I saved the world after raising turtles

"Village chief, are you alright!" The headless man quickly hugged the white-robed old man aside.

Gu Suli saw that they were looking at Gao Zhan with hostility in their eyes, so he stepped forward and stood in front of Gao Zhan: "Sorry, my companion was too excited just now... In our place, without a heartbeat is tantamount to death. Just now you said that there is a way to save him. May I ask how we can save him?"

The white-robed old man pushed away the snake-faced woman standing in front of him, and said: "If your companions are strong enough, they can wake up by themselves tomorrow morning. But if they are not strong enough..."

Qiu Xiaodong stared and said, "What will happen if you are not strong enough?!"

The old man in white robe said: "Then only Cui Qiongzhi can save him."

The two-headed woman said angrily: "We will close the village after the ceremony, who can pick Cui Qiongzhi for him? He couldn't resist the temptation himself, so what does it matter to us?"

"This meat obviously has a deceptive effect, but you didn't explain it in advance!" Tao Feifei said.

"That's right!" Qiu Xiaodong also said, "I think you did it on purpose! Otherwise, why did you force us to participate in the festival?"

The little dwarfs began to swear, and Qiu Xiaodong, not to be outdone, also sweared back!

The headless man restrained them and said, "Stop arguing!"

Then he said to Gu Suli, "If the village chief wants to send you back to the top, he also needs to sacrifice to the ghost king. If you have participated in the ceremony, you don't need to sacrifice to the ghost king again."

The implication is that they invited them to participate in the festival out of good intentions.

Qiu Xiaodong muttered softly: "Who knows what you're telling the truth."

Gu Suli said: "Then how do we get Cuiqiong Zhi?"

As soon as these words came out, everyone in the cave fell silent for a moment.

In the end, it was the snake-faced woman who spoke, and said, "Cui Qiongzhi is on the next mountain, but there are ghosts there!"

The two-headed woman said with envy on both heads: "Those women from the ghost race rely on their good looks to seduce the people above, hmph—but every time the people above are seduced!"

"If you are going to pick Cuiqiongzhi over there." The old man in white robe said, "Don't be fooled by the rhetoric of the ghost tribe."

He asked a man with many hands and feet to fetch a dark green Ganoderma lucidum, fan-shaped, resembling a shriveled green kidney.

"This is Cui Qiongzhi." The white-robed old man said, "Only fresh ones can detoxify the poison of the dream beast. It's already very late today, I suggest you start again tomorrow morning, and this festival..." He sighed, "If you are unwilling to participate, we will not force you."

The old man in white robe opened a door on the side of the stone room, and the villagers reverently walked in holding the meat wrapped in dark green leaves.

The red-haired fox who had been huddled in Gao Zhan's clothes suddenly broke free, jumped down from under Gao Zhan's clothes, picked up half of the green leafy meat that Zhao Dong hadn't finished eating before, and ran into the gate inside.

Gu Suli and the others were all shocked!

Without even thinking about it, Gao Zhan chased after him!

Gu Suli and the others had no choice but to follow in, imitating those villagers who raised the green leaf-wrapped meat above their heads.

The old man in white robe was the last to come in, and he lit the two big torches in the stone room.

Gu Suli noticed that the structure of this stone chamber was exactly the same as the stone chamber where they encountered acid and birds before!An altar was also set up on the left side of the entrance, and huge stone torches stood on both sides under the altar.

The only difference is that sitting cross-legged in the middle of the altar

With a stone statue.

The statue looks like a young man with three heads, six arms, and three eyes. It has a ferocious appearance. The first two hands are in the shape of holding flowers. The left hand is placed on the foot, and the right hand is above the left hand. The other four hands hold swords , halberd, pestle, stick!hanging behind.

The statue originally had its eyes closed, but when the villagers respectfully put the green leaves on its seat, the eye on its forehead slowly opened.

"!!!"

Gu Suli took a step back uncontrollably!That eye is too fierce and too evil!The bright red gold color looks like it is made of magma, and it looks like the eyes of a beast, only the pupils are black.But when he took a second look, he felt that the light in that eye was much softer, but the shape of the eye was fierce, it looked like he was staring at them fiercely!

Seeing that the statue opened its eyes, the villagers knelt down one after another, reciting an unknown sacrificial song.

It was only then that Gu Suli remembered that the scene in front of him was engraved on the door of the entrance to the acid and bird stone room.

Gao Zhan suddenly said: "Quick, kneel down!" He picked up the red-haired fox on the ground and knelt down in front of the stone statue first.

Gu Suli and the others quickly followed.

One obeisance, two obeisances, three obeisances...

After a full hundred and eight obeisances, the eyes on the statue's forehead slowly closed.

The barbecues placed in front of it all turned into a pool of mud as if their essence had been sucked dry, and the green leaves wrapped outside seemed to have suddenly stepped from spring to autumn, withered and shriveled, and turned into such a Earthy color.

The villagers got up from the ground, still bent over respectfully, almost at ninety degrees, and walked out of the stone room one by one.

Gu Suli and the others were too busy to sneak in among them and went out with them.

That's how the festival ended.

The villagers wanted to go back to the village one after another, but the white-robed old man took the initiative to stay and said to them, "There are still a few vacant houses at the head of the village, and the few of you will stay there first. I will ask Babu to lead the way for you tomorrow morning."

Gu Suli and the others raised no objection.

Gao Zhan and Qiu Xiaodong carried Zhao Dong's body in their arms, and put him on the bed in the largest empty room that the village chief said.

To be on the safe side, they plan to squeeze everyone into the same room.

There was a lot of dust in Jiukong's house, Gu Suli and the others cleaned it up in different areas, and after they cleaned it up, they lit the candles and had time to rest.

Qiu Xiaodong finally seized the opportunity to ask Gao Zhan: "In the stone room earlier, why did you make us kneel?"

Tao Feifei also said: "That's right, Team Leader Gao, that stone statue looks a bit evil..."

Gao Zhan stroked the fox in his arms, and said, "It was the ghost king on the altar who made us kneel down, and he sent a message to me—didn't you all hear it?"

Qiu Xiaodong and the others shook their heads.

"It seems that he only sent the message to me." Gao Zhan said helplessly.

Gu Suli couldn't help but said: "This stone statue reminds me of a god."

Qiu Xiaodong hurriedly said, "What god?"

Gu Suli said: "Nezha!"

The positive look on Qiu Xiaodong's face faded immediately: "How is it possible? Apart from being three-headed and six-armed, how does it look like Nezha?"

But Gao Zhan was moved in his heart: "The image of Nezha evolved from the folks later. The original form is the Buddhist Dharma protector Yasha God. Some call him the king of heaven, and some call him the king of ghosts. I read that the ghost king Anazha was mentioned in the Ksitigarbha Sutra. The king and the great Anazha king once asked the master, and the master said that he was referred to in the scriptures! However, the scriptures about Nezha

I have lost a lot, I only know that he removed the flesh to return to his mother, removed the bone to return to his father, and transformed himself into a lotus flower to speak for his parents. The rest are all folk legends after evolution. "

Gu Suli said: "I only know that he is the son of the Duowen Heavenly King among the Four Heavenly Kings, not like the son of Li Jing written in the list of gods. Back then, I couldn't tell the difference between the Four Heavenly Kings of Buddhism and Taoism. My brother told me a lot."

Tao Feifei hesitated: "But these are just legends. Didn't the aristocratic family say that ghosts and gods almost don't exist in the end of the Dharma era. Like spells and magic tools, they all rely on the practitioner's own energy and cultivation... "

Qiu Xiaodong raised his hand: "I know this! The fixed image of the spell is because there are more people who believe in it, and the power of faith is greater, but this is the power of the believers themselves, not that there are real gods and Buddhas!"

Gao Zhan said: "Of course the original gods and Buddhas have long since disappeared. My master said that the 'miracles' that we occasionally see now are the manifestations of some dead ancestors through the images of gods and Buddhas."

Gu Suli sighed: "Master also told me that the gods have long since perished, and the ones we worship and protect us are actually the seniors of our master."

Geng Chen listened with interest at first, but when he heard "the gods have long since perished", his tail drooped.

Gu Suli touched it secretly.

Tao Feifei asked, "If this is really Nezha, why do they worship him?"

Gao Zhan was thoughtful: "According to what the ghost king said, Nezha is in charge of the little ghosts who died young. In the cave just now, I only saw dwarves, but not a single child..."

Gu Suli frowned and said: "Then they worshiped Nezha not to protect the children in their own village. Could it be that..."

Looking at Gao Zhan, both of them had a bad guess in their hearts.

"What did you say?" Qiu Xiaodong was a little anxious, what's the point at this time?

Both Gu Suli and Gao Zhan refused to say anything, they only said: "Let's wait and see tomorrow!"

night.

There is no moon in Yiren Village, so when it gets dark, it is so dark that you can't see your fingers.

Suddenly, a smell wafted in from the window.

The red-haired fox sharply opened his eyes, trying to get up from Gao Zhan's arms.

"What are you doing?" Gao Zhan was woken up by it, and asked in a low voice.

The red-haired fox couldn't speak human words, so he could only paw at his hand.

Gao Zhan looked out of the window along its paws, only to see a little light flashing outside the window——

It's an eye!

Huge, human-like brown-black eyes, with wet eyeballs reflecting the light, watched them from the window.

Gao Zhan broke out in a cold sweat instantly!Trying to slow down his breathing, pretending to turn over in his sleep, he hugged the fox tightly into his arms.

His current posture was facing the window, and with a slight lift of his eyelids, he could see their eyeballs peeking out of the window.

It is about three times the size of a normal person, moist, and cold.

Gao Zhan's back was tense, if the owner of the eyes moved slightly, he would be able to fight back immediately!

But the owner of the eyes had no intention of attacking them. He watched them outside the window for about half an hour, and then left quietly.

Early the next morning, Gao Zhan told Gu Suli and the others what he saw last night.

Gu Suli frowned and said: "But I didn't notice anything last night?" With his cultivation base, this is simply impossible.

Gao Zhan smiled bitterly: "I now believe that this secret realm is trying to test me."