I glanced at Gui Gu and said in a deep voice, "Gui Gu, since you don't want to die, I can let you go. But you have to answer my questions honestly. Otherwise, I will make you suffer."
"Okay, okay, Taoist priest... No, Master, just ask me. I will definitely tell you the truth. I won't dare to hide anything!"
I nodded.
After a while, I asked Gui Gu, "Gui Gu, I have always been curious. You said before that your master is a ghost, but I remember that only evil Taoist priests can refine ghost Gu. Ghosts cannot refine ghost Gu. Am I right?"
Gui Gu nodded repeatedly, with a hint of surprise in his eyes.
It may think that I shouldn't know about refining Gu, but I know it because I have the Yin-Yang Soul Crossing Notes.
"Yes, yes, Master, you are right. My former master was indeed an evil Taoist priest."
I put on a half-hearted smile and asked Gui Gu, "Tell me, what is going on?"
The ghost Gu did not hide anything and told me everything about it and its master.
It turns out that the previous owner of the ghost Gu was named Sai Yunde. It was Sai Yunde who injected his resentment into the body of a dying woman. The ghost Gu was bred in that woman's body.
However, because of the great resentment in that woman's heart and various other reasons, she turned into a nightmare ghost.
The strength of the Nightmare Ghost was very strong. It didn't want to be controlled by Sai Yunde, so it secretly accumulated strength and attacked Sai Yunde, causing Sai Yunde to be seriously injured. But after all, Sai Yunde was the master of the Nightmare Ghost, and he had many tricks up his sleeve.
At the last moment, Sai Yunde, whose life was about to end, tried his best to seal the nightmare ghost and its corpse in the water tank. At the moment of death, he successfully set up a killing array and completely imprisoned the nightmare ghost.
Gui Gu also told me that the dried corpse behind the bamboo basket in the wooden house was the body of its former owner, Sai Yunde.
"What happened next? How did the nightmare ghost break out of the killing array? ... And what happened to the female student Ma Ying?"
Seeing that Gui Gu stopped talking, I asked again.
Gui Gu explained: "My master, the Nightmare Ghost, has been sealed in the killing array of the water tank for decades. It was not until the last few years that the Dao patterns of the killing array began to loosen. Taking this opportunity, my master released me from the killing array."
Having said this, Gui Gu looked at me with difficulty, and was a little afraid to speak anymore.
Seeing that Gui Gu didn't say anything, I said sternly, "Why don't you say anything? You just said that you would tell the truth."
Gui Gu said with some embarrassment: "Master, I want to tell you. But as a ghost-catching Taoist priest, you will definitely be angry after hearing what happened next. If you get angry and kill me, I will be ruining my own life."
Gui Gu is bargaining with me.
I squinted my eyes, stared at Gui Gu with a cold gaze, and said unhappily: "Gui Gu, you have to tell me what you mean now, or I will really kill you. But I have already said it just now, if you tell me everything you know honestly, I can let you go."
"But, Master, I..."
Damn it, this ghost insect won’t give in.
I shouted angrily, "Tell me now! Otherwise I will kill you now."
Gui Gu's body trembled for a moment, and he said hurriedly: "Okay, okay, Master, I'll tell you... Stop staring at me like that. I'm getting scared!"
Then the silent Gui Gu told the whole story in a low voice.
It turns out that the ghost Gu that was released into the killing array
He had secretly fled to the outside of Haizi Mountain decades ago and began to secretly harm people. Hundreds of people were killed, all of whom were from the rural areas of Jiangbin City.
Although the symptoms of those people were the same, in the end they all became pale and thin, as if they had tuberculosis, and when they died, their appearance was very ordinary, and it was difficult for ordinary people to tell what was going on.
The ghost insect did not encounter any Taoist priests who were catching ghosts. It successfully completed the task assigned to it by the nightmare ghost. After killing hundreds of people, the ghost insect returned to the wooden house in Haizi Mountain with the souls of those people it devoured.
Afterwards, the ghost Gu entered the killing array again and spit out the souls of those dead people.
The Nightmare Ghost used the souls of the dead and turned them all into ghosts. The number of hundreds of ghosts was huge, and the resentment generated was also extraordinary. In this way, using the resentment generated by those ghosts, the Nightmare Ghost strengthened itself.
But even so, the nightmare ghost still couldn't escape the killing array.
A few years passed like this. Finally one day, for some unknown reason, a few girls came into Haizi Mountain. After the Nightmare Ghost's investigation, she found that one of the girls was actually a water yin body. That was the female student named Ma Ying.
The discovery of the existence of the "Water Yin Body" made the Nightmare Ghost ecstatic.
Because the formation of the water yin body and the killing array are the same, both must have the water element. So the nightmare ghost wanted to use the "substitute method" to get the horse shadow to the hut, so that when the time comes, it can use the horse shadow's body to replace itself. In this way, she can escape from the killing array.
With this idea in mind, the Nightmare Ghost took action. She sent out the ghost Gu and led the six girls to the "Magic Array" outside.
When I heard this, I interrupted Gui Gu's statement.
"Gui Gu, wait a minute. I want to know how the Taoist formation outside was formed? It shouldn't be set up by Sai Yunde, right?"
Gui Gu nodded and said, "Master, you guessed right. It's like this, that 'bewilderment array' is indeed a Taoist array, and it was indeed not set up by Sai Yunde. When my former master Sai Yunde came here, the Taoist array already existed. This wooden house also existed. It took Sai Yunde several years to break through the bewilderment array and get inside."
"So that Dao formation has nothing to do with Sai Yunde at all."
I see!
I thought about it and asked again: "Then do you know who set up that Taoist formation here?"
Gui Gu shook his head, "I don't know about that. Anyway, the 'Enchantment Array' Taoist formation already existed when Sai Yunde came here."
It seems that Sai Yunde has no idea how the Taoist formation and the wooden house were arranged and built.
"Okay, go on."
Then, Gui Gu continued speaking.
Later, the ghost Gu really led those girls into the "maze", knocked them all unconscious, and used the soul-controlling method to bring them to the wooden house.
The method of controlling souls is actually a method used by ghosts to control people, and it is very common.
I was wondering why those girls, Lin Hongyu and the others, always had nightmares, and in their nightmares, they appeared in this side of the wooden house. It turned out that the ghost Gu used the method of controlling the soul.
Although the soul-controlling method does not cause much harm to people, it can affect a person's consciousness. In other words, the girls subconsciously knew that they had been to this side of the wooden house. That's why they had nightmares one after another.
After entering the wooden house, the Nightmare Ghost was ready to attack Ma Ying.
But what the Nightmare Ghost didn't expect
Yes, there is actually the soul of a "family fairy" hidden in the body of the female student named Chen Xiaozhi.
Family gods are the so-called "gods" such as Huang Daxian, Fox God, etc. that we often worship. Generally, family gods have had a chance with people, so they will stay in that family to protect the comfort of that family.
The spirit of the family fairy knew that the ghost Gu wanted to harm people, so it flew out of Chen Xiaozhi's body, fought with the ghost Gu, and injured the ghost Gu. Fortunately, the ghost Gu entered the killing array in time and escaped.
However, the soul of the "family fairy" was already weak when it finally fled here with several girls.
As for what happened to the girls later, Gui Gu had no idea.
But one afternoon, a man suddenly came to the wooden house.
That person was none other than Chen Xiaozhi, who was carrying the "family fairy" on him. When Chen Xiaozhi came here, the ghost Gu and the nightmare ghost were very surprised. Later, after they found that the family fairy on Chen Xiaozhi had been destroyed, the nightmare ghost was not so worried.
Hearing this, I was a little confused again and asked, "That's not right, Gui Gu, why did Chen Xiaozhi come here? How could she pass through the maze? Does she have any purpose?"
Seeing my surprised expression, Gui Gu quickly explained: "Master, don't be anxious, listen to me slowly."
"That Chen Xiaozhi, the reason she was able to come here is because she used to carry the soul of the 'family fairy' with her. I heard from Chen Xiaozhi that the family fairy dies after sending them back to the dormitory. However, before the soul of the family fairy dies, it left everything that happened before and after to Chen Xiaozhi through its memory."
"It was because of that family fairy that Chen Xiaozhi was able to pass through the maze and find this place."
"As for the purpose of Chen Xiaozhi coming here, it was something that my master, Nightmare Ghost, and I had not expected. Chen Xiaozhi actually asked us to help her kill the girl named Ma Ying."
"This is exactly what my master wanted, so he agreed to help Chen Xiaozhi kill Ma Ma Ying. The prerequisite is that Chen Xiaozhi must lead Ma Ying to Haizi Mountain."
"But the student named Chen Xiaozhi is quite smart. She was worried that the Nightmare Ghost would go back on his word and harm her again, so she asked the Nightmare Ghost to sign a soul contract with her. She also threatened my master that as long as he signed the soul contract and allowed Chen Xiaozhi to use him for a year, she would help him lead Ma Ying to Haizi Mountain."
Speaking of this, I was shocked.
It seems that Chen Xiaozhi was involved in all these things, and Chen Xiaozhi was the perpetrator. This is very different from the Chen Xiaozhi I met.
It also made me realize that when Chen Xiaozhi ran out of the toilet, he was just acting. There was no ghost in the toilet. It also explained why the amulet I gave Chen Xiaozhi had such a bleak ghost aura. It was because Chen Xiaozhi himself was a perpetrator.
At the same time, I began to have doubts about Gui Gu's words.
I said, "Ghost Gu, since you had already escaped from the killing formation, why didn't you just go and catch Ma Ying, but instead relied on Chen Xiaozhi? This doesn't make sense."
Gui Gu explained: "That's because when the soul of the 'family fairy' in Chen Xiaozhi left the wooden house, it deliberately triggered the killing array in the wooden house. Because the 'array spirit' of the killing array has revived, my master can only rely on the strength of the two of us to resist the array spirit, so we can't get away at all."
I see!
"What happened next?" I asked.
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