The dark wind howled past in the middle of the night. The old man glanced at the entrance of the cave tremblingly, lowered his head and continued: "After Bai Yi came back, his legs miraculously became normal, and he became different from before. Not only did he not blame us

, and said he would come back to see us. But as soon as he came back, half of the men in the village began to suffer from sleeping sickness, and they always talked nonsense when they woke up at night. Some people who had bullied their siblings began to commit suicide one after another.

The deaths were very tragic. Some had their intestines taken out with knives, some had their eyeballs dug out, and some had their legs cut off... We thought that the girls dedicated to the mountain gods came back to seek our lives, so we asked Xingwen to do something to drive away the ghosts. Who?

I didn't expect that the ghost was driven away, but the villagers disappeared and were killed one after another. The villagers were very scared, and some people began to prepare to leave the village... Many people who had lived in Lingyin Village for most of their lives were unwilling to leave, so they had to

Some young people left, but they never expected that these people would lose their lives as soon as they left..."

The old man didn't seem to want to think about it anymore, and he sighed with tears. Situ Yan was not in a hurry, and just waited patiently for the old man to talk slowly.

"The day after those people left, Xingwen and I wanted to go to the mountain to see what was going on. We saw Bai Yi staying with the monsters at the bottom of the mountain where the mountain god lived. Those monsters looked extremely scary, and it was He Bai who

It was the same as what Ningkou said. When Xingwen told me about it before, I didn't believe it until I saw it with my own eyes. I saw Bai Yi and the villagers who were about to leave the village with the monsters hanging one by one on the big locust tree by the river.

, there were also a few hungry wolves biting the feet and legs of the villagers, those that could not be reached by the upper body, Bai Yi induced them to climb up the tree, and then bit off the ropes that tied the villagers, and waited for them to fall to the ground.

All the hungry wolves pounced on me. The strange thing was that they did not eat human heads. One person's head rolled down the hillside and just rolled to my feet. We were frightened and ran away, but Bai

Yi immediately flew in front of us and said to me, if you want to run away, where can you run? The whole village has been cast a spell by him. As long as someone leaves the village, he will end up becoming the meal of those wolf cubs. I was so scared at the time

Our legs were weak, and we repeatedly begged Bai Yi not to hurt us. Then Bai Yi said, as long as we stay in the village and offer a girl to the mountain god every month, no, as long as it is a girl, we can live in peace.

"I originally wanted to hide the matter to prevent the villagers from panic, but the village does not allow people to leave, and they have to offer sacrifices to the mountain gods every month. The matter can no longer be hidden..." The village chief wiped away tears.

, I saw the villagers crying one by one, only Zhang Xingwen shook his head helplessly.

E Luo said with disdain: "So in order to save your lives, you did what he said, and then the girl who was sacrificed ran away, and you just hid in this cave and eked out a living?"

The village chief sighed and said: "Girl, the village is full of ordinary people, not like you cultivators who have great supernatural powers. When encountering such a thing, what else can we do except save our own lives?"

Situ Yan said: "We already understand the matter, don't worry, since we are here, there is no reason to sit back and do nothing. Later we will go to the mountain to find out about the mountain god. By the way, I heard you say that Bai Yi was earlier

After returning home, does the old man know where he went?"

"How dare we ask about him..." As soon as the old man finished speaking, Zhang Xingwen quickly interjected: "Maybe I can provide you with some clues."

Situ Yan turned around to look at Zhang Xingwen, only to hear Zhang Xingwen say: "When he left the village, I happened to hear him talking to a woman, and it seemed that he mentioned the Sea of ​​No Return."

Situ Yan's eyelids suddenly twitched and he murmured to himself: "The sea of ​​no return..."

"I don't know if I can help you in any way." Zhang Xingwen said, instantly pulling Situ Yan back from his thoughts.

Situ Yan smiled and said, "It's a very good clue. Then you stay here first, and we'll go up the mountain to have a look." After that, he and E Luo left the cave.

Arriving outside the cave, Situ Yan suddenly stopped and said to E Luo: "Did Miss E Luo notice anything?"

E Luo laughed a few times, "Of course, the one named Zhang has evil aura about him and is a half-demon! Why don't you tell them?"

Situ Yan smiled lightly and shook his head, "They are already very afraid of monsters. If I tell them that there is a monster standing next to them, they will faint from fear. Let's go up the mountain first. I'm quite curious about what this mountain god is like.

."

When they arrived at the foot of the mountain, they saw the big locust tree that the village chief had mentioned. The tree had thick branches and lush leaves, making it very eye-catching in the desolate wilderness.

"I heard that the locust tree has a lot of yin energy. The more yang energy it absorbs, the more luxuriant it grows. If it is watered with human blood, the tree will easily become a spirit. It is said that there is a demon refiner in the south who likes to raise monsters and then use those monsters to

The blood was refined into blood beads. There used to be a large locust tree where he lived. He first used his own blood to irrigate it, but later he felt that it was of no use, so he gradually hung people on the tree one by one.

Blood was drained from them every day to water the locust tree. As time passed, the locust tree became a spirit. However, the locust tree demon did not want to be used by the demon refiner, so he killed the demon refiner and escaped. Later, he also

I wonder where the locust tree demon has gone." After saying that, Situ Yan glanced at "Ling Huayin" beside him, and regardless of whether Ling Huayin over there heard it, he asked: "Linghua, what did you say about Bai Yi and the attack?

Does your locust tree demon have anything to do with it?"

"..." As she was leaving, she saw "Ling Huayin" pull out the sword from her waist, and with a burst of sword energy, she split the locust tree in half from the middle ten feet away.

Situ Yan was stunned and praised: "What a swordsmanship!"

The road to the mountain was actually not that far, but it took them a lot of time because no one had ever been up there before and it was overgrown with weeds. At the end of the road, a huge cave appeared in front of them. The entrance of the cave was entangled with countless vines, and they almost

The entrance to the cave was blocked, leaving only a gap for one person to pass through. There was also a shallow human footprint on the soil in front of the cave entrance. It seemed that no one had been there as they said. Situ Yan's spirit suddenly flashed.

Zi became nervous, not because he was worried about what was inside, but because things were developing in increasingly unexpected directions, which made him curious and excited, and he couldn't wait to uncover the truth of the matter.

"I'll go in first, you guys wait outside for my news." Situ Yan was tall and straight, and he had to bend his body to barely pass through the cave.

As soon as he entered the cave, a nauseating rotten smell hit his face. He choked and quickly covered his mouth and nose with his left hand. When his eyes adapted to the darkness here, he glanced around. He saw rot everywhere in the cave.

The vines were covered with sticky liquid, whether it was blood or something else. Looking further inside, nothing could be seen clearly. So he rubbed the thumb and index finger of his right hand and clicked.

There was a beam of fire, which was fine, but the vines in the cave began to move, and the sound of chewing could be heard in the cave.

"I have never seen anything so disgusting in my life." Situ Yan said to himself, opening a barrier at the same time, for fear that those sticky objects would get on him.

"This is much better." Situ Yan rejoiced as he moved inside. When he got deeper, he understood what the villagers called the mountain god. It turned out to be just a demonized man-eating grass. At this moment, it

With his mouth wide open, he stretched out his tentacles to wrap up Situ Yan and the barrier and put it into his mouth. Situ Yan quickly used magic to cut off the tentacles, but it seemed that the tentacles could never be completely cut off, and one of them was broken.

The root grows again.

"It's really endless." Situ Yan said as he looked around for the thing that made this plant demonic. Finally, he found a black shiny thing in the mouth of the piranha. He lamented alone and endured it.

With an overwhelming feeling of discomfort in his stomach, he took out his piano and strummed it a few times quickly. In an instant, the transparent strings held up the piranha's mouth to prevent it from closing. Situ Yan quickly reached in and took out the thing.

When the thing arrived in Situ Yan's hand, the mucus on it was weathered, revealing its original luster. It was a black and transparent stone. There was an insect egg inside the stone, and the light emanated from it.

"Corpse Refining Gu..." Situ Yan frowned slightly and put it away. Looking back, he saw that the man-eating grass had withered. It must have been that the last bit of demonic energy supporting its life had disappeared. Situ Yan quickly touched it on his hand.

He lit a fire and wanted to burn these plants, and found that there were several glowing soul-gathering grass growing in an open space behind the plants. Just as he was about to go forward to pick them, he heard the sound of Oluo coming from behind. So

He quickly set up a barrier in the open space, turned around and said to E Luo, who had just arrived, as if nothing had happened: "Didn't I tell you to wait for my news?"

"I didn't want to come in, but when she heard the sound of the piano, she had to come in and have a look." Elo replied casually.

"Ling Huayin" glanced around, inadvertently looking at the place where Situ Yan had just placed the barrier, but looking around, there were only dead vines and nothing else was found.

Situ Yan smiled nonchalantly, took a few steps forward, and seemed to intentionally block the sight of "Ling Huayin", and said, "This place is dirty, we'd better get out early, and we'll talk about it later."

"Ling Huayin" and E Luo didn't want to stay here anymore, so they quickly left the cave with Situ Yan.

After going out, Situ Yan told them his guess and showed them the Corpse Refining Gu.

"You mean there is no mountain god in this village, but it's all man-made?"

"Yes, look at the footprints at the entrance of the cave. I guess it is an adult man, and the entrance of the cave is not high, so I guess this man should be shorter than me. He cut off the head of the sacrificed girl, and then fed the body to

The man-eating plant then threw the head and the girl's clothes at the entrance of the village, making everyone think it was done by the mountain god." Situ Yan expressed his conjecture with confidence.

E Luo thought for a while and wondered: "Since it was done by humans, what happened to the beasts that the villagers saw? Could it be that Bai Yi did this from beginning to end? Can't he control the beasts?

"

Situ Yan shook his head and concluded very firmly: "They are definitely not the same person. If Bai Yi is the initiator of this matter, why would he send his own sister to death? Bai Yi came back purely for revenge."

"Then we have no other clues to find this person now, what should we do next?"

"Then let's wait." Situ Yan said, raised his hand and smelled his sleeves, and said with disgust: "The smell in here is too unpleasant, I have to go wash it off."

E Luo covered her mouth and smiled: "I didn't expect you, a grown man, to be very clean. How about we burn the plants in this hole so as not to scare others."
Chapter completed!