I Raise Spiders in Pansi Cave

Turned on the spirit vision and looked around, but did not find the soul of the woman.

"When did you die?" Xie Bi'an asked.

The police said: "Initial judgment, it should be around two o'clock this morning."

"What was the cause of death?"

"It's not clear yet, we have to wait for further identification by the forensic doctor, but there is one thing that is very strange, come and see..."

As the policeman said, he walked up to the dead man and lifted the blanket.

The deceased was not wearing anything.

Pointing to a scar on her lower abdomen, the policeman said:

"This is a trace after a caesarean section. According to the forensic doctor's judgment, this scar was produced recently, not more than seven months ago. But the deceased was a single woman, and her husband had passed away 10 years ago. The neighbor of the deceased confirmed that she had recently There is no sign of pregnancy. We have also investigated the major hospitals in the county, including private clinics, and there is no medical record of the deceased."

Xie Bi'an asked, "Who called the police?"

"She's a neighbor," said the policeman.

"How did he find out that the deceased died at home?"

"According to her neighbor, the deceased had a pet cat. A week ago, the deceased said that she was going on a long trip and asked the neighbor to take care of her cat. The cat had always been good, but it suddenly disappeared yesterday. He called the deceased. Phone. Because the sound insulation of this old-fashioned house is not very good, he heard the dead man's cell phone ringing, and he was in the house, so he came to knock on the door, and there was no response after knocking for a long time, so he called the police."

"Has the cat been found?"

"No."

Xie Bi'an pondered for a moment, and said, "Go downstairs and watch, let's take another look."

The police left.

Xie Bi'an took out the soul-calling banner that he had lent to Qi Yufei last time, waved it a few times, then frowned and said, "I just died yesterday, so it's impossible that I don't have any remnant souls."

Qi Wufei always felt that the woman's expression was a little strange.

He walked over to look at the woman's eyes again, and at this moment, the mirror on his chest suddenly vibrated slightly.

There was a sense of danger in my heart, but when I wanted to catch it, it disappeared again.

Qi Wufei adjusted his posture so that the mirror on his chest faced the woman's face, and then used his spiritual sense to sense the mirror.

Then he saw a distorted face wrapped in a black mist.

This face makes people think of death involuntarily.

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Chapter 59. Soul Sacrifice

This feeling is indescribable.

Just like when you see a dead person, the face of this person is obviously still the same, and the facial features are still the same, but you just know that he is dead.

It is a breath that symbolizes death.

Practitioners have always tabooed death.

Because life is precious in the way of heaven, only living is precious.Only when you are alive can you pursue the Dao.Even the devil is afraid of death.

The death that ordinary people talk about is not real death, because his soul is still there, and he will go to Huangquan Road to reincarnate.

Even if he is a heinous person, at most his soul will be imprisoned in the [-]th hell, and he will be tortured, but he still has a chance of rebirth.

The death that practitioners are afraid of is not only the destruction of your physical body, but also the death of your soul and the primordial spirit that you have cultivated with great difficulty.

Such death is the real death.

And what Qi Wufei feels now is such a breath of death.

Seeing the twisted black mist enveloping that distorted face, he immediately thought of the black mist he encountered at Qilin Mountain that crushed his flying sword.

But when they met at Qilin Mountain, Qi Wufei felt the real danger.So he made a decisive decision, jumped off the flying sword, and abandoned the sword to save his life.

But now what he felt was the breath of death, something peaceful.

It was because of the calm that he found this thing scary.

Speaking of danger, I felt it for a moment just now.But this is different from Qilin Mountain's sense of danger when facing the black mist that suddenly appeared in mid-air.

That danger was very real, but this time it was ethereal and ethereal, as if from another time and space.

Qi Wufei was a little puzzled, what does this dead face and this mass of dead things in the mirror mean?

Xie Bi'an frowned, and walked slowly to a wall on the side of the living room.

There is a painting hanging there.

This is a landscape painting that looks very artistic.

A large river runs across the picture, and there are hazy mountain shadows in the distance.

The surface of the river is very calm, there is not even a trace of ripples, only a little mist.

Many feathers and catkins that came from nowhere were floating in the air and whirling.

Qi Wufei noticed that the face of the deceased was slightly sideways, and his eyes were facing the painting.The excitement in her eyes seemed to be due to seeing this painting.

Xie Bi'an looked at the painting for a long time, then gently took it off, revealing the wall behind.

There is a shrine on the wall.

There is a statue of a god in the shrine, and there is an incense burner in front of the statue. There are three sticks of incense inserted in the stove, which have been burned out.

When Qi Wufei saw the statue, he wanted to laugh, and couldn't help but glance at Fan Wujiu.

It was a statue of a god with a dark body and a blurred face. In the dimly lit shrine, it seemed to be invisible.

Xie Bi'an took the statue out of the shrine.After looking at it twice, he handed it to Qi Wufei again.Qi Wufei received it in his hand, and found that the material of the statue was nothing special, it was just made of ordinary nanmu, and after scanning it with his spiritual sense, there was no mystery in it.

The carving of the statue is very rough, the proportions of the body lines are unreasonable, and the face and facial features are even distorted, making it impossible to tell what it looks like.

This is much like a practice assignment for a novice carver.

But Qi Wufei looked at this face, but couldn't help feeling a bit chilly.

Was it not the face of the dead man reflected in his mirror?

Qi Wufei handed the statue to Fan Wujiu.

Fan Wujiu held it in his hand and looked at it for a long time, then asked: "What is this?"

He and Qi Wufei looked at Xie Bi'an at the same time.

Xie Bi'an shook his head and said, "I can't tell. But it's a bit strange..."

As he spoke, he brought the statue over, pointed to the lines on it, and said, "Look, the sculptor of this thing is very clean and polished, and he has polished it carefully, but it has been carved into this ghostly shape, The description was intentional."

"So it's not that the sculpture was not done well, but that the god the deceased believed in looked like this?"

"What kind of god would look like this?" Fan Wujiu asked, "My master is prettier than him!"

Qi Wufei remembered that Fan Wujiu's master was the old Black Mountain demon, even his apprentice said so, this old Black Mountain demon didn't know what he looked like!

Xie Bi'an said: "It may also be intentional to hide the real appearance. There are various folk beliefs. The common people don't know what the Three Purities are, but they easily believe in the evil gods in the local prostitution temples. The prostitution temples are the cradle of Zisheng demons, so no matter the heaven It is still a mortal government, and it is strictly forbidden to worship obscene temples. But it is very difficult to completely eliminate these things, and there will always be people who secretly worship them. Some people buy or carve specious idols by themselves and put them in their homes to worship."

After seeing the deceased's face in the mirror, Qi Wufei believed that there must be a connection between the statue and the deceased's death.But the spiritual sense couldn't sense the abnormality on the statue, so it's hard to say anything for the time being.

They went around the living room and the room again, but found nothing else.

"It's so strange, it's impossible for someone who just died in the early hours of the morning to have no soul."

Xie Bi'an was holding a soul-calling flag in his hand all the time, this thing is more effective than divine sense, it can call out all the remnant souls nearby.

"Will it be eaten by monsters?" Qi Wufei asked.

Xie Bi'an shook his head and said: "Honggu County is very well guarded, ordinary little monsters can't get in, if they can kill people and eat souls under our noses, monsters with such abilities will not be interested in the souls of ordinary people of."

Qi Wufei is right when he thinks about it, there is such a big snake monster hiding in Qilin Mountain, isn't there also a lonely ghost wandering around?

Even the painted-faced raccoon just took away Gu Xiaofei's Yin Yuan, but was not interested in her soul.Otherwise, Yuan Xiaobao would not be able to restore Gu Xiaofei's soul back.

"Then what else can make a person's soul disappear after death?"

Xie Bi'an said: "The first one is that he has already gone to Huangquan Road, but did not pass through our channel. This kind of situation is basically impossible in Honggu County, because there is no yin and yang in Honggu County, and everything is done by our Yinyang Division. It's done. If there are other errands passing through Honggu County, we can't be unaware of it."

"The second possibility is that the soul is sealed up by a powerful person, waiting for the opportunity to seize it. But this possibility is very small. Seizing the body is strictly prohibited in the practice world, and it does not make any sense to seize the body before the primordial spirit manifests. Of course, You can switch to Yinshen, but this is an extremely difficult and dangerous path, except for some people in the underworld who specialize in this path, very few people in the practice world choose this path."

Qi Wufei thinks that this possibility is really not high, this woman is not a practitioner, even if there is a relative in the family who has this ability, she will not be allowed to die at home.

"Is there any other possibility?"

"What's more..." Xie Bi'an looked at the statue carved out of wood, and his expression suddenly became solemn, "...the deceased sacrificed his own soul."

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Chapter 60, The Wonderful River and the Face of Death

"Sacrifice the soul, to whom?"

Qi Wufei immediately thought of the distorted face symbolizing death.

"Any god or demon is fine, as long as the channel for soul sacrifice is opened." Xie Bi'an said.

"Didn't you just say that even monsters don't eat the souls of mortals? Why do gods and demons accept soul sacrifices?"

"The soul of a mortal is useless to demons, but it is very helpful to the cultivation of spirits. Therefore, we never encourage the cultivation of yin gods. It is easy to go astray in cultivation. Once you enter the demonic way, it is difficult to turn back.

The souls of mortals are of no benefit to ordinary practice, and at most they are recruited by people with spells or magic weapons similar to soul-calling banners.But if a person sacrifices voluntarily, the power of the wish will greatly help the practice of the magic way.Some demon cultivators even rely on this method to obtain promotion.

Demons and evil spirits often pretend to be gods and deceive mortals into trusting them.It is because of this that there are thousands of lewd temples in the world. "

Qi Wufei thought of Yuan Xiaobao, and couldn't help feeling a little worried.

I don't know who Yuan Xiaobao's master is, maybe he is also a demon heretic?

"So, there are demons in Honggu County?"

Xie Bi'an said: "It's not sure yet. Honggu County is close to Shituoling, and monsters have always been tight, but people in the magic way seldom appear. Moreover, the presence of demons may not be necessary for soul sacrifice. If the opponent is powerful and powerful The magic weapon, with the help of the vow of the sacrificer, can open the void passage, just like we send the dead to the road to the underworld."

"Does that mean that this method can open up another hell?" Qi Wufei had a whim.

"Theoretically it is possible, but in practice it is impossible. Heaven and Earth Mansion have very strict surveillance on demonic ways. Look at the obscene temples all over the world, how many of them have caused a storm?"

But Qi Wufei was thinking about another question at this time - how was the underworld built in the first place?

Could it have started with a monster?