Duozi Village, late at night, midnight, the Jinyiwei base.

Black Boy returned to Fang Jian's tent and said to him, "Master, the local land god said he can't leave. Please go to the land temple in person."

"Hmm?" Fang Jian turned to look at Hei Haier and said, "Did he say this himself?"

Black Boy nodded and said, "Yes, he said he had something important to do and couldn't leave for the moment."

Fang Jian was silent for a moment, then stood up and said, "Okay, let's go see if he has anything important to say. Lead the way."

Afterwards, Hei Haier led Fang Jian to the land temple in Dengyun Town. Dengyun Town was located more than 60 miles northwest of Duozi Village, which was not very close for ordinary people.

When they arrived in front of the land temple, Hei Haier pinched his fingers and summoned the land god of Dengyun Town. The land god looked like a middle-aged man with an ordinary and honest appearance.

When he saw Hei Haier and Fang Jian, he immediately bowed and said, "Jiang Piao, the land god of Dengyun Town, pays homage to the two immortals."

Because Fang Jian had changed his appearance to enter the world, Hei Haier could not reveal Fang Jian's true identity without Fang Jian's permission. Therefore, Jiang Piao did not know that the person in front of him was Fang Jian, the True Lord Hongqing.

Fang Jian returned the greeting with a bow and introduced himself, "I'm a generous monk, traveling far and wide, slaying demons and monsters. Recently, I passed by Diaoer Mountain and saw a dense cluster of hanging coffins, most of which were the remains of baby girls. May I ask the land god what the reason is?"

Upon hearing this, Jiang Piao immediately said, "So it's you, Daoist Fellow Dafang. Those baby girl corpses you saw on Diaoer Mountain were actually the corpses of babies drowned by villagers from Duozi Village."

"Infant drowning?" Fang Jian heard this and said, "So those baby girls were drowned? Not stillborn?"

Jiang Piao shook his head and said, "They didn't die young, they were all drowned."

"Why don't you do anything about it, God of Land?" Fang Jian didn't say anything, but Hei Haier suddenly asked.

Not only was the land god Jiang Piao stunned by this question, but even Fang Jian shook his head.

Jiang Piao then explained, "Immortal officials like us cannot interfere in human affairs. The people of Duozi Village drowned their baby girl. Their evil deeds will be recorded in the underworld books. After their death, when their souls return to the underworld, the underworld will punish them. As for the affairs of the mortal world, they are the responsibility of the mortal court. It is not for immortal officials like us to meddle in them at will."

Hei Haier nodded in understanding, then he turned to Jiang Piao and asked, "Land God, I just asked you to meet my master, and you said you were very busy. Is there anything we can do to help you?"

Jiang Piao smiled faintly upon hearing this, then turned sideways to Fang Jian and Hei Haier and said, "If you two fellow Taoists don't mind, how about you come into the Little God's Retreat and take a look?"

"That's what I wish for." Fang Jian said with a bow.

Jiang Piao then opened the door of the land god temple and led Fang Jian and Hei Haier in.

The moment Fang Jian and Hei Haier entered the temple, they heard a noisy sound. They looked up and saw that there were hundreds of souls of young baby girls in the temple, making the entire temple very crowded.

"Why are there so many souls of baby girls?" Hei Hai said this, and suddenly seemed to remember something, "Could they all be the hanging coffins on Diaoer Mountain?"

Jiang Piao nodded and said, "Yes, these are the souls of the baby girls who died in the hanging coffins on Diaoer Mountain. Since they can't return to the underworld for the time being, I adopted them all in the land temple."

Fang Jian glanced at the tiny souls of the baby girls and asked, "Is this all there is?"

Jiang Piao said, "There are more than 600 of them here. The previous ones have been taken back to the underworld by the ghost messengers to reincarnate. However, the souls of the baby girls here were adopted right after they drowned. There are still many souls in Diaoer Mountain that have not been adopted yet."

"Why didn't you adopt it?" Fang Jian asked.

Jiang Piao said, "The souls of those baby girls are filled with resentment and have already turned into evil spirits, so I am unable to adopt them. Even if I could adopt them, I wouldn't dare put them with these little guys."

Fang Jian nodded. Evil ghosts not only harm people, but also eat other ghosts.

Thinking of this, Fang Jian stepped forward and

The little guys squatted down among them.

The oldest of these little guys is less than a month old and can't even walk. He can only sit on the ground and babbling.

Fang Jian casually picked up a little girl. She was only wearing a red bellyband and her head was bald with only some fetal hair.

She didn't cry or make a fuss in Fang Jian's arms. She just stared at Fang Jian with a frown, then raised her little hand and slapped Fang Jian in the face.

"Hahaha." Black Boy laughed at the side and said, "The master slapped you."

Fang Jian put the little guy down with a smile, then stood up and said teasingly, "Just this slap is enough for her to praise for several lifetimes."

Jiang Piao also laughed and said, "Yes, how many people have slapped an immortal?"

Fang Jian smiled faintly, then turned to Jiang Piao and asked, "How many years have you been adopting the souls of these baby girls?"

Jiang Piao was accustomed to Fang Jian's "leadership-style" questions. The immortals basically spoke in this tone in front of a land god.

"Ever since the drowning of babies started in Duozi Village, I've started adopting these little ones." Jiang Piao said, "I call it adoption, but it's actually foster care. As long as the underworld makes the proper arrangements, the ghost messengers will bring them back to the underworld in batches."

Fang Jian nodded slightly, then said, "Then are you aware of the demonic cultivators within a 300-mile radius of Diaoer Mountain?"

Jiang Piao was startled when he heard this, then shook his head and said, "That's not entirely clear." At this point, Jiang Piao felt a little embarrassed and said, "Actually, the affairs of demonic cultivators are beyond the control of a mere land god like me. I can only warn the creatures within my domain to be cautious and vigilant, but there's nothing else I can do. Even if a demonic cultivator truly appeared, I would only be able to report the situation and then hide in this abode to protect myself."

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