Tianji Daoist replied honestly: "We are only responsible for inquiring about these places when we go out, and tell Senior Brother about the situation in these places, and we will not participate in the rest." ”

Gold: "Why?" Are you afraid that you will bear cause and effect? ”

Tianji Daoren: "Senior brother said that we were too stupid, and he was afraid that we would do bad things." ”

Gold: "......"

Tilt Yan: "......"

Ugly: "......"

Jin Yang: "......"

I didn't think it was for this reason at all.

Gold: "Then do you know where children and girls were taken away by your brother?" ”

Tianji Daoist shook his head: "I don't know everything, I only know that there are people missing in Lujiawan Village, Yangjiawan and Shuangtou Bay near our Taoist temple."

When there was a flood three years ago, someone saw a snake and said that the flood was caused by a snake, and asked my brother and brother to remove the ......."

Then he asked a few more questions, but he didn't know very well, and the hallucinatory time of gold was almost up, so they didn't ask any more.

Jin Yang used the spell he had learned before, and he forgot about meeting them, and the ugly ugly sent him to a place a little earlier, making him think that he had been moving forward.

After sending the people away, they entered the space and discussed.

After all, it is inconvenient for people to come and go outside, so it is quieter in the space.

Qian Yan: "The Taoist priest in this Seven Stars Observatory can't be an evil cultivator, right?" Could it be that they have taken those children and girls to alchemy? ”

Gold also thinks it is possible, as far as the evil cultivators it has heard of, there are indeed those who use young children and virgins to refine the elixir, but the specific effect of the elixir is not very clear, after all, it has not really been encountered.

Jin Yang: "It's also possible to refine souls, you forgot that my previous master cultivated with raw souls."

Maybe that senior brother is not a human being, he is a ghost cultivator, or they want to resurrect someone, and it is not necessary to sacrifice these children and girls with pure souls. ”

Qian Yan and Ugly glanced at each other, this possibility seemed to be greater.

If the other party is not a Taoist priest, but just an ordinary person, they may be more inclined to human traffickers, but this is not necessarily the case for Taoist priests.

They can earn a lot of silver as long as they pretend to be gods and ghosts, just like the Daoist of Tianji, who can get ten taels of silver by doing a random ritual, not to mention the talismans he sells, there are also more than a dozen taels.

This is still a small poor village, if it is in the city, the price can be imagined, so they don't have to take risks for the silver.

Therefore, they are more inclined to use those children and girls to practice evil arts, but in this case, those people are likely to be more than lucky.

Ugly: "I didn't see the evil debt on the Tianji Daoist just now, which means that he is not burdened with human life, although he is a little greedy, but there is a bottom line, otherwise he would not have been let go directly."

The problem is likely to be with his senior brother, I used my divine sense to probe the Seven Stars Temple to see, isn't there a Shaking Light Dao person stationed in the temple, to see if he can know something.

Or if there is a secret room or something like that, maybe you can find some clues. ”

Qian Yan nodded, and asked Xiang Jinyang again: "The water spirit bead should be able to contact the snake, do you want to ask the snake, in case it knows something."

I feel that the Seven Stars are all talking about snakes, whether it is the flood three years ago or the snake demon here fifteen years ago, they seem to be on the same page as snakes. ”

Jin Yang nodded, "I'll ask the Shui Lingzhu, didn't it go out yesterday, maybe it got in touch with the snake yesterday." ”

After speaking, they passed on the sound to the water spirit bead, and they were now in the pavilion near the spirit spring, only to see the water spirit bead directly drill out of the spring, and then shook it and disappeared.

Jin Yang explained: "It said that it would go out and communicate with the snake again, and it didn't know about these Taoist priests before, so it didn't say this. ”

It seemed that she would have to wait for a while, so she took out a thick cushion from the storage bag and put it on the stone bench in the pavilion, and then sat on it with the ingot.

Jin Yang and Jin Jin went to the courtyard to get a small stove and a teapot and teacups, and the other picked some fruits, ready to drink tea and eat fruits while waiting for news.

Because I didn't know the specific location of the Seven Stars, I wanted to find it, and it took some time for Chou Chou to find it, and Chou Chou had to concentrate on looking for it, so he didn't join them.

However, Shui Lingzhu came back soon, asked it from the Jiao Snake, and told Jin Yang through transmission.

As soon as he finished speaking, he quickly drilled back into its spring without delay.

Jin Yang helped it explain, "It said that the aura outside is thin, and it is very uncomfortable to stay outside for a long time, so you have to hurry back to your own place to recover." ”

Then Jin Yang told them the news that Shui Lingzhu had inquired about, "That Jiao Snake said that it had met a Taoist who claimed to be called Xingzhu more than twenty years ago.

That Taoist person is not young, estimated to be two or three hundred years old, and he has some Taoism.

At that time, it happened that it was promoted to become a Jiao, and there was some movement, which attracted that person.

As soon as the man saw it, he wanted to subdue it and make it his pet.

Of course it didn't want to, and then it swore to resist, and the two fought for two days and one night, and finally the man couldn't hold on and was defeated.

It was also that the Daoist had not cultivated to the home, and he could only use some small spells, and the power of the talismans used was also limited.

After it became a jiao, its skin and flesh were as hard as iron, and those talismans didn't hurt at all when they hit its body, and finally the person ran away after being seriously injured by it.

Later, it was never encountered again, and the water spirit bead also asked if it had been to a flood a hundred miles away, or if it had ever appeared in a flood.

Jiao Snake said that it was dedicated to cultivation, and it had never left this vicinity at all, and it was generally at the bottom of the deep pool, except for the time when it came out to sense the world when it was promoted, it would not leave the bottom of the pool at other times.

And even if it comes out, it won't leave the vicinity of the deep pool, which is called the Black Dragon Pool, which used to be a place where black dragons turned into dragons.

There used to be a small spiritual vein at the bottom of the pool, but it dried up later, but the spiritual energy inside it was much richer than outside, otherwise it would not have been able to cultivate to the point where it was about to transform.

You must know that the aura is very thin now, many big demons have long since fallen, and most of the little demons who have not transformed have also gone into hiding and cultivating.

Spirits like gold can accumulate merit and cultivation by asking people with luck to seal and transform into shapes, or finding someone to help people eliminate disasters and solve problems, and the rest rely on aura.

Therefore, it will not do something harmful, even indirectly, and it cannot afford the cause and effect. ”

Qian Yan: "In that case, the so-called snake near the Seven Stars View may have been made by those Taoist priests."

The snake said that it met a two or three hundred year old more than 20 years ago, and it was very likely that it was the master of Tianji who was injured at the python and died when he returned.

Later, it was the so-called senior brother who was in charge, and it is also possible that the senior brother heard about this Jiao from his master and used it as an excuse, after all, this is a real demon. ”

Jin also guessed: "Is it possible that the senior brother has a deep relationship with his master and apprentice, and wants to resurrect his master?"

Or did their master not die at all, but was only seriously injured, and they kidnapped those children and girls just to refine the elixir to save their master? ”

Qian Yan and Jin Yang looked at it together, and the gold was a little cramped by them, and swallowed their saliva and said, "I just guessed randomly." ”

Qian Yan shook her head, "No, what you said makes a lot of sense, and it's not impossible."

If that's the case, it makes sense why they arrested so many people, but they don't know where they are, and if they can find them, maybe they can save some people.

If you really can't kill them, it can be regarded as eliminating harm for the people, and there is really no need for this kind of evil cultivation to exist. ”

Jin Yang also nodded, "Yes, if you can find them, then let the gold shoot, it should be able to get a lot of merit." ”

"This opportunity is just around the corner, the two brothers and sisters did not leave the Seven Stars Temple at all, they were in the secret room behind the Taoist Temple.

Shaoguang has been delivering food to them, only the people of Dao Dao don't know about it. ”

An ugly voice came at this time.

"You see them? What about the children and girls? Is there anyone alive? ”

Tilt Yan asked.

Chou Chou nodded, "When I found the Seven Stars Temple, I happened to see the shaking light going to the backyard of the Taoist Temple, so I followed him to see it."

Unexpectedly, there was an underground secret passage in the back firewood room, which led directly to the back mountain, and there was a very secret cave in the back mountain, which was built into a secret room by them.

The area inside is very large, except for the two Taoist priests, there are many children, about thirty or forty, and there are not a few girls.

There was a place in the mountains near the outside of the cave, and there were many bones buried underneath, and it was likely that the rest of the girls had been killed. ”

Qian Yan: "Are there only those two Taoist priests in there?" The Master who doesn't have them? Those children and girls are okay, are they in danger now? ”

Ugly: "There are only those two Taoist priests in there, there are no other Taoist priests, and those children and girls are safe at present, but their bodies are a little weak, completely because of excessive blood loss."

The two of them were using flesh and blood to make alchemy, using the blood of the child, and the flesh was from the girl's body, so the girl died more than the child. ”

Jin Yang: "It's really alchemy!" Then what kind of elixir are they refining, it won't be some elixir of immortality, right? ”

Since it was not for the purpose of healing or resurrecting their master, it was refined for themselves, and it was probably about immortality, which was pursued by many emperors.

Ugly: "I don't know much about this, I haven't heard them talk about it, but it must be for that senior brother, that person is not a ghost now, and he is not popular." ”

Qian Yan couldn't sit still, since she already knew the whereabouts of those children and girls, it was better to hurry up and save them, so as not to die a few more if she was late.

He stood up and said to them: "Then let's go out and continue our journey, strive to get to the Seven Stars as soon as possible, rescue those children and girls, and eradicate the evil demons by the way. ”

The others had no objection, and just cleaned up and walked out of the space.

It was still in the open space before, and now it was just two o'clock in the afternoon, and the sun was quite strong today, and the water on the ground had dried up, no longer slippery, and the speed of the journey was much faster.

As we walked a little further, we met a number of pedestrians, some driving ox carts and others pushing wheelbarrows, and instead of goods, old people or children were seated, and young women were walking beside them.

After listening to the conversation of those people, she realized that they were going to the town in front, which was called Liu Monkey Town, and there was a Zhongling Temple in the town, and there would be a two-day festival tomorrow and the day after tomorrow.

Qian Yan calculated the time, it turned out that it was the fifteenth of another month, today is the fourteenth, tomorrow is the fifteenth, and it is usually the fifteenth day of the new year.

Qian Yan looked forward with her divine sense, and Liu Houzhen was not on the route they were traveling.

Now that they have something to do, they won't go to join in the fun, although she is very curious about the temple fairs in the south, I don't know if there is any difference between them and the north, but don't worry, there will be opportunities in the future.

When they reached a large fork in the road ahead, those who went to Liu Monkey Town turned right, and they had to continue to go straight along the official road.

They followed the path pointed out by Chou, picked the nearest route, and after walking for more than ten miles, they also turned right and went down the official road.

It's a small road, and there will be a long mountain road, and then I put away the other car, and only the one pulled by the big bear.

Jin Yang can see the outside in the space, so he goes back to the space to stay, and now it is Jin and Chou Chou in front of the car, and Qian Yan and Yuan Bao are sitting in the carriage.

It was too bumpy to get to the mountain road, so Qian Yan simply sat outside and talked to them.

Qian Yan asked Chouchou, "Shall we go to that secret room directly when we go over there?" Is it good to go in, can you only enter from the firewood room of the Taoist temple? Will it be found out so that they have time to take the child hostage? ”

Chou Chou shook his head, "Of course not, I have explored that secret room and there is another bigger entrance, halfway up the mountain behind the Taoist temple, there is a small waterfall, and the entrance is on top of the waterfall."

There was a sloping boulder there, with running water on one side and woods on the other, and they had made a trick there, and it was sparsely populated, so it was very difficult to spot.

Let's go in from there, and we will first pass by the stone chamber where the child and the girl are kept, and get the people out first, and then go in and clean up the two evil ways.

When the time comes, you and Jin Yang arrange for those children and girls to leave, and I and Jin Jin will go in.

If it's really hard to take people away, let Jin Yang stun them into the space, and then release them when they get to the county seat.

We definitely don't have time to send them home one by one, after all, they are not a village, and some children are too young to remember where their home is, so it depends on the government.

The old lady of Nashangenzi Village also said that they had reported to the official at first, but they never found anyone, and the Yuheng Dao person came to the door to pinch them, so they thought it was a snake demon.

I believe that other families who have lost their children should also report to the official, and the government should have a record, which is much better than looking for it ourselves. ”

(End of chapter)