Qu Mingzhu's huge body was like a deflated balloon, and the black hairs that had originally grown on its body had fallen off one by one.
Soon Qu Mingzhu's lower body became wrinkled like a shed snake skin.
Seeing that I didn't say anything, Qu Mingzhu continued to plead: "Master, I beg you, please let my child go. His body has already been formed, and I don't want him to be destroyed by you. I killed all the villagers in Hongxiang Village, and he has nothing to do with me. Please have mercy..."
Listening to Qu Mingzhu's words, I felt inexplicably sad.
After thinking about it, I finally shook my head and said, "I'm sorry, Qu Mingzhu, I can't agree to your request. Once your child becomes a ghost doll, he must suck blood if he wants to survive. I think whether it is an animal or a human, they all have the right to live. It is impossible to bury their lives just because your child is a ghost doll."
A sad expression appeared on Qu Mingzhu's face, and a line of ghost tears flowed down her ghost eyes.
At this moment, her frail body looked like a fallen leaf in the wind, so thin.
She uttered a weak voice: "No, you can't do this! I don't want my child to die again, I want him to live."
At this point, Qu Mingzhu muttered something to the ghost doll. The ghost doll actually let go of Qu Mingzhu's neck, and then slowly climbed down from Qu Mingzhu's insect body.
The next moment, the ghost doll ran towards the dark river at a very fast speed.
Seeing the ghost doll trying to escape, I hurriedly chased after it using the Seven Star Steps.
The ghost doll was blocked by me. Its sharp teeth were exposed in its mouth, and its round little face showed a fierce look.
He tilted his neck and stared at me, with eyes that seemed to be filled with a ball of fire.
The corpse gas on his body was suddenly released, and a ball of gray corpse gas enveloped his body.
“Uh uh!”
A cold and low sound came out of the ghost doll's mouth.
Qu Mingzhu, who was far away, saw that I blocked the ghost doll's path and rushed directly towards me. She was very fast, surprisingly fast, and her huge body ran directly to the ghost doll's side.
The ghost doll turned around and looked at his mother Qu Mingzhu, making hesitant sounds.
Qu Mingzhu lowered his head and said something to the ghost doll.
Then the ghost doll hid behind Qu Mingzhu.
Qu Mingzhu shook her body and rushed towards me without spitting out black liquid.
The ancient lotus lamp in my hand was immediately ignited, and several flames flew towards Qu Mingzhu's insect body.
"Puff puff puff!" After a few muffled sounds, the flame of the ancient lotus lamp hit Qu Mingzhu's body.
Qu Mingzhu didn't have much corpse energy left, and her insect body was already very weak. So when a few flames shot at her, she didn't put up much resistance before the flames ignited her body.
The burning pain spread throughout his body, and Qu Mingzhu's insect body kept flapping on the ground.
A "sizzling" sound came over, very harsh.
A foul and burnt smell emanated from it.
Qu Mingzhu's insect body kept twisting and shaking, and it actually rolled into the fire-burning magic circle that had been set up earlier.
The magic circle trapped Qu Mingzhu, and her insect body was shaking inside the fire magic circle. But she had little strength left, and only death was waiting for her.
After a short while, maybe seven or eight minutes, Qu Mingzhu's insect body turned into a pile of black ashes.
At this time, the good energy in the fire-burning magic array talisman had been completely exhausted, and the flame was extinguished.
Looking at the pile of black ash, I shook my head, feeling a little unhappy.
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At that moment, a red light suddenly flew out from the pile of black ash.
With a "whoosh", a red light shot out from the ashes and hit a stone.
The red light and shadow is exactly the red oil umbrella.
However, the red oil umbrella had been burned with dozens of holes, and it looked tattered. The frame of the umbrella had also been deformed, and many parts were burned by smoke and flames, turning black.
The next moment, a faint black shadow flew out from the red oil umbrella.
It was the female ghost Lu Sujie, whose soul was not digested by Qu Mingzhu's insect body.
Lu Sujie's soul was very weak. She stretched out her hand to me, raised it weakly, and called out weakly: "Master, save me! Save me!..."
Seeing this, I rushed to the red oil umbrella, opened the soul-collecting barrel, and collected the soul of the female ghost Lu Sujie into it.
But at this moment, my master's voice came from behind the stone not far away from me.
Zhang Chu shouted loudly: "Tianyi, your ghost doll is behind you, catch him quickly and don't let him run away."
I quickly turned around and looked towards the dark river, but I didn't see the ghost doll.
I only heard a "plop!" It seemed that the ghost doll must have entered the dark river.
I rushed to the dark river, but the ghost doll was gone.
My master Zhang Chu also came to me and stared at the water of the underground river in a daze.
After a while, he sighed and said, "I didn't expect that the ghost doll would escape. You know, that thing is a disaster. Although it is not under the control of the Yin and Yang worlds, it can harm people. The blood of ordinary animals cannot satisfy the growth of the ghost doll. It will definitely harm people."
"Besides, the ghost doll is at its weakest right now. If we wait until it grows up, even a highly skilled ghost-catching Taoist priest will have a hard time catching it."
I understand my master's feelings, but there is nothing I can do now that the ghost doll has escaped.
I felt guilty, sighed, and said, "I'm sorry, Master, I didn't do it well. If I had known earlier, I should have used the divine map to release the Jubizhi corpse to deal with Qu Mingzhu and the ghost doll."
My master Zhang Chu looked at me but didn't blame me.
He said slowly: "Well, since the ghost doll has escaped, it means that its luck is not doomed. But we still have to find a way to catch it... Let's go, it's getting late now, and it's almost dark, let's go back to Longtan Town first."
I nodded and followed my master.
Then we returned along the same route and came back to the entrance of the cave.
But just as the boat was parked, a head appeared from the other side of the cave entrance.
It’s the young monk Yuquan.
He leaned his head towards us and shouted, "Brother Yang, Master Zhang, I killed a strange creature. Come and have a look. This creature looks like a baby. But it carries the aura of death."
Yuquan didn't have a divine eye, so he couldn't see the corpse qi. But his Buddhist practice was pretty good, so he could sense the death qi. The so-called death qi was actually the corpse qi.
When my master and I heard this, we were both very surprised.
After looking at each other, we rushed to the entrance of the cave.
After wading out of the water, we indeed saw a small figure on the gravel ground next to the entrance of the cave.
The figure was lying on the ground, with black blood oozing out of its chest. Its skin was as pale as a plastic doll. Its head was tilted, and there were sharp little teeth in its mouth.
It was the ghost doll.
At this time, the ghost doll was already dead, and the corpse gas was overflowing from its body, making it look like white smoke was coming out.
I was delighted. I didn't expect that the ghost doll could be solved by Yuquan.
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I patted Yuquan on the shoulder and asked with a smile: "Yuquan, do you know what you did?"
Yuquan was still a little nervous, and said tremblingly: "Brother Yang, don't get me wrong. I didn't mean to kill it. But I was sitting on the side, and when I saw it, it rushed towards me with its teeth bared. I had no choice, because I saw that it was weird, so I activated the exorcism magic wheel and killed it in one fell swoop."
I curled my lips and said, "How can we blame you? You have clearly done a good thing. This thing is called a ghost doll. It is a monster born from corpse qi. Its favorite thing is to drink human blood. Now that you have eliminated it, isn't it a great thing?"
"It seems that my decision to leave you here was indeed correct. Otherwise, this guy would have really escaped."
Seeing me praising him, Yuquan touched his bald head, feeling a little embarrassed.
My master went to the ghost doll and took out a small porcelain bottle from his pocket.
There was white powder in the porcelain bottle, and my master poured all the powder onto the ghost doll.
Soon, the white powder began to corrode the ghost doll's body until it turned into a pool of black sewage. The sewage seeped into the cracks in the stone, and a bunch of wild grass growing nearby withered quickly after being contaminated by the black water.
"Look, how toxic this thing is to the body!" my master Zhang Chu said in a deep voice.
After covering up the black water with a pile of rubble, my master Zhang Chu, Yuquan and I headed towards Longtan Town.
We originally came here to deal with corpses, but we didn't expect to encounter a monster like Qu Mingzhu. We also encountered a female ghost, Lu Sujie.
As for the tattered red umbrella, I also took it out of the cave.
Before leaving, I released the Taotie beast in the red lacquer coffin. The Taotie beast flattened the entrance of the cave without any effort. The rubble blocked the stream and the black fish in the water.
Without a source of corpses, even if the corpse worms occupied the bodies of the black fish, they would starve to death in the dark river within a few years.
Seeing that I was holding a red oil umbrella, Yuquan asked me in confusion: "Brother Yang, what is that thing in your hand? It's tattered and looks like a fire stick."
I smiled and told Yuquan everything that happened after my master Zhang Chu and I entered the cave.
After hearing this, Yuquan was very surprised and said angrily, "Fortunately, I didn't enter the cave, otherwise, I would have been frightened by the huge corpse worm. It's amazing that a ghost can occupy the body of a corpse worm and grow so big by relying on the corpse qi."
At this point, Yuquan asked me again: "Brother Yang, since that little ghost called Lv Sujie has been brought out by you, should we help her find the man called Nangong Yang?"
I thought about it and said, "We still have to look for it. But I'm afraid it won't be easy."
My master Zhang Chu interrupted and said, "It's so late today. Even if we want to look for it, we have to wait until tomorrow. We are all exhausted. Let's go back and have a good rest. Tomorrow, we can go to the local town government to ask. Maybe we can get some clues."
I think what my master Zhang Chu said is very right.
After that, we walked down the mountain along the stream.
When the sun had completely set, the three of us finally returned to Longtan Inn.
Unexpectedly, as soon as we entered Longtan Inn, we met Xu Jiayin and Chen Jiaojiao.
Xu Jiayin said that he had given up the courtyard he rented and wanted to live with us. After asking carefully, I found out that Chen Jiaojiao was frightened by the corpse worms and was worried that she would get sick again, so she encouraged Xu Jiayin to move to Longtan Inn.
Later, Xu Jiayin asked us some questions. I just laughed and didn't say much.
I didn't say it because I was afraid of scaring the couple.
(to be continued)
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