Bursts of rooster crows came, the sky in the distance turned slightly white, Jing Huai got up silently, at this time he was only one line away from the fifth layer of Qingyun Realm, and couldn't help but sigh secretly, no wonder cultivators yearn for pills so much, if it is at a normal speed, I am afraid that it will take a week for me to condense the full aura, when I just broke through the fourth layer before, I took one to stabilize the realm, and last night I took the next one, it was directly filled with dantian aura, if it is two and one layer...

Jing Huai secretly made a small calculation, he ate two by himself, sold two, and gave one to Wu Nian to eat, there were only twenty-five Jiuyang Pills left, which should be barely enough for him to cultivate to the Guiyuan Realm, he thought about it, turned around, and found that at this time, Wu Nian had a faint black sweat stain all over his body that was discharged, and he was about to break through to the third layer of Qingyun Realm!

"It doesn't seem to be the same way," Obviously, the cultivation speed of spiritual power in the first few layers is much faster, and the higher you go, the more difficult it will be.

Seeing that Wu Nian was dirty and exuding a faint smell, Jing Huai couldn't bear it anymore, so he thought about going out for a walk, and walked to the dilapidated courtyard, Jing Huai found that the old village chief's house was quite high, facing the road when he and Wu Nian came, and looking down, he could almost see the panoramic view of the entire village.

It was about six o'clock, but a few people had already gotten up and were busy preparing breakfast in the kitchen, and from time to time there was a burst of cooking smoke.

Jing Huai's eyes stared at the nearest chimney, on which there was a kitten-like creature that had always been translucent, poking out its small head from time to time and opening its mouth as if it was eating something. "Is it a youkai?" he muttered to himself, but there was not a trace of demonic or evil in the little thing.

The red blood jade on Jing Huai's waist flashed slightly, and a record appeared in Jing Huai's mind, "House Spirit?" Jing Huai was a little surprised, looked at the jade pendant on his waist, and didn't expect this red blood jade to have such an effect.

This house spirit is a kind of spirit born from various houses, feeding on cooking smoke, and the whole body is condensed by pure spiritual energy, not only will not do anything harmful to human beings, but will spend their lives to protect the peace and security of the owner's family. The older the house, the larger it becomes, some resemble kittens, some resemble dogs, and some resemble mice or birds.

Jing Huai couldn't help but be a little curious when he saw the house spirit for the first time, but when he turned around, he found that there was no house spirit in this room, and a chubby bear was lying on top of the nearby village chief's room and snoring.

"Hey, the children got up so early?" At this time, the door of the village chief's room opened, and he walked out with a cane and swaying, "The village chief's grandfather is early!" Jing Huai hurriedly made an innocent appearance. In Wang Huacai's eyes, I only think that this child is really polite and cute.

"Wait a minute, grandpa will make a fire and make a bowl of noodles for you!" Wang Huacai skillfully picked up the axe and chopped the firewood, "Jinghuai?" At this time, Wu Nian's voice came from the house, presumably she had finished cultivating, and after a while, she saw Wu Nian walking out of the house looking at her body with disgust, "Why do you sweat so much, vomit, it's disgusting!"

"Comrade policeman, have you woken you up?" Wang Huacai was full of apologies, but there was no ventilation in the village, so he could only burn firewood for cooking, so he would get up early every morning and prepare firewood for the whole day.

"No, no," Wu Nian clasped his head and asked embarrassedly, "Village Chief, do you need to boil water if you want to take a bath?"

"Do you want to take a bath?" Wang Huacai looked at Wu Nian, who was covered in dirt, "It's okay, I'll help you boil the pot of hot water, you go to the shed at the back of the house and carry the big bath bucket to your room first." ”

"I'll carry it, brother, go and help grandpa chop firewood!" Jing Huai hurriedly pushed Wu Nian over, Wu Nian had never chopped firewood, so he could only stare at Jing Huai with wide eyes, "You are about to be third-order spiritual power! This little thing will not be difficult for you, don't be afraid!" Jing Huai said quietly behind Wu Nian.

"Is it almost the third order?" Wu Nian was pleasantly surprised, so he hurriedly greeted him, "Old village chief, let me help you!" I saw Wu Nian take the axe in the village chief's hand very easily. Wu Nian was stunned for a moment, and then slashed down at the firewood on the pile, only to see that the firewood shattered into several pieces with a "clang".

Seeing Wu Nian like this, Jing Huai came to the back of the house with confidence, only to see that the one-meter-high wooden barrel was placed under a haystack shed, and he easily lifted the dozens of catties of solid wooden barrels with only one hand, and put his other hand on the edge of the barrel for fear of being seen by the village chief.

Seeing Jing Huai coming out of the backyard, the old village chief had a surprised expression, this bath bucket is dozens of pounds, even if he moves it by himself, it is not so easy, I didn't expect the little boy about seven years old in front of him to lift it up like carrying cotton.

After working for a long time, the village chief's house finally rose from the cooking smoke, Wu Nian closed his eyes in the house and took a bath in embarrassment, while Jing Huai stood outside the house and saw the huge bear-shaped house spirit that was originally lying on the tiled roof was lying in front of the chimney at the moment, occasionally sticking out his tongue and licking the cooking smoke.

Everything in this village is a quiet appearance, and there is no mental disorder of the villagers mentioned in the task at all, he is a little puzzled, is this all an appearance? Last night, he and Wu Nian obviously encountered a ghost hitting the wall, and it was obvious that someone did not want us to come to this village and tried to trap us outside.

After a while, the village chief came out with two bowls of hot noodles, and added an egg to each of them, which made Wu Nian and Jing Huaiwei embarrassed.

In the afternoon, the village chief took the two of them to walk around the village, explaining the situation, it turned out that the matter began to happen last month, first of all, Aunt Li's house at the entrance of the village was inexplicably locked by someone from the outside with a big copper lock, an old and a young were trapped in the house, had to smash the lock before coming out of the house, originally thought it was just an accident, but I didn't expect that the next day Uncle Xu got up in the morning by a finger thick hemp rope tied to the bed, this time the village people can be frightened, Uncle Xu recalled that he was very sober that night, the house was closed tightly everywhere, it was impossible for anyone to break in and not make any sound。

Some people said that the village was haunted, so they asked the old village chief to rush to the county seat a few miles away to report to the police, and when the police came to the village to investigate for two or three days, but nothing happened, so the police were ready to leave, but the matter was not resolved, how could the villagers rest assured, they surrounded the police and told them very sure that the village must be haunted, the police heard it, only felt that it was a group of foolish people making trouble, and hurriedly left, and went back to report a villager who was insane, and the matter was over.

But what I didn't expect was that as soon as the police left, strange things happened again, Aunt Li's granddaughter always said that there were strange animals in the house, and the villagers of other families were locked in their homes one after another.

"Strange animal?" Jing Huai was stunned, could it be the ghost of the house spirit? But didn't this house spirit do no harm to the house owner, why would he do such a thing? He was a little puzzled.

"It must be haunted, comrade policeman, you have to believe us!" Wang Huacai begged Wu Nianyang.

"Old village chief, we believe in you!" Wu Nianke was different from ordinary policemen, she was now a cultivator who was about to break through the second-order spiritual power, not to mention that the old village chief was so simple, he would definitely not lie and deceive people.

A few people wandered around the village a few times, but did not find anything unusual, obviously, it should be the murderer who stopped when he saw someone coming again.

In the next few days, Jing Huai and Wu Nian in addition to the evening practice, every day in the village wandering around, and the villagers are familiar with each other, the village is left behind are some fifty or sixty-year-old people, there are some cute children, young people have gone to the city to work, from time to time will send money back to the family, every Monday, there will be a courier with a green waist bag at the entrance of the village to come to deliver couriers and envelopes, that is the happiest time for the old people and children, this place is too backward, there is no phone and no Internet.

Every day, in addition to preparing meals for their lovely grandchildren, the old people occasionally go to the fields not far away to plough the fields, they are all old, and their physical strength has declined greatly, so the farmland does not grow well.

Jing Huai took advantage of the fact that no one was asking the house spirit on the roof several times, but they all just looked at Jing Huai innocently, looking like they couldn't speak.

The two sat side by side on the edge of the field behind the village in the sunset, "Why don't we go back?" there doesn't seem to be any problem with this place," Wu Nian proposed, after these few days of cultivation, she had successfully broken through to the third order of spiritual power, and she was able to release her spiritual power, and the spiritual power in this village was extremely rich, and her cultivation was much faster than in the city.

"I feel that this matter should be related to the house spirits, but their motives have never been found, and it stands to reason that the house spirits will not hurt the house owner. Jing Huai lowered his head and pondered.

"Are you leaving?" At this time, the old village chief came from behind, and from a distance he heard the word "go back" in Wu Nian's mouth, and a trace of light in his cloudy eyes dimmed.

"It's okay, you haven't happened in the past few days," he said, waving his hand, and the big yellow dog, who was inseparable from him, crouched down in front of him and looked up at him. "There's no way you're going to stay here for the rest of your life, isn't it? Forget it, you'll have to move out in another year anyway. He sighed.

"Are you going to move away?" Jing Huai quickly stood up from the edge of the field when he heard this, "Where are you going?"

"The village is about to be demolished! A big company wants to build a village called Duhe Village on the village," Wang Huacai said.

"Resort?" Wu Nian asked, and immediately figured it out, and when she looked down, she found that Jing Huai also had such an expression.

"In a little while, my son from the city will be ready to take me to the city, but I prefer to stay in this village, where I am not used to it, it is too noisy. The old village chief smiled, "I discussed with my son, and when everyone moved away, I would go to the city with him, so that my heart could be at ease." ”

Looking at the old man's somewhat red eyes, Jing Huai and Wu Nian didn't know what words to say.

It was getting dark, and he followed the village chief back to the house without saying a word, and after the old man entered the house, Jing Huai stared at the empty roof and said, "You did it, right?" These house spirits seem to hide in the house at night, but Jing Huai knows that they must have been secretly observing their every move.

As soon as the words were finished, the translucent bear poked its head out of the wall with blinking eyes, and then floated in front of Jing Huai, at this time it no longer pretended not to speak, "They want to kill us..."

"If they're gone, we'll all die," the bear-shaped house spirit grimaced, the first time it confided in humans.

"Wasn't it good for us to protect them, to drive away the demons and hurting beasts in the neighborhood for them, and everyone could live happily in the village. The spirits of the house on all sides poked their heads out of the house and converged towards the village chief's garden.

"This has all changed since a few tall and strong men came some time ago!" the bear-shaped house spirit was a little excited at the moment, "They actually want to leave us and go to the city? and then they will let the bulldozers knock down the houses we live on one by one, they want to kill us!"

Although Wu Nian said that he couldn't see the house spirits, he could hear the voices of the house spirits, and he also felt that these house spirits seemed to be quite pitiful, if the house owner left and there was no cooking smoke in the house, they would slowly starve to death and finally disappear, and the demolition required the demolition of all the houses, once the house fell, then they would die immediately.

Jing Huai understood their plight, "That's why you went to lock the owner of the house in the house, or tie him to the bed with hemp rope?

"What should I do?" the kitten-like spirit next to him asked, "Why don't you just do nothing?"

"I have a way," Jing Huai thought for a while, he seemed to think of a way, he had read a strange book in Qinghe Pavilion, the locust tree is a ghost, but it can be affected by all spirits, he thought about the two people in the village surrounded by the thick and thin locust tree should be able to accommodate so many house spirits.

"You say let's parasitize on the locust tree at the entrance of the village?" the bear-shaped house spirit hesitated, "Even if it can be done, we will starve to death in the end without cooking smoke!"

"Aren't you made of spiritual power?" Jing Huai blinked, "That locust tree is estimated to be a hundred years old, and every day the morning dew and moon can help you practice, and it can also be used for hunger, and once you parasitize into the tree, you are no longer a house spirit, but a tree spirit." ”

After hearing this, the house spirits hurriedly gathered around and discussed carefully, "I think you can try, horizontal and vertical are just one death, if you succeed, you will have a little more way to live." The cat-shaped house spirit said, and the other house spirits also nodded.

Seeing this, the bear-shaped house spirit said to Jing Huai: "Then what are you going to do?", I saw Jing Huai's fingertips point towards the village chief's house, and a wisp of soul floated out, which was the root of the house spirit, the bear-shaped house spirit was a little nervous, it originally hid this wisp of soul on the beam, but I didn't expect it to be found by Jing Huai so soon.

I saw Jing Huai's fingertips wrapped around the soul of the house spirit and walked quickly to the big locust tree at the head of the village, at this time it was already dark, and the villagers in the village had already returned to the house.

When Jing Huai walked under the tree, his fingertips tapped to the trunk, and then learned the method of helping Wu Nian possess his body, the spiritual power poured into the locust tree, and slowly flowed along the meridians and veins of the tree.

The soul of the bear-shaped house spirit gradually melted into the tree until it disappeared, and the original tree spirit did not have the slightest repulsion, and when Jing Huai collected it, he saw that the bear-shaped house spirit gradually lost its shape and turned into a round tree spirit similar to the locust tree's own appearance.

"Did you succeed?" the bear-shaped house spirit's voice was a little apprehensive, and it found that it could actually feel the vitality of the tree in front of it slowly pouring into its body, as if its own life was fused with this big tree, "Thank you!" it said excitedly to Jing Huai, and then merged into the tree.

Seeing this, the other house spirits also looked at Jing Huai with a yearning face, and finally found a way to live, and their hearts were full of hope to live at this moment.

Jing Huai was busy for most of the night, and finally sent the house spirits of the whole village into the big locust tree at the entrance of the village, only to see that the locust tree was originally a little old branches, but at this moment it revealed a trace of emerald green, and a stream of vitality emanated from it, and there were occasionally some clusters of light on the branches, which were the house spirits that Jing Huai melted into the tree.

Seeing that Jing Huai was tired enough, Wu Nian thoughtfully picked him up, "Let's go, go back and rest," Although she couldn't see anything before her spiritual eyes opened, she could feel the flow of spiritual power in Jing Huai's body, and all of them were poured into the huge locust tree by him.

Jing Huai did not practice for the first time, and slept until the sun was three poles, while Wu Nian sat quietly on the side and cultivated.

Until the old village chief came and knocked on the door, "Why haven't you gotten up so late today!" His kind voice came from outside the door, Wu Nian hurriedly went to open the door, only to see him holding a bowl of hot noodles in one hand, each with a sugar egg on it.

Smelling the aroma of noodles, Jing Huai also jumped off the bed, he was so tired last night that he choked, at this moment, his chest was close to his back, he took the noodles and quickly ate them under the warm gaze of the village chief, "Grandpa the village chief, you said that the village will be demolished, what will happen to the big locust tree at the head of the village," he asked.

"It's said to be fenced off, where the locust tree has been planted since I was a child, and at that time my mother often picked locust flowers to make dumplings for me to eat," seemed to be a warm memory, and there was a faint light in his cloudy eyes, "Those people in big companies are rare about this tree, after all, there are not many hundred-year-old trees, and they should be well protected." ”

"That's it," hearing this result, the big stone in Jing Huai's heart finally put down, and Wu Nian on the side said: "Village chief, don't worry, there will never be anything strange in the village in the future!"

"Really?" the village chief was a little surprised, "have you found out who did it?"

Seeing that Wu Nian didn't want to say more, he didn't ask any more, "That's good, that's good!" He smiled very happily.

After the meal, the village chief sent the two to the side of the road outside the village, at this time of the day, the bus from the county seat will pass through here to Shuangqing City, and waited for about half an hour to see the car swaying down from the winding mountain road on the mountainside, Jing Huai secretly stuffed Wu Nian with a small envelope bag, signaling her to hand it over to the village chief.

Of course, Wu Nian was not stupid, knowing that it must be filled with the food and lodging expenses for the past few days, so he handed it to the village chief when he got into the car, telling him that it contained clues about criminals, and he would open it after the two of them got in the car and left.

The two were still sitting in the back seat of the bus, and through the window, Jing Huai saw the branches and leaves of the big locust tree waving gently with the wind, as if he wanted to say goodbye to himself, so he also smiled slightly at the locust tree.

After a while, he felt a little tired, so he leaned on Wu Nian's forearm and fell asleep.