I saw a long gray and black strip standing in front of me among the grass, floating quietly, looking closely at its lower body is about to look like an old remnant sword, this alone is not enough to make Bai Gu panic, but looking up along the sword body, the sword jaw and the hilt are inlaid with translucent black jade that seems to be broken, isn't it that he almost sucked away his blood-colored eyes last night, but I don't know why it has become like this now.

Seeing that although this thing has lost all the different appearances when it was powerful last night, its appearance has changed greatly, but Bai Gu still recognizes it at a glance, it turns out that this broken sword has been following him, and he doesn't dare to move in fear, and he can't do anything else, he can only move his body slightly, and this sword also moves, Bai Gu turned his head and ran.

Didn't look back all the way, dodged the obstacle trees in front of him left and right, ran for about ten miles, the surrounding trees were still dense and tall, and the branches and leaves stretched under the sunlight, Bai Gu looked up and saw that it was about noon, turned around to see if the sword followed, looked left and right to see if he didn't see it, thinking that he had shaken off the thing, exhaled a long breath, and turned back, the sword suddenly appeared in front of him, so frightened that Bai Gu immediately fell to the ground.

"It's really ghostly..."Seeing that this broken sword was in front of him, Bai Gu no longer had the strength to get up, since he had no intention of harming himself for so long, he should not be able to die for a while.

Since he couldn't die for a while, Bai Gu tried to communicate with him, and if he wanted to communicate, he couldn't lose his courage, and asked loudly: "You still embarrassed me and Senior Brother Chai like a fierce god last night, and now you have changed your appearance and think that I don't know each other?"

The sword didn't react, it swayed to Bai Gu's side, and stood on the dirt like a child, Bai Gulu moved timidly, sat on the right side, and the sword also moved.

"Ha..." Bai Gu smiled at this time, he didn't expect it to be really spiritual, but this thing is not good, and he may have something to ask for, thinking for a while, he has a plan in his heart, and Bai Gu is not very afraid.

"You killed that giant python?" Bai Gu asked.

The broken sword pressed the handle of the head, as if nodding, meaning that he should have killed it.

Bai Gu stood up, the sword also floated, Bai Gu tried to shake from side to side, the sword also moved, Bai Gu thought, if you want to imitate me, I will let you imitate, so the body began to turn in circles, the sword also turned, seeing Bai Gu speed up the circle, it also accelerated, and when it couldn't hold its foot, Bai Gu stopped rotating, laughed, and said at the same time 'Thank you for help'.

After a while, the sword stopped in a daze, Bai Gu tried to reach out and hold it, this sword did not resist, Bai Gu held it and weighed one or two, the sword was more than three feet long, not very heavy, as Bai Gu knew, this sword was a long sword, but it was too worn, the overall look like a black iron material, but it was certainly not black iron, this sword and the black jade inlaid on it were the core treasures in the ancient tomb, and they must have a strong mysterious power.

Since he couldn't get rid of it, Bai Gu didn't think about this sword for a while, so he simply took it in his hand as a road opener, and continued to walk forward, and when he encountered obstacles, he picked up the branches of trees that hindered him, and he didn't know when he would be able to get out of this forest.

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Three days later in the evening.

An official road surrounded by mountains was dusty, and more than 20 horseback guards galloped past with whips, and the leader said, "Hurry up, it's not far from there, and if you get things smoothly later, you can rush back to your life in the middle of the night, and then the prince will definitely have a heavy reward." ”

Not long after they left, the ragged Bai Gu walked out of the dense forest not far from this official road, Bai Gu looked left and right, and walked in the direction of the group of people just now.

Night came, Bai Gu walked on the spacious official road, his stomach didn't know how many times he screamed, these three days occasionally saw a few wild fruit trees, the fruits picked were half-baked, even so, he ate three times, until now he was really hungry, although there were seven or eight spiritual power in the body, but now the spiritual power could not be eaten, turned a mountain bend, and saw that the fire in the small mountain village was bright at a distance from the road, and he could barely hear some shouts, Bai Gu showed joy and walked up.

When he was getting closer and closer to the village, Bai Gu stopped, due to the expansion of the hearing range in the condensation period, this mountain village was recruiting thieves at this moment, the villagers' cries for help were endless, as far as the eye could see, the firelight they saw should have been put by the thieves, and the grievances in his heart rose sharply, urging the spiritual power to run towards the village.

This village is built according to the mountains and forests, and the thatched huts are scattered everywhere, from high slopes to low slopes, and Bai Gu feels that there are at least sixty or seventy households, and now the houses everywhere are scorched by the fire, and the cries that were originally heard from the wider place in the middle of the slope are now gradually gone.

After Bai Gu entered the village, he did not follow the wider village road, but ran quickly from the side path to the halfway slope of the mountain forest.

Bai Gu quickly ran to the half-slope, the night was dark, the burning fire was gradually extinguished, and when he reached the wider ground of the half-slope, his heart was completely cooled, and the corpses that were lying on the ground one by one were all corpses, and the blood reflected the fire.

"Brute!" Bai Gu knew that he was late, facing the corpses in this place, Bai Gu clenched his fists and his expression changed, and in the end he could only sigh and walk quickly to each corpse to check if there were still people alive.

Eighty-three corpses, the whole village, old and young women and children have not survived, they should have been brought here collectively in advance, I don't know what happened, the group of thieves on horseback wanted to kill them, so they fled in a panic, but these villagers were unarmed one by one and could only be slaughtered, and everyone's expression was terrified when they died.

It took a lot of effort to turn over each corpse, and they were placed neatly, Bai Gu sat in front of the nearly 100 corpses with a white face, and looked blankly at a young child in front of him who should be less than seven years old, this child was hacked to death with a knife from the back, "It is said that heaven and earth are unkind to all things as dogs, and this life is harvested like grass mustard, just because that group of thieves has the power, and there are many accidents in mortal life, what is our monk's cultivation?"

His heart was dark and uncomfortable, Bai Gu forgot about his hunger for a while, and when his stomach screamed again, Bai Gu stood up and walked towards the three wooden houses that were unique to this wide flat land, if he guessed correctly, this should be the place where the village chief lived, and he might have called a meeting of the villagers on this wide slope in normal times.

The wooden house on the far right should be a place for cooking, Bai Gu pushed open the wooden door and walked in, the firewood on the stove had been extinguished, the smell of rice came from the iron pot, put the sword aside, uncovered the pot with his hand to see, the mist was steaming, two bowls of rice and half a chicken and a plate of wild vegetables were hot at the same time, and a small piece of chicken was caught in the mouth with the wooden chopsticks next to the pot, not too hot, too hungry, no matter so much, three times five divided by two and ate a fine light.

After eating, he was thirsty, Bai Gu walked to the water tank with a wooden lid behind him, and just as he was about to uncover it, he found that something was wrong, and hurriedly flashed to the door, and the spiritual sense probed, this tank had the breath of a living person, there was no spiritual power fluctuation, it was a mortal, and he didn't find it when he entered the door.

Suppressing the shock in his heart, Bai Gu thought for a moment or two, guessing that this should be a villager who was hiding alive, so he said: "Come out, the thief has left." ”

The person in the jar didn't react, but Bai Gu could feel the suppressed breathing of the person inside, and since he couldn't threaten himself, Bai Gu sat on the threshold with his sword and waited quietly.

The fire outside the house is getting darker and darker, only sporadic fire points remain, and slowly even the last spark is gone, the whole village fell into darkness and silence, thinking that at this time last night, the people in this village may have eaten and chatted under the lamp, and today is only a dozen or so hours apart, this village has become a dead village in a blink of an eye, Bai Gu remembered the scene when he was a child and his grandfather ate together at night, and it was another lament.

The moon rose, under the faint soft light, the corpse looked a little frightened at the moment, ordinary people could not help but be frightened, but Bai Gu was no longer afraid, walking in the mountains and forests these days, the spirit was always in a state of urgency, and now he met a village of living people, even if the people were already dead, it was better here than himself in the snake python lurking in the uninhabited mountains and forests, not to mention that he killed a giant python three days ago, although he did not kill himself, but he drank the blood of the python, as if he had a little more courage.

Bai Gu looked at the corpses lying down for a while, then turned back to the people in the jar and said, "If you don't come out yet, I'll leave, all the people in this village are dead, if I leave and their ghosts come to me, aren't you afraid?"

After waiting for a while, the person in the jar put up a small slit in the wooden lid on it, and a pair of watery eyes looked at the emaciated black shadow shining in the moonlight at the door, these eyes naturally couldn't see Bai Gu's face clearly, because Bai Gu turned his back to the moonlight and looked at the people in the jar towards the house.

Bai Gu looked at the people in the jar and still didn't dare to come out, and said, "Come out, if I want to harm you, do you have to wait until now?" I'll go clean up those corpses first, and if you have the strength, come and help me." ”

After saying that, Bai Gu turned around and left the wooden house.

This wide half-hillside should be regarded as the village chief's big courtyard, these corpses at the foot will soon stink if they are not handled, it is summer now, and if it is not good, the source of plague will break out, although there are no people in the barren mountains and mountains here, but it is not good not to deal with it like this, not to mention that Bai Gu himself has just eaten a meal from others, and he only said that the favor has to be returned.

It is impossible to bury, how many pits do so many people have to dig, Bai Gu wants to burn them all to ashes, let them drift away with the wind, if there is an afterlife, I hope they will have a good birth.

It is very simple to burn these corpses, just pile them together and use the fire condensation technique, as early as a few days ago, when Senior Brother Wan Qing went to use it himself, he said that Bai Gu pinched the trick and cast, and a small flame appeared on his fingertips, dancing with the breeze.

"The biggest flame can only be so big, it seems that you have to find a low-level fire technique to practice in the future, otherwise it will be inconvenient to go in and out of the mountains and forests. Bai Gu said to himself, just because the spells he is best at are the dripping technique and the rejuvenation technique, and he has not practiced other techniques, even this low-level fire condensing technique was temporarily remembered that day when he was in Lushan before, he saw the opening part of this spell and cast it for a while.

After trying to condense the fire once, Bai Gu began to carry the corpses together, each corpse was close to each other, and after they were all moved, he put his hands together and prayed silently, and began to cast the spell.

Because Bai Gu was too unfamiliar with the fire condensation technique, each time the fire released was only the size of a thumb, and it took five or six spells to ignite a corpse, but fortunately, he was full of spiritual power, and this small spell barely consumed much spiritual power, so he could only watch the time pass minute by minute to accumulate fire.

The wooden house where the cooking was poked out a small head, looking at Bai Gu casting flames in wisps, perhaps feeling that he was casting too slowly, this small figure ran quickly to the largest of the three rooms, and after a moment took out the burning candle inside, Bai Gu turned around and saw the little figure walking towards him, and asked, "Aren't you afraid of me?"

The little figure didn't speak, just handed the candle to Bai Gu, and then walked to a woman's corpse and stared silently, seeing that she was about eight or nine years old, wearing clean short clothes, and the lower half of her body was still dripping wet because she had just come out of the water tank, and the tears on her little face had already dried.

The little girl is younger than the junior sisters of Bai Gu's family, Bai Gu took the candle, and the two corpses under his feet were actually already burning, because the flames contained aura, the fire would soon grow bigger and spread to other corpses, Bai Gu took the candle and walked to the big eaves and lit the oil lamp hanging next to the door.

Turning around and leaving the eaves, he stood in front of the rows of corpses, and the little girl also stood with him, Bai Gu asked, "Are you the granddaughter of the village chief?"

The little girl shook her head.

"Aren't you afraid that so many people have died?

The little girl shook her head again, looking at the corpse of one of the middle-aged men, and a look of disgust flashed in her eyes.

Now Bai Gu felt strange, could it be that this little girl was a dumb and a fool? Just wondering, the little girl looked up and asked Bai Gu, "Are you a Taoist priest?"

Bai Gu was dumbfounded for a while, "Uh... Sort of, how do you know?"

"I've seen old Taoist priests play with fire in the city before, bigger than you, and they carry yellow charms and bells with them, and you don't seem to have anything else but that broken stick. The little girl's crisp voice was pleasant, and she pointed to the long sword in Bai Gu's hand as she spoke.

Bai Gu was stunned, looked at his sword with a smile, and thought to himself that this girl was really not afraid of life, and the other thing he was holding was obviously a sword, although it was a little worn, the overall sword spine was open, and asked with a smile: "Since there are no relatives of yours here, then why are you hiding in the tank, do these people have nothing to do with you? Why did they die? What happened?"

The little girl asked rhetorically: "Look at the tattered clothes you are wearing, your hair is already gray at a young age, you must be a poor Taoist priest, why did you come to this village?

Bai Gu felt funny, this little thing has not answered one of his questions head-on until now, but has observed and pondered his whole body from top to bottom, and his mind can be described as clever and dexterous, since this is the case, he will ask her again at one time.

Just as he was about to confess, Bai Gu remembered the words that Chai Golem told him when he left a few days ago, the original intention was to hide his name and origin, live in a low-key manner, and find a way back to his master.

So he said, "My name is... Qingfeng, originally with the master in the mountains to collect medicine, seven days ago and the master lost, today finally came out of the mountains and forests, saw the village has lights, so rushed to come, did not expect to be a thief here, eat a meal at the master's house, it is not good to leave, just help these dead souls, tonight after dealing with the rest of the night and leave, to return to the Taoist temple far away from here, presumably the master can not find me will go back soon, I can't let him worry. ”

Bai Gu said, pinching the trick and put a few wisps of fire into the fire that was already burning a lot, and the fire instantly became a little bigger, at this time more than eighty corpses had been burned half, the fire light illuminated the surroundings, and Bai Gu retreated.

The girl followed Bai Gu back, and at the same time lowered her head to think, and after a while, she looked up at Bai Gu, "I know the road here, let's make a deal, I see how much ability you have, I'll tell you how to go on the road, you send me somewhere, how about it?"

Bai Gu squatted down and looked at the little girl, and didn't speak, this girl also stared at Bai Gu, after a while, Xu felt the pressure, stepped back, and said: "You send me to the place I want to go, and I will give you a lot of money afterwards, enough for a poor Taoist like you to spend a lifetime, so that you and your master will work hard every day to collect and sell medicine, or go to the city to juggle and cheat money and be beaten." ”

Bai Gu laughed, "You know a lot, and you know how to give me favors to do things for you, haha, you don't need money or anything, you tell me which state this is? What is your name?"

"My name is Liu Yun'er, Zhou ...... What is it? I only know that this is Luyin Village, the territory of the Great Jiang Kingdom..."Liu Yun'er seemed to want to add something after speaking, but she still didn't say anything after all.

Bai Gu guessed that such a little girl would not know the name of this state boundary, and as for this green shadow village, it was useless to know it herself, it seemed that she had to go to the more prosperous capital of the Great Jiang Country to inquire.

Bai Gu was silent for a while, and replied: "Okay, tomorrow I will send you to the place you are going, but I will ask you a lot of questions on the way, you have to answer me truthfully, it's not early tonight, I haven't closed my eyes for a long time, is there a place to sleep?"

Liu Yun'er's little face showed joy, and she pulled Bai Gu and said to follow her, the corpses behind them had been burned to the last few people, and the corpses in front of them turned into white ashes, and the breeze blew, and these ashes also drifted away.

Bai Gu always restrained himself from asking the cause of death of these people, although he knew that most of the causes of death of these villagers were related to Liu Yun'er, but the previous few attempts to ask had actually shown that this girl did not want to say it at this time.