Soul Eater

Xiao Siming fell into a strange silence.

Wei Xuan groaned in his heart, very worried that the boss would open his mouth and swallow the child in a bad mood.

Ruan Yang wanted to give Xiao Siming the top ten hazards of eating wild game, but Wei Xuan quickly covered his mouth and pulled him aside after realizing it.

Ruan Yang: Mmmmmmm&%￥&#

Wei Xuan changed the subject and said, "Let's get down to business first, get the real body of that yellow-skinned boy out!"

Ruan Yang was indeed distracted, he wondered, "Isn't that just now?"

Wei Xuan said: "Of course not, the real body of the demon is not here, it must be with the caster."

Xiao Siming strode into the kitchen without saying a word.

After the yellow leather attached to Tong Jia's body was scared away by a spell of Xiao Siming, Tong Jia's body remained in the same posture as if a body-holding spell had been cast on it.

Mother Tong hugged her stiff body, whimpering from her throat, her left ear was dripping with blood, as if she had just been bitten.

Ruan Yang saw clearly, took a breath, and felt that his ears hurt a little.

Xiao Siming stepped forward with a very cold expression.

He stretched out his hand straight, and pinched Tong Jia's chin neatly under Tong's mother's blank gaze.

Tong Mu was shocked and her tone was very angry: "What are you doing?"

Xiao Siming didn't bother to answer, and pressed Tong Jia's cheeks slightly with his slender fingers, forcing Tong Jia to open his mouth.

Ruan Yang saw an orange bead falling from Tong Jia's mouth onto Xiao Siming's palm.

Mother Tong seemed to know the function of the bead. Seeing that the bead was taken away by Xiao Siming, her reaction speed was much faster. She stumbled over and grabbed Xiao Siming's clothes, feeling very agitated.

Xiao Siming brushed her hand away, and only said in a low voice, "Do you want your daughter's body to be used as a wedding dress for someone else?"

When Tong Mu heard this, she froze in place as if struck by lightning.

She trembled: "What do you mean?"

Xiao Siming snorted and said, "Is it my daughter? Don't you still recognize her?"

The Tong mother stopped talking.

Ruan Yang was so curious about what he said, his eyes were fixed on the bead.

Xiao Siming noticed his gaze, and simply gave him the beads.

Ruan Yang took a look at the bead, and then opened his eyes wide - there was actually a miniature version of Tong Jia lying in this bead.

Although he couldn't see his appearance clearly, but judging by his clothes, he was no different from Tong Jia in front of him.

"This is an amber bead, used for gathering souls." Xiao Siming turned his head and asked Sisi again, "The music you heard on the mountain on the day of the accident was the sound of bells, right?"

Sisi thought about it carefully, as if enlightened: "Yes! It's a bell, it seems to be that kind of copper bell!"

At that time, she didn't pay attention to it, she just felt that the music was ethereal, suddenly near and now far away, but now she thought about it and realized that the clear and melodious music should be made by copper bells.

Sisi's eyes lit up: "It's those Taoist priests!"

When they arrived at the foot of the mountain, they saw several Taoist priests walking up the mountain with bells.

"Is there something wrong with the bell?"

Xiao Siming said calmly, "That's the soul-detaining bell."

Hunzhuling, Huberzhu, Sisi became more and more convinced that this incident had something to do with those Taoist priests, maybe they were responsible for the heavy fog on the mountain at that time.

The girl looked at her good friend who was neither human nor ghost in Tongmu's arms, and finally felt an indescribable grief and indignation.

Xiao Siming turned the conversation to Tong Mu on the other side.

"Open up a person, take a small part of their five internal organs, burn them into black ash, add ore to refine them into amber beads. This is a very sinister spell, and the dead souls captured by it will eventually be refined into evil spirits. Driven by people, you will never be reborn. Who told you to use this method?"

He spoke very bluntly, and Tong Mu became more and more lost when she heard the words. At the end, she said in a trance, "Yes...they are two Taoist priests."

Ruan Yang and Wei Xuan glanced at each other and looked at each other - it sounds like the same group of people are indeed doing trouble.

"From the time I got the call from the police, I felt like the world was over. I saw Jia Jia, she was lying there so quietly, on a stretcher, covered with a white cloth, and the police said her stomach was bruised. The stone was scratched, and the vital signs stopped." Tears welled up in Tong Mu's eyes, her expression could not hide her grief, "How old is Jiajia? She is only 21 years old, she just talked about a partner, and she hasn't had time to talk about marriage... ...When I was preparing for her funeral, the housekeeper said that there were two Taoist priests outside the door."

"They said that there is a kind of magic called ecstasy, which can bring back the soul of the first dead from the underworld. I usually don't believe this, but this time I didn't hold back, and I agreed to let them try it. Those two Taoist priests asked me to carry Jiajia into her bedroom, and said that the process of doing the ritual should not be seen by outsiders, otherwise it will be invalid." Tongmu paused, "I admit that I have a part in gambling, but just now Half an hour later, my daughter stood in front of me. Although she couldn't laugh, cry, or call me mom, she was indeed my daughter! She was still breathing and her heart was beating. How could I Can we deny her existence?"

Ruan Yang couldn't bear it, he thought, as a mother, Tongmu wants her daughter who is in her youth to come back to life, although it is a bit of a fantasy, but it is very in line with a mother's mood.

It's just that Tongmu at that time didn't know that there was a kind of living called the living dead, or it should be called the walking dead.

The Taoist priests she invited in really hooked Tong Jia's soul back for her, but such magic will only make Tong Jia unable to reincarnate, and eventually harm others as well as herself.

Mother Tong sat down with Tong Jia in her arms. She recalled what happened that day and noticed many things that were wrong.

How could it be such a coincidence that when she returned home with Tong Jia's body, a Taoist priest came to visit her and resurrected her daughter.

What a coincidence, the same group of Taoist priests went up the mountain with them on the day of Tong Jia's accident.

The woman's intuition told her that the two Taoist priests should have lied to her, let her fall into the net they made up, and sent her daughter to them with their own hands.

Xiao Siming then asked her: "After your daughter came back to life, have you noticed any changes in her?"

Mother Tong accepted the facts, and answered Xiao Siming's question in a straightforward manner: "She is very quiet, and she won't respond when called to her. Only when she is eating, she will keep arguing for meat. If the meat If she doesn't have enough food, she will be very grumpy. Two days ago, she bit the nanny who was bathing her. I gave the nanny and housekeeper some money and told them that they don't have to come to work during this time. That's when I realized something was wrong of."

Wei Xuan muttered in a low voice: "When he bit someone, he must have been caught by Huang Pizi."

Tong Mu asked suspiciously, "Huang Pizi?"

"It's the weasel that has been cultivated to be fine," Xiao Siming explained. "Some people with bad intentions will specially enshrine them. Those Taoist priests are like this. First, take away your daughter's soul, and keep one soul and one soul, so that they can be used as yellow skins." Possessed container."

Tong Mu murmured: "They actually came up with this idea!"

"It's not just that." Xiao Siming said lightly, "The detained souls can be refined into evil spirits, and the container left for Huang Pizi is more convenient for them to find new prey. Usually, they will start with people around them. Do you often feel out of your mind recently and feel tired no matter what you do?"

Every time he said a word, Tong Mu's face became paler.At the end of hearing, she already understood the meaning of Xiao Siming's words.

She never thought that she just wanted her daughter to live, but she caused such a disaster.

Wei Xuan asked, "Have those Taoist priests mentioned what sect they are?"

"I don't know which sect they belong to. They didn't say anything." The Tong mother lowered her head dejectedly, and she said sincerely to Xiao Siming, "Master, as long as you can help me solve this matter, no matter what you want, I will will promise you."

Xiao Siming said: "I will deal with the matter, and I will also receive a certain amount of compensation after it is resolved."

Wei Xuan at the side handed over a business card very timely.

Xiao Siming's name was written on the business card, and there was a row of small characters below: [-] exorcisms, [-] supernatural...

On the reverse side are two receipt codes.

Mother Tong took the business card and was silent in mystery.

Ruan Yang: "..." He hesitated to speak, um, boss, if I remember correctly, we seem to have charged Sisi.

Xiao Siming: Those are two different things. Learn from me and be smarter in business.

After talking about a business, Xiao Siming's work attitude became much more positive.

He took a piece of Tong Jia's hair, wrapped it around the amber bead, and soon sensed the current location of the caster.

"In the southwest direction, a Taoist temple fifty kilometers away from here."

Before anyone else could speak, Wei Xuan clicked his tongue first: "It seems to be a group of Taoist temples over there. There are more than [-] Taoist temples, big and small. Which one are you referring to, Boss?"

Xiao Siming glanced at him: "You'll know when you go."

"I'll go with you." Sisi said hastily.

The situation was serious, and everyone decided to leave immediately.

They needed to bring Tong Jia's body with them on this trip. Wei Xuan took off a piece of curtain and wrapped it up for her. In order to hide the eyes and prevent passers-by from seeing and mistaking them as human traffickers, he found another snakeskin bag and carefully packed it in.

Ruan Yang thought more about it, and secretly asked Wei Xuan, "Is that cult powerful?"

Teachings that cause witchcraft are called cults for short.

Wei Xuan considered the silly and sweet nature he had shown so far, and decided to scare him, so he pretended to be serious and lowered his voice and said, "Yes, it's very powerful."

As expected, Ruan Yang believed it, and he said worriedly: "Then, isn't it too alarming for us to go there like this? Could they have made preparations in advance and waited for us to go there?"

Wei Xuan suppressed his anger and continued to scare him: "I guess so."

Ruan Yang became even more worried. Would it be possible to fight at that moment? Although Mr. Xiao looked very powerful, they were going to a Taoist temple, the enemy's stronghold, and the possibility of being outnumbered could not be ruled out.

With the sound of rain, Xiao Siming seemed to sense something in front of him, and shot Wei Xuan a gouged look through the rain curtain.

Wei Xuan was agitated, and hurriedly shouted Xiao Siming at Ruan Yang with the desire to survive: "But don't worry, don't be afraid! No matter how powerful the teacher is, he is a paper tiger in front of our boss!"

***

The Taoist temple of Hongguang Sect is located at Wuxing Peak, the top of Baoshan Mountain in the southwest of H City. This is the place where local Taoism flourished. There are as many as 37 Taoist temples, and there are an endless stream of believers going up the mountain to burn incense every day.

The Hongguang Sect moved here with their family more than 100 years ago. Because of its large scale and the efficacious patriarch it enshrines, it soon stood out from all the local Taoist temples and became the Taoist temple with the most believers and the most incense on this mountain. one!

However, the master of the Hongguang Sect is not satisfied with this. He has great plans in his heart, one of which is to carry forward the sect.A cult with ideals and aspirations not only wants to conquer this mountain, but also wants to conquer all Taoist temples in the entire land of China.

The second is what all the Taoist priests of the Hongguang Sect have always been fascinated by - resurrecting their ancestors.

Unexpectedly, the second plan was obstructed by various parties in the early stage of implementation.

No one thought that the patriarch would be so lively and active. After they successfully invited the gods, he did not use the girl's body to return to the sect, but was keen to get up in the middle of the night and steal the old hen stored in the refrigerator.

What was even more unexpected was that a Cheng Yaojin like Xiao Siming came out halfway, and beat their patriarch's avatar back to the Taoist temple.

That's right, their patriarch is a yellow-skinned spirit who has practiced Taoism for 300 years!

Because the patriarch loves to eat chicken, they specially told the believers that if they come to burn incense and pray, they must not forget to bring a live chicken. Whoever brings a live chicken, the patriarch will bless him.

Of course, the patriarch has no body, so he can't eat chicken, so those chickens ended up in the stomachs of Taoist priests in Guanli.

Poor that yellow-skinned boy, since he was beaten to pieces by a highly skilled Taoist a hundred years ago, he has never been able to taste what chicken is like.

This time he was beaten by Xiao Siming because of his gluttony, and the entire Taoist temple was outraged.

Who dares to spoil our good deeds!Who dares to hit our patriarch!

There are about [-] people in the Taoist temple. After an emergency meeting, the first-level alert state was activated.

Qualified Taoist priests guarded the Taoist temple and practiced rituals. A young Taoist priest who just entered the temple last year was entrusted with a heavy responsibility to patrol the foot of the mountain and pay close attention to whether there were any suspicious people among the people who went up the mountain.

When Ruan Yang and the others arrived at Five Elements Peak, there were still many believers lingering at the foot of the mountain.

Wei Xuan took a look and saw seven or eight Taoist temples on the mountainside as far as he could see.

"Let's find someone to inquire first?" Wei Xuan said in surprise, "This is too much."

Wuxing Peak does not charge tickets, but there are three small kiosks selling fragrance at the foot of the mountain. In addition to selling fragrance, they also sell some things such as red ropes, pendants, and mini peach wood swords.

Believers lined up to buy incense, and then went up the mountain to the Taoist temple they wanted to enter.

Ruan Yang and the others went straight up the mountain without queuing, which was very conspicuous among the group of believers.

A believer grabbed Ruan Yang, thinking that he was inexperienced for the first time, and enthusiastically introduced him: "My fellow Taoist, you haven't bought incense yet."

Ruan Yang: "Fellow Taoist, we don't burn incense."

The other party seemed to be stunned for a moment, then saw the large snakeskin bag on Wei Xuan's back, and suddenly realized: "Oh, you are here to worship Hongguang Sect! How many chickens did you bring?"

Ruan Yang: ...?

The author has something to say:

What a miserable piece of yellow skin (.