I just want to be a quiet man

"Your honor... Your honor?" Ji Youzhong's suspicious and vigilant voice rang in his ears.

Pei Ling suddenly came back to his senses, and immediately said: "I'm not the owner of this place in Xiazheng Jingshan, but I also came here to avoid the rain."

As he spoke, he let the palace door open, indicating that he had no hostility.

Seeing this, the Ji family's expression relaxed, Ji Youzhong cupped his hands towards Pei Ling again, exchanged a few words of greeting, and then protected his young lady to enter.

The front hall of this Taoist temple is quite large, but Ji Youzhong and his party were very cautious and chose a corner to settle in.

It was not long before they managed to light a fire around which the drenched men kept warm.

During this time, the maid seemed quite lively, and wanted to chat for a while, but Ji Youzhong strictly stopped her.

Then, in the hall, only the sound of "cracking" when the firewood was burning was heard, and no one spoke.

In order to dissuade their vigilance, Pei Ling pretended to be watching the rain and stood outside for a while, holding his breath and listening to the movement inside.

Seeing that they had been silent all this time, he walked in slowly.

He sat cross-legged in the corner opposite to Ji's family, observing secretly.

It was later discovered that Ji Wu didn't seem to know himself at all.

Except for this mortal who, as the captain of the guard, instinctively kept vigilant against Pei Ling when he was at the door, after entering the hall, he began to arrange a series of trivial matters. Even if Pei Ling walked in from the outer door, he could only glance After confirming that he didn't mean to cause trouble, he continued to urge his subordinates to take care of the fire.

"He has my saber energy on him, so I can think of him?" Pei Ling thought to himself, and suddenly a thought struck him, and someone came again!

Not long after, accompanied by a burst of cursing, there was a burst of kicking footsteps outside the door, and three people entered in a file.

These three people are all casual cultivators during the Qi training period, the one walking in the front, dressed in a yellow robe, with green hairpins inserted horizontally, looks like standing; the one in the middle is a boy of seventeen or eighteen years old, with a pale face and indifferent eyes Righteousness; the last one is an old dwarf in a brown robe and red hair, looking rather sinister between glances.

After seeing the appearance of these three casual cultivators, Pei Ling frowned.

That subtle sense of familiarity welled up in my heart again...

He was concentrating on it, and vaguely heard the three casual cultivators discussing in low voices how they had strayed into the Taoist temple. Afterwards, they looked at the Ji family, and when they saw the young lady of the Ji family, they smiled. Decided to stay for now.

Aware of this scene, Ji Wu's expression became dignified!

The new trio are strong!

It was so strong that the opponent didn't even need to make a move, it made him, the most powerful guard in the Ji Family Nursing Academy, feel palpitations!

This made Ji Wu instinctively feel uncomfortable.

And what worries him the most is that he noticed the interest that flashed in the other party's eyes when he saw his young lady just now...

After a while, Ji Wu suddenly turned his head to talk to Ji Youzhong in a low voice, then got up alone and walked towards Pei Ling.

"What's the matter?" Pei Ling noticed and asked immediately.

Ji Wu walked up to him, glanced at the three casual cultivators again, and then said in a low voice: "Master, it's dark and it's raining again, it's so deserted for you to be here alone, do you want to come to our place?" Come to warm up by the fire? When you are away from home, you can take care of each other."

Pei Ling was puzzled, whether it was the previous memory or what he saw at this moment.

This Ji family is all mortals, and they are also escorting that delicate young lady, so they are very cautious up and down, even after they have been in the palace for so long now, they dare not let the people below them speak casually, which shows that they act carefully.

At this moment, Ji Wu's words and demeanor are obviously wary of those three people, and he is very afraid.

But why do you trust a stranger like him so much?

To put it bluntly, aren't you afraid that after he gets close, he will suddenly explode and take their young lady hostage?

After pondering for a while, Pei Ling asked directly, and said in a low voice: "We are strangers, why are you so relieved of me?"

Ji Wu was obviously stunned for a moment, and then subconsciously said: "I don't think you are a villain, so I came here to invite you. If you don't want to, then forget it."

"Yes." Pei Ling was thinking about how to start with Ji Wu, so naturally he would not let this opportunity go, so he immediately agreed.

So, he stood up and followed Ji Wu to the fire where the Ji family was.

When the rest of the Ji family saw Pei Ling, their eyes immediately showed vigilance. Some of the more nervous guards even subconsciously touched the sword beside them. The threat was palpable.

"Young master, my name is Ji Wu, and I am the captain of the guard of the Ji family, a big family in Lanke City." At this time, Ji Wu said, "This one just now is the manager of the Ji family, Ji Youzhong."

He introduced his guards one by one, and finally said, "I am waiting for this trip to escort Miss Ji Shuang'er back to Ji's house in Lanke City."

"The woman next to the eldest lady is the maid Xiaoxia."

Pei Ling nodded as she listened, but after careful recollection in her mind, she had no impression of these people at all.

He was very puzzled, Ji Wu seemed to have a lot of trust in him in the Ji family, but the other people looked at him very defensively.

That being the case, why did Ji Wu invite him over?

Thinking of this, Pei Ling chatted casually with Ji Wu, and then began to practice.

It is obviously not the first day he has entered Pengying Temple now. Due to severe memory loss, Pei Ling can't remember when he broke through to the late stage of foundation establishment.

But in this situation, naturally, if one point can be improved in cultivation base, one point will be increased.

However, there are outsiders present at this moment, so there may be some accidents.

Therefore, for the sake of caution, Pei Ling did not use the system hosting, but practiced his own exercises silently to temper his true energy.

Time passed slowly, and soon, the sky darkened.

In the hall, except for the fire raised by Ji's family, the faces of the three casual cultivators were all immersed in the darkness, they couldn't see clearly the shadows, and there was a ghostly aura.

This made the Ji family members instinctively uneasy.

At this moment, after finishing their training, the three casual practitioners suddenly stood up and walked directly towards the Ji family.

Chapter 75: The past of the Ji family.

The guards of the Ji family noticed this scene and turned around one after another, their eyes showing signs of alertness.

"You little lady is born with outstanding beauty." The three casual cultivators didn't even look at the guards, and said with a smile to Ji Shuang'er, the eldest lady of the Ji family, "It's a pity that the youth is fleeting and the beauty is easy to grow old. In the mortal world, no matter how good-looking she is, after two years, she will be a yellow-faced woman, isn't it embarrassing?"

"Meeting today is fate."

"Why don't you follow me into Taoism and become a female disciple, and you will live forever and be at ease in the future, wouldn't you be happy?"

The Ji family was shocked when they heard the words, Ji Youzhong was waiting for Ji Shuang'er to speak, but his tongue felt sticky and he couldn't make a sound at all!

He was horrified, but he couldn't express it.

No one spoke for her, so Ji Shuang'er could only speak out by herself tremblingly: "I, I just got engaged a few years ago, and I still want...to take care of my parents, I don't want to enter Taoism."

"Don't want to?" The young monk among the three casual cultivators smiled and said, "It seems that although the girl is Lan Xinhui, she is a talented person, but she is too attached to the world of mortals. Since she is a future female disciple, she is not an outsider , This matter of cutting off the mortal relationship, I will do it for you as a teacher!"

After finishing speaking, he waved his hand, and a wind blade was born out of thin air, directly beheading the rest of the Ji family!

Pei Ling frowned slightly, and was about to make a move, but saw Ji Wu get up first, without saying a word, he swung the saber suddenly!

brush!

In the eyes of mortals, the high-quality steel-making knife shattered instantly. At the same time, a blood-colored knife energy broke away from the blade, forming a red long knife, which flew out roaring!

In front of this saber energy, the wind blade has no power to fight back, and it almost collapses at the touch of a touch. It is annihilated before even a trace of energy is born.

The castration of the saber qi was not affected at all, and continued to cut at the three casual cultivators!

The three casual cultivators looked horrified, they didn't even have time to react, they were swallowed by the saber energy!

Plop, plop...

There were several muffled sounds, and the three casual cultivators were all cut in half by the saber energy, and the six corpses gradually fell to the ground, and the blood suddenly bloomed, shooting all over the hall!

"what--"

The screams of the female relatives quickly faded away, and after the knife was cut, Ji Wu's expression froze instantly, as if he suddenly remembered something.

He turned his head and looked at Pei Ling, but his body began to shatter into pieces.

But just as Pei Ling caught his gaze, the foreground suddenly changed, and he saw this scene:

In rainy weather and thunder and lightning, the Ji family cautiously entered Pengying Temple and temporarily settled down.

The main hall, which is as spacious as it is now, is not as clean as it is now, but is covered with dust and cobwebs, and it can be seen that it has been abandoned for a long time.

After confirming that there was no owner here, they gently opened the door of the hall, and at a glance they saw three skeletons lying on the futon under the long case.

The gust of wind swept in from the palace door they opened, and a part of the skeleton quickly turned into dust.

And in the middle of the main hall, there are two gorgeously dressed skeletons sitting cross-legged back to back, and they have been dead for a long time at first glance.

Others are fine, the two female relatives were very scared when they saw this scene.

It's just that it's raining heavily at the moment, and there is no other place to shelter from the rain nearby, so after Ji Youzhong comforted Ji Shuang'er, he ordered Ji Wu to lead people to clean up the five skeletons, and after that, he lit a fire in the hall Heap, roast and cook.

During the day everything is as usual.

The mutation started in the middle of the night. First, the guards disappeared one by one in full view.

Due to the limited illumination of the bonfire and the panic caused by the disappearance of the guards, they did not realize in time that the space of the main hall shrunk silently... until the entire hall was so small that it almost surrounded them. The remaining talents woke up like a dream, and ran out quickly!

During this process, the last guard, who moved a little slower, was swallowed by the hall in front of them!

Ji Wu and Ji Youzhong took Ji Shuang'er and the maid Xiaoxia to escape from the palace by chance, but after walking out of the gate of the Taoist temple in a hurry, they found that they had returned to the Taoist temple!

The four were terrified and desperately wanted to escape.

However, the entire Taoist temple seemed to realize that it had been exposed, so it no longer concealed it, and began to devour souls openly.

Soon, the maid Xiaoxia disappeared, and the steward Ji Youzhong disappeared...

Ji Shuang'er was so exhausted and frightened that she almost collapsed on the spot.

Ji Wu had no choice but to drag her away.

But not long after, the eldest lady tripped over a stone, Ji Wu turned around and tried to help her up, but her body was swallowed by the ground...

In the end, Ji Shuang'er couldn't bear such fear, and before the Taoist temple could do anything, she found a nearby tree and hanged her to death. The blood stained the skirt and shirt, which looked like a bright red robe...

"Ji Wu! Ji Wu?"

Ji Youzhong's voice sounded in Pei Ling's ears, and when he came back to his senses, he saw Ji Youzhong and a group of Ji's family members staring at him with concern.

He was about to say something when his expression suddenly changed!

All of my cultivation has disappeared!

Looking down, he saw that he was wearing exactly the same outfit as Ji Wu just now... He turned into Ji Wu? !

Immediately afterwards, all the memories of the past few days flooded into his mind like a tide.

At this moment, Pei Ling completely remembered everything that happened in the past few days!

Suddenly, dense cold sweat broke out on his forehead.

"Master, why is your cultivation gone?" The voice of the Nine Soul Sword rang in Pei Ling's ear.

After all, it was his natal knife, which actively floated behind him at the critical moment.

Otherwise, Pei Ling would lose all his cultivation now, and the weight of the Nine Soul Sword would definitely crush him to the ground!

Thinking of this, Pei Ling didn't have time to explain to Jiupo Dao, and quickly said to Ji Youzhong: "I'm fine..."

As he said that, Pei Ling looked at the three casual cultivators who were practicing Qi training just now, but saw that the original flesh and blood were gone. There were only three skeletons on the ground, and some of them had already weathered.

It was exactly the same as what he had just seen in the illusion.

Hearing this, Ji Youzhong and the others were obviously relieved.

Ji Youzhong nodded slightly, and said in a deep voice: "It's fine! Among us, you are the most skilled in martial arts. Now in the wilderness, you must not relax. Remember, we must keep the young lady safe and sound. Send it back, so that we will live up to the kindness of the Ji family!"

Pei Ling nodded calmly, seeing that the Ji family didn't mention the matter of the three qi training casual practitioners at all, and even turned a blind eye to the skeletons that were so close at hand.

He gradually felt a little bit sorry. Although his [Spiritual Eye Technique] could not see any problems, he was already sure that the things he saw were not real living people!

Immediately afterwards, Pei Ling chatted casually with Ji's family in the identity of Ji Wu, then excused that he needed to check the main hall, stood up, and walked to a corner alone.

"Lend me some sources." Pei Ling said quietly.

Chapter 76: Take Ji Shuang'er away!

Jiupo Dao hurriedly followed suit: "Yes!"

After obtaining the origin of the Nine Soul Saber, Pei Ling's body, which had lost all his cultivation base, immediately showed a trace of true energy.

He quickly opened the storage pouch, and took out a bottle of Wumengsan and several treasures from heaven and earth.

"I want a training session." Pei Ling then instructed Dao Ling in a low voice, "There will be two casual practitioners at the alchemy stage coming in outside the door later, and when the time comes, please pat me immediately."