After Tao Xiuyun left, Li Qinglin was cautious and did not start planting silver-veined sunflower and plantain.

Instead, he waited until late at night to restore his martial arts skills, activated the Zhouxu Fen Shen method, transformed his qi and blood into snakes, and checked the spiritual fields, houses and the surrounding areas inch by inch.

At the edge of the spiritual field, in an inconspicuous corner, an adult aphid was found, almost lifeless and wrapped in a thick layer of egg shell!

Moreover, an obscure wave emanated from the body of the aphid.

Li Qinglin identified it and was surprised to find that this was a refined poisonous insect that feeds on plants. Once it encounters a spiritual plant, it will hide in the root system of the spiritual plant, making it extremely difficult to find and eradicate.

Seeing this, Li Qinglin felt a surge of murderous intent in his heart, and he even considered recovering his martial arts skills and launching a thousand-mile night attack to kill him.

I just removed the eggs and you released the adult insects?

If I wasn't careful, wouldn't I have eaten all three spikes of plantain?!

Isn't this bullying honest people?

I'm afraid that Tao Xiuyun is the mastermind behind this insect plague.

Why did he maliciously release the insects to poison the spiritual field? Could it be that he realized that all the insect eggs in his spiritual field had been eliminated, so he came to check what was going on?

The world of immortal cultivation is so dangerous. I just want to live a peaceful life...

Li Qinglin suppressed his murderous intent, his eyes flickered, and he did not rashly kill the aphid.

In the following days, Li Qinglin did not act rashly.

Instead, he secretly collected information about Tao Xiuyun's identity and the distribution and planting of nearby spiritual fields, and even used Thousand Mile Sound Transmission to consult the other four "netizens".

Tao Xiuyun is an old man in Qingxu Ridge. He has been studying spiritual plants for decades and is quite famous.

Therefore, he was the first to be hit by the insect pest this time, and more than ten acres of spiritual fields were damaged.

But even so, he was eager to do good deeds and, seeing that his fellow spiritual plant masters had suffered huge losses, he resolutely offered to purchase the spiritual plants that had been infested by insects.

In order to stop losses in time, many spiritual plant masters would even sublease their spiritual fields to him!

"Good fellow, another skilled veteran actor."

Li Qinglin's eyes flickered, and he vaguely understood Tao Xiuyun's purpose.

…

The moon rises above the branches at dusk.

On the back hill, a woman in palace dress, with a haggard face, staggered over.

She walked and stopped along the way, her eyes were dark and desperate, and she sobbed softly from time to time.

The rolling sea of ​​clouds and the dimming forest light.

She stood on the cliff with a sad smile on her face. Looking down, she could vaguely see an acre of spiritual field and a small courtyard.

"Spiritual Field? Haha, seeing the Spiritual Field again, I, Diao Xiu, will never gamble again in my next life!"

As soon as she finished speaking, she jumped up.

Sudden,

She felt a soft force between her waist, and with a whoosh, a vine wrapped around her and dragged her back to the ground.

She rolled on the ground, her palace dress bumping against the ground, the buttons loosened, revealing her graceful figure slightly. Her sorrowful temperament made her extremely pitiful.

Diao Xiu looked up in confusion, and saw a mysterious man in a cloak standing not far away. He seemed a little anxious and was trying to use his magic power.

"Why? Why did you save me, why?!"

Diao Xiu started to cry and was about to jump off the cliff again.

Li Qinglin looked a little anxious when he saw this.

This woman was the one in palace dress that I saw outside the market some time ago.

In order to gamble with swords, he spent all his family fortune and even sold his daughter into slavery. He also wanted to grow the addictive spiritual plant Fantasy Smoke Vine to make a profit, and owed countless foreign debts.

Now it seems that he has no other options, so he just wants to end it all? At this moment, Li Qinglin immediately said,

"Don't die here!"

Diao Xiu froze, turned around, widened her eyes, and stared at Li Qinglin in disbelief, with tears frozen in her eye sockets.

Li Qinglin was a little angry.

If you want to commit suicide, stay away from his spiritual fields and residence! This back mountain is so close to me. If Diao Xiu dies, his body and his way will disappear. In the future, he will definitely attract debt collection from creditors, condolences from old friends, and investigations from the law enforcement monks of Qingxu Ridge.

He is the only monk living in this ten-mile area.

Naturally, he will be questioned first! It's too troublesome!

Moreover, what if you encounter an unreasonable monk who asks you why you did not help someone in need and is trying to make yourself uncomfortable? What should you do then?

Thinking of this, Li Qinglin even clamped his voice and advised, "Miss, if you are determined to die, I will give you a way. Seventy miles northwest of here, there is a spiritual plant master named Tao Xiuyun in Luofengpo.

His place occupies dozens of acres of spiritual fields, with a mountain behind and a stream in front. It is an excellent Feng Shui location. If you die there, your soul will linger and it will be very convenient for you to reincarnate."

Diao Xiu was so confused that she was at a loss for words. Her mind was a mess and she was a little confused.

Li Qinglin continued to persuade,

"And think about it, if you died somewhere else and were found, how would you know that the person you met was a good person?

If you are caught up by your creditors, they will make you into a puppet or a zombie while you are still alive. Even after you die, they will squeeze a few ounces of oil from your corpse. You will not have peace for hundreds of years.

And fellow Taoist Tao Xiuyun is kind-hearted. If he finds you, he will definitely take good care of your funeral and even bury you in a spiritual field!

Next spring, the mountains will be filled with butterflies and camellias, and a wisp of fragrant soul will return in the rain and fog. How poetic it is..."

Upon hearing this, Diao Xiu was in a daze for a long time and even began to imagine that scene.

She then stood up tremblingly, her expression changing from confusion to hesitation, then to thinking, and finally to determination.

So the next moment, she quietly rose up and headed towards Luofengpo.

"Thank you for your guidance, sir. In the next life, I will definitely bring grass and tie a ring to repay your guidance."

As the voice came, Diao Xiu's figure disappeared from Li Qinglin's sight.

Li Qinglin then breathed a sigh of relief and wiped the non-existent sweat.

"What the hell is going on!"

…

Three days later.

Tao Xiuyun was looking for ways to get rid of insects outside, visited many Taoist friends, and by the way, sublet a few acres of spiritual fields at a low price.

Leisurely return to Luofengpo.

Luofengpo has an excellent terrain, with a large tract of sunny spiritual fields on one side and a shady peach forest on the other.

Exotic flowers are everywhere, and a line of white cranes are flying in the sky amidst the cries of cranes.

Outside the spiritual field, including the peach forest, there are mysterious and illusory formations, and green flags are fluttering.

Loose on the outside and tight on the inside, the closer to the core of the spiritual field, the stronger the power of the formation.

Tao Xiuyun even secretly arranged a killing array! "The Peach Blossom Fairy planted peach trees and picked peach blossoms to sell for wine money. This huge Luofeng Slope will fall into my hands sooner or later!"

Tao Xiuyun chuckled and walked along the path into the peach forest.

After walking for about half a minute, we passed a small canyon with white stone cliffs on both sides and turned into the depths of the peach forest.

Sudden,

He seemed to have noticed something.

Looking up suddenly, I saw a figure sitting in front of a century-old peach tree at the foot of the white stone cliff.

She was wearing a red palace dress, her face was deathly pale, her eyes were closed, and she had been dead for many days.

Tao Xiuyun recognized this woman. He walked forward with some doubt. After investigation, he found that it was Diao Xiu who took the initiative to shatter her dantian and heart meridians and committed suicide!

"Oh no, how come he died here?"

Tao Xiuyun was a little bit incredulous at first, but he managed to calm down in a flash.

He paced anxiously, beating his chest and stamping his feet, his eyes moving rapidly as he thought of a strategy.

Logically speaking, he didn't kill the person. The worst that could happen is that he could report it to the Xianfang Discipline Department and be questioned a few times. It would be a little troublesome at most.

but……

He can't stand the investigation!

"I finally came back from the underwater Goumang robbery area, and obtained the long-extinct silkworm Gu, which mutated into a silkworm aphid. Given time, I will surely rise with this!

No, Diao Xiu is in debt. No matter if I destroy the body or just sit back and do nothing, sooner or later the creditors and even the Discipline Department will come to investigate!"

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Thoughts floating.

Tao Xiuyun made up his mind immediately.

Run away!

Pretending that he could not bear the harm caused by the silk aphids, he quickly gave up the lease, sold off the spiritual plants, left the Sanshan Mountains of Qingshitan, and moved to another place to continue cultivating the silk-pulling Gu.

Do what you say.

Tao Xiuyun immediately walked into the core of the formation and took out a half-yellow, half-red poisonous insect that was still sleeping from the soil of an acre of spiritual field and put it into the jade box.

Living things cannot be put into the storage bag, so Tao Xiuyun had to carefully keep the jade box close to his body.

After taking down the formation flag and green banner, Tao Xiuyun identified the direction and prepared to ask an old friend to help him deal with the spiritual field.

I just stared blankly at a flying shuttle falling from the sky.

The air waves hit and the spiritual energy rioted.

Four monks came out from the shuttle, all dressed in first-grade, top-quality hydration suits.

The leader had a face like a full moon, a beard like cinnabar, and a purple gold gourd hanging around his waist.

Zhong Kou, one of the deacons of the Three Mountains of Qingshitan, has perfected his Qi training. He was born without any good deeds or skills, but only fights! When Tao Xiuyun saw Zhong Kou, he was so scared that he lost his soul.

In an instant, Zhong Kou disappeared and walked up to Tao Xiuyun.

Zhong Kou looked at Tao Xiuyun with doubt in his eyes and said,

"Fellow Daoist Tao, what are you doing? Are you going on a long journey?"

Tao Xiuyun calmed down and forced a smile.

"Haha, pests are hard to get rid of, so Tao is planning to move to another place to farm."

Zhong Kou smiled and walked towards the peach forest.

"We have received a report that Diao Xiu, who has been missing for many days, is suspected to be at Luofeng Slope. I hope that Fellow Daoist Tao will disperse the formation so that we can check it out."

report?

Which sinister villain actually reported it behind my back? Tao Xiuyun was furious, but his face showed a proper look of doubt.

When monks Zhong Kou and others entered the peach forest and found Diao Xiu's body, they did not leave but walked towards the spiritual field.

Tao Xiuyun watched Zhong Kou and others go to Lingtian to investigate, and he felt relieved and secretly lucky.

Fortunately, I was quick to react and had already taken back the silkworm. No matter how they checked, it was useless! "Don't let me know who reported it! Otherwise..."

Tao Xiuyun thought viciously in his heart.

After a while, Zhong Kou checked the spiritual field and its surroundings and found nothing unusual.

So he prepared to leave with Diao Xiu's body.

"I apologize to you, Brother Tao. I will take my leave now."

"No problem, no problem."

Tao Xiuyun chuckled.

Click.

The words fell.

There was a crisp breaking sound in his chest.

It turned out to be the silkworm in the jade box. It suddenly struggled in pain, with withered yellow and deep red quickly intertwining, and its sharp mouthparts directly bit through the jade box.

"This breath?"

"The evil poisonous insect!"

"It's somewhat similar to the silkworm...it's the silkworm!"

Zhong Kou's face changed drastically, murderous aura rose to the sky, and several people formed a team.

Tao Xiuyun acted like a madman, he ran away and hid underground.

"Humph! Evil demon, where are you going to escape?!"

Zhong Kou snorted coldly, slapped the purple gold gourd, and the gourd fell down. A hundred feet of blazing flames suddenly fell from its mouth. Thousands of golden snakes were like the sea. Suddenly, black smoke rolled up the ground. The power was so terrifying that it was like boiling the sea and turning waves! In the distance, there were monks watching the melons eating here. Their eyes suddenly turned white and they lost all their vision.

When he regained his sight, he saw that the mountains and fields for more than ten miles had turned into brown soil and were filled with burnt smoke.

Tao Xiuyun's body was still emitting sparks, half of it melted into the soil, and the other half stretched out his hand towards the sky, with a hideous and unwilling look on his face.

At the moment of life and death, he suddenly reacted.

It must be the death of the offspring of the Silk-pulling Gu that caused the Silk-pulling Gu to riot.

"It's him, Han Fei?!"

Unfortunately, all his resentment was burned to ashes by the flames.

No one knows.

When the flames dissipated, Zhong Kou brought back Tao Xiuyun's body.

One of the other three monks from the Precepts Department cast the spell of spring rain, causing a sweet rain to fall, and spiritual energy and mist filled the air, covering the scorched earth.

A man escaped in, causing sand and rocks to fly and the soil to be turned over.

The other person was a spiritual plant master. He took out a handful of spiritual grass seeds from the bag in his arms and scattered them in the air. They took root on the ground, and in the blink of an eye, they sprouted and grew branches, becoming lush and green.

Zhong Kou looked at the half-dead silkworm in his hand and immediately understood the reason for the recent insect infestation in the neighborhood.

"The culprit of the pest has been brought to justice. Tell each other to come to Taichu Dao Palace in seven days to collect your compensation for the losses!"

After that, several people flew away on the shuttle.

As for the source of the loss subsidy, it was naturally Tao Xiuyun’s inheritance.

…

Seven days later.

Li Qinglin arrived at Taichu Taoist Temple early to queue up.

Who knew that there were people who arrived earlier than him. Many monks had arrived six days ago and were sitting cross-legged on different hilltops to practice and reserve seats.

Li Qinglin counted and found that there were actually twenty or thirty people in front of him!

Li Qinglin was deeply moved. Even cultivators were not immune to anything that could take advantage without any risk.

(End of this chapter)