Fire! Boundless fire!

The raging fire rushed into the sky, and it was easy to walk in the mountains and forests, and once a little spark burned up, it could cause a big fire, not to mention that more than 100 barrels of oil were poured into it now!

The fire spread to the entire hill within a moment... But the strange thing is that when the fire burns to the side of the villagers, it seems that it is hindered by something, and they are confined in place.

Except for a treasure-shaped area on fire, there was not a trace of spark in the rest of the mountain!

When Lu Qing heard this, he understood that of course all this was just the effect of those few runes, but in this way, the two white-clothed people seemed to be prepared...

The villagers, who were frightened by the fire, were shocked and pat when they saw such an incredible thing.

The two white-clothed men were proud for a while, and then said that the elf was a thousand-year-old vine and should belong to the wood line, so as long as its old roots were burned and its true body was destroyed, it would be self-defeating!

When the villagers heard the man in white say this, they all nodded justifiably. At this moment, a figure suddenly appeared in the sea of fire!

It was a fiery red horse, burning with flames!

Its mane and tail are made up of clumps of flames, and it runs and sways with a roar of fire!

Its body looked a little larger than that of a normal horse, its nose was breathing heavily, with bursts of scorching breath, and its bright eyes were burning with fire!

Its four hooves trampled on the ground and made a rumbling sound, like thousands of horses, and like a sea of mountains... Wherever it ran, flames rose from the hoof prints, lining the horse like a divine beast in the sky!

Fire Spirit Beast!

This is the Fire Spirit Beast... A wood-based elf consumed by the cowardly flames of humanity!

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It ran to the edge of the barrier to escape the fire, but was violently bounced back by the white light mask, and then it saw the villagers again... It's all the people it has helped, and they're looking at it indifferently at this time, and these cold or guilty gazes stung it deeply, and it doesn't understand why these people are doing this to themselves!?

It hurts more than the pain of being in a raging fire, and it hurts more than the betrayal of these people!

The resentment in his heart made it unable to calm down, and finally turned into a miserable hiss that looked up to the sky...

The hoarse roar of the fire spirit beast made the villagers all silent, and its heroic posture and appearance of raising its head to the sky were deeply engraved in their minds for a long time.

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The fire spirit beast died, or the fire spirit beast was really born at this moment.

The original wood elf had disappeared without a trace, leaving only a demonic beast covered in flames to exist between heaven and earth, screaming and torturing the selfishness and stupidity of this world.

When the villagers saw that the catastrophe had been eliminated, they suddenly had a voice of gratitude, and the two white-clothed people pretended to be profound for a while, and then took the true body of the wood elf... A piece of charred vines, and then cast a spell to bury this ancient vine on a hillside not far from the top of the mountain, and ordered someone to erect a stone statue there... That is, the horse's head that Lu Qing picked up. The man in white explained: This stone statue is a kind of closed town, and it is resurrected in the province and the dead wood is spring!

In addition, the people of the village are also required to come to worship every year, and it is best to come to the villagers who have participated in this matter in the past, because it is planted in the hands of these people, and there is naturally a fear of them, and the spirit of the elf will not dare to do anything when they see them.

Lu Qing suddenly seemed to be aware of something when he heard this, and then asked eagerly, "Wait! Could it be that the place where it was buried back then is the location of the spirit stone mine today?"

The old village chief didn't know why he asked, and then nodded silently, which was considered an affirmation.

After that, there was nothing to say, the two white-clothed people left, and the life of Wujia Village returned to calm again, and the villagers occasionally dreamed of the fire spirit beast, in which it was so fierce and ruthless, and it was full of demonic fire chasing behind them, and finally woke up in a dream of a sea of fire.

Whenever this happens, the villagers will say that this is a dream transformed by the resentment of the fire spirit beast, and it is it that it is dreaming for the villagers... The villagers who were entrusted with the dream would quietly go up to the top of the mountain before dawn every other day, worship the stone statue, and pray that the fire spirit beast would stop holding grudges, hoping that it would calm its grievances.

Time keeps passing, and the people of Wujia Village have gradually forgotten who was the betrayer at that time... They gradually forgot the kindness of the wood elf, and in their memory, only the monster that exuded demonic fire was left... and a deep fear of it.

After the village chief's story was finished, Lu Qing and Zhong Wanquan both fell into deep thought, it was obvious that even this square-faced headcatcher had never heard of the origin of this fire spirit beast before.

Then I saw that Village Chief He got up tremblingly and entered the inner room, and after a sound of rummaging through the cabinets, he came out with a red pony sculpture in both hands, and took a closer look at the sculpture of the fire spirit beast!

"This is something left by the two men in white, saying that it can suppress the evil spirit of the fire spirit beast."

Lu Qing operated the "Qi Sutra" spiritual eye as usual at this time, and after an undetectable golden light flashed in his eyes, the world in front of him became colorful... Look at this red sculpture again, it is now wrapped in layers of black resentment!

It's exactly the same as the resentment on Yu Niang's body at that time!!

And not only this red sculpture, but also the village chief, there is also a layer of hazy black gas!

After Lu Qing discovered this, he felt that everything that had happened was being put together in a seemingly absurd but reasonable way.

It's just that he still lacks a few key clues, so he can only roughly grasp one main thread.

The whole thing should have been caused by the two men in white, that's for sure.

From the perspective of their methods, these two white-clothed men should be Shinto monks from the Western Continent, and it is not clear which sect they are.

And for some reason, they wandered to the Eastern Continent, and when they were wandering around to make a living, by chance, they found that there were innate elves here.

Seeing this, the two of them improvised to infiltrate the village, and used Shinto methods to deceive Baixin's trust, in this regard, Shinto is much more clever than Xiandao, and these Shinto missionaries had better fix these things that pretend to be gods.

After deceiving the villagers' trust, they used spells to ban the range of the wood elves, and borrowed the villagers' soybean oil to burn the elves.

There's something special about this... That's the question of why these two men in white don't directly use spells to kill the wood elves.

Although Lu Qing majored in the two ways of immortal martial arts, he still dabbled in the theory of Shinto because he was well-read since he was a child.

The reason why they didn't do it themselves was that these two people in white were afraid! They were afraid that if they killed this elf with their own hands, they would have to bear the resentment of this elf and the karma of killing the innate elf!

As Shinto monks, they naturally understand that this natural cultivation of essence is inevitably covered with great opportunities and great luck given by heaven and earth.

Rashly attacking and even killing is a move against heaven and reason, and this move hurts heaven and reason!

And let the villagers of Wujia Village burn it with soybean oil, on the one hand, as they said, the wood elves belong to the wood line, and if they attack it with fire, they will die. But on the other hand, it is more important, because this Wujia Village has protected this ancient vine when it has been going up the mountain to cut firewood for generations, so in terms of karma, this ancient vine owes Wujia Village a great cause and effect.

After that, the ancient vine became a fine, and also took care of the villagers of Wujia Village, but it was also out of instinct under the shackles of luck, and it wanted to repay them for the care of the old and young in the village.

If there were no two white-clothed people who intervened horizontally, after the wood elves repaid their kindness, it was very likely that they would be born to achieve a human body with spiritual wisdom, and be sealed by God as a mountain god and the like, so as to achieve the righteous god fruit.

Who knows, but it was miserably calculated by the traitorous villain, and died in the hands of the villagers who tolerated it and took care of it for thousands of years..

Later, the reason why the two white-clothed people buried its real body should not only be for the purpose of sealing the town, but as for what it was used for, Lu Qing could not forcibly guess.

However, one thing is certain, the appearance of that spirit stone mine is by no means accidental!

The feng shui direction here has no intersection with the dragon veins of the Eastern Continent, and the probability of producing a spiritual stone mine is very small, and the spiritual stone mines of the Eastern Continent have been found out nine times out of ten, and they are all dependent on the dragon veins to spawn.

According to common sense, it is impossible to give birth to a spirit stone mine here, and it is precisely because of this that Fan Datong can so easily hide from the imperial court and steal the ore vein.

If Lu Qing's guess is correct, that spirit stone mine is the real body of the wood elf at all... The aura on that ancient vine was transformed!

And those so-called sealed towns are actually magic circles set up to force out the aura in the ancient vines!

That magic circle had been extracting the aura of the ancient vine for more than forty years, and finally derived a spirit stone mine!!

Later, the spiritual stone mine was discovered and secretly mined by the magistrate of the county, who requisitioned young men from three villages near Wutou Mountain.

Because of the lack of safety measures and reasonable planning, many people died in the process of mining, and then it was the result of Lu Qing's previous reasoning.

But now he still has a few key points to figure out... First of all, where did the remaining missing villagers go?

Secondly, is the appearance of Jade Niang really an accident?

In the end, the man in white appeared in the Lingshi mine, so what is their relationship with Fan Datong, the magistrate?

These questions are like dark clouds in Lu Qing's mind... It gave him a sense of foreboding.

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Lu Qing walked out of the house and stretched, as if it was almost dark today, and Lin Shiyan hadn't come back yet.

This stubborn girl, because she didn't agree to her request this afternoon, left with a pout, and didn't know what to do.

Lu Qing shook his head helplessly, and finally planned to find it in person.

Wujia Village is not big, there are only two or three hundred households in total, and behind the village is an endless hillside, which is now full of snow, and she should not go there.

After searching and inquiring from door to door in the village, Lu Qing didn't take much time to find her whereabouts. According to the villagers, she is now at Grandma Wang's house in the west of the village.

After finding a place on the way, Lu Qing found that it was a shabby and simple farmhouse, the fence wall had been damaged in several places but had not been repaired, and the thatch on the roof had been blown away by the strong wind, leaving only a thin layer to fool around.

He wanted to knock on the door and enter, but who would have thought that the door would fall down with a gentle push from him... Looking at it again, it turned out that this door was tied with rope, and there were no hinge bearings or anything.

He quietly entered, gently closed the door again, touched the black, greasy wooden door, and sighed slightly.

Then he walked to the door of the farmhouse, leaned against the door, and heard the voice of the house.

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