As soon as they entered the courtyard of the mountain temple, a gust of wind blew innocently, causing the branches and leaves of the thousand-year-old tree in the courtyard to crackle non-stop.

The sand and dust kicked by the wind made Du Xinrui and they couldn't even open their eyes, they braved the strong wind, and walked into the mountain temple step by step, after they all entered the mountain temple, the gust of wind suddenly stopped.

Several young people looked at Ping Yi with a pair of misty eyes. Du Xinrui asked suspiciously: "Dao Chief, what's going on, why did such a big wind suddenly blow?"

Hei Yi looked up at the sky, and the sky was clear and quiet.

Ping Yi said: "Such a sunny weather, there should not be such a strong wind, this wind comes and goes quickly, the so-called heavenly mutation, human mutation, this must be the heavens have a point, but you and I are not enough to understand the mystery."

Let's look around to see if the demon is hiding here, and let's all look carefully for each other. ”

Under the instructions of the head of Hei Yi, everyone dispersed and began to split up to find a possible hiding place for the centipede spirit.

Ping Yi stopped Du Xinrui and said, "Miss Du, let's go outside the temple and have a look." ”

Du Xinrui and Heping came to the courtyard outside the temple, and Ping Yichang said to Du Xinrui: "Miss Du, you use your microscopic power again to see if there is any demonic energy here." ”

Du Xinrui closed her eyes and concentrated according to what Ping Yichang said, attracting microscopic power to perceive the inside and outside of the temple, but she still did not detect the existence of a trace of demonic energy.

Du Xinrui slowly opened her eyes, looked at Ping Yichang, and shook her head.

Ping Yi asked again, "Then have you sensed that there is a fairy spirit in this mountain temple?"

Du Xinrui said: "Just now, I just felt with my heart whether there was any demonic energy here, and I didn't pay attention to whether there was fairy qi. ”

"Then let's see if there is any immortal qi. ”

Du Xinrui used her microscopic power again, and after a while, Du Xinrui opened her eyes and said, "The immortal qi here is very abundant. ”

Ping Yi said long: "Where are they concentrated?" ”

"They are concentrated in two places, the statue of the mountain temple, and the thousand-year-old tree. ”

Ping Yi said long: "I see, Miss Du, let's go, let's go to the temple hall to have a look." ”

The two came to the main hall of the mountain temple, and the statue of the mountain god sat majestically on the table, not angry and self-assured.

Ping Yi said long: "Miss Du, you go and call a few of them over." ”

Du Xinrui shouted at the top of her voice: "Sister Nulu, Dao Xin, resolutely, Dao Chief, please come over." ”

Hearing Du Xinrui's call, it didn't take long for the three of them to come to the main hall of the mountain temple.

The female leader asked anxiously, "Has the Dao Chief discovered the hiding place of the demon?"

Ping Yi said with a long voice: "It's too early to say, you better dig up the soil under this desk first." ”

Dao Xin asked suspiciously, "Master, could it be that centipede essence hidden under here?"

Ping Yi said long: "Do you think this is possible?"

Resolutely said: "The ground is tightly sealed, and there are no traces of centipede spirits crawling around, I don't think this is a place where centipede spirits can hide." ”

Dao Xin said: "Then what does Master want us to dig up the soil for?"

Resolute was also puzzled: "Master must have another deep meaning, let's just do it." ”

The female said, "What's so difficult about this? Then he drew his sword and was about to slash at the idol, which she could have smashed into pieces with her current cultivation and smashed a deep pit into the ground beneath the idol.

Seeing Nulu's actions, Du Xinrui, Dao Xin and Yiran immediately stopped him and said, "Sister Nulu, you can't do this." ”

The female sheath put her sword back into her sheath and said, "Isn't it just a dilapidated statue of the mountain god, why are you so nervous?"

Ping Yi said with a long voice: "Girl, we can't blaspheme the gods so casually, although this place is dilapidated, but no matter what, this is also someone's territory, and it is disrespectful for us to destroy other people's statues in other people's houses, why do we want to destroy other people's statues?"

Dao Xin said: "Yes, it's better to ask my sister to rest for the time being, just let me and resolutely do this kind of rough work." ”

Seeing their insistence, the female leader said, "Okay then! ”

Dao Xin and resolutely bowed three times to the statue of the mountain god.

Resolutely said: "Mountain God, I'm sorry, we are looking for the harmful centipede spirit, for the people to eliminate the harm, we have to do it, and please forgive your old man, if you really find out the evil demon, the merit of eliminating the demon is also your old man's share." ”

After kneeling down, Dao Xin and Resolute began to dig under the table of the statue, and it didn't take long for Dao Xin and Resolute to dig a pit two or three feet square and four or five feet deep under the table.

After digging for a long time, he didn't see anything, and Dao Xin said impatiently: "Master, we have been digging for so long and haven't seen anything in this underground, what are you looking for, Master?"

Ping Yichang also said a little frustrated at this time: "Could it be that my guess is wrong? ”

Dao Xin and resolutely began to dig down again, and suddenly, Dao Xin went down with a heavy hoe, and his hoe touched something tough.

Dao Xin shouted to Ping, "Master, my hoe seems to have touched something. ”

Ping Yi Chang hurriedly stepped forward to take a look, Dao Xin pulled the hoe out of the soil, there would be blood on the hoe, and the four of them looked at Ping Yi Chang with the same puzzled eyes, hoping to get an answer from Dao Chang.

Ping Yichang also looked puzzled, what was this underground that was bleeding, and at this time, the soil under Dao Xin and Resolute Ran had been soaked red by the blood seeping out of the ground.

Ping Yi said with a long voice: "Dao Xin, you dig down and see what is down there." ”

Dao Xin carefully slashed down a few more times, and then he said in surprise: "Master, it turned out to be a tree root bleeding. ”

When several people heard this, they all leaned their heads forward, and sure enough, a tree root that had been cut off by the Dao Heart was bleeding, and the bright red blood had gathered into a small blood pool in the deep pit at this time, and it also emitted a fishy smell, and the broken root was still bleeding out.

Dao Xin came out of the deep pit and said, "Master, could it be that the big tree has become a spirit?"

Ping Yi said long: "Yes, there is indeed a tree that has become a spirit, and it is also an accomplice of the centipede essence, and Poor Dao already knows where the centipede essence is hidden." ”

When the female leader heard this, the monkey asked anxiously: "Dao Chief, where is that demon tree, let me go and uproot it, and then find that hateful centipede to make calculations." ”

Ping Yichang pointed to the ancient tree at the door and said, "It's the ancient tree in front of this temple." ”

Nulu and Du Xinrui and the others looked at the ancient tree in front of the temple and said: "Dao Chief, are you mistaken, if this ancient tree is a demon, it is impossible for us not to detect the demonic energy on its body, just now you asked me to use microscopic power to investigate, I found that this ancient tree not only does not have demonic energy, but also has abundant fairy energy, from this point of view, even if this ancient tree has become a refinement, but it is also a tree demon dedicated to the Tao, otherwise it will not cultivate a body of fairy spirit." ”

Ping Yi said at a length: "The appearance of things can always confuse the world, which is also the power of demons, always using what people think is the most beautiful to confuse people's hearts." Something that has the aura of a fairy is not necessarily a thing of the right path, take that centipede spirit as an example, it also has the aura of a fairy, but its essence is a monster that causes disaster to the world. ”

The female Lu said: "What the Taoist said is reasonable, it seems that there is still a lot of learning outside, just talking on paper, it is simply a misunderstanding, today listening to the words of the Taoist is better than the ten years of books I used to read, plus learning in this practice, I finally understand what is the real knowledge today." ”

"The girl is serious, any practice is inseparable from theory as a guide, and the books you read in the past are still useful. ”

The female snatched her pretty little head and said, "Really?"

Looking at the innocent and silly appearance of the female hermitage, everyone couldn't help but laugh.

Ping Yi said long: "Of course it's true. ”

Resolutely asked, "Master, how did you say that this old locust tree outside the door could cultivate the immortal qi of its body?"

Ping Yi said, "That's why I want you to dig a hole under this desk, didn't you just ask me what I'm looking for? Ping Yi pointed to the broken root in the pit.

Du Xinrui asked Ping Yi Chang in confusion, "May I ask the Taoist, what is the relationship between this tree root and the immortal spirit qi on the ancient tree?"

Ping Yi said: "I think it must be this old locust tree that extends its roots under this mountain god statue, absorbing the fairy spirit qi emitted by the mountain god statue all year round, after a hundred years and thousands of years, it naturally has a powerful fairy spirit qi in its body." ”

Resolutely said: "So the immortal qi on the old locust tree was not cultivated by itself, but absorbed by others, in other words, it was stolen." ”

Ping Yi said long: "Yes, that's what it means." ”

Du Xinrui asked Ping Yichang, "Could it be that the immortal qi on the centipede essence also comes from this?"

Ping Yi said with a long voice: "That's right, that's how the immortal qi on the centipede's essence body is obtained, otherwise how could such a monster that violates the way of heaven cultivate the immortal qi?"

The female leader said: "Just now the Taoist said that this tree demon is the accomplice of the centipede spirit, could it be that the centipede spirit is hidden in the body of the tree demon?"

Ping Yi said with a long sentence: "If my inference is correct, then the centipede essence is hidden in the trunk of this thousand-year-old locust tree." ”

"Alright, I'll get it out now. ”

As soon as the female leader finished speaking, she drew her sword and walked out, followed by Ping Yichang and Du Xinrui. As soon as the five of them arrived at the gate of the Dao Hall, there was suddenly another gust of wind, and dark clouds rolled in the sky, and the thick clouds pressed lower than the mountain not far away.

After a series of dazzling lightning bolts, a huge rolling thunder followed, as if trying to blow a big hole in the sky.

Driven by the devastating winds, along with the lightning and the great rolling thunder, these dark clouds quickly gathered towards the mountain temple where they were located.

Suddenly, a bolt of lightning fell from the sky, like a glowing whip thrown down from heaven, and slammed into the ancient tree outside the temple, and then another rolling thunder bombarded the thick trunk of the ancient tree.