The shattered picture is scattered into rain, but it quickly forms a new picture.

And in this new picture, the warm and harmonious family is left with only the father and daughter.

The father with a slightly vicissitudes of temperament is worshipping at the grave with his daughter.

The tombstone is written on the tomb of his beloved wife Fang Yuehua.

The two of them were silent, and their faces showed a deep look of remembrance.

When the worship was over, the father took his daughter's hand and walked away slowly.

Faintly, it seemed that an illusory and soft figure could be seen to see them leave.

The pace is further forward, and after the picture collapses, the scene changes again.

At this moment, the little girl who was seven or eight years old had grown into a girl of twelve or thirteen years old.

She chatted with her companions in the school, looking so unhappy.

It's completely a cute look of youth, liveliness and vitality.

However, in the midst of each other's laughter, she suddenly collapsed and fell unconscious, causing a burst of confusion in an instant.

The pace goes further.

The slightly older girl, half-leaning on the head of the bed, covered with a thin quilt, and a slightly sickly look on her face.

Next to him, a middle-aged father wearing a blue robe and a short beard, was babbling some jokes that were not funny.

The girl smiled cooperatively, and it was difficult to hide the condensed sadness between her eyebrows.

A short time later, there was a knock at the door.

The middle-aged man smiled apologetically, and then left the room.

In the outside world, when he heard his subordinates whispering the news, his expression suddenly became angry, and the muscles on his face were beating uncontrollably.

But in the end, he didn't have a seizure on the spot, just glanced at the room next to him, and then led people away with a cold expression, looking like he was about to ask the teacher for guilt.

And in the next scene.

The ailing girl sat in a wooden wheelchair, behind which her father was pushing forward.

Behind him, there were eight samurai with swords in strong suits with indifferent faces.

Just looking at the expressions on the faces of those samurai, they are not guards, and there is a faint sense of surveillance.

Eventually, they came to a small, colorful garden.

There is a raised rockery in the middle of the garden.

Next to the rockery sat two old men with white beards, their eyes half-squinted, as if they were sleeping.

Seeing the middle-aged man pushing a wheelchair over, the white-haired orange-peeled old man on the left opened his dim eyes slightly.

He didn't say anything more, and with a casual wave of his right hand, the heavy and huge rockery was moved aside.

A black well pressed under the rockery was revealed, and countless twisted red runes were engraved on the side of the well.

Looking at the black well, the middle-aged man couldn't stop trembling, and his face was extremely painful.

Instead, it was the girl in a wheelchair, reaching out to hold his arm, with a soothing smile on her face.

Then, with great difficulty, she got out of her wheelchair and sat down on the edge of the well.

The middle-aged man exclaimed in surprise and wanted to step forward to help, but was stopped on the spot by the samurai who followed behind him.

The girl looked back at her, smiled and said something, and plunged headlong into the well.

There was a dull popping sound at the bottom of the well.

With a wave of his hand, the rockery moved back and sealed the wellhead.

Only the heart-rending cry of the middle-aged man was left on the field.

The picture came to an abrupt end.

The surroundings were restored to a bottomless darkness.

In the darkness, there are endless negative emotions that continue to rise and fall.

Not to mention ordinary people, even if a cultivator of the 4th or 5th order came here, he would instantly be overwhelmed by the negative emotions here and completely become an idiot.

Su Mo flicked his fingers slightly, and the crimson light completely tore apart the night-like emotional field.

When he came out, he was already at the gate of the small courtyard.

It was as if the previous few steps had passed through the entire alley.

Standing at the door, Su Mo raised his eyes and looked into the small courtyard.

I saw that there were fields of flowers that had long since become withered and scattered.

Inside the flower field lay two broken skeletons.

According to the size and structure of the skeleton, Su Mo thought of the two white-haired old men he had seen in the picture earlier for a second.

If nothing else, the two were supposed to be here to guard the black well.

Based on the strength shown in the picture, guessing that they also have at least 7th-order strength.

As a result, they are all dead on the spot.

The cause of death is known at a glance.

One skull shattered, one sternum penetrated.

Obviously, he didn't go over a single move, which shows the strength of the person who made the shot.

Su Mo couldn't help but look at the headless halfling man sitting on the edge of the well.

He is sitting where the white-haired old man on the left side of the previous picture is.

At this moment, he seemed to be aware of Su Mo, an outsider.

The headless halfling turned to the door, as if to feel his invisible gaze.

Immediately afterward, the halfling stood up from the well, his remaining right hand clenching the Holy Lord, extremely guarded.

Su Mo couldn't help but feel slightly happy when he saw the bronze-colored wine lord.

The majestic spiritual power suddenly poured out from his body, instantly sealing the headless halfling man on the spot.

With a slight move of his right hand, the bronze wine lord held by the other party fell into his hand.

Feeling the powerful material possessed by the top-level magic weapon, a big stone in Su Mo's heart was finally put down:

"Sure enough, it's the Holy Lord!"

Obtaining the Holy Lord means that the third step of the ritual of the festival is already half successful.

As long as Song Ruyuan and the others go to Chen's house with the twelve talismans to go through the motions, they can start the highlight of the ceremony.

However, before that, Su Mo still decided to investigate the small courtyard in front of him first.

If you guessed correctly, the headless halfling man in front of him should be the high priest of the Chen family, Chen Chuyan.

He must have experienced some kind of battle during the ritual, so much so that his body was cut in half.

But the problem was that the momentum he had displayed earlier was infinitely close to the 9th order.

can kill him with a single sword, and it is likely that a strong man in the mage realm has appeared in the festival.

However, these will depend on the follow-up investigation.

Su Mo turned his gaze to Chen Chuyan in front of him.

The other party did not stay at the shrine after his death, but came to this place.

Presumably, there must be his deepest obsession here.

Through the image seen earlier on the flower path.

Su Mo could vaguely guess what the other party's obsession was.

He couldn't help but look at the black well beside Chen Chuyan.

However, as he approached, the headless halfling, who had been sealed down, struggled violently.

He struggled even harder than he had done before when he had snatched the Saint Lord.

The wounds erupted with pitch-black blood, and the bones in the body made an overwhelming creaking sound.

It seems to be falling apart at any moment.

"So, is this the place you miss the most?"

Su Mo came close and looked down.

A black well with a diameter of one and a half meters, there is not a drop of well water in it.

The bottom of the well has long since dried up, leaving only black-gray sand.

and the many white bones hidden in the sand.

"Thirty-six in all? The Chen family is really evil. ”

Su Mo sighed.

He could probably guess that the thirty-six skeletons at the bottom of the well must include the girl he saw in the picture earlier, that is, Chen Chuyan's daughter.

In fact, Su Mo was very strange, with Chen Chuyan's status as the high priest, why was his daughter still asked to be thrown into this well?

Judging from the situation revealed in the picture, perhaps in the Chen family, there is still a standard above the high priest, or there is something special about his daughter who must be thrown into the well.

Of course, throwing himself into the well is by no means a simple suicide, this black well engraved with many strange runes is definitely not as simple as imagined, otherwise the Chen family would not have sent two 7th-order powerhouses to guard here.

Even the authority of the high priest could not disobey this black well, which shows that the Chen family attaches great importance to it.

So what exactly are they throwing people into the well for?

Su Mo couldn't figure it out for a while.

He looked at the headless halfling next to him.

After the previous fierce struggle, the other party was about to collapse and dissipate at this moment.

But since only half of the corpse remained, Su Mo did not gain useful memories from his disappearance.

"It seems that the mystery of all this may not be completely solved until the Chen family."

……

It's dark.

Su Mo led Xue Lansu to the door of Liu's house.

The convergence of the two parties is extremely happy.

Especially when the people left behind saw the holy lord that Su Mo took out.

I almost cheered out.

With the Holy Lord, the third step can be regarded as completely stable!

However, considering the content of the ceremony, I still have to go to the Chen family next.

Wait until everyone invites the holy Maiden Liu Huayu out.

Xue Lansu's expression couldn't help but stiffen slightly:

"This is the holy woman you prepared?"

At this moment, Liu Huayu was wearing a white sacrificial robe.

There are many crooked traces of stitching and stitching on the sacrificial garment.

Even Liu Huayu himself, who was wearing a sacrificial robe, had many patches on his body.

Zhuo Ningning, who performed the sewing work, said crampedly:

"I know a little bit about knitting, and that's all I can do.

However, Director Song and they all said that it is better to make up for it than not to make it up. ”

Xue Lansu listened, quite speechless.

But she also knows that she can't ask too much.

It's already good to be able to find a candidate saintess, and it's good that the clothes are good enough or something.

Skipping this paragraph, everyone walked forward with the holy woman guarded by twelve talismans in accordance with the rules of the ritual ceremony.

At the front was Su Mo, who kept shaking the worship bell as he walked.

As for Xue Lansu and Song Ruyuan, they followed behind, playing the role of villagers participating in the festival.

It was daytime, and there were no more treacherous monsters around, and the long street seemed extremely bleak, revealing a sense of ruin and coldness.

Seeing this scene, everyone was a little relieved.

At least that way, there will be a lot less trouble along the way.

Following the established route, everyone walked for almost half an hour and finally came to Chen's house.

The Chen family's buildings are vast and vast, and at first glance they look like a mountain villa, standing alone at the edge of the village, occupying a large area, which is incompatible with the other surrounding houses, and you can see at a glance the domineering spirit of the land snake.

And everyone also discovered that there were many figures wandering in the Chen family.

Apparently there are a lot of monsters left here.

Song Ruyuan and the others were about to move, and they were quite excited to come forward and clean up.

However, without waiting for them to speak, Su Mo, who was walking in the forefront, slowly shook the worship bell in his hand.

Invisible sound waves suddenly swept forward, reverberating and bouncing between buildings.

All the monsters who heard the sound wave stiffened suddenly.

Immediately afterwards, their spirituality quickly dissipated like snow under the scorching sun.

Sora left some skeletons and parasites to fall to the ground.

For a while, there was a dense popping sound.

After breaking into Chen's house all the way, everyone divided into three groups and searched in all directions.

Although the Chen family has long since fallen, there must be some treasures left in such a large family.

Such as magic weapons, Danfang and the like, may be hidden somewhere.

This is a rare bonus.

Su Mo naturally swept forward like smoke.

But he didn't search for any family secret vaults and the like, but from the very beginning, he plundered the residence of the high priest Chen Chuyan.

In the memory picture in that alley, he had a certain understanding of the interior layout of the Chen family, so he quickly arrived at his destination.

Reach out and push open the door to your home and step inside.

I saw that the furnishings inside were all very neat, and all kinds of utensils were placed in a regular manner.

From this, it can be seen that Chen Chuyan is a guy with a rigorous personality and does not like messy.

Then, those important documents of his must be stored somewhere.

Su Mo's spiritual power swept towards the entire residence.

Two anomalies were found at once.

He went over to the bed and broke one of the legs on the left side.

I saw that the leg of the bed was hollow, and there were several objects stored in it.

Su Mo raised his hand and took a jade slip into his hand.

After devoting his mental power to investigate, he found that this was a three-pin pill formula.

The effect of the pill is mainly used to detoxify and heal injuries.

It looks like it should be an advanced version of Aoki Dan, with a stronger effect and a wider range of targets.

Then Su Mo picked up a few more jade slips.

These jade slips basically have many Dan recipes recorded on them.

There are mutilated versions and full versions.

The grades are basically two or three grades.

Thinking about a pill is no longer in Chen Chuyan's eyes.

Or maybe a pint of pills didn't work at all for what he was going to do.

The only four-pin Dan prescription on the field was incomplete.

However, what is surprising is that these elixirs are basically used to heal injuries and restore vitality.

It looks like the treasure of an alchemist who is good at refining healing pills.

However, Su Mo knew that Chen Chuyan would prepare these pills, which must have a lot to do with his daughter who was in a wheelchair and couldn't walk.

The purpose of the other party's alchemy should be to find a way to cure his daughter.

It's a pity that until she took the initiative to jump into the black well, Chen Chuyan never found a solution.

Then, Su Mo looked at the remaining three pieces of jade and a jade plate.

Whether it is jade or jade plate, it is engraved with mysterious runes.

Su Mo picked up one of the orange-yellow jades, and started to be cold, with a sense of inspiration.

Looking at the rune law seals that reveal the light of the Dao from time to time.

Su Mo's eyes showed a rare look of surprise:

"It's ...... Fu Yu?! ”

(End of chapter)