The night was low and the wind was howling.

The Li family's house was shrouded in a cold and gloomy atmosphere, the mourning hall in the house had not yet been removed, and there were plain cloth curtains everywhere, and all kinds of tributes on the table had rotted and maggots, and maggots crawled all over the table.

The coffin was empty, and there was no body of Li Heijiang's mother.

The bodies of Li's mother, Li Heijiang and his wife, and the bodies of their three sons and daughters were all taken away by the monks of the Xuanmen Taiping City Branch.

But whether it was the room where the mourning hall was arranged, or the other two rooms, they all looked messy, with a lot of damage to the tables, chairs, benches, and other furnishings, and the ground and walls were covered with traces of battle, the marks of fire, the cracks of the sword, and the claw marks of the ghost's claws......

There were also five pools of dried and dirty blood, and blood stains scattered everywhere, which looked terrifying.

The former was left by Li Heijiang's family of five, and they had no power to resist in the face of evil ghosts, and their hearts and livers were eaten by evil ghosts almost in front of them, so the blood stains were all over the mourning hall, which was relatively concentrated.

And the latter was left by the disciples of the Imperial Ghost Temple who came to exorcise ghosts, and obviously experienced a fierce battle before he died, not only destroying the furnishings in several rooms, but also being injured by evil ghosts during the battle, and blood dripping everywhere, even if it has dried up, there is still an extremely weak spiritual power remaining.

Li Heijiang sells meat for a living, and is more affluent than his neighbors, and his house is relatively large, and he has built a small courtyard with a fence.

There were chickens and ducks and other poultry in captivity in the yard, and some seasonal vegetables were planted, but now not to mention chickens and ducks, even the vegetable leaves have been swept away by the neighborhood, and the courtyard is scattered with glutinous rice, cinnabar and other evil spirits, and I don't know who sprinkled the blood of black dogs, and the smell is tangy.

Yue Luan was guarding the mourning hall, she came to exorcise evil spirits this time, she had reported to the Xuanmen branch in advance, and also received a shadow stone to record the beginning and end of killing evil ghosts.

It's just that she squatted here for two days and one night, and she didn't wait for the ghost to appear.

The monks who had taken over the ritual before her also did not wait for the ghost, they suspected that the evil spirit had given birth to some wisdom, and knew that a monastic monk was coming to kill it, so they fled to other places and hid.

It was impossible for Yue Luan to stay here forever, there was not much dry food left with her, and she would eat for two more days at most.

She was going to wait another day, if she didn't wait for the evil ghosts to come, she would give up first, go to a few small rituals to earn some money and food, and then consider whether to continue to complete the task of the Li family or change to something else.

This kind of environment is not suitable for cultivation, otherwise the ghost qi will enter the body, and the consequences will be unimaginable, ranging from a serious illness to a complete ruin.

Yue Luan kept his mind tight, and recalled the key points and tricks of the Demon Punishment Sword Style over and over again in his heart.

Suddenly, a gust of wind blew, the candles on the altar table in the mourning hall swayed, and Yue Luan felt a strong chill coming.

She looked out of the house vigilantly, and then saw a ghost figure passing through the fence without hindrance and slowly drifting into the courtyard of the Li family!

Yue Luan immediately took out a piece of talisman paper from his arms, stimulated it with spiritual power, and pasted it on his body.

This is the incomplete product left behind after her master failed to draw the blindfold talisman, and Yue Luan didn't know how much effect this talisman could have, but even if the effect was weak, it was better than not at all.

"Woo ......"

The ghost shadow floated into the mourning hall from the gate, and it seemed that he didn't see Yue Luan at all, and went straight to Li's mother's coffin.

"The talisman has taken effect!" Yue Luan was secretly happy in his heart.

The Eye Mask does not block the human eye, but the ghost eye, which can blind the five senses of the ghosts, making it difficult for them to detect the person holding the talisman.

A complete third-grade eye-covering talisman could even blind the five senses of a second-order peak ghost creature, but the talisman in Yue Luan's hand was a mutilated product, and she didn't know how long its effect would last.

The evil ghost shrouded in a thick ghostly aura came to Li's mother's coffin, circled around the coffin a few times, and then bowed to the empty coffin as if a living person worshiped the dead...... Yue Luan was shocked and suspicious of this scene, and was shocked that this ghost had indeed given birth to some wisdom, and wondered why it wanted to worship Mother Li.

Without having time to think about it, Yue Luan clenched the peachwood sword, moved his steps, and slowly approached the ghost thing.

Her cultivation is still shallow, and the sword qi she spawns can only cover the sword body, making it difficult to attack from a distance!

Roar!

Five steps away from the ghost, the evil ghost seemed to sense something, and suddenly got up and pounced on Yue Luan.

I saw that in the thick and cold ghost aura, a hideous grimace loomed, her eyes flashed with green glow, staring at Yue Luan deadly, and the ghost claws condensed by the ghost qi grabbed straight towards her heart.

Yue Luan was shocked in her heart, knowing that the mutilated eye covering charm had failed, but she didn't flinch and slashed out the long-brewing Demon Killing Sword Style!

Burst!

The light on the sword flickered, smashing the ghost claws in front of him, slashing into the ghost qi, and bursting out with a dazzling spiritual light.

The evil ghost was cut back a few steps by Yue Luan, and the ghost qi on his body was like ice and snow melting in the sun, and it dissipated a lot for a while, forming a gust of yin wind that made things in the mourning hall loud and noisy!

It was only at this time that Yue Luan saw the true appearance of the evil ghost in the ghostly aura, it was actually a seven or eight-year-old boy, who looked hideous and terrifying because he had turned into a ghost, but he could vaguely get a glimpse of his appearance before his death.

Yue Luan couldn't help but feel a trace of compassion in his heart, but he became more and more ruthless.

Only by completely killing this boy demon can he help his soul get out of trouble and be reincarnated.

The boy demon was slashed by the Demon Sword, and the ghost qi poured out all over his body, and he was much weaker than before, but after all, it was a ghost creature in the late stage of the first order, and it was not so easy to lose, but it was aroused to be ferocious, and the more ferocious Chao Yue Luan launched an attack.

Laugh at!

Snort!

The ghost qi re-condensed into ghost claws, constantly grabbing at Yue Luan, trying to tear her to pieces.

Yue Luan had just slashed out the powerful Demon Killing Sword Style, and the spiritual power in her body was a little unable to keep up, so she needed to adjust before she could continue to cut out the second sword.

Her form fluctuated, sometimes leaping to dodge the attacks of the demon claws, sometimes diving, slashing at the boy demon in a sharp sword style.

The peachwood sword conjured up a brilliant flower in Yue Luan's hand, either as dense as a storm or as fast as lightning, and every time he swung the sword, it was accompanied by the screams of evil ghosts and the dissipation of some ghostly energy, and the air around him seemed to be torn apart by this sword qi, making a sharp whistling sound.

As time passed, the battle between Yue Luan and the boy's demon became more and more intense.

Under Yue Luan's fierce attack, the boy's evil ghost gradually showed fatigue, but its ferocity did not diminish at all, and a terrible roar came out of its mouth, and when it opened its mouth, a thick and cold black gas gushed out, almost filling the entire Li family's courtyard, completely submerging Yue Luan's figure.

Suddenly, Yue Luan only felt a chill all over his body, and the peachwood sword in his hand seemed to have fallen into a thick quagmire, becoming extremely heavy.

The situation is getting more and more dangerous, but her heart is calmer than ever, she knows that if she can't solve this boy demon as soon as possible, she is afraid that she will die here!

Immediately, she gritted her teeth, silently recited the incantation in her mouth, and ran the method of "The First Layer of the Demon Sword Style", pouring all her belief in slaying demons and demons into this sword, the light on the sword became more and more dazzling, and at the moment when she caught the ghost shadow in the black air, she tried her best to slash the ghost head.

Qiang –

The sword light was like a rainbow, and it instantly cut through the black qi.

With a terrible scream, the head of the boy's evil ghost was cut off by Yue Luan's sword, and the viscous black gas fell like mercury on the ground, and disappeared into the dirt floor.

In front of Yue Luan, there was only a headless evil ghost left, standing quietly in place, endless ghost qi pouring out, turning into a yin wind and dissipating completely.

The boy did not die immediately, and the head that fell to the ground looked at Mother Li's coffin with difficulty.

Its glowing eyes briefly regained its clarity, as if it recalled the good things in its life, a smile appeared on the corner of its mouth, and the ghost body separated from its head gradually dimmed with the passage of ghost energy, and finally completely returned to nothingness.

Where its ghost body dissipated, a crystal clear spirit fell to the ground.

Yue Luan put away this spirit, but there was no joy in his heart, but an indescribable depression and heaviness.

She didn't go to the Xuanmen branch immediately, and stayed in the courtyard of the Li family until dawn.

Last night's fight was so noisy that it inevitably alarmed the neighbors, and some people were so frightened that they didn't sleep all night, but they didn't dare to come out at night, lest they be killed by evil spirits.

It wasn't until dawn that the neighbors dared to poke their heads out to look at the situation, and saw Yue Luan, dressed as a Taoist aunt, standing alone in the courtyard of the Li family, and immediately understood that the evil ghost who ate people's hearts and livers had been ambushed, and they all went out of the house to ask Yue Luan about the situation of the evil ghost, and after receiving an affirmative answer, they thanked him again and again.

Yue Luan asked this group of neighbors about Li Heijiang's family.

It turned out that about three years ago, there was a beggar who looked like seven or eight years old wandered here, and the kind-hearted mother Li saw that he was pitiful, and often hid from her son and daughter-in-law, and secretly helped him with the rations she saved.

But after a long time, this matter could not be hidden.

The daughter-in-law of the Li family also had a fight because of this, and Li Heijiang, at the instigation of his daughter-in-law, locked Li's mother in the house and prevented her from going out, and felt that she was too full on weekdays, and the meals she gave her every day became less and less.

When the beggar learned about this, he never came again, and he did not know where the wanderer had gone.

And Li's mother has been locked up in the house for the past three years, because her son and daughter-in-law have given her less and less food, and the whole person has gradually weakened.

Li Heijiang and his wife may have done something wrong, for fear that Li's mother would turn into a ghost and ask for her life, so they invited someone to do the legal affairs after Li's mother died.

It's just that they probably didn't expect until they died that it was not the ghost thing that killed them, but the beggar who was helped by Mother Li three years ago...... According to his memory, Yue Luan drew the true face of the boy's evil ghost, and the neighbors who had seen the beggar recognized it, and there was no doubt that it was indeed this person!

Knowing the ins and outs of the matter, Yue Luan's heart became more and more depressed.

After that, Yue Luan followed the rituals handed down by Miaoqingguan and did the ritual for the five members of Li Heijiang's family and the beggar who died tragically, and then left this place with the shadow stone, spirit and other things.

After coming out of the branch set up in Taiping City by the Xuanmen General Altar, Yue Luan's mood improved a lot.

With the Shadow Stone and the Spirit as evidence, the Xuanmen Branch did not push back in the slightest, and handed over the remuneration for this Dharma task to her.

In addition to the money and food collected by the Li family's neighborhoods at the beginning, there is also an additional subsidy from the Xuanmen branch, after all, the boy evil ghost who haunted the Li family gave birth to a little wisdom, not only killed a disciple of the Imperial Ghost Temple, but also hid for a period of time after that, which was extremely tricky.

Yue Luan guessed in his heart that if she was a late-stage cultivator of the Body Forging Realm, the boy's evil ghost would probably not show up, and it was precisely because of her low cultivation that this evil ghost would have no scruples.

Yue Luan did not keep the spirit spirit obtained by killing the evil ghost, but directly sold it to the Xuanmen Branch, and got five lower-grade spirit stones, plus the three lower-grade spirit stones subsidized by the Xuanmen Branch, the number of spirit stones in her hands reached eight, unprecedented "wealth"!

After that, she went to Ruiyun Fang, where the Imperial Ghost Temple was located, and found the martial arts manager to return him five spirit stones.

Yue Luan's master, Zheng Xuansu, asked the martial arts manager to borrow a total of ten spirit stones, and agreed to repay him twenty spirit stones with interest in two years.

It stands to reason that the two-year deadline has not yet arrived, but after Zheng Xuansu died, the military manager was afraid that he would not be able to recover the debt, so he would come to Miaoqingguan every once in a while to collect the debt.

The military steward took the spirit stone, squinted his eyes and looked Yue Luan up and down for a while, then took out the account book and calculated, and said: "The previous money and grain are worth one spirit stone, counting these five, you Miaoqingguan still owe me fourteen spirit stones for the Imperial Ghost Temple." ”

"You ......" Yue Luan was a little angry for a while.

Although the money and food in the secular world can't be exchanged for many spirit stones, the immortals in Taiping City live together, and the exchange ratio is far from as amazing as in other places.

In these days, Yue Luan has returned a lot of money and food to the military steward, which is enough to compensate for five spirit stones, but in the mouth of the military steward, it is only worth one spirit stone, which is really shameless!

Yue Luan didn't continue to argue, just glanced at the martial arts manager coldly, and then turned around and left.

This person's father is a spiritual sea realm cultivator, and he has always had no fear, and there is no point in arguing with him, just save enough fourteen spirit stones to return to him before the expiration date.

If he still has to use some indiscriminate means at that time, Yue Luan doesn't mind going to the Xuanmen General Altar Branch!

Back at Miaoqing Temple, Yue Luan bathed and ate again, then sank into his heart and touched the jade pendant again.

She had already seen the power of the "Demon Sword Style, the First Layer", if it weren't for this sword style, she wouldn't have been able to kill the boy demon at all, so the trust in the Dao Jade Pendant in her heart had increased a lot.

It's just that when she was fighting with the boy's evil ghosts, she also realized her own weakness, her cultivation realm was too low, and her spiritual power in her body was too little.

Right now, Yue Luan had three more spirit stones in her hand, and she was going to exchange for a major practice to replace Miao Qingguan's breathing and breathing technique.

In the flow of his mind, the many classic exercises suspended in his mind dimmed one by one, and the last piece of paper was revealed from the treasure-level exercises called "Purple Mansion Heart Sutra", as before, only the first layer of cultivation was recorded on it! (End of chapter)