"Hengliang, you see, this is the trajectory of the Earth Spirit Master in Jingzhou during this time. Can you see anything from these tracks?"

On the map of Jingzhou pointed to by Zhang Yuhong, a few places were marked with a red pen, those were the places where the spirit master haunted some time ago, and the time was written in small characters next to the marker, and the last place was Hongjing County according to the time.

Zhang Hengliang rubbed Guangshengsheng's chin with his hand, looked at the map with a frown, and shook his head after a long silence: "I can't see it, please ask Uncle Shi for advice." ”

"Just now, I have already told you what the Earth Spirit Master has done in these places, if you connect them, can you think of anything?"

"These places are not close to each other, and the directions are completely irregular, but the Earth Spirit Master is afraid that the news will spread quickly after he eats people in one place, so that other places will be alerted to the rumors, so he is looking for such a random place?"

"No, he's supposed to be looking for someone. Or rather, he should be waiting for someone to find him. This should have been the response plan that he and someone had made before they escaped from Dragon Tiger Mountain. ”

Zhang Yuhong pointed to the map and patiently explained to Zhang Hengliang. Because from today onwards, this Heavenly Master's sister-in-law will join his team to hunt down the Earth Spirit Master. It seems like a child's play, but that's it, and he can't refuse it.

Before, when Zhang Hengliang pestered Zhang Yuhong to ask him, Zhang Yuhong told all the causes and consequences, and the secrets inside. Although Zhang Hengliang is young, after all, his identity is special, and the secrets of the Earth Spirit Master have long been known, and there seems to be no need to hide these things from him. And when I heard that the Earth Spirit Master fled. After Zhang Yuhong chased all the way to fight with the Earth Spirit Master and so on, Zhang Hengliang was so surprised that he could hardly help himself.

"Since this is such an important matter, why don't you send more people to help Uncle Yuhong? And he did not hesitate to take the risk to achieve the Yang God Law Body hidden in the dark, even if the senior uncle cultivated profoundly, and the Dao Law was invincible, but it was too dangerous to deal with such an enemy, right?

"The Heavenly Master has his own reasons for handling it like this. Zhang Yuhong could only smile meaningfully and bitterly at that time. He could vaguely guess the reason, but he couldn't say. Instead, he had to explain for Zhang Hengliang. "The cultivation of the earth spirit master is profound, and there is no trace of coming and going, and even if there are more disciples in the ordinary sect who have not cultivated enough, it is useless. can only send sheep into the mouth of the tiger, but it is easy to make things big and leak the news, but it is better to let me track it alone and be more able to move according to the situation and deal with it freely. ”

After a moment of contemplation. Zhang Hengliang suddenly said: "Then I will accompany Uncle Shi and hunt down the Earth Spirit Master with Uncle Shi." Even if I don't cultivate enough, I may not be able to help much, but being able to witness the battle between the Earth Spirit Master and the Senior Uncle with my own eyes and experience such a once-in-a-millennium event is also a rare exercise. ”

"How does this make it?" Zhang Yuhong frowned and refused without hesitation. "The Earth Spirit Master's methods are strange, and his cultivation is unfathomable, even if it is my uncle, I don't dare to say how many chances I have. How can we put you in danger? You should follow Uncle Liu Hongde back to Longhu Mountain as soon as possible. ”

Zhang Hengliang shook his head very firmly and said, "Uncle Shi doesn't need to worry, my father gave me a lot of talismans to defend myself before leaving." Even if I can't help when facing the Earth Spirit Master, it will be okay to protect myself. I have felt a lot during this trip to Yunzhou, and I feel that my vision and experience are indeed a little shallow, if I don't go through the ups and downs, how can I make progress? Staying in the land of Jingnan every day is safe enough, what good will it do to myself? When Uncle Shi was young, he also traveled the world alone, and tasted the warmth and coldness of the world through all the hardships and dangers, so that he has today's cultivation?"

"No, it's too sinister for me to agree to. For such a request, of course, Zhang Yuhong categorically refused. But at the same time, he also felt slightly strange, this master and nephew seemed to be a little different from the past, as if he was really stimulated by something.

At that time, Zhang Hengliang didn't say anything more, knowing that it would be useless to insist like that, so he silently retreated. However, on the second day, Zhang Yuhong suddenly received a summons from Longhu Mountain, which was written by Zhang Tianshi's own handwriting, and the meaning of just a few sentences was to agree that Zhang Hengliang would stay by Zhang Yuhong's side, hoping that Zhang Yuhong would take more care of him and let him exercise in this rare opportunity. It turned out that Zhang Hengliang actually used the summoning Fu He specially prepared for him by Zhang Tianshi that night, and passed back the matter here with the meaning that he wanted to stay, and Zhang Tianshi actually agreed, and immediately used Fu He to send a message to Zhang Yuhong.

Zhang Yuhong was surprised. It is not easy to make each of the transmission cranes, and there are strict regulations on their use in the church. Even if Zhang Hengliang has a special identity, the communication Fu Crane he brought on his body should be the only one used for special situations, but he used it on this kind of issue, and what is even more strange is that Zhang Tianshi actually agreed, and immediately used Fu He to summon him.

I have long heard that Zhang Tianshi and Mrs. Tianshi love this only son very much, but it seems that it is a little inappropriate to love it to this extent. There must be some other motives in this arrangement. Zhang Yuhong could faintly feel something strange.

However, no matter how he thought or felt, since the Heavenly Master's will had arrived, he had to accept it. Zhang Yuhong can only try to convince himself that this may not be a bad thing. As a young man who may inherit the position of Heavenly Master in the future, it is indeed necessary to increase his knowledge and experience while he has his own heart, Zhang Tianshi even has Fu He prepared for him, so there will be no shortage of other talisman magic weapons, as long as he is careful.

"Find someone to pick him up? How is this possible? The Earth Spirit Master has been imprisoned in the Dragon and Tiger Mountain for hundreds of years and has not seen the light of day, and the Dragon and Tiger Mountain has condensed the hearts and minds of the people of the entire Jingnan for hundreds of years, and has used the power of the Zhengyi Dragon and Tiger Great Array to cover the whole mountain, and is connected with the hearts and minds of the Heavenly Masters of the past dynasties, even if the Demon Sect was raging back then, he could not sneak into the chaos in the face of the Zhengyi Dragon and Tiger Great Array, how could anyone make an agreement with the Earth Spirit Master in advance?"

Regarding this question, Zhang Yuhong also stroked his beard and frowned and said: "I don't understand this either. According to common sense, this is indeed incredible, but Xia Daoyou's analysis makes sense"

Zhang Hengliang's expression was slightly complicated. It seemed to deliberately make a somewhat disdainful expression: "Hmph, is that guy from the Maoshan faction? It's just a tributary sect, can you know a little about my Longhu Mountain? and so young." The slick face is just a mouthful. ”

"Hengliang, if you take your own feelings to see people and things, what is the difference between that and being blind? Although Xia Daoyou is not much older than you, he has a lot of experience in the rivers and lakes, and he is also smart and righteous. It's a judgment that I can't think of in the middle of the game. How much do you know about him? Zhang Yuhong's voice couldn't help but show a little sternness, and then pointed to a few places marked on the map. "Have you seen that? After leaving Jingnan, the places that the Earth Spirit Master chose to haunt were almost the same distance from each other. And even if it's not a bustling place, it's not a small village or town that can spread the news to all directions once something happens. It is precisely because of this that we can grasp the general traces of the Earth Spirit Master. ”

"I just told you what the Earth Spirit Master has done in these places. It's much the same as the incident that happened in this grand city. They all attracted the attention of the people as a master, and then he chose the ones with strong and strong spirits to devour. If it's just for cannibalism, there's no need for the Earth Spirit Master to make a big storm every time. With his cunning and cautious nature, this somewhat inexplicably ostentatious style of acting is categorically for another purpose. Contacting the locations between these locations, I consulted with Xia Daoyou and felt that he most likely wanted to spread the word and inform someone who he didn't know the exact location and identity of his current location. Only those who have a certain agreement and tacit understanding in advance will understand such an obscure method of communication. ”

After all, these are just empty speculations with no empirical evidence. How does it help us to act today?"

In the absence of any real evidence, this inference is the only direction we can rely on now. Since the last place where the Earth Spirit Master appeared was this Hongjing City. We're here for the time being, waiting to see what happens. Zhang Yuhong stroked the long beard on his lips, and the light flashed in his eyes. "I have a feeling that the biggest flaw in the Earth Spirit Master now is in the person he is waiting for."

"That's right, Uncle Shi. Zhang Hengliang asked in a very casual tone as if he suddenly remembered. "The monks of the Ten Directions of the Pure Land Zen Temple, do you still want to be with us? The matter of the Earth Spirit Master is related to the secrets of my Dragon and Tiger Mountain, and now they are all aware of it, I wonder what Uncle Shi thinks of this matter?"

Facing this sudden question, Zhang Yuhong's brows furrowed deeply, and he didn't know what to say when he looked at Zhang Hengliang.

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At dusk, in a small town about 100 miles south of Hongjing City, Liu Hongde led the others to live in the only small inn in the town. A group of more than a dozen Heavenly Masters attracted the innkeeper to hurriedly come to receive him in person, vacating a few good rooms for all Heavenly Masters to stay, and other travelers living in the inn also frequently looked sideways.

After taking a little rest in Hongjing City, everyone is no longer so depressed, and when they learn that the Yunzhou barbarians and the Tang family will not chase here, they no longer have the slightest panic and anxiety before, and they all seem to be full of graceful Heavenly Master Dao Masters, especially a few younger ones who are still proud and excited after seeing the snake demon in Hongjing City.

Only the leader Liu Hongde looked discouraged and indifferent, not because he was tired from the previous journey and had not yet recovered, but because he was numb after he died, and he was not wearing a Taoist robe like everyone else, but wearing a body.

"Senior Brother Liu, what is going on? Did Senior Brother Yuhong say something to you? Zhang Hengliang wants to stay there, what does it have to do with you, Senior Brother?" The two middle-aged Taoists who were close to him had naturally discovered his mistake a long time ago, and asked several times along the way, but he just shook his head and didn't want to say anything.

After staying in the inn room, the junior brother in the same room asked again, but he still shook his head and puffed up a weak wry smile: "It's nothing, it's purely my own business, but it has caused a few junior brothers to worry about." Senior brother, let's rest first, I'll go out and walk around to relax. ”

I've been walking for a whole day, where do I still need to walk around. Liu Hongde just didn't want to stay there and face the inquiries of a few juniors, or he just wanted to stay away from them as much as possible, especially those young disciples, Liu Hongde felt uncomfortable just seeing them now.

Walked alone to a small stream outside the town and listened to the gentle sound of the stream. Feeling the silence around him that was gradually dimming, Liu Hongde's heart was a dead silence, but in the deepest part of the dead silence, there seemed to be something invisible that was roaring unwillingly.

Zhang Yuhong had already told him what had happened in the Heavenly Master Sect before. The escape of the Earth Spirit Master. The people of the church will deal with the situation after they leave, and the question of who should be responsible for it. In the end, it was a very incredible result, it was actually him, who was obviously in the depths of Yunzhou, thousands of miles away, to take on this responsibility.

Liu Hongde did not doubt this unbelievable result. Not only did he know that Zhang Yuhong would not lie to him, but also because he had been in the sect for more than forty years, and he had come up step by step from the lowest level of miscellaneous servants and Taoists without relying on any background assistance, and he had watched how Zhang Yuanling stood out from among the uncles and brothers and inherited the position of Heavenly Master, and he knew too well what was going on up and down in Dragon and Tiger Mountain. He understands very well that this seemingly unbelievable result is actually an inevitability.

Now that the Earth Spirit Master has escaped, it is for the Heavenly Master, especially for several elders. The most important thing is not what kind of reason is involved, but who should bear the responsibility. This responsibility is too heavy, and it can almost be regarded as the biggest leak in Longhu Mountain since he joined the church, and no matter who takes this responsibility, it will not be easy. Abolish the cultivation and expel the mountain gate, which is probably the lightest.

The meaning of the existence of the Earth Spirit Hall is very strange. The core disciples of the sect strictly guard this is a rule that has been passed down for many generations, but there has never been the slightest difference in how many years, even the Demon Sect almost broke through Longhu Mountain back then, and the earth spirit master guarding this hall has not made the slightest difference, if it weren't for the blood food that is regularly sent in every year, everyone almost thought that the earth spirit master was actually dead. As a result, this generation has been passed down from generation to generation, and guarding the Earth Spirit Hall has become a seemingly heavy responsibility, but in fact it is a very easy task. The sect is very generous to the meritorious service of guarding the earth spirit hall. Therefore, in the end, those who were qualified to guard the Earth Spirit Hall were all the elders and the disciples and nephews of the Heavenly Master. These disciples and nephews are not only the close relatives of the elders and the Heavenly Master, but also their faces. It is even related to the balance of power among the elders. You must know that once such a heavy responsibility is implemented, it is very likely that it will not be a problem of one or two people who will be implicated.

In such a situation, it is inevitable to find a less important person who does not belong to any faction to take on this responsibility. It just so happens that Liu Hongde is such a person. Since he was a teenager, he worshiped under the Longhu Mountain Gate, and he has not had the slightest blood relationship with the Zhang family, and he has never taken the initiative to get closer to any of the elders and deacons of the Zhang family, which can be said to be an outlier. It was only because he was really down-to-earth and capable, and it was rumored that there was a younger brother who served as an elder in the True Martial Sect, that the elders and heavenly masters in the sect had repeatedly entrusted him with important tasks.

However, in the face of such an extraordinary situation, he could only find an 'outsider' like him who had something to do with the Earth Spirit Temple, and this last 'heavy responsibility' could only fall on his shoulders like this.

Zhang Yuhong told him that he just wanted to bring the young man back to Jingnan, and he didn't need to follow him back to Longhu Mountain, but find a place to live in Jingnan for a while, and when he settled the matter of the earth spirit master, he would find a way to return to the mountain with him, and he would definitely find a way to get justice for him. He agreed to this on his face, but he could only smile bitterly behind his back. The suspicion and exclusion that this world-famous demon real person suffered in Dragon and Tiger Mountain is unimaginable to outsiders, and he may not even realize how jealous Zhang Yuanling, as a heavenly master, is afraid of him. Therefore, Zhang Yuhong's intentions Liu Hongde is sure to be very good, but you don't need to guess how effective it is.

Thinking that he has been proud of his own hard work and ability for many years, not relying on any background, and purely relying on his own efforts in this Zhang family's Dragon and Tiger Mountain, Liu Hongde suddenly burst into laughter, and tears appeared in his eyes.

The laughter was heard alone in the wilderness. After laughing for a long time, Liu Hongde abruptly stopped laughing, and there was only a quiet silence around him, not even the sound of insects, as if the heavens and the earth had suddenly died. Liu Hongde only felt that his whole body was fluttering and unsettled, and he didn't know where the Dao heart and internal qi that he had practiced hard for many years had gone.

Suddenly, a hurried footsteps rushed towards here from far and near, the speed was quite fast, and the experience accumulated over many years of walking the rivers and lakes made Liu Hongde immediately pack up his mood, and he could tell that this was not just the sound of human footsteps.

A crescent moon was already hanging on the edge of the sky that was not completely dark, and through the faint light of the sky, Liu Hongde could see that it was a young woman rushing towards him, followed by two black shadows like leopards. Apparently it was his own laughter that drew the woman who was fleeing for her life.

The woman's light body kung fu is good. But it's just good, the distance between the two black shadows behind her is gradually shortening. The woman was running with her last breath of air, and she didn't even dare to cry out for help. lest he let out a breath of internal breath and slow down his body, but even if there is still a distance of dozens of zhang, which can only be vaguely seen in the twilight, Liu Hongde feels that he can see the fear and pleading in the woman's eyes.

Liu Hongde took out the long sword at his waist and ran towards the woman. As the woman approached the two black shadows that followed closely behind her, there was a faint smell of corpses in the air, and the instinct cultivated by the Heavenly Master Sect for more than forty years made him know what he should do without even thinking about it.

Two black shadows flew one by one, and they were about to pounce on the woman in front of them. Liu Hongde's hand shook, and the two Heavenly Master talismans turned into two yellow lights and hit the black shadow. He has a lot of experience in fighting rivers and lakes, whether it is fighting with people or fighting with demons and ghosts. He didn't have the habit of disdainful use of talismans like ordinary Heavenly Master Sect Taoists, and he had just returned from a place like Yunzhou that needed to be careful, and he carried his usual talisman with him.

Two talismans struck the black shadow, and two golden bronze bell phantoms flashed in the air. There were two explosions like a yellow bell and a big lu. The two black shadows were also blown away, and at the same time, their whole bodies made a sizzling sound as if they had been splashed with boiling oil, and a stench like a rotten dead mouse being burned again permeated, and the Chinese wanted to vomit.

"Huh, it's really the magic of the Demon Dao Corpse Puppet?" Liu Hongde was slightly startled. Although the Demon Sect was destroyed back then, there were many various exercises and doorways that were circulated, in addition to the Supreme Heavenly Demon Five Strategies, there were more kinds of evil methods in the outer way, refining corpses and extracting souls, raising Gu and feeding demons, and so on. It's all the Demon Sect that collects all kinds of Yin Damage Techniques to improve it. Although these methods are not as magical as the Five Strategies of Heaven and Demon, they are easy to learn and extremely powerful. Even if the Great Qian's Imperial Court united with the major forces in the rivers and lakes to suppress it, there were always those who secretly learned it in the rivers and lakes. However, it was the first time I had seen it in such a place as close to Jingnan, the root of the Heavenly Master Sect.

Although it seemed to have been blown up badly, the two black shadows just rolled on the ground and stood up again, but they didn't pay attention to Liu Hongde, who attacked them, and the four dead white eyes looked at the woman who took the opportunity to run out of a distance. These are two canine-like corpse golems, the size of a leopard, and those air-dried corpses that have been placed for a long time are scattered with carrion and dry flesh, but there is no stiffness between the movements of ordinary zombies.

"Hmph, this corpse puppet is really a bit of a way. Liu Hongde snorted coldly. Just now he found out that this may be a corpse demon, and the two evil suppression heavenly master talismans used have the effect of destroying evil and eliminating filth, but he can't think of it and can't win it with one blow, it seems that the person who makes this thing is not an ordinary person.

But that's about it. After practicing Taoism and martial arts in the Heavenly Master Sect for more than 40 years, even if he has not yet stepped into the innate realm, Liu Hongde's cultivation is not inferior to that of the Taoist guards in any place, and his experience in fighting and dealing with these monsters and ghosts is even richer. He took out two more talismans and threw them into the air, and with a little bit of the sword, the talisman turned into two flaming golden flames and suspended in the air.

The two corpse puppets did not show the slightest fear or ferocity, this is simply a puppet under the Dao Law Control Zhì, some of them are like the organs of the Divine Machine Hall, they will only act according to the intentions set by the maker, but they are much more agile than the pure dead things such as the organs, at least no matter how exquisite the mechanism beast is, it can't chase and kill the target on its own like these two corpse puppets.

But since it's a dead thing, there's a clever way to deal with it. As soon as the two golden flames were sacrificed, the two corpse golems jumped up and pounced straight there, as if the golden flames had suddenly become more attractive than the targets they were chasing.

Liu Hongde flicked the sword with one hand, and at the same time a low groan in his mouth, mixed with a clear sound on the sword, the movements of the two corpse puppets in mid-air suddenly stiffened, and they didn't hit the two golden fires, and when they fell, they fell straight to the ground. The impact of this reverberation on the corpse puppet seems to be very short, after the corpse puppet falls to the ground, it regains its mobility, and its body is about to stand up as soon as it rolls over, but Liu Hongde moves his sword like the wind, and the two swords provoke two golden fires in mid-air and pierce deeply into the corpse puppet's chest.

The corpse puppet's movements did not stop, and they still stood up very quickly and quickly, as if they were about to make a gesture to pounce on Liu Hongde, but their bodies melted and deformed as quickly as wax next to the stove, and they couldn't even stand on their feet in a few blinks of an eye, and they fell to the ground after shaking, and soon turned into two pools of extremely smelly black water.

At this time, the woman who had fled also saw this from a distance, and boldly turned around and walked back. Liu Hongde put the sword into the sheath and glanced at the woman, in the dim twilight, it was vaguely seen that this was a young woman about thirty years old, with a slender and graceful posture, a wolf bèi look flustered and beautiful, the woman's shoulder had several scars, which seemed to be left by the previous corpse puppet, and she was still carrying a small rattan box in her hand.

The woman approached and opened her mouth as if to say something, but as soon as her body went soft, she fell to the side, and Liu Hongde hurriedly hugged her. Entering a piece of softness with vitality and vitality, and at the same time, a refreshing faint fragrance came, which made Liu Hongde's dead and indifferent heart couldn't help but move slightly. (To be continued......)