Chen Gang hugged his head and fled while begging for mercy.

Looking at Zhang Da's back as he hit people and went away, Chu Qiguang secretly said in his heart: "In this way, at least for three or five days, they shouldn't have the energy to trouble me." ’

Chu Qiguang heard from Qiao Zhi that Qingyang County has always been quite martial arts, and there are many people who have participated in the martial arts examination in this dynasty to gain fame.

Now there are five or six families in the county that have imperial court officials in office or Zhishi, and one of them is the Hao family's eye on a property of the Wang family.

Now if the Wang family hears him say this, they will inevitably think that this kind of official method must be the Hao family's going to do it, and after all kinds of investigations and secret fights, they will find out that they have been deceived by themselves, and if they come to the door again, they will probably be ruthless.

But Chu Qiguang was just using this information to drag on a tiger skin for a while to avoid the trouble in front of him.

That night, Chu Qiguang lay on the kang and waited for his mother and sister to fall asleep.

He felt that his stomach was hungry as if there was a cool air rushing around, and the whole person was uncomfortable and sober.

After enduring it for a long time, feeling that his sister and mother should be asleep, he carefully got up.

Suddenly, a small hand grabbed him, Chu Qiguang looked down and found that his sister was looking at him with wide eyes: "Brother, are you so hungry that you can't sleep?"

As she spoke, she stuffed half of the dough over: "Don't drink cold water, brother, I drank too much stomach pain and pulled my pants, this is for you." ”

Chu Qiguang was slightly stunned, he didn't expect that the other party was reluctant to finish dinner, and there was still half of it left.

He resisted the urge to eat the bread in one bite and pushed the bread back: "You eat it yourself, I'm not hungry." ”

Sister: "My mother said that you are the male of the family, and you need to eat more to work." ”

Looking at his sister who was giving him the dough while pursing his lips and staring at the dough, Chu Qiguang sighed lightly, took the rest of the dough and divided it into two: "Then we are one and a half." ”

My sister didn't refuse again, licking the quarter of the baked dough one by one, as if she was afraid that she would eat it soon.

After calming his sister to sleep, Chu Qiguang touched his stomach, and said secretly in his heart: "It's not interesting to live like this anymore, you must improve quickly." Anyway, Qiao Zhizhi commands so many animals, it shouldn't be difficult to hunt and eat some meat, right?'

......

On the way to Houshan, Chu Qiguang walked while thinking about what he had seen and heard during the day today.

Since the Wang family's steward, the lieutenant chief, and Zhang Da were scolded, the neighbors around him were a little strange today, and after Chu Qiguang greeted them as before, most of them did not respond, obviously for fear of annoying the Wang family.

'Today, when I asked Qiao Zhi to coach Wu, I made a plan to deal with the Wang family by the way. ’

Still following yesterday's route, he climbed up the stairs and crawled towards the platform where Qiao Zhi taught the little demons, but this time he had just walked a short distance, and he heard the roars of various birds and beasts in a row, and there seemed to be a little fear and panic in the roar.

"What's wrong?"

Chu Qiguang ran quickly in the direction of the platform, and before he arrived, he saw two wild cats standing in front of the bamboo forest that had led him before, and the upright people stood up and waved at him with their paws.

Chu Qiguang ran up to them and asked, "What's wrong?"

The two wild cats meowed at him a few times, and were so anxious that they kept dancing their paws, and when they saw that he could not understand, they simply turned away, as if to lead the way again.

Chu Qiguang followed the two cats all the way in the other direction, and suddenly heard a loud shout coming from the stone platform where he was going.

"Demon! I want to get away with hiding and saying a few words, I can see that you are not human!"

Then there was a strange laugh accompanied by Qiao Zhi's voice in the night sky: "Daoist, what if I'm not human? This monster on the mountain is under my discipline, and there is no harm in any other way." On the contrary, the villagers at the bottom of the mountain go up the mountain and often kill and injure my race, so you are embarrassed to come to kill the demons and eliminate the demons?"

The male voice said coldly: "Since ancient times, demons have not stood apart, and people want to open mountains and forests, and naturally encounter demons and kill demons." The so-called natural selection of the fittest survives, I can't imagine that you, an old demon, are still so pedantic?"

Qiao Zhi: "Stinky Daoist, today I will let you see my ancestor's ability." ”

As he spoke, there were bursts of air, and the sound of trees and bamboo trees toppling sounded again and again, mixed with the roars and wails of animals.

Chu Qiguang was taken by two wild cats to hide in a gap in a mountain.

Recalling the voice he had just heard, Chu Qiguang didn't know who had come to kill the demons, and he was a little apprehensive in his heart.

The two wild cats were so anxious that their tails hung down in fear, and they were caught between their legs, looking very flustered.

I don't know how long it took, two ghostly lights lit up from outside, and Qiao Zhi's voice came along the night wind: "That stinky Taoist priest was led away by me, come out." ”

The two wild cats cheered when they heard this, rushed out and circled around Qiao Zhi.

Chu Qiguang also breathed a sigh of relief, and after crawling out, he asked, "Master Qiao, who was that person just now, and why did he fight with you?"

Qiao Zhi sighed when he heard this, and said quietly: "That is the supervisor of the Taoist Temple in Qingyang County, called the Qingling Daoist, in charge of all things in Zhaijiao, and also a strong hand in killing demons and demons. In the story you heard at the entrance of the village yesterday, he happened to be a guest in Boxing County that day and stabbed the scholar to death with a sword. ”

"It's him?" Chu Qiguang's eyes moved, and he asked again: "Master, do you think that in the story of the corpse mutiny, is it the scholar who is dedicated to the Tao and dreams of the Taoist, or is he performing evil magic and being dreamed of by the Taoist?"

Qiao Zhi shook his head: "I don't know about this, but it's ......" His eyes narrowed slightly: "There is a demonic aura on this stinky Taoist priest's body, and there is definitely something wrong with him." ”

Chu Qiguang was surprised: "Demon Qi?"

Qiao Zhi nodded: "Demon Qi, Yin and Yang Transformation Qi also." It is an inhuman aura that has been transformed into a human being, but it has not been consummated. It should only be found in a demon with a human form. ”

Chu Qiguang didn't know much about the monster system in this world, and when he saw Qiao Zhi taking the initiative to talk about it, he simply asked.

In Qiao Zhi's explanation, Chu Qiguang learned that the monsters in this world are divided into two categories, namely monsters and monsters.

Most of the so-called demon beasts live in the deep mountains and rivers, and their temperament is mostly the same as that of wild beasts, but their power far exceeds that of ordinary beasts, and they have wisdom that is not inferior to that of humans.

Under Chu Qiguang's inquiry, Qiao Zhi said some of the more famous types of demon beasts, including snakes, mountain ghosts, Xuanhu, Guhou birds, etc., all of which are fierce beasts with fierce temperaments that often hurt and eat people.

Monsters are some animals that are naturally intelligent and awaken their spiritual intelligence, and if such monsters can persist in cultivating, they can cultivate into human form after entering the Tao, almost no different from humans.

And after the youkai enter the Tao, they give birth to offspring, and all the offspring after that can be born with spiritual intelligence, and some can even have human form.

Such monsters multiply from generation to generation, and each generation is like this, and when the number increases, it becomes a group of people, called demon clans.

After hearing this, Chu Qiguang said: "That Qingling Daoist has demonic qi in his body, either he is a monster that he cultivated, or he was born from the demon clan. But he was able to transform into a human form without entering the Dao, so he naturally came from the demon clan?"

Qiao Zhi said: "It is very possible, and I don't know how he was a monster of the demon clan who mixed into the Taoist temple, and even learned the martial arts and Taoism of the Taoist temple." ”

Chu Qiguang said strangely: "Qingyang Guan often has to preside over things such as slaying demons and destroying demons among the people, can't he still tell the difference?"