Records of Mysterious Things in the Southern Dynasties

Chapter 15 Elephant
As soon as the horse fell to the ground, countless blood locusts swooped over and instantly covered its entire body.

But more blood locusts flew over the horses and swept towards the man, cat and bird in the air.

At the critical moment, a leopard as fast as lightning and with a fiery red body suddenly rushed out from the side and caught Ren Yuan.

Ren Yuan also stretched out his hand and barely grabbed the cage, while the civet cat hugged the leopard's tail. The red leopard galloped like lightning, many times faster than a warhorse, and immediately shook off the swarm of insects.

Behind them, the horse had turned into a pile of bones after being bitten by tens of thousands of blood locusts.

Seeing that the distance between them and the locusts was getting closer, the civet cat nimbly jumped onto the leopard's head and said with lingering fear:

"You stupid leopard, if you had come a little later, you would have had to collect the bodies of the three of us!"

The leopard made a purring sound that Ren Yuan couldn't understand, but the civet cat understood what it meant and said speechlessly, "You've been wandering outside the manor for three years, and you're still lost?"

The red leopard shook his head vigorously in grievance, trying to shake the stinky cat off.

In order to avoid being implicated, Ren Yuan quickly comforted it and spoke for it, "Do you understand what a ghost wall means?"

The bird in the cage also comforted it, "Don't listen to Wenli, Baobao did a good job."

The red leopard was very happy and immediately ran smoothly.

"Silly leopard, slow down." After running for a while, the civet cat said angrily, "Didn't you notice that the locusts are not chasing you anymore?"

It turned out that they had unknowingly run into the mountains, and the group of locusts were just circling outside the mountain, as if they were afraid of something and did not dare to chase them in.

The red leopard was about to stop and take a breath, but the bird said faintly, "Because the evil elephant is chasing us."

"Wow, this one is even more heavyweight." Ren Yuan also saw a large ball of green ghost fire flying towards them at a rapid speed.

"Oh my god!" The civet cat imitated his lines and screamed at the red leopard, "Run, stupid leopard!"

The red leopard had no choice but to continue running wildly!

But the will-o'-the-wisp was faster than it, and caught up with it in no time! Fortunately, the red leopard was agile and could move around in the forest, so it was not caught for a while.

At this time, Ren Yuan also saw clearly that the ball of ghost fire was the red-haired, ghost-faced, and ferocious statue in the community temple.

He was about ten feet tall, with a face full of anger, wearing ancient armor from the pre-Qin period, a Suanni helmet on his head, and arms as thick as copper pillars, but with two eagle claws! With one hand he drove a chariot pulled by four skeleton horses, and with the other he held a long halberd that shone with cold light. He looked majestic, like a resurrected god of war!
He is the demon. Judging from his appearance, being a community god is a waste of talent. Being a city god is more appropriate.

After Xie You crushed the talisman to summon the gods, Wang Xiang rushed to Xie Family Village as soon as possible. Seeing the servants of the Xie family fleeing frantically, he thought his sister had gone crazy again.

Who knew that when I went in, Fang Liang was already cooked...

Although they are a demon and a ghost, they have a deep brother-sister relationship. The demon ran away on the spot, but Xie You's family was wiped out and all the servants had run away. He couldn't even find anyone to vent his anger on. He was so angry that he wielded a halberd and demolished half of the houses in Xiejiazhuang. Then he suddenly realized that the detained mountain god was also missing.

Wu Xiang quickly used his spiritual sense and found that the bird was about to escape into the mountains. He then realized that Fang Liang was killed by the bird, so he immediately drove his chariot and chased after it.

Although the four skeleton horses had no flesh and blood and were surrounded by dark and sticky death energy, they pulled the chariot at full speed and rampaged through the mountains and forests!
The dense forest seemed as fragile as wheat straw, and it collapsed when touched, and broken wood flew everywhere! The chariot was like a hot knife cutting through the essence of life, forcing a path through it and chasing the red leopard!

"After three years, the demon elephant has become so strong." The bird said solemnly, "If he catches us, we will be worse off than dead."

"Hurry up, hurry up!" The civet cat jumped up and down to urge. "Left, not right! Qiu, how come you can't even tell left from right!"

The poor red leopard had no choice but to stick out his tongue and use all his strength to circle around the monster elephant using the terrain under the command of the civet cat.

The halberd of the monster stabbed the leopard's butt several times, and the chariot was blocked by the rocks that suddenly appeared and missed the target. He was so angry that his face turned hideous and he kept howling!

In a fit of rage, he formed some magic spells with his claws and chanted some incantations. The deathly aura from the two skeleton horses rose up and turned into a black cloud, covering the forest where Ren Yuan and his party were.

The demon waved his halberd and pointed to the sky, and the black clouds turned into inky raindrops. The grass and trees in the forest withered instantly after being touched by the raindrops, and the frightened animals also died silently in the rain. The vast forest was instantly lifeless.

The two skeleton horses also turned into two piles of bones. He drove the other two skeleton horses to pull the chariot into the forest. He swung his long spear and cut down all the dead trees like mowing grass. However, he searched the entire forest but found nothing.

The monster roared anxiously, opened its bloody mouth, took a deep breath, and when its stomach swelled into the size of a ball, it blew it out violently!
The foul-smelling gale blew away all the grass, trees, soil and rocks on the ground, and a cave as big as a well appeared before him.

"So it hid in a rat hole!" Wuxiang snorted coldly, jumped off the car, shrank his body and chased into the hole.

The cave was very narrow, only enough for one person to enter and exit, but fortunately it was not too deep, only about fifty or sixty feet, and the demon elephant reached the end in a moment. The end of the cave suddenly opened up, as big as a living room.

When the demon elephant saw that the damn bird, boy, leopard and cat were all inside, he couldn't help but laugh out loud: "Hahaha, there's no way to escape now!"

But the bird sneered: "You are the one who has no way to escape!"

"Open your dog eyes and look carefully. Doesn't this place look familiar?" The civet cat said with a mocking look on his face: "You are even more stupid than a stupid leopard!"

"..." The expression of the demon was stunned. In fact, he felt that this place was familiar when he came in, but his attention was on Ren Yuan and the other three, so he didn't have time to take a closer look.

He then took a closer look and was shocked to find that this was the tomb that had suppressed him before!

He was so scared that he left Ren Yuan and the others behind, turned into a puff of black smoke, and tried to escape the same way he came.

"Where are you escaping to?!" A majestic roar shook the tomb so much that it collapsed into dust.

A mighty general with four golden eyes, wearing a bear skin, a red shirt and black pants, immediately blocked his way with his sword drawn.

"Prime Minister Fang, are you still alive?!" Wu Xiang was forced back into the tomb by a spear, his face full of horror.

"The black dog blood that the tomb robbers poured on my head can only trap me for a while. Can it trap me for a lifetime?!" Fang Xiang's eyes shot out golden light and locked onto the monster.

The community god, who had been so majestic just now, was suddenly unable to move.

"Mercy, spare my life!" Wu Xiang begged for mercy desperately. The opponent was a tomb-guarding beast that was specifically designed to restrain him. He was no match at all.

"Originally you were outside, and I couldn't do anything to you, but if you didn't take the road to heaven, you would have come to hell!" Fang Xiang felt deeply ashamed that the tomb ghost had escaped under his nose. How could he let him go this time? He raised his golden spear and beat the monster half to death.

Then he picked up a gray pottery jar with intricate patterns carved all over it from the tomb, opened the lid, and pointed the mouth of the jar at the monster.

"Don't put me into the soul bottle, just kill me!" Seeing this, the dying Wuxiang was so scared that his soul was about to come out of his body, and he cried with tears and snot.

"If I kill you, who will keep me company?" Fang Xiang laughed strangely, and, pinching his fingers to form a spell, was about to put him into the bottle.

"Wait!" Wu Xiang came up with another plan, pointing at Ren Yuan and the others, saying, "They killed our sister. I came here to avenge Fang Liang. Otherwise, I would not come back even if you kill me."

Ren Yuan's expression tensed up, and he looked at the bird in the cage speechlessly. Are they a family? How dare they lead the demon here without knowing such important information?

But the bird raised its wings, signaling him not to panic, everything was under control.

Sure enough, Fang Xiang was not completely ignorant of what was happening outside. He said in a cold voice, "The day she left, I told you that if I followed you out, I would definitely do something evil and end up losing my life."

"They are truly full of evil!" Ren Yuan immediately said indignantly: "I don't know how many people they have eaten over the years!"

Then he asked the demon elephant, "How many of the ten children have you eaten?"

"All ten are here. We will offer them all to the Locust God today." Wu Xiang's heart moved, and he turned to Ren Yuan and said, "Help me to plead for mercy. If I don't show up today, the Locust God will not let your village go."

"Don't listen to his nonsense." The bird exposed him mercilessly, "His sister is a locust spirit. Those locusts were attracted by his sister. Now that Fang Liang is dead, the locusts will not listen to anyone."

"That's right." Fang Xiang also nodded and said, "Locusts will insert their abdomens into the ground to lay eggs. The little locust spirit was born in this tomb by her mother. I was the one who gave her the name."

"She cultivated here for two hundred years and finally made some progress. Unfortunately, she couldn't stand the loneliness and insisted on following the monster to go outside." Fang Xiang's face showed a nostalgic look, and he sighed and said, "Alas, I said she would definitely be killed by the monster."

After that, he opened the soul bottle, pinched the magic formula with his hands and said, "Collect!"

The monster wailed and turned into a wisp of black smoke, which was collected into the soul bottle.

Fang Xiang closed the lid, glanced coldly at Ren Yuan and the other two, and said, "You guys want to stay and keep me company too?"

"No, no, let's go now." Ren Yuan quickly picked up the bird cage and followed the red leopard and the civet cat out of the tomb along the tunnel.

After they left, the tomb guardian beast used its spear to collapse the tomb robbers' hole, and then turned itself into a pottery figurine, squatting at the entrance of the tomb.

Under the feet of the terracotta figurine, there is a pottery soul bottle...

(End of this chapter)