Speaking of the Tai Sui, I couldn't help but think of Xiao Jin and the Heavenly Path's corpse from the Yin Corpse Sect.
The shaman energy in my body came from them.
I had been stuck at the middle stage of the Seal Heavenly Master Realm for a long time. Aside from the fact that I hadn't found a suitable cultivation technique, the most important reason was that I didn't have a lot of shaman energy to absorb.
I guessed that Old Master Yuan's ultimate goal was to become the Living Tai Sui, which was a good thing for me. Perhaps I could get a lot of shaman energy from him to increase my cultivation base.
However, Xiao Jin and the Heavenly Path's corpse had offered their shaman energy to me. I didn't ask for it.
Moreover, they were transformed from the stars in the sky. They weren't born through some cruel means.
However, Old Master Yuan was different. What he had done was against the natural order of things. He had killed people and taken their souls.
This is something that cannot be tolerated by the Heavenly Dao. I can understand this.
I knew how strong the Living Tai Sui was. Even Yan Nantian, who was a Yang God Celestial Master, couldn't resist it.
If Old Master Yuan really got his way, who knew what kind of scene it would be?
Although I longed for the shaman energy from the Living Tai Sui, I couldn't let Old Master Yuan's scheme succeed.
Fortunately, I knew Old Master Yuan's goal. It wasn't too late. We still had time to stop him.
However, I didn't understand why he would tell Fang Min when he was going to kill her.
He knew that Fang Min would tell me about it. At that time, I wouldn't just stand and watch.
Moreover, when he saw the evil sacrificial spirit, he was so scared.
As long as the evil sacrificial spirit and I got involved, he wouldn't be able to achieve his goal.
Then why did he do this? Could it be that he had other motives?
After thinking about this, I suddenly realized that the evil sacrificial spirit wasn't here. I was alone, so I wasn't Old Master Yuan's match.
Could it be that Old Master Yuan already knew about this?
I seemed to sense a hint of provocation in his words.
At this moment, Fang Min was eagerly looking at me. Her chin kept shivering as if she wanted to say something. However, she didn't dare to interrupt my train of thought.
Fang Min was the most important part of this. If I wanted to stop Old Master Yuan's scheme, I had to protect her life.
But now that the evil sacrificial spirit has left, it will be difficult for me to deal with it alone.
However, I still have the Snake Spirit and Tong Tong. Both of them are Seal Heavenly Masters, so they might be able to fight against Old Master Yuan.
Since Old Master Yuan had indicated that he would not come to take Fang Min's life until six o 'clock tomorrow afternoon, she would be safe for the time being.
I told Fang Min my plan and told her not to be afraid. As long as she stayed with me, she would be safe.
After listening to my words, Fang Min still looked worried. However, she seemed to know that she couldn't do anything about it. She could only trust me, so she nodded and stood on the side without saying anything.
Fang Min's words had helped me understand the whole situation.
However, I still don't know how he became a monk.
Therefore, Old Master Yuan's words couldn't change my previous plan.
I collected my thoughts and signaled Monk Mingjue to continue walking into the village.
Fang Min had been to Grandpa Yuan's house when she was still a guest of the Red and White Guard. That was why we followed her to the place.
At this moment, the gate of Grandpa Yuan's house was closed. We had to call him a few times before someone came out.
The one who opened the gate was a middle-aged man holding a crutch. From his appearance, I guessed he was the one Fang Min had mentioned before. He was Grandpa Yuan's eldest son, the one with a broken leg.
When he saw so many of us, he looked nervous. He didn't let us in but asked, "What's the matter?"
I told him the purpose of our visit.
After listening to me, the middle-aged man's face stiffened. He cursed loudly and was about to close the gate.
I stepped into the house and told him that this matter was related to many people's lives.
Then, I explained why his family had so many accidents that year.
The middle-aged man seemed to know that there was a reason for what had happened to his family. After listening to me, he was shaken. He invited us to his room to discuss the details.
After discussing for a while, the middle-aged man agreed to let us break Grandpa Yuan's grave.
We didn't have time to waste. I took the group back to the barren mountain.
It was noon, the time of the day when Yang energy was the strongest. Fortunately, we had the Yin Scattering Formation in this place. The Yin energy inside the grave had almost disappeared.
We weren't afraid that the Yin energy inside the grave would harm ordinary people.
However, to be safe, I asked the others to step back. Monk Mingjue was the only one standing next to me.
Breaking a grave was easy for me, and I didn't need to use many tricks. I just wanted to take out the Armor Removing Sword and slash at the grave.
The soft soil on the top of the grave suddenly burst open.
The flat ground was now a hole that was several meters deep.
I noticed Monk Mingjue's surprised face. It seemed he had never seen this kind of trick before.
However, I didn't mind him. I walked to the hole and craned my neck to see.
I thought that after I slashed the sword, Grandpa Yuan's body would be exposed.
I didn't expect to see such a strange scene.
Grandpa Yuan's body wasn't in the grave. There wasn't even a broken piece of the earthen jar.
There was a faint yellow barrier with Dao energy. This barrier gave me a familiar feeling, but I couldn't remember where I had seen it before.
After seeing this, I had an idea.
Fang Min was in charge of Grandpa Yuan's funeral. If someone had placed something in the grave, she would have known.
Since Grandpa Yuan's remains weren't in the grave, it meant that someone had secretly moved his remains away after he was buried.
Since I couldn't break the barrier with the Armor Removing Sword, the person who had set up this barrier should be stronger than me.
However, if he had moved Grandpa Yuan's remains away, why would he set up this barrier here?
Could it be that he wanted to give people the misconception that he was hiding something?
This thought popped up in my head. However, I quickly denied it.
The crack in the ground that the evil spirit had created was still there, and the faint aura of a True Dragon was constantly emitted.
In that case, that person might have buried Old Master Yuan's remains in a deeper place and left a barrier here to prevent others from finding Old Master Yuan's remains.
If so, I could conclude that the Yin Scattering Formation around the grave was also set up by this person.
It seemed that Old Master Yuan's matter was deliberately done by someone, and Old Master Yuan was just a chess piece.
However, I didn't know why this person wanted to raise a living taisui fungus.
The person who had done this must have something to do with his personal benefits.
With that thought, I immediately connected the Thai Buddhism incident to this place.
However, it didn't make sense. Why would Thai monks travel tens of thousands of miles to this place?
Moreover, how could they understand Daoist techniques and choose Grandpa Yuan's remains?
Besides Thai Buddhism, only the Shamans had a direct connection with witchcraft energy.
Could it be that the people of the Shaman tribe had done this place?
If that was the case, everything that had happened here could be explained.
If the people of the Shaman tribe wanted to increase their cultivation base, they needed to use witchcraft energy.
However, witchcraft energy was different from Dao energy. Dao energy could be converted into True Dragon energy.
However, witchcraft energy could only be obtained from the Tai Sui.
I knew that there were only two Tai Sui in existence. One was in the Grand Palace of Thailand, and the other was Xiao Jin. However, his whereabouts were unknown.
If he deliberately hid, no one could find him.
If that was the case, the people of the Shaman tribe had no choice but to create a living taisui fungus in this place.
With that thought, I didn't know if I should continue to stop them or not.
I stood still and gazed at the yellow barrier. I was a little bewildered.
All of a sudden, I saw something familiar through the yellow light.
I didn't dare to jump to a conclusion, so I went closer to see what was going on.
After staring at it for more than one minute, I remembered that it was the same thing the fatty had used to fight against Monk Miao Jue outside the Spirit Sealing Tower.
At that time, the fatty had told me that the formation was a life-saving technique that Zhenren Guan had taught him.
I guessed it wasn't easy for outsiders to learn this formation.
It seemed that the person who had set up the formation was someone from the Divination Sect.
Moreover, this person was related to witchcraft energy. A name popped up in my head — Nangong.
His whereabouts were erratic, and his way of doing things was unpredictable. I guessed that he was the one who had done this.
Thinking about Nangong, I couldn't help but think that I had something to do with him.
According to Nangong's usual behavior, he was always helping me get something.
Was it possible that he was training a living taisui fungus for me?
Thinking of this, I was overwhelmed with shock.
Nangong's methods had been too cruel. He had killed the Laoshan Sect's Master and made Old Yuan transform into a living taisui fungus.
I couldn't accept that he treated people's lives as a joke.
Even if he succeeded and made Old Yuan transform into a taisui fungus, I wouldn't hesitate to kill him.
I made up my mind and stood up to shake my body.
If the Armor Stripping Sword couldn't break the barrier, I would have to use my strongest attack.
I turned my head and signaled the others to step back. Monk Mingjue wasn't surprised.
When Monk Mingjue saw my stern face, he didn't dare to ask anything. He quietly stepped back for dozens of meters.
After the others had stepped back, I took out the Xuan Yuan Sword from my mouth and stepped into the Nine Star Heavenly Dipper. At the same time, my Dao energy continuously flowed into the Xuan Yuan Sword.