early morning

The sun on the mountain is a little more transparent than that of the market town, and the white eyebrows, dressed in a plain robe, carefully clean the temple courtyard with a broom.

Not as eager as usual, today's Bai Mei action is particularly soothing, clean the yard, Bai Mei put things in place, looking at the small temple where he has lived for more than ten years, if the sadness of leaving can't help but come to his heart, after all, it is a place where he has lived for more than ten years.

Shaking his head, forgetting many complicated thoughts for a while, Bai Mei walked out of the small temple and turned around to close the two wooden doors.

Pick up the lock and lock the wooden door. Bai Mei raised his head and took one last look at the small temple, gently put down the copper lock in his hand, threw away the key casually, and left with his sleeves.

There is only a loud light drink lingering between the mountains:

"When he opens the lock again, it will be the day when my Shushan Sword Sect will become famous all over the world!"

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After going down the mountain, Bai Mei saw Xie Wenmao and his party waiting at the entrance of Qingshi Town from a distance.

Seeing Bai Mei coming, Xie Wenmao stepped forward with a crutch: "Bai Daochang, I heard that you are leaving." The villagers are reluctant to give up, you see, this old man did not entrust the old man to prepare some gold and silver for the Taoist, and a fast horse for the Daochang Road. ”

With a wave of his big hand, Xie Wenmao suddenly walked up behind him with two maids holding vermilion wooden plates, on which twenty ingots of silver were just placed, reflecting dazzling silver light in the sunlight.

One wooden plate is twenty taels, and two are forty taels. In Qingshi Town, one tael of silver is enough for a family of three to live comfortably for a month.

Even when the old Taoist was alive, when the most money in the temple was the most, it was only three taels of silver, which was still saved by the old Taoist for a long time.

Although he has already stepped into the path of cultivation, these mortal yellow and white things are still very helpful to Bai Mei at present. After all, Bai Mei has lived on the land of bluestone for so long, and he doesn't know what the outside world is like.

With money, at least the confidence will be much harder.

Bai Mei helped Qingshi to eliminate the ghost disaster, and it is not a shame to hold this money.

After thinking about it, Bai Mei nodded: "Then thank you for your kindness." With that, with a wave of his robe, the silver taels on the wooden plate suddenly disappeared, and Bai Mei was included in the ring.

The hand that Bai Mei inadvertently showed suddenly made the onlookers exclaim, and secretly sighed that he was really a Taoist master.

Bai Mei accepted the money, Xie Wenmao's face suddenly relaxed a lot, in his opinion, Bai Mei was willing to accept this money, which means that Bai Mei is willing to accept this return from Qingshi Town, and he may be able to take care of them if he has the opportunity in the future.

After accepting the silver, Xie Wenmao asked a tall horse to be brought up: "Bai Daochang, this is one of the few good horses in the town, Dao Chang wants to travel far away, there must be something to travel." Quick, the roadrunner gets on the horse. ”

"No, no. Kindly avoided the two people who wanted to help him, and said with white eyebrows: "The townsman is kind, I understand it." It's just that you have to rely on yourself after all. ”

"In that case, the old man will not force it. Dare to ask, will the Dao Elder come back?" Xie Wenmao said.

With a chuckle, Bai Mei turned around and glanced back at Qingshan behind him: "Yes, it will!"

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Three days later

On the deserted road outside Qingxu City, Bai Mei was holding a map with black lines on his head, and the green tendons on his forehead were trembling, obviously suppressing a lot of anger.

Gritting his teeth, he tore the map in his hand to shreds, and threw it to the ground. White eyebrows sat depressedly on a piece of gravel.

Before leaving, Xie Wenmao specially prepared a map for Bai Mei to facilitate Bai Mei to recognize the way. But it's not just that the person who drew the map has memory problems, or it's too long ago, and some of the routes have changed.

It stands to reason that after a day and a half of travel, Bai Mei walked for three days, but he still didn't see a trace of the town.

Seeing that the sun was about to set again, Bai Mei sighed, and secretly said that he was also a disadvantage. Although he was angry, he was helpless to be alone now, and after resting for a while, Bai Mei only gritted his teeth and continued to walk forward.

The afterglow of the sun crossed the last edge of the western mountains

The cold crescent moon began to hang on a corner of the sky map, the sky gradually darkened, there was no exhaust pollution of modern cities, the sky of this world was exceptionally clear, and the moonlight swayed through, even at night, passers-by could see the road clearly.

Walking along the vaguely recognizable path, his white eyebrows and earlobes suddenly moved, and he seemed to hear some special movements in the distance.

Slowly turning his head to look at the field beside him, a confused and panicked figure was stumbling towards Bai Mei.

When the figure approached, Bai Mei fixed his eyes and saw it clearly. It turned out that the figure fleeing in a panic was a middle-aged man with a small wooden box on his back and a panicked expression.

It seemed that he also saw Bai Mei, and the direction in which the man fled suddenly came towards Bai Mei.

Crawled out of the field with both hands and feet, and onto the deserted dirt road. The middle-aged man gasped and said to the white eyebrows, "Hurry up...... Come on...... Those yin people are coming to arrest people again!"

The words that Yin people had never heard before made Bai Mei frown, and as soon as the man's words fell, Bai Mei did feel that a cold aura was spreading rapidly along the route of the man's escape.

"Uncle, don't worry. I'm a monk in the mountains, what is chasing you, and what is the Yin Man?" asked Bai Mei, holding the panicked man.

"Monk? Are you a monk? It's great that you're finally saved. When he heard that Bai Mei was a monk, the man's face suddenly became happy: "I don't know how those yin people appeared." I only know that at the beginning of the third year, Qingxu City issued a list of documents, ordering all the people not to leave the city after sunset and implement a curfew.

At first, everyone didn't know why, but then some people who lived outside the city said that after the sun went down tomorrow night, some people wearing armor and pale faces would appear outside the city, and they would catch people when they saw them.

And those who were taken away never appeared again.

In the past nine years, at least hundreds of people have been captured by those Yin people, and all of them have disappeared without knowing whether they are alive or dead.

I heard that those things are not something that ordinary people can deal with, and only monks can subdue them. Alas, I was also lost in money, and the village chief girl in Wang Village next door gave birth and asked me to deliver the baby.

I didn't want to do it at first, but the price given by the head of Nawang Village ...... Hehe...... You get the idea. I just took a risk once, but I didn't expect that this time, I was bumped into by that yin man, and it was really a blood mold. “

The man here was still chattering and complaining, but his white-eyed eyes suddenly became solemn.

grabbed the man who was still chattering, and Bai Mei had enough strength under his feet: "Go!"

The man in Langzhong, who didn't react, was dragged away by Bai Mei with half of his body dragged away. It was less than three or five minutes before the two left

A team of four people, wearing cold helmets, with a face like white and gray and almost a yin figure carved out of a mold, suddenly appeared.

On the stiff and cold face, the wings of his nose twitched slightly.

One of the yin men opened his mouth, and a mouthful of oozing fangs leaked out. Reaching out and pulling out a writhing white maggot from his mouth, the Yin Man muttered a whisper, almost muttered words, and then lowered the maggot into the ground, and in an instant it burrowed into the ground and disappeared.

After doing all this, the pair of yin people suddenly turned into a gust of yin wind and disappeared without a trace.

Pulling the barefoot Lang Zhong all the way to run wildly, Bai Mei felt the cold breath behind him at all times without saying a word, and ran wildly for several miles, the cold breath gradually faded, and Bai Mei stopped and let go of the man who was about to roll his eyes.

"Oops...... Oh my God, you...... You almost ...... Oh my god, I'm exhausted. Lang Zhong, whose lips were white and bloodless, fell to the ground with cerebral palsy, and he didn't say a whole word for a long time.

"Do you know the way to Qingxu City? When Lang Zhong was gasping for breath, Bai Mei squatted down and asked.

"Of course I do. Stroking his chest, Lang Zhong nodded.

"Then tell me how to go, and those yin people will catch up in a while. I don't have to control you. Bai Mei said.

As soon as he heard this, Lang Zhong jumped up from the ground: "Ah? Didn't you say that Yin people are afraid of monks? Aren't you monks?"

"I'm a monk, if those Yin people chase me, I can definitely get out of the way, but whether I can take you with me or not, it's not certain. Bai Mei looked at Lang Zhongdao.

Hearing Bai Mei's words, how could Lang Zhong not understand, patted the ash on his buttocks, and walked quickly towards Qingxu City with Bai Mei.

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"Are you a monk? How can you prove it? Is there a sect logo?" The soldiers guarding the city looked at Bai Mei in a plain Taoist robe suspiciously, obviously not believing that Bai Mei was actually one of those monks who had great power.

"I'm a casual cultivator, and I don't have any sect logo. Proof of words...... Is this okay?" After thinking about it, Bai Mei raised a finger, and a small cyan ring suddenly appeared on the fingertip, slowly turning, making a great wind sound.

"Yes, you can. Please come in. Seeing the green ring on Bai Mei's fingers, the soldiers guarding the city hurriedly changed their faces to a flattering face, and bowed their waists to invite Bai Mei into the city.

"Well, where is the accommodation in the city?" After taking two steps, Bai Mei suddenly remembered that he hadn't lived yet, so he stopped and asked back.

Hearing Bai Mei's question, the city guard thought for a while and said, "At this point, the Cirrus Cloud Tower in the south of the city should not be closed yet, you can go and take a look." ”

Nodding slightly, Bai Mei stepped into the city.

Waiting for Bai Mei to leave, the soldiers defending the city suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, these monks have a changeable temperament, some are kind, and some are perverse and violent. A few days ago, a soldier defending the city offended a monk because of a sentence, and as a result, he broke his sternum with one of his palms and almost died.

"I said Hu Langzhong, you can be brave now. When it's dark, you dare to go out of the city, and you think your life is long?" Bai Mei left, and the soldier looked at Lang Zhong, who was still on the side, and couldn't help but quip.

Hearing the words of the soldier, Hu Langzhong blew his beard: "Ben Langzhong is blessed with a great life, he treats diseases and saves people, and there are many blessings." Otherwise, how could he be targeted by the Yin people, and he could still escape. ”

"What? Have you met a Yin man? Tell me, tell me what kind of Yin man is it?" As soon as they heard that Hu Langzhong actually met a Yin man and escaped by luck, these soldiers guarding the city suddenly became interested and surrounded Hu Langzhong, asking Hu Langzhong to talk about it in detail.

"It's okay, but I've been running for so long, and I'm very thirsty, if only I could have a few sips of wine to eat......"

"You're just that. Brothers, bring wine to Hu Langzhong......"

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