After being dressed as the evil god

"This place is very remote and desolate. It's not a suitable place to receive guests." It was a very gentle and clear voice, as if even the sigh was slow and long.

"It's not here." Lichi replied.

"This is not a good place to end up."

"Indeed."

"I can't think of anything here that is worth making a special trip and waiting for seven hours. So I had to wait."

"Can't think of it?" Li Chi smiled suddenly, and walked towards the columbarium unhurriedly, "If you just think about it, I won't understand. What's here, it's worth your coming here , and wait 23 years."

"You...what are you going to do?!" Two little ghosts ran out from under the desk, tremblingly stopping in front of the ashes urn.

Another bluish-white ghost silently stopped in front of the two little ghosts.

"You go about your own business." A figure floated out of the urn, with a somewhat helpless tone.

He is tall and tall, and his shoulders are thicker than ordinary people. If we look at the body structure of ordinary people, this thickness does not come from muscles, but the shoulder blades seem to be thicker and wider than ordinary people. And harmonious.

In addition, although his complexion is slightly paler than that of ordinary people, it is not as blue and white as other ghosts. If you don't look carefully, it is not impossible to mistake him for a living person.

This is a ghost who has achieved success in cultivation, but the method he practiced is not the path that ordinary ghosts practice.He didn't have much yin energy in his body, and he didn't see the common resentment of ghosts, but instead exuded some soft and warm breath.

A ghost like him no longer needs to be trapped in the temple because of fear of resentment that will swallow his mind, and the compassion that comes with people's offerings is not necessary for him.

Therefore, there must be a purpose for him to stay here.

But no matter what he stays here for, the ghosts in the temple, taught by him, stay away from the suffering of resentment, respect him, love him, and recognize him as their teacher.

The kid looked up at him in confusion: "...Mister?"

"It's all right," he said.

The other ghosts looked at his face and left silently one by one. They drifted away from the temple and scattered to nowhere.The two little ghosts also went out, but when they left, one foot passed the threshold and the other hand brushed the crack of the door, seemingly inadvertently, but they left one eye and one ear for watching. Listen to the movement in the temple.

The face of the person floating out of the ashes was even more helpless.

"Yangcang." He introduced himself.

"Li Quan." Li Chi said, his eyes seemed to be able to see into the depths of the soul, "23 years ago, you came here with the help of a carpenter, and told him that this is the temple in your hometown."

"But this is not your hometown."

Yang Cang readily admitted: "My hometown is far from here."

"You have stayed here for 23 years to wait." Li Chi continued.

"But this place is very desolate, and there is nothing worth waiting for." Yang Cang continued.His gaze fell on Li Chi, and he never left it for a moment. He seemed to be looking forward to it, but also seemed to be evaluating it carefully, but it was not annoying.

"So what you're waiting for is something that doesn't exist here yet." Li Chi said lightly.

Yang Cang looked at Lichi steadfastly, and asked: "Then, do you know what I'm waiting for?"

People will stay in one place and wait, either like waiting for a flower to bloom or a tree to bear fruit, waiting for something that has been confirmed to happen, but there is no seed worth waiting for; Heating a pot of soup, drying ink marks on a piece of paper, waiting for something he wants to accomplish, but there is nothing he must do here; The delivery of a letter, waiting for a future agreement, but there is no such agreement in him.

"I don't know." Li Chi said.

Yang Cang seemed to be taken aback for a moment, but he burst out laughing again in the blink of an eye. He was not in a daze, nor was his laughter joyful: "Yes, yes. I don't even know what I'm waiting for. , Is it a person or a thing? Is it an object or a message? Even I don’t know, so how can I expect others to give me the answer?”

"But I know why you are waiting here." Li Chi continued.

Yang Cang remained silent, waiting for an answer he already knew.

"Someone pointed you out." Li Chi said directly, "You don't really believe her pointing, but you can't forget it. When you really did what she said, after you were killed, you remembered what she said later, so Come here and wait."

Yang Cang still didn't speak, but his eyes became brighter.

"This is not the first time I have encountered the whereabouts of this celestial girl." Li Chi said, her eyes as deep as a deep pool.

Yang Cang suddenly couldn't help but tremble, he saw that those eyes were on him, but he felt that those eyes saw something deeper and farther away.

"Keep waiting, it's not time yet."

Yang Cang heard what he said, and then closed those eyes that made him startled.

……

the other side.

Ding Qin and Bai Hong were originally by Liu Yetao's side, waiting for what would happen on this night when the lights were not lit.In the first half of the night, nothing happened at first, but just when Liu Yetao couldn't hold on and was about to fall asleep, the soul of a 鶌鶋 suddenly flew from a distance.

"The soul of the 鶌鶋?"

The white-headed and blue-bodied bird soul flew towards this side quickly, and disappeared before entering the yard, but both Ding Qin and Bai Hong could see that it was lingering nearby, and its target was Liu Yetao !

Bai Hong frowned and said, "I'll go and have a look."

Ding Qin nodded, she stayed in the room.

Liu Yetao asked blankly: "What's the matter?" Her hands tightly clutched the quilt, and her whole body was already tense.

"It's okay." Ding Qin said, "Have you ever eaten a blue bird? Its head is white, its feet are yellow, and its cry is 'Quiet, Hunk'."

"I... I don't remember." Liu Yetao said, her voice was very timid. Although she didn't know what happened, she seemed to feel that she had done something wrong, and she hurriedly explained, "The day I was starving before For a while, I ate a lot, everything I could find, and I don't remember ever eating this bird."

"Think about it again, you should remember it. You didn't just eat it, you should have caught it and killed it." Ding Qin continued to ask.

Liu Yetao hurriedly shook her head and said, "Impossible, I've never caught a bird before."

"Maybe you didn't catch it? But you killed it." Ding Qin asked again.

Liu Yetao thought about it for a long while, even thin beads of sweat appeared on her forehead: "I really don't remember it."

Ding Qin's eyes were clear, but she didn't see any signs of lying on Liu Yetao's face.If, as Liu Yetao said, she never killed the 鶌鶋, then why did this 鶌鶋's soul come from?

Outside the courtyard, Baihong has already found the hidden 鶋鶋 soul.

"鶌鶋." Bai Hong called out.

Chi's soul hides on a tree, it looks at Baihong below, it doesn't make a sound, its eyes are vigilant, it can feel a strong aura from Baihong, it's only because it doesn't feel any hostility Did not run away directly.

"You can't fly with me, and I don't want to do anything to you." Bai Hong tilted his head and looked up at it, "I'll ask you a few questions, and you can answer them."

Ji Qu also turned his head to look at Baihong, and after a while, he let out a soft "quiet" cry.

Bai Hong frowned, and let out a few crane cries.Strange beasts were not born fluent in human language, even though they had the ability to remember well, but if they had little contact with humans before, it would be normal for them not to understand human language.

Yan still tilted his head, and let out a soft and confused "quit" sound.

The languages ​​of birds are not interlinked, just like people in different places have their own dialects, but as long as they have spiritual wisdom, it is not difficult to learn the meanings of several other bird languages. The language of 鶌鶋 is very special. Understand a little of its meaning, but can't speak its language.But as long as the 鶌鶋 can understand her meaning, that's enough, she changed a few more bird songs.

Ji Qi blinked blankly: "Qu, Quju?"

Bai Hong narrowed his eyes dangerously: "If you still don't understand, then I can help you."

"Qu, Qu, Quju! Quju, Quju!" The feathers on Que's body exploded at once, and his little head nodded twice unwillingly.

"Who harmed you?" Bai Hong asked.

"Condescending."

"You don't know?!" Bai Hong said in surprise.

"Absolutely abject..." Chou cried aggrievedly.The guy who killed it attacked her from behind, and it didn't even see who attacked her, so it died instantly.

Bai Hong was silent for a moment: "Then why did you follow this man?"

"Absolutely, abjectly, abjectly!" Chiu was thrashing and jumping, with a look of indignation.

Bai Hong half guessed what it meant, and asked: "You mean, after your soul was separated from the body, the Yin Soul regained consciousness and saw that they were cooking your body, so you followed them?"

He nodded his head and continued to shout: "Squeeze! Squeeze!"

It didn't see any other creatures nearby, so it must have been one of these two people who killed her, or both of them did it!

To be able to injure a 鶌鶋 without realizing it, no matter how you look at it, it shouldn't be an ordinary person.It is more likely to be Liu Chuanyu.But if she harbored malice towards Liu Yetao, why did she share the chicken meat with Liu Yetao?When there was a lack of food before, eating the meat of 鶌鶋 was equivalent to avoiding the possibility of starving to death countless times.

After the anger was over, he looked at Baihong pitifully again, and said in a weak voice, "Quiet, hut... chug..."

It is asking, is Baihong going to protect those two people?Although it is a strange beast, it is not very old, and its spiritual wisdom was not fully developed during its lifetime. It is incomparable with a big monster like Baihong, let alone after death.

The 鶌鶋 died suddenly and happily, and it was dead before it could react. It didn't feel any pain, and it didn't have any deep resentment.It is common for creatures in the wild to hunt each other.So even if it turned into a ghost, it didn't increase any abilities.If he hadn't died too dazedly, and still had some obsession with not knowing who killed him, I'm afraid it would have entered hell and reincarnated by now.

If Baihong wants to protect those two people, there is nothing he can do.

"If I want to protect them, what are you going to do?" Bai Hong asked.

He thought for a while, then groaned aggrieved twice.If Baihong wanted to protect them, he would have no choice but to find a way to let go of his obsession, and reincarnate first.

Bai Hong made the little guy laugh: "You can take it easy."

"I don't care about these things." She said, slightly raised her fingertips, and a crane feather floated out of her sleeve, and fell in front of the 鶌鶋, "But I gave that little girl a crane feather before, it was unfair to you .I can’t ask people to get it back, so I’ll give you one too.”

Baihong spoke plainly, but when the crane feather landed on the body, its blurry soul became clear in an instant, each feather was distinct, the claw tip shone with cold light, and the pure white crane feather was hidden on top of its head. In the white feather, the majestic aura that belongs to Baihong is instantly absorbed.

The danger of a soul body walking in the world is no less than that of a living creature, not to mention that it is the soul of a strange beast.With this crane feather, it doesn't have to worry as much as before.

He was both surprised and happy, and called out several times with a bright voice.It flew around in the air, landed back on the tree again, and called Baihong a few times in embarrassment.

Although it was very confused when it first died, but now it has been with Liu Chuanyu and Liu Yetao for a long time, and it has seen many things.For example, it saw where Liu Chuanyu had been recently, and the strange relationship between the two.

Bai Hong was startled, and laughed and scolded: "Little guy, what are you hiding?"

She didn't give it the crane feathers just to get some words out of his mouth, but it's just a little... It hurts its kind, so I really didn't expect this little guy to hide his words.

"Quiet, hut!" Chi Chi flapped his wings, pointing his beak into the courtyard.

When the nine lamps were lit, it couldn't get close to Liu Yetao.The light from the nine lamps was like a tough bubble, so it could only follow Liu Chuanyu.Although Liu Chuanyu looked more suspicious, he had little chance to observe Liu Yetao. It didn't fly back until tonight when he felt Liu Yetao's breath change, and wanted to take the opportunity to see if there was anything wrong with her.

Bai Hong discerned the meaning of its chirping, his eyes fell on the courtyard, and he narrowed his eyes slightly.

Liu Yetao sat timidly on the bed, her eyes were full of fear and anxiety about the unknown, the small lamp lit by Ding Qin illuminated her face, creating a warm and bright space in the dark night.

All nine lamps were out.

……

In the ruined temple, Lichi closed its eyes and looked up to the sky in silence. In the silent and dark night, there was only a solitary lamp illuminating each other.

The ghosts who had left the temple earlier returned to the temple one after another.They left empty-handed, but when they came back, each held a lamp in their hands, and the light was warm and bright.

Behind their lamps, one or two lonely ghosts are attracted.These lonely souls are ragged and broken, maintaining a miserable and terrifying death state, but under the illumination of this light, the traces of suffering on the ghosts show signs of healing.

Originally there was only a small lamp in this temple, and the brighter the lamp, the deeper the shadows drawn by the pillars, tables, etc. would be.

When a ghost comes back, he brings back a lamp. There are more and more lights in the temple, and there are fewer and fewer shadows.There are more and more ghosts here, but the temple is getting warmer and brighter.

Under the light of this light, the empty and miserable eyes of the homeless ghosts gradually became brighter, and the broken limbs gradually returned to their former appearance, making them a decent, dignified person. creatures.

Then, these ghosts led these lonely souls who had regained their sanity to the rear one by one, and taught them how to light a bright lamp, just like Yang Cang once taught himself.Since then, it has been their shelter.

With this warm lamp, even if they no longer receive the kind offerings from others, they will not fall back into confusion and misery, because they can already illuminate themselves.

The lights in this room are either bright or dark, and they don't seem to have any special features except that they have no entity and the flame is empty.There is no fluctuation of mana, no smell of incense, because the fuel of these flames is the purest and most compassionate thought. Urging the heart to produce the same warm and bright thoughts.

If they hadn't seen it with their own eyes, how many people in this world would believe that such an ordinary light can save lonely souls in deep misery?

Lights were reflected in his upturned eyes, like fireflies in the dark night, and his expression softened unconsciously.

"Bright Lantern Cult. When you see these lamps, do you think that these lamp holders are all credible?"

Yang Cang's gaze returned to Li Chi's body in an instant, only to realize that he had opened his eyes at some point.Those eyes are as deep as an invisible pool, falling on the person, like pouring a pot of cold spring from the top of the head.

All the ghosts gathered in the temple looked over intentionally or unintentionally, with displeasure in their eyes.But Li Chi just sat there peacefully.

Yang Cang did not respond to his words, but instead said: "You seem to know me very well, but I know almost nothing about you."

He has a deep obsession in his heart, if not, how could he turn into a ghost and not enter reincarnation?For this obsession, he is willing to wait here for 23 years for an uncertain possibility, but it is precisely because he does not know what he is waiting for that he has to be cautious.Step by step probing, observing, and questioning, but still not sure.

He could no longer bear the consequences of another mistake. The last time he was killed, this time, it might make all his obsessions come to naught.

The lights in the room seemed to be unable to shine into those deep eyes, and the corners of Li Chi's mouth looked at him with incongruity: "When the lights are lit, won't they go out again? The newly added fuel will always be the same as before. ?"

Yang Cang's heart skipped a beat when he heard this, and was about to continue asking.

But Li Chi's eyes were closed again, leaving only one sentence: "Since you can't figure out anything, then continue to wait."

……

The lights flickered, casting shadows under Liu Yetao's long, thick eyelashes.

Ding Qin faintly felt that there was something unusual, but she couldn't grasp the feeling for a while.Pulled by her spiritual sense, her gaze subconsciously fell into Liu Yetao's arms, only to realize that the crane feather in her arms was in a slightly excited state, emitting a little power.When Bai Hong was there before, the aura emanating from He Yu was covered by Bai Hong. Now that she left the room, the change of He Yu became obvious.

Crane Feather will be aroused, is it because the soul of Ji Qu is approaching?

Just as she was thinking, Baihong came back, she came back alone, and the soul of the 鶌鶋 was still outside the house, hiding in the place it chose.

The eyes of Ding Qin and Liu Yetao fell on Bai Hong at the same time.

"It's okay." Bai Hong shook his head lightly.

Liu Yetao's eyes still fell on Bai Hong, those two short words could not dispel her anxiety, but Bai Hong didn't mean to explain, he just continued to her: "There will be no more trouble tonight, you turn on the lamp Get up."

This lamp refers to the nine lamps, Liu Yetao understood, she flinched immediately, but she didn't refuse, she didn't ask, but looked at them uneasily, and asked hesitantly: "You...you still..."

"We are next door." Bai Hong said.

Liu Yetao bit her lip, nodded and said, "Okay."

Although Ding Qin was puzzled, she didn't ask questions immediately.She knew that Bai Hong would definitely tell her when the time came, but before he could leave, after Liu Yetao lit the nine lamps, Ding Qin's pupils couldn't help shrinking slightly.

The power of the crane feather on Liu Yetao disappeared after all nine lamps were lit.

Ding Qin didn't show any difference on her face, she left here with Bai Hong and returned to her room.

"You found out?" Bai Hong asked after returning to the room.

Ding Qin nodded, but then shook her head, frowning tightly: "The nine lamps can suppress the power of Crane Feather. But I still can't see what's wrong with those lamps."

Bai Hong said: "Qi's soul was also kept out of the light."

Those nine lamps definitely have power, although they are not yet known to them, they have already begun to play their role.

However, if it is said that Ji Qu is here to seek revenge and the nine lamps are used to protect Liu Yetao, then why is she so afraid of lights?

Baihong continued: "According to what Ji said, it had been hiding on Wutou Mountain before, but it died in a daze. After death, the ghost saw the two sisters of the Liu family cooking their own bodies, and thought they were the ones who killed themselves. , but he couldn't be sure who killed him, and then he followed down the mountain until he followed up in this city."

Ding Qin had doubts in his heart. According to the normal logic, the one who can kill the 鶌 鶋 silently and make it unaware must not be an ordinary person, only Liu Chuanyu may be the only one.But if so, how could it be impossible to be sure?Ding Qin didn't ask any further questions, but looked at Bai Hong with bright eyes.

As expected, Bai Hong continued directly: "When Ji Qu first followed the two sisters, they were ordinary people, and they couldn't even notice its existence. Liu Chuanyu's various peculiarities came from the fact that after entering the city, he met A person, she learned from that person."

"Bright Lantern Sect?" Ding Qin asked.

Bai Hong nodded: "Qi also heard this name, but it only really got close to it for the first time. It was almost discovered by that person, and after that, Que didn't dare to approach."

But Chi's memory is very good, even if it only saw it once, it still remembers that person very clearly.

"That member of the Lantern Sect..." When Bai Hong said this, he hesitated for a moment before continuing, "He is a blind painter."

Ding Qin couldn't help but let out an "ah".

"She sells paintings on the street, and someone troubles her, asking a blind man how to paint? She makes a bet with people that if she paints like it, they have to buy her paintings. She really looks like a painting."

"Then……"

Then, the man wanted to cheat.There were many people watching, including Liu Chuanyu.The 鶌鶋 landed on a tree not far away. Although it was mainly staring at Liu Chuanyu, it was also attracted by the excitement.

But when the man was sophistrying, the blind painter suddenly turned his head, and his two dull eyes were facing the place where the tree fell.

"Afterwards, Ji Qu didn't dare to get close." Bai Hong said.

That's all he knew, but there was more confusion left for the two of them.

If Liu Chuanyu and Liu Yetao were ordinary people at that time, how did they completely avoid the 鶌鶋's perception and make it die in a daze?

What sect is the Lantern Sect?What is the power in the light?Why is it hard for the two of them to notice it, but Liu Yetao's heart palpitations?

What is the purpose of the blind painter?Why do you only work as an ordinary painter on the street when you clearly have such strength?

Liu Chuanyu, what is her attitude towards Liu Yetao?To protect her?Or hate her?

……

Yang Cang stared at the lamp in front of him, the warm yellow flame was flickering, and the lamp oil was falling undetectably.

The lamp will be extinguished, even the sun will fall, so how can there be an eternal lamp?

But the lights will turn on again.People's hearts are not always changing, and when one thought retreats, darkness will be born, and the lamp will be extinguished.But when a thought of benevolence regenerates compassion, the lamp can be lit again.

He understood what Li Quan meant.Good and evil are the same in the world, and lighting a lamp does not mean that all evil thoughts will disappear, but as long as the lamp can be lit, it means that they have the same desire on certain things.That being the case, why bother to distinguish whether it is credible or not?

And if the other party's light is off, he can still see it.

But what Li Quan said has the second half of the sentence...

"I don't understand." Yang Cang asked suddenly, "If the mind turns back, the lamp will go out. But if the mind changes, how can the lamp be lit? Water cannot be used as lamp oil."

The practice method of the Lantern Sect has been passed down from ancient times, and only a thought of compassion can light the lantern, and there is never any mistake... no.Yang Cang suddenly remembered that there is a distinction between the depth and depth of the law. For example, a Mongolian child enters school, he must first learn the simple ones. If the classics are taught before he can read, then who can learn well?The same is true of the method of the Ming Deng Sect. In the superficial method, it is not mandatory to let one's heart stay in the pure compassion of one thought all the time, even if there are some distracting thoughts, it is also possible.

Just like an old man carving wooden statues for ghosts, he has the idea of ​​seeking wealth in his heart when he makes deals with ghosts, and the idea of ​​accumulating blessings for himself and his two children when he carves the statues for the ghosts. The wooden statue is still carved.

Yang Cang was thinking in a daze, and suddenly countless complicated thoughts arose in his heart.The memories of his life surged endlessly, and suddenly he was frozen when he died... He shouldn't have died there, no one should have known where he was, and no one should have known what he was going to do at that time, except... people who never thought about it.

But on that day, the words of the goddess of worry-free came true.

It's normal to have one's own wishes, but will this distracting thought really have such a big impact?

"Wish and desire, what's the difference?" Li Chi's voice suddenly sounded, and those deep eyes had already opened.