After the fog dispelled, we ran out quickly. The screaming continued, and it became more and more miserable and weird, like the howling of ghosts and wolves, but the source of the sound sounded hoarse and dry.
My scalp went numb instantly. The old woman must have been murdered!
Suddenly, a child's loud cries echoed from the dead tree, adding an eerie atmosphere to the otherwise desolate surroundings. Then, a woman's cries were heard from the front: "We only came to see Master Qi, why did you lead us to this monster?"
"Seventh Master? You will see him in the underworld after you die, hahahaha!" A creepy female laugh came from nearby, it should be from the temple keeper.
Ning Xue and I hid behind a dead tree and glanced toward the scene ahead. In the darkness, Ning Xue might not have seen clearly, but I could see it clearly: a large, leafy tree sat in the shadows ahead, with vines spreading in all directions. Nearby, however, were only dead trees!
Even more bizarre was the fact that the tree actually had large, moving green eyes and thick, scarlet lips! Three meters in front of the tree, an old woman was entangled in a giant green vine. Her cane had fallen to the ground, but her body was still trapped in mid-air, twitching all over and looking like she was about to be strangled to death.
"Tree spirit? It's sucking the essence of living people!" Su Xiaoniu's tone suddenly became serious.
A tree spirit? Sucking the essence of living people? Holy crap, why do I keep running into these spirit-sucking monsters these days? It was one thing to encounter a sperm-sucking ghost sucking men's sperm before, but now I've run into a tree spirit sucking the essence of living people!
This essence is undoubtedly the essence in the human body, but the old woman is over 90 years old, and the tree spirit didn't let her go. What a heavy taste!
Because Ning Xue and I were wearing Qi-retaining talismans, the tree spirit didn't notice our presence. But the tree spirit seemed mute, clinging to the old woman and continuously sucking essence from her body. I could even see a stream of light green gas escaping from the old woman's mouth and entering the tree spirit's thick, dry lips.
I sweated, wondering if I should rush out and rescue them immediately. If I rushed out now, I might be able to save the old woman, but my identity would be exposed. Once my identity was exposed, how could I investigate the temple keeper's face-stripping? But then I thought about it. Combining the clues from the red-clothed woman with my own speculation and analysis, I knew exactly why the temple keeper was doing this. Since I already knew the answer, then revealing my identity wouldn't matter at this point, right?
I asked Su Xiaoniu what to do, but she said nonchalantly, "Other people's life and death has nothing to do with me. Do whatever you want."
Well, I have experienced Su Xiaoniu’s ruthlessness many times. Since she said I can do whatever I want, it depends on what I should do.
Even though I didn't know the family of three, since I'd encountered them, there was no reason not to save them, right? That is, provided I was sure of it!
I immediately said to Ning Xue, "I am going to rescue the old woman now. You and Hongyi will act according to the situation and take the mother and child to a safe place. - This is a talisman, take it." I gave Ning Xue two amulets.
As the time since her death grew longer, and she had signed a ghost contract with me, I could allow Hongyi to fully manifest in the world of the living. Now that it was nighttime, anyone could see her presence. Ning Xue could even see Hongyi and speak to her without my medium. After hearing what I said, she and Hongyi quietly hid beside another dead tree.
I took a deep breath, grasped the yellow paper, and chanted the "Samadhi Fire Mantra." With a puff, the yellow paper burst into a ball of blue-green flame. At the same time, I stepped forward, aiming the Samadhi Fire in my hand at the tree spirit's thick vine and shooting it out.
Swoosh! The Samadhi Fire Talisman instantly clung to the green vine and burst into flames. The blue-green flames surged fiercely, threatening to spread to the tree spirit. The tree spirit let out a shrill scream, and the vine shook, snapping in two.
"Ah, ah, ah..." The old woman, who was no longer wrapped in vines, suddenly fell from mid-air, screaming.
When the tree spirit threw away the vines, I had already rushed over. Seeing the old woman falling, I suddenly pounced on her, hugged her and rolled on the ground, landing safely. However, the old woman must have sucked away a lot of her essence, and she completely fainted after landing.
"Who is it?" Just then, the temple keeper scurried over, and when I looked again, he was right in front of me. I'd expected him to be a beautiful woman in a suit or an old man, but what made my eyes widen was that he was a woman dressed in red, with a small five-petaled red flower slanted diagonally in her hair.
This voluptuous woman's eyes were bloodshot, her figure was curvy, and her cleavage-revealing red dress opened like a flower on either side. The two petals on her shoulders tightly wrapped around her neck. From a distance, her appearance was quite strange. But regardless, she was truly alluring. Just one look at her and I'm hooked.
I was just staring in amazement when the seductive woman's scarlet eyes suddenly turned and turned green... Damn, I was so scared that I came back to my senses.
Su Xiaoniu said calmly, "This is a flower demon who has already cultivated into a human. Do you see the little red flower with five petals on her head? It's a Yin-loving flower, and its nature is Yin. This means that this flower demon's constitution is Yin. Using your Yang blood against her will have a surprising effect."
"Flower demon? What yang blood? Wouldn't all these flowers and trees be burned to ashes with a fire?" I complained. This damn girl wanted me to bleed again! I decisively ignored her and used yellow paper to stimulate a ball of Samadhi Fire, directly hitting the charming woman in front of me.
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