Occasionally, the sound of horse hooves hurriedly passed by around Blackstone Town. Most of the people had fallen asleep, and the sound of horse hooves could not disturb them in the slightest.
At the east end of the town, the door to the Chai family's house was pushed open from the inside.
The five members of the Chai family walked out, walking unsteadily, with their eyes half-opened and looking confused.
After leaving the courtyard gate, they stretched their necks, sniffed like dogs, and looked around for something.
In the woods diagonally across from the Chai family's courtyard, three young men holding sticks were hiding behind the trees. When they saw the Chai family walking out of the house, they all looked excited and whispered: "Come on, come on!"
"Be smart, they are quite strong when they sleep, don't get bitten..."
"After waking them up, lock them in their own homes first, and wait for the Taoist priest to come and deal with them later!"
In front of the three young men, there was a large, newly dug pit, and inside was a mutilated rooster that seemed to have been gnawed with all its feathers.
This rooster has been used twice, so it's pretty good that there are so many left.
Not far after the Chai family walked out of their yard, they turned around and walked toward the woods one by one. Apparently they smelled the blood of the rooster, and they quickened their pace. One by one, they walked into the woods and jumped into the pit.
The three young men, who were hiding in the dark with bated breath, each armed with sticks, rushed out from the corner at the same time, and hit the Chai family members who were fighting for the rooster in the pit with a loud bang.
After a few blows with the stick, the old man from the Chai family screamed and was beaten awake first.
After a while, several other Chai family members also regained consciousness. They covered their heads and howled for a while. Looking at the three big men standing by the pit, the old man from the Chai family asked in a trembling voice: "Why did you beat us?"
He obviously saw the sticks in the hands of the three people, and immediately knew that these three people were definitely coming prepared, and they were not the evil men he 'randomly met' the night before.
"According to the order of the county court, we locked up homeless people who wandered around in the middle of the night and were suspected of being bewitched by witchcraft!
You and your family are obviously under the control of evil spirits. You and others are now confined in your own home. You are not allowed to go out without the permission of the county government!" The leader Qingzhuang shouted, winked with his companions, and divided their duties to hold down the five people.
Take them back to their home.
When the five members of the Chai family regained consciousness, their strength returned to normal. It was natural for three big men holding weapons to hold the five people captive.
They were imprisoned back in their homes, and the leader, the young man, locked their courtyard door from the outside and pasted a confinement talisman on each corner of the courtyard wall.
In this way, no one in the yard can even think of escaping.
Unless the talisman power is exhausted after one day, or the Chai family suddenly becomes a practitioner.
After doing this, when the three of them were about to leave for the next village, Ye Xuan and Yue Yunzhai came on horseback.
The two parked their horses outside Chai's courtyard and greeted the three young men.
After some pleasantries, the leader Qing Zhuang opened the iron chain on the door and followed Ye Xuan into the yard.
Behind the group of people, there followed a tall and giant Biaozi with a black cloth mask.
It is well known to all the young men that this Taoist Priest of Partridge Temple is very conscientious and conscientious. Whenever he finds people in villages and towns who have been confused by evil spells, they must rush over personally to inquire.
The temple protector beside him also made numerous meritorious deeds in his action of arresting the deceived people tonight.
The reason why Ye Xuan asked everyone was not to get any clues, but to look for opportunities to search out the two Qi from the descendants of the Yunze Lord and the Chun family, and then return to them after fusing them.
By the end of the night, he had transformed forty or fifty households in this way.
Because the blood descendants of Lord Yunze are scattered throughout Shihe, a village often has only a few or even one blood descendant family. Ye Xuan needs to go from village to village, otherwise if the blood descendants line up to come, he will not be able to do it tonight.
More than a few dozen families have been converted.
When he met the Chai family, Ye Xuan asked as usual and got a completely different explanation than when he bumped into them the night before.
These descendants of Lord Yunze were so bewitched by the power of wishes that most of them believed everything in the dream. Instead, they felt that Ye Xuan and others who helped them escape from the control of the gods were meddling in their own business and were a stumbling block on their way to the Paradise.
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So he refused to tell the truth to Ye Xuan.
Ye Xuan couldn't control many of them, so he searched for the true energy and fused it on the spot, returned a few people, and then turned around and left.
He doesn't want to delay for a moment. If he can transform one more ray of true energy, when Lord Yunze comes, both he and the people of Shihe will have a little more vitality.
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On the bank of the Blackwater River, on a flat stone, he sat cross-legged with his legs spread wide, working out the secret technique.
Someone emerged from the long grass and walked aimlessly by the river, contributing the 'blood energy of sacrificial creatures' stored in his body, and at the same time, he was eroded by more energy of incense and wishes.
These blood descendants of Lord Yunze who live in the villages near the Blackwater River have damaged their own origins due to the large number of people who come to devour the blood energy of living beings every night. Moreover, due to the excessive accumulation of wish energy in their bodies, they have begun to appear demonic.
sign.
During the day, they were in a state of confusion, hiding in the house and refusing to see the light, and their minds were only occasionally clear.
At night, they look for blood food everywhere and turn it into living blood energy. If they can't find blood food, they can only convert their own essence and blood into living blood energy for Zhang Da to devour.
However, there were 20% less people coming to the river tonight.
Zhang Da allowed those bloody light spots to merge into himself, feeling the abundant power in his body, and turned his gaze to the river.
In the turbulent water, there was a colorful light floating - only Zhang Da could see this light. Although it was different from the past, it still exuded the wonderful atmosphere of life and blood, and it was more pure.
Could it be that my understanding of the secret method is deeper, so I have absorbed more pure will power of all living beings?
Zhang Da always thought that the blood energy he drew was the power of the will of all living beings. He sensed the breath of the power of wish that merged into ribbons of light in the river. He opened his mouth and inhaled, and those colorful ribbons of light followed the call and poured into his mouth, melting into it.
All limbs and bones.
Powerful power surged through Zhang Da's body. He clenched his fists, jumped off the stone, and used the river water to look after his face.
"Returning to youth..." Zhang Da looked at himself in the river and felt younger than yesterday. Devouring the purer will power of all living beings made him at least ten years younger today!
Presumably the day when the golden elixir will be formed is not far away!
Zhang Da in the river was tall and clearly looked like a strong man in his twenties.
Zhang Da stood by the river. Although he was still in his prime, more and more wrinkles began to appear on his face. When he looked at the river, those wrinkles increased especially.
Zhang Da was completely unaware of this!
The souls are willing to sacrifice their energy, which has the effect of making Lord Yunze fall into a blissful dream and become half crazy!
Zhang Da stayed by the river for a while, then turned and left.
The descendants of the gods wandering by the river also returned home in confusion.
On the road, a frail old woman fell to the ground. The other descendants of the gods, with their eyes glowing red, swarmed up to her and ate her.