"Antique calligraphy and painting."

Shen Ning's fingers tapped lightly on the tabletop, what can be called antique calligraphy and painting at the beginning of the author's creation, basically put a lot of effort into it, such a work is quite spiritual, and it is also the easiest to become a strange.

"Master Guo, since this is the case, you will gather Nanxiang to cultivate first, and I will wait for the night to explore Cai's mansion at night."

Guo Yao nodded, and smiled bitterly, "It's not difficult for Shangxian to gather Nanxiang for casual cultivation, but most of them have low cultivation, and the only one who is a casual cultivator of the Chaoxia Mirror, I'm afraid I still don't want to come." ”

"Why?" Shen Ning frowned and said: "Since ten years ago, the sage has decreed that the local government can have full authority to decide the local scattered cultivation and dispatch matters, and those who disagree will be punished according to disrespect to the imperial court, does he want to resist the decree?" ”

"Having said that, ......" Guo Yao was a little embarrassed: "This person is the remnant of Taiyi Shangqingmen, when Taiyi Shangqingmen was destroyed, we have enough spare strength, he ...... There is a grudge in my heart. ”

Hearing this, Shen Ning was slightly silent, Taiyi Shangqingmen was slaughtered overnight, and so far the court has not found the real culprit, he is indeed sorry for others, and now he wants to send him, but it is a little unreasonable.

However, the Nanxiang demon disaster was inevitable, Shen Ning asked Guo Yao about his basic situation, got up and walked on the street to hide into the crowd.

Guo Yao sighed slightly, left the mutton shop, and went to contact the rest of Nanxiang to disperse.

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Taiyi Shangqing Gate, decades ago was also very prosperous, nearly 1,000 disciples, when the Eastern Wilderness Daze group of demons made chaos, its sect disciples are to kill several throne demons, illustrious.

But such a strong sect was slaughtered overnight, what kind of cultivator can do this, and the imperial court can't find the murderer or dare not investigate?

Don't dare to look it up?

The mountain gate made of white jade collapsed, and Shen Ning walked in the ruins, and he could vaguely see the prosperity of Taiyi Shangqing Gate.

Along the stone steps, Shen Ning found a temporary thatched house, a middle-aged man in ragged clothes who looked like a beggar sat at the door of the thatched house, and the plaque erected on the left read the word Tong Suo Wu Bully

When the man saw Shen Ning coming, he hurriedly greeted, "Hey, guest officer, are you here to tell fortunes or see a doctor?" ”

"How much do you see a doctor, how much does it cost you to tell a fortune?" Shen Ning sat across from him and asked lightly.

The man hung a weed in his mouth, looked up at the sky, pretended to be unfathomable, and replied, "You don't need to dispense medicine for seven yuan for medical treatment, but fifteen yuan for medical treatment." Fortune telling depends on what you are, but the guest official is so handsome, I'm afraid it won't be considered marriage, which is precisely the most expensive. ”

"I'm going to do something big tonight, and you're counting it a blessing or a curse?" Shen Ning smiled and placed a silver ingot on the table.

The man's eyes lit up, and he quietly kicked the silver into his sleeve robe, took out three copper coins and threw them into the porcelain bowl engraved with gossip patterns in front of him, repeating it six times, and his expression became more and more solemn after each time.

Dense beads of sweat oozed from the man's forehead, his lips were a little pale, and he smiled reluctantly: "This hexagram of the guest officer is not a good hexagram, the young yin and the old yin are even, it is really a dead end, but Hongluan's heart is moving, and the young yang is beginning to appear, and there is still a glimmer of life."

"I want to be sure, sir, is there a way?" Shen Ning said as he took out another ingot of silver and put it in front of the man.

He hesitated, but still put the silver in his arms, and said with a smile: "Childe, if you don't do this, it will be foolproof." ”

Shen Ning was stunned for a moment, and then said with a smile, "The Nanxiang Demon Plague is endless, how can I sit idly by...... Sir, this matter needs you to go with me. ”

The man squatted on the bench and clasped his feet, put it in front of his nose and sniffed it, like a scoundrel, "The son must be an official from Shenjing City, why does the official need to find me a fortune teller to eliminate demons?" ”

"You are not a fortune teller, Gu Yanwu, the youngest disciple of Taiyi Shangqingmen, was slaughtered in Taiyi Shangqingmen, and you escaped because you were greedy for fun and ran to the inn under the mountain to stay overnight." Shen Ning said slowly: "I heard that you have lived in this simple thatched house all these years, relying on the identity of the remnant of Taiyi Shangqing Sect, telling people divination to make a living. ”

The destruction of the sect was the last thing Gu Yanwu mentioned, but the young man in front of him uncovered this bloody scar in front of him.

"Guest officer, you've finished your life, and I'll give you the idea." Gu Yanwu said coldly: "If there is nothing else, please leave quickly, don't delay my business." ”

Shen Ning threw his money bag on the table, and the sound of the silver colliding was crisp and pleasant.

"I heard Master Guo say that you are more than enough fortune tellers, and you often participate in darts to fight for life money." Shen Ning smiled and glanced at Gu Yanwu, "It stands to reason that you should have saved a lot of silver over the years, but I see that you are dressed like a beggar, and it seems that none of the money you earn has been spent on yourself." ”

"I think you keep the money, it's just to rebuild the mountain gate." Shen Ning leaned his back against the erected white jade pillar and said lightly: "There are fifty taels of silver in here, which is enough for you to build a sect courtyard." When the Nanxiang demon is removed, I will give you another hundred taels, let you build two more Taoist courtyards, and if you want, you will collect the money and follow me. ”

Gu Yanwu gritted his teeth, he had no father or mother since he was a child, it was the elders of the sect who included him in the sect and gave him a bite to eat, for him, Taiyi Shangqingmen was his home.

Over the years, he stayed in this ruin to save money, and all he wanted was to rebuild the sect.

But with neither advanced spells nor heavenly cultivation, it is really difficult for him to accomplish this goal.

But no matter how difficult it is, he has to go on, this is his promise to the dead master, and one day he will be able to rebuild the sect.

So, Gu Yanwu smiled and accepted the money, "Guest officer, let's go?" ”

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When it was time to arrive, Master Guo took three loose cultivators to wait for Shen Ning and the others outside the demon mansion early.

Seeing Shen Ning coming with Gu Yanwu from afar, Master Guo was surprised, but he didn't expect Shen Ning to really invite him.

How would he know that Shen Ning had smashed Gu Yanwu with more than two hundred taels of silver.

Most of the three people brought by Master Guo were in their early forties, one tall and one short, and one had a hideous scar on his face, all of whom were cultivators of the Dao realm.

Rao was in front of the will of the imperial court, and these people were willing to come to take the risk after letting Master Guo promise a lot of benefits.

"Ladies and gentlemen, in Xia Shen Ning, I am good at magic weapon combat skills, and I hope you will help you in this trip to eliminate demons." Shen Ning was the first to speak, and by the way, he told what he was best at, so that they could have a basic understanding of themselves, and they would not fight separately after entering.

"Gu Yanwu, good at talismans, Taiyi Shangqing Sect heir."

"Liu Si, good at knife fighting, scattered cultivation."

"Zhang Shan, good at tracking techniques, loose cultivation."

"Li Si, good at spear fighting, loose cultivation."

While a few people were talking, the gate of Cai's Mansion squeaked open, as if it was a demon with a bloody mouth open in the dark night, waiting for Shen Ning and them to enter.

Seeing that the door opened by itself, Master Guo's face turned pale, cold sweat flowed, and he swallowed his saliva, "Shen Xianchang, in the next mortal, this trip will not be mixed." ”

Shen Ning nodded, Guo Yao had no magic on his body, and followed them into Cai's Mansion to make it clear that he was sending him to death.

After Guo was about to leave, Shen Ning and the others did not rush in, and when they stood outside the door, they felt the cold wind blowing from inside, which made people shudder.

"In my opinion, Cai's Mansion is too evil to burn down." Liu Si put his hands around his chest, looking at the corpses in the Cai Mansion compound that no one dared to collect, the white bones were exposed, and the cold wind poured out a scream like a terrible ghost from the skeleton.

Gu Yanwu squatted on the ground and said with a smile: "I'm afraid that if you burn the entire Nanxiang, you won't be able to burn Cai Fuli." ”

"Mr. Shen, you are from the Heavenly Master's Mansion in Shenjing City, and your means of subduing demons and eliminating demons must be better than ours." Lee Si asked, "What do you think we should do?" ”

"From the description of Master Guo's book, the demons hidden in Cai's mansion can manipulate people's hearts and kill people silently in front of everyone." Shen Ning pondered for a moment, took out five talismans from his arms, and distributed them to everyone, "This is the Heavenly Master's Mansion's Heart-Connecting Mantra, carry it with you to clear your mind and eyes, and avoid being controlled by demons, if someone has an accident, this spell can also make others feel it." ”

At this point, Shen Ning continued: "Master Cai liked to collect antique calligraphy and paintings during his lifetime, I guess that the demon is likely to be an antiquity, and after entering Cai's mansion, if there are any items that are quite weird, they will be destroyed immediately. ”

Everyone nodded, they didn't know anything about the monsters of Cai Mansion now, and the arrangements that Shen Ning had made now were already the best.

"In that case, everyone will follow me into the house."

Shen Ning led everyone into Cai's mansion, but after walking in, he couldn't see the tragic corpses that he could see outside the courtyard before, on the contrary, the courtyard was overgrown with weeds, snakes, insects, rats and ants scurrying inside, looking like it had been abandoned for a long time.

The rest of the people naturally discovered this kind of abnormality, and among them, the well-informed Zhang Shan said at this moment: "Could it be that it is changing with each passing day? ”

Shen Ning and the others saw that Zhang Shan knew that it was strange, and they all turned their eyes to him, and the latter said uncertainly: "When I first worshiped under the sect of an old man who traveled to practice the method of concealment, I saw that there was a record of this formation in the master's book. ”

"Performing this technique is tantamount to blinding the heavens, and a piece of land designated by the caster can be stripped from the heavens and the earth, so that the caster can control it himself."

"During the early dynasties, many cultivators relied on this technique to create a blessed land cave for themselves."

Shen Ning frowned, "You mean, the Nanxiang Demon suffers from the shadow of the Hundred Families of the Immortal Gate?" ”

"Hehe, it has been more than 100 years since the First Dynasty was from our Great Jin, and during this period, how many sects like our Taiyi Shangqing Sect were destroyed by demons?" Gu Yanwu smiled, "It's not impossible that such a mysterious formation is changing with each passing day, and it is impossible for them to learn it. ”

At this moment, the gate of Cai's Mansion closed on its own without wind and sound.

"It seems that the master doesn't want us to leave." Gu Yanwu smiled, he didn't do it at all.

Suddenly, a biting demon wind struck, and Shen Ning and the others were on guard, but seeing the direction of the demon wind, a woman in white turned her back to everyone.

Liu Si and Li Si were just about to go up to check when Gu Yanwu stretched out his hand to stop them, "Let you take a look at my Taiyi Shangqing Gate's method." ”

Gu Yanwu sprinkled a few soybeans on the ground, and the soybeans took root and sprouted in an instant, the beans changed into beans, and the beans sprouted as feet.

"Go, see what's up there?"

A few bean sprouts nodded, and they jumped towards the woman.

"Ahh Just when everyone's attention was focused on the woman in front of them, Zhang Shan's screams suddenly came from behind him, and he saw a fat corpse, with carrion on his face and two teeth like a demon, which pierced Zhang Shan's throat fiercely.

"Evil beast!"

Liu Si was furious, and the silver light of the long sword in his hand flashed, and the head of the corpse was cut off.

Zhang Shan covered his neck, spat blood, curled up in pain on the ground, and stopped moving after a while.

Everyone felt a chill in their hearts, although this mountain was not good at fighting, but he was the best at concealment, and he should be able to live the longest among them by practicing this kind of magic, but he never expected that a ghost would be able to approach him silently and put him to death.

What the hell is the monster hidden in Cai's house!

Shen Ning glanced at the corpse on the ground and found that the corpse had rotted all over its body, stained with a lot of mud, and a piece of bright cloth was exposed at the corner of his clothes.

"This should be the corpse of Old Man Cai, the demon of Cai's Mansion should speed up the passage of time, so that the corpse it mutilated will be transformed early." Shen Ning deduced: "That is to say, in the current Cai Mansion, it is very likely that there are dozens of corpses like Old Man Cai. ”

"Sss As soon as the words fell, the woman in white from before let out a strange scream.

Li Si and Liu Si had been guarding her, while Shen Ning and Gu Yanwu looked in other directions vigilantly.

The woman in white slowly turned around, and at this time, Li Si and the others saw her face clearly, like a lot of insects crawling out of the eyes of a black hole, and the flesh and blood had already dried up, but even so, she still showed a hideous smile.

A strange murmur sounded suddenly, and corpses that had been dead for a long time came from all over the courtyard.