The little ghost shook her head. One of the female ghosts said, “Ji Yufei wanted to leave, but in the end she was dispersed by the light of the Buddha statue. Now she has become a strand of resentment within the village.”
After the little ghosts finished speaking, they saw the girl sitting under the moonlight turn cold. Her gaze lowered, sweeping across the houses in the village one by one.
Then her figure leaped down. A few screams followed. Not long after, she came back up.
They heard her soft voice. “Where is that Buddha statue?”
The plot had also mentioned this powerful Buddha statue. Without it, with Fang Yunchi’s half baked cultivation, he would never have been able to kill the original owner. Even the resentment in this village alone would have been enough to overwhelm him.
“Are you going there?” The female ghost’s pale face showed concern. “The Buddha statue is extremely frightening. It had been buried by mud after the rain some time ago, but a few days ago the villagers cleaned it again. We little ghosts do not dare to approach. Are you certain you want to go? Your soul form could disperse.”
“Take me there.”
The little ghosts did not dare disobey Tang Guo’s command and drifted down from the rooftop together.
The closer they got to the village entrance, the slower they floated. Tang Guo felt nothing, but she sensed the statue’s location. “Wait here. I’ll go over by myself.”
If the little ghosts went any closer, their soul forms might truly dissipate.
The little ghosts breathed a sigh of relief. Yet seeing Tang Guo approach the entrance, their hearts tightened again.
In just a few days, what Tang Guo had done had brought them great relief.
Some of them had been abducted here. Some had existed for a long time. Without exception, their deaths were all inseparable from the people of this village.
Tang Guo’s appearance had undoubtedly given them hope.
If this hard won hope vanished just like that, would they not have to continue waiting?
Tang Guo walked easily to the front of the Buddha statue. It was not large, only about half the length of a forearm and as wide as a palm. The statue had been wiped clean, and faint Buddha light shimmered from it.
It was useless to her, but to the little ghosts behind her, the harm was immense.
She crouched down and reached out to take the statue. Instantly, golden light burst forth from it and surged toward Tang Guo. She smiled faintly and casually dispersed it.
The little ghosts, who had been worried, became extremely excited, drifting about in place when they saw this scene.
Tang Guo picked up the Buddha statue and examined it carefully for a moment. She confirmed that it was indeed an orthodox evil warding Buddha statue. It must have been left here by a Buddhist cultivator of great attainment.
Perhaps the ancestors of this village had once received favor from that cultivator and thus obtained it.
“You have protected the wrong people,” Tang Guo said. “As a Buddhist cultivator, by protecting this village for so many years, you have created just as many sins. You are guilty.”
“I will change your location.”
Carrying the statue, Tang Guo came to the fork in the road. She carved out a hollow in the tree branch and placed the statue inside. “You should watch this path of sin. The ones you ought to protect are not the villagers inside, but the innocent people entering from outside.”
She saw the statue flicker. The golden light around it withdrew. The copper body of the statue gradually transformed. In the blink of an eye, it merged with the tree trunk, its copper body turning into wood. It looked as though it had grown naturally from the tree itself. No one would think it had once been that statue.
“What the female benefactor says is correct. This poor monk is guilty.”
The statue spoke.
Tang Guo was not surprised, but the system was somewhat astonished. Was that even possible? So this was a living Buddha statue?
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