As the villagers walked five or six miles south, they came to the side of a small lake.

No one said a word along the way, and it continued to do so even after reaching the lake.

The villagers stood by the lake one by one, as if commanded, and carefully put their torches in front of their bodies, and several women put their babies in their arms on the ground, and then stood together with their hands outstretched, hand in hand.

Ma Xie didn't dare to approach, he felt that there must be something wrong behind this strange picture, either a cultivator or a strange beast was playing ghosts.

I saw that the hands of these villagers were slowly raised, and some unintelligible words began to be silently recited in their mouths, and the sound became louder and louder, until finally it reached Ma Xie's ears like a magic sound:

"Mo Ni Gan Kong Ma ......" All the villagers kept repeating these five syllables, their voices were dry, but they did not stop for a moment, and all the people had an unusually uniform tone, even the old people and children.

A dark cloud in the sky gradually dispersed, and the moonlight shone on the surface of the lake, shining a little light.

But Ma Xie saw that these lights were not flashing silver, but a dizzying red.

Ma Xie looked up, the moon that was supposed to be as bright as a silver plate, but at this moment, it emitted a strange red light, and around the moon, a huge ring appeared, and this ring was also red.

When the red moon appeared, all the villagers' heads and their exaggerated angles tilted back, and then everyone opened their eyes and mouths, and stopped chanting the strange incantation.

"Master, Mao Yue ......," Lei Shi whispered to Tsushima.

Ma Xie nodded, he had seen this phenomenon, but it was indeed extremely abnormal for this phenomenon to appear here today, but Ma Xie believed that all this was just the beginning, and the villagers must have some purpose when they gathered here.

The water began to change, at first only a few bubbles, then it boiled like boiling water, splashing the bodies and faces of the villagers, but not one of them shouted.

Gradually, a huge whirlpool appeared in the center of the lake, and after the whirlpool appeared, the villagers shouted in unison:

"Your Excellency has arrived!"

Their eyes were still on the moon, but their faces were full of excitement, as if something they had been waiting for had finally arrived.

"It seems that the Lord is coming out soon. Yuan Wuji said: "I don't know what kind of monster it is, it shouldn't be the river god......

"The villagers must have been hypnotized, no matter what comes out here, it will not be a good man or a woman. "Horse Evil Dao.

As the vortex expanded, two black objects rose up from the vortex.

As the thing rose higher and higher, Ma Xie saw clearly that it was two horn-shaped things, but under the horns, it was not a bull's head, but a huge human head.

It was the head of a young girl, and I saw that this head was more than three feet high, exactly like a twelve or thirteen-year-old girl.

"Her" had round eyes, her mouth was wide cracked, as if she was laughing happily, and her black hair fluttered in the wind, gradually becoming thick and long, wrapping around the necks of the villagers.

Immediately afterwards, the girl's whole body leaked out, and she was more than two feet high, sitting on a wooden sedan chair, and gradually floated into the air.

The girl's hair tightened the necks of the villagers, and many of the villagers' blood vessels seemed to explode, but no one resisted, but enjoyed the pleasure of suffocation.

A little bit of blue substance gradually emerged from a villager's mouth, and the substance elongated little by little, as if it was about to break free from the villager's mouth.

Ma Xie knew that he couldn't wait any longer, so he picked up his long sword and rushed forward, and Yuan Wuji followed behind.

With a swing of the sword, the sword qi cut off all the hair wrapped around the villager's neck, and then all the villagers collapsed to the ground, and the blue substance also returned to the villager's body.

Then Ma Xie stabbed out another sword and stabbed at the huge girl.

Seeing Ma Xie rushing out, the girl's already pale face became even more hideous, and she stretched out two paws like a demon and pounced towards Ma Xie.

Ma Xie made a move, and the black sword qi slashed at the girl, he had already concluded that this girl was not human at all, there was a special aura on her body, it was a faint smell, and Ma Xie couldn't remember what it was for a while.

The black sword qi slashed at the girl's body, along the girl's head to the left abdomen, and split the girl in two.

Strangely, the separated body did not bleed, but slowly fell to the sides like two pieces of paper.

When the body split in half falls, a round-headed monster appears in front of Ma Evil.

The monster was an ugly ball of flesh with a pair of tiny fleshy wings and only one eye, beneath which was a large mouth with the fangs of an elder.

Big Mouth hissed at Ma Xie a few times, then flew away in one direction and fled.

"You go take care of the villagers, and I'll go after the monster. Ma Xie said to Yuan Wuji and Lei Shi, and then turned into a streamer and chased after him.

The ball of meat flew extremely fast, and it was constantly changing direction, and Ma Xie had to use all his strength to barely keep up.

The meat ball took the horse evil all the way to a forest, then hid in the dark woods, and disappeared.

Ma Xie flew down and walked into the woods, never to see the shadow of the meat ball again.

There was still a unique stench of the ball of meat in the air, and Ma Xie frowned and walked towards the middle of the forest.

The same kind of tree grows in the forest, and this is a plant called a "painting tree".

This plant can grow up to 20 zhang high, but it is not very stout. Their leaves are thin and long, almost the same as those of the northern taiga.

The most useful thing about this tree is that it secretes a unique liquid from its torso, which will show different colors in different regions, and is one of the painter's favorite pigments, so this kind of tree is also called "painting tree".

Walking into the depths of the painting forest, Ma Xie never saw the ball of meat, but the trees here became thicker and thicker, and the strange stench gradually disappeared.

"It's strange, it's running in here. "The horse evil spread the aura, and used the power of the aura to find the strange ball of flesh.

Suddenly, a black shadow flashed in the woods in front of him, and Ma Xie hurriedly chased after him and grabbed the black shadow.

"Spare your life!" the black shadow curled up on the ground and begged for mercy.

Ma Xie saw what kind of monster this was, but a living human being.

"Who are you and what are you doing here?" asked Ma Xie.

The man said tremblingly: "The villain's name is Huang Jin, and he is a painter who has come here to collect paints. ”

Ma Xie saw that the man was carrying a basket behind his back, which was full of paintbrushes and paper, as well as some tools for collecting paint.

"When did you come here? Did you see a strange ball of meat flying?"

"No, I've been living in this forest for ten days, and I haven't seen anything strange. Huang Jin got up and patted the soil on his body, and said with his head down.

Ma Xie looked at Huang Jin with some suspicion: "You are a cultivator?"

Huang Jin said: "Yes, what's wrong, but I'm a painter first, and practice is just my side job." By the way, who are you?"

Ma Xie explained his intention, Huang Jin shook his head again: "I haven't seen that thing, maybe it's a strange beast that escaped from there, although there is no blessed land here, but in fact, there are a few small exotic entrances, and there is no large sect to stop the cleanup, it is normal for a few strange beasts to run out." ”

Saying that, Huang Jin sorted out his things and turned to leave.

"Slow!" Ma Xie stopped Huang Jin, Huang Jin was stunned, and subconsciously rushed forward.

Ma Xie's speed was much faster than him, and he caught up with Huang Jin in one dodge.

"What are you running?" asked Ma Xie.

"What are you telling me to do?" Huang Jin looked at Ma Xie vigilantly.

Ma Xie took out a pen and handed it to Huang Jin.

Huang Jin took the pen, glanced at Ma Xie, and walked away quickly.

Looking at Huang Jin's distant back, Ma Xie always felt that something was wrong, he thought about it carefully and chased after him violently.

When Ma Xie gave Huang Jin the pen, the faint smell appeared again.

"There's something wrong with that person! The smell of that pen is the same as the taste of that meat ball!" Ma Xie blamed himself for his negligence, and the meat ball entered this forest, and a cultivator suddenly appeared in the place where it disappeared, isn't it worth doubting?

However, Huang Jin's cowardice made Ma Xie relax his vigilance and did not suspect him.

Ma Xie quickly chased after him, but Huang Jin sped up, much faster than before.

"There must be something wrong with this person!" Ma Xie had to use the golden needle again, and the speed of the aura accelerated, and he quickly caught up with Huang Jin.

Seeing that Ma Xie was chasing after him, Huang Jin knew that he had leaked, he took out the pen that Ma Xie handed him, and shook it back hard, and a few drops of ink were thrown out of the pen.

Those few drops of ink became bigger and bigger, and they rushed straight to Ma Xie with a rich aura.

Ma Xie took out the Tyranny Flame and pushed the evil ink balls away, but before his sword body touched the ink balls, those ink balls exploded violently, and a black mist spread out, covering Ma Xie's vision.

"This bastard. Ma Xie held his breath and flew over the black mist, but Huang Jin had already flown into the distance.

Seeing Huang Jin fleeing so decisively, Ma Xie knew that this person must have a lot to do with those villagers.

His golden needle condensed in his body on his limbs and internal organs, and his aura formed a shuttle shape around his body, flying towards Huang Jin at the fastest speed.

Although Huang Jin was a cultivator, it was obvious that his cultivation was not very profound, and he was soon caught up by Ma Xie again.

So Huang Jin repeated his old trick, wanting to use that kind of aura ink ball to stop Ma Xie from chasing.

This time, Ma Xie was on guard, and no longer used his sword to pick up the ink ball, but saw the route where the ink ball was flying, dodged it one by one, and quickly flew to Huang Jin.

"Look where you're going!" Ma Xie finally came to Huang Jin and used his long sword against Huang Jin.

Huang Jin's face turned pale with fright from Ma Xie's long sword, it was obvious that he was not good at fighting, and Ma Xie subdued him without much effort.

"What do you have to do with that meat ball?" asked Ma Xie straight to the point.

Huang Jin said: "I don't understand what you're talking about, I'm just a painter, although I also practice, but I don't know how to fight, why are you bullying me as an honest man." ”

"Honest man, this pen is not like what an honest man can have!" Ma Xie took out the pen he left behind from Huang Jin and said, "What's the matter with the corpse smell on this item?"

It turned out that the smell that had been accompanying the horse evil just now was a corpse smell, how could a painter's pen have such a smell, but it was exactly the same as the smell emitted by the meat ball.

Huang Jin gritted his teeth and said to Ma Xian: "This fellow Daoist, this matter doesn't seem to have much to do with you." ”

"When I saw it, I had something to do with it, and said, What do you want to do with those villagers?" Ma Xie scolded.

"What does it have to do with you!" Huang Jin gasped.

As he spoke, Huang Jin's breathing began to become rapid, his face gradually turned pale, and large drops of sweat dripped from his forehead.

This is not a situation that a cultivator will have, no matter how bad Huang Jin's cultivation is, he will not be tired like this.