Twenty minutes later.

"It's okay."

Looking at the outline of the town gradually outlined in front of her, a smile slowly appeared on the face of Tang Guan, who was originally loveless, and finally, she looked at the silent Zhou Li, the corners of her mouth were almost grinning behind her ears, "Misjudgment is also a part of life that you have to experience, Zhou Li, it's okay, I won't laugh at you." ”

Zhou Li stood in front of the street sign that read "Palm Wood Town", crossed his waist, and fell into deep thought. After Tang Wan on the side escaped from Zhou Li's clutches, he held his hands behind his back and jumped on tiptoe to see the town in the distance. After a while, Zhou Li raised his head and said with some solemnity:

"Something is wrong."

"Ugh."

Tang Wan sighed when he heard this, stretched out his hand, put it on Zhou Li's shoulder, shook his head and said: "Zhou Li, people have missed hands and horses have stumbled, you can't make more misjudgments because of a momentary mistake." Listen to me, let's calm down, ex..."

Holding Tang Guan's small hand on his shoulder, clenching it, Zhou Li's eyes suddenly became sharp, accompanied by a graceful arc across the air, Tang Wan was directly thrown by Zhou Li's beautiful over-the-shoulder to the side of the street sign. Zhou Li squatted beside her, looked at Tang Guan, who was struggling to stand up, ready to die with him, and said:

"Look at the dirt underneath this sign."

Tang Guan and Zhou Li have always been arrogant and arrogant, and after Zhou Li said this, Tang Guan felt as if he was going to ignore it. She lowered her head and carefully examined the dirt under the street sign, and after a moment she frowned and spoke:

"New mud and old mud are mixed together."

"Hmm."

Zhou Li nodded, stood up, looked at the town in the distance, squinted his eyes and carefully looked at the outline, and then spoke:

"It hasn't rained recently, and there are no animals passing by near the footprints, but the soil under this road sign is mixed between old and new, and most of the new soil is on top of the old soil and under the old soil, which should have been moved."

As a member of the Tang Sect, Tang Guan also sensed that something was wrong with this place. She frowned, bowed slightly, and subconsciously became vigilant.

"Someone is trying to ambush us?"

Faced with Tang Guan's question, Zhou Li did not answer it immediately. He rubbed his jaw and pondered, as if he were observing something. After a moment, he shook his head and spoke:

"It doesn't make sense, if you really want to ambush us, this person doesn't need to move this road sign, it will only increase the flaws."

"So..."

Tang Guan looked at Zhou Li and said, "Let's take a look?" ”

Hearing this, Zhou Li patted Tang Guan's shoulder with kind eyebrows, and said, "Do you know, people like you are a group annihilation engine in a horror movie." ”

"Huh?"

Tang Wan was stunned, and then puzzled: "For Sazi? ”

"This kind of road that writes problems on your face is still a fart."

"Huh."

Tang Guan looked at Zhou Li's gaze that hated iron and steel, and suddenly realized: "Then let's change the way?" ”

"Nonsense."

Zhou Li waved his hand angrily, and then the two of them turned around directly and left the road without hesitation.

The moon and stars are scarce, the black magpie flies south, and when Zhou Li and the two people left the road to the village and town, the mutation happened.

"It shouldn't be."

Not long after Zhou Li and the two left, the sound of dirt rubbing came from under the street sign. With the appearance of a somewhat smooth and round brain, a "human" with a scaly body and a rickety body came out of the dirt, squatted next to the street sign, scratched his chin and said to himself, "Why don't you go?" ”

He raised his head, tilted his head to look at the street signs, his small eyes full of puzzlement. Just as he was about to reach out and take off the sign, a sharp sound of breaking wind sounded from behind him.

Boom!

With a muffled sound, the scaly man suddenly staggered, and a look of horror flashed in his eyes. Instinctively, this man plunged his hands directly into the soil, ready to perform the art of earth escape. However, at this moment, a white mist suddenly flashed in front of him.

Holy! Lime!

With a terrible shout, the scaly man immediately covered his eyes with his hands, and the earth escape that was about to be cast suddenly held back. The fear in his chest reminded him that if he didn't do something about it, he would be a fish on the board to be slaughtered, so even if his vision was blocked, this person made a final struggle.

The scales on his body were all bundled, and the sharp edges flashed with cold light one after another. The man covered his face, and the sharp pieces on his body that were like blades burst out in an instant, and in an instant, the cold light and blood rain condensed by the blades enveloped him, tearing apart all living things that could be torn apart.

Moments later, the man collapsed to the ground weakly. He gasped as darkness began to spread before his eyes. Slowly, the man lost consciousness and collapsed to the ground like a salted fish pierced from below.

"Pinch, there will be a storm of blades."

After a while, Zhou Li walked out from the side, patted the remaining lime on his hand, and said with palpitations: "Thanks to me, I left a hand to throw the lime bag." ”

Tang Guan, who was squatting on the side, poked out his little head, and it was obvious that she was the one who kicked this strange person in front of Zhou Li with a big flying foot, and at this time she was a little frightened, and her little face turned white. If it weren't for Zhou Li's conditioned reflex just now, she would have become a raw cut fish fillet now.

"So, what the hell is this thing?"

Looking at the "man" who was slumped on the ground in front of him, Tang Guan took two deep breaths, walked to the other party's side, kicked and asked Zhou Li, "Demon beast?" ”

"Looks like ... No. ”

Zhou Li stretched out his hand, plucked the few scales from the other party's body, and said after taking a closer look: "There is no demonic energy. ”

After finishing speaking, Zhou Li took out a dagger from his waist again, casually cut a bloody hole on this strange man, gently pulled a drop of blood with his fingers, and said after a short period of perception: "There is no other person's blood qi, it should be a spirit." But... There should be a ban set by the demon beast in his body. ”

After hearing the word demon, Tang Guan's expression suddenly became solemn. All things in the Ming Dynasty have spirits, and people can practice qi through spirits, while animals and plants can be cultivated in two different ways: "demon appetite" and "essence", and finally turn into human form, and even become immortals.

The so-called demon craving is that animals or plants make up for their own shortcomings by hunting and killing living beings, devouring the blood qi in living beings, and finally transforming people with qi.

This method is extremely bloody and cruel, even if you don't kill and only devour the blood, you will be infected with a violent atmosphere, and finally turn into a "demon beast". Therefore, demon beasts are often bloodthirsty and cruel, taking pleasure in killing, and their intelligence is incomplete.

Essence, on the other hand, is another way of "cultivating". The so-called essence is that animals or plants refine the innate Qi in the body, and finally perceive the "spirit" in the nature of all things, and open the spiritual wisdom by extracting the natural spirit with the Qi in the body. Those who cultivate in this way are generally called "spirits".

Spirits are not as bloodthirsty and cruel as monsters, but they have human hearts and minds, so they are easily tempted by the world, and eventually become pawns in the hands of humans. And the snake spirit that squeezed dry for the prostitute immortal before is a kind of spirit.

Now, what appeared in front of Zhou Li and Tang Guan was such a spirit.

A spirit controlled by a monster.