death

Chapter 20
Seeing those "villagers" approaching us, Mai Xiaorou and I didn't dare to stay at the bottom of the mountain, and ran directly to the old forest on the side.

This should be the way my father and Liu Shengfu escaped back then.

Mai Xiaorou's physical strength is very good. She has been pulling me to run, but I usually do not exercise very much. After running for a long distance, I start to lose my breath. I can't help but think of my father and Liu Shengfu back then. In this situation, my father threw Liu Shengfu here in order to escape. Will Mai Xiaorou also throw me here, and then I will be imprisoned by those villagers in the ruined temple to eat snakes, rats, insects and ants?
While thinking about this, I tripped over something and almost fell down with Mai Xiaorou.

Fortunately, Mai Xiaorou was strong enough to pull me back: "Chen Yu, concentrate on watching the road, don't worry, I won't leave you behind."

I apologized and said, "I dragged you down."

Mai Xiaorou didn't speak, and continued to pull me forward. My steps became heavier and heavier, and my legs became weaker and weaker. I couldn't walk anymore. My chest also hurt so much from strenuous exercise. Every time I took a breath, I can feel like a needle is being pricked in my chest.

At the same time, I also felt retching and dizzy in my head.

I swear, if I can go back alive this time, I will keep running every day.

Seeing that I couldn't run anymore, Mai Xiaorou wanted to carry me on her back, but before she could carry me on her back, a group of villagers had already surrounded us.

As I got closer, I realized that these villagers had long braids and wore ancient blouses. These people were ghosts from the Qing Dynasty?
After these ghosts surrounded us, they waved the tools in their hands and attacked us. Before they got close to my body, Mai Xiaorou squeezed a finger, and a powerful breath burst out from her body Come out and directly force back the ghosts that are approaching us.

I was able to slowly feel the qi released from Mai Xiaorou's body, it felt like when I opened the spirit altar, I felt the qi from outside.

The human body and the surrounding world contain endless auras, and these auras may be the source of power for ascetics.

After those ghosts were forced to retreat, they did not rush towards us, but kept repeating that sentence: "Catch the thief, catch the thief..."

Their voices are so hollow that people can't help but get goosebumps. After listening to them for a long time, they will make people feel drowsy and want to fall asleep.

Mai Xiaorou reminded me from the side: "Chen Yu, stabilize your mind, try to adjust your breath, and recite that set of formulas silently. It looks like you can slowly appreciate the yin and yang energy. Now try to adjust your internal energy." Let those breaths protect your chest, forehead, back, soles of feet, and palms respectively."

I can only feel those breaths, and simply adjust the breath, but I can't control those breaths at all.

Not only that, I tried it a few times, and those breaths that were still following my breath adjustment were also dissipated.

I started panicking instantly.

Mai Xiaoju said: "Don't be in a hurry, gather Qi and adjust the breath again, it will disperse as soon as it disperses, try a few more times."

I said "yes" and quickly followed suit.

As for the surrounding "villagers", they didn't dare to approach us rashly, but they didn't intend to leave, and continued to surround us tightly.

Mai Xiaorou said slowly from the side: "Chen Yu, carefully sense the breath of these 'ghosts' around you, and see if you find anything special."

When Mai Xiaorou said this, it meant that she had already discovered something.

After I stabilized the breath in my body, I began to perceive the surrounding breath. There was a muddy current in the surrounding breath, and that muddy current circled around the ghosts, like a rope that closely connected the ghosts. together.

At the other end of the muddy current, a very thin line was formed and spread towards the mountain we just came down from.

I subconsciously said, "Could it be possible that these ghosts are controlled by that muddy current?"

Mai Xiaorou smiled and said, "That's right, that's right. If I'm not mistaken, what controls these ghosts is the formation that sealed the child on the top of the mountain."

I nodded my head and wanted to follow the muddy current to the side of the mountain to investigate, but after exploring a distance of seven or eight meters, the breath in my body dissipated again.

Mai Xiaorou smiled again and said: "Don't be brave, the range of your breath perception is now stable within ten meters, you can explore freely within ten meters, and then slowly expand the distance, don't be impatient."

I opened my eyes and looked at Mai Xiaojudao: "You can still laugh at our current situation. If we can't find a way to escape, we will be trapped here to death."

Mai Xiaorou said: "These ghosts are all controlled by the formation, and I can't kill them with my ability, so before we find an effective way, we'd better not shoot randomly, otherwise we will wait until our physical strength is exhausted, then we will be killed." It’s really going to be helpless.”

I nodded and began to gather my breath again.

Mai Xiaorou continued: "This formation is extremely powerful. If I'm not mistaken, it was launched by the blood of the Liu family. According to what the kid on the top of the mountain said, the Liu family wanted to seal him. And since he slaughtered the entire Liu family, the result should be that he won, so why is he still sealed?"

I was trying to adjust my breath, and didn't answer what Mai Xiaorou said. She continued to analyze: "In addition, he also said that he couldn't hurt Liu Shengfu because of the blood of the Liu family. If we infer one by one, we can conclude that he can kill Liu when he is alive." family members, but they can’t do it after death, all of this is also related to the bloodline formation, right.”

I still didn't speak, and she continued: "The person who arranged this bloodline formation, in addition to sealing the child, also wanted to protect the safety of the Liu family. Does this mean that there were people from the Liu family alive back then? And stay to guard this lonely tomb on the mountain."

Mai Xiaorou analyzed on her own, but I didn't understand her intention of analyzing these things. After a while, she looked at the ghosts around and said, "Could it be that those who guard the lonely grave are the ancestors of Liu Shengfu? Got out of here for some reason?"

Mai Xiaorou's analysis is wild and unconstrained, and I can't keep up with my thinking. Many of her speculations are not very logical, and even connecting them together is a bit far-fetched, but this far-fetched explanation makes me think that it is where the truth lies.

I asked how Mai Xiaorou analyzed these things, and she said: "I feel that everyone who handles the case has their own feelings, and this feeling has a great impact on the handling of the case."

After thinking about it for a while, I felt that Mai Xiaorou's analysis was correct. Those villagers did not kill Liu Shengfu when they caught him, but imprisoned him. This shows that they did not want Liu Shengfu's life, but just Just teach that unfilial descendant a lesson.

We have figured out some things, but we have also ushered in an even bigger mystery. I feel that Mai Xiaorou and I have already fallen into a quagmire, and it may be difficult to get out at this time.

At this time, those ghosts attacked us again, but before Mai Xiaorou could make a move, I suddenly felt a heat in my chest, and a powerful aura burst out from my body, and then that aura was accompanied by a roar. The surrounding ghosts swept away.

"Ow!"

The sound was so loud that I froze for an instant, and Mai Xiaorou also staggered a few steps, barely falling down.

This is the "Snake King Pendant" on my chest.

I quickly grasped the Snake King Pendant in my hand, it didn't respond any more, and the ghosts around us had already disappeared.

Mai Xiaorou came back to her senses, dragged me and ran away.

I asked her what was going on just now, and Mai Xiaoju said: "I'm afraid that the snake king fell on the protector, it sensed your fear, and subconsciously made a move to protect you. To be honest, it's the first time I've seen it." Seeing that the Snake King Pendant has such a strong reaction, when we see my grandfather, we will ask him carefully."

We continued to run forward, and those ghosts did not catch up again. We were completely relieved when we got out of the old forest and came to the side of a road.

Mai Xiaorou asked me if I had any special feeling before the Snake King Pendant reaction, I thought for a while and shook my head and said: "No, there is no sign, I just adjusted my breath, and I didn't do anything else."

Seeing that nothing came out of the question, Mai Xiaorou stopped asking.

I asked Mai Xiaorou what we should do next, and she said: "Go back to the provincial capital first, and then we will discuss countermeasures after seeing my grandfather. Now, I don’t know how to deal with it, but I can be sure of one thing, the child on the top of the mountain must not be let out, otherwise there will be big trouble.”

I nodded in agreement.

But after going through this incident, my impression of the mysterious Liu family is not particularly good. Although the child ghost made things difficult for us, in the end he let us go because of one sentence.

And those ghosts of the Liu family are haunting us, if it weren't for the Snake King Zhui showing his power, I don't know how long we will be trapped by them.

But then again, every one of their eyes is very dull, and it seems that they don't seem to be able to reason with us.

I asked Mai Xiaorou: "What is the origin of the sealed child? It's just a child. Why did a Daoist family make such a big move!"

Mai Xiaojudao: "There are many 'scourges' in the spiritual world. It is said that once they are born, they will destroy the world. Maybe that child is one of the 'scourges'."

"Bane? Where did they come from?"

Mai Xiaorou smiled and said: "I don't know about this, even my grandfather can't tell. If you want to know these things, then you should practice hard, and one day you will be so powerful that you can touch that point." Level things, then what is the curse, you will know."

(End of this chapter)