Yin Shou Shu

Chapter 167 Incense
In the dark and strange stone forest, ugly, rough and slender stone pillars stand upright.

Some of the stone pillars are extremely thick, but some are very slender.

The naturally formed stone forest has each stone in a bizarre shape.

Ran Qing stood alone in the stone forest, even though he was with his companions just a second ago.

But in just a moment of turning around, the others disappeared.

Just then, the sound of the giant snake's scales rubbing against the ground slowly rang out behind him. The snake seemed to be moving slowly forward in the stone forest, very close to Ran Qing.

Ran Qing didn't dare to make any sound and couldn't call out to his companions.

He stood there and looked around. After confirming that there was no one around, he didn't dare to stay there. He could only grit his teeth and walk into the stone forest.

Get away from that poisonous snake as soon as possible.

Long Zongshu's cousin said that the mountain goby has a very keen sense of smell and can chase people over mountains and across rivers.

Ran Qing could only hope that the sulfur powder that Mo Li sprinkled when he came would interfere with the mountain's sense of smell, so that the poisonous snake behind him could not track him.

"Why did the person disappear all of a sudden?"

Ran Qing looked at the eerie and strange stone forest, feeling horrified and confused.

He walked in the stone forest for a few minutes, and when he heard sparse friction sounds behind him fading away and not chasing in his direction, he immediately stopped.

I dare not move forward rashly in this strange stone forest.

He stood there stiffly, listening for a long time, when suddenly he heard the sound of the mountain again.

But the sound was far away, and getting farther and farther away.

Only when the sound completely disappeared in the distance did Ran Qing breathe a sigh of relief and start to return along the way he came.

He wanted to go back to the place where they first parted and wait for Mo Li and the other two to find him.

But as he walked, Ran Qing found that he didn't recognize the road ahead.

He had unknowingly walked into an unfamiliar area.

"A ghost wall?" Ran Qing kept observing, but could not detect any evil spirit.

Many times, evil spirits will create a wall to harm people.

But sometimes, special terrain and feng shui can also cause the strange phenomenon of ghost walls.

This stone forest may have special terrain and feng shui.

But Ran Qing doesn't understand Feng Shui.

He hesitated, looked around, and slowly retreated, trying to return to his original place.

But as I walked, I found that the surrounding environment had become a strange and unfamiliar area.

The scope of this stone forest is larger than imagined.

Ran Qing observed as he walked, and suddenly found that a stone pillar in front of him was very thick and had an uneven surface, which was very suitable for climbing.

He immediately walked over, put down his backpack, and climbed up by grabbing the protrusions on the rock surface.

Soon, Ran Qing climbed to the top of the stone pillar, stood up and looked around.

But he found that all he could see were dark and rugged stone pillars, densely packed and stretching into the distance.

He had already gone deep into the stone forest, with branches just above his head.

In the distance, a gray-furred macaque was squatting on a tree, staring at him.

"Mo Li!"

"Zongshu!"

Ran Qing stood on the stone pillar and shouted around.

It had been a long time since he left the mountain, and he finally dared to make a sound.

But when Ran Qing's voice spread in the stone forest, it aroused waves of echoes.

The echoes reverberated in the empty stone forest, gradually becoming eerie and strange, as if many people were talking in the stone forest at the same time.

Ran Qing frowned and listened for a while, but he still didn't hear any response from Mo Li and the others until the echo in the stone forest completely disappeared.

This stone forest is large, but not so large that sound cannot be heard.

He stood at the highest point of the stone pillar and could vaguely see the edge of the stone forest.

Why didn’t Mo Li and the others respond?

Ran Qing shouted a few more times, this time even louder. But his shouts spread in the darkness, stirring up more echoes without any response.

However, there were a few more monkeys on the tree trunks in the distance.

The monkeys squatted on the tree trunks, staring at Ran Qing with their eyes wide open. Their rough, wrinkled faces were faintly visible in the darkness, looking eerie and strange.

Ran Qing looked at the monkeys, and the monkeys looked at him.

He noticed that the monkeys were becoming strange.

It didn't even look like the monkeys that had led them before, it looked like they had always been here...

Ran Qing frowned and stared at the group of monkeys for a few seconds, then slowly and carefully climbed down the stone pillar.

He realized that something strange must have happened in the stone forest.

As a result, he was separated from the others.

Since there was no response, Ran Qing didn't waste his voice and looked for other ways.

"Let's find Little Cotton first..."

After Ran Qing landed, he opened the canvas bag and took out a candle and three incense sticks from it.

Others can’t find it, but Xiao Mianhua is considered to be his medium, so he can open the Yin altar to look for it.

Ran Qing lit the candle and then lit three incense sticks and stuck them into the ground.

Then he took out some incense ash and sprinkled it around the makeshift incense stick, making a simple altar.

Finally, he took out a soul-calling drum made of witch skin and several pieces of origami, and placed the origami on the Yin altar.

dong dong dong-

The dull sound of drums rang out in the stone forest, and Ran Qing began to summon the spirits.

He wanted to use the method of summoning spirits to find the direction of Little Cotton.

Xiaomianhua should stay with Mo Li and the others, right?

Ran Qing thought about this and struck the small drum again.

dong dong dong-

The dull sound of drums danced in the stone forest, and even the flames of the burning candles danced with them.

The origami offerings in the simple Yin altar floated up and flew forward like paper butterflies.

Ran Qing followed quickly with his backpack on his back.

But after taking two steps, Ran Qing froze.

In the middle of the road ahead, a half-human-height pale porcelain statue stood there silently.

The kind and wealthy Guanyin Bodhisattva suddenly appeared at this moment, giving people a creepy and cold feeling.

The paper butterfly flapped its wings and flew over the Bodhisattva statue, then immediately fell down like a withered leaf.

Ran Qing looked at the Bodhisattva statue blocking the road with an expressionless face. After hesitating for a few seconds, he turned and walked towards the Yin Altar.

He wanted to put away the incense he had made temporarily.

But when he returned to the original place, he found that the candle had burned out, and the three incense sticks were bare, with only three short bamboo sticks left standing.

Several white porcelain Bodhisattva statues of different sizes stood motionless on the Yin altar.

When Ran Qing came over, their faces were all facing Ran Qing.

The kind and wealthy smile that came from the same mold was extremely creepy at this moment.

Ran Qing was not afraid, instead his expression changed slightly: "Eating my incense?"

The evil ghost mask behind his head suddenly became ferocious.

There seemed to be many shrill, noisy, angry roars ringing in Ran Qing's ears.

The feeling of falling into the Colosseum in a trance, with angry ghosts all around, suddenly appeared.

Ran Qing was not wearing a Nuo opera mask, but his eyes were already glowing with a violent bloodshot.

"Dare to eat our incense?!"

Ran Qing's voice echoed hoarsely and lowly, staring intently at the porcelain statues in front of him.

The nails on his ten fingers grew longer, as if they were slowly growing...

(End of this chapter)