There was another heavy snowfall last night, and every household was closed.

Lu Xun ate breakfast and wandered around the town, but he didn't meet a few people. He couldn't find any clues, so he could only wait for Moxiu to show up on his own initiative.

Turning around, I was about to go back, but I saw someone coming from another road.

He was a middle-aged man who looked quite honest. Lu Xun met him yesterday. At that time, many people hugged Lu Xun and took him to the town, but this middle-aged man followed behind silently without saying a word.

The small road leads to the back mountain. When Lu Xun was wandering in the town yesterday, he took a rough outline of each road.

The middle-aged man was carrying a bamboo basket covered with a layer of cloth, so Lu Xun couldn't see what was inside.

"Uncle, did you go up the mountain early in the morning?"

The middle-aged man ignored him, seeing Lu Xun frowned slightly, trying to bypass Lu Xun, but Lu Xun followed behind him. "The snow is so thick, the road up the mountain is not easy, right?"

"Uncle, what are you doing up the mountain with the basket?"

Lu Xun jumped out every word, the middle-aged man didn't want to talk to him.

Lu Xun pretended not to notice, "The town is so boring, take me up the mountain together."

These words made the middle-aged man stop his steps to go out, and stared back at Lu Xun for a while.Cai said: "Don't follow me..."

Lu Xun's eyes were full of doubts, and he asked innocently: "But the town is really boring."

The man's eyes suddenly became sharp, "If you don't want to die, don't run around."

"Eh? Then you take me up the mountain together."

The man didn't want to get entangled with Lu Xun, and turned around to leave, when the cloth covering the basket was lifted off suddenly.

"What are you doing?" The man glared at him angrily, looked around in a panic, and was relieved to see that there was no one around.

"Uncle, I went up to the mountain to worship early in the morning. Is it worshiping the mountain god?"

Lu Xun chuckled, with a careless expression on his face, which was far from the silly look just now, the man stared at him in astonishment, "You, you..."

"Tsk, let me see." Lu Xun's eyes fell into the basket, "The white candles are for worshiping the dead, why do they still have children's clothes. Are you afraid of going up the mountain in heavy snow?"

The man finally understood now, what kind of lost scholar is Lu Xun? He has been pretending since yesterday, pretending to be ignorant and stupid.

The man's eyes became vigilant, "What do you want to do? Why sneak into our town."

Lu Xun has been unable to find anyone to ask questions for the past two days, but the man in front of him is a breakthrough. "To save you ignorant fools."

"Together?"

Although Lu Xun's words were doubtful, the middle-aged man didn't mean to refuse them. The two walked up the mountain one after the other. When they reached the middle of the mountain, the man didn't continue to move forward, but went around behind a tree.

He spread the cloth covering the basket on the ground, put the things out of the basket one by one, and lit the candlestick with a fire.

Clothes, rattles, windmills, clay figurines, two candlesticks, two incense sticks, and a small brazier, but no paper money for the dead.

Lu Xun didn't bother him at this time, but waited for him to finish the worship, and helped him throw the clothes and those things into the small brazier.

The man stared at the small cluster of flames, his eyes filled with sadness.

The two looked at each other speechlessly, and after a long silence, the man finally asked, "Are you with the monk who came that day?"

Lu Xun didn't deny it, the man smiled palely, "You are smarter than them."

"Thank you..." Lu Xun accepted the man's compliment generously, "Can I say it now?"

"About four or five years ago, the town began to snow heavily every year. It snowed in the town in previous years, but it was not so frequent, and it was never so cold. It was so unusually cold that many people froze to death."

"On snowy nights, we seldom go out, but those who died that year all died outside their homes, or outside their own homes. They seemed to be frozen to death or frightened to death. There were all kinds of deaths."

"Is this related to the worship of mountain gods in the town?"

The man nodded, lost in memory.

"A lot of people died that winter. Later, the patriarch told us that worshiping the mountain god can keep us safe from the ancient books that he didn't know how to read."

The heavy snowfall and the series of bizarre deaths made people panic. The words of the patriarch gave hope to the whole town.

No one wants to wake up with dead bodies in the snow.

Within a few days, a ceremony of worshiping the mountain god was held in the town, and all people had to participate, and those who did not participate would not be blessed by the mountain god.

The man smiled wryly, "We all thought that as long as our hearts were pious, we could be protected by the mountain god. No one thought that the sacrifice of the mountain god would be a living person."

At first, the townspeople were reluctant, thinking it was too outrageous.But I couldn't stand it for a few days, another strange death happened, and no one knew if I would be the next one.

Therefore, the townspeople accepted the sacrifice. As for the living people to be sacrificed, the old patriarch personally selected them.

Lu Xun mentioned casually, "You old patriarch, you are in good health."

The man didn't seem to expect that Lu Xun's focus would be here, he was taken aback for a moment, and answered honestly.

"No, the old patriarch couldn't get out of the ground in the winter at all. It has been cured in the past few years, and he can still walk with crutches."

"I mean he's in good shape."

"Yes, the old patriarch is in good health. He rarely gets sick, and he doesn't even have typhoid fever."

"Don't you find it strange?"

Lu Xun asked back seemingly unintentionally, which made the man stunned in place, opened his mouth, and it took a long time to express the shock in his heart. "You, you suspect..."

"When will you worship the mountain god?"

Lu Xun's topic jumps too fast, and the man always has to react for a while to catch up with his train of thought.

"Last year it was New Year's Eve, but this year it should be earlier."

The corner of Lu Xun's mouth curled up, with a hint of sarcasm. "Afraid of sudden changes, do you want to send me to sacrifice early?"

The men didn't know how to answer, because they only received a message from the old patriarch, saying that this year's sacrifice was brought forward, and it was indeed brought up after Lu Xun appeared.

"Let's go, you should be discovered if you stay too long."

After the two went down the mountain together, Lu Xun went to find Su Qingheng and told him the whole story.

"Does the senior brother have to wait until the sacrifice?"

Lu Xun shook his head, "It's been too long, let's visit the old patriarch tonight."

Suddenly remembered something, Lu Xun asked again: "Why hasn't Pei Yu come yet?"

"I just contacted him, and he said that Xiaobai was missing, and he couldn't find it after searching all night yesterday."

Just as he was speaking, one side of the window was quietly pushed open, Pei Yu tore off the invisibility talisman, and rolled over to enter.He looked sick and listless.

"Xiao Bai didn't find it?"

"No, I asked my juniors and younger sisters to help me find it together." Pei Yu was calm at first, then suddenly hugged Lu Xun and fell into his arms.

"Axun, Xiaobai has a master. I marked him, but he still ran away. He must have gone to find his former master."

"I only hope that Xiaobai's master is a disciple of our Xuanshan sect, so I can visit him often, but what if he runs down the mountain?"

Lu Xun opened his mouth to comfort him, but Pei Yu didn't give him a chance to open his mouth, so he hugged Lu Xun tightly, making Lu Xun almost out of breath.

"Hey, let me go first."

"Xiaobai doesn't want me anymore, even you despise me."

Pei Yu's eyes were black and blue, his voice was a bit hoarse, Lu Xun could even imagine him calling Xiao Bai's name one after another at night.

Lu Xun couldn't bear it, and let him hold him like this, "It will come back..."

Su Qingheng looked at Pei Yu coldly, held back, and couldn't hold back anymore, and tore Pei Yu off Lu Xun's body.

"Brother Pei, pay attention to your manners."

Pei Yu:?

Listen, is this human?

He is so heartbroken, what else should he pay attention to?

Pei Yu was so wronged that he had nowhere to complain, Lu Xun only felt a toothache, stepped forward and patted Pei Yu's back, and comforted him: "Maybe Xiaobai slipped out to play, wait until he comes back and spank his ass."

Pei Yu blinked and was about to cry, "Xiaobai, will it come back?"

"I will, I will."

"Last time you said that it would follow me, and it really did. You said this time that he was just going out to play, so he must have slipped out to play. I raised him to a full body, and he must be reluctant to part with my... snacks. "

Pei Yu paused for a while, and was about to hug Lu Xun again, leaning his head on his shoulder, and said slightly moved.

"Axun, you are so kind. It's been a long time since you talked to me so gently."

A gentle smirk appeared on Lu Xun's calm face, "The trouble is over? Then get down to business."

Pei Yu smiled awkwardly, overacting.

"Ahem, did you find anything?"

Lu Xun told him what happened this morning again, the surprise on Pei Yu's face turned into seriousness, and finally his face became sullen, and he asked after a while, "Then what's your plan?"

"You are well-informed. Go and investigate the nearby towns or villages to see if there are any strange deaths, including but not limited to the boundaries of the Xuanshan sect."

"Do you think..."

Lu Xun affirmed his conjecture, only in one town did people die consecutively, it was too attention-grabbing and urgent, the people in the town probably couldn't be appeased.

Since Moxiu wants to sacrifice living people, it is impossible to kill only one person a year.In order to reduce the target, he should cause trouble in multiple towns or villages, not necessarily using methods such as worshiping mountain gods, or other methods.

Moreover, all the strange things are gathered in the boundary of the Xuanshan faction, which will easily attract attention.

But several places are too far apart, and it is not easy for Moxiu to go back and forth.Therefore, Lu Xun wanted to focus on investigating the nearby villages and towns, especially the land that did not belong to the Xuanshan School.

"Take Jiangke Town as the center and investigate the nearby villages and towns." Lu Xun asked again: "Which sects are in charge of this area?"

"Because this area is remote, when the Fairy Fairy was held, all sects didn't want to get involved. In the end, the result of the conference was to divide evenly." Pei Yu was serious when talking about business.

"With Jiangke Town as the center, there are about a hundred villages and towns, each of which is in charge of more than a dozen sects. I specifically investigated the Yunxi Town you mentioned yesterday, which is next door to Jiangke Town and belongs to the Wangshan Sect. Territory."

At night, all three of them used invisibility charms and quietly came to the old patriarch's residence.

They lay on the eaves, restrained their breath, and watched secretly.

After a while, the old patriarch came back from the outside. After closing the courtyard door, he threw the crutches aside. His originally stooped back straightened instantly, and he walked without trembling. His steps were steady and his breathing was even.

The three people on the roof were slightly surprised, but the old patriarch didn't notice anything unusual, and walked into the room on his own.

The three of them fell from the roof, stuck to the door, and walked around to the window. The old patriarch's window was half opened, and the cold wind was blowing in.

The old patriarch took off his outer robe and only wore a thin inner coat. There was no brazier in the house, and the old patriarch didn't feel cold. He sat down at the table, and a purple-black smoke slowly melted from his body.

"How does it feel to be getting stronger?"

A gloomy voice sounded, and the purple-black smoke fell on the ground, as if it was a person's figure.

The three of them looked at each other, and they all saw surprise in each other's eyes. They thought it was a demon cultivator, but today they found out that it was a monster.

No wonder the old patriarch showed strangeness all over his body. It turned out that he was possessed by a monster.

"Thank you, I feel very good." The old patriarch's body has returned to his prime, but his voice is still old, "I have prepared an absolutely clean sacrifice for you."

The monster's voice was slightly sharp, with a hint of joy.

"Absolutely clean?"

"Yes..." The old patriarch said: "A nerd, stupid, seemingly without greed, you will definitely like it."

The monster swallowed his saliva, becoming more and more excited.

"Quick, let me eat him."

"In a few days, don't worry, you will have a full meal soon."

Lu Xunchao and the two made a gesture to leave, and the three quietly withdrew from the old patriarch's residence.

After walking a long way, Pei Yu breathed a sigh of relief, "It's the first time I've seen a monster possessing a human body."

"This is not possession by a monster." Su Qingheng's eyes were dim, and a cold expression appeared on his solemn face. "It's the old patriarch who is raising monsters."

Lu Xun was surprised, the difference between the two is huge.

If it is possessed by a monster, it is the monster that caused the trouble, and the monster is the leader, luring the old patriarch to do evil.

But if the old patriarch feeds the monsters, it is the opposite. The old patriarch dominates and uses feeding the monsters to satisfy his own evil thoughts.

"But if that's what Junior Brother Su said, since the monster was raised by the old patriarch, how did it go to other places to make troubles? He should be inseparable from the old patriarch."

Su Qingheng shook his head, and said: "Monsters can be compared to livestock, they don't have independent thoughts. But if they eat more people, they can devour people's consciousness and gradually form their own consciousness. You can take this as enlightenment."

Pei Yu looked at Su Qingheng in surprise, "I found that you know a lot about this."

Su Qingheng choked and did not explain.

Lu Xun remembered the description in the original book. Su Qingheng knew a lot about the demons. He had always hated the demons, whether they were demon cultivators or monsters.

The best way to destroy the enemy is to understand him in many ways, find out his weaknesses, make sure everything is safe, and then kill him.

Su Qingheng was cautious and didn't do anything he wasn't sure about, so he could hold back all the time in the early stage. When he was really strong enough to be fearless, he broke into the demon cave alone and bloodbathed the entire demon clan.

Lu Xun glanced at Su Qingheng, and his thoughts drifted away. It was hard to imagine what Su Qingheng, who bloodbathed the demons, would look like.

"Brother, what do you think?"

"what?"

Lu Xun was so immersed in his own thoughts that he couldn't hear what they were saying.

"It was analyzed by Junior Brother Su. I think it is very likely to be like this."

"Sorry, I lost my mind."

Pei Yu looked at Lu Xun for a long time as if he had discovered something surprising.

"Although you are lazy on weekdays, you are absolutely unambiguous in business matters. There are still things that distract you. Maybe there is someone else in your heart?"

Lu Xun ignored him, and returned to his usual casualness, "Little brother, what did you just say?"

Su Qingheng withdrew his unclear gaze, and said it again.

He discovered the problem from the words used by the old patriarch. The old patriarch called the monster "you", which is why Lu Xun and Pei Yu had the illusion that the monster occupies a dominant position.

After carefully analyzing their conversation, Su Qingheng discovered that the monster and the old patriarch actually had different thoughts.The old patriarch raised the monsters, and he seemed to be responsive and respectful to the monsters.

The monster thought that the old patriarch obeyed his words and regarded the old patriarch as his servant, but in fact, the old patriarch was using the monster for his own use.

After listening to his explanation, Lu Xun was a little surprised.

In the end, it was not the monsters that caused the trouble, but human selfish desires and greed that could not be satisfied.

"Then what is the old patriarch trying to do? Be strong and strong? No disease or pain?"

Lu Xun frowned slightly, no wonder the middle-aged man told Lu Xun this morning that the old patriarch was in good health, and he exchanged the lives of others for his own well-being.

"The monsters follow the advice given by the old patriarch, and will also go to other towns to eat people."

If this matter is exposed, then the old patriarch can completely shirk the responsibility on the monster and pretend that he is threatened. After all, the monster itself thinks that it can control the old patriarch.

"This matter is not trivial."

Pei Yu thought about it, the monster cannibalism happened in several towns, and when the divisional agreement was made at the beginning, the sects did not interfere with each other's governance.

So they can't investigate privately, this matter must be reported to Feng Changmian, and then let him notify other sects to investigate thoroughly together.

The next day, Pei Yu and Su Qingheng showed up aboveboard, and Lu Xun didn't hide any secrets. He washed off the disguise on his face and changed into his eye-catching dark red golden robe.

The wide sleeves covered the long and white arms, and the three thousand black hair was tied up casually, and a few mischievous strands were blown up by the wind, sticking to Lu Xun's delicate face.

All of a sudden, his temperament changed drastically, the little nerd turned into a flirtatious young man, Pei Yu hadn't seen Lu Xun's beauty for two days, and was amazed again when he saw her again today.

Lu Xun is not only good-looking, but also very attractive. It is the kind of appearance that makes people want to see it more and more, and the more they look at it, the more they can't forget it.

But Lu Xun himself didn't notice his unconscious seductiveness. He knew that he had a flirtatious and handsome face, but he didn't know how much impact this face would bring to people.

In the past two days, I was used to Lu Xun's slightly pure and nerdy appearance, and he suddenly turned into a flirtatious young man, and he couldn't recover for a while.

Su Qingheng was no better than Pei Yu. He looked at Lu Xun in a daze, thinking that Lu Xun really liked to see fouls. Even though he had known him for a long time, he often couldn't recover for a long time because of Lu Xun's gorgeous appearance.

For some reason, Su Qingheng suddenly remembered that he and Lu Xun fell asleep together yesterday, and his heartbeat quickened belatedly.

Then I remembered that not only did they sleep together, but they were also very close...

Hug together!

Su Qingheng's breathing was stagnant, as if he had been scalded, he hastily looked back at Lu Xun.

Fortunately, Lu Xun didn't bear this face yesterday, or else...

otherwise……

Then, Su Qingheng thought for a while, but didn't think about what would happen otherwise.

Since he planned to expose the true face of the old patriarch, Lu Xun had already asked the middle-aged man from yesterday to invite all the townspeople out in the name of the old patriarch.

When the three of them arrived at the door of the old patriarch's house, everyone had already gathered together, and the old patriarch was walking out of the house slowly, leaning on a cane.

"Everyone, is something wrong?"

"Old patriarch, didn't you call us over?"

The population standing at the front quickly asked in confusion.

"This?" The old patriarch hesitated for a moment, but also realized that it was someone who deliberately popped up and summoned everyone to come.

"Ahem!" The old patriarch coughed, his voice hoarse.

"Whoever is pretending to be me, stand up and tell me what you want. It's a bright day, it's not good to play with people."

"Hey, the old patriarch is really full of breath. Such a long sentence doesn't take a breath."

Lu Xun walked through the crowd, wearing a red dress that was extremely eye-catching.

"You, who are you?"

The old patriarch's eyes widened, and he looked at the three people in front of him, "Who let you in, monks are not welcome in our town."

"You guys brought me in." Lu Xun blinked, "Yesterday I had dinner with the same table, so don't you remember me today?"

Everyone stared at Lu Xun, digested it for a while, but still couldn't believe it, the temperament of the stupid little scholar and the person in front of him was too inconsistent.

"You, you are Lu Yuan?"

"It's me..." Lu Xun smiled lightly.

"Don't be so excited, there will be more exciting things for you later."

Lu Xun winked at Su Qingheng.

Su Qingheng stepped forward, grabbed the old patriarch directly, and walked in front of everyone.

Everyone looked at Su Qingheng in horror, for fear that he would break the half-disabled body of the old patriarch.

"You, what are you doing? Can monks bully people casually?"

Pei Yu smiled coldly, stood on the other side of the old patriarch, and picked him up. "The old patriarch is not a human being."

"Why are you still swearing?"

Lu Xun chuckled and snapped his fingers, "I'll let you see for yourself."

A dark purple smoke came out of the old patriarch's body, "Who disturbed this deity's sleep."

Smoke quickly turned into a human form, standing in front of everyone.

The townspeople looked even more horrified, and wanted to flee one after another, but they were trapped by Su Qingheng's formation, and they ran around. There was nowhere to escape, so they could only hide behind in a group.

"Catch it..."

As soon as the monster appeared, Su Qingheng caught him right away.

"What, what's going on?"

"Ask your old patriarch."

Lu Xun played with his fingers casually. The old patriarch didn't expect that the matter would be revealed suddenly, and he trembled all over. Pei Yu threw him to the ground directly.

The old patriarch snorted, his thoughts turned quickly, he knelt on the ground and kowtowed in thanks.

"Thank you Xianzun for saving my life. I have been haunted by this monster for many years, and I am in great pain. Thank you Xianzun for saving my life."

Pei Yu sneered, "Stop acting, old man."

"Tell me how you control the monsters to kill people, and how you made up the saying that worshiping the mountain god can keep you safe, and encouraged your townspeople to kill each other by offering sacrifices?"

The townspeople were already at a loss, staring blankly at their respected old patriarch.

"Xianzun misunderstood, I was really controlled by monsters."

"Don't admit it? Then I'll tell you..." Lu Xun sneered.

"Your respected old patriarch, because he couldn't stand his gradual aging, so he raised monsters, and used them to make himself have a healthy body."

"Natural disaster is approaching. My juniors kindly advised you to leave this place, but you didn't appreciate it. You must obey the old patriarch's words and stay in this town that will bury you in an avalanche."

"There is no mountain god, but the old patriarch found it out, pretending to be a ghost to scare you. The real cannibal is your old patriarch."

Every time Lu Xun said a word, the old patriarch's body trembled.

"Because of natural disasters, the town attracted our attention. The old patriarch was worried that the matter of raising monsters would be exposed, so he refused to let you leave the town, and wanted you to die in this avalanche. Only in this way can he become the final winner .”

"Left and right are just changing identities and reliving in another place. Am I right? The old patriarch..."

When Lu Xun exposed the truth, everyone had already turned from panic to anger, wishing they could rush up and tear the old patriarch apart.

Among them, many relatives were chosen as sacrifices by the old patriarch and dedicated to the mountain god.

Now, the mountain god they thought did not exist, because of their own stupidity, they were deceived by the old patriarch and killed their relatives.

Everyone's eyes were red, and they couldn't restrain themselves for a while, and wept bitterly in grief and indignation.

The monster had already been caught by Su Qingheng, everyone was only concerned about their grief, and no one noticed that the old patriarch straightened up suddenly.

And the shadow behind him is getting higher and higher, getting bigger and bigger.

"Not good..." Pei Yu exclaimed.

The shadow of the old patriarch had crawled towards one of the townspeople unknowingly. Seeing that the shadow was about to swallow him up, the townspeople screamed and ran away.

Lu Xun's fairy sword flew out suddenly, and stabbed the shadow of the old patriarch.

The shadow turned into a terrifying shape and struggled uncomfortably.

As soon as they were about to break free from the fairy sword, everyone's eyes were attracted by the shadow, and they eagerly hoped that Lu Xun would subdue it quickly.

Su Qingheng strode forward, summoned the fairy sword and split the shadow in half, instantly turning the shadow into a puddle of sludge.

Everyone just breathed a sigh of relief when they heard a scream.

"what……"

"Don't move..."

When everyone turned their heads, the old patriarch had stood up from the ground with a grim smile on his face. He thought it was the woman wearing a turban, Ahua, who was caught by him. She was trembling, and tears were falling uncontrollably.

"help me……"

A Hua trembled in fright, and looked at Lu Xun for help.

"help me……"

The old patriarch looked at the crowd proudly, he itched his teeth with hatred for Lu Xun who had lied to him.

"Cultivators can't leave her alone." He smiled maliciously at Lu Xun, "Come here, and I'll let her go."

All eyes fell on Lu Xun.

Lu Xun gave a low laugh, as if he heard something funny, he didn't even bother to lift his eyelids, he yawned lazily, and said casually.

"Cultivators can't ignore death, but there's no need to trade life for life."

The old patriarch choked, his eyes widened in disbelief, and he stared straight at Lu Xun.

Lu Xun said with a smile.

"Let's discuss it and let her go. I'll make your death easier. If not..."

"Frustrated to ashes to understand?"

Everyone shuddered, and looked at Lu Xun in horror. This stunningly beautiful woman's words were so penetrating.

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