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The black silk on Cangu's body gradually fell off, replaced by balls of white fluff like foam.There are about a thousand pompoms at the bottom layer, forming a fat ring. The other pompoms are layered on top of each other, and finally they are more than ten feet high, like a giant python lying on its back.On the top of the pom-pom is a woman's head, with white skin, moth eyebrows and cherry mouth, hair in a chignon, with colorful jade hairpins inserted obliquely, it is extraordinarily glamorous and moving.

"Silkworm?" Brother Mei called out tentatively.

The pompom trembled slightly, exuding a sweet and greasy fragrance.Cangu slowly opened her eyes, frowned, and looked around, "Where am I?"

"The Temple of Kek Lok." Mago replied.

"Ji-le-si?" Cangu murmured with a puzzled expression.Suddenly his face changed drastically, his face was ferocious, and he asked, "Where is the mud ghost now?"

No one in the hall responded.

Unable to get an answer, Can Gu became more and more frantic, "Where is it?"

"Boom-boom-"

Cangu's pompom body suddenly began to burst, and thick white juice flowed out. The juice flowed down along the gap and gathered in the center three meters above the ground.

Cangu was in unbearable pain, and small red dots appeared on her originally pretty face. Cangu's flower body was completely covered by the dense red dots, like a skinned specimen.

The gathered juice began to boil and roll, and a thick mist rose. The hanging pompom fur began to change under the influence of the mist, and finally turned into egg-sized human heads and skeletons.Thousands of skeletons rang together, and the hall was suddenly filled with grim laughter of 'quack quack'.

"Mud ghost, mud ghost, mud..."

Can Gu's heart-piercing shouts wafted over the hall and disappeared soon after.

"Who is the mud ghost?" Lu Ming looked at the round table with skeletons in front of him, and touched his cheek unconsciously.

"It should be the Yin thing that set up the formation to continue her life." Han Xi recalled what he saw when he first entered the cave, and said, "Do you still remember the seven-star pattern in the trapezoidal groove when we came in? If I didn't guess Wrong, it should be the Seven-Star Big Dipper Formation, and the seven corpses in the cave correspond to this formation, dispelling the evil spirit of wronged souls. With the blessing of silk, you can continuously take away the lifespan of others and continue your own life."

"I remember that there was a skeleton on the ground that was obviously bigger than the others. Why?" Li Hong scratched at his hair indiscriminately, very puzzled.

"The other six are boys, and the other one should be..." Han Xi paused for a moment, raised his brows, and said in a daze, "Cangu. The so-called seven-star energy forms a star, gathers on the top of the head, and gathers Cangu The bones of the dead are placed on the top so that they can receive their seven souls and prolong their lives."

"No, no, no. Excluding Cangu's bones, there are only six left, where is the seventh..." Li Hong slapped his forehead, and suddenly realized, "The one in the rock wall!"

"Well, that's the seventh one, the skeleton of the mud ghost." Just as Han Xi finished speaking, Li Hong and Lu Ming exclaimed in unison.

Li Hong was particularly surprised, trembling even when he spoke, "You mean, the mud ghost, it uses itself to continue Cangu's life?"

"Well... that's right, not all of it." Han Xi rubbed his fingers, his expression very serious, "The skeleton in the rock wall has very few bones, and there are iron nails on it. I think it's because he was tied up before his death." Hanging with both feet upside down, nailing iron nails into the thighs as talismans, and then cutting off the thighs from the nails, so that the bones will look like that."

"You're right." A childish voice came from the Arhat Hall on the left, "I was still alive at that time, they sealed me in clay and put me in the Cangu Temple for worship, don't you think it's ridiculous, hahaha ——" The sixteen arhats laughed wildly at the same time, and the hall was shaken violently.

"What is your purpose for doing this? Why do you have to kill so many innocent children?" Although Lu Ming sympathized with what happened to the mud ghost, his brutal approach still makes people shudder.

"You really don't understand the situation!" A wind blade hit, and Lu Ming was knocked to the ground with a blood-red finger print on his face.

Han Xi hurried forward to check the scar on Lu Ming's face, but fortunately it was not serious, "It's a villain's act to hide, why don't you show up and see it." He wished to tear the mud ghost into pieces.

Suddenly a gust of wind blew from the Arhat Hall, and a lacquered figure barely stopped in front of Han Xi, meeting his eyes. "You want to see me?" A pair of big emerald eyes stared straight at Han Xi, very cruel.

Han Xi raised his hand and was dodged by the mud ghost.The mist-like lacquered body slowly became full, and finally turned into a dark child.The child's chest was cut vertically, and it was stuffed with spoiled silk. It was all gone from the bottom of the thigh, and it was not enough to reach Han Xi's waist when standing on the ground.

The mud ghost's face has only one pair of eyes, and the rest of the facial features are sewn tightly with silk thread. It trembles with the silk in its chest and makes a sound, looking very miserable.

"The Buddha said that chanting the Buddha becomes a Buddha, and chanting the devil becomes a devil. Cause and effect are not empty. I originally sought goodness, but ended up like this. Sure enough, the Buddha will not save me..."

"You killed so many people, and you still say you are good?" Mei Ge at the side couldn't listen to his nonsense, and just wanted to send him to hell as soon as possible.

"Hehehe——" The mud ghost's chest shook violently, and he taunted, "Cruel? These children were donated to me by their parents. There are [-] of them. I remember everyone's name!"

The mud ghost took off a skull from the round skull platform, and his face was extremely gentle, "He is called Xiaoyan, he was born unable to speak, and often came to play with me in the Cangu Temple. I thought his family was poor, so I gave him a piece of silver every day." .”

The mud ghost turned his eyes to the front, and said in a cold tone, "Do you know what happened next?"

"His dear relatives smothered him alive and gave him to be my playmate, just for those ingots of silver!" The mud ghost shook his whole body, "Do you want to know what they said in front of me?"

Without waiting for everyone's reaction, the mud ghost imitated Xiao Yan's parents and said, "Daxian, I will give you Yan'er and serve you by your side. Don't dislike him for not being able to speak, he is very good."

"Yes, yes. Immortal, you just look at Yan'er's face and bless our family to be rich and powerful. It would be even better if we can have an official, hehehe."

"Hahaha—fame and fortune are floating clouds, why some people just can't see through it?" The mud ghost wiped the surface of the skull and put him back.

"Do you still want to continue listening to the story?" The mud ghost took off the other skull and said slowly, "She is a beautiful little girl who wears two braids every day and wears a pink floral dress. She looks quiet, but she is actually very naughty. The mud ghost seemed to recall some beautiful pictures, and the corners of her eyes narrowed slightly, "She often called me ugly and asked me why I was so dark. Hehehe, I said that I have been in the mud for too long, and my body is slowly rotting away. Even the bones were corroded to black. She looked at me with tears in her eyes and said that I was very pitiful and wanted to introduce her friend to me, and I said yes..."

The mud ghost paused, feeling a little sentimental, "All five people died, I killed them." We will definitely be implicated if we are entangled by a mud ghost who serves silkworms." Their parents pulled their hair He brought it up in front of me and slashed at the neck."

Listening to the mud ghost's narration, Lu Ming and the others felt overwhelmed.

"I made [-] mistakes, and every time someone died because of me. If the Buddha doesn't let me go, I will do it myself. This Kek Lok Si Temple is a prison to wash away all my sins!"

"Where is Silkworm? Why drag her into the water, she is a god, you are not afraid of being punished by heaven!" Mei Ge was emotional, he did not expect the story behind the mud ghost to be so tragic.

"Hmph, helping the evil! In vain I have served her for many years and tried my best to help those murderers escape. Is this what a god should do?" The mud ghost widened his eyes, and his gentle face just now turned ferocious and ugly. .

"What did you do to their parents?" Han Xi was sure that he would not let those "murderers" go easily.

"Of course it's to make them lose their souls, and they will never be reborn forever." The mud ghost scratched his cheeks, seemingly very satisfied.

Han Xi shook his head helplessly, "You are overstepping, and the punishment is heavy."

"Hahaha—I'm full of sins, so it doesn't matter if I have a few more."

"Boom—"

There were several cracks in the beams of the main hall, and large pieces of bricks and gravel fell to the ground. Lu Ming and the others ran outside the hall in time to avoid being injured by falling rocks.

"I can finally cleanse the sins of 6000 years today. The Buddha will not save me, but I will do it myself...haha..." The mud ghost's shrill cries and the roar of the building collapse are intertwined, which is particularly sad.

After a while, the entire Kek Lok Si Temple was turned into a cloud of mist, and its original appearance was reappeared.This is a temple with a size of only three square meters. On the red paper on the front is written three big black characters "Cangu Temple". In the center of the temple is a statue of Cangu, with a calm face and kind eyes.On the right is a black kid with soft features, holding a golden clay pot in his hand, with his body slightly turned to Cangu, very respectful.

Looking at the scene in front of him, Mei Ge was full of emotion, "Too much obsession, you will end up suffering yourself. It is not my own sin, but you want to impose yourself, and you end up in such a tragic end. Sigh... the demons have become, only Eliminate it yourself."

"Well, whether it's a silkworm or a mud ghost, they have good hearts, but their different values ​​have caused an irreparable tragedy. I hope that the gods and Buddhas who can save all sentient beings can forgive them."

Thick fog filled the surrounding area, and the Cangu Temple gradually disappeared in the thick fog.Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, everything is an illusion.

Lu Ming and the others walked back along the original path, and the cave they came from turned into a deep tunnel at some point.There are as many as [-] Buddha statues in various postures on both sides of the wall.At the bottom of each Buddha statue is a wooden label with a line of small characters "Liu Xuan" engraved on it.

Lu Ming looked at Han Xi suspiciously, and Han Xi understood, "Liu Xuan should be the mud ghost's name during his lifetime."

Lu Ming nodded, and rubbed his fingers on the Buddha statue, as if he could feel the mood of the clay ghost carving at that time, he must be respectful and devout, and he must be convinced.

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The piece of Kek Lok Si is finally finished, let’s go to the ape cave?