A month ago, Hu Sanniang came to Shi Xiong's house excitedly to attend the wedding. After arriving at Jiyun Mountain, Shi Xiong's base camp, Shi Xiong said that his youngest son had gone to pick up the bride, and the wedding could not be held until the bride was brought back to Jiyun Mountain.
Hu Sanniang didn't care. After all, attending the wedding was secondary. The main thing was to meet old friends. As long as Shi Xiong was there, who cared where his kid was?
In this way, Hu Sanniang settled down in Jiyun Mountain. Every day, after Shi Xiong finished his work, he would chat with Hu Sanniang and ask about her recent situation.
Hu Sanniang and Shi Xiong had always had a good relationship. Now that she recognized Zhou Yuanyuan as her master, there was no need to hide the fact from Shi Xiong, so she told Shi Xiong frankly that she was a cultivator's pet.
Shi Xiong was horrified and told Hu Sanniang that she shouldn't have made such a rash decision. For a demon like them, accepting a monk as their master meant they lost their freedom and their control over life and death. There weren't many demons left in the world, and Hu Sanniang's "humiliation" made Shi Xiong feel unable to accept it.
However, seeing that Hu Sanniang looked like she had gotten a good deal, Shi Xiong did not say any more words of persuasion. After all, they were just friends and could not make decisions for each other, not to mention that Hu Sanniang had already signed a contract with the cultivator. Whatever Shi Xiong said now would make Hu Sanniang in a bad mood.
Shi Xiong asked Hu Sanniang to stay in Jiyun Mountain for a few more days, just to relax.
Hu Sanniang readily agreed.
Ever since Hu Sanniang was injured, she'd been fretting over her injuries, running around looking for a way to heal them. Five hundred years ago, even if a demon had sustained multiple serious injuries, they could simply buy a healing pill from a cultivator, and any internal injuries wouldn't be a problem.
For the past hundred years, for some unknown reason, all the immortal cultivation sects had retreated into seclusion, as if by agreement. Hu Sanniang had run far and wide, but hadn't found a single cultivator. Not to mention elixirs, even if she'd wanted to become a cultivator's spirit pet, she couldn't find one. Naturally, her internal injuries only grew worse.
Hu Sanniang remembered what her grandmother had said: they were from the Qingqiu fox clan, followers of the ancient gods, and they must never do anything that would harm the human world and bring shame to their ancestors.
Even when she was on the verge of death, Hu Sanniang never thought of sucking the souls of mortals.
After following Zhou Yuanyuan, nourished by the spiritual energy she gleaned from her training, Hu Sanniang's injuries gradually eased. A grateful person, Hu Sanniang knew Zhou Yuanyuan's skill didn't require her help in combat, so she focused her attention solely on helping Zhao Yunxiang. Knowing the importance Zhao Yunxiang held in Zhou Yuanyuan's heart, Hu Sanniang wanted to help her expand her career as a way of repaying Zhou Yuanyuan.
Hu Sanniang played a significant role in building Zhao Yunxiang's clothing business from scratch. Over the years, Hu Sanniang's spirit has been tense, fearing that she would do something wrong and make Zhou Yuanyuan dislike her.
It was a rare holiday, and with good friends entertaining her, Hu Sanniang didn't care about whether there was a wedding banquet or not. She just relaxed and spent the holiday well in Jiyun Mountain.
Three days ago, Shi Xiong came to Hu Sanniang excitedly and said that he would take Hu Sanniang to a good place.
Hu Sanniang did not suspect any trickery and followed Shi Xiong to Cuiyuan Village. As soon as she arrived at the village entrance, she was stunned by the black air covering the sky above the village.
It was night, and the villagers of Cuiyuan Village had already fallen asleep. A thick black aura swirled above the village, a sign of an evil spirit.
Hu Sanniang is the ancestor of illusion. In her "eyes that can break the miasma", there is a small group of foreign souls living in the soul of each villager. What horrifies Hu Sanniang is that these foreign souls seem to have separated from a large group of entities. They use the souls of the villagers as their nutrients and slowly grow stronger.
Who was so bold as to use the soul-nourishing technique on a mortal? Hu Sanniang was horrified.
Hu Sanniang was a man of great experience, so she naturally knew the power of the Soul Cultivation Technique. In ancient times, a cultivator who practiced the Soul Cultivation Technique achieved the power of a Nascent Soul cultivator, even at the Foundation Establishment stage. Had his practice not been exposed and he been surrounded and killed by righteous cultivators, who knows what kind of evil he would have become.
How did the people of Cuiyuan Village attract such an evil star? After the villagers' souls are slowly absorbed by the alien soul, their souls will return to their original bodies, and these villagers will become the walking dead, causing trouble for the people.
Isn't it Shi Xiong's duty to protect this land? How come Shi Xiong only found out about such a big thing now?
When Hu Sanniang thought of this, she held back the blame that was about to come out of her mouth and glanced at Shi Xiong.
"Sanniang, these souls are no longer pure. Let's share them half each!" Shi Xiong thought that Hu Sanniang's look was asking him how to "divide the spoils", and said excitedly.
"Stone Bear, what are you talking about?" Hu Sanniang was speechless. In these Hundred Thousand Mountains, Stone Bear had the authority to execute any trespassing ghost. After these villagers were used as a cauldron to nourish their souls, Stone Bear's duty was to nip any danger in the bud before they mutated. Actually, there was nothing inappropriate about Stone Bear devouring their souls. However, Hu Sanniang felt a sense of unease, as if she had overlooked something.
"Sanniang, you're welcome. Aren't you injured? These souls can heal you. I haven't tasted such delicious food in hundreds of years." Shi Xiong, thinking Hu Sanniang was embarrassed, quickly explained. Remembering the time he devoured a polluted soul hundreds of years ago, Shi Xiong couldn't help but drool. For the bear demon clan, ghosts and the like are a great tonic!
"Shi Xiong, you didn't invite me here just because of these spirits, did you? So you knew something was wrong with this village a month ago?" Hu Sanniang was shocked when she heard this. She finally remembered that Shi Xiong had eagerly invited her to his wedding a month ago, and nothing happened after she arrived. Only today did he ask her to join him in feeding on the living souls. Could it be that Shi Xiong had deliberately sent these foreign spirits here, just so he could enjoy a "feast" in public?
"This... why would I do this?" Shi Xiong felt a little guilty. The ghost was indeed from outside, but more than a month ago, only one person in Cuiyuan Village was treated as a soul breeder. Shi Xiong had delayed the matter so that all the villagers would be possessed by the ghost and have a full meal today.
"Shi Xiong, you disappoint me so much. I considered you a good friend, but you actually did something so heartless." Hu Sanniang saw Shi Xiong's guilty look and assumed that he had done it. Hu Sanniang was heartbroken. Fairy cultivation was not easy, and every step was extremely difficult. If Shi Xiong did something to nourish his soul and eat himself just to satisfy his own appetite, he would surely be destroyed by the heavenly calamity. She, Hu Sanniang, didn't have many friends in this world, and she really didn't want to lose another one.
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