The mourning hall is the place where the dead bodies in the village are placed in the whole village, whenever someone dies, the first night, the corpses are placed here, the white cloth flutters in the mourning hall around, and the corpses are placed in the middle of the room, and there are many offerings placed in front of the corpses, two white candles are lit, emitting a faint light, making the whole mourning hall appear very dark. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Gusts of wind blew in from the windows on both sides, and the candles flickered non-stop, making the whole mourning hall even more eerie, especially a dead man lying in the room.

When everyone came to the mourning hall, Li Qing, Ando, Yasen, and Lake were fine, but the three women couldn't stand this gloomy and terrifying atmosphere, they all closed their eyes in fear, and their bodies involuntarily leaned towards Li Qing and the others.

Li Qing said: "Since we have received the grace of others, we have to stay for one night, and we have to give the master a little return, so you can recite a calming spell to the master here, so that his soul can rest in peace!"

This is not difficult for Lake and the others, after all, those simple light magic are still understood, so everyone sat cross-legged on the ground, reciting the tranquilizer spell to soothe the soul, for a while, this gloomy spiritual hall echoed with the tranquilizing spell, but also gradually had a peaceful and peaceful atmosphere.

After reciting the mantra, everyone meditated in the mourning hall, and the night was dark, and there was no sound in the whole mountain village except for the sound of the cold wind whistling like a knife and the sound of the stream tinkling.

The night is getting darker and darker, and the silence makes people hairy.

A gust of wind blew in from the window, and the originally closed window was suddenly opened, and the windows slammed together, making a "bang!bang!" sound, and the two candles were also extinguished by the gust of wind, and the whole mourning hall fell into darkness.

Everyone suddenly woke up from the meditation, and Xiaomeng was even more frightened and buried his head in Li Qing's arms, not daring to look around.

Suddenly, a vague, unclear "shadow" floated in through the window.

Everyone couldn't help but widen their eyes, holding their breath to look at the "shadow" in front of them, only to see that "shadow" staring at a pair of dark and green eyes, slowly drifting to the side of the corpse.

Amdo, Lake and the others were about to make a move, but they were stopped by Li Qing and signaled them not to make a move, everyone looked at Li Qing suspiciously, and they all stopped their movements.

Helen felt that her limbs could not move as if they were being suppressed, and her throat could not make a sound, so she just sat in place, staring with wide eyes.

I saw the vague shadow stretch out two huge claws, pick up the corpse and eat it. Starting from the head of the corpse, the hair, bones, hands and feet were eaten with a "kala" sound, and in the blink of an eye, the entire corpse was eaten to the core, and even the shroud disappeared.

After this shadow finished eating the corpse, it turned to the offering placed in front of it, gobbled it up and quickly swept it away, and then stared at Li Qing and the others with those dark green eyes, and then drifted away silently as when it came.

After the monster left, everyone couldn't help but feel sick, and Helen and Julia saw such a disgusting scene, and they were holding on to the corner and gasping and vomiting.

Lake asked, "What kind of monster is this, it's disgusting!"

Yasin also said on the side: "Fortunately, everything I ate was digested, otherwise, I really couldn't stand it!"

Lake asked Li Qingdao, "Boss, why didn't you let us make a move just now?"

Li Qing said: "The eldest son of the village chief let us not pay attention to it, since we promised others, we should keep our promises." ”

Fortunately, Xiaomeng shrank his whole head into Li Qing's arms, otherwise, he would definitely not be able to stand the scene in front of him and faint.

At this time, everyone didn't have the heart to meditate and cultivate anymore, and they were all thinking about what that monster was, actually eating the body of a dead person.

In the early morning of the next day, when the villagers returned to the village, they saw Li Qing and others standing in front of the house waiting for everyone to come back. After the villagers took turns saluting Li Qing and the others, they went into the mourning hall to inspect everywhere, but no one made a fuss about the disappearance of the corpses and offerings.

The new young village chief said to Li Qing: "I guess you saw something last night, right? To be honest, we were all worried about you, and now we are all safe and unharmed, which is really good." I and my neighbors are grateful for your kindness. ”

"Last night, I told you that as long as there is a dead person in the village, the whole village must leave the dead and leave. Now that this rule has been broken, that strange thing will definitely get retribution. That's the strange thing I'm talking about below, and you probably know why the corpses and offerings are missing, right?"

Lake hurriedly recounted what had happened last night, but strangely, the people of the village did not feel surprised at all, but felt that this should be the case.

The young village chief explained, "The situation you have just described is exactly the same as the legend that has been passed down from our village. ”

"Legend has it that we have a monster here that eats corpses, and once our people die here, that night, the monster will come after midnight and eat the corpses of the dead, so our ancestors decreed that we must leave before midnight that night. ”

"And our ancestors said that if a foreigner appeared and broke this rule, that monster would be punished. ”

After hearing this, the people were speechless for half a sound, so Lake changed the subject and said, "Isn't there a temple of the goddess of light on the hill in front of your village, and there is a sacrifice in it?

The young village chief asked suspiciously, "What kind of sacrifice?"

Lake hurriedly said: "Yesterday we passed by the mountain in front of the village, there is a temple of the goddess of light, there is an old priest living in it, we wanted to spend the night with him, but he pointed us here to stay, saying that there is a mountain village here. ”

After hearing this, the villagers immediately looked at each other expressionlessly, and finally the young village chief opened his mouth and said: "Everyone, there is no temple of the goddess of light on that mountain, and there is no sacrifice, are you mistaken? There is no sacrifice within a hundred miles. ”

As soon as Li Qing and the others saw those villagers say this, they stopped asking more questions and no longer answered.

The crowd noticed that the villagers seemed to be frightened by the monster, and they didn't dare to speak, so they were embarrassed to ask any more questions.

After Li Qing asked about the way out of the mountain, he said goodbye to the villagers and prepared to leave along the mountain road.

Everyone was walking on the way out of the mountain, and while enjoying the scenery of the mountains and forests along the way, Lake asked Li Qing suspiciously: "We obviously saw the sacrificial temple on that mountain, how can they say that there is no temple nearby?"

Li Qing smiled lightly and said, "Since everyone is so curious, why don't you go and see if this temple is still there?"

When Lake heard this, he suddenly came to his senses and hurriedly said, "Okay! Let's go right away!"

After saying that, everyone turned around and walked towards the hill they had passed by yesterday, and with the strength of a few people, after a while, everyone came to the door of the dilapidated and deserted temple of the goddess of light.

Unlike yesterday, the originally closed temple door had already been opened, and the old priest in a white sacrificial robe had been waiting for Li Qing and the others there, and when he saw Li Qing and the others coming, he immediately beckoned a few people to enter the temple of the goddess of light.

Unlike other splendid temples of the goddess of light, this temple of the goddess of light is small and dilapidated, full of weeds and broken doors and windows, and the statue of the goddess of light in the temple hall is different from the graceful and luxurious statues of the goddess of light in other temples of the goddess of light, but the statue of the goddess here shows a hint of gloom.

The old priest beckoned Li Qing and the others to the main hall, and said to Li Qing respectfully: "Ashamed, ashamed, really ashamed!"

When Lake saw that this old priest was the same as yesterday, he said, "Although the priest refused us accommodation, there is no need to be so polite!"

Li Qing said: "Yesterday, the priest instructed us to stay in the village at the foot of the mountain, and today, we came to thank the sacrifice, and we were warmly greeted in the village. ”

The old priest explained, "Ladies and gentlemen, I really can't keep anyone here for the night, and I'm sorry for that!"

After speaking, the old priest's face was full of apologies.

The old priest continued, "I have not deliberately refused to allow you to stay here, but my true form has already been seen by you, and the monster you saw last night eating the corpses and offerings of the dead is me. ”

After everyone heard the words of the sacrifice, except for Li Qing, they couldn't help but be stunned, how could they not connect the sacrifice in front of them with the disgusting ghoul shadow last night.

Lake pointed at the old priest and said, "You, you're the ghoul from last night? Oh my God!"

The priest nodded and said, "Yes, I'm the ghoul!"

And then he said, "Listen to me explain why I became this horrible ghoul, and why I became so sinful."

"Originally, I was a priest of the Goddess of Light, and in order to promote the teachings of the Goddess of Light, I walked around and spread the Cult of Light, and when I came to the mountain village here, in order to spread the teachings, I built a temple of the Goddess of Light here to relieve the souls of the people near here, or to heal the wounded. ”

It is not necessary to mention here, the two largest sects on the Xuanling Continent are the Goddess of Life Sect that believes in the Goddess of Life, most of the people who participate in the church are women, they heal the people for free, so their reputation on the mainland is quite good, but most of them have not fought anymore, they only learn some healing magic in the light magic, and the Goddess of Life Sect is a spontaneous church among the people.

The Cult of Light is the official church of the country, and it is a very powerful cult of God, they believe in the goddess of light, the king of the gods, and those temples of light are much more brilliant than the temple of life. In the Cult of Light, there are not only the Knights of Light, but also the Priests of Light, as well as the Cult of Light under one person and above ten thousand.

The priest continued: "Once, there was a plague in the villages near here, many people lost their lives, and many more were dying, and my level was limited, and I could not do anything about it, so I prayed to the goddess of light, hoping to get help from the goddess, but the goddess replied that I should give up on these people, and she told me that this is the fate of those who do not believe in the goddess of light!"

"I was shocked to hear the answer of the Goddess of Light, I never thought that the God of Light, whom I had always believed in, would be so disregard for our human lives. ”

"In my rage, I cursed and cursed the goddess of light, and when I heard my curse, the goddess of light angrily cast a spell on me. ”

"The goddess of light imprisoned my soul here, sealed it in this temple with magic, so that I could never be reborn as a human being, and if someone in the surrounding villages died, I would become that ghoul monster and devour the corpses and offerings, tormented forever. ”

"It's been over a hundred years since I became a ghoul monster, and I'm about to break down, but I can't die, I'll be a ghoul monster forever. ”

After hearing the words of the old man's sacrifice, Li Qing and the others understood the reason for the matter, and what shocked Lake and the others even more was that they couldn't imagine that the goddess of light, who was high and admired in the eyes of everyone, was actually so faced.

Amdo said coldly: "God, this is God, if there is such a god, I would rather not need God in the world, and let human beings control the human world." ”

For a while, everyone lost their reverence for the so-called gods who lived in the divine realm, and they couldn't imagine that the true face of the so-called gods turned out to be like this.

Li Qing asked the old priest and said, "How can I break the spell on you?"

The old priest shook his head and said, "Even if you know how to break the spell, how can you be stronger than the goddess of light!"

Li Qing said, "It's okay to talk about it, maybe we have a way to help you break that spell?"

After hearing Li Qing's words, the old priest said: "In that case, I will tell you! There is a stone pillar on each side of this temple, and each stone pillar has a spell from the goddess of light, and only by destroying those four stone pillars at the same time, then the spell can be broken, but who in the world can break the power of the gods! Magic attacks have no effect on that stone pillar at all. ”

He sighed and said, "It seems that I will be tormented by this for all eternity!"

Li Qing said: "Why don't we give it a try, if we succeed, we can also help you break this curse!"

After hearing Li Qing's words, the old priest said disapprerovitically: "Since this is the case, you guys should give it a try!"

When everyone came to the temple around, they saw that there were really four stone pillars that were one person high, and the stone pillars were white, and there were complex black spells carved on the stone pillars, and there was a faint black light, which showed that it was not an ordinary thing.

Ryker stepped forward curiously, wanting to touch the white stone pillar with his hand, as soon as his hand touched the white stone pillar, the stone pillar emitted a black light, and the powerful force immediately bounced Ryker's hand away.

Ryker "Wow, whoa!" yelled, "Oh, this shit Goddess of Light is pretty good!"

Yasen said: "Of course it's amazing, you should be the spell of those magicians, how to say it's also a spell laid by God, of course it's amazing!"

Andor said coldly: "Even if it's a god, I'll try, is it so powerful?"

Li Qing said: "Okay, Amdo, you are in charge of the stone pillars in the east, Lake, you are in charge of the stone pillars in the south, and Yasen, you are in charge of the stone pillars in the west. ”

Everyone responded in unison, "Yes, boss!"

The four of them took off into the air, floating above the temple, each facing their own stone pillars, ready to unleash their greatest power at any moment to destroy them.

Seeing Li Qing and the other four floating in the air, Xiao Meng raised his head and shouted, "Come on! Brother Xing!"

Li Qing said to Lake, Amdo, and Yasen: "Wait a while, I say to make a move, and everyone will attack the stone pillar at the same time!"

"Yes, Boss!" the three of them replied in unison.

First of all, Amdo condensed the aura of his whole body, his heart moved at will, and the huge black blade wings broke out of his back, flapping softly, exuding powerful power, and thunder bursts, which appeared all around Amdo's body at first glance. The hands began to accumulate a powerful thunder and lightning power, which was the power of heavenly thunder contained in the wings of the cold thunder blade.

And Lake held the Flame Dragon Halberd, bursts of red flame scurryed around the Halberd, gathering the spiritual power of the whole body, pouring into the Flame Dragon Halberd, and a powerful momentum emanated from its body.

Yasin was much calmer, only to see him holding the Cold Star Magic Staff, while pouring the spiritual energy into the magic staff, while absorbing the magic elements around him, the Cold Star Magic Staff began to emit a dazzling light.

Only Li Qingshen's hands were behind his back, floating indifferently in the air, looking from a distance, as if he was not a mortal person, and it was out of reach.

The old priest stared blankly at the four people floating in the air, he couldn't believe what he saw, what kind of people were these four people, they actually exuded such a powerful power, for hundreds of years, he had never seen a person with such great power, except for the disgusting god, for the first time, he had a hope of liberation in his heart, and he couldn't help but hope that these people could destroy the four stone pillars of magic spells that had been cursed for hundreds of years.

And Helen and Julia looked at the four people in the air with their mouths wide open, and they couldn't imagine that a few people who were usually modest and gentle could exude such a powerful momentum, and Julia was even more surprised, and they couldn't imagine that the energy emitted by Li Qing and the others couldn't even be compared to the king of elves.

I only heard Li Qing shout softly: "Shoot!"

The ball of thunder and lightning condensed in Andor's hand blasted wildly towards the stone pillar, and the ball of energy condensed by the power of thunder and lightning exploded in a straight line.

And Lake shouted wildly, "Flame Dragon Break!" I saw a five-clawed flame dragon with teeth and claws break out from the tip of the halberd, and swoop towards the stone pillar with an extremely astonishing momentum.

Yasen's Cold Star Magic Staff emitted a multicolored light, converging into a multicolored pillar of light and blasting straight towards the stone pillar, which was also gorgeous and abnormal.

And Li Qing didn't see any movements, but saw a dark golden cold flash in his eyes, and he said softly: "Break!"

I heard a loud bang, and the four stone pillars were destroyed by the incomparable power of the four people at the same time, and those rubbles were suddenly splashed all over the ground.

Li Qing and the other four slowly descended from the sky and stood still on the ground, while Amdo's Cold Thunder Blade Wings also contracted violently and entered their bodies.

Xiaomeng jumped, clapped his little hands, and rushed to Li Qing's side, and said loudly: "I knew that Brother Xing would definitely be able to break this stone pillar!"

The old priest walked over, bowed respectfully to Li Qing and the others, and said gratefully: "Thank you so much for your help, today, I can finally get rid of this curse and no longer have to endure this inhuman torture." ”

Li Qing said indifferently: "With a lot of effort, why worry about it!"

With the old sacrificial words of gratitude, I saw him slowly shatter into powder with a smile on his face, disappear with the wind, and disappear without a trace.

The walls of the surrounding temples, the statues of the gods, everything disappeared, it seemed that there was no magic of the four stone pillars, those buildings were suddenly eroded into powder by the years, restored to their original appearance, surrounded by weeds, there was no trace of the temple at all.

Seeing the scene in front of them, everyone came back to their senses.

Li Qing said: "Let's go!"

Lake said with emotion: "This old man is really tortured, if I become this kind of monster who is not human, beast is not a beast, I will still die!"

Yasin said: "I can't imagine that the goddess of light would do such a thing, it's really unexpected!"

Amdo said coldly: "If there is such a god, then I would rather be a demon!"

After this tossing and turning in the morning, it was already noon, and everyone followed the path pointed out by the villagers, and with the rapid footsteps of a few people, it didn't take long to walk out of the entire mountain and river.

Out of the mountains and rivers, what is presented in front of everyone is a completely different scenery, complex rivers crisscross and crisscross, even those trees are very delicate, there is no rough feeling at all, but delicate and small.

It is completely a taste of Jiangnan scenery.

And along the way, there were many mercenaries who rode horses and hurried, it seemed that they were all mercenaries of the mercenary group who accepted the task of finding the Scepter of Light, and when they passed Li Qing and others, they all looked at Li Qing and others strangely, and those mercenaries couldn't help but be surprised by the combination in front of them, there were actually people who were hurrying on their feet, when would they arrive, and there were three women among them, a puppy.

When they passed by, those mercenaries laughed at Li Qing and the others, laughing at the strange way in which Li Qing and the others hurried on their legs.

The mercenaries on the other side laughed, but everyone didn't pay attention to it, going their own way, why bother what others said.

It was getting dark, and the mercenaries also rushed to the town in front of them to stay, planning to travel again tomorrow, and in the town bar, they could drink and satisfy their hunger, taste the food, and wash away the dust along the way.

The mercenaries were drinking in the noisy bar, and they opened up their chatterboxes.

"Haha, I wonder when those poor mercenaries who walk on their feet will arrive in this town?"

"If I had relied on my feet, I am afraid that it would have been two days before I got here!"

"I see! I won't be there until next year, haha!"