I'm just an ordinary Taoist priest

Chapter 288 Banyue Village

Looking at the cat and dog in front of him, Gu Yao fell into thought.

Putting cats and dogs together usually represents one blessing and one misfortune. As the saying goes, "dogs bring wealth, cats bring misfortune", or "come cats and go dogs, the more you get more", there are also similar "dogs are loyal ministers, cats are treacherous ministers". "And so on folklore.

But it can also be seen that cats and dogs are incompatible according to common sense. This talisman, which looks like a picture of a hundred cats, puts a dog that doesn't fit in the middle, and I don't know what it means.

He stared at the brown dog in the middle, and felt vaguely that his soul was out of his body. When his soul was a little wandering, he seemed to have floated into a dark cave.

A hundred pairs of green eyes in the cave dangled in front of him, slowly approaching, a creepy feeling of being stared at by an evil beast slowly crawled into his heart, his consciousness was slightly awake, but he couldn't wake up, he could only look at the eyes helplessly. Approaching.

As the eyes approached, the outline of a huge figure gradually appeared in the darkness, and Gu Yao realized that these eyes were all grown on this figure.

Just when he was about to try to recite the mantra of purifying the heart, there was a barking sound of a dog, and the approaching figure paused, and his soul shrank suddenly as if being pricked by a needle, and returned to his body after a sense of spinning.

Taking a half step back, feeling the tingling between the eyebrows, Gu Yao stretched out a finger to massage, while looking at the others: "Did you feel that your soul was being drawn just now?"

Die'er and Jingyin shook their heads blankly.

Shadow Changle said: "I have never liked cats and dogs, and I didn't look closely, and I didn't feel anything."

But Xiao Hu snorted and laughed: "Gu Yao, are you stupid? They are both ghosts, and I don't mean I'm not an ordinary person anyway, she" pointed her chin at Yi Die, "It's not ordinary either, how could it be Traction?"

Looking at it this way, he is the only normal person in this team. Gu Yao laughed at himself, and when he looked at the picture of the hundred cats, he was already three points more vigilant.

But as soon as he turned his gaze, he realized that the thin dog had become thinner again, and the lively cats around him seemed to have moved half a step closer to the middle.

"This talisman is so weird, cats swallow souls, dogs bark people."

Thinking of the huge silhouette with countless eyes, Gu Yao only felt that those eyes were exactly the same as the cat's eyes in this painting. Thinking of the last dog barking, he speculated:
"Is this talisman with a picture of a hundred cats trying to dissuade them from quitting? But I don't want to cause more crimes, so I left a dog as a chance?"

Die'er put the robbery sword back into the scabbard: "I just wanted to pierce through this stone directly, but when I got close, I felt a very familiar feeling, like a ghost country, but much weaker."

"Now that the picture is revealed, the feeling of the ghost world is even stronger. This picture is like a closed door, and behind the door is the ghost world."

Jing Yin walked up and reached out to get close to the picture of the hundred cats, but before touching it, his body shook as if he was shocked, and he shrank his hands and said, "Yes, behind it is the breath of the ghost country."

"Is that so? Could it be that this is still a ghost gate?"

Gu Yao looked at the cat on the picture again, thinking that cats still have legends about messengers of the underworld among the people, and using cats as talismans is also implying this?
Could it be that Banyue Village has always been a place in the rumors, although it is close to Chang'an, but few people have been there, because it is not in the human world at all, but in the ghost country?

Thinking about it this way, many things make sense.

The only question is, if it is in the Ghost Country, how do the people living by the Banyue Lake survive?

Unless they are not human.

Gu Yao looked at Yidie again, her breath and so on were no different from ordinary people, and she was also looking at the picture of a hundred cats at this moment.

Immediately approached and said: "Miss Yidie, can I get your pulse?"

Yidie put her wrist in front of Gu Yao without hesitation: "Please, Daoist."

She had a pulse, her qi and blood were smooth, and she didn't look like a human being at all. Gu Yao let go of her wrist, showing an embarrassed yet polite smile.

"How to get through here? Die'er, do you have a way?"

Die'er thought for a while: "I feel that I can pass directly."

As she spoke, she handed the robbery sword to Gu Yao, took off the hairpin and handed it to Gu Yao just in case, then strode towards the picture of a hundred cats, bumped straight into it, and disappeared in front of Gu Yao.

"If ghosts can go directly, how should we go there? Are we going to go to hell? Wait, I thought of it!"

With a flash of inspiration, Gu Yao looked at Jingyin and said, "Master, please tell Die'er that I will use her as an anchor to open the door later."

Jing Yin nodded hesitantly, clasped her arms tightly with both hands, and also passed through.

The remaining two people stood behind Gu Yao under Gu Yao's command. After Gu Yao opened the door to the secluded world, they followed in his footsteps and walked through it step by step.

As if passing through a icy waterfall, the chill soaked into the bone marrow, and the air suddenly became dirty, but it was not as bad as Gu Yao thought before.

Gu Yao looked in front of him curiously. It was a rather large cave, with a huge lamp hanging above his head. It was filled with red candles, and the candles were still burning.

Die'er and Jingyin stood in front of them, their faces were a little ugly. After Gu Yao and the three of them finished looking around, Jingyin said:

"Contrary to what we thought, this place doesn't seem to be a ghost world or a human world. It's more like a world that used to link the two places, but is now independent."

"The worst thing is that Die'er and I are here, and our strength cannot be restored."

Can't recover strength?

Gu Yao was a little strange, he stretched out his hand to ignite a flame, and after using up part of the qi, he felt himself.

With each exhalation, the turbid air poured into the body, and it was naturally expelled after a turnaround, and it could not be refined.

Gu Yao couldn't help squinting his eyes, swallowed a large gust of air again, and pressed them directly around the golden core, crushing and refining with the power of the golden core.

"Golden elixir can be refined, qi can be recovered, but the efficiency is very low."

Shadow Changle shouted loudly at this moment: "It's too bad, I can't recover Qi either."

On the contrary, it was Xiao Hu, with a special layer of light flowing through her body, it seemed that she was not affected at all, and instead became stronger here.

Sensing the eyes of people around her gathering, Xiao Hu smiled and said, "I don't know what's going on, but this place is a bit familiar."

familiar?
Could it be that Xiao Hu has been here?

Gu Yao made up his mind to pay more attention to her, and then asked Yidie: "Miss Yidie, do you know this place?"

There was a smile on Yidie's face: "I don't know, but this must be near the village. The fresh air fills me with energy. The village must be nearby."

Fresh
Seeing the green smoke and black air lingering in front of him, and the yellow wind gushing, Gu Yao couldn't help being speechless for a while: "Okay, then let's go out and have a look."

The five of them walked towards the cave exit, walked through a long, narrow and straight cave, and finally came to the exit.

What caught the eye was a sparkling round lake, but the lake was full of scarlet and dazzling trees that looked like Populus euphratica. The roots and branches of these trees were tangled and entangled with each other, forming a guardrail around the whole lake.

"Banyue Lake!" As soon as Yidie saw the lake, she let out a cry of joy, and then ran in big strides, running towards the front, shouting as she ran: "Village Chief, Yuanzi, He Yan, Li brothers."

"I'm back, where are you?"

Yidie yelled and ran forward, Gu Yao hurriedly followed, and looked up at the sky while running: "The time here is not right, when we came in outside, it was Haishi, and the sky was dark and dense, even if we wasted a little Time, it is impossible to dawn."

When a group of people nodded, Shadow Changle suddenly let out a cry of joy: "After coming in, I seem to be slowly changing back to myself, and the assimilation between Princess Changle and me is fading."

"It's a good thing, it means we can be more cautious, after all, the secrets here are not ordinary." Gu Yao said with a smile on his face, but he secretly sent a sound transmission to Die'er, telling her to pay attention to Shadow Changle.

This is the birthplace of that weird technique, and it is inextricably linked with Changle, no matter what changes occur, it is not an exaggeration.

The four of them chased Yidie, ran past Banyue Lake, left Banyue Lake behind, and came to a small village.

There are only about a dozen houses in this village. At this time, Yidie was very excited and knocked on the door of each house to call for someone, but there was no one there.

It turned into an empty village.

Gu Yao watched Yidie's expression change from joyful and excited to lost and bewildered, and said to Die'er, "Did you watch Moon Lake just now?"

Butterfly nodded slightly.

"Before Zuiyue told me that Taotie's claws were hidden in Banyue Lake, but I didn't find it."

"I haven't seen it either, maybe it's hidden somewhere else, but if it's hidden here, Yidie should know about it?"

Gu Yao agreed, walked to Yidie, asked about the situation in the village, and realized that there were not many people in the village. There were only less than a hundred people in total, and most of them were middle-aged and old people. Yes, there are only a dozen of them, and there are even no young children.

"Listen to you, even if there are no accidents, this place will last for a few decades at most, and it should die."

Yidie was stunned and said, "I don't know, where did the village head and grandpa go?"

Seeing her despondent look, Gu Yao didn't continue to question her, motioned to Die'er to comfort her, and said at the same time: "Miss Yidie, don't worry for now, maybe she went to do something else, how about it, you are in the village Wait, let's look around."

Yidie grabbed Dier's arm with a slap and looked at Gu Yao: "Could they be robbed by those people like me?"

"It shouldn't be, don't think about it, let's look around, maybe we can find it."

As Gu Yao nodded to Die'er, he, Jingyin, Xiaohu, and Yingying Changle turned around and walked towards Banyue Lake.

"Princess, if you feel something is wrong, please tell me immediately." Gu Yao urged.

Shadow Changle fully agreed.

The three of them returned to Banyue Lake, first carefully checked the ominous trees, and after confirming that there was nothing special about these trees, they looked at the lake.

This lake is a dead lake, not connected to any canals, the lake is dead silent, as calm as a mirror.

The water is transparent and clear, but it is too clear. You can see the bottom of the water at a glance. Gu Yao roughly estimated that the lake is about three feet deep. The water at this depth is still stagnant water, and it should have been faintly green and covered with leaves. , but at the moment there is no such sign.

"Aren't these trees shedding their leaves?"

"There is no fish or shrimp in the lake. I didn't see a living thing along the way, and I didn't see any crops around the village. How do the people here survive? Or are they not alive and don't need to eat?"

Gu Yao murmured.

He remembered the first time he saw Yidie, it was in the kitchen, Yidie gobbled it up with Lu Baihou and the others.

Jing Yin raised her head, looked around, and sighed: "This place is really lifeless, even more dead than the ghost country, at least there are still a bunch of dead and jumping ghosts in the ghost world."

Yes, here, the silence is like a painting, only these muddy winds are constantly blowing, but they don't move the branches, leaves, or even the lake surface.

The oppressive feeling given to Gu Yao even surpassed that of entering the ghost world before.

Glancing around, Gu Yao suddenly remembered the faceless soul hidden in Jie Jian, and his eyes lit up immediately.

If those souls are also related to this place, maybe they will bring changes to this place, so I immediately call everyone to retreat to a farther place.

Pulling out the robbery sword, Gu Yao cooperated with the sword spirit to listen, swung the sword to draw a sword circle, and swipe his finger on the sword, the sun, moon and stars on the sword came to life, flashing light, straight to the sky, and gathered in the sky.

Then one by one, souls rushed out of the sun that appeared in the episode.

The moment these souls rushed out, Banyue Lake boiled.

The originally calm water surface suddenly splashed and leaped like boiling water, while the soul of the woman above fluttered like a flag.

The air also became urgent, and a stream of air flowed across the lake like a sharp thread, as if an invisible person was threading a needle. A green light appeared under the lake, and three whirlpools of different sizes floated on the lake. If you look down from the sky, you will find that the surface of the lake is gradually changing into the shape of a faint green human face.

A fiery white steam tornado rises from the larger hole, those souls are pulled, one by one leaning over, they are twisted into it, and after a while, they are all pulled into it.

Gu Yao held the sword, thinking that these souls would be devoured, he was about to cut through the tornado with one sword, but was surprised to find that those souls slowly ran to the middle of the tornado, kneading into a black mud ball.

The mud ball was in the middle of the tornado, continuously swelled and disappeared, and finally exploded suddenly.

A pool of black soil fell into the water, and the boiling lake returned to calm. At the same time, large handfuls of loess were thrown out and drifted away with the wind.

Everything is back to normal, and everything just now is like an illusion.

"This"

Gu Yao and the three looked at each other.

At this moment, the lake water that had just calmed down changed again, the lake water was tumbling continuously, one wave after another, the lake surface also began to rise, and it was about to overflow the lake shore and flood the land.

But at the moment when the water overflowed, the surrounding mud ground also came alive.

The soil piled up naturally, the water rose one foot, and the mud was one foot long. It was like a fight. In just a moment, a huge soil basin filled with water stood in front of Gu Yao and the three of them.

Only the scarlet strange tree, standing on the edge of the soil basin, remained the same as when Gu Yao first saw it, without any change.

When the three of Gu Yao were shocked by the changes in front of them, a cry came from behind.

The three looked back and saw an old man with a gray beard crawling out of the cave with a stick and a cane, howling as he crawled:

"O evil, evil, my baby, my baby."

(End of this chapter)