Chapter 5: Wind Hidden (Part II)

After accepting the entrustment money, Jiang Chen and Jiang Wu brothers cleaned up and followed the village chief to Zhangjia Village. Some time ago, a continuous torrential rain washed away a wooden plank bridge into the village, and they had to take a detour and arrive at the village when it was getting dark.

The brothers stayed overnight at the village chief's house, and the next day they began to investigate the theft of poultry in the village.

After dinner, the village chief took them around the village to see if there were any special oddities.

Jiang Wu took out a delicate rag doll from the package. He deliberately brought this doll with him, and when he passed by Zhang Ming's house, he visited the child who had been evil, and by the way, he returned the doll to the girl, and apologized to the woman for the "shadow clone". The woman's son has improved, and Zhang Mingjiang's family is very grateful, so they don't take this trick of pretending to be a ghost to heart.

There are several more people in Zhang's family, and the village chief said that they originally lived in a family at the foot of the mountain. A few days ago, heavy rains caused a landslide, which washed away several houses at the foot of the mountain, but fortunately no villagers were injured. This family has some distant relatives with Zhang Mingjiang, so they temporarily stayed at the Mingjiang's house. When the family saw the village chief, they thanked them repeatedly. It is probably because after the disaster at home, I received some help from the village chief.

There are a few more people in the family, so it is naturally a lot more lively. Especially those children, who add playmates who get along day and night, are particularly lively. After Jiang Chen and the others left Zhang Ming's house, they could still hear the sound of laughter coming from the house in the distance.

Early the next morning, Jiang Chen and Jiang Wu began to investigate the strange things that happened in the village.

Led by the village chief, they came to the place where the poultry had been stolen by the "monsters" a few days ago. They were surrounded by a large group of curious villagers, men, women and children, obviously wanting to see if these two young Taoists really had the ability to catch demons.

"Let the villagers disperse. Jiang Chen said: "We have to find out if there is any demonic energy here, if there are too many people around and the breath is too chaotic, it will be difficult to find out!"

The village chief shouted: "I heard it, disperse quickly, go farther, don't get in the way here." ”

The village chief was obviously quite prestigious, and as soon as he spoke, the villagers dispersed. But most of them didn't leave, but watched from afar.

"Village Chief, please let me too!" Jiang Wu said.

The village chief was stunned for a moment, so he had to walk into the distance.

Jiang Wu took out the demon mirror from the baggage he carried, dripped a few drops of blood, and began to chant a spell to find the demon. The villagers in the distance watched the two brothers with curiosity and talked about it.

"These two boys are not very old, but they do things well!"

"I don't know if it's swaggering and cheating, I heard that the two brothers often use some shadow clone trick to pretend to be ghosts, and deceive a lot of people. ”

"It's not that the son of the craftsman family was evil, and even Li Langzhong was helpless, and was finally cured by a bowl of bamboo leaf tea from the two brothers. Looks like he's got some ability!"

"If they don't have some skills, how can the village chief invite them again? Last time, the village chief personally kicked them out of the village. ”

Most of the people in the world are skeptical about the evil demons and monsters, and the same is true for the villagers of this Zhangjia Village. Whether the two brothers can solve the strange things that happened in the village, the villagers, including the village chief, are not sure in their hearts.

After a long while, the Demon Mirror still didn't change much, except that after absorbing the blood, it glowed with a faint red light. The red light can be seen at close range, but no change can be seen in the distance.

"What's wrong?" Jiang Chen asked. They usually use the demon mirror to search for demons, and the results will soon be obtained.

"It's a little weird!" Jiang Wu frowned: "It seems that I can sense some demonic energy, but it is difficult to lock and track." ”

After a while, Jiang Wu put away the demon mirror and shook his head: "I can't find any clues." ”

Jiang Chen pondered for a while and said to the village chief: "Village chief, it may be because of the interval of a few days, the demonic qi here is too weak and difficult to trace. But since there is some demonic energy, it means that this matter is likely to be related to demons. In the last day or two, where have there been strange incidents of poultry being stolen?"

The village chief said: "In the past few days, the villagers have been panicking, locking up the poultry in cages and not daring to release them at all, so there has been no strange incident. However, this situation will not last long, and if the chickens and ducks are kept in cages, they are prone to die of plague. ”

"That's it," Jiang Chen said, "Please take out a fat chicken from the village chief and lure that monster out." My brothers set a trap and take down the monster in one fell swoop!"

The village chief was a little embarrassed, his family did not raise chickens, and most of the villagers lived in poverty, so they took out a fat chicken for the monster to eat, but they were very distressed.

"Wait a minute, I'll go catch one!" A villager took the initiative to agree, it was Zhang Mingjiang's wife, the woman who had found the Chenwu Daoist Pavilion in the first place.

In a short time the woman came with an old hen in her hand.

The woman was about to hand over the old hen to Jiang Chen, when suddenly a demon wind blew, and the old hen that the woman was carrying was swept away by the demon wind. The old hen clucked twice, and then, as if something had bitten her throat, she stopped crowing.

Jiang Wu immediately chased after the demon wind, but only saw dripping chicken blood and scattered chicken feathers, and after the demon wind subsided, the old hen disappeared. Except for a demonic wind, no one saw what the old hen had been devoured.

"That's it!" the village chief said anxiously and loudly, "The strange thing that happened before, that's it!"

Jiang Wu took out the demon mirror and was about to track down the demon qi, but was stopped by Jiang Chen: "Don't chase it yet! ”

"If I'm not mistaken, it's a youkai called Kazegakure. Jiang Chen continued: "Feng Yin can use demonic qi to conceal his body, even if we can trace the general location of demonic qi, we can't catch it. ”

"What should I do then?" Jiang Wu was at a loss. If you can't see Fengyin, then how can you arrest it? Now Fengyin is only catching poultry, and if it starts to harm the young children in the village, it will be a big hidden danger for Zhangjia Village.

"How to deal with Feng Yin is recorded in the Ten Thousand Demon Spectrum?" Jiang Wu asked. The content of "Ten Thousand Demon Spectrum" is too rich, and there are several thick books, and they are all written in small ancient texts, which is very laborious to read. Not to mention that Jiang Wu still has to cultivate, even Jiang Chen has not finished reading all the "Ten Thousand Demon Spectrum".

Jiang Chen nodded, but his face was embarrassed, and he whispered: "Feng Yin is a very rare demon beast, and it is said that it is almost extinct. I'm afraid that the Dao weapon used to deal with it has long been lost, even if there are some methods recorded in the "Ten Thousand Demon Spectrum" to deal with Feng Yin, I'm afraid we won't be able to find the raw materials. ”

Jiang Wu frowned and said, "How could this kind of demon beast that is about to disappear appear in such a remote mountain village? Why didn't it flee to the Demon Valley, but stayed in this mountain village for several days?"

"I think it's very strange too!" Jiang Chen pondered for a while, still looking confused.

The surrounding villagers chattered. "Strange things" happened again in front of everyone's eyes, but the two young Taoists had nothing to do, and some of the villagers were more or less panicked.

"Village Chief, apart from this monster, what strange things have happened in the village in recent days?" Jiang Chen asked.

The village chief thought for a moment, shook his head and said, "There are no other strange things. It's just that the rain poured down a few houses, and then this strange thing happened!"

"Is the feng shui in the village bad?" an elderly villager suddenly interjected: "It will be the first day of the new year in a few days, so it is better to make a sacrifice and worship the land of the mountain god." ”

"The mountain temple has collapsed, how can you worship!" said a villager.

"The mountain temple has collapsed?" Jiang Chen asked suspiciously, "What's going on?"

The village chief replied: "The mountain temple is at the foot of the mountain, and it rained heavily some time ago, and the ancient temple fell into disrepair and was also washed away by mudslides. ”

"Take us to have a look!" Jiang Chen said hurriedly.

"What's the use of looking at the mountain temple?" Although the village chief was puzzled, he still took Jiang Chen and Jiang Wu to the mountain temple. Most of the villagers have dispersed, and only a few still follow them, wanting to see what is going on.

The temple had collapsed and was more than half buried by the mudslide, leaving it in ruins. Not far from the temple, Zhang and his relatives are scraping useful bricks and timber from the ruins of some collapsed houses to rebuild.

"Village chief, please call some villagers to help clean up the mud and rocks that bury the mountain temple. Jiang Chen said.

The villagers are the most industrious, and when they hear that they want to help, they don't flinch. Zhang Mingjiang and they also rushed over to help. Half an hour later, the ruins of the mountain temple were basically cleared out.

Jiang Chen and Jiang Wu carefully inspected one by one in the ruins. The clay statue of the mountain god had been shattered, and they picked up the pieces piece by piece, looked at them carefully, and set them aside.

"Brother, look!" After Jiang Wu cleaned up all the fragments of the mountain god statue, he suddenly found that there was a sigil at the bottom of the mountain god statue.

"What kind of Dao Pattern Sigil is this, I've never seen it before!" Jiang Wu asked.

Jiang Chen said: "I haven't seen it either. However, it seems that I have seen similar Dao seals in "Ten Thousand Demon Spectrum". It should be the seal Dao pattern used by Dao Xia a long time ago. However, this pattern is not complete, and other fragments should also have some patterns. ”

Sure enough, after a closer inspection, the two brothers found several more fragments engraved with sigils.

"When was this mountain temple built?" Jiang Chen turned to the village chief and asked.

"It's been a long time," said the village chief, "our ancestors have lived here for generations, and the mountain temple has always been there, I'm afraid it's been hundreds of years." ”

"You use the demon mirror to see if you can sense the demonic aura of Feng Yin here. Jiang Chen said to his younger brother.

Jiang Wu immediately complied. Sure enough, the demon mirror sensed something, and a burst of red light appeared, and then gradually returned to its original state.

"I understand!" Jiang Chen said, "That Feng Yin was probably sealed here by a Daoist many years ago. Instead of killing Feng Yin, the Daoist sealed it in the statue of the mountain god. Hundreds of years have passed, the power of the seal has weakened, and the wind has gradually awakened. The mountain temple happened to be destroyed by a mudslide, so Feng Yin escaped. However, it has been sealed for too long to stay away from this place for a short time, so it has been stuck in the village. ”

"Since that Dao Hero can catch Feng Yin and seal it, maybe he will also leave some Dao weapons for future generations to use to deal with Feng Yin to prevent Feng Yin from escaping!" Jiang Wu said.

When the villagers heard this, their spirits lifted and they continued to search the ruins.

Zhang Mingjiang took out an incense burner from the ruins and said, "The statues of the mountain gods are all broken, but this incense burner dedicated to the incense of the mountain gods is intact. ”

"Let me see!" Jiang Chen's heart moved. He took the incense burner from the hand of the craftsman, looked at it carefully, and then picked out some rust ash from the rusty inner wall of the incense burner, rubbed it carefully in his palm, and put it in front of his nose to sniff carefully.

"Shadow Dust!" Jiang Chen was overjoyed: "Found it! As long as you sprinkle these Shadow Dust on Feng Yin's body, it will no longer be able to hide its body!"