Over there, Lan SiZhui and others searched the ancient tombs to no avail and had already moved to the Tiannv Temple to look for clues.

In Dafan Mountain, in addition to the ancestral graves of the residents of Buddha's Foot Town for generations, there is also a Temple of the Goddess. The person enshrined in the temple is not the Buddha or Guanyin, but a "Dancing Goddess".

Hundreds of years ago, a hunter from Fojiao Town went deep into the mountains and discovered a strange stone in a grotto. It was nearly ten feet high and made of nature. It looked like a human figure, with all four limbs in a dancing posture. What's even more amazing is that the head of the stone statue has five facial features.

What is vaguely identifiable is a smiling woman.

The townspeople of Fojiao Town were very surprised, thinking that it was a sacred stone that gathered the aura of heaven and earth, and spontaneously made up many legends. Why was there an immortal king who had a crush on Xuannv of the Nine Heavens, and carved a stone statue according to the appearance of Xuannv?

To comfort the pain of lovesickness, Xuannv was furious when she found out, and the unfinished stone statue had to be abandoned; what else is there that the Jade Emperor had a beloved daughter who died early, and the Jade Emperor's longing for his beloved daughter condensed into this stone statue. There are so many different things, so that

People were stunned. These legends flowing out of their mouths convinced themselves, so some people changed the grotto into a shrine, the stone platform into a throne, enshrined the stone statue as "Dancing Goddess", and offered incense all year round.

The interior of the grotto is as open as a two-entry temple, with the goddess of heaven standing in the center. At first glance, it looks very much like a human being, even the waist can be said to be graceful. When you get closer and look closer, it becomes rough, but it is a natural creation.

It's amazing to be able to resemble humans to such an extent.

Lan Jingyi raised and lowered the Fengxie Disk, but the pointer remained unmoved. There were messy residual candles and a thick layer of incense ash on the altar, and there was a rotten sweetness in the fruit plate. People from the Gusu Lan Sect

They all have some mysophobia. He fanned the air in front of his nose and said: "I heard from the locals that this Tiannv Temple is very effective in making wishes. Why is it so dilapidated? It doesn't even require a few people to clean it."

Lan SiZhui said: "Seven people have lost their souls in a row. It is said that thunder struck out the evil spirits in the ancestral tombs of the Buddha's feet. How can anyone dare to come up the mountain? The incense has been cut off, so naturally no one will clean it up."

A disdainful voice sounded outside the grotto: "A piece of broken stone has been made a god by someone, and yet it dares to be placed here to be worshiped by others!"

Jin Ling walked in with his hands behind his back. The speech-suppression spell didn't last long, and he could already open his mouth. However, as soon as he opened it, there were no good words. He looked at the female statue and hummed: "These rural villagers don't know how to work hard when things happen.

, but he burns incense and worships Buddha all day long, prays to gods and asks ghosts. There are millions of people in the world, and gods and Buddhas have too much time to take care of themselves. How can they take care of them! What’s more, he is a wild god with no name and no identity. If he is so clever, then I will make a wish now to get this big

The soul-eating thing in Fanshan appears in front of me now, can it do it?"

A group of monks from small families followed behind him. They immediately agreed and laughed loudly. The originally silent temple suddenly became noisy and narrowed due to the influx of people. Lan SiZhui shook his head secretly and turned around inadvertently.

I glanced around and saw the face of the goddess statue. Her facial features were vaguely visible, and it seemed to be a compassionate smile.

However, he felt that this smiling face had an indescribable sense of familiarity, as if he had seen it somewhere before.

Where did you see it?

Lan SiZhui felt that this must be a very important matter, so he couldn't help but approach the altar, wanting to take a closer look at the goddess's face. At this moment, someone suddenly bumped into him.

A monk who was standing behind him suddenly fell down silently. The others were all shocked and immediately alerted. Jin Ling said warily: "What's wrong with him?"

Lan SiZhui held his sword and took a closer look. The monk was breathing well, as if he suddenly fell asleep, but he didn't wake up no matter how he slapped or called him. He stood up and said, "He looks like..."

Before he finished speaking, the originally dark cave suddenly lit up. The cave was filled with red light, as if a waterfall of blood was pouring down the four walls. The altar and the incense candles in the corners of the grotto all started to spontaneously burn.

There were several clanging sounds, and everyone in the grotto drew their swords and held talismans. At this moment, a man suddenly rushed outside the temple, carrying a gourd of medicinal wine and poured it all over the stone statue of the goddess. The grotto was suddenly filled with strong

The smell of alcohol was choking, and he drew a talisman in the air and threw it at the stone statue. The altar instantly ignited a blazing fire, making the cave look like daylight.

Wei Wuxian finished using the contents of the Qiankun bag he picked up, threw the bag away and shouted, "Everyone, get out! Be careful of the soul-eating goddess inside!"

Someone exclaimed: "The posture of the goddess has changed!"

Just now, the statue of the god clearly had its arms raised, one arm pointing straight to the sky, and one foot raised, with a graceful posture. At this moment, in the red and yellow fire, it has lowered its limbs. It is absolutely true, and it is definitely not a dazzle!

The next moment, the statue raised another foot and stepped out of the flames!

Wei Wuxian shouted: "Run, run, run! Stop cutting! It's useless!"

Most of the monks ignored him. The soul-eating monster that had been missing for so long finally appeared, and they were not willing to let it go! However, so many fairy swords were used to chop and stab, as well as talismans and various magic weapons were thrown out, but they still did not stop the stone statue.

One step. It was nearly one foot tall. It moved like a giant, with a strong sense of oppression. It lifted the two monks in front of their faces, and the stone mouth seemed to open and close. The swords in the hands of the two monks clattered to the ground, and their heads hung down.

Apparently his soul was also sucked away.

All kinds of attacks were completely ineffective. Now the others were finally willing to listen to Wei Wuxian's words. They swarmed out and scattered in all directions. There were so many people, and the more anxious Wei Wuxian became, the more he couldn't find Jin Ling, so he ran away on a donkey.

After running around, he ran into a bamboo forest. He turned around and bumped into the Lan family juniors chasing after them. Wei Wuxian called them: "Children!"

Lan Jingyi said: "Who are your children! Do you know whose family we are from? Do you think you can act like an elder just by washing your face?!"

Wei WuXian said, "Okay, okay, brothers. Give a signal and ask that... that Hanguang-jun of yours to come up!"

The juniors nodded repeatedly and turned over while running. After a while, Lan SiZhui said: "The signal fireworks... Mojiazhuang has all been set off that night."

Wei Wuxian was shocked: “You didn’t make up for it later?!”

This signal firework would not be used even once in eight hundred years. Lan SiZhui said with shame, "I forgot."

Wei Wuxian threatened, "Is this something we can forget? I'll let you Hanguang-Jun know about it, so you can look good!"

Lan Jingyi's face turned ashen: "It's over, I will be punished to death by Lord Hanguang this time..."

Wei Wuxian: "Punishment. It deserves punishment! If you don't punish me, you won't have a long memory."

Lan SiZhui: "Master Mo, Master Mo! How do you know that what sucks the soul is not a soul-eating evil or a soul-eating beast, but the statue of the goddess of heaven?"

Wei Wuxian ran while searching for Jin Ling: "How do I know? I saw it."

Lan Jingyi also caught up with him, running with him on his left and right: "What did you see? We also saw a lot."

"I saw it, what next? What's near the ancient tomb?"

"What can there be? There is a dead soul."

"Yes, there are dead souls. So it is definitely not a soul-eating beast or a soul-eating evil. Obviously, if it is these two types, with so many dead souls floating there, will it not eat it? No."

This time more than one person asked: "Why?"

"I'm talking about your Gusu Lan Sect..." Wei Wuxian couldn't bear it any longer: "Teach less about immortal sect etiquette and cultivation family genealogy and historical origins, such smelly, long and memorized nonsense, and teach more practical things.

Isn’t it okay to eat something from a living soul? What’s wrong with this? Dead souls are much easier to absorb than living souls. The body of a living person is a barrier. If you want to eat living souls, you have to break this barrier. Just like..." He glanced at

The donkey who rolled his eyes while panting and running said, "It's like an apple is placed in front of you, and another apple is placed in a locked box. Which one do you choose to eat? Of course the one in front of you. This thing only eats raw souls.

, and he has a way to eat it, he is very picky and very powerful.”

Lan Jingyi was surprised: "Is that so? It seems very reasonable! Wait, it turns out you are not a madman!"

Lan Sizhui explained as he ran: "We all thought that the landslide and thunder chopping the coffin caused the loss of souls, so naturally we thought it was a soul-eating evil."

Wei Wuxian said, “Wrong.”

"What's wrong?"

"Wrong order, wrong cause and effect. Let me ask you, which came before and after the landslide and the soul-eating incident, and which was the cause and effect?"

Lan SiZhui said without hesitation: "The landslide comes first, and the soul-eating comes later. The former is the cause, and the latter is the effect."

Wei WuXian said, "It's completely wrong. It's the soul-eating that comes first, and the landslide that comes after. The soul-eating is the cause, and the landslide is the effect! On the night of the landslide, there was a sudden heavy rain, thunder and lightning, and a coffin was torn apart. Remember this

.The first lost soul, the lazy man who was trapped in the mountains for one night, got married in the past few days."

Lan Jingyi asked: "What's wrong?"

Wei Wuxian said, "Nothing is right! How can a pauper who is doing nothing and doing nothing get the money to get married and have such grand affairs?"

Several young men were speechless. It’s no wonder that the Gusu Lan family was originally a family that didn’t have to worry about wealth and poverty. Wei Wuxian added, “Have you seen all the dead souls floating on Dafan Mountain? There is one.

The shroud of the old man who was smashed to death was of excellent workmanship and material. Wearing such a gorgeous shroud, his coffin could not be empty. There must be several burial objects weighing down the coffin. The coffin that was split open by a bolt of lightning was probably

It was his, and the people who collected the bones later did not find the burial objects. They must have all been taken away by the lazy man. Only in this way can he explain his sudden wealth. The lazy man suddenly became rich and married after the landslide overnight. This must have happened that night

Something unusual. It was raining heavily that night, and he was hiding from the rain in the mountains. Where is the best place to hide from the rain on Dafan Mountain? The Temple of the Goddess. And if ordinary people go to the temple, there is one thing they must do."

Lan SiZhui asked, "Make a wish?"

"That's right. For example, let him have great luck, make a fortune, get married, etc. The goddess fulfilled his wish, dropped thunder from the sky, opened the tomb, and let him see the treasure in the coffin. And his wish came true, as

As a price, the goddess came to his wedding night and sucked his soul away!"

Lan Jingyi: "You guessed it, right?"

Wei Wuxian: "It's just a guess. But if we continue to guess based on this, everything can be explained."

Lan SiZhui: "How do you explain Miss Ayan?

Wei Wuxian: "That's a good question. You should have asked this before you went up the mountain. Ah Yan had just gotten engaged at that time. For all newly engaged girls, they must have the same wish."

Lan Jingyi asked confusedly: "What wish?"

Wei WuXian said, "It's nothing more than, 'I hope my husband will love me and love me for the rest of his life, and only like me', and so on."

The young people were confused: "Can this wish really be realized..."

Wei WuXian spread his hands and said, "It's very simple. As long as her husband's 'life' ends immediately, doesn't it mean that he 'has only loved one person in his life'?"

Lan Jingyi suddenly realized and said excitedly: "Oh, oh! So, so, so after Miss A Yan got engaged, her husband was killed by jackals in the mountains the next day, because it was very likely that Miss A Yan went to the Tiannv Temple to make a wish the first day.

!”

Wei Wuxian strikes while the iron is hot: "It's hard to say whether it was a jackal or something else that killed him. There is another special thing about A Yan: why is her soul the only one among them all to come back? What is the difference between her and others? Different

The thing is, one of her relatives has lost her soul. Or to put it another way, there is a relative who has replaced her! Zheng Tiejiang is Ah Yan’s father, a father who loves his daughter. After seeing that his daughter has lost her soul, medicine is useless, and she is helpless.

Under the circumstances, what can only be done?”

This time Lan SiZhui answered quickly: "——He could only put his last hope in heaven. So he also went to the Tiannv Temple and made a wish. The wish was, 'I hope that my daughter Ayan's soul will be recovered'!"

Wei Wuxian praised: "This is why only A Yan's soul has returned, and it is also the reason why the third lost soul, Zheng Blacksmith, lost his soul. Although A Yan's soul was spit out, it was inevitably damaged.

After her soul returned to its original place, she began to imitate the dancing postures of the goddess statue involuntarily, and even smiled."
To be continued...