Chapter 4 Danger

  This mountain village is not large, with only a few dozen households, lined up on both sides of the road. Outside the village, there is an earth wall as high as one person, which protects the entire village.

  This is the smallest administrative unit in this world. The larger one is Ting, with a range of ten miles under its jurisdiction. Then there's the countryside, and then the county.

  Liu Yi looked towards the back of the mountain, and saw that outside the wall, many strands of black air were floating about. They were all ghosts, but unlike Liu Yi, these ghosts had a dark mist surrounding their bodies, looking extremely ferocious. That was resentment.

  "These are the Wild Ghosts?" Liu Yi recognized them, and his heart was shocked. These things, even Liu Yi could feel the resentment and did not dare to get close.

  A faint, almost imperceptible glow enveloped the village, yet it was real. The presence of this glow made the wild ghosts hesitant and afraid to enter the village.

  That's divine power? No, that can't be right. The light that protects the entire village is so faint and impure. It doesn't seem like divine power at all.

  Liu Yi was in a daze when those wild ghosts seemed to be maddened by hatred. They charged towards the faint light, but were bounced back.

  "I understand," Liu Yi looked at the light ripples that were disturbed by the wild ghosts, and suddenly had an epiphany. The light was coming from deep within the village.

  This is the power of ancestral spirits protecting the village. The villagers' ancestors' souls, having received incense and offerings, possess some spiritual power, protecting the village from invasion.

  Liu Yi couldn't help but feel worried, thinking to himself. Not to mention the many wild ghosts outside this village, it's so dangerous. Even if there weren't any, with the ancestral spirits protecting it, I still wouldn't be able to enter the village.

  It seems to be attracted by the living souls of strangers in the village. These wild ghosts, surrounding the village, turning around and refusing to leave.

  Every household in the village raised dogs, and at this time they were barking one after another, making a lot of noise. This made those wild ghosts fearful and somewhat intimidated.

  No wonder rural people like to raise dogs, it turns out that there is such a use! Liu Yi thought in his heart, cats and dogs are spiritual, and their blood is also strong. Not only can they watch the house and protect the yard, but they can also drive away ghosts and gods.

  These wild ghosts are not too powerful. The strongest one is just a bit stronger than Liu Yi, while the others are much weaker than him. However, there are at least hundreds of them, and under the moonlight, they swarm around, their shadows flickering, making it very frightening.

  Liu Yi's heart was racing, and he thought to himself: If there really is no other way, I'll just leave the temple and find a place to hide. The life or death of the king and his son isn't something I want to get involved in, but it's also something I have no control over.

  Although it is said that Wang's father and son are also Liu Yiwei's only two followers, Liu Yi really does not want to give up unless absolutely necessary.

  But at this moment, the trees in the mountain suddenly parted. Several dozen wild ghosts surrounded a monster over two meters tall, with a completely black body, walking towards the village.

  That thing was both tall and long, just like a withered corpse, but it had hands and feet. The first thing that came to Liu Yi's mind was the wooden monster, the Tree Man, from Western mythological legends.

  This thing is not a spiritual body like those wild ghosts, but a physical one. It's even stranger that it has taken on this form.

  However, although this thing looks strange, its gallbladder doesn't seem to be very big. It was driven by more than a dozen wild ghosts, like driving sheep, towards the village. But it's not what Liu Yi initially imagined, being surrounded by a group of ghosts.

  Liu Yi was just right at the edge of the forest and bumped into this group of ghosts, neither side expected it. They both froze for a moment.

  Among the ghosts, a black air emerged, shouting loudly: "Which ghost are you from? Are you here to compete with us for human life today?"

  It's clear that these ghosts are somewhat afraid of Liu Yi, and the yin energy on his body is much thicker than theirs. Moreover, he has a smoky fire smell on him, obviously having souls from sacrifices. Unlike them, those lonely wild ghosts.

  Then, one by one, they stared at Liu Yi with eyes full of jealousy and hatred. It seemed that if something was not right, they would rush over and tear Liu Yi to pieces.

  When it came to a head, Liu Yi suddenly calmed down. He slowly backed away and said, "Your affairs have nothing to do with me!"

  Although those ghosts were unfriendly to Liu Yi, some of them seemed eager to try. However, they appeared to have reservations and stared at each other coldly for half a day before finally passing by the road that Liu Yi had yielded.

  "I won't be able to save these people." Liu Yi said to himself in his heart. He could see it clearly, once these wild ghosts drove away the refined monster and attacked the village, the village would be doomed!

  From Wang Jia's father and son's words, Liu Yi knew that the village being attacked by a group of ghosts and all the old and young people in the village dying was an endless occurrence.

  He hid in the woods with a tense heart, but was unwilling to leave. Thinking if there's any way to help the common people.

  From this forest all the way through, you can walk to the village a few hundred meters away. It's just that it can't get any closer, here is a small cliff tens of meters high, also the natural barrier of the village.

  They were already very close to the village, and Liu Yi didn't get any closer. He tried to contact Wang Jia's father and son, feeling the thread of faith in the existence of the unknown.

  A thread of faith, about the same thickness as a strand of hair, appeared after Liu Yiping's quiet and peaceful meditation. One end of it stretched directly to connect with the sea of consciousness, while the other end extended into the void, disappearing from sight.

  Perhaps the lives of the people in the mountains should not be extinct. Liu Yi originally did not know how to touch this line of faith. But Liu Yi suddenly had a stroke of good fortune and remembered the "Qiong Du Gui Di Tong Yu Zhen Ling Fa" which recorded the technique of entering dreams. He then used talismans to summon and began calling out the names of Wang's father and son.

  The Wang family father and son had just fallen asleep, and before falling asleep, they sincerely prayed to the gods who protected them, deciding to go to the county town tomorrow to sell the crystal cup for a good price.

  At this time, Wang Xiong had just dreamed. Then he heard a familiar and intimate voice, constantly calling his name in the dream.

  A figure with a faint golden light on his body kept calling out: "Wang Xiong, hurry up and get up, there's danger..."

  Wang Xiong suddenly woke up from a deep sleep, and the dogs in the village were barking extremely fiercely.

  At night, a slight breeze stirs the grass. A dog barks and a hundred dogs respond, this kind of thing is common. But he doesn't know if it's because of that dream just now, Wang Xiong feels that the dog's barking tonight is somewhat ominous.

  "What's wrong?" He moved and startled his pregnant wife awake.

  Wang Xiong's face turned cold as he said, "Don't sleep yet, something is off!"

  Wang Xiong's wife and children heard this, originally dazed, were suddenly frightened awake. They grabbed onto their father's arm.

  "It's okay, just don't fall asleep!"

  When a person is awake, there are three fires that transform into body light and protect everything around them. Generally, ghosts dare not approach.