Ghosts have no substance, they can only confuse people's minds, create illusions, fog, smoke, etc., this ghost that can actually support bones and clothes, it should be very powerful, how can it be solved by me with a Yang Thunder Finger?

The lantern that fell to the ground was already on fire, and a bright flame danced, and I could see clearly under the light of the fire, it was indeed a human skin, with the facial features of a human face painted on it, pale and stiff, and the expression was dull, but it only looked scary, and there was no yin and evil energy

The Japanese are weird, and even the ghosts are different from the Chinese!

There was a gust of wind behind me, and Xiaoxue's familiar voice sounded in my head: "There are similar ghosts in China, called painted skin ghosts, which are recorded in "Liao Zhai Strange Chronicles......"

I breathed a sigh of relief: "Where did you run to, I can't sense that you are worried about death."

Xiaoxue landed in front of me with a human body and a spiritual body: "I tried my best to chase the woman in white, and I forgot to keep talking to you." ”

I hurriedly asked, "Did you catch it?" ”

"No, it ran very fast and then suddenly disappeared. I'm sure it's still around, but I can't find it when I'm hiding. ”

"What the hell is that?"

Xiaoxue spread her hands: "I don't know, it's definitely not a person, people don't run so fast; It doesn't look like a ghost, a ghost doesn't have such a pure breath; It can't be an immortal, it's the immortal who was scared away, and I'm not her...... Probably some kind of ice and snow or forest spirit? Similar to the existence of the Ghost Monster or the Jade Rabbit, this is its domain, so it can come and go without a trace. ”

Whatever it is, it's harmless to us anyway, just let it escape, or explore this haunted house first. Xiaoxue floated in, quickly circled, and found that only the room where the female ghost came out just now was relatively clean and tidy, and the rest of the room was dusty, and the furniture was rotten, and the yin qi was heavy and full of rancid smell.

Xiaoxue never forgot the beautiful woman in the white kimono: "Childe, let's look for it again, if she is really the elf of this forest, she must know who is hiding in the woods, and it is possible that it is the Shikigami raised by the enemy." This house is this skin-painter, and there's nothing else. ”

"Didn't you say you couldn't find it?"

"I was in a hurry to come back just now, and I didn't look too seriously, I'm sure she's not too far away, let's look carefully."

I walked out, still a little strange in my heart: "Xiaoxue, why did you leave this time, I couldn't sense you at all, didn't we share the same soul?" ”

Xiao Xue laughed "hehe": "I forgot to tell you that after we combined and cultivated in the desert ancient city that time, I already had a complete soul, so I left completely just now and forgot to keep in touch with you." ”

I suddenly felt a little lost in my heart, Xiaoxue didn't have to rely on me now, and she could leave at any time. She hid such a big thing from me, probably because she had other plans, right? In short, our connection is not as strong as it used to be, and it is no longer inseparable.

Xiao Xue's eyes flowed, and she said affectionately: "You are reluctant to let me leave, and I am even more reluctant to leave you, so ah, you are completely worrisome, I will never let Lin Mei swallow you alone!" ”

I smiled and thought from another angle, in fact, it's okay, it used to be like tying her to me, it was "bonding love", but now that she is free, she can not leave to prove that we can stand the test.

We wandered around the woods, and before we knew it, it was dawn, and instead of finding the woman in white, we were surprised to see a few footprints in the snow. The footprints are relatively large, left by men wearing flat shoes; The whole is not deep, the toes are deep and the roots are shallow, and the distance between the two footprints is about two meters, which indicates that it was left by a person with light body skills; What's more, the footprints are very clear, not more than a day and a night at most, otherwise even if they are not covered by rain and snow, they will freeze and harden, and it is very likely that they were left last night.

Ordinary people would never come here in winter, so it is very likely that this person has something to do with Hikaru Ashiya. I followed the footprints, but the owner of the footprints deliberately hid his whereabouts, and many times he found a place where there was no snow to settle down, or used branches and rattan to fly, leaving only a few footprints by chance, which was difficult to trace.

After chasing for a long time, I finally lost my footprints completely, and there was nothing particularly obstructive nearby. But when I expanded my search, I found the river from before and the footprints I left behind, which proved that I had gone back. After carefully distinguishing the surrounding scenery, I was surprised to find that this place was not far from the haunted house, only two or three hundred meters.

I immediately thought of a lot of unconscionable things, that the skin-painter must have become a ghost after a person died, but where did she go to find beautiful clothes, headdresses, and geta after she died? Someone must have made such a monster and put it in a haunted house, if an ordinary person broke in by mistake, it was enough to be scared away or even killed; If a cultivator finds this place, he thinks it's just an ordinary painted skin ghost, and if he kills it, he will leave, and he will ignore the real secret.

Xiaoxue and I immediately rushed to the haunted house, it was already dawn, but under the thick foliage, it was still very eerie and gloomy, and there was an indissolvable smell of death and corruption. I cautiously walked into the haunted house and observed every corner, I believe that if there is something strange in it, or there is a secret passage, Xiaoxue and I will definitely be able to see the clue.

The crumbling ceilings, the mossy floors, the rotting and scattered furniture, and the white-ash walls make human shapes...... Everything is shocking and unsettling, but that's all, we don't sense anything evil, we don't find anything like a secret passage.

Could it be that I was wrong in my guess? When I got outside, I walked around the house, and I felt even more strange when I saw that the roots of the big trees were growing outside against the wall, and they didn't grow into the house. In order to absorb water and nutrients, tree roots are drilled into dark and damp places, and the inside of the house is darker than the outside, why don't their roots drill inside? Could it be that these trees already have spirituality, and they dare not grow into them for fear of the invisible forces inside?

It suddenly occurred to me that Jade Rabbit Xinyu can communicate with spiritual plants and trees, so it is better to let it try.

A cute little white rabbit that is less than the length of a palm appeared on the snow, sensing the gloomy and depressing atmosphere here, it sneezed a few times in a row, shook its ears and wiped its mouth, very unhappy.

I squatted down and gently touched its back: "Little rabbit, is there any spiritual grass and trees here?" ”

Xinyu nodded, looked at the big trees surrounding the haunted house, and said, "Ask them what secrets are in this house and if anyone lives here." ”

Xin Yu jumped to the largest tree at the entrance of the haunted house, stretched out her small front paws and pressed them on the root, and soon it conveyed a message to me: the old tree has a vague memory, there were evil people who lived here in the past, and there was a secret passage in the house, which was later blocked.

Blocked? Is this completely abandoned? I hurriedly asked, "Is there anyone else living in it?" ”

Xin Yu paused for a while before telling me: There are still living people below, and the breath they create makes the old tree very uncomfortable, but the old tree's spiritual sense is limited, and he doesn't know what is beyond the roots of the tree.

It seems that I have found the right place, since there are living people, there must be another exit, and it will not be too far, the direction is on the side where we found the footprints. I was about to turn around to look for it, when the ground suddenly shook, and it seemed as if a giant beast had awakened underground, and the dead branches and dirt in front of the haunted house arched upward. But in the blink of an eye, the ground arched a large pile of black soil, mixed with a lot of torn clothes and white bones.

I was taken aback, thinking something had come in, but there was nothing but roots, dirt, and corpses tumbling up. Finally, a large dirt pit was revealed, crisscrossed by tree roots underneath, through which an irregular hole could be seen.

What's going on, could it be that Hikaru Ashiya and Mangya Qianzhang are angry, and even these big trees are angry and open their secret holes to the skylight?

I looked down and suddenly saw a dark shadow pop up and avoid it before I could figure out what it was. The black shadow stopped on the top of the mound, but it was a black cat with an evil aura all over its body, and its two eyes were staring at me and Xiaoxue.

Xiaoxue seemed to be challenged to her majesty, and was furious: "The little cat demon dares to be rude and look for death!" As he spoke, he burst out with an aura.

The black cat jumped to the side, the person stood up, the body grew rapidly, the bones "snapped", and in a blink of an eye, it became a bewitching woman with pointed ears and short hair, her hands were still hairy claws, her body was not an inch, and a pair of mountain peaks on her chest were huge and snow-white, but she looked like a human being.

At this time, another shadow jumped out of the cave, hovering in the air, but it was an old man with a spirit body, blind in one eye, with a thin face, gloomy eyes, and he did not dare to compliment but had an unbeatable arrogance and arrogance.

Ashiya Chisho! I was overjoyed that I finally found it!

"Zhang Xuanming!" The old man's one-eyed eyes widened, and he forgot to maintain his domineering and mighty image.

Ashiya Chijo once suffered from my eight five elements thunder without being seriously injured, so you can see how high his cultivation is, and now if I want to destroy it in a short time, I can only use Samadhi True Fire or Demon Knife. Samadhi True Fire is more depleting of aura, the enemy's situation is unknown, I don't know how many people there are, and Ashiya Hikaru hasn't appeared yet, so I shouldn't lose too much.

Xiaoxue quickly stuffed the magic knife sheath into my hand, and before I could pull out the knife, Ashiya Chijo exclaimed again: "Aoi pattern Echizen Yasuji, how can this god sword be in your hand?" ”

Divine knives? This time it was my turn to be surprised, is it really a peerless sword?

The cat demon got impatient and jumped up in the air and lunged at me. I had a flash of inspiration: Ashiya Chijo didn't know that I had recast this knife, and I would definitely be able to surprise it, so why not show the enemy and lure it with weakness?

I pretended to be too late to draw the knife, and connected the scabbard to block the cat demon's claws, I didn't inject the aura to stimulate the energy inside, and there was a scabbard to cover, and there was no sword qi. The cat demon is very sensitive, and his left paw is on my scabbard, and his body flips back in the air, over the top of my head, and another paw towards my back, which is extremely fast.

Xiaoxue also started to fight against Ashiya Qianzhang, and it was difficult to distinguish between spirits and spirits for a while, and Xiaoxue was much stronger than before.