Chapter XVIII: The Sin of One Step

"Amitabha. An old monk with a gray beard came from the north with staggering steps, "The old man's name is Xiuyuan, Yanhua Temple in the north of Julin, and the ghost envoy specially asked me to come here just to make this soul sacrifice thing......?" Ahh......h What did Wu Ming ask him to do? What's even more strange is that Xiao Huang ran behind me in a panic after seeing this archmage and hid.

I saw Wu Shen bowing down, and said respectfully: "Master Xiuyuan, it's really presumptuous to let you come over, because it is a 10,000-year-old tree demon, and the younger generation may be difficult to subdue, so I invite you to go out of the mountain." "It's strange that the sun comes out of the west today?

But if you think about it like this, if you hadn't invited a master, how could you have that temper against Ling Ze before.

"Hahahaha...... the old mage looked at Lin Qi and looked up to the sky and laughed, "Since there is a god of war here, why should the old man intervene?" Besides, the Dryad's soul conjuring sacrifice attracts all evil ghosts, so as not to let them wander outside and cause trouble. ”

"Evil ghosts, do you mean that they are the people who committed the crime 10,000 years ago?" After hearing what I said, everyone present, including the mage, turned their heads and looked at me sharply: "This little girl...... Are you still used to the eyes of the night?"

"Jueye?" I don't know why, but I shook my head helplessly: "Jueye is the king of Hades." Master Xiuyuan has good eyesight, and you can see through it at a glance. The mage smiled: "Heavenly reincarnation, karma, listen to the old man's words, let it be." "I'm ready to go.

I stood in front of him: "Wu Ming, please come and collect the demon, in my opinion, you are a 10,000-year-old demon, shouldn't your soul be put on the altar like those lonely souls and wild ghosts at this time? ”

"What are you talking nonsense about, you can't be disrespectful to the mage!" Wu Ming immediately shouted at me, and the mage was still kind: "Karma, the girl still hasn't understood it." ”

I didn't have the heart to listen to him, so I told the truth directly: "Liu Tiantian, a peasant girl, was quiet for sixteen years, until her brother contracted a strange disease - the two legs gradually merged into one, and the lower body gave birth to colorful snake stripes, did not like grains and grains, and loved bloody and stinky meat, and the whole family sought medical advice everywhere, and exhausted the family wealth still could not be cured, but ended up with a monster reputation."

So the family was driven out of the village, sleeping in the wilderness, suddenly one day a young and handsome monk alone in the mountains practice, after seeing the Liu family, directly pointed to this thousand miasma forest, saying that there is a small purple and blue flower in the forest, the name of forget-me-not grass can cure this strange disease.

The second elder didn't think about it, for the sake of his own children, he was open-minded, so he went into the thousand miasma forest, but never came out again, Liu Tiantian waited for three days without results, and he had no choice but to enter the forest, it was you who hurt their family. ”

I angrily pointed at the monk Xiuyuan, and he said lightly: "Amitabha, since the girl has the eye of the Hades, she should know that Liu Tiantian did not die of the miasma, how can she think that the old monk is the murderer of their family." ”

"Even if you have Liu Tiantian and her parents, you will not be able to escape the blame!"

"Did the girl ever wonder why her brother was suffering from that kind of disease? Let the old monk tell you that 10,000 years ago, the Liu couple killed a blue-striped white-skinned snake that was giving birth on the west side of the rhinoceros mountain, carried the mother snake home, and shared it with the child, so that the mountain god was angered, and the couple's child became a human-faced snake. ”

"Since it was the husband and wife who killed it, why is the retribution not on them?" As soon as the words came out, the answer came immediately, "Is it because the snake is giving birth? ”

"It seems that the girl still has Huigen. But only half of the answer was right, the final destination of the Liu couple was to be buried in the child's Shekou, and the old man really couldn't bear to see such a thing happen, not because of blood, but to devour his parents, this child will also create immortal sins, so he pointed out a clear way, let them go to the thousand miasma forest to find medicine, the old man is not to deceive them, don't forget that grass can really break the disease, otherwise why only this kind of flowers and plants can survive in this smoky forest. ”

It turned out that I really blamed him......

"Can you let the old man go?" Monk Xiuyuan asked with a smile, and Wu Ming pulled me away: "Mage, please, ignore this crazy girl." ”

After taking a few steps, Master Xiuyuan looked back at me again: "Girl, can you go to Beibei to find the old man in seven days?"

I replied, "Okay." He finally left with a smile on his face.

Wu Yin looked at his back: "What does the karma mean by the mage's mouth?" Lin Qi stepped forward: "It doesn't matter what he wants, wait until I destroy this altar first." Wu Ming looked at Ling Ze, who was dying after being taught by Linxi: "I knew that you could come down, so I didn't have to go to great lengths to invite the cultivator to come over." ”

Lin Zhen: "If the force of force can be reduced, then I should have won." Looking back, under Lin Xi's magic palm, Ling Ze leaned back against the altar and looked at him as if he were at home.

"Ling Ze, don't be obsessed anymore, Liu Tiantian's soul has entered the Netherworld, even if you recruit all the lonely souls and wild ghosts in the world, it will be useless. "Although I can't look past his previous actions, but ten thousand years of cultivation! I really don't want to see him die like this.

What I didn't expect was that no, what everyone present didn't expect was that he actually cried, and two lines of cloudy tears poured out, like amber condensed on an old tree...... After a while, he finally suppressed his emotions: "Girl, can you really see her past and present life? Can you tell me how she died, and why did she end up in the Netherworld Hell, which only suicides can go to?"

I was angry with him, but I couldn't bear to see him now, and I thought he still had a true feeling, so I asked, "Why didn't you show up for the three-day appointment?" and he looked at me in surprise.

"Let me help you remember 10,000 years ago...... In order to treat his younger brother and find his parents, Liu Tiantian came to the Thousand Miasma Forest alone, and when he entered the forest, he saw that it was full of smoke and mist, so he tore off his apricot pollen shirt and made a mark every two hundred steps, and almost fainted before the third two hundred steps...... You saved her. ”

"Yes, knowing that my parents are buried here, I still don't hesitate to risk my life for my brother, looking at the apricot blossom clothes she wrapped around me, and the faint fragrance that has never been seen in this forest, and finally she couldn't resist the miasma in the forest and leaned on my side...... I don't want to, I don't want such a woman to die here. ”

"So you absorbed the miasma of the entire forest, so much so that your face was full of bruises and tumors that could not be dissipated after you transformed into a human. ”

"I never cared about anything that was out of the ordinary, and neither did she...... In order to find her, I once took the form of a human and went to the village where she lived before, and was driven out as a monster, and when I was disheartened and returned, I saw smoke curling from the suburbs, and it turned out that she was really decocting medicine for Snaketail's younger brother......

I remember that when she first saw me, she didn't make a fuss like everyone else, and when she saw her silk in my hand, she told me anxiously that she couldn't just go into that wood, and her parents died in it...... How can there be such a stupid girl in the world? ”

"After that, you took care of your brother with her, with your mana suppression, his brother's demonic spirit of turning into a snake did not attack, and you can be regarded as accumulating virtue, in order to take care of her, you went up the mountain to chop wood during the day, and at night you were afraid of the attack of wild beasts, and you were all keeping vigil at the mouth of the valley...... But have you ever thought that you still caused her trouble by doing so - the villagers thought her brother was a monster and drove her out, but you are also a monster in their eyes, and you never thought that in your absence, the villagers would come to the valley on the outskirts and beat her and her brother half to death. ”

"Half dead?" Lin Yu looked at me suspiciously.

Ling Ze smiled bitterly: "After I came back, I was going to settle accounts with those fools, but she stopped me alive, saying that it was these fathers and villagers who couldn't move the most, so I had to move again and move out of here...... But I am a tree, even if I cultivate a human body, I still have roots that cannot be moved, and the tree moves the dead and the living, and I can't walk, but I don't know how to tell her, she said it's okay, give me three days to think about it. ”

"Why didn't you show up when the three days were up?"

"I haven't thought about it yet, if I go with her, my fairy root will be broken, and if I don't go with her, my fate with her will be broken. ”

"But you told her that your home was on the other side of the Thousand Miasma Forest, and she risked her way through the forest to find you, do you know what happened after that?"

"I know. ”

I said angrily, "What do you know! The three-day appointment has arrived, and you didn't show up at all, how would you know that she was ......?"

Wu Ming leaned over: "What was raped and killed...... I said angrily: "I know a lot!" He replied expressionlessly: "Guess, just look at your blushing." "I really feel the urge to kill him at this moment.

Ling Ze's eyes were hollow, and his voice was sad: "I know...... Even though I still didn't make up my mind, I had to give her an explanation, so I decided to go to her. Because I had absorbed the miasma of the thousand miasma forest before, the villagers would also go to the forest to cut wood during that time, and there were a few firewood men preparing to go into the mountains to cut firewood that day, and I saw her hesitating in the mountains and forests, and I vaguely heard them say that they were driven out by everyone anyway, and they didn't have parents anyway, and they were all with monsters anyway, anyway...... At first, I didn't think about it, but then I heard her heart-rending screams......

But when I arrived, I was still a step late, just one step, I saw her being raped and killed by the group of chaifu and thrown into the river, I was angry in my heart, and killed all the villagers, but still could not solve the hatred in my heart...... It's stupid. ”

"Who?"

"She, if she hadn't stood by the forest and hesitated, how could she have given those villagers a chance to finally ......"

"That's enough!" I interrupted him, "isn't it you who hesitates, and if you had answered the promise earlier, how could you have caused her such misfortune! One step, hmph, isn't it a great sin to be one step late?" he looked at me dumbly, his eyes as red as those painted by cinnabar, and then he laughed, "I hurt her! I didn't kill her, but she died because of me!" hahahaha...... What have I been clinging to for 10,000 years?"

Wu Yin said: "No, in this case, Liu Tiantian was still killed!, so why is she in the Netherworld?"

"No, she committed suicide!" seemed to all those present who were shocked by my categorical words.