After Song Yushan left Fuhu Mountain, he continued his journey.
A few months later, she received a letter from Linjiang County from Yinshi.
This time, in addition to letters from Senior Sister, Master Hu, and the ghost stewards, there was one more letter.
The letter contained a touch of evil spirit, similar to, but different from, Ji Mingyun who was controlled by a demon.
Six months ago, Song Yushan was surprised to hear what the old monk said about demons controlling humans and tigers, so he wrote a letter back to Linjiang County to Zhao Dahu, asking him about tiger demons and demons, hoping to verify what the old monk said. Is it really possible.
This letter was sent by Zhao Dahu.
But now she has personally heard Ji Mingyun, who has regained half of his human form, speak about his experience, and is sure of the authenticity of this matter.
So I am not in a hurry to read this letter.
After reading all the other letters, she opened this letter and read every line at a glance.
She frowned as she looked at it.
"... Controlling ghosts for our use is an innate ability that all tiger monsters who have eaten humans after becoming intelligent will awaken.
As long as we swallow a living person into our belly, after that person dies in the belly and their soul floats away from the body, they will be trapped in the tiger skin and have to listen to our orders.
Because the size of the tiger skin is limited, it can trap up to six human souls.
These human souls are ghosts.
The ghost can use the tiger demon's fur to transform into a living person and move around during the day.
If he eats people again after this, the ghosts originally trapped in the tiger skin will be released by the tiger skin and replaced by new ghosts.
Therefore, tiger demons who go astray often rely on their substitutes to help them hunt for prey.
The tiger demon itself can actually be released as a ghost, but the cost is relatively high and very painful. The piece of skin that traps the ghost needs to be peeled off and burned.
In the past, there were people of the same race who became wise and ate people. Later, when they found out that they had gone astray, they peeled off their fur and burned them, releasing the demons to atone for their sins.
The ghost himself cannot touch the fire.
So if the ghost wants to be free, either a new human soul will take his place in the tiger skin, or someone will burn the tiger skin.
If the tiger demon with the ghost ghost dies, but the tiger demon's fur is not burned, or even completely peeled off, then the ghost ghost will still be bound in the tiger skin.
Moreover, without the will of the tiger demon to control such a tiger skin, the ghost in the tiger skin will become the owner of that tiger skin.
I once heard a saying that the tiger monster eats people, and the tiger skin is the most evil thing, which can turn people into bloodthirsty monster tigers.
Only fire can completely destroy the evil demon tiger's skin.
However, people who can withstand tiger skin are not ordinary mortals. There may not be one in a hundred, it is very rare. "
What the letter said is basically consistent with Ji Mingyun's experience.
But there was one thing that made Song Yushan a little concerned.
As mentioned many times in the letter, if you want to release the ghost and destroy the tiger skin that harms people, you must burn the tiger skin.
But thinking back carefully, the old monk never mentioned burning the tiger skin from beginning to end.
What he said at the time was that as long as Ji Mingyun insisted on a vegetarian diet and avoided meat and fish, he would be able to slowly shed his tiger skin and regain his human form.
At the same time, the demon tiger that once harmed people will never appear again.
But it’s very possible that the old monk doesn’t know about this either?
After all, this matter was not recorded in so many classics that Song Yushan had read. It should be a secret of the tiger demon clan.
Moreover, people like Ji Mingyun who can withstand the demonic tiger's skin are only one in a hundred. Now that he is free, it is not certain whether there will be another person like him in the already inaccessible Fuhu Ridge.
However, there are still hidden dangers in this.
In any case, Song Yushan decided to go back and take a look. Now that he knew about this matter, he couldn't let it cause any trouble, otherwise he wouldn't be able to feel at ease.
Fortunately, she was still in Jingzhou at this time, not too far from Jiangling County.
Within a few days, she flew back to Fuhu Mountain.
When I arrived near the temple, I saw with my spiritual consciousness that Ji Mingyun was helping the monks sweep the floor.
He swept around, and the last piece of tiger skin on the back of his hand fell off.
Ji Mingyun touched the smooth back of his hand and was ecstatic: "I have recovered! I have fully recovered!"
The monks in the temple all congratulated him: "Congratulations to the donor!"
Ji Mingyun ran to the old monk's room and said happily: "Abbott! I have recovered! The last bit of tiger skin has faded away!"
"Very good." The old monk still looked calm and kind.
Ji Mingyun knelt down and kowtowed a few times: "Abbott! Don't forget the life-saving grace! The county examination is coming soon. Now that I have fully recovered, I have to set off immediately.
When I come back from taking the exam in the county, I will definitely repay you! "
"Okay." The old monk still smiled.
Ji Mingyun said goodbye to the old monk, and then went to pack his things.
Song Yushan had already flown over the temple at this time, but she was in no hurry to show up.
She saw clearly just now that the piece of tiger skin on Ji Mingyun's body disappeared after shedding off.
She doesn't think everything will be fine once the tiger skin disappears.
Zhao Dahu's letter repeatedly emphasized that only flames can destroy the demon tiger's skin and get rid of the evil spirit in it.
The tiger skin just disappeared, not burned.
What if it appears again someday?
Even if there are very few people like Ji Mingyun who can withstand the skin of the demon tiger, what if it happens again?
Wouldn’t the demon tiger be “resurrected” again?
The old monk and Ji Mingyun didn't seem to know the inside story. Song Yushan also had some guesses about the whereabouts of the tiger skin, so he didn't go to the temple to ask the old monk again.
She remembered that when she first arrived at Fuhu Mountain, she had detected two evil spirits.
One is a cave with a small amount of tiger hair, and the other is Ji Mingyun with a human soul and a tiger body.
At first, she thought that the cave was the cave of the demon tiger, and the tiger hair was the fallen hair of the demon tiger.
Thinking about it now, even the tiger head on the building in Jiangling County had very little demonic aura left over the past few years. How could the fallen tiger hair still have demonic aura so strong that it could be directly detected by her spiritual sense?
Perhaps that was not the tiger hair that fell off naturally at all, but part of the demonic tiger skin that faded away after Ji Mingyun started a vegetarian diet.
Only the skin of the demon tiger, which has gathered the evil energy of killing, can still have such a strong evil energy after many years.
Song Yushan's spiritual consciousness explored the cave again, but found nothing.
There is only some residual demonic energy in the cave, and the amount of residual demonic energy is normal.
The tiger hair from before has disappeared, and there is no trace of the tiger skin.
But this confirmed what she was thinking.
Who would come and take away the tiger hair from the cave in such a deep mountain and old forest?
Unless that's not ordinary tiger hair, but part of the tiger's skin, now taken away by the demon.
Song Yushan took this cave as the center and began to explore the surroundings, looking for traces of the ghost and the demon tiger skin.
