smuggler

Chapter 42

After seeing the figure sneaking in from the temple gate, my eyes were straightened. I thought it would be someone from the Liu family, but I never expected that it would be Zhang Xianren.

What is he doing here in the middle of the night?
I hid behind the pillar and stared with half of my face exposed, and saw Immortal Zhang, with his short legs, arrived at the gate of the temple like a thief, lying on the window and looking around.

Zhang Xianren looked at the door for a while, and then walked into the temple cautiously. He seemed to be looking for something, and after entering the temple, he looked around.

Finally, he set his sights on the statue of the Snake Immortal in the temple, walked around it twice, walked to the front, stroked his chin and carefully looked at it for a while.

Seeing that he was fascinated, I quietly walked out from behind the temple pillars, walked carefully behind him, and then reached out and patted his back.

Zhang Xianren let out a strange yelp in fright, and jumped up instantly. When he turned around suddenly and saw me, his eyes froze for a moment.

"It's you!" Zhang Xianren was stunned for a moment, with an exaggerated expression.

I stared at him closely and asked, "Why are you here in the middle of the night?"

Immortal Zhang was stunned for a moment, then glared at me, and said angrily: "You must have noticed the abnormality of the villagers in the village, right? Gods and ghosts, you almost scared to death!"

While speaking, Zhang Xianren patted his chest with his hands.

"You really saw it."

In fact, when I hid behind the pillar at first, I vaguely guessed some clues.

Immortal Zhang still has some skills. After the villagers came to worship the temple these days, the villagers' eyes were dull and their bodies were full of yin, so it was impossible for him not to notice.

Immortal Zhang nodded and said that after the Liu family built the temple, the villagers noticed something was wrong when they came to worship the temple these days, and he opened his ghost eyes on the day the temple was built.

If it is a truly spiritual temple, there will be a faint golden light shining after the ghost eye is opened, but the snake temple built by the Liu family is different.

Not only was there no aura, but the sky above the Snake Temple seemed to be covered with a layer of black energy that could not be dissipated.

And after the villagers worshiped the temple in the past two days, the black air gathering over the snake temple became more and more intense.

While the villagers have been worshiping the snake temple for a few days, they have become yin and yang, and they seem to have lost their souls, without sanity.

Thinking of the snake head he saw on Granny Liu last time, Immortal Zhang guessed that the problem might be in the snake temple.

That's why he came secretly to find out in the middle of the night when no one was around.

What he didn't expect was that he would meet me at the Snake Temple in the middle of the night.

After speaking, Zhang Xianren went back and forth to look carefully at the statue of the snake fairy standing in the main hall.

I thought of the strange scene that a few days ago, when the temple was erected, the snake fairy statue hit the villagers and saw blood, and the blood stained it and melted away.

Immortal Zhang raised his head to look at it, and murmured in a low voice, "This statue of the Snake Immortal has an indescribable weirdness."

After squinting his eyes for a while, when Zhang Xianren thoughtfully saw the densely packed incense heads burning to the end in the huge incense burner in front of the main hall, his eyes suddenly lit up, as if thinking of something.

After he took out three sticks of incense and lit them, he inserted the incense into the incense burner, and then stared closely at the burning incense.

There was nothing unusual at first, the burning incense head flickered, and the rising white smoke curled up like catkins.

But gradually, both Zhang Xianren and I discovered something strange.

Not to mention the burning speed of the three sticks of incense that were lit, and the three rising smoke from the cooking pot actually drifted towards the snake fairy statue.

It would be understandable if there was wind blowing in from the gate, but with Zhang Xianren's skill, he scatter the rising white smoke, but after a while, it gathered towards the snake fairy statue again.

This scene made Zhang Xianren's face change suddenly, and he snuffed out the three incense candles without hesitation.

After seeing such a weird scene, I was a little terrified, and said in surprise: "How could this happen?"

"It seems to be exactly as I thought." Zhang Xianren's face was cloudy, and he squinted and stared at the statue of the snake fairy.

I was even more suspicious: "What's going on?"

Immortal Zhang said seriously: "The Liu family built this group of snake temples to drink the incense offered by the villagers. This is not a snake fairy, but the white snake of the Liu family."

"The Liu family built this snake temple to deceive the villagers to become believers of the snake fairy. When the villagers worship the incense, they transfer the villagers' energy, luck and even the incense to the white snake of the Liu family. This is a kind of nourishment. The method of snakes."

Raising snakes.

It is to raise the villagers as livestock, and then keep sucking their incense and luck to help strengthen themselves.

Man is the spirit of all things. According to Taoism, he is a natural holy body. Whether it is a mountain spirit or a ghost, he can only transform into a human form if he cultivates to a certain level.

And human essence and blood, luck, longevity and desire are some of the fastest shortcuts to practice crooked ways.

There was an inexplicable tension in my heart, and I asked: "Aren't all Xianjia good?"

I know that the immortal family has cultivated to a certain level, and they need to find someone who has a predestined relationship with them, and then let them become their disciples.

Eliminate disasters for others, so as to accumulate blessings.

Immortal Zhang saw what I was thinking, and said with a sinister smile: "This thing depends on fate, and there are good and bad fairy families! If you encounter that kind of bad fairy family, it is equivalent to a ghost who forces you to do bad things. If you don't agree, it will kill you, and many disciples who opened the incense hall will not live long! That's the reason."

"If a disciple is killed by the scourge, it will not be affected. Then choose the next disciple. I know that some immortals who practice evil ways specialize in swallowing people's yang energy and stealing people's lifespan. All kinds of despicable methods emerge in endlessly, and it is impossible to guard against."

I nodded and asked Zhang Xianren, "Do you think there are more good fairy families, or more bad fairy families?"

Zhang Xianren laughed, "Are there more good people in the world, or more bad people?"

"Of course there are many bad people."

Zhang Xianren said without retorting: "The Xian family also has the same reason."

From the very beginning, I thought that the Liu family had no good intentions, and now Zhang Xianren also believed that the snake disaster in the village, and even what happened, might be caused by the Liu family.

All this is a means to deceive the trust of the villagers. When those villagers devoutly offer incense to the snake fairy, they pray for blessings and at the same time, they have their own desires.

These are all things that allow the white snake of the Liu family to practice Taoism.

At this moment, I suddenly heard a "sisi" sound, which was very small, coming from the temple wall behind.I subconsciously turned my head and saw a khaki snake crawling inside from the other side of the temple wall.

Even, the snake's head has stretched out more than half.He was spitting out the red letter non-stop, shaking his head from side to side.

I was startled, stepped back quickly, and shouted: "There is a snake!"

(End of this chapter)