Qili Village is a small mountain village on the outskirts of CD City, the village is not big, but it is not small, after all, it is not far from CD City, and the terrain is also close to the mountains and rivers, so there are nearly 100 households in this village.

When the five of them arrived here, there were already villagers waiting at the door, and the two immortal officials who could see the return entered the village with two Taoist priests in Taoist robes, and someone immediately ran back to report the news.

"It's coming, it's the Taoist chief on Qingcheng Mountain who came down the mountain in person!"

The man ran and shouted, dancing with excitement.

Come to think of it, although there are so many funerals in this village every year, how have they ever seen the immortal officials who came to collect the soul come back empty-handed, and such strange things happened in their own village one after another, and later they saw that the CD Mansion directly sent two old and serious immortal officials to come together, you must know that the immortal officials who usually come to collect souls are just one person. What made them even more unacceptable was that these two extremely experienced looking immortal officials still returned empty-handed, and from the solemn looks on their faces, it could be seen that what happened in their village was anything but unusual.

As soon as the two immortal officials left, the village exploded, and many villagers felt that there must be a problem in the village, otherwise how could the person who had just died lose his soul? Moreover, even the immortal official in the Yin Division was helpless, if it were not for the pressure of a few elders in charge of the village, I am afraid that there would have been a timid villager who would have moved his family.

So as soon as the five of them arrived, they were welcomed into the ancestral hall in the center of the village by the anxious villagers.

This small ancestral hall is even more crowded inside and out at the moment, Dao Liang frowned slightly when he saw this, and when the sharp-eyed person in charge saw it, he immediately blasted away some villagers who had nothing to watch the excitement, leaving only a few older village elders to accompany him.

"A few immortal officials, please inside, everyone stopped inside, we haven't moved. ”

One of them, a white-bearded old man on crutches, led a few people into the door, but Dao Liang did not check the condition of the two dead villagers, but turned to Long and asked, "Have you checked the cause of death?"

Yu Long whispered: "I've checked it all, the first one to die in his fifties was a fall and injured his internal organs when he went up the mountain to chop wood, and died after coming back." And both of them were still very young, one in his twenties, the other in his early thirties, the one in his twenties drowned, and the one in his early thirties was drunk at home. ”

"Drunk?"

Dao Liang said with some surprise.

Yu Hu on the side nodded and said: "We saw it at the time, he was very drunk, but there was no trace of injury, and the specific cause of death could not be found." The young man had indeed drowned, and had been fished up from the river after he died. ”

Dao Liang was silent, and after a while, he turned his head to look at Wang Shen and Dao Zheng, and asked, "What do you two think?"

Dao Zheng had already walked around the ancestral hall, but he didn't find anything, and shook his head and said, "Then it shouldn't be the demon beast's doing." ”

Wang Shen also echoed: "I also think it has nothing to do with demon beasts. ”

He has seen a lot of demon beasts with his own eyes, and he doesn't think that any demon beasts will only devour people's souls but have no interest in the body, and these people are all dead in the village, if there are really demon beasts appearing, it will definitely alarm the other villagers.

However, after Wang Shen finished speaking, he added: "Have you noticed that the yin qi in this village is obviously heavier? ”

"Indeed, this is not far from the newly born ghost cave. ”

Dao Liang knew the general location of the new ghost cave, and he knew that the closer he was to the ghost cave, the heavier the yin qi became, although this village was still hundreds of miles away from the place where the ghost cave was located, but even if it was so far away, he could still feel the excessive intensity of the yin qi around him.

Dao Zheng interjected at this time: "Isn't it a ghost?"

Yu Long shook his head and said: "It shouldn't be, before we left, we set up a lot of Xuanhuang flags near the village, if there are ghosts and monsters breaking in, they will definitely be detected by the surrounding Xuanhuang flags, but when we came in just now, I looked around, and these Xuanhuang flags have not changed in the slightest." ”

Yu Long's words once again made everyone fall into contemplation, and it took a long time for them to sigh: "If the possibility of monsters and ghosts is ruled out, then this matter is probably man-made." ”

"Artificial?"

Wang Shen was surprised, he couldn't think of what someone was going to do stealing souls?

"Could it be that someone from the Demon Dao is lurking nearby?"

Dao Zheng suddenly became vigilant.

Dao Liang nodded and said: "It is very likely, according to various sources, there have been a lot of new faces on my CD Dao recently, and there are even the whereabouts of people in the Demon Dao." It seems that the birth of the Xishu Ghost Cave this time also made these people in the Demon Dao unable to sit still. ”

Yu Long and Yuhu couldn't help frowning, and Wang Shen finally came to his senses, he remembered that his master Xuanyuan Dao had told him when he was alive that the reason why the two ways of righteousness and demons were incompatible was because of the diametrically opposite cultivation methods of each other, and on the other hand, the most important point was that people in the demon path acted extremely perversely and extremely. Some people in the Demon Dao are even unscrupulous in order to improve their cultivation or sacrifice the magic weapons in their hands, not only to exorcise ghosts and refine souls, but even some of them are extremely vicious and even attack the souls of the living, and the means are extremely despicable. Therefore, every time people in the Demon Dao are mentioned, they are very jealous of the cultivators of the Righteous Path, because there are many people in the Demon Dao, and the means are also difficult to prevent, and if one is not careful, it is very easy to suffer.

And the people in the Demon Dao who are ready to come to the ghost cave to fish in the troubled waters are by no means ordinary, otherwise they would not dare to take such a big risk to come here, you must know that this operation has gathered the power of the entire Xishu Daomen, plus the joint assistance of several major Yin Divisions of the CD Dao, how dare ordinary people in the Demon Dao show their faces, not to mention that the ghost cave is dangerous and abnormal, and there are peerless ghosts in it, if the cultivation is not enough to enter rashly, let alone take advantage, even their own lives have to be lost in it.

"What now?"

Yu Long worried, when he was still on the Jiangling Road, he had seen the people in the Demon Dao make a move, and at that time, he was learning the art of Fang Cheng, and he happened to meet a Demon Dao master who was entangled with the enemy. Originally, he thought it was just an ordinary fight among people in the rivers and lakes, but he didn't expect that the demon master would suddenly sacrifice a magic weapon halfway through the fight, and the magic weapon looked like an old jar, but several jet black yin qi flew out of the jar to directly entangle the opponent, and the person who fought was caught off guard by this black yin qi, and in the end not only lost, but even the soul in his body was taken away by the jar.

That vicious battle was terrifying to see the gentian, and the terrible scene of devouring souls made him not recover for more than half a month, and if he hadn't run fast at that time, I am afraid that he would have been poisoned as well.

Dao Liang swept around the surroundings, thought about it, and said, "Let's leave the village first, and then dive back in the middle of the night." If there are really demons lurking nearby, maybe they will continue to attack. ”