Chapter 614
Xu Ziqing raised her brows and motioned to a star slave, "Tonight, I'll go find a farmhouse for the night."
As soon as he finished speaking, Tong Ran Ran's nose was already wrinkled, and she yelled a bit coquettishly: "Second brother, this place is so broken, I don't want to live here!"
Among the three "boys" next to him, except for one who seemed to have a crush on another gentle girl, the other two also agreed: "Brother Xu, younger sister Tong doesn't want to live here, let's change the place to be It's gone!"
Xu Ziqing sighed: "Alright."
The star slave who was signaled just now took a few steps forward. He was relatively strong, so he pulled an old man who was about to go back to the house and said, "Old man, I don't know if there is a better place nearby? The young master and the young lady are not used to staying in this shabby place, you can show me a clear way, there is something for you to reward!"
The old man was very thin, so he took a puff of dry tobacco and smoked a couple of puffs, suppressing the panic just now: "A hundred or twenty miles to the southeast is Luojia Town, when a few masters go there, they can always find someone to rest their feet. The place is much better than this place..."
Jīng Zhuang Xingnu let go of the person, brushed his sleeves impatiently, and was about to leave.
The old man hurriedly said, "Reward, reward?"
Jīng Zhuang Xingnu sneered, kicked on the ground with one foot, and let a few cracks open there: "Hey, how dare you ask for a reward from your grandfather? I can't beat you to death!"
The old man's face turned pale, and he didn't dare to speak.
Xingnu did the whole set, and hurried over to say a few words to Xu Ziqing.
As for Xu Ziqing and his party, nothing happened, but they were a little arrogant when their eyes passed over the villagers. In particular, Tong Ran Ran was even more disgusted.
Soon they didn't stop, and hurriedly left in the direction the old man pointed.
When the village had been completely left behind by them, Xu Ziqing's expression moved slightly.
In fact, everyone also released their spiritual consciousness, and they were hearing the words of the villagers behind them, and even their expressions and movements, they could "see" clearly.
It turned out that after they left, a tall and thin man walked out of the door behind the old man and held the old man up.
The cowering peasant woman next to her said hesitantly: "The village head, the foreigners who went to the town have not come back. You, you just let them go... Isn't this fatal?"
Before the old man said anything, the tall and thin man became unhappy at first: "It's that foreigner who doesn't give a face! The promised reward is not given, and he even scare the old man. It's right to be sacrificed to the immortal! Don't be long-winded, beware of the immortal. Listen, I will use you as a sacrifice in three years!"
When the peasant woman heard this, she lowered her head and continued to wash the vegetables, daring to speak.
The old man took another puff of his cigarette: "It's a pity that those sons and brothers are gone. If you don't give them rewards, you won't have to mention them. Who cares about anyone these days? I might have to be beaten, old man, I won't live long, no Dare to go against the fairy!"
The slender man also snorted: "It's what it deserves! If the immortals like those foreigners, we can save the village's annual sacrifice every three years, although it is so that the immortals can have the magic power to protect our water and soil, but recently There are fewer cubs, and if the immortals don't like it, there should be two more years of bad harvests..."
The intermittent words were passed on, and Xu Ziqing and the others were all thoughtful.
Those demons have indeed taken root here for a long time, and the mortals in the village are not only very accustomed to their existence, but even the apparently inappropriate "every three-year sacrifice" is normal... It seems that those demons seem to be The people in the village are raised as livestock, and they pretend to be "immortals" to deceive them on weekdays.
A group of people roughly know what the devil is doing, and they continue to walk forward.
On the way, they encountered several villages, and without exception, they all instructed them to go to the nearby county and town, and these villagers, like the original village, regarded demons as immortals and were accustomed to offering sacrifices.
Bit by bit, from the mouths of these villagers, everyone knew something.
About every three years, these devils will ask many villagers to send the five-year-old children in the village to the town. At that time, the devil will come to investigate. Each village chooses one person as a sacrifice, and is killed by the devil. take away. If a child in the village is not selected, an adult man or woman will be replaced.
These sacrificers have never returned, but every time the sacrifices are taken away, there are always demons who show some means, or rain, or adjust some other weather, so that the villagers will worship them like gods. .
Xu Ziqing and others vaguely guessed that the new-born children were taken away from those who were born with spiritual roots, and if no one with spiritual roots was born in a village within three years, the adult men and women who were taken away might be someone else. an encounter.
Either way, it's probably not a good thing...
But for more information, the villagers don't know much, but they seem to be very ignorant.
And if it is said that every time a foreigner comes, he disappears in the county and town, and the devil also chooses sacrifices in the county and town, I am afraid that the county and town is the most strange place.
If you want to know more about the devil, you have to investigate in the county and town.
Soon, the town was in sight.
At this time, everyone was more cautious and did not want to show their tricks here.
Chapter 583
When they approached the ancient town, although everyone had already restrained their spiritual light, they still felt the subtle but continuous yīn that lingered in the ancient town because of their keen perception.
At this moment, their footsteps couldn't help but stop.
Que Xuan suddenly said, "A place to gather?"
The rest of the people also looked solemn
stand up.
As we all know, the Evil Dao uses blood, soul, golden pill, Yuan Ying and even Yuan Shen as resources, smelting it, using it as a magical technique, and even swallowing it up to replenish the body.
Among them, mortals have souls, although they are not as good as monks' primordial spirits, but if the souls of mortals are taken out in a wonderful way, they can refine the magic way treasures such as ten thousand ghost banners.
The place of gathering is in harmony with the way of raising ghosts, which can be born or set up by the formation of acquired heaven. If it was born, the souls of mortals born here do not need much sacrifice, and they are already good materials.
In this world, if there is an evil demon who is good at fighting ghosts and refining souls and establishes a sect, it will definitely find a natural and perfect place to gather to start a sect. , Arranged to capture mortals to thrive here, and then after many years, it can be derived, and immediately, the magic door opened, and the magic Taoist system was established.
Que Xun has the avenue of thunder, and is very incompatible with evil things, so after realizing this much yīn anger, he immediately remembered the place where the yīn gathers.
It also made everyone shake.
If it's just a place where yīn is strong, it can't be called "the place of gathering yīn" at will, and if the demons here are really the place where yīn gathers, how can it be just a small sect?
For a while, let these people wait to speculate in their hearts.
Could it be that this time, there should be no surprises in the task, but there is really something unexpected?
However, after careful inspection, everyone felt relieved.
This is indeed a gathering place, but it is an abandoned gathering place.
About innumerable years ago, this place of gathering was formed by heaven and earth, and the qi of yīn circulated endlessly. It was a heaven and a blessed place for the demons, but year after year, it was probably due to the battle of great powers, or for some other reason, this place. The source of yīn is damaged, the yīn gas leaks out, and it can no longer be in a cycle, and the yīn qi in it also gradually thins out year after year.
Therefore, this small sect should know that this place is an abandoned place for gathering. Although it is not a good place, it is enough to nurture them, and "a dead camel is bigger than a horse", no matter how broken this place is, The yīn qi is also stronger than other places, and the yīn qi in the souls of mortals who grow up here is also thicker than other places. It is even more useful if the sacrifice is drawn.
This ancient town is obviously the core of the original gathering place, and it is no wonder that if there is any matter in this small sect, it must be dealt with in the ancient town.
Then Xu Ziqing and his party no longer hesitated, and they continued to look like descendants of an aristocratic family who went out to play, and went to the town in a leisurely manner.
As soon as you enter it, you will first see a wide bluestone road with many stone houses on both sides, all of which are built very solidly - but everyone immediately noticed that although these stone houses are of different sizes, they are all rectangular in shape. People have a faint feeling of yīn depression.
And...whether it's a shop, a residence, or any other purposeful house, if it looks from above, I'm afraid it looks like the same one—
Huge sarcophagus.
If a person lives in a coffin, how can he not be angry? Raising a person is like raising a corpse. The soul of a person was originally full of yīn energy, but naturally it is even more so when it is nurtured in a ruined place.
The people of this town, many generations ago, were the refining materials of this small sect of the evil dao!
Descendants, all of them.
However, if these "sarcophagi" are ignored, the town is quite lively.
Just like every ordinary ancient town, hawkers sell, stalls run rampant, and craftsmen come and go shouting about their own craftsmanship, which is also very lively. Many children trot to play on the stone road, and occasionally used a few copper coins from their parents to find a sugar man and fruit to eat, and they were very happy.
It is said that there is only one inn in the town, and there are many taverns and noodle soup restaurants next to the inn, and even tea houses and red houses are not lacking in the town. If it weren't for the fact that this place was really remote, just talking about the people's livelihood in the town would be more prosperous than many other counties and towns under the city.
Seeing Xu Ziqing and these "outsiders" approaching, the townspeople also looked at it like a rarity.
But everyone thought about what they had heard in the village before, and then thought about what the townspeople thought... If they were really just ordinary tourists, wouldn't they be creepy!
These townspeople have probably long since become obsessed with demons and become "fools" controlled by them.
Xu Ziqing sighed inwardly.
In fact, in the place where the Xiandao sect is in charge, mortals also regard monks as gods, but Xiandao monks protect mortals, and they want them to worship and find disciples who can strengthen their sects from their descendants, but these demons are enslaving mortals. , regard their flesh and blood as the food refining material for their own enjoyment.