Yan Jingfeng had never heard of such a thing as stealing someone's lantern, not to mention it, how could she be a disciple of Zijin Neidan, a sect of cultivating immortals, to steal funeral lanterns?

But tonight, she did it just once.

The lantern is hanging on the opposite side, so it's not difficult to steal it, but it's really hard to pull this face off.

Ke Nuoning stared at her holding the soul-inducing lamp, which meant that no matter what she said tonight, she had to steal that lantern.

Yan Jingfeng sighed, and had no choice but to go out to Chen San's house on the opposite side, and carefully took the white lantern with "Dian" written on it under the moonlight.

The two white lanterns were stolen by Yan Jingfeng just like that, and it was uncomfortable to look at the gloomy place in the room.

Yan Jingfeng felt fortunate to let Wenfu and Rong Yuanjie go first, otherwise the two of them would have been terrified when they saw this scene.

Nuo Ning didn't feel anything at all. She took the soul lamp and walked over to check it out, and said with satisfaction: "Very good, you hang them at the door."

Yan Jingfeng was puzzled: "Hanging at our door?"

Nuo Ning nodded.

Yan Jingfeng pursed the corners of her lips, went out again with the lanterns in her hand, and hung them on the left and right sides of the door. If it wasn't for the fence not being tied with rags of white cloth, it would really look like this room was dead.

After finishing these things, Nuo Ning let Yan Jingfeng into the house, and then closed the door tightly.

The white soul-inducing lamp was flickering in and out of the room, making the snow lotus that was originally white and flawless look a little weird at this moment.

Nuo Ning held the soul lamp carefully, as if she was afraid that the small lost candle would go out, she was very serious.

"What time is it?" Nuo Ning asked.

Yan Jingfeng glanced at the moonlight outside the window, and said, "There is still a quarter of an hour until midnight."

Nuo Ning raised her head: "It's about the same time."

Yan Jingfeng was puzzled, so Nuo Ning said: "Someone will knock on the door in a while, just open the door."

These words couldn't help but remind Yan Jingfeng of what Village Chief Chen said to Chen San today. It seemed that the sorceress wouldn't let Chen San open the door at night.

"Will someone knock on the door tonight?" Yan Jingfeng glanced at the door subconsciously.

"If there are no accidents, I will come to knock on the door." Nuo Ning guarded the soul lamp and said: "Look at this lamp is still on, it proves that the child's soul has not left yet."

"Soul?"

"Ah."

Nuo Ning looked up and explained to Yan Jingfeng: "The child didn't die naturally, he should have been seduced by someone. Before the end of his life, he was a lonely ghost. He couldn't come out when the sun was heavy in the daytime. It will gather strength."

Yan Jingfeng sounded a little evil.

Nuo Ning said: "The souls who have lost their primordial spirit can't see clearly. They can't see things around them. Only the lamps lit by relatives can attract his attention."

Yan Jingfeng understood: "That's why I was asked to steal the lantern."

Nuo Ning snorted: "Otherwise you think so."

Yan Jingfeng smiled, and asked again: "Will the child come knock on the door?"

Nuo Ning looked up at the door, and said uncertainly: "It should be."

After all, this room of mine is different from Chen San's house, but the child's soul cannot be led to Chen San's house, otherwise Nuo Ning doesn't know what will happen when the five souls are gathered together.

Today Yan Jingfeng told her about things in the village, and told Nuo Ning the home addresses of her four previous children. Nuo Ning suddenly found that the arrangement of houses in the small Chen family village seemed chaotic, but there was a lot to tell.

The homes of the five children are located in the five houses in the outermost part of the village, and these five families coincidentally belong to the five elements in the five elements and eight trigrams.

Nuo Ning vaguely guessed what it was.

The five-element array corresponds to five dead souls, and when all five souls are gathered, the five-element array becomes another array, called the five-soul array.

It is a forbidden technique, and the difficulty is not high. It only needs to gather the souls of living people in five directions to perform this formation, but this kind of formation is too harmful. No matter what the purpose of the caster is, the formation will take away Take the lives of at least five people.

If the purpose of the caster is higher, the number of people needed will never be capped, which is why it is listed as a forbidden technique.

Nuo Ning didn't know, it stands to reason that the immortal family's array technique is passed down among sects, even if it fell into the hands of ordinary people, they would not have the ability to open the magic circle, let alone strip their souls and use the five soul array.

This village is much more complicated than I imagined.

Nuo Ning frowned and said nothing, she looked at the flame blooming in the center of the snow lotus in her hand, waiting for time to pass.

Just after midnight, dense clouds covered the moonlight, and the outside fell into darkness.

'Boom thump-'

At this moment, someone knocked on the door, causing the two people in the room to look up together.

The voice was very clear in the silent night, and Nuo Ning felt that the Soul Lamp was floating without wind, so she and Yan Jingfeng looked at each other.

'Boom thump-'

When the door knocked for the second time, Nuo Ning whispered to Yan Jingfeng who was standing at the door: "Open the door."

Yan Jingfeng clutched the saber at her waist, and slightly raised the door bolt with the other hand until it opened a gap.

I saw a person standing vaguely in the crack of the door, but that person was too short. After opening the door, I saw that it was a boy who was about seven or eight years old and had a thick head and a thick head.

He stared blankly at the soul lamp in Nuo Ning's hand, and walked in.

Nuo Ning just sat on the edge of the bed and motioned for Yan Jingfeng to close the door.

'click--'

As soon as the door bolt was put down, the child looked around as if he had suddenly come to his senses, then stared at Nuo Ning again, and yelled, "You, what are you doing, why are you at my house!"

Nuo Ning held the soul lamp and said with a smile: "Little friend, take a good look, you are coming to my house."

Seeing that the surrounding layout was indeed not his own, the dog turned his head and wanted to run away, but hit the door panel and was bounced back.

Nuo Ning said flatly: "You can't get out of this room, just look at me honestly."

The dog lay trembling at the door, he was almost so scared that he was transparent.

Nuo Ning picked up a chopstick and fiddled with the oil lamp, and saw the bean-sized flame flickering, almost going out.

"You answer what I ask." Nuo Ning looked at the dog and said, "Otherwise, I will kill your soul and make you no longer a ghost."

Yan Jingfeng: "..."

The dog looked at the soul-inducing lamp in Nuo Ning's hand in horror, and began to cry with a grin. He never thought that he would be threatened by someone after being a ghost.

Nuo Ning watched the child crying sadly and had no intention of persuading him, but just flicked the soul lamp in her hand without saying a word.

Yan Jingfeng watched the dog's hissing and crying, and couldn't help reminding: "Don't cry, if you cry again, you will be gone."

The dog quickly shut his mouth, biting his lip and tears falling down.

It's just that he is a lonely ghost now, and the tears that fell fell on the ground and melted into his body, and then continued to fall.

Nuo Ning didn't waste time and asked, "What happened to you last night?"

Biting his lip, the dog said in a crying voice: "I don't know, I saw my father and mother crying when I woke up, and then I saw myself being put in a coffin."

He rubbed his eyes and said, "I don't know what happened. I think I should be dead. Isn't that what is said in the play? A dead person can't get into his body. I watched my parents cry , They can’t hear me when I speak.”

Nuo Ning nodded: "Continue."

The dog sat on the ground aggrieved and told what happened today.

It was still dark when he woke up, and the dog only saw his body being put in the coffin by Chen San. After the sun came out, he became unconscious until nightfall.

Although Gou'er is young, he knows that he is dead. He doesn't really have any concept of death. In his eyes, when people die, they just gather together for a meal, and then they put on a white cloth and look at the people in the village. The elders carried the coffin to the mountain and buried it.

But today the person lying in the coffin is himself, this feeling has become a little strange.

After nightfall, the dog has been wandering around the village. The village is very dark and there is no road. wandering outside.

When he arrived at Zishi, the dog saw two shining white lanterns, and he followed the guidance of the lanterns.

The dog knew that it was a lantern left by his parents, so he knocked on the door and planned to enter the house, but he didn't expect to find a strange person sitting in the house after entering, and he couldn't get out.

Not only was he unable to get out, he was threatened by this person, and when he turned his head, he found a female cultivator holding a sword standing behind him, which made him cry in fright.

Nuo Ning heard him rambling about what happened today, and felt that there was nothing special, so she asked him, "Apart from yourself, who else have you seen?"

Gou'er pointed to Nuo Ning and then to Yan Jingfeng.

Nuo Ning said: "Besides the two of us, have you seen other people who died before?"

The dog shook his head.

Nuo Ning asked again: "Then have you ever met other people who look abnormal?"

The dog still shook his head.

Nuo Ning frowned slightly, it's impossible, logically speaking, the caster should have contact with the dog for a day and a night, otherwise how would he return to his home?

Thinking of this, Nuo Ning remembered something, and turned to look at Yan Jingfeng. "Today you said you went to the ancestral hall to help write obituaries and elegiac couplets?"

Yan Jingfeng froze for a moment, nodded and said, "Yes."

"Why do you want to write?" Nuo Ning asked her.

Yan Jingfeng explained: "Because Village Chief Chen said that there are not many literate people in the village, so please help me write something."

Nuo Ning asked her, "You also wrote the [Dian] on the lantern?"

"That's not true." Yan Jingfeng explained: "There seems to be a rule in this village that the word [Dian] must be written by the most prestigious elder in the village."

"Written by Village Chief Chen?"

"No, he can't read either."

Yan Jingfeng said: "It was written by the witch in the village."

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