The yin wind in the middle of the night whistled, and the old man glanced at the entrance of the cave tremblingly, lowered his head and continued: "After Bai Yi came back, his leg miraculously normalized, and he became different from before, not only did he not blame us, but he also said that he came back to see us. But as soon as he returned, half of the men in the village began to suffer from sleepiness, and when they woke up at night, they always talked nonsense, and some of the people who had bullied their siblings began to commit suicide one after another, and died very tragically, some with knives to dig out their intestines, some to gouge out their eyeballs, and some to cut off their legs...... We thought that the girls who were dedicated to the mountain gods had come back to us to ask for their lives, so we let Xingwen do the work to exorcise the ghosts. No one expected that the ghost was driven away, but the villagers disappeared and were killed one by one. The villagers were scared, and some began to prepare to leave the village...... Many people who have lived in Lingyin Village for most of their lives are reluctant to leave, and only some young people have left, but they never expected that these people will lose their lives as soon as they leave......"

The old man seemed reluctant to think about it, and the old man sighed again and again. Situ Yan was not in a hurry, just patiently waited for the old man to speak slowly.

"The day after those people left, Xingwen and I wanted to go to the mountain to see what was going on, and we saw Bai Yi staying with the youkai at the bottom of the mountain where the mountain god lived. The appearance of those monsters is extremely terrifying, just like what Bai Ning said, Xingwen told me before, I didn't believe it until I saw it with my own eyes. I saw Bai Yi and those monsters hanging the villagers who had left the village one by one on the big locust tree by the river, and a few hungry wolves were gnawing at the feet and legs of those villagers, and when they couldn't reach them, Bai Yi induced them to climb the tree, and then bit off the rope that tied the villagers, and when they fell to the ground, all the hungry wolves pounced, and the strange thing was that they didn't eat human heads, and one person's head rolled down the hillside, just to my feet. We were so frightened that we ran away, but Bai Yi flew up to us and said to me, "If you want to run, where are you going?" The whole village has been spelled by him, and if anyone leaves the village, the end will be the belly of the wolf cubs. I was so frightened that my legs went limp, and I begged Bai Yi again and again not to hurt us, and then Bai Yi said that as long as we stayed in the village and offered a girl to the mountain god every month, no, as long as it was a woman, we would be fine. I originally wanted to hide the matter so that the villagers would not panic, but the village did not allow people to leave, and they had to sacrifice to the mountain god every month, and the matter could no longer be hidden......" The village chief wiped a handful of tears, only Zhang Xingwen shook his head helplessly.

Oro said with disdain, "So in order to save your lives, you did as he said, and then the girl who sacrificed ran away, and you hid in this hole to survive?"

The village chief sighed and said, "Girl, the village is full of ordinary people, unlike you immortal cultivators. When this kind of thing happens, what else can we do but save our lives?"

Situ Yan said: "We have already understood the matter, don't worry, since we are here, there is no reason to sit idly by." Later, we will go to the mountain to find out about the mountain god. By the way, I heard you say that Bai Yi came back a few days ago, so where did he go, do you know?"

"How dare we ask about him......" As soon as the old man's voice fell, Zhang Xingwen hurriedly interjected: "Maybe I can give you some clues." ”

Situ Yan turned to look at Zhang Xingwen, only to hear Zhang Xingwen say: "When he left the village, I happened to hear him talking to a woman, as if he mentioned the sea of no return. ”

Situ Yan's eyelids jumped, and he muttered to himself: "No return to the sea......"

"I don't know if I can help you in any way. Zhang Xingwen said, and also pulled Situ Yan's thoughts back in an instant.

Situ Yan smiled, "It's a good clue." Then stay here for now, and we'll go up the hill and see. With that, he and Oro left the cave.

When he arrived outside the cave, Situ Yan suddenly stopped and said to Eluo, "Did Miss Eluo notice anything?"

Ero grinned a few times, "Of course, the one surnamed Zhang has a demonic aura on his body, and he is a half-demon!

Situ Yan smiled lightly and shook his head, "Originally, they were very afraid of monsters, and if they told them that there was also a demon standing next to them, wouldn't they faint in fright." Let's go up the mountain first, I'm curious about what this mountain god is like. ”

As soon as they reached the foot of the mountain, they saw the big locust tree in the mouth of the village chief, and saw that the tree had thick branches and luxuriant leaves, and it was very eye-catching in the barren wilderness.

"I heard that the yin qi of the locust tree is extremely heavy, and the more yang qi it absorbs, the more luxuriant it grows, and if it is watered with human blood, the tree is easy to become essence. It is rumored that there is a demon alchemist in the south, who likes to raise monsters, and then refine the blood of those demons into blood spirit beads, where he lived used to have a large locust tree, he just started to drip irrigate with his own blood, and then felt that it was useless, so he gradually hung a living person on the tree, and drained blood from them every day to water the locust tree. After a long time, the locust tree became a spirit, but the locust tree demon didn't want to be used by the demon refiner, so he killed the demon refiner and escaped, and later he didn't know where the locust tree demon went. After that, Situ Yan glanced at the "Ling Huayin" beside him, and didn't care if Ling Huayin over there heard it, and asked, "Linghua, did you say that Bai Yi had anything to do with the locust tree demon that attacked you?"

When "......" left, he saw "Ling Huayin" draw the sword at his waist, and a sword qi split the locust tree in half from the middle ten zhang away.

Situ Yan was stunned and exclaimed, "Good swordsmanship!"

The road to the mountain was not far, but it took them a lot of time because no one had ever come up and it was overgrown with weeds. At the end of the road, a huge cave appeared in front of them. The entrance to the cave was entwined with countless vines, almost blocking the hole, leaving only one person to pass through the gap. And on the dirt in front of the entrance of the cave, there are also shallow footprints of people, which do not seem to be as they say, no one has come. Situ Yan's spirit suddenly became nervous, not because he was worried about what was inside, but because things were developing more and more in an unexpected direction, which made him curious and excited, and he couldn't wait to uncover the truth of the matter.

"I'll go in first, you wait outside for my news. Situ Yan was straight, and he needed to bow his body to barely pass through the cave.

As soon as he entered the cave, a disgusting rancid smell came to his face, and he quickly covered his mouth and nose with his left hand, and only when his eyes adjusted to the darkness here did he glance around. I saw that the cave was full of rotting corpses, and the vines were stained with viscous liquid, and I don't know if it was blood or something. Inside, you can't see anything clearly. So he rubbed the thumb and forefinger of his right hand, and lit a beam of fire, which was fine, and the vines in the cave moved, and the sound of chewing sounded in the cave.

"I've never seen anything so disgusting in my life. Situ Yan muttered to himself, opening the barrier by the way, for fear that those sticky objects would get on him.

"It's so much better. Situ Yan rejoiced as he moved inside, and when he walked into the depths, he realized what the villagers called the mountain god, it turned out to be nothing more than a demonized man-eating grass. At this moment, it was opening its bloody mouth, stretching out its tentacles to wrap Situ Yan and the enchantment and send it to its mouth. Situ Yan hurriedly used a spell to cut off those tentacles, but those tentacles seemed to never be finished, and one was broken and grew again.

"It's endless. Situ Yan said while looking around for something that made the plant demonized, and finally let him find that there was a black shiny thing in the mouth of the man-eating grass, he sighed alone, endured the discomfort of the stomach tumbling over the river and the sea, took out the piano and quickly plucked a few times, in an instant, the transparent strings held the mouth of the man-eating grass to prevent it from closing, Situ Yan quickly reached in and took out the thing.

When the thing reached Situ Yan's hand, the slime on it weathered, revealing its original luster, a black transparent stone, and there was an insect egg in the stone, and the light emanated from it.

"Corpse Refining Gu ......" Situ Yan frowned slightly and put it away, looking back, the man-eating grass had withered, presumably the last bit of demonic energy that supported its life had disappeared. Situ Yan hurriedly lit a fire in his hand, wanting to burn these plants, and found that behind the plants, there were several glowing soul gathering grasses growing in a clearing. He was just about to go up and pick when he heard the voice of Oro behind him. So he hurriedly laid an enchantment in the open space, turned around and said to Eluo, who had just arrived, as if nothing had happened: "Didn't you say that you should wait for my news?"

"I didn't want to come in, but she heard the piano and had to come in and see. Elo replied nonchalantly.

"Ling Huayin" glanced around, and casually looked at the place where Situ Yan had laid down the enchantment, but when he looked around, there were only dead vines there, and nothing else was found.

Situ Yan smiled indifferently, took a few steps forward, seemed to deliberately block the sight of "Ling Huayin", and said: "This place is filthy, let's go out early, let's go out and talk about it." ”

"Ling Huayin" and E Luo didn't want to stay here any longer, so they quickly left the cave with Situ Yan.

After going out, Situ Yan told them about his guess and showed them the Corpse Refining Gu.

"You mean to say that there are no mountain gods in this village at all, in fact, they are all man-made?"

"Yes, you look at this footprint at the entrance of the cave, I estimate that it is an adult man, and this hole is not high, so I guess this man must be shorter than me, he cut off the head of the sacrificial girl, and then fed the corpse to the man-eating grass, and threw the head and the girl's clothes at the entrance of the village, so that everyone thinks that the mountain god made it. Situ Yan confidently stated his conjecture.

Ero thought for a while, and wondered: "Since it was done by a human, what happened to the beast that the villagers saw? Could it be that this thing was done by Bai Yi from beginning to end, can't he drive the beast?"

Situ Yan shook his head and was very determined: "It's definitely not the same person, if Bai Yi is the initiator of this incident, why do you want to send your own sister to death? Bai Yi came back purely for revenge. ”

"Then we don't have any other clues to find this person now, what are we going to do next?"

"Then we'll wait. Situ Yan said, raised his hand and sniffed his sleeve, and said with disgust: "The smell here is too bad, I have to wash it." ”

E Luo covered her mouth and smiled: "I didn't expect you to be a big man and love cleanliness." Why don't we burn the plants in this hole, so as not to frighten others. ”

That's exactly what I mean. ”