The five of them entered the mountain temple together. As soon as they entered the courtyard of the mountain temple, a strong wind blew, causing the branches and leaves of the thousand-year-old tree in the courtyard to crackle.
The sand and dust kicked up by the strong wind made it difficult for Du Xinrui and the others to open their eyes. They braved the strong wind and walked into the mountain temple step by step with difficulty. After they all entered the mountain temple, the strong wind suddenly stopped.
Several young people looked at the long road with blurred eyes. Du Xinrui asked in confusion: "Taoist Priest, what's going on? Why did such a strong wind suddenly blow?"
Ping Daochang raised his head and looked at the sky. At this time, the sky was clear and peaceful.
Ping Yiyi said: "Such a sunny weather should not blow such a strong wind. This strong wind comes and goes quickly. As the saying goes, the sky changes the phenomenon, and the people change the phenomenon. This must be God's direction, but You and I are not enlightened enough to understand the mystery.
Let's look around to see if the monster is hiding here. Let's look for each other carefully. "
Under the instructions of Ping Daochang, everyone dispersed and began to search separately for where the centipede spirit might be hiding.
Chief Ping stopped Du Xinrui and said, "Miss Du, let's go outside the temple and have a look."
Du Xinrui and Chief Ping came to the courtyard outside the temple. Chief Ping said to Du Xinrui: "Miss Du, use your microscopic power to see if there is any evil spirit here again."
Du Xinrui followed what Chief Ping said, closed her eyes and concentrated, activating microscopic power to sense the inside and outside of the temple, but she still did not detect the existence of a trace of evil spirit.
Du Xinrui slowly opened her eyes, looked at Ping Yiyi, and shook her head.
Chief Ping asked again, "Then have you sensed the presence of fairy spirit in this mountain temple?"
Du Xinrui said: "Just now I was only sensing with my heart whether there was any evil spirit here, and I didn't pay attention to whether there was any fairy spirit."
"Then come and see if there is any fairy spirit."
Du Xinrui used microscopic power again. After a while, Du Xinrui opened her eyes and said, "The fairy energy here is very abundant."
Ping Daochang said: "Where are they concentrated?"
"They are mainly concentrated in two places, the statue in the mountain temple, and the thousand-year-old tree."
Ping Yiyi said: "I see, Miss Du, let's go to the main hall of the temple."
The two came to the main hall of the mountain temple. The statue of the mountain god sat majestically on the table, showing no anger or authority.
Ping Yiyi said: "Miss Du, go and call them all over."
Du Xinrui shouted at the top of her lungs: "Sister Nuba, Dao Xin, Yi Ran, Taoist Master invites you to come over."
After hearing Du Xinrui's call, it didn't take long for the three of them to arrive at the main hall of the mountain temple.
The female demon asked anxiously: "Has the Taoist discovered the hiding place of the evildoer?"
Ping Yiyi said: "It's too early to tell now. You'd better dig up the dirt under the desk first."
Dao Xin was confused and asked: "Master, is that centipede essence hidden under here?"
Ping Daochang asked: "Do you think this is possible?"
He said resolutely: "The ground is perfectly sealed, and there are no traces of centipede spirits crawling around. I don't think this is a place where centipede spirits can hide."
Dao Xin said: "Then why does master want us to dig the soil?"
Yi Ran also had a puzzled look on his face: "Master must have another deep meaning, we just follow it."
The female slave said: "What's the difficulty?" He immediately pulled out his sword and was about to strike at the statue. With her current cultivation level, she could smash the statue into pieces and create a deep pit on the ground under the statue. .
Seeing Nv Ba's actions, Du Xinrui, Dao Xin and Yi Ran immediately stopped him and said, "Sister Nv Ba, you can't do this."
The female demon sheathed her sword and said, "Isn't it just a dilapidated mountain god statue? Why are you so nervous?"
Ping Yiyi said: "Girls, we can't blaspheme the gods so casually. Although this place is dilapidated, no matter what, it can be regarded as other people's territory. It is disrespectful for us to cause damage in other people's houses. Why do we do this? What about destroying other people’s idols?”
Dao Xin said: "Yes, I'd better ask my sister to take a rest for a while. Just let me and Yi Ran do the rough and heavy work."
Seeing how they persisted, the female slave said, "Okay then! Thank you for your hard work."
Dao Xin and Yi Ran first bowed down to the statue of the mountain god three times.
He said resolutely: "Master Mountain God, I'm sorry. We are looking for the harmful centipede spirit to eliminate harm for the people. We have no choice but to do it. Please forgive me. If we really find the evil spirit, we will eliminate it." The demon's merits are also counted among you, old man."
After kneeling down and worshiping, Dao Xin and Yi Ran began to dig under the desk of the statue. Not long after, Dao Xin and Yi Ran dug a pit two to three feet square and four to five feet deep under the desk.
After digging for a long time, he didn't see anything. Dao Xin said impatiently: "Master, we have been digging for so long and we haven't seen anything underground. Master, what are you looking for?"
Chief Ping also said a little frustrated at this time: "Did I guess wrong? If you continue to dig, see if there is really nothing."
Dao Xin and Yi Ran began to dig deeper again. Suddenly, Dao Xin brought down the hoe heavily, and his hoe hit something tough.
Daoxin shouted to Chief Ping: "Master, my hoe seems to have hit something."
Chief Ping hurried forward to take a look. Dao Xin pulled the hoe out of the soil. There was blood on the hoe. The four of them looked at Chief Ping with the same puzzled eyes, hoping to get answers from the Taoist.
Ping Daochang also had a puzzled look on his face. What on earth was bleeding underground? At this time, the soil under Dao Xin and Yi Ran's feet had been soaked red by the blood seeping out of the ground.
Ping Daochang said: "Taoxin, dig deeper and see what is underneath."
Dao Xin carefully dug down a few more times, and then he said in surprise: "Master, it's actually a tree root that is bleeding."
When several people heard this, they all moved their heads forward. Sure enough, a tree root that had been dug out by the heart of the road was bleeding. The bright red blood had already gathered into a small pool of blood in the deep pit. There was also a fishy smell, and the severed root was still bleeding out.
Dao Xin lay down from the deep pit and said: "Master, could it be that the big tree became a spirit?"
Ping Dao said: "Yes, there is indeed a tree that has become a spirit, and it is also the accomplice of the centipede spirit. I already know where the centipede spirit is hidden."
Upon hearing this, the female monk asked anxiously: "Taoist priest, where is that demon tree? Let me uproot it and then find that abominable centipede to settle the account."
Chief Ping pointed at the ancient tree at the door and said, "That's the ancient tree in front of the temple."
Nu Ba, Du Xinrui and others looked at the ancient tree in front of the temple and said, "Taoist priest, are you mistaken? If this ancient tree is a demon, it is impossible for us not to detect the demonic energy in it. Just now you asked me Using my microscopic power to investigate, I found that this ancient tree not only has no evil spirit, but also has abundant fairy spirit energy. From this point of view, even if this ancient tree has become a spirit, it is still a tree demon who is dedicated to Taoism. , otherwise it wouldn’t be able to cultivate the spirit of a fairy.”
Ping Daochang said: "The appearance of things can always confuse the world. This is also the power of demons. They always use the things that people think are the most beautiful to confuse people's hearts. Things with the spirit of the fairy are not necessarily the right way. Things, take the centipede spirit as an example, it also has the spirit of a fairy, but its essence is a monster that brings harm to the world."
The female monk said: "What the Taoist said is reasonable. It seems that I have learned more by working outside. Just talking about military affairs on paper is simply misleading. What I heard today from the Taoist is better than the books I read in the past ten years. Coupled with learning through this practice, I finally understand today what true knowledge is."
"Young lady, you are serious. Any practice cannot do without theory as a guide. The books you have read in the past are still useful."
The female demon grabbed her beautiful little head and said, "Really?"
Seeing the innocent and silly look of the female demon, everyone couldn't help laughing.
Ping Yiyi said: "Of course it's true."
He resolutely asked: "Master, how do you think this old locust tree outside the door can cultivate the spirit of a fairy?"
Chief Ping said: "This is why I want you to dig a hole under this desk. Didn't you just ask me what I was looking for? This is what I am looking for." Chief Ping pointed to the hole in the pit. Cut off the roots.
Du Xinrui asked Ping Daochang in confusion, "Excuse me, Master, what is the relationship between these tree roots and the fairy spirit energy in that ancient tree?"
Ping Daochang said: "I think this old locust tree must have extended its roots under the mountain god statue, absorbing the fairy spirit emitted by the mountain god statue all the year round. After hundreds of years and thousands of years, it naturally has powerful fairy spirit in its body. Spiritual energy.”
He said resolutely: "So the fairy spirit energy in that old locust tree was not cultivated by it itself, but absorbed from others. In other words, it was stolen."
Ping Daochang said: "Yes, that's what it means."
Du Xinrui asked Pingyi Chang, "Did the centipede spirit's fairy spirit come from this way?"
Ping Daochang said: "Yes, that's how the centipede spirit got its fairy spirit. Otherwise, how could a monster like it, which goes against the will of heaven, acquire the spirit of fairy?"
The female demon said: "Just now the Taoist priest said that the tree demon is the accomplice of the centipede spirit. Could it be that the centipede spirit is hiding in the body of the tree demon?"
Ping Daochang said: "If my inference is correct, then the centipede spirit is hidden in the trunk of this thousand-year-old locust tree."
"Okay, I'll go catch it now."
As soon as the female slave finished speaking, she drew her sword and walked out, followed closely by Chief Ping, Du Xinrui and the others. As soon as the five people arrived at the entrance of the Taoist Hall, suddenly there was another strong wind, dark clouds rolled in the sky, and the thick clouds were lower than the top of the mountain not far away.
After the dazzling lightning flashes, huge rolling thunder followed one after another, seeming to want to blow a big hole in the sky.
Driven by the crushing wind, together with the lightning and huge rolling thunder, these dark clouds quickly gathered towards the mountain temple where they were located.
Suddenly, a bolt of lightning fell from the sky, like a luminous whip thrown down from the sky, and struck the ancient tree outside the temple hard, followed by a rolling thunder that violently bombarded the thick trunk of the ancient tree.
