Mingling among the villagers, Zhou Ming slowly walked towards the gray mist.

The distance is getting closer.

Five-meter ...... Three-meter ...... One meter.

Facing the swirling fog in front of him, Zhou Ming suddenly smiled at the corner of his mouth.

Then he stretched out his hand like lightning.

Straight into the gray mist.

He was not afraid of the huge twisting force, which would twist his arm into pieces.

In fact, Zhou Ming was not worried that his arm would be injured, because it could be seen from the corpses of the villagers who were twisted into skeletons - this gray mist could not even break the bones of ordinary people.

It can only use the strong corrosiveness of the gray mist to devour the flesh and blood of the villagers, as well as their ...... Soul.

Therefore, Zhou Ming is 100% sure that what is hidden in this gray fog is not a person, but a "thing".

A great thing.

"Hah, got you!"

Zhou Ming, who was extremely fast, grabbed that thing from the gray mist and pulled it out hard!

It is a stick made of a special material.

At the top of the stick is a triangular flag as red as blood, painted with various strangely shaped patterns.

The smell of blood emanated from the banner, and countless screams of demons and monsters came out.

Zhou Ming, who was holding the stick, also felt a huge suction, intending to suck away the suction of his soul.

"System, hurry up!"

Zhou Ming said to the system in his mind, although his soul was strong, he still couldn't support it in the face of this magic banner that had devoured the souls of tens of thousands of people.

What's more, among this magic flag, there is also a wisp of divine consciousness clone of a super strong person, which must not be underestimated.

Fortunately, Zhou Ming has a system in his brain, and at the soul level, there is no consciousness body, which can be the opponent of the system.

"Understood, host!"

After the system responded, a large prompt sounded in Zhou Ming's head:

"Ding, destroy 1 primary soul, plane resolution +0% ......"

"Ding, destroy 1 intermediate soul, plane resolution +0.0001%......"

"Ding, destroy 1 high-level soul fragment, plane resolution +0.15%......"

In less than a minute, tens of thousands of souls in the magic banner were all devoured by the system.

Including the super-strong man's divine consciousness clone, he couldn't even struggle, and it turned into a little dimensional resolution, speeding up Zhou Ming's progress in clearing the customs.

Not bad!

This is an opportunity, and the system asks Zhou Ming to seize it.

Because that banner is the "soul devouring banner" used by the legendary demon powerhouse, the refining conditions are extremely harsh, and in order to make it have the greatest power, it must devour more than 18,000 souls in order to exert the power that makes people change color.

And the "Soul Devouring Banner" that Zhou Ming won is a near-finished product that has devoured more than 10,000 souls, and it is also a "tonic" that the system needs.

Because the soul itself carries a lot of "information", especially some strong souls that contain information about the law, and the system covets it.

Devouring these souls has become another important addition to the system in addition to Zhou Ming's host...... Supplement to improve plane resolution.

Of course, it is not possible to forcibly devour the soul of the strong, it will be detected by the guardians of the plane, so the system needs a medium, a medium that is separated from the physical body...... For example, if there is a Soul Eater Banner as a medium, the probability of being discovered by the Guardian will be greatly reduced if the system devours the soul of the strong and is discovered.

This is the reason why Zhou Ming has no fear and actively completes the task of "Murder in the Ancient Temple".

But for this reason, Zhou Ming also offended a top powerhouse of the demon clan.

……

In an extremely dark space.

A giant seat on top of it.

A strong man suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood, as if he had been hit hard.

Then he went berserk, unleashing his attacks in all directions, and the explosions rang out incessantly.

"Bastard, asshole!"

"My treasure, my treasure that is about to be refined!"

"Kill you, I must kill you!"

The roar of the strong man was heard hundreds of miles away, and everyone was terrified when they heard it.

……

Control the Soul Eater Banner to collect the evil spirits that wander around the village and in the bodies of the controlled villagers (evil spirits are simple mind bodies, and their plasticity and complexity are much lower than those of souls).

Roll up the banner and put away the Soul Eater banner.

The white fog that shrouded Yongshui Village gradually dissipated.

The villagers also woke up in twos and threes.

In the dark, when some villagers fumbled to light torches and gradually restore some light to the village, the scene in the central square of the village frightened them into screaming one after another.

Bones.

Accumulate white bones.

About 800 villagers died in the attack.

Of course, Zhou Ming had already quietly left, joined Chen En and the others, and returned to the tavern at the entrance of the village.

By the time Tan Ke and the others rushed back to the village, the danger had already passed, except for the mournful cries that were coming from almost every household...... This year's "Black Sky Festival" is a heartbreaking day for Yongshui Village.

"Xiao Zhou, what about Xiao En, are they okay?"

Tan Ke and the others were most worried about Zhou Ming's safety, and as soon as they returned to the village, they searched everywhere.

Soon they all breathed a sigh of relief, and in the tavern at the entrance of the village road, they saw the five people intact.

What surprised Tan Ke and them even more was that Zhou Ming and the others repelled the mastermind behind the scenes and saved most of the villagers in Yongshui Village.

"I said a long time ago that it was not the evil cultivators who created the phantom array to kill passers-by and the people, but the demon race. ”

"Evil cultivators kill people, it doesn't matter if it's day or night, there's no need to make any phantom arrays, just shoot directly, it won't be so complicated. ”

"And why that ancient temple only started killing people on the dark day can only prove that it is a demon who can't see the light. ”

"Those white mist are actually not phantom arrays, but a substance from the demon world, after inhalation, it has a strong hallucinogenic effect, so that it loses the ability to resist and becomes the food of the demon race. ”

On the square table on the second floor of the tavern, Zhou Ming reasoned methodically.

"Demon ...... In this world, are there really demons?"

Joey Xue held her cheeks in her hand and muttered to herself, still a little incredulous.

Because the demon clan described by Zhou Ming is a special "life" that lives thousands of miles underground, mainly composed of dead animal and plant souls, after sinking to the ground, it is made of underground creatures, which do not need water and food, cannot see sunlight, and can see things with spiritual eyes.

What's more, the demons are not only very diverse, but also extremely numerous.

Even thousands of miles below the ground, it constitutes a huge demon realm.

Zhou Ming nodded and said:

"The world is full of wonders, although we and other human beings live on the boundless vast earth, enjoying the sun and rain and dew, but the area of our activities, compared to the endless thick earth, we are only in the most superficial layer of activities, and we have never set foot deep underground, not to mention the demons, and even other strange races, it is not surprising. ”

"But demons do exist, because I've seen them in diplomatic books in the school library. ”

With the increase in foreign exchange activities in the country of Mancheng, of course, there is more understanding of the outside world.

For example, in a continent hundreds of millions of miles away from Zhongyuan Continent, there is a bottomless abyss on the earth, every dark day, there are countless demons pouring out, wantonly hunting and killing human beings, on that continent, the war between humans and demons has lasted for hundreds of millions of years, and human beings can only defend passively...... Because of the number of demons, there are so many terrifying.

"Then you mean to say that under that ancient temple, there is a gap leading to the demon world, and the demon clan ran up through that gap?"

Tan Ke immediately figured out the key and nodded again and again.

This can be explained, it can explain why the bombing of the ancient temple has no effect, and it can explain why mysterious deaths occur near the ancient temple every year, and the people behind the scenes always appear and disappear near the ancient temple......

"Not good!"

Tan Ke's face changed again, "If the Lingyuan warship bombards the ancient temple, wouldn't that crack expand even more, and more demons will run out?"

"I must report this matter to my superiors, and I must not transfer the Lingyuan battleship!"

At this moment, Tan Ke completely believed Zhou Ming's reasoning, and after dawn, he immediately returned to the big pit left by the ancient temple, and sure enough, he found a thumb-wide gap at the bottom of the pit, and poured water inward, but he couldn't fill it, like a bottomless pit.

More than 100 tons of cement were injected into it, and after drying and condensing, a hundred-ton boulder was suppressed at the original site of the ancient temple, and this crack in the demon world leading to the world was finally sealed.

The mystery of "Murder in the Ancient Temple" in Yongshui Village, which has not been solved for a hundred years, has been solved.