In Dafan Mountain, in addition to the ancestral tombs of generations of Fojiao townspeople, there is also a temple of the Heavenly Maiden.

The person worshiped in the shrine is not the Buddha, nor Guanyin, but a "dancing goddess".

Hundreds of years ago, a hunter in the town of Buddha's foot entered the deep mountains, found a strange stone in the grotto, nearly zhang high, made of nature, actually very similar to a portrait, complete limbs, as a dancing posture, more wonderful is that the facial features of the head of the stone statue are vaguely recognizable, it is a smiling woman.

The townspeople of Fojiao Town were surprised, thinking that this was a sacred stone that gathered the aura of heaven and earth, and spontaneously made up many legends. What is there an immortal monarch who has a crush on the Nine Heavens Xuannu, in order to solve the pain of lovesickness, carved a stone statue according to the shape of the Xuannu, and the Xuannu was furious after discovering it, and the unfinished stone statue had to be lost; There are all kinds of variety, and the richness of the content and the variety of patterns are eye-popping. These legends that flowed out of their mouths convinced them themselves, and some people changed the grotto into a shrine, the stone platform into a shrine, and worshiped the stone statue as the "Dancing Lady", and offered incense all year round.

Lan Sichai and the others explored the ancient tomb to no avail, so they went to the Heavenly Shrine to look for clues.

The interior of the grotto is open like a two-entry temple, and the statue of the goddess stands in the center. At first glance, it really looks like a person, and even the waist can be said to be wonderful. If you look closely, it's rough, but the natural creation can resemble people so much that it's amazing enough.

Lan Jingyi raised the wind evil disk high and low, and the pointer was still unmoved. There were messy candles and a thick layer of incense ash on the offering table, and the fruit plate smelled of rotten sweetness. The Lan family is more or less clean, he fanned the air in front of his nose, and said: "I heard that the locals said that the goddess shrine made a wish very spiritually this day, how can it be dilapidated like this." I don't ask a few people to clean up. ”

Lan Si chased: "There have been seven people who have lost their souls in a row, and it is rumored that the heavenly thunder has slashed out the ferocity in the ancestral tomb of Buddha's Foot Town, where is there anyone who dares to come up the mountain." The incense was broken, and naturally no one cleaned it. ”

A voice sounded outside the grotto: "A broken stone, I don't know who has made a god, and I dare to put it here to be worshiped by people with incense!"

Jin Ling stepped in. The time limit for the gag technique had expired, and his mouth was finally able to open. However, as soon as he opened it, there were no good words, he looked at the statue of the girl that day, and hummed: "These rural villagers, they don't know how to work hard when they encounter problems, but they burn incense and worship Buddha all day long to ask God and ask ghosts. There are thousands of people in the world, and the gods and Buddhas are too busy to take care of themselves, so how can they be managed! Not to mention that he is still a wild god with no name and no share. If it's really so spiritual, then I make a wish now, if this soul-eating thing in the Great Fan Mountain will appear in front of me immediately, can it do it?"

He was followed by a group of monks from other families, and when they heard this, they immediately echoed and laughed. The shrine, which had been silent, suddenly became noisy and narrow because of the crowd that poured in. Lan Sichai shook his head secretly. Turning around, he inadvertently glanced at the face of the Celestial Maiden, and his facial features were vaguely visible, and it seemed to be a compassionate smile. However, as soon as he saw this smiling face, he felt an indescribable sense of familiarity. It's as if I've seen this smiling face somewhere.

Where exactly have you seen it?

He felt that it must be a very important thing. I couldn't help but approach the shrine and wanted to take a closer look at the face of the goddess. At this moment, someone suddenly bumped into him.

A monk who had been standing behind him, as if he wanted to see the statue, suddenly fell silently. The monks in the shrine were on guard, and Jin Ling asked, "What's wrong with him?"

Lan Si held the sword and observed that the monk was breathing soundly, as if he had just fallen asleep suddenly, but he couldn't wake up no matter how much he slapped and called. He got up and said, "He's like a ......."

Before he finished speaking, the originally gloomy cave suddenly lit up, full of red light, as if a layer of blood waterfall was pouring down along the four walls. The incense sticks in the corners of the offering platform and the grotto all burned spontaneously.

All the people in the grotto drew their swords in unison, and those who held talismans held talismans. Suddenly, a person rushed in from outside the shrine, carrying a thing, splashed the stone statue of the goddess that day, the grotto was suddenly filled with a strong smell of alcohol, he held a piece of talisman paper in the air, threw it on the stone statue, the altar instantly ignited a raging fire, the grotto reflected like a white sun.

Wei Wuxian finished all the contents of the Qiankun bag he had picked up, threw the bag and shouted, "All out! The thing here is not a Soul Eater Beast, nor is it a Soul Eater Demon, it is a Soul Eater Heavenly Maiden!"

Someone exclaimed, "The posture of the Celestial Maiden has changed!"

Just now, this statue of the god clearly raised its arms, one arm pointed straight to the sky, and one foot raised, with a graceful posture. At this moment, in the red and yellow fire, he put down his hands and feet. It's true, it's not dazzling!

The next moment, the idol lifted another foot - and stepped out of the flames!

Wei Wuxian shouted, "Run, run, run, don't cut, it's useless!"

Most of the monks ignored him, and the soul-eating monster that could not be found for thousands of miles finally appeared, how could he let it go! However, so many fairy swords were used to slash and stab at the same time, and the talisman seals and various magic weapons were thrown, but they did not stop the stone statue from taking a step. It was nearly a zhang high, moving like a giant, full of oppression, lifting the two monks to the face, the stone mouth seemed to open and close, the swords in the hands of the two monks fell to the ground, and the head hung down, apparently also sucking away the soul.

Seeing that all kinds of attacks were completely ineffective, the rest of the people were finally willing to listen to Wei Wuxian's words, and they swarmed out and scattered in all directions. There were many people, and the more anxious Wei Wuxian was, the more he couldn't find Jin Ling, he rode a donkey and ran into a bamboo forest, and turned around to meet the juniors of the Lan family who had caught up, Wei Wuxian shouted to them: "Children!"

Lan Jingyi said: "Who are your children? Do you know whose family we are? Think you can be an elder after washing your face?!"

Wei Wuxian said, "Okay, good." Brothers. Put a signal and call your family...... That Hanguang-kun comes up!"

The juniors nodded their heads again and again, rummaging through their bodies as they ran, and after a while, Lan Si chased: "Signal fireworks...... Mojiazhuang was all over that night. ”

Wei Wuxian was shocked: "You didn't make up for it later?!"

This signal fireworks will not be used once in eight hundred years, and Lan Si said ashamedly: "I forgot." ”

Wei Wuxian frightened, "This is also something that can be forgotten? Let you Hanguang-jun know, I want you to look good!"

Lan Jingyi's face was like ashes: "It's over, this time I will be punished to death by Hanguangjun......"

Wei Wuxian: "Punishment." No punishment will not be a long memory. ”

Lan Sichai: "Mo Gongzi, Mo Gongzi! How do you know that it is not the soul eater who sucks the soul, but the statue of the Heavenly Maiden?"

Wei Wuxian searched for Jin Ling's figure as he ran: "How do I know? ”

Lan Jingyi also caught up, and ran with him left and right: "What do you see? ”

"See, and then what's near the burial mound?"

"What can there be, there are dead souls. ”

"Yes, there are dead souls. This shows that it is definitely not a Soul Eater or a Soul Eater. If it's these two types, so many dead souls floating there, will it not eat? No. ”

This time, more than one person asked, "Why?"

"I said your Lan family......" Wei Wuxian couldn't help it: "Teach less Xianmen etiquette and the historical origin of the Xiuzhen family's genealogy, this kind of smelly and long nonsense that has to be memorized, can't you teach more practical things? Dead souls are much easier to absorb than living souls. The physical body of a living person is a barrier, and if you want to eat the soul of a living person, you must break this barrier. It's like ......," he glanced at the flower donkey rolling his eyes as he panted and ran, "it's like an apple in front of you and another apple in a locked box, which one do you choose? ”

Lan Jingyi exclaimed: "Is there still such a reason? Although I have never heard of it, it seems to be right! It turns out that you are really not crazy!"

Lan Si chased: "We all thought that it was the landslide and the heavenly thunder splitting the coffin that caused the loss of the soul, so naturally we thought it was the soul eater. ”

Wei Wuxian said, "Wrong. ”

"What's wrong?"

"The order is wrong, the cause and effect are wrong. Let me ask you, what is the cause and effect of the landslide and the soul eating incident?"

Without thinking: "The landslide is in front, and the soul eater is behind." The former is the cause, the latter is the effect. ”

"Totally wrong. It's the soul eater in the front, and the landslide in the back. On the night of the landslide, there was a sudden rainstorm, and the sky thundered, and a coffin was split, remember this. The first lost soul, the lazy man, was trapped in the mountains for one night and had married in the past few days. ”

"What's wrong?"

"Nothing is right! A poor bastard who is idle, where does he get the money to marry and do a big job?"

Everyone was speechless, no wonder that the Gusu Lan clan was originally a family that couldn't consider this kind of problem. Wei Wuxian said again: "If you thoroughly investigate all the dead souls on Dafan Mountain, you will find that there is an old man's soul that was smashed to death by his head, and the shroud is extremely gorgeous. Wearing such a gorgeous shroud, his coffin could not be empty, and there must be a few funeral goods that pressed the coffin. The coffin that was split open by a thunderbolt was probably his, and the person who collected the bones later did not find the burial goods, and all of them must have been taken by the lazy man, so as to explain his sudden magnanimity. ”

"The lazy man got married after a landslide overnight, and something unusual must have happened that night. It was raining heavily that night, and he hid from the rain in the mountains. And if ordinary people go to the shrine, they have to do one thing. ”

Lan Si chased: "Make a wish?"

"Not bad. For example, let him have good luck, make a fortune, have money and marry or something. The Celestial Maiden fulfilled him, sent down a thunderbolt, split the tomb, and showed him the treasure in the coffin. And his wish was granted, and in return, the Celestial Maiden came on his wedding night and sucked his soul away!"

Lan Jingyi: "It's all speculation!"

Wei Wuxian: "It's a guess." But if you guess this, everything can be explained. ”

Lan Sichai: "How does Miss Rouge explain?"

Wei Wuxian: "That's a good question. You should have asked before you went up the mountain. Ah Yan had just been married at that time, and for all the girls who were married, they must have the same wish. ”

Lan Jingyi said in a daze: "What wish?"

Wei Wuxian said: "It's nothing more than that, 'I hope my husband will love me and love me all his life, and only like me alone', and so on." ”

"How can this wish be fulfilled......

Wei Wuxian spread his hands and said, "It's very simple. As long as her husband's 'life' ends immediately, can't he be counted as 'only loving one person in this life'?"

Lan Jingyi suddenly realized, and said excitedly: "Oh, oh, so, so after the Ah Yan girl made a marriage, her husband was killed by the jackal in the mountains the next day, because it is likely that the first day A Yan girl went to the Heavenly Maiden Temple to make a wish!"

Wei Wuxian struck while the iron was hot: "Whether it was killed by a jackal in the mountains or not, it's hard to say." There is also a special thing about Ah Yan, why is her soul the only one of them who has returned? What is the difference between her and others? The difference is that she has a relative who has lost her soul. In other words, this relative has replaced her! Blacksmith Zheng is Ah Yan's father, a father who loves his daughter, what can he only do when he sees that his daughter has lost her soul, medicine is useless, and she is helpless?"

This time, Lan Si chased quickly: "--He can only hope for the last hope in heaven. So he also went to the Temple of the Heavenly Maiden and made a wish, and the wish was 'I hope that the soul of my daughter Ah Yan will be recovered'!"

Wei Wuxian said, "The children can be taught. This is why only Ah Yan's soul has returned, and it is also the reason why the third soulless person, Zheng Blacksmith, lost his soul. And although Ah Yan's soul was vomited out, because it had sunk in the belly of the Soul Eater Heavenly Maiden for a while, it was inevitable that it would be damaged. After the soul returned to its place, she began to involuntarily imitate the dancing posture and even the smile of the Celestial Maiden. ”

What these lost souls have in common is that it is possible that they made a wish before the statue of the Celestial Maiden. The price of a wish coming true is the soul.

This stone statue of the Heavenly Maiden, originally just an ordinary stone, happened to look like a person, and it was inexplicably worshiped for hundreds of years, and then it had mana. But it was not greedy enough, and with a wrong thought, it actually figured out how to suck the soul to speed up the increase of mana. The soul absorbed in the form of wish exchange is equivalent to the soul of the willing wisher, the two parties trade fairly, it seems reasonable, and the benevolence is benevolent, so the wind evil plate pointer does not move, the Yin Flag cannot be summoned, and the sword and the seal are all invalid, just because the things in the Great Fan Mountain are not demons and monsters at all, they are gods, and they are a wild road god who has been raised by hundreds of years of incense and offerings. Dealing with it with something that deals with demons and monsters is the same as putting fire to fire!

Lan Jingyi said loudly: "Wait! But just now in the shrine, there was a monk who was also sucked by his soul, and we didn't hear him make a wish!"

Wei Wuxian stopped suddenly: "Someone in the shrine has been sucked souls? ”

Lan Sichai repeated it clearly and quickly, and when he heard Jin Ling's sentence "It's really so spiritual, then I make a wish now, I want this thing that eats people's souls in the Great Fan Mountain to appear in front of me immediately, can it do it?"

The other monks echoed Jin Ling, and they were assumed that they had all made the same wish. And the Soul Eater Heavenly Maiden, right in front of them, this wish has been fulfilled, and next, it's time to ask for the price.

Suddenly, the donkey stopped and ran in the opposite direction. Wei Wuxian pulled it off again, and he grabbed the rope alive, only to hear a "crunching" and "snoring" chewing sound from the bushes in front of him.

A tall figure crouched in the bushes, its huge head moving around on the ground and the belly of a man, heard a strange noise, jerked his head up, and met their gaze.

This Soul Eater Heavenly Maiden originally had a vague face, only a general eye, nose, ears, and mouth, and after sucking the souls of several cultivators in one go, she had already turned into a clear facial feature, and she was a smiling woman's face, with a lot of blood hanging from the corners of her mouth, holding a torn arm, and munching heavily.

Everyone immediately followed the donkey and pulled their legs and retreated.

Lan Sichai collapsed and said: "That's not right! Yiling Ancestor said, high-level soul-eating, low-level only eat meat!"

Wei Wuxian said helplessly: "What are you superstitious about what he does, he has made a mess of a bunch of things by himself! No rule is immutable, just think about it, a baby, when he has no teeth, can only drink porridge soup and water, and once he grows up, of course he wants to eat meat with his teeth." Now that her mana has soared, she naturally wants to eat meat and taste it!"

The Soul Eater stood up from the ground, tall and large, with both hands and feet, dancing in ecstasy, and seemed to be very happy. Suddenly, an arrow whistled and struck her forehead, piercing the back of her head. Hearing the sound of the strings, Wei Wuxian followed the prestige, Jin Ling stood on the high slope not far away, had already put the second feather arrow on the bow, pulled the string, and let go of the arrow that pierced the skull, the force was so strong that it made the Soul Eater Heavenly Maiden staggered back a few steps.

The hand is quite steady, and the shot is accurate, but it's a pity that all the immortal magic weapons are useless to it!

Lan Sichai shouted: "Jin Gongzi, release the signal on your body!"

Jin Ling turned a deaf ear, bent on taking down this monster, with a calm face, this time he took three arrows. was shot two arrows in the head, and the Soul Eater Heavenly Maiden was not annoyed, still smiling, and attacked Jin Ling. Although she danced as she walked, her speed was terrifyingly fast, and she was half the distance in an instant. Several monks flashed out from the side, tangling with her, stumbling on her feet. Jin Ling's arrows and arrows kept going step by step, and it seemed that he was determined to shoot all the feather arrows first, and then fight with the Soul Eater Heavenly Maiden in close combat.

Jiang Cheng and Lan Zhan were all waiting for news in Fojiao Town, not knowing when they would be able to notice the change and catch up. Water is needed to extinguish fires, and the immortal magic weapon is not good, so let's do it!

Wei Wuxian pulled out Lan Sichai's saber, cut off a thin piece of bamboo, hastily made a flute, brought it to his lips, and took a long breath. The shrill sound of the flute pierced the night sky like an arrow, soaring into the sky.

He should not have been forcibly summoned on such a large scale unless it was absolutely necessary. But now, it doesn't matter what is summoned, as long as the evil qi is heavy enough, the anger is strong enough, and it is enough to tear this soul-eating celestial girl apart!

Lan Sichai was stunned, but Lan Jingyi covered her ears and said, "It's all this time, what kind of flute are you playing!

Three or four of the monks who were fighting with the Soul Eater Celestial Maiden in the field had already sucked their souls away, Jin Ling pulled out his sword, less than two zhang away from the Soul Eater Celestial Maiden, his heart was pounding, and the blood in his brain was surging: "If I can't cut off her head with this sword, I will die here - death will die!"

At this moment, in the mountains and forests of Dafan Mountain, a jingling sound rose.

Jingle bell, ding bell. Sometimes fast, sometimes slow, sometimes ringing. Echoing in the silence of the mountain forest. It was as if chains were striking each other and ropes were mopping the floor. Getting closer, louder and louder.

For some reason, the voice gave people an extremely unsettling sense of threat, and even the Soul Eater Celestial Maiden stopped dancing, raising her arms, staring at the dark depths from which the voice came.

Wei Wuxian put away his flute and watched intently.

Although the foreboding in my heart is getting heavier and heavier, since I am willing to be called by him, then at least I am willing to listen to him.

The voice stopped abruptly, and a figure emerged from the darkness.

After seeing this figure clearly, seeing this face clearly, the faces of several monks distorted.

Even in the face of the stone statue of the Celestial Maiden who would suck them away at any time, this group of people did not flinch, let alone show timidity. However, at this moment, their voices were full of fear that could not be concealed.

"...... 'ghost general', it's 'ghost general', it's Wen Ning!"

The title of "Ghost General", like the ancestor of Yiling, is notorious and known to everyone, and usually the two appear together.

This word represents only one object. It is under the seat of Yiling Ancestor Wei Ying that the No. 1 helper is abusing the enemy, making waves, acting for the tiger, and turning the world upside down, and the murderous corpse that should have been frustrated and scattered, Wen Ning!