Qingjiang Creek is an unknown stream in Xuantian Mountain, it originates from the depths of Xuantian Mountain, winds south, joins the Chu River at Tianmen Mountain, and goes to the east to the vast East China Sea.

Let's say that the Qingjiang River does not flow into the Chu River here, and Tianmen Mountain is not as interrupted as it is now. Therefore, according to legend, there was Daze here, known as the nine-hundred-mile cloud dream.

It is said that in ancient times, at the turn of summer and autumn, the Chu River and the Qingjiang River would always flood here, and the Chu River was to seize the Qingjiang River and the main river road to the east in parallel, until the southern Chu capital city Xuandu City, then merged into the Xiangjiang River and entered the main river road of the Chu River again.

However, this view of nature has remained unchanged for the rest of the ages. However, hundreds of years ago, due to the sudden interruption of Tianmen Mountain, which blocked the Chu River, there was a sudden change, Yunmengze gradually disappeared, the water of the Chu River returned to the Chu River, and the water of the Qingjiang River returned to the Qingjiang River.

Mountains and rivers are cracking, rivers are changing, and no one knows the reason for such a big deal. Various folk legends are also emerging. The most popular saying is that under Tianmen Mountain, a princess from a small southwest country came to be married, and the princess unfortunately died here, and an immortal could not bear to see the princess's soul soaked in floods every year after her death, and she could not rest in peace, so she waved her sword to cut off the Tianmen Mountain that blocked the Chu River.

Regarding this magical and amazing legend, a great Confucian in Southern Chu once left a poem to support it:

The mountains and ravines go to the Xuandu, and Tianmen is fortunate to bury the bones;

Once the Chu River was interrupted, the Huanggu Temple did not linger.

Whether it is this kind of myth and legend of the silkworm woman village hooligan, or the truth of the literati and, Cheng Yunfan just sat in a teahouse in Yunyang City on the bank of Yunmengze in the past, listening to the ancient legends over and over again, and never said a word.

On this day, at the foot of Tianmen Mountain, a young man walked on the official road outside Huansha Village at the mouth of the Qingjiang River, he was dressed in a blue and purple robe, carrying a long sword and floating dust, and estimated the sixteen or seventeen scenes.

He was Cheng Yunfan, a disciple of the Sanyang Sect who went down the mountain overnight a few days ago and took refuge.

Hurriedly descended the mountain that night, running all the way, and temporarily resting in a cave in the middle, thinking that this time I went out, if I wanted to change my outfit, I would not be able to recognize that I was a disciple of the Sanyang Sect. So he entered the Jiuyang Stone Inheritance Space and exchanged for a set of Taoist clothes called Ziyang Jiuxing Yi, which was a set of low-level magic robes including a crown hat, robes, shoes and socks, with atmospheric workmanship and exquisite workmanship, costing 360 points of merit, and looking new from head to toe.

spent another 200 meritorious points to exchange for a handful of purple jade floating dust, pretending to be a traveling Taoist walking the world.

Cheng Yunfan stopped at the only teahouse on the official road outside the village, and made a foreign salute to a vendor selling snacks at the door, and said, "Dare to ask the second brother, how far is it to Sanshan Town?"

The peddler heard someone asking for directions, looked up and saw that the person in front of him was spotless, not like a person in a hurry, and sang the gift of the outside of the square, and there was a waist card on his body, knowing that he might have met a person who was a cultivator, and it was a famous disciple, so he quickly saluted and said: "The Taoist chief is going to Sanshan Town, this is 30 miles to the west, there is a fork in the road, the left hand is to the south is to Sanshan Town, how far is it, the small one has not been to it is not clear, listening to the gossip of the teahouse guests, it is estimated that there are also 100 miles away." ”

"Thank you for telling me, Xiaodao farewell!" Cheng Yunfan knew that he was already a cultivator, so he still tried not to deal too much with ordinary people, so as not to plant nameless cause and effect and tie up the path of cultivation in the future.

was about to set off, but saw a white-bearded old man walking out of the teahouse, holding a Li stick, waving his hand and shouting: "The Taoist is long and stays, the Taoist is long and stays!"

He was surprised that although this old man was old, but his steps were very steady, he was a person of the same way, and carefully looked at the lack of aura on his body, so he made up his mind, in order to facilitate walking, he hid his aura after going down the mountain, and controlled it in the third layer of cultivation, which did not appear abrupt or down.

"Dare to ask this old man what is the matter with the small way?" Cheng Yunfan asked.

"The little old man is abruptly Dao Chang, and he also asks the Dao Chief not to blame, only because there is a reason for the matter, and he is in a hurry, and he sees the Dao Chang Long Zhang Feng Zi, and there is a law for movement; ”

Soon, the old man told the cause and effect.

It turned out that he was the village doctor of this Huansha Village, and today he came back from buying medicinal materials from a town thirty miles away, and he had just rested at the tea house. In Huansha Village, there are hunters who go up the mountain to chop wood, unfortunately they are evil, and people go crazy and not only bite the old lady to death, but also hurt other villagers, and no matter how much medicine they take, it has no effect. The old man also heard the old man say in the town that this situation seems to be possessed by the evil spirits of yin demons, and it can be saved by non-medical treatment, and it must be eliminated by a person who is skilled in magic to get rid of it.

He rested in the teahouse, saw Cheng Yunfan asking for directions, his eyes lit up, and he rushed to the doctor to stop him.

Is there a demon in Huansha Village?

Cheng Yunfan couldn't help frowning when he heard this. Although it is not advisable for cultivators to walk in the world and entangle with ordinary mortals, when they encounter demons and evil spirits, they should do the way for the heavens, which is also a cumulative merit.

The matter has come to the forefront, if it is prevaricated, not only will it be looked down upon, but it will also damage the cause and effect, but there will be a dry heaven and a peace. Xin said: "If I go with him, let's see what kind of chaos is going on." ”

Suddenly, I thought that the evil person did not go out of the house to harm the villagers, which means that it is not very powerful, if it can't be solved, as long as you are careful and prudent, it is not a problem to save your life.

Thinking of this, Cheng Yunfan said: "Even so, Poor Dao will not stand idly by, do his best to obey the destiny of heaven, and then you will go!"

The old man was overjoyed when he heard this, and instructed the medicine boy in the teahouse to bring his luggage and go back to the village together.

Before crossing the Lixu Road, a village was faintly visible, and Cheng Yunfan had now also learned a simple art of looking at qi, and when he saw that there was indeed a faint black qi wandering around the village, he was vigilant in his heart.

He immediately said: "When I look at this village, there is indeed an evil spirit entangled, and you two better be careful." ”

When the village doctor heard this, he was relieved, and hurriedly said: "The Taoist chief is worthy of a master, and this technique of looking at qi is wonderful. ”

Cheng Yunfan didn't answer and continued to hurry. To the entrance of the village, the bamboo forest is also more, there is a faint fog from the depths of the bamboo forest, gradually go deeper, the bamboo also grows more densely, the hillside is full of clusters of deep bamboo, the two of them walk on the ramp, only a zigzag sheep intestine path, it can be seen that the villagers have walked for a long time, stepped out.

Because the bamboo is tall, the sun can't penetrate it, the forest looks dark, and when he was walking, suddenly a figure pounced on the ground, Cheng Yunfan's consciousness opened early, and although the figure was menacing, but the speed was not fast, Cheng Yunfan used a light body technique, and suddenly dodged, and then looked back, only to see the medicine boy who was fine just now, his face was blue, showing a pair of fangs, and he was about to pounce on him again.

The village doctor was still stunned, Cheng Yunfan had already taken out a low-level vajra talisman and stuck it on the back of his heart, and the village doctor Huang suddenly felt warm all over his body, and those black qi were not close.

When he was still feeling good about himself, Cheng Yunfan had already shot out a fixing rune, and his spiritual power fluctuated, and he shot it out at once, and pasted it on Daotong's head, only to see green smoke coming out of the hat where Daotong pasted the talisman, and screamed again and again, but because he was planted with a fixed talisman, his body couldn't move, but he shouted in his mouth: "Immortal Chief, help!"

Cheng Yunfan said: "Where is the monster, why did you sneak attack me?"

The medicine boy knelt down with a "porphyr" and said, "The little one doesn't have the same ability as the immortal, of course he can't hide from it, and after being bitten by that monster, he doesn't know anything." ”

Cheng Yunfan listened and said, "What does a monster look like?"

After hearing this, the medicine boy said: "The monster is like a dead man, yes, it is a dead man, and it has green hair all over its body, two long fangs, and although its whole body is stiff, its movements are extremely fast. ”

"Let's go back to the village. Cheng Yunfan commanded.

The medicine boy followed tremblingly, and when he returned to the village doctor's residence, he took out a pill and gave it to the medicine boy and said, "You take this medicine first, and wait for the person in charge of the village to come." ”

The medicine boy took the medicine directly, and the village doctor was busy going out to gather people, and after a while, the old man came back, gasped and said: "Dao Chief, please come with me, the presiding officer of Longquan Temple is doing what he did at the bitten woodcutter's house, and I will go and see it together." ”

Cheng Yunfan heard this, without saying a word, he followed the village doctor to the center of the village, and when he walked to the house that the villager said, he saw that there were many villagers outside the courtyard of the villager's house, looking inside.

A young man was tied to a wooden stake erected on one side, presumably the one who went up the mountain to chop wood and fell for evil.

A Taoist priest in his fifties with a thin face held a peachwood sword with a few pieces of rune paper tied on it, and then recited some mantras, and the rune paper ignited, and then the Taoist priest stabbed the burning rune paper into the bowl, and suddenly the bowl became turbid.

Cheng Yunfan used his divine sense to investigate, the Taoist priest had just caused the body, and his rune paper was very different from the spirit rune he had seen, and the spirit rune used by the monk was to first infuse the paper rune with spiritual power to make it a blank spirit rune, that is to say, the whole spirit rune was full of spiritual power.

And the paper talisman used by this Taoist priest is a general cinnabar talisman, with many symbols painted on it, which seems to be a mundane thing, not a monk's thing, and the Taoist priest poured a trace of his own spiritual power into it when casting the spell, and the various symbols used to subdue demons and eliminate evil spirits on the paper talisman are full of spiritual power, but the paper talisman is still a paper talisman.

When the paper talismans that were infused with spiritual power ignited and were thrown into the bowl, the water in the bowl also carried some spiritual power. Cheng Yunfan felt quite novel. Then a little Taoist boy beside the Taoist priest took the bowl of clear water filled with spiritual energy and poured it into the mouth of the young man who was bound, only to see a green smoke coming out of the young man's mouth, roaring miserably, making a strange cry that did not look like a human being, and his face became hideous.