The apprentice is tempted every day on the edge of madness

There is a well-known sacred tree in Tianyuan Village, and there is a wealthy merchant in a small town near Tianyuan Village. It gradually flourished.But he didn't know what kind of bad luck he had recently, he just felt that everything was not going his way, and the servants advised him to pray for good luck to ward off bad luck, so he thought of the blessing tree in Tianyuan Village.

"Father, I heard that you are going to Tianyuan Village, take me with you! My child also wants to see that tree!"

The merchant cheerfully patted the little chubby little hand: "No problem, dad will take you there."

The little fat pier was happy, and asked again: "Do you want to bring the elder brother together? The elder brother will definitely like such a big tree!" The little fat pier waved his hands and made a super big gesture.

The merchant's face instantly became serious: "Who taught you to say that? That dumb one?"

"Father, what are you talking about, you know that the eldest brother can't speak, the child just wants the eldest brother to be together!"

"What are you shouting about bro! He's not your brother! How many times have I told you to stop contacting him!"

The little fat pier was crying fiercely, rubbing his eyes and ran out to find his mother.

The merchant was also so angry that he couldn't drink the tea he was given by this unfulfilling son. He put his cup heavily on the table, saying it was unlucky.

When one person saw the opportunity, he stepped forward and said flatteringly: "Master Mo Qi, your body is the most important, because it is not good to lose your body when you are angry."

"Then what do you think we should do?" The merchant glanced at him, his plump body leaned back, and his belly became more prominent.

"The little one heard Daoist Qi say a wonderful recipe earlier, thinking that he should be able to relieve the master's worries, but he doesn't know what the master will do."

Daoist Qi is one of the few sorcerers supported by merchants, and he usually helps merchants solve problems when they are in trouble, so he is trusted by merchants.

"I listen."

The servant looked around and saw that there was no one around, so he began to chatter sternly.

The servant said to the merchant: "Just praying for blessings is far from showing your sincerity. You must be able to enter the eyes of the gods."

"Could it be that Daoist Qi has an idea?"

"The villain heard from the Taoist priest that Tianyuan Village is cold and overcast. It was originally a place full of mountain spirits and ghosts. It is not suitable for people to live in. However, the sacred tree can still grow well in such a place. I am afraid there is something strange."

"What does this have to do with my going to pray for blessings? Does Daoist Qi not want me to go there?" Shang Jia was a little confused.

"It's not that I don't want to pray, but to change it in another way, such as... a living sacrifice."

The merchant didn't even move his eyelids, he just asked, "How about a live sacrifice?"

The servant immediately put an end to it: "This... I don't quite understand it, you should ask Daoist Qi."

The merchant was not a businessman at all, he was born as an official son, and he had a fiancée who was married with his fingertips. Later, his grandfather was relegated to the bottom of his family, and the family who had a marriage contract with him also wanted to regret the marriage.As a last resort, he repeatedly lowered his figure to make the fiancée's heart soften.

He was obedient and obedient to this woman in every possible way, and he did enough superficial work, but he was really tired of this taciturn, boring and plain-looking woman in his heart.

What's more, he was not what he used to be at that time, he was married again, his status was quite different, and he had received a lot of cold eyes. He attributed all this to the fault of that damned woman, and when he finally caught Turning over at the opportunity, but clearly remembering what happened yesterday, the merchant has taken many concubines, and he loathes this dirty yellow-faced woman even more.

The woman seemed weak and stubborn, probably the only time in her life that she mustered all the courage to insist on marrying such a hypocritical person despite opposition.When she finally saw the face of this man clearly, she couldn't help being sad and depressed. She often shed tears when she was pregnant, and almost got pregnant several times, and died after giving birth to a child.

The child was brought up with the help of a nanny who couldn't stand it. Later, the nanny got too old and had to leave, so she gave it to a little maid under her command.No one named the child, because he was born unable to speak, so everyone called him Little Mute.

The little mute is not very old, but he is optimistic, smart and lively. The little chubby likes to play after him, and he is willing to call him "big brother" one by one.

He didn't understand why that father hated him so much, and had followed other people's ideas to please him.When the merchant heard that the young child was very clever and wrote good poems, instead of being happy about it, he was furious, and the little mute never wanted to approach that man on his own initiative.

He was digging mud in the yard that day, concentrating on starting his big project, his small body squatting like a ball of cotton balls.

He was covering the small mound with a small shovel, when suddenly several servants rushed in and grabbed him, the shovel fell to the ground, the little mute could not speak, and could only struggle instinctively.

"What are you doing!" A woman in the room heard the movement and rushed out, trying to stop them.

"Qiu Niang, we are also acting according to orders. You also know that he never pleases the master. It will be a matter of time before such a day comes. Even self-protection is a problem for you, so it's better not to meddle in other things."

The woman couldn't speak with tears in her eyes, watching these people take the child away.

The little mute was a premature baby with weak bones. He was taken to a well-sealed room, and before he could react, he was stuffed into a tall furnace.

He was so weak that he couldn't struggle with these adults at all. The stove was half the height of an adult, and he curled up in this space with tears in his eyes.The stove was smoked at some point, and the little mute held his chest and felt that he couldn't breathe, and passed out after a while.

"You want to kill him, how will the master explain?" It was the servant who gave the idea before who spoke.

"I'm going to take his soul as an introduction. The master doesn't care whether the dumb is dead or alive. Just find an excuse to fool him when the time comes."

"Where is it difficult to find an introduction? Why bother to spend so much time?"

"This person's horoscope is negative, and the five elements are short of wood. He is a good candidate for a ghost game. He cannot escape the word 'solitary'. If you want to say something special, especially the spirit, I have never seen a spirit like this before. Those sects must be good seedlings... I like to destroy their seedlings." A kind of fanatical light flashed in the man's eyes, and he hurriedly ran to the stove to inspect his "results".

"...that's impossible." The man's expression froze on his face, and it took him a long time to find his own voice.

"what happened?"

"My ghost eating method has never failed, but I am just a child, why can't I shake this person's soul?"

The so-called Daoist was immersed in disbelief, and he was called out several times before he came back to his senses: "What did you say?"

The servant whispered to him again: "Master is here."

"Qi Daochang, why don't you leave?" The merchant asked as he walked over slowly with his hands behind his back.

"It's all good, master, you can leave right away." Daoist Qi thought in his heart that he might lose his hand, so he simply complied with this person's wishes.

After all, he really wasn't fooling him completely, Tianyuan Village was indeed full of ghosts and ghosts, and offering sacrifices to living people was a way to flatter him, even if he was half-dead.

So the group went to Tianyuan Village in this way, and the merchant even bribed the local villagers to open the way for him, and cleared away all the people who had prayed in front of the sacred tree in advance, leaving it empty on purpose.

They threw the dying child aside like garbage, and dozens of servants started working together to stack firewood in front of the tree.

Unexpectedly, the sky changed before it waited for a while. The originally clear sky was suddenly invaded by visible fog clouds, which quickly spread and covered the entire sky like thick ink. Unclear crows circled from far to near and landed on the branches, making eerie and creepy crows, which made everyone who heard them shudder.

"Dao... Daoist, what's going on here?" The merchant had never seen such a battle before, he looked at the sky that suddenly sank, and the countless crows circling in the air, shivering. I can't stop my scalp from getting numb.

Daoist Qi was also flustered in his heart, but on the surface he pretended to be calm: "Master, don't panic, this is effective. What are you guys still doing?! Go on! Go on! Hurry up!!!"

The servants didn't dare to say anything, hurriedly moved their hands quickly, and put the child on the tall firewood again.

Shu recognized Gu Fan's reincarnation, the person he had waited for so long and finally met once, but was ruined by these villains.

He angrily withdrew the spiritual source that suppressed the miasma, summoned all the mountain spirits and ghosts, and vowed to fight these people forever! ! !

All of a sudden, the ghost followed the figure and wandered around, and the huge thunder rumbled in the sky, as if responding to this monstrous anger.

"You can't do this!" The fairy messenger came over. "You still have one month to complete your achievements, and then you'll have to find him again. If you do this, you will fall short!"

"...I don't want to see him die." Shu sadly said. "But he died twice in front of me. I can't stop it. Can't I kill those people who hurt him!!!"

The messenger seemed to sigh:

"Let me tell you directly, the person you are looking for was relegated to reincarnation and suffered because of his past mistakes. This is his destiny. Even if you take revenge, so what?"

"...If I attain the Tao one day and find him, can I change my life for him?"

"You can't break the rules." The envoy of the fairy world came the cold words.

"...You lied to me, you are using me...Thank you for telling me this, but it is no longer necessary."

Under the horrified eyes of these people, the original body of the tree rose from the ground, and the already thick tree grew taller and taller foot by foot.Several branches rolled towards those who were about to run away. The seemingly thin but sharp branches directly penetrated the chests of those people, pierced their eyes, smashed and smashed their heads, and none of them were spared. .

Screams of extreme fear, trembling begging for mercy, and wailing of pain came and went one after another, and each body squeezed blood flowers on the ground, and the monsters and ghosts screamed wildly, rushing to bite the souls of these dead people one after another .

There was a lot of blood on the tree, and he moved the wooden body towards the child, and the branch gently lifted the sleeping child slowly.

The next moment the tree was gone, and a man sat down quietly holding a child who was no longer alive.

Half of his face was stained red with blood, and he looked very cruel, but his eyes were stained with a kind of tenderness, and he touched the child's cheek lightly in silence, unable to tell whether it was sadness or pain .

"...The source is not with you after all. I can plead for you. You have guarded this land for so many years, and you have saved many lives. You have accumulated a lot of merit and can be forgiven." He didn't intervene, he witnessed everything, and he said to the tree again when the tree stabilized a lot.

"I don't need to forgive." Shu looked at the person in his arms. "I'm tired, it's time for this place to return to hell."

"...Understood." The messenger left without further words.