The red sun sets in the west, with thousands of rays of light.
The four of them landed in front of a mountain village. There were blue stones, loess, black tiles, and smoke rising vertically up into the mountains.
The landlady said that this place is a beautiful place, which is true. It is almost a semi-natural place for gathering spirits, and the feng shui is excellent.
Lin Du felt the spiritual energy around him. Although it was not comparable to the spiritual energy buried in the Supreme Sect, it was still much more fragrant than the thin spiritual energy that had come all the way.
At this time, it was the time for the cattle and sheep to return to the pen, and there was no need for anyone to drive them. A few oxen came down from the mountain and were strolling around.
Someone came out of the house and shouted an unintelligible chant. There seemed to be a stream not far away. Silver bells were ringing, and a girl was singing a tune. It was clear and gentle, just like the gurgling stream.
The singing was getting closer and closer, and the four of them looked at it at the same time. The last ray of light before the distant mountains disappeared turned into gold rims on the little girl's skirt and pleated skirt.
Lin Du suddenly glanced at Tao Xian thoughtfully. When the rays of light fell into his eyes, there was a divine light.
"Dare I ask, girl, is this Qinglu Village?" Tao Xian consciously asked for directions.
The girl had a crimson color on her face, her eyebrows were moist and sweet, she tilted her head and smiled when she heard this, "Yes, do you want to stay overnight?"
"We are here to find someone, Granny Mapa. I wonder if she is still in the village?"
The girl tilted her head, "Grandma Ma? She should still be at the pregnant woman's home in the village, but I don't know which home."
"Are many people pregnant in the village?" Lin Du asked casually.
"Spring is coming soon, it's time." The girl didn't seem to understand Lin Du's words, but she quickly started laughing again after touching Lin Du's face.
"You are so good-looking, as good-looking as the Moon Goddess! I think the Moon Goddess was born like you when she was young, right?"
Lin Du was startled for a moment, then lowered his eyes and smiled, "That's because I'm a high achiever."
According to custom records, villages in western Yunnan believe in different gods. Mountains, water, wind, thunder, and everything else have gods.
"If you wear a white robe, it will look more like it." The girl gestured, "But the green robe also looks like it, like the incarnation of the moonlight vine."
When Xia Tianwu heard this, his eyes flashed, "May I ask this girl, I am a medical practitioner and am particularly interested in plants. What kind of plant is this moonlight vine? Can you teach me how to recognize it?"
"You actually don't know what the Moonlight Vine is? This is a sacred object representing the Moon God. Wherever the Moonlight Vine grows, it will be blessed by the Moon God. If..."
The girl suddenly smiled shyly, "If the flowers of the moonlight vine fall on someone's bedside, that person will be the bride of the Moon God..."
"Wan Xia! What are you doing there? Why don't you come back?"
Someone shouted from behind, and the girl suddenly turned back and waved her hand, "I know, I'm back!"
She turned around and glanced at the four of them with a smile, "I'm going back first. Goodbye, stranger."
The hem of the girl's skirt was flying, and the silver bells on her feet left a faint sound in the air, like a little peacock disappearing in the distance.
Lin Du stroked the Fusheng fan and said thoughtfully, "This Moon God is an old rogue."
Flowers are the reproductive organs of plants.
Sending flowers to the bedside is really too straightforward an expression.
"Do the gods that these villages believe in...really exist?" Mo Lin frowned, always feeling that there was something strange in the girl's words.
They are Taoists who believe in their own Tao, which is not the same as the way that the village directly worships the gods.
Everyone has his own way.
"If it exists, it probably won't be a true god." Lin Du pondered for a moment, "But those who are higher than humans and stronger than humans are considered gods to them, which is not wrong."
How could a good, true god interfere in the affairs of a village in the spiritual world, and act like a gangster and rob civilian girls?
This kind of thing as the bride of the gods doesn't sound like a good thing for a girl.
The four people walked into the village and stood in front of a courtyard stacked with bluestones to ask for news about Granny Map.
"You ask Granny Mapa? She is about to rest at the village chief's place now."
"Now that spring has begun, it's the right time."
The man was standing in the courtyard, with a child of seven or eight years old running behind him.
"Exactly...when?" Tao Xian asked.
"It's the time when the next generation in our village sprouts." The man smiled, "What do you want from Granny Map?"
"Let's look for her and find a doctor." Lin Du interrupted, "May I ask Auntie, where is the village chief's home?"
"It's at the very end, near the moon well."
Lin Du thanked him and led the people inside. Along the way, he could still smell the choking smell of chili oil smoke. The sound of spatulas could be heard all the time, almost covering up some crying.
Xia Tian Wu and Lin Du looked at that family at the same time.
The family was quiet, with no sign of cooking, only crying.
"Why, how could it be a girl?"
"I don't want a girl. If it were a boy, there would still be a chance to leave this village, but..."
The woman's cries were intermittent, and were soon interrupted by a man's voice holding back his anger.
"Don't talk nonsense, what happened to the girl? It was the moon god's blessing! Besides, I have never left the village, what's wrong?"
Xia Tian frowned in a subtle way. Tao Xian turned his head and saw that Lin Du didn't stop. He even smiled when he looked at him. He was holding a heavy iron folding fan in one hand because it was hanging straight down. On the side of the body, the veins on the back of the hand are slightly raised.
As we went all the way, we found a well. There was a circle of vines around the well. It was so green that it was almost black. There was a layer of mist-like stuff on it, which gave the whole vine a strange grayish color. There are white flower buds scattered on the vines, which look a little translucent in the sunset.
Xia Tian Wu paused for a step, turned around and whispered to Lin Du, "It's the vines in Granny Mapa's courtyard. Although it looks a little different, it is indeed the same. I won't mistake this smell."
Lin Du narrowed his eyes, this layout...
If this vine was originally there, it would be a blessing from God.
"What's wrong? Is there anything weird?"
"Just looking at the layout along the way, it's a natural Yin-gathering Spirit Array. This Inoue Vine is the vein of the array." Lin Du paused, "That's not necessarily right."
There are very few natural formations. Lin Du has learned the basic forty-nine formations, ten incomplete formations in ancient times, and is now learning the tome of one hundred and eight formations.
The one hundred and eight formations are something that all formation masters in the realm of cultivation must master thoroughly. If you can master the one hundred and eight formations and be able to set up and carve the formations, you can already have a position in the formation masters' alliance.
I don't know if he has calculated the ancient formations, but Lin Du learned the one hundred and eight formations very quickly. Now he only has to learn and memorize the rarely used formations later.
Xia Tian Wu didn't care about Lin Du's "not necessarily right". His junior uncle's guess was not wrong, let alone something like a formation.
She pondered for a moment, "From what I heard from my junior uncle, do you think this vine came later?"
"A suspicion may not be correct."
Lin Du glanced at the array disk in his hand that was used to detect Yin Qi. The pointer had already reached halfway, indicating that the Yin Qi was extremely heavy. However, because it was mixed in the fragrant spiritual energy and close to the mountains, it was difficult for the monks to detect it with only their five senses.
"It may also be natural. This village may be a good place to raise corpse puppets."
Xia Tianwu's expression condensed and he looked at the entrance of the village chief's courtyard.
Tao Xian and Mo Lin were already standing outside the village chief's courtyard calling the door.
The courtyard was extremely clean and bright, but not as spacious and luxurious as the courtyards of other villagers along the way. At first glance, they were all the same. There was a girl sitting in the middle, smiling sweetly at a basin of water.
Tao Xianda made it clear what he wanted to do, but the girl didn't seem to even listen. The washing thing in her hand was dripping down.
Soon a middle-aged woman with a slightly bulging belly came out of the house. She held her waist and looked at the people outside the courtyard door, "Are you looking for Granny Ma? Please come in."
A group of people came in and entered the main room. They saw a black-haired old woman sitting on one side of the square table, and an old man sitting next to her, but there was no young man.
Xia Tianwu smelled the faint floral fragrance again on the old woman.
She calmly pressed the jade belt around her waist and watched Mo Lin step forward to explain his purpose.
"The junior disciple of the Supreme Sect, Mo Lin, accidentally encountered the evil way of eating human essence and blood. When he took action, he was accidentally planted with poison. I have heard about the name of my senior for a long time. I am here today to ask you for diagnosis and treatment."
