Before I knew it, it was already night, and the large dark clouds were churning even more violently under the cover of the night, and there were already intermittent muffled thunder in its belly that began to echo.

The road ahead gradually became pitch black, and Ye Kui only saw the road in front of him clearly by moonlight, and walked in the dark for half an hour.

But fortunately, luck arrived before the rain, and Ye Kui finally saw a house in front of him that was still bright.

When Ye Kui approached, he found that it was a dilapidated temple, and it seemed that other travelers had already stayed in the temple.

As soon as Ye Kui walked under the eaves in front of the ruined temples, thunder began to explode in the sky, the wind swept dust and broke branches, and a downpour of rain followed.

Ye Kui first knocked the crooked door of the temple before trying to push open the door and walk in.

However, the temple door is a little difficult to push, but that is for ordinary people, after pushing the door open, directly in front of it is a tall clay statue with a broken head, and the section on the neck has long been covered with dust.

Behind the door, it turned out to be blocked by a stone pillar that was the length of an adult's thigh and the thickness of an adult's waist.

After looking around and seeing that it was indeed a person inside, Ye Kui quickly turned around and closed the temple door.

There were three fires and two groups of people in the messy ruined temple, one of which had been extinguished.

Sitting around the fire on the left side of the entrance door are three young male foot traders, and around the fire on the right are five young scholars with bookcases on their backs.

They trembled and clung to sticks and stones, and in the middle of it was the only fire that had been extinguished, and beside the fire were two bags and haystacks.

When Ye Kui knocked on the door and pushed the door in, the eight people kept looking up at Ye Kui, in fact, before Ye Kui knocked on the door hard, these eight people were lowering their heads and roasting the fire, and there was basically no conversation.

The eight men were startled when there was a knock on the door and quickly picked up the sticks and stones that were placed beside them, and from then on they had been looking at the closed gate of the ruined temple.

"Excuse me, I don't mean anything, I just want to come to the temple for the night."

Seeing that the people around him were looking at him, Ye Kui had no choice but to speak out first to break the slightly embarrassing atmosphere in this dilapidated temple.

"That's very good, brother Tai is outside."

"Out of the way, out of the way."

"Little brother can come and sit here, the three of us are more spacious here."

After hearing Ye Kui's words, the five scholars and the three foot merchants also hurriedly replied, and the things in their hands were also put down.

In addition to the sound of the burning fire, the ruined temple, which was now surrounded by heavy rain, finally had some more human voices, at least it was not as deserted as it was just now.

After some exchanges, Ye Kui, who was sitting with the three foot merchants, also understood why these eight people were so nervous and silent when they came in.

It turned out that before the sky turned dark and Ye Kui didn't come here, there were originally ten people sitting in the broken temple, and now the two missing people were a young couple in their twenties.

The couple was the last of the ten to stay in the ruined temple, and although the people in the ruined temple sat in three fires, they at least talked and laughed until something strange happened.

The couple was still talking about returning to their parents' house early tomorrow morning to surprise their family, but the woman touched her abdomen happily, and the woman's husband directly hugged his wife into the ring.

At this time, there was a low and strange sound of giggling and whining outside the ruined temple, and then the couple directly opened the temple door under the confusion of the other eight people.

Immediately after that, the couple ignored the shouts of everyone in the temple, and the temple door was not closed, and they walked towards the dark jungle outside the temple without looking back.

As the eight people in the temple were about to get up and go out to check, the frightened screams of men came from the dense forest, accompanied by the sound of frantic biting, chewing, and rubbing.

When the male voice died down completely, the woman in the couple ran out of the dense forest, crying and shouting, towards the open gate of the ruined temple.

Just as the woman was about to step into the area of light shining from the ruined temple gate, something suddenly wrapped around the woman's waist.

In the end, the woman frantically shook her tear-soaked face from side to side, waved her arms cut by the branches, and made desperate threats for her life, but could not escape the result of being dragged into the dense forest.

Half an hour later, the couple still hadn't returned to the ruined temple to get their package.

In the end, three of the eight people in the ruined temple mustered up the courage to close the gate of the ruined temple together, and at the same time lifted a broken stone pillar in the ruined temple to block behind the closed temple door.

"That's why we're so vigilant."

The three foot merchants explained this and handed Ye Kui a long wooden stick, and then the three foot merchants got up and moved the stone pillar to the back of the temple gate again.

Ye Kui looked out of the window where he couldn't see his fingers through the wooden window in the temple, where the pasty paper had long fallen, and he couldn't see anything clearly outside except for the part of the moon that was not covered by dark clouds.

And I didn't feel that there was anyone hiding around the broken temple, and sure enough, my cultivation was still too weak, and afterwards Ye Kui asked tentatively:

"On one side is the footman who has the most hearsay, and on the other side is the scholar who often reads the collection of monsters and monsters, don't you join forces to play tricks and intimidate me? If there really were any demons and monsters, the immortals would have killed them a long time ago. ”

As a result, several scholars and foot merchants replied:

"What's the matter with you? I waited for good words to persuade you to tell you the truth, but you doubted us? ”

"Xiao Zhang, it's useless to talk more, when he sees it, he is afraid."

"Ye Gongzi, if you don't believe it, you can walk out of the broken temple and go to the dense forest on the left to try?"

"Stop arguing, it wouldn't be nice if you brought in youkai."

"I suggest that you don't rush to sleep tonight, that you take turns keeping vigils, and that you share a fire, so that you can save some firewood.

Fortunately, I picked up some more firewood before, and there were a lot of broken wood in the broken temple, so I should be able to barely hold out until dawn. ”

At the end of the heated exchange triggered by Ye Kui, the plan discussed by everyone other than Ye Kui was:

At present, there are five hours left before dawn, and from now on, the nine people in the ruined temple will each keep vigil alone for half an hour.

At the last half hour, the last vigil will wake everyone up and keep watch until dawn.

The man who drew up this plan was a dark-faced young man named Jia Huo, one of the three foot traders.

The order of the vigil is as follows: first, the three merchants keep one hour and half an hour, then Ye Kui keeps half an hour, and finally the five scholars keep two hours and half an hour respectively, and all the last half hour are all guarded together.

The vigil of the temple began on a stormy night, and one of the two burning fires was extinguished, and the remaining firewood and broken wood were also gathered and piled aside.

Eight of the nine people sitting around, including Ye Kui, began to close their eyes and fall asleep, leaving only the first night watchman looking at the fire with his eyes open.

Ye Kui, who was sleeping by the fire with his eyes closed like everyone else, had already begun to quietly use the idea of imprisonment and death, and slowly imprisoned the aura in this small piece of heaven and earth, using the wooden stick handed to him by the footman, and at the same time thinking in his heart:

"I've seen immortals, and I only learned about demons and ghosts in the Chinese characters and scrolls of the book, and I don't know how the monsters that appeared tonight practiced.

I don't know if I, a fledgling Qi Cultivation Realm cultivator, can compete with him, but since they have already killed people, I don't have to show mercy to my subordinates. ”

The wind outside the broken temple was blowing more violently, the rain continued to get heavier, and an inhuman figure was already slowly approaching the broken temple.