Chapter 9 The Demon Trouble in Nanxiang
Decades ago, Nanxiang was used as a transportation artery connecting the north and the south, and its vast city and houses were like houses, and merchants from the north and south often stayed here, and for a time this small city of Jingxi Road was extremely prosperous.
It's a pity that with the fall of Taiyi Shangqingmen, more and more monsters wandered around the city, and the merchants were afraid of demons, and would rather go to other roads than go to Nanxiang, and gradually declined over time.
Lu Xuan wore a hat on his head, changed his luxurious clothes into coarse linen clothes, and came to the outside of Nanxiang City.
At this time, he was dusty, dusty, and dressed simply, quite like a lonely swordsman who traveled the world.
Along the way, he encountered more than ten large and small demons, and killed no less than a thousand demons.
Fortunately, none of the demons he encountered had the cultivation of the fox fairy prince, so he would not be able to fight to the death.
If it weren't for personally leaving Shenjing City to deal with the demon trouble, it would be difficult for Shen Ning to imagine that the Great Jin Demon Problem had reached such a serious level, you must know that the place where he is is Jingxi Dao.
The place where power, politics, and wealth of the Great Jin Dynasty gathered, it seems that such a place has already been caused by a group of demons, and it is difficult to imagine the situation of the other thirteen realms in the world.
Came to the city gate and lined up to enter the city, and when he was in line, the captain of the city gate asked people to search his body, and Shen Ning took out the token of the Heavenly Master's Mansion, "Please hand over this token to the Nanxiang County Order, I will wait on the side." ”
The captain is a middle-aged man in his forties, who has worked as an errand in Shenjing City before, and has seen too many dignitaries.
Although Shen Ning was dressed in cloth and looked quite embarrassed, he had an extraordinary bearing, and he had a token made of expensive white jade, so he didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly ordered his subordinates to send this token to the county office.
Not long after, a man wearing a blue cloth coat and a handful of goatee came to the gate of the city, and bowed to Shen Ning and said: "In the county government of Xiannan Township, the surname is Guo Mingyao, and the county commander is busy with affairs and can't take a break, so he is sent down to greet Lord Shangxian." ”
The main book is not the county order, and the county order in Dajin has a very high authority in the local area, and there has always been a royal envoy and a member of the three grades, and the rest are not welcomed.
Shen Ning didn't care about this, and replied: "Shen Ning, a fourth-generation disciple of the Lower Heavenly Master's Mansion, has seen Master Guo. ”
Guo Yao saw Shen Ning as if he had seen a savior, and hurriedly asked, "Shangxian is here to get rid of demons?" ”
Shen Ning smiled, "It's just for the demon eradication, but it's just ......"
"What do you command?" Guo wants to ask.
"It's just that I'm running all the way down, I'm already hungry, I don't know what to eat in Nanxiang, and I hope the master book will take me to taste one or two, and I just happened to tell you in detail about the demon trouble."
Hearing this, Guo Yao breathed a sigh of relief, he thought that this immortal would make such a request.
If you are just hungry, the mutton steamed buns in the west of the city are good, with all the color, flavor and taste, which can probably satisfy the appetite of this immortal.
At the corner of the street in the west of the city, at the door of a small shop with black tiles and yellow walls, three ink characters are written "fairy wine", and opposite the fairy wine is the famous Li Ji mutton steamed bun in Nanxiang City.
The doctor in the shop used a spoon to brush off the oil slick on the soup noodles, and put the thick porcelain bowl "pier" on the table made of solid wood, the fragrant soup noodles did not spill a little, the green onions were spread all over the bowl of noodles, and Xiao Er came with mutton steamed buns, and the mutton slices and fungus as thin as cicada wings trembled together.
Shen Ning took a sip of the soup and praised it for being excellent.
Xiao Er smiled shyly, put the sweat towel on his back, and served a plate of spicy seeds and a plate of celery vinegar.
Shen Ning was sweating after eating for a while, and glanced at Guo Yao, who was sitting opposite, "Master Guo, don't you eat?" ”
Guo Yao had something in his heart, and took the opportunity to reply: "The file of the Nanxiang Demon Tribulation, I think I have already read it compared to the immortals, right?" A little time has passed, and there are nearly 100 people killed by the demon house, and I don't know what the immortal has planned. ”
"The statue of the Spirit Immortal is broken, and after that, has the government tried to contact the Spirit Immortal with a formation?" Shen Ning said, sucking a mouthful of hot mutton soup along the edge of the bowl, and the refreshing feeling slid down his throat into his stomach.
"The government invited several casual cultivators to invite the true body of the spirit immortal one after another, but unfortunately it had no effect." Guo Yao paused when he said this, "I guess that the city god has already encountered an accident." ”
The statue of the spirit fairy is broken, and most of the spirit immortals have already encountered accidents.
The method of summoning spirits is just to see if the city god has left a trace of remnant souls, so as to use them as clues or hole cards to eliminate demons.
"Although the Nanxiang Immortal was replaced halfway, the strength of the Immortal on duty is not weak, at least there is Xuanjing cultivation." Shen Ning drank the fine wine he bought from the "Immortal Wine" and said lightly: "I have just entered the Morning Mirror, and I will definitely not be the opponent of this demon if I fight alone, so I still need you to gather the scattered cultivation of Nanxiang to have the strength to fight." ”
"It's nature." Guo nodded, he was slightly surprised when he heard that Shen Ning had already cultivated in the Morning Mirror, after all, Shen Ning didn't look very old, he was a Morning Mirror cultivation at such a young age, and his future was limitless.
Most of the scattered cultivators in Nanxiang have only asked the Dao realm, and there are only a few people in the morning mirror, and they are now in their early forties.
After eating the mutton steamed buns, Shen Ning burped, motioned to Xiao Er to replace the wine on the table with tea to relieve his greasy, and asked Guo to tell the case.
"Speaking of which, this case is evil, Aunt Liu, who sells vegetables, went to deliver vegetables to Cai's house as usual, and knocked on the door for a long time and no one answered, so she scolded at the door, and then the people around suddenly heard Aunt Liu screaming and saw her walking towards Cai's house as if she was evil."
"Evil?"
"Yes, it's evil, there are blood and tears in my eyes, and the door that was still closed just now is also open as soon as I push it, and the people outside leaned over to take a look, only to see the stumps and broken arms all over the yard, and a bloody human head was placed in the middle of the yard, and he was smiling at the big guy."
"What about Aunt Liu?" Shen Ning asked.
"When he died, he stood there, and his body was silently torn into pieces, and his intestines were still flowing to the ground." Guo Yao sighed and said: "The county commander sent a few good hands to investigate, without exception, they died inexplicably as soon as they walked into the courtyard, and several local scattered cultivators also died, and no one rushed to this demon mansion all of a sudden, so we can only ask for help from Shenjing City." ”
"According to you, the strange phenomenon must have appeared later." Shen Ning thought for a while and asked, "Has the previous master of the Cai Mansion done anything that hurt the heavens and reason, such as robbing the people's daughters and disregarding people's lives?" ”
Guo Yao shook his head, and his tone sighed, "Cai Yuanwai, who is in charge of the Cai Mansion, has a lot of money, is a good person, and does not like to argue with others. There is only one daughter under her knees, and I heard that she is gentle and skillful, but unfortunately she died in the demon house. ”
Shen Ning frowned, hearing this, there was no sign of the appearance of the demon mansion, and it was difficult to find out what the monster was.
"But Master Cai has a habit that is quite annoying, and he is often scolded as a scoundrel." Guo Yao recalled, "He has always liked famous painting dictionaries, and often buys them at a high price, if others don't sell them, he will rely on his old age, and he will not leave at other people's homes, and he has bought countless antique calligraphy and paintings over the years." ”