I tugged at Liya's sleeve, "Let's go." ”

"What's wrong?" She asked, puzzled.

I pointed to the two paper figures and whispered, "Look at those two people." ”

She looked back, not surprised at all, "It's all like this, these two paper figures also followed the two of us just now, this is the guide." ”

As she spoke, the two Taoist priests had already walked over, and the two paper figures stopped five paces away from us, and after a moment turned and walked back, disappearing into the darkness.

Within five minutes, two more Taoist priests came, still the same two paper figures, carrying red lanterns and following behind.

I also noticed that the Taoist priests who came over were holding a piece of jade, large and small, and the shape was exactly the same as the one Liu Yuming gave me.

There is a table in front of the temple with a red cloth and a pile of paper, and every Taoist priest who comes over will take out a piece of paper to write something on it, and then take the paper into the temple.

I swallowed, I don't know what's going on inside, it's a scary atmosphere.

Liya patted my hand and said, "Don't be afraid, you have my uncle's jade, they don't dare to act rashly." ”

I frowned, "This jade is very useful?" ”

"Of course, this jade represents identity." She also took out a piece of jade from her pocket, but it was bigger than mine, and the word Yu Tong was engraved on the back.

She explained: "The pedestrian avenue, called the Taoist, the male Taoist priest is called the dry road, the female Taoist priest is called Kun Dao, these years there are few people with real skills, Tianji Taoist on the basis of the Qiankun Taoist priest and the beginning of the female Taoist is called Yu Tong, male Taoist is called Daotong. ”

I was amazed to hear that it was still like this.

Liya then said: "Look at my uncle's piece of jade, with the word Fang Shi engraved on the back, this is a Taoist priest who is quite capable now. ”

I was busy taking out the piece of jade, squinting my eyes and smoking for a long time, and found that it was indeed engraved with the word Fangshi.

Because this piece of jade is small, the words on the back are even smaller, and I didn't notice it before.

I thought for a moment and asked, "Then what am I?" ”

"Nothing." Liya's words struck people, "You are not even a half-hung Taoist priest now." ”

Well, I'm looking for abuse on my own.

She patted me on the shoulder and said, "So I keep telling you that you must come to participate in the Taoist competition, if you have a good score this time, you can get the title of Yu Tong, and you will have an official Taoist identity, and the information will be registered with the Tianji Daoist, if something happens to you, the Tianji Daoist will send someone to investigate and hold you accountable." ”

Speaking of this, she lowered her voice, "Moreover, after you have an official status, as long as you complete the work sent by the Heavenly Machine Dao Leader every year, you will have a corresponding income, and if you get into his eyes, you can learn a few tricks from him, and you will be of infinite use for a lifetime." ”

I understand what she means, that is, I used to be a part-time worker, no one cares about no benefits, and after I get the title of feather boy, I will be a regular worker and eligible for benefits.

"Daoist Tianji is really amazing." I sighed.

Obviously, he found someone to work for him, but everyone was willing and even proud of it.

Liya agreed, nodded and said: "Yes, generally speaking, serious cultivators are more hard-working, and if the Taoist is like this, the Taoist priest can not only support his family with his ability, but also have the opportunity to learn from him, and at the same time have time to join the Tao, which can be regarded as killing three birds with one stone." ”

I thought about it carefully, really, I secretly spit on myself, I thought about things too dark before, maybe Daoist Tianji really had good intentions.

I wondered, "But aren't you a witch cultivator?" Can you participate? ”

She nodded, "Both the Ghost Dao and the Witch Dao can participate, and the Tianji Dao Elder said that as long as it is used for the right path, it is good." ”

I nodded, suddenly curious about Daoist Tianji.

Liya took the jade into her arms and said to me, "Jinggu has talked to you, we have to hurry up and fill out the form." ”

As she spoke, she led me to the table, picked up two pieces of paper, and said, "Write your birthday on it." ”

I hurriedly wrote my name and birth date, and then followed Liya into the Lamp Temple.

There were already quite a few people standing inside, gathering in twos and threes to talk.

When Leah and I went in, we stood in the corner.

I didn't dare to speak out, mainly because Yimen was still chasing me now, and I was sure that someone was staring at me here, so I better keep a low profile and be safer.

Just as he was thinking about keeping a low profile, he suddenly heard a hoarse voice.

"Yu Yang, you're still here after all."

My heart sank, and I turned my head to see Zhao Rou standing at the door, with a sinister smile on the corner of her mouth, walking towards me.

When she approached and saw her face clearly, my heart sank.

Zhao Rou is not a few years older than me, and she is officially in her prime, but now her sideburns and hair are white, and although her face is young, she looks extremely unnatural, and she can't mobilize the muscles on her face when she speaks.

When she talked to me, she could only see her mouth moving, and her words were slurred, "I heard that you worshipped Liu Yuming as a teacher, what's the matter, do you dare to compare with me?" ”

Liya stood in front of me and said with a cold face: "Zhao Rou, you are enough, this is the Lighting Temple, we are here to participate in the Taoist competition, not to make an appointment with you." ”

The smile on her face disappeared, her dark eyes rolled around, and she mocked, "Don't she dare? That's right, when I was in Yimen, I slapped me twice in a row, and I had no power to fight back. ”

No one in the temple spoke, they all stared at us.

I looked around, thought about it, had a plan, pretended to be angered by her, took a few steps forward, and said angrily: "That was before, I have the ability to fight now." ”

Zhao Rou sneered, "I haven't seen you for a few days, but I have a temper." ”

As she spoke, she took two steps back, and with a wave of her hand, the Taoist priests around her automatically gave up a piece of land.

Riya stopped me, and I smiled at her, "It's okay. ”

Her face was full of concern, but in the end she respected me and stepped aside.

I took out my sword and put on a stance.

Zhao Rou's eyes suddenly became sharp, and she came towards me with a cruel smile, and I swung the copper coin sword to meet her, and hit her shoulder with all my might.

I was about to touch her shoulder, but the next moment, she avoided her to the right in a strange posture and punched me in the waist at the same time.

I felt like I had been hit by a big rock, and my heart ached.

She raised her leg to kick me in the neck, and there was no chance to escape, so I had to turn my back and kick her hard.

"Hmm......"

I gritted my teeth and grunted, was kicked against a nearby post, and fell to the ground.

With the smell of blood in my mouth, I wiped the corners of my mouth and struggled to get up, only to fall to the ground again.

There was a burst of laughter all around, and my face turned red, and I lowered my head, hoping to find a crack in the ground to get into.

Zhao Rou stepped forward and raised her foot to kick me, but Liya stepped forward to block her, "Enough is enough." ”

"Okay." Zhao Rou raised her eyebrows, sneered and said, "Yu Yang, you will always be so cowardly." ”

I pressed the peachwood sword under me and looked at the people around me quietly, and the expressions of these people were really not as solemn as before.

I lay on the ground and didn't speak.

"Submit the registration form!" A person came out of the main house of the Lighting Temple and said in a loud voice.

The people didn't look at me anymore, scrambling to hand over the piece of paper with my name and date of birth written on it.

Liya helped me up, frowned, and said, "You're not that weak, why do you want to do this?" ”

I took out a bottle of water, took a sip, suppressed the bloody breath in my throat, and then whispered, "I lost face, but I am much safer." ”

When Zhao Rou was talking to me, many Taoist priests around me were looking at me, and it was difficult to keep that there was a good relationship that they had agreed to deal with me first.

Now that I was beaten like this by Zhao Rou, more people will pay attention to Taoist priest competition.

After all, I'm so weak, just get it after I'm done.

I'm not sure everyone thinks so, but at least I can distract somewhat, otherwise I wouldn't have room to move at all.

Liya sighed and said, "You really went out open-mindedly. ”

I tugged at the corners of my mouth, I really didn't do my best just now, but to be honest, with Zhao Rou's current ability, I did my best, and I could only barely make a draw with her.

"Do you know what's wrong with Zhao Rou?" I whispered to Leah.

She's also evil now.

Liya shook her head, "Actually, the master of the sect has gone astray, and now there are a lot of evil exercises in the ghost path of Yimen, and Zhao Rou may not know what he has practiced." ”

As he spoke, the people in the courtyard had already handed in the forms and went to the backyard one by one.

Liya and I hurried over and gave the form to the man standing under the eaves.

Seeing my name, the man looked up at me.

I thought he wouldn't let me in, but he then withdrew his gaze and said, "Let's go to the backyard." ”

With that, he left.

I breathed a sigh of relief and followed Liya to the backyard.

As soon as I entered, I was shocked.

In the backyard, there are rows of red ropes, each with a copper bell hanging from it, and a bamboo tube hanging under the bell.

Liya sighed and said, "I hope we can draw a medium level mission this time." ”

I was about to ask her why she was medium, when the crowd suddenly fell silent.

Liya and I couldn't squeeze in, and we couldn't see what was going on.

"Dear fellow Daoists, this year's rules are the same as in previous years, and there are tasks and prices that need to be completed under each bell, and you can get corresponding rewards if you successfully complete them." A mechanical voice sounded, sounding like it had been processed.

When the words fell, the Taoist priests in the backyard all moved, choosing the bell they wanted.

Liya and I picked up the nearest bell to us, took it down, and went out of the Lamp Temple.

After running a long way, Liya stopped, trembling hands to open the bamboo tube under the bell, and muttered: "Medium, medium......"

When she took out the paper inside and looked at it, her face collapsed instantly, and her whole body wilted.

"What's wrong?" I asked her.

She said with a bitter face, "It's too simple. ”

I took the paper in her hand, and it was written that there was a family surnamed Sun on the outskirts of Lamp Temple Town, and the old lady in the family was reluctant to leave, so scared that the family didn't dare to sleep, saying that they were willing to pay a thousand yuan to invite the Taoist priest to take a look.

At the bottom, there is a red letter, saying that if it is successfully completed, there will be a triple reward, and if it is not completed, it will be deprived of the existing title.

"Why are you upset?" I don't understand, such a simple job, according to Liya's ability, can definitely be completed.

She dragged me to a hidden place, patted the bamboo basket around my waist, and said, "Baby, listen carefully, let me know when someone comes." ”

There was a rustling sound from the bamboo basket.

This corpse worm has become a sperm.

"Our job is all randomly chosen, and no one knows what you chose except yourself, including the people of the Dimensity Dao Master." Liya explained: "So, the simpler it is, the easier it is to be targeted, and if someone gets it extremely hard, and if they can't finish it at all, they will rob others." ”

As soon as she said that, I understood.

These jobs given by the chief of Tianji Dao do not look at the process but only look at the results, as long as you can complete a job in the end, you will succeed.

"That's not a mess." I said with a frown.

The punishment for not completing it is very strict, and the reward is so generous......

Liya sighed and said, "No, I feel like I'm going to finish." ”

I patted her on the shoulder and said, "It's okay, I'll protect you." ”

As I spoke, I opened the bamboo tube in my hand, and after seeing the contents on it, I suddenly felt that fate was playing a joke on me.

The paper was old, with a few drops of blood on it, and it must have been drawn more than once before.

It is said that the yin qi in the town of Lamp Temple has become heavier and heavier over the years, allowing me to find the root cause and eradicate it.

After seeing the bonus below, I opened my mouth wide, pointed at the zeros and counted them three times, and stammered, "500,000 ......"

Liya looked helpless, pointed to the end of the paper and said, "Look who made the request." ”

I looked at it for a long time and barely recognized the word Tianji.

"Remember the intersection you went to earlier? That's the root of the gloomy atmosphere in the whole town. Liya said.

I swallowed, "I'll go get this paper back." ”

Just kidding, isn't it looking for death for me to go and single out that ghost?

Liya shook her head, "If you don't go back, if you give up the job yourself, you will have to pay 100,000 yuan, and you will never be able to participate in the Taoist priest competition again." ”

My legs are weak when I hear it, and now I can't take out 10,000.

His back was getting colder and colder, and he always felt that Daoist Tianji had come up with such a rule to force the Taoist priests to fight.

If it is difficult to draw, there are only two options, one is to grab someone else's, and there is a possibility of seeing blood in the middle; The second is to survive to the end, be deprived of the title, and lose all benefits.

"I always thought that Taoist sparring was a fight between Taoist priests." I sighed.

"Let's swap." Liya said: "It's a big deal to be stripped of the title of feather boy, and I will come back next year." ”

I shook my head and put the two pieces of paper back in the bamboo tube, "It's not in a hurry, go and do your work first." ”

I want to get an official identity with the Tianji Daoist, firstly, for safety, and secondly, I really need money.

But I'd rather steal someone else's with a clear conscience than take Liya's.

She's helped me so much that I can't just mess with her all the time.

Liya and I rushed to Sun's house overnight and knocked on the door to call someone.

Ten minutes later, a middle-aged man cursed and opened the door.

Liya took out the bell and said, "We are Taoist priests, come and settle your family's affairs." ”

The middle-aged man yawned and said impatiently, "Are you sick?" When I came knocking on the door at night, my youngest son finally fell asleep, and I will talk about it at dawn. ”

With that, he slammed the door open.

Liya and I looked at each other, stunned for a moment, and couldn't help but smile.

"It's all because I'm in a hurry." I say.

I forgot that it was the middle of the night and I was sleeping.

She hurriedly said, "I don't blame you, I didn't react either." ”

I looked at the time, it was already past two o'clock in the morning, and it was not worth going back to the town, so I was going to squat in the cornfield opposite, who knew that I had just taken two steps to that side, and there was a rustling sound in Liya's bamboo basket.

We both suddenly became nervous, it was someone coming.

One glance at each other, and quickly ran into the cornfield.

Before he could get in, he heard a female voice full of jokes: "What are you hiding, it's me." ”

Liya stopped abruptly and lunged straight towards the source of the sound.

When I turned around, I saw her throw herself into the arms of a tall woman, happy as a little girl: "Sister Junmu, why are you here?" ”

"I called you, but you didn't answer, so I came to look for you." The woman said with a smile.

Liya took out her phone from her pocket and pressed the power button, but the screen didn't light up, and she said angrily: "It's out of power." ”

As she spoke, she pointed at me and said, "Sister Junmu, this is my friend Tuzi, Tuzi, called Sister Junmu." ”

I called out politely.

Jun Mu smiled faintly at me and said to Liya: "All the information this time has been leaked, and many people have rushed here. ”

"How could it be leaked?" My heart sank.

She said: "I haven't found out the specifics yet, so I'm here to talk about it." ”

As she spoke, her phone lit up.

Jun Mu glanced at it casually, his face sank, and said, "I still have something to do, go back first, in short, you should be careful." ”

She left in a hurry, and Liya looked at her back and said enviously: "If only I could become as powerful as Sister Junmu." ”

I glanced at the gate of Sun's house, hesitated for a moment, and pulled Liya to hide in the cornfield first.

"Who is Sister Jun Mu?" I asked curiously.

She said: "She is an apprentice accepted by Daoist Tianji three years ago, and Daoist Tianji values her very much, but no one knows where she came from except Daoist Tianji. ”

I see, she's a very good person.

Liya leaned close to me and whispered, "Even the master of the door is trying to woo her." ”

I was taken aback.

Liya and I hid in the cornfield until dawn, and sure enough, seven or eight Taoist priests, both men and women, came.

Several people stood at the gate of the courtyard, all wanting to do this work.

The man of the Sun family opened the courtyard door, and when he saw this posture, he immediately closed the door again.

Originally, several people were silently confronted, but a female Taoist priest made the first move, and several people drew their weapons and fought solidly.

The female Taoist priest who made the first move was very powerful, and she was only slightly injured when she ran fast, and she stabbed her in the thigh directly when she was slow to dodge, and she couldn't get up from lying on the ground.

She didn't care about the injured person, and kicked the courtyard door open.

Not long after I entered, I heard the adults in the room screaming and the children crying at the top of their throats, and there were faint voices of old people begging for mercy.

After ten minutes or so, all the sound stopped abruptly, and she came out of the room with a whisk in one hand and a knife in the other.

The man of the Sun family bent over and walked behind, his face was like earth, he was pale at first, and his legs were shaking when he walked.

When the female Taoist priest came out of the courtyard, the man of the Sun family immediately closed the door and bolted it.

The Taoist priest who was stabbed in the thigh was still lying on the ground, and the female Taoist priest didn't even look at it and walked away.

Liya and I looked at each other, and it was a cold sweat.

What is written on the information paper is to solve the Sun family's affairs, but it is not named whether it is excessive or beaten, but just now I can tell from listening to the sound in the house that she was directly beaten.

Serious super dojo, no matter how powerful a Taoist priest is, it is impossible to do it in ten minutes.

I shook my head secretly, it seemed fair, but it was a test of humanity everywhere.

When the woman was far away, Lia and I came out of the cornfield.

The man knew a little about first aid, and he had already torn the cloth off his clothes and bandaged it simply.

I called an ambulance directly and was relieved to put him in the car.

Tuzi took my phone, fiddled with it a few times, and exclaimed, "Tuzi, look at it." ”

I hurriedly looked over, and she opened a web page, on which were photos of information paper.

"So, everything that is simple is being targeted." I sighed.

If it hadn't been revealed, everything would have been random, and the Taoist priests who participated didn't know where each one was alive, and the scramble wouldn't be as fierce as it is now.

Little by little, my heart sank.

It's no accident that I took one of the hardest ones, and the location was leaked.

Someone's targeting me!

I frowned and asked Liya, "How did you choose the bell in previous years?" ”

She thought for a long time and said, "I'll just pick up one near me." ”

I crouched on the ground, with mixed feelings.

Now I have two options, either like that woman, go and grab a simple job; Either go to the intersection and single out the ghost who can only see bloody footprints.

The ghost at the crossroads was too powerful, and Xiao Yu showed him a real weapon but didn't use it, which shows that he was also afraid of that thing.

I couldn't solve it on my own.

"Liya, how many days is the deadline this time?" I asked.

She thought for a while and said, "Seven days." ”

"Tuzi, why don't we come back next year?" She said tentatively.

I shook my head and smiled bitterly, straightened up, and my eyes grew cold: "I only have one way." ”

After thinking about it for a long time, I couldn't figure out who the person behind this was, but it was obvious that this person was very powerful, and he forced me into such a situation step by step.

Ever since I worshipped Liu Yuming as my teacher, I have already been on the Tao.

first worship Liu Yuming as a teacher; Then in order to save the big tiger and grab the seal card, he came to participate in the Taoist priest competition; In order to obtain the qualification to participate in the Taoist training, I went to the crossroads and saw the terrible ...... of the ghost Give it up automatically, I don't have any money; To fight that ghost alone, if you want to win, you have to use dragon energy, and the identity of the yin dragon can't be hidden; Without dragon energy, I won't be able to obtain the title of Dao Tong this time.

Not to mention, I also want to snatch back the Yin Sealing Card from Yimen Ghost Dao and rescue the big tiger.

So, I can only go and steal the simple work from other people's hands.

I clenched the copper coin sword in my hand, and smiled bitterly in my heart, this person went around in such a big circle, and he actually wanted to force me to fight with others with my conscience.

Aside from bullying the village children when I was a child, I don't think I've ever done anything to be sorry for others.

It seems that I am afraid that it will not work in the future.

I took a deep breath and said to Lia, "Let's go, go back to town." ”

She asked, "What are you doing back in town?" ”

"Eating and sleeping, seven days, enough to raise your spirit to fight for it, isn't it?" I said with a sneer.

It is normal to light the lamp temple town during the day, and after staying up all night, Liya and I wanted to go back to the house to sleep, but when we passed by the intersection on the edge of the Yin Ren City, we stopped and looked at the street lights at the intersection.

There was a man hanging from the pole of the street lamp, dressed in red, his face was red and bloodshot, his eyes were bulging, his mouth was wide open, and he was no longer breathing.

It's the first time I've seen someone hang with a red face when they've grown so big, and usually people who hang themselves are blue-faced.