Li Yi did not look at the statue in the temple for a long time. In his opinion, the statue was too weak. That level of cosmic energy did not pose any danger to him and was not worthy of too much attention. Therefore, this world is different from the previous one.

The judgment is the same, the degree of risk is not high.

Then his eyes moved to a few people in the temple.

"Pindao Taiyi is a wandering Taoist. It was getting late. When I passed by this place, I saw a fire burning in the temple, so I came here to stay for the night. I hope I won't disturb you all."

Li Yi spoke and gave a salute at the same time. Although he didn't look like a Taoist, he was actually a real Taoist himself.

Old Liu Tou was surprised, but he quickly returned the greeting: "Taoist Master, you're welcome. I am the leader of this area. Everyone calls me Old Liu Tou. In this wilderness, ghosts and ghosts are everywhere, and this mountain temple is the only one."

A mountain was enshrined

God, can protect the safety of passers-by. We were also delayed when we were on our way. In addition, it was raining continuously and the night fell early, so we rested here. It is really a blessing for us to meet the Taoist Master today, so there is no need to disturb us."

"Taoist Priest, come in quickly and warm yourself up by the fire. It's wet and cold outside, so be careful not to get sick."

He invited Li Yi into the temple, and at the same time he was observing to see if this strange man was a real Taoist or a ghost in disguise.

If you are a top-notch mountain spirit, you will never dare to enter the temple through the main entrance.

Because there is a statue staring at you from the front, it can frighten those things in the mountains and forests. Even if there are spirits that harm people, they will only avoid the statue and sneak in through windows, back doors, etc.

"Thank you." Li Yi nodded and strode into the temple.

When Lao Liutou saw this scene, he was slightly relieved. It was obvious that the man in front of him was not a spirit, but a genuine Taoist. It seemed that the field mouse in his arms had smelled the breath of the master and was afraid of being regarded as a monster and the spirit would surrender.

That’s why I was trembling with fear, but what happened to the incense that couldn’t be lit?

He was puzzled, but he still remained vigilant.

"Okay, it's okay, it's okay. Everyone, close the doors and windows. It's unlikely that any other passers-by will come to rest at this hour. Take out the incense and scatter it, don't be lazy."

Old Liu Tou turned around and spoke again. After he finished speaking, he invited Li Yi to sit by the fire and very considerately brought a wooden stake to use as a stool.

"Master Taoist, please sit down."

Li Yi was not polite. After sitting down, he asked: "There are so many ghosts and ghosts in this area? Do you need the protection of the mountain temple to stay overnight? Do you need to sprinkle incense on the windows to ward off evil spirits?"

"From the accent of the Taoist priest, I think the Taoist priest is not a local here. This area where three continents meet has many mountains and fields but few roads. It is difficult for the court to control it, so there are often ghosts. Let's talk about the mountains and forests in front.

A few years ago, I heard about the appearance of a tiger, and there is also a mountain grave there.

Other guides have seen ghosts and ghosts there, as well as the forest, where foxes, snakes, and rats are all present. The most evil one is the Sanshan Road. I heard that every night, there are always a few more Sanshan Roads appearing out of thin air.

The truth is, if someone you don’t know well dives in, you’ll never come back.”

Old Liu Tou said: "So people who pass by this area like to hire a guide to lead them to avoid taboo places and get out of here safely. To be honest, I have been a guide here for more than ten years.

Well, I haven't made any mistakes in the past ten years. What do you rely on? It's just being cautious. If I lead the way, I will never take a dangerous path, and I will set off at the hour of the day and leave the world at the hour of the hour, and never stop in the middle."

"If you are late like today, you are not afraid. You can come to this mountain temple for one night and continue your journey tomorrow. Nothing will happen. Although the location of this mountain temple is a bit remote, it is a good place for us guides.

There are one of the few good places in this area. If you are not a local, you would not know that there is a mountain temple here. If you are just rushing and miss this place, you will have to enter the Sanshan Road in Xu Shi. I am afraid that it will be easy to get in, but it will be difficult to get out.

."

He talked eloquently and told some things about himself, but when he finished talking, the conversation changed and he asked: "I wonder which famous mountain you grew up in and practiced, which master you worshiped, and where are you going now?

"

"I followed an immortal nun in Daoting Mountain to practice Taoism. Now I plan to travel around the world to find another relative. I have no fixed place to go." Li Yi said.

"Daoting Mountain?" Old Liu thought of it, but he didn't know this place, but it didn't seem like he made up the name casually, so he continued the conversation: "The Taoist priest has been practicing for some years."

"I have practiced Taoism for less than a year." Li Yi said with a smile.

"You have only practiced Taoism for a year? What magic has the Taoist learned?" Suddenly, the young scholar came over with interest. He hurriedly said: "By the way, Taoist, Xiaosheng Lu Yue went to Fengzhou to study.

students.”

Li Yi said: "I have learned three major spells and hundreds of minor spells. Otherwise, I would not dare to walk alone in this wilderness, otherwise I would have fed the jackals, tigers and leopards."

"I didn't expect that the Taoist priest is still an expert, but he is so polite." After hearing this, Lu Yue stood up in a hurry and gave a respectful salute.

"I'm not an expert, I'm just an ordinary person." Li Yi shook his head and said.

Old Liu Tou on the side was also surprised and doubtful. Is it possible that today I am really blessed to know an accomplished person?

At this time, another man on the side mustered up some courage and said: "Taoist Master, I heard that someone can turn stones into gold after learning magic, so that they can eat and drink without worries for the rest of their lives. Taoist Master, can you give me some help?"

Let’s show off our skills so that we, the uninitiated, can open our eyes.”

"You're talking about the Midas touch. It's a very powerful magic, but I don't know it." Li Yi shook his head.

"You really dare to think about turning stones into gold. You greedy guy, go ahead. You can also see the Taoist priest's magic. If you offend the master, be careful to turn you into a stone and stand there, and you will be exposed to the wind for the rest of your life."

Blow the sun."

Old Liu Tou shouted, not wanting others to offend the Taoist Priest. Although he could not see what the Taoist Priest in front of him was capable of, it was not easy to handle the few of them who were on the road.

After being given a drink, the man shut up angrily.

Li Yi suddenly looked aside and asked, "Why are there two people hiding behind the statue and not daring to come out?"

Old Liu's expression moved slightly, with a bit of surprise in his eyes.

Those two people hid themselves so well and didn't make any movement at all, but people could see through them at a glance. They really had some skills.

"Taoist Priest, those are two women. I saw the Taoist Priest coming this way earlier and thought they were bad guys, so I asked the two women to hide." Old Liu Tou said immediately: "Just now I was looking at the Taoist Priest and Taoist Priest.

I forgot about this matter for a while while chatting, I'm really sorry, it almost caused a misunderstanding."

Then he immediately stood up and walked towards the back of the statue.

Not long after.

Old Liu Tou came out with the two women.

One woman is a woman in her early thirties, and the other woman is a girl of eighteen or nineteen years old. They are dusty, their faces are smeared with incense ash, their hair is unkempt, and their expressions are reserved and very nervous.

"I've met the Taoist priest." When they saw Li Yi, their eyes suddenly lit up.

Unexpectedly, this Taoist who suddenly arrived was so tall and handsome. No wonder he was thought to be a mountain spirit. With such an appearance, appearing in the barren mountains and wild mountains, it is indeed easy to make people suspicious.

Li Yi smiled slightly, nodded and said: "It's too easy for me to be polite."

The two women hurriedly returned the salute, then without saying a word, they went to sit aside with a bit of shame, but their eyes looked here from time to time, seeming to be very curious about Li Yi.

"It's not easy for a woman to go out. As the leader, I have to get them out of this place safely. The monsters in the mountains and wild animals on the way are a trivial matter. The most worrying thing is the unpredictability of people's hearts." Old Liu Tou said while adding firewood to the fire.

said.

"That makes sense." Li Yi replied.

Old Liu Tou said: "Dear guests, it's getting late now. If you're tired after a long day of traveling, go and have a rest. I'll keep watch. But don't sleep too hard. If there is any movement, I will wake you up immediately."

"I'll be relieved to have you keeping vigil, Taoist Priest. I won't disturb you, and I'll go and rest first." The scholar Lu Yue yawned at this moment and said a little tiredly.

The other two accompanying guests now closed the doors and windows, spread hay next to the fire, and then lay down to sleep.

Although several people wanted to see Li Yi cast spells to open their eyes, but seeing that Li Yi had no such thoughts, they simply stopped talking about it and decided to go to bed early and get up early tomorrow to be energetic and go on the road.

I saw that they had all taken a rest.

But Old Liu Tou asked cautiously: "Taoist Priest, do you think it's peaceful here tonight?"

Li Yi looked around at this moment and felt the atmosphere around him. He smiled and said: "It's not peaceful."

"really."

Old Liu Tou's heart sank: "I had a bad premonition when the incense offerings at the mountain temple were extinguished. Taoist Priest, how do you think we can survive the night?"

Although he didn't quite trust the Taoist Li Yi, he still humbly asked for advice.

"Just sleep as usual. Meeting each other is fate. If there are mountain spirits coming to disturb you, I will take action." Li Yi said.

"This will help the Taoist priest."

As Old Liu Tou spoke, he took off a gourd from his waist: "Taoist Priest, it's very cold at night, so I treat this pot of rice wine as a tribute to you. I hope you won't dislike it."

Li Yi smiled slightly, did not refuse, and reached out to take it: "Easy to say, easy to say."

It's not that he covets someone else's bottle of wine. Only when he accepts the things will others feel at ease.

As expected, Old Liu Tou felt much relieved. He then got up and went to the side room to get a few bundles of dry firewood that he had prepared before, intending to sit around the fire all night.

"Taoist Priest, you go and have a rest first. I'll keep an eye on you first. If anything happens, it's not too late to trouble Taoist Priest."

Li Yi was not sleepy, but he did not reject the other party's kindness. He just stood up and moved away from the fire, found a secluded corner to sit down, then closed his eyes, adjusted his luck and blood, and tried to find the fourteenth major acupoint.

position to lay a solid foundation for your next step of practice.

After all, one of the main purposes of coming to this world to practice is one of my own.

soon.

The mountain temple quickly became quiet, and the sky outside became completely dark. The mountain wind blew from time to time, bringing in wisps of damp and cold air.

Old Liu shrank his body and added a few more firewood to make the room warmer.

In the first half of the night, everything was fine.

Everyone fell asleep peacefully one by one, even Old Liu Tou also dozed off.

But it was midnight.

A thin figure accidentally sprang out from the nearby mountain forest, and was attracted by a certain aura to the outside of the mountain temple. The figure wandered around, facing the door sprinkled with incense ash,

He never dared to get even closer, but finally he stopped at a window.

Because there was no incense ash sprinkled on this window.

Soon, the figure bit through the window paper and got half its head in.

It turned out to be a weasel.

It's just that this weasel stood at the window, looking at everything in the temple. It didn't come in or leave, it just stared at the sleeping scholar Lu Yue, and then its belly began to beat, and it seemed to be breathing. Its breathing rate was very high.

It was strange that the more Lu took a breath, the more he took a breath, the more Lu took a breath, the more he took a breath, and so on, as if he was breathing in and out.

Lu Yue, who was sleeping soundly, was sleeping by the fire, but he felt that his whole body was freezing to the bone, with an indescribable coldness.

But when he wanted to wake up, his eyelids were so heavy that he couldn't open them.

Old Liu was dozing off and didn't notice, but the field mouse in his arms smelled the weasel's breath and became restless.

Suddenly.

Li Yi, who was exploring the acupuncture points in his body, felt a strange aura and couldn't help but open his eyes at this moment. His eyes were very bright, which seemed particularly eye-catching in the dark temple, and he saw something unusual in his eyes.

At this moment, wisps of breath were draining from the sleeping Lu Yue, and then all fell into the mouth of the weasel next to the window.

"Is this stealing human body essence to practice?" Li Yi looked slightly moved: "Is this the way the spirits in this world practice?"

However, this way of practice is somewhat evil. Human body essence is the foundation of the human body. If the loss is serious, the patient will become ill, and in serious cases, the life span will be shortened.

But the advantage is that the practice progresses very quickly, because human body essence can nourish the soul and body. If the amount of supplements is collected enough, it can really achieve some climate. The heaven and earth Qi gathering method practiced by Li Yi has a similar practice method, but he

What is collected is not the essence of the human body, but the essence of heaven and earth.

He then picked up a stone on the ground and threw it away.

call out!

The stones flew away with a burst of inner fire.

The weasel on the window who was stealing people's attention had just reacted when the stone penetrated his head.

Then the energy of heart fire filled the air, and the weasel's body was immediately ignited, and its flesh and blood were burned away in an instant, leaving only its beautiful fur.

"Return the property to its original owner."

Then Li Yi grabbed it from the air and sucked out a stream of essence from the burned flesh and blood, and then penetrated into the body of the scholar Lu Yue.

Although these essences are insignificant to him, for an ordinary person, they are a blessing, enough for him to strengthen his body and eliminate all diseases.

Lu Yue, who had felt very cold before, now felt an indescribable warmth in his body. He seemed to have returned to his bed and slept comfortably.

After solving the matter, Li Yi continued to close his eyes and visualize the gods performing martial arts and explore the acupoints in his body.

I thought I would spend tonight peacefully

As a result, another hour passed, and late at night, everyone in the temple heard a voice coming from all directions.

"Help, help, someone come and save me."

It was a woman's voice, which sounded sad and miserable, with a hint of crying, which made people feel pity.

It's strange to say that.

As soon as this voice appeared, everyone in the mountain temple woke up at the same time. No matter how comfortable they had slept before, they immediately became energetic at this moment. It seemed that there was a magical power in this voice.

Irresistible.

"I fell asleep." Lao Liu, who was dozing, stood up in a hurry. He had made plans to keep vigil, but he fell asleep in a daze at some point.

Looking at the situation of the fire in front of me, I was probably asleep for at least two or three hours.

"Damn it."

He slapped himself hard, feeling that his body was no longer as good as when he was young, otherwise he wouldn't be able to hold on even after half a night.

But when everyone heard the crying coming in from outside, their faces turned pale with fear.

"Old Liutou, what is this thing crying? It must not be a human being." Scholar Lu Yue said in horror.

"You, a scholar, are not stupid. You know that the people crying for help outside are not people. They are ghosts in the mountains. They are luring people into the mountains. Don't leave the mountain temple. Once you go out, you will not be able to come back." Old Liu Tou said very solemnly.

Said, he then looked at the man not far away.

You Taoist are quite steady, and you are still resting with your eyes closed at this time.

Fortunately nothing happened in the first half of the night.

etc.

Suddenly, Old Liu Tou looked around. With sharp eyes, he immediately saw a hole in the window. A piece of weasel skin hung at the hole. The skin was shiny and translucent, and it was much larger than ordinary skins.

He came closer and reached out to take it.

There was no bone or flesh inside the skin, only a layer of black ashes, as if it had been scorched by fire, but strangely, the skin was not damaged at all.

"That Taoist is really capable." Old Liu Tou was surprised and happy, knowing in his heart that it must be the Taoist who took action.

Because there is no incense ash at the window, it has nothing to do with the mountain god.

Just when he was about to express his gratitude to the man.

Suddenly.

At the opening of the window, Old Liu suddenly saw a strange and penetrating eye peering out of the window. Vaguely, he seemed to see the pale face of a woman.

"Ghost."

Old Liu Tou, who had been the leader for more than ten years, was frightened and yelled and quickly backed away.

Others were also startled by the sudden scream.

"Where is the ghost?" Scholar Lu Yue asked tremblingly.

Old Liu remained silent and simply retreated, staying as far away from the window as possible, for fear that the evil spirits outside would rush in and kill him.

But right now.

Bang! Bang.

Suddenly, there was a sound of banging on the closed temple door, and the force was very strong. The heavy temple door was shaken violently by the banging, and it seemed that it was about to fall down at any time.
Chapter completed!