Black clouds covered the moon, and the originally bright night immediately looked dark.

At this time, a gust of evil wind blew from nowhere, blowing the already small lanterns in Taikang Village to the ground.

The lantern burned on the ground, and the flames did not add any light.

Instead, it was immediately extinguished, plunged into eternal darkness.

"It can't really be haunted..."

Zhang Ziming frowned slightly, and said in a deep voice.

Xi looked at the scene in front of him, and couldn't help but feel a little hairy in his heart, but when he thought of it, as a mysterious snake that had practiced for thousands of years, he had squeezed into the ranks of spirit beasts, if he was frightened away by such a scene in front of him, then it would be a joke of the same kind in vain if it spread out in the future.

Xi straightened his back and said to Zhang Ziming, "Well, I can actually see at a glance that there is something wrong with this village. It's just a trick to pretend to be a ghost, and it's not worth mentioning. ”

Zhang Ziming glanced at Xi and couldn't help but say, "That being the case, Xi Daxian might as well take the lead?"

When Xi heard this, his head immediately shook like a wave, and he muttered, "These little demons, where are they worth doing by this great immortal." I think it's better to leave it to you young people, so that you can experience it a little more. ”

Zhang Zi knew that Xi was scared in his heart, but he was curious, but he didn't expect that this spirit beast would be afraid of sneakiness.

"It's not necessarily sneaky, in case it's a chaotic demon beast, I don't know. Zhang Ziming reminded loudly.

When Xi heard Zhang Ziming say this, he suddenly realized, clapped his hands and said, "That's right, most of the sneaky people are generally attached to people with weak yang energy, and there is no figure here, so it must be that the demon beast has cast some spell." ”

Zhang Ziming thought for a moment in his heart, took out two yellow talismans, and painted them in the air.

Xi watched from the sidelines, with some surprise in his eyes, "Isn't this a talisman?

Zhang Ziming pasted the talisman seal on Xi's body and explained, "Master, he gave me some instructions, and now it can be used normally." ”

The talisman drawn by Zhang Ziming is called the Zhenggang Sanyang Qingxin Talisman, which specializes in overcoming sneaky things, and sticking this talisman will make it impossible for ordinary sneaky people to get close, and they will not be able to pose any threat.

The two of them pasted the talisman, jumped up, and walked to Taikang Village.

Walking in Taikang Village, Zhang Ziming and Xi walked on the stone road, the two looked around, the surrounding houses were tightly closed, and there was no trace of fireworks in the world.

"Why don't there be dogs or birds here..."

Xi firmly grasped the hem of Zhang Ziming's clothes and whispered.

Zhang Ziming pretended to be eerie and elongated his tone, "Because it's haunted..."

Xi shuddered for a moment, and hurriedly looked at the talisman seal on his body, and saw that the talisman was firmly attached to his body, he breathed a long sigh of relief, and said to Zhang Ziming angrily, "Let you pretend to be a ghost, be careful that you will really be eaten by a ghost!"

Zhang Ziming smiled, "I can't see that you are a spirit beast, and you can still be afraid of ghosts." ”

"Why, can't you!" Creek said in a broken can.

The two of them continued to walk in for a while.

"Ziming, have you noticed that the surroundings seem to be getting darker and darker. Brook whispered.

Zhang Ziming stopped, in fact, he also noticed this.

It stands to reason that there is no difference between night and daytime for cultivators like them.

However, after entering the village, the visibility decreased, and at first you could see the surrounding area for ten meters, but now you can only see one meter.

"Ziming, look, is there something there?"

Brook pointed to a place and said loudly.

Zhang Ziming looked at it and saw that in the darkness, there seemed to be a few strips of red cloth floating.

"It can't be a ghost, right?"

Xi hurriedly hid behind Zhang Ziming, only daring to stretch out a pair of eyes and look at it secretly.

Zhang Ziming opened his spiritual eye, swept away, and said slowly, "Don't worry, it's just an old tree, and there are some red forges hanging on the tree." ”

Brook let out a long sigh of relief and patted his chest, "I see." ”

Zhang Ziming strode forward.

I saw a large clearing in front of me, and on the edge of the clearing was the ancient tree covered with red satin.

The branches of the old tree were luxuriant, extending from thick branches, and there were no flowers or leaves on the branches, and they looked like a bony palm.

And under the ancient tree, there is a small temple about ten centimeters high, which enshrines a newly repaired land statue, the land statue is carefully worked, the body is spotless, the colors are bright, and it is lifelike.

Xi looked at the small temple curiously and asked, "What is this?"

Zhang Ziming glanced at it, continued to look at the ancient tree, and explained, "Some statues built in the village for peace. ”

Xi sighed, squatted down, saw it carefully, and said, "In the Southern Wilderness, most of the people in the village are cultivating some animal statues, similar to tiger statues, bird carvings, etc., but I didn't expect that in this Central Plains, it is popular to cultivate human statues." ”

Zhang Ziming explained while circling the ancient trees, "That's not necessarily, even if it's in the Central Plains, more than a hundred miles, their customs are very different." If only on our side, every house still worships a snake figure. ”

When Xi heard the snake body, he became interested, and said with a smile, "Snake body, then I'm with you, wouldn't I really become an immortal." ”

"You want to be beautiful, the upper body of the statue is a decent person, and when you change, don't you all become a snake? ”

“... It seems to be too. ”

The corners of Zhang Ziming's mouth hooked up a smile, and he seemed to feel a little funny about Xi's words.

Zhang Ziming stayed under the tree, looked at the trunk carefully, and always felt that the tree was a little weird, but he couldn't tell where the weirdness was in his heart.

Xi saw Zhang Ziming's thoughtful expression, and wanted to scare Zhang Ziming, so he pretended to be mysterious and said, "Ziming, do you know the legend of a blood tree." ”

Zhang Ziming shook his head and looked at the stream seriously.

Xi cleared his throat and said, "The legend of this blood tree is a story from a long time ago.

Legend has it that there was a family of three who gave birth to a girl, but her mother died early, and her father married another stepmother.

But this stepmother was extremely mean to the girl, and beat and scolded the girl from time to time.

One night, the stepmother told the girl that there was no water in the house and asked the girl to go to a well ten miles outside the village to fetch water.

But the well had long since dried up.

And there are a lot of beasts on this road, and the stepmother wants to kill the girl indirectly in this way.

Unexpectedly, at this time, a plum tree outside the girl's home appeared, and the soul of the girl's biological mother appeared.

strangled the stepmother alive, and the girl turned into a plum tree, staying next to the big plum tree forever. ”