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There seemed to be soldiers and horses moving in the white fog. They were roaring and screaming, and the dust was flying everywhere. There was a choking smell mixed in the white fog.

Shen Hong didn't understand why so many soldiers and horses appeared. She held her crescent scimitar and looked left and right. Meng Xiaodie told her not to be nervous. That was just an illusion, nothing more than a bluff.

Where was the corner of the Nine Palace Eight Trigram Formation? He hadn't been able to see it, especially when it came to the eye of the formation, which should have been where he was going to be held at. Meng Xiaodie thought to herself, At that time, I should have really caught him at that time, because he was the soul of the formation, and as long as I could kill him, the Nine Palace Eight Trigrams Formation would break by itself.

It was not that easy to find him.

But how could he find the Formation Aperture and destroy it just because he was waiting for the moment to die? He couldn't wait here. The purpose of the Earth Demon was to stall him for time. Thinking of this, Meng Xiaodie looked around and decided to attack in the direction where there were many troops.

Shen Hong followed him and took two steps forward. When he saw the battle formation in front of them, he couldn't help but say, "There are so many soldiers and horses up ahead. Why are we heading in that direction?"

"In my opinion, the more heavily armed the area, the weaker it is. That's probably the core of the formation. As long as we break it, the Nine Palace Eight Trigrams Formation will collapse on its own." Meng Xiaodie revealed her thoughts.

Shen Hong was not familiar with the Nine Palace Eight Trigram Formation so far. She heard Meng Xiaodie's words and nodded, continuing to move forward at an even faster pace.

They walked about a hundred meters, and the horses were still swaying in front, but there was not a single soldier in sight. Meng Xiaodie thought it was strange, the area in front of the tea house was not big, and its length and width were tens of meters. Now, they had walked about a hundred meters, but they did not reach the end.

If that was the case, even if they grew old and exhausted, they wouldn't be able to reach the end.

Meng Xiaodie stopped. He looked at the situation in front of him again, wondering what had gone wrong. The paths beneath his feet criss-crossed each other, but each path had overlap and intersections. he asked Shen Hong. "Can you tell the direction of these paths?"

Shen Hong looked at them for a long time before shaking his head. "There are almost no straight roads here. They are all curved and overlapping. How can one walk on such roads, walk around and reach the starting point?"

"That's right, these paths are deliberately deceiving us. We have to break these paths and open up our own paths." Meng Xiaodie said.

Even so, it was not easy to implement, because the path was lined either with waist-deep hay or with ravine and mountain ranges, making it impossible to pass through.

Meng Xiaodie and Shen Hong walked for a few steps before stopping. When they looked at those paths again, they didn't seem to be curved too much. Instead, they looked very straight. However, when they walked up, they felt as if they were spinning in place.

Meng Xiaodie found that the paths changed according to her will. When she imagined that it was straight, it would become straight. When her subconscious thought that she was walking in circles, it felt like she was spinning.

Why did this happen? Meng Xiaodie couldn't understand, could these paths see through people's minds? He had only heard that the Nine Palace Eight Trigram Formation was strange, but he had never expected it to be so strange and powerful.

Then he sat down and calmed his breathing. After a while, he opened his eyes again, and indeed, there was a change. He saw a new path, a path that seemed to lead directly to a place that could be seen from afar, like a temple.

Meng Xiaodie gave it a try, and he and Shen Hong walked along the brand-new path. After about an hour, the temple got closer and closer, until they came to a small temple on the ground. According to its height, they shouldn't be able to see it from a distance, but Meng Xiaodie did.

Is this a trap?" It was very possible that it was a trap, but Meng Xiaodie didn't have a choice. He had to find a target, even if it was a huge trap with many dangers lurking inside, it was better than going on in a daze. He was not afraid of traps.

Meng Xiaodie and Shen Hong arrived at the temple and saw a couplet written on both sides of the door.

The first half was: Earth can produce all things. The second half was: Earth can produce all things.

Entering, there were two clay statues in the middle of the temple. One was the land lord, the other was the land grandma. There was also a couplet on both sides of the altar. The first couplet was: Whisk your whiskers and watch the dawn.

The second verse read: Staff Laughing East Wind.

When Shen Hong saw the land god, he immediately knelt and muttered, "The land god, the land god, the land god was originally a man of heaven."

Meng Xiaodie didn't understand, and asked, "What are you doing?

Shen Hong said, "In our country, we believe in the land god, and the land god is a good god. Every year, we hold a ceremony to pay our respects to the land god. Dusk had arrived. The gongs and drums were noisy and firecrackers could be heard. Some people disguised themselves as earth gods, wearing long beards and holding crutches. They continuously shouted, "land gods, land gods, people from the heavens!" So I remember that very clearly.

"Sacrifice is a kind of worship towards the land. The land provides food for the humans to reproduce and survive, so you have to make a god to worship." Meng Xiaodie said.

"Don't you offer sacrifices to the land gods?" Shen Hong curiously asked.

Meng Xiaodie shook her head, "I left my hometown a long time ago and wandered the world. As for the customs and customs of my hometown, I have already forgotten about them."

He raised his head to look at the land god, this clay statue looked a little old, as if it had been moved from some run-down village, the color on it was already mottled, some parts had lost their skin, revealing the mud inside, but the face of the land god was carved very meticulously, with a pair of lively eyes. The granny next to him seemed to have been newly sculpted, and the carvings were also a little rough. Although the colors looked old, it was as if someone had deliberately cut them off a few times, and her body had become riddled with holes. Meng Xiaodie felt that Grandma Earth's eyes were a bit awkward, but she couldn't tell what was wrong.

Meng Xiaodie stared at that Grandma Earth, trying to find a weak point.

Shen Hong was a very pious person and bowed to the Buddha twice.

"Miss Shen, look at that earth grandma. There seems to be something wrong with her." Because an Earth Temple had appeared out of nowhere in the array, it always made people feel that there was something deceptive about it.

Shen Hong looked at it carefully, then shook his head and said, "This Grandma of the Earth is just old and worn out, nothing more."

"We don't have a village here, and we don't have a shop here. Why is there an Earth Temple here?" Meng Xiaodie asked. As soon as he finished, the mud seemed to move.