The red clouds have faded, the sky is dark, and the villages are gradually lit up with lights, and fireworks are everywhere.

Chen Shiyue didn't want to spend the night to bother these people, so she entered a ruined temple in the village.This temple is simply a dilapidated building, and there is a statue in the center, but it has been aged and corroded severely, and its face can no longer be seen clearly. Judging from the clothes, it should be a female fairy.I just don't know which fairy it is.

Chen Shiyue performed a trick to strengthen the ruined temple, and picked up some clean straw and spread it on the ground as a bed.Chen Shiyue lay on the haystack and fell asleep unconsciously.In the second half of the night, she always felt that someone was looking at her. She woke up suddenly, and met a pair of dark eyes.

Seeing the person coming, Chen Shiyue said in surprise, "Yunchuan?"

The distance between the two was so close that Chen Shiyue could almost feel his cool breath.

"En." He responded, opened the distance between the two, and lay down beside him.

Seeing the distance between the two, Chen Shiyue's inexplicably nervous mood relaxed.

Chen Shiyue looked sideways at Yun Chuan's profile and asked, "Why are you here?"

Yun Chuan's voice was a little heavy, and he said, "I don't trust you."

His voice completely took off its childishness, and replaced it with an adult voice.

Hearing this, Chen Shiyue's heart softened, and it felt really good to have someone care about her.In the darkness, Chen Shiyue said, "Thank you."

Yun Chuan didn't answer, and after a while, he said in a deep voice, "Why are you avoiding me?"

"Ah?" Chen Shiyue said, "I didn't..."

"You have." Very determined.

Chen Shiyue: "I just don't know how to get along with you all of a sudden. You have changed too much...and I, as a master, have been so irresponsible that I have disappeared for five years." Speaking of this, Chen Shiyue felt guilty. Can't add more.

Yun Chuan suddenly changed from lying flat to side, and faced Chen Shiyue face to face.

He said: "I am still the same Yunchuan as before, but my body has grown bigger and my age has become older. You are not disappearing, you are retreating. I know you have been in the cave... nothing has changed!" At the end, He was actually annoyed.

Realizing that he was annoyed with Chen Shiyue, his brows and eyes were even more annoyed.

Chen Shiyue chuckled, and patted the back of Yunchuan's hand lightly in the dark: "Okay, okay, I know that nothing has changed in Yunchuan. Don't be angry."

Hearing her tone as if coaxing a child, Yun Chuan's face turned red.

Chen Shiyue said: "This time, I made a mistake as a teacher, and I will definitely not do it again."

Yun Chuan let out a "hmm".

The two didn't speak any more, Chen Shiyue closed her eyes again,

When he woke up the next day, there was no trace of Yun Chuan beside him.

When Chen Shiyue came out of the temple, he realized that Yun Chuan was looking down at a small stone slab beside the temple. The handwriting on it was incomplete, and he could only roughly see that the words "Changfu..." and "Youmin" had been damaged by wind and frost. Erosion is severe and cannot be seen clearly.

"Changfu True Immortal... Bless the people..." Chen Shiyue read: "It seems that the immortal inside belongs to this Changfu True Immortal."

Yun Chuan nodded: "It seems so."

Chen Shiyue said: "I have never heard of such a god as Changfu Zhenxian."

Yun Chuan said: "There are her temples in every small village in the countryside, presumably she was really loved by the people back then."

Chen Shiyue nodded.

This is to say that the greater the influence, the wider the spread.For example, Sending Avalokitesvara is enshrined in both Kyoto and remote villages.It's just that Chen Shiyue knows that this is the world of cultivating immortals, but she doesn't know if there are so-called immortals here.She read half of the novel at the beginning, and it was all about the heroine's pretense, but she didn't see the final ending, and she didn't know if there was a fairy world.

It was dawn now, and the village was very lively, with dogs and chickens barking non-stop.

Chen Shiyue and Yun Chuan went to a town not far away on foot, and were considering whether to go to the tea house for a cup of tea. In the distance, a few big men on the street were carrying a wedding sedan chair, and it was a happy event.

"It's unusual to have a wedding at noon," Chen Shiyue said.

Weddings here are usually held at dusk, but now it is noon and the sun is high, which is unreasonable.

The old man selling tea next to him said: "This is not a real wedding, but a sacrifice, what a crime!"

Yun Chuan: "Who is sacrificed to? A living sacrifice?"

The old man sighed: "Sacrifice to ghosts, sacrifice with a living woman."

Chen Shiyue and Yun Chuan looked at each other, and she said, "Old man, can you explain in more detail?"

The old man said: "Then buy two cups of tea."

"..."

Chen Shiyue pulled out her sleeves and said innocently, "Yun Chuan, I didn't bring any money for my teacher."

Yun Chuan had already bought two cups of tea, and said, "Is this why you stayed overnight in the ruined temple?"

Chen Shiyue lowered her head and smiled embarrassedly. She left in a hurry, and only when she arrived at Hongxia Village did she realize that she was penniless and had no face to go to someone else's house to stay.

She changed the subject: "Old man, tell me what happened now."

The old man said: "A few years ago, a plague suddenly appeared in our place. The skin of the sick people would fester and pus, and the flesh would fall off in large pieces..."

This kind of plague is called the rotting corpse plague by them, because people who suffer from this plague will eventually rot their skin and look like a skeleton.At this time, a ghost entrusted a dream to the county magistrate, saying that a 14-year-old girl should be sacrificed to it every year in order to get rid of the rotting corpse plague.Not only to sacrifice, but also to brag, and to marry a woman as a bride to it.

The county magistrate didn't believe it at first, but because of the severe plague, he was afraid that he would not be able to keep his black hat, so he randomly found a beggar girl and gave it to the ghost.Miraculously, the plague disappeared.So far, the tradition of sacrificing a bride every year has been preserved.The bride who was sacrificed naturally never returned.

Chen Shiyue said, "How many years has this tradition lasted?"

The old man said: "Probably more than 20 years."

More than 20 years means that more than 20 women were brutally killed.

Chen Shiyue was silent for a while.

Just at this time, the sedan chair on the street passed by the tea house. It stands to reason that the girl who was forcibly sacrificed would cry, but the sedan chair was completely quiet, maybe her mouth was gagged, but it is impossible that there was no whimpering at all.

Yun Chuan said: "This girl is dumb."

Chen Shiyue listened carefully, and then she understood why Yun Chuan said that: the struggling sound of "dong dong dong" came from inside the sedan chair, indicating that she was resisting.

Chen Shiyue stood in front of the road and said, "Hello, can I stop for a while?"

Several big men yelled: "Stop it? Do you know what we are doing? Offended that person, can you bear it?"

The "that person" in their mouth refers to the ghost.

Yun Chuan stood in front of Chen Shiyue and said, "It's just a ghost, how can I not offend you?"

Those big guys looked up and down, looked at their clothes, and said: "You people from other places don't know what's going on here, so we won't blame you, get out of the way!"

Chen Shiyue said: "Leave the girl inside alone, she shouldn't suffer this."

A big man said: "Let her go, is it possible that you want to be a bride?"

Chen Shiyue nodded: "Yes."

Yun Chuan: "Master..."

Chen Shiyue said to Yun Chuan: "I have spells at my side, even Brahma can't do anything to me. Since I have this ability, naturally I can't do nothing."

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