At night, Cheonggye Village is more quiet than the peace of daytime.

Sitting in the humble courtyard, the little girl was holding an envelope in a daze, and the letters in it had been read to her by her brother many times, but the little girl couldn't feel the man's emotions from the formatted sentences.

On the contrary, it was this chic envelope that made her seem to be able to see the playful expression of the other party when they drew a comb on the paper......

"Sister, haven't you slept yet?"

The thin boy who had just finished school stepped in from outside the courtyard gate, and when he saw that his sister was still sitting in the courtyard, he thought he was waiting for him to come home, and he couldn't help but feel warm in his heart, and said:

"Next time, you don't have to wait for me to get out of school, you can rest first and ......"

"Huh? Who's waiting for you to get out of school? ”

The little girl woke up like a dream and sighed:

"I'm worried about Brother Zhang."

Click!

The thin boy's move shattered on the spot, and the whole person was stunned.

It turns out that I don't deserve it......

Looking at her younger brother's lost soul, the little girl seemed to think of something and said:

"You're back, quick! Teach me to recognize the words on the letter, and teach me to write! ”

"Okay, okay!"

The thin boy replied helplessly, his sister hasn't married yet, and he, who is a younger brother, always feels that he is a superfluous person......

……

While the two siblings were talking, a strange thing was happening in the mountains in the distance......

A phantom shadow "floated" above Zhang Ran, who was practicing qi with his eyes closed, in a state that violated the laws of physics, but Zhang Ran didn't know anything about it.

The shadow was muddy, it was not rational or aggressive, and the light of the sun during the day made it unbearable, only night was its only time to move, and in the past days, it had been wandering unconsciously in the mountains and forests, I don't know how old it was.

The reason why I came here was completely attracted by the strange fragrance emitted by Zhang Ran......

Hungry.

The black shadow looked at Zhang Ran with closed eyes numbly, even if it was unconscious, it began to hold Zhang Ran's head under the control of instinct, the two sides were face to face, and the black shadow took a light breath.

Immediately, a wisp of white "qi" slowly floated out from Zhang Ran's nose, and as soon as he saw this "qi", the black shadow monkey under the control of instinct hurriedly swallowed it in one gulp!

After swallowing the "qi", a sense of refreshment and a sense of fullness emerged in the perception of the black shadow, and at the same time, it wanted to swallow more and more "qi".

Inhaling again, another wisp of white gas floated out of Zhang Ran's nose, this time the black shadow no longer stopped to feel it carefully, it was like a greedy beast, inhaling a big gulp of "qi" at Zhang Ran's nose!

Zhang Ran, who had lost a lot of white qi, looked a little ugly at the moment, and his whole breath became weak as if he was seriously ill......

Taoism has clouds, and the human body has three treasures, saying: essence, qi, and spirit.

The essence deficiency is weak, the qi deficiency is weakness, and the spirit deficiency is drowsiness, and the white qi that was sucked out of Zhang Ran's nose is actually the "qi" in the three treasures of his essence and spirit!

And having lost so much qi, although Zhang Ran was unaware of the mysterious black shadow lying on his body frantically absorbing qi, the negative states such as fatigue caused by qi deficiency still made him feel quite uncomfortable.

His eyelids moved, and Zhang Ran was about to wake up, but he immediately felt that the mysterious Yuan Qi entrenched in the twelve canons moved!

The mysterious vitality is linked to Zhang Ran's essence and spirit, and once the essence is depleted, it will automatically replenish it to ensure Zhang Ran's immortality.

And now that he sensed that Zhang Ran had qi deficiency, the mysterious vitality naturally began to replenish it, so in just a moment, Zhang Ran was directly re-filled with spirit!

After the discomfort disappeared, Zhang Ran felt that something was wrong, even if he was slow to react......

……

After inhaling Zhang Ran's breath, the black shadow let go of him.

At this time, the black shadow was no longer like the walking dead as before, its face and form gradually became clear, and a smart light was born in its numb eyes for the first time.

"Who am I?"

It struggled to remember, but after all, it was too long ago to wear out most of its memories, and it could not remember who it was, nor where it came from or where it was going.

Among the remaining memory fragments, there was only the sight of a fierce insect pounced on him, and then ......

"I remember, I've been eaten by a big worm!"

The dark shadow suddenly realized, but there was no sadness or resentment.

At this time, looking at it again, this is a middle-aged man dressed in sackcloth, but his body is translucent, and his face is also blue and blue like a living person......

No, it's not alive at all!

It is a ghost, a ghost, a person who is devoured by a tiger.

Legend has it that although the ghost is a person who is eaten by a tiger, it not only does not resent the tiger, but instead helps the tiger attract others to eat it, which is where the idiom "to fight for the tiger" comes from.

This is a ghost, but the tiger that ate it is nowhere to be found, perhaps it died of old age in a long time, or it may have been killed by more people after eating people, in short, it is an ownerless ghost.

"Shanjun is gone, where should I go?"

The ghost fell into deep thought, and then in a blink of an eye, he saw the tiger staring at it stupidly......

"Mountain-kun!"

The ghost was surprised, and quickly floated over in the tiger's stunned eyes, and then knelt down to it with great fanaticism, and said:

"Shanjun, I am willing to seduce people to eat for you, please take me in!"

Oh?!

The tiger was shocked, who are you, brother? Do we know each other?

And this king never eats people, don't wronged me, if the two-legged beast hears it, this king will be finished!

After a long time of Zhang Ran's teaching that "no one is allowed to hurt people", the tiger has no interest in human flesh at all, or it is not interested in any food.

It doesn't have to eat anymore because it enjoys the fragrance every day by Zhang Ran's side, and the occasional hunting is only because of nature, and it wants to use the prey to please Zhang Ran......

Anyway, don't say that this king eats people, you are spewing blood from your mouth, and this king wants to sue you for slander in the official mansion!

Oh~

The ghost and the tiger are together, and they naturally understand the meaning of the tiger, but after understanding, the ghost is confused:

"Shanjun doesn't eat people?"

Oh!

Nonsense, this king is clean and never eats people!

"Ah......h

The ghost was stunned, it turns out that there are tigers that don't eat people, so isn't it useless for himself?

Whatever he does!

The ghost gritted his teeth, anyway, a tiger that doesn't eat people is a tiger, and for himself, as long as the other party is a tiger, it is enough.

"Shanjun, please take me in!"

The ghost bowed deeply, and then the ghost body turned into a light smoke, and under the frightened gaze of the tiger, it flew straight into its mouth with lightning speed......

Boom!

The tiger retched for a long time and didn't spit out the ghost, but made himself very uncomfortable, and finally had to be incompetent and furious:

Oh! You come out to the king!

"I'm sorry Shanjun, the small origin has lost too much, and now I can't come out of it, I can only cultivate in your body for a few days, and then you can naturally instruct me at will, sorry for the little one......"

Who's going to command you? Get out of here for King Ben!

Kouku-gu ......

"No need to vomit, you can't vomit."

A calm voice sounded around the bonfire, and the tiger hurriedly looked over, only to see that Zhang Ran had withdrawn from the cultivation state at some point, and was looking at it with interest at this time.

Oh! Two-legged beast, save the king!

"Tsk!"

Zhang Ran was actually extremely vigilant when the vitality in his body was abnormal, and practicing with peace of mind did not mean that he didn't know anything about the outside world, and a few words from the ghost in the middle of the night directly woke him up.

It's just that he's been watching the play, and he wants to use this ghost to probe the tiger's true thoughts, so he pretended not to see it.

And now, Tiger's performance has satisfied him.

"Ghost, I didn't expect the records in the sect's classics to be true......"

When he saw the ghost for the first time, Zhang Ran found an account in the classics of a certain generation of ancestors from the depths of his vast memory:

[The ghost, the person who is devoured by the tiger, it is like an ordinary ghost, but it is different from others, although it is devoured by the tiger, but it is willing to act for the tiger, and often lures the living to make food for the tiger......]

【…… It coexists with the tiger, the tiger makes people come to eat, and the tiger lives with the vitality of the tiger, and after the tiger dies, it loses its vitality and gradually dies out. 】

This is just one of the many anecdotes, Zhang Ran originally thought that these were just folk anecdotes recorded by the ancestors, but since he personally met the soul envoy Niu Tou Ma Mian, he has some beliefs.

And today, when he actually bumped into a ghost, Zhang Ran immediately remembered these ......

Zhang Ran comforted the frightened tiger, lest its roar wake up the sleeping boys, and then said:

"Don't be afraid, the ghost won't hurt the tiger host, on the contrary, since you got this ghost, it's an extra good helper!"

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