The partner of the monster catcher is the fox monster

With the blessing of the Mountain Running Mantra, the black horse crossed mountains and ridges as if walking on flat ground, passed the double mountain in a short time, and finally stopped at the foot of Xishan Mountain.

After all, Xishan is the dragon's mouth pearl in the mountains, and it is guarded by the mountain gods. The curse of running the mountain can't make a fuss. If it can't hold on, the horse will have to show its original shape halfway.

Even after getting off the horse, the speed of the two of them going up the mountain was not too slow, and they reached the mountainside in a short time.

This place should already be within the range of the guardian mountain god's residence. Song Yun could feel an obvious segment of spiritual power. After crossing the boundary and then walking up the mountain, the spirituality of the surrounding vegetation was obviously much higher than before, but it was still far from being mature. The level of mastery, nothing else.

This is a little strange.

The mountain guardian gods are generally big monsters born in a place with excellent geomantic omen. After being cultivated by the essence of the earth's veins, the sun, the moon, and the aura, they guard the creatures in the mountains and suppress evil spirits. Usually, there are some little monsters who have received the blessing of aura to serve in their residences. Theoretically, this The mountain god's residence shouldn't be so deserted.In the current state, the mountain guard is not around, and there is not even a little demon left in the residence.And it's been like this for a while, otherwise the aura shouldn't have disappeared so completely.

The two walked for a while, and Yin Huai suddenly stopped.

Song Yun followed and stopped, turned his head and looked around, but the scene in front of him was still an ordinary scene, not at all like there was a mountain guard who was born and raised here.

Song Yun asked in a low voice uncertainly: "Is this really the mountain god's residence?"

"Yes." Yin Huai sighed as he spoke, then turned his head and said softly to Song Yun, "Turn on the flashlight, you can't see those things in the distance clearly from here."

Yin Huai's voice was obviously different, Song Yun's heart pounded, and he quickly took out the flashlight.

The five senses of the monk are different from ordinary people. He can see things in the dark, but at most he can only see things a few meters away. Now when the flashlight is turned on, Song Yun saw a shocking scene not far away: an ancient tree covered in scarlet standing In front of the two of them.

Song Yun was unprepared, seeing such a scene all of a sudden, he felt a shock in his head, and the blood almost started to flow back from his whole body.

After the stress reaction, Song Yun started to slow down his breathing and heartbeat almost as a conditioned reflex, and soon calmed down. Then he realized that the scarlet in front of him was not the color of the tree itself, but the tree being peeled. The juice that comes out afterwards.

Song Yun couldn't help but gasped, and then slowly approached.

The bright red sap still oozes out from the trunk, but some traces left by the peeling can be seen.These people's peeling skills are quite superb, and they are obviously equipped with handy machines. Except for the three necessary stubbles on the tree, there are no unnecessary scars on the top and bottom of the trunk. A circle of bark is completed at one time, and the process is clean and neat.In addition, the selection of the stripped bark is also very picky. Starting from about one and a half meters above the ground, and going up to four or five meters, the peeler only picks the neatest part in the middle, with few branches and scars. Take the whole circle of bark away.

However, the tree after such stripping has no chance of survival.

Song Yun was in a daze in front of the tree, Yin Huai patted him lightly on the shoulder, "There are still more on the mountain." He continued to walk forward.

Sure enough, starting from seeing the peeled tree just now, you can see that kind of scarlet tree in the forest every time you walk up the mountain. The two of them went all the way to the top of the mountain, and they saw fifty or sixty trees on the way. Every tree is covered in scarlet and shocking.

The top of the mountain is the residence of the guardian mountain god, but when the two arrived, there was only a huge tree trunk standing on the edge of the cliff. It would take three or four people to hug that tree. Such a towering giant tree standing on the top of the Western Mountain must have been very majestic in the past, but Now, the three main trunks of the tree have all been cut down, the bark on it is missing, and the branches and leaves are scattered all over the place.

And on the sturdy trunk that can only be embraced by three or four people, a large area of ​​flat bark was cut into neat rectangles, peeled off and taken away, only a few small pieces with scars remained on the tree.

However, the tree did not bleed, and the bare trunk was as clean and dry as ivory.

When Song Yun put his palm on it lightly, he only felt that his hand was cold, without any vitality, but there were still traces of spiritual power contained in it.

The guardian of the mountain at the west mountain pass is this big sacred tree. Now the guardian of the mountain has gone out, and only the ancient tree remains here like a cicada.

"This tree... can it still live?" Song Yun only felt that his mouth was very bitter when he spoke, as if saying this sentence was more tiring than climbing three mountains overnight.

Yin Huai shook his head: "No one can live to the death."

The two were silent for a while in front of the tree, and Yin Huai suddenly said, "But this is how it all got together."

"What's connected?"

"Your task is not written in detail," Yin Huai said, stretching out his hand to pull him back, and took Song Yun down the mountain: "Actually, the thirteen people who died this afternoon all worked in a woodworking factory in a nearby town. "

"The same way to die, skinned and bled."

Song Yun's throat is tight now, and he really can't speak a word.

So in the current situation, it is true that the God of the Mountain Guard sealed up and took away those wandering evil spirits, but instead of bringing them back to suppress them, he went to repair the demons himself.

The two went down to the foot of the mountain, and the black horse was still waiting quietly by a small tree.

However, Yin Huai was not in a hurry to get on the horse, but drew a curse circle with twigs on the ground beside him.

Song Yun squatted beside him to watch his painting. After watching for a while, he finally realized that this should be a magic circle for finding objects, but the painting was very scattered, almost split into two petals, and some of the brushwork was also very strange. It's like flying out of the formation.

Song Yun endured and endured, but in the end he couldn't stand it anymore, so he asked in a low voice, "This curse...is it too loose..."

Yin Huai raised his eyes and looked at him with a half-smile: "Do I know or do you know?"

Song Yun: "...you"

Hearing what he said, Yin Huai squinted his eyes, lowered his head and drew the last two strokes of dragon, phoenix and phoenix dancing with teeth and claws, and then inserted the twig in his hand into the middle, and recited the mantra with his hands, and immediately the formation on the ground was full of vitality. Yinmang, then submerged into the ground and disappeared.

Yin Huai straightened his clothes and stood up satisfied.

Not long after, I saw a little fluorescent light flashing under the small branch in the curse array, and then I slowly turned around, the buds on the branch pointed to the southeast.

Yin Huai bent down and pulled the twig out of the ground again, and stuffed it into Song Yun's hand: "Hold it." Then he directly led the man onto the horse.

Song Yun came to his senses the moment he fell off the horse. Although the time was only a blink of an eye, he was carried on the horse after all. He was a seven-foot man, and he was always carried around by another man. Of course it's not suitable, just as Song Yun wanted to make a theory, Yin Huai put his body on it in time, pulled the rein and began to explain the curse array to Song Yun.

"You have also seen the Shoushan Shenmu. At least it has three to five thousand years of cultivation. He doesn't want people to find him now, and all kinds of aura are completely clean. There’s nothing I can do about it halfway.”

Song Yun nodded, but a small part of his mind was still thinking about how to reason with him for a while.

Yin Huai continued: "The reason why the spell array was drawn just now is scattered so that it can extend to a farther place, and because I want to borrow the roots of the vegetation in the mountains, so I deliberately made it a little more tangled and jagged."

Song Yun blinked when he heard this: "Even if his original body is a sacred tree, if he hides it tightly, even if he borrows the roots of the grass and trees in the mountains and spreads eyeliner all over the mountains and plains, he may not be able to find it, right..." Song Yun said, Suddenly a white light flashed in my mind, and I was pleasantly surprised: "This branch?! There are still living branches on the big sacred tree?!"

Yin Huai nodded and said: "It is true that the mountain god has lost its form, but the young shoots and sprouts are where the vitality lies, and they are taken from the branches and sawn off. Even if the mountain god has lost his form, there are still some spiritual veins left. .”

Song Yun held up the twig and studied it carefully, but not long before he picked up the topic that he wanted to discuss just now, he suddenly felt that Yin Huai behind him seemed to be getting closer.Even though Yin Huai's arms were loosely wrapped around his waist on the road just now, there was still about an inch of space between the two of them. Only when the mountain road was bumpy could Song Yun's back touch Yin Huai's back. bosom.

But now, he was almost sticking to Yin Huai's body.

Song Yun froze, and asked with difficulty: "...do you feel that the two of us are a little close?"

Yin Huai gave a "hmm" behind him, but he didn't mean to move away a little bit, but instead asked very seriously: "Although this branch is connected to the spiritual vein of the sacred tree of the mountain, it is weak after all, and there is no change in direction. You have to pay attention to it. This Anping Mountain is high and densely forested, and there are thousands of miles away if you miss it, do I have to watch carefully?"

Song Yun: "..."

Yin Huai was laughing like a satisfied fox behind him at this moment, but Song Yun couldn't see his expression, he could only hear the man's voice seriously "enlighten" in his ear: "After all, it's for the personal and property of the people around you." For safety, you should consider it a sacrifice, team efficiency is the most important thing now, don’t you think?”