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

School ended early that day, and the group of students discussed going to the mountains for fun.

They climbed all the way up the hill behind the college. The further you go up, the fewer people there are. Weeds grew wildly and blocked the road. They had to walk one by one to find their way, and their movements were very slow.

The weather in the mountains is changeable, with sudden thunder and lightning and heavy downpours.

Everyone quickly ran to a nearby cave to take shelter from the rain, wondering when the heavy rain would stop.

While they were talking, someone shouted loudly: "Look, there are paintings on the stone walls of this cave."

Following the sound, everyone saw that the paintings on the stone wall were brightly colored and the characters were lifelike. The mural is very long and extends into the cave.

They took out the fire folds they carried with them and walked around looking at it.

The mural shows an academy with many students sitting on the floor and listening to the Master's lectures on the stage. The master had a kind look on his face, and the students all had smiles on their faces.

No matter where the Master goes, there are a group of students following behind him.

Then a black coffin appeared on the screen, and all the students wore sackcloth and wore mourning to keep vigil for their master.

They carried the coffin to the cemetery. Before they reached the cemetery, the students threw the coffin and exposed his body in the wilderness. After returning to the academy, they also burned the Master's books. There are no more students reading in the academy, and everyone drinks and has fun every day.

Seven days later, the master who returned to his soul saw such a scene and transformed into a fierce ghost, several feet tall, with a green face and fangs, holding a ruler and beating to death the most outrageous students.

When the others saw this, they immediately kowtowed and admitted their mistake.

The master's soul remains in the academy, supervising everyone to continue studying. Anyone who slacked off would be caught by him and either hanged or drowned.

Some people took the lead in resisting him, but received harsher punishments.

Before long, only half of the number of students in the academy remained.

The students who stayed behind always looked on tenterhooks every day.

But there are also people who want to please the Master. They completely listened to the Master's teachings without any complaints.

After Qiu Wei, everyone in the academy was on the list. During the palace examination, all the people who wanted to please the master passed the examination and became officials in the court.

The last scene is that these people returned to the academy, knelt in front of the Master and kowtowed to thank him.

There is a message at the end of the mural: Those who follow me will go to high school; those who go against me will die.

I don't know if it was because of the low temperature in the cave, but everyone was sweating coldly. They had followed the murals all the way to the depths of the cave, and suddenly saw a bright light in front of them from a distance, like a candlelight.

They were stunned. Could someone live here?

Taking advantage of the large number of people and curiosity, they stopped for a while and continued walking forward, arriving at a very empty place.

A huge stone statue stands in the center. It has a ferocious face, big eyes, and a ruler in its hand. It looks exactly like the Master on the mural, which makes people feel frightened.

There was an offering table placed in front of the stone statue, and what was shining just now was probably the candle on the offering table. The tributes were fresh fruits, and the incense in the incense burner had only burned a little, as if someone had just come to worship.

"Do you think this stone statue is a god or a ghost?"

"It must be an evil ghost." A student named Wang Tianci said indignantly: "He treats students like this, just like an evil ghost, and now he is still making evil words to confuse the public. Those who say that they follow him will live, and those who go against him will die. I I don’t believe that if I don’t obey him, he can still prevent me from getting the honors.”

"Tianci is right. The more this kind of evil spirit worships him, the more it will fuel his arrogance. Let's smash him today to prevent anyone from coming in and being bewitched by him." After that, the man overturned the altar table.

The candle fell to the ground and lit the futon for kneeling.

Seeing that the fire was getting bigger and bigger, the students ran out in panic and ran all the way to the entrance of the cave before stopping to catch their breath and rest. At this time, the rain outside had stopped. Seeing that the fire had not burned over, they went down the mountain and went home.

That night, the gang went back and had a common dream. In the dream, the stone statue asked them why they overturned the altar table and burned his temple, and said that none of them could escape. Unless they rebuilt his temple and he would forgive them, otherwise none of them would be able to gain fame.

They also dreamed of Zhang Yaozu kneeling down to worship him devoutly and then going to high school. Wearing a purple python robe, he returned to Sangzhou and ordered them all to be killed.

After waking up, they were more angry than afraid. Originally from a modest family, they were bullied by Zhang Yaozu.

I originally wanted to stand up by taking the imperial examination, but I didn't expect that the evil ghost helped the rich. No matter how hard they studied, they couldn't stand up, and they were still dominated by Zhang Yaozu, who was not as good as them.

Wen people are weak in body but strong in bones. The more threatening they are, the less willing they are to compromise. So until now, no one has returned to the cave to admit their mistake.

"I suspect that Zhang Yaozu went to worship that day." A student said, "That's why he came first in the exam every time."

"But there are too many differences between him and Yang Xin. How can the same ghost teach different students?

Someone snorted, "I don't know about Zhang Yaozu. But if you want to know how Yang Xin made such rapid progress, just ask him."

"What do you mean?" Jiang Zhixia interrupted.

"Yang Xin asked me privately before if I wanted to study with him. He said that his progress was all taught by that person, and that person also encouraged him to bring more students. I thought something was fishy, ​​so I refused him."

"He also asked me today." Another person said, "I said I would consider it."

"It's better not to think about it. Fame is important, but bowing to evil spirits is what a scholar does."

"Yang Xin is not haunted by ghosts." Lu Chennian also sat over at some point.

Jiang Zhixia held her chin and looked at him with a half-smile, which made him feel a little embarrassed.

This is not what she said about listening to the people more, what does it mean to look at him like this now.

He looked away and coughed twice, "In fact, not only Yang Xin, but also Zhang Yaozu was not haunted by ghosts. Their mental energy was not damaged at all."

"Then this is strange. Does this young master know alchemy?"

"Know a thing or two."

"Oh, people really can't be judged by their appearance." The man said in surprise: "I once read in a book that glutinous rice can make zombies. Is it true?"

"I heard people say that mirrors can reveal ghosts..."

"I heard……"

Lu Chennian was surrounded by this group of students. He was irritated by the large number of people talking. He wanted to get up and leave, but was threatened by Jiang Zhixia's eyes, so he could only sit there and patiently answer their questions.

In a daze, he remembered the time when he was in the Lingqing Sect. At that time, some of his classmates came around to ask him for advice.

But because he didn't like to be disturbed by others, when he encountered inquirers, he would either close the door tightly or leave quickly. His attitude was extremely indifferent, and gradually no one dared to look for him.

Some people also sued Master Kaiyang because of this matter, saying that he was indifferent, had no love in his heart, and didn't even care about his family. How could he be worthy of becoming an immortal?

Kaiyang Zhenren stroked his beard and said with a smile: "Every thing surrenders to another thing. He has not yet met anyone who can surrender to him. Only when that person appears will he learn to change."

At first he didn't understand what the master meant, until later he met Ning Shu...

All his changes came from her.

Lu Chennian came back to his senses and looked into Jiang Zhixia's smiling eyes, and his heart suddenly skipped a beat.

Then why is it that I am sitting here talking to a group of students now? He couldn't help but feel a little confused.

The three of them chatted with the students for a while. It was getting late and everyone went back to their rooms. Jiang Zhixia fell asleep on the pillow and was woken up by screaming the next morning.

She woke up Liu Mosi with a confused look on her face and went out with her. She happened to meet Lu Chennian who was returning from sword practice.

"What's going on outside?" Jiang Zhixia asked.

"Someone hanged himself on the archway, but he didn't die. He fainted." Lu Chennian said, "He is still lying there on the archway."

"Go and see."

The archway was very close to the inn where they stayed. By the time Jiang Zhixia and the others arrived, the man who had hanged himself had already woken up. Jiang Zhixia saw that the archway was nine feet high and there was no ladder nearby. How did this person get up?

"Isn't this a gift from God? Go and inform his parents." Someone recognized him in the crowd.

After waking up, Wang Tianci seemed to be crazy and pushed away people who were close to him, shouting that there was a ghost.

"It appeared in my study, with only one head, and it wanted to kill me!" He shouted in horror: "It hung me on the archway, and it said that everyone who despised it must die!"

Jiang Zhixia looked at him for a long time. He didn't have any yin energy on his body, and he didn't look like he had encountered a ghost.

"Have you seen what it looks like?" she asked.

As soon as these words came out, Wang Tianci fell into confusion. He frowned, "I saw it, it looks like... I should have seen it, but why can't I remember..."

He squatted on the ground holding his head, tearing his hair, desperately trying to recall his memory.

Jiang Zhixia stepped forward and grabbed his wrist, trying to feel his pulse.

He screamed in pain, as if his arm was hurt.

Jiang Zhixia opened his sleeves and saw purple-green bruises all over his arms, as if he had been hit by something.

"Yes, it's an evil ghost!" Someone shouted in panic: "It's the evil ghost that day, it's coming to take revenge on us!"

Wang Tianci's face changed, with an expression of disbelief, "No! No! I just went in and took a look. How could I be cursed? Someone obviously smashed everything, so why was I the one cursed? ?”

Jiang Zhixia whispered to Liu Mosi to find the nearby animals and ask what happened at the archway last night. Liu Mosi nodded and left.

"Will we end up like this too?"

"I haven't taken the exam yet, and I don't want to die."

"How to do?"

The students were talking a lot, and there were quite a few people in the crowd who had been to the cave in the back mountain, and some of the timid ones already had tears in their eyes.

A burly student said angrily: "We didn't do anything wrong. The ghost has deceived the public first, and we are doing justice for heaven. Rather than letting the ghost defeat us one by one, we should take the initiative and go to the cave to kill that ghost. Find the ghost! Kill him until his soul is gone, and see if he dares to attack us!"

Young people are the most energetic and cannot withstand encouragement. One person suggested, and the rest responded. They agreed to go to the cave to catch ghosts tonight. Then they dispersed and prepared things for catching ghosts.

Jiang Zhixia took Lu Chennian back to the inn. On the way, she couldn't help but sigh: "It's good to be young. If you train these people well, maybe there will be a demon-killing team in Sangzhou in the future. Follow them tonight and go up and help.

"I've been wanting to ask you a question."

"explain."

"Why do you wait until the end to see that they are unsuccessful every time you catch monsters? You know that if you take action earlier, it won't be so troublesome to catch those monsters."

Jiang Zhixia turned around and looked at him, "Let me ask you, are there more Jiang Zhixia or demons in this world?"

"There are many demons." Lu Chennian said to himself: The disadvantage is that there are many demons. If there were more demons for you, it would be even more of a headache.

"Then you said that after we help them solve it, we leave. What will happen next time if there is a demon? Let them continue to wait for the next demon slayer to appear? How many people have to die before this?"

"But they don't have the ability to eliminate demons at all."

"So we have to teach them. One person can't kill a monster. Ten people can't do it. If it's less than a hundred people, it can be done, right? Mortals seem to be very weak, but in fact, you have to organize them, and they can show their full potential. Unlimited power.

Take Dongyao Mountain as an example. When they first formed, I needed to take action every time. Later, I was needed less and less. I think if mortals become stronger and stronger, sooner or later, they will be able to protect themselves without the need for gods. "

"One day, they will no longer believe in God. What will the gods do then?"

"God? It's superfluous in the first place." She turned around and continued walking forward, no matter how surprised Lu Chennian was behind her.

"When the immortals and demons are gone, the world will be pure."