Volume 1 The Sword of the Son of Heaven Chapter 9 Humans are Scarier Than Demons
In the Medicine Master's Temple, Yun Que ordered all the Taoists to gather in the courtyard.
There were a dozen people in total, all young. Their eyes were dull, like puppets on strings.
There was only one older Taoist who kept his head lowered and his eyes evasive.
Tell the others to disperse.
Yun Que came to the older Taoist and said, "Where is the robbed woman? Lead the way."
The Taoist's expression was obviously flustered. He secretly glanced at the Medicine Taoist. Seeing that he didn't give any instructions, as if he had acquiesced to Yun Que's questioning, he had no choice but to nod his head repeatedly and lead the way to a rockery in the backyard of Medicine Master Temple.
The Taoist fumbled and pressed the switch. After a muffled sound, the secret door opened.
It turns out that this rockery is a passage.
"You go first." Yun Que ordered.
The Taoist lowered his head and led the way, and soon he came to a stone door.
When the stone door opened, a smelly smell suddenly hit our face!
The man dodged in first, stuffed something into his mouth, ate it, rolled to the side, curled up in the corner and stopped moving.
This is a spacious secret room with simple furnishings, only a stone bed and a stone table.
There is an oil lamp burning on the table.
Under the dim light, one could see a pair of withered bones sitting on the stone bed.
The true nature of the medicine man!
Yun Que's guess was correct, the Medicine Taoist himself was dead.
Hiss! Hiss! Hiss!
The sound of spitting a message appeared, and ferocious snakes crawled out of the darkness of the secret room!
These strange snakes are covered with silver scales, have scarlet eyes, and exude a cold and decaying aura.
As the strange snake appeared, the bones piled up in the surrounding corners were squeezed, making an overwhelming crunching sound.
It turns out that the woman who was robbed to Medicine Master Temple has already become the food of these strange snakes!
"Not an ordinary snake."
Lao He stood ready with his sword in hand, his expression solemn.
Although he possessed the body of the medicine man, he could not command these strange snakes.
"Monster..."
Yun Que could feel the terrifying aura coming from the strange snake.
Under siege by such a large number of monsters, low-level Qi Refining Realm monks would have no way out.
These demonic snakes are used by medicine practitioners to protect the remains of their bodies.
It will devour any living person it encounters.
The underground secret room of Yaoshiguan has long become a place of death!
"It seems that the food you eat can seal your own aura. You should have known there was a snake demon here." Yun Que glanced at the Taoist who was curled up in the corner.
"No matter who you are, don't even think about getting out alive." The Taoist made a slight voice, his tone full of schadenfreude.
Although there were many snake demons, they all surrounded Yun Que and turned a blind eye to the Taoist in the corner.
The body of the medicine man possessed by Lao He is a dead thing, so the snake demon is not interested.
Yun Que was a big living person and immediately became the first choice target of the snake demon.
Lao He stood in front, ready to fight to the death.
Facing the surrounding monsters, Yun Que activated his sword veins.
"I don't know how to seal my breath yet, but the snake demon won't like my breath."
When the sword energy was released, the snake demon that had crawled to the feet suddenly stopped moving, then shrank its body like an electric shock, and ran away one after another.
For the sword energy that contains the power of death, the snake demon would rather starve to death than taste it.
The strange behavior of the snake demon shocked the Taoist in the corner.
If he takes the Qi-holding pill given by the Taoist, he will not be attacked by the snake demon.
But he never expected that the young man opposite him who ate nothing could frighten the snake demon and retreat!
Isn't he alive?
The Taoist was still in shock when Yun Que came to him and slowly raised the sword in his hand.
"Tell me everything you know."
"I said! I said!"
The Taoist explained everything honestly.
It turns out that he is the temple owner of the Medicine Master Temple. A few years ago, this place was occupied by the Medicine Master. He, the temple owner, became the Medicine Master’s servant and was usually responsible for feeding the snake monsters here.
As for the origin of the Medicine Taoist, he had no idea.
After kicking a skull beside his feet, Yun Que said with a half-smile, "It's just feeding snakes, but all of them are young women. You viewers don't seem to be very interested in women."
The Medicine Taoist is just a clone, without any internal organs. To be precise, he is neither male nor female, so he probably doesn't care about male and female matters.
The Taoist hesitated awkwardly for a while and said: "Young women are more delicate, and the snake demon likes to eat them more."
"It's you who likes it more."
Yun Que picked up the skeleton and said with a smile, "How about it? Do they taste sour or sweet, bitter or spicy?"
"this……"
The Taoist felt guilty and speechless.
With a click, Yun Que broke off a bone from the skull and poked it directly into the Taoist's mouth.
"Eat it up and tell me how it tastes."
The sinister words were like ghost whispers, which made the Taoist tremble all over. He did not dare to spit them out. He gritted his teeth and gnawed on the bones, leaving blood on his mouth.
Yun Que began to look at the remains on the stone bed.
I rummaged through and found a few things.
A wooden box, a vial, and a token.
There are ten finger-length mini swords placed in the wooden box. They are of high quality at first glance.
The token is small and extremely sturdy, with a snake engraved on the front and a circle of twelve zodiac signs on the back.
The vial was heavy and it was unknown what it contained, so Yun Que was in no hurry to open it.
Apart from this, there is nothing else near the remains.
After searching a few times, Yun Que frowned slightly.
Based on the realm of a Taoist medicine practitioner, I'm afraid there are more than just these things.
The mini sword in the wooden box is just a magical weapon and looks more like a bait, used to deceive money-grubbing people.
With such a level of treasure and the surrounding snake monsters, someone else might have been satisfied and left with the harvest.
But Yunque is different!
He is a marquis and has seen too much gold, silver and jewelry since he was a child, and he has enough determination even when faced with the resources of the spiritual world.
In addition, the snake monsters around him are now afraid of him instead of threatening him, so he has enough time to find the medicine man's treasure.
The entire secret room was searched and nothing was found.
Yun Que finally turned his attention to the remains themselves.
Raising his hand to grab the skeleton, Yun Que circulated the sword's veins.
The sword energy invaded the bones along the palm of his hand and quickly enveloped them.
"Sword Qi Sense! The young master is really a genius at practicing swordsmanship." Lao He next to him was filled with joy.
In just one day's work, the young Marquis, who was new to swordsmanship, had already mastered such a sophisticated technique. How could Lao He not be happy?
Soon, Yun Que discovered the difference.
He suddenly grabbed a section of the spine of the remains and tore it off with force.
Opening up the palm of his hand, among the broken bones, a small sword body was ready to move, just like a living thing!
The magic weapon will not move on its own.
Anything that can chirp or even tremble on its own must be a magic weapon that contains majestic spiritual energy!
The body of the sword is printed with the word "Si Snake".
The cunning medicine man actually hid the real treasure in his vertebrae.
"nice one!"
Yun Que felt happy.
After making sure that there were no foreign objects, he came to the Taoist in the corner.
"What is the taste?"
Yun Que still asked with a smile, but his smile was as cold as ice.
The Taoist with his mouth full of blood shook his head in horror, indicating that there was no taste.
Yun Que swung his sword and cut several moderately deep wounds on the man's body. He looked at the dripping blood and said clearly:
"Yes, it smells like death."
Boom.
The stone gate is closed.
Due to the continued bleeding, the Taoist's body exuded the breath of a living person, and the pills he had taken before were completely ineffective, and the snake demons in the secret room raised their heads and spat out messages.
Soon, miserable howls and terrifying devouring sounds were heard from inside the stone door.
"You deserved to die," Lao He scolded angrily, "This kind of scum should be skinned and cramped, and lit as a sky lantern!"
Yun Que was walking in the deep passage and could not see his expression, but could only hear his faint whisper.