Chapter 46 Blocking the Night Road(1/2)
Several villagers are middle-aged, dark and thin, like the typical image of a farmer these days. I don’t know if it’s because of the hot summer or the real poverty, but the clothes are so rough that they are just covered in their bodies.
The eldest brother was kind and welcomed them out.
"Several believers, this is my third junior brother, who has some magic. This is my junior brother and sister. I am still a short time to practice Taoism but very talented. Since it is some yin energy and a remnant soul, it is not a big deal. So I asked my three junior brothers and sisters to accompany my loyalists, hoping to relieve your worries in your village."
"Thank you, thank you."
Several villagers thanked each other repeatedly and looked at Lin Jue and the other two.
The third senior brother has always loved drinking and is quite free to enjoy life. At this time, he faced them solemnly and said, "I, Li Miaolin, since I have found us, I will do my best."
"But a little far..."
The villagers lowered their heads and said that they were both humble and worried that the master would not be distant and refused to go, which combined into a kind of embarrassment.
"This year's birth is not good, the village has no harvest, we didn't hire a real person, so we may have to work harder and we will only be able to leave tomorrow night or the morning after tomorrow."
"Let's see the landscape."
The third senior brother said sleepy and serious: "Let us clean up, bring some things and leave."
“Okay…”
Several villagers nodded repeatedly, with a humble posture and did not dare to say much, guessing that they wanted to bring some magic weapons to eliminate demons.
However, the third senior brother just went to wash his face and brought a wine pot with a few wild fruits in the mountains. Lin Jue returned to the house and walked around, thinking about bringing something, but found that there was almost nothing to bring. In the end, he had to take a hatchet and a whistle stick at the foot of the wall. He could not only cut the road to chop firewood, but also use it as a crutch, which was really useful.
"Do you want to be with me?"
Lin Jue finally looked at the fox in the room.
When the little fox heard this, he just tilted his head and stared at him, his eyes bright and he seemed to be unable to understand human words.
"Then let's go."
The little fox immediately trotted to him.
Lin Jue looked at the fox who grew up and became more beautiful, and couldn't help but think: "I should give you a name, but I don't know what to call it...
"The ancients named beasts, and there was a saying that "it's a cry of its own" and you scream every day, um, um, forget it, don't take it like this.
"There is a saying that you have been named from a mountain. It's better to call it...
“Tsk…
"By the way! When you see you, the wind is everywhere, as if you are coming from the wind. The wind has the alias of Fuyao. Why not call you Fuyao for the time being? If your parents come to you one day, they will change it back."
Fuyao is helping, coming up from Fuqiu Peak, floating is helping, and it happens to be another fox...
Lin Jue felt that this name was good and won three goals at one stroke.
"It's called Fuyao!"
As he said that, he had already walked to the outer courtyard.
The fox behind him looked up and stared at him blankly.
A group of people went down the mountain.
...
"I don't know what kind of monsters I have been in the past few years. I may not have been accused of the gods in the sky. Originally, there was only a small river flowing in the village. When it was busy with farming, it was just enough to use water. A few years ago, a big flood caused many fields to be damaged. Although I was hungry that day, I thought that the small river might turn into a big river from now on, and the village might not lack water. But I didn't expect that not only did not come true, but even the small river was broken, and water could not be dug out from the well. Without water, the crops in the fields did not grow, and the harvest was getting worse every year."
The group walked down the mountain and the villagers walking in front said.
Originally, I saw a few Taoist priests quite young, and two of them looked like they were only in their teenage years, and they were still a little nervous, but they saw a fox following them. In the past, there were always various rumors in the urban and rural affairs. People who practice Taoism walked with the fox and felt extraordinary at first glance, so they felt a little more at ease.
"I can't eat enough and I look down on my illness. Some old people in the village died one by one, and some young people couldn't stand it. There were fewer and fewer people, but there were more and more graves.
"From the beginning of spring this year, the two grave dams at the beginning and end of the village always get black air in the evening. At night, there are shadows swaying inside. Some people recognize that they are dead in the village. Although we were afraid at first, we just didn't pass by there at night. We were all from the village. How different is it between living and dying, and we didn't think about what they would do.
"But after two months, those shadows began to approach the village, and some even black shadows would run to the village. Some people have seen ghosts at home, some have become sick, and some have been killed. They all say that those people died of illness and starvation, they are uncomfortable before death, unwilling to give up after death, or are very lonely, and want to pull some people down to accompany them."
The villagers said, unable to help but look at the Taoist priest behind him.
Lin Jue and the junior sister both looked at the third senior brother.
"What do you think of me? Master asked me to follow you down the mountain. Although I didn't say anything, I also knew that I asked my senior brother to protect you. He originally planned to let you go only. You can do everything yourself, so I'm too lazy to take care of it."
The junior sister looked at Lin Jue again.
Lin Jue thought for a while and asked, "Did any villagers hear those ghosts speak?"
"Almost none. Even if there is, I will say that there is no one at a time. I think it is probably scared, otherwise it is just nonsense."
"Have you invited someone else?"
"In our village, how can we afford it? At most, the eldest son of the village master has been practicing martial arts from a young age. He has a good martial arts skills. He is brave. When he came back last month, he saw ghosts coming to the village. He pulled out a knife and slashed it, and it actually cut it apart. Then he called a few young people and rushed to the grave dam and cut it all away.
"Then what?"
"It's useless, I'll still come out the next day. The old people in the village said that ghosts are afraid of being strong and their blood is strong. They slashed over with one knife and did disrupt the ghost's energy, but they gathered again the next day. I heard someone say that there is a Fuqiu Temple in Yishan. The real people in the Taoist temple are very capable and kind-hearted. Then we asked all the way and asked the real people to come."
Lin Jue almost understood when he heard this.
After spending more than a month in the mountain, I also learned a lot of knowledge about weird ghosts.
The people in this village are probably not real ghosts, but residual souls.
The remnant soul is weak, like a candle in the wind.
The warrior is bold and powerful. If he cuts it with one knife, he can certainly disperse the remaining souls. However, the warrior may be able to deal with monsters, but he has always been weak in dealing with ghosts and wild ghosts. The main reason is that the knife cannot cut things.
Before I knew it, I walked to the foot of the mountain again.
The heat was rising in the distance, as if someone set fire.
But Lin Jue knew that it was actually Tangquan.
Thinking of the Soupuncture at the foot of the mountain, the sound of interrupting them from the forest.
Lin Jue later learned that many monsters in Yishan have become monsters for many years. Under the constraints of the mountain god, they have never dared to make trouble. Most of them only devote themselves to practicing or living on the mountain, and many of them feel bored. They dare not talk to the woodcutter who goes up the mountain to chop wood, for fear of scaring people, or for being despised by the mountain god, or for fear of being punished by the mountain god. When they meet Taoists, they know that they are not ordinary people and have talks, so they love to talk to them.
That's probably the same.
Just as I thought of this, another sound came out in the forest.
"It's you two again?"
It's still the same sound, it doesn't look like a human when you hear it.
The villagers who were rushing to the road were shocked.
Fortunately, there were Taoists around, so they looked at each other and did not run away in a hurry.
"Who is speaking?"
Someone couldn't help but ask in a low voice.
"Senior, I'm destined to do it."
Lin Jue only bowed to the origin of the sound.
"I changed my place today and actually met you again. Could it be that I really have some fate?" the voice said.
"Where are you, senior?"
"Why bother where I am?"
“…”
"When I meet, I will remind you. Listen to you, you should go down the mountain to eliminate monsters. There are records in ancient books that where streams are cut off, a large number of tombs, foxes, and insects are close to the gathering place, and are hidden places where death energy is hidden. The place you are talking about is mostly also a place where death energy is hidden. If this is true, it will be very similar and different from the Yin Qi and the ghost energy. You have to be careful."
"Thank you, senior." Lin Jue was not afraid, but just replied, "I don't know the name of the senior?"
But no sound came out there.
After waiting for a while, no one spoke.
“…”
Lin Jue had no choice but to give a tribute, which was considered a thank you for your reminder.
Then continued to go down the mountain.
Gradually I learned why several middle-aged villagers came to invite them.
The journey here is long. If a young man is not experienced enough, he will probably not be able to find the way. If an old man is weak and cannot go so far. These middle-aged villagers are probably the people who are both physically and well-known as "skills" introduced by the village, so he can ask all the way.
As they said, it will take two days to go.
The next night after going down the mountain—
When there were more than ten miles away from the village, it was almost dark. Although there was a road around the two tomb dams at the beginning and end of the village, the villagers were still a little nervous and looked back at Lin Jue frequently.
"Let's go, don't be afraid."
It is originally to remove these yin energy and remnants of souls, so you have to meet them no matter how you choose another time. There is no need to delay this day, but it may cause you to lose your courage.
It’s better to just go through it like this and it’s just right.
Lin Jue had already started to learn the fire movement spell with his second senior brother. Although he had not fully learned it, he directly improved his fire-hazard technique from "medium" to "highest". Now that he vomited fire again, there was no need to absorb fire energy from the flame to store it, but instead produced fire energy from the body. It was not only much more convenient, but also would not exhaust after spraying a few more mouthfuls.
With this move, he met the dog demon on the road again. Even if it did not give in, Lin Jue would have more confidence in fighting with it and winning.
To be continued...