Chapter 124: The Legend of the Devil Insect!

  Deep in the village, there was a wooden house that was obviously taller than any other building in the village. This was the residence of the tribal chief, Ye Changqing, and also the home of Ye Lan. Xiao Yun had just found out that Ye Lan's father was actually the chief of the insect tribe.

  The entire Tongtian Village has hundreds of households, with over a thousand people. Like many ancient villages, apart from the clan leader, there are also seven Bug Master Realm elders who are highly respected and revered.

  Among the seven elders, Ye Bai is the most respected. These seven people generally do not ask about worldly affairs and only focus on cultivation. Only when something major happens in the village or when the clan leader resigns or appoints a new one will they come out.

  Apart from Ye Bai, the other six were exhausted due to Xiao Hu's affairs and were all in seclusion recovering. Xiang Yun had no way of seeing them, and Ye Bai also only came out of his seclusion after hearing Xiang Yun's zither music.

  "What's going on with Xiaohu?" asked two seniors.

  Bian Tang, Xiao Yun couldn't help but feel puzzled, and asked Ye Bai and the others about his doubts. Up until now, he still didn't understand what was going on. Just two days ago, he had seen Xiaohu doing well, but today he was suddenly possessed by a demon bug and it was so severe that they wanted to burn him alive?

  "Alas!"

  Ye Bai shook his head and sighed, "We also didn't expect this. Two days ago, Xiao Hu Zi went into the old ghost forest to find a life insect. Today at noon, he excitedly brought back a life insect and asked Chang Qing to help him refine it, so that he could start cultivating an insect child. But who would have thought, that life insect was actually a demon insect, and it directly turned that little guy into what he is now."

  "It's also my fault for not checking carefully beforehand and helping him awaken!" Ye Changqing said with some self-reproach.

  Ye Bai waved his hand, "If the magic insect hadn't refined its soul, even us old guys would have found it hard to identify. You didn't notice, no wonder."

  "Senior, what is this 'demon insect' you're talking about?" Xiao Yun asked.

  Ye Bai said, "The demon insect is a kind of fate insect, do you know what a fate insect is?"

  Xiao Yun nodded after hearing this, "A Lan had briefly introduced some of it to me before."

  Ye Bai listened and said, "All things have good and evil, right and wrong, and the fate of insects is no exception. The demon insect is an anomaly among the fate insects. This kind of worm has a very violent temperament and strong aggression. In appearance, it is almost indistinguishable from other fate insects, but once someone tries to use it to refine the insect soul and enlighten it, they will be counterattacked by the insect soul. Those who are counterattacked by the insect soul will also undergo a great change in personality, becoming like a walking corpse with no consciousness, controlled by it, with only killing in their eyes. If not restrained, they will inevitably fall into the demonic path, and as time goes on, it will be even harder to recover!"

  "Is that why you want to burn him alive?" Xiao Yun listened, still finding it hard to accept. Regardless of whether Xiaohu was conscious or not, burning a child alive like this was just too cruel.

  "We have no other way, if we use another method to kill him, the insect soul may escape and find another host, which would harm innocent people. The only way is to burn him and the demon bug with fierce fire." Ye Changqing said.

  Ye Bai listened and said, "Little brother, you are not from our Tongtian Village, so you can't understand the horror of the demon insect. In the year seventeen hundred years ago, there was a girl in our village who also mistakenly caught a demon insect and was driven mad by it. According to our clan rules, she should have been put to death, but that girl happened to be the daughter of the current clan leader. The clan leader took pity on her and secretly let her go. Ten years later, the girl suddenly returned to Tongtian Village, now a grown adult. The clan leader was overjoyed to see his daughter return, but unexpectedly, she had already been possessed by the demon insect. In just ten short years, relying on the demon insect's brutal devouring power, she had cultivated to the level of a Bug Sect master. When she returned to the village, she killed everyone in sight, and even the clan leader was not spared. At that time, the three Bug Sect elders of Tongtian Village joined forces and fought a fierce battle before finally subduing her and burning her body to ashes!"

  Chong Zong, should be equivalent to Le Xiu's Le Zong realm! Xiao Yunru thought so, in just ten short years, he was actually able to grow to the Chong Zong realm, the might of the magic insect is truly astonishing!

  "That one witch's massacre, Tongtian Village suffered hundreds of deaths and injuries, the high-ranking masters of the insect boundary were almost completely annihilated, resulting in a period of decline. After that incident, the three major insect sects' elders issued a strict order: anyone possessed by a demon insect must be burned to death with fierce fire to eliminate future troubles. It was also from then on that our Tongtian Village gradually declined, and it wasn't until these past few hundred years that we slowly recovered." Ye Changqing said.

  "Hasn't Tongtian Village's Bug Music Avenue been passed down for thousands of years, and yet there's no solution to it?" Xiao Yun asked in puzzlement.

  Ye Bai shook his head with some embarrassment, "Misunderstanding the magic bug, we only know two methods. One is to use one's own will to fight against the bug soul, but the magic bug's soul power is much stronger than that of ordinary bugs. The ones who cultivate bugs in our tribe are all young children, who can have such strong willpower? So this path is not feasible at all. Another method is to use the secret method left by our ancestors to invade the opponent's mind sea, find the magic bug and kill it. However, we only have a bug master realm, and the mind sea is very vast, and the magic bug is very cunning. Today, several of us joined forces, but we still couldn't kill it, and instead, several people were injured by the magic bug's soul."

  Xiao Yun was speechless upon hearing this.

  Ye Changqing smiled wryly, "The demon insect is extremely rare, it's hard to encounter one in a few hundred years, but unexpectedly, Xiao Hu has stumbled upon good fortune."

  Xiao Hu came back at noon today, holding a mantis and looking pleased with himself. Ye Changqing felt a pang of regret in his heart, thinking that if only he had been more careful earlier, things would have turned out better.

  "To deal with this evil insect demon, the Buddhist music method is the most handy, haven't you guys thought of this method?" Xiaoyun asked doubtfully after a moment of silence.

  Ye Bai sighed, "Little brother, you don't understand. Our clan has lived in these great mountains for generations, with very little contact with the outside world. The outside world calls us the Insect Clan and looks down on our insect cultivation method, even ridiculing it. Even if we wanted to obtain the Buddhist True Scripture, do you think anyone would be willing to give it to us?"

  Xiao Yun listened, but shook his head and said, "Forgive me for speaking bluntly, senior, but your words are too extreme. The Buddhist teachings aim to save all sentient beings and benefit the world, how can you see that someone is not saved? You don't go seek it, so how can you blame others for not giving it?"

  Ye Bai waved his hand, "My clan has its own pride, we'd rather take the direct route than seek it in a roundabout way. Let others see us clearly, we don't need to go out of our way to fawn on them. Besides, the demon insects only appear once every few hundred years, we can handle them."

  Xiao Yun didn't know whether to say that the old man with a white beard was stubborn or had backbone, but after hearing Ye Bai's words, he suddenly didn't know what to say.

  "Xiao brothers!" Seeing the atmosphere was slightly awkward, Ye Changqing asked, "The tune you just played, 'Clear Mind and Universal Benevolence Mantra', should be a Buddhist melody, right?"

  Xiao Yun nodded slightly.

  "Is Xiao Brother a Buddhist disciple? I don't think so!" Ye Changqing said.

  Although Tongtian Village is extremely closed, he has also seen the disciples of Xiufo Music, one by one, either with a big bald head or with a whole body full of vegetarian flavor, while Xiao Yun's body has a more elegant and refined atmosphere.

  "Didn't Ah Lan tell you?" Xiao Yun shook his head with a smile, "I came from Yunzhou and I'm a disciple of Boya Mountain in Yunzhou!"

  "Yunzhou? That's quite far away!"

  Ye Changqing was stunned, apparently Ye Lan had not told him about Xiao Yun's matter. "That day, Zhuozi and the others brought back a four-stage demon beast, saying it was killed by you? How did you end up in my Da Liang country?"

  This place is still some distance from Dashaguo, and both Ye Changqing and Ye Bai found it hard to understand how Xiao Yun could run so far to come to Tongtian Mountain.

  "It's a long story!" Xiao Yun sighed inwardly after hearing it, and only said simply after a while, "I and several seniors and fellow disciples of the sect were ambushed by the demon tribe. I was captured by that demonic eagle and brought here all the way. I used my magic to kill that demonic eagle, which is how I ended up on Tongtian Mountain. Fortunately, I met Alan and Shu Hu and they saved me. Otherwise, I'm afraid I would have been swallowed by the jackals on the mountain by now."

  So it was, and the two of them looked at each other in surprise.

  "You just said you had a way to force the demon bug out of Xiao Hu's mind, is that true?" Realizing the topic was going off track, Ye Changqing brought it back on track again.