"That evil god statue seems alive. We were discovered as soon as we went in, and the wounds on our bodies were all inflicted by it. I'm not quite sure what the thing parasitizing in the statue is. I've never seen it before. But I sensed the aura of a spiritual beast inside, the aura of a Nine-Tailed Heavenly Fox."
When they heard the words "spiritual beast", Niannian and Shen Weixun couldn't help but glance at each other.
Why is it always about spiritual beasts?
Just a few days ago, they met a man hunting spiritual beasts. Now they could sense the aura of a Nine-Tailed Heavenly Fox in the ancestral hall inside the Hu family compound.
But the Nine-Tailed Heavenly Foxes live in Tushan and shouldn't be here.
How did Hu Jia obtain one?
Is there any connection between these two things?
"You draw out the specific location. Tomorrow night, Niannian and I will sneak in to see what's going on. We'll also steal your soul lamps by the way."
Without seeing it with their own eyes, they couldn't confirm anything.
Shen Weixun had no choice but to wait until they stole the red lamps tomorrow to take a look at the situation of that evil god statue.
Fortunately, the current mansion of the Hu family was the former Tu family's. All the ghosts present were extremely familiar with every plant and tree here. Although Tu Miaomiao wasn't good at drawing, there was a ghost among them who was proficient in painting.
He directly created a very perfect route map, so clear that even a fool could understand it.
They stayed in the small courtyard all day.
Niannian was furiously drawing talismans there. All the talismans she drew were for exorcising evil spirits.
It was just in case they encountered that evil god statue.
When night fell and all was quiet.
Niannian and Shen Weixun tiptoed out of the room.
The two kids crept along the wall, groping their way slowly according to the map, and finally found the ancestral hall they had been told about.
The place wasn't remote, and the yard wasn't desolate. It seemed that it was often cleaned.
They could feel the bright lights inside from the outside.
The two peeked furtively around. After making sure there was no one around, they slipped into the ancestral hall.
As soon as she entered, Niannian saw the evil god statue that Tu Miaomiao had mentioned.
It was really eye-catching.
It was huge and black, standing right in the center of the front hall.
Sure enough, as Tu Miaomiao had said, this statue was exuding an evil aura. If you smelled it carefully, you could even detect a faint smell of blood.
The statue held a hammer in one hand and a sharp sword in the other. It was wearing silk and half of its arm was exposed. It was hard to tell whether it was male or female, with its eyes half-closed.
It looked a bit familiar. Especially its face, Niannian always felt as if she had seen it somewhere.
But she just couldn't remember for the moment.
After examining it for a while, apart from the rather strong evil aura, there didn't seem to be any other problems.
Niannian thought for a while and then opened her spiritual eyes.
After opening her spiritual eyes, when she looked at this evil god statue again, she was really startled.
Crouched inside the statue was an extremely beautiful Nine-Tailed Fox. It was in a semi-transparent state, with its blood-red eyes slightly squinted, looking rather listless.
A Nine-Tailed Heavenly Fox?!
It really was a Nine-Tailed Heavenly Fox?!
Moreover, it was the soul of a Nine-Tailed Heavenly Fox. It seemed that its spiritual state was very bad. It seemed to be imprisoned?
Just as Niannian was still carefully observing the state of the Nine-Tailed Heavenly Fox's soul, a mass of black mist welled up inside the statue and completely enveloped the soul of the Nine-Tailed Heavenly Fox.
Immediately afterwards, lightning flashed all around. Streams of lightning as thin as threads rushed towards Niannian.
Niannian was quick-witted and dodged to the side. She rolled a few times and barely managed to avoid those lightning bolts.
After the evil god statue launched this attack, it didn't immediately launch a second one. The black mist inside dispersed, revealing the soul of the Nine-Tailed Heavenly Fox.
Now the Nine-Tailed Heavenly Fox looked even more feeble.
Could it be that the statue used the power of the Nine-Tailed Heavenly Fox's soul to attack people?
Was the Nine-Tailed Heavenly Fox imprisoned inside?
Niannian scratched her head and wanted to walk over to take a closer look.
But just then, there suddenly came a noisy sound of footsteps from outside.
"Someone broke into the ancestral hall secretly yesterday. I've finally caught you today. Hurry up and surround this place. Don't let even a fly get away! I'd like to see who is so bold!"
Goodness! The matter of the statue fighting with the two ghosts, Tu Miaomiao, yesterday had already been exposed.
The reason why there was no one guarding this place today was actually to wait for the prey to fall into the trap.
Seeing that the people had already surrounded the place, they had to hurry up and do what they came for.
Niannian was in a flurry. She grabbed the lamps beside her and started stuffing them into her small satchel.
Anyway, the flames of these lamps wouldn't go out, so it didn't matter if she was a bit rough with them.
Shen Weixun naturally helped as well. The two of them sped up. In no time, they had stuffed hundreds of lamps into the satchel.
The small satchel, which had been flat before, was now bulging.
These lamps really took up a lot of space. Even the satchel that seemed like a bottomless pit was almost full.
When the last lamp was thrown into the satchel, the door was kicked open.
A man in a Chinese-style suit led a group of Hu family members in one after another, blocking the doorway tightly.
Seeing the empty interior of the ancestral hall, the man was stunned. He looked left and right, checking repeatedly for a long time before he dared to confirm that this was his family's ancestral hall.
After all, the statue standing in the ancestral hall was the most iconic decoration here.
"Who are you two? Who brought you here? Where are the things in the ancestral hall?"
There were no valuable things in the ancestral hall. Apart from the hundreds of soul lamps and this statue, there was nothing else.
Even a thief would cry when they came here.
This was also the reason why they were not in a hurry and dared to wait for the prey to fall into the trap.
But although those things were not valuable, they were very important to the Hu family.
They had never thought that these things would be lost, let alone that someone would target those shabby lamps that seemed worthless to others.
So when they saw Niannian and Shen Weixun, the man was completely dumbfounded.
But it was obvious that it must be these two kids who did it. After all, they were the only outsiders present, and the people inside the Hu family didn't have the guts to touch the things in the ancestral hall.
"We... we are guests invited by your family. We were bored at night and came out for a stroll. We accidentally ended up here. What do you mean by the things you mentioned? It was like this when we came."
Shen Weixun told the lie without batting an eyelid.
But Niannian just felt a bit guilty and her eyes kept wandering when the man questioned them.
Her guilty look really made it hard to continue making up lies.
The man stared at them menacingly but didn't respond.
Shen Weixun sighed helplessly. Without saying anything, Niannian's reaction had already betrayed both of them.
There was only one solution left now.
Shen Weixun patted Niannian's shoulder and whispered, "Find a way to break that evil god statue and release the thing inside. Since we're going to cause trouble anyway, let's do it tonight."