Is this the fat orange you dropped?

Qu Yanning, a few relatively big cultivation sects, went to inquire about the news, but no one had heard of any monks who used living people to practice sorcery recently.

The spiritual energy is thin, the environment is getting worse and worse, and the cultivation is declining. The various sects are either integrated into the ordinary people, or they hide behind closed doors in the deep mountains and old forests. The only thing in common is that everyone is unwilling to cause trouble.

After all, there are fewer and fewer monks in the sect, and there are only a few seedlings, and no one is willing to fight internally.So in the past few decades, it has been calm and nothing major has happened.

Qu Yanning returned without success.

But since there is such a person as a "master", it is impossible for no one to know about it. There are only so many casual cultivators who have no background and no sect, and they are all countable.

Unwilling to give up, Qu Yanning went to an older monk to inquire about the news.

This monk has lived for 110 years, and his cultivation is considered advanced in the world of comprehension.The longer you live, the more things you know than others.

The monk was in a neighboring province and rarely communicated with other monks. In order to save time, Xie Qi sent Qu Yanning over in his original form.

According to the address he inquired, Xie Qi carried Qu Yanning on his back and followed the map to find it all the way. After wandering around the mountain for a long time, he finally found a small village.

The village is in the mountains, and there is only one road connecting it to the outside. There are about [-] or [-] families living in it.

The two found a forest and settled down, Xie Qi turned into a human form, and then entered the village with Qu Yanning.

There were basically no outsiders in the village, and when they saw the two walking in, the villagers all showed defensive expressions.

"Who are you? What are you doing here?"

A well-built young man stepped forward and asked.

"We are here to find Mr. Chen." Qu Yanning showed a gentle smile, "We are old acquaintances with Mr. Chen, and we have something to do with him."

"Are you looking for the village chief?" The young man was skeptical, but still beckoned a half-grown boy over, "Go and tell Grandpa Chen that someone is looking for him."

The boy responded, and ran back like a gust of wind.

The young man still stood in front of the two of them defensively.

Qu Yanning smiled at him, and waited patiently with Xie Qi.

After a while, I saw an old man with white beard and hair walking behind the boy just now.

"Dog, who is looking for me?" The old man's beard and hair showed his old appearance, but his voice was full of energy, and his voice could be heard from a long distance away. Judging by the speed of walking, his legs and feet were not bad.

When the person came to him, the man who called Gouzi pointed to Qu Yanning and the two, "They said they knew you."

"Mr. Chen, I am from the Qu family, Qu Yanning. The person next to me is the head of the Xie family."

Qu Yanning said: "We came here this time to ask you something."

Old Mr. Chen, that is, Chen Changchuan narrowed his eyes and looked at him for a while before he said slowly, "Oh, who are you, Qu Jianling?"

Qu Yanning said, "It's my father."

Chen Changchuan nodded, "Come with me."

Qu Yanning followed him and walked back, bypassing a brick house and woods, the innermost wooden house was Chen Changchuan's residence.

Trees were planted around the wooden house, separating it from the crowd in front of it. As soon as Qu Yanning stepped in, he noticed the thin aura inside.

Xie Qi looked at the wooden house in the middle, and praised aloud, "This is a good place."

Chen Changchuan said with a smile, "It took me decades of business here to take care of such a small place."

"sit down."

Lead them to sit down in the main room. The main room is open from front to back. There is a bamboo couch in the middle and a small table on the bamboo couch. The three of them sit around the small table.

Chen Changchuan poured tea for them, and then asked slowly, "You two have come from a long way, what do you want to do with the old man?"

"I want to ask you something."

Qu Yanning told him about Shenshi's disappearance case, "We traced it all the way and found that these cases may be the work of monks."

"And that monk may be researching something that prolongs life."

Chen Changchuan's expression was stunned, and the ending sound was raised unconsciously, "Extend life?"

Qu Yanning and Xie Qi looked at each other, with such a big reaction, he must know something.

"Yes. We also found a plant in the monk's laboratory with red fruits growing on it." Xie Qi took the conversation and kept observing his expression carefully.

Chen Changchuan's expression was a little dazed, and he stretched out his hands to compare, "Is it just such a small fruit with a small size, and it smells strange."

Xie Qi changed his expression, nodded and said: "You know?"

Chen Changchuan sighed, "I know something."

He told the story.

It was more than 60 years ago. At that time, the founding of the country was less than ten years old, and many places were still in chaos. However, the era of turmoil and war has passed. The monks came out of the deep mountains and old forests, planning to find a new place to establish a sect. , Inherit the foundation.

But there was an outlier among them.

Chaos breeds evil. At that time, roads were blocked, communications were lagging, and people in remote areas were ignorant and uncivilized. Some people had thoughts that they shouldn't have.

The purpose of cultivating monks is to achieve Taoism and longevity, but the aura of heaven and earth is getting thinner day by day, making it difficult to practice, not to mention flying into the sky and escaping from the earth like the ancient mighty.

Zhao You is one of them.

He came out of the same school as Chen Changchuan, but his aptitude is not good, and he has not even touched the threshold in his 30s, so he can only gain a foothold by managing the affairs of the school.

Maybe it was because of years of depression and disappointment that Zhao You had inner demons, and he became more and more paranoid.Crazy devotion to practice, but with little effect, until the early 40s, can barely touch the threshold.

Chen Changchuan remembered that Zhao You was very happy at that time, and often boasted to his brothers in the sect that he had found a way to practice, and his cultivation would become more and more powerful in the future.

Later, as he said, he seemed to have opened his mind, and his cultivation base gradually increased.

But his character became more and more violent, and the brothers in the sect began to alienate him.

By the time Chen Changchuan's master realized something was wrong, it was already too late.

Zhao You almost killed half of the village.

He didn't know where he learned the evil technique, which can extract the soul of a living person, and then transform it into spiritual energy for his own cultivation.

The village at the foot of the mountain has always been in contact with Chen Changchuan's sect. Every month, disciples will go down the mountain to exchange the grain they grow for some other daily necessities, and Zhao You is just in charge of this matter.

Taking advantage of the opportunity of going down the mountain every month, he first used blindfolds to pretend to be "evil spirits" to fool the villagers, and then used the fear of the villagers to get them to voluntarily push out the villagers as tributes to sacrifice to the "evil spirits".

And the souls of those villagers who made tributes were extracted by Zhao You for aura cultivation, and his flesh and blood were used by him to raise a kind of plant.

Chen Changchuan said: "It's the plant you mentioned. It grows very slowly. It takes a whole year from flowering to fruiting. During the fruiting period, it is constantly watered with flesh and blood. The fruit that is finally produced is said to be able to improve cultivation. ,extend your life."

"Zhao Youzhong came out?"

Chen Changchuan looked mournful, "It was planted, he killed more than 300 people, watered it every day, and the plant bears fruit."

"If it wasn't for the fact that the master just went down the mountain that day and noticed the resentment in the village, and followed the resentment to find it, he would have eaten the fruit by then."

Chen Changchuan's master followed his grievances to look for him, but he saw his disciple. He was furious and wanted to arrest Zhao You for questioning, but Zhao You was not what he used to be, how could he obediently confess his guilt, the two fought, and finally Chen Changchuan's master tried his best to cultivate To catch people.

"After Zhao You was caught, we found out the ins and outs. The plant was destroyed by us, and Zhao You also abolished his cultivation and handed it over to the villagers for disposal."

"But he escaped before the villagers burned him."

Chen Changchuan said: "We have been looking for him for many years, but no one knows where he went, whether he is dead or alive. My master was seriously injured, and he was ashamed of the villagers. He died of depression not long after."

"Maybe it's retribution. After that, various things happened in the sect. The brothers left one after another. In the end, I was the only one left alone."

Chen Changchuan sighed heavily. The old man was gone, and he was the only one left to know what happened back then. The heavy past had been on his mind for so many years, and he didn't expect that there would be a day when he would say it before he died.

"Is it possible that the "Master" who appeared in Shenshi is Zhao You?" Qu Yanning asked.

Chen Changchuan shook his head, "You'll have to watch it to find out. Back then, he was seriously injured by his master, and his cultivation level was abolished later. Even if he ran away, he shouldn't live long."

"But he can draw spirit energy from the soul of a living person." Xie Qi said coldly, "If he escapes and then kills someone to practice, these injuries may not be able to kill him."

Chen Changchuan was stunned, his expression changed, and finally he was fixed on the pain.

"It was our negligence..." His expression was no longer the indifference that he had just met, his brows and eyes were full of anger, "I will go with you, even if I risk my life, I will let him be executed!"

When the master was dying, he repeatedly told him to find him, but at that time, the world was too chaotic, Zhao You escaped without a trace, Chen Changchuan searched many places, but he never saw Zhao You again.