There was a down-and-out scholar named Ji Cheng in Wuxian County who accidentally got an ancient book about demons and ghosts. According to the method in the book, it could really exorcise evil spirits, and gradually gained a little fame.

On that day, two strangers suddenly came to Ji Cheng's house. They claimed to be from a mountain village dozens of miles away. Recently, many mysterious things happened in the village, which disturbed the whole village.

Even the people in the mountains knew that he would be famous all over the world in the future, not to mention the glory and wealth. However, he looked at the two in front of him, not to mention their thin bodies, but their faces were full of ignorance. Presumably the village was also poor, what could he gain this time? There was a thought of rejection in his heart.

However, before he could say this, the two villagers took out a rag package from their bodies and opened it to see that it was full of scattered gold nuggets. Ji Cheng was so shocked that he almost jumped up. Fortunately, he suppressed it, otherwise he would be embarrassed in front of these two people.

The next morning, Ji Cheng and the two went on the road together. In the evening, they entered the mountains and arrived at the village late at night. Ji Cheng met the village chief, who talked about the strange thing that happened in the village.

The village chief said, "There have been a lot of strange things in the village recently. Since two months ago, the villagers have noticed that the nearby trees have withered a lot, and they didn't care at first. Soon after, every midnight, they could hear the cries of ghosts from somewhere in the village. The cries were fierce, and the cries were mixed with wailing and quarreling, so the villagers were afraid to go out at night. Then, many villagers developed an epidemic, and all the doctors were helpless, so some people said it was a ghost. Recently, things have become more serious."

Village Chief took a sip of tea when he said this, and Ji Cheng quickly asked, "The so-called more serious thing means..."

The village chief threw the teacup heavily onto the table and said angrily, "Recently, the lifeblood of our village has also been cut off! Master doesn't know that this village has been mining gold in the mountains since ancient times to survive, but this gold mine has been completely exhausted overnight, and not a single grain of gold can be seen. Isn't this cutting off our way of life? How can we tolerate it?"

Ji Cheng couldn't help but nod when he heard that. As the saying goes, cutting off people's financial path is no less than murdering parents, and this evil ghost is too black-hearted. Ji Cheng quickly said: "Village Chief, please rest assured, since I already know the situation of the village, I will not tolerate this evil ghost to continue to do evil things. When I use my magic power to get rid of the evil ghost, the village will be peaceful. When the time comes..."

The village chief slapped his thigh and said, "At that time, there will definitely be a master in gold, and you will return with a full load."

Ji Cheng couldn't help but blush, thinking that the people in this village really don't know how to be subtle, so they directly expressed their thoughts.

Ji Cheng rested in the village for one night and started patrolling the village the next day. He used the method in the book to investigate the traces of ghosts, and he actually found that there was a gathering of yin energy in a place in the village, which happened to be the temple in the south of the village.

Ji Cheng asked about the origin of this temple, and the village chief said, "This temple is dedicated to an ancestor of our clan. I heard that he ascended to immortality after his death and protected our clan. What, Master, is there anything unusual in this temple? If so, please take action to catch ghosts as soon as possible!"

Ji Cheng nodded and said, "Based on my experience, there must be some weirdness in this temple. We can find out tonight!"

At night, Ji Cheng prepared all kinds of magic tools to exorcise ghosts, and the village chief led the villagers to watch.

When the time came, Ji Cheng twisted up a pinch of incense ash and couldn't stop chanting. As he burned a spell, he threw the spell forward, and then sprinkled the incense ash in the direction where the spell flew. Immediately, he heard a ghost scream piercing the night sky, resounding throughout the village, scaring the villagers out of their minds.

When Ji Cheng saw that there was a door, he quickly used all the methods in the book to get rid of ghosts. The strength of the evil ghost is not weak, and it can even fight evenly. However, the villagers gradually realized that the master's mana seemed to be stretched thin. Ji Cheng couldn't help but start beating the drum in his heart. This time he encountered a hard stubble, maybe he was going to lose, and he had to find a chance to escape.

Suddenly, a villager shouted, "There seems to be someone there!"

Ji Cheng took a closer look, and sure enough, a cloud of smoke suddenly condensed where the ghost was, and gradually turned into a real entity, and a woman's face gradually appeared.

The woman looked at Ji Cheng with an expression of pleading for help, as if she was bound by the ghost and could not escape.

With the appearance of the woman, the strength of the evil ghost was obviously affected. Ji Cheng actually launched a wave of counterattacks, repelling the ghost several steps.

As the evil spirit was repelled, the woman also took the opportunity to show her whole body, and saw that her face was pure, like a weak girl, gently said to Ji Cheng, "Come and save me!"

Ji Cheng was shouted at by the beautiful woman in front of him, his body trembled, and his whole body burst out with infinite power, condensed the power on the spirit talisman in his hand, and beat it fiercely.

The beautiful woman screamed and fell to the ground. Ji Cheng hurriedly helped her up and asked her who she was. The villagers next to him also gathered around and pointed to the woman in front of him.

The woman said, "I was originally a woman from a village at the foot of the mountain, my name is Gillan. One day, I was taken away by this evil ghost and forcibly became its wife. Life is really worse than death.

Many of the villagers did not believe her and shouted that they wanted to beat her to death, but Ji Cheng stopped them, saying he believed she was not a ghost. Seeing this, Gillan shouted, "I can help completely get rid of evil spirits to prove my innocence!"

Two days later, in the middle of the night, on a wasteland outside the village, Jilan was tied to a wooden stake, his head lowered and his eyes closed. Suddenly, the wind blew up her hair, and Jilan felt a cold air gradually approaching him, and he knew that the evil ghost had arrived. The evil ghost had been floating around for a long time before flying towards Jilan. Just as he was about to pick up Jilan, a large amount of blood from pigs, sheep and dogs suddenly flew around, and it was hitting the evil ghost. It turned out that Ji Cheng led the villagers to ambush around for a long time.

The dirty blood thrown on the evil ghost was not ordinary pig, sheep, and dog blood. It was mixed with the blood of some villagers. When Gillan was trapped by the evil ghost, he heard from the evil ghost. Only in this way can the evil ghost be completely subdued.

Sure enough, the evil ghost did not care at first, but then gradually realized that something was wrong, and blue smoke came out of his body, and he knew that he had hit the road. He glared at Gillan fiercely, as if he were going to eat her in one bite, and Gillan was frightened to huddle.

The evil ghost disappeared completely without a trace in a loud noise, and the villagers believed Jilan was innocent. After two days of getting along with Ji Cheng, he had completely fallen in love with Jilan, and Jilan seemed to have a good impression of Ji Cheng.

Immediately, the village chief announced that he would reward Ji Cheng and Gillan heavily, and the thank you gift was all the gold he dug in the mountain gold mine the next day.

Ji Cheng couldn't help but curse the village chief in his heart. He was really a miser and a miser. He clearly said that he would give me a lot of compensation, but he had to dig for gold. If there was no gold in the gold mine, wouldn't he be playing with me?

The next night, while Ji Cheng and Jilan were still lingering, the villagers who had gone to mine came back from the mountain with bad news. There was still no gold!

Ji Cheng jumped up and went berserk on the spot, pointing at the village chief and saying, "You guys are just trying to fool me, aren't you?"

We really didn't find any gold, so we still need Master's help. Master has to help us find gold! Otherwise, we won't be able to get paid! "

Ji Cheng was about to have an attack, but was stopped by Gillan. He whispered a few words in his ear, but Ji Cheng held back.

That night, as Gillan had expected, there was a strong wind in the village, and a mysterious force roamed around the village, seemingly searching for something, and everywhere it went was destroyed.

In the end, the force found Ji Cheng's location, where the village chief and village elders were hiding besides Gillan. The force gradually turned into a huge body and stared at Ji Cheng below, as if he was gathering his strength to deliver a punch. Ji Cheng took out a talisman, burned it, and threw it into the air.

As the spirit talisman flew into the air, a golden light suddenly flashed, and two golden armored gods appeared in mid-air. Without speaking, they reached out and grabbed the huge body, breaking the ball of qi. Finally, only a thin body was left, kowtowing to the golden armored god and begging for mercy.

The whole process was between lightning and flashes, not only was the village chief and the others speechless, but even Ji Cheng didn't expect to see this scene, so he couldn't help but gasp.

The elders of the village knelt down one after another, chanting Buddha in their mouths, and took out all their gold and dedicated it to Ji Cheng. Ji Cheng thought to himself, the talisman written by Jilan really works.

The next day, the village chief was surprised to find Ji Cheng and Jilan left without saying goodbye.

Not long after, people discovered that the village in the mountains was completely ruined. Villagers in the village were also poor and had fled the mountains to make a living in various places. No one knew where the gold mines that the village depended for survival went.

After some time, someone recognized Ji Cheng in the street, who was a beggar. He was unkempt and skinny, and he didn't look as elegant as he did back then. Someone gave him some food and asked him the truth about what happened back then.

The evil ghost was actually the ancestor of the villagers. Although he became a ghost after his death, he was favored by the female fairy in the mountains. The female fairy was appointed by the heavens to take charge of all the living resources around her.

It was a cicada demon, but it was unable to fly and could only survive by absorbing the essence of the trees in the mountains. Later, he was dissatisfied with this and approached the ancestor ghost. The ancestor ghost was so confused by her that it gave Jilan a large number of trees around the village for her to enjoy.

But this angered the female fairy in the mountain, how dare this cicada demon compete with him for a man? Therefore, the three of them quarreled repeatedly outside the village for a long time, which was a strange cry heard by the villagers. After that, the female fairy cut off the gold mine in the village in order to let the ancestral ghost know its way back, but the ancestral ghost still did not repent. But Gilan knew that he could not defeat the female fairy, and the ancestral ghost could no longer protect him, so he began to seek a way out.

When Ji Cheng arrived in the village, Jilan took a fancy to him and decided to abandon the Ancestor Ghost. Therefore, Jilan helped Ji Cheng get rid of the Ancestor Ghost, she knew it would anger the female fairy, but Jilan was not afraid. Because she knew that once someone reported the matter of the female fairy protecting the Ancestor Ghost and plotting a gold mine to the heavenly court, the fairy would not be able to eat it. Jilan wrote the spell and handed it over to Ji Cheng, and after Ji Cheng burned it, the golden armored god from the sky came quickly and escorted the female fairy back to the sky to be punished.

After this operation, Gillan not only gained freedom, but also climbed to Ji Cheng's backer, but Gillan also miscalculated, she didn't expect Ji Cheng to be just a crook. Which book did he copy his methods of exorcising demons from, and he didn't have much ability at all. After Gillan saw Ji Cheng's true face, he quickly squeezed Ji Cheng dry, took his ancient books and gold and silver treasures, and dumped him on the street and left.

The villagers in that mountain village had no idea that the gold mines they depended on for survival were all bestowed upon them by their ancestors, nor did they know that the ghost they were going to exorcise this time was actually their ancestors, nor did they expect that after exorcising the ghosts, it would be difficult for the entire village to survive. It turned out that the villagers had already lost the ability to cultivate with a steady stream of gold mines. Once the gold mines were cut off, life would be unsustainable and they could only go out to beg.

When the passersby heard this, they sighed and wanted to invite Ji Cheng home to settle down, but just as he turned around, he had already fallen to the side of the road and died. From then on, no one knew where Gillan was and who he was going to cling to.