Secular world: My destiny has no taboos

Chapter 139: Mouse Wedding
"I'll take you."

In the night, the Taoist priest in dog skin slowly turned around, leaving Lin Beixuan with a back covered with pus-filled sores. He walked ahead with his body hunched.

Lin Beixuan narrowed his eyes and followed slowly.

During the period, the two did not say much. One was in front and the other was behind, walking quietly on the mountain road.

There was indeed a lot of miasma in the mountains at night as the other party had said before. Large groups of miasma filled the woods, like monsters covered with gauze. They would follow behind people with the wind created by their feet, looking particularly weird.

The infant spirit followed the traces left by Lin Beixuan, holding a few bloody pale fingers in its hand. Occasionally, it put one into its mouth and chewed it with a crackling sound, as if it was chewing on crispy bones.

As the two passed by a pond, the air suddenly became cold and damp. Although it was almost summer, there was white frost on the ground that only forms in winter.

The white frost scattered on the ground like needles, covering the area around the pool, and the flowers, plants and trees were mixed with a little silver. Although it looked beautiful, everyone knew that there was definitely something wrong with this place.

"People in our village call this place Jingshuang Pond. There is an ice dragon in the pond. Once you get close to it, you will be frozen by the cold air and eventually dragged into the water and become food for the ice dragon." Taoist Goupi explained without even turning his head.

Upon hearing this, Lin Beixuan looked into the pool and saw that the water was deep and the surface of the pool was calm without even a splash of water.

"Jiao?"

"It's called a dragon, but in fact it's just a larger python. It's trapped in a deep pool and can't even use its ability to swim." The dog-skinned Taoist sneered.

The two were speechless again as they walked out of the pool and passed a slope covered with rocks and dead trees. At the end of the slope was a ruined temple.

Lin Beixuan looked up and saw a wedding banner hanging in front of the dilapidated temple. Fruits and vegetables on wooden trays were placed in front of the temple. Under the withered branches, the heads of several wild animals were hanging upside down.

At this time, the five rats in his arms poked their heads out and sniffed in the direction of the ruined temple, as if they had discovered something familiar.

Taoist Goupi looked at the temple and sighed, "This temple once enshrined a land goddess, and it used to be quite popular. A few decades ago, the imperial court drove all the people on the mountain to the county below the mountain, and the temple fell into disrepair. Now, the old man Gray is offering gifts to propose marriage to her."

"The gray fairy from the five great immortals' family?" Lin Beixuan asked.

"That's right. These rats have been breeding in Wumeng Mountain for hundreds of years. After they became powerful, they followed the example of the other immortals and formed gangs and factions. They set up a 'Hai'er Village' and united the rat spirits from several hills. It is considered the largest force besides Qingyun Village."

"Can you tolerate them developing right under the nose of Qingyun Village?"

Taoist Goupi smiled and shrugged nonchalantly: "Why not? Compared to them, how long have we been in Qingyun Village? Besides, they have never picked a fight with us. We are all honest and can even trade some supplies occasionally."

As soon as he finished speaking, Lin Beixuan saw a group of mice lined up in a row, with people beating gongs and drums in the front, a few strong gray mice in the middle carrying a big red wedding sedan, and many others following in groups behind.

The mice walked to the front of the temple and stopped in an orderly manner. The leader, with a red hydrangea hanging on his chest, walked forward and knocked on the dilapidated temple door like a scholar.

Not long after, the temple door was opened from the inside, and several female ghosts in white clothes floated out, grinning at Rat Prince.

Seeing this, Mr. Mouse returned the greeting very kindly, took out a few fruits from his arms and handed them to the female ghost.

After the female ghost took it, she smiled and let the rat man into the temple.

There was music outside the temple, and it looked very festive. The sound came into Lin Beixuan's ears through the breeze, and he couldn't help but want to celebrate with them.

When Rat Prince came out again, there was a broken stone statue of a woman on its back. The statue was the same size as Rat Prince, with a dignified appearance, but one of its arms was broken.

"The bride is out!" The dog-skin Taoist applauded and celebrated. His applause naturally attracted the attention of the gray fairies. After the Rat Prince put the bride into the wedding sedan, he gave a few instructions to the two mice beside him and then greeted them from a distance.

The two mice who were ordered ran over hurriedly and bowed to the Taoist Dog Skin.

"My two masters, my husband invites you to his house for a drink of wedding wine."

Taoist Goupi glanced at Lin Beixuan, smiled and shook his head: "We appreciate your kindness, sir, but we still have things to do tonight, so we won't bother you anymore!"

The dog-skinned Taoist took out two gold ingots from his arms and handed them over in his palm.

"Since we are seeing a happy event, please don't be polite."

Seeing this, Lin Beixuan also took out some incense money from his Baina Qiankun bag and handed it to the two gray mice.

The sudden gift caught the two gray mice off guard. They looked at each other, not knowing what to do.

They were just following instructions to invite people to the wedding, but they didn't expect to accept the other party's gifts for unknown reasons, so they hurried back to tell Mr. Rat.

When Rat Lord saw his subordinate coming over with two gold ingots and a bag of incense money, he was also surprised. After learning what happened, he immediately looked up, but the two people who were originally standing on the hillside were gone. Only five mice of different colors were looking at him with smiles on their faces.

Of course, it is best for the Gray Fairies to drink the wedding wine with their own kind.

……

"I didn't expect that Young Master Lin actually raised five spirit rats." The Dog-skin Taoist exclaimed softly.

In the secular world, people often raise exotic beasts, but those spirits with souls are difficult to cultivate. The main reason is that once they have gained intelligence, their mentality is no different from that of humans. If you want to subdue a spirit with intelligence, it is like asking someone to be your servant for no reason. Who would be willing to do that?
Moreover, from his eyes, one could see the spiritual light of the Five Rats looming, which showed that he was definitely following the orthodox path of incense and incense, not a wild cultivator following the path of the Five Immortal Families.

"It's just an unexpected gain." Lin Beixuan said modestly.

Upon hearing this, Taoist Goupi nodded and said nothing more.

Then they walked a lot on the mountain roads until the sky began to brighten. Lin Beixuan found that the ground under his feet gradually began to turn blue-black.

Not long after, a gloomy valley appeared before our eyes not far ahead.

Why expose?

That's because there is almost no dense vegetation outside this valley. A few withered trees stand in twisted postures. There are jagged rocks inside, and the ground is charred black as if it has been constantly struck by lightning. The whole valley is so bare to the eye.

However, all this is just appearance.

When Lin Beixuan stepped one foot into it, a prompt immediately came from the panel in his mind.

[You have entered a special area: Black Evil Valley. ]

[The map of the evil spirits is opened, and the information of the Black Evil Valley is successfully unlocked. 】

[Black Evil Valley: Once a battlefield of war, tens of thousands of unyielding souls are buried there. The ground veins have turned negative, the feng shui has turned evil, and it breeds extremely evil spirits.]

(End of this chapter)