Qingyan nodded, "I understand. Let's see if those people can still move on their own. If not, I will let Jin Yang be knocked unconscious and retracted into the space.
What did you mean when you said that senior brother no longer looks like a human being? Could it be that he has become possessed? "
Chou Chou: "No, I almost feel the popularity in him. It's like he's in a state of the living dead. He's just a moving corpse. There's a lot of sinister aura about him, which is not what a living person should have."
Qingyan's eyes widened, "Is he already dead? His soul is still there, and he wants to use these boys and girls to make elixirs to extend his life. No, it should be rebirth. He wants to be reborn himself?"
Chou Chou frowned, "It's hard to say. When we get there, I'll check it out. It's a bit far away, and the spiritual sense is still not as reliable as seeing it in person."
Jin Yang heard the conversation between the two of them in the space, and also got out. The front was too crowded and he couldn't sit down. He asked Jin Yang to go into the carriage to rest. There would be a tough battle to be fought soon.
It sat where Jin Jin was sitting before and said to them, "Have you ever thought of another possibility? That senior brother may have been taken away."
Its former owner Yin Jin had done this before, and he knew all about this. It was just that he wanted to be reborn as a descendant of his own blood, but he failed in the end because of Chou Chou's obstruction.
That's because Yin Jin has some royal luck, some cultivation talent, and with the help of Taoist Kongxian, a powerful formation, he has survived in the state of soul for thousands of years, but he has not succeeded, let alone this kind of direct seizure. Yes.
The most important point is that the spiritual energy now is not as strong as it was back then. Under these conditions, it is hundreds of times more difficult.
Qingyan turned to look at it: "Being taken away? Do you mean that he was taken away by his master?"
She could only think of his master, Taoist Xingxiu. Generally speaking, an acquaintance would be better at handling this kind of thing.
Jin Yang nodded, "It's not just about finding a random person to seize the body. First of all, the person seizing the body must have a certain level of cultivation, otherwise his soul will be gone as soon as he dies.
Secondly, the person whose body was taken away is also a practitioner. The soul and body of ordinary people are very weak and cannot bear it at all.
Furthermore, there must be a certain cause and effect between the two parties, such as blood relatives, or masters and apprentices. These all have cause and effect, otherwise they will be discovered by the heavens soon, and they will still be scattered by the thunder..."
Chou Chou nodded aside, "That's indeed what happened. As Jin Yang said, that senior brother's current situation is very similar to a state where the soul and body are not integrated.
That Xingxiu Taoist's cultivation level is not very high. Jiao She said that he is already two to three hundred years old. According to this calculation, he should be at the foundation building stage.
After a monk builds a foundation, his lifespan can be extended to five hundred years. A monk at this level actually does not have the conditions to seize a body. His own soul is not very strong. Even if he enters someone else's body, he cannot defeat that person's soul.
Just like a powerful dragon cannot overpower a local snake, his foreign soul cannot naturally overpower other people's own souls. It will be very difficult to compete for other people's bodies.
His current situation should be that he first turned his eldest apprentice into a living dead, then he entered his soul into his body, and then took advantage of his weakness to snatch his body.
This results in the current instability of the soul, and the result of the mismatch between the body and the soul is that the body will slowly die and become a walking zombie.
He used the blood of boys and girls to refine the elixir. It should be to maintain the vitality of the body. He should have obtained the evil cultivation elixir recipe from somewhere. At least it seems to be somewhat effective so far. "
Qingyan became a little curious after hearing this. She wanted to see what the person whose body was taken away looked like.
She turned to Chou Chou and said, "I'll go there with you in a moment. Just let Jin Yang protect those people. We just need to subdue those two Taoist priests."
Chou Chou nodded, "Okay, you can come with us when the time comes. You can just watch from the sidelines. There is no need to take action."
It has been observing over there. The only three people in the Seven Star View, including Tianji who was still on the road, were not their opponents, so there was no need to worry about Qingyan being injured.
Although Gold was lying inside, he did not fall asleep. He was listening to their conversation and gained a lot of knowledge.
It had learned some divination and fortune-telling techniques from its master at Xiutian Temple, and the talismans were only at the elementary level. It really didn't know this knowledge about cultivation.
After all, as a spirit monster, it can be said that they are born and raised by nature, and their cultivation depends entirely on instinct. These people have to cultivate in a twists and turns, but no one teaches them.
Now my horizons have been opened. It turns out that if you practice to a certain level, you can not only live longer, but also be reborn!
Even if they took a shortcut, it was still a hundred miles away. If it was a dozen or twenty miles closer, the rest of the journey would still take some time.
They didn't rest during this period. They took turns driving the bus, Big Bear, Little Red and Big Ox, and it took them more than six hours to arrive.
Qixing Temple belongs to Shangwan Town. It is on a mountain to the east of the town. The mountain is not high, only about 100 meters. The scenery inside is complete, including waterfalls, cliffs and valleys.
This mountain is called Shuangtou Mountain. It is divided into two parts by the cliff and has two hills, hence its name.
The Seven Stars Temple is halfway up the mountain. There is a road up the mountain to the south. You can drive a carriage up there. The Seven Stars Temple was built by itself for the convenience of people who want to go to the temple.
They did not go up from the front. Although they could use their spiritual consciousness to monitor Yaoguang and some Taoist priests who stayed in the temple without fear of being discovered, they had to fight quickly if they wanted to rescue people.
He put the carriage into the space, went around from the back, and quickly climbed to the waterfall.
This waterfall is not high, only about ten meters high. There are a bunch of messy rocks above and below.
The surrounding area is flat and surrounded by a forest, so there are very few people here.
They followed Chou Chou to a sloping boulder and walked in along the raised gap.
The gap is so big that they can walk side by side.
This is a passage that slopes downward. It can be seen that the upper part is naturally formed. After walking for tens of meters, there are traces of artificial excavation.
Chou Chou held up a luminous pearl in front, illuminating the entire passage very brightly, so that he could see the road clearly from both front and rear.
The reason why we don't use spiritual stones for lighting is because spiritual stones have spiritual energy. The other party is also a practitioner and should be very sensitive to spiritual energy, so it is better to use luminous pearls.
It feels like the direction should be towards the woods on the right, which means that the cave is directly under the woods.
After walking for more than ten minutes, which should be more than 300 meters, they arrived at a naturally formed underground cave.
The space is very large, several hundred square meters, and there are some side roads and many auxiliary holes.
Qingyan had already used her consciousness to see the two caves where people were imprisoned. The third and fourth cave entrances were in front. There were metal gates at the entrances, which were locked and the people inside could not get out at all.
The few of them looked at each other, and Qingyan sent a message to Jin Yang, telling him not to release the people yet, so as to save them from causing trouble, and just stay outside.
The three of them go to the cave where the "brothers" are and take them down first, so there will be no danger.
Jin Yang nodded and walked to the third fork in the road. He did not go in, but just stood outside.
The three of Qingyan continued to move forward. The two Taoist priests were in the innermost cave. No, it should be said to be a stone chamber. That one was purely man-made.
The door of the stone chamber is a wooden door, which is now closed tightly. The three of them have spiritual consciousness and can clearly see that two of them are sleeping.
There are two wooden beds in the stone room, placed on both sides, with a table in the middle, a bit like a standard room in later generations.
One of them was breathing long and obviously very healthy. He should be Junior Brother Yu Heng.
The one who was breathing intermittently and grinding his teeth from time to time must be the senior brother Tianshu who was suspected of having his body taken away.
Chou Chou used his spiritual consciousness to open the latch inside, and then sent a message to Huang Jin to let him go in and deal with the two of them.
When they arrived at the cave, they put away the luminous pearl. There was an oil lamp lighting up the cave, so it was not impossible to see them.
It's different here. There is also an oil lamp here, but it is not lit. It must have been extinguished before going to bed.
Huang Jin took a deep breath and broke through the door directly!
This movement immediately woke up the two Taoist priests, and Chou Chou then went in, just in case the gold couldn't be defeated, or someone ran out.
Qingyan stood at the door and did not go in. After all, the two men were sleeping. Although she was wearing underwear, she was too embarrassed to barge in directly as a girl.
Also, as soon as the door was opened, there was a smell inside, like the smell of dead mice. It was very unpleasant, so she took a few steps back and waited outside.
After Huang Jin entered, he started fighting with Yu Heng who was closer to the door. The other party's reaction was indeed very fast.
And his skills are also good. He can't blame Taoist Tianji for saying that Yu Heng's cultivation level is second only to his senior brother, and much higher than him.
Although Gold was a transformed spirit, he had obtained it after all by asking for a seal. He had too much water and had almost no combat experience, so he was quickly defeated without any suspense.
It was Chou Chou who took action and interfered with the opponent with his spiritual consciousness. Only then did Huang Jin manage to control the opponent and trap him with a rope.
But the "elder brother" didn't take action. Instead, he got up from the bed and just stood there. It wasn't until Taoist Yu Heng was captured that he rushed up with a sword.
But he was very weak, and was knocked down by Gold within a few strokes. After the fall, the leg became abnormally twisted, and it was obviously broken.
Chou Chou stood aside holding the Night Pearl, covering his nose with a handkerchief in one hand, and said to Jin Jin with a look of disgust: "Get rid of them, they have heavy debts, there is no need to keep them."
Taoist Yu Heng's eyes seemed to have been quenched with poison. He looked at them and said, "Who are you? We had no grudges in the past and have no grudges in recent times. Why do you want to kill my two senior brothers?"
Chou Chou was too lazy to pay attention to him and gave Jin Jin a look to tell him to move faster.
There is no need to talk nonsense to such a person who does many evil things, just kill him directly.
There was another Fluttering Light in the Taoist temple. He was also aware of it and was involved in it. He had to be killed. The four brothers, except Taoist Tianji, had no lives on their hands, and all three of them had unclean hands.
The "eldest brother" who was lying on the ground shouted at them. The sound was not human at all. It seemed that even if they didn't come, this person would be dead.
Huang Jin walked over, picked up the long sword on the ground, and stabbed Taoist Yu Heng in the chest, stabbing him through in one stroke.
Taoist Yu Heng's eyes were wide open, and the hatred in his eyes had not dissipated.
Then Huang Jin killed the "eldest brother" according to the law. Chou Chou frowned and called Jin Yang via message and asked him to burn the two corpses.
Anyway, they didn't have to keep the body to go to the government to receive rewards, and they didn't plan to leave their names behind when they did good deeds, so they burned it cleanly to avoid any further trouble.
These two are not ordinary people. What if they are resurrected again, or find someone to seize their bodies again? It is better to avoid future troubles forever.
Huang Jin twisted his body and said to them: "I feel full of strength. Is it because of merit?"
The three of them twitched their lips at the same time. This was purely a psychological effect. They nodded tacitly and did not dampen its enthusiasm.
They walked along the other side of the passage to the Seven Stars Temple. As they walked, Jin Yang said to them: "Many of the children and girls who were locked up are already very weak. I just knocked them out and gave them to them." Feed him some spiritual spring water, otherwise he might not be able to carry it out."
It has already moved those people into space and placed them in a cave. All the things in the cave were put in together, so that even if someone wakes up in the middle, they will not notice that they have changed places.
The spiritual spring water produced by Shui Lingzhu does not have the effect of cleansing the essence and cutting down the marrow. It is still very obvious in strengthening the body. At least it can make those children and girls healthy and they will rarely get sick in the future.
Qingyan thought of those skinny children and girls, as well as the bones buried casually in the ground, and felt that it was too easy for those two to die like that!
It should be cramped, skinned and cut into pieces!
Soon they arrived at the exit. After exiting, they found the woodshed of Qixingguan. They did not take out any lighting tools and walked directly outside in the dark.
Because it was the fifteenth day, the moon outside was round and bright, so I could see it very clearly.
Qixingguan is a courtyard with three entrances. They now have a woodshed, kitchen and utility room in the last courtyard. They have also cultivated some vegetables in the middle.
The temperature here is high, and vegetables grow very well in winter. You can see them arranged neatly one by one.
There was no one living in the backyard, so they walked forward without fear of waking others.
The courtyard in the middle is where the Taoist priests in Guanli rest. In front is the main hall, which houses the statue of the founder of the Sanqing Dynasty.
I used my spiritual sense to explore and found that there were five rooms in the main room, and only the one on the far right was occupied. It should be the junior brother Yao Guang.
There are also some Taoist priests doing odd jobs in the yard, but they all live in a wing on one side.
