The ultimate master in the city

The girl said this without any emotional fluctuation, just like saying, "You poured out that basin of foot bath water."

Zhou Fengchen frowned, changed his hand seals, but didn't feel anything unusual. He had no choice but to stand up, straighten the girl's head, and repeatedly pat her crown, brow, Shencang acupoint, and Shenque acupoint.

With that slap, my heart skipped a beat; my three souls were still there, but my seven spirits were gone!

And his body was ice cold and unresponsive. No wonder that old lady just brought him a bottle of osmanthus oil, that stuff...

Zhou Fengchen's face turned dark red. He thought she was eating a pancake, so he quickly took it out and threw it aside. Seeing the girl's dazed state, he chopped her unconscious with a karate chop, then picked her up and put her on the bed.

After thinking about it, it's hard to say how the Seven Souls disappeared; it depends on the specific reason. The people in this village should know, otherwise they wouldn't have done something like this.

Forget it, let's meet up with Monk Yuanzhi and the others first, and discuss it further.

He didn't go through the main entrance; instead, he opened the bamboo window next to it and jumped down.

It wasn't too late yet, and many houses in the village still had their lights on. Zhou Fengchen hurried ahead towards his grandfather's house. He hadn't gone far when Monk Yuanzhi and Zhang Shisan ran towards him.

The three of them looked extremely awkward when they met up. They rubbed their noses and laughed.

Zhou Fengchen sarcastically said, "I can't lose my virginity, how did you two manage to hold back? It doesn't make sense."

Zhang Shisan said, "Do you think I'm that kind of person? My character is as solid as a weight."

Monk Yuanzhi also said, "That's right! How can you take advantage of someone in distress? Besides, it's ice-cold, you can't feel anything."

As he spoke, he pulled a small bottle of osmanthus oil from his pocket. "This stuff is pretty good. I'll keep it for later."

"Huh—" Zhou Fengchen and Zhang Shisan cast a disdainful glance at them.

Monk Yuanzhi quickly explained, "Don't get the wrong idea, it's delicious when mixed with noodles!"

"Stop talking, it's getting more and more disgusting." Zhou Fengchen waved his hand and said, "Seriously, what do you guys think about this?"

Zhang Shisan smiled and said, "I know, the woman from Sanhua Cave."

"What the heck?" Zhou Fengchen and Monk Yuanzhi were both confused.

Zhang Shisan explained: "Also called 'Falling Flower Girl' or 'Falling Flower Cave Girl,' it's a strange phenomenon among the Miao people of western Hunan. It only happens to unmarried single women aged 18 to 25. Legend has it that these girls stumble upon a cave and are chosen by the cave spirit. The next day, they bathe, burn incense, and dress beautifully before entering the cave. They don't eat or drink for seven days. When they return, they can cry flower petals and leaves off the ground, and then they die, their souls merging with the cave spirit. After all, the mortal body is dirty, and the cave spirit doesn't like it!"

"Isn't this ridiculous?" Zhou Fengchen said, "What kind of deity would do something like this? This is a monster!"

Zhang Shisan shook his head. "That's the legend, but outsiders don't know the specifics, and we have no way of finding out."

Zhou Fengchen: "Then... why did Grandpa want us to marry these girls?"

"How would I know?" Zhang Shisan shrugged.

Just then, the families of the three girls realized that their daughter had run away and chased after them in a noisy commotion.

Upon seeing this, the three of them hurriedly knocked on the old man's door. After knocking several times, the old man finally opened the door with a gloomy expression. "You don't want such a good thing? Are you stupid?"

The three entered the room and sealed the door shut behind them. Zhou Fengchen said coldly, "This isn't about being stupid. Let's talk this out. I can solve this for you. What's with this charade?"

The old man scoffed, "What can you possibly solve?"

Zhang Shisan said, "Isn't she just the woman from Sanhua Cave? You think she's magical, but we think she's like a monster."

Grandpa's expression changed, "You..."

Just then, the people outside arrived, banging on the door and shouting all at once:

"What's going on with you guys?"

"You wouldn't even take such a beautiful young woman for free?"

"Is it because your thing is no good?"

"Are you guys sick?"

"Shut up!" Grandpa snapped coldly at the crowd. "Get back home! Whose fault is it that your own family is having such bad luck? Pay for the broken door!"

The old man seemed to be very prestigious, and the crowd left in despair, weeping and wailing.

"Please have a seat, all of you!" Grandpa then put on a smiling face and poured tea on the table.

The group sat down, and the old man asked, "How did you know?"

It means how did they know about the Scattered Flower Cave Girl?

Zhang Shisan sneered, "I am the chief disciple of Longhu Mountain, and these two are also highly accomplished Buddhist and Taoist masters. I don't want to repeat myself a second time."

Grandpa remained silent, his head bowed as if he were pondering something.

Zhou Fengchen asked, "Tell us what exactly happened, maybe we can really help you solve it."

"Alright!" Grandpa sighed and said, "Flower Girl is actually an ancient superstitious belief, and it's very rare, but... starting ten years ago, every year in the twelfth lunar month, several of them would appear in our area, in all the villages and hamlets. Later, there were more and more of them, and in the last two years, every village has one."

These girls would be chosen by the cave spirit when they passed by, and the next day they would dress up and go into the cave, no matter how hard you tried to stop them. After staying inside for seven days, they would return covered in the fragrance of flowers, and then die that very night.

Zhou Fengchen and the other two got goosebumps listening to this; it really did sound like something supernatural was at work. They asked, "Why is this happening? Haven't you thought about it?"

Grandpa said, "How could we not have thought of that? We even went into the cave to check, but there was nothing there. Later, we invited some experts to perform rituals, but those experts all died mysteriously, and we didn't know how they died. Finally, a shaman from the mountains came and said that these girls were the women of the cave god, and they should not be defiled, but should be respected and supported."

Monk Yuanzhi couldn't help but spit out, "Which wizard is so despicable?"

Grandpa smiled bitterly and said, "We didn't believe it at the time either. After all, they were young girls, who could bear to part with them? So we asked the shaman for help. The shaman said that the girls were heartbroken and yearned for the gods. Unless they came out of the cave and immediately got married and lost their virginity, they would have a 50% chance of surviving."

Zhou Fengchen and the other two exchanged a glance. No wonder they made us do this!

Zhang Shisan asked, "I see there are quite a few young men in the village, why aren't they allowed to get married?"

Grandpa said, "The people here are all cursed by the Cave God. The Cave God forbids our sons from taking women from him. Even if we force them, it won't work, so we can only find outsiders."

"This is ridiculous! Even outsiders can't do it!" Zhou Fengchen and the other two thought to themselves, then asked, "Can that Daoist Wu handle this? What were those medicinal herbs and sachets for today?"

Grandpa's eyes lit up. "Yes! Master Wu is a famous earth immortal master. He can communicate with the old man of the cave, but it costs a lot of money. He said that he would use this money to buy life, otherwise the cave god would ignore him. So every year in the twelfth lunar month, as long as a flower girl appears, people from the surrounding villages will save up enough money to pray to him. These medicinal herbs and sachets are the talismans to avoid death. Unfortunately, our village doesn't have money. Out of eight people, we managed to get five spots. The remaining three girls are destined to die and become the cave god's women. Otherwise, we wouldn't have thought of asking you for help."

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