Great Sui Guoshi

'The child...'

With a murmur, the farmer picked up the hoe and walked up to the ridge of the field. He scoured the soles of his feet in the small ditch next to him, fanned his straw hat, and walked across the dirt road in the field.

"Si, dad is calling you."

However, when he got closer, he found his son standing there sluggishly, his whole body trembling slightly, as if hearing an adult's voice, the child's lips trembled and he slowly turned his face away, his face was pale with no blood visible, and his forehead was bleeding A thin layer of cold sweat, stammering words, squeezed out weakly between the lips.

"...Dad...Dad..."

"What's the matter with you, are you suffering from heat stroke?"

The man who came over hastily put down his hoe and walked a few steps quickly. The forest on one side was rustling, and a gust of wind blew in. His eyes blurred, and right under his eyelids, a black shadow rushed out of the forest, Grab the child's shoulders and drag him into the woods.

"Ah... Ah Si!!"

The man was stunned for a moment, then came to his senses and yelled loudly, "Come here, there are big bugs eating people—"

After shouting twice, he ran back to pick up the hoe on the ground, and rushed into the forest with his hands raised. Some of the farmers working in the nearby fields came to the entrance of the village. Hearing the shout, they picked up their sickles and hoes one by one and followed. Shouting loudly, all the old and young women and children in the village also picked up their shoulder poles and hatchets.

"Shout louder to scare the big bug away!"

"Let's go together, or we will suffer in the future!"

"Ergou's family, hurry up, you've hit a big bug."

"Whoever has a gong, bring it with you."

"...See you later, beat me to death!"

There were dozens of households in the village, nearly a hundred people, men, women and children. They rushed out in groups with the guys in their hands, and the momentum spread across the fields.

The villagers rushed into the forest over there. The man who was eager to save the baby before, was holding a hoe at this moment, but he looked ahead and remained motionless.

Someone shouted at him: "What are you doing in a daze, where is the big bug?"

"Yeah, what about the roar of the tiger?" "Everyone, look around, how dare you come to our village..."

"Oh, what is this, hey... it's blood."

The shouting and shouting gradually died down, someone jumped up, avoided the pool of blood-stained leaves under their feet, and was about to continue talking, when the surrounding villagers followed the direction the man was looking in silence, turned their heads, and looked In the field of vision, on a dead tree with a crooked neck, the corpse of an adult hangs dangling on the branch, the neck is bloody, and the blood drops run down the bare chest, staining the belt red, and bit by bit from the toes. Drops fell to the ground.

a moment.

The swaying corpse fell from the branch and fell to the ground. The wind blew, and a bloody smell permeated the forest. On the swaying branch, a skinny old man crouched, holding a child in his hand, with a gray beard and hair. In the meantime, the blood-stained fangs gently rubbed against the child's face.

The child was so frightened that his face turned pale, and he shut his mouth tightly, not daring to make a sound.

hoo hoo...

In the forest, the crowd of villagers didn't dare to show their spirits, and the people who came after beating the gong were immediately held down by their companions, covering their mouth and nose, and carefully motioned to the dead tree in the other side.

"Don't talk, there are zombies."

As soon as the words came out, the thin figure on the branch suddenly opened his mouth, and the villagers who were huddled together subconsciously moved their feet back. The beard and hair, and the white eye sockets looked over here.

Everyone was paralyzed from fright, unable to move even if they wanted to leave.

At this moment, a gust of cool wind blew in from the outside, blowing over their heads, a small sword swished across the sky, plunged into the darkness of the forest, and pierced the zombie on the branch.

"Corpse, dare to do evil here—"

The moment a roar sounded, the corpse demon slammed the flying sword, and a figure in a red robe and leather armor stepped over the shoulder of a person below, flipped his palm and hit him, the branch cracked, and the person used the recoil With great strength, the other hand grabbed the child over there, and immediately pulled away to the side to make a distance, and kicked again, and the nearby trees were shaken by the shock.

He floated to the front of the crowd, threw the child to the villagers behind him, and turned his side face with thick beard and thick eyebrows: "You guys go, if I don't come out, move out of here immediately!"

"Thank you, the expert, we will leave immediately, the expert must come out..."

A group of villagers looked panic-stricken, and fled outside with their children. The big bearded man was Yan Chixia who had rushed over. He thought it was a corpse demon resurrected by the evil spirit of the earth, but now he looked at it for a moment. , It's not as simple as a corpse demon at all, without using spells to attach to the sword body, it is impossible to break the opponent's body, and the palm thunder just now is also unscathed.

"Damn it, call first and then-"

Shaking off her worries, Yan Chixia bit her fingertips, drew Yin and Yang on her palm, and wrote the word "Chi" in the air. The zombie who had lost its prey over there smelled the blood, suddenly became manic, raised its arms and raised its head and roared!

"Roar--"

The wind was shaking, and the forest and fields were shaking wildly, swooping towards the big man with the box below.

The woods swayed, and the sound gradually became quieter as it spread into the distance. The one-armed knight walking through the dirt road still heard the roar, turned his head to look at the village located halfway up the mountain in the distance, and ran wildly with his knife in hand.

Before they got close, the flat and booming fight had already exploded in the forest. A big tree dragged its dense tree cage and broke and fell. Yan Chixia stepped on the crossbar and jumped into the air. A golden ball kept flying out, rumbling along the ground and exploding.

"Excalibur to eliminate demons!"

Falling to the ground, she held the Fa Jue in front of her chest and went straight to the top of her head. The sword box behind her was opened, and a small sword with a handle flew out with a golden light. :"go!"

When the corpse monster on the opposite side waved Lei Yuwei's palm away, his keen sense of hearing was full of dense sounds.

swish swish...  

Countless golden lights flashed straight lines, and when the first small sword touched his skinny chest ribs, a golden flying sword followed one after another, like striking iron, splashing sparks, the skinny body vibrated crazily, and was pushed away. dragged out two deep marks.

"Fellow Daoist Yan, Zuo is here to help you—"

A majestic shout sounded in the forest, and among the swaying branches and leaves, a figure slanted across the trunk of the tree and leaped into the air.

when!

The edge of the knife struck the skinny skin and bones, splashing sparks, instead, Zuo Zhengyang flew backwards in shock, twisted and turned in mid-air, lost all strength, and just landed on the ground.

On some darkened faces, brows frowned.

"Why can't it be cut..."

"It's human blood!"

Yan Chixia maintained her mana, leaned against the zombie and leaned back against a tree, tilted her head and shouted: "He has sucked human blood, his powers have skyrocketed, cut off his head, we can't let him suck human blood again, otherwise he will die." Jumping out of the five elements, Taoism is hard to stop!"

Over there, Zuo Zhengyang clenched the handle of the knife tightly, endured the discomfort coming from his body, channeled his magic power, and the blade ignited flames. However, the corpse that Yan Chixia used to hit the big tree with the sword suddenly fell down. As soon as it sank, it sank into the ground and disappeared without a trace in an instant.

"Earth escape..."

As soon as the two collected their mana, they walked over quickly. The ground under the tree was as usual, and the thick fallen leaves were kicked away, and there was no trace of being buried in the soil at all.

Zuo Zhengyang covered his chest and took a look, remembering that there was such a person who knew how to use it in the past.

"This earth escape technique is much more profound than that of Daoist Sun."

On the side, Yan Chixia twisted the soil and rubbed it with her fingertips a few times, "This is a magic spell in Liuding Liujia... This corpse demon can also do magic tricks, this is troublesome."

He tilted his head, looked at Zuo Zhengyang, and said: "This monster must be killed as soon as possible..." His words changed suddenly: "Old Zuo, what's wrong with you?"

The latter staggered with a long knife, fell to the ground with a bang, passed through the sunlight in the forest, and landed on Zuo Zhengyang's face, which was covered in bruises, and his lips were black and purple, obviously poisoned too deeply.

Corpse poison...

Yan Chixia hastily touched several acupuncture points on his body, tore off his armor, took out a handful of glutinous rice from the cloth bag around his waist, and patted it on his back, rubbing it vigorously, black smoke came out from between his fingers, and there were bursts of 'chichi' sound.

After a while, she let go of her hand, and saw a yin-yang pattern made of glutinous rice on Zuo Zhengyang's back. Yan Chixia traced the pattern along the pattern with cinnabar powder to temporarily contain the corpse poison and prevent it from spreading, not even for a moment. Daring to delay, he carried Zuo Zhengyang on his back, with a long knife in one hand and a sword case in the other, he rushed out of the forest, and flew towards Chang'an.

......

The sun was setting, and it was dyed a bright red.

A figure crawled out from the cliffs at the foot of the mountain, hid from the shade of the tree, sat under the tree, stared blankly at the huge city soaked in the sun in the distance with pale eyes.

'Uh uh......uh.......The Yang family is right there....there is right there...the king is in high spirits...'

The skinny upper body, chest ribs, shoulders, and abdomen are all holes nailed by the point of the sword. The corner of the old man's gray mouth was also torn apart by the thunder in the palm. The right gum and a fang were exposed to the air. Horrible.

Fortunately, my body no longer feels pain, and I can't feel the heart-wrenching pain. I just look at the bustling and huge city, and in my vague memory, I think of the prosperous homeland in the past, and I feel indignant heartache.

"I also want to let you taste the heartache of losing... the emperor, the heartache of the chaos of the family and the country..."

But when he thought of this crippled body, he couldn't even beat two cultivators, and leaned against the tree's body weakly, not to mention that there was Lu Liangsheng in the city who should have been the leader of young heroes in the Southern Dynasty. Not much worse than when he was alive.

...well, maybe a tad higher.

"That demon star fell into the world, and it couldn't even stir up the storm... Hehe... There is a fart, if the world is not chaotic, my Chen Dynasty will have no hope of restoring the country..."

When looking at the outline of the city over there with no expression, he suddenly felt something, raised his face, and in the gentle sound of the wind in his ears, it seemed that something was floating in the sky.

'It's such a familiar breath...so fierce...the demon star...the demon star is still there? '

For a moment of thinking, a ray of red air in the sky also seemed to have found its target, and swooped down like lightning, sinking into the eyebrows of the old man with his face upturned on the cliff.

The corpse aura merged with the red aura, spreading along the old man's eyebrows, and two small red dots appeared in the middle of his originally white eyes, like the pupils of a person.

The red qi mixed with the corpse qi spread from the whole body. Chen Fu walked out of the shade of the tree and was exposed to the sun without any burning feeling.

Opening his palm, his long nails danced twice, and then clenched into fists. Chen Fu looked at the city over there, and from between his tattered lips, a chuckle hummed, which gradually turned into a rampant laugh.

"Heh heh heh heh heh heh heh heh heh heh heh—"

His gray hair fluttered in the wind, and the old man raised his arms towards Chang'an in the distance.

"Don't be afraid, old man... Into Chang'an, all the dragons in the Sui Kingdom will be leaderless, clear the obstacles for my apprentice, and I will return to Chen Fuguo, just around the corner—"

at the same time.

The moment before Chang'an closed the city gate, Yan Chixia entered the city gate with Zuo Zhengyang on his back.

Chapter 5 and Two

The last ray of sunlight fell on the top of the city, and the huge city was lit up with countless lights, and the voices of people were still noisy and lively.

In the Furong Pond in the past of Quchifang, people who need to enjoy the cool air occasionally come here to walk around, but if they want to get close to the lake, soldiers patrolling nearby will come and drive them away.

"There is an order from the National Teacher that fierce beasts are lurking in the water. Ordinary people are not allowed to approach at will. They can only watch from outside the fence. Disobey the order and drive away Furong Pond!"

The few people stopped by the long soldiers waved their sleeves. One of them wanted to rush over, but he hesitated when he saw Sen Han's spearhead, and was held back by his companions, so he had to retreat.

"What is there to be proud of? What kind of beasts are kept in the Furong Pond!"

"Don't talk about it, I heard that there is a flood dragon inhabiting the water, so don't mess with it."

"If you're not close to the water, then it's always okay to go to the Taoist temple?"

"No way, the national teacher likes to be quiet, and the Wanshou Temple is not open to the public... Hey, why did someone pass by over there?"

"Soldier, soldier, why don't you care!"

In the direction they were pointing to, a big man with a beard seemed to be carrying a person on his back and ran quickly. The soldier looked back, then stopped looking carefully, turned back and said to them:

"That's someone from the National Teacher's Temple, and they have permission to enter and exit! You can just hang around nearby."

The figure passing along the green brick path was Yan Chixia with Zuo Zhengyang on her back, her legs almost ran out of the shadow, she went straight through the mountain gate and went up the stone steps.

In the Taoist temple above, night insects are singing softly in the grass. In the attic on the left, in the window lattices with lights on, the lights flickered slightly. word books.

Whoa!

Flipping the paper with his fingertips, Lu Liangsheng frowned slightly on the profile of his face illuminated by the light of dusk.

"...Huh? The same life as the sky, the same king as the world, did the first emperor say that?"

With the other hand, his fingertips lightly tapped on the table, recalling that he had talked about ghosts and gods, life and death with Yang Jian before, and the latter seemed to have said the same thing.

Immediately, he turned his head to look at the bed, and the woman in the black skirt stared straight at him with her sideways face propped up. Lu Liangsheng didn't seem to notice, his eyes wandered and fell on the short figure on the edge of the bed.

Taoist Toad bent one leg and put the other on top of it, humming a tune and shaking his flippers. He was flipping through a small book that recorded delicacies. When he noticed his apprentice's gaze, he pressed the book to his chest.

"What do you do as a teacher if you look at me like that? I'm not familiar with the first emperor."

"Master misunderstood." Lu Liangsheng smiled, put down Lu Yuan's biography, and explained: "...Actually, I want to ask, does Master know which emperors in this world want to be with heaven and earth?" Same life, same king as the world?"

Toad Taoist didn't answer, put the book aside, sat up, moved to the edge of the bed, jumped off, and walked out with his flippers on his back.

"Master, what are you doing?!"

The wind blew outside and squeezed into the window gap, and amidst the flickering lights, Lu Liangsheng asked, looking at the window paper, and faintly heard the sound of people's footsteps stepping up the stone steps.

"Go out to cool off for the master, so that you don't have to ask about things I don't know." Toad waved his hands behind his back to his apprentice, and walked to the door with a patter on the clean floor, muttering words that only he could hear.

"My dear, the old man is just a toad. Why do you ask so many questions? It's a test of knowledge... How can it be reasonable? I don't feel comfortable reading a book. Go find the pig demon and the little Taoist priest and chat about some game and food. good."

With webbed on his back, he walked towards the door leaf chattering endlessly, and when he heard the sound of the door opening, he suddenly raised his head, and suddenly remembered the scene in the Zhou Mansion back then, kicked his legs, and hid in the opposite direction, the door leaf turned inward Open, a figure rushed in quickly, swinging the open robe, a step was instantly magnified in the eyes of the toad.

'Sure enough... I knew it would be like this...'

With a bang, it flew out in mid-air, bounced on the ground like a rubber ball, rolled to the bottom of the bed, hit the purple gold gourd hidden under the bed, and rolled into a ball.

"Hey, did I kick something?"

Li Suian looked around subconsciously to see if the short figure was still there. From the corner of his vision, when he saw Lu Liangsheng who was sitting at the desk turning around, he quickly stood upright.