Chapter 150 The frosty white sword energy of the Taoist priest in yellow swept across the land, and the vast wilderness...
Inside the inn, everyone looked at each other in bewilderment. Who could have expected that the legendary Sect Master Xue would come in person?
He is a god who fights against gods and heaven!
If they were to see him from a distance, they would certainly not be stingy with their praise, but if they were to talk to him face to face...
The shopkeeper's legs went limp, and he rushed to the swordsman Li Zhou, put the squirming Tai Sui back into the wooden box, and shook his head repeatedly, saying, "I won't sue anymore, I won't sue anymore..."
Gu Sheng's expression tightened, his fingers twitched, and there was some regret in his eyes.
If the person outside is really Sect Master Xue, and she has behaved inappropriately and offended the Sect Master, she will probably get into trouble.
Let her die, but the people of Guangxin County are so innocent.
Everyone had different thoughts, but they all revolved around the three words "Sect Master Xue".
Only the swordsman Li Zhou, although he wondered if Sect Master Xue was outside, and who the Sect Master Li Zhou on Xili Mountain was, was soon diverted by a familiar fishy smell.
Didn't everyone smell it? The fishy smell coming in from outside and the smell of the Tai Sui in the shopkeeper's hand are exactly the same.
I always feel that I have smelled this scent somewhere before. Swordsman Li Zhou thought hard and suddenly an idea flashed in his mind and he remembered it.
…
Half a day ago, at Li Mansion.
Baby Li Zhou was woken up by his mother, washed his face, brushed his teeth, ate some delicious mushroom and chicken noodles, and started class.
After Master Liaochen left, Li Zhou was left without a teacher.
Mr. Li asked Yue Niang whether this was short-term or long-term, and if the nun was too busy to come back, should he hire a new teacher for Zhu'er.
Yue Niang took the necklace beads that Master Lechen had worn, thought for a while, strung the beads together with a red string, and wore them on her wrist.
"No need to invite me anymore." Yue Niang said, "I will be Zhu'er's teacher from now on."
Li Sheng stared at her profile in a daze. He felt what was happening and opened his mouth but said nothing.
Dalang no longer attends classes with Li Zhou, so Li Sheng finds him a new scholar as his teacher.
When the master learned that Dalang had a younger sister, he said to Li Sheng in private: "Nowadays, families with means educate their children in the same way. The current emperor likes to use female officials, and his daughter has a better future in the imperial examination. I don't think the master is so short-sighted, so how can he delay his daughter's study?"
Li Sheng thought to himself, my wife is doing this for your own good. Even Master Lechen couldn’t last half a year, so who else in the world can be Zhuer’s teacher?
He didn't know where Master Lechen had gone, but Yue Niang's evasive attitude was enough for him to imagine what had happened.
He was muttering to himself but didn't show it on his face. He explained to the teacher, "You are mistaken. It is because my daughter had a strange vision when she was just born. The fortune teller said that she was born with a noble fate. That's why I teach her separately to avoid wasting her time."
The teacher then felt relieved and stopped asking about Li Zhou's affairs.
But she didn't know that Mr. Li had completely forgotten something more important. Li Zhou was not even one year old yet. Who would need to hire a teacher for a baby who was only a few months old?
Fortunately, he forgot this important premise, so the Master did not know things he should not have known and lost his life in vain.
Baby Li Zhou had no idea that such a little incident had happened in his family. He was very busy studying with his mother.
Her mother taught her to recognize words: "The sky and earth are dark yellow, the universe is vast and boundless. The sun and the moon are waxing and waning..."
After recognizing the second sentence, my mother got stuck. She stared at the word "昃" for a long time but didn't read it out loud.
Little cotton-padded jacket Li Zhou originally wanted to quietly remind his mother, but when he looked up, alas, she didn't recognize him either.
Fortunately, she had an idea. She said, "I have already learned this sentence. I want to learn the next one." She went straight to the next line, "Winter comes and summer goes, autumn harvests and winter stores."
Mother was silent for a moment, then followed her to read the next sentence.
It is normal to have unfamiliar words, baby Li Zhou thought, judging others by herself. However, she did not notice the flash of surprise and panic in her mother's eyes, and the subsequent calmness of accepting her fate.
How could a person who has been studious and inquisitive and loves reading since childhood not even recognize the first sentence of "Thousand Character Classic"?
Li Zhou had been born for so long that Yue Niang thought she had gotten used to her existence. However, on this day, she realized for the first time that her daughter's influence on the people around her was far from over.
After discovering this, she drove Li Sheng and Dalang further away, made a schedule for herself, and took Li Zhou to class, eat, and sleep every day, twelve hours a day, without being separated for a moment.
Li Sheng thought that she wanted to protect them and their son, or that she chose to face the situation alone for the sake of the people of Fujiao City, and he wanted to join in several times.
She refused every time.
How could he understand a mother's heart? She could feel that neither Zhuo'er nor her body could last much longer, and the time left for the mother and daughter to spend together was running out. She just wanted to spend some ordinary time with her daughter.
Regardless of whether Zhu'er was a demon or a god, he was the flesh and blood separated from her body. There was an invisible umbilical cord between them that no one could cut off.
It is impossible for people who have not given birth themselves to understand this feeling.
After all, what does the world have to do with her? She just wants to be happy when Zhu'er is by her side.
According to the plan, what we are going to teach today is painting.
After Yue Niang picked up the pen, she found that her painting skills had become rusty. The "Rare Birds Picture" that she had copied many times when she was a child seemed particularly unfamiliar when she unfolded it, and she felt a little at a loss when she put pen to paper.
Fortunately, in the end, I managed to draw a chubby long-tailed tit with lead-black back feathers, a pure white head, and a round belly.
When only the eyes were left, baby Li Zhou said enthusiastically, "I want to paint with my mother."
Yue Niang was about to agree, but when she looked at Li Zhou's dark eyes, she glanced at the quiet bird still on the paper, and suddenly a trace of hesitation flashed through her heart.
The beads on the necklace around her wrist suddenly emitted a cluster of golden light, which dazzled her eyes and made the pen in her hand tremble, and she nodded unconsciously.
Dotting the eyes is a ritual to endow objects with spirituality.
Yue Niang recalled what her teacher had said to her when she first started learning painting, and she gained some understanding.
The necklace beads left by Master Liaochen were preventing Zhou'er from adding the finishing touches to the painting.
Yue Niang was stunned for a moment and put away the painting.
Li Zhou was also stunned for a moment. Why didn't her mother wait for her and finished the painting in such a short time?
But she is a good child and won't cry over such a small thing.
The tears in his eyes suddenly disappeared, and Li Zhou took out a new piece of paper. He failed to finish the previous one, so why not just draw another one?
Just as Li Zhou was about to put pen to paper and Yue Niang was hesitating whether to take her to do something else, a long and distant voice came from outside the wall: "Among the crazy guests sitting here is Zui Bai, and the idle person outside the world is only Yi Qiu*. All the passers-by, who can solve my game of 'Eternal Life Tribulation', I will give her a chance to become an immortal!"
As soon as he finished speaking, a passerby responded: "Master, if you have a destiny to become an immortal, do you still need to set up a stall here? Why don't you tell me first, what is the price you will pay if you can't solve it?"
"It's just two taels of silver... compared to the immortal fate, what is it?"
"You're such a bull nose." The passerby laughed and scolded, "You're unworthy of being a cultivator, your mind is full of worldly things!"
Someone else echoed: "I knew there was no such thing as pie in the sky. Taoist priest, your rhetoric is really not very good."
The Taoist priest who was sending the immortal was criticized by everyone, but he was not annoyed. He smiled and said, "It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter. If you don't believe it, it proves that the destined person has not arrived yet."
This is exactly what Li Zhou wants. Practicing Taoism should pay attention to fate. Baby Li Zhou nodded repeatedly after hearing this: "This is what a true Taoist practitioner would say."
On the surface, he is praising the Taoist priest, but in fact he is praising himself.
Yue Niang's heart moved, and she said to Li Zhou, "Zhu'er, do you want to go see this Taoist priest?"
Li Zhou didn't know that her mother was just asking her if she wanted to join in the fun, and she thought her mother wanted her to break the "Eternal Tribulation".
Li Zhou didn't know how to play chess at all, let alone the so-called "Eternal Tribulation", which he had never heard of.
But this does not hinder her confidence.
Her mother had finally made a small request, how could she refuse?
Baby Li Zhou puffed out his chest and said, "Just look at me."
Yueniang: "?"
Yue Niang touched Li Zhou's forehead and found that he didn't have a fever. She didn't know where this child got such confidence from.
But as a mother, it is not easy to discourage the child, so Yue Niang smiled and said, "Okay, mother will leave it to you."
The mother and daughter cared about each other, but a misunderstanding occurred. Hand in hand, they followed the sound and found the Taoist priest in yellow clothes who had set up a stall under the wall of their house.
Her clothes were tattered and her exposed skin was full of wrinkles. She was half lying on the ground with a chessboard in front of her.
In the lower right corner of the chessboard, there are four white pieces inside the black piece, so the black piece only has one position to land. If the black piece places a move and the white piece responds, the two sides will not give in to each other and will soon return to the current situation.
In this way, the game of chess fell into an endless loop.
This is called "Eternal Calamity", which means destruction is also rebirth, and the beginning and end of calamity repeat over and over again.
Although Yue Niang didn't know how to solve it, she had already seen the mystery of this calamity.
Li Zhou looked at it for a long time and thought it was Gobang.
She squatted in front of the chessboard, took the five connected black pieces into her palm, and wittily gave them a powerful name: "Five Stars in a Row, Break Your Immortality Tribulation."
Yueniang: "..."
She was just about to grab Li Zhou, apologize, and put his chess piece back, but the Taoist in yellow had already stood up.
Fearing that the Taoist priest would get angry and hit someone, Yue Niang quickly hid Li Zhou behind her.
This is the heart of a loving mother. At the critical moment, she would not even think that her own child can beat ten old Taoist priests.
However, Li Zhou thought that his mother was afraid that the Taoist priest in yellow would give him away from immortality, so he patted the back of Yue Niang's hand soothingly and said, "Don't worry, she will not leave you."
She poked her head out from behind Yue Niang and said to the Taoist priest in yellow, "Master, am I making the right move?"
The Taoist priest in yellow bowed and asked, "Please enlighten me, young lady. Which five stars are the five stars in a row?"
Li Zhou blurted out: "Gold, wood, water, fire, and earth." These five together, she only knew this.
"So that's how it is." The Taoist in yellow was full of emotion, and he fell to the ground, bent his back, and knelt down to pay homage. "May I ask the young lady how to make the five stars align?"
Li Zhou: “…”
Being able to say "gold, wood, water, fire, and earth" has already exhausted Li Zhou's knowledge reserves. Why is this old Taoist priest still asking more questions!
Li Zhou almost suspected that she was deliberately looking for trouble, so he frowned and looked her up and down.
Unexpectedly, the other party was calm, humble, and respectful, showing no sign of guilt.
It turns out you are really seeking advice.
The kind-hearted Li Zhou smiled, walked out from behind Yue Niang, and said seriously: "Although you are old, you are still so eager to learn. I admire you very much. But the five planets in a row is a profound knowledge, and it is not something that can be learned in a day or two..."
If you don't understand, just procrastinate. No one will ask you if you procrastinate. Li Zhou is very wise.
Unexpectedly, before she could say anything, the Taoist priest in yellow raised his head and said sincerely, "I am willing to take you as my teacher. If I cannot learn in one day, I will learn in one or two years."
As if she didn't notice the strange looks from the people around her, she crawled a few steps on her knees, knelt in front of Li Zhou and said, "As long as you don't despise my stupidity, Master, please accept my disciple's greetings!"
After saying that, he kowtowed three times in a row, "bang bang bang", not caring at all about the age difference between himself and Li Zhou.
Li Zhou: “…”
Li Zhou didn't feel that she was unworthy of being the old Taoist's teacher, she just felt a little distressed. If she accepted this disciple, she would have to take out her precious time to teach her.
Although baby Li Zhou didn't use this time to do anything serious.
The people around looked at him in surprise, but they did not think that a child who had not even grown all his hair could not teach the old Taoist priest.
This is because when everyone saw Li Zhou, thoughts like fireworks popped up in their minds: "Wow, a child prodigy is here", "She must be very smart because of her round head", "With her help, there is no disaster that cannot be solved", etc.
After listening to the conversation between the two, they became more convinced of this idea. They whispered to each other, praising Li Zhou's intelligence while doubting the old Taoist's qualifications. Was she worthy of being Li Zhou's student?
Someone grumbled, "You're still being ungrateful after getting the advantage. Isn't it enough that you've found a way to break the impasse?"
Some people were surprised and wondered: "Is this guy deliberately trying to attract attention from the crowd and get the chance to follow Him?"
Some people even regretted: "This is not a gift of opportunity, it is clearly a flattery to beg for an opportunity. If I had known that I could get close to Him in this way, I would have done it too."
The people who gathered together had no idea that their brains were becoming increasingly fanatical, with many irrational thoughts in their minds, and they were inexplicably yearning for "Him".
Yue Niang heard part of the conversation, looked down at the unconscious Li Zhou, and felt a chill in her heart.
She was just about to take Li Zhou home quickly, but suddenly her eyes met with the Taoist priest in yellow.
Because these eyes are too old, the eyelids are already covered with layers of wrinkles. In the loose eye sockets, a pair of deep pupils as black as the night sky appear particularly abrupt.
Deep within the pupil, a brown and white mark with red spots was slowly rotating, as if suppressing the surrounding darkness, or as if it was actually part of the darkness.
Yue Niang took a step back unconsciously and was held by the hand by the baby Li Zhou. She didn't want to scare the child, so she quickly lowered her head to look at Li Zhou, only to find that her nails had been dyed yellow at some point. After Zhou held her hand, the yellow color slowly faded away.
Baby Li Zhou pulled his mother and waved to the Taoist priest in yellow: "Don't call me Master yet. Let me give you a test to see if you are qualified to be my disciple."
The Taoist priest in yellow clothes couldn't help but be happy. He got up, nodded, and followed the baby Li Zhou closely.
As her tattered clothes swayed, baby Li Zhou smelled a faint fishy odor.
At that time, Baby Li Zhou thought that she smelled because she was not clean, so he asked her to take a shower first and then come to him for class.
…
After finishing her recollections, swordsman Li Zhou suddenly realized that she had already come into contact with Tai Sui.
I just don’t know what the relationship is between the Taoist priest in yellow and Tai Sui, and why she smells like Tai Sui.
Baby Li Zhou put down the dinner in his hand. The small golden bowl was filled with carrot and pork porridge with a little walnut oil, which was very healthy.
"Mother, I'll go see if the old Taoist priest has finished washing." As he said that, Li Zhou walked towards the west wing where the Taoist priest in yellow was.
Yue Niang didn't expect that she was so concerned about it. Thinking back to the old Taoist's eyes, she couldn't help but feel a little wary.
"Mom is with you."
"Mom, eat first."
Yue Niang's heart melted when she heard this. She felt distressed at how sensible Zhou Er was. She picked up the small golden bowl and said as she walked away, "Mom is not hungry. Zhou Er hasn't even finished eating yet."
Li Zhou paused, too embarrassed to tell his mother that she actually didn't like eating carrots, so she made an excuse to run away.
Although Tai Sui did not look like a good guy, and his appearance at the Li Mansion and the inn at the same time was also suspicious, Li Zhou did not care about these things.
It was very considerate of her that she was able to connect what happened to the original body and the vest after some thought.
At this moment, seeing Yue Niang following him with a bowl in her hand, Li Zhou's focus immediately became that she didn't want to be that picky eater who needed her mother to chase her to feed her.
Fortunately, Li Zhou didn't know that carrots were introduced from foreign countries, otherwise she would definitely curse in a low voice the person who introduced carrots from afar.
While baby Li Zhou was busy finding excuses to escape from carrots, the people outside the hotel could no longer wait.
"Master Gu," the voice of the village chief Zheng sounded again, and this time, there was a hint of laughter in his voice, "Are you going to act like an imperial envoy in front of Sect Master Xue?"
A light question, at this moment, became a heavy stone, weighing heavily on Gu Sheng's heart, making her feel more stressed.
Gu Sheng took a deep breath, and the thought of "whether I should ask the unknown swordsman next to me for help" flashed through his mind, but in the end he shook his head.
Not to mention that the swordsman and she just met by chance, why bother to get involved in this muddy water? Since she has the ambition to help the world, how can she expect others to take on the responsibilities for her?
If Sect Master Xue really wanted to hold her accountable, she, Gu Sheng, would bear all the responsibility. Even if the Sect Master wanted to vent his anger on other people, she should bear the resentment of others.
Having made up his mind, Gu Sheng straightened his clothes, strode forward, and calmly opened the wooden door.
Under the cover of night, the fat and bloated head of the village, Zheng, stood at the front, his tiny eyes like slits revealing a strange light.
Maybe it was because the weather was so good, the sky was full of stars and the moon seemed to have disappeared.
The person behind him had dark eyebrows and starry eyes, wore a crimson robe and a jade belt, and his skirt fluttered in the wind. His whole body was shrouded in bright starlight, just like the legendary Gushan Immortal.
When Gu Sheng, the shopkeeper and others first saw this kind of person, they were so shocked that they didn't even have the slightest suspicion and they immediately bowed down.
However, a breeze blew by, gently lifting everyone up, and Sect Leader Xue's voice in the starlight was cold but not harsh.
"Junior sister, you are here, why didn't you send someone to inform me?"
She looked at the swordsman in a bamboo hat walking out behind the crowd with a gentle gaze, and her tone was filled with a hint of smile.
Everyone was startled and turned their heads to look, and they all remembered that the Duotian Sect did have a swordsman, whose fighting power was said to be second only to Sect Master Xue, and who swept away all the monsters and demons in the Quanyi Sect alone.
Who would have thought that she would appear in this small hotel.
Even Gu Sheng, who had seen big scenes, couldn't help but feel a creepy feeling at this moment.
Since the Duotian Sect can send out two immortal masters at the same time, something big is probably going to happen in Guangxin County.
The fat on Captain Zheng's face trembled and he could no longer maintain his smile. He looked at the swordsman in the bamboo hat in surprise, and his hands hanging by his side stroked the shiny peach-kernel bracelet.
Logically speaking, the swordsman Li Zhou should have been very surprised when he met such a bold person for the first time, who not only wore her vest but also openly called her other vest "Junior Sister".
But to Li Zhou, the presence of this "Master Xue" is not as strong as that of carrots.
She followed everyone to the door and paused for a moment before she realized that "Sect Master Xue" was calling her "Junior Sister".
She didn't respond.
Baby Li Zhou stood at the door of the wing room, smelled the moisture in the room, knocked politely, and asked, "Are you done washing?"
"Alright, alright." The Taoist priest in yellow had wet hair and was still wearing a ragged yellow Taoist robe that gave off a faint fishy smell. He was barefoot and didn't even bother to put on shoes. He ran out in a panic, "Master... Future Master, your disciple is here."
Baby Li Zhou wrinkled his nose in surprise, wondering if the fishy smell came from the Taoist robe, or let the old Taoist change his clothes.
The Taoist in yellow smiled shyly and bowed: "I was so excited to receive Master's teachings just now that I forgot to introduce myself. I am a Taoist priest of Jinxuan Temple, and my Taoist name is Xuanyangzi."
Li Zhou felt that Jin Xuan Guan sounded somewhat familiar. Although he could not remember where he had heard it, he liked the Taoist priest in yellow better.
Yue Niang remembered that when Master Liaochen was alive, she once introduced the five major orthodox religions in the world: temple, monastery, nunnery, mountain and sect. The "temple" among them refers to the Jinxuan Temple.
This Xuan Yangzi is actually from a famous and upright family?
Yue Niang was not a three-year-old child, so she naturally knew that a person's goodness or evil could not be determined entirely by his or her background. However, since Master Lechen came from Yehe Temple, one of the five orthodox religions, she couldn't help but feel some familiarity with Jinxuan Temple, which was equally famous.
The mother and daughter's favorability towards Xuan Yangzi increased a lot. Yue Niang even regretted in her heart that she really judged people by their appearance.
After Xuan Yangzi introduced himself, when he stood up again, a tumor suddenly appeared on his wrinkled face like old tree bark.
Yue Niang's expression, which had just relaxed, suddenly froze.
Baby Li Zhou blinked and felt the fishy smell in the air become stronger.
Realizing that the two people's expressions were not right, Xuan Yangzi quickly reached out and felt around their faces. When he found the bulge, he pressed it hard. With a squeaking sound, the tumor was pressed back.
Xuan Yangzi breathed a sigh of relief and smiled guiltily. The next moment, tumors of varying sizes began to appear one after another on his forehead, cheekbones, chin and other parts of his body. Xuan Yangzi was in a panic, but he was unable to deal with any of them.
Yue Niang's face became increasingly stiff, while the baby Li Zhou looked at the scene thoughtfully.
At the same time, a similar situation occurred on the obese head of the village, Zheng, in front of the swordsman Li Zhou.
But unlike Xuan Yangzi's panic, Lizhang Zheng was calm and composed. Under the strange looks of Gu Sheng, the shopkeeper and others, he turned around calmly and said to "Sect Master Xue": "Master, my medicine has expired. Please give me some medicine."
Although he tried hard to tell himself that Sect Leader Xue was fighting against the righteous immortal master of Tianzun for the sake of the people of the world, no matter how he looked at it, the practice method of this Village Chief Zheng was evil, and even Sect Leader Xue himself was tainted with an indescribable strange smell.
Gu Sheng, the shopkeeper and others looked at Sect Leader Xue with their hearts beating faster. They were both excited and afraid of the medicine that Village Chief Zheng mentioned.
Not only that, Gu Sheng also remembered that Wei Dutong, who had left with Zheng Lichang, had disappeared...
All these disturbing signs made Gu Sheng hold his breath.
The next moment, the white porcelain medicine bottle that Sect Leader Xue took out made her gasp in shock.
The stopper of the medicine bottle was removed, and a mass of dark and slimy flesh squirmed, with spores extending from the bottle. The shiny mucus reflected a silvery light under the bright starlight.
"Thank you, Master!"
Before "Master Xue" could say anything, Village Chief Zheng had already impatiently thrown himself at her feet, tilted his head back, opened his mouth, and waited for her to pour the piece of meat into his mouth.
Gu Sheng looked at this scene with trembling all over. Isn't this Tai Sui? Did Sect Master Xue really rely on Tai Sui to practice?
She stared at the Tai Sui meat slowly overflowing from the bottle, and the desire to eat it arose in her heart again, but this time, she remained somewhat sober despite this strong appetite.
She observed her surroundings with her peripheral vision and saw that the shopkeeper, the waiter, and General Wei's entourage all had dry mouths and were staring at the flowing Tai Sui meat with great desire.
This thing is definitely weird, Gu Sheng came to a conclusion secretly. Looking at the head of the village, Zheng, who had his mouth wide open and drooling, and was about to eat the Tai Sui meat, he silently grasped the golden official seal at his waist.
Village head Zheng is a villain who bullies the people in the village, but he is also under the jurisdiction of Da Zhou and should be convicted according to the laws of Da Zhou. As an imperial envoy who inspects the four directions, how can I stand idly by and watch people go astray?
What's more, he is one of the most important witnesses.
Although she had only had a fleeting glimpse of "Master Xue" and did not know him well, she believed that such an evil path was not something that a cultivator could practice for long.
This "Master Xue" is probably an imposter.
After calming himself down, Gu Sheng took a step forward and was about to use the official seal as a hammer to smash the porcelain bottle in the hand of "Master Xue".
What she didn't expect was that just as she raised her right hand, the protruding tumors on the face of Village Chief Zheng, who was kneeling on the ground waiting for medicine, could no longer wait. They popped up one after another like bamboo shoots after a spring rain, making his fat face swollen than a pig's head. The skin was forced to expand, and the blue veins were clearly visible.
"Puff." First the one on the forehead exploded, then the one on the cheek. When Tai Sui fell into the mouth of Village Chief Zheng, all the tumors exploded together.
His originally long cry of joy turned into a howl of fear. His face, like Tai Sui, turned into a mass of pitch-black flesh. The part that used to be a mouth was still shouting, "Master, save me, Master, save me..."
However, his master, the immortal who was bathed in brilliant light, simply lowered his eyes indifferently, watching him lose his human form and turn into a shapeless mass of black flesh while screaming in pain.
The fat head of the village, Zheng, turned into a huge piece of Tai Sui. He squirmed his body and tried desperately to escape into the distance, but was still sucked into the small porcelain bottle by an irresistible force.
Not long after, the figure of Village Chief Zheng disappeared from the ground.
"Master Xue" flipped her hand and the porcelain bottle returned to its right side. She put the stopper back in the bottle mouth and put the bottle away.
The cool night wind blew, and the stars in the sky still shone brightly, but the shopkeeper and others shuddered, and the obsession in their eyes disappeared, replaced by extreme fear.
Accustomed to begging for mercy, their legs softened and they knelt on the ground and kowtowed: "Master, please spare my life. Master, please spare my life."
"I will pay the money on time." The shopkeeper racked his brains to think of what value he could have. "I know where there is another Tai Sui. I bought it from Constable Li."
The shopkeeper presented the wooden box containing Tai Sui with both hands, his hands shaking badly as he was afraid that the Tai Sui would touch him.
Gu Sheng was feeling confused. A gentleman will die for his friend, and she couldn't lose face for His Majesty. But she really didn't know how to protect His Majesty's people in the face of such a strange evil spirit.
The swordsman who looked like an expert was actually the junior sister of "Sect Master Xue". Gu Sheng was disheartened. He caught a glimpse of the swordsman in the bamboo hat walking forward, raising his hand to take off the bamboo hat, his face as pale as ice, and he was stunned.
Gu Sheng immediately realized a problem. "Master Xue" called the swordsman "Junior Sister", but the latter did not give any response.
If...if this "Sect Master Xue" is an evil imposter, and the swordsman is a true swordsman...
Gu Sheng looked forward to it without any hope, and the next moment, she heard a sound that sounded like heavenly music to her.
"Who is your junior sister?" The swordsman drew out the big sword behind him. Her expression was cold and her voice was even colder. Her face was like crystal clear ice in winter, cold and sharp.
This coldness made Gu Sheng feel at ease. She breathed a sigh of relief, feeling a sour taste in her nose and tears in her eyes.
In such a strange environment, a powerful and upright iceberg swordsman is such a reliable existence.
Gu Sheng couldn't help but shout, "Knight, be careful!"
The swordsman didn't look at her, he just swung his sword, and the sword exuded a sharp sword energy.
That is, a group of glowing worms.
Gu Sheng, who saw the sword energy up close for the first time: "..."
His excited brain went blank. Lord Gu, who thought he was knowledgeable, looked at "Master Xue" in the starlight, then at the swordsman wielding sword energy, and was stunned for a long time.
Could it be that... there is something wrong with her understanding of noble and upright families?
Swordsman Li Zhou didn't know that Gu Sheng had begun to doubt his life. She tried to control "Master Xue" but found that she couldn't.
This "Master Xue" is definitely not me!
Curious about the other person's identity, swordsman Li Zhou swung his sword and slashed at her.
I don't know what it is, let's cut it open and take a look.
The sword energy was like a silk thread, and the bright and lustrous light poured down on "Master Xue" like a piece of soft silk reflecting the moonlight.
The body of "Master Xue" was cut in half, revealing the internal filling, which was a piece of black flesh squeezed in human skin, rubbing and squirming.
The worms that made up the sword energy swarmed forward and attached themselves to the smooth surface of the wound.
The shopkeeper, the waiter, and others saw this horrific scene and began to shout and cry uncontrollably: "Tai Sui, it's Tai Sui!"
Gu Sheng has an official status and an official seal to protect him, and he can see part of the truth through the crazy surface.
She saw that in the dark and sticky Tai Sui, there were many twisted and painful faces, one of which had sword-like eyebrows and star-like eyes, and seemed to be connected to a part of the body.
Oh my God, it’s the missing Wei Dutong.
Gu Sheng didn't know where he got the courage from, but he rushed forward, reached his hand into the slimy Tai Sui, and grabbed Wei Dutong's body in the flesh.
She felt an overwhelming resistance and her face flushed red. Tai Sui extended its spores, and rootlets floated and brushed against her cheek.
Gu Sheng closed her eyes in fear, but opened them again the next moment. She didn't dare to look at Tai Sui, nor did she dare to look at the sword energy worm next to her, even though they should be on the same front at the moment.
She could only stare at her colleague's face, listen to the noise of blood rushing through her blood vessels, and gather all her strength to pull General Wei out.
But she was not a cultivator, nor a military commander. For the first time, she hated her own weakness. Even though she tried her best, she could only pull Wei Dutong out a little bit.
Perhaps because it had only been a short time since she merged with Tai Sui, Wei Dutong's body still looked intact, and Gu Sheng had already seen her shoulders.
Almost there, almost there...
Gu Sheng shouted silently in his heart, but the next moment, he saw "Master Xue" who was split into two halves put his body together again.
Gu Sheng's hands, which were stuck in the Tai Sui, gradually could not feel their existence.
Will this piece of meat never die?
A sudden despair swept through Gu Sheng's heart. Wei Dutong, who was being dragged by her, opened his eyes, and a sigh appeared on his twisted, tangled and painful face.
Wei Dutong shook his head and said, "Give up."
"Impossible." Gu Sheng clenched his teeth and was about to continue exerting force when he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his shoulder.
Dutong Wei stuck his head out and bit her shoulder hard, leaving a bloody tooth mark.
Gu Sheng was so painful that she lost her strength. The next moment, she felt a push from two pairs of hands. Wei Dutong's body buried in the flesh tried his best to push her out of Tai Sui.
"Good minister!"
Gu Sheng's shout came to an abrupt end as soon as it came out.
She couldn't tell the difference between the sweat and tears on her face as she stared in amazement as countless sword energy worms rushed forward and crawled all over Wei Dutong's body. Then, one, two, three, they worked together and at the last moment when "Master Xue" merged into one, they brought Wei Dutong out of Tai Sui's body.
Wei Dutong, his body covered with mucus and minced meat, fell to the ground with a thud. The glowing sword energy worm rolled up the mucus and minced meat and suddenly returned to the swordsman's sword.
Wei Dutong, who thought he was definitely going to be devoured, slowly raised his wet face, stunned.
Gu Sheng, who had just thought that there was no difference between the sword energy worm and Tai Sui, was stunned for a long while, and a deep sense of guilt surged in his heart.
The two looked at each other and at the same time looked at the swordsman who saved them from danger.
This time, her great sword covered in worms seemed so familiar.
Swordsman Li Zhou looked at "Master Xue" who had returned to his original state after closing, and recalled the feeling of the sword energy splitting the opponent just now.
Tai Sui may look small in size, but its interior is actually like a black hole, with no bottom.
Is this some kind of treasure hunt?
Li Zhou began to become interested.
"Master Xue" opened his mouth, as if he wanted to say something, but the swordsman Li Zhou could not wait to swing out the second sword and continued to dig out the things inside Tai Sui's body.
This time, she pulled out half of the scarf.
Alas, it's no use.
Seeing that "Master Xue" had healed again, the swordsman Li Zhou had no choice but to swing the third sword.
Then the fourth, fifth...
Just when the swordsman Li Zhou was having a great time searching for treasure, the Taoist priest Xuan Yangzi in yellow, who also had a tumor in front of the baby Li Zhou, did not take out the "medicine" to take like the head of the village, Zheng.
She hung her right hand upside down, and with her left hand, she pinched the first joint of her fourth finger, chanting: "The five elements push each other, metal and wood cut each other down, water and fire extinguish each other."
As she prayed, thunderous drumbeats sounded all around.
Amid the drumbeats, she continued to chant, "I respectfully request the Holy Master Laojun to show his kindness and recommend me. I am upright and upright, and I sincerely worship the Great Dao... I dare not disrespect the Master and betray the Dao. I will thank the Three Officials in person and die without regrets. I respectfully present my request and dare not refuse. I bow again."
After the recitation was finished, the drumbeats gradually subsided, and the tumors on Xuan Yangzi's face disappeared one by one, and his face returned to normal appearance.
She scratched her head sheepishly and bowed her hands: "Excuse me, excuse me."
Baby Li Zhou now remembered that she was just an ordinary little girl with her mother watching her. It would be unreasonable for her not to be afraid when seeing such a scary thing.
She quickly turned around, threw herself into Yue Niang's arms, and shook her shoulders, completely unaware that she already had enough flaws.
Yueniang: "..."
Knowing that she was pretending, Yue Niang felt angry and amused at the same time.
She took Li Zhou into her arms, and also showed a cautious look, saying in a cautious tone: "I wonder what kind of skills Chang Xiu is practicing?"
Xuan Yangzi turned his body and said, "Future Grandmaster, please come in and listen to me slowly."
Yue Niang hesitated for a moment and saw Li Zhou secretly looking at Xuan Yangzi. She knew that this clever little guy was full of curiosity about the old Taoist priest.
She took Li Zhou's hand and nodded: "Okay."
The three of them entered the house. Xuan Yangzi was the oldest but the youngest in seniority. He poured tea for Li Zhou and Yue Niang before sitting down opposite them and saying, "Two hundred years ago, Jin Xuan Temple held a Luotian Grand Ceremony. During the ceremony, Laojun passed down this longevity calamity, saying that the universe is constant and the calamity is approaching. If you live forever and die over and over again, the world will be reborn in destruction."
Yue Niang listened quietly, and the baby Li Zhou quietly asked the simulator, what is Luotian Dajiao?
The simulator popped up a prompt box: A ritual to offer sacrifices to the heavens.
Xuan Yangzi drank a sip of tea and carefully touched his forehead to confirm that there was no more tumor. Then he continued, "This world can only be reborn after it is destroyed. Wouldn't it mean that all living beings will suffer? The abbot of Jinxuan Temple quickly begged Laojun to give him a way to eliminate the calamity. Laojun said that this calamity cannot be stopped by ordinary people. I will come to the world soon, so you just need to be prepared. Since then, the abbot has followed Laojun's instructions and led his disciples to extract spirit bones, refine the three corpses, seal the way to ascension, and open up a channel for Laojun to descend to the world."
Baby Li Zhou held her chin, thinking about how she accidentally knocked over the carrot and pork porridge next to her mother. She felt her mother looking at her, and she quickly straightened up, pretending to listen carefully, and commented: "There is something wrong with this method."
Otherwise, why would the old Taoist priest come to worship her as his master? Hehe, she is really smart.
Xuan Yangzi shook his head: "There is nothing wrong with the method itself, but no one expected that when Laojun came, the longevity calamity also came. It turns out that the cycle of opening and closing calamities should be here. At the same time as the opportunity for life comes, the death calamity has also come."
Baby Li Zhou said worriedly, "What should we do then?"
The innocent voice is full of acted worries, but it cannot conceal the essential indifference and confusion.
Li Zhou didn't even realize that Xuan Yangzi meant that this world should have been destroyed two hundred years ago.
Yue Niang frowned slightly and looked at Xuan Yangzi in confusion, but she didn't know how she could say these words so bluntly to Zhou'er.
Xuan Yangzi's expression remained unchanged, and he continued, "Fortunately, Yaowang Mountain was also preparing for natural disasters at that time. They summoned the Samadhi True Fire and spent three years, using all the disciples as medicinal materials, to refine a pill that could heal the world."
Having said this, Xuan Yangzi took another sip of tea before continuing, "The name of this elixir is Tai Sui."
Yue Niang was startled and murmured unconsciously: "Tai Sui?"
Baby Li Zhou said, "Huh?" "Did you take this medicine?"
Otherwise, why does she smell like Tai Sui?
What about "Master Xue"?
Why is Tai Sui everywhere?
"Taisui naturally feeds the heaven and earth." Xuan Yangzi touched his face again and smiled awkwardly, "I am just a Taoist priest, so I dare not take this elixir. However, the Tai Sui refined in Yaowang Mountain was supposed to wait for the return of Suixing before it could be used. Laojun deduced that only when Suixing and Tai Sui return at the same time can the great catastrophe of heaven and earth be truly eliminated. Yaowang Mountain no longer has the manpower to refine the second pill of medicine. After thinking about it, Laojun can only enter the Yaowang Cauldron himself and refine himself into a new Tai Sui."
Yue Niang heard some clues from Li Zhou's question and asked tentatively: "Does the Taoist have any relationship with this Tai Sui?"
Xuan Yangzi said: "After the Tai Sui was refined, it became independent and escaped from the Medicine King Cauldron. It turned into thousands of clones and fled in all directions. Although I am just a Taoist priest, I was entrusted by the temple master before his death to find the Tai Sui who had fled to various places."
Yue Niang's heart skipped a beat, and she looked at Xuan Yangzi's wrinkled face again: "You..."
Xuan Yangzi nodded: "The Tai Sui that I found is all suppressed in my body."
Baby Li Zhou said admiringly: "You have a good appetite."
Just as Xuan Yangzi was about to speak, the skin on his old face suddenly relaxed, and his lost eyebrows reappeared. His facial features seemed to be kneaded by a huge hand from inside, and molded into the appearance of "Sect Master Xue".
At the same time, the "Master Xue" in front of the swordsman Li Zhou seemed to have been drained of his energy by a demon. His upright body became skinny and shriveled, and his heroic face was covered with wrinkles.
"Master Xue" and Xuan Yangzi completed the exchange in the blink of an eye.
Yueniang: "..."
Gu Sheng, Wei Dutong and others: "..."
Xuan Yangzi was stunned for a moment when he saw the scene in front of him: "I only know that each of Tai Sui's clones can sense each other, but I have never heard that they can also exchange bodies."
"Sect Master Xue" said: "Now you know."
Yue Niang couldn't hear the conversation between her and Xuan Yangzi. She felt creepy and picked up Li Zhou and was about to run away.
"Master Xue" stood up, and the door closed automatically. Although she was indoors, bright starlight filled the area around her.
Yue Niang's heart was beating like thunder. Just as she was about to cover Li Zhou's eyes, the baby Li Zhou sneezed loudly with a "Aqiu".
The light on "Sect Master Xue" suddenly went out.
Because Li Zhou doesn't like it, there should be no light on her.
"Sect Master Xue" frowned and was about to say something, but his face suddenly collapsed like plasticine under the pressure of an invisible force.
Then, Xuan Yangzi, who was standing in front of the swordsman Li Zhou, showed a rare solemn expression on his face. He drew a talisman in the air and chanted: "Thinking of the five internal organs and three gods, commanding the body to protect the spirit... The five elements push forward the outline, and the power is maintained for six centuries..."
Her body collapsed like plasticine, first piling up on the ground and then blending into the ground.
The starry sky dimmed, and a pale full moon peeked out from the clouds.
The Xuan Yangzi in front of the swordsman Li Zhou disappeared, and the "Master Xue" in front of the baby Li Zhou condensed into Xuan Yangzi again, wearing ragged yellow clothes, with an old face and deep eyes.
Xuan Yangzi breathed a sigh of relief, and it was unclear whether he was talking to himself, or to the disappeared "Sect Master Xue", or to the other scattered Tai Sui: "It's not like I didn't make any preparations at all."
She wiped the non-existent beads of sweat and was just trying to recall where she was talking about when she suddenly felt the other Tai Sui clones trembling and shaking uncontrollably.
Swordsman Li Zhou walked to the place where Tai Sui disappeared and stabbed Zhi Beiyou into the ground. Her treasure hunt game is not over yet, so other Tai Sui should be able to play as well, right?
In an instant, frosty white sword energy swept across the earth, and the vast expanse of land was covered in a cold white. Under the cold moonlight, it looked as if a layer of salt frost was sprinkled on it.
Tai Sui, Tai Sui, the swordsman whispered softly, and his voice was spread to the four directions by the sword energy. Where are you?
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