"The evil ghost is gone, and the poor road is coming to collect you!"

The old Taoist priest raised the copper bell in his hand and shook it immediately, and sure enough, Jiang Laosan's body shook suddenly, and his movements slowed down.

The old Taoist priest had words in his mouth, surrounded Jiang Laosan and stepped on the Tiangang Beidou, constantly shaking the bell in his hand rapidly, and at the same time his hand touched an extra yellow paper talisman on his waist, pinched the magic trick and threw it away, The yellow paper talisman turned into a yellow light and stuck to Jiang Laosan's eyebrows, and Jiang Laosan, who was still restless and twisted, suddenly quieted down.

"Apprentice, take the magic sword, and wait for the teacher to kill the evil ghosts!" The old Taoist priest stopped his movements, hung the copper bell on his waist and stretched out his hand.

Dao Tong hurriedly handed over the long sword wrapped in sackcloth, and the old Taoist priest reached out and pulled out a sword with a red body, and his mouth was also full of words, and then a sword stabbed Jiang Laosan's eyebrows.

However, before the sword arrived, I only heard a bang, and the yellow talisman attached to Jiang Laosan's eyebrows exploded out of thin air, and a black gas rushed out and hit the old Taoist.

Xu Chen, who had been observing from the side, had already been prepared, and at the moment when the black qi burst out, he suddenly threw the old Taoist priest behind him with a roll of vitality, and the bat phantom turned by the black qi lost its target, and at the same time probably felt that he was a more suitable object to possess, so he pounced directly.

Xu Chen didn't care, and let the bat phantom rush into his sea of consciousness, and at the same time condensed his divine sense into a small sword, and with a few brushes, the bat phantom was smashed into pieces and turned into a cloud of black gas, and in an instant, it was melted away by the light of the blue light vase.

"Poof!" Jiang Laosan fell to the ground headlong, and his breath was cut off.

"Master, are you alright?" The little Taoist priest exclaimed and rushed to the old Taoist priest's side.

"Quick, help me up and go to meet the immortal master!" The old Taoist priest was surprised and delighted, struggled to stand up with the support of the little Taoist priest, and then limped to Xu Chen and knelt down excitedly to worship: "Zhu Youshun, a Taoist priest of Changchun Temple in Heming Mountain, visited the immortal master, thank you to the immortal master for coming to the rescue." ”

Xu Chen opened his eyes, his hand flicked lightly, and a soft vitality helped the old Taoist priest up and nodded with a smile: "The old Taoist doesn't need to be polite, I didn't expect that you, a mortal, still have good spell skills, but this is not an evil ghost, nor an ordinary monster, but a beast from the underworld, not an ordinary spell in the mortal world that can be easily killed." ”

The old Taoist priest was shocked when he heard this, and said with a frightened face: "I see, I said that the spirit rune spells have failed, and I have rarely missed ghost hunting and demon removal before." ”

Xu Chen pointed to Jiang Laosan's corpse and said: "The underworld beast that I possessed just now has been eliminated by me, and there is no danger here, but you can't deal with this kind of underworld beast, let's leave quickly with the apprentice, and when you encounter this kind of thing in the future, try not to participate, otherwise the consequences will be unpredictable!" ”

The old Taoist priest saluted and thanked him again and again, and after putting away the fallen bronze bell sword, he was about to leave, but Xu Chen called them again: "I heard that many people have died in and out of this city recently, it may be that these beasts are the cause of trouble, has the Daoist ever known what else is more suspicious?" ”

The old Taoist priest thought for a while and said: "The city is more chaotic, and the situation is between these two or three days, and the location is not fixed, but I heard that the earliest disappearance of people and animals was in a village five miles north of the city, and some people speculated that these missing people and animals were dragged away by wild beasts, so the villagers went up the mountain to encircle and suppress the beasts, but more than ten people only came back alive for two, and then these two soon went crazy, and killed people in the village, causing a huge tragedy, and then the surrounding villages and the city slowly began to appear people possessed by evil spirits......"

After listening to the old Taoist's words, Xu Chen's brows furrowed, and he turned his head to look at the quiet Lan Youdao: "Lan Daoyou, it seems that the soul beast has escaped here from the vicinity of the Black Wind Ridge, and this soul beast seems to have mutated, and it can actually control ordinary people to kill people, and the situation has become a little out of control!" ”

Lan You's face also showed a little contemplation and said: "That's true, there are many kinds of soul beasts, although the number of those that can invade the soul is very small, but this bat-like soul beast is indeed the most difficult to deal with, I was in the cave at the beginning was invaded by this kind of soul beast Zhihai, if it wasn't for Xu Daoyou's timely rescue, I'm afraid Lan You would have died a long time ago!" ”

The one who knows the soul beast the most is none other than Xu Chen.

And the strangest and most difficult thing to deal with is not the giant spider soul beast whose strength exceeds that of the Danyuan realm, but this kind of bat soul beast that is not large in size and not strong in itself.

Because only this kind of soul beast can invade the sea of knowledge and directly attack the monk's divine soul, even the strong people of the Danyuan realm can't prevent it, once the soul beast invades the sea of knowledge, it can only resist hard.

And for a group of cultivators in the refining and refining qi stage, the divine soul is the most vulnerable place, the primordial spirit has not yet been completed, the protection is weak, and there are few magic weapons of the divine soul, so it is even more difficult to deal with.

Fortunately, this time, the Spirit Fox Canyon and the Black Wind Ridge Great Array opened the gap and released black gas, spewing out a total of tens of thousands of soul beasts of various sizes, but there were very few of this bat type.

However, it was this rare strange soul beast that caused the most casualties among the monks.

Of the more than fifty dead monks in total, almost half of them were killed by this kind of demon bat invading the sea of consciousness and devouring their souls.

And he died so fast that he was almost powerless

Therefore, as the news spread, whenever this kind of demon bat was encountered in the large array in the two places, all the monks would immediately flee, and those who could deal with this kind of soul beast, except for Xu Chen, were several Danyuan Realm powerhouses or True Yuan Realm monks who held soul magic weapons.

This kind of demon bat soul beast is not strong because of its own strength, basically only has the strength of a first-order demon beast, like the kind of two-headed bat that helped Xu Chen fight against the giant spider soul beast last time, it has not appeared, so most of them were finally trapped in the formation and killed, but there are still fish that have slipped through the net, and they have now run thousands of miles away and started to cause trouble in the mortal world.

What worries Xu Chen the most is that this kind of soul beast can still parasitize in the body of mortals like a yin soul without a physical body, and it is repeatedly infected, killing one will quickly invade the body of another person and continue to survive.

Xu Chen didn't know how this soul beast was infected and parasitic at the moment, because the mortals who were possessed couldn't carefully identify the soul beast's breath through his divine sense, so he couldn't use his divine sense to search and hunt down on a large scale.

Although the soul beast in front of him was solved, he was still uneasy, according to his inference, the bat soul beast he had just killed seemed to be incomplete, very weak, and seemed to be only a part of a bat soul beast.

Then the matter becomes even more complicated.

If the Bat Soul Beast was indeed capable of splitting itself and infecting mortals, then the situation would become more and more uncontrollable over time, eventually causing thousands of people to die as a result.

What worries Xu Chen the most is whether the soul beast will continue to increase its strength through this method, and eventually become completely uncontrollable!

Therefore, after thinking about it carefully, Xu Chen said to Lan You: "Lan Daoyou, this matter is not trivial, we can't ignore it, we have to investigate it carefully, otherwise I am afraid that there will be a huge hidden danger, and more people will die in the future!" ”

Lan You nodded and said, "I support Xu Daoyou whatever he wants, anyway, I'm not in a hurry to go back to the mountain!" ”

Xu Chen breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, and after a brief discussion between the two, he asked the old Taoist master and apprentice to lead the way, and went out of the city to check the situation in the village where the dead disappeared at the beginning in the north of the city.

Everything always has a source, although so many days have passed, and the Bat Soul Beast may have left the place where it first appeared, but if it can find some clues, it will still be very beneficial for the next trace.

After the four of them left the city, Xu Chen let go of his divine sense and found the village that the old Taoist priest said, and directly threw out the flying sword, and the vitality wrapped the master and apprentice, and a light broke through the air, and soon they arrived at the foot of a barren mountain.

There is indeed a small village here, scattered with more than a dozen farm houses, and the crops in the fields are also rising well. However, the whole village was not visible to anyone, the doors and windows of every house were open, and there was a rancid smell wafting in the air.

The people were still in the air, Xu Chen's divine sense had already seen the situation in the village and the surroundings clearly, there was indeed no one in the village, all the people went to the empty houses, and there were still people who had not yet fallen and the corpses of people and animals had begun to decompose.

The whole village exudes a thick eerie and quiet, really like a ghost village.

The four of them landed, and the old Taoist priest and the little apprentice had not yet recovered from the shock, standing on the ground still trembling.

Xu Chen carefully searched the entire village inside and outside the two miles, and did not find any soul beast breath, so he enlarged the scope of his divine consciousness again, enveloping the entire barren mountain behind the village, searching like a grate, and suddenly his divine sense jumped, and he felt a familiar aura in a cave in the ravine on the side of the barren mountain.

Lan You found the cave almost at the same time, and the two of them touched each other, and then quickly retreated.

Xu Chen's heart rippled for a while, but Lan You's cheeks suddenly turned red.

This casual touch of divine consciousness is like two unclothed people meeting each other and saying hello, which is a mess of excitement.

Under normal circumstances, the exchange of divine consciousness between monks will release vitality to protect the sea of consciousness, just like a person wearing clothes.

But if you forget, you will see each other's spirits.

Of course, this kind of talk is actually a subconscious feeling, as if it can penetrate the other person's heart, this is purely a touch of thought, the deepest level of soul communication, far clearer than pure physical contact, and will be engraved in the memory in an instant to form a kind of imprint.

"Ahem, Lan Daoyou, it seems that it is not in vain, we should have found the location of the soul beast!" Xu Chen coughed lightly a few times to hide his embarrassment.

Lan You lowered his head and said softly: "That's true, that soul beast should be in the cave, without further ado, let's kill it, so we can get on the road as soon as possible!" ”

"Good!" Xu Chen nodded, and said to the old Taoist master and apprentice: "We have found the location where the soul beast is hiding, this is going to be killed, your master and apprentice wait here first, if you are afraid, you can leave and return to the city first!" ”

The old Taoist priest was full of excitement when he heard this, and said: "Can the two immortal masters take the old Taoist to open their eyes, the ancestor of my Changchun Temple was also an immortal, and he cultivated to reach the true yuan realm, and I heard that he also went to Taiyuan Gate to visit and learn immortal arts." ”

Xu Chen's face was full of surprise when he heard this: "The cultivation of the True Yuan Realm is already very good, and he has even been to my Taiyuan Gate, so it seems that it is indeed some fate to meet this time." ”

The old Taoist priest said with surprise on his face: "It turns out that the two are also immortal masters of Taiyuan Gate. ”

Xu Chen shook his head and said, "I am a disciple of Taiyuan Sect, but this Lan Daoyou is a senior disciple of Yuqing Palace. ”

The old Taoist priest was stunned for a moment and said with a wry smile: "The two immortal masters forgive their sins, the old Taoist knows the Taiyuan Gate, but he doesn't know that there is also the Yuqing Palace." ”

Xu Chen smiled: "It's okay not to know, let's go and kill this soul beast first, so as not to be detected by it and escape, since you want to go and see, it's okay, get there and don't get too close, otherwise you're afraid of accidents, let's go!" ”

Xu Chen said that he rolled up his vitality, wrapped the old Taoist master and apprentice and stepped on the sword, Lan You followed, and the two rays of light rose to the sky, heading straight to the ravine on the side of the barren mountain.

(End of chapter)