Chapter 120: Night Visit to the Ghost Village, the Head of the Mountain Ghosts
Li Daoxuan returned to the room and thought to himself.
The main reason why the Queen sent him here was to find Zhao's soul. The weirdness of this village certainly made people want to find out the truth, but this was not the most important thing.
The most urgent task is to find Zhao's soul first, so that he will not be afraid to act rashly and can act boldly.
After thinking for a moment, Li Daoxuan used his earth-moving magical power.
His body suddenly disappeared from the room, went underground, and headed out of the house.
Outside the door, Xue Rengui frowned slightly. For some reason, he just had an illusion that something was passing underground.
Shaking his head, he felt that this Yaowang Village was becoming more and more strange.
But no matter what, he will try his best to protect the gentleman to repay his life-saving grace!
Thinking of this, he found a piece of wood in the yard and prepared to make a bow. His original iron bow was destroyed when he fought with the red-haired monster.
If he had a bow and arrow in his hand, he was confident that he could shoot an arrow through the air from a hundred steps away without missing a target!
…
Li Daoxuan escaped underground and came to the ground after a while. He looked around and saw silence and no one, so he took out a fairy crane-hunting demon talisman.
Maybe it can give me some clues, let's try my luck.
"The white crane is a magical bird, the white crane species, the magical talisman drawn by the magical talisman is divine. The great white crane floats away in the clouds, and does not allow the demons to escape their true form. Hurry!"
The talisman turned into a crane, circled a few times, and began to fly towards the east.
Li Daoxuan followed using the art of shrinking the earth, and after a while they arrived at the edge of a lake. The night wind blew, and a faint fishy smell was borne.
After reaching this point, the crane stopped moving forward and turned into a point of light and disappeared in the air.
Li Daoxuan looked at the lake with his eyes flashing slightly. It seemed that there was something hidden under the water, which attracted the attention of the Fairy Crane Demon-Hunting Talisman.
At this moment, he suddenly remembered his conversation with Zhao's daughter.
"Where is your mother?"
"It's in the water."
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Li Daoxuan looked at the lake in front of him and felt something in his heart. Perhaps he and Xue Rengui had misunderstood. The so-called soaking in the water did not refer to the water tank, but falling into the lake?
Li Daoxuan walked to the lake and gazed at the rippling water.
The next moment, he opened the third eye between his eyebrows.
The Heavenly Eye saw through the lake and saw the bottom of the water. There was a lot of silt there, and deep in the mud was the body of a woman.
She was wearing cloth and her body was swollen. Although she was dead, she was still hugging a statue tightly.
That is the statue of the Green-robed Goddess!
Although the statue was covered in dirt and had many cracks, Li Daoxuan recognized it at a glance. It was the statue of the Green-Robed Goddess.
Without hesitation, he jumped into the water.
The only pity is that he has not yet mastered the water element of the Great Five Elements Escape Technique, otherwise there would not be so much trouble.
Li Daoxuan swam downstream and soon arrived next to the corpse.
People who drowned in the river would most likely become water ghosts, but there were no other bodies here except her, so there were only two possibilities.
One is that she did not turn into a water ghost, and the other is that she turned into a water ghost but did not choose to harm people.
Master once said that the soul of a drowned person is trapped in water and cannot be reincarnated unless another scapegoat is found.
Therefore, water ghosts often drag innocent people into the water and drown them so that they can reincarnate.
Li Daoxuan came to her body and reached out to touch the statue she was holding. Before he touched it, he saw countless black hair rushing towards him like water grass.
A pair of gray-white pupils suddenly opened and stared at Li Daoxuan.
Li Daoxuan looked at her fearlessly. After going through so many storms, a small water ghost couldn't make him feel nervous at all.
Li Daoxuan even smiled slightly, revealing his white teeth.
The next moment.
boom!
The water surface trembled, and a figure rushed out. It was Li Daoxuan.
If someone saw this scene, they would be scared to death, because he was holding a swollen female corpse in his hands, and the female corpse had her pupils open and was struggling hard.
“Don’t scream!”
Li Daoxuan stuck a talisman on her forehead, and her ears finally quieted down.
He threw the female corpse to the ground and asked, "I am Taichong, and the Qingyi Lady sent me here. Let me ask you, are you Zhao Chenjie? If so, blink three times."
When the female corpse heard the words "Green-robed Lady", a glimmer of light appeared in her turbid eyes.
She blinked three times in succession.
Li Daoxuan breathed a sigh of relief, finally finding the target.
The next moment, he created several incarnations and began to sit cross-legged and recite the "Tai Shang Jiu Ku Jing" to dissolve the resentment accumulated in her body.
No matter how kind a person was during his lifetime, if he died suddenly, it is impossible for him to have no resentment. If he really had no resentment, he would not become a water ghost.
This was only for the sake of Lady in Green. If it were any other water ghost, Li Daoxuan would have struck it with the Five Thunder Talisman long ago.
Half an hour later.
Black air dissipated from the female corpse, and a soul floated out of her body.
She wore a thorny hairpin and a cloth skirt, had a beautiful face and a dignified temperament.
She bowed to Li Daoxuan and said, "Thank you, Immortal!"
Li Daoxuan nodded and said, "This is also your good fortune. You have been worshipping the Qingyi Goddess for many years, day and night, with sincerity, and that is why you have the blessing today. When you go to Qingming, the Goddess will arrange a good future for you."
There was a hint of excitement in Zhao's eyes. She knelt down and kowtowed towards the east, which was the direction of Yuzhang City.
"By the way, Zhao, I heard from the queen that you were planning to escape with your daughter. What happened? How did you drown in the water?"
Faced with Li Daoxuan's questions, Zhao naturally did not dare to lie and told him everything.
"To answer the Immortal, the reason I want to escape is because a monster appeared in this village!"
"monster?"
"Yes, the monster was shaped like an ape and covered with red hair. At first, he often ate the cattle and sheep in the village, and later he gradually began to eat people!"
"We went to the mountain god temple to burn incense and pray to the mountain god for help so that we could subdue the red-haired monster. But the temple keeper Yang Er said that the red-haired monster was a mandrill, which was extremely powerful and even the mountain god could not subdue it!"
Li Daoxuan sneered, "The mandrill is also called a mountain spirit, the leader of the mountain ghosts. It does have some magical powers, but it looks like a child, with one foot pointing backwards, and gray-black hair. How can it be that red-haired monster?"
Xue Rengui once said in person that the red-haired monster was very burly, more than ten feet tall, and very different from the image of a mandrill.
Zhao nodded and said, "We didn't understand at the time, so we asked Yang Er what to do. Yang Er said that the mountain god had already negotiated with the monster. Every month, the village would offer one person to be eaten by the mandrill, and then everything would be safe."
Li Daoxuan asked in confusion: "Has no one ever thought of escaping?"
"Some people tried to escape at first, but they were soon eaten by the monster. Yang Er said that the mandrills live around the village, and anyone who escapes will be eaten by it!"
Li Daoxuan finally understood why the people in this village were in such a state of mental numbness.
He then asked, "How do you decide who to sacrifice to the monster?"
Zhao said, "Draw lots. Whoever draws the lot will be the monster's food."
"In the beginning, medicine dealers often came to Yaowang Village. In order to prevent their relatives from becoming sacrifices, some families whose families were selected let those medicine dealers be scapegoats. Over time, no one dared to enter the village anymore."
"Everyone thought that with so many people in the village, they might not be picked. Although I was afraid, I gradually accepted it."
Li Daoxuan looked at her and said, "Until one day, you were chosen, right?"
Zhao shook her head, her eyes showing a hint of determination, and said: "It's not me, but my daughter!"
