village in the north of the city where the dead people first disappeared to check the situation.
Everything has its origin. Although so many days have passed, the bat soul beast may have left the place where it first appeared, but if some clues can be found, it will still be very beneficial for the subsequent investigation.
After the four of them left the city, Xu Chen let go of his spiritual consciousness and found the village that the old Taoist priest mentioned. He threw the flying sword directly, and the vitality enveloped the master and the disciple. A beam of light pierced the sky, and soon they arrived at the foot of a barren mountain.
There is indeed a small village here, with more than a dozen farmhouses scattered around, and the crops in the fields are growing well. However, no one can be seen in the entire village, and every household has its doors and windows open, and there is a putrid smell floating in the air.
While the person was still in the air, Xu Chen's spiritual consciousness had already clearly seen the situation in the village and its surroundings. There was indeed no one in the village, and everyone had left their houses empty. In addition, there were still corpses of dead people and animals that could not be found anywhere. The situation had already begun.
rot.
The whole village exudes a deep eerie and quiet feeling, really like a ghost village.
The four of them landed on the ground. The old Taoist priest and the young apprentice had not recovered from the shock and were still trembling on the ground.
Xu Chen carefully searched the entire village inside and outside for two miles, but did not find any spirit beast aura, so he once again enlarged the scope of his spiritual consciousness and covered the entire barren mountain behind the village. He searched like a grate, and suddenly his spiritual consciousness suddenly
Jumping, I felt a familiar atmosphere in a cave in the ravine on the side of the barren mountain.
Lan You also found the cave almost at the same time. The two of them touched each other with their consciousness, and then quickly retreated.
Xu Chen's heart was filled with excitement, but Lan You's cheeks suddenly turned red.
This inadvertent touch of consciousness was like two naked people meeting each other and saying hello, it was so exciting.
Under normal circumstances, the exchange of spiritual consciousness between monks will release vitality to protect the sea of consciousness, just like a person wearing clothes.
But if you forget, each other will see each other's soul.
Of course, this kind of seeing is actually a subconscious feeling, as if you can see into the other person's mind. This is purely a touch of thoughts, the deepest soul communication, which is far clearer than pure physical contact.
It will be engraved in the memory instantly and form a brand.
"Ahem, Fellow Daoist Lan, it seems we didn't come in vain, we should have found the location of the soul beast!" Xu Chen coughed a few times to cover up his embarrassment.
Lan You lowered his head and said softly: "That's true. That soul beast should be in the cave. Without further ado, let's kill it and get on the road as soon as possible!"
"Okay!" Xu Chen nodded and said to the old Taoist master and apprentice: "We have found the hiding place of the soul beast, and we are going to kill it. Your master and apprentice will wait here first. If you are afraid, you can leave and return to the city first!
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The old Taoist priest was full of excitement when he heard this, and said: "Can you two immortal masters take the old Taoists with you to broaden your horizons? The founder of Changchun Temple was also an immortal, and his cultivation reached the True Yuan realm. I heard that he even visited Taiyuan Gate.
Have you ever studied magic?"
When Xu Chen heard this, his face was full of surprise and he said: "My cultivation in the True Yuan realm is already very good, and you have even been to my Taiyuan Sect. It seems that it is indeed fate to meet you this time."
The old Taoist priest said with surprise on his face: "It turns out that the two of you are also immortal masters of Taiyuan Sect."
Xu Chen shook his head and said: "I am a disciple of the Taiyuan Sect, but this fellow Taoist Lan is a senior disciple of the Yuqing Palace."
The old Taoist priest was stunned for a moment and said with a wry smile: "Two Immortal Masters, please forgive me. The old Taoist knows about the Taiyuan Sect but does not know that there is the Yuqing Palace."
Xu Chen smiled and said: "It's okay if you don't know. Let's kill this soul beast first to avoid being noticed by it and escape. Since you want to take a look, don't get too close when you get there. Otherwise, you're afraid of an accident.
Bar!"
Xu Chen said with a roll of vitality, wrapped around the old Taoist priest and his apprentice, they stood up with their swords. Lan You followed closely behind, two rays of light soared into the sky and went straight to the ravine on the side of the barren mountain.