RI Chapter 59

“Are those two okay?” Lei Yun asked.

Chen Jing was taking their pulses and gently shook her head, “They’re fine, just temporarily unconscious. They should wake up soon.”

The vines were gradually burned away, leaving behind scarlet branches. Lei Yun walked over and picked one up, “This thing was about to become a spirit.”

It seemed that this thing had absorbed the blood of many innocent people.

Chen Jing got up, walked closer, and said faintly, “Were these two **ed by this thing?”

Lei Yun pondered, “Probably not. Although this vine has gained intelligence, it definitely doesn’t have the ability to ** people.” After saying that, he looked around the cave and slowly said, “It should be something else.”

“I heard my master say that deep in the mountains, there are often spirits causing trouble. Could it be that they were **ed by the spirits here?”

“This Guizhou province used to be a blessed land with rich spiritual energy. I don’t know how many spirits are hiding in these Hundred Thousand Mountains. It’s possible that some have reached the level of **ing people.”

Lei Yun turned around and suddenly stopped in front of the stone statue, continuing, “Just now, this vine was wrapped around the top of this statue, right?”

Chen Dong gave an “Mm” and nodded, “Yes, and when I attacked it just now, it deliberately avoided the area around the statue, as if it was protecting it.”

Lei Yun stroked his chin and muttered, “Protecting?”

Just as they were puzzled, the two women on the ground slowly woke up.

Lei Yun suddenly grabbed Chen Jing’s hand, took her behind the vines on the wall, and hid.

“Shh!” Lei Yun made a gesture to be quiet. Chen Dong’s eyes flickered unnaturally as she looked at the two women on the ground.

After the two women woke up and saw that they were in a cave, they were immediately frightened and kowtowed in front of the stone statue. Then, they quickly left with gratitude.

“Do they know what this is?” Chen Dong broke free from Lei Yun’s arm around her waist and jumped up.

Lei Yun nodded, “Let’s go back first and take a look later.”

The two of them overtook the two women and returned to the house, pretending to be nonchalant and going to sleep.

The two women made a bit of noise when they came in. By this time, the sky was gradually brightening. The older woman couldn’t help but wake up her husband and speak in a dialect that Lei Yun and Chen Jing couldn’t understand.

They only saw that the woman’s face was horrified, as were the others.

After hearing this, the uncle who was driving the cart quickly said to Lei Yun and Chen Jing, who were pretending to have just woken up, “Alang, Aya, we have to go.”

The uncle was a little panicked and trembling as he packed his things, quickly putting them into the ox cart. The other four people were also packing their things and leaving this place.

Lei Yun and Chen Jing didn’t say anything and quickly followed the uncle’s ox cart.

The four people’s goods were placed on the uncle’s ox cart, and they walked quickly in front, stopping only when the sun had risen from the east.

All four of them were exhausted. The uncle also breathed a sigh of relief, took a puff of smoke, and looked at the mountains in front of him, feeling as if he had been reborn.

“Uncle, what happened just now?” Lei Yun asked, pretending to be puzzled.

The four people glanced at the uncle. The uncle lowered his head, hesitating whether or not to speak.

“Were you hiding from something just now?”

Hearing this, the uncle quickly said, “Alang, don’t say it, keep your voice down.”

Lei Yun was stunned and looked at everyone in confusion. The older man suddenly began to cry softly.

Seeing this, the other three people quickly comforted her, speaking in a dialect that they couldn’t understand. However, they could roughly guess that they were comforting her.

Seeing this, the uncle sighed and said, “Those two encountered the Snake Immortal last night. Fortunately, the Snake Immortal Goddess was merciful and let them go, otherwise their lives would have been lost.”

Snake Immortal, could it be the stone statue in the cave? Lei Yun said, “Snake Immortal?”

The uncle nodded, “Yes, the Snake Immortal under the Flower Goddess. People here don’t dare to disrespect her.”

Lei Yun moved closer and said, “Uncle, what does this Snake Immortal Goddess do?”

Hearing this, the uncle said in a low voice, “Although she is under the Flower Goddess, she is not someone we believe in. There used to be a group of people who specifically worshiped the Snake Immortal Goddess. They voluntarily used their lives as sacrifices. Later, more and more people believed in her, and some people began to pay attention to others. They began to kidnap young men and women for sacrifices.”

“Those who were sacrificed would eventually have their blood drained and their bodies turned into mummies before being thrown out.”

“Later, the government sent people to burn down all the mountain temples. This saved many innocent lives. However, for some reason, these temples started to reappear a few years ago. However, most of them are hidden in remote mountains, and no one can find them.”

“Li Hua and the other one actually went to the Snake Immortal Goddess’s temple last night. They escaped, so we have to escape quickly. Otherwise, if we are caught by those people, we will all lose our lives.”

“We two must never mention this matter when we get to Da Ji Mountain, and pretend that we don’t know anything.”

Hearing this, Lei Yun and Chen Jing slowly nodded.

The couple and the girl in the middle changed routes at the mountain pass, leaving only Lei Yun and the boy, as well as the uncle driving the cart.

The uncle knew that the girl was from Da Ji Mountain, so he invited her to get on the cart.

“Aya, is your village on Da Ji Mountain?” Lei Yun asked with a smile.

The girl was called Li Hua, about sixteen or seventeen years old. She was fair and lovely, with dark skin and big eyes. At this time, she was biting her lip and nodding.

Seeing this, Chen Dong’s face softened, “What’s the name of your village?”

Seeing Chen Jing’s unusually gentle behavior, Lei Yun was a little surprised and looked at her with a gentle expression.

Feeling Lei Yun’s gaze towards Chen Dong and seeing Chen Dong’s gentle tone, Li Hua said softly, “Purple Cloud Village.”

“Li Hua, can you tell us the story of the Flower Goddess? This brother and I are here to travel.”

Li Hua knew that people who came to travel there were usually generous. Their village was very poor, the poorest of all the villages nearby. Someone used to want to develop a tourist area there, but the village chief didn’t agree. Later, people from above kept coming, and the village chief reluctantly accepted it. However, people who came to their place had to follow their rules and couldn’t run around.

Over the years, the name of the Flower Goddess had spread. Every month, people would come here to worship the Flower Goddess. Seeing them like this, Li Hua was sure that they were also here to worship the Flower Goddess and ask for things.

“The Flower Goddess is very effective, sister. Are we also going to ask the Flower Goddess?”

Hearing this, the uncle driving the cart smiled, “They’re not, they just want to take a look.” After saying that, he looked at Lei Yun jokingly.

The atmosphere became relaxed. Li Hua relaxed and began to tell Chen Dong and Lei Yun about the Flower Goddess.

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