Chapter 3: The Godslayer, Promise
Xu Ying stood on the street of Jiangjiatian Village in a daze, surrounded by panicked villagers fleeing in all directions.
Not far away, there was a black and white snake demon on the street corner, pointing at him with the tip of his tail, and let out a piercing scream as he watched the fleeing villagers, and his tongue stuck out of the elder.
The villagers were already frightened, some crawled outside to report to the official, and some hid in the house with their wives and children, and shivered with the door latch.
Those who are brave hide behind windows or doors and peek out.
Xu Ying stood alone on the street, with the corpse of the green-robed god at his feet.
After a while, the boy came to his senses and looked around.
The villagers who were originally familiar with him would even joke with him, affectionately calling him Xiao Ying Ah Ying, and jokingly calling him Xu Xiaosoft, but now they are afraid of him like a god.
"I'm standing up for you, you shouldn't be afraid of me......"
Xu Ying said silently in his heart.
It's okay that we are bullied and overwhelmed by the officials, this god of wood carving and clay sculptures, eats and drinks us, and enjoys our offerings, but still oppresses us.
They think we're animals, but we're not animals!
We are human!
Will resist, will take revenge!
"But why are you afraid of me?" Xu Ying was puzzled.
After a while, Xu Ying stepped over the corpse of the green-robed deity, came to the ancestral hall and sat down behind the offering table, without saying a word, grabbed the roast chicken and roast duck on the offering table and ate it.
He eats very carefully and seriously, which is the habit of snake catchers.
To catch snakes, you must be patient and courageous, but the most important thing is not to go hungry.
Hunger means lack of physical fitness, and if you don't have enough physical energy, you will make mistakes and may die under the mouth of a poisonous snake.
Xu Ying caused a big disaster, and he couldn't leave on an empty stomach, he had to eat and drink enough.
He ate a roast chicken, half a roast duck, stuffed the remaining half duck into his arms, then ate a few fruits, and picked up a few more fruits and stuffed them into his pocket.
Xu Ying stood up and wrote a line on the wall with Jiang Yuanwai's blood.
"God killer, Xu Yingye!"
Xu Ying wiped the blood on his hands on Jiang Yuanwai's body, got up and left the ancestral hall, and returned home.
His house is surrounded by walls, he doesn't have much property, and he doesn't even have much rice in the tank, only some fried rice noodles for dry food.
If snake catchers want to go into the deep mountains and old forests to catch snakes, they naturally don't need rice and noodles, but only dry food.
Xu Ying brought three days' worth of dry food, looked at the scriptures he had collected, hesitated, and did not bring them. He left his house and walked out of the village.
When he walked to the entrance of the village, his eyes suddenly became sour, he turned around and knelt down to Jiangjiatian Village.
"Over the years, thank you for your care, I should give it to my fathers and fellow villagers...... Sorry for the trouble! He prostrated deeply.
Xu Ying stood up and turned to leave.
"Ah Yingβ" A woman's voice called behind her.
Xu Ying turned around and saw a girl wearing a bride's clothes, sitting at the door of the ancestral hall, holding Jiang Lu's body in her arms.
"Ah Ying, thank you!"
She shouted, "You have to live well!" β
"Take care!" Xu Ying waved his hand and left Jiangjiatian Village.
I was an orphan. He said silently in his heart. My godfather raised me as his own son, and the people in the village treated me very well.
I will repay them for killing the gods.
I will leave for their safety.
This is gone......
And he will not come back!
"Heyβ"
Suddenly, a voice called him, Xu Ying followed the sound and saw a big black and white snake on the willow tree on the side of the road, poking out his head, it was the snake demon he had captured.
Xu Ying looked at him, did not stop, and rushed forward.
"Promise, wait for me!"
The snake demon hurriedly came down from the tree, his tail swam and quickly followed him, and said with a smile, "You killed the gods, you are miserable!" Tell you, all the gods near Lingling are under the command of the City God, and the City God knows that you are killing the gods, and he will definitely not allow you! The world is so big, there is no place for you! β
Xu Ying turned a deaf ear and continued on his way.
The snake demon once fought with him, Xu Ying chased him in the mountains for three days and three nights, before chasing this big snake to the point of exhaustion and capturing him, at this moment Xu Ying wanted to get rid of the snake demon but it was not easy.
The snake demon followed his footsteps and said with a smile: "If you kill Jiang Yuanwai, the government will not let you go!" You know the government, there are the most powerful people in the world, these people are called ε© (pronounced nuo)! These beings who have mastered the art of Wu, hehe, don't talk about you and me, even the gods are very scared......"
Xu Ying couldn't help frowning when he heard the word "Wu".
"Zhou Li Xia Guan" has clouds, opens the secret treasure, communicates with heaven and earth, enslaves ghosts and gods, and drives away the plague and ghosts (it is difficult to write in Zhou Li), and later generations are called Wu Shi.
The imperial courts of successive dynasties reused the nu masters, and selected outstanding people to enter the states, counties and counties as officials.
For people in the world, the servants among the officials are more terrifying than gods and demons.
Rather provoke gods and demons, and don't mess with officials.
If you provoke the gods and demons, you will be killed at most, but if you provoke the master, even if you become a ghost, you will have to die again!
"The government will inevitably send a master, you offend the gods, and you offend the master, you are doomed!" The snake demon chattered.
Xu Ying was furious: "If you follow me again, believe it or not, I will turn you into a snake?" β
The snake demon smiled: "Wax me into a dried snake, and you will take it to pay taxes?" Now that you have a murder on your back, you will be caught in the net if you go to the yamen. β
Xu Ying walked quickly, but he couldn't shake him off, so he had to say patiently: "What do you want to do with me?" β
The snake demon smiled,ββ of course, he didn't have eyebrows, and said with a smile: "I want you to teach me the Elephant Power Bull Demon Fist." β
Xu Ying's footsteps didn't stop, and when he heard the words, he lost his voice and said: "My Elephant Power Bull Demon Fist has just been cultivated, but you are a family heirloom with an orderly inheritance, why do you want me to pass it on to you?" β
The snake demon was silent, and after a moment, said, "I have been refining for one hundred and twenty years, and I have now cultivated to the third level, and I have never refined to the fourth level. My father, my grandfather, neither of them practiced the Elephant Power Bull Demon Fist to the fourth level. β
Xu Ying said angrily: "You have no hands and feet, and it is natural that you can't practice." Don't follow me! β
The snake demon smiled: "The sky and the earth are big, is there a place for you to stay?" My Qinyan Cave is a good place to hide. β
Xu Ying's eyes lit up, and he said with a smile: "Brother Snake, Brother Snake, how to get to Qin Yan Cave?" β
On the first day of the new year, the Lingling City God Temple coincides with the market, and there are many good men and women to worship the City God, which is very lively.
The Lingling City God, named Xue Lingfu, has also recovered from the state of the statue, turned into flesh and blood, and enjoyed incense and sacrifices.
Suddenly, a burst of cyan smoke came out of the ground, turned into a two-foot-tall land god, trotted through the smoke, jumped onto the city god Xue Lingfu, and whispered a few words in his ear.
Chenghuang Xue Lingfu was furious: "Killing my Yin Court official violates the rules of heaven, this wind cannot last, and the promise of crime deserves death!" Pass my order, Lingling 800 mountains, 500 water systems, 1,200 villages and towns, big and small gods, search for promises, kill on the spot, to set an example! β
"Wait!"
Suddenly, a voice came from outside the temple, and the Chenghuang Xue Ling Mansion followed the prestige, but it was Lingling County Commander Zhou Yang who led a group of officials to break into the temple.
An official stepped forward and said, "Xu Ying is a living person, he committed a crime, killed Jiang Yuanwai, and naturally used the law of the yang world to punish the crime." This case is under the management of my Lingling County Ya! Xue Chenghuang, you can take back your fate! β
Chenghuang Xue Lingfu sneered and said, "If you promise to kill the gods of my Netherworld, you should violate the laws of my Netherworld, so naturally you should use the laws of the Netherworld to punish the crime!" Zhou County Order, please go back. β
Zhou Yang, the county commander, laughed, turned around and walked out, walked to the temple gate, stopped and said: "Since the rebellion of the king of Dongping County, the Yin Court has been encroaching on the yang world step by step, and the control is getting wider and wider!" But in Lingling, this acre and three points of land has always been the territory of my Zhou family, and the Yin Court does not want to touch it! Come! β
All the officials under his command bowed down one after another.
Zhou Yang's face was gloomy: "Give me Xu Ying to arrest and bring him to justice, but if he resists, or is obstructed by outsiders, no matter whether the other party is a god or a human, he will be killed!" β
"Yes!" A group of officials left.
Chenghuang Xue Lingfu snorted coldly and waved his hand. The land god on his shoulder understood, and immediately jumped down, turned into a wisp of green smoke and drilled into the ground, tracking Zhou Yang away.
Soon after, the county commander Zhou Yang led a group of officials to Jiangjiatian Village. When the villagers saw the official errand, they were even more frightened than when they saw the god master, and they knelt on the ground one after another, not daring to raise their heads.
Zhou Yang led a group of officials to walk among the kneeling villagers, looked at the green-robed god statue on the ground with interest, and stretched out his hand to gesture at the big hole in the statue's head.
"An alienated demon method that can make the body much bigger, and it is a martial arts method." He laughed in a low voice, "This promise is a grass people, and the cultivation is actually a demon law, which is a bit interesting." β
Zhou Yang waved his hand and asked the official to run errands, while he sat on the back of a villager and said with a pleasant face: "Uncle Yu, how is this year's harvest?" β
Jiang Yubo is Jiang Jiatian's Li Zheng (an official position similar to the village chief and town mayor), and said cautiously: "Today's harvest is good, and I have beaten three more buckets of millet." β
Zhou Yang nodded, with a kind smile on his face: "How are the crops growing?" β
"The crops are good." Jiang Yubo said with a smile.
Zhou Yang's face sank, and he shouted: "The harvest is good, the crops are also good, why is it so difficult to collect taxes in your village?" Don't you want this official to live a good life? β
Jiang Yubo knelt on the ground, not daring to speak.
Zhou Yang snorted and said, "This official collects donations and taxes, is it for himself?" No! It's for the imperial court! Can this official eat a grain of grain from the villagers? No! This official's money is issued by the imperial court! The food and drink of this official are all bought by Yulu, and he never takes anything from you little people! β
Jiang Yubo was submissive, kowtowing again and again: "My lord is honest and honest!" β
At this time, an official stepped forward, holding large and small scriptures in his arms, and said, "My lord, Xu Ying has absconded and is not at home. The subordinates found these things. β
These scriptures are the guiding exercises that Xu Ying collected, and when Xu Ying left in a hurry, he did not take them with him.
Zhou Yang picked up a scroll casually and flipped through it, originally a little careless, but when he saw the annotations left by Xu Ying on the scroll, his face couldn't help but change.
He scrambled to his feet, grabbed the other scrolls, and flipped through them as quickly as he could.
I saw that these scriptures also have their own annotations, and they are all commenting on the advantages and disadvantages of the exercises of each demon clan and their own perceptions, the words are like pearls, extremely concise, and the insights are extremely profound!
The villagers didn't dare to take a breather.
"This promise, I thought he was a god-killer, but I didn't expect him to cultivate the demon law and collect so many demon law scriptures!"
Zhou Yang was furious and sneered, "This fang harbors the heart of chaos in the world, and if it is not removed, it will become a big disaster!" Pass my orders, but if you encounter a promise, don't capture it alive, don't kill it! β
A group of officials received the order and quickly left Jiangjiatian to track down Xu Ying's whereabouts.
The villagers looked at each other, was this person in the mouth of the county commander Zhou Yang still the Xu Xiaosoft they were familiar with?
Zhou Yang returned to the county government with the rest of the scriptures.
In the backyard of the county government, an old man sat under the gazebo and drank tea, and Zhou Yang put the scriptures that promised to be annotated beside the old man, and stood aside respectfully.
The old man picked up a volume of scriptures, flipped through a page, and said with a smile: "These scriptures are just the exercises of the demon clan's qi harvesting period, and there is no follow-up method, what is Yang'er doing with them?" β
Zhou Yang, the county commander, hurriedly said: "Father, look at the annotations at the back. β
The old man was surprised, turned the back, and sure enough, when he saw Xu Ying's annotation, his face couldn't help but become solemn. He quickly flipped through one scroll of scriptures, then picked up another, swept it again, and picked up the next one!
In just a moment, Zhou Zhou Hang swept all the scriptures, and said with a solemn face: "The annotation of the scriptures, the understanding of the demon law has reached an extremely deep level, and the clan elder of my Zhou family who studies this way is only afraid that it is not as good as him!" Where did you get these books? Who is the commentator? β
Zhou Yang said: "A fourteen-year-old boy is a snake catcher. β
Zhou Zhou Hang raised his head in surprise: "Fourteen-year-old boy? β
Zhou Yang hurriedly said: "This person is Jiang Jiatian's snake catcher, named Xu Ying, somehow he actually refined the demon clan exercises and killed the gods offered by Jiang Jiatian. He is currently at large. I went and searched and found these books that he had commented on. β
Zhou Zhou Hang got up, with an unbelievable look on his face: "In order to study the demon law, the clan elder of my Zhou family did not hesitate to go deep into the forbidden area of the forbidden land and excavate the ancient cave mansion, and suffered heavy casualties!" But the opinions of those clan elders may not be as profound as this fourteen-year-old snake catcher! Yang'er, you must find this person and bring it back alive! β
Zhou Yang said cautiously: "Chenghuang is also chasing and killing this person, I am worried that he will fall into the hands of Chenghuang, so I gave a killing order." β
"Chenghuang Xue Ling Mansion?"
Zhou Hang's face also changed slightly, and he muttered, "If he falls into the hands of Chenghuang, then it is better to kill him, but it's a pity that this talent ...... Since it has alarmed the city god, then I will go to this matter in person. If I can capture Xu Yingsheng, it is best, if not, I will kill him myself, and I must not let him fall into the hands of Chenghuang! β
Zhou Yang bowed and said yes.
Monday flew away.
Zhou Yang straightened his waist, revealing a puzzled look, and said in a low voice: "Is the Demon Clan's Exercise really so important? Why are the ancestors and clan elders of my Zhou family so concerned about the demon clan exercises? β
The history of antiquity is so long that it is no longer verifiable, and there are not many written records left. In today's world, the human race mainly cultivates secret treasures, and the human body has six secret treasures, and if you open one of them, you can become a master and have incredible abilities.
The Zhou family is such a family of masters, one of the most powerful families in the world today, so Zhou Yang was puzzled by the behavior of his ancestors studying demon law.
"It's okay that the elders of my Zhou family are so concerned about demon law, Chenghuang is a yin god, why is he so concerned?" He said secretly in his heart.
He had heard some rumors in the clan that the ancestors of the Zhou family used demon methods to conduct some mysterious research, and some people said that it was the mystery of ascension!
It's just that Zhou Yang belongs to the peripheral personnel of the Zhou family, and he doesn't know much.
Jiangjiatian Village.
As the villagers cleaned up the mess, cleaned the streets, and promised their homes, a puff of smoke suddenly rose from underground.
In the smoke, a small figure with a short figure wearing a high hat and holding a deer's head staff came out of the ground, it was the land god in the nearby land temple, and he was still holding a scroll of scriptures in his hand.
Just now, the official messenger came to search, and after the land god caught a scripture, he was afraid that it would be discovered, so he hurriedly hid in the ground, and only dared to appear after the official messenger left.
The land god, who was no more than two feet tall, unfolded the scriptures, twisted his beard and shook his head, and shouted, "Bullshit! The bullshit of the promised annotation doesn't make sense! I'll show it to the city god! β
He took the scroll with him, plunged into the ground, and vanished.
Not long after, in the Lingling City God Temple, the City God Xue Lingfu unfolded the scroll of the Sutra that promised to be annotated, his face changed slightly, he studied it carefully, and suddenly closed the scroll.
"Is this a promised annotation? What a profound insight! β
Chenghuang Xue Lingfu instructed the land god, "You immediately send an order to all the gods around Lingling, capture Xu Ying, don't kill him, I want to live!" β
The land god hurriedly said: "Most of the gods near Lingling have already been dispatched to search for the whereabouts of Xu Ying, and they are not on the shrine, so it is not easy to inform them!" Moreover, Zhou County's subordinates have already been dispatched, and they are also searching for Xu Ying's whereabouts! β
Chenghuang Xue Lingfu frowned, got up from the shrine, walked out, and said lightly: "That's it, I'll go there myself." Xu Ying is very important, if the Zhou family also wants to get him, then I have to guarantee that even if he dies, the body must not fall into the hands of the Zhou family! β
ββββ brothers have money to hold a money field and no money to hold a personal field, the house pig is serious about coding words, and the results of the new book are up to everyone.