Gong Wuguang quickly explained the matter one by one.

After Li Chuan heard this, he felt that in about a month, this matter could be completely resolved, and he also settled down. Then he asked about the Soul Eater, "Supervisor, how did the previous people deal with this Spirit Eater, is it written in the record?" ”

"Written. I saw it in a travelogue, and the travelogue was written by a monk with the name of a Caoan Taoist. After he fought with demons and was seriously injured, he hid in Tibet and stumbled upon a village of Qiufeng, where the people were very simple, with men farming and women weaving. Gong Wuguang talked about the account he saw.

He said: "When they saw the hermitage, they welcomed him very warmly, so he stayed there. After living for about ten years, he gradually discovered the anomaly of Qiufeng Village, that is, the number of people in the village has not changed. ”

"No newborns?" Li Chuan asked.

"Yes, some people have died, and new lives have been born, but the number of people in the entire village remains the same. ”

"Is this also the result of Soul Eater?" Chang Xiao asked.

Gong Wuguang said: "Don't worry, listen to me, you will know." ”

He continued: "The people of the grass hermitage began to investigate the matter. On the night of the first day of autumn in Qiufeng Village every year, everyone in the village will quietly come out of the house and go deep into the mountains and forests. The people of the hermitage had also noticed their actions before, and had seen them in the past, but they didn't notice anything unusual, so they only regarded what they did as some kind of mountain spirit worship. Now that he realized that something was wrong, he thought about the strange behavior of the villagers. There are exactly two months left, and autumn is coming, and the people of the hermitage are waiting for that day to come. ”

Soon it was the day of autumn, and in the evening, the people of the hermitage found that after nightfall, all the villagers had come out of their homes, and they walked silently into the depths of the forest until they reached a maple forest. Then they stood in a circle and danced in a strange way, and danced in silence until the sky turned white, and then stopped. ”

"Did he find it?" Li Chuan asked with concern.

Gong Wuguang said: "The Daoist of Cao'an also realized that he had been possessed by the devouring spirit, and his memory was gradually decreasing, but because he was a loose cultivator, his soul was condensed, and he lived longer than ordinary people, so the speed at which his memory was devoured was slower than that of the villagers. After that, he continued to talk to the villagers, trying to find some clues, and also began to probe around to find a way to exorcise the Eater. ”

"No," Gong Wuguang sighed slightly, "he found the spirit devourer of Qiufeng Village, probably because the village once encountered a strange bird, the strange bird took the village baby, and the village men went up the mountain together, found the strange bird's nest, killed its young, burned its nest, and shot it blind in one eye with a bow and arrow." After that, many strange things began to happen in the village. ”

"What about the Grass Ann Daoren?" Li Chuan asked.

"This time, the Kusan Taoist watched the entire ceremony. When the light of day dawned, he found that these villagers were just shadows, and the brighter the sky, the more solid their bodies became, and when they returned home, they were no different from ordinary people. A few days later, a villager died in an accident, and a month later, a baby was born. ”

"The Daoist of Cao'an understood at this time that the entire Qiufeng Village was just an illusion. So he went to the maple leaf forest alone, and after several investigations, he found that the maple leaf forest was the location of the real Qiufeng Village, and the current Qiufeng Village was just an illusion formed by a large number of devouring spirits after devouring the memories of everyone in their village. ”

In the end, he chose to divide his soul into two, half of which remained in Qiufeng Village, and the other half returned to the world without any memory, only with the travelogues he had written over the years.

"The Grass Ann Daoren summed up many characteristics of the Soul Eater, for example, it can only possess people, and there are youkai who have opened their minds, but cannot attach themselves to animals. He also wrote down how to capture it. But he still couldn't get rid of it, and he lost his memory faster and faster. ”

"What about the flesh?" Li Chuan asked.

"Naturally, it is given to the half that has no memory." Gong Wuguang replied.

"What about cultivation?" Li Chuan asked.

"He didn't write, but it is estimated that he is not much stronger than ordinary people," Gong Wuguang said: "The Taoist of Cao'an did this, just to gamble on a possibility in a desperate situation." Unfortunately, his bet failed, and at the end of the travelogue, another unknown monk wrote about what happened next. ”

"What happened?" Chang Xiao asked.

Gong Wuguang said: "A sect called the Xiaguang Sect discovered that there was a constant appearance of soul loss among the disciples, and after they investigated, they found that it originated from a blacksmith. The blacksmith's family, his wife, and his two children, had lost all their memories like the walking dead, and he was the only one, holding the travelogues, sitting on the threshold, muttering things that no one else understood. ”

"At that time, the Xuanmen studied according to the records in the travelogue, discovered the connection between the splits of the soul devouring body, and found that the juice of the green frost grass could get rid of the soul eater. So, in one fell swoop, they found all the possessed people and gathered them together in one place. ”

"Excessive? Didn't you find the green frost grass? Chang Xiao asked.

Gong Wuguang replied, "At that time, the Green Frost Grass was very rare, and I guess only a few monks used it. ”

After a pause, he continued, "After a while, they found Autumn Maple Village, found the maple forest, and dealt with it all, and finally they also found the body of the strange bird that was blind in one eye, and it is presumed that it has been dead for decades. ”

Gong Wuguang said: "The record in the travelogue is here. At that time, after reading it, I went to the Xuanyue Gate and asked to go to their library to find some information, and indeed found a few simple records pointing to this matter. ”

"Moreover, the idea of the spell written by the Taoist of the hermitage to capture the escape and devouring soul is very similar to some spells in the later generations, and the spells of the later generations obviously originated from this and made many improvements."

"So if the Spirit Devourer appears at this time, even if you don't know where it came from, you will only panic for a while at the beginning, as long as you confirm its existence and try a few more methods, you will definitely be able to solve it." Gong Wuguang then smiled and said: "Of course, becoming a monk and a nun can't be solved. ”

Hearing this, Li Chuan and the others laughed.

After laughing, Li Chuan felt that there were still many puzzles, and he asked, "However, if the Soul Devourer is unconscious, then what is the matter with those phantoms?" What about the ceremony...... Where did they learn it? ”

Gong Wuguang said: "According to my speculation, the soul devouring alone is indeed unconscious. But when their numbers reach a certain level, they will have a unified consciousness, and they will form an illusion based on the devoured memories. As for the ritual, maybe it is...... It's a way to stabilize the illusion. ”

"And the strange birds?" Li Chuan asked.

Gong Wuguang said: "I don't know. ”

Li Chuan had other ideas, he asked, "I always feel that the form of Soul Devouring is a bit similar to a ghost?" Will...... Was this a failed attempt by the Wraith in the past? ”

As he spoke, his thoughts diverged, and he said, "The demon ruins found in Heyuan Town, could it be related to this?" By the way, there is also the previous monster chaos, could it be that the seal was unsealed somewhere, so the demons and monsters came out? ”

(End of chapter)