At night in the old forest, there was no sense of time passing by. I was so busy, and as soon as I calmed down for a while, a clear moon was already hanging in the sky.

The meat was still simmering. Lao Zhang said that the toughness of roe deer meat requires more time to stew the soup with water. While talking, he cleaned up the "dirty" and found a few dry joints.

He put the branches on the branches and put them on the "water" and stood next to the fire.

I didn't understand what this was doing, so I asked Lao Zhang: "You won't eat these things, just throw them away. What are you doing standing next to them?"

"To respect the mountain god, if you kill a bigger prey, you can't eat it alone. These internal organs and so on are to be respected to the mountain god. With a grateful heart, if you respect the mountain god, the mountain god will also protect us." Lao Zhang answered simply.

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But is there really a mountain god coming to eat? I muttered in my heart, but I won't say much about other people's beliefs.

The group of people quietly watched the fire and chatted casually. After drinking two cups of hot water, the roe deer meat was finally cooked. They put the soup and water in the rice box and ate it while it was still hot.

The meat is chewy and tough, nothing special

It had such a fishy smell, and the shredded pork was slightly thicker than ordinary meat. Even the soup was watery, and it was so delicious that many years later, when I recalled this stewed roe deer meat, I thought it was almost delicious.

One of the most delicious meats I have ever eaten.

After dinner and tidying up, the three of us went to the tent to rest, with Lao Zhang keeping watch for the night. After all, we don’t have to pay so much attention when we go out. Ruxue also squeezed into the same tent with us, feeling peaceful, but it didn’t really matter.

Pay special attention to form.

I was very tired from traveling during the day. I thought I would fall into a deep sleep quickly as usual, but I didn’t know if I had something on my mind. I tossed and turned. I just slept lightly for a while, and then couldn’t fall asleep again. After watching

Looking at the time, I only slept for less than two hours.

Ruxue was sleeping soundly on her side inside the tent. Brother Chengxin had a book covering his face and was already snoring slightly. The soul-nurturing tank was quiet. I guess Old Ghost Wu had also rested. I didn't want to disturb them.

Since I couldn't sleep, I simply walked out of the tent.

Outside the tent, Lao Zhang was still guarding the fire, holding a cigarette pole in one hand and a bag of wine in the other. He was very responsible and did not take a nap. He was very energetic and guarded the surroundings, occasionally taking a sip of wine or smoking a cigarette.

Seeing me coming out, Lao Zhang was not too surprised. He smiled at me. I smiled back and sat down on the rock next to Lao Zhang. Lao Zhang handed me the dry tobacco pole and said:

"It's cold at night, are you taking a breath?"

I didn't refuse, so I took a puff, but it was so hard that I coughed several times. It was just like when my master teased me and asked me to smoke dry cigarettes, but I still couldn't smoke.

Lao Zhang didn't mind either. He just laughed and handed me the wine bag. I took a big sip and felt warm. Standing by the fire, I didn't feel how cold it was outside.

In the cold night, I was chatting with Lao Zhang casually, but I didn't expect that the old ghost Wu floated out soon after. It's like this ghost. It can't listen to other people's chats. Once it hears it, it makes it unbearable.

Come and join in the fun.

When Lao Gui Wu is around, he is never lonely. He can play so well that it makes Lao Zhang and I laugh all the time, which makes it easy to pass the time.

An hour passed unknowingly like this, and I felt a little sleepy. I looked at the time, and it was almost an hour before my night watch. I just wanted to go to sleep for a while, but I didn't know what to do.

Yes, goosebumps suddenly appeared on my body.

This must be something my spiritual sense sensed. I knew this feeling very well. I couldn’t help but start to look around, only to find that the dark old forest was everywhere. Is there anything unusual? Looking back, I saw Old Wu’s grimace.

The color was not right, or perhaps because he was afraid of surprising Lao Zhang, Wu Laogui quietly gestured to me, meaning something was wrong over there.

Only then did I remember that when it comes to spiritual premonitions, Mr. Wu is stronger than me. Could it be where the trouble comes from? I just had goosebumps, but I didn't feel any danger.

So I didn't know what to say, and I kept talking to Lao Zhang intentionally or unintentionally, while paying attention to that side with my eyes.

There was no sound of footsteps or any warning. I had been paying attention to me over there, and suddenly I saw a figure walking out of the woods over there, wearing a bright red robe. It was a very clear figure.

The campsite chosen by Lao Zhang for us was on a hillside leeward, with a few sparse trees. Every move below could be seen clearly. I looked at the figure calmly, but the figure was still there.

He didn't look at me in the end, he just walked step by step, and he was walking towards us.

I deliberately called out to Lao Zhang, and Lao Zhang glanced towards me. With his eyesight, at such a close distance, and with the conspicuous red robe, he could see the figure below, but he was stunned.

Instead, he asked me: "What's going on?"

I didn't have anything to say and responded: "Which way is the deep forest, right? I just wanted to ask."

"Yeah." Lao Zhang responded, maybe he was a little sleepy, and since I was outside, he felt relaxed. After responding, he squinted his eyes and dozed off by the fire.

I understand what's going on. That figure is definitely not a human being. I have been cultivating for so many years, and my spiritual premonition is much stronger than ordinary people. Even if I don't open my eyes, if that spiritual body is strong enough, it can affect me.

I 'see' it.

As for Old Ghost Wu, let alone it. It is a ghost itself, how can it be invisible?

It’s just that I didn’t feel any hostility. When Lao Zhang suddenly took a nap, I signaled to Wu Laogui to calm down, but I found out funny that Wu Laogui had already been hiding behind me and trembling. This guy is a ghost himself.

What are you afraid of?

Too lazy to pay attention to Old Ghost Wu, I took the wine bag from Old Zhang, drank it one mouthful at a time, and lit a cigarette for myself. This was also a kind of relaxation, and then I just looked at the red-robed figure.

Walk in step by step.

But the more it walked in, the more I felt something was wrong. Because of the night, I couldn't see its face clearly, but I could clearly see that it was wearing an official robe. I'm not good at history, so I couldn't recognize it.

Which dynasty is the official robe, what grade of official robe is it, and what does it represent? I am still secretly guessing, is it an obsessive ghost who still wants to be an official after death?

But the next moment, when it was less than ten meters away from me, it just raised its face, and I was completely shocked. What was that?! An indigo face, two big fangs, fiery red.

His hair, stuck out of the somewhat funny-looking official hat, looked unusually ferocious!

But because the lines on its face are unusually hard, it actually looks a bit honest, and it's not so scary after a closer look.

But no matter what, this was definitely something beyond my knowledge. I took a deep breath and managed to calm myself down. I didn’t do anything hostile. Just because I believed in my spiritual sense, I really didn’t feel it.

to its hostility.

Old Ghost Wu was shaking badly for a long time. Seeing that the voice was less than 5 meters away from us, he whispered in a trembling voice: "I have never seen any official robes like this!"

Only then did I realize that Old Ghost Wu was an ancient man, and he must have a deeper understanding of these things than I did. Then I remembered to take a closer look at his official robe, only to find that the figure had already walked up to us.

But he didn't come over, so he squatted down where Lao Zhang was holding the "water", grabbed a "phantom" with one hand, and started to eat and chew it. The sight of it made people tremble.

The five elements of essence are stored in the internal organs. When it comes to the yang energy of living things, of course it is hidden in the internal organs. Otherwise, how can the yang energy leak out? Unless it is a person with a heavy yang energy, it will naturally leak out and avoid the evil spirits and ghosts.

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I understand very well that what the figure grabbed out was actually a ball of yang energy and essence that had not been dissipated in the internal organs, but I don’t know what kind of evil it was, but it had to turn into this bloody eating form, take a sip, and suck it away

Isn’t it done?

But at this moment, my heart was completely relaxed, and I understood what this figure was. I knew it when I saw it eating Lao Zhang's tribute, and when I saw the official robe it was wearing, with a mountain pattern printed in the middle,

This guy is what Lao Zhang calls the mountain god!

I was confused just now and didn’t think of this at all. Think about it, among the mandrills and mountain gods in Buddhist temples, who doesn’t look like this? In Taoist temples, you have to worship the gods who guard the mountains, and most of those mountain gods also look like this, with ferocious looks!

People often cannot distinguish between the land and the mountain god, thinking that the short old man with a white beard also guards the mountain. That is a mistake!

I didn't expect that I could see a 'little god', so I couldn't react in my mind at the moment. I couldn't feel how powerful it was. In terms of strength, it was much worse than the most powerful enemy I had ever encountered - the little devil.

, but after all, he has a 'god', so I should pay my respects to him.

At that moment, I stood up and performed a Taoist ritual, as did Old Ghost Wu. When the mountain god saw it, his eyes finally showed a hint of friendliness, but there was no reaction and he continued to eat.

I picked up the wine bag and said: "Now that we are here, who wouldn't treat guests with wine? Let's have a drink."
Chapter completed!