Above the source of Tao

"If Senior Sister Chu wants to rescue your mother, just give me a response. I, Yun Changan, will do my best to help."

The diners who entered the tea shop looked at Yun Chang'an as if he were a fool. They wanted to have some dessert early in the morning, but they didn't expect to meet a fool as soon as they entered the door, who was shouting to save his mother.

Yun Chang'an ignored the gazes of the diners around him and said to Senior Sister Chu that these two people had already thrown the sect's rules to the winds.

After Senior Sister Chu thanked Yun Changan, she heard the guests talking about the disappearance of people in the city. Those people were wearing official clothes and looked like clerks in the government office.

They were holding the same sword in their hands, and one of them was holding a scroll. Yun Changan and the others couldn't see the contents clearly, but they presumed it was related to the temple.

So the two of them listened attentively to what these people were talking about. After these petty officials were ordered to seal off the temple, a strange thing happened that night. After dinner at home, they were sitting in the yard, and at that time they saw a dark cloud covering the full moon in the sky.

At this moment, a voice appeared in my mind, speaking words that I could not understand.

At this moment, the pain was excruciating and very painful. After a while, I fainted. When I woke up again, I had fallen in the yard.

At that time, I thought it was because I had been too busy these days and had not gotten enough rest, but when I thought about it carefully, it seemed a little strange.

By then, the dark clouds had dissipated, and the moonlight of the full moon shone on the face of the clerk. I wonder if such a thing has ever happened to you.

When the clerk asked the other people around him whether such a thing had happened around them, those people carefully recalled the strange things that had happened to them in recent days and found that there had indeed been one or two such things.

So he talked about it with his companions, saying that there was indeed a time when he also got a headache when he saw the moonlight at night. They all thought it was a trivial matter and didn't pay much attention to it. But now everyone who has been there has this feeling, so it must be unusual.

Yun Changan and Chu Xiaoxiao listened to the conversation of these people and couldn't help but wonder, is there something sneaky in this temple that can manipulate the minds of mortals?

So without any hesitation, he paid the bill and walked towards the east gate of the city. There was a notice posted at the east gate with more than a dozen hand-drawn portraits of missing people. Below the portraits were the names of those people and their life stories.

Yun Chang'an and Chu Xiaoxiao remembered the dozen missing people without making any expression.

Someone nearby was saying that most of these people had done evil things before they disappeared, which was why they were taken away by the mountain god when they passed by the mountain temple. From then on, they were transferred to hell and punished in Ye.

But Yun Chang'an and the other two did not believe in ghosts or gods. They were people who were seeking the truth. They all kept their original intentions and were seeking the truth and directions.

If there is any suspicion, it must be that there are people who practice evil ways and are capturing mortals here to practice some evil ways.

So the two of them walked out of the city gate and headed towards the distant hill.

"What did you find?"

There was a man dressed in black, reporting something to the person sitting on a chair in the hall.

"No...it seems that these two suddenly appeared in the Ebony Forest and happened to meet Her Highness the Ninth, helping her escape from the mouth of the three evil wolves."

My ninth sister is very lucky to have met such a wonderful person who allowed her to survive. However, these two people are variables. We must find out their origins as soon as possible and kill them so as not to delay the important event that we are waiting for.

The man in black received the order and was about to leave when another man came in and said to the man on the chair, "Those two men went out of the east gate and seemed to be heading towards the mountain temple."

"Oh? That's perfect. Go and inform the old Taoist ghost to send some evil creatures over there to keep the two of them there. I don't want to see them again."

The two men in black received the order and hurriedly left the hall.

"These two really have no choice but to seek death."

The man sitting on the chair snorted coldly, a trace of gloom flashed in his eyes, and his heart suddenly ached. He took out a jade bottle from his sleeve, poured out a black pill of unknown substance, and swallowed it in one gulp. Not long after, bursts of black gas emerged from his body, and then gradually returned to normal. Then he walked out of the room.

At this time, Yun Changan and Chu Xiaoxiao had no idea that they were being targeted.

The mountain temple is located on a hill about ten miles east of the city. It used to be a mass grave. Decades ago, due to years of war in the dynasty, countless civilians and soldiers were killed and injured, and dealing with the corpses became a difficult task.

So, someone suggested choosing a place, digging a huge pit and burying all the dead people.

It just so happened that this place was originally an iron mine. After several dynasties of iron mining, it had become an empty hill, so we chose this place.

This was originally a group of peaks connected to the big mountains behind. It was only after the iron ore was discovered by accident that it was mined by the people of Chuwang City. Then a war broke out, and this turned into a mass grave.

The mountain temple was built on a mountain behind the mass grave, on the hillside.

As sunset approached, Yun Chang'an and the other man arrived at the mass grave. It seemed that this was the cemetery outside the city of Chu. The man in the city said that the next hill beyond the mass grave was the location of the mountain temple.

As we approached the mass grave, we saw only some weeds growing wildly. Since no one came to weed, the grass here grew dense and tall, about ten feet high.

"Senior Sister Chu, do you smell a bloody smell?"

After Yun Chang'an converted his vital energy into vital liquid, his body underwent obvious changes, especially his five senses, which became sharper than before. His eyes could see very far, and the most prominent one was his nose, which could smell unusual smells from a hundred meters away.

"Now that you mention it, it seems like there is some smell in the air."

Following the smell in the air, Yun Chang'an soon found the source of the smell. It was a corpse, like someone who had just died, but it didn't seem like an accident. Yun Chang'an walked closer to check. The man was in a very horrible state, with a hideous face and eyes wide open, looking at something unknown.

Yun Chang'an sniffed carefully, and a smell that made him extremely disgusted rushed into his nose.

"It's the smell of those three wolves!"

Yun Changan took a few steps back and spoke to Chu Xiaoxiao.

Could it be that all the missing people in the city met the three wolves? Yun Changan was puzzled and frowned. It looked like this man didn't seem to have been bitten, but more like he was injured by a knife.

Were the three wolves controlled by someone? Who was controlling the three wolves?

Yun Chang'an and Chu Xiaoxiao were full of doubts, but they didn't know why yet, so they could only take it one step at a time.

"It seems that this mission is not easy."

Chu Xiaoxiao stared at the mass grave and couldn't help but mutter.

The two were very alert. Ever since they left the city gate and walked here, they felt that something was watching them from behind. Especially when they came here, this feeling became stronger.