This stone statue is tall and domineering, standing in the center of the stone hall, unbiased, the head in the middle is relatively complete, with a high nose bridge and a pair of charming and hazy eyes.
Contains poetic flavor and a little bit of temptation, but looks directly at the heart of the person, as if there is some kind of power flowing.
It is not standing, but crookedly supporting the whole body, like a twist, standing there, only the head is upright, looking directly at everyone, no matter from which angle you look, you will find that it is watching you.
You will have a very small feeling.
Xiao Ting lowered her head, she was not affected.
The bottom was artificially carved into a stone platform, on which there were many sacrifices.
As they approached, there were other stone statues on both sides, all of which looked strange, but surprisingly, they were all missing a part.
It seems to be human, but it doesn't seem to be, missing arms, legs, and eyes.
In short, none of them are complete except the one in the middle.
But it was born out of shape, and there was no trace of cutting, as if it was carved out by humans.
And who carved it
All the torches around have already been lit, but it still gives people a gloomy feeling.
There is a large tripod-shaped incense burner in the middle, a lot of incense is lit and inserted in it, and the green smoke rises straight up. Xiao Ting looked up, but she couldn't see the top, and she didn't know how high it was.
After burning so much incense, it doesn't have a strong smell. Obviously, there is a lot of space above, or there is a place to vent.
After coming here, everyone was quiet.
The four women didn't let go of Yaya until this moment and retreated to the side, only the five outsiders stood in place among them.
The other people faced the tall and strange stone statue in the middle, knelt down slowly, then prostrated themselves on the ground, and began to worship nine times, still muttering in their mouths, not knowing what to say.
After a while, they stood up.
Yaya stepped forward, as if she had been rehearsed countless times. Someone brought a cushion, and she knelt down slowly, clasping her hands together in front of her chest.
Someone shouted nearby, and the ceremony of worshiping heaven and earth began.
"Bow to heaven and earth!" The torches in everyone's hands were raised violently, and then retracted, shouting a syllable.
"Second worship to the ancestor god!" Another uniform movement.
Before Xiao Ting could react, Yaya began to kneel there to worship, and she inadvertently felt that someone was watching her, so she looked back and saw the big man who broke into Yaya's room just now.
At this moment, his eyes were very clear, but obviously with malicious intentions, seeing Xiao Ting looking over, he showed his big yellow teeth and bared his teeth in a grin.
Xiao Ting frowned slightly.
Everything here is so unreasonable.
Yaya hadn't stood up yet, the next moment, everyone collapsed instantly.
Not long after, there was a rumbling sound at the bottom of the stone statue, revealing a dark hole, and several people slowly walked up from there.
"That's the girl doll."
There were three old men and a young man who came, and it was one of the old men who asked the question.
Wearing an old Taoist robe, the style of the robe is not imperial, and it is dragged on the ground long, very dao rhyme.
"Yes, Great Elder, it's her." The young man nodded and pointed to Yaya who was lying on the ground with a respectful expression.
"After so many years, the young master has finally arrived. I hope there will be no more mistakes this time. Okay, let's carry it in first and then talk about it."
The Great Elder sighed, joy flashed across his wrinkled face.
The other two old men stepped forward to lift Yaya up, and then they slowly descended into the secret passage again, and everything returned to tranquility.
At this time, Xiao Ting, who should have been in a coma, slowly sat up and looked at the stone statue in front of her.
A trance.
There is indeed something strange here, the so-called marriage of a man and a god is not like this at all, but man-made.
But who is it? It takes eight years to wait for an opportunity.
And from the old man's mouth, it seems that the so-called young master has been sleeping for a longer time.
"I'm going, what did I just see?"
"Spirit-changing ones."
It took a long time for Xiao Ting to come back to her senses. She was really surprised, and it took a long time to confirm this matter.
The spirit-yielding people, in this world, don't know if they know about them.
But Xiao Ting knew it.
They are not completely human beings, but because of certain physical defects, they have some chances to fit together, thus fusing people with each other, a kind of heterogeneity.
Only those who are fully integrated and successful will be called spirit-changers.
However, just now, when she was pretending to be dizzy, those old men who came out of the secret passage were all like that.
The most obvious feature of them is that they have double pupils, but they generally don't show their true colors to others.
Second, there are obvious differences in character.
In their bodies, there are two incomplete souls.
As they grow up and practice, one of them will be perfected, and the other will be integrated.
Although it is painful and difficult, once mature, it is of great benefit.
Their life expectancy is at least twice that of ordinary people.
So they are also called spirit-changers.
A group of people who can change the greatest and most fragile thing in this world—the soul!
It is another branch of Taoism, but according to the master, it is not accepted by orthodox Taoism, because it harms the harmony of heaven and violates the way of nature.
Xiao Ting had no chance to meet such a person in her previous life.
Didn't expect to see a few here.
And since these people are behind this incident, their purpose for wanting Yaya is obvious.
Reminiscent of what the old man said just now, then Yaya is the person with an incomplete soul, and she is used to complete another person's soul.
In other words, another spirit-changer is about to appear.
Xiao Ting is not allowed to think about other things at all, she must find an agency to follow up first, in order to find out the truth of the matter.
She once asked her master, what would she do if she really met a spirit-yielding person
The master didn't let her kill them all, but let her do what she wanted.
She can't understand it at all, and she doesn't want to care so much right now, she just wants to save people.
But Xiao Ting has never dabbled in the mechanism.
So she didn't know how to get in at all, and searched around randomly, but couldn't find out why.
When she was at a loss what to do, there was a humming sound, Xiao Ting looked back, and it was the young man who came with her who woke up.
"Ouch, what's wrong with me?" The boy thumped his head, obviously still having some headaches.
Xiao Ting was surprised, just now they were not physically attacked, but were captured by a special aura, most people would not be able to wake up within half an hour.
She didn't expect that, not long after, the boy would wake up, which is unreasonable.
Xiao Ting walked over, patted his shoulder and said.
"Yaya was taken away by them, can you find the mechanism here?"
She didn't have any hope, but what surprised her was.
God seemed to be pitiful to her, and actually stood by her side. This young man really understood this. His father was a generation of mechanism masters.
He just concealed his name, stayed in that village, and lived an ordinary life.
Although I have never really practiced it, I still have some skills.
So Miss Xiao Liu waited to see the young man with her fingers, and opened the trap three times, five times and two times.
She had a good time to go and find out.
But the final result was very frustrating. The teenager couldn't find the mechanism after groping for a quarter of an hour.
Xiao Ting counted the time, there was not much time left for them, they had to go in before these people woke up, otherwise there would be trouble.
She rolled up her sleeves, and was about to open them violently, so that the people below would be alarmed, and it would be a real surprise.
Rescuing Yaya will not be so simple.
Moreover, if they are all successful in cultivation, then she, a half-hearted person, wonders if she can deal with them
Xiao Ting was extremely depressed at the moment, why didn't she practice spells well at the beginning, when the master taught her, she only thought of being lazy, and never thought of practicing well, now it's all right, no one can help her when she encounters problems.
The boy stopped her, not wanting Yaya to have trouble.
Xiao Ting and the young man stared wide-eyed, anxious, but they couldn't do anything.
Xiao Ting kicked away the stones on the ground and slammed into the stone statue directly, saying, "It looks neither human nor ghost, and I don't know what it is."
She muttered to herself, then raised her head and looked up. The stone statue's eyeballs didn't know how to do it. No matter which direction she looked from, she would feel that she was looking at herself.
Very weird.
"What's so interesting? Look again, this girl will dig out your eyeballs."
Xiao Ting made a fierce look and stared at it.
The young man smiled, "The girl is really special, what's the use of venting her anger on the stone statue?"
Xiao Ting turned her head and glared at him, "I'm not taking out my anger on him, but on you."
The young man stopped talking, so the more Xiao Ting looked at it, the more she hated the bead. Although it was very beautiful, it gave her an evil feeling.
So, she didn't care about any mechanisms, and climbed to the top along this twisted image.
The young man was stunned, "I said, come down quickly, that is our patron saint, very spiritual."
"Sister Ling, this is obviously carved out of a stone, idiot, if it is really alive, it won't let those people take Yaya away."
Xiao Ting didn't look at him, but continued to climb up, her mouth was not idle, and she took the time to curse.
Boy: "...", this girl really has no scruples and dares to say anything.
Seeing her jumping up like a monkey, he didn't dare to speak up, for fear of distracting her and falling off.
Because the statue was carved in a twist shape, Xiao Ting seemed to be climbing a mountain carefully.
The young man stared at her nervously from below, and he followed wherever she turned, as if he felt safe by staring there.
After much difficulty, Xiao Ting finally climbed to the top, she glanced down, "Oh my god, it's so high."
She muttered, and didn't dare to look down any more, feeling a little sad in her heart, and when she raised her head, she met that beautiful and outrageous eyeball.
Looking closely, Xiao Ting found that this eyeball was very big, several times bigger than her head. It was colorful, and I didn't know what kind of painting was used to paint it. The colors were very messy. She felt dizzy and very uncomfortable after only a few glances.
(end of this chapter)