Zhong Zhengnan's decision to leave the city caused everyone to stay up with him for most of the night, and when he changed into the white robe prepared by the old shopkeeper and buttoned up the gray hair cover, it was already close to dawn.

After saying goodbye to the old shopkeeper, Li Fu, and Bu Dao, Zhong Zhengnan left the shop and walked to the west city gate, accompanied by the senior sister and the snow tongue girl, and they said that they would send him to the city tower.

Because it has not been peaceful recently, the west gate is closed at night and opened at sunrise. Zhong Zhengnan had no choice, so he could only "go over the wall" and get out. Coming to the city tower, the three of them stood side by side by the city wall with arrow stacks, looking at the basic shape of the spout peak in the darkness ahead.

Tian Yan suddenly took out a spirit talisman, handed it to Zhong Zhengnan, and said: "This is a hidden spirit talisman, sticking it on your body, it can cover up the aura fluctuations on your body, hide your identity as a monk, and you can't see through it below the Yuan Baby, but it only has a seven-day effect, come back early!" ”

Zhong Zhengnan took the spirit talisman, put it under his shirt, and said gratefully: "Thank you, senior sister!" Seven days is almost enough! ”

Snow tongue tugged Zhong Zhengnan's white robe, and only held back one sentence for a long time: "Don't be a hero, don't be ashamed to run away, you have to remember, don't die, if you die, I can't live!" ”

Zhong Zhengnan pressed the little girl's head, rubbed it a few times, and said that he knew that even if I didn't care about my own life, I should think about my snow tongue girl, rest assured.

Taking a deep breath, Zhong Zhengnan jumped onto the side of the city wall, grinned at the senior sister and the little girl, and then recited the incantation, "Heaven and earth are infinite, Qiankun borrows the law, the wind god is ordered, I am fast, and the god is as urgent as the law!" Speed! ”

Behind Zhong Zhengnan, who was white-robed and white-bearded and white-haired, his light wings suddenly opened, and in this situation, Zhong Zhengnan suddenly became arrogant, laughed, jumped down, and disappeared in an instant.

Tian Yan looked at the figure in the distance, and with a thought, a white object floated out of the jade bracelet on her wrist, which was a paper crane with a stack of rune paper.

I saw that a breath of aura was injected into the paper crane, and at the same time he said softly: "The little junior brother has already left the city, look at him!" After saying that, the paper crane seemed to be alive, flapped its wings and flew away, flew out of the city, and disappeared in a flash.

Seeing this, Snow Tongue asked expectantly, "Senior Sister is sending a message to Second Senior Sister?" ”

Tian Yan snorted, turned around and walked down the city tower, the little girl suddenly jumped up behind her, and said to herself excitedly: "The second senior sister is outside the city, great, the head is safe!" ”

After Tian Yan and Xue Yu walked down the city tower one after another, a thin old man suddenly walked out of the shadows somewhere by the city wall, he was dressed in a black robe, slightly hunchbacked, gray hair, dark complexion, and looked like an old farmer who had been working in the fields all year round.

He slowly moved to the position where Zhong Zhengnan had left before, squinted his eyes and looked at a place outside the city, the corners of his mouth were slightly upturned, and then there was a sudden strong wind near the city wall, and when everything subsided, the old man's thin figure disappeared, as if he was blown away by the wind.

A village dozens of miles away from Xiangfan City, surrounded by mountains, gurgling water, is a good place to retreat and cultivate, but unfortunately, the village houses are dilapidated and empty, and even the sound of dogs barking and roosters can not be heard, and it is terrifyingly quiet.

An old man in a white robe stood in the middle of the village, surrounded by a stout old locust tree, with many strips of red cloth wrapped around its branches, and an incense burner at the base of the tree. The white-robed old man squatted down, grabbed a handful of incense ashes from the incense burner, and sprinkled it on the ground, covering a pool of crimson on the ground.

The white-robed old man looked around, it seemed that there were still living people in this village, because the blood on the ground had not dried yet!

The village is called Liuxi Village, there are more than ten miles away from Huzui Peak, and further it belongs to the control of the Demon God Temple, Zhong Zhengnan, who is an old man in white robes, does not dare to venture in, and stops in Liuxi Village. I thought that this village, which had been poisoned by the Demon God Temple for a long time, had no way to live, and since entering the village, it has indeed been as I thought, dead and silent. If it weren't for the fact that the crops next to the village were still thriving, he would have wondered if the village had been abandoned for many years.

The blood on the ground was new, which meant that there might still be survivors in the village, or at least living creatures. In order to find out, Zhong Zhengnan urged Zhong Kui to teach the spell that could peep into all things, and glanced around.

Finally, behind a rotten wooden courtyard door, Zhong Zhengnan saw a child, looking at himself through the crack in the door.

Zhong Zhengnan withdrew the spell and walked towards the wooden door. Looking at the young boy who was only five or six years old, he saw the old man in the white robe walking towards him, picked up a piece of wooden stick in his hand, turned around and ran, came to stand still outside the door of the small courtyard, held the wooden stick with both hands, turned to face the door, his small chest rose and fell sharply, his breath was short, and he kept adjusting his standing posture.

Zhong Zhengnan pushed open the door, and at a glance he saw the little child whose face was red and trembling, but his eyes were extremely firm!

"Bad guy, stop!"

Before Zhong Zhengnan's right foot crossed the threshold, he was stopped by the child. In order not to scare the child, Zhong Zhengnan withdrew his right foot, stood outside the threshold, and said as gently as possible: "Child, I'm not a bad person!" I'm here to save people! ”

The child still didn't take a step back, clutched the wooden stick, and said: "You lied to people, grandpa said that there are no good people around here except Uncle Xia, tell me not to trust anyone!" ”

"And what about your grandfather? Let your grandfather come out and see me, and you'll know if I'm a good person! ”

"Grandpa is in pain, he has shed a lot of blood, and now he is asleep, and grandpa said that it will not hurt when he falls asleep!"

Faced with this child, Zhong Zhengnan had nothing to do for a while, so he had to emphasize again: "Child, I am really a good person!" The immortals in the city heard that there was a demon here, and they specially sent me to save people! It's true! ”

When the child heard the word "in the city", he subconsciously glanced at his coat pocket, and then asked, "Then tell me, where are you from?" ”

"Xiangfan, Xiangfan City!"

The child seemed to believe a little, and asked again, "How do you prove it?" Grandpa said that the good people in Xiangfan City have a brand! ”

Zhong Zhengnan's mind was in a hurry, and he quickly thought of what the brand in the child's mouth was, since the child heard the name of Xiangfan City, he was a little less hostile to himself, which means that the child's grandfather knew about the exorcism conference in Xiangfan City, then this brand must be an exorcism token Undoubtedly!

"Yes, yes!"

Zhong Zhengnan took out the exorcism token that his senior sister had handed over to him not long ago from the storage key, shook it in his hand, and said, "Look, isn't this it?" ”

The child was some distance away from Zhong Zhengnan and couldn't see it really, so he said, "You throw the sign over!" ”

The more cautious the child was, the more Zhong Zhengnan felt distressed, and when he heard the child's request, he threw the token over without hesitation, and the token fell right in front of the child, jingling.

The child stared at Zhong Zhengnan, said that he was not allowed to come in, then put down the wooden stick, bent down to pick up the token, turned his back, and took out a page of paper with the pattern of the exorcism order from his coat pocket, a token in one hand, a drawing in the other, and carefully compared them.

After a while, the child suddenly burst into tears, Zhong Zhengnan didn't care about anything else, walked in directly, came to the child's side, and asked, "What's wrong with you?" ”

The teary-eyed child didn't speak, he punched and kicked Zhong Zhengnan, and at the same time said with a crying voice: "Why did you come?" How did you come? ”

Zhong Zhengnan squatted down gently, held the child's shoulder, and said sorry to the ghost. Then the child dragged Zhong Zhengnan to the house with only half of the roof left, crying and begging as he went: "Grandpa Immortal, please save Grandpa!" ”

Following the child into the house, Zhong Zhengnan looked at a pile of hay, and the child stepped forward and stretched out his little hand to pick up the hay, revealing the figure of an old man in a yellow robe. The old man's eyes were closed, his body was stiff, and he was obviously out of breath.

The child saw that the white-clothed fairy was standing so far away, and he didn't come forward to help save his grandfather, so he urged: "Immortal grandfather, hurry up!" ”

Zhong Zhengnan looked at the child's pitiful appearance, and couldn't bear it, so he asked Zhong Kui: "Is there still salvation?" Or is it possible for you to open up in the impermanence of the underworld? ”

"It's all fate, it's impossible!" Zhong Kui replied.

Zhong Zhengnan sighed, stepped forward, and whispered to the child: "Your grandfather has gone to the sky to be a god, you want to ......"

"You're a liar!" The child suddenly cried and shouted, "Grandpa don't be a fairy, grandpa wants to accompany Xiaobao to grow up!" ”

Listening to the child's heart-rending cry, Zhong Zhengnan was at a loss, and he really didn't know how to soothe this child, so he could only pull the child into his arms and let him cry loudly.

The child cried for a while, pushed Zhong Zhengnan away, wiped his tears and whispered, "I know grandpa is dead, but ...... But don't all immortals come back to life? Grandpa said it, he said it! ”

The next moment, a golden light swept out from Zhong Zhengnan's eyebrows, and the spirit body appeared in front of the child, Zhong Zhengnan raised his eyes and looked, it was Zhong Kui who didn't know what nerves he had.

After Zhong Kui's figure appeared, the child stopped whimpering and looked timidly at this fairy with golden light.

Zhong Zhengnan stood up, glared at Zhong Kui, and said in his heart: "What are you going to do?" ”

Zhong Kui ignored Zhong Zhengnan's questioning, but looked at the child, and deliberately said in a deep voice: "Your grandfather became an immortal in the sky, and now he is very busy, so please ask me to come and see you, and he also asked me to tell you, cultivate well in the future, and when you also become an immortal, you can go to see him!" Oh, by the way, your grandfather also said that Xiaobao can't cry, he will be worried in heaven! ”

After speaking, Zhong Kui's figure slowly dissipated, and the child really held back his tears, biting his lip and looking at Zhong Zhengnan.

Zhong Zhengnan knew that it was somewhat inappropriate to deceive this child like this, but there was no other way at the moment, let's take one step at a time, in short, we can't let the child stay in this place of right and wrong anymore, we have to send it out as soon as possible. With Zhong Kui, who is more like a fairy, coming forward, Zhong Zhengnan's next words, the child is finally willing to listen.

After Zhong Zhengnan discussed with the child, he buried the bones of the old man in the yellow robe next to a willow tree at the entrance of the village, found a broken door panel and inserted it in front of the grave, and after learning the old man's name from the child's mouth, Zhong Zhengnan carved the four big characters of "Wuxiang's Tomb" on the wooden board, and finally let the child kneel and kowtow.

After the child got up, he took out a few pieces of stationery full of words from another pocket, and said, "This was originally given to Uncle Xia by Grandpa, but the day before yesterday, a bad guy chased after him, and Uncle Xia asked me to keep the letter paper in order to protect us, and he led the bad guy away." ”

Zhong Zhengnan took the letter, and after reading a few lines, his expression became solemn, not that he was making a fuss, but that the content on the letterhead was too shocking.

It turned out that the dead old man was the last corpse chaser in Xiangfan, and the letter said that when the Demon God Temple entered Xiangfan, he first found him, and threatened his grandson with his dependence, asking him to "return to his old business" and collect corpses for the Demon God Temple. The letter also said that he had participated in many evil deeds in the Demon God Temple, broken the rules of the corpse chaser, and knew that his sin was unforgivable, and it was not a pity to die, but he hoped that when the righteous monk saw this letter, he would treat his grandson kindly.

In addition, the old man also recorded what he saw and heard during this time in the camp of the Demon God Temple, which was very detailed, and the old man also added his own guess at the end of the letter, saying that the Demon God Temple must have arranged a terrifying array in the mountain behind Huzui Peak, and the righteous monks should be very careful.

Zhong Zhengnan carefully folded the letter, thinking about whether to rush back to Xiangfan immediately and inform the monks who might attack the mountain at any time about the contents of the letter, at this moment, the child suddenly asked: "Grandpa Immortal, can you go and save Uncle Xia?" ”

Zhong Zhengnan frowned, "In order to save you and lead away the bad guys, Uncle Xia?" ”

The child nodded lightly and begged again: "It's okay for you to save him, that bad guy seems to be very powerful, Uncle Xia can't win!" ”

Zhong Zhengnan is not easy to choose, the letter must be sent back to Xiangfan City soon, and the child cannot stay here, but the child's request cannot be ignored, and he doesn't know what to do for a while.