Chapter 157: The Rabbit Spirit

Jingwu looked at her face and saw that she was not a very evil person. Not wanting to waste time here, he immediately gave her one or two taels of silver.

Upon seeing this, Aunt Wu immediately put away the silver and explained with a smile, "This temple is really useless; it's even bad luck for us. Lately, many elderly people in the village have fallen ill and passed away in quick succession. We originally wanted to come to this temple to pray, but the other day a female Taoist priest passed by and did some divination. She said that the gods in this temple look down on our meager offerings and have returned to their celestial positions, no longer caring about us."

Jingwu looked at her and asked, "And then you smashed it?"

"No, that's not it. The villagers don't believe it, but the female Taoist priest said that if the temple is left standing, more and more people in the village will die. First it will be the elderly, then the children, and eventually the entire village will be cursed to death!"

Aunt Wu, carrying a basket, sat on the steps and said, "You know what, what she said was pretty accurate. In the nights after she spoke, old people and children died every day. The villagers were so scared that they called people to smash up the temple, and after that, no one died anymore!"

Hearing this, Jingwu felt a mix of emotions. Without offerings, the guardian beast's statue had been destroyed, greatly weakening its magical power.

If someone with malicious intent were to take advantage of this opportunity to attack and severely injure it, its fortune would surely decline, and the entire Dongping Prefecture would be plunged into dire straits.

As Jingwu thought about this, his brows furrowed even more. The most urgent task was to find the guardian beast immediately, otherwise, the consequences would be unimaginable.

She nodded to the old woman, thanked her, and then immediately turned with the boy to search for the guardian beast.

Yue Huai glanced at the vast mountain range, then immediately squatted down with a tree branch and began to draw on the yellow earth. After a moment, he took out three copper coins, tossed them into the air, and stood up as soon as the coins landed in the correct positions.

"This way."

Seeing his actions, Jingwu immediately understood that he was using Qimen Dunjia to deduce the location of the guardian beast, so he immediately followed behind him.

The guardian beast is a divine creature that normally eats offerings from the local area and protects the peace of that area.

Even if it is seriously injured, it will find a safe place and set up multiple barriers as its hiding place.

As long as it lives, the fortune of this land will not be completely lost.

Jingwu and his companion followed the directions and headed forward, carefully searching for its presence in the dense forest.

Suddenly, Yue Huai stopped at a certain point, looking towards the southwest.

"This is it."

Jingwu followed his gaze and saw a pond in front of them.

Large lotus leaves float on the pond.

Jing Wu could sense the spiritual energy fluctuations beneath the lotus leaves simply by standing there.

"The guardian beast should be here, we..."

Before Yue Huai could finish speaking, he saw a black figure sneaking towards them from a distance.

His eyes darted around, and he immediately pulled the girl next to him and teleported away to hide.

Jingwu felt a blur before his eyes, and the scene spun rapidly. When it stopped, he found himself hiding in a sweet potato cellar.

She turned her head to look at the sweet potatoes stored by the farmers, and then looked through the crack in the door to see what was happening outside.

Seeing that no one had come over yet, he whispered, "Why are we hiding? And can't we use an invisibility talisman?"

Yue Huai paused for a moment, blinked, and looked at her: "I'm afraid that if we're there, some people won't dare to do bad things. To arrest someone, you have to catch them in the act, otherwise there won't be any evidence. As for the invisibility talisman... I forgot."

Jingwu looked helpless, but didn't say anything more.

She peered through the crack, watching the figure approach.

A tall, thin man, wrapped in a black cloak, walked to the edge of the pond, looking around.

He put the compass away and then took out a porcelain bottle.

Just by looking at it, Jingwu could see that a large amount of resentment surrounded the porcelain bottle.

She frowned slightly, instantly recalling what her master had once said about a kind of evil magic called Earth-Shifting Curse, which was made by combining the resentment of the dead, the black blood of animals, and her own essence.

Simply scatter this stuff around the guardian beast on the night of the full moon, and it will erode the surrounding spiritual energy, corrode its fur, and gradually diminish its power.

And today happens to be the fifteenth.

Looking at the full moon hanging in the sky, Jingwu immediately unleashed an Extinction Curse, striking the black-robed figure with great force.

Immediately, the boy beside him teleported out of the sweet potato cave, flew forward, and snatched the small porcelain bottle.

He looked down and confirmed that it was indeed the Earth-Shifting Fiend. He immediately put it into his Qiankun Bag, then walked to the girl's side and stood beside her.

The man in black robes was struck hard and fell to the ground. Before he could recover, he saw that what he was holding had been taken from him. He became anxious, got up, and glared angrily at the person in front of him.

She narrowed her eyes slightly, focusing her gaze on the young man, and instantly recognized him: "Yue Huai?"

When Yue Huai heard her call his name, his expression remained unchanged; he simply looked at her calmly.

The man in black robes turned his gaze to the person beside him: "So you are Jing Wu?"

She twitched her lips, a hint of surprise flashing in her eyes: "So this is what you look like."

Upon hearing this, Jingwu raised an eyebrow. Why did this sound so strange?

"You two have arrived just in time," the man in black sneered, then quickly made hand seals and chanted an incantation, a black flame igniting in his palm as he struck the two men.

As Jingwu and Yue Huai saw the flames heading towards them, they immediately dodged, managing to avoid them by positioning themselves to the left and right.

Jingwu stood still, watching the man in black robes. Without further ado, he quickly conjured a spirit sword and thrust it towards the man in front of him.

She was incredibly fast, giving her opponent no chance to react, and stabbed her arm with her sword.

When the woman in black felt the pain, she immediately tried to retaliate, but on the other side, a blue spell tightly bound her, preventing her from paying attention to the girl.

Seeing that the boy had held her back, Jingwu immediately took out his spirit sword and used it to lift her cloak.

The next second, a pretty and delicate face appeared in their line of sight.

She had fair skin, a smooth face, and her hair was styled into two double buns, each adorned with a butterfly bell.

She looks like the girl next door, except for her eyes, which are strikingly red.

Jingwu narrowed his eyes and instantly saw through her body beneath her skin.

A rabbit spirit?

Jingwu immediately remembered that Yiyang had a rabbit spirit under his command named Yiyun, who was his confidant.

Although she didn't know if what was in front of her was real or not, she decided to tie her up first and think about it later.

With that thought in mind, she showed no mercy and quickly knocked her to the ground.

Then, he conjured an extremely thick spiritual rope to bind her.

Jingwu lifted her chin and examined her closely: "Your name is Yiyun?"