Bai Chang looked up at the tree, and the old Taoist priest next to him had already gathered around with a group of people.

The old Taoist priest sang a big song and bowed down: "Old Taoist Haihong, on behalf of all the Taoists of Haiyun Temple, I am grateful to Ling, thank you for this strong man." ”

Bai Chang scratched his head, and said in his heart that this old Taoist priest can really make trouble, what age is this, and he is still a strong man, where do you think I am strong?

"Old Daoist, you don't have to be polite, in fact, I also have something to ask you."

"Whatever the strong man commands, just say."

"Well, I'm here, just want to ...... How about breaking a branch and leaf of this tree? ”

Bai Chang felt that this request should be very simple, but unexpectedly, the old Taoist priest's face suddenly changed, and he said righteously: "It turns out that you are also here to fight the idea of the Divine Tree, and tell you, don't want to move a leaf of the Divine Tree!" ”

Bai Chang was dumbfounded, what are you kidding, it's not okay to cut down your tree, it's not okay to break your leaves, your tree is a big girl, you can't even touch it?

"Old Daoist, I think you misunderstood, I didn't have any bad ideas, but I need to use the branches and leaves of this tree to save someone......"

Bai Chang's tone slowly slowed down, and a sad and miserable story was brewing, but the old Taoist priest waved his hand and said: "You don't have to say anything, you are cutting meat to save your mother today, and you can't move me." ”

"Uh...... Old Daoist, is it really good for you to do this? ”

"Alas, young man, it's not that I'm unreasonable, I'm doing it for your own good. Including the people who were going to cut down the trees just now, I was actually saving them. ”

"What do you mean by that?"

"Actually, as you just said, a lot of people died decades ago because of this tree."

"I'll go, it's true, I'll just say it casually......"

"Alas, lad, come with me."

The old Taoist priest sighed, took Bai Chang into a secluded room in the Taoist temple, and told Bai Chang a story face to face.

It was still a few decades ago, in the era of breaking the four olds, the Taoist priests in the Taoist temple were not spared, and they were all taken out and criticized, and they wore the big hat of cow ghosts and snake gods.

After a parade, I don't know who said that there is an ancient tree next to the Taoist temple on the mountain, which is said to be at least hundreds of years old, and the tree cover is so extensive that it takes seven or eight people to hug it.

The reason why Haiyunguan is full of incense is that this tree shelters, this is a feudal poisonous tree, since you want to break the four olds, you must cut down this ancient tree.

The Taoist priests tried their best to dissuade it, saying that the tree was old and had already had an aura, and if it was cut down, it might summon ominous disasters.

But as soon as they say this, then this ancient tree will have to be cut down even more, now it is the new concept and new thought of New China, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, animals are not allowed to become sperm, you still want to go to heaven with a tree?

The power of the revolutionary masses was unstoppable, and on the same day someone called for it, went up the mountain to cut down trees, and then smashed the Taoist temple.

But just as he was cutting down the tree, a man climbed up to the top of the tree, and as soon as he cut down two branches, he stumbled and fell from the tree, and as a result, he broke his leg and was paralyzed for life.

The two people who sawed the tree with a saw under the tree were hit on the head by the falling branches, and they were not even sent to the hospital, but went directly to the morgue.

This suddenly set off an uproar, and the villagers under the mountain talked about it, saying that this was to provoke the sacred tree and cause trouble.

But in that era when the bulls, ghosts, snakes, and gods were defeated, all forces were paper tigers, let alone a tree.

So the local people soon sent people and put up banners, vowing to cut down the tree that had poisoned the people.

However, the tree is like a real spirit, and the person who goes up to cut down the tree either has a stomach headache or a headache, or faints inexplicably, and no one can get close to the tree after a whole day has passed.

The higher-level leaders finally got angry and said where has our revolutionary spirit gone, even Lao Chiang has been driven away by us, and a mere tree can still become an obstacle on our revolutionary road?

The next day, a group of servicemen went up the hill and pushed two cannons.

Seeing that things were getting bigger and bigger, the Taoist priest of Haiyunguan begged bitterly, but it was useless, under the order of the superior leader, the two cannons opened fire at the same time, and in the smoke of gunpowder, the tree was finally blown out of a big hole.

Several streaks of black gas rushed out of the ancient tree in an instant, and in the blink of an eye, they rushed into the air and disappeared.

The power of the people finally prevailed, and in the midst of a cheer, the people rushed forward, only to find that there was a hollow tree hole inside the ancient tree, and in the tree hole there was a small adobe temple where a clay statue was enshrined.

At that time, everyone was stunned, the ancient tree has a tree hole, which is normal, but there is a small temple clay statue inside, which is too weird.

But what's even more strange is that the mud statue saw the light of day, cracking inch by inch, and after the mud was peeled off, a dry corpse wearing a Taoist robe was revealed.

When the old Taoist priest said this, he stopped.

Bai Chang had already heard some clues from it.

A small adobe temple houses a clay statue and a dried corpse in a robe.

Almost instantly, he remembered the time he and Qiu Xiaodie went to Songfeng Mountain at night, and the Huangpizi worship temple, the old hangman hooked the soul, and the dried corpse that had been burned by him with a degree charm.

But the old Taoist priest closed his eyes at this time, shook his head and sighed, Bai Chang couldn't help but ask, "Old Daoist, what happened then?" ”

The old Taoist priest sighed, shook his head for a while, Bai Chang was about to jump to his feet, and then he said slowly: "What happened later, few people know, because the people who participated in the cutting of trees at that time, as well as the Taoists of Haiyun Temple, all died on the mountain, and when they were found, they were all bleeding from the seven orifices, shaped like dried corpses, and only one survivor escaped......"

When he said this, he trembled.

"Old Daoist, that survivor is you, right?"

"Alas, what you said is right, the survivor is me, because I was born timid, and when I saw the dried corpse, I quietly escaped, but I didn't expect that I was the only one left in the huge Haiyun Temple......"

Tears flowed from the old Taoist priest's eyes, and he slowly spoke again.

He said that since that incident, this area in the mountains has become a forbidden area, and for several years snakes and rats have gathered, and it has become a place of filth and filth.

Later, one day, a master who traveled the world finally came, summoned the nearby villagers, moved the small temple and the dried corpses to a wasteland in the back mountain, and suppressed them with spells.

Haiyunguan slowly recovered, and since then, there have been no major incidents.

Therefore, the back mountain has become a forbidden place, and no one in the surrounding villagers dares to go there, so it has become more and more deserted.

"But in the last two years, things have not been quite right......

The old Taoist priest said slowly, with a worried look on his face.