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Chapter 656: Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio - Fairy 28

After making sure that the Painted Skin Ghost was truly dead, Yan Chixia squatted down and touched the Painted Skin Ghost's chest to check the situation. After lifting the Painted Skin Ghost's coat, Yan Chixia finally understood why the Painted Skin Ghost was still alive despite being pierced through the heart by his arrow. This was because the Painted Skin Ghost had no heart. The heart in her chest was "borrowed" from someone else.

"So this is why she has been digging out hearts, relying on other people's hearts to maintain her body's vitality..." As for the skins of beautiful women hidden under the coat, Yan Chixia just opened them to take a look and then burned them.

"Dust to dust, ashes to ashes, this life is over, don't forget the next life..." In addition to the men whose hearts were dug out, many beautiful women also died at the hands of the Painted Skin Ghost. After Yan Chixia performed a ritual to pray for the souls of these women, he scattered the ashes of the Painted Skin Ghost in the air. This was considered an end to this monster that had harmed so many people.

The news of the death of the young master of the Wang family finally reached the ears of the people in the neighboring county to the north. His pregnant wife cried incessantly. Even if she wanted to endure the nausea and eat the madman's thick phlegm to save her husband like Mrs. Wang of Zhou County, she couldn't find a similar expert.

Yan Chixia stood outside the palace gate, listening to the grief-stricken cries from inside the palace. He just shook his head with regret, "Men in this world are all unfaithful. Lust is a knife above one's head. If it weren't for these people who were tempted by lust and let wolves into the house, how could they have ended up like this today?"

Yan Chixia raised his head and took a sip of wine, singing: "The way, the way of the world..." He walked away while drinking. If he encountered any injustice on the road, he would stop to help. If any people came to him for help, he would help them solve the problem as long as they were given a pot of good wine.

Ning Caichen has been imprisoned in the capital prison for nearly a month. During this month, many loyal officials have been imprisoned in the prison. Ning Caichen does not know what crimes they were imprisoned for. He just feels that every time he sees a well-known good official coming in, his passion to pass the imperial examination and serve the country will cool down.

"what is this?"

"Has the emperor been deceived to this extent?"

After studying for so many years, even though Ning Caichen had never been an official, he knew what this situation meant. The court had become corrupt, and some people were constantly persecuting loyal officials and eliminating dissidents. The world was going to be in chaos!

After Ruyi left, many more people in Guobei County spontaneously worshipped her. Although no one saw the process of Ruyi solving the three monsters with their own eyes, it does not mean that everyone is unaware of what Ruyi did.

From Zhiqiu Yiye's occasional descent from the mountain to her later entry into the city to buy medicine, the people had long discovered the truth of the matter from these clues. Although Ruyiren had left, the corpses of the monsters she left around the ruined temple did not disappear. The people of Guobei City waited for another two days, and only after they were sure that there were no more monsters eating people in the city did they bravely run to the vicinity of the ruined temple to check the situation.

They did not see the Ruyi Fairy, nor did they see the young Taoist priest who had gone down the mountain to buy things. However, after seeing the traces of fire and lightning in the ruined temple, as well as the various animal carcasses piled outside the temple, the people of Guobei County immediately knew that the fairy had dealt with the monster and left.

"Great! There are finally no more monsters in our Guobei County!"

The common people rushed to spread the good news, and the county magistrate generously took out the silver he had prepared earlier and used it together with the money donated by the common people to renovate the dilapidated temple and build a new statue of a fairy in it.

No one knew Ruyi's Buddhist name, so the people in Guobei County had to rename the dilapidated temple as the Fairy Temple. As a result, without Ruyi paying attention, the incense power in her incense clone accumulated rapidly and was soon filled up from being exhausted.

The cultivation level of the incense clone has also increased from the first level of the first stage of the immortal spirit to the second level of the third stage of the immortal spirit. I feel that if the power of incense continues to grow like this, by the time Ruyi discovers it, the cultivation level of the incense clone may surpass that of the original body.

Ruyi and Zhiqiu Yiye did not choose to fly to travel. On the one hand, it was because Zhiqiu Yiye did not have enough magic power and could not fly. On the other hand, Ruyi wanted to take advantage of the time to kill more monsters along the way.

Time passed day by day. Transportation was very inconvenient in ancient times. Ruyi and Zhiqiu Yiye relied on their own feet and walked for more than half a year before they arrived in Jiangxi.

During the past six months, Ruyi has encountered many different goblins and ghosts, including the fox goblin Xin Shisinian who is dedicated to doing good and wants to become an immortal, and the kind-hearted scarecrow Yingning who is willing to sacrifice herself for others. In addition to these goblins that have never harmed or eaten people, there are also female ghosts who, for various reasons, have a lot of resentment and cannot be reincarnated. Xiao Xie and Qiu Rong are the female ghosts that left the most impression on Ruyi.

During the past six months, Zhiqiu Yiye has gradually learned to distinguish good from evil based on evil spirits, rather than goblins or ghosts.

But in general, there are still more bad monsters and ghosts in this world. Even humans have become more and more easily affected by emotions because of the impure spiritual energy in the world. No wonder Tiandao in "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio" has to seek external help. If it continues like this, the world will really be over.

Half a year later, Ruyi's cultivation level increased again, and now he has successfully advanced to the fifth level of immortal spirit, and has reached eight levels. He is only two levels away from advancing to the sixth level of immortal spirit. According to the calculation of the twelve levels of immortal spirits, Ruyi is now a standard middle-level immortal spirit, and is only three levels away from becoming a high-level immortal spirit.

“I don’t know if I can deal with a ten thousand year old demon even if I become a high-level immortal?” Although Ruyi is confident in his own strength, a ten thousand year old demon is no joke after all.

"Senior, we are finally in Jiangxi. Where is the painted wall you mentioned?" It has been a day since they entered Jiangxi. Seeing that it was getting dark, Zhiqiu Yiye was a little anxious. "How about we find a place to rest today and look for the painted wall tomorrow?"

"Well, that's it." Ruyi didn't know the exact address of the mural, although it was written in "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio" that "In Menglongtan, Jiangxi, I was a guest in the capital with Zhu Xiaolian. We happened to visit a hermitage. The halls and Zen houses were not very spacious, with only an old monk hanging his bag inside. When he saw the guests coming in, he dressed neatly and went out to greet them, and guided them to greet him happily. There was a statue of Zhigong in the hall. The two walls were painted exquisitely, and the characters looked lifelike. (Quoted from "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio")"

But Jiangxi Province is too big, and the author used the word "occasionally involved" in describing the temples, so it is impossible to judge at all.

"Let's ask the locals tomorrow if anyone has heard of that temple."

"Okay, senior."

Zhiqiu Yiye's cultivation level also improved a lot. Ruyi did not keep any of his knowledge to himself. As long as it was in the spell book and Zhiqiu Yiye wanted to learn it, Ruyi would teach him. However, unlike Ruyi who mostly used immortal spirit or power of merit, Zhiqiu Yiye used the magic power he cultivated himself. Therefore, the same spell would produce different effects when used by the two people.

In most cases, the spells used by Ruyi are more powerful and have greater lethality, but some spells, such as the shelling spell, the light body spell and other auxiliary spells, have the same effect when used by both of them. Knowing that due to their proficiency levels, Zhiqiu Yiye's spells are more powerful at times.

The most useful of them is the concealment spell such as invisibility. Because of the fairy spirit on his body, Ruyi is completely useless when used. Monsters can smell it with their noses without having to see it with their eyes.