The fairy world collapsed, and the down-and-out gods were laid off and re-employed.

Jiang Zhixia came to the backyard and said to Master Huimian: "Come here and call it out."

Master Hui Mian is an excellent chanter, but this is his first time going down the mountain to catch monsters. In addition, he was chased by a cat ghost last night, and his courage was shattered. He wanted to run back to the mountain early in the morning, but Jiang Zhixia dragged him away. Now Jiang Zhixia asked him to lure the cat ghost again, and he looked embarrassed.

"Master, don't be afraid." Jiang Zhixia knew that he was afraid, so she comforted him and said, "There is no danger if you lure the cat ghost. But if you don't go, there will be a bloody disaster."

"why?"

"Because if you don't go, I will kill you." Jiang Zhixia smiled very kindly.

Huimian immediately stepped forward to take the porridge bowl and asked Jiang Zhixia what she wanted to do.

Jiang Zhixia asked him to kneel at the door of Mrs. Ren's room and knock the porridge bowl with chopsticks while the others hid aside.

They met and said: "Catwoman is coming out, she is in the house..."

Not long after, the people hiding aside felt the surrounding temperature drop, and a cloud of black gas floated out from Mrs. Ren's room, going straight to the porridge bowl.

Huimian's eyes were dull and his face turned blue, as if something had entered his body.

At this time, Jiang Zhixia pushed Taoist Master Chaofan out and said, "Drive it out."

Chaofan had been holding back his desire to avenge his shame all morning, so he moved forward very neatly, taking a few steps forward and dotting Huimian's eyebrows with cinnabar.

A cat meowed, and Huimian's expression returned to normal. The cat ghost was beaten out of him.

Realizing that he had been deceived, the cat ghost wanted to return to Mrs. Ren's room, but there was a strange pendant given by Jiang Zhixia hanging on the door. It couldn't get into the door, so it suddenly became furious and turned into black energy surrounding Chao Fanhe, seemingly pacing.

Although the two of them couldn't see the cat ghost's true form, they could feel a strong gaze that wanted to kill them. Chao Fan drew out his sword and found the right moment to stab the black energy transformed into the cat ghost. The black energy nimbly dodged and came towards him.

When they met, they wanted to run away again, but were stopped by Jiang Zhixia: "Retreat today, retreat tomorrow. When will you retreat?"

After saying that, she pushed him in the direction of the cat ghost. The cat ghost saw the monk rushing towards him, but instead avoided it.

As long as you don't flinch from these three fires in a person, most ghosts will stay away.

When I met and saw the cat ghost hiding away, I was surprised: It turns out that it is also afraid! So I became bolder and sat cross-legged in the open space to chant sutras. Compared to yesterday, he felt a little more determined.

The cat ghost was so noisy by the scriptures that he had a headache and became more and more angry. The same evil wind as yesterday blew up in the yard, and Taoist Chao Fan was blinded by the wind. The cat ghost took this opportunity to jump up.

"Taoist priest, don't look with your eyes! Use other senses to look for it!" Jiang Zhixia reminded from the side.

Chao Fan closed his eyes tightly and listened to the roar of the wind behind him. He turned around and struck with his sword, hitting the cat ghost unexpectedly. The cat ghost screamed and fled in the direction of the meeting.

"Monk, hit it with a rosary!"

Although Huimian was nervous, his hands were steady and he quickly took off the beads from his neck and threw them towards the cat ghost.

The cat ghost dodged aside and glared at Jiang Zhixia. If it weren't for this woman's suggestion, the two of them would be no match for her. It roared angrily and came towards Jiang Zhixia.

Jiang Zhixia took off the hairpin that scratched her finger, and threw the bloody hairpin into the evil wind. The cat ghost was injured by the hairpin and transformed into a ball of black energy trying to escape outside.

She took the sword from Chao Fan's hand and threw it to Lu Chennian, "Kill it."

Lu Chennian jumped a few steps to catch the sword, and killed the cat ghost with one strike before it could escape.

With the cat ghost's heart-rending scream, the black air dispersed.

After a while, Ren Yuanshan calmed down and came out from the side, "I'm going to kowtow to you." He was about to kneel down.

Jiang Zhixia helped him up and said, "It's a small matter. Now you can ask your servants to boil some ginger juice for Mrs. Ren and let her drink it to spit out the remaining poison of the cat ghost."

"Okay! Okay!" Ren Yuanshan quickly sent someone to do it.

After everything was settled, Jiang Zhixia picked up the hairpin that fell on the ground, wiped it clean and took it back.

She turned around and called to the monk Huimian, "Master, your level of chanting is top-notch, but you lack a little courage. The first taboo in subduing monsters is timidity. Don't even think about backing down when you encounter them next time. You should step back a foot from those things. , they advance ten feet. When there is no way to retreat, the opportunity comes for them to strike."

"What Donor Jiang said is true, I must keep it in mind."

"Although the two of you are not from the same religion, in the end, your goal is to conquer demons for the people of Liming. Let's not break up." Jiang Zhixia stopped talking.

Huimian also understood what she meant, clasped his hands together and chanted Amitabha.

Taoist Chao Fan put away the sword, walked to her, and held it up with both hands, "Miss Jiang, Pindao has been killing demons and slaying demons all his life, but he has never used the power of this demon-killing sword. Following Pindao, this sword is also a pearl covered in dust. .

Although this sword was not made by any Daluo Jinxian, it was forged by the master who devoted his whole life to it. If you don't mind, please accept this sword so that the girl can use it to collect demons in the future. "

"You are too generous." Jiang Zhixia was shocked, "You gave it to me, what did you use it for?"

"The poor Taoist is not as skilled as others, so he decided to change his career and go home to sell fried rice."

"It doesn't have to be so extreme." She persuaded Chaofan to stop thinking about "changing careers." "Now that the spiritual energy is leaking out, the immortal world is weak, and the demons are causing harm to the world. If the Taoist priest withdraws, there will be one less person for the suffering people to turn to. The demons will be even more arrogant. If the Taoist priest is like this, when will the world be a disaster? Can restore calm. What's more, victory or defeat is a common thing for a military strategist. If you can't defeat it, you can find a way to do it again."

One word awakens the dreamer. Chaofan only cared about his own setback and felt ashamed, but he forgot that killing demons was for the sake of the people and not for fame and fortune.

The depression in his heart was swept away, he looked up to the sky and laughed, clasped his fists and saluted, "Thank you, girl." He left with the Taoist boy and Master Huimian.

"Don't want the sword anymore?"

"No, my master has plenty of them."

……

Jiang Zhixia gave the demon-killing sword to Lu Chennian, "The sword is for you to use, two taels per piece. You can pay in installments."

"They gave it to you for free, and you still want to charge money?!"

Jiang Zhixia went back to her room to sleep, and was woken up by Ren Yuanshan's scolding the next morning. She sat up, her mind still not clear.

"I am only your son. If you don't give me money, don't expect me to die for you in the future."

"You! You! You traitor, I will beat you to death."

"Master, if you want to beat him to death, beat me to death first..."

Jiang Zhixia rubbed her head, got dressed and went to the backyard to see the excitement in the backyard.

The servants and maids gathered around. Ren Yuanshan held a cane in his hand as if to strike. Mrs. Ren had just recovered from her illness, and now she was holding her son who was kneeling on the ground with a pale face, crying and begging the master to stop. Young Master Ren held his neck and challenged his father without any timidity.

"Master Ren, are you taking the whole family to sing opera this early in the morning?"

When Ren Yuanshan saw Jiang Zhixia, he threw away the cane in his hand and looked up to the sky and sighed: "My family is unlucky. Miss Jiang makes you laugh. This bastard escaped early in the morning and is going to gamble again..."

"Today is the highlight!" Master Ren knelt on the ground and said plausibly: "I have heard the inside information. Dad, as long as you give me the money, I can win it back."

"How dare you mention it!" Ren Yuanshan picked up the cane and was stopped by Jiang Zhixia.

She squatted next to him, "Boy, what are you betting on? How can you win so much?"

At the mention of this, Master Ren became more energetic and talked to her endlessly about what he was betting on.

From his words, Jiang Zhixia learned that the gambling bureau was set up in a mountain forest thirty miles away from Mo County and was only open to the public at night. The content of gambling is also very simple, similar to cockfighting. You win or lose.

But there are more than just fighting cocks involved. According to Master Ren, there are all kinds of strange animals in the gambling house.

"At first, I won a lot of money. But in the last few games, the strength of the animals is not much different, and they always guessed wrong." Master Ren mentioned this with a pity, "However, the ones I lost, today I won a lot of money." I can make money back.”

Jiang Zhixia smiled and knocked him out while he wasn't paying attention.

"Master Ren, I once said that Mrs. Ren is not the only one in your family who has problems. Do you still remember?"

"Is it possible that the child is also..."

"Yes, but unlike Mrs. Ren, he was cursed, but the 'qi' was sucked away."

Qi is one of the origins of the human body. Unlike the soul and soul, qi can be changed through acquired practice and the effects of the surrounding environment. If you often get together with those who commit crimes or go to places with smoky air, your body's qi will become turbid. If there is too much turbid air in the body, it can at least attract evil spirits and linger on the sick bed; at worst, it can cause the person to lose his original intention and not recognize his relatives.

The pure Qi in Ren Yuanshan's son's body has almost been sucked dry, and a person with only turbid Qi in his body will not survive long.

When Ren Yuanshan and his wife heard this, they knelt down and begged Jiang Zhixia again.

"Okay, okay, okay." Jiang Zhixia pulled the couple together again, "I think Master Ren's matter is closely related to the gambling house. I'll go take a look tonight. I'm afraid their purpose is not just Master Ren. You two can watch at home. Take care of him and don't let him go to the gambling house again. Let him eat something light these days, let the servants take him for a run in the sun if nothing happens, and spend more time with decent people. Qi can be restored. "

Master Ren thanked her and hurriedly asked his servant to get the money and give it to her. She weighed her purse and felt that she was one step closer to becoming a rich man.

At dusk, Jiang Zhixia and Lu Chennian bid farewell to Ren Yuanshan and went to the gambling house, but they could not find the entrance when they arrived nearby.

At this time, the Jinhua cat demon appeared and saluted Jiang Zhixia and said, "Miss Jiang, do I know where the gambling house is?"

"You bet too?"

The Jinhua cat demon shook his head, "I can't enter that place. There are too many ferocious beasts inside. It's easy to be caught by them if you go in."

"What kind of ferocious beast did those people catch?"

"I don't know. But there is a lot of spiritual energy in them, but it's not very pure. I also happened to be practicing next to a gambling house by chance, and I was transformed into a human form with the help of spiritual energy."

Only then did Jiang Zhixia understand why the cat demon could transform into a human form not long after practicing, but how rich the spiritual energy was to achieve this effect.

Could it be that these people captured the Emperor of Heaven and treated him like a wild beast?

The gambling house was set up very secretly. Jiang Zhixia and the others walked in the mountains and forests for a long time, and finally came to a cave.

It says: Shenju Cave

"I can only send you here." The Jinhua cat demon bowed down again, and then disappeared with a wisp of green smoke.

There was no one guarding the door, and Jiang Zhixia had not yet knocked on the door when she came forward. Someone looked out of the cave, asked her a few questions, and after confirming that there was nothing suspicious about her, gave her three gambling tickets and opened the cave door. Suddenly the noise inside came out.

It is said to be a gambling house, but more like a huge Colosseum. There was a huge open space in the middle of the cave, where a lion and a cheetah were biting each other, with blood splattering everywhere.

There are eight doors in total around the stands, and people are constantly coming in from outside. When a door opened, Jiang Zhixia noticed a blue light emerging from behind the door.

The viewing platform was filled with pits and valleys, and there were about a thousand people. Some cheered, some cursed, and some cried in disbelief. The situation of the people here is very similar to Master Ren. The fresh air in my body was almost sucked dry. What shocked her even more was that there were disciples from the Xian family. The gamblers in the venue filled out the gambling tickets and raised the gambling tickets and money together, and a bird flew up and took them away.

Jiang Zhixia was puzzled. What on earth is this place? If it was just a matter of gambling on beast fighting, where did the spiritual energy come from? And why is it so hidden?

Her thoughts were quickly interrupted by a loud noise. She looked towards the Colosseum. A monster with red hair, a shape like a cow, a mouth as big as a basin, and a tail like a fan walked in from the side of the Colosseum.

When everyone saw it, they cheered like a mountain.

On the other side, a fox with nine heads and nine tails came out.

At this time, someone from the casino shouted loudly: "Buy the deal and leave."

Jiang Zhixia was dumbfounded: Is this...a rhinoceros versus a leech?

What else is there to buy? The leech is sure to lose!