Chapter 15: The Temple of the Mountain God

  The off-road vehicle was thrown down the cliff, and with a loud roar, flames illuminated the entire dark night, also casting a white glow on Zhang Daoshi's and Bao Ren's faces.

  "Shasha..."

  A rustling sound came from the bushes on the cliff, and Li Mang, with a gray head and face, crawled out from below. It turned out that at the moment when the car fell off the cliff, he took advantage of the opportunity to drill out of the car door, thus escaping death, only because it was in the middle of the night, they couldn't see him.

  "Secretary Li, you're not dead!" Bao Ren was overjoyed, he knew that if it wasn't for Li Meng kicking him out just now, he would already be a dead man.

  "Nonsense!" Li Meng cursed in a bad mood, although he had escaped the disaster, but he still had lingering fears. Thanks to this body having undergone two marrow washes, his strength and agility were even better than before, otherwise at this time he would have been burned to death if not smashed to death.

  "Hah!"

  The female ghost next to him sneered coldly, breaking the joy of Li Mang's rebirth, with rotting flesh on his face that made people want to vomit.

  "You stinky little brat, you've ruined my good deeds three times already, I want you dead!" The female ghost didn't attack Bao Ren, who was closest to her, but instead turned her gaze towards Li Mang. Her body floated lightly and slid towards Li Mang, her hands raised in a pinching motion.

  "You dare, demon girl!"

  Zhang Daoshi also came back to his senses from the surprise, endured the pain and took out a yellow paper from his pocket, directly writing talismans with his hand, blood talismans.

  But he hadn't finished drawing, the female ghost approached Li Meng, grinned and laughed, also extremely fast, her hands swiftly strangled Li Meng's neck and lifted him up.

  "Cough, cough..." Li Meng was unable to breathe normally, his face flushed red, but he naturally wouldn't surrender easily, and with all his might, he punched the female ghost's head.

  "Hah!" The female ghost sneered. She had the ability to stop him, but she didn't. A mere mortal, how could he possibly harm her soul?

  Bang!

  "Ah!"

  The female ghost let out a mournful cry, and instinctively released Li Mang, covering her head and squatting on the ground, looking extremely painful, and the sound of her mournful cry was also very chilling.

  Zhang Daoshi and Bao Ren were both stunned by this scene.

  Li Meng let out a few loud gasps, but didn't dare to linger and hastily shouted: "Quickly run, what are you still standing there for!"

  "Over here!"

  The car is gone, and the three can only run wildly on foot. Li Meng's speed is the fastest, always running in the front, while Zhang Daoshi, who was injured, follows behind him, not much slower, but he looks at Li Meng in front of him with extreme shock. His strengths may not be physical, but they are far from ordinary people, and now he is actually left behind by Li Meng, which is truly unthinkable.

  Bao Ren's speed was the slowest, and if Li Meng hadn't let him go ahead, he would have been left far behind. Despite this, Bao Ren was still sweating profusely, especially when he looked back at the rear, and accidentally fell to the ground, scraping his knee but not feeling any pain.

  The female ghost floated in, her face was originally terrifying, now with an angry expression, her fangs slightly exposed, making Bao Ren feel desperate.

  However, what made him stunned was that the female ghost didn't even glance at him, and continued to fly forward, not stopping even when passing by Zhang Daoshi, but instead gazing at Li Meng's eyes with a colder gaze.

  "Monster, you dare to be so rampant!" Zhang Daoshi naturally wouldn't ignore Li Meng, and the blood talisman he had prepared earlier was thrown out.

  "Foul Taoist, get out of my sight!" The female ghost shouted angrily, a black mist shot out from her palm, not only did it blow Zhang's blood talisman away, but also sent Zhang himself flying back, old blood spurted out of his mouth, his face turned pale to the extreme.

  But the female ghost did not take advantage of the opportunity to kill Zhang Daoshi, and instead continued to chase after Li Meng.

  "Your father doesn't have such a deep grudge against you, does he?!" Li Mang was shocked and lost his composure, not daring to be slow again. His legs turned into wheels and he wildly ran forward.

  "Damn little brat!"

  The female ghost was so resentful that her teeth itched, last night she could have let Bao Ren drive the car off the cliff, but unexpectedly she was ruined by this insignificant little boy, and the other party actually ignored her ghostly skills.

  Tonight, Li Meng not only saved Bao Ren again but also gave her a punch, which completely enraged her. She hated Zhang Daoshi, but she hated Li Meng even more. Zhang Daoshi was the Heavenly Master, and it was no surprise that he had hurt her. But Li Meng was just an ordinary person, yet he repeatedly provoked her three times, so the female ghost naturally remembered to hate him even more.

  But at this time, the female ghost was secretly shocked in her heart. The escape speed of this 'ordinary person' was actually not much slower than hers. Even if she chased after him with all her might, she couldn't catch up for the time being. This made her even more resentful and determined to pursue him relentlessly, wanting to kill Li Mang as soon as possible.

  But in the blink of an eye, Li Meng and the female ghost disappeared into the night at the same time.

  Bao Ren helped the injured Zhang Daoshi up, looking in the direction Li Meng was escaping with a mix of relief and worry. After all, Li Meng had saved his life several times before, and he wasn't an ungrateful person. He anxiously asked: "Zhang Daoshi, the female ghost has gone to chase after Li Meng, what should we do?"

  "Hurry up and gather a large crowd, get the police... no, get soldiers, soldiers have strong yang energy, when they gather together, evil spirits won't dare to approach!" Zhang Daoshi hastily instructed.

  "Oh...... alright, I'll notify them right away!" Bao Ren was overjoyed, as if he had received a sacred decree. He took out his own satellite phone and dialed the Lemon Mountain Military District.

  "Ding Dong Ding Dong!!!!!!"

  The gathered bell suddenly rang through the Lemshan military district, and the big-headed soldiers who had just fallen asleep were awakened in an instant. They hastily dressed up, and 2,000 soldiers were fully equipped within two minutes.

  Raid training?

  Looking ahead at the straight-standing instructor, the soldiers couldn't help but have this thought in their minds.

  "Get in, hurry to the execution ground of Mengshan at full speed!" The division commander didn't say anything, gave an order and led the way by boarding a military off-road vehicle, speeding away. In fact, the division commander was also confused now, but he didn't dare to show any disdain for this order from the National Security Agency.

  The Yellow Emperor is unknown to the world, but often needs to coordinate with the energy of the secular world, so he has created a national security identity, which can better mobilize the energy of the national machine.

  "It doesn't look like this is a surprise training mission."

  "Is there some sudden urgent task?"

  "I think it should be an operation to eliminate bandits or gangsters, and the location is in the Mangshan Natural Forest, where we are not on our first mission."

  "You don't know, but recently there have been ghost sightings at Leming Hill Execution Ground!"

  "Haunted? We are socialist modernized soldiers, how can we be superstitious!"

  On a military vehicle, the soldiers were chatting idly, all filled with curiosity about tonight's mission. Of course, most of them thought it was just a matter of dealing with bandits or suppressing rebels; if it really was a ghost, they could just find a Taoist priest to deal with it, what did they need soldiers for?

  At this moment, Li Meng's situation was not optimistic. In terms of speed, he was far inferior to the female ghost, and in a head-on confrontation, his strength was even more inadequate. As a result, he had been overtaken multiple times and had no choice but to abandon the highway and turn onto a rather rugged mountain peak.

  It was now dawn, and the night was already hazy. Walking on the mountain path, Li Mang could almost only rely on his senses to run upwards.

  Li Meng's clothes were tattered and worn, his body covered in wounds. What was even more ominous was that these injuries were not ordinary, the pain was unbearable, and under the cover of night, he discovered that the wounds on his hands had turned black, as if death itself was at work.

  This situation was not unfamiliar to Li Meng, the injury Zhang Daoshi suffered last night was similar. As an insider, Zhang Daoshi didn't mind, but Li Meng knew little about this aspect, let alone how to deal with it. The abnormality of the wound made him anxious and uneasy.

  As for the peace talisman given by Zhang Daoshi, it's not even worth looking at in front of a female ghost with decades of Taoist practice. After all, Zhang Daoshi himself couldn't defeat her, let alone his low-level spell talisman.

  "Hah! You stinky little brat, where do you think you can escape to!" The female ghost sneered coldly, but in fact she was also extremely furious. She had been chasing him for half an hour, and yet she still couldn't kill Li Mang. This stinky little brat was just like a slippery loach, impossible to grasp!

  "There's a temple ahead!"

  Li Meng ignored the female ghost behind him, and the temple that appeared in front of him ignited his hope. His originally weak body suddenly gained a lot of strength, and he quickly stumbled and ran over.

  This was a small temple, specifically worshiping what god Li Mang wasn't clear about, nor did he know if the gods inside had any divine spirit. The danger behind him made him not care about anything else.

  Bang!

  The solid wooden door was directly broken by Li Meng and stumbled in.

  "Damn it!" The female ghost floated in front of the temple gate, hesitating.

  Nowadays, there are many gods, but in the folk, there is a saying that "the god is originally a wooden carving, and the more people worship, the more spiritual it becomes."

  This sentence seems unreasonable, but in fact it is not entirely so. Many people worship and pray for blessings to the statue of the god, which will invisibly infect the magical power, and thus 'appear'.

  "There are hardly any people around, and this mountain temple doesn't have many visitors either. Even if the deity being worshipped is real, it's of no use to me!" The female ghost muttered to herself in a cold tone, shaking her body as she continued to chase into the mountain temple.

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