The gate of the cottage was breached, and it fell crookedly to the side, leaning against the huge log wall to not completely collapse.

The inner village has been turned into an assura field, and it is devastated and miserable.

Blood stained every land in the sight of Mo Chen and the witch, the blood stains were no longer bright red, but had dried up black and emitted a putrid stench, and the corpses of a large number of villagers lay all over the village.

The severed limbs and stumps were scattered everywhere, and the bodies of some villagers were crushed by the collapsed houses, planks, and beams.

The corpses of some villagers were full of ferocity, holding weapons and refusing to relax, and they were entangled and killed together with several monsters, and they were inseparable......

The scene was shocking, and the strong stench, and the large number of flies that made people vomit all the overnight meals.

Mo Chen had only seen such a similar scene when he finally went to the decisive battle with Delilah on the side of the world of shame, and returned to Danvol, which had turned into a dead city.

It's just that although a whole big city is not a size at all compared to such a village, it will only be more miserable. However, this does not mean that he can take the tragic situation of the village for granted.

He let out a long sigh, looked up, and then waved his hand to whip up a whirlwind that drove away all the vultures hovering in the sky.

Kikyo's expression didn't seem to change, but her eyes were much colder, she had seen too many tragic scenes in the past.

But such a tragic situation is indeed rare.

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“……”

Because Mo Chen had already discovered the strangeness of the village when they were still a few miles away before, they were not surprised at this time.

Of course, the two didn't speak.

They entered through the breached gate and took in the entire village, taking in the tragic scene of the whole village.

"It's really abnormal, only a few of them died with these monsters in battle, and most of the others were attacked and killed by surprise......

After about ten minutes, after personally confirming that the entire village was not alive, Kikyo finally stopped.

After being silent for a long time, she didn't look back and whispered, and calmly analyzed the suspicions she had found.

"It stands to reason that it is impossible to hide the movements of a large number of monsters, and under normal circumstances, they would never be so unprepared...... And the corpse is also a suspicion. ”

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“……”

“…… Because the corpses of the villagers were basically left behind? Mo Chen also retracted his gaze, looked at the witch's back and asked rhetorically.

The shrine maiden bowed her head slightly:

"That's right, that's the biggest problem, almost all the villagers' corpses have been left behind, which shows that the group of monsters who have bloodied the village are not there to hunt for food...... There must be someone behind the scenes. ”

Many monsters don't have any wisdom or rationality, they are only driven by instinct, but this also means that they are not much different from beasts or something.

Monsters attack humans, and many times they are just simple foraging.

They are simply looking for food to satisfy their survival needs, and this behavior is essentially no different from predation by prey, and it is no different from humans feeding on animals such as poultry and livestock.

It is purely a part of the natural ecology, the embodiment of the food chain of the current era, whether you want to admit it or not, it is the existing natural law of the objective world.

But now, the entire village was slaughtered by surprise, and no one in the village was spared, but the group of monsters left the corpses of the villagers...... Except for the limbs that were torn and bitten during the fight, there was no sign of eating at all.

So, it's definitely not a normal foraging behavior!

The only explanation is that the monsters are not acting on their own initiative, but that someone is behind the manipulation of a large number of monsters and specifically slaughters the entire village.

"What do you think will be the reason for Master Kikyo?"

Mo Chen nodded, of course he understood that this was a good thing that Naraku did, but there was no evidence and no evidence, and as a moral model, he had no way to directly pour dirty water on the other party......

Well, in fact, he can't find a reason to know Naraku at the moment, and it won't do him any good to take the initiative to reveal this information.

After all, when it comes to Naraku, there aren't many things that can be talked about now, the most important thing is what happened fifty years ago...... However, even Kikyo himself has not figured it out, but he opened his mouth to say about what happened fifty years ago......

- This is definitely not an option to increase trust.

"It should be...... For the sake of the fragments of the Jade of the Four Souls. After thinking for a moment, the witch said slowly, "Although it is already very weak, there is indeed the aura of the four soul fragments here before, and there is more than one. ”

"Heh, I also think there is such a possibility......" Mo Chen echoed as he looked around, "It's just that, or maybe it's not the only reason. ”

"Huh?"

Kikyo came back to his senses and looked at him, his eyes still calm.

"Anyway, it's really a problem that the corpses left behind haven't been eaten, but if the mastermind behind the scenes is just to capture the fragments of the four souls, it doesn't have to be to such an extent."

Mo Chen pondered for a moment and said his thoughts.

"Those monsters may not be for hunting at the beginning, but they definitely don't have the habit of wasting, and the mastermind behind the scenes can retreat directly after getting the fragments, and there is no need to forcibly order the monsters to leave behind the "food" and retreat."

He looked around for a moment, gesturing and saying:

"It's already done to slaughter the village, anyway, I don't think it has any kind compassion, and the statement that it left a whole corpse for the villagers is a little unreasonable."

"Yes, but why did they leave the corpses of the villagers......

Kikyo frowned in thought, then nodded slowly, also agreeing with the other party's idea, this issue should not be ignored either.

"I don't know about this, but I think it's useless to simply leave the corpse, the corpse is always the corpse, and the corpse is meaningless."

Mo Chen deduced the process from the results in a serious manner, and tried his best to give seemingly reasonable inferences to pave the way for his next conclusions.

"Since the corpses are not the key, the key should be who will see the deplorable state of the village and see the corpses...... Or maybe this is also the game set up by the mastermind behind the scenes. ”

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"Hate?"

Kikyo seemed to follow his open train of thought and became thoughtful.

"In this case, or if the inheritance of this village is not completely severed, there should still be people alive."

"So this is probably going to be a trick of planting - speaking of which, we were the first to come here, and I'm afraid we're not going to get into trouble."

Mo Chen finally came to a conclusion, and smiled indifferently, expressing his concern in a complaining tone...... Probably.

The shrine maiden glanced at him, stopped talking, and just walked on. She seemed to be very familiar with the village, and soon went around to the mountain behind the village.

The mountains here are strange and there is a distinct, dark stalactite cave.

"When you come out later, let's help the villagers bury them...... Inside this cave is the place where the Jade of the Four Souls was created hundreds of years ago. ”

The shrine maiden stopped, stared at the dark opening, and said calmly.

"Hundreds of years ago, in the era of aristocratic rule, there was a shrine maiden named Tsuiko, and her purification technique was said to be able to purify the four souls and cause the yokai to lose their power...... So the monsters at that time gathered together and fought to the death with Tsuiko......"

"In the end, Tsuiko was devoured with all her strength, and she also used her last strength to take the souls of the monsters, integrate them into her own soul and release them from her body, thus creating the Jade of the Four Souls."

"The power of jade can be determined according to the four souls of the owner, there is no fixed trend of good and evil, it can be good or bad, it has occasionally appeared in the world for hundreds of years, and it will always set off a bloody storm, and it will be passed around in the hands of monsters and humans......

Mo Chen already knew these things, so he nodded and said perfunctorily: "Yes, yes, until it was passed into the hands of Master Kikyo fifty years ago, it completely disappeared for fifty years...... Hey, wait! ”

He caught the point with some hindsight, and his eyes suddenly became a little complicated and difficult to understand.

"You said that the witch Suiko's purification technique is said to be able to purify the four souls? Isn't that why I deliberately asked me to come with you? ”

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“……”

Kikyo didn't answer the question, just glanced at him lightly again, then walked to the edge of the cave and took down a torch placed on the side.

After lighting the torch in her hand, the beautiful shrine maiden was the first to walk into the darkness of the stalactite cave.

Mo Chen, who was outside the cave, sighed, hesitated, but turned back to the somewhat bored Yan Hoof next to him, and then walked in with him.

Purify the Four Souls?

It sounds like there's a feeling of prescribing the right medicine.,Shrine maiden Kikyo specifically for his problem.,It seems reasonable to come to this place.,If you can solve the problem, it's naturally the best.。

However, as she said earlier, the art of purification will cause youkai to lose their powers...... Even if it was not life-threatening, just such a side effect was enough for Mo Chen to stay away.

The spirit has encountered evil pollution, and the four souls are full, so there is a possibility of distorting into a real Qu Ling - not only can the bellflower not turn a blind eye to this, but even Mo Chen himself is quite worried.

However, if the price to pay to solve this problem is the loss of strength, then Mo Chen feels that compared to it, this problem is actually acceptable.

For a moment, he actually felt that he understood the thoughts of those youkai who risked their lives to fight with the shrine maiden Suiko, so that they all died together.

I hope that the tragedy of hundreds of years ago will not be repeated later, and that history will repeat itself......

It's just that he's not a monster, and Kikyo's demon-breaking spiritual power doesn't restrain him much, and no matter how bad the situation is, he can be sure that he will get out of the way.

Besides, this is just something he thinks about crankily, if Kikyo really can do something like that, she won't be Kikyo.

The stalactite cave is very deep and dark, and it is very rugged underfoot, overhead, and all around. And continue to go deeper, the more open the space, and there are also many stalactites in various shapes.

At the end of the cave is a very large open space, and in the center is a large and strange and lifelike stone forest.

Dragons, earth spiders, ghosts, etc., etc., I don't know how many youkai have different body forms, but they are abnormally strange and fused together.

I don't know if the stone sculptures were carved into such a shape, or if they are real monsters themselves, but they have been transformed into such stone sculptures under the combined effect of mysterious power and time.

And in the middle is the upper body of a human woman, who is also fused with the deformed combination of countless monsters.

The right part of his chest, which belongs to the heart, has a terrible hole.