Seeing Pei Ji frown, Xue Huan gestured for him to bend down and kissed him on the lips. "It's settled. Now, hide quickly and don't let those ghosts find you."
Pei Ji was pushed by her to a patch of grass by the river, where he had no choice but to squat down and hide his body.
Xue Huan returned to the willow grove and transformed herself into a beautiful little village girl. After thinking for a while, she took out a basket and filled it with some wild vegetables and mushrooms.
In this way, the equipment is complete.
She sat down, pretending to have sprained her ankle and unable to walk, and cried out in pain from time to time, shouting for help.
"Is there anyone—someone please help me—"
Seeing Xue Huan acting with great devotion, Pei Ji couldn't help but curl up the corners of his mouth behind the bush. His Huan Huan was so adorable.
As the night deepened, there was a bright moon in the sky, a thin mist rose in the forest, and the whole area was silent.
Several points of phosphorus fire appeared and floated in the forest, sometimes far away, sometimes near, sometimes high, sometimes low, with red and green colors, flickering.
Xue Huan thought to herself, great, there's already the atmosphere of a horror movie. Now it should be the ghosts' turn to appear next, right?
Suddenly, the phosphorescent flames came closer, surrounded Xue Huan, and ran around her.
Xue Huan trembled and waved the basket in her hand, "Don't come over here, ah, there's a ghost!"
A gust of cold wind blew by, and a ghostly figure appeared. "Hey, don't be afraid, my beauty. I'm here to save you."
It was the evil ghost who committed countless evil deeds both during his lifetime and after his death.
A group of phosphorous-like minions surrounded him in front and behind.
As he was speaking, the bully ghost approached and was about to hug Xue Huan in his arms. At this moment, a bolt of lightning struck down on her head with a crackling sound.
After the thunder, all the phosphorescent flames around the bully ghost were struck off, and the bully ghost almost lost his soul. The originally solid ghost shadow had now become thin and transparent, and he was squatting on the ground with his head in his hands in fear.
Pei Ji had caused this lightning. He was about to strike him with his sword again to finish him off, but Xue Huan said, "Don't kill him. That would be too easy for him. Send him to the underworld and let him suffer the consequences of being tossed into a mountain of swords and a cauldron of oil."
The evil ghost was so frightened that he kept begging for mercy: "Two Heavenly Masters, please spare my life! I didn't mean to do evil. I was born on an unlucky day, on a shady year, on a shady month, and at a shady hour. I was the reincarnation of the evil energy of heaven and earth. This is my fate. I hope you will be merciful and spare me this time!"
Xue Huan was practically amused by his logic. "You claim you were reincarnated from the evil energy of heaven and earth. You've committed so many evil deeds, you should be sent to the underworld to be punished."
She chanted a spell and drew a line in the air with her finger. A small path leading to the underworld appeared. She flicked her sleeves and pushed the bully ghost in, sending him to hell.
A group of evil spirits that were extremely powerful to the villagers were eliminated just like that.
Xue Huan cast another spell to clear away the eerie, ghostly, and evil spirits in the forest. In an instant, the originally lifeless willow forest seemed to have regained its vitality and became fresh and lovely.
The clear and loud chirping of insects could also be heard in the forest.
After returning to the village, Xue Huan told the old man in the tofu shop that the evil ghost had been eliminated. In the house, the old man heard the noise coming from outside and did not dare to answer, suspecting that it was an evil ghost in disguise.
Xue Huan didn't care. She and Pei Ji took the horse and left. They found a secluded place and entered the space to rest.
That night, the villagers had a rare good night's sleep, and in the following days, no evil spirits came to do evil again.
The old man then believed Xue Huan's words and told the other villagers what had happened.
The villagers were very grateful. Based on the old man's description, they pooled their money to build a statue for Xue Huan and Pei Ji, and worshipped it every day.
But that’s a story for later.
However, Xue Huan and Pei Ji had already arrived in front of a temple.
After the ghost-killing incident in Willow Village, Xue Huan suddenly remembered the ghost with whom she had made a contract - Zheng Yuzhu.
She had previously discovered that the lantern she bought was made of human skin, so she asked Zheng Yuzhu to investigate. However, she had been gone for three years and had not returned yet.
Xue Huan was so busy with various things that she actually forgot about this matter.
She hadn't been back for so long, could something have happened? But if something had happened, as the other party to the contract, she should have sensed it.
She hurriedly immersed her mind into the sea of consciousness. In the sea of consciousness, Zheng Yuzhu, with the contract mark flashing on her forehead, was quietly staying in a corner. Her spiritual consciousness reached out and the moment it touched the mark on her forehead, Zheng Yuzhu's experiences in the past three years unfolded before her eyes.
Xue Huan skipped over the unimportant parts and found that Zheng Yuzhu finally disappeared into a painting.
She never came out again after that.
Following the connection with Zheng Yuzhu, Xue Huan and Pei Ji came to the temple in front of them - the Relic Temple.
Coincidentally, the Five Elements Beads also sensed a force of space, right in this temple!
The temple covers a large area. Xue Huan initially thought that it was a popular temple, but when she got closer, she found that the temple was in a state of disrepair and there were very few pilgrims.
After Xue Huan and Pei Ji entered the temple, they did not immediately go to look for the painting. Instead, they went to see the abbot and stayed there under the pretext of staying overnight.
In Xue Huan's impression, monks are all very kind, but the abbot of the Relic Temple refreshed her understanding of monks.
The host was in his fifties, with a face as fat as a steamed bun and a belly like a watermelon. His eyes did not have the peacefulness of a monk, but instead revealed the greed and greasiness of a stock market profiteer.
When Xue Huan and the other two were led into the meditation room by the young monk, the abbot opened his eyes and looked them up and down. Seeing that they had extraordinary looks and were dressed in brocade and silk, a gleam of light flashed in his eyes.
He turned around and scolded the young monk: "You have no manners! You dare to bring someone in here in the middle of the night without knowing whether it's a human or a ghost? Do you want to kill everyone in the temple?!"
It was only dusk, but he spoke as if it were night. His scolding and lashing out did not seem like that of a host.
The young monk was scolded by him so much that he couldn't even raise his head.
Pei Ji said calmly: "As a monk, please be more virtuous in your speech."
The host was startled when his cold eyes swept over him, and subconsciously did not dare to say anything.
Pei Ji took out a silver ingot and placed it on the table. "The inn is too noisy. My husband and I would like to find a quiet place to stay for the night. This ingot of silver will serve as accommodation and food expenses. I hope the host will be kind enough to help us."
When the abbot saw the bright silver light shining through the silver, his eyes narrowed, and he took it and weighed it, which was about five taels. A smile immediately appeared on his face, and he got down from the meditation bed and slowly bowed to Pei Ji.
"Please forgive me, benefactor. Half a month ago, it was this evil creature who brought in an unruly person. Not only did he eat and stay for a night for free, but he also took away the quilt in the room. It really made me feel heartbroken!"
Pei Ji didn't respond, but said to the young monk, "Little Master, lead the way and take us to the guest house."
The young novice monk glanced at the abbot and, after receiving his approval, said, "Please follow me, my two benefactors."
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