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Everyone's kindness is hard to refuse, and I haven't had a bigu recently, so I sat on the table and had a full meal. After eating this meal for a long time, I excused that I was very tired from fighting with monsters and urgently needed to cultivate and adjust my breath, so everyone reluctantly left go.

For the convenience of discussion, it is enough for the mayor to prepare only one room.Sitting in the room, the three of us talked by candlelight at night.

This talk turned out to be an earth-shattering event!

Of course, before the big event happens, some appetizer-like small things must happen first. These small things are what the three of us have seen and heard along the way, and the conclusion of the reasoning about the Fenglai Mountain Monster.

I said: "First, this mountain monster is not a so-called mountain monster."

I spoke plausibly, as if there was evidence beyond doubt.Rabbit interface: "How can I see it"

I tried my best to explain: "Think about it, the mountain monster is just an ordinary mountain spirit wild monster. Spit out the bones, but many people were killed before and after Fenglai Town, and all of them were dead. These people obviously died of losing their souls, and the mountain monsters cannibalize people, but they can't suck their souls."

Beidou wandered around the barren mountains and mountains all day, and did not inquire about these matters. He wondered: "Could it be that everyone who was killed here died of lost souls?"

Tu'er nodded and hummed, but I denied it: "No, it's not. It's just that most people, a few of them committed suicide. For example, the girl named Qingqing was eaten alive when Yuanyang was buried today."

"That's right." Tu'er clapped his hands together: "The murderer is the so-called mountain monster. Many people have witnessed it with their own eyes, so there should be no mistake."

Beidou frowned: "So, there is more than one evil spirit entrenched here."

I sipped my tea in a low voice, and said meaningfully: "It's not just one or two, now dozens of them are showing their heads."

Beidou expressed surprise: "What do you mean?"

"Open the door and you'll know it at a glance." I continued to drink tea calmly.With a wave of his sleeve, the window creaked and opened in response.

The Big Dipper Rabbit screamed at the same time: "Wow, why are there so many lonely ghosts!"

Outside the window, near the eastern foot of the mountain, a large group of white figures were floating around, flying around, jumping up and down, appearing and disappearing from time to time.

I just noticed that the evil wind and evil aura suddenly became stronger outside, and dozens of different evil auras overflowed into the room one after another. I knew that there was an evil spirit appearing, but I didn't expect it to be a bunch of ghosts.But squinting his eyes and observing for a while, he was surprised to find that those were not authentic lonely ghosts, because most of them were transformed by the victims who died in Fenglai Mountain, and their ancestral home was here, so they would not be reduced to that level.The most important thing is that these things are not ghosts, they are just a bunch of scattered souls.

The authentic three souls and seven souls of ghosts are intact, but some of these souls have been sucked away by demons before, and now only a part is left. They can neither harm nor kill people.

"That's not right..." Seeing those remnant souls flying in the sky, Beidou suddenly realized: "Have you noticed that the souls of the dead are generally bound by things in life, and if they don't have cultivation, they can only circle around their own graves, but they How can it still fly around...Look, the one over there is about to fly out of the mountain!"

I glanced over, and sure enough, there was a remnant soul slowly swinging out of the foot of the mountain and landed in the town.He can't harm people, don't worry about it, what should matter is why he can fly so far

After thinking for a moment, I said: "There is only one possibility." The Big Dipper Rabbit looked over at the same time.

"Their graves have been dug!" When the graves are destroyed, the power of restraint disappears, and the soul is free.

The three of us immediately turned into three lights, and rushed to the cemetery we saw during the day.Beidou said earlier that he lingered in Fenglai Mountain for a long time, except that this mountain has a stronger evil spirit than other places, and there is no other problem, only this cemetery is full of problems.

When he found it all the way, he saw a cloud of black mist blowing away dozens of graves. He didn't know what to do, so he rushed up to fight. He didn't control his strength during the fight, and accidentally broke the barrier outside the town. It was purely unintentional. .

The three of us were a little late again.

Sure enough, when we arrived at the cemetery, there was a smoky atmosphere, flying sand and rocks, many graves were torn up, a pair of coffins were exposed outside, and the corpse was raging. It was creepy to see at night, but the guy who dug the grave had already I don't know where to go.

Considering that the other party's move is weird, I don't know what the purpose is, and that guy has a lot of mana, it's better not to split up, so as not to be attacked by the other party.

Since you can't catch up, you simply don't go after it.That guy knows that a priest is coming, but he is willing to take the risk of digging the grave again and again. I want to see what the mystery of this cemetery is.

After looking at it for a long time, except for the known ones and the panicked look, the whole cemetery seems to have no mystery.

I was still thinking about it, but the rabbit suddenly said: "Huh? Why is there a corpse missing in this mandarin duck burial?"

Beidou and I leaned over, and the rabbit was standing in front of the new grave, with a spiritual fire in his hand to illuminate it, and there was only Fanghui's rotting corpse in the coffin, and there was a large open space beside it, Qingqing's corpse had indeed disappeared.

Tu'er gasped: "This is so strange, that thing is so soul-inducing, it's probably for cultivating demonic arts, but why is it stealing female corpses? If it's enough to eat, it won't be fresher to go to the town to catch people alive."

Beidou said surprisingly: "It is possible that Xie Chong is a man, he has taken a fancy to Qingqing, and has necrophilia."

I said: "If you guess blindly, you can't guess a name. Rebury the grave and go to a place tomorrow morning."

Rabbit puzzled: "Where are you going?"

I helped my forehead, hating that iron cannot be made into steel: "Qingqing's home."

He was even more puzzled.I didn't bother to explain to him that I buried the uncovered grave properly so that the remnant souls that had floated out returned to their original places in twos and threes, and then I went back to Lao Li's house.

He went out quietly, and came back without anyone noticing.The three of us had no plans to recharge our batteries. As soon as Beidou Fang sat down, he said: "Sure enough, there is more than one monster. That mountain monster was easily found by Lao Li when it ate people. The soul-absorbing ones are obviously not of the same level, and naturally they are not the same one either."

I interjected, "I think you're right. It shouldn't be the same one, but it's probably the same gang."

Rabbit also agreed: "It's true when you think about it. As the saying goes, one mountain cannot accommodate two tigers. If it is allowed, it must be the raccoon dogs of the same feather."

The next day, I took the initiative to find Lao Li, and troubled him to lead the way and take the three of us to Qingqing's house.Unexpectedly, just halfway through the walk, I heard a ghostly cry from a distance: "He's dead!"

The three of us looked at each other in blank dismay, none of them could restrain the horror in our eyes, the two of them were probably thinking: killing people under the eyes of the priest, this evil spirit is really bold and admirable.What I thought was: so soon

I didn't care about the slow-moving Lao Li anymore, and the three of us rushed towards the sound.From a distance, I saw a large group of people gathered in front of the two thatched huts in front of us, talking and talking.

Because of the meal last night, most of the residents in the town knew that the three of us were immortals who came here specially to help the world and save the people. Seeing us approaching, someone immediately screamed: "The immortal is here, everyone, please stay safe!" Pause the discussion, and very tacitly get out of the way.

Qingqing's original surname is Yang, and her elder brother's surname is naturally Yang, called Dingfeng. When I first heard this name from the mayor, I almost had a misunderstanding.

I saw Yang Dingfeng lying quietly on the wooden board. There was no trace of trauma on his body, and his whole body was not missing a piece of flesh, but his whole body was purple and black, exuding an indescribable stench. It seemed that he would corrode soon.

There was an old lady next to her who said sadly: "Dianfeng came back from the funeral yesterday, and he has been depressed and unable to do anything. This child usually takes good care of our old couple, but he has a rough temper and can't do meticulous work. It's all about Qingqing doing the housework, and now that Qingqing is gone, I thought about coming over today to help with the rest of the chores, but no one answered when I knocked on the door, I went in and saw him lying on the bed like that stiffly, breathing stopped It's..."

Needless to say, it must be the masterpiece of "Mountain Monster".

At this moment, a clear and bright female voice suddenly sounded in the distance, shouting: "Brother, brother."

Everyone looked back, and all of them screamed: "Qingqing!"

"This...is really Qingqing"

"God, I didn't see the tricks!"

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!"

So everyone hid behind the rabbit in a panic.

I saw the girl in a shroud, with picturesque eyes, rushing towards this side in a hurry, ignoring everyone's overreaction, and just rushed straight to Yang Dingfeng.Seeing that his elder brother became this description, he knelt down with a bang, and wept in tears in an instant, sobbing uncontrollably.

Rabbit Beidou both opened their mouths wide, apparently they were not much calmer than the folks and elders.

She was almost crying, when suddenly she heard the folks and elders muttering something about the gods, her eyes lit up, she took a look at me, walked over on her knees, tugged at my sleeve and said, "Please the gods, save my brother! "Kowtowing his head while talking.

I stretched out my hand and forcibly lifted her up: "Well, I'm sorry I can't do anything. This person can't be brought back to life after death, so let's be sad and let the girl change."

We were halfway through, when she heard my words, instead of consoling her, she jumped up and scolded angrily: "You are a cheater! Who said that people can't be resurrected after death? I just died two days ago, and I am resurrected today!" Already!"

I:"……"

I feel really wronged.It's one thing to comfort people, but it's another thing not to reveal the secrets of the heavens. The two things can't be compared...

Glancing at the two people beside him, Beidou spread his arms out, expressing his helplessness; Tu'er blushed and blushed again and again, holding back his laughter seemed to be very hard work, and it seemed that he could not count on it.

I had no choice but to talk nonsense in a serious manner: "Miss, what you said is wrong, you know that your life is hard-won."

Qingqing was confused when she heard the words, recalled for a moment, and said: "That day I was standing in front of Ah Hui's spirit and killed myself, and then... Then it seemed to be a dream... In the dream, it was my brother, who let me live well, Don't commit suicide anymore, he said he was leaving, going to a far away place, and never coming back... Then I didn't remember anything, just woke up, and I was in a mass grave... I searched for a long time, I couldn't find out where Ah Hui's grave was, and then I wanted to go home, but I heard the news of my brother's death on the way..."

After all, she was also at a loss about the matter of her resurrection from the dead.

Right in my arms, he hurriedly said: "That's right, in fact, you didn't have a dream, it was just your brother who gave you a dream. Your life was given by him in exchange for another life, to save you Brother, you have to exchange one life for another. But your life was bought by your brother through untold hardships. If you exchange it now, then what is the point of him doing all this for you? You have let him down Mind."

She was moved by what I said, and she was speechless for a while, so I struck while the iron was hot: "Hurry up and prepare for the funeral, the most urgent thing is to let your brother die in peace."

She was moved by me again, so she stopped being entangled with me, turned around and asked the folks and elders for help, and then went to work.

Avoiding a group of mortals, Beidou pulled me into an alley, wondering: "My lord, is what you said just now true?"

"It was just nonsense at first, but..." I frowned and pondered: "But when I think about it carefully, there seems to be nothing wrong, and everything is reasonable. Maybe my words will come true."

"Then what should we do now?" Tu'er hit the nail on the head.

I said: "There are many doubts about Miss Qingqing's resurrection. However, she survived and Yang Dingfeng died suddenly. The two events followed one another. It is probably not a coincidence. To confirm whether my guess is true, we still need to verify it." one time."

Beidou is full of worries: "How to verify"

I hugged my arms and said, "Look for the mayor."

Of course I went to the mayor. When I found him, he was helping the Yang family prepare for the funeral. Tu'er went to give condolences.

I'm still considering my words, whether it's better to ask straightforwardly, or to insinuate in a tactful way, but considering that Lao Li is old, his mind is declining, and his reaction is not flexible enough, in order to avoid more twists and turns, I still don't want to beat around the bush. , It is more appropriate to go straight to the point and get straight to the point.

So I asked: "May I ask the mayor, after the victim died in the past, did any other strange things happen in the family? Life. Strange is strange, but it can be regarded as blessing and misfortune.”

The mayor suddenly realized: "The head of the fairy is really good at predicting things. It is true. In the past, every time someone died, the family would suddenly receive blessings from the sky. Fang Hui is like this. This young man's family has always been struggling. There is no decent house at all, only a small hut. But that day he suddenly took out a hundred taels of gold to Yang's family to propose a marriage, and then he tore down the hut to build a new house, and took out the money to heal her brother Qingqing. He has been suffering from chronic diseases for many years. But no one knows where he got the money, it's really strange..."

I nodded knowingly, my cultivation has reached the point where I can stand shoulder to shoulder with a priest, such tricks as turning stones into gold are easily within my grasp.Qingqing's sudden death and resurrection also makes sense.

Most likely it was Yang Dingfeng's love for his sister, and the blood relationship was used by the evil spirit, and the two sides secretly made a deal, the thing agreed to try to bring Qingqing back to life, on the condition that he would exchange his life for another.

Because Qingqing's death was suicide, not caused by evil spirits, her soul was still healthy after death, and the time when Yang Dingfeng was entangled in a transaction by evil spirits was just right, on the night of the funeral, so that thing sneaked into the mass grave at night and took Qingqing's body Steal it out, and then forcefully stuff her soul back into her body, thus bringing her back from the dead.Since there was no tombstone in front of Yuanyang's tomb, and there were so many new graves in the mass grave, Xie Chong couldn't determine which grave it was, so he had to dig up all the new graves to check, which made a mess.

Beidou and Tu'er stopped, they both had a sober expression of "so it is", they seemed to understand.

After understanding all the matters, I first ask the mayor to go out to work, and close the door to discuss countermeasures.

I tapped my finger on the table and said, "In the past two days of visiting, based on some clues, I have basically figured out the harmful habits of that thing. Let's see if we can adapt it to local conditions."

Tu'er nodded and said: "Obviously, the taste of that thing favors young people."

As he said, there are many victims in Fenglai Town every year. Among them, there are men and women, beautiful and ugly, tall, short, fat and thin. They basically have nothing in common. The only thing in common is that these people are not Over the age of [-], there are only a handful of old people in the town who died unexpectedly. There are indications that these few old people basically died of illness or accidents.

The second is what I said just now, this evil spirit is only fair, it does not directly kill people cleanly, but advocates your love and my wish, everyone seeks benevolence and benevolence, and only with the consent of others will there be any benefit However, it is not known whether there will be actions if people disagree, but this does not have much influence, and the result is the same.

Another point, according to what Lao Li said, in the past, such cases started every other month, and sometimes there might not be one case in two or three months, but recently it seems to be frequent, with one after another dead people.The most important thing is that he didn't seem to pay attention to our three genuine priests. He clearly knew that we were coming, and he was still coming towards him. , directly ignored the three of us.He didn't give face or face at all, which made people especially angry.

I am blessed to the soul.Since there is no hiding place for the evil spirit nearby, it might as well sit on the sidelines and catch him or her when he or she comes out to act recklessly.

I told the truth about the thoughts in my heart, and everyone thought it was feasible, but Rabbit said that this plan has a long way to go, and the first thing is to determine the goal.Many young people were killed in this town, but there are many more who are not killed today.However, there are only three people in our team who have the power to protect themselves. They are unable to take care of each other, and it is impossible to take care of all of them, but how can we know who the thing is after? People are all gathered in one place, with such fanfare and obvious purpose, it is tantamount to telling each other directly that we are waiting for you to come over and throw yourself into the trap.

The evil spirit was more or less afraid of the three of us, otherwise he could have taken us away like he did to Qianluan Sangchen, and would not have stopped every time they fought, and would not have come to confront each other head-on.If this method is used, it will be futile in all likelihood.

Tu'er's worries are not unreasonable, but I think he is worrying too much, I can't believe it: "Do you think there are hundreds of thousands of young people in Fenglai Town?"

He shook his head: "There shouldn't be hundreds of thousands, but there are probably tens of thousands. But even if there are only tens of thousands, the three of us can't handle it."

I continued to be in disbelief: "You are also a priest in the immortal class after all, and you can use middle-level immortal methods such as throwing beans into soldiers, shrinking the ground into an inch, changing shape and changing shadows, etc."

He covered his face with his hands, and nodded shyly: "If you can make it come out, it's just that you can't do it well. If you can make a soldier, you can make a handful; if you shrink the ground to an inch, you can only shrink a few miles. Can change two or three positions."

Beidou couldn't help laughing at the side, and I couldn't help but feel ashamed for him, and couldn't help but sincerely persuade me: "Excuse me, this is a romantic day, talking about love and so on is just floating clouds, it's okay to chat and adjust the situation. Especially the love between broken sleeves, just talk about it, don't be addicted to it. The burden on us gods is not light, we still have to focus on cultivation, just like today, if I were not here , are you helpless against that mountain monster?”

What I said was clearly golden and jade good words, but for some reason Beidou's expression became weirder the more he listened, and the corners of his mouth would twitch from time to time.Tu'er was even more amazing. He actually uttered shocking words, and said with a shocked face: "But my lord, although I am the priest who is in charge of the feelings of broken sleeves, if you want to talk about it, your experience is far better than mine. I think Back then, in order to become Duanxiu, you did not hesitate to go crazy and almost failed to ascend to the Nine Heavens, but now how you say this is really wrong."

If he doesn't say it, it's fine. Once he said it, he said it to my heart.Of course I panicked, and my face turned red.But in order not to let the two of them see it, he had to pretend to be calm, and said cheekily: "Nonsense, I have always kept myself clean and reserved, when did I break my sleeves?"

The rabbit smiled maliciously: "Oh, then I think the lord may have been a fairy for too long, busy with hanging the pot to help the world and saving the common people, and forgot a lot of the past, so let me mention it. Well, the lord knows too , There are six realms in the universe, and there are three realms within the six realms, and in the uppermost realm, there is the Nine Heavens, but I wonder if my lord knows that in the middle realm, there is another place called Nine Layers Mountain?"

I know, of course I know; not only do I know Jiuchong Mountain, I also know how many years Jiuchong Mountain was opened and how many people lived in it; up.

I shouted in my heart, setting off waves of ups and downs, but my mouth was tightly closed. Those embarrassing things that make people feel ashamed are really ashamed. Of course, I am ashamed to speak, and I must never admit it.

So I took the teacup and put on airs, calmly saying, "Jiuchongshan seems to have heard a little bit about it. I heard that it was a famous sect of cultivating immortals more than ten thousand years ago. The three religions and nine streams of the mortal world have always produced some mediocrity. Among the ten thousand disciples, I couldn't pick out a single one with good aptitude. Only a few mortals with a cultivation level comparable to the heavenly priests came out of Jiuchong Mountain. Unfortunately, they failed to survive the catastrophe in the end, and all of them lost their souls. The gods sigh, so there are some reflections... Well, why did you suddenly mention this mountain?"

I squinted my eyes and warned him not to be rampant. The rabbit understood what I meant, smiled treacherously, and coughed: "It's nothing, I just suddenly remembered that there was a great mortal in Jiuchong Mountain who was killed by a corpse demon." The sleeve was broken so shockingly that the entire mountain collapsed. But since you don’t have the impression, you don’t need to mention it, let’s talk about business, hahahaha..."

I:"……"

Big Dipper hurriedly stood up to be a peacemaker: "According to my lord, I want to use these spells to capture the mountain monster. Forgive me, these fancy spells are more than enough to fool ordinary people. It is almost meaningless to clean up that thing."

I shook my head: "That's wrong. In fact, it is useful to use these spells against anyone. The key depends on how to use them. The reason why the mountain monster makes people panic is because he has the ability to appear and disappear. Don't we also have it? He is bad, you will know later, now..." I pointed to the door: "Go out and bring in two boxes of gravel, the more the better, I will use it to cast spells."

So the two of them went to pick up gravels full of complaints, and after some cleaning, they packed two dustpans neatly.I was really satisfied and clapped my hands together: "Enough is enough, you guys close the door."

The rabbit let out an "oh" and got lazy. With a wave of his sleeves, he swept away with his palm. The door was closed tightly with a bang, and the thatched hut of Lao Li's house was almost knocked down. There was no danger. .

The two of them turned around to pour a cup of tea, and when they turned back again, their faces turned pale like a ghost, and they made a fuss: "My lord, what are you doing!"

Shuangshuang rushed over and grabbed me who was cutting my wrist to bleed blood into the cup, and the rabbit snatched my dagger, with a serious face: "Sir, if you have any troubles on your mind, let us share it for you, and try to solve it together. You must not harm yourself, we are all gods, we have lived for a long time, we have never seen such a big storm, what can we not think about..."