The haze of fire caused by the prayers of the Huoli people had already alarmed the four seas hall masters who were pacing back and forth in Yixue Hall.

As soon as he noticed something strange outside the window, Xingyan immediately woke up Qiong Wei Xueyi, who was sleeping soundly in the inner room, and stood in the shadow of the willow tree by the blue water pool outside the cottage, and quietly watched in the southeast direction.

Just as Xingyan was thinking about the fluttering and flickering strange cloud, he heard a small exclamation from Qiong Wei beside him, and then lowered his voice and said, "Brother, look, what is that?"

"Huh?"

After being reminded by Qiong Wei, he realized that on the slope of the southeast where the clouds and haze passed, there was suddenly a little green ghost fire floating rapidly towards this side. Seeing the flickering and rapid appearance of the ghost fire, Xingyan knew something was wrong, and quickly stared at it firmly.

Sure enough, it didn't take long for the ghost fire, which seemed to be evading the chase, to circle a few times on the edge of the junction between Lizhai and the mountain col, and then floated towards this side, and in a blink of an eye, it was in front of you. At this time, the sky was full of dark clouds, and the night was hazy, but the awakening could still be seen, and behind this almost transparent ghostly fire, there were two more almost imperceptible shadows in the dark night, which followed closely behind like the servants who captured the prisoners. Looking at the eagerness that followed like a shadow, it was obvious that the two black and white shadows were preventing the green fire from drifting towards this side.

It's just that when the cyan ghost fire was about to reach the three of them, the two ghosts showed the intention of cowering, and only wandered in the shadows of the black rumbling ditch, as if they didn't dare to approach here.

Seeing this, the young hall master, who was full of doubts in his heart, was willing to let go, and immediately shook his body, letting go of the cyan ghost fire that came to defect, and his body also floated towards the two ghosts hiding like a ghost. It's just that Rao is awakening didn't bring any wind when he was moving, but the compelling momentum still alarmed the two ghosts who were observing the situation. Almost as soon as they were awake, the two ghosts were taken aback, and quickly turned around, turning like light smoke, and wanted to flee into the distance.

"Still want to escape?!"

Seeing that the two ghosts were so fast, they fled towards the mountain beam in the distance like a whirlwind, but Xingyan stopped, waved the divine sword in his hand, and shouted in a low voice: "Stop!"

As soon as the words fell, the two ghosts who were fleeing for their lives in the night sky immediately hit their heads on two dim films of light that were barely colorable. So the two ghosts suddenly fell to the ground like flies hitting the wall, "squeaking" and screaming. Before they could react, the two wall-like films of light "whew" and turned to wrap them together.

"Come over to me!"

As the so-called "one law passes, ten thousand laws pass", with the current Taoist attainments, it is really effortless to catch these two little ghosts. In the blink of an eye, the film of light flowing in the dark light wrapped around the two ghosts and floated towards this side. And the cyan ghost fire before has now turned into a human form, and I was stunned to see that the two fierce and abnormal ghosts have been caught by people like two rats.

"Brother is amazing!"

This is Qiong Wei Seeing the magic of the awakening method, she couldn't help but clap her hands in admiration, and asked curiously: "What kind of spell is this?"

"Ghost hit the wall. ”

Xingyan didn't have time to think about it at this time, so he replied casually, and then carefully observed the ghosts in front of him.

"Brother Dao?"

The dim blue ghost in the shade of the trees was stunned when he heard the young man shout. It turned out that it was Xingyan who looked at this cyan ghost and saw that he looked about twenty years old, with a rectangular face, clear eyebrows, wearing a short shirt that was only worn in summer, wearing a Taoist crown on his head, and stepping on a pair of shoes under his feet, dressed as a Taoist walker.

Hearing his call, the ghost that the Taoist priest turned into woke up like a dream, hurriedly inquired, and replied: "It's the poor Dao." ”

His voice was hoarse and subtle, and it was obvious that he had only become a ghost for a short time, and his roots had not been solidified. Listening to his polite answer, he thought for a while, and then said politely: "Brother Dao, please talk in the house." ”

After finishing speaking, he raised his hand and made a move into the distance, swept the two evil ghosts away, threw them into Yixue Hall with a "whew", and then beckoned this new ghost to come into the house and speak.

When I got to the house, I first asked about the origin of this cyan ghost, and I learned that his name was Lan Cheng, and he turned out to be a Taoist, who was killed in this Li village about half a year ago, and his ghost did not disperse, turning into a ghost, just waiting for a Taoist colleague to avenge him. Now it was Lan Cheng who smelled the breath of the Dao Gate and hurried over.

As soon as he heard Lan Cheng's words, he sighed and sighed, and asked him what kind of teacher he was, why he came here, and who killed him. It's just that, although Xingyan asked in detail, but I don't know if it has turned into a ghost, this Lan Chengdao brother is now a vague memory, and his words are weak, although he has been anxious to explain his grievances clearly, but when he really saw this dear Daoist junior brother, he suddenly found that his mind was chaotic and upside down, and he couldn't figure it out at all.

Seeing that he met such a Taoist disciple with great magical powers and ghosts like gods, but he couldn't say anything clearly, he made this unjustly killed Lan Chengdao so anxious that he scratched his ears and cheeks, and ran around in the Yixue Grass Hall, hitting the wall everywhere!

However, although his words were confused and the narrative was reversed just now, Xingyan still heard an important trick: "These things are really related to the patriarch......

It turned out that Xingyan found that all the memories of this Lan Cheng ghost, who was so anxious that he hit the wall, stopped abruptly when he talked about the patriarch's family, and as soon as he mentioned the name of the patriarch of Na Suli, the ghost trembled with fright. It seems that the old man Su Li is indeed very strange, and as expected, all the suspicious things he has observed in the past few days after entering the village are inseparable from the patriarch here.

Thinking of this, seeing that Lan Cheng was in a hurry, he hurriedly comforted: "Brother Lan Dao, don't be impatient, this little brother will definitely find out and seek justice for Brother Lan!"

Hearing this, Lan Cheng suddenly quieted down, and only thanked him there.

After settling down Lan Cheng, Xingyan freed his hand, and waved to the door: "You guys come here!"

"It's coming, it's coming!"

It was the two demons who were chasing Lan Cheng closely before.

Now these two black and white are like black and white impermanence ghosts, the terrible light film on their bodies has long been removed, and they don't care about Xingyan, but they have not dared to leave;

"Uh......"

Hearing these two ghosts call themselves like this, Xingyan was stunned. Thinking of this, he decided to remain silent for the first time, and quickly pretended to be majestic, and asked the two smiling evil spirits in front of him: "Do you two ghosts have a name?"

"Ding Jia!" "Otozo!"

The two ghosts scrambled to answer, lest they be slow to answer for a while.

"Oh, Ding Jia, Yi Zang, it's quite loud. That's right, since you two are not nameless little ghosts, why do you still embarrass me, Brother Lan Chengdao?"

It turned out that I heard Lan Cheng say just now that these two ghosts have been bullying him as new ghosts, making things difficult and teasing in every way, and expelling him day by day, almost leaving him with no place to stand. It was precisely because he heard such an odious hearing that Xingyan was ready to help him raise his teacher and ask for his guilt.

Besides, these two white, black and vast ghosts are like a pair of black and white impermanence ghosts, as soon as they heard the words of accountability, they suddenly became busy, sweat oozed from their pointed ears, and the most pitiful expression appeared on their jujube piti-like heads and faces, and they cried and said that this was a misunderstanding, it was they who had no eyes, and the ghost eyes looked down on people, and they were not suitable for the friends who should collide with the ghost king-

At this moment, these two skinny sharp-eared ghosts were convinced that the person in front of them was undoubtedly the ghost king. Speaking of ghosts, unlike humans, ghosts do not judge people by their appearance, but there seems to be a mark in their souls, which makes them feel that the proud young man in front of them is the one they are born to serve and obey the King of the Night. Therefore their kind words of begging for mercy were spoken with great sincerity.

Seeing that they were so respectful, Xingyan snorted and stopped pursuing it. The two ghosts of Ding Jia and Yi were suddenly amnesty, and hurriedly followed the awakening heart, and told the "ghost king" all the weirdness they knew about this Huoli Village, like a bamboo tube pouring beans. It wasn't until Ding Jia Yizang spoke that the master of the Sihai Hall of the Shangqing Palace knew that the "disaster star" in the mouth of the old patriarch of Su Li was a woman who knew the spell of rain and water, and this Li village became beautiful, which was her credit.

It's just now, listening to Yizang, the woman has been treated as a harmful monster, let the old patriarch who knew the will of God be tied up in the southeast mountains, and every night on the fifth, fifteenth, and twenty-fifth days of the first lunar month, he ordered the remnants of Huoli in the clan to kneel down and pray together, and use the fiery breath left by their ancestor Chiyou Great Patriarch to suppress the demonic energy on the water-based woman. It is said that when such prayers and suppressions are completed 7749 times, the disaster star of the people of the village will really be scattered, and they will no longer be able to cause chaos in the village. The old patriarch said that at that time, the heavens would show sympathy to their sincerity and never give disaster to the village again.

"I see!"

Hearing this nonsense, Xingyan's heart suddenly brightened. Staring at the two ghosts in front of him, and thinking about this matter again, the Four Seas Hall Master became a little happy: "Ha! If what these two ghosts said is true, then she shouldn't be dead yet!"

Thinking of this, the young man was in a good mood, and he almost jumped up with joy for a while.

Trying to hold back the joy in his heart, Xingyan glanced at the ghosts in front of him, thought about it and arranged: "Let's do this, Qiong Wei, you come to play with these ghost uncles in the house, and I will go out with your sister Xue Yi to investigate!"

"Good!"

Qiong Wei responded crisply, and grinned at these ghost uncles.

Omitting how Qiong Wei played with those ghosts, and then talking about the awakening, He Xueyi quietly tiptoed all the way to the patriarch's house in the southwest of the village.

After listening to Lan Cheng's words just now, he felt that if he wanted to solve all kinds of strangeness in the village and visit the water spirit who had visited, the key should fall on the old patriarch of Su Li, who seemed to be highly respected.

At this time, the night sky was covered with dark clouds, and there was darkness everywhere, just to hide their figures. Gradually, Xingyan and Xue Yi approached the courtyard of the patriarch's house, which was sitting west and facing east. According to the consistent young man's thoughts, when he approached the patriarch's house, he would ask the plum blossom fairy to take care of the wind for him outside the courtyard, and he would use the secret technique of the Dragon Palace "Water Without a Trace" to stealthily go in to explore people's privacy.

It's just that he was just approaching the bamboo fence courtyard, but Xingyan suddenly stopped, and quietly looked at the courtyard for a while, then he gently waved his hand to the woman next to him, and whispered, "Don't go tonight." Let's go back first. ”

After that, he quietly turned back with Xue Yi.

It turned out that in the darkness just now, Xing Yan suddenly felt that in the courtyard in front of him, a vigorous force of grass and trees was coming, and it seemed that it was obviously the emerald and abnormal grass and trees of the Su Li patriarch's house, stretching their qi and spiritual sense in the dark night. And in the awakening spirit, this seemingly ordinary courtyard of the Li family is now like countless green qi tentacles stretching out, stretching and probing in the night sky. In this case, even if you are invisible, you may not be able to hide those "eyes and ears".

It's just that although I couldn't get into it, I didn't get nothing out of it. Just looking at the grass and trees that were still alert in the dark night, he knew that Su Li Lao was definitely not just a bad old man who could be a little psychic as he said.

"Well, then I'll visit again tomorrow. ”

Looking back at the courtyard, Xingyan secretly made up his mind in his heart.

Besides, when he and Xue Yi returned to Yixue Hall, they opened the door and took a look, only to find that Xiao Qiongwei was listening to the two ghost uncles tell a story. The little girl, trembling and listening to the ghost story, let the two Suzaku blades with all the shadows of fire hover and fly above their heads.

"I'm afraid of ghost stories~"

Seeing Xingyan looking at her with a strange expression, Qiong Wei explained seriously in her busy life, and then turned her face away and urged the two terrible demon uncles to continue the story quickly. In the candlelight, her awake brother could clearly see that the two fierce spirits who were searching their stomachs and trying their best to tell stories to the little girl were now sweating and embarrassed.

Seeing this, he smiled and went to talk to Lan Cheng for a while, hoping to find out some more truth. It's just that after this detailed discussion, Xingyan only heard that the ghost cry outside the door last night was from Lan Cheng, and nothing else was obtained. Even if he asked Lan Cheng about this ghost crying and asked him why he made a warning when he and his second daughter were in the cave room, Lan Cheng just looked ignorant, saying that he only knew that he had to stop them in the cave room, otherwise there would be a big disaster, and as for the specific reason, he just shook his head and couldn't say anything.

After chatting for a while, I looked out the window, and the night was as deep as ink. After a few more words of explanation to Lan Cheng, Ding Jia, and Yi Zang, Xingyan raised his arm, and only listened to the sound of "sigh", and then included these three ghosts in his "Si You" ghost ring. At this time, the situation is unclear, and Lan Cheng's foundation is not solid, if this fellow Daomen is allowed to wander in the wilderness, it will be very dangerous, and the two black and white impermanence Ding Jia and Yi Zang, and one by one expressed their intention to serve the "ghost king", seeing this, Xingyan simply put their brains in the ghost ring between their fingers, and asked the ghost king to teach them a few to practice ghost art when he was free. He had already told Ding Jia and Yizang that if Lan Cheng wanted anything in the future, they must be by his side to support him.

After an hour or two of slept, it was already dawn outside the window. After washing up as before, Xingyan called Qiong Wei Xueyi and went to the patriarch's house in the south of the village together.

"Is anyone there?"

Outside the gate of the hospital, Xingyan called again like yesterday. Standing outside the courtyard at this time, looking at the small courtyard with the fence again, it was just full of green and desire, and there was no longer the compelling blue air like last night.

......

After waiting for a while, Xingyan heard two coughs coming from the courtyard, and then someone in the house replied, "Ahem, the old man is here." Who is it?"

"Disturb the patriarch. The younger generation Zhang Xingyan brought the bride to meet the patriarch. ”

Although the patriarch could not see through the courtyard wall, he still clasped his hands into fists and bowed when he spoke. Hearing him reply respectfully, the people in the house answered: "Oh, then come in."

When he heard this, he pushed open the fence with a "squeak" and entered the courtyard. The three of them were walking under the big camphor tree in the courtyard, and were about to walk towards the west wing room where the voice came out, but they heard the voice of Su Li from the room: "Brother Zhang, I'm really sorry, it's inconvenient for a woman to enter the old house, you better come in alone." Let your two ladies watch the scene in the courtyard for a while. ”

"Good!"

Turning around and signaling to Qiong Wei Xueyi, Xingyan reached out and pressed the sword on his waist, and strode towards Su Li's old house.

"Old Patriarch, are you practicing spells?"

Carefully stepping into the room, Xingyan saw the thin old village chief, sitting cross-legged on the wooden bed, his eyelids closed, and his mouth breathing, as if refining qi. Listening to his question, the old patriarch of Su Li exhaled a long breath, then stretched out his legs and stepped out of bed, and said with a smile: "Ho, see and laugh! Where is the spell, this is just the old man who has learned some spitting methods, practicing tricks in his spare time, and maintaining his remnants." ”

"Oh, that's right. ”

After listening to this answer, Xingyan also looked like he had nothing to do. After that, he swept the room with his eyes, and found that the patriarch's room was very simple, with a wooden bed, a bench, a pear wood table, a stoneware pot on the table, and a few tea bowls for drinking. It seems that although this Cuili village has become rich, the patriarch's house is still as simple as ever, and when you look around, there is only the pickaxe leaning against the wooden door, and the dust whisk hanging on the earthen wall, which looks to be worth some money.

"Dare to ask your seniors, do you also practice Taoism?"

Pacing to a stop in front of the dust of the door hanging on the wall, he asked casually.

"The little brother laughed, the old man is an old man in a deserted village, how can he know what Taoism ......"

"Really?"

Hearing this, he didn't look back, still in a curious tone, and asked, "But, how do I think that the pure qi attached to the dust is only possessed by cultivators?"

Hearing him ask this, the old patriarch of Su Li behind him, whose kind smile had quietly solidified, was replaced by a fierce look that was extremely incommensurate with his appearance. It's just that although his face showed a fierce face, he still replied with a smile in his mouth: "Ho, ho-ho-"

"Little brother, what is a cultivator? What is Qingqi? The old man has little knowledge, can you tell me......

In a calm tone, the old man Su Li, who had a fierce look behind the awakening words, had become like two people, and while baring his white sharp teeth at the corner of his mouth, he quietly moved towards the door, and slowly reached out to hold the hoe—just as his dry hands held the hoe handle, the originally dull peasant hoe suddenly shone brightly, and it had become shining!

"Let's talk about what a monk is......

In a gloomy tone, Su Li Lao had already picked up the cold and clear crane's beak hoe, aimed at the back of the young man's head who was still ignorant, and slashed down with a "whew"!