Seeing those "villagers" approaching us, Mai Xiaorou and I didn't dare to stay at the foot of the mountain any longer, and ran directly to the old forest on the side.
This should be the way my father and Liu Shengfu escaped.
Mai Xiaorou has very good physical strength. She has been pulling me to run, but I usually don’t exercise much. I started to run out of breath not long after running. I couldn’t help but think of my father and Liu Shengfu back then.
In order to escape, my father directly threw Liu Shengfu here. Will Mai Xiaorou also throw me here, and then I will be imprisoned by the villagers in the ruined temple to eat snakes, rats, insects and ants?
While I was thinking about this, I tripped over something under my feet and almost fell down with Mai Xiaorou in tow.
Fortunately, Mai Xiaorou was strong enough to pull me back: "Chen Yu, focus on watching the road. Don't worry, I won't leave you behind."
I apologized: "I'm the one dragging you down."
Mai Xiaorou said nothing and continued to pull me forward. My steps became heavier and heavier, and my legs became weaker and weaker. I could no longer move. My chest was in severe pain due to strenuous exercise. Every time I took a breath,
I can feel a needle pricking inside my chest.
At the same time, I also felt waves of retching and my head was dizzy.
I swear, if I can go back alive this time, I will keep running every day.
Seeing that I couldn't run anymore, Mai Xiaorou wanted to carry me on her back, but before she could carry me on her back, a group of villagers had already surrounded us.
Only when I got closer did I realize that these villagers had long braids and wore ancient blouses. Are these ghosts from the Manchu and Qing Dynasties?
After these ghosts surrounded us, they directly waved the tools in their hands and hit us. Before they could get close to my body, Mai Xiaorou squeezed her fingers, and a powerful aura burst out from her body.
We came out and directly pushed back the ghosts that were approaching us.
I could actually slowly feel the Qi released from Mai Xiaorou's body. It felt like the foreign Qi I felt when I opened the Soul Guiding Altar.
The human body and the surrounding world contain endless breaths, and these breaths may be the source of the ascetics' power.
Those ghosts were forced to retreat and did not rush towards us again. Instead, they kept repeating the words: "Catch the thief, catch the thief..."
Their voices sound so hollow that people can't help but get goosebumps. Listening to them for a long time will make people feel groggy and want to fall asleep.
Mai Xiaorou reminded me: "Chen Yu, stabilize your mind, work hard to adjust your breath, and recite the set of mantras silently. It looks like you can slowly appreciate the yin and yang energy. Now try to regulate the energy in your body."
Let those breaths protect your chest, forehead, back, soles of feet, and palms respectively."
I can only feel those qi, and simple breath adjustment, but if you ask me to control those qi, I can't do it at all.
Not only that, I tried it a few times, but the breath that was originally flowing along with my breath adjustment also suddenly dispersed.
I started to panic instantly.
Mai Xiao Judao: "Don't be impatient, just gather your Qi and adjust your breath again. If it disperses, it will dissipate. Try a few more times."
I said "ok" and quickly followed suit.
As for the surrounding "villagers", they did not dare to approach us rashly, but they had no intention of leaving and continued to surround us tightly.
Mai Xiaorou said slowly from the side: "Chen Yu, carefully sense the auras of these 'ghosts' around you and see if you find anything special."
Mai Xiaorou said this, indicating that she had already discovered something.
After I stabilized the breath in my body, I began to sense the surrounding breath. There was a turbid current in the surrounding breath, and that murky current kept circling around the ghosts, like a rope that closely connected the ghosts.
together.
At the other end of the muddy current, a very thin line spreads toward the mountain we just came down from.
I subconsciously asked: "Could it be that these ghosts are controlled by that muddy current?"
Mai Xiaorou smiled and said, "Yes, that's right. If I guessed correctly, what controls these ghosts is the formation that sealed the child on the top of the mountain."
I nodded and wanted to follow the muddy current to the other side of the mountain to explore, but after exploring a distance of seven or eight meters, the breath in my body suddenly disappeared again.
Mai Xiaorou smiled again and said, "Don't be brave. The range of your aura perception is now stable within ten meters. You can detect within ten meters freely. Then slowly expand the distance. Don't be impatient."
I opened my eyes and looked at Mai Xiaojudo: "You can still laugh at our current situation. If we can't find a way to get out, we will be trapped and die here."
Mai Xiaorou said: "These ghosts are controlled by that formation. With my ability, I can't kill them. So before we find an effective way, we'd better not attack randomly, otherwise we'll wait until our physical strength is exhausted.
I’m really at my wits’ end.”
I nodded and began to gather my breath again.
Mai Xiaorou continued: "This formation is extremely powerful. If I guessed correctly, it was launched with the blood of the Liu family. According to what the child on the top of the mountain said, the Liu family wanted to seal him.
And he slaughtered the entire Liu family, so he should have won, so why was he still sealed?"
I was trying to adjust my breath and did not answer Mai Xiaorou's words. She continued to analyze: "In addition, he also said that he could not hurt Liu Shengfu because of the Liu family's blood. Inferring in turn, we can conclude that he can kill Liu Shengfu while he is alive.
Family member, but couldn't do it after death, all this is also related to the bloodline formation, right?"
I still didn't speak, and she continued: "The person who arranged this bloodline formation, in addition to sealing the child, also wanted to protect the safety of the Liu family. Does this mean that there were still people from the Liu family alive at the time?
And he stayed to guard this lonely tomb on the mountain."
Mai Xiaorou was minding her own analysis, but I didn't understand the purpose of her analysis. After a while, she looked at the ghosts around her and said, "Could it be that those guarding the solitary graves are the ancestors of Liu Shengfu? They later because of
Did you leave here for some reason?"
Mai Xiaorou's analysis is so wild and unconstrained that I can't keep up with my thinking. Many of her assumptions are not very logical, and even connecting them together is a bit far-fetched. But this far-fetched explanation makes me think that is
Where the truth lies.
I asked Mai Xiaorou how she analyzed this, and she said: "It feels like everyone who handles cases will have their own feelings, and this feeling has a great impact on the handling of cases."
After thinking about it carefully, I felt that Mai Xiaorou's analysis was correct. After those villagers caught Liu Shengfu, they did not kill him, but imprisoned him. This shows that they did not want Liu Shengfu's life, but just wanted him.
Just teach that unfilial descendant a lesson.
We figured out some things, but we also encountered a bigger mystery. I felt that Mai Xiaorou and I had been trapped in a quagmire, and it would be difficult to get out at this time.
At this time, those ghosts launched another attack on us. But before Mai Xiaorou could take action, I suddenly felt a heat in my chest, and a powerful breath burst out from my body, and then the breath was accompanied by a roar.
The surrounding ghosts swept away.
"Ouch!"
The sound was so loud that I was stunned for a moment. Mai Xiaorou staggered a few steps and almost didn't fall.
This is the "Snake King Pendant" on my chest.
I quickly held the Snake King Pendant in my hand, but it no longer responded, and the ghosts around us had already disappeared.
Mai Xiaorou came to her senses, pulled me and ran away.
I asked her what happened just now, and Mai Xiaoju said: "I'm afraid that the snake king fell on the guardian. It sensed your fear and subconsciously made a move to protect you. To be honest, this is my first time to see it.
I have such a strong reaction to the Snake King Pendant. When we see my grandfather, we will ask him carefully."
We continued to run forward, and the ghosts didn't catch up with us anymore. When we got out of the old forest and came to a road, we were completely relieved.
Mai Xiaorou asked me if I had any special feelings before the reaction of the Snake King Pendant. I thought about it for a moment and then shook my head and said, "No, there was no sign. I was just adjusting my breath and nothing else."
Seeing that he couldn't get anything out of the question, Mai Xiaorou stopped asking any more.
I asked Mai Xiaorou what we should do next, and she said: "Let's go back to the provincial capital first. When we see my grandfather, we will discuss countermeasures. This is the first time I have encountered this kind of thing that involves everyone in the Taoist sect."
I don’t know how to deal with it, but one thing I am sure of is that we must not let the child out on the top of the mountain, otherwise we will be in big trouble."
I nodded in agreement.
However, after experiencing this incident, I didn't have a particularly good impression of the mysterious Liu family. Although the child ghost made things difficult for us, in the end he let us go with just one sentence.
And those ghosts in the Liu family are clinging to us. If the Snake King hadn't shown his power, we don't know how long we would have been trapped by them.
But then again, every one of their eyes was very dull, and they didn't seem to be able to reason with us.
I asked Mai Xiaorou: "What is the origin of the sealed child? He is just a child. Why did a Taoist family mobilize so many people!"
Mai Xiaojudao: "There are many 'disasters' in the supernatural world. It is said that once those disasters are born, they will destroy the world. Maybe that child is one of the 'disasters'."
"Scourge? Where did they come from?"
Mai Xiaorou smiled and said: "I don't know this, even my grandfather can't explain it clearly. If you want to know these things, then you should practice Taoism well. One day you will be powerful enough to touch that place.
If you think about things on a different level, then you will know what the scourge is.” (To be continued)