The next morning, it was just dawning. The mountains are still shrouded in fog. On the winding mountain road, Xu Huiling was dressed in black and wandered on foot in the mountain road.

Xu Huiling was carrying a backpack and a soul compass in her hand. It seems to be following the soul compass, looking for the traces of the people who used Gu in Miao Village.

According to legend, this soul compass was created by Liu Bowen in the Ming Dynasty, cast with rare copper, square shape. It is three inches three inches long, three inches three inches wide, and weighs thirteen two or three cents. A circular groove is carved out in the middle of the square. There is a crystal surface on the groove, and the groove is filled with mercury, and a gold needle and a silver needle float in the mercury. The golden needle must be placed on the top of the mountain to absorb the sunlight of 7749 days, which is the yang needle. The silver needle must be placed at the bottom of the valley that can be illuminated by the moonlight to absorb the moonlight of 7749 days, which is a yin needle.

It is said that the soul compass not only relies on the two needles of yin and yang to find immortals and distinguish demons, but also guides the two paths of yin and yang, and later became one of the eight great magic weapons of Taoism.

On the foggy winding mountain road, Xu Huiling followed the floating of the pointer of the soul compass and turned into a mountain path. However, walking and stopping in the mountain paths makes you feel like you are in a labyrinth. I couldn't find the exit, and I couldn't find the way I came.

"Ghost hitting the wall? In broad daylight, what about deceiving children?"

Xu Huiling looked around and muttered to herself. Then put down the backpack and take out a brass incense burner from the backpack. There are some mottled rust on the incense burner, and it looks like an old object.

The bottom of the furnace is three-legged, and the three legs are birds, beasts, and human shapes, which are metaphors for the triad of heaven, earth and man. The body of the furnace is engraved with a gossip pattern, which is a metaphor for the yin and yang in the furnace.

The incense burner that Xu Huiling took out is also one of the eight great Taoist magic vessels, the brass Qiankun furnace. It is used for burning incense and chanting mantras, according to legend, you can burn incense to invite the fairy to accompany you, and you can draw a talisman to open the way by the Yin soldiers.

Set up the incense burner, and Xu Huiling burned incense. Close your eyes, gesture back and forth with your hands, and say something in your mouth.

"Those who are in front of the battle, all march forward in array. ”

Xu Huiling's mouth is the Taoist nine-character mantra, burning incense and reciting this mantra does not invite immortals or borrow Yin soldiers, the purpose is just to clear the fog barrier and pass unimpeded.

Pro, can make the body and mind stable. The mudra is the seal of the king of Fudo.

Soldiers, which can allow the body and mind to gather energy. The mudra is the Donkey Kong wheel seal.

Bucket allows the body and mind to resonate with nature. The mudra is an outer lion print.

can make the body and mind cooperate as before. The mudra is an inner lion print.

All of them can make the body and mind have a sense of crisis, and the mudra is an external binding seal.

array, can have insight into people's hearts, and the mudra is an internal binding seal.

column, which can increase the control of the body and mind, and the mudra is the wisdom fist seal.

Before, you can use the ability freely, and the mudra is the sun wheel seal.

Okay, it can be combined with all kinds of evil, and the handprint is a treasure bottle seal.

After Xu Huiling's nine-character mantra was finished, the surrounding mountain fog began to dissipate. The morning sun is also beginning to show through the clouds.

After the fog barrier completely dissipated, a winding mountain path also appeared in front of Xu Huiling's eyes. Xu Huiling followed the guidance of the pointer on the soul compass and cautiously walked towards the mountainside.

Through the thorns in the mountains, a seemingly abandoned brick house appeared in front of Xu Huiling on the mountainside.

Xu Huiling came to the front of the house and carefully looked at the house in front of her and the surrounding environment, the environment here was quiet and overgrown, the brick walls of the dilapidated house were covered with moss, and a dilapidated wooden door looked crumbling, but the locks on the houses looked not very old and should be used often.

"Do you still need a lock for this broken door?"

Xu Huiling smiled helplessly, and kicked the dilapidated wooden door open directly with a sideways kick. The wooden door had long been decayed, and when Xu Huiling kicked it like this, the end without the padlock was directly shattered to the ground, and the locked end was left with the wooden board of the lock hanging on the door frame and swinging back and forth.

When the door was kicked open, a foul smell suddenly came from inside the house. The smell was mixed with a strong smell of earth, blood, and the stench of decomposing corpses.

This strong gas suddenly rushed out, causing Xu Huiling to cover her mouth and nose and retreat one after another, choking on tears for a while.

"Phew, phew, what does this smell so bad. ”

Xu Huiling wiped her tears with one hand, fanned the gas in front of her with the other, and spat to the side as she looked.

After most of the smell dissipated, Xu Huiling took out a silk scarf and soaked it in water and tied it to her face, then took out a flashlight and came to the broken house to investigate.

Perhaps the bright light of Xu Huiling's shaking flashlight suddenly shone in, and several bats immediately flew out from the hole in the roof.

The windows inside the broken house have long been sealed, and the moss vegetation outside the house is blocked. The windows had long since lost their light, and the only places where sunlight could shine were the holes in the roof that were not hidden by the plants.

Xu Huiling looked around in the dilapidated house and found that in addition to the carrion skeletons of a few night cats and wild dogs, it was worth noting the earthen pots covered with cobwebs.

The earthen pot was neatly placed in the corner of the wall, and although it was covered with dust, you could vaguely see the paper with a seal-like affix to the earthen pot.

Xu Huiling squatted down and carefully studied these earthen pots, which were large and small, with many strange symbols drawn on the paper attached to the seals, and some patterns like snakes, scorpions, and centipedes.

"Could it be that these are Gu refining?"

As soon as she thought of this, Xu Huiling squinted and saw a black shadow standing outside the door.

Xu Huiling, who has been trained in mixed martial arts since childhood, naturally has reflexes and skills beyond ordinary people. After finding the black shadow standing outside the door, he threw the earthen jar in his hand towards the black shadow.

Out of instinctive reaction, the black shadow saw Xu Huiling throw something at him. Hurriedly raised his hand to cover it and took a few steps back.

That is, at the same time as the black shadow retreated, Xu Huiling quickly got up and ran out of the broken house in two steps. Then the right leg exerts force to allow itself to soar forward, and at this time, the left leg bends the top knee, and the left knee shines against the head of the black shadow.

The black shadow had just raised his hand to block the earthen jar of Gu refining thrown by Xu Huiling, and his hand was numb at this time. As soon as he put his hand down, he didn't have time to react, but he saw Xu Huiling flying up to his knees in front of him.

"Bang ......"

A muffled sound came, and Xu Huiling's left knee was just on the bridge of the black shadow's nose. Without waiting for the black shadow to raise his head, Xu Huiling, who was falling from the momentum, raised his right hand, and smashed his right elbow directly on the root of the left ear of the black shadow's left face.

"Bang ......"

After another muffled sound, the shadow fell heavily to the ground.

Those who suffered these two blows should have been in a state of fainting. However, the black shadow did not faint immediately, but grabbed a handful of dirt on the ground and sprinkled it on Xu Huiling. When Xu Huiling raised his hand and retreated, the black shadow staggered to his feet and ran towards the mountain road.

Xu Huiling, who was dodging the dirt, saw the black shadow running away and hurriedly chased forward.

The shadow did not flee down the mountain, but towards the path to the top. Seeing this, Xu Huiling was worried about whether there would be a trap, so he didn't go all out to chase after it, but just controlled the black shadow within his line of sight, and followed the black shadow's route up the mountain all the way.

All the way to the top of the mountain, on top of which is a platform. Around the platform are piles of stones of various sizes and strange shapes. Some are high and some are low, forming a circle around the middle part of the platform. The shadow may have been struck and barely sat on the side of the cliff in the circle.

"Don't come here, come here again, I'll jump straight down. ”

The black shadow gasped, and there was a hint of fear for Xu Huiling in his tone.

Xu Huiling came to the stone pile on the edge of the circle and stopped, and asked.

"Who are you?"

The black shadow who was sitting on the ground heard Xu Huiling's words, and randomly took off the hat of the cloak on his body with his hand. Then a man with messy hair and a mask appeared in front of Xu Huiling, and the man then took off the mask and looked directly at Xu Huiling.

Looking at the man, Xu Huiling was shocked at first. After frowning, he lit a cigarette as if nothing had happened.

Xu Huiling stared carefully at the person on the edge of the cliff in front of him, half of his face was festering, and his face was bare with teeth that should have been wrapped in flesh. Directly looking, it looks like a living skull.

"You are the person wearing the mask that Zhang Han said?"

Xu Huiling asked after puffing out a cigarette.

"Yes. ”

The man was leaning against the stone pile on the edge of the cliff, and his festering face was still bleeding from his bare teeth, and it seemed that he had been beaten by Xu Huiling just now.

"Why did you hurt her?"

Xu Huiling asked as she took a tentative step forward.

"A man named Yang Wei, when he came here to travel, he met me and knew that I could use Gu, so he asked me to help him. ”

"So you helped him?"

"I ...... , I collected the money. ”

"Isn't it right to hurt people if you collect money?"

"No, it's not, I just helped them together at first. I didn't know it would become like this, I had already punished Yang Wei. ”

After speaking, the man took out his mobile phone and fiddled with it a few times. It was difficult to push the mobile phone to Xu Huiling. But because of lack of strength, the phone slid to the center of the circle and stopped.

Xu Huiling was secretly happy in her heart, and walked to the center of the circle to pick up the phone. There was a video on the phone, and after clicking on the playback, another man went crazy. The man in the picture is frantically biting at the weeds and leaves around him, and then runs madly to the edge of a cliff full of stones.

Seeing this, Xu Huiling looked around. The place where the crazy man in the picture is is where he is now.

At the end of the video, the crazy man is babbling gibberish on the edge of the cliff, and finally jumps off the edge of the cliff.

After watching the video, Xu Huiling looked up at the man on the edge of the cliff.

The man looked at Xu Huiling and said weakly.

"The person who jumped down was Yang Wei, and I used Gu to control him. Let him see Zhang Han jumping off the building every day, so that he is about to be driven crazy. Then he came to me and begged me to save him. I used the Phantom Gu again to make him think that I was Zhang Han, and then he ran up and jumped off the cliff. ”

"No, you just hesitated. You are lying, even if it was Yang Wei who jumped off the cliff, your purpose of harming Zhang Han would not be so simple. The Miao family's Gu technique has always been passed on to women but not to men, how did you learn Gu? Is there someone behind you who instructed you?"

Facing Xu Huiling's questioning, the man's eyes were full of surprise and horror.

Zhang Han jumped off the building, imprisoned in red, and stuck three soul needles in his head. Could this be what you are a person who secretly learns Gu refining will do? Who is the person behind you?"

With a roar, Xu Huiling pressed forward step by step, slowly approaching the man on the edge of the cliff.

The man on the edge of the cliff was at a loss when asked by Xu Huiling for a while, so he could only retreat to the edge of the cliff with difficulty.

"The red clothes are imprisoned, and they will never be reborn. Such a vicious method is not just to harm people's lives? It is clear that he does not want Zhang Han to be reincarnated. Who made you hurt her like this, you say........."

With another roar, Xu Huiling had already come to the man. Looking at the man's ugly face, Xu Huiling was already full of anger.

"I ...... I...... Hahaha....poof.......... ”

Laughing suddenly, a mouthful of blood spurted out of the man's mouth and nose. The man spat out the blood from his mouth and said in despair.

"Because she, like you, will carry memories of her past life. Hahahahaha, I can't keep her. ”

With that, the man jumped. Jumping off the edge of the cliff, Xu Huiling stepped forward, but still failed to catch the man.

On the edge of the cliff, Xu Huiling sat for a long time and then got up and walked towards the dilapidated house in the mountains.

In the broken house, Xu Huiling took out a black porcelain bottle in her backpack. Scattered the powder around the earthen jar in the house, then took out the spirit bottle and ignited the earthen jar that was thrown at Gu Refining before turning and leaving.

On the mountain road down the mountain, Xu Huiling was holding a red oil-paper umbrella, and he vaguely heard Xu Huiling say to his side.

"Give me some time, and I'll help you find out the truth......................... ”