Time: Spring, midnight.

Location: Paradise Vault, at the bottom of a canyon surrounded by eight mountains.

Weather: Cold, gloomy and humid.

It's a vast primeval forest, and at least being in it, it gives me the feeling that way.

Quiet, damp, deep, the stench of dead leaves and rotting leaves filled the air.

Except for the lush vegetation, I haven't seen a single living creature until now, not even ants and spiders, which are common in the forest.

This canyon forest seems to be a forbidden place for life, and walking in it, especially when you are alone, makes people panic.

I've lost the trace of Lu Ji and his group, but based on the direction of travel, the direction of their destination should also be where the towering giant tree is.

After taking the Yin Pill of the Green-Haired Corpse King, I swept away the previous malaise, and my strength increased greatly, and even the injuries on my body recovered most of them.

This situation worries me as well as I am a little happy.

Walking in such a primeval forest is more difficult than mountaineering. Although the surroundings are calm, there are mountains of dead leaves, and some of the pits are covered with dead leaves, and you can get stuck in them if you are not careful.

I fell into the pit several times in a row, and at one point I almost couldn't climb out, so I had to be careful to find my way with a whip and try to stick to the roots of the trees.

The rhizomes of the trees are intertwined like snake bodies, bulging out of the ground, and some of the raised rhizomes can be six or seven meters high, which looks like a huge tent from a distance.

After walking for nearly half an hour, even if I took the Yin Pill and greatly increased my physical strength, I couldn't hold on at this time.

The mental and physical wear and tear took my toll on the injury.

In desperation, I had to find a big tree that looked relatively dry and climbed it to rest.

I let the ghost boy out again, and I gave it a few words, and under the impact of fatigue, I quickly fell asleep.

I slept groggily this night, and I felt that my head was unusually heavy, and when I woke up, my head was blank, and I barely adjusted it for a long time.

Of course, I didn't wake up naturally, but I was woken up by a ghost boy.

It told me that after I fell asleep, a dirty, ruined woman suddenly appeared and had been hiding in the shadows to spy on me.

I listened to the ghost boy's words, and the whole person instantly came to my senses and looked in the direction that the ghost boy was pointing.

At this time, the sky was not yet bright, and the forest was dark, and I don't know if it was because of the swallowing and yin pills, my eyes could see the blurred scenery around me in this boundless darkness.

Seven or eight meters away from me, there seemed to be a person hiding behind the big tree that was hugged by two people.

The ghost boy said that there was a woman who was secretly peeking at me, but she never dared to come closer. In this place, except for Yan Xiaoying, who came in with me, there was only one woman, Yang Feng.

After the description of the ghost boy, I have almost eighty percent of the confirmation that the person who peeped at me was Yang Feng.

I rescued her in the cave and tomb before, and her state seemed to be overly frightened, but I didn't understand why she didn't leave after she escaped? Instead followed me all the way here?

Put away the ghost boy, carried the mountain whip and came down from the tree lightly, although he held a flashlight in his hand, he didn't turn it on, and sneaked towards the place where the other party was hiding in the dark.

Although he was cautious, he still made a lot of noise when he stepped on the dead branches and leaves on the ground.

Three-meter, two-meter, one-meter......

As the distance got closer, I could even hear the other person's breathing.

At this time, the other party made a move and seemed to be fleeing.

I turned on my flashlight and walked over quickly.

Under the beam of the flashlight, a black shadow rushed out from behind the tree in a panic.

"Yang Feng!"

I shouted, and the conditional firing reached out to grab her.

The other party was covered in mud, and I grabbed her arm, but I felt like I was grabbing a live loach, and I only heard a tearing sound.

I tore a sleeve off her arm, and she ran away in a panic, and in an instant she was in the woods.

Seeing this, I didn't hesitate, and quickly chased after the other party with a flashlight.

Resting in the tree, although I regained a lot of strength, I couldn't catch up with a mad woman who didn't want to die.

But fortunately, it was not completely lost.

The two chased and fled, and soon went out two or three hundred meters, during which I saw the embarrassed figure running in front of me fall several times, but each time after falling down immediately got up and continued to run.

For my shouting, the other party didn't seem to hear it.

After another three or four hundred meters, the wild grass in front of him became much thinner, but the trees were taller. During this time, I saw a lot of rocks in the understory.

At first, I didn't pay much attention to it, but it wasn't until later that I saw a half-broken bluestone wall blocking my way, and I suddenly woke up.

These remnants of the wall are clearly traces of human existence.

Sure enough, as we went deeper and deeper, more and more traces of buildings appeared around us.

When I climbed over a bluestone fence two or three meters high, I suddenly lost track of the other party.

Looking around with a flashlight, he found himself in the middle of a courtyard, surrounded by a ring of apparently broken walls, and in front of him were a few severed roots.

Up close, the roots of the tree are completely decayed, and it appears that it has been cut down for quite some time.

There are countless caves and tombs on the grassland, and the people buried in them should be the people who used to live in this place in front of them, but they don't know what happened? How ruined this place is?

Depending on the situation, this place has not been inhabited for at least a hundred years, if not hundreds of years.

What happened to the people who used to live here? Are they moving elsewhere, or are they ......

Taking a deep breath, I took out the whip and released the Ghost Boy, and without my command, it led me around the roots of a few decaying trees and into one of the dilapidated stone houses.

It's a stone house, but it's better to say it's a pile of ruins.

Under the broken pillars of the stone house, I saw the person I had just chased, who was now curled up in the dark and wet underground, holding her head in her hands and shivering.

"Yang Feng, what's wrong with you?"

I walked over and asked cautiously.

The other party did not answer, and a trembling and sobbing sound came from his mouth, obviously overly frightened.

I frowned, I had the impression that Yang Feng's personality was so strong, it was rare to have such a side, and I didn't know how much she was hit to become what she is now.

Seeing her like this, I couldn't bear it, and reached out to grab her arm, which was scratched with a note and scarred, to pull it up.

Grabbed by my arm, she reacted a little violently, panicked, and struggled to get out.

I've regained a lot of strength at this point, how can I let her escape from my hands again?

Firmly grasp her, pull her up from the ground, and pull her head up with the other hand.

Under the faint light of the flashlight, I saw that she was unkempt, and there was a lot of blood on her face. There was a cut in his forehead, which was bleeding at the moment, and he should have fallen when he ran away just now.

Her eyes were dodgy, her eyes were teary, and she looked pitiful and helpless.

Seeing that the old classmates who used to be big and arrogant and high-spirited have become what they are now, I felt very uncomfortable in my heart, and comforted softly: "Yang Feng...... Don't be afraid, I'm Tianyan, don't you remember me? Don't worry, I won't hurt you. ”

"Tianyan ......"

Yang Feng muttered in his mouth, looking at me as if he was trying to recall.

Seeing this, I couldn't help but be stunned, she didn't remember me? Could it be that he broke his brain and lost his memory?

"Master, she doesn't seem to be a complete living person." At this time, the ghost boy suddenly spoke beside him.

"Not a complete living person? What does that mean? I asked the ghost boy in a deep voice.

"Her soul is incomplete and she has lost part of her ......"

The ghost boy told me that people have three souls and seven spirits, one of which is the heavenly soul, the second is the earth soul, and the third is the life soul.

Seven spirits: one spirit of the sky, two spirits of wisdom, three spirits for the qi, four spirits for the force, five spirits for the center, six spirits for the essence, seven spirits for the Ying. The soul is yang, and the spirit is yin.

To put it more clearly, the soul is the spirit of a person, and the ghost boy told me that Yang Feng is not a complete person at the moment, which actually means that she has lost a certain soul or a spirit.

Her current state is somewhat similar to the situation of the crazy woman I met when I was at the Evergreen Taoist Temple. It's just that the crazy woman is the soul of the life you are staying.

As for Yang Feng in front of her, the reason why her soul was lost was most likely caused by excessive fright.

"What do you mean, can we get her lost soul back now?" I asked the ghost boy.

The ghost boy shook his head and said, "I don't have that kind of ability, but some people with high Dao skills must know the art of soul conjuring." ”

"Do you want to summon spirits from someone with a high Dao law?"

At this time and now, if you want to say that the law is high, who can compare to the orthodox Heavenly Master Mansion Lu Ji and the gang of Ziling Taoism? But if you want to find them to help Yang Feng summon his soul, I'm afraid it's impossible......

Yan Xiaoying is well-informed and may have a way.

It's a pity that we're lost now.

It seems that the matter of summoning the soul for Yang Feng has to be put on hold for the time being.

Can...... I can't leave her here right now, can I?

Looking at the pitiful Yang Feng in front of me, I couldn't help but feel a little difficult for a while, and the future was dangerous and unpredictable. If I retreat like this, how can I be willing?

"Master, why don't we leave her alone? This woman is so bad that she wanted to kill you before. The ghost boy's eyes twinkled, and he cautiously suggested to me.

"She is unkind, and I can't be unjust."

I smiled wryly, "Now that she has become like this, how can I give it up?" Besides, she became like this, more or less inseparable from me. ”

With a sigh, I motioned for the ghost boy not to say more, and then put it into the mountain whip.

As it stands, we are now in an abandoned and deserted village, and the surrounding stone houses are somewhat similar to the style of the Gaoshan village in the original burial lake.

I wonder if the people who lived here were also Gaoshan people?

These are dusty historical events that cannot be traced, but one thing is certain, those buried in the grassland should be from this village.

Judging from the scale of the building, this forest village had to be inhabited by thousands of people during its prosperity.

I wonder if the people who live here are related to Jingmei?

There was a pool of water in the low-lying area around, and I saw that Yang Feng was covered with mud, so I led her to the pond to wash.

Yang Feng was a little resistant to me, but fortunately she was not completely repulsed, although her eyes were confused, she did not have dementia and disorders, at least she was able to move freely.

To be honest, I prefer her cowardly and timid now than her arrogant and cold temper in the past.

Despite the latter's objections, I picked up the stagnant water and washed it.

The sludge was gone, revealing her pale face, with scratches and bruises, but it could not hide her good looks.

Yang Feng's figure and appearance are already very good, but because of her personality, the first impression she gave people before was that her personality was prominent, not her appearance.

As I washed the sludge from her neck, my heart sank as two deep blood holes appeared in her snow-white neck under the beam of the flashlight.

This blood hole was obviously bitten out, and when I thought of the two long fangs in the mouth of the green-haired zombie, I instantly understood.

Needless to say, the wound on her neck must have been bitten by a green-haired zombie......