Floating to your side (25)

"I made this lantern in a village several decades ago. I was still young, and it took me a long time to find a perfect family to get the material for the lantern. Although the baby in the wife's belly is still healthy, I already feel that it is the perfect material for my lantern!"

"What do you mean?" Shen Tang listened to what the old man said, and some familiar memories flashed through his mind.

"In order to get the most suitable lantern material, I had to tell that family a little lie," the old man laughed without any guilt. "How ridiculous that family was so ignorant that they actually took my nonsense about the disaster into their ears. But if they didn't believe me, I really wouldn't have gotten the material. Tsk, the lantern can be used until now, it must be of good material."

The village, the rumors, the unborn child... these words strung together made Shen Tang feel more and more familiar.

Shen Tang, who had vaguely guessed something, stared at the old man in front of him, "Then you are really a beast!"

"Beasts? No, I'm doing this for their own good. It was that family that wanted a boy. I was right." The old man stroked the lantern in his hand with satisfaction. "If it weren't for this lantern, I really wouldn't be able to catch so many souls."

"Wait, which village did you get this lantern from?" Shen Tang glared at the man without giving up. If it was really from Gushi Village, then this sorcerer deserved to be put to death!

However, the old man looked at Shen Tang's angry eyes with a sense of excitement. It seemed that the angrier Shen Tang was, the happier he was. After a long while, he slowly spoke, "Since you want to know so much, I'll tell you."

"Didn't you send the ghost baby away with this kid earlier?" Shen Tang froze for a moment when the old man spoke. She squinted at him but didn't ask any questions. She just calmly explained, "It was you who did what happened in Gushi Village. You also know what we did."

"Haha, of course. After all, I was the one who created your ghost doll, so how could I not have cast a curse on it? I wanted to use it to practice the formation, but the curse on it suddenly disappeared, and I knew that someone had sent it away. I happened to be looking for a powerful wandering soul to practice the formation, and your appearance is really a godsend! The evil spirit and soul power of this kid are much stronger than that of the ghost doll! And the lantern in this hand is made of a baby's skin, and it has strong resentment. Coupled with my ancestral formation, how can this kid escape from my palm!" The old man with white hair laughed, and the lantern in his hand trembled wildly with his hand.

The old man's words gradually matched Shen Tang's guesses. There was indeed someone behind the incident. If no one had given him advice, how could the farmers have attacked a pregnant woman based on words?

Shen Tang sneered, "You old bastard, you have lived a long time and your heart is also vicious. But it's still a long way to go for you to completely activate this formation!"

As soon as she finished speaking, she immediately rushed towards the old man in front of her, stretched out her arm to pull the old man's hand, and immediately touched the handle of the lantern. At the same time, the old man also raised his eyebrows and glared at her, increasing the force of his hand to pull the lantern.

"You want to take him away? I tell you, no way!"

The old man held the strange lantern in one hand and quickly reached out his other hand to grope in his pocket. After a moment, he took out a talisman paper and stuck it on Shen Tang's forehead. He also recited a series of spells that she couldn't understand, and finally shouted, "Fixed!"

While the old sorcerer was chanting, "Liu Ling" beside him quickly took the bowl and fork on the table and walked towards Shen Tang. As long as Shen Tang was immobilized, wouldn't it be easy to get her blood? At that time, the blood of the people in the room would open up the formation, and the souls would be thrown into it, which would definitely generate tremendous power!

Shen Tang stared at the hand the old man stretched out. She suddenly smiled and said, "You have a treasure, but I don't have any?"

"What?"

The talisman paper that was about to fly to Shen Tang's forehead was blocked in the air by the talisman bag that the girl quickly took out. Then she bit her fingertips and smeared the blood on the talisman bag. The talisman bag, which was originally shaking and about to fall, actually resisted the talisman paper that carried the magic power of the old sorcerer.

"Fortunately, my grandfather told me in advance that this amulet has other uses, otherwise you would have succeeded." Shen Tangrao smiled with interest.

The power emitted by the talisman paper and the amulet bag collided with each other. The next moment, the huge force generated by the collision hit directly in the direction of the lantern. Before Shen Tang had time to figure out what was happening, she saw that the lantern shell in front of her seemed to become thinner, and she could vaguely see the shadow inside the lantern.

"Wen Ting!" Shen Tang didn't know whether he could hear her or not, but she still shouted loudly. The shadow in the cage seemed to have heard her shout, and moved closer to her, making a slight sound.

"You leave first, I have my own way," Wen Ting's voice was weak, but every word he said was asking Shen Tang to leave first. And after a moment, the cage became thick again, and his voice disappeared in the cage again.

“Oh, I really underestimated you. Since you insist on protecting this wandering soul, I will simply fulfill your wish and let you serve as nourishment for this formation together.” The old man’s face suddenly became ugly, and he stretched out one hand in the direction of “Liu Ling”, “Bring the things to me!”

"Yes, sir." "Liu Ling" smiled faintly, but her fingers clenched involuntarily, and her whole body moved slowly, but she finally brought the thing the old man wanted. It was a dust whisk, which seemed to have been there for some time, and the white silk on it was stained with dust, but the old man took it in his hand and continued to chant a strange spell.

"You must be curious about why my lantern can trap so many wandering souls. Now I will let you see the power of my ancestral formation. Don't you want to send them to reincarnation? I will let you be trapped in the rebirth channel forever until you are refined into a part of my power. This is the real rebirth!"

Shen Tang didn't want to argue with the crazy old man in front of her. Since he said he wanted to trap them in the afterlife passage, didn't that mean the magic circle in the lantern was related to the afterlife passage? But she didn't go back to the ancient temple this time, nor did she pick up the hairpin from the last mission. How could she open the afterlife passage?

"Host, don't go. Your soul in this world is not stable. It would be too dangerous to be taken away." Little Fortune's voice was a little weak, but Shen Tang still heard it clearly.

"What's wrong with you?"

After a long pause, Little Lucky Bag said, "I... I'm fine..."

Shen Tang pursed his lips and suddenly reached out for the amulet in front of him.

"Okay, I understand."

Xiao Fudai thought that Shen Tang was going to run away after listening to him. Before he could be happy, he saw Shen Tang put away the amulet and actively bumped into the sorcerer's dust whisk.

"Host!"

"Whether he is you or not, I will save him." Shen Tang's tone was extremely calm, and she looked at the whisk sweeping towards her without any intention of resisting. As long as it was a magic weapon, there would be an exit, and she never thought that she and Wen Ting would be trapped in it.

"No, you can't get out once you go in!" A female voice suddenly echoed in Shen Tang's ears.

Just when Shen Tang was about to collide with the whisk, a figure holding a vase suddenly came from the side and knocked the whisk to the ground. The vase was also smashed heavily on the old man's head. The whisk did not hit Shen Tang, but hit Liu Ling who was bumping into it.

"Xiao Ling?" Shen Tang stared at the girl in front of her with wide eyes. The reason why she could tell that this was the original Liu Ling was because she had taken out the amulet she had given her at some point, which was stained with blood. The remaining power in the amulet allowed her to suppress the soul back into her body and regain control of her entire body.

"Are you okay?" Liu Ling was trembling with a pale face. The vase in her hand had been broken because it hit the old warlock's head, and the old man was successfully knocked unconscious. "I'm sorry, it's all my fault. If I hadn't had those evil thoughts, this wouldn't have happened..."

"Now is not the time to talk about this. Your soul is floating into the lantern!" Shen Tang tried to grab Liu Ling's soul, but it was useless no matter how he tried. He could only watch her soul move into the lantern.

"There's nothing wrong with this actually. I did something wrong, so let me take the responsibility." Liu Ling looked at her with guilt in her eyes until her entire soul entered the lantern.

"Host, if you really want to save them, you have no choice but to open the real afterlife passage. Although the magic circle in the lantern sends the souls into the afterlife passage, it blocks their entrance to the new world."

"So I must go to the ancient temple during this period and open the real passage to the afterlife?" Shen Tang asked with a frown.

"It's like this," Xiao Fukudai's voice became smaller and smaller, "Host, the system has given me a lot of work to do, I...I..."

It seemed that Xiao Fukudai had run out of strength and couldn't finish his words.

"You should take a rest," Shen Tang said slowly.

Wen Ting, no, or should I say, Li Jin.

While the old man was temporarily knocked unconscious by the vase, the souls of the other people in the house also left their bodies. They gradually woke up and looked at the large table of leftovers in confusion.

"Strange, when did I eat so much?" The person in charge touched the scar on his mouth in confusion, "and even bit the skin."

"Sister, where is your car?" Shen Tang quickly walked over to the person in charge, "I need to borrow your car. By the way, tie up this old man and knock him out when he wakes up, otherwise he might end up like Liu Ling."

Shen Tang swiftly took the car key from the person in charge and walked out of the door quickly. At this time, the people in the house saw Liu Ling who had fainted and the old sorcerer who had been hit on the head and was bleeding.

"No, what is going on?" After a moment, Shen Tang put the wailing of the person in charge behind his mind.

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Fortunately, the person in charge's car was parked not far away, and Shen Tang quickly drove the car back to the mountain where the ancient temple was located. In order to prevent the soul in the lantern from being impacted again, Shen Tang put the lantern on the back seat of the car.

According to her memory, the hairpin was not too far from the ancient well when she completed the mission last time.

As soon as Shen Tang drove to the location, he ran into the ancient temple at high speed. As soon as he ran in, he saw a familiar guy.