On the street where people are coming and going, everyone who passes by must take a second look at the man and woman.

The man has sword-shaped eyebrows and starry eyes, and is handsome in appearance, but his head of white hair is really scary. He carries a dark sword box on his back, and he has an indifferent aura about him that prevents strangers from entering, making him intimidating just by looking at him.

The woman has a gentle temperament and a graceful face. Although she also carries a sword, she is smiling. In addition, the skirt of her skirt is swaying like water, making her even more beautiful like a fairy concubine.

The appearance and temperament of the two people were too outstanding, and they did not look like people who could be born in such a village. Wherever they walked, ordinary people carrying baskets and pushing wooden carts on the street subconsciously avoided them.

The woman holding the child saw that the ignorant child was reaching out to grab the woman's broad sleeves, so she quickly grabbed his hand back and scolded him in a low voice, for fear of offending the noble man.

"It doesn't matter." Huo Lingdong smiled and said in a good temper.

She wasn't used to being so noticed, but Qi Ci beside her didn't seem to react at all, just looking around as if he was looking for something.

When they passed outside the town just now, he uncharacteristically said that he wanted to go inside. Ordinarily, he would never stop in such a small town with no characteristics.

Huo Rendong lowered his voice: "Sir, is there something weird?"

Qi Ci found a corner and stood there, looking calm and composed: "You'll know after a while."

Huo Lingdong was full of doubts, but after a while, he saw a middle-aged man with a hurried expression stumbling over. Seeing that the two of them hadn't left, he was greatly relieved.

"Fairy Master, Fairy, my home is not far from Lu'er Lane. If it's convenient, could you please come over and have a cup of tea?" The middle-aged man, dressed as an ordinary farmer, bowed deeply and said with a smile on his face.

I was seven-fold uneasy.

Before Huo Rendong politely refused, he saw that Qi Ci, who never liked to talk to others, straightened up and said proactively: "Let's go."

she:……?

The middle-aged man led the way diligently, respectfully but with a bit of fear.

It is not that there are no cultivators walking around in the mortal dynasty, but the number is very small, and they are all people with low cultivation level. But those third-rate tricks of spreading beans and making waves, can also fool the mortals, and give them a "fight"

Titles such as "half-immortal" and "master" are used to get some gold and silver and false fame.

Some mortals who encounter strange things and go to temples to pray to gods and Buddhas will spend some money to seek help from "immortals".

He obviously regarded Qi Ci as such monks.

The two followed the middle-aged man into his house and saw a small courtyard, with people living in the east and west rooms respectively. There were many recovered golden corn cobs piled in the corners.

The man and his wife were busy entertaining each other, first offering hot tea and then preserved fruit snacks.

Huo Lingdong sat down and suddenly felt a line of sight.

She turned around and saw a haggard young woman at the door of the west room, hiding behind the door and secretly watching them, her face slightly pale.

Following the folk tradition of asking immortals for help, the man reluctantly took out a purse filled with broken silver and copper plates. However, he saw Qi Ci's expression was indifferent and he didn't even raise his eyelids. For a moment, he hesitated as to whether the money was too little.

Qi Ci said, "What's wrong with your family?"

Hearing this, the man ignored his embarrassment and said hurriedly: "It's my daughter! We originally decided to get married on the tenth day of the lunar month last month, but something unexpected happened the night before the wedding... When I woke up, I couldn't speak."

"We also wanted to go through the talisman water in the Taoist temple and asked the monks in the temple to do it, but we tried everything but nothing worked. The marriage was delayed again and again."

Huo Lingdong looked back at the west room and saw that the place where the woman had been standing was empty.

The man's wife's eyes were still red and swollen, and she burst into tears after hearing this: "I'm so sorry that I, Yu'er, have been tortured so long that I am neither a human nor a ghost. If you ask me to say that I should have moved out of this goddamn Wanshui Town, what do you care about the Lao Shizi baby?"

Dear, it’s important to save the child’s life…”

The two of them talked about each other, and Huo Rendong finally figured out the whole story.

It turns out that this Wanshui Town looks ordinary, but in fact there is something weird going on.

For three consecutive years, twenty-three out of ten brides in the town always had accidents, and each time it was the day before the wedding day. The dowry and wedding reception had been arranged, but when they got up early in the morning, their family members found the bride unconscious.

He was still wearing pale mourning clothes.

It would be fine if it was just haunted, but the brides all showed symptoms of physical weakness after waking up, and some even fell ill. This man's daughter, Xiaoyu, was particularly serious and could not speak for more than a month.

Once or twice, the residents of the town felt that this place was unlucky. Some families with daughters moved away, while some farmers could not leave and could only grit their teeth and endure it.

For fear of bumping into something dirty, no one dared to get married for a while. But seeing that their daughter was getting older and older, the parents and elders were lucky, thinking that maybe the accident would not be their daughter, so they just turned a blind eye.

We got married with one eye closed.

Who would have thought...

The man burst into tears: "I saw the immortal master and the fairy's extraordinary demeanor, and it seemed that he had great supernatural powers. Please be kind to the immortal master and save my daughter!"

He pulled his wife and was about to kneel down and kowtow, but before his knees hit the ground, a gust of wind blew them up and pushed them aside with irresistible force.

Qi Ci stood up and looked at Huo Lingdong: "This level is just right for you to practice."

The faces of the man and his wife were still in shock, and Huo Lingdong also looked confused: "...Me?"

But she had just entered the first level of Qi Refining and only knew two or three small spells.

"When I was passing by outside the town just now, I saw something strange inside. It should be ghosts, but looking at the extent, I don't think I'm very good at it." Qi Ci turned around and said, "Let's go and see your daughter first."

"Hey, okay! Master Immortal, please--" My wife diligently led the way and led them to open the door of the small house on the west side.

When Huo Rendong stepped in, he saw the couple standing guard around the bedside. Xiaoyu was only fifteen or sixteen years old and looked even younger than her. Her face was sickly pale. She saw the stranger looking towards her mother in fear.

Hiding behind.

Qi Ci glanced up and down and motioned for her to come forward: "Come and see, observe it with your spiritual consciousness."

Huo Lingdong quickly abandoned his distracting thoughts and concentrated his energy. Divine consciousness is the expression of the spiritual awareness of immortal cultivators. It is a form of seeing things beyond the eyes, ears, mouth and nose, and can see things that are invisible to the eyes.

She used her spiritual consciousness to examine Xiaoyu's whole body and said doubtfully: "The meridians are blocked and the essence cannot pass through the throat. This should be the reason why she cannot speak. I tried to send spiritual energy into her body to clear up the stagnation."

"besides……"

Qi Ci: "What else?"

"Xiaoyu is still surrounded by a very faint black air, like a spider web, what is that?"

Qi Ci said expressionlessly: "Block poison."

*

They carefully investigated the strange families that had happened in Wanshui Town in the past three years, and asked the mayor, and finally discovered the truth hidden behind the strange events of many brides getting married.

The mayor is an old man. He shrank his head and pointed to a dead old locust tree at the intersection in front of him: "That's it, the family surnamed Bai you are looking for. Since his daughter was burned to death on her wedding day, everyone in the town

Weird things started happening.”

"The place is right here. If nothing happens, Master Fairy, I will leave first. I am an ordinary person, but I don't have the spirit of immortality around me..."

Qi Ci waved his hand, and the mayor turned around and ran away faster than anyone else.

Huo Lingdong looked behind the old locust tree and saw an old house that had been burned by the fire with only its black skeleton remaining, standing there alone like a huge withered skeleton.

As time goes by, weeds grow in the gaps between the bricks and tiles, and there is no atmosphere of human life at all.

She used her spiritual sense to investigate and found that the whole town was filled with wisps of black energy, especially in this abandoned house. It was densely packed into the core of a spider web, like a dark cloud pressing over the top.

"Sir, why is this happening here?"

Qi Ci's handsome brows furrowed, and he used his fingers as swords to draw a spiritual pressure array in the void, trapping this haunted house in a prison.

"Barrier poisons are not uncommon. In the past hundred years, barrier poison pollution has spread across the continent through the cracks in the black domain. In the eyes of mortals, the strange phenomenon of 'disasters coming from the sky and evil things harming people' is actually caused by the interference of barrier poisons."

"The souls of ordinary people after death are ignorant and will only follow the rules of the underworld and enter the six realms of reincarnation without harming anyone. But if there happens to be cracks around it and the poisons escape, and they are insulted, hated, and betrayed before death, they will

He will become a fierce ghost."

Huo Lingdong looked at the strands of black energy lingering on the ghost house and felt horrified: "Is this the same barrier poison as the old wound on the young master's body?"

"Exactly."

Her face changed, and she seemed determined: "Young Master has boundless magic power, and you will be able to deal with this kind of evil ghost with ease. But the barrier poison is dangerous, and if you take action, your injuries will be worse... I am willing to deal with the evil ghost on my behalf, but my skills are weak and I need your guidance."

"

Qi Ci was slightly surprised, thinking that a girl of her age would cry when she heard about ghosts.

He smiled and encouraged: "Your Sunset Sword has its own righteousness from the sun and is designed to defeat ghosts and evil spirits. It will be no big deal." He also wanted to say that he would watch her from behind, but after thinking about it he didn't say anything.

.

The white-haired young man stood with his hands behind his back: "For the sake of this ghost not harming anyone's life, if I take action, she will never be reincarnated."

Four words appeared in Huo Lingdong's mind: ashes and smoke.

There were houses on both sides of the burned-to-ruin white house. One house was empty, and the other house only had a blind old man sitting at the door and basking in the sun.

Huo Lingdong stepped forward and asked: "Old sir, do you know what happened in the Bai family next door?"

The blind old man chirped and nodded: "The girl has asked the right person. I have lived here for thirty years, and no one knows better than me."

It turns out that there used to be a scholar named Bai in the town who opened a small private school. The couple were very loving and had only one daughter, Cui'e. The daughter was born with a beautiful face and was well-read in four books. She was a well-known talented girl in the neighboring towns.

But Cui'e was attracted by the newly appointed city lord surnamed Liu in the neighboring city, and wanted to marry him as his second wife. The old city lord was already sixty years old, older than Mr. Bai, and he had seven or eight concubines, so the Bai family would naturally not be able to resist him.

from.

What follows is a drama of robbery and bullying.

Master Liu destroyed the Bai family private school, drove away many students, and spread rumors in the town, slandering his daughter's family's innocence, forcing Cui'e to marry him.

But on the eve of the wedding, a fire broke out in the Bai family's house. The fire soared into the sky and burned the whole family of three.

The blind old man slowly recalled: "That old man, I was not blind at that time. I still remember that the fire burned as brightly at night as during the day! No one in the Bai family escaped, and a happy event turned into a waste. What a sin! Okay.

A scholarly family has ended up with a ruined family."

"The fire burned for two days in a row. Later, several boys in the town wanted to collect the bodies from the Bai family, but they couldn't find the bones, so they left it alone..."

"A few months later, another family held a wedding event in the town, and gradually strange things began to happen. People said that it was Cui'e of the Bai family who came to collect debts, and that her ghost lingered because of resentment."
Chapter completed!