Shi Xiangke came to the legendary back mountain. The sun had set, and the golden afterglow still illuminated the sunset. He had only been in Chang 'an for two days, so he had heard all the rumors here.
"Back mountain? The back mountain that others fear?" He looked inside and said disapprovingly. Shi Xiangke grabbed his things and walked in.
In front of him was a large area of weeds and jungle. There was no way to walk. It was obvious that no one had walked here for a long time. Alright, Shi Xiangke would open up a new path for the next generation.
"What's going on? Why are these weeds getting taller and taller?”Shi Xiangke felt that it was getting harder and harder to walk. The grass was as tall as reeds in a swamp. When the sky was still bright, Shi Xiangke saw a row of tile-roofed houses standing in the weeds in front of them. He could only see the roof. It must be the ghost house they were talking about. Shi Xiangke couldn't move forward, so she could only jump and fly to the roof of the tile-roofed house. To others, that qinggong should be praised as wonderful.
Shi Xiangke stood on the roof, looking at the courtyard. The courtyard had been abandoned for a long time. He jumped off the roof and stood in the courtyard. The maple leaves on the ground were mixed with thick dust. From time to time, they would be blown up by the breeze and fall to the ground. The surroundings were very quiet. It was unknown what kind of insects and birds were chirping. Coupled with the darkness of the night and the courtyard, the atmosphere was very strange.
Shi Xiangke looked around vigilantly. He didn't dare to be careless because there was something wrong with this house. The smell of death filled the air. It felt like a graveyard. Not only that, he could also feel the faint demonic aura left by the monster. It was still lingering. It was very faint. It belonged to the young lady of the Su family whom he had met today!
Shi Xiangke walked over to the pool of red lotuses. He had heard that Chang 'an City was full of red lotuses in October, and it happened in an instant. How could lotus flowers bloom in October?
"So it's a lotus demon!" Shi Xiangke thought. But how could a demon possess a dead person's body? He couldn't figure it out. The woman he saw today, the eldest daughter of the Su family, had been dead for a few days. If it weren't for the lotus demon that was attached to her using the inner core to maintain the circulation in her body, the eldest daughter of the Su family's body would have been abnormal long ago.
What Shi Xiangke didn't notice was that room. It led to a closed door. It looked like a study room. Everything was covered with dust. There was a painting of Guanyin on the wall behind the desk. It seemed to have been tidied up by someone. There wasn't a trace of dust on it. Instead, it was brand new and shiny. Especially the Guan Yin in the painting, her face had changed.
"It's been a long time since I've smelled a human.”A hoarse and sinister male voice came from the study. The voice came from the Guanyin Sutra in the scroll painting. Shi Xiangke didn't notice anything wrong. He couldn't hear the sound in the study room.
In the end, a disgusting white object with five claws and fangs that looked like a meatball crawled out of the scroll. The door opened automatically with a bang. The disgusting thing flew out and flew toward Shi Xiangke.
Shi Xiangke heard the sound and turned to look at the source of the sound. She saw the door of a room suddenly open. She thought," It doesn't seem to be windy. How could the door open by itself?"
The white object had already flown to Shi Xiangke. When it was about to close the distance and attack Shi Xiangke again, it was bounced back by the sheath of the demon-slaying dagger hanging on Shi Xiangke's waist.
Shi Xiangke looked at the dagger with surprise. If the dagger moved, it meant that there were monsters around. However, he couldn't smell any monsters except for the faint scent left by the lotus monster.
"Damn it, he's actually a demon exorcist!”The white object was furious. It had waited for a demon exorcist to come to its door, but it couldn't do anything. It could only watch in anger. It hated demon exorcists the most. It needed two more hearts. With two human hearts, it could get rid of the scroll and regain its freedom. It had been trapped in the scroll for hundreds of years. A few hundred years ago, because it was a demon, it was subdued by a demon exorcist and had its heart dug out to seal it in the scroll. The demon slayer even used his blood to draw the Guanyin Sutra on the scroll to suppress it. After that, it stayed in the temple hall of Lanling Temple and finally woke up 20 years ago. Then, it was brought back to the house by a rich merchant. Before that, it could not leave the house at all. It could only wait for those humans to come to it. However, the rumors of this house made those humans dare not step in again, so it waited for 20 years. It could not wait to get out.
"What is going on?" Shi Xiangke looked around and didn't find anything strange. She patted her dagger and ordered,"Behave yourself!" Dagger immediately quieted down.
The white object sneered at Shi Xiangke, then flew back to the study and into the scroll painting. Shi Xiangke couldn't sense its demonic Qi because it had stayed in the temple hall for hundreds of years and listened to the old monks chanting scriptures every day. In addition, it had heard the Guanyin Sutra in the scroll painting. Therefore, the so-called demonic Qi was blocked and didn't spread out. Naturally, even a demon-slaying master like Shi Xiangke couldn't sense it, and of course, he couldn't see it, because it didn't have a physical body.
"Where should I sleep tonight? Actually, this place is not bad, but it feels too creepy.”Shi Xiangke shivered.
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