Above the source of Tao

into the night.

Yun Chang'an and Chu Xiaoxiao have arrived at a forest outside the mountain temple.

"We're almost there. The mountain temple is not far ahead."

At this time, Chu Xiaoxiao was observing the surrounding environment. There was an atmosphere in the air that made them very uncomfortable. The mountain temple not far away exuded a faint ghostly atmosphere.

As we approached the mountain temple, we discovered that the entire temple had fallen into disrepair due to its age. There were weeds growing along the earthen walls outside the temple, and the road in front of the gate, paved with lime and rubble, had become dilapidated because no one had repaired it. There were also old scars from swords and knives on the walls, and more than half of the temple wall on the west had collapsed.

The green bricks and tiles on the eaves also looked desolate and dilapidated. Due to long-term exposure to sunlight, the green bricks and tiles had faded their original color and revealed an earthy green color.

Yun Chang'an and Chu Xiaoxiao approached the mountain temple. The gravel under their feet made a crackling sound as they squeezed it. The sound was out of place in this quiet mountain temple.

Pushing open the door of the mountain temple, there was a scene of overgrown weeds inside. The temple was covered with thick dust and spider webs. Looking closely, there were some dead bodies of small insects on the spider webs. It should be that the spider that made the web had not had time to devour its dinner, so it was eaten by other predators.

There were several big locust trees planted on both sides of the mountain temple, but they had already died and rotted long ago, leaving only the dry trunks guarding the temple, and there was no life around it.

Yun Chang'an pushed open the door of the main house. The door had become very fragile due to years of disrepair. In an instant, the door turned into a pile of broken wood. When he walked in, he saw that the inside was also dilapidated, with flying dust and dense cobwebs.

Opposite the door is a mountain spirit god, a mountain god from the mortal world, with a human face and a monkey body, covered with long black hair, a long and big head, a short tail, black eyes, a dark red nose, blue-purple cheeks, some wrinkles at the corners of his eyes, and an extremely ugly appearance.

His deep black eyes were fixed on where Yun Chang'an was standing, glaring angrily.

"This is the Mountain Spirit God."

Yun Chang'an had heard about this mountain god from his grandfather before. Legend has it that this mountain god can speak human language, is proficient in transformation, can lift a mountain with one force, and likes to eat fish, especially the delicious longmen fish.

The Longmen Fish is also a legendary fish. Once upon a time, a genius appeared in the Longmen Fish clan. In the sea of ​​​​sky, there was a Dragon Gate. As long as someone crossed the Dragon Gate, he could become a god. The genius relied on his own perseverance and failed tens of millions of times in front of the Dragon Gate. Finally one day, he crossed the Dragon Gate in one fell swoop and became a god.

The mountain spirit clan was driven back into the Wasabi Mountain, and they never dared to come out again.

Of course, this is just a myth among mortals, and no one has ever seen the so-called Dragon Gate Fish, so mortals only treat it as a casual conversation after dinner or tea.

"Yun boy, someone is coming."

Fairy Shichen, who had been silent for a long time, spoke up to remind Yun Changan that Sister Shichen had been nourishing her soul in the Netherworld Tree these days and had been in a light sleep, so she had not come out.

"Sister Shichen, are you awake? Is there anyone outside?"

After getting Hua Shichen's confirmation, he told Chu Xiaoxiao.

After thinking for a moment, Chu Xiaoxiao decided to hide and wait and see what the situation was. Maybe it was the person behind the scenes.

So the two of them used the invisibility technique to hide their bodies and breath, jumped onto the beams, and waited for the person to come.

Soon, a fat man with rich clothes and an embroidered brocade hat appeared, followed by a woman who seemed to be his wife, also dressed in rich clothes.

I saw the two men running in hurriedly from outside, holding a package in their hands. The package was bulging and I didn't know what was inside.

Then, the two men were seen kneeling in front of the mountain spirit statue, speaking in a terrified tone.

"Don't blame me, Mountain God. We were confused for a moment and took your treasure. Now I will return it to you. Please don't harm the lives of my family."

Yun Changan heard from the fat man that he was a pastry merchant in the south of the city, named Manager Sun. Half a year ago, he went to other cities to buy goods. When he came back, he passed by here and wanted to rest before going into the city. But when he was resting here, he found something in this side hall.

Yun Chang'an followed the direction in which Manager Sun was speaking and saw the small door of the side hall.

Out of curiosity, he opened the wooden box on the table in the side hall and saw a golden statue and several jade bottles. He became greedy and took away everything in the wooden box.

But ever since Manager Sun took the treasures from the temple back, strange things happened in the family one after another. People in the family fell ill one after another. Many doctors were consulted, but none of them could figure out what the disease was. Until a month later, all the sick people in the family died one after another, and their deaths were miserable. Manager Sun was panicked.

They did not dare to report the incident to the authorities, so they buried the dead servants in a mass grave under the cover of night. However, they were unable to prevent deaths.

After that, anyone who passed by the mountain temple would mysteriously disappear. Seeing that more and more people were missing, the government was alerted, so the government also sent people to look for the missing people. When there was no result, the people in the dynasty contacted the Shangyang Sect. Only then did Chu Xiaoxiao take over the task.

A few days ago, Manager Sun sent his servant here to check out the situation, but he didn't expect that when the servant came back, his eyes were dull and there was something silver in his eyes covering his eyeballs. He looked very scary, and soon he vomited black blood and died suddenly.

Shopkeeper Sun was completely panicked and didn't know what to do. When he didn't know what to do, his wife persuaded Shopkeeper Sun to dispose of the body of the servant and then report to the police that one of her servants was missing. The matter was left unresolved.

But he could not resist the death of a sick person in his family, so he decided to return the golden statue.

This is how the current scene came about.

But just when Yun Chang'an and the other two were about to go down and ask for clarification, they heard Hua Shichen say to Yun Chang'an that there were some dangerous auras lingering outside the temple.

So, he told Chu Xiaoxiao that he decided to keep his troops in place for the time being and wait and see how the situation develops. Maybe he could find out who is behind this and is harming people.

Not long after, Yun Chang'an and the others saw that Shopkeeper Sun opened the package he had brought with him, and a very strange sculpture came into view.

The sculpture seemed not to be of this world. At least Yun Changan had never seen such a strange thing. The sculpture looked like a human but was different from a human. The ferocious beast under the feet of the strange man was also different from the Yuan beast in this world.

In their knowledge, the appearance of this thing has never appeared in this world.