Chapter 293 Evil Object
"Love spell? What does that mean?" Jiang Ruzhen asked hurriedly, confused.
Jin Sheng said with a grave expression, "This is a kind of evil magic used by the sorcerers of the Southern Yue people. They use incantations and rituals to implant a kind of Gu worm into a person's body."
Make him fall deeply in love with you and obey your every word.
Upon hearing the words "sorcerer," Jiang Ruzhen swayed and nearly fell over.
Even though she was just an ordinary citizen, she had heard of the illustrious reputation of those three words in various novels in later generations.
This is a type of evil magic that has been practiced in Southeast Asia.
Fantasy novels often depict Chinese immortal masters battling evil sorcerers from surrounding countries and defeating them.
I never imagined that such a thing actually exists in real life.
Xiao He quickly caught her, saying, "Junior Sister, hold on. This evil spell can be broken."
"It can be solved, really?" Jiang Ruzhen instantly regained her senses and stared at Jin Sheng expectantly.
Jin Sheng pondered for a moment and nodded.
“My cultivation is not enough right now, but my third senior brother definitely knows a way. The most important thing right now is how we can hold out until my third senior brother arrives without anyone noticing.”
After the three finished their discussion, dawn broke quickly.
Jiang Ruzhen glanced unconsciously through the window toward the backyard gate.
A headless chicken bone and several yellow paper talismans appeared at the door of the east room, and she nervously swallowed.
I wonder if the formation my senior brothers set up overnight can trap that woman for a while.
The thick morning fog seemed to come alive, enveloping me and sending chills down my spine.
In the distance, low roars and mournful cries from the riverbank intertwined in the mist, sending chills down one's spine.
At this moment, Jin Sheng was wearing a yellow Taoist robe, flicking a whisk in his left hand, chanting a spell that only he could understand towards the backyard, and the peach wood sword in his hand gleamed with a faint blue light under the moonlight.
Xiao He, with a grim expression, took out some strange objects and bottles of unknown liquid from his backpack, ready for battle.
A cool breeze blew by, carrying with it the distant barking of dogs, and the yellow talisman paper floating by the doorway swayed a few times in the wind.
The sound of shattering glass could be heard intermittently from the mountain village.
An inexplicable sense of tension filled the air.
The village was unusually quiet. There was no children's laughter, nor any wisps of smoke from yesterday evening's dinner. Only an indescribable sense of emptiness permeated the surroundings, as if the entire village had lost its vitality.
Jiang Ruzhen sensed that something was wrong, and she hoped that someone would suddenly appear and say hello.
But when she pushed open the door, she found that the door to the east room was already wide open, and the village chief and his family had vanished without a trace.
Just then, Jin Sheng seemed to sense a subtle energy fluctuation in the surrounding air.
He quickly took out paper and pen, dipped his finger in ink, and wrote rapidly on the paper, drawing a complex array of spells.
Xiao He also clasped his hands together and whispered a purification prayer, trying to dispel the evil spirits around him.
Jiang Ruzhen watched nervously as several yellow talismans floated in the air, when suddenly they began to burst open one by one.
In the thick fog, a plump woman's figure suddenly appeared, her ten fingers extending out as sharp claws, reaching for Jiang Ruzhen's face.
"careful!"
Jin Sheng flicked the dust and pulled Jiang Ruzhen back, then slashed at the fat woman with his peach wood sword in his right hand.
"ah--"
A scream that was neither human nor ghostly rang out, and Jiang Ruzhen seemed to have suffered a severe head injury, immediately becoming dazed and confused.
"Hide."
Upon hearing Xiao He's startled cry, Jiang Ruzhen snapped back to reality and instantly flashed into the spatial dimension.
The fat woman instantly lost her target, and her sharp claws immediately attacked Jin Sheng and Xiao He.
The whisk and peach wood sword in Jin Sheng's hands are quite special; they were given to him by his senior brother as protective treasures.
He and Xiao He worked in perfect harmony; he continuously attacked with spells, while Xiao He kept throwing his treasure at the fat woman.
Jiang Ruzhen only saw clearly after returning to the space that the fat woman was surrounded by a cloud of black energy.
It looked like a demon crawling out of hell, with bloodshot eyes and a gaping maw, its tongue and teeth black.
She can't even be called a human being in this state.
She was locked in combat with her two senior brothers for over an hour, but seemed unable to gain any advantage.
The surrounding fog gradually deepened, and Jin Sheng and Xiao He felt their bodies getting colder and colder.
Knowing that a prolonged battle was not advisable, the two suddenly attacked together, their swords slicing across the fat woman's chest.
The fat woman let out a scream, then feinted firing a shot before turning and fleeing.
The fog had thickened to such an extent that one could not see their own hand in front of their face.
Jin Sheng had no choice but to stand back to back with Xiao He and take out his compass to determine the direction.
"She must have run to the river."
Xiao He said, "Then what should we do? Should we chase after her or wait for our third senior brother to come looking for us?"
Before the words were even finished, several shadowy figures, moving with the speed of leopards, rushed towards the two from the dark, thick fog.
Jin Sheng and Xiao He tried to resist, but the figures were extremely fast, leaving several deep scratch marks on the two of them before disappearing in an instant.
"Senior brothers, you should come in and hide for a bit."
Jiang Ruzhen reached out and grabbed her two senior brothers into her spatial dimension.
Jin Sheng and Xiao He frowned as they looked down at their wounds. "What on earth is that? How can it be so fast?"
"And the fact that they could easily scratch us shows that they must also be some kind of evil creature."
A gentle morning breeze swept through, carrying with it the smell of rotting wood from the village and the stench of decay wafting from the river, filling the space with its aroma.
All three people simultaneously felt dizzy.
They quickly sat down in the spiritual spring pool. Only by soaking in the spiritual spring pool could they clear their minds and resist the illusion of wanting to fall asleep.
In the silence, all three of them simultaneously felt an invisible call drawing them in.
They tried to resist this mysterious power, but Jin Sheng and Xiao He, having cultivated before, were able to resist it.
But Jiang Ruzhen couldn't resist the temptation, and her consciousness involuntarily followed the direction of the temptation, manipulating space to drift away from the village.
We gradually approached the river outside the village.
"Junior Sister, Junior Sister, stop!" A thunderous voice rang in Jiang Ruzhen's ears.
Jiang Ruzhen shuddered and immediately stopped the operation of the space.
She exclaimed in surprise, "Senior brother, what kind of power is this? How can it bewitch even me in this space?"
Jin Sheng gritted his teeth and said, "It seems that there is a very powerful formation in this village. If we don't break this formation, I'm afraid we won't be able to defeat that fat woman."
"But how exactly do we find this key point of the formation?" Xiao He asked with a worried expression.
Jiang Ruzhen peered out into the space and suddenly a large tree by the river caught her attention.
The ancient tree's surface was tinged with an unnatural blood-red color, and its massive canopy stretched halfway along the shore and half over the water.
What made her even more uneasy was that the tree was covered with fluttering red ribbons, each with strange symbols drawn on it.
In her eyes, these fluttering red ribbons seemed to transform into alluring hands.
It was as if a series of beautiful young women were beckoning to her, "Come, come, come to us..."
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