Tu Yangxing said dissatisfied: "Why should we listen to you? You should stop talking. I, Brother Murong and Brother Qian will find a way. Just follow." Tang Yue ignored him and said directly to the others,
"We have to do something to change the course of development and see what happens to this secret realm."
Senior Brother Qian nodded, "That makes sense." He followed Tang Yue with the others.
Tu Yangxing was in disbelief, "You actually listened to her?"
Murong Hai put his arms around his shoulders and said, "Let's go. You can go to the village chief's house to see us. We're here now."
When he said this, Tu Yangxing muttered and could only go with them. If nothing was found after a while, he would have to talk about Murong Hai and Qian Wangduo. How could he listen to a child? Or a woman.
child.
The village was not big, and they quickly arrived at the village chief's small office building, where his family also lived. Hu San, who was behind, called another monk and followed them from a distance.
When he arrived at the village chief's house, Brother Qian knocked on the door. The person who opened the door was the village chief's mother. She looked at the group of people, including men, women, and children aged eleven or twelve, with confusion.
Monks like them have been inexplicably appearing in their village for a while and have not left, as if they are looking for something. Is there a treasure in the village?
But they are ordinary people, and they don't dare to drive away these immortal masters. Fortunately, they will give some benefits to the villagers, so they can make a small fortune.
"What's wrong with the immortal masters?"
"Auntie, we do have some things that we can't talk about outside. Can you let us in?"
The village chief's mother was a little suspicious. Why did these people come to her home in the middle of the night?
At this time, the village chief came out. He was a middle-aged man in his forties. "What important business do you have for the immortal masters who are here late at night? Come in and sit down."
He motioned to his mother to step aside from the door and let these immortal masters come in, and his face seemed to blame his mother for being negligent.
Tang Yue and his party came in, and the village chief shouted to the inner room: "Xinghua, come out quickly and pour tea."
Senior Brother Qian stopped him, "No need, we are here for one thing. We want to know what you are hiding in the basement."
The faces of the village chief and his mother changed, and they hurriedly denied, "There is nothing in our cellar, just some unsightly debris."
Hu San and others outside the door thought: Sure enough, these famous disciples want to steal the treasure behind their backs. So they broke in anxiously.
"Who are you? What are you doing?" The village chief was very frightened when he saw that many people had rushed into his home. It reminded him of the robbers who came to the village last month to kill and rob.
The following monks looked around, saw the stairs, and rushed there.
Tang Yue said: "We can't let them kill Hanbao."
Senior Brother Qian and Murong Hai rushed over while she was talking. The first monk to go down shouted: "What kind of monster is this?"
After he finished shouting, Senior Brother Qian had already pushed him away, went up to tie Hanbao with the Immortal Binding Rope, and cut off the iron chain.
The mother stumbled downstairs and said, "Here is my sick little son. He is not a monster."
Hu San looked at the monster Qian Wangduo had caught, frowned and said, "How could Sick grow such a tail? This is obviously a monster."
The village chief's mother shook her head repeatedly, "He is not a monster, he is my son, but he was born with a strange disease."
The village chief also went downstairs, "Mother, I told you before that you couldn't hide the fact that you hid the monster downstairs. You should kill him. Now you have offended the immortal master."
The village chief's mother beat him, "He is not a monster, he is your brother."
The village chief sneered, "How could my brother kill my father? I don't understand why you keep raising this monster."
Hearing her son mention this, the village chief's mother collapsed on the ground, "I didn't give birth to a monster, I didn't! I have always adhered to women's ways, how could God punish me?"
Tang Yue sighed, walked to the village chief's mother, and helped him up. "It's not your fault. You hit the Yin thing when you were pregnant."
"Let's go up, there are too many people here, the cellar is too crowded."
After she finished speaking, she went upstairs. Ruan Ying and Duan Yitang also followed her up. They both couldn't stand so many people crowded together.
Senior Brother Qian also pulled Hanba upstairs, and the others had no choice but to follow.
The village chief glanced at the old mother on the ground with disgust, but still helped his mother, whose legs were a little weak, to go upstairs.
After she went upstairs, she quickly asked Tang Yue: "What happened to the collision with the Yin thing? I have never been to any strange places."
After she said this, she was stunned for a moment and turned pale. "No, when I was pregnant with my third son, I seemed to have met my sister's ghost by the lake. She said she was so wronged and would never die in peace."
The village chief scolded: "Nonsense, your sister was unclean during her lifetime. After the sacrifice, she was purified. She should have passed away clean now. How can there be any injustice?"
Tang Yue frowned and asked: "May I ask if your village has done anything to sink a woman who has lost her virginity into the pond?"
The village chief didn't know why they were curious about the village's old customs, "Yes, women who lose their virginity are in bad luck. Shen Tang is needed to appease the anger of God, forgive their crimes, and allow them to be reincarnated with a clean identity."
"Otherwise, God will bring disaster to the village and punish all the people in the village."
Ruan Ying couldn't help but said, "Nonsense, there are no rules in heaven for such nonsense."
The village chief's expression changed. This is their long-held belief. This is how they have dealt with women who lost their virginity for hundreds of years. Why did the immortal master say they were talking nonsense?
"This is a rule handed down from our ancestors. There can be no mistakes." The village chief looked persistent. Their ancestors must have their own reasons for setting such a rule.
Tang Yue felt unhappy. She had seen such bad habits in the village chronicles. Now she just wanted to confirm, "You all killed these women in the lake outside the village?"
"The sacrifice is performed at the lake outside the village. If there is a woman who has lost her virginity, we will perform a ceremony on the ninth day of the lunar month to punish the woman who has lost her virginity."
During the day, the village woman mentioned that today was the third day of the Lunar New Year and that these women would be drowned in six days.
The village chief mentioned again, "Recently, for some unknown reason, there is no water in the wells in the village, and there is less water in the lake outside the village. We think it is because the village has provoked robbers, causing too many women to lose their virginity, and angering God.
So the punishment was handed down so quickly this time, before we had time to wait until the ninth day of the lunar month."
Hu San vaguely felt that the things about the robbers in the village and the women by the lake sounded familiar, but after he came here he only gathered monks in the village and investigated the village, and he did not encounter these things.
Tang Yue said to him directly, "It's not because of those women. Your brother was born with drought. Now that he has grown up, he has the power to make the world dry."
The village chief's face suddenly changed. He knew that this monster was a scourge. What should the villagers do if they knew it? They might attack his family.
He raised his head and glanced hard at his mother. The old man shrank when he saw the look in his eyes.
The village chief handed over his hand and said, "In that case, please help me kill this monster. I have tried to kill it many times myself, but I can't kill it. The wound will heal soon."
The tied up Hanba seemed to understand his words and hurriedly curled up, hoping to avoid something.
Seeing this, Tang Yue sighed, "Now that I know there is no water in the well, it's because of your brother, why do you still want those women to soak in the pig cage?"
The village chief replied: "This is a rule passed down by the ancestors of this village. I hope the immortal masters will not stop us from abiding by our ancestors' precepts."
"Okay, then let me tell you that the great evil thing that hit your mother is probably the resentment of the women who died in the lake in vain for six hundred years, and the drought demon your mother gave birth to is the revenge of their ghosts on this village.
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She said these words to the village chief expressionlessly, and Senior Brother Qian suddenly realized, "In this way, everything is connected. No wonder Hanbao has the ability to attract sandstorms. It was they who killed an innocent woman again.
When the resentment reaches its peak, the drought demons born from their Yin Qi mutate and become stronger."
The village chief looked in disbelief, "Those women were clearly purified and passed away. How could they become innocent souls?"
Chi He smiled and said: "If you don't believe it, let us take you to see the wronged ghost in person."
Tang Yue glanced at Chi He and nodded, "Okay, maybe this is a turning point."
Murong Hai, tall and straight, lifted the village chief with one hand and prepared to go out.
The village chief's mother was worried, "What are you doing? You have arrested my youngest son, and you are going to arrest my eldest son. Put him down quickly."
Tang Yue went out directly, and Senior Brother Qian and the others also followed him out. Tu Yangxing looked confused, "Why do you all seem to know what is going on?" But he also followed out.
Hu San didn't know what the famous monks like Qian Wangduo were going to do, so he followed him. He even sent a letter to his men, asking them to come over and take care of them while they robbed things.
They walked in front, while the village chief's mother and village chief's wife Xinghua were crying in the back, "The immortal master killed someone, come and see if there is any justice!"
The villagers heard the howl of the village chief's mother, and some hurriedly closed the doors and windows to avoid the disaster. Some brave people who were friends with the village chief came out and asked: "Isn't the immortal master trying to do good deeds and accumulate virtue? Why would he attack innocent people like us?
, Heaven will punish you."
Tang Yue said to them: "You are not innocent. If you don't believe it, you can come and have a look with us. Don't worry, we won't kill you."
These villagers were confused, what did they do? But the immortal master said not to kill them, so some people followed him.
When the villagers saw someone following them, they thought there was strength in numbers, so more and more villagers followed them to the lake.
After the monks and villagers gathered at the lake, Tang Yue asked Murong Hai: "Brother Murong, please use the secret spying skills passed down from your family so that these mortals can see the innocent souls in the lake."
The monks had already seen the innocent ghosts of women in the lake, and their scalps were numb. Hu San looked at these innocent ghosts, and his expression suddenly changed. He remembered that when he first came to this village, he was not investigating the village.