Over there, Lan Si chase and others in the ancient tomb pile to explore the fruitless, long ago turned to the celestial maiden ancestral shrine to find clues.
Da Fan Mountain, in addition to generations of Buddha's feet town people's ancestral graves, there is a celestial maiden shrine. The shrine is not dedicated to the Buddha, nor the Goddess of Mercy, but a "dancing woman of heaven".
Hundreds of years ago, a hunter in Buddha's Foot went deep into the mountains and found a strange stone in a grotto, nearly ten feet high, made of nature, which is very similar to a human figure, with all the limbs, as a dancing posture. More miraculous is that the head of the stone is vaguely recognizable five features, is a smiling woman.
Buddha's foot town people are very surprised, that this is a set of heaven and earth of the spirit of a sacred stone, but also spontaneously made up a lot of legends. What an immortal gentleman secretly in love with the ninth heavenly goddess, carved a stone statue in the shape of the goddess, to comfort the pain of longing, the goddess found after the anger, unfinished stone statue only had to end; and what the Jade Emperor has a favorite daughter, died early, the Jade Emperor's thoughts on his daughter condensed into this stone statue. All kinds of, eye-opening. These from their mouths out of the legend so that they themselves are convinced, they will be changed to a shrine to the grotto, the stone platform into a sacred seat, the stone statue for the "Dancing Heavenly Daughter", and the year-round incense offerings.
The interior of the grotto is as open as a two-entry temple, with the statue of the goddess standing in the center. At first glance, it really looks like a person, even the waist can be said to be a wonderful man. Closer look, it is rough, but natural creatures can resemble people to such an extent, enough to make people tsk-tsk.
Lan Jing Yi raised the wind evil plate high and low, the needle still does not move. There are messy candles and a thick layer of incense ash on the offering table, and the fruit plates of the offerings emit a sweet smell of decay. He fanned the air in front of his nose and said, "I heard from the locals that this Heavenly Maiden Ancestral Hall is a very spiritual place to make wishes. Why is it in such a state of disrepair?
The local people said that the ancestral graves of Buddha's Foot had been struck by lightning, so no one dared to come to the mountain. The incense is broken, and naturally no one is cleaning it."
A disdainful voice sounded outside the grotto: "A piece of broken stone, I do not know what kind of person has sealed a god, but also dare to put here to be worshipped by the incense!"
Jin Ling entered with his hands in the air. The time limit of the forbidden speech technique was originally not long, and his mouth could already be opened. He looked at the statue of the goddess and said, "These villagers in the countryside don't know how to work hard, but they burn incense and worship Buddha all day long to ask the gods and ghosts. There are thousands of people in the world, the gods and Buddhas are too busy to take care of them! Not to mention a wild god who has no name and no affiliation. Really so spiritual, so now I wish that the soul-eating things in this Da Fan Mountain appear in front of me right now, can it do it?"
He was followed by a group of small family cultivators, who immediately echoed his words, laughing and saying yes. The originally silent divine shrine was noisy and narrowed up all of a sudden because of the crowd that poured in. Lan Si chase secretly shook his head, turned around and inadvertently swept a glance, swept the face of the statue of the celestial maiden, blurred visible features, seems to be a compassionate smiling face.
However, he felt that this smiling face has a sense of indescribable familiarity, as if he had seen it somewhere.
Where exactly had he seen it before?
Lan Si chase felt that this must be a very important thing, could not help but approach the divine platform, want to take a closer look at the face of the celestial maiden. At that moment, someone suddenly bumped into him.
A cultivator who was standing behind him suddenly fell down without a sound. The others were all alarmed and were on guard. Jin Ling said alertly, "What happened to him?"
Lan Si chase holding the sword and body to check, the monk breathing unharmed, as if suddenly fell asleep, but no matter how to tap and call will not wake up. He got up and said, "He looks like ..."
Before he finished, the original gloomy cave, suddenly lit up, full of red light, as if a layer of blood waterfall poured down along the four walls. The incense and candles in the corner of the offering table and the grotto, but all began to spontaneously burn.
The people in the cave drew their swords and held their charms. At this moment, a man suddenly entered the shrine, carrying a gourd of medicinal wine and poured it all over the stone statue of the goddess, which filled the cave with the strong and choking smell of wine.
Wei WuXian picked up the contents of the QianKun bag are finished, threw the bag and said: "all exit! Beware of this soul-eating Heavenly Maiden inside!"
Someone exclaimed, "The posture of the Heavenly Maiden has changed!"
Just now this idol clearly arms up, one arm pointed straight up to the sky, a foot up, graceful posture. At this moment in the red yellow red yellow fire, but the hands and feet are put down. It's true, it's never a blink of an eye!
The next moment, this idol lifted another foot - stepped out of the flames!
Wei WuXian shouted: "Run, run, run! Don't cut! It's useless!"
Most of the cultivators ignored him, but the soul-eating monster that they had been searching for for thousands of years had finally appeared, so they were unwilling to let it go! However, with so many immortal swords slashing and stabbing, along with talisman seals and all kinds of magic treasures thrown out, but it did not stop the stone statue one step. It is close to a foot tall, moving like a giant, full of oppression, lifting two monks to the face, the stone mouth seems to open and close a little, the two monks holding the sword clanged to the ground, head down, apparently also sucked away the soul.
All kinds of attacks were ineffective, and now the people were finally willing to listen to Wei Wu Xian's words, swarming out and scattering in all directions. The more people there were, the more anxious Wei Wu Xian was, the more he couldn't find Jin Ling, so he rode his donkey and ran into a bamboo forest.
Lan Jing Yi said, "Who are your children? Do you know whose family we belong to? Do you know whose family we are? You think you can act like an elder just because you washed your face?"
Wei Wu Xian said, "Fine, fine. Brothers. Put out a signal and ask your ... family to come up!"
The juniors nodded their heads and turned up while running. A few moments later, Lan Si chased: "Signal fireworks ... Mo's house that night are put out."
Wei Wuxian alarm: "You later did not make up?!"
This signal fireworks eight hundred years also can not use once, Lan Si chase ashamedly said: "forgot."
Wei Wuxian said in fear: "Can you forget this? If you know about it, you will be punished!"
Lan Jingyi's face was ashen: "It's over, this time I'll be punished to death by Hanguangjun ..."
Wei Wu Xian: "Punishment. You should be punished! No punishment will not remember."
Lan Si chase: "Mo Gongzi, Mo Gongzi! How do you know that it's not the Soul Eating Fury nor the Soul Eating Beast that sucked the soul, but the statue of the Heavenly Maiden?"
Wei WuXian ran while searching for Jin Ling: "How do I know? I saw it."
Lan Jing Yi also caught up, one left and one right sandwiched him running: "See what? We also saw a lot of ah."
"Saw, then what? What's near the ancient tomb?"
"What can there be, there are dead souls." Trinity Novel
"Yeah, there are dead souls. So it's never a soul-eating beast or soul-eating fury. Obviously, if it is these two types, so many dead souls floating there, it will not eat? No."
This time there was more than one person asking: "Why?"
"I say you Gusu Blue's ah ..." Wei Wu Xian really can't help it: "less teach some immortal etiquette and cultivation family genealogy historical origins of this kind of stinky and long to memorize nonsense, more teach some practical things can not? What is there not to understand. Dead souls are much easier to absorb than living souls. The flesh of a living person is a barrier, and if you want to eat a living soul you have to break this barrier. Just like ..." he glanced at the flower donkey who was panting and running while rolling his eyes, "like an apple in front of you and another apple in a locked box, which one do you choose to eat? Of course it's the one in front of you. This thing only eats living souls, and there is a way to eat, picky-mouthed and powerful."
Blue Jing Yi said in amazement, "So that's it? Seems to make a lot of sense! Wait so you're really not crazy!"
Lan Si chase while running explained, "We all thought it was a landslide and heavenly thunder splitting the coffin that caused the loss of soul, so naturally we thought it was a soul-eating fury."
Wei Wu Xian said, "Wrong."
"What's wrong?"
"Wrong order, wrong cause and effect. I ask you, the landslide and the soul-eating incident, which comes before or after, which is the cause and which is the effect? "
Lan Si Chou did not think twice: "The landslide is before, the soul-eating is after. The former is the cause, the latter is the effect."
Wei Wu Xian said, "Totally wrong. It is the soul-eating in the front and the landslide in the back. Soul-eating is the cause, and the landslide is the effect! The night of the landslide, it suddenly rained heavily, the sky struck by thunder and struck a coffin, remember this. The first lost soul, that lazy man was trapped in the mountain for one night, and married in the past few days."
Blue Jing Yi said, "Where is not right?" The Chronicles of Narnia Novel
Wei Wuxian said: "Where is not right! A poor man who is idle, where does he get the money to marry and make a big deal out of it?"
Several teenagers were speechless. No wonder, the Gusu Blue Clan was originally a family that didn't need to consider the issue of wealth and poverty. Wei Wu Xian said: "Have you seen all the dead souls floating on Da Fan Mountain? There is an old man who was killed by a head smash, the life jacket workmanship and material are extremely good. Wearing such a gorgeous birthday suit, his coffin can not be empty, there must be a few pieces of burial goods pressed coffin. The coffin that was split by a thunderbolt, most likely his, and later collected the bones of the people did not find the burial goods, must all be taken by the lazy man, so as to explain his sudden generosity. The lazy man is in the landslide after a night of sudden fortune to marry, that night must have happened something extraordinary. It was raining heavily that night, and he was hiding in the mountains. Heavenly Maiden Shrine. And if a regular person goes to the shrine, there is less than one thing to do."
Lan Si chase said, "Make a wish?"
"Good. For example, let him get lucky, get rich, have money to get married or something. The Heavenly Maiden fulfilled his wish by sending down heavenly thunder, splitting open the tomb and letting him see the treasures in the coffin. And his wish was granted, as the price, the Heavenly Maiden descended on his wedding night and sucked away his soul!"
Lan Jing Yi: "You're guessing, right?"
Wei Wu Xian: "Yes, I guessed. But according to this guess, all the things can be explained."
Lan Si Chou: "How does Miss Ah Rou explain?
Wei Wu Xian: "Good question. You should have asked before you went to the mountain. A Rou had just gotten engaged at that time. For all young girls who are newly engaged, they must have the same wish."
Lan Jingyi was confused: "What wish? "
Wei Wuxian said, "Nothing more than, 'I hope that my husband will love me and only like me for the rest of his life,' and so on and so forth."
The young people were confused: "This kind of wish can really be achieved ..."
Wei Wu Xian spread his hands and said, "It's very simple. Just make her husband's 'this life' end immediately, won't it count that he 'has loved only one person all his life'?"
Lan Jing Yi suddenly realized and said excitedly, "Oh, oh! So, so, so, so after Miss Rouge got engaged, the next day her husband was killed by a jackal in the mountain, because most likely Miss Rouge went to the Heavenly Maiden Shrine to make a wish on the first day!"
Wei Wuxian struck while the iron was hot: "It's hard to say whether it was a jackal or something else that killed him. There is one more special thing about Ah Rou: why is her soul the only one among all of them to come back? How is she different from the others? What is different is that she has a loved one who has lost her soul. Or to put it another way, a loved one, instead of her! Blacksmith Zheng is Rou's father, a loving father who can only do what he can do when he sees that his daughter has lost her soul, that medicine is useless, and that there is nothing he can do?"
This time, Lan Si chase picked up quickly: "- he can only send his last hope to the heavens. That's why he also went to the Heavenly Maiden Shrine and made a wish, wishing 'I hope my daughter Rou's soul will be recovered'!"
Wei Wuxian praised, "That's why only Rou's soul came back, and also the reason why the third lost soul, Zheng Blacksmith, lost his soul. And although Ah Rou's soul was spat out, it was inevitably damaged. After the soul returned, she began to involuntarily imitate the dancing posture and even smile of the celestial maiden statue."
What these lost souls have in common is that 80% of them made a wish before the statue of the Heavenly Maiden. The price for a wish to come true is the soul.
This stone statue of the Heavenly Maiden was originally just an ordinary stone that happened to look like a person, and somehow was worshipped for hundreds of years, and that's how it got its magic power. But it is not greedy enough, a deviation of thought, it wants to speed up the mana enhancement by way of sucking the soul. By wishing to exchange the form of absorbing the soul, equivalent to the wisher's voluntary dedication of the soul, both sides fair trade, seeking mercy, seemingly reasonable and moral, so the wind evil pan pointer does not move, call the yin flag can not be summoned, the sword and talisman seals are invalid, only because the things in the Da Fan Mountain is not what demons and devils, is God! This is a wild god raised by hundreds of years of incense and offerings, take the things to deal with demons and demonic beasts against it, equivalent to fighting fire with fire!
Lan Jing Yi said loudly: "Wait! But just now in the shrine, there was a person who was also sucked out of his soul, we did not hear him make a wish ah!"
Wei Wuxian's heart jerked up and he stopped in his tracks: "Someone was sucked out of his soul at the shrine? You tell me what just happened, word for word."
Lan Si chase then clearly and quickly recapitulated, heard Jin Ling that "really so spiritual, then I now wish that this Da Fan Mountain soul-eating things now appear in front of me, it can not do", Wei Wu Xian said: "This is not a wish? This is making a wish!"
The others echoed Jin Ling, and it was tacitly assumed that they had all made the same wish. And the Soul Eating Heavenly Maiden was right in front of them, so the wish had already been granted, and next, it was time to ask for the price!
Suddenly, the flower donkey stopped and ran in the opposite direction. Wei Wuxian was caught off guard and lifted it off the ground, dragging the rope, but heard a "crunch", "grunt" chewing sound from the bushes ahead. A tall incomparable figure ambling in the bushes, a large head on the ground a person's abdomen moving around, heard the noise, jerked his head, hit their eyes.
This soul-eating heavenly woman originally blurred face, only an approximate eyes, nose, ears and mouth, after sucking the souls of several cultivators in one breath, has turned into a clear facial features, is a smiling woman face, the corners of the mouth hanging down a lot of blood, holding a torn arm, is eating and chewing.
The crowd immediately followed the flower donkey together with the legs to pull back.
Lan Si chase collapse: "This is not right! Yiling old ancestor said, high ranking eat soul, low ranking only eat meat!"
Wei Wuxian helplessly said: "What do you superstitiously believe in him, he himself a bunch of things are done in a mess! Any rules are not set in stone, you just think of it as a baby, no teeth when you can only drink thin rice soup soup, once you grow up, of course, also want to eat meat with teeth. Now that her magic power has increased greatly, she naturally wants to taste a fresh one too!"
Soul-eating Heavenly Maiden stood up from the ground, tall, arms and legs, dancing with ecstasy, seemingly very joyful and happy. Suddenly, an arrow came whistling and hit her forehead, and the arrow came out from the back of her head.
Hearing the sound of the string, Wei Wu Xian looked at the sound, Jin Ling was standing on the high slope not far away, and had already put the second arrow on the bow, and pulled the string to the full, and let go of the arrow that pierced her skull and penetrated her brain, so strong that the Soul Eater staggered backwards a few steps.
Lan Si chased and shouted, "Mr. Jin! Release the signal on your body!"
Jin Ling turned a deaf ear, bent on taking down the monster, and with a sullen face, this time a handful of three arrows were hitched. Being shot two arrows in the head, the Soul Eater Heavenly Maiden was not annoyed, still smiling and attacking towards Jin Ling. Although she walked and danced, but the speed is terrifying, in an instant to close the distance of half. A few cultivators flashed out to the side and tangled with her, tripping up her steps. Jin Ling's arrows were hitting the ground, and she kept going, seemingly determined to shoot all the arrows first, and then fight the Soul Eater in close quarters. The hand is quite steady and accurate, but it is a pity that all the immortal magic weapons are useless against it!
Jiang Cheng and blue forgetting machine are waiting for news in Buddha's Foot town, I do not know when to detect the change to catch up. Water is needed to extinguish the fire, the immortal magic weapon does not work, then the evil ghost tricks it!
Wei Wuxian pulled out the sword on Lan Si chase's waist, cut off a section of thin bamboo, made a flute with his flying hands, brought it to his lips, and took a long deep breath. The sharp sound of the flute was like a loud arrow, cutting through the night sky, straight to the clouds.
He should not have done so unless it was absolutely necessary. But now, no matter what is summoned, as long as the fury is heavy enough, strong enough hostility, enough to tear this soul-eating heavenly woman to pieces!
Lan Si chase was stunned, but Lan Jing Yi covered her ears and said, "At this time, why are you still playing the flute? It's unpleasant to hear!"
Jin Ling drew his sword and was less than two feet away from the Soul Eater. His heart was pounding wildly, and the blood in his head was surging: "If I can't cut her head with this sword, I'll die here - just die! "
At that moment, a tinkling sound rose up in the forest of Da Fan Mountain.
Clink, clink, clink. Sometimes fast, sometimes slow, sometimes loud. In the silence of the mountain forest reverberated. As if the chains hit each other, iron rope dragging the ground. Closer and closer, louder and louder.
For some reason, this sound gave people an extremely uneasy and threatening feeling, even the soul-eating celestial maiden stopped dancing and held her arms up, staring blankly into the dark depths where the sound came from.
Wei Wu Xian put away his flute and gazed at the place where it came from.
Although the ominous feeling in his heart is getting heavier and heavier, but since he is willing to come by his summons, then at least it is something willing to listen to his words.
The sound came to an abrupt end and a figure emerged from the darkness.
After seeing the figure and seeing the face, the faces of several cultivators twisted.
Even in the face of the stone statue of the Heavenly Maiden that would suck away their souls at any moment, this group of people did not flinch, let alone show their timidity. However, at this moment, their voices that shouted up were full of undisguised fear.
"...'Ghost General', it's 'Ghost General', it's Wen Ning!"
The title "Ghost General", as well as the old man of Yiling, is notorious, no one knows, usually the two appear together.
This word represents only one object. It is in the Yi Ling old ancestor Wei Ying under the seat of the number one to help the evil-doer, the wind and waves, for the tiger to help, into the sky and earth, should have been thrown to the bones of the fierce corpse, Wen Ning!