Rebirth villain just want to go
Chapter 34
It happened to be noon when Yan Guitu arrived at Jinli Village with his disciples.
The village is not big, and the farmland of each household is scattered behind the roadside trees, and the chimneys of each household are full of smoke. The village children who ran wildly on the village road were also called back home.
Noticing the sudden visit of a few strangers, the children watched from a distance with some curiosity and some shyness, until an older boy in the crowd came forward and asked, "Who are you looking for?"
Yan Guitu looked at the child in front of him with a smile: "We are here to find Lizheng in your village."
"Looking for Uncle Li?" The child nodded suddenly, then turned around and put his hands around his mouth and shouted loudly, "Uncle Li ~ Uncle Li ~ someone is looking for you!"
The boy's voice was clear and penetrating, and soon spread far and wide.
There were also a few children around who enthusiastically raised their voices to help call for someone. For a while, the intersection into the village was extremely lively.
Soon, Li Zheng Li Liang from the village rushed over upon hearing the news.Perhaps he came too hastily, and he hadn't had time to put down the trouser legs that were rolled up on his feet, and he hadn't had time to change his mud-stained clothes.
"Are you the fairy masters who came to our village to help catch demons?" Li Liang rubbed his big, rough hands covered in mud at the hem of his clothes, and looked at Yan Guitu and the others nervously, "I thought they were The immortal master will only arrive at night, so the banquet to welcome you is arranged in the evening. At noon, the family only cooks some ordinary farm meals, and if the elders don’t mind it, let’s eat together.”
The tone was extremely respectful, for fear that one of his mistakes would offend the elder.They all know that it is not easy to offend the fairy elders who came down from the upper realm, after all, these people are similar to gods.If they accidentally offend them, a little trick can bring bad luck to the whole village.
Yan Guitu smiled lightly, and declined Li Zheng's invitation: "You don't have to be polite, old man, we are indeed here to accept a mission. There is no rush on this matter, after you finish your meal, take us up the mountain to have a look. good."
This Li Zheng looks simple and honest, he is about forty or fifty years old, his bronze skin is as rough as old bark, but his sinews and flesh are bulging, and he looks very strong.
Of course, it is normal for old farmers who have been hunting in the mountains and farming in the fields to have such a strong body.
Hearing that a very powerful immortal master had come to the village, all the people in the village came with their families to watch the excitement, and surrounded Lizheng's house with three floors inside and three floors outside.Even though Lizheng came out several times to drive them away, the crowd still gathered around the door and refused to disperse.
After all, as ordinary people, they don't have many chances to meet the immortal master.Take the time to take a second look now, and it will be a topic of conversation after dinner in the future.
It's just that the appearance of the four masters and apprentices disappointed them a little.
Because although the foundation-building stage monks invited earlier were not very strong, at least they looked good-looking.Wearing a fairy robe with flowing precious light, and wearing a spirit sword that shone with cold light, she looks dignified on the outside, and the beauty of men and women is different from ordinary people at first glance.
Looking at the few people in the yard, the older one was yellow and thin, so thin that a gust of wind could blow him down, and he was only wearing an ordinary blue gown.The big man next to him looks good, but after a long time, you can find that he always has a silly smirk on his face.That little girl can only be regarded as handsome, but she looks extraordinarily strong, holding a huge sledgehammer in her hand, she doesn't look like a cultivator, but like a street performer.
As for the youngest child, although he looks tall, he should be around ten years old, and there is no smile on his face. He just stands beside their master expressionlessly, with those dark and deep eyes. When I looked at you, I felt a little flustered for no reason.
Are these people really immortal masters from the upper realm?
The more the villagers watched, the more they felt that these people were unreliable, and they quickly pulled Li Zheng, who was picking up slices of meat in the bowl, to the side: "Li Zheng, why do I think these people are not right?"
Another villager followed suit and nodded: "You have to be careful not to be deceived. Didn't Widow Zhao in Shanghe Village get cheated out of her family's savings by a scammer two days ago? Let's be careful."
"Uncle Wang is right. It's not easy for us to scrape together such a small amount of money. If someone cheats us away, wouldn't it be a waste of money?"
Listening to the villagers chattering about their ideas over there, the smile on Yan Guitu's face remained unchanged, and he was still sitting firmly on the bamboo chair in the yard, playing with the big bowls that Lizheng's family made for them. wild tea.
"Hey, what idea did you come up with?" Li was taking advantage of the time these people were talking to quickly pull the rice in the bowl upside down, "The money is now in the dental office, and they will take it if the task is not completed." If I don’t have enough money, I worry about it all day long.”
Seeing that the villagers were silent, Li Zhengcai lowered his voice and said, "Let's take them up the mountain today to see if these people's identities are real or not, wouldn't it be clear? If they were fake immortal masters, they wouldn't be able to pass on the mountain at all. Ye, tomorrow I will go away by myself, what are you afraid of?"
Ling Jiangyu raised his head and looked at Yan Guitu worriedly. Yan Guitu smiled lightly, pretending that he didn't hear the loud plotting of the nearby villagers. '
After all, those villagers were only worried about being cheated of their hard-earned rewards, and they had no ill intentions towards them.
Yan Guitu lived for more than 200 years, and was reborn once again. He has never seen such a scene.Right now, the words of these mountain and field villagers are not really a matter at all.
While Li was busy cooking, Yan Guitu chatted with a few villagers squatting in the yard with a smile, and casually asked about the so-called 'monsters' in the village.
Although the people in the village had doubts about the identity of the immortal master, they were flattered to see Yan Guitu talking to him suddenly, but they couldn't remember anything else, so they rushed to tell the master about the "monster" in the village The four disciples listened.
It turned out that there was a young man named Li Yuan in their village. Li Yuan's parents died early, and he was raised by the food in the village.In terms of family seniority, he is still Lizheng's distant nephew.Later, he relied on doing some farm work for the old scholar in the village and went up the mountain to collect medicinal materials to sell money, so he reluctantly studied in the school in the village.
Although Li Yuan was only 20 years old, he was selected as a scholar early.It's just that he was too poor and was recommended by an old scholar, so he taught the children in the village to be enlightened, received some bundles to live by, and prepared for his own autumn exam.
Half a year ago, Li Yuan suddenly disappeared on his way to the back mountain to dig medicinal materials. His medicinal hoe, basket, and some scattered blood were still scattered in the place where he disappeared.
Wild beasts often haunt and hurt people on this mountain, so at first everyone agreed that Li Yuan died at the mouth of wild beasts. Although it was a bit regretful, they didn't care too much.
From the first seven days in Li Yuan, the livestock and poultry in the village began to be attacked repeatedly, and the villagers who often walked at night also said that they had seen the monster with their own eyes.It is said that the monster is several feet high, its eyes are as big as copper bells, and its bloody mouth can swallow a cow with one mouthful...
Anyway, since then, everyone can often hear strange noises from the back mountain, and often find the half-blooded corpses of missing poultry and livestock from the mountain.Since then, basically no one went up the mountain to hunt, at most they just hunted at the foot of the mountain.
As for what the monster on the mountain is, everyone's answer is also inconsistent.
Some people think that it is the ghost of the tragic death of Li Yuan, some people think that the monster who killed Li Yuan is trying to eat people, and some people say that the fox on the mountain is a fox that specializes in seducing people, and only likes to dig the hearts of young men. come to eat.
Various theories emerged one after another, and Yan Guitu felt that writing it down in notes would definitely be another collection of witty and strange novels.
Listening to everyone's more and more fantastic stories, Yan Guitu still nodded from time to time and asked two questions to show that he was still listening carefully.
After a hasty lunch, Lizheng ordered a few young and strong men from the village to go up the mountain with him, and by the way he called his youngest son.
Li Zheng saw that Ling Jiangyu and Yun Junmei were too young and the other was a little girl, so he kindly reminded Yan Guitu if he wanted to put the two little ones in the village, and don't let them go with them because the mountain is so dangerous.
However, everyone shut up when they saw Yunjun smilingly holding the wheel-sized stone mill in his hand as if playing.
The path up the mountain is a few feet wide path, perhaps because few people have come here in the past six months, and the path is also covered by dense vines.
Lizheng's youngest son is a quiet boy, about sixteen or seventeen years old, with the same dark skin and taciturn personality as his father.
On the way, he looked back from time to time to see if Yan Guitu and the others were following, and then carefully used the machete in his hand to cut down obstacles on the road ahead for them.
"Master, is there really such a big monster in this world?" Yun Junmei asked curiously.
After hearing her question, the surrounding villagers also pricked up their ears to listen to the story with great interest.
Yan Guitu smiled: "There are many wonders in this vast world, not to mention monsters with a height of several feet, even monsters with a height of tens of feet. Monsters are also monsters, and they are usually grass spirits or birds and beasts in the mountains. When the aura of heaven and earth is opened to wisdom and has the ability to communicate with the aura of heaven and earth, they can use the aura to improve their self-cultivation. When their cultivation reaches a certain level, they can be transformed into human form after being tempered by heavenly thunder."
Speaking of this, he warned his disciples earnestly: "Although it is not easy for human beings to seek immortality, it is even more difficult for these plant elves and animals to cultivate. You must remember that there are good people and evil people, and demons. There are also good monsters and evil monsters, they must be treated differently, and they must not be generalized. If you kill a good monster by mistake, the crime is the same as killing a good person by mistake."
The three little ones nodded seriously when they heard the words.
This is the second time their master has warned them similar words.
The nearby villagers also laughed when they heard the words: "The words of this elder are different from those of other elders."
It's just that he doesn't seem to agree with Yan Guitu's statement.
On the contrary, Lizheng's youngest son slowed down even more after hearing this, and looked at Yan Guitu and his disciples with more kind eyes.
Yan Guitu glanced at the young man inadvertently, and had a vague guess in his heart.This young man may know something, but he doesn't know...
When Li Zheng turned his head, he saw Yan Guitu looking at his youngest son. After being slightly taken aback, he suddenly plucked up the courage to ask, "Head Immortal, take a look at my youngest son Li Shuan, does this kid have a cultivator?" Good luck."
As soon as these words came out, the surrounding villagers all turned their heads to look at Li Shuan and Yan Guitu in unison.
Li Shuan was Lizheng's youngest son, and he was almost carved out of the same mold as his father.Li Zheng is old and has a son, and he has always loved this little son very much, and raised this kid to study since he was a child.But this kid is always muddy and can't support the wall. He insists that he doesn't like to go to school, he only likes to be trapped in the mountains, and when he grows up, he only wants to be a hunter and not an official.For a while, almost everyone in the village knew that there was a silly son in Lizheng's family who didn't want to go into official career and only wanted to hunt.
However, this stupid son of their family is indeed a stupid man with stupid blessings. He rarely returns empty-handed when he enters the mountain. Basically, he can get a lot of money every time he enters the mountain, which makes many people jealous.
Yan Guitu took a look at Li Shuan, who was walking with his head bowed and muffled, and smiled lightly: "This kid is in good health, but his spiritual roots are mixed, and it may not be easy for him to practice Taoism."
"Oh." Upon hearing this, Lizheng nodded in disappointment.
He said yes, how could a golden phoenix fly out of a group of pheasants? It seemed that he was thinking too much.
"Hey, don't you think it's strange, we've been walking for so long, why can't we see a single bug on this mountain?" Suddenly, a villager stopped and looked at Lizheng hesitantly.
There are not many other things in the mountains, but there are many bugs.In the past, they could see all kinds of bugs after walking a few steps. Today, after walking for so long, they didn't even see a single bug hair. It was simply too abnormal.
Hearing this, Yan Guitu explained with a smile: "I usually don't like insects and ants very much, so my little disciple refined some insect repellent powder for me. Wearing this powder, insects can be far away from one mile away." far away."
Ling Jiangyu turned his head and gave Yan Guitu a tender look.
It was only when he was in the water dungeon in Heishui City last time that he discovered that Master was inexplicably afraid of bugs, but he kept this matter in his stomach and never told anyone.
After returning to Baopuzong, he buried himself in the alchemy room for several days, and finally refined the insect repellent powder mentioned in the book.It's just that the medicinal powder smelled bad, and he added a few flavors of vanilla to it himself. The smell was almost exactly the same as the cold fragrance on Yan Guitu's body, and he couldn't tell the difference unless he carefully discerned it.
Yan Guitu naturally accepted his little apprentice's wishes with pleasure, and at the same time sighed once again that the gap between people is simply too big.
The three white-eyed wolves he had taken in before would never waste a bit of thought on him.
Perhaps it was because Yan Guitu was strong enough at that time, so his disciples also acquiesced that the master did not need any gifts prepared by them at all.
Heartbroken just thinking about it.
"Here, it's here." Suddenly, Li Zheng, who was walking in the front, stopped, pointed to the distant hillside and said to Yan Guitu, "He had an accident here."
Yan Guitu followed the prestige, and there was a gentle slope in front of him, which was now completely covered by withered and yellow vegetation.
Several villagers didn't dare to go any further when they came nearby, so the master and apprentice went straight to the gentle slope.
"There is no resentment here." Yan Guitu squatted down and looked at the dirt on the ground.
There was only a light snowfall here the night before yesterday, and now the snow has melted and the soil has become softer.There are still a few unburned candles and ingots scattered on the ground nearby. Presumably, the well-meaning villagers felt sorry for Li Yuan's body and came here to burn a few sticks of incense to express their condolences.
Lizheng suddenly remembered a strange thing: "It's strange to say that in previous years, there had been thick snow accumulation on this mountain, and it would never melt until the beginning of spring. It's just that this year, the snow on this mountain has also fallen a lot. It's big, but it melts away quickly."
"Yeah yeah."
"It must be the monster on this mountain."
Several nearby villagers echoed.
Yan Guitu paused, then turned to look at his three disciples: "Do you know what is the easiest way to understand the truth?"
Both Si Huanian and Yun Junmei shook their heads, but Ling Jiangyu replied softly, "Ask the person involved."
"Hey, Li Yuan has been dead for more than half a year, how can he ask himself?" another villager shook his head.
Yan Guitu smiled lightly: "It's easy to ask him to come in person, I'm afraid..."
He didn't finish his sentence, but just took out a silver-white lotus lamp from the storage ring, and then flicked his index finger, a ball of spiritual fire suddenly burst out from the center of the lotus lamp.
"This is a soul-inducing lamp. No matter where the soul of the deceased is now, whether it is in the underworld or has been reincarnated, it can attract his soul." Yan Guitu wrote Li Yuan's birth date in the air with his slender fingers, and everyone I saw that the light of the soul-inducing lamp suddenly became brighter, and at the same time, ninety-nine and 81 petals of the soul-inducing lamp were scattered all over the sky, as if searching for something.
The surrounding villagers were stunned when they saw this scene, they subconsciously held their breath and didn't even dare to breathe, for fear of disturbing the immortal master who was casting spells.
After a cup of tea, Yan Guitu put away the extinguished soul-inducing lamp, and turned to look at the villagers: "Are you sure that the accident happened here?"
After hearing Yan Guitu's question, several people were somewhat hesitant.
After all, although they found the bloody clothes and medicine hoe here, no one had actually seen Li Yuan's body.
Seeing this, Yan Guitu probably had some clarity in his heart, and said that the sun is shining right now, and the yang energy is in full bloom, even if he uses the soul-inducing lamp to summon the soul, it may not be able to summon Li Yuan's soul.It is also necessary to wait until the night when the yin energy is at its peak to cast the spell to attract the soul, so as to call out the soul of the deceased.
When the villagers heard the words, they all turned their eyes to Lizheng.
There are many people in broad daylight, but they still have the courage to accompany the immortal master up the mountain.If they stayed on the mountain at night, they would not have the courage.
"It's okay, you go down the mountain first, and we master and apprentice have to check the environment on the mountain carefully." Yan Guitu saw the fear in the hearts of the people, and smiled gently.
Everyone followed Lizheng down the mountain with relief.
"Master, the soul-inducing lamp just went out, does that mean..." Yun Junmei looked at Yan Guitu hesitantly.
Yan Guitu nodded slightly: "This Li Yuan, he is still alive."
The only soul that cannot be summoned by the soul lamp is the soul that is still alive.
"Then why didn't you just tell those villagers that Li Yuan is still alive?" Si Huanian looked at Yan Guitu in confusion.
Yan Guitu narrowed his eyes slightly, and looked thoughtfully at the incense paper money on the ground: "Because, there is indeed a monster on this mountain."
He could judge from the remaining breath in the air that the other party was still a powerful monster.
It's no wonder that those foundation-building monks who had accepted the mission before could only return home without a feather.
"Then shall we wait on the mountain until midnight?" Yun Junmei asked.
Yan Guitu nodded slightly.
The sun was too strong during the day, and the ghost's breath had dissipated in the air until there was only a little bit left.If you want to find the monster's lair, you can only wait until night.
"Then Li Yuan has been missing for half a year. If he is still alive, where would he be?" Ling Jiangyu looked at the distant mountains that undulate like a girl's eyebrows in the distance, and asked softly as if talking to himself.
As soon as these words came out, Yun Junmei suddenly felt a chill in her heart.
There seemed to be a pair of fierce eyes silently watching their every move in the dark.
so......
"Master, Senior Brother, Junior Brother, are you hungry?" Yun Junmei unloaded the cauldron from his back with a bang, and smiled very softly and harmlessly, "I'll make you what you want to eat?"
Yan Guitu: "..."
Si Huanian: "..."
Ling Jiangyu: "..."
Just, very scared.
However, Yun Junmei's idea of cooking was finally defeated by the Bigu Pill that Ling Jiangyu made himself.
The most important thing is that Ling Jiangyu did not know what method to refine the Bigu Pill. Not only can one take one pill, you can go without food for three days, but more importantly, this pill also has a sweet floral fragrance. People will emit a fresh fragrance similar to the fragrance of flowers.
Girls have no resistance to such Bigu Dan.
Yan Guitu also secretly gave Ling Jiangyu a thumbs up.
The back mountain of Jinli Village is actually a continuous mountain range, and the back mountain is just a peak of this mountain range.
After the master and apprentice finished visiting the mountain range, the sky gradually darkened.
However, the four of them found nothing except for the vaguely demonic aura in the air.
As the sun sets and the moon rises, the cool night wind blows across the hillside, bringing a faint scent of green grass in the air.
As soon as Yan Guitu raised his head, he saw the stars shining like shattered ice cubes dotting the night like black silk.
"Master, you come here to lie down and rest." Ling Jiangyu worked beside him for a long time, and then ran over to call Yan Guitu over as if asking for credit.
Yan Guitu looked around, and found that the child made a bed for him with local materials.The bottom is paved with thick and flat stone slabs, with a layer of soft branches on top, and thin dry grass on top, and a layer of animal skins is carefully laid on top of the dry grass.
My own cub is simply too sensible.
Yan Guitu was so moved that he almost cried on the spot.
Who says villains can't be taught well?His little San'er is simply the best disciple in the cultivation world, okay?
But before Yan Guitu could try the soft and comfortable big bed, there was a sudden gust of wind in the woods, and a strong fishy smell hit several people in the face.
The village is not big, and the farmland of each household is scattered behind the roadside trees, and the chimneys of each household are full of smoke. The village children who ran wildly on the village road were also called back home.
Noticing the sudden visit of a few strangers, the children watched from a distance with some curiosity and some shyness, until an older boy in the crowd came forward and asked, "Who are you looking for?"
Yan Guitu looked at the child in front of him with a smile: "We are here to find Lizheng in your village."
"Looking for Uncle Li?" The child nodded suddenly, then turned around and put his hands around his mouth and shouted loudly, "Uncle Li ~ Uncle Li ~ someone is looking for you!"
The boy's voice was clear and penetrating, and soon spread far and wide.
There were also a few children around who enthusiastically raised their voices to help call for someone. For a while, the intersection into the village was extremely lively.
Soon, Li Zheng Li Liang from the village rushed over upon hearing the news.Perhaps he came too hastily, and he hadn't had time to put down the trouser legs that were rolled up on his feet, and he hadn't had time to change his mud-stained clothes.
"Are you the fairy masters who came to our village to help catch demons?" Li Liang rubbed his big, rough hands covered in mud at the hem of his clothes, and looked at Yan Guitu and the others nervously, "I thought they were The immortal master will only arrive at night, so the banquet to welcome you is arranged in the evening. At noon, the family only cooks some ordinary farm meals, and if the elders don’t mind it, let’s eat together.”
The tone was extremely respectful, for fear that one of his mistakes would offend the elder.They all know that it is not easy to offend the fairy elders who came down from the upper realm, after all, these people are similar to gods.If they accidentally offend them, a little trick can bring bad luck to the whole village.
Yan Guitu smiled lightly, and declined Li Zheng's invitation: "You don't have to be polite, old man, we are indeed here to accept a mission. There is no rush on this matter, after you finish your meal, take us up the mountain to have a look. good."
This Li Zheng looks simple and honest, he is about forty or fifty years old, his bronze skin is as rough as old bark, but his sinews and flesh are bulging, and he looks very strong.
Of course, it is normal for old farmers who have been hunting in the mountains and farming in the fields to have such a strong body.
Hearing that a very powerful immortal master had come to the village, all the people in the village came with their families to watch the excitement, and surrounded Lizheng's house with three floors inside and three floors outside.Even though Lizheng came out several times to drive them away, the crowd still gathered around the door and refused to disperse.
After all, as ordinary people, they don't have many chances to meet the immortal master.Take the time to take a second look now, and it will be a topic of conversation after dinner in the future.
It's just that the appearance of the four masters and apprentices disappointed them a little.
Because although the foundation-building stage monks invited earlier were not very strong, at least they looked good-looking.Wearing a fairy robe with flowing precious light, and wearing a spirit sword that shone with cold light, she looks dignified on the outside, and the beauty of men and women is different from ordinary people at first glance.
Looking at the few people in the yard, the older one was yellow and thin, so thin that a gust of wind could blow him down, and he was only wearing an ordinary blue gown.The big man next to him looks good, but after a long time, you can find that he always has a silly smirk on his face.That little girl can only be regarded as handsome, but she looks extraordinarily strong, holding a huge sledgehammer in her hand, she doesn't look like a cultivator, but like a street performer.
As for the youngest child, although he looks tall, he should be around ten years old, and there is no smile on his face. He just stands beside their master expressionlessly, with those dark and deep eyes. When I looked at you, I felt a little flustered for no reason.
Are these people really immortal masters from the upper realm?
The more the villagers watched, the more they felt that these people were unreliable, and they quickly pulled Li Zheng, who was picking up slices of meat in the bowl, to the side: "Li Zheng, why do I think these people are not right?"
Another villager followed suit and nodded: "You have to be careful not to be deceived. Didn't Widow Zhao in Shanghe Village get cheated out of her family's savings by a scammer two days ago? Let's be careful."
"Uncle Wang is right. It's not easy for us to scrape together such a small amount of money. If someone cheats us away, wouldn't it be a waste of money?"
Listening to the villagers chattering about their ideas over there, the smile on Yan Guitu's face remained unchanged, and he was still sitting firmly on the bamboo chair in the yard, playing with the big bowls that Lizheng's family made for them. wild tea.
"Hey, what idea did you come up with?" Li was taking advantage of the time these people were talking to quickly pull the rice in the bowl upside down, "The money is now in the dental office, and they will take it if the task is not completed." If I don’t have enough money, I worry about it all day long.”
Seeing that the villagers were silent, Li Zhengcai lowered his voice and said, "Let's take them up the mountain today to see if these people's identities are real or not, wouldn't it be clear? If they were fake immortal masters, they wouldn't be able to pass on the mountain at all. Ye, tomorrow I will go away by myself, what are you afraid of?"
Ling Jiangyu raised his head and looked at Yan Guitu worriedly. Yan Guitu smiled lightly, pretending that he didn't hear the loud plotting of the nearby villagers. '
After all, those villagers were only worried about being cheated of their hard-earned rewards, and they had no ill intentions towards them.
Yan Guitu lived for more than 200 years, and was reborn once again. He has never seen such a scene.Right now, the words of these mountain and field villagers are not really a matter at all.
While Li was busy cooking, Yan Guitu chatted with a few villagers squatting in the yard with a smile, and casually asked about the so-called 'monsters' in the village.
Although the people in the village had doubts about the identity of the immortal master, they were flattered to see Yan Guitu talking to him suddenly, but they couldn't remember anything else, so they rushed to tell the master about the "monster" in the village The four disciples listened.
It turned out that there was a young man named Li Yuan in their village. Li Yuan's parents died early, and he was raised by the food in the village.In terms of family seniority, he is still Lizheng's distant nephew.Later, he relied on doing some farm work for the old scholar in the village and went up the mountain to collect medicinal materials to sell money, so he reluctantly studied in the school in the village.
Although Li Yuan was only 20 years old, he was selected as a scholar early.It's just that he was too poor and was recommended by an old scholar, so he taught the children in the village to be enlightened, received some bundles to live by, and prepared for his own autumn exam.
Half a year ago, Li Yuan suddenly disappeared on his way to the back mountain to dig medicinal materials. His medicinal hoe, basket, and some scattered blood were still scattered in the place where he disappeared.
Wild beasts often haunt and hurt people on this mountain, so at first everyone agreed that Li Yuan died at the mouth of wild beasts. Although it was a bit regretful, they didn't care too much.
From the first seven days in Li Yuan, the livestock and poultry in the village began to be attacked repeatedly, and the villagers who often walked at night also said that they had seen the monster with their own eyes.It is said that the monster is several feet high, its eyes are as big as copper bells, and its bloody mouth can swallow a cow with one mouthful...
Anyway, since then, everyone can often hear strange noises from the back mountain, and often find the half-blooded corpses of missing poultry and livestock from the mountain.Since then, basically no one went up the mountain to hunt, at most they just hunted at the foot of the mountain.
As for what the monster on the mountain is, everyone's answer is also inconsistent.
Some people think that it is the ghost of the tragic death of Li Yuan, some people think that the monster who killed Li Yuan is trying to eat people, and some people say that the fox on the mountain is a fox that specializes in seducing people, and only likes to dig the hearts of young men. come to eat.
Various theories emerged one after another, and Yan Guitu felt that writing it down in notes would definitely be another collection of witty and strange novels.
Listening to everyone's more and more fantastic stories, Yan Guitu still nodded from time to time and asked two questions to show that he was still listening carefully.
After a hasty lunch, Lizheng ordered a few young and strong men from the village to go up the mountain with him, and by the way he called his youngest son.
Li Zheng saw that Ling Jiangyu and Yun Junmei were too young and the other was a little girl, so he kindly reminded Yan Guitu if he wanted to put the two little ones in the village, and don't let them go with them because the mountain is so dangerous.
However, everyone shut up when they saw Yunjun smilingly holding the wheel-sized stone mill in his hand as if playing.
The path up the mountain is a few feet wide path, perhaps because few people have come here in the past six months, and the path is also covered by dense vines.
Lizheng's youngest son is a quiet boy, about sixteen or seventeen years old, with the same dark skin and taciturn personality as his father.
On the way, he looked back from time to time to see if Yan Guitu and the others were following, and then carefully used the machete in his hand to cut down obstacles on the road ahead for them.
"Master, is there really such a big monster in this world?" Yun Junmei asked curiously.
After hearing her question, the surrounding villagers also pricked up their ears to listen to the story with great interest.
Yan Guitu smiled: "There are many wonders in this vast world, not to mention monsters with a height of several feet, even monsters with a height of tens of feet. Monsters are also monsters, and they are usually grass spirits or birds and beasts in the mountains. When the aura of heaven and earth is opened to wisdom and has the ability to communicate with the aura of heaven and earth, they can use the aura to improve their self-cultivation. When their cultivation reaches a certain level, they can be transformed into human form after being tempered by heavenly thunder."
Speaking of this, he warned his disciples earnestly: "Although it is not easy for human beings to seek immortality, it is even more difficult for these plant elves and animals to cultivate. You must remember that there are good people and evil people, and demons. There are also good monsters and evil monsters, they must be treated differently, and they must not be generalized. If you kill a good monster by mistake, the crime is the same as killing a good person by mistake."
The three little ones nodded seriously when they heard the words.
This is the second time their master has warned them similar words.
The nearby villagers also laughed when they heard the words: "The words of this elder are different from those of other elders."
It's just that he doesn't seem to agree with Yan Guitu's statement.
On the contrary, Lizheng's youngest son slowed down even more after hearing this, and looked at Yan Guitu and his disciples with more kind eyes.
Yan Guitu glanced at the young man inadvertently, and had a vague guess in his heart.This young man may know something, but he doesn't know...
When Li Zheng turned his head, he saw Yan Guitu looking at his youngest son. After being slightly taken aback, he suddenly plucked up the courage to ask, "Head Immortal, take a look at my youngest son Li Shuan, does this kid have a cultivator?" Good luck."
As soon as these words came out, the surrounding villagers all turned their heads to look at Li Shuan and Yan Guitu in unison.
Li Shuan was Lizheng's youngest son, and he was almost carved out of the same mold as his father.Li Zheng is old and has a son, and he has always loved this little son very much, and raised this kid to study since he was a child.But this kid is always muddy and can't support the wall. He insists that he doesn't like to go to school, he only likes to be trapped in the mountains, and when he grows up, he only wants to be a hunter and not an official.For a while, almost everyone in the village knew that there was a silly son in Lizheng's family who didn't want to go into official career and only wanted to hunt.
However, this stupid son of their family is indeed a stupid man with stupid blessings. He rarely returns empty-handed when he enters the mountain. Basically, he can get a lot of money every time he enters the mountain, which makes many people jealous.
Yan Guitu took a look at Li Shuan, who was walking with his head bowed and muffled, and smiled lightly: "This kid is in good health, but his spiritual roots are mixed, and it may not be easy for him to practice Taoism."
"Oh." Upon hearing this, Lizheng nodded in disappointment.
He said yes, how could a golden phoenix fly out of a group of pheasants? It seemed that he was thinking too much.
"Hey, don't you think it's strange, we've been walking for so long, why can't we see a single bug on this mountain?" Suddenly, a villager stopped and looked at Lizheng hesitantly.
There are not many other things in the mountains, but there are many bugs.In the past, they could see all kinds of bugs after walking a few steps. Today, after walking for so long, they didn't even see a single bug hair. It was simply too abnormal.
Hearing this, Yan Guitu explained with a smile: "I usually don't like insects and ants very much, so my little disciple refined some insect repellent powder for me. Wearing this powder, insects can be far away from one mile away." far away."
Ling Jiangyu turned his head and gave Yan Guitu a tender look.
It was only when he was in the water dungeon in Heishui City last time that he discovered that Master was inexplicably afraid of bugs, but he kept this matter in his stomach and never told anyone.
After returning to Baopuzong, he buried himself in the alchemy room for several days, and finally refined the insect repellent powder mentioned in the book.It's just that the medicinal powder smelled bad, and he added a few flavors of vanilla to it himself. The smell was almost exactly the same as the cold fragrance on Yan Guitu's body, and he couldn't tell the difference unless he carefully discerned it.
Yan Guitu naturally accepted his little apprentice's wishes with pleasure, and at the same time sighed once again that the gap between people is simply too big.
The three white-eyed wolves he had taken in before would never waste a bit of thought on him.
Perhaps it was because Yan Guitu was strong enough at that time, so his disciples also acquiesced that the master did not need any gifts prepared by them at all.
Heartbroken just thinking about it.
"Here, it's here." Suddenly, Li Zheng, who was walking in the front, stopped, pointed to the distant hillside and said to Yan Guitu, "He had an accident here."
Yan Guitu followed the prestige, and there was a gentle slope in front of him, which was now completely covered by withered and yellow vegetation.
Several villagers didn't dare to go any further when they came nearby, so the master and apprentice went straight to the gentle slope.
"There is no resentment here." Yan Guitu squatted down and looked at the dirt on the ground.
There was only a light snowfall here the night before yesterday, and now the snow has melted and the soil has become softer.There are still a few unburned candles and ingots scattered on the ground nearby. Presumably, the well-meaning villagers felt sorry for Li Yuan's body and came here to burn a few sticks of incense to express their condolences.
Lizheng suddenly remembered a strange thing: "It's strange to say that in previous years, there had been thick snow accumulation on this mountain, and it would never melt until the beginning of spring. It's just that this year, the snow on this mountain has also fallen a lot. It's big, but it melts away quickly."
"Yeah yeah."
"It must be the monster on this mountain."
Several nearby villagers echoed.
Yan Guitu paused, then turned to look at his three disciples: "Do you know what is the easiest way to understand the truth?"
Both Si Huanian and Yun Junmei shook their heads, but Ling Jiangyu replied softly, "Ask the person involved."
"Hey, Li Yuan has been dead for more than half a year, how can he ask himself?" another villager shook his head.
Yan Guitu smiled lightly: "It's easy to ask him to come in person, I'm afraid..."
He didn't finish his sentence, but just took out a silver-white lotus lamp from the storage ring, and then flicked his index finger, a ball of spiritual fire suddenly burst out from the center of the lotus lamp.
"This is a soul-inducing lamp. No matter where the soul of the deceased is now, whether it is in the underworld or has been reincarnated, it can attract his soul." Yan Guitu wrote Li Yuan's birth date in the air with his slender fingers, and everyone I saw that the light of the soul-inducing lamp suddenly became brighter, and at the same time, ninety-nine and 81 petals of the soul-inducing lamp were scattered all over the sky, as if searching for something.
The surrounding villagers were stunned when they saw this scene, they subconsciously held their breath and didn't even dare to breathe, for fear of disturbing the immortal master who was casting spells.
After a cup of tea, Yan Guitu put away the extinguished soul-inducing lamp, and turned to look at the villagers: "Are you sure that the accident happened here?"
After hearing Yan Guitu's question, several people were somewhat hesitant.
After all, although they found the bloody clothes and medicine hoe here, no one had actually seen Li Yuan's body.
Seeing this, Yan Guitu probably had some clarity in his heart, and said that the sun is shining right now, and the yang energy is in full bloom, even if he uses the soul-inducing lamp to summon the soul, it may not be able to summon Li Yuan's soul.It is also necessary to wait until the night when the yin energy is at its peak to cast the spell to attract the soul, so as to call out the soul of the deceased.
When the villagers heard the words, they all turned their eyes to Lizheng.
There are many people in broad daylight, but they still have the courage to accompany the immortal master up the mountain.If they stayed on the mountain at night, they would not have the courage.
"It's okay, you go down the mountain first, and we master and apprentice have to check the environment on the mountain carefully." Yan Guitu saw the fear in the hearts of the people, and smiled gently.
Everyone followed Lizheng down the mountain with relief.
"Master, the soul-inducing lamp just went out, does that mean..." Yun Junmei looked at Yan Guitu hesitantly.
Yan Guitu nodded slightly: "This Li Yuan, he is still alive."
The only soul that cannot be summoned by the soul lamp is the soul that is still alive.
"Then why didn't you just tell those villagers that Li Yuan is still alive?" Si Huanian looked at Yan Guitu in confusion.
Yan Guitu narrowed his eyes slightly, and looked thoughtfully at the incense paper money on the ground: "Because, there is indeed a monster on this mountain."
He could judge from the remaining breath in the air that the other party was still a powerful monster.
It's no wonder that those foundation-building monks who had accepted the mission before could only return home without a feather.
"Then shall we wait on the mountain until midnight?" Yun Junmei asked.
Yan Guitu nodded slightly.
The sun was too strong during the day, and the ghost's breath had dissipated in the air until there was only a little bit left.If you want to find the monster's lair, you can only wait until night.
"Then Li Yuan has been missing for half a year. If he is still alive, where would he be?" Ling Jiangyu looked at the distant mountains that undulate like a girl's eyebrows in the distance, and asked softly as if talking to himself.
As soon as these words came out, Yun Junmei suddenly felt a chill in her heart.
There seemed to be a pair of fierce eyes silently watching their every move in the dark.
so......
"Master, Senior Brother, Junior Brother, are you hungry?" Yun Junmei unloaded the cauldron from his back with a bang, and smiled very softly and harmlessly, "I'll make you what you want to eat?"
Yan Guitu: "..."
Si Huanian: "..."
Ling Jiangyu: "..."
Just, very scared.
However, Yun Junmei's idea of cooking was finally defeated by the Bigu Pill that Ling Jiangyu made himself.
The most important thing is that Ling Jiangyu did not know what method to refine the Bigu Pill. Not only can one take one pill, you can go without food for three days, but more importantly, this pill also has a sweet floral fragrance. People will emit a fresh fragrance similar to the fragrance of flowers.
Girls have no resistance to such Bigu Dan.
Yan Guitu also secretly gave Ling Jiangyu a thumbs up.
The back mountain of Jinli Village is actually a continuous mountain range, and the back mountain is just a peak of this mountain range.
After the master and apprentice finished visiting the mountain range, the sky gradually darkened.
However, the four of them found nothing except for the vaguely demonic aura in the air.
As the sun sets and the moon rises, the cool night wind blows across the hillside, bringing a faint scent of green grass in the air.
As soon as Yan Guitu raised his head, he saw the stars shining like shattered ice cubes dotting the night like black silk.
"Master, you come here to lie down and rest." Ling Jiangyu worked beside him for a long time, and then ran over to call Yan Guitu over as if asking for credit.
Yan Guitu looked around, and found that the child made a bed for him with local materials.The bottom is paved with thick and flat stone slabs, with a layer of soft branches on top, and thin dry grass on top, and a layer of animal skins is carefully laid on top of the dry grass.
My own cub is simply too sensible.
Yan Guitu was so moved that he almost cried on the spot.
Who says villains can't be taught well?His little San'er is simply the best disciple in the cultivation world, okay?
But before Yan Guitu could try the soft and comfortable big bed, there was a sudden gust of wind in the woods, and a strong fishy smell hit several people in the face.
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