Chapter 182 In Their Eyes, I Am the Evil One
Chapter 182 In Their Eyes, I Am the Evil One
"Your imitation of the Soul-Catching Book is pretty good."
"How did you get it?"
“It’s too thick, the weight is wrong, and a lot of the details are taken for granted.”
The village chief pointed at Chen Huangpi's Soul-Catching Book and said, "Do you see the fingerprints on it? The real Soul-Catching Book is Yama's treasure, and it is not an ordinary thing. How could it leave fingerprints on it?"
"And this color, which is made old just for the sake of being old, has already fallen into the inferior category."
"But your fake one does have the ability to bind a contract, so just sign yours."
After saying that, the village chief signed his name on Chen Huangpi's soul-calling book without much hesitation.
"Tai Yizi."
Chen Huangpi asked, "Your last name is Tai?"
"No, this is my self-proclaimed name."
Tai Yizi sighed and said, "I am the elder of the Tai Sui Sect, so naturally I use this as my title. Besides me, there are Tai Xuanzi, Tai Xuzi and others, collectively known as the Five Tais of the Immortals. But that is all in the past, not worth mentioning."
Although he said so, Chen Huangpi understood it clearly.
Tai Yizi has probably been trapped in this strange world for too long.
Therefore, I can't stop talking.
Chen Huangpi said, "Senior Taiyizi, I am almost leaving, but the night is long and extremely dangerous. If I catch the evil, where should I go to wait until dawn?"
Tai Yizi also said that the more spiritual energy you absorb, the faster that ghost thing will come to you.
It would be nice if there was a place to hide.
Otherwise, we can only pray for good luck to Golden Horn.
Listen to what Chen Huangpi said.
Tai Yizi said slowly: "When you go out, if you see villagers trapped in a certain area, you can take the key of their house and hide there. The ghost thing will generally not take the initiative to enter the house."
"At night, no matter what sounds you hear, ignore them."
"When catching evil spirits, don't go near the village ancestral hall."
"The ancestral hall is dangerous?"
"I don't know..."
Tai Yizi said blankly: "I have been there once, but I have forgotten what is inside. It seems that the memory, or that period of time, is left in the ancestral hall."
"Okay, I have one last question. Have you ever seen a fishing rod?"
……
Chen Huangpi is gone.
Left silently.
From beginning to end, he never appeared in front of Tai Yizi.
"Huang Er, how credible are you to Tai Yizi's words?"
"Hard to say……"
The brass oil lamp said in a tangled voice: "Although the old guy likes to show off a bit and his eyesight is not very good, he is honest in what he does. It's just that the old guys we met before were more sinister than each other..."
This is true.
Let’s not talk about Chi Xie who is far away, but Song Yuzhang who is closer.
This old guy is really good at playing dirty.
In the end, Chen Huangpi used his brute force to defeat the enemy and killed him.
Otherwise, Song Yuzhang would probably still be alive and well in Xuzhou City.
And this Tai Yizi is the elder of the Tai Sui Sect.
It's the former immortal again.
And you've stayed in this damn place for so long.
If they really play dirty, who can defend against it?
"Master, he has already left his name in the Soul-Catching Book. Even if he has any plans, he can't do anything about it."
The soul-seeking ghost sneered and said, "Even if he runs to the ends of the earth, I can chase him there."
Although the Book of Souls is just a roll call of the underworld.
But it is Yama's treasure after all.
An immortal who has fallen to the stage of transformation cannot escape the constraints of the contract.
Once a contract is breached, the revenge ghost will be able to find the person by following the clues.
Chen Huangpi said, "There is also Master's fishing rod. Tai Yizi said that he had seen that fishing rod before, but it only appears during the sacrifice to the river god. But when the sacrifice to the river god comes, we will have to escape, and we don't know if we will have a chance to get it."
Tai Yizi told Chen Huangpi.
There is indeed a fishing rod in this damn place, but it will only appear when offering sacrifices to the river god.
Because the little girl will then reveal the essence of the bait.
A fishing line will appear above its head.
Follow the fishing line and you will find the fishing rod.
The only difference from fishing is that the bait is on the shore and the fishing rod is in the water.
It's the whole opposite.
Tai Yizi guessed that the little girl was the bait thrown by some powerful person, but he didn't know what she was trying to catch.
He didn't suggest Chen Huangpi to look for the fishing rod.
After all, if a man casts a rod and baits something, but the fish that takes the bait is not the one he wants, he will probably die.
At this moment.
The sky was gradually getting dark.
Strange to say.
In this strange underwater world, there is indeed the sun and the moon.
Logically speaking, this place is also part of the Shiwan Mountains.
However, Chen Huangpi could feel that the sun and moon here were not the real sun and moon, nor were they the sun and moon of the Shiwan Mountains, nor were they the sun and moon of the outside world.
It seems there is no difference, but in fact it is very superficial.
It's like a reflection.
Before he knew it, Chen Huangpi had been walking in the village for a while after coming out of Tai Yizi's house.
The village is not too big, but there are few villagers on the roadside.
According to Tai Yizi, Chen Huangpi has been looking for villagers who have been consumed by too much time and can only wander around in a very small area.
Such villagers cannot return home.
After Chen Huangpi catches the evil spirit, he can hide in the evil spirit's house.
"I have to catch three evil creatures."
Chen Huangpi frowned and said, "No, to be precise, there are three monks, and the one that Tai Yizi wants, which means four."
He himself did not absorb spiritual energy, but the brass oil lamp, the soul-collecting ghost, and the golden horn did.
thump, thump, thump...
Jinjiao's teeth were tangled, and he gestured with some fear: "Huangpi Dad, do you feel that the temperature around us seems to have dropped all of a sudden? It's so cold that I feel uneasy."
Chen Huangpi said: "I didn't feel it."
"Master, I don't feel anything."
"Huang Er, what about you?"
"I'm a little cold, too."
The brass lamp whispered, "But it's not as serious as Jinjiao's. It's probably because I didn't absorb as much spiritual energy as it did. It's almost dark, and that damn kid will probably come looking for Jinjiao tonight. We don't have much time."
In fact, it also felt a strong chill in its heart.
There was even an illusion that the wick was about to go out.
The little girl is the bait for the fishing rod.
The fishing rod is used by the master of the temple to fish, but the brass oil lamp has no idea what power the fishing rod has.
Because it has never seen that thing before.
At this time, Chen Huangpi saw a villager at the village mill.
The villager’s cultivation level was at the peak of Nascent Soul stage.
He was grinding the flour in the mill. After grinding for a while, he turned around and carried the ground flour to the barn of the mill.
There were many flour jars in the barn.
There are also wheat holes surrounded by mats.
After putting the flour into the flour jar, the villager carried the flour to the mill again.
Chen Huangpi followed the villager for a long time, but he didn't see any signs of him leaving, as if his life was always a straight line between two points. "This person is so pitiful."
Chen Huangpi sighed and said, "I think when he first arrived in this village, he must have felt like he was in a paradise on earth, but he didn't know that the spiritual energy was poisonous. He absorbed too much of it, so he only had so little time left."
The soul-demanding ghost asked, "Master, do you sympathize with him?"
"Not really."
Chen Huangpi said: "This man has become part of that evil thing. I sympathize with him, but who sympathizes with me? But if I have the ability, I would like to give him a relief."
As he spoke, Chen Huangpi had an idea.
From the void, a branch silently reached to the man's waist and picked out a bunch of keys.
"Tai Yizi said that we can see those monks after nightfall."
"But it's night now."
Chen Huangpi hesitated: "Maybe it will take until late at night. In this way, let's go find my house first, so that we don't have to go back and forth after catching the monk."
……
There are many houses in this village.
After nightfall, there was no light on in any house.
Chen Huangpi searched for a while.
And found his house.
It wasn't that he was lucky, but when he passed by the room, the key in his hand suddenly trembled.
Push open the door of the house.
Chen Huangpi took a quick look. This house was also built with stones and wood. The yard was not big and there were only three rooms in the house: the main room in the middle and the east and west rooms on both sides.
There were no aisles or kitchen pig sty.
The rest are no different from the houses where the disabled people live.
"My family, there is no spiritual energy in this house."
The brass oil lamp whispered, "I don't feel that cold anymore."
Hearing this, Chen Huangpi glanced at Jinjiao.
Jinjiao, who was shivering from the cold just now, has finally calmed down a lot.
“Dad Huangpi, I didn’t dare to say it when I was outside just now, but I could feel that something was watching me.”
Jinjiao gestured quickly and said, "There is also the ghost shrine. The spiritual energy in that place is the most concentrated, and I can even smell a stench of corpses from the spiritual energy."
"Don't worry about that ancestral hall."
Chen Huangpi said: "Tai Yizi was once an immortal, but he couldn't do anything to the ancestral hall, and it also devoured part of his time, let alone us."
Although Chen Huangpi is confident, with his current strength, plus the shadow of Yan Luo, he is definitely stronger than Tai Yizi.
But the ancestral hall gave him an uncomfortable feeling from beginning to end.
He didn't want to go over there.
This house is more comfortable.
However, when Chen Huangpi pushed open the door to the main hall, his expression became extremely interesting.
There was an incense table at the innermost part of the hall.
On the incense table is a spirit tablet placed with its back facing up.
There are also offerings of incense and candles below the spirit tablet.
Looking at the east and west rooms, the doors of these two rooms were sealed with bricks and stones, and even the gaps were filled with mud.
It's as if there is something terrible hidden inside.
This villager's residence is completely different from where Tai Yizi lives.
The former is like a tomb.
The latter is more like a place where people live.
Chen Huangpi said angrily, "That Tai Yizi is really too much. As the village chief, he lives much better than the villagers. If it were me, I would definitely not do that."
"Damn it, if nothing works, let's just fight that damn thing."
The brass oil lamp also felt uncomfortable and said unhappily, "I am the Nine Netherworld Divine Lamp, Ah Gui is from the Yellow Spring Netherworld Clan, Jinjiao is the darling of the Yintu, and Chen Huangpi, you are even more of a dead man. When have the four of us ever suffered such injustice?"
"There's not even a bed. It's set up like a funeral parlor."
"If you don't know, you would think we are scared!"
"Huang Er, calm down."
Chen Huangpi said helplessly: "If I could deal with that ghost thing, why would I collude with Tai Yizi? Besides, this house is mine, I don't mind it, so why do you mind it?"
The brass oil lamp wanted to say something else.
But at this moment, a rustling sound suddenly rang out.
"Chen Huangpi..."
"Shh..."
Chen Huangpi made a hushing gesture and then headed towards the direction of the sound.
Then he discovered that the sound came from the two sealed rooms on the left and right.
It looks like someone is walking around with shoes on.
Chen Huangpi opened his evil eyes.
But the strange thing was that his evil eye could not see through the two walls, and he could not see what was causing the noise inside.
His evil eye was not blocked by some force.
Moreover, the ability to see through illusions and control everything was not affected.
But I just can't see through this room.
"Something's wrong..."
Chen Huangpi's face looked gloomy.
He clenched his fists, and had the urge to break the wall with one punch.
Seeing this, the brass lamp quickly dissuaded him, "Master, don't do it. No matter how evil this house is, it can at least isolate the spiritual energy, and it can also be regarded as a hiding place. If you destroy this house, then we will have to face that ghost head-on."
"Don't forget, Tai Yizi said that thing is only at the Golden Core level during the day, but it is completely different at night."
Tai Yizi killed that little girl many times.
But it was always during the day. At night, he would never step out of the house.
He said this himself.
Chen Huangpi clenched and unclenched his fists, but the anger in his heart would not dissipate.
He was indeed a little scared.
I have never encountered such a weird place since I was a child.
It's even more weird than his Jingxian Temple.
And just then.
Chen Huangpi suddenly felt two strange auras.
And, there were people talking.
"Brother, we sat on the shore last night, not daring to make any rash moves. I didn't expect there to be a dilapidated village here. Could it be that mortals once lived here?"
"Mortals are but animals, so long as they are not evil."
"It's daytime now. Even if there are evil spirits, they are probably hiding in some dark corner and won't show up easily. Besides, the Dharma of the Du'e Xingren is boundless. The evil spirits are nothing but chickens and dogs."
"Hey, there is an ancestral hall in this village. Why is it so well preserved?"
"Go and have a look, but be careful."
Listen to what those two people say.
Chen Huangpi was startled and quickly walked to the gate of the courtyard.
Through the gap in the courtyard gate, Chen Huangpi saw two monsters with bloated bodies, wearing tattered yellow monk robes, bending over, each carrying an earth-colored temple on their backs. They were standing in the night and walking towards the ancestral hall.
In the temple behind the two monsters, there are two hideous and terrifying evil creatures hiding inside.
The brass lamp said, "Aren't these the monks? When did they become evil?"
The soul-seeking ghost asked, "Where are they going?"
"Can't you hear what they say?"
"Master, when did they speak?"
Chen Huangpi said with a complicated expression: "I heard them say that it is daytime now, and this village is in a dilapidated state. I don't know how many years it has been abandoned. They want to go to the ancestral hall because it is intact."
"But their day is our night."
"In our eyes, they are evil, but in their eyes, are we the evil ones?"
(End of this chapter)