Renew

There are scorched black trees everywhere on this Panyang Mountain, as if they were set on fire, even the mud all over the mountain is pitch black, with some debris mixed in the mud.In the middle of winter, it doesn't look like it will burn, it should have become like this a long time ago.

Rongli looked around, and it was the first time he saw such a burned bare mountain, with horse-haired hedgehogs on the mountain, the howling wind, and the loose sand on the mountain flying up.She raised her arms to cover her lips and nose, frowned and said, "Is there really a Taoist temple in this place?"

It doesn't seem like there will be a Taoist temple, nor does it seem that there will be living people living here.

Hua Su was still sitting cross-legged, the smooth black silk hanging down from the rock and dragging on the scorched mud.

Rong Li frowned, looked around, but didn't see any courtyard walls.She turned around and thought, is it possible that the Taoist temple is behind this mountain?

She had just taken a step when she suddenly heard Hua Su's indifferent voice from behind.

"Don't go far." Hua Su said.

Rong Li paused, turned around and asked, "What?"

Hua Su frowned tightly, the ghostly aura swirling around her side still persisted, and her large black robe was slowly flapping in the wind.It took her a long time to calm down, stood up and said: "This place is a bit weird, follow me closely."

Hearing this, Rongli took out the painting ghost and held it tightly in his hand.

The withered and black trees stood tall on the mountain, and the scorched shadows of the trees overlapped. The outstretched branches were twisted and crooked, like ghosts with teeth and claws, standing upright silently.

There is no ghost aura on the mountain, at least apart from the big ghost in front of him, Rongli can't see any other ghosts.

Apart from the whistling wind, there seemed to be no other sound.

Hua Su walked silently, quietly and desolately, as if floating in the air, but she was also walking, and she should be down-to-earth.

"Is there really someone in this place?" Rong Li clenched his fingers, how could he dare to let go of the picture in his hand.

Hua Su was holding a black robe in one hand, and shoes embroidered with silver thread were exposed from under the black silk.She walked forward along the path on the mountain, her braids were still loose behind her, "If there is a road, there should be people, but there is no breath of living people here."

"The sorcerer who went to practice in the Shan family back then, is it possible that he is already dead?" Rong Xin sank.

The path is almost invisible, and it is also scorched, and only a little winding outline can be vaguely seen.

Hua Su didn't dare to be sure, "There is no living person. If they have died, they have gone to other places. There is some thin ghost aura on the mountain, but you won't be able to detect it, because the ghost aura is thin and scattered. If it is not swallowed, It is cleansed."

Rong Li raised his eyes, "Then the ghost energy is really thin, I really didn't notice it."

Hua Su said again: "Perhaps it's because of Taoist temples that wandering spirits don't come near this place. I don't know which ghost left behind the ghostly aura. Go and have a look."

Rong's heart was beating like a drum, and she was almost out of breath. If she could find the sorcerer, she might be able to get closer to Danxuan's life experience, and she was the same.

Ever since she left Qi An, she has doubted her own background for a long time. After this experience, she feels that her background is even more bizarre. Dan Xuan's background is so... weird, and she is not sure whether she is human or not.

She has been a mortal for more than ten years, but now she is a little confused. If she is not a human, then what... would she be?

The mountain wind was bitter, but the palms were sweating finely.

Rong Li walked slowly, without noticing, already lagging behind Hua Su by a lot.

The mountain wind was blowing violently behind her, like a jackal chasing her, she hurriedly walked a little faster, her heart flustered, her heart seemed to jump along her neck to the top of her skull, and her head was also throbbing with pain.

Hua Su paused, "What's the rush, I won't leave you here."

Rong Li gasped for breath, stretched out his hand to hold Hua Su's robe tightly, as if he was dying, "Can't you walk slower."

Hua Su sneered, "I've never been told to walk slowly."

Rong Li said softly: "That's because you were surrounded by ghosts before, where did someone come from?"

Hua Su was stopped by her, so she had to slow down her pace, and said nonchalantly: "They will only beg me."

The mountain path twisted and twisted, as if it had circled halfway up the mountain, and after walking for half a stick of incense, I couldn't see the end.

Rong Li was really tired from walking, she didn't have much strength, and now she was walking on this mountain again, the mountain road was very shabby, there were stones and broken branches everywhere, she had to walk carefully to avoid tripping.

She didn't dare to let go of the black silk clutched in her hand, and said in a low voice, "Could it be that a ghost hit the wall."

Hua Su turned around, like looking at a fool, "Ghosts don't hit walls."

Rong Li choked on these words, "But I walked around this mountain road, why can't I see the Taoist temple?"

"What's the hurry, this mountain road is not easy." Hua Su hooked his hand, and a stone on the side of the road flew into her palm.

Rong Li took a closer look and found some weird scratches on the stone, "This is it?"

Hua Su snorted softly, "It's not a ghost hitting the wall, it's a human hitting the wall."

After finishing her speech, she threw the stone in her hand violently. The stone seemed to hit some restriction, and a gust of wind swirled back.

Seeing that the stone was about to turn back again, Rong Li hid behind Hua Su, tightening the black silk in his hand.

Hua Su grabbed the stone again and threw it again.

This time, the stone hit the barrier on three sides in a row, and the gang formation exploded.

Rong Li took a step in a daze, "broken?"

"Not much." Hua Su said calmly, she let Rongli hold her robe, it seemed that Rongli was pulling her, but she was actually pulling this girl up the mountain.

Turning along the path to the mountain, you can see layers of stone steps.

On the stone steps, a Taoist temple stands alone, the door of the Taoist temple is tightly closed, and there are two strange marks on the dark door leaf.

It was too quiet, as if lifeless.

Rongli's left foot had already stepped up the stone steps, and she stopped abruptly. She raised her head, narrowed her eyes slightly, looked at the two marks on the door, and vaguely saw the outline of a beast's claw, and said in surprise: " What's that on the door?"

Hua Su turned around, put her index finger under her right eye, just touched it once, then turned her cold palm to her left eye.

What Rongli saw suddenly changed. The courtyard wall was no longer a wall, and the door was no longer like a door.

Inside the high wall, she saw a group of gray-black fog shrinking, and she didn't know whether it was because of the wind blowing or something else, but the fog was trembling tremblingly.

This ghost energy is really thin, if you don't look carefully, you can't tell it's a ghost.

Wearing Taoist robes, he looks like an audience mage.

Rong Li leaned back slightly. At that time, the Shan family specially came to Panyang Mountain to invite a mage. The mage on Panyang Mountain should be regarded as very powerful. I don't know what happened to them, so they fell into this field. Sigh.

She pulled Hua Su's hand away, and drew a line under her right eyelid, and what she saw immediately returned to normal.

Hua Su walked up the stone steps, "Did you see it?"

Rong Li changed the painting ghost to the other hand, "See, why are there so many ghosts in the world? They can't be reincarnated. It is said in the mortal scriptures that black and white impermanence will come to search for souls, and bring the souls that are about to die to death." Walk."

Hua Su said, "It's not so easy. There are thousands of ways to die in the world. Some people have not yet fulfilled their karma, their life span has not yet reached, and they will wander around in the world until their karma is over. Willing to go. There are also those who commit suicide, sacrifice their lives, and cut off their own path of reincarnation. Even if they are taken to the underworld by the ecstasy, they will not be able to cross the Wangchuan River or the Huangquan Road."

Rong Li was taken aback when he heard that, "Then if he was killed by someone else, he just pretended to hang himself?"

"You're talking about the girl who was hanged on the beam in Rong's mansion?" Hua Su said in a flat voice, "It's been so long, but you still remember her."

The ghost looked cold, and said again: "That girl has harmed you, isn't your heart made of tofu? It's so soft."

Rong Li pinched her black robe and said, "If it was made of tofu, it would have melted by now."

Hua Su calmly said: "Whether she kills herself or not depends on her state of mind. If she wanted to die, even if she borrowed someone else's hands, then she would have killed herself."

Rong Li understood, and followed her up the stone steps, "So, that girl can still be reincarnated."

Hua Su stingily squeezed out a word, "Yes."

Walking to the door of the Taoist temple, Rong Li stared straight at the mark on the door, frowned and said: "What is this left, why is it in this place."

Hua Su took a step back, pressing her cold palm to the back of her neck.

Rong Li shrank his neck involuntarily, and said in surprise: "It's cold."

Hua Su exerted a slight force and pressed her neck forward, "Come closer and smell."

Rong Li didn't doubt that he was there, and when he took a closer look, he smelled a fishy smell, "This..."

Hua Su let go, "It seems that the things in Dongming Lake have been here, but unfortunately the silver bell was smashed by the old fish, and I don't know what the little green fish is doing now."

But this palm print doesn't look like it was left by a fish, where did the fish get its palm.

Rong Li stared blankly for a while, trying to find some other outlines from this weird palm.

"There are not only fish in that Dongming Lake, Mr. Dong Heng can enter the water even if he is a cultivator, not to mention other demons." Hua Su said softly.

Rong Li wanted to reach out to push the door, but before his fingers touched the door, Hua Su let out a ghostly breath.

The black ghost energy condensed into arms, and slowly pushed the door open.

There was a creak, and the courtyard was in chaos, as if it had been ransacked once.

How could an ordinary Taoist temple be like this, it was so messy that people couldn't see its original appearance, it was vaguely smashed, broken tiles and bricks fell all over the ground, and the cloth banners that fell on the ground were already discolored.

Rong Li let go of the black silk in his hand, only to realize that the corner had been crumpled by her.She pursed her lips and stroked it, pretending not to know, and bravely stepped in, still remembering the ghostly aura in her heart, she squeezed the painting ghost tightly before walking step by step.

Hua Su followed behind her, frowned and said: "The smell of Dongming Lake is stench, so unpleasant, I don't know how that Dongheng Lord can bear it."

Rong Li pinched his sleeves to cover his nose and mouth, hesitantly approached the cloud of ghostly aura, turned his head to look at Hua Su, and said in a low voice, "Maybe his nose has been smoked long ago."

Hua Su raised the corner of his mouth, bent down and grabbed the ghost out of the incense burner.

After the ghost was captured, Rong Li finally saw its appearance.

Really a Taoist priest, shrinking shyly, very thin.

Hua Su let go of his hand, and clapped his palms for a while, "It turned out that he hid in the incense burner. No wonder the soul is so thin, and the ghost aura is so faint. It is tantamount to hanging himself by hanging his neck."

She changed her voice and asked, "Where are the other people in this Taoist temple?"

The ghost didn't speak, as if he was stupid.

Hua Su was quite patient, and asked casually, "Are you the only one left in the Taoist temple?"

The Taoist still didn't speak, his eyes were blind, his eyes were slack, his body couldn't help trembling, he didn't know how long he had been trembling here, he almost turned himself into a sieve.

Seeing that he was still silent, Hua Su took out a veil from his cuff, which was exactly what was used to wrap the green skin fish demon earlier.She shook the veil, stretched out her hand in front of the ghost, and said softly: "Do you recognize this smell?"

The Taoist priest froze, yelled loudly, and turned around to hide behind the incense burner again.

With a hook of Hua Su's finger, he forcibly hooked his soul back, "It seems that I recognize it."

Rong Li leaned over with his knees propped up, looked straight at the ghost sitting on the ground, and asked doubtfully, "Did the ghost with this smell make you like this?"

The Taoist raised his hand to cover his head, so afraid that he didn't say a word.

Hua Su crumpled the handkerchief and stuffed it back under the black robe, "Tell me what that monster looks like, and I'll catch it for you to play with."

The Taoist was trembling, and the sound of words came out of his mouth, "Wolf, the fur on its body is like ice spikes, and its fur is snow white..."

Hua Su lightly said, "It really is something from Dongming Lake."

The Taoist said again: "Looking for someone, no, never cheated..."

Rong Li listened intently, the Taoist ghost's voice was trembling when he spoke, if you don't listen carefully, you really don't know what he is talking about.

Hua Su asked: "The monster is looking for someone? Who is it looking for?"

The Taoist scrambled and crawled, trying to hide behind the incense burner, but saw a few wisps of ghost energy entangled him, turning into long slender chains, restraining him.

Hua Su didn't allow him to hide, "Who are you looking for? Could it be that you have seen the person he is looking for?"

The Taoist hurriedly said: "I saw it, I was in the imperial city, I never lied..."

Seeing his hasty explanation, Rong Li thought for a while and then suddenly realized, "Is that demon looking for someone you have met, but he went there but didn't see him, so he said you lied to him?"

The Taoist priest fell silent, covering his face with his hands.

Hua Su looked down at him, "You are afraid of returning home, why did you kill yourself, there is death around you, could it be that wanting your own life is more comfortable than being eaten by monsters?"

Rong Li also didn't know how Hua Su realized that this person committed suicide, it took a while to see that there was a hole in the ghost's heart, but because the ghost was dressed in black, she didn't notice it for a while.

Hua Su stretched out his hand and hooked it, and a bell rang in the distance.

A moment later, a dagger was swept over by ghost energy and landed at the Taoist priest's feet.

Hua Su said: "This dagger was used when you killed yourself. Your soul is thin because you stayed in the mortal world for too long and hid in the incense burner. Your soul is about to die."

The dagger fell to the ground with a sting, as if it woke up the Taoist priest.

The Taoist slowly lowered his hands covering his face, looked at the blood-stained dagger at his feet, and touched his heart after a long pause.

"What is the ability of that monster to make you so afraid that you would rather kill yourself than be eaten by it." Hua Su looked down at him and said.

Rong Li stood up straight, his legs were a little tired, and his head was also dizzy.

The Taoist grabbed the dagger with trembling hands, his eyes became clearer.He slapped his knees suddenly, his face full of regret, "That day... I shouldn't have gone down the mountain."

Rong Li thought about it and asked: "Could it be that you were the sorcerer who was invited to the residence by the Shan family that day?"

The Taoist trembled when he heard the Shan family, raised his eyes dumbfoundedly, and looked at the man and the ghost for a long time. He probably saw Hua Su's cultivation, and he was shocked by the coercion on her body, and stared straight. He glanced back an inch.

Hua Su raised the corner of his mouth, but there was no smile in his eyes, "Don't panic, I won't eat you."

The Taoist said tremblingly: "Yes, I have indeed been to Shanfu..."

He rolled his eyeballs, his gaze paused on Rongli's face, and he said in amazement: "Yes, it's you?"

Rong Li was puzzled, at first he thought that the Taoist priest regarded her as Dan Xuan, but then he thought, Dan Xuan was only seven years old when Shan Dong invited the mage to his residence, even if she looked like Dan Xuan again , nor should it be recognized at a glance.

The Taoist shook his head and changed his words, "No, it's not you."

Rong Li recalled the old incident mentioned by Shan Jinheng, and asked: "What did you see in that room, why... turned around and ran away, is the thing you saw that the monster was looking for?"

The Taoist gasped for breath, and was too frightened to speak again.

Hua Su frowned tightly, and suddenly hung his palm to the top of his skull, pouring a wisp of ghost energy into it.

The Taoist suddenly woke up, terrified by Hua Su's coercion, he had no choice but to say, "I saw a woman."

A woman, then...it must not be Danxuan. Danxuan was only seven years old at the time, so she must be a little girl.

Rong Li turned his head abruptly, looked at Hua Su, and thought about it: "Could that woman be the remaining half of Dan Xuan's soul?"

It is not impossible to think about it, Danxuan only has half of the soul, and the remaining half of the soul should disappear for no reason.

Hua Su shook his head, "I don't know."

The Taoist breath was a little anxious, as if he wanted to speak but didn't dare to speak. He could speak in front of Hua Su, but he couldn't even speak just thinking about the woman. Could it be that the female ghost is more powerful than Hua Su?

Rong Li didn't know about the fairy ghost, he hesitated for a moment, and said softly: "Can you elaborate?"

The Taoist priest curled up into a ball, timidly, if he could curl up into a ball, he would have rolled away long ago.

Hua Su's expression turned cold, the tails of his eyes fluttered, but his pupils were lowered, "You are not even afraid of me, I don't know what ghost in this world is worth your fear."

The Taoist said in a trembling voice: "It's different, she...is obviously out of her body, but she doesn't look like a ghost."

Hua Su said lightly, "How do you say?"

The Taoist priest was terrified, "Her mind and soul were covered with sores, but she was not dissipated. She sat in the room and looked at me calmly, with countless karma wrapped around her body, as if she didn't know the pain. When have I seen such a horrifying sight?" I don’t know what evil I did to cause such karma.”

Rong Li asked again: "Other than that."

The Taoist said again: "She should be extremely weak, but the spiritual power gathered in her palm is as vast as a river, and the coercion fell to the top of my skull, as if without her doing anything, the coercion could crush me to ashes, how... It can be done by ordinary demons and ghosts. If she is really a ghost, then the Palace of the King of Hades must not allow her to wander in the mortal world, with such karma and spiritual power, can she not be captured and sent to the eighteenth level of hell?"

After a pause, he swore: "So she must not be a ghost!"

Hua Su remained silent, silently looking at the Taoist priest curled up at his feet.

Rong Li frowned, "Are you scared away by her coercion?"

The Taoist nodded, then shook his head again, "I was frightened and sprayed a talisman water on her, and the talisman water fell on the woman. I thought she would get angry, but I didn't expect her to sit calmly. Moved, there was still a very faint smile on her lips, as if she was a little ashamed. I don't know why she showed such an expression, but when the talisman water fell on her, she was not hurt at all, but she was still on the sidelines. The little girl on the bed vomited blood."

"Dan Xuan." Rong Li said softly: "It is my mother Dan Xuan who is spitting out blood."

The Taoist was puzzled, "The little girl's body is as usual, and I can't see any connection with the woman. When I turned around, I saw the aura on the girl's body was overflowing, and under the karma that was so red and black, the aura was moving like a snake. "

"She wants to kill you?" Rong Li was taken aback.

The Taoist shook his head: "She only said the word 'run', and she told me to run."

Hua Su seemed to be very confused, and speculated: "I'm afraid there is something wrong in the practice, and the spiritual power is no longer under her control. If the spiritual power becomes chaotic, it will definitely turn against its owner and hurt others."

The Taoist shivered again unexpectedly, "Although I ran in a hurry, I was still shocked, and my internal organs seemed to be crushed. About two days later, a wolf demon with a fishy smell all over his body came to ask me. But I have seen Mr. Dongheng, how can I recognize Mr. Dongheng, so I told what happened that day, the wolf demon probably went to the Shan Mansion to look for it, but he couldn't find the woman, so he wanted to ask for it when he came back. My life is trying to swallow my soul, I hid several times, and I simply killed myself, dragging that mortal body, I don’t know where I can hide, it’s better to find a way to keep my soul.”

Surprised, Rong Xin clenched Hua Song tightly, "That woman... is Mr. Dongheng."

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