Chapter 1214

"It was empty here, you moved in only a month ago, and the little ghosts followed right after, hmm—is the news that well-informed?" Fu Liushan pondered. None of those present were stupid, and Jiang Lishui thought it over: "You mean, there is a mole here?"

Even with the barrier in place, he subconsciously lowered his voice.

He Lingchuan suddenly said: "Old Woman Li is hiding in the kitchen right now, staring at us through the window."

He didn't need to turn his head to look; the Soul-Capturing Mirror would alert him.

Jiang Lishui pretended to glance over inadvertently, and sure enough, he saw someone behind the kitchen door window, or at least something flashed by.

Thinking of the old woman hiding in that dark corner, staring at him with her small eyes that were mostly white, he felt a bit of a chill.

Fu Liushan retracted the barrier and called out loudly: "Old Woman Li, Old Woman Li!"

A few breaths later, Old Woman Li pushed the door open and walked out: "Do you want to stay here for a meal?"

"Yes, we do." Fu Liushan smiled, stuffing a few copper coins into her hand, "Use this money as you see fit, and stir-fry a few hot dishes for us."

As soon as Old Woman Li received the copper coins, she cried out: "It burns me!"

Her hand loosened, and the copper coins fell to the ground.

He Lingchuan and Fu Liushan both watched her closely, only to see a flash of green Qi pass through her forehead, but nothing else happened.

Dong Rui asked: "What's the situation?"

"Such deep cultivation, even my Five Vulgar Coins couldn't take effect." Fu Liushan muttered, "That thing is either hiding behind her forehead or in the Jade Pillow acupoint; I'm afraid I'll have to use needles to force it out."

He Lingchuan asked him: "Can the Xuan Lu Heavenly Venerable itself see us in real-time?"

Old Woman Li stared at him and examined him many times; this was not his imagination, and the Soul-Capturing Mirror had also notified him.

"Very likely! It has deep cultivation and might even be directly controlling Old Woman Li." After Fu Liushan finished speaking, he stepped forward and poked her neck, and she went numb.

Immediately after, he took out two gold needles, preparing to find the acupoints.

Who would have thought that Old Woman Li would blink her eyes, suddenly break free, and spit a mouthful of thick phlegm at him.

The two were very close, but Fu Liushan was prepared and tilted his head to avoid it, and Old Woman Li took the opportunity to run backward.

At this moment, her legs were nimble and not slow at all; one couldn't see any sign of her walking with a limp.

But how could she run away? He Lingchuan caught up in half a step, grabbed the back of her neck, and Old Woman Li couldn't help but fall backward.

Fu Liushan rushed over and stuck a needle into the Jade Pillow acupoint at the back of her head.

He Lingchuan had good eyesight and saw the tip of the gold needle turn red; he didn't know what kind of seasoning it had been dipped in.

Old Woman Li let out a scream and suddenly said: "You are all courting death!"

Her expression was flustered and exasperated, but her tone was extremely sinister; the contrast was particularly abrupt.

Fu Liushan went around to her front and stared at her: "Xuan Lu Heavenly Venerable? A rabbit doesn't eat the grass by its own hole, why did you come to Jishi Village to eat people?"

"Heavenly Master?" Old Woman Li chuckled, her front teeth whistling, "What kind of thing are you to dare speak to me like that?"

"My family has a connection with you. Twenty years ago, my father fought with you. He was also a Heavenly Master."

Old Woman Li sneered: "I have killed countless Heavenly Masters; which one was your father?"

"You didn't kill him; he died in a woman's bed in the end." Fu Liushan said to her, "But he also came to handle the murder case in Jishi Village back then and made an agreement with you: as long as the villagers worshipped you, you would not kill here."

He Lingchuan and the others only understood then that there was such a history behind Jishi Village worshipping the Xuan Lu Heavenly Venerable.

Fu Liushan said word by word: "I have come on behalf of my father to ask you, why did you break your word?"

Old Woman Li was silent for a few breaths, then suddenly asked: "Fu?"

"Exactly."

Old Woman Li sneered: "Times change; how can there be an agreement that doesn't expire?"

She turned her head desperately, wanting to look at He Lingchuan: "You, you came to the gate of Purgatory, just wait!"

This sentence was full of resentment, and everyone who heard it was stunned. He Lingchuan was also confused: "Wait for what?"

"Luo Sheng Armor, you have the aura of the Luo Sheng Armor on you!" Old Woman Li giggled, "So you deserve to die, you can't escape!"

Fu Liushan immediately looked at He Lingchuan, his expression changing slightly.

His feelings about He Lingchuan collecting the Luo Sheng Armor had always been subtle, and now it had been exposed by Old Woman Li to his face.

So, the Luo Sheng Armor is still there, huh?

How exactly did He Lingchuan deal with it?

Fortunately, there were few people here; besides He, Dong, and Fu, only Jiang Lishui heard Old Woman Li's words.

"You are nothing but an evil ghost in the Screaming Forest." He Lingchuan sneered, "A mere ghost, and you dare to falsely claim the title of Heavenly Venerable?"

In the dragon scale memory that the Great Fang Hu had reproduced, that black dragon's figure was so magnificent, flying into the sky and blocking the sun; the immortals respectfully called it "Divine Venerable."

Divine Venerable, Heavenly Venerable—those were beings of that level.

What kind of cultivation did an evil ghost from the Screaming Forest have to deserve the title of Heavenly Venerable?

Back then, after they left the border of the old Po Nation, Nangong Yan rushed over to silence them. The Feather Guards under his command were very strong and coordinated well, all because the Po King had invited a clone of the "Heavenly Venerable" from the Screaming Forest to control Nangong Yan and the Feather Guards on his behalf.

Before that thing was swallowed by the Divine Bone Necklace, it left a curse, saying its true self would not let them go.

Now, they were talking to this "true self."

"Your soul is very powerful, it is a great tonic!" The shamaness giggled, "I will definitely enjoy it well, and then keep you conscious while watching yourself being eaten! I will also take your Luo Sheng Armor!"

Fu Liushan ignored her big talk and took out another gold needle, sticking it into Old Woman Li's forehead acupoint.

With one stick and one pull, the needle tip brought out a small black insect, looking a bit like a rice weevil.

He held the needle tip up to the evening sunlight to examine it, and with a soft hiss, the insect vaporized.

"It's done." Fu Liushan finally breathed a sigh of relief, "This was a soul-insect planted by the Xuan Lu Heavenly Venerable on Old Woman Li; after pulling it out, it can no longer see us or hear us talking."

Old Woman Li shuddered and opened her eyes, her face full of confusion, not knowing what had happened.

"Burn the willow wood statue in the back hall immediately." Fu Liushan called the others in and began to assign tasks, "This house can no longer be lived in; it's best to tear it down immediately. If you don't want to go to the trouble, then tear down all the windows and put more mirrors in the house to ensure that the daytime sunlight can reach every dark corner."

"Did you all hear that?" Jiang Lishui immediately ordered people to work, "Go do it, all of you go do it!"

Upon hearing this, Old Woman Li let out a scream: "You can't tear it down, you can't tear it down, the Heavenly Venerable will punish me! You can't harm me!"

"This is a cursed object; it not only shortens your life but also sucks away all the fortune and luck of your family!"

Dong Rui glanced at him from the side; good heavens, he was spouting nonsense with a straight face.

But Fu Liushan had walked the countryside for many years and was very good at persuading village folk, so he immediately added: "Let me ask you, have you been incontinent at night recently? At least one or two days out of seven."

Old Woman Li was startled: "How did you know?"

"And it's always after worshipping the 'Heavenly Venerable'?"

"..." Old Woman Li didn't answer, but looking at her expression, others knew that Fu Liushan had hit the mark.

"Your body was originally fine; the Heavenly Venerable takes away a bit of your essence every day, and you didn't feel anything different." Fu Liushan said sternly, "But day after day, ordinary people can't stand it, let alone you at your age. Now it's just incontinence; if you keep worshipping, you will soon have lower limb paralysis, heavy legs, and gradually become bedridden until you die!"

The more he spoke, the uglier Old Woman Li's face became, because she had also noticed these symptoms that Fu Liushan mentioned! "The Xuan Lu Ghost King died a miserable death and turned into an evil ghost filled with baleful Qi, having a natural hatred for the living. No matter how much you worship it, it is still an evil ghost and will not show you any extra mercy." Fu Liushan added a final blow, "Even your descendants will be entangled by it; hmm, Old Woman Li, do you have any grandchildren?"

"Yes, three, three of them, all in Yaopo."

Fu Liushan then took three yellow talismans from his bosom and gave them to her: "Have them pasted on the outer doors until the cinnabar talisman on them fades, then you can take them off."

With this series of actions, Old Woman Li even forgot to be angry and took them in a daze.

Fu Liushan immediately asked again: "Is there anyone else in this village who still worships the Heavenly Venerable?"

"Ah..." Old Woman Li hesitated, "I, I don't know."

So there is, huh? He Lingchuan stood behind Old Woman Li and shook his head slightly at Fu Liushan. The latter understood and stopped asking.

How big is this village? If others worshipped the Heavenly Venerable, Old Woman Li would definitely know.

After Old Woman Li left, Jiang Lishui gave a thumbs up: "Master Fu is amazing, even knowing that the old woman has incontinence, er, needs to get up at night."

Fu Liushan smiled without a word.

Dong Rui could also see the problems with Old Woman Li at a glance, and he chuckled: "Her heart Qi is insufficient, and her liver and kidneys are failing; it would be strange if she didn't leak."

The one surnamed Fu insisted that she only had strange symptoms after worshipping the Xuan Lu statue; nonsense, Old Woman Li was so devout, she definitely worshipped before going to sleep.

These mysterious and superstitious things are worthless once exposed.

Fu Liushan coughed and turned to He Lingchuan: "What kind of grudge do you have with it? Why do these monsters all like to chase after you?"

He Lingchuan gave a bitter smile: "To be reasonable, they are all the ones who come to provoke me."

At the ruins of the Golden Palace in Kelin, it was also the Luo Sheng Armor sensing the dragon scales on him and breaking the seal to find him; in Jishi Village, he was even more innocent, just passing by to inspect the industry under his subordinates, so how did he get targeted? He was just a passerby who didn't want to cause trouble! But trouble just liked to find him.

Dong Rui rolled his eyes; weren't they just here to exorcise the Ghost King after taking the mission? Stop acting innocent. "Since the Xuan Lu evil ghost has a connection with your family, hurry up and tell us the inside story. Just how evil is this thing?"

The mission description given by Lingshan was a bit simple. Exorcising demons and catching ghosts sounded like the duty of a practitioner; looking at the mission itself, it also exuded a sense of righteousness.

However, after He Lingchuan received the mission, he had been pondering why Lingshan would have him travel thousands of miles to exorcise an evil ghost in a foreign land.

What is special about this evil ghost?

"It's almost dark, just in time to catch ghosts. Let's go, let's talk while we make arrangements." Fu Liushan looked at the sky, then at the mine, and asked Jiang Lishui, "Is it damp in the mine tunnel?"

(End of chapter)