The villagers thought that Zhang Xian was going to the town to collect demons, but when they saw that Zhang Xian didn't know about the monsters, one person said:

"There is a long-abandoned Taoist temple in the town, a few days ago, there were children who turned into the Taoist temple to play, saw a ghost, went back to have a stomachache, has not been cured, so I invited the fairy lady in the town to see the water bowl. ”

"The fairy lady said that it was an evil spirit, and after asking the child, she knew that she had gone to the Taoist temple, so she went to the Taoist temple to check, and found that there was a tree vine, and the fairy lady said that it was this tree vine that was wrong, and the child's illness could be cured if she cut the vine, but she cut it with a knife, and it was ...... Human blood was shed. ”

The tone of the villagers was a little frightened, Zhang Xian was also stunned, the bleeding demon tree, he had also read about it in the book, it really existed!

"And then?" Zhang Xian hurriedly asked.

The villagers said: "Then I was afraid, no one dared to cut down the tree, and the fairy lady was also afraid, and I didn't dare to cut down the tree, so I said that I would do a law and burn the entire Taoist temple. ”

After listening to the ins and outs, Zhang Xian immediately knew in his heart that the fairy lady belonged to the folk belief in witches and ghosts.

Witch and ghost belief is witchcraft, witchcraft is not divided between ghosts and gods, thinking that the soul is a ghost, but also a god, believing in ghosts and gods, paying attention to psychic, superstition is mixed, is the most simple way of belief of the ancients.

Fairy Niang Po is one of the schools of witch and ghost beliefs, and the inheritance method of Fairy Niang Po is very mysterious, and there is no master and apprentice to teach this theory, but to master the knife and hold dreams.

If someone believes in this fairy mother, or kneel in front of the grave, or worship at home, and then dream of this fairy mother, go to the grave to dig out the knife, commonly known as the immortal.

The master knife is the inheritance, just like the master passed on to the apprentice, so it is called the master knife.

And the fairy mothers are all women, because women belong to the yin, it is easier to be superstitious about ghosts and gods, but superstition is not clear, and they are generally chattering with gods and gods, masculine and weak, and yin is very heavy.

However, superstition lacks correct practice, and the Tao is shallow, and it is difficult to achieve the Tao.

This child's stomach hurts, maybe he has been hit by the Dryad's spell, but he has already been hit, and it is useless to kill the Dryad, but he may lose the key to the solution.

However, he wondered in his heart, is there really a dryad who has cultivated to become a refinement?

He is now proficient in Taoism, and he doesn't want to know the way before, and he can't judge whether it's true or not.

It stands to reason that spells are thoughts, thoughts are the power of the soul of the primordial spirit, and the soul of the primordial spirit needs to be based on the brain, trees and plants have no brains, even if they have soul thoughts, but they don't have the ability to think, and they can't learn spells at all.

And the people of this village said that this dryad is a kind of vine, and cutting down trees will bleed, which makes him think of some plants with a pulp like blood, and one of them is called blood vine.

"Fellow, where is the Taoist temple, can you take me to see, I will cure the disease, and I can also accept this tree demon. ”

Zhang Xian said, if it is really a blood vine, you must not let the fairy lady burn, the blood vine is a good medicine for healing, it can activate blood and dispel blood stasis, pass through the meridians, regulate blood qi, and treat internal injuries, external injuries, musculoskeletal injuries, etc.

And blood vine can also clear the intestines, which is a good medicine for stomach pain.

When several villagers heard that this young Taoist chief would cure diseases and collect demons, they immediately came to their spirits, and they all wanted to see how to cure diseases and collect demons, so they hurriedly stepped up on the road ahead and went to the town.

As he walked, he asked curiously: "Dao Chief, are you an immortal from Taixu Mountain?" I heard that there are many immortals over there, with profound Taoism and strong mana. ”

"Huh. Zhang Xian smiled indifferently, and had the intention to make up a new identity for himself, and said casually: "Yes, I came from Taixu Mountain, but Taixu Mountain was enshrined by the imperial court and contaminated with secular fame and fortune, and it is no longer a place for pure cultivation, so I came here." ”

"That's the case, you are really an immortal of Taixu Mountain!" Upon hearing this, several villagers were shocked.

One of them hurriedly said, "Dao Chief, do you know how to spell?" Can you let us see the spell!"

Ordinary people are curious about Fang Immortal, they are curious about Fang Immortal's spells.

"Of course I know how to spell, but ......"

Zhang Xian responded, his current nonsense kung fu is also freewheeling, loosen if he wants, round if he wants to be round, and said in a changed tone: "But...... You have mortal eyes, you don't know ghosts and gods, you can't see spells, and you can't use them, or they won't work. ”

"Ah, that's it......" Several people were disappointed, and some doubted, this young Taoist leader should not be fooling them, those Jianghu warlocks all said this.

"Huh. Zhang Xian didn't say much, just smiled and didn't say anything, deliberately playing a hand of true and false.

He used the routine of the warlock to make people suspicious, and after a while, he showed his ability and immediately suppressed these people, and this matter spread out, even if someone heard about it, they only thought it was a routine of the rivers and lakes, there was a fake in the truth, and there was a truth in the false, even if he knew that it was true, he couldn't tell the details of him.

Of course, he also has another intention, he wants to settle down in this area, the silver on his body can't sit and eat empty, the medicinal materials of Bigu Dan and Washing Pill are not cheap, plus he eats a lot of food, and he often eats medicinal diet to recuperate, this cost is not a small amount, he has to take some skills to stand firm, and think of making more money.

After a while, I came to the town, this area is mountainous, the humidity is very heavy, and it is far away from the border of Zhongzhou, the folk customs and the people of Zhongzhou are a little surprised, the houses in the town are wooden buildings, and they are also very simple and ancient.

This town is very small, just a bluestone paved street, on both sides are wooden buildings, only thirty or forty households, in fact, it is a small village, because the road is rugged, it is inconvenient to go to the city, the villagers within a radius of twenty miles, usually catch the market here, and this town is formed.

The town was very quiet, everyone went to see the fairy lady to burn the Taoist temple, Zhang Xian asked: "Fellow, I don't know how this Taoist temple is abandoned, are there other Taoist temples in this area?"

The villagers said: "We are all fairy women in this area, there are no Taoist priests, Taoist priests are from the Taixu Mountain, the Taoist temple is a few years ago, there is a Taoist Taoist of Taixu Mountain who traveled here, built this Taoist temple, lived for two or three years, I heard that I went to other places to travel, and the Taoist temple was abandoned. ”

During the conversation, passing through the town, the Taoist temple is on the mountainside on the side of the town, which is also a wooden building, but there are walls on all sides, which is a combination of Zhongzhou's house style.

The Taoist temple is lively at this time, the villagers in a radius of several miles have come here to join in the fun, in the wall of the Taoist temple, a lot of firewood and grass are piled up, and a crime is set up in front of the Taoist temple, and a fairy lady is doing it.

The age of this fairy lady is not old, about forty or fifty years old, wearing a shabby dress, but the yin is very heavy, giving people a gloomy feeling, masculine, the spirit is biased towards yin, and the face looks very old, which is a typical feature of the fairy lady.

The fairy lady was whispering something, her face twitched, her eyes were cloudy, her hands trembled and raised, she was wearing an iron ring on her hand, and the iron ring was hanging with a short knife, and there were many small rings on the iron ring, and when her hand trembled, the iron ring collided and made a burst of sound, this is the fairy lady's master knife.

Zhang Xian also looked at this scene with curiosity, and was very interested in witchcraft.

He could see that this fairy mother's master knife was indeed a magic weapon, a metal magic weapon similar to the sword of the god suppression, which had been worn on the fairy mother's body for a long time, contaminated with blood qi and Taoism, and transformed into a magic weapon.

However, the mana of this master knife is very weak, and it is very gloomy, belonging to the category of yin ghosts.

And the Tao of this fairy lady is only to practice refinement and qi, and through this superstitious thought, to achieve a state similar to self-hypnosis, subconscious stimulation thoughts, and the yin ghost thoughts of the master knife are connected.

The so-called channeling is to use one's own thoughts but contact other thoughts to achieve communication at the level of divine thoughts.

He stared again, his eyes had heavy pupils, and he glanced at the Taoist temple, not that he found any ghosts, as for the tree vine, as he expected, this should be a blood vine, not a tree demon.

Moreover, this blood vine is not an ordinary blood vine, the part planted in the land, the aura is very sufficient, it is a spiritual tree, and it also contains a wisp of mana.

To be precise, the trees and vines in the Taoist temple all exude a ray of spiritual light, which is the method of the authentic immortal family to clear the heart and ward off evil spirits, and it should be the profound mana of the Taoist master, who has been practicing here for a long time.

At this moment, the fairy lady cast a spell, the yin ghost mana and the pure heart mana clashed, feeling the inexplicable pressure, the convulsions became more and more severe, the consciousness was unclear, and the eyes were in a trance and rolled their eyes, as if they were having a nightmare.

Next to the fairy mother, a couple held a child, followed the fairy lady to bow, begging for the blessing of the ghosts.

The couple were about thirty years old, dressed in satin clothes, much richer than the average person, apparently rich in the town, and the children were twelve or thirteen, holding their stomachs in pain, fainting with a high fever, and their faces were painful, and they were already dying.

Zhang Xian glanced at it, and immediately found that the disease in the child's body was not an evil spirit, but an intestinal carbuncle, and the condition was very serious.

At this time, the fairy lady woke up with a frightened expression on her face, and when she found something terrible, she exclaimed loudly: "Hurry up...... Hurry up and light the fire and burn this strange Taoist temple. ”

The onlookers hurriedly retreated, and several people stepped forward, lit torches, and were about to throw fire into the Taoist temple.

Seeing this, Zhang Xian couldn't help frowning, blood vine is a good medicine for intestinal carbuncles, if it is burned, I am afraid that I will have to disembowel and remove the intestinal carbuncles, so that there is hope to save the child's life.

But if he stands up to stop it, he will definitely offend this fairy woman, this area is the realm of witches and ghosts, and he will definitely be hated.

What's more, he looks at the folk customs of these people, and he is also very superstitious, he will definitely listen to the words of the fairy mother, but will not listen to him, and maybe he will slander him as an accomplice of the Taoist temple, saying that he is to blame and harm this child, which is difficult to argue.

Seeing a few people thrown into the torches, his heart moved, and his two fingers were pinched into sword tricks, drawing talismans in the void, and casting five element spells.

I saw that the torch was thrown into the pile of firewood and grass, and as soon as the flame burned, the void twisted and rose, and the flame was inexplicably extinguished.

"Huh, why is the fire extinguished? Hurry up and light the fire again. ”

A few people thought it was unlit, so they had to light the fire again, but as soon as the flame rose, it went out again in a blink of an eye.

"This ......"

When everyone saw this scene, they couldn't help but look at each other, and the atmosphere became a little weird, strange, why didn't this fire ignite, could it be that there were ghosts and gods?