As for the practitioners of the Zhongyou Dynasty, most of them practiced ghost arts, and their cultivation resources also came from this huge Yin Spring.
The Yin Spring of Zhongyou Dynasty is the only connection point between the human world and the underworld.
As winter came and summer came, the Zhongyou Dynasty became a place that ordinary people and most practitioners avoided.
However, Bai Lian felt that the secluded place was very intimate.
Because his mother...is there.
Therefore, when he was fourteen years old, it could be said that he truly set foot on the earth for the first time.
The sword his father gave him was a treasure named "Quansheng".
The storage bag contained a lot of changes of clothes, money, and spiritual stones for cultivation.
The elixir for healing and recovery when injured, the most conspicuous one is a square crystal stone, which Balian has seen in "The Book of Hundred Spirits".
This crystal is called a teleportation stone and is used to save lives during duels.
There is always a pair of this crystal. As long as one of them is crushed, the owner of the crystal will be teleported to the side of the owner of the other crystal in an instant no matter how far away it is.
Seeing this, Balian smiled knowingly. Although his father boldly allowed him to explore the world alone, in fact, he had already made a foolproof plan.
Also, the clothes among them do not look like the sect clothes of the Tianxi Sword Sect.
Bai Lian thought that this might be an ordinary piece of clothing, otherwise the Tianxi Sword Sect's clothing would be too eye-catching.
After all, as soon as he got off the top of the mountain, he saw many farmers or women in gray clothes paying attention to him and saluting.
Due to his personality since he was a child, Balian likes to be quiet and dislikes being watched like this, so he found a hidden place and changed his Tianxi Sword Sect clothes into ordinary white clothes. He was careful and did not forget to put the hair on his head.
The hair crown engraved with the Tianxi Sword Sect's exclusive sword emblem was removed and replaced with an ordinary hair tie to tie it casually.
In this way, they are not much different from the ordinary people down the mountain.
Even so, although Bailian did not inherit his parents' talent, he did inherit their parents' outstanding appearance.
He is in his youth, and although his body has not yet fully grown, he has beautiful features, fair skin, and his eyes are particularly bright due to spiritual energy tainted by his practice. Coupled with a long sword, he looks like a handsome young man.
appearance.
Naturally, it attracted shy looks from many farm girls.
In the human world, if there is no such thing as cultivation, there are not a few people who get married at the age of fourteen.
Bailian was a young man raised by Lingshan Xiushui. As soon as he was born, these girls naturally watched silently, and many strong women's eyes gleamed, and they wanted to tie up this good-looking young man.
Go home and be your son-in-law.
It is said that unruly people come out of remote areas, so Balian naturally encountered troubles from bride-stealing families.
Fortunately, he had some cultivation skills and casually showed his hands, thus giving up the thoughts of these strong women.
Although he wanted to travel down the mountain, Bailiyu didn't give him a clear goal for where to travel.
But both father and son knew in their hearts that he would definitely go to Zhongyou.
However, Baituo Mountain is separated from the Zhongyou Dynasty by thousands of mountains and rivers, and Bai Lian is only in the first-level realm of seeking Taoism, and cannot fly with a sword.
I could only buy a good horse and hit the road.
Although he is a fourteen-year-old boy, it is obviously very difficult for him to mount a horse with his current height, but this is obviously not a difficult task for practitioners.
Moreover, he has been practicing horseback riding and archery under his father's instruction since he was a child, so he is naturally very proficient.
He whispered a few words into the horse's ear, and the horse, no matter how fierce it was, was easily trained to be obedient by him, which shocked the horse boss.
So, when Bailian was at his most youthful, he carried a sword on his shoulder, the reins in hand and a horse on his hip, and walked out of the foothills of the White Camel Mountain.
However, Balian soon discovered a very serious problem.
He has never been out of Baituo Mountain and has no idea how to get to Zhongyou!
This is not flying with a sword, just choose a direction and fly straight towards it.
He had to walk through the rainforest, cross the wooden bridge, and climb the mountains.
But it seems that his father didn't give him a map...
Balian pondered for a long time on horseback, and found to his anguish that he had to do what he hated most, which was talking to people and asking for directions.
But he has already walked through the area under the jurisdiction of Baituo Mountain, and he is now in a place with no village in front of him or any store behind him.
Except for one person and one horse, there is nothing else but mountains and trees, the occasional howl of wolves and the bright chirping of insects.
Balian sighed helplessly, and had no choice but to dismount, feed the horse well, let the horse rest for a while, and then continued on the road along the mountain trail.
He usually sleeps very rarely, only sleeping for an hour every day.
So even though the moon and stars were sparse and everything was quiet at this moment, he still moved forward tirelessly.
With Ma's efforts, Balian finally saw a small town.
Bailian's immature face was slightly raised, and he looked at the word "Bei Liao Town" in front of his head. A happy smile appeared on his immature face, and he tucked his legs under the horse's belly and entered the town.
There are many gateways in the town, but there are very few residents. Even the vendors setting up stalls are weak in their hawking sounds.
There was even a faint look of sadness in their eyes.
Bai Lian was very puzzled. This Beiliao Town seemed much more developed and prosperous than the rural tribes he had seen along the way.
But why are the people here so dejected?
Fortunately, Balian has a calm temperament. If it were any other young man with martial arts skills and passion, he would have been unable to resist and would have dismounted and captured someone to find out.
But when Balian heard the tired snoring of the horse beneath him, he first found an inn, placed the horse in a comfortable stable, and fed it some fodder.
I also took a refreshing hot bath, changed into clean clothes, and then went downstairs to order some food.
Balian was eating his first dinner in the world. He put a silver ingot on the table and motioned to the waiter to take it.
Sure enough, the younger brother's eyes suddenly lit up, and he quickly picked up the silver ingot.
With a smile on his face, he said: "I've realized how extraordinary the young master is the moment he walked in. He can tame such a strong horse and make it obedient at such a young age. He must have excellent riding skills. I admire him."
admire.
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Balian, who had just arrived, raised his head and glanced at the energetic second brother, feeling very impressed.
I feel that this person can communicate so easily and smoothly with people he doesn't know, and he is a master.
He coughed slightly and asked nervously: "Then... I am named An in Baili, with the courtesy name Zangfeng. I have just come to Guibao Land, and there are many things I don't understand. I hope my second brother can help me clear up my confusion."
This time, it was the waiter's turn to be stunned, because this was the first time that he asked someone so kindly after seeing someone reward him with money, without any pretentiousness.
But this way, the waiter also had a great impression of the young man, so he responded with a smile: "If there is anything you don't understand, young master, just ask."
Since childhood, Balian has been ridiculed in secret by his disciples in the sect. Even when he faced his father, he mostly treated him with a cold face. Very few people spoke to him so kindly.
Of course, at this time, Balian didn't know that the waiter's pleasant appearance mostly came from the silver ingot he gave him.
"Well, when I first entered Beiliao Town, why did I see everyone in the town looking sad, but there was no white silk hanging anywhere in the town. Apparently nothing heartbreaking happened.
But why are everyone in the town so depressed, even you, the second brother... were listless just now, something happened in the town."
The smiling waiter's face twitched, and his face that was forcing a smile fell down as if he was remembering something sad. He sighed for a long time.
"It's a long story. Young Master, would you mind sitting down and talking to you in detail?"
Balian nodded hurriedly and moved the chairs beside the table for him.
After the younger brother sat down, he poured himself a cup of tea very familiarly and took a sip, as if he wanted to drink away the bad breath in his chest.
He said with hatred on his face: "Young Master, you don't know something. Our town has been plagued by evil spirits recently..."
Bai Lian was stunned and said: "Evil spirit? Where do you start talking about this?"
This can't help but surprise him, because he is a practitioner and can sense evil spirits, monsters and even ghost spirits.
But so far since he entered the town, he has not noticed anything strange.
The younger brother sighed and said, "Oh, just a month ago, the daughters-in-law of every household in our town disappeared inexplicably."
Bai Lian's eyes were solemn: "Brother, please continue."
"At first, the daughter-in-law of the Wu family who sold pig heads on the street disappeared at night. At that time, we didn't take it seriously. After all, the Wu family's daughter-in-law is famous for being coquettish...ahem."
This younger brother is obviously a talkative person, and he can't stop talking once he starts talking.
When he said the word "coquettish", he suddenly realized that the person sitting next to him was still a child. This didn't seem good.
But Balian's face remained normal, as if there was nothing unusual about those two words, and he said calmly: "What then? Has the Wu family's daughter-in-law not come back yet?"
What a simple child.
Looking at those clear eyes, the younger brother smiled awkwardly and continued: "The Wu family's daughter-in-law has always been a coquettish and wild woman, and she often hooks up with men.
However, the man in her family has a weak character and would not even dare to kill a pig.
It is said that a son inherits his father's business, but he is not good at it. He idles around all day and does not do his job properly. All the work of killing pigs falls on his daughter-in-law.
In this regard, he tolerated his wife's ridiculous thing and never mentioned it. At first, when his wife Wang Chunhua disappeared, we didn't take it too seriously. We just regarded it as a daily thief and went to another town to find food and came back after a few days.
I never thought that it would never happen again. Nowadays, the Wu family’s pigs are all strong but no one has killed them. Old man Wu is old and killing pigs is a laborious job. Even if he has the intention, he doesn’t have the strength anymore.”
Uh... why did Xie Sui talk about killing pigs? Balian coughed lightly and asked: "What then? Has Old Man Wu's daughter-in-law never come back?"
"Isn't it? It's been two months and I haven't returned yet. Only then did Mr. Wu and his family realize that something was wrong, and later they told everyone about it.
Only then did I realize that in the past two months, in addition to his daughter-in-law, married women from other families have also been missing for no apparent reason."
Balian frowned and said: "So it should be a case of missing persons, but why are some married women missing? How can you conclude that there is something evil going on?"
"Yes, at first everyone thought that some dirty human trafficker came from somewhere and came to our town, and they also reported the case.
But when I thought about it carefully, I felt something was wrong. How come these traffickers who kill thousands of people only abduct women who are married?
There are so many virgins in this town, but one of them is intact."
Speaking of this, the younger brother suddenly lowered his tone: "Until one day, the stupid scholar from the Zhang family got up to relieve himself in the middle of the night and saw an astonishing scene."
Balian couldn't help but followed his movements and leaned closer and lowered his voice and asked, "What did he see?"
There was fear in the eyes of the younger brother, with a hint of hatred, and he shook his body and said: "Shusheng Zhang saw a burly and strong monster with a human body and a pig's head sneaking into his home that night. He was so frightened.
He hid in the latrine all night and did not dare to return to his room. Even that night, his wife did not disappear."
Balian thought for a while and said, "You mean... this is the pig demon causing trouble?"
The younger brother nodded and said, "That's right. The next day, Shusheng Zhang told the whole town what he saw with his own eyes. The pig demon abducted people and was not being cautious.
As soon as this statement came out, many people said they had seen the pig demon, and then things got out of hand.
When the pig demon knew that his identity was exposed, he became more and more unscrupulous and came out to cause harm to people during the day.
Although he does not kill people, he will forcibly abduct married women.
In the past two months, he has taken away all the old ladies in our town, as well as the newlyweds, and will not return them. Even..."
After saying this, the second brother, a seven-foot-tall man, had tears rolling down his eyes: "Even my little wife who just passed away was kidnapped by the pig demon."
Seeing that he was so sad, Bai Lian felt relieved for a while.
No wonder, no wonder everyone in this town is dejected, and apart from young girls, female adult townspeople are extremely rare.
However, this pig demon's character is really deformed. He doesn't pick anything, and just packs up everything he wants to get married with.
An old woman who has been married for many years can be in her seventies or eighty, and a newlywed young lady can be as old as him. The difference between them is not a small one.
Balian came to the conclusion that this was a very hungry pig demon.
"This pig demon is really hateful!" Balian sighed angrily.
The second brother clenched his fist and said, "No! He just kidnapped the woman, even the woman who was still in confinement not long after giving birth to the child."
How many babies in the town are crying for food and have no milk to feed them, so they can only drink goat's milk, and the poorer families can only drink dog's milk. It's really sad and tearful!"
Bailian's expression changed and he said: "I remember climbing over the mountain in front of the town, and walking three hundred miles further is Baituo Mountain. There is a sect of cultivating immortals on Baituo Mountain. Why don't you go there for help?"
The second brother said dejectedly: "Why didn't we think of this? It's just that the pig demon was really cunning. Knowing that his identity was exposed, he gave everyone in our town a blow.
As soon as we leave Beiliao Town, we will have a splitting headache, nausea and dizziness, and we will not be able to go very far."