Chapter 41 "Book of Zhou" Those who kill people shall be killed. Those who eat people shall be exterminated. ...
Li Zhou stood at the door of the hall and looked inside.
The main hall was very spacious, with three tables of food and wine on each side. There were maids playing the zither and flute on both sides. A couplet was posted on the pillars:
[It is not a blessing to arrive at a blessed land, but it is a fairyland to emerge from the fairy clouds＊]
There was a plaque hanging in the middle hall, with four golden characters written in bird-shaped script:
【Viewing the mountains and enjoying the water】
If he hadn't looked at the blood flowing on the ground, the bones with tendons, the men and women nailed to the table, with their legs cut off and tied up, the wolf demon, rabbit demon, deer demon lying on the ground with black blood spitting out of their mouths... Li Zhou would have thought that the owner of this garden was a hermit with a simple temperament.
Ma Yong, Shi Yishan and other demon hunters who followed behind her silently drew out the magic swords at their waists.
Li Zhou's gaze fell on the center, where a white-browed tiger with hanging eyes transformed into its true form and pressed down on a woman in a Taoist robe with a crane cloak.
The tiger demon didn't take the people who broke into the hall seriously at all, otherwise he wouldn't have chosen to deal with Qi Ying first.
"No hurry." It narrowed its eyes coldly, "It will be your turn soon."
The enraged tiger demon was too lazy to play with these people any longer, so he used his tiger paws to kill Qi Ying first, then tear the throats of the remaining people apart and use their blood to comfort his frightened granddaughter.
However, just as its sharp claws extended from its paw pads, the tiger suddenly felt a chill.
What happened? It bowed its head for no apparent reason.
A cool spiritual energy with a faint glow appeared in front of its claws without any warning. With a loud swish, it tore open a wound deep enough to see the bone, and then a stream of hot blood spurted out.
Li Zhou was surprised. You know, the spiritual energy released before could kill the dog-barbarian people instantly.
This tiger demon does have some magical powers.
She didn't know that the tiger was more surprised than she was. It had been the king of Xili Mountain for 231 years and had never suffered such a serious injury.
Except for the tiger, all the monsters were frightened by the spiritual energy and retreated.
They were already poisoned, so how could they withstand such terrifying pressure?
The tiger suddenly raised its head, its long tail like an iron whip stood up, its hair all over its body spread out like flames, its eyes shot at Li Zhou's face like lightning, a fishy breath spurted out of its mouth, and a drop of sticky saliva hung from its sharp white fangs.
Li Zhou saw its fur stand up, and glanced behind it and saw a man and a woman quietly picking up a little tiger on the ground, turning around and slipping away to the back of the hall.
Oops.
Forgot to fence off the yard first.
The scenes from many TV dramas where the protagonist or villain escaped through the back door instantly appeared in Li Zhou's mind, and the villain in his heart was petrified for a moment.
I used to complain about the stupid characters on TV. Now it’s my turn. I had no experience in house raiding for the first time and made such a low-level mistake.
If she really let those little tiger monsters run away, wouldn't she lose all face?
How could she, such a smart person, make such a mistake?
It has to be said that people can do anything when they are pushed into a corner.
Li Zhou didn't want to order Ma Yong and others to go to the back door to stop the little tiger demon for fear of being discovered by them. He had not thought of this problem at the beginning. His mind raced, and he found a spell called "One Qi Transformed into Three Pure Ones" in "The Complete Explanation of Talismans". He used his spiritual power to click on the Q version avatar of the female swordsman in the lower right corner of the simulator.
Li Zhou, who appeared calm on the surface but was actually in a state of panic on the inside, quickly divided his spiritual power into two and injected the second one into the female swordsman who was resting.
The female swordsman appeared at the back door of Yin Garden in a flash. She was wearing a moon-white robe that swayed in the wind as she hurried on. A simple sword was held on her back, making her back look straight, like a green pine tree that was not affected by wind and snow.
Li Zhou blinked and took a breath to adjust. The scenes that the swordsman and the sect leader saw appeared in his vision at the same time.
Yeah, double open.
Finally, Li Zhou, who had prepared a backup plan before the little tiger demon escaped, looked at the tiger again, with a hint of doubt in his heart.
She was quite busy. What was the tiger demon waiting for? Why didn't he seize the opportunity to attack first?
The tiger demon used his spiritual sense to watch his daughter, son-in-law and granddaughter leave.
Seeing the children hurriedly running through the garden and towards the back door, it felt relieved. Then it raised its paw, licked the wound, and its eyes became extremely cold.
It stared at Li Zhou, stepped over Qi Ying who was still vomiting blood, and walked towards Li Zhou, wagging its tail nonchalantly.
Now, it has no scruples. Human, you asked for this.
The tiger demon opened its bloody mouth and roared, and a foul-smelling gust of wind swept through the entire hall, causing all the mortals to tremble, and the monsters with weaker cultivation were also shocked and rolled their eyes.
Even the demon hunters who had witnessed the abilities of the Duotian Sect Master could not help but look solemn.
Ma Yong held the magic sword in his hand, and a bad premonition arose in his heart.
The sect master’s previous attack was so swift and powerful, but now the first move failed to kill him and the second move was delayed. Could it be that the tiger demon’s consciousness was abnormally strong and the sect master had been secretly injured?
Come to think of it, how could a demon king who suppresses a mountain of demons be easy to deal with? No matter how talented the sect leader is, he is still young after all. Even if he has profound cultivation, he still lacks some experience in fighting enemies.
Fortunately, he is here too.
Ma Yong took a step forward, feeling both solemn and heroic, and also a strange sense of satisfaction.
It was his turn to take action. He thought that although he did not have the confidence to kill the tiger monster with this sword, at least it could cover the sect leader's escape and return to the city to call for support.
Before his death, he and his sword were the last wall of flesh and blood standing between the clan leader, the demon catcher and these mortals.
He took a deep breath, and as the tiger monster leaped high, Ma Yong raised his wrist.
A spiritual energy as gorgeous as silk, as cold as ice and snow, and as vast as mountains and rivers, instantly passed over his head, shaving off a layer of hair above his scalp, causing all his tied hair to fall down, and then continued to move forward with its momentum, whistling across the tiger monster's neck, and then continued to sweep forward.
All the people and monsters heard a teeth-grinding creaking sound. First, the plaque with the words "Watching the Mountains and Enjoying the Water" tilted to one side, then a long and thin crack appeared on the glazed window, and finally, with a loud bang, half of the brick wall and the entire roof were flipped upwards with great force, and fell on the flowers and plants in the garden covered with dust.
When the dust settled, a hideous wound was revealed across the tiger monster's neck, and smelly blood was pouring down like a rainstorm.
The tiger demon's ferocious expression froze, and its heavy body and head, which was only connected by a few tendons, fell to the ground with a bang. There was a moment of fear on the tiger's face, mixed with a trace of relief. Fortunately, the children have been sent away...
Just as this thought came to its mind, three tigers, two large and one small, fell from the sky and landed in front of it with a bang. Blood gushed out from the broken holes in their chests, and their eyes were wide open as if they didn't understand what was happening.
“No…” Blood gushed out of the tiger demon’s mouth. The cut throat hissed with a chill, quickly taking away its vitality.
It still stared at the children's bodies, raised its eyes abruptly, and roared in grief and anger for the last time: "... Kill!"
“Puff.”
A sharp sword stretched out from its heart, taking away the last bit of heat from its body.
The tiger demon's dying attack was easily interrupted.
“Senior Sister.” Behind the slowly falling tiger demon corpse, the female swordsman drew out her sword, a faint smile appeared on her cold face, “I’m late.”
Ma Yong, Shi Yishan and other demon hunters looked at this scene in shock.
The leader of Duotian Sect smiled and shook his head: "No, it's just right."
…
"one two three--"
"rise--"
The demon hunters flexed their muscles and with one effort, they moved the tiger's corpse onto a cart and carried it out of the hall that was being cleaned.
The demon hunters who were skilled in the art of medicine had already stabilized the wounds of Hong Zhu, Xing Can and Qi Ying. They used Qi Ying's alchemy furnace to extract the demon's blood and refined elixirs on the spot to replenish qi and blood, calm the nerves and heal the wounds.
The demon hunter was injured too frequently, and the herbs he carried with him were never enough. In recent years, he has been developing a recipe for pills using demons as ingredients.
Ma Yong stood by with a wooden face. Apart from these three, he was the person who suffered the most serious injuries in this battle.
Whenever the wind blew, he could feel a cool breeze above his head.
The loose hair scratched his cheek, and the slight itchiness made him even more restless.
The sword wielded by Sect Master Duotian not only took away the tiger demon's life, but also his pride.
Who could have thought that he, a third-rank official, would have his hair shaved into a yin-yang style in public?
Qi Ying only had some broken bones and was the least injured. After being reconnected by the Demon Catcher, he swallowed a few pills and was able to get up.
If Ma Yong hadn't been wearing the conspicuous purple robe and the glittering purple gold fish bag, she might have been able to restrain herself from laughing at one of her saviors.
But Ma Daolu's respectability could not help but remind Qi Ying of the time when she was fooled by a noble in a circus troupe, so she could not help but be happy to see such a big shot lose his respectability.
She glanced at the Duotian Sect Master who was reminiscing about the past with her junior sister, and asked with a look of pretending to be ignorant: "Sir, why did you take a step forward when Sect Master Xue drew his sword just now?"
Shi Yishan passed by with a bucket and a mop, and he became curious when he heard this: "Yes, sir, what are you going to do?"
Ma Yong: “…”
Ma Yong glanced at Shi Yishan coldly and said, "Ha, if I can't deal with Qi Ying, can't I deal with you?"
It's time to arrange for someone to clean the toilet in the Monster Hunting Bureau... Since you have a unique temperament, I'll choose you.
Shi Yishan had no idea that just one word from him would lead to his fate of sweeping the toilet, and he was happily waiting for his parents to answer his questions.
After being fed a few pills by the demon hunter, Hongzhu, who was also standing up, shook his head. Just as he was about to say something, several merchants came over at a loss.
"Sir, the Monster Hunter..." One of them was pushed and stood up, bowing deeply, "...It was all our fault before. Your Excellency is magnanimous, please don't take it to heart."
"We are just ordinary people who are frightened by the monsters. You can understand, right?"
The traveling merchants looked at the red candle anxiously, and kept an eye on the other demon hunters. They had just witnessed with their own eyes how these adults had hunted down and killed the deer demons, rabbit demons, wolf demons and the like. Their necks were not as hard as those of the demons.
The matter of the red candle had been told to everyone before the deer demon died.
The deer demon wanted to prove that he ate Hongzhu's legs because of these mortals, and Hongzhu was not dead, so he should be able to keep his life.
The demon hunter's sword did not hesitate at all and fell down after it finished speaking.
Seeing that the demon hunters who were happily cleaning up the battlefield suddenly became quiet, several merchants became extremely panicked. They stood up, swallowed their saliva, and retreated cautiously.
"You...you are the demon hunters..."
"You are here to protect us, you can't kill anyone... You can only kill monsters, not humans..."
"The other mortals are watching us too. If you dare to take action, the whole Sizhou will know what you have done, and the governor will not forgive you..."
A merchant wanted to drag other mortals into the water, so he pointed at the couple who were pushing bricks and stones with their child and said, "They are all looking at you, and the child is looking at you too...ah!"
The child next to the cart grabbed a brick and threw it at his head. He dodged quickly, but was still hit on the ear, leaving some bloody scratches.
With a clang, the sword was unsheathed, like the sound of metal and stone.
The merchant's cries of pain suddenly stopped.
Hongzhu, who was carried to the chair, put away his sword and looked down at the blood dripping from the tip of the sword. The blood was red.
Hongzhu raised his head and looked at the remaining merchants: "I thought it would be black."
Several merchants' faces changed drastically. They looked at their companions' fallen bodies, turned around and ran out, shouting loudly: "The demon hunter is killing people, the demon hunter is killing people..."
They forgot that they were surrounded by demon hunters, and this shout brought out the magic swords of all the demon hunters.
The traveling merchants were surrounded by the demon hunters' swords and stopped in their tracks with pale faces.
"You don't have the ability to kill monsters, but you are targeting us mortals..."
With a "whoosh", the magic sword pierced into his chest and then was pulled out.
Hongzhu, who was carried over by two demon hunters, shook the tip of his sword and looked at the next one.
The targeted merchant shuddered, turned his head and looked around, then rushed to Ma Yong's feet, hugged his legs and cried: "I am willing to offer five thousand silver coins, please spare my life, sir, I still have an old mother at home..."
There was another "puff" sound, and before he could finish his words, he felt a terrible chill in his heart.
He raised his head and stared at Ma Yong, who didn't move at all, with a look of disbelief on his face.
Finally, the two merchants' knees weakened and they knelt on the ground, kowtowed until their heads were bleeding, and they cried bitterly: "I'm sorry, I'm really sorry..."
After a while, they begged again: "Master Daolu, we know that you are the Daolu of Sizhou. As long as you let us go, we will never tell anyone about what happened today..."
Ma Yong glanced at them, then looked down at Hong Zhu. Just as the two of them looked happy, Ma Yong asked, "Are your hands tired?"
Hong Zhu said, "If we kill two more people, we can still hold on."
The two merchants showed despair on their faces.
Hongzhu looked at them and murmured to himself, "I didn't let you watch yourself being eaten. I ended the cause and effect with one sword. Isn't that satisfying enough?"
The two demon hunters who were carrying her sighed, "You are still too kind."
Otherwise, he wouldn't have been entangled by these merchants and lost a leg. If he had been a more experienced demon hunter, he would have killed them all with a single sword. How could he still be alive today?
Do you really think the demon hunters are good people? Didn’t you see that when the master’s wife scolded the demon hunters, even Ma Daolu hesitated and was too embarrassed to refute?
"There's a wolf demon that's still got one breath left. We're going to take him back to the department for interrogation. How about we throw these two over?"
The merchant, who was lying limp on the ground, trembled and a pool of smelly liquid slowly flowed out from under him.
Hongzhu shook her head and said, "No need."
She was carried by two of her colleagues to the last two merchants, and each of them held a sword and sent them to heaven.
Ma Yong kicked away the merchant at his feet and ordered a demon hunter: "Take people to their home later, these people have a lot of wealth--"
If you can buy your life with 5,000 silver coins, your family must have at least 10,000 silver coins. Without huge profits, who would follow you to fight for their lives?
Halfway through his speech, he glanced at the Dutian Sect Master and the sword-cultivating Junior Sister who looked icy not far away, paused, and added: "- Leave some money for their families, not too much, just enough to sustain their livelihood."
…
"When will they finish?"
"I don't know. Let's ask that Mozhe later if this house can still be used. Couldn't you control yourself when you made the move?"
"I accidentally put too much in... Besides, am I not you?"
In the eyes of everyone, Sect Master Duotian and the cold swordsman, Li Zhou and Li Zhou, who were discussing the sect's major affairs, looked at each other and chatted schizophrenia.
Bored Li Zhou glanced around, and suddenly his mind buzzed, and a good idea popped up.
"Do you think this is cool?"
"I am you, I definitely think you are the most handsome."
"whee."
The leader of Duotian Sect and the cold swordsman turned around at the same time. Li Zhou stood side by side with him, looked around the mountain where demons were rampant, and spoke a word.
As soon as the words fell, everyone in Yinyuan held their breath. The mountain suddenly fell into deathly silence. The monsters retreated back to their caves, staring blankly at the cloudless sky after the fog had dissipated.
The Book of Zhou records that in the 21st year of Yongxi*, the leader of Duotian Sect issued an order to Xilishan:
Those who kill will die. Those who eat people will be exterminated.
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