Black Myth: Tang Dynasty

Chapter 121 Investigating the tricky village at night, the head of the mountain ghost (third update)
Li Daoxuan returned to the room, thinking secretly.

The most important thing for the empress to send him is to find the soul of Mrs. Zhao. Although the weirdness of this village makes people want to find out, it is not the most important thing.

The most urgent task is to find Mrs. Zhao's soul first, so that he won't be too cautious and can act boldly.

After thinking about it for a moment, Li Daoxuan used the magic power of earth movement.

His body suddenly disappeared into the room, escaped into the ground, and headed out of the house.

Xue Rengui frowned slightly outside the door. For some reason, he just had an illusion, as if something passed underground.

Shaking his head, he just felt that Yaowang Village was getting more and more strange.

But no matter what, he will try his best to protect his husband in return for saving his life!

Thinking of this, he found a piece of wood in the courtyard and prepared to make a bow. His original iron bow was destroyed while fighting the red-haired monster.

If he has a bow and arrow in his hand, he is confident that he can shoot through Yang with a hundred steps, without fail!

……

Li Daoxuan escaped all the way to the ground, and after a while he came to the ground. He looked around, but there was no one there, so he took out a Crane Hunting Demon Talisman.

Maybe it can bring some clues to itself, take a gamble.

"The white crane is a bird species of white crane, and the talisman draws the spirit talisman god. Make the white crane float away, don't teach the demon to escape from the real body, sick!"

The talisman turned into a crane, circled a few times, and began to fly to the east.

Li Daoxuan kept up with the magic technique of shrinking the ground, and arrived at a lake after a while. When the night wind blew, there was a faint smell of water.

After the crane arrived here, it stopped moving forward and turned into light spots and dissipated in the air.

Li Daoxuan looked at this lake, his eyes flickered slightly, it seemed that there was something hidden under the water, which attracted the attention of the crane's monster-seeking talisman.

At this time, he suddenly remembered the conversation he had with Zhao's daughter.

"Where is your mother?"

"It's in the water."

……

Li Daoxuan looked at the lake in front of him, and his heart moved. Maybe both he and Xue Rengui misunderstood, the so-called soaking in the water did not refer to the water tank, but fell into the lake?
Li Daoxuan walked to the edge of the lake, staring at the rippling lake water.

The next moment, he opened his eyebrows and sky eyes.

Tianyan looked directly through the lake and saw the bottom of the water, where there was a lot of mud, and deep in the mud, there was a woman's corpse.

She was wearing common clothes, and her body was already swollen. Although she was dead, she still hugged a statue of a god tightly.

That is the statue of Empress Tsing Yi!
Although the statue was stained with mud and there were still many cracks, Li Daoxuan recognized it at a glance, it was the statue of Empress Tsing Yi.

Without hesitation, he jumped into the water with a plop.

The only pity is that he hasn't completed the Water Element Chapter in the Great Five Elements Escape Technique, otherwise it wouldn't be so troublesome.

Li Daoxuan went downstream and soon came to the side of the corpse.

Most of those who drowned in the river will turn into water ghosts, but there are no other corpses here except her, so there are only two possibilities.

One is that she did not become a water ghost, and the other is that she became a water ghost but did not choose to harm anyone.

The master once said that the soul of the drowned person is trapped in the water and cannot be reincarnated unless another ghost is found.

Therefore, water ghosts often pull innocent people into the water to drown, so that they can be reincarnated.

Li Daoxuan came to her body and reached out to touch the statue she was holding. Before he touched it, he saw countless black hairs rushing towards him like water plants.

A pair of gray pupils suddenly opened, staring at Li Daoxuan.

Li Daoxuan looked at her without fear. After so many winds and waves, a little water ghost really couldn't make him feel nervous.

Li Daoxuan even smiled slightly, showing his white teeth.

next moment.

boom!
The water trembled, and a figure rushed out, it was Li Daoxuan.

If anyone saw this scene, they would be scared out of their wits, because he was still holding a swollen female corpse in his hands, and the female corpse was struggling with its pupils open.

"Don't call!"

Li Daoxuan stuck a body talisman on her forehead, and her ears finally became quiet.

He threw the woman's body on the ground and asked: "The poor way is too strong, I was sent by Qingyi Empress. Let me ask you, are you Zhao Chenjie? If yes, just blink three times."

When the female corpse heard the words Tsing Yi Niangniang, a gleam of light appeared in her muddy eyes.

She blinked three times in a row.

Li Daoxuan breathed a sigh of relief, finally found the target.

The next moment, he separated into several avatars and began to recite the "Sutra of Supreme Rescue of Suffering" cross-legged to dissolve the pent-up resentment in her body.

No matter how kind a person was in life, it is impossible to die suddenly without resentment. If there is no resentment, he will not become a water ghost.

This is just for the face of Empress Tsing Yi, if it were any other water ghost, Li Daoxuan would have already hit him with a Five Thunder Talisman.

After half an hour.

Streams of black air dissipated from the female corpse, and a stream of soul floated out of her body.

The Jingchai sarong has a beautiful face and a dignified temperament.

She bowed to Li Daoxuan Yingying, and said: "Thank you, Shangxian!"

Li Daoxuan nodded, and said: "This is also your good fortune. You have worshiped the empress in Qingyi for many years, day and night, and with sincerity, you have today's blessings. If you go to Qingming, your empress will arrange a good future for you."

There was a hint of excitement in Zhao's eyes, she knelt down towards the east, kowtowed and saluted, which was the direction of Yuzhang City.

"By the way, Mrs. Zhao, I heard from my mother that you were planning to take your daughter and run away. What happened? How did you drown in the water?"

Faced with Li Daoxuan's inquiry, Zhao naturally did not dare to lie, and spoke out one by one.

"If you go back to Shangxian, the reason why the girl wants to escape is because there is a monster in this village!"

"monster?"

"Yes, that monster is shaped like an ape and covered with red hair. At the beginning, he often ate the cattle and sheep in the village, but then he slowly started eating people!"

"We went to the mountain temple to offer incense, and prayed for the blessing of the mountain god so that we could take down the red-haired monster, but the temple wished Yang Er to say that the red-haired monster was a mandrill with extremely high abilities, and even the mountain god couldn't bring it down!"

Li Daoxuan said with a sneer: "The mandrill is also called the mountain spirit, and it is the head of the mountain ghost. It does have some supernatural powers, but it looks like a child, with one leg backwards, and gray-black hair. How could it be that red-haired monster?"

Xue Rengui once said personally that the red-haired monster is very burly, more than ten feet tall, and its image is very different from that of a mandrill.

Mrs. Zhao nodded and said: "We didn't understand at the time, so we asked Yang Er what to do. Yang Er said that the mountain god master had already discussed with the monster. Every month, the village donated one person to be eaten by the mandrill. It will be safe and sound."

Li Daoxuan asked suspiciously: "Isn't anyone thinking of running away?"

"At the beginning, someone tried to escape, but they quickly entered the monster's stomach. Yang Er said that mandrills live around the village, and anyone who escapes will be eaten by it!"

Li Daoxuan finally understood why the people in this village were all mentally numb.

He asked again, "How do you decide who to sacrifice to the monster?"

Zhao said: "By drawing lots, whoever is drawn will be the food of that monster."

"In the beginning, medicine merchants often came to Yaowang Village. In order not to let their relatives become sacrifices, some of the families who were selected by the lottery asked those medicine merchants to be scapegoats. As time passed, no one dared to enter the village anymore. .”

"Everyone felt that there were so many people in the village, maybe they wouldn't be able to draw me. Although I was afraid, I gradually accepted it."

Li Daoxuan looked at her and said, "Until one day, you were drawn, right?"

Mrs. Zhao shook her head, her eyes revealed a trace of firmness, and said, "It's not me, but my daughter!"

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