Old age meets love [Rebirth]
Chapter 14: The Ancestral Tree Has a Spirit
Only then did Ren Xingyi realize that the red thread had been absorbing the anger of the flower demon. No wonder the voice of the flower demon became softer and softer. Thinking of this, Ren Xingyi flicked the red thread to stop it from continuing to suck people's lives. The flower demon lives on.
As soon as the bell rang, even Zhou Ranzhi felt refreshed, and the flower demon returned to its original state.
"So it was the girl's blood that made the ancestral tree bloom?" Ren Xingyi asked after hanging up the golden bell for Ren Gaizhi.
The flower demon was silent for a while, and said: "No, it's not me, it's a widow from the west. She was locked up next to the ancestral tree, and a bowl of blood was shed every day, and then she became an adult."
Ren Xingyi had thought that the flower demon was avenging herself, or her loved ones. After all, if it wasn't a deep hatred, who would hold back a mouthful of resentment when they died?
"What happened later? How did the girl die?" Ren Xingyi asked cautiously.
The flower demon froze for a moment, then smiled wryly: "Ah, let's start from the beginning..."
The flower demon has a good name, Huamo, and she has a younger sister named Huali; most people in the town will name the girl in the family something related to Jasmine, as a blessing for Jasmine.
Fu'an Town has a long history of raising jasmine, especially the ancestral tree in the town. The jasmine that is born every year is very fragrant, and the quality of the flowers is better than that of the new tree.
But later, the ancestral tree stopped blooming.
Someone was invited to look at it, and it was said that the life span of the tree had expired, because the amount of picking was too large every year, and year after year, the tree was injured.
The people in Fu'an Town didn't believe it, and after kicking him out of the town, they thought of some evil methods.
Practices, sacrifices, and all available methods have been used, but the ancestral tree still hasn't blossomed. The people in Fu'an Town almost gave up. A person came from the village and said that he had a way to save the ancestral tree.
The mayor heard him say that he could save the ancestral tree, so he left him without saying a word. The man didn't stay for long. He stayed for three days, saying that the ancestral tree lacked a soul, and it would be good to find someone to fill it in.
The solution is to find a woman who is destined to be related to the ancestral tree and bury it under the tree after death.
Speaking of this, the flower demon smiled darkly: "That man was kind, but the people here are not kind, little master, guess what happened afterwards?"
Both Zhou Ranzhi and Ren Gaizhi looked back at Ren Xingyi, wanting to know how Master returned.
Unbearable flashed in Ren Xingyi's eyes, he touched Ren Gaizhi's little head, and said, "Since dead people are fine, then living people are definitely better. Flowers and plants will grow particularly luxuriantly when watered by flesh and blood. People in the town think One does not do two endlessly."
"But..." Zhou Ranzhi yelled out immediately after hearing this, "That's human life! How can..."
The flower demon sneered, laughing at Zhou Ranzhi's innocence: "Heh——compared with benefits, what are women? If my sister hadn't heard about their plan, maybe we could live a few more years."
When Ren Xingyi heard the plan from the flower demon, he thought of the teleportation array, and hurriedly asked: "What plan? Is it related to the teleportation array in the town?"
"Well," the flower demon nodded casually, "at the beginning, the formation was not used to send merchants, but to lock women in, twist them into flesh and bury them in the ancestral tree. Later, there were not enough young women in the town, so they Start throwing men of the right age down."
Hearing these words, the three of Ren Xingyi were stunned, and if the women were gone, they would throw the men in, what a fairy town.
"Hey, no, are the men in your town willing?" Zhou Ranzhi asked out of nowhere, "And I see that there are not many people missing in your town."
The flower demon gave him a white look: "Of course not! At that time, my family was already dead, but I was always around the ancestral tree. I heard the mayor and the others say that all the bachelors in the town were sent into the formation by them, and it was more effective than women. better."
Ren Xingyi nodded as he listened, and took up the conversation: "So then they paid attention to the tourists who passed by?"
"It's natural, and because of those flesh and blood, we are getting stronger and stronger, but the more people die, the more flesh and blood the ancestor tree needs. Soon, soon we can take revenge!" The flower demon's eyes flashed red Light, the flower demon who has eaten human flesh will become more and more greedy.
"Is that also because of you, the more flowers bloom in Fu'an Town, the better?" Ren Xingyi asked one more time, so as not to miss anyone.
The flower demon shook her head at this: "I don't know, those flowers have been blooming before we consciously left the ancestral tree, hey! I have told you everything I know, how do you want to give me an accurate answer!"
Speaking of which, the flower demon was still tied with a red thread, Zhou Ranzhi leaned over and said to Ren Xingyi, "Master, she seems to be quite pitiful, we..."
Ren Xingyi looked at him quietly for a while, did not say whether he would let him go or not, and then asked the flower demon: "Then girl, how many people are there in total? There are so many people offering offerings in Fu'an Town every day, you can't finish it, right?"
This is what Ren Xingyi is most curious about. The records in his previous life clearly show that the flower demons in Fu’an Town ate up the people in Fu’an Town and then ate other villages. The truth is that he went to another town to kill, and he should have dissipated after avenging his revenge.
Maybe the flower demon really didn't know, and said directly: "Add up the bits and pieces, get rid of the unconscious children, and some who want to reincarnate, there are still hundreds of people like this; the flesh and blood are all given to the ancestors." As for the tree, when the ancestor tree grows, we will grow up with it."
It makes sense to put it this way, it's not that these souls attach themselves to flowers and trees to become flower demons, but the tree has become a spirit, and it raises these souls, maybe it is to make up for itself.
Ren Xingyi thought about it before and after, and then he got it right. The ancestral tree has lived for too many years, and it is a matter of course to be intelligent, but the people in Fu'an Town are picking it every year, and they are going to kill it.
How could the ancestor tree not hate it?They have lived for so many years, they will cultivate their spiritual roots when they are born with spiritual wisdom, and they will become the Jasmine Immortal after the thunder calamity. It is just a little short, and everyone hates it.
What's more, at this time there is fresh flesh and blood.
The person who told Fu'an Town Fazi specifically said that women who are destined to be destined are buried after death.
There are too many people in Fu'an Town who commit crimes. If the people in the town are saved, more people will die here in the future.
Seeing that Ren Xingyi's expression was loose, the flower demon strikes while the iron is hot: "Little master, everything I said is true, as long as you have revenge, you will leave. If you violate it, thunder will come from the sky, and your soul will be scattered!"
An oath cannot be said casually, what is said is a promise, and God is watching it.
Ren Xingyi was still thinking, if the red line was withdrawn today, what would happen in the future?
"Master," Zhou Ranzhi called Ren Xingyi softly, "Master, doesn't Buddhism say that good and evil are rewarded? Shouldn't we care about the retribution of the wicked?"
Ren Xingyi looked at Zhou Ranzhi, then at the flower demon standing by the table, and nodded slightly: "When are you going to do it?"
The flower demon was taken aback, but she didn't expect Ren Xingyi to agree: "Three days later...Little Master, are you really willing to let us go?"
"Go back and tell them, the people in Fu'an Town, I don't have to see you. For others, I can make you take the oath on the spot." Ren Xingyi retracted the red thread and explained with a condensed expression.
"Thank you, little master!" The flower demon felt the restraint loosen on her body, and immediately bowed to Ren Xingyi, "Thank you, little master, for not killing me."
After all, the flower demon turned into a stream of light and jumped out of the window, flashing a few times before disappearing.
Under Ren Gaizhi's intimidation, the flower demon will not lie, so the people in Fu'an Town will die naturally.
Seeing that the flower demon had left, Zhou Ranzhi quietly moved away from the bed where Ren Xingyi was sleeping, and asked, "Master, since the flower demon and the others have agreed, can we start our journey?"
Ren Xingyi raised his forehead, sometimes he really felt that Zhou Ranzhi's death in the previous life was caused by him being stupid: "Of course, those souls possessing flower trees don't matter, but there is one more."
"Ah! Zushu!" Zhou Ranzhi finally came to his senses.
"The ancestral tree may let the souls of those who died hang on its own tree for the purpose of nourishing the soul. We have to keep an eye on it so that it doesn't eat up all the souls." Ren Xingyi said with a frown.
Zhou Ranzhi immediately packed up his things, straightened himself upside down, and said, "Master, let the apprentice do this kind of thing! You must watch the goblin to death."
"Be quiet for me." Ren Xingyi stopped Zhou Ranzhi, who wanted to express himself very much, and rubbed his forehead, "If you are eaten, it's not a sin for the teacher to save you in time? It's better to stay here, and we will be together at dawn. go together."
"But Master, I'm afraid..." Zhou Ranzhi hesitated to speak.
Ren Xingyi was about to lie down, when he heard Zhou Ranzhi half-spoken, he laughed angrily: "What are you afraid of? Go to bed quickly, and get up at midnight tomorrow morning and recite the "Diamond Sutra" thirty times!"
After finishing speaking, Ren Xingyi ignored him as soon as he was wrapped in a quilt, he really didn't sleep much in old age, and he didn't know if he would be able to sleep tonight.
Zhou Ranzhi rubbed his nose and rolled off to sleep. Ren Xingyi was right, if something happened to him and he had to be rescued by his master, that would be inappropriate.
The Fu'an Town on the second day was no different from yesterday, there were still merchants and villagers running around, and the shopkeeper looked at the three masters and apprentices in horror, unable to believe that they were still alive.
Not long after that, Ren Xingyi saw Xiao Er glanced at them and ran out, probably to notify the mayor.
The three of them have never dared to eat the food in the town, but they usually put on a show, so Zhou Ranzhi broke a steamed bun and threw it into the soy milk, and asked in a low voice: "Master, looking at them, they seem to know that the ancestor tree has become a spirit. "
"Otherwise? I sent so many people there because I knew it." Ren Xingyi's food was not wasted, and he gave it to Ren Gaizhi. He knew that his apprentice was about to transform, and he treated Ren Gaizhi very well recently, so he didn't use it anymore. Buddhist scriptures tortured his ears.
Zhou Ranzhi doesn't know much about the people in Fu'an Town: "Aren't ordinary people afraid of death when they see monsters? How come the people in this town are still rushing?"
Ren Xingyi glanced at him, and snorted softly: "Huh—how about money can make ghosts turn mills?"
The author has something to say: [End of this chapter]
Thanks for watching, happy reading.
As soon as the bell rang, even Zhou Ranzhi felt refreshed, and the flower demon returned to its original state.
"So it was the girl's blood that made the ancestral tree bloom?" Ren Xingyi asked after hanging up the golden bell for Ren Gaizhi.
The flower demon was silent for a while, and said: "No, it's not me, it's a widow from the west. She was locked up next to the ancestral tree, and a bowl of blood was shed every day, and then she became an adult."
Ren Xingyi had thought that the flower demon was avenging herself, or her loved ones. After all, if it wasn't a deep hatred, who would hold back a mouthful of resentment when they died?
"What happened later? How did the girl die?" Ren Xingyi asked cautiously.
The flower demon froze for a moment, then smiled wryly: "Ah, let's start from the beginning..."
The flower demon has a good name, Huamo, and she has a younger sister named Huali; most people in the town will name the girl in the family something related to Jasmine, as a blessing for Jasmine.
Fu'an Town has a long history of raising jasmine, especially the ancestral tree in the town. The jasmine that is born every year is very fragrant, and the quality of the flowers is better than that of the new tree.
But later, the ancestral tree stopped blooming.
Someone was invited to look at it, and it was said that the life span of the tree had expired, because the amount of picking was too large every year, and year after year, the tree was injured.
The people in Fu'an Town didn't believe it, and after kicking him out of the town, they thought of some evil methods.
Practices, sacrifices, and all available methods have been used, but the ancestral tree still hasn't blossomed. The people in Fu'an Town almost gave up. A person came from the village and said that he had a way to save the ancestral tree.
The mayor heard him say that he could save the ancestral tree, so he left him without saying a word. The man didn't stay for long. He stayed for three days, saying that the ancestral tree lacked a soul, and it would be good to find someone to fill it in.
The solution is to find a woman who is destined to be related to the ancestral tree and bury it under the tree after death.
Speaking of this, the flower demon smiled darkly: "That man was kind, but the people here are not kind, little master, guess what happened afterwards?"
Both Zhou Ranzhi and Ren Gaizhi looked back at Ren Xingyi, wanting to know how Master returned.
Unbearable flashed in Ren Xingyi's eyes, he touched Ren Gaizhi's little head, and said, "Since dead people are fine, then living people are definitely better. Flowers and plants will grow particularly luxuriantly when watered by flesh and blood. People in the town think One does not do two endlessly."
"But..." Zhou Ranzhi yelled out immediately after hearing this, "That's human life! How can..."
The flower demon sneered, laughing at Zhou Ranzhi's innocence: "Heh——compared with benefits, what are women? If my sister hadn't heard about their plan, maybe we could live a few more years."
When Ren Xingyi heard the plan from the flower demon, he thought of the teleportation array, and hurriedly asked: "What plan? Is it related to the teleportation array in the town?"
"Well," the flower demon nodded casually, "at the beginning, the formation was not used to send merchants, but to lock women in, twist them into flesh and bury them in the ancestral tree. Later, there were not enough young women in the town, so they Start throwing men of the right age down."
Hearing these words, the three of Ren Xingyi were stunned, and if the women were gone, they would throw the men in, what a fairy town.
"Hey, no, are the men in your town willing?" Zhou Ranzhi asked out of nowhere, "And I see that there are not many people missing in your town."
The flower demon gave him a white look: "Of course not! At that time, my family was already dead, but I was always around the ancestral tree. I heard the mayor and the others say that all the bachelors in the town were sent into the formation by them, and it was more effective than women. better."
Ren Xingyi nodded as he listened, and took up the conversation: "So then they paid attention to the tourists who passed by?"
"It's natural, and because of those flesh and blood, we are getting stronger and stronger, but the more people die, the more flesh and blood the ancestor tree needs. Soon, soon we can take revenge!" The flower demon's eyes flashed red Light, the flower demon who has eaten human flesh will become more and more greedy.
"Is that also because of you, the more flowers bloom in Fu'an Town, the better?" Ren Xingyi asked one more time, so as not to miss anyone.
The flower demon shook her head at this: "I don't know, those flowers have been blooming before we consciously left the ancestral tree, hey! I have told you everything I know, how do you want to give me an accurate answer!"
Speaking of which, the flower demon was still tied with a red thread, Zhou Ranzhi leaned over and said to Ren Xingyi, "Master, she seems to be quite pitiful, we..."
Ren Xingyi looked at him quietly for a while, did not say whether he would let him go or not, and then asked the flower demon: "Then girl, how many people are there in total? There are so many people offering offerings in Fu'an Town every day, you can't finish it, right?"
This is what Ren Xingyi is most curious about. The records in his previous life clearly show that the flower demons in Fu’an Town ate up the people in Fu’an Town and then ate other villages. The truth is that he went to another town to kill, and he should have dissipated after avenging his revenge.
Maybe the flower demon really didn't know, and said directly: "Add up the bits and pieces, get rid of the unconscious children, and some who want to reincarnate, there are still hundreds of people like this; the flesh and blood are all given to the ancestors." As for the tree, when the ancestor tree grows, we will grow up with it."
It makes sense to put it this way, it's not that these souls attach themselves to flowers and trees to become flower demons, but the tree has become a spirit, and it raises these souls, maybe it is to make up for itself.
Ren Xingyi thought about it before and after, and then he got it right. The ancestral tree has lived for too many years, and it is a matter of course to be intelligent, but the people in Fu'an Town are picking it every year, and they are going to kill it.
How could the ancestor tree not hate it?They have lived for so many years, they will cultivate their spiritual roots when they are born with spiritual wisdom, and they will become the Jasmine Immortal after the thunder calamity. It is just a little short, and everyone hates it.
What's more, at this time there is fresh flesh and blood.
The person who told Fu'an Town Fazi specifically said that women who are destined to be destined are buried after death.
There are too many people in Fu'an Town who commit crimes. If the people in the town are saved, more people will die here in the future.
Seeing that Ren Xingyi's expression was loose, the flower demon strikes while the iron is hot: "Little master, everything I said is true, as long as you have revenge, you will leave. If you violate it, thunder will come from the sky, and your soul will be scattered!"
An oath cannot be said casually, what is said is a promise, and God is watching it.
Ren Xingyi was still thinking, if the red line was withdrawn today, what would happen in the future?
"Master," Zhou Ranzhi called Ren Xingyi softly, "Master, doesn't Buddhism say that good and evil are rewarded? Shouldn't we care about the retribution of the wicked?"
Ren Xingyi looked at Zhou Ranzhi, then at the flower demon standing by the table, and nodded slightly: "When are you going to do it?"
The flower demon was taken aback, but she didn't expect Ren Xingyi to agree: "Three days later...Little Master, are you really willing to let us go?"
"Go back and tell them, the people in Fu'an Town, I don't have to see you. For others, I can make you take the oath on the spot." Ren Xingyi retracted the red thread and explained with a condensed expression.
"Thank you, little master!" The flower demon felt the restraint loosen on her body, and immediately bowed to Ren Xingyi, "Thank you, little master, for not killing me."
After all, the flower demon turned into a stream of light and jumped out of the window, flashing a few times before disappearing.
Under Ren Gaizhi's intimidation, the flower demon will not lie, so the people in Fu'an Town will die naturally.
Seeing that the flower demon had left, Zhou Ranzhi quietly moved away from the bed where Ren Xingyi was sleeping, and asked, "Master, since the flower demon and the others have agreed, can we start our journey?"
Ren Xingyi raised his forehead, sometimes he really felt that Zhou Ranzhi's death in the previous life was caused by him being stupid: "Of course, those souls possessing flower trees don't matter, but there is one more."
"Ah! Zushu!" Zhou Ranzhi finally came to his senses.
"The ancestral tree may let the souls of those who died hang on its own tree for the purpose of nourishing the soul. We have to keep an eye on it so that it doesn't eat up all the souls." Ren Xingyi said with a frown.
Zhou Ranzhi immediately packed up his things, straightened himself upside down, and said, "Master, let the apprentice do this kind of thing! You must watch the goblin to death."
"Be quiet for me." Ren Xingyi stopped Zhou Ranzhi, who wanted to express himself very much, and rubbed his forehead, "If you are eaten, it's not a sin for the teacher to save you in time? It's better to stay here, and we will be together at dawn. go together."
"But Master, I'm afraid..." Zhou Ranzhi hesitated to speak.
Ren Xingyi was about to lie down, when he heard Zhou Ranzhi half-spoken, he laughed angrily: "What are you afraid of? Go to bed quickly, and get up at midnight tomorrow morning and recite the "Diamond Sutra" thirty times!"
After finishing speaking, Ren Xingyi ignored him as soon as he was wrapped in a quilt, he really didn't sleep much in old age, and he didn't know if he would be able to sleep tonight.
Zhou Ranzhi rubbed his nose and rolled off to sleep. Ren Xingyi was right, if something happened to him and he had to be rescued by his master, that would be inappropriate.
The Fu'an Town on the second day was no different from yesterday, there were still merchants and villagers running around, and the shopkeeper looked at the three masters and apprentices in horror, unable to believe that they were still alive.
Not long after that, Ren Xingyi saw Xiao Er glanced at them and ran out, probably to notify the mayor.
The three of them have never dared to eat the food in the town, but they usually put on a show, so Zhou Ranzhi broke a steamed bun and threw it into the soy milk, and asked in a low voice: "Master, looking at them, they seem to know that the ancestor tree has become a spirit. "
"Otherwise? I sent so many people there because I knew it." Ren Xingyi's food was not wasted, and he gave it to Ren Gaizhi. He knew that his apprentice was about to transform, and he treated Ren Gaizhi very well recently, so he didn't use it anymore. Buddhist scriptures tortured his ears.
Zhou Ranzhi doesn't know much about the people in Fu'an Town: "Aren't ordinary people afraid of death when they see monsters? How come the people in this town are still rushing?"
Ren Xingyi glanced at him, and snorted softly: "Huh—how about money can make ghosts turn mills?"
The author has something to say: [End of this chapter]
Thanks for watching, happy reading.
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