Qingling Punishing Heart

Chapter 233
The conversation between the four people in the mourning hall was barely understood by the middle-aged butler hiding nearby.Hearing that the conversation gradually subsided, he walked out cautiously, leaned out to look around, and found that the monster was gone, and he couldn't help but be overjoyed!
"The three of you really have great magical powers and boundless mana!" The middle-aged butler said excitedly: "The master said that there will be rewards for many! The little ones will report it overnight!"

"No need." Jiang Ling said.

"What?" The middle-aged housekeeper was quite surprised, "The three of you worked so hard to help eliminate the demon, don't you even want a bounty?"

Niu Zhu said embarrassedly: "I didn't do anything just now, so it's not hard work."

Jiang Ling walked up to the middle-aged butler, and said sharply, "Remember! A true disciple of Chanjiao will not work for a bounty!"

The middle-aged butler was taken aback for a moment. He didn't expect that talking about bounties could make people angry, so he had no choice but to apologize and said with a smile: "Okay, Miss Yi. If you have any requests, just tell the younger ones."

Jiang Ling said: "I'll ask you a few things, and you should answer them truthfully. If there's even half a lie, I'll let you fly out like those Taoist priests just now!"

The middle-aged butler nodded vigorously.

Su Ji asked, "When did that monster hide in the mourning hall?"

The middle-aged housekeeper replied: "About a week or two ago."

Jiang Ling said displeased, "Was it a week ago or two weeks ago?"

"A week ago!" The middle-aged housekeeper confirmed, then lowered his head and thought for a while, and suddenly said: "But, that monster didn't come only this year, it also came here for a while two years ago, unexpectedly it came back this year."

Su Ji recalled that the waiter in the shop said before that the Wang family's evil family had never stopped. It turned out that it was not the first time that monsters appeared in the palace.

Jiang Ling showed doubts on his face, and said to himself: "What did the dog-headed boy come to the palace two years ago?"

After pondering for a while, Su Ji asked: "That monster from three years ago is also hiding in the mourning hall?"

The middle-aged housekeeper nodded again and again, "That's right. The monster is also squatting in that position, exactly the same as before."

Su Ji was slightly taken aback, "Are you sure that the monster three years ago is the same monster as the one just now?"

The middle-aged housekeeper thought for a while, and said with a distressed face: "I'm not sure about this. The monster looks so scary that I dare not even take a look at it. How can I look so carefully? How about this? I put two The servant who stood guard here a few years ago came here to ask. Those poor men are more courageous than me, so they must have seen it more carefully than me."

As he said that, the middle-aged butler found three servants who were in charge of taking turns standing guard outside the mourning hall at night, and asked them to stand in a row and recall Su Ji's question, and carefully think about whether the two monsters were the same.

The first servant said: "I don't think it's the same monster. I secretly looked at them, and the two monsters look different. This year this one looks like a dog, and the one two years ago looks like a wolf!"

Su Ji was both surprised and strange, since even a servant could tell the difference between a dog and a wolf, why didn't the dog-headed boy pretend to be more like a wolf?Is it because there is no need for this?
The second servant said: "The fur colors of the two monsters are similar, I think they are the same one. However, when the monster came two years ago, it was covered in blood, and I was so scared that I had nightmares for half a month. I It feels like the monster is stained with...human blood!"

Jiang Ling hurriedly asked, "Why do you think it's human blood?"

"Because my father is a butcher, I can smell the strange smell of animal blood since I was a child, but the blood on that monster does not have it, and the animal blood is thicker and darker than human blood."

At this moment, the third servant suddenly said: "It's not the same monster!"

"Are you sure?" Jiang Ling asked.

The third servant said without hesitation: "Sure."

Su Ji was slightly taken aback, hearing his tone of confidence, he couldn't help asking: "Why are you so sure?"

The third family member said: "Two years ago, the night that monster left the palace, it happened to be my turn to stand guard. That night, I saw a Taoist priest in white riding a black tiger pick up the monster himself. Before leaving Before, I heard that monster crying, crying very sadly. I heard that cry sounded like a child, just like the boy in my neighbor’s house crying. But this year, the monster’s voice is the same as that of the previous one. totally different."

Su Ji pondered: "Wolf, it must be him. Two years ago, Wolf came here and was covered in blood, but why did he cry?"

Jiang Ling said: "The priest riding the black-spotted tiger must be Chai Song. Why did Chai Song take your apprentice away? What happened?"

Niu Zhu said: "We have retreated for three years, there must have been many things that we don't know about."

Su Ji said: "I think that Chai Song asked us to go to the Twelve Spirit Terraces of Chanjiao, which must be related to the matter of Hua Rulang. As long as we continue to go to the formation, we will understand sooner or later."

In the voice, Su Ji picked up the copper plate engraved with the twelve zodiac signs, and saw that the colors of the two totems "You Chicken" and "Xu Dog" on it were already dim.He held his breath and concentrated, urged the mysterious energy, poured it on the copper plate, and found that the copper plate turned slightly, but it stopped soon.

Niu Zhu imitated his example and pressed his hand on the copper plate, and found that the speed of the copper plate turned slightly faster.

Jiang Ling also put his hand on it, and the copper plate began to rotate continuously, emitting a dazzling golden light, which became brighter and brighter.

In the astonished eyes of the three people, the surrounding scenery fell into a white glare.The light was so dazzling that the three of them were so shaken that they couldn't open their eyes.

After an unknown amount of time, the dazzling light gradually dimmed.

The three of them slowly opened their eyes, looked around, and found that the surrounding scenery had taken on a new look.The palace disappeared without a trace, replaced by a beautiful scenery surrounded by mountains and rivers surrounding the three of them.

Jiang Ling couldn't help taking a few more breaths as the refreshing scent of plants and trees floated in the air.

Su Ji couldn't help but think of Ji You's last words: "Although you have passed my test, it won't be so easy after that."

However, although the dog-head boy's period just now was not effortless, it was undoubtedly very simple.Su Ji couldn't figure it out, was it Ji You's bluff?Or does the dog-headed boy have another conspiracy, trying to make people take it lightly?Or what other reason?
When the three of them walked to the shore, mist shrouded the blue waves.Large and small buildings can be seen faintly on the other side of the river, which seems to be a big village.Looking from a distance, the stone tablet on the opposite bank is engraved with the words "Yinjiacun".

"This is the village where I used to live!" Niu Zhu's eyes widened suddenly, and he shouted excitedly, "I'm home! I'm home!"

Su Ji couldn't help but feel a little strange seeing ships of all sizes parked along the coast, but no one was there.

Niu Zhu greeted Su Ji and Jiang Ling to get on the boat, jumped on a wooden boat, and rowed desperately to the other side, muttering to himself: "Father! Mother! The child is back, and the child has learned from the teacher. I won't let you worry about me anymore."

Su Ji could understand Niu Zhu's excitement. A child who came out of such a remote village, now returning home after cultivating Taoism, is undoubtedly returning to his hometown with honor.

Jiang Ling looked solemn, and asked in a low voice, "Is this an illusion, or a real village?"

Su Ji shook his head, "I don't know now either."

Niu Zhu was overjoyed to see houses of all sizes dotted along the coast, and his paddling speed increased tenfold in an instant!
However, after the ship docked, there was a dead silence all around.Su Ji still didn't even see a single figure, feeling a little weird.

Niu Zhu excitedly said to Jiang Ling: "Senior sister, my parents will love you very much when they see you, I guarantee it!"

Jiang Ling was noncommittal and forced a smile.

Su Ji had all kinds of doubts in his heart, but right now he could only wait and see, and followed Niu Zhu to the Yin Family Village.

When he walked to the field, Niu Zhu also began to feel that something was wrong. Normally at this time, the villagers should be going back and forth busy with farm work, but today they didn't even meet a single person on the road.In the dry fields, there are web-shaped cracks, and the farmers who have been eaten by locusts along the way flutter in the wind like catkins.

Su Ji and Jiang Ling glanced at each other, seeing each other's dignified expressions, they couldn't help but quicken their pace.

Niu Zhu felt an ominous premonition, cold sweat dripped from his forehead, and ran quickly towards the village.When he arrived at the entrance of the village, he looked towards the main road in the middle of the village and was stunned.

A straight yellow dirt road ahead was full of rats running across the street.Flies flew around, and a frightened centipede crawled out of a skull on the ground.

The road is full of bones of the dead.The broken bones look like they were bitten off by a hungry wolf.

Witnessing the horrific scene, Jiang Ling and Su Ji lowered their eyes and their expressions became gloomy.After some searching, Su Ji can basically conclude that the Yin Family Village experienced a catastrophe a few years ago.More than [-] families were all killed, and no one was spared.

Niu Zhu knelt in front of the two white bones at the door of his house, his whole body was stiff, his eyes were about to burst, and suddenly he yelled loudly and passed out.

(End of this chapter)