There are no clouds in the sky, the blue sky is as clear as washing, and in a small open space under the rolling mountains, there is the ruins of an ancient village.
Green vines climbed up the walls, collapsed fences, damaged ceilings, and a leaky ancestral temple occupied by weeds.
This ancient village was completely conquered by natural plants, with weeds everywhere. Lu Yuan could not find any trace of human life, only the apocalyptic human landscape.
The tomb next door was also overgrown with weeds. Lu Yuan asked Dabai to look for the tombstone of someone named Wang. After searching for half an hour in a pile of grass one foot high, he only found the tombstone of someone else's family, but not the so-called tomb of Wang.
Where is the beast master surnamed Wang that Uncle Jiang mentioned?
And where are the pet beasts that follow them?
In the impression of Yinqi Ancient Village, under the bright sunshine, every tree, flower and grass appears green and full of vitality, without any sinister meaning.
Lu Yuan dug a finger of soil into the palm of his hand and asked Dabai to shine the evil-suppressing light on it. It showed that the soil was extremely pure and had not been soaked with evil spirits for a long time.
"It's strange. Even if the evil spirits move away, the land they have affected will not return to normal so quickly."
Lu Yuan used a special technique to crush the sand, and each grain of sand had no different color under the white light.
According to the modern evil-repelling knowledge in my mind, the changes here are unreasonable.
Dabai also nodded.
It also felt unreasonable, but the facts told it that this was an abandoned ancient village and there was no evil at all.
Zhuge Xiu was not an expert in suppressing evil spirits, so he said: "Isn't it good that the evil spirits have moved? I know that Liuhe Village has to pay tribute every year, which is quite hard. Now that the evil spirits are gone, life will definitely get better in the future."
"I hope we really move."
Lu Yuan did not refute, he also hoped that Xie Sui would really leave instead of hiding.
Lu Yuan and Zhuge Xiu left the abandoned ancient village. The sky slowly turned dark, the Tengu eclipsed the moon in the sky, the double sun disappeared, and the moon returned to the earth.
The woods and ancient villages are shrouded in darkness at midnight, when the gloom is at its heaviest.
Zhuge Xiu, Lu Yuan and Nian Beast Dabai returned to the ancient village and visited their ancestral temple.
Lu Yuan deliberately chose to make a comeback at night, just to see the ancient village at night.
Previously, there was a situation where ancestral trees controlled the ancestral temple in Liuhe Village. Lu Yuan suddenly had a whim and suspected that the abandoned ancestral temple in Xuxi Village had a similar situation.
Maybe there is something wrong with the ancestral trees in two neighboring villages, and they are both four-star evil spirits?
When I inquired during the day, there was nothing unusual about the overgrown ancestral temple.
Dabai opened his eyes with the evil-suppressing light and couldn't see the evil spirit.
But this does not mean that people’s ancestral temples are normal.
Lu Yuan is a modern beast master. He lives in the era of the explosion of science and technology. The times are developing rapidly, and modern evil spirits are also making progress. They have already learned to disguise themselves in layers to protect themselves and survive.
Just relying on the master-level evil-suppressing light cannot see through the true appearance of modern evil spirits.
Some evil spirits have grown to quite exaggerated proportions, and require the light of perfect, superb, or even near-level evil spirits to see through them.
Ancient evil spirits cannot reach the peak heights of later generations, but they can still surpass the survey limit of the master-level evil-suppressing light.
For example, if you know how to absorb the evil spirits of incense, you can use human incense to cover the eyes of humans and pet animals, so that your eyes can see the natural scene without evil spirits.
The evil spirits who can do this kind of tricks are all monsters with profound knowledge.
From another perspective, Xie Sui would rather act as a blind eye than confront Dabai. He must know that he is no match for Dabai.
In other words, they will suffer a loss if they compete head-on with Dabai.
A smart Xie Sui will not do things that are tough but knowing that he will suffer a loss.
Lu Yuan thought of this, and with a righteous mind, he rode Dabai to revisit the ancestral temple in Xuxi Village.
Zhuge Xiu was the one who came here out of curiosity. He had a good conversation with Lu Yuan and planned to see what Nian Beast was capable of.
The ancestral temple compound in Xuxi Village is larger than that in Liuhe Village. Half of the tall courtyard wall is broken. Countless lush plants grow from the outside into the inside. Grass and trees penetrate the ceiling. Every room is filled with trees, illuminated by the moonlight. , they are also full of vitality and have no evil spirit.
Lu Yuan and Dabai walked around inside and found no evil spirits.
When he walked to the courtyard wall, Lu Yuan's eyes stayed outside. A half-broken ancient tree stood outside the courtyard wall.
The lower body of the tree trunk was still in the ground, but the upper half was broken and no longer on the body.
Lu Yuan went out to check, but couldn't find the upper body of the tree.
Looking back, I noticed that the broken mouth of the ancestral tree had serious tear marks, as if it had been broken by a huge force.
Lu Yuan imagined in his mind that a battle between pet beasts had broken out here, and a large pet beast was sent flying over, breaking the ancestral tree.
"The luck of this place has been broken."
Lu Yuan touched the heart of the tree, thoughtfully.
"Xuxi Village once aroused the wrath of Master Wang's pet beast, and a war broke out. This ancestral tree should have been broken a hundred years ago." Zhuge Xiu helped analyze from the side.
"That makes sense." As Lu Yuan said this, he took Dabai back to the ancestral temple and found the place where his tablet was enshrined.
These tablets had long been covered with green plants. Dabai stepped forward and used his paws to pry them open. The wooden tablets fell to the ground with a crash and fell into pieces of broken wood.
"This..." Zhuge Xiu, who followed, was stunned and kindly reminded: "Senior, your life will be shortened if you do this. It's best for Dabai to move slowly, or let my mantis beast take it."
Breaking someone's ancestor's memorial tablet is a big revenge.
Fortunately, everyone in Xuxi Village died.
However, even if this is the case, it may damage Lu Yuan's longevity.
Lu Yuan waved his hand and didn't care.
In other words, he has discovered some clues.
Even if Dabai holds the tablets in a different way, the tablets will still break, which will shorten his life.
Lu Yuan picked up the broken tablets, took them outside the door, and asked Zhuge Xiu to pick off the weeds in the yard and knead them with the soil in the yard to make juice.
"What is this going to do?"
"Restore the tablet and pray." Lu Yuan said.
Zhuge Xiu was confused, but his hands were not slow and he kneaded some weeds in the yard and added moist soil to form a simple soil clay.
Lu Yuan stretched out his hand and glued it a little, reassembled it under the moonlight, and put the tablets back together neatly.
Dabai moved a big stone and placed each set of tablets on the big stone.
The surname on the tablet has been blurred. The surname "Xu" has disappeared, leaving only the character "Yu".
The name at the end is also missing a radical, or the text structure is incomplete.
Lu Yuan took out an incense burner and three incense sticks from his pocket and placed them in front of several tablets.
The remaining tablets are no longer pieced together and have been corroded into slag.
Lu Yuan wasted no time and put the broken pieces of wooden signs into the incense burner.
Just made up a small box of "ashes".
Three incense sticks were placed on the incense burner without lighting a fire. Lu Yuan chanted sutras in front of the incense sticks, while the corners of Dabai's head were also shining, and the talismans were flashing as he performed rituals.
Zhuge Xiu understood it inexplicably. This seemed to be an invitation to a spirit. Could it be an alternative use of the evil-suppressing light skill?
But Lu Yuan is not from the Xu family, can he also invite Xu Jialing?
And after so long, are the spirits of Xu family ancestors still alive in this land?
Slowly, the three incense sticks spontaneously ignited under the light of the talisman, and light smoke curled up.
Several ancient tablets were trembling and shrouded in smoke, with blurry old faces taking shape inside, eyes closed, not knowing whether they were dead or alive, and their breath was weak.
"Dear ancestors of the Xu family and junior Lu Yuan, I passed by here to put an end to the worldly affairs. If you know the whereabouts of the evil spirit, please let me know. I will burn some paper money to repay you..."
