"Let's talk about it," I thought, "maybe I can find the crux of the matter through these local legends......

"Okay," Fang Mengyao immediately said in detail, there are many legends that have been passed down around her, some are different names, but the stories are almost the same.

Although the stories circulated are diverse, Fang Mengyao concluded that perhaps for hundreds of years, there was not just one bizarre incident.

Among them, the most mentioned is a bizarre incident that occurred in the late sixties of the last century, because there are still many old people in the village to witness, so it has been passed on by the public.

It was a special time, and many young people from other places came to the riverside villages, and they responded to the call of the time, demolished a river temple on the riverbank, and then planted a red flag on the riverbank......

At that time, many local villagers had discouraged them, but the call of that era, coupled with more than a dozen young people, were young and vigorous, and they completely ignored the admonitions of others.

Sweeping away feudal superstitions is their faith... After coming and going, the village chief was also afraid of being charged with unwarranted crimes, so he reprimanded the village name and not to interfere.

The villagers all knew that the river god was magical, and they went back to the house one after another, but they didn't dare to take a closer look that night, and they didn't think that something happened that night....

A total of fifteen people pushed the river temple that night, but the next morning, only nine people survived, and six of them, after the river temple was pushed down, disappeared mysteriously!

The surviving youths found the village, and because of their identities, the village chief also showed the names of the four villages, and some even drove boats to salvage them......

The entire production team in the village almost returned in vain, and then a goddess in the village, she didn't dare to reveal her identity, and secretly asked God, and then told the village chief, and then the village chief led people to salvage on the riverbank....

Through the guidance of the goddess, the village chief soon found the six missing young people at the bottom of the river.

They were covered in ***, their eyeballs were rotten, and they had no vital signs at all. But those people were still twitching slightly, as if they were not dead. Those corpses, all with hideous expressions, made a sound like a baby crying in their mouths, and it was particularly harsh and terrifying....

At that time, the young men wanted to salvage the people and send them to the hospital, but the goddess pulled the village chief and didn't know what to say.

Frightened, the village chief's face changed suddenly, ignoring the identities of the nine youths, shouting that he was going to burn the six salvaged youths.

He also said that the six men were dead....but the nine young men from other places did not believe it, and in the middle of the dispute, they fished one of the people who had fallen into the water and fished them ashore.

But no one thought that... After the victim went ashore, all the people present vomited, and the body that was salvaged ashore had dried up and only skin and bones, and the flesh and blood were almost sucked by the underwater things...... Now those old people recall it, and they call it terrifying.

Covered in skin and bones, without any blood, it was as if it had been drained of essence and blood.

Frightened nine outsiders, they hurriedly followed the words of the village chief and burned the six corpses on the spot!

The process of cremating the corpse is also very bizarre, it is obviously a corpse salvaged underwater, but it is as easy to burn as paper, and it will all be reduced to ashes in a short time.

In this regard, Fang Mengyao said politely: "There are many similar legends in the local area, but I also picked someone to witness it, and Mr. Jiang described it..... I heard those people say that similar things were almost not uncommon in the past. Later, the river temple was built, but after the river temple was demolished, no one set foot on the riverbank, and with the economic construction, many local people went to the city to work, and gradually, no one approached the river!"

"So bizarre," Tang Qianwen frowned and was stunned, "What kind of supernatural is this?"

"I also asked about this," Fang Mengyao said in a busy voice, "There are two theories about the names of the surrounding villages, the first is that at the bottom of the river, there are river gods who accept people!"

"I really can't rule out this possibility," I admitted, "There must be a mountain god on the mountain, and there must be a river god under the water.......but these two are not as kind and gentle as the world thinks, and don't think that the river god is as merciful as the Bodhisattva... The gods of the mountains and rivers are not the gods of the heavens. They are often mountain spirits and water monsters... Similar to Tang Immortals, they have a way of cultivation and a certain climate, so they take the mountain gods and river gods themselves

dwelling."

To put it bluntly, it's just a mountain spirit and water monster that occupies the mountains and rivers!

"However," I casually mentioned, "many of them are majestic and terrifying, and some of the mountain gods and water monsters of the wild mountains, if they lack food, will tell the people around them to come to the mountains to worship and send some wine and meat tributes. No matter how terrible it is, he may have to send the living into the mountains for his enjoyment. This is the origin of why in the past, virgins and boys were sacrificed to the god of Hebo and water... These are all spirits, not at all like Mazu's righteous gods!"

"What happens if there is no sacrifice?" Tang Qianwen asked curiously.

I thought, "If no one is around to worship...... Then the mountain god or the water monster will come out to collect people by himself. If some people go into the mountains and are favored by the mountain gods, or go into the water, and fall in love with the river gods, and happen to think that this person is suitable to be a servant, then they will be taken away, or they will be dragged into the water and be their servants forever."

"That's right, that's what the people in the village said," Fang Mengyao then said, "The people in the village also said that it might be the old monster who harmed people!"

"The old monster hurts people," Tang Qianwen was stunned, "What does this mean?"

I explained, "The so-called old monsters are those people who cultivate immortals with crooked paths, or in other words, mountain spirits and wild monsters who have attained the Tao....The reason why we call the five immortals immortals is actually taken from one person and one mountain, and when combined they are immortals, so the mountain spirits and wild monsters are also called great immortals....and this immortal does not represent immortals, but people or animals can also be called immortals when they have cultivated to a certain limit, which is just a name. Some immortals cultivate by accumulating merits, while others go to extremes, this kind of immortals, relying on harming others to continue their lives, usually this kind of old monster who is called cultivating immortals. In order to improve one's own cultivation, or to survive the tribulation, he will find a place to cultivate in the mountains or under the water, and from time to time he will come out to catch a few people who have entered the mountains, or unlucky ghosts who have gone down to the river, eat people and are bloodthirsty, collect three souls and seven spirits to continue his life, and use other people's three souls and seven spirits to improve his own cultivation."

"By the way, this is very vivid," I deliberately mentioned, "Not to mention anything else, in "Journey to the West", there is a description of the sand monk eating people in order to avoid robbery......

"That's right," Tang Qianwen also suddenly remembered, "Tang Seng has been eaten by him nine times!"

This casual conversation made the Fang family's father and daughter stunned!

"Listen to what you say," Fang Mengyao couldn't believe it, "Could it be this

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