When Su Qingmo wanted to dodge, it was too late, she raised her arm in a panic to resist, and then was pulled into an embrace.

Pei Lin rushed out of the talisman realm, casually threw a talisman on Xiaohua's body, and then trapped Xiaohua with a red rope soaked in black dog blood with Wei Xu behind him.

Su Qingmo leaned on Mu Yuanjing's chest in shock, and Mu Yuanjing held her back, "It's okay, don't be afraid." ”

Pei Lin asked sharply: "All the things that the master has taught you over the years have been fed to the dogs, haven't you?" ”

He pointed to the trapped Xiaohua, "She's dead, or dead, I don't remember you at all, you still rush up, what's the matter, you think you have a long life?" ”

Pei Lin was so angry that if Mu Yuanjing's movements were a little slower just now, Su Qingmo's eyes would be gone, and he couldn't wait to point at Su Qingmo's nose and scold.

Su Qingmo looked at Pei Lin with stunned eyes: "Cousin... I'm sorry..."

The sadness in her eyes Pei Lin could see it clearly, and she couldn't say the words of accusation anymore.

Mu Yuanjing put his hands on her and said, "Let's find the murderer and help Xiaohua and her brother avenge, okay?" ”

Su Qingmo walked up to Pei Lin and solemnly apologized: "Cousin, I'm sorry, I know what I did wrong, and I will never do it again." ”

Pei Lin looked at her with red eyes, and softened his tone, "I don't blame you, don't cry." ”

At this time, Wei Xu, who was standing behind Pei Lin and looking at Xiaohua, suddenly stabbed Pei Lin, "Brother, something is wrong." ”

Pei Lin turned around, and Wei Xu looked at the dark main room through the window, "We are making such a big noise, the couple didn't hear a sound at all?" ”

Wei Xu's words made several people realize the problem.

Even if you sleep to death, such a big battle in the yard has not woken up the couple, which is simply unrealistic.

Mu Yuanjing whispered to Wei Xu, "Go and take a look, be careful." ”

Wei Xu jumped on the roof neatly, carefully removed a tile, and then lowered his body and lay on the roof to look in.

The room was pitch black, and Wei Xu didn't see anything, only heard two heavy breaths. After jumping from the roof, Wei Xu said to Mu Yuanjing: "Lord Wang, the situation inside is a bit strange. The subordinates listened to the voice and judged that the people inside seemed to be in a conscious state, but if the two of them were awake, how could they not come out to see. ”

Mu Yuanjing suddenly looked up at the night sky, and after looking around and not finding the moon, his heart sank, "Wei Xu, kick the door open." ”

Wei Xu kicked open the door as he said, and walked in first, he took out the fire fold from his arms and lit the candles in the house.

Mu Yuanjing and Su Qingmo followed, and Pei Lin first set up a rune boundary around the tied little flower, and after trapping the ghost, he followed in.

After entering the house, Mu Yuanjing ignored the Qiao couple lying on the kang, but walked in the direction of the window, he stood by the window, casually picked up a touch of dust from the windowsill, first rubbed it on his fingertips a few times, and then put it under his nose, and the look in his eyes became cold.

Su Qingmo followed Mu Yuanjing's side, glanced at the dust in his hand, and then looked up at Mu Yuanjing.

Mu Yuanjing said three words, "Soul Leaving Incense." ”

Su Qingmo turned her gaze to Mu Yuanjing's hand again in disbelief, if she remembered correctly, the Soul Leaving Incense was the incense that Chen Xuan had used when he killed his wife.

She couldn't figure out why the Soul Leaving Incense was here.

Without waiting for Su Qingmo to think deeply, Mu Yuanjing spoke again: "Qingmo, tonight is the New Year. ”

Su Qingmo was surprised: "Could it be that the man in black who instructed Chen Xuan behind the scenes has come here before?" ”

Mu Yuanjing left the window and looked at the Qiao couple who were lying on the kang and gagged.

After the couple saw Mu Yuanjing, their faces were obviously excited and pleading.

Motioned for Wei Xu to take off the white cloth stuffed in the mouths of the two, and after the two of them were breathing evenly, they asked, "Who made you like this?" ”

Qiao Chunsheng's face was particularly frightened, and his voice trembled unconsciously, "My lord, the grass people don't recognize him." ”

"Male or female?"

Qiao Chunsheng couldn't describe it, but Qiao Lin, who was still on the side, spoke: "It's a man, covered with a black cloth, only a pair of eyes are exposed, and his height is about the same as this little brother." ”

The little brother in Qiao Lin's words refers to Wei Xu.

Mu Yuanjing didn't ask about the man in black again, but said casually: "Fortunately, you sent the child away." ”

Qiao Chunsheng's face stiffened because of Mu Yuanjing's words, and Qiao Lin didn't speak on the side.

Too lazy to deal with them again, Mu Yuanjing instructed Wei Xu: "Stun them, send hidden guards to watch over here after leaving here, and make sure that they can stay obediently before tomorrow's court trial." ”

Wei Xu raised his knife and slashed the two of them unconscious under the shocked gaze of the Qiao couple.

The matter of the Qiao couple was solved, and the little flowers in the courtyard were left, Pei Lin asked Su Qingmo, "What is my cousin going to do with that little girl?" ”

Su Qingmo thought for a while and said, "I want to wait for the murderer to be caught, find a way to find Amu's body, and then bury the three of them in one place, so that they can be reincarnated together." ”

The three brothers and sisters naturally refer to Xiaohua, Amu, and the nameless boy who was killed and buried in the woods behind the ruined temple.

Pei Lin frowned, "Her consciousness is chaotic, and her soul body is seriously damaged for some reason, but I'm afraid that she won't be able to sober up so easily." ”

The two walked outside the house as they spoke, and Pei Lin looked sharply at the rune realm that trapped Xiaohua in the middle of the courtyard as soon as he stepped into the courtyard.

Su Qingmo, who followed closely, froze in place, looking at the boy who was guarding next to the rune realm that trapped Xiaohua, "Amu? ”

Amu's ghost first looked at Su Qingmo in the direction where the voice came out, and when he noticed the red rope that appeared in Pei Lin's hand at some point, a black mist began to rise rapidly around him.

Amu's mournful shout came from the mist, Pei Lin hurriedly took out the Hundred Ghost Compass, his fingers quickly turned the movable characters on the compass, and the moment the fingers stopped, the black gas on Amu's body began to float in the direction of the compass, and as the fog disappeared, there was Amu's cry.

Without the maintenance of resentment, Amu's ghost returned to that ignorant state, he ignored the state around him, slowly crawled to the edge of the rune realm, his head lightly pressed against the rune realm, and kept repeating in a low voice, "Sister, sister..."

Amu's body, like Xiaohua, has large and small injuries, and blood is even bubbling out of his neck.

Su Qingmo tried to communicate with Amu and Xiaohua, but the effect was not great, and in the end, Pei Lin proposed to let the two soul bodies enter the soul jade, Su Qingmo took out the soul jade he carried with him, and asked An Lan and Ning Xi to forcibly bring the two into the soul jade.

When An Lan and Ning Xi came out of the soul jade, the boy in the broken temple also appeared at Qiao's house, but unfortunately he never recognized Amu and Xiaohua.

Su Qingmo put away the soul jade, and a few people were about to leave Qiao's house, and when they came in, they climbed over the wall, and when they left, Pei Lin had to go out from the gate.

Pei Lin's hand was on the latch of the door and was about to open, when he heard a tingling laugh behind him.

The laughter was crisp and short, but there was a sense of horror in the night.

Wei Xu froze and didn't dare to look back, and Su Qingmo also subconsciously leaned towards Mu Yuanjing's side.

Pei Lin leaned against the door, quietly took out a yellow talisman from his waist, his lips moved, the yellow talisman stood up on his fingertips, and then he quickly turned around and threw the yellow talisman behind him.

Su Qingmo and Mu Yuanjing also turned around.

There was no one behind the four of them, and Huang Fu fell to the ground in a swaying manner, but the laughter in the courtyard did not stop.

Cold sweat flowed down Pei Lin's forehead, he and Mu Yuanjing glanced at each other, and the two of them sandwiched Su Qingmo in the middle one after the other to protect them.

"Lord Wang, don't come unharmed."

When the four of them were nervous, a faint human form finally appeared in the middle of the courtyard, and that sentence also came from the place where the human form appeared.

Mu Yuanjing's eyes looked forward coldly, and he always felt that the other party's voice had been heard somewhere.

Pei Lin didn't dare to let down his vigilance, and watched as the figure not far away gradually became clear, until it finally appeared in front of his eyes in its entirety.

Su Qingmo clutched Mu Yuanjing's sleeve tightly, unable to believe that what he saw in front of him was really that person.

The person standing in the courtyard looked at Mu Yuanjing with a strange expression, and said softly, "It really hurts to cut off your head." ”

The man was standing in the middle of the courtyard in a coarse cloth shirt, with an obvious dead air on his face, his cool gaze sliding back and forth on Mu Yuanjing and Su Qingmo's bodies, and the resentment in his eyes almost condensed into substance.

"Does the prince remember me?"

Mu Yuanjing pulled Su Qingmo behind him and called out a name in a cold voice, "Chen Xuan." ”

That's right, the person who showed up was Chen Xuan, who had been beheaded for a long time.

At this time, Chen Xuan's face was no longer cowardly and timid as before, he stared straight into Mu Yuanjing's eyes, a cruel smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he didn't know who he said, "Kill them." ”

As soon as Chen Xuan's words fell, a yin wind inexplicably rolled up in the open space in the courtyard. A cold and bone-chilling yin wind hit his face, Mu Yuanjing performed light skills under his feet, turned his back to the yin wind, and then his back hurt, and the person staggered forward a few steps.

Su Qingmo looked at his suddenly changing face worriedly.

Mu Yuanjing gritted his teeth to hold back the qi and blood surging up his throat, and said unsteadily: "I'm fine, don't worry." ”

Seeing that the situation was wrong, Pei Lin took out the Hundred Ghost Compass from his arms, who knew that the compass began to rotate rapidly as soon as it came into contact with the Yin Wind, Pei Lin tried to take back the compass, but there was no way.

Chen Xuan was not far away, as if he was quite happy with their embarrassed appearance.

The yin wind had been circling around several people, accompanied by oozing laughter, and finally the yin wind stopped in front of Chen Xuan, and then slowly condensed into a child of three or four years old.

The child's face was devoid of facial features, and he was wearing an oversized shirt, with sleeves that even dragged to the ground.

Chen Xuan touched his head, "Enough of playing?" When you've had enough, let's do it. ”

The child nodded obediently and disappeared from the spot, and then the yin wind blew again and moved towards Mu Yuanjing and the others.

Pei Lin no longer cared about the compass, threw it into the bag casually, and then took out a jade bottle, pulled out the cork, and took a large mouthful of the liquid in the jade bottle, and then bit down the tip of his tongue hard, mixing the liquid in his mouth with the blood on the tip of his tongue.

When the yin wind approached his eyes, Pei Lin squirted out the liquid in his mouth, and the liquid changed after touching the yin wind without substance, just like someone spilling water on the hot iron plate, and the mist was instantly steamed, and then a terrible scream sounded, and the scream stopped after not lasting, and then disappeared with the strange wind.

The ghost baby's failure caught Chen Xuan by surprise, he clenched his hands, his eyebrows and eyes were full of viciousness and unwillingness, and slowly disappeared into the courtyard.

After Chen Xuan disappeared, Su Qingmo couldn't bear the weight of his body that suddenly became heavier, his knees bent, and he almost fell to the ground, but fortunately, Wei Xu took over the unconscious Mu Yuanjing in time.

Mu Yuanjing's injury made several people not delay any longer, and immediately returned to the inn.

Wei Xu jumped into Mu Yuanjing and Su Qingmo's room from the window with someone on his back, carefully placed Mu Yuanjing on the bed, turned around and asked Pei Lindao, "Do you need to call a doctor?" ”

Pei Lin didn't speak, stepped forward and picked up Mu Yuanjing's shirt, then turned over Mu Yuanjing, and asked him to lie on the couch with his back to the three of them.

A black handprint appeared on Mu Yuanjing's back.

Pei Lin pressed around the handprint, found no other external injuries, and said with a sigh of relief: "No need to ask a doctor, just ordinary yin qi plus a little internal injury, I can deal with it." ”

He took out the Hundred Ghost Compass that had returned to normal from his bag, turned the characters on the compass a few times, and then used the compass to get close to Mu Yuanjing's back.

The characters on the compass began to rotate on their own, and slowly returned to their positions in reverse of the order in which Pei Lin turned, and after a cup of tea, the compass returned to its original position, and the black handprint on Mu Yuanjing's back also disappeared, leaving only a shallow imprint.

After seeing that there was no obstacle, Su Qingmo straightened Mu Yuanjing's body with the help of Wei Xu, pulled the brocade quilt on the side and covered his body, and then got up and walked to the table.

Pei Lin wiped the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve, and took the tea handed by Su Qingmo, "What is the origin of that person named Chen Xuan?" ”

It was too troublesome to talk about the specific details in detail, so Su Qingmo only picked out the key points: "He committed a crime in the capital a few months ago and was sentenced to behead by the prince. ”

Pei Lin took a sip of tea, "It's not a small case, right?" ”

"He first refined the ghost baby to move gold, and then tried to devour the ghost baby."

Pei Lin's brows furrowed when he heard this.

He knew the art of refining ghosts and moving gold, but the conditions required to devour ghost babies were too cruel and harsh, and he didn't expect that someone in Jing was really selfish to such a point.

Thinking of the aura around Chen Xuan in the courtyard tonight, Pei Lin left the room quickly, but after a while, he took the book in his hand and folded it back.

Pei Lin opened the yellowed ancient book and handed it to Su Qingmo.

"Take a look, is Chen Xuan's state somewhat similar to what is written in this book?"

Su Qingmo held the book and read it at a glance, and after reading the whole article, her face also had some hesitation, "Cousin means that Chen Xuan's ghost was taken away for refining after his death?" ”

According to the ancient books, the soul of the heinous sinner is particularly evil after death, if it is taken away by someone who understands the Tao and refined according to external objects, it can be subdued and controlled, and this evil ghost is also different from ordinary evil ghosts, that is, the refined evil ghost will remember everything that happened in life, and have a clear mind.

Chen Xuan's situation is not much different from what is recorded in ancient books.

Su Qingmo read it carefully again, and did not find a way to get rid of Chen Xuan from the book, so he told Pei Lin in detail how Chen Xuan killed his wife and took his son to refine the ghost baby, and then how he devoured the ghost baby.

After Su Qingmo finished speaking, it was already two quarters of an hour later, and Pei Lin pondered for a while after listening to it, and asked, "Do you suspect that the person who instructed Chen Xuan behind his back today was the man in black at that time?" ”

Su Qingmo nodded.

Pei Lin continued to ask: "But according to what you said, there should be two people in black, how can this be explained?" ”

This time Su Qingmo made a difficulty, and she still hasn't figured out the truth of the matter.

Pei Lin saw that the time was not early, so he said: "Rest first, and wait for the prince to wake up tomorrow." ”