Yin Shou Shu

Chapter 173 Yin Yang Evil

"Ran Qing? What are you stopping for?"

Little Cotton's confused voice sounded at his feet.

Her shadow came to Ran Qing. Under the dim light, the shadows on the ground were five people and a dog.

Ran Qing stared at his companions with burning eyes. There were four people standing in front of him.

Mo Li, Long Zongshu, Long Zongshu's cousin...

four people?
His face looked a little ugly.

Something had gotten into their midst, but he couldn't find out who it was.

There were clearly four people standing in front of him, but when he looked at their faces, there were only Mo Li, Long Zongshu, and Long Zongshu's cousin.

His perception and eyes told him that there were four people in front of him.

But I can’t see who the extra one is!
This strange confusion of perception is creepy.

Mo Li and Long Zongshu looked at each other at this time and soon discovered the unusual situation.

"One more person..."

The three of them looked at each other.

Little Mianhua said in fear: "There is something standing among you... Ran Qing, drive away the ghost!"

Little Cotton urged anxiously.

Ran Qing stared at his companions in silence and said, "I can't tell which one is the extra evil spirit. Now, each of you come up to me and shake my hand."

He did not sense any evil spirits when he was using the Yin person's perception, but since that thing was among the people, he only needed to identify them one by one.

Ran Qing reached his right hand into the canvas bag and grabbed some incense ash.

The first one to come was Mo Li. The girl's hand was clasped with Ran Qing's, and the incense ashes of the Yin person did not react at all.

Mo Li walked behind Ran Qing.

The next one was Long Zongshu. He walked up to Ran Qing and shook hands with him.

There are no problems either.

Next came Long Zongshu's crazy cousin, who also imitated Long Zongshu and shook hands with Ran Qing.

Again no problems occurred.

After the three of them shook hands, there was no one in front of them.

The thing seemed to have left.

But the little cotton ball at his feet suddenly cried out in fear: "Ran Qing! That thing got in!"

Ran Qing immediately turned around and found that there was another figure standing behind him, Long Zongshu, Mo Li, and Long Zongshu's cousin.

But no one present saw when the figure came over.

Several people looked at each other in confusion. Mo Li hesitated and whispered, "This... could it be something evil? Doesn't Taoist Zhang's inscription say that this sinkhole is the Yin-Yang Evil? It says that many strange phenomena will occur in the Yin-Yang Evil..."

The sudden separation and inability of the few people to find each other before seemed to be caused by the Yin-Yang evil.

The abnormal situation before him was beyond Ran Qing's understanding as a ghost walker.

It's impossible for an evil spirit to stand openly before him and he wouldn't be able to sense it...

Ran Qing was silent for a few seconds, then said, "You guys go ahead, I'll cover the rear."

He chose to stay behind and silently observed the four people in front of him.

If the extra figure makes any unusual movements, he can react immediately.

Several people continued to walk deeper into the dark cave. Inside the empty and cold cave, there were gusts of cold wind and the temperature was estimated to be below ten degrees, as if it was early winter.

Ran Qing and the others put on their cotton coats again and walked inside carrying heavy backpacks.

But it was pitch black ahead and I couldn't see anything.

They walked for half an hour, as if they were swallowed by the dark ocean, and not even a stone could be seen.

This vast, dark desolation made one feel uneasy, wondering if they had unknowingly taken the wrong direction. Ran Qing held the gloomy destiny card in his hand, while Mo Li held the compass.

At least the compass showed they were heading in the same direction.

The dark wooden signs also point out the exact direction.

Mo Li whispered, "There's such a large space down there... This must be the Snake God's lair when he was alive."

In ancient times, the Zangke people set up an altar at the entrance of the cave and offered living sacrifices.

Every time the natives slaughtered the sacrifice on the altar and opened its stomach to drain the blood, the sound of snake scales rubbing against each other would slowly emerge from the vast darkness ahead, followed by the slow emergence of a giant snake head...

It is not difficult to imagine the scene of that sacrifice.

Ran Qing said: "This snake's digestive ability is quite strong. There is not a single bone left in the cave. It is worthy of being the evil master..."

He felt incredible.

Long Zongshu, who was walking in front, suddenly whispered weakly, "Well...it's actually not uncommon for snakes to digest bones. Most snakes swallow their prey whole. Ordinary snakes can also digest the bones of their prey."

"On the contrary, snakes can't digest hair and feathers, so they excrete them in their feces..."

Long Zongshu suddenly gave some scientific knowledge about animals.

Ran Qing was a little surprised: "How did you know?"

Long Zongshu lowered his head and said weakly, "In the books I read, there were stories about snakes eating people... Animal World also showed the process of snakes hunting and eating."

Little Cotton said, "But there's no snake droppings in this cave..."

The inside of this cave is surprisingly clean.

As the nest of a giant snake, there should be many traces of snakes living there.

Snake skins, feces, etc.

But as they walked in, they saw nothing.

In the dark cave filled with gusts of cold wind, even the wind blowing in did not have the slightest odor.

Ran Qing stared at the darkness ahead, his eyes suddenly fixed, and he said, "Stop!"

He suddenly spoke, and the team that was moving forward suddenly stopped.

The others, who had poor eyesight in the dark, looked at him in panic.

But Ran Qing stared intently at the darkness ahead and said, "There's a witch..."

In the dark shadows ahead, crouched a witch with bloodshot eyes.

These hunchbacked, hairy monsters stood there motionless and sinisterly, like two statues.

If Ran Qing's eyesight wasn't sharp enough, he would have to get closer to spot these two monsters.

Long Zongshu immediately took a step forward, flames igniting on his shoulders: "Bianpo? Where is she?!"

The tall and thin boy's family heritage is to deal with mountain ghost monsters such as witches and mandrills.

When the temperatureless flame ignited on his shoulders, the two witches lurking in the darkness immediately retreated and disappeared, apparently realizing that they had been discovered.

Ran Qing watched the witch disappear and murmured, "There's a witch here too..."

There was a magician in the Rhinoceros Cave before, and now there is also a magician here.

This is extremely bad news.

But Mo Li said, "It's a good thing that there's a witch... The fact that there are other monsters in this cave means that the snake god's corpse really can't enter. That's why these evil monsters are haunting its lair."

The girl's words did make some sense.

It is better to face a few shapeshifters than to face the terrifying corpse of an evil master.

At least now they have the Dragon Sect Tree, so they are no longer afraid of monsters like the Bian Po.

"But if the witch appears here, then perhaps those ghost bodhisattvas are also..."

Ran Qing murmured.

(End of this chapter)