Chapter 16: Desperate Situation

  Mengshan Temple, this is the name of the mountain temple that Li Meng crashed into.

  The temple is not large, and under the night color, you can faintly see the marks left by the years. It must have existed for some years. The faint scent of sandalwood tells people that the incense of this temple is not prosperous.

  "Who!"

  As soon as Li Meng entered the main hall, a loud shout came from inside, and an old man with a white head stood up from the couch, wearing simple clothes, looking like the temple master. Although the temple master had a full head of white hair, his eyes were unusually spirited, and the sharp gaze that flashed in them made Li Meng feel dizzy.

  "This temple is not simple!" Li Meng thought in his heart.

  Bang!

  The temple's gate was directly broken open, and the female ghost floated in. Some of the auras within the temple made her slightly uncomfortable, but that was all.

  Gu Xi Miao Zhu saw the female ghost and was suddenly shocked and lost his color, then asked with a gloomy face: "What are you doing here?"

  "You old scoundrel, you even dare to frame me for murder! You've brought deadly trouble upon me. Don't think I don't know anything, all of you deserve to die!" The female ghost's face was icy cold.

  "What!" Li Mang was shocked and pale, hastily retreating to the side, staring at the old man in front of him in disbelief. The real murderer wasn't the female ghost after all; they had been misunderstanding everything? But why did this temple's master want to kill people? Was it for revenge or some other reason? Li Mang was momentarily confused.

  The Taoist priest's gaze sank, and when he looked at Li Meng again, his eyes already had a murderous intention. However, perhaps thinking that Li Meng was not a threat, he finally cast his gaze back onto the female ghost, coldly snorting: "Female ghost, don't spout demonic nonsense to deceive the masses, otherwise don't blame this old Taoist for sending you to the afterlife!"

  "Haha, save the old lady? You?" The female ghost retorted with a cold laugh and didn't say another word. With a cold laugh, she pounced on Gu Xi Temple's Zhu.

  "Halt!" The temple's guardian let out a loud shout, grabbing the duster from the altar and whipping it at the female ghost. Although the duster was light, it was clearly a magical artifact, radiating purifying energy.

  "Hmm!" However, the female ghost took it with her bare hands.

  "Whoosh!" The dust motes shone with a fierce light, as if trying to break free from their restraints.

  The female ghost felt slightly uncomfortable, after all, this duster was a magic tool that restrained her. However, she was an expert and had great courage, so she ignored it and swung the duster with brute force, sending the old monk flying onto the stone pedestal of the gods. It's unclear whether it was because of excessive strength or if the stone pedestal had already been worn out, but the thick stone slab shattered into pieces.

  "Cough, cough!" The temple priest coughed out several mouthfuls of old blood, looking at the female ghost in horror, instinctively crawling backward. This female ghost was formidable, and he had been aware of this for some time, otherwise he would have gone to find trouble with her earlier. But he hadn't expected that the female ghost's powers were so much stronger than his own.

  At this moment, the temple priest has hated Li Meng to death for bringing in this reckless and rude little boy, after all, the female ghost was brought by him, so he cast a murderous glance at him.

  "This is too weak!" Li Meng said with a sigh, originally he wanted to let them fight each other, so that he could benefit from it! But he didn't expect this old guy to be so incompetent, not even half as good as Zhang Daoshi, yet more arrogant than him.

  After some thought, Li Mang quietly left, but he didn't dare to leave through the main gate, fearing that the female ghost would be stimulated by this. Instead, he walked into a side room, hoping to leave through a window or back door. If the temple keeper was just an ordinary person, maybe a 'good person', Li Mang wouldn't have left so hastily, but since he was the perpetrator of all these events, Li Mang didn't sympathize with him.

  The temple of Mangshan has no back door, the room only has one window, and it is also reinforced with stainless steel. Unless brute force is used, it is impossible to get out.

  But once he uses brute force, the female ghost outside will surely be startled, and his plan to escape will come to nothing. What to do? Li Mang couldn't help but feel a little anxious.

  "Ah!!!!!!"

  "Rip it off!!!"

  Suddenly, a miserable cry came from outside, accompanied by the sound of limbs being torn apart. The miserable cry of the temple priest grew smaller and smaller... Li Mang's heart was racing rapidly, extremely uneasy, and could even hear the thumping sound from afar.

  "Shan Hai Jing is coming out soon!"

  Li Mang had no choice but to take this step, otherwise he would have found it difficult to escape with his life. He didn't want to follow in the footsteps of those who had gone out to worship at the temple, and it couldn't be denied that he was also afraid of death, but this was a natural instinct for any living thing, nothing shameful about it.

  As expected, Li Meng hid in the Shan Hai Jing for a moment, and the female ghost with her body stained with fresh blood appeared quietly and wordlessly. Her mouth, even her teeth, were stained with blood, making her look even more terrifying. Perhaps it was nourished by the fresh blood, but her originally weak soul actually recovered, only to have her eyes also stained with a hint of red, and her aura became even more vigorous.

  "Rip it!"

  The female ghost frantically rummaged through the room, with the mosquito net being torn to shreds first, followed by the bedding and wardrobe... almost every place in the room was destroyed.

  "Where on earth has that little brat gone!"

  The female ghost's eyebrows were tightly locked, the entire room had been turned upside down by her, but Li Mang's shadow was nowhere to be seen, and even his breath was gone. This was strange, after all, the window was still intact, and there was no sign of Li Mang's breath on it, clearly he hadn't escaped from the window, but rather seemed to have vanished into thin air, which made her feel utterly bewildered.

  However, the female ghost didn't plan to give up just yet. She closed her eyes lightly and when she opened them again, they had turned blue, scanning the entire room like a scanner.

  "Hmph!" The female ghost let out a cold snort and slapped her palm towards the wooden bed in front of her.

  With a loud crack, the wooden bed shattered, and the wood splinters flew to both sides. The female ghost's gaze was directed at the exposed floorboards under the bed, lightly lifting her foot up and heavily stomping down - "Boom!"

  The floor creaked and collapsed, a hole appeared in her line of sight.

  However, this doesn't seem to be the cellar she thought it was. Below is a large trunk, and its surface is locked, which shouldn't be a disguised exit.

  "Rise!" The female ghost lifted the wooden box with her divine thoughts, lifting it high, and then suddenly let go - "Boom!"

  The wooden box fell rapidly to the ground, was smashed to pieces, and the things inside were all exposed in their original form. It wasn't Li Meng, but rather stacks of red banknotes, even gold, jewelry, and other valuable items.

  A hundred yuan is a lot of money, and with the gold jewelry and other things, it's worth several million. I really can't believe that a low-key temple fair could have so much wealth.

  If it were an ordinary person, seeing these things would inevitably make their eyes light up, but for the female ghost, they were all worthless paper. In anger, she slapped out a palm, and more than half of the banknotes were torn to shreds by the strong wind, while the rest drifted away in all directions.

  "You stinky little brat, I've found you! Come out quickly!" The female ghost looked around, her voice icy cold, but her face was full of anger. After chasing for so long, Li Mang had actually escaped again, which was really hard for her to accept, and she was filled with rage inside.

  However, the female ghost's attempt to lure him out had no effect. After waiting for two minutes, Li Mang still did not appear, making the female ghost feel as if she was seeing a ghost herself. Her eyes flashed inexplicably and her body gradually faded away, seemingly leaving.

  At the same time, soldiers from the military region had arrived at the roadside in front of the execution ground on Mount Mang, gathering before Zhang Daoshi and Bao Ren. After the commander adjusted his troops, he gave a military salute to the two men and said loudly: "Please instruct, leaders!"

  "What kind of leader is this?" Many generals cursed in their hearts, these two are simply a pair of lunatics, and one of them is even wearing a Taoist robe, this is going to destroy our three views!

  "Follow me!" Zhang Daoshi didn't waste any words and gave a mysterious order, taking the lead in tracking down the ghostly aura left behind by the female ghost. This made the soldiers behind him look at each other in confusion, unsure what this "master" was trying to do, but seeing their superior had already executed the "order", they also started walking.

  Outside things, Li Meng temporarily did not know, after entering the Shan Hai Jing world, he came to the source of Lixi water for the first time, in this area where a layer of spring water flows through the rocks, frantically searching for something.

  The wounds on his body still hurt terribly, and the trend of turning black was getting more and more serious. This seemed to remind Li Meng that he couldn't stay here for too long, after all, Zhao Yang Mountain didn't have any medicine to treat this aspect, and he had to hurry back to the real world to let Zhang Daoshi save his life.

  Now Li Meng is looking for a turtle, preferably an old one. Zhang Daoshi once said that the fresh blood of a hundred-year-old turtle has extremely strong yang energy and is the nemesis of ghosts. However, in reality, it's hard to find a hundred-year-old turtle, so he had to settle for black dog blood as a substitute, but its power is far inferior, which was also one of the reasons why this ghost-catching attempt failed.

  But here is the world of Shan Hai Jing, an incredible space. More importantly, just yesterday, he saw a small turtle crawling up from downstream, although its shape was small, but the turtle shell was ferocious, it must have been some years old.

  So Li Meng boldly inferred that the source of Lixi River, in the stone crevices, should hide the turtle he was looking for, so as soon as he entered, he came here to move stones and search.

  "Whoosh..."

  "No!"

  "Hmm..."

  "No!"

  Block by block, the rocks were moved away by Li Mang, and indeed some strange small fish were hidden in the stone crevices, but no turtles were seen. The wounds on his body became more and more serious, and even his strength and spirit became weaker and weaker. As time slowly passed, his heart became increasingly tense.

  ……

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