Chapter 15: Go to Komatsu Mountain to collect the money
Since Li Bai was promoted to the second realm of martial arts, Cui You took Li Bai down the mountain to travel the rivers and lakes and sharpen his martial arts.
The master and apprentice walked to a place called: Chihe City. While eating noodles at a small noodle stall, I heard a rumor at the table next door:
In the Komatsu Mountains on the west side of Chihe Castle, it has been haunted in recent decades, and several farmers in the west of the city have gone up the mountain to cut firewood and have not returned since. Later, someone passed by the foot of Mt. Komatsu and happened to see a white skeleton walking in the mountain like a human. After that, some men were delirious in the middle of the night, got up and walked to Komatsu Mountain ....... Since then, the haunting has become more and more violent.
A young Taoist who traveled here later also saw the strangeness of this place, and without saying a word, he picked up the demon binding sword and went up the mountain, but the Taoist never came back after he went.
After the local people learned about it, they invited several waves of Taoist priests and wandering immortals, but none of them survived.
The official government in the city also quickly reported to the imperial court, but the imperial court did not reply to ....... Now the whole city is full of panic, and some people try to go out of the city to seek disaster, but they are found the next day, and their luggage is abandoned at the foot of Komatsu Mountain, and there is no way out.
The local City God Temple, which was about to be abandoned, is now overcrowded, and they can only ask for the blessing of the City God.
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Li Bai ate the green onion noodles with a few slices of beef, and looked at Master Cui You with curious eyes. Cui You asked, "Want to go?" ”
"Well, the apprentice has never seen a ghost since he was born, so he is naturally curious."
"Then after eating, let's go to the City God Temple to inquire first." After Cui You finished speaking, he continued to talk about his face.
As soon as Li Bai heard that the master agreed, he finished the noodles in two sips, and then drank another sip of soup. Stood up and walked to the table next to him, both of them looked at Li Bai, Li Bai arched his hand and said, "I just heard from the two of you about the haunting of Xiaosong Mountain, and Master and I also want to go to worship the City God, so as not to get into trouble, can you tell us where the City God Temple is?" ”
"This little brother is really handsome, and at first glance it is not from our small place." The man on Li Bai's left was first attracted by Li Bai's appearance in white, and couldn't help but praise him.
"Hahaha, it's too much." Li Bai was naturally very happy to be praised.
"Little brother just walk south along this street, and now the most crowded place is the place." Another man pointed to the street.
"Thank you both."
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Cui You finished eating without hurry, settled the account, and walked with Li Bai in the direction of the City God Temple that the man said. In about half an hour, Li Bai and the others saw the City God Temple with people coming and going in front of them.
This temple is not very large, and most of the people who come to worship and burn incense are women. The temple seems to have just been cleaned, especially the statue of the golden god enshrined in the temple, which is spotless.
Li Bai planned to invite a stick of incense, but was stopped by the old man. The tall and burly old man said to Li Bai, "The true spirit of the City God in this City God Temple is gone, and only an empty shell remains. ”
"Let's go, let's meet the ghosts of Komatsu Mountain." Cui You said and walked with Li Bai towards the west of the city.
When Li Bai and the old man came to the west of the city, they found that almost all the residents in the west of the city closed their doors and windows, and even had a cold atmosphere, which was very different from the city they had seen before.
Rao is Li Bai's second realm's physique still feels cold down his spine. Cui You, a martial artist of the Ten Realms in a strong suit, has already reached the state where it is difficult for immortals to be injured, and this bit of yin qi is naturally nothing in front of him.
When the two of them went out of the city and came to the foot of Komatsu Mountain, it was already dusk, and the mountain was a pine forest, which was extremely dense.
With Cui You's eyesight, everything has been seen, but he didn't say anything to Li Bai, after all, it is to sharpen the martial arts, if everything is clear to him, then how can Li Bai grow up.
This will Cui You suppress his martial arts cultivation to the four realms into the little grandmaster, and the two of them climbed the mountain together.
When I entered the mountainside, it was already dark, the wind was gusting, and the mist around me was everywhere, and it was even colder. Further on, they heard a song, like a child's whisper:
"The safflower sedan chair, the lady is lifted, and the bride is dressed. The mountains and fields are Xiao Xiao, and the resentful man has not returned to his hometown.
The black mountain col grows grass, and the dry grave soil makes a bed. The white bones are miserable, and Panqing can't forget ....... ”
When the song came, the scene in front of Li Bai's eyes changed, as if he was in a ballad. The mountain in front of him is still a mountain, but there are many more figures, and Li Bai thought of the ghost fantasy that Master had written.
"Master? Master? Li Bai shouted twice but did not get a response. But he wasn't worried, the strongest martial artist in the world of the Ten Realms, this illusion could be broken with a little bit of wind.
Li Bai continued to walk towards the mountain, and the figures around him just walked back and forth, and then disappeared inexplicably.
When Li Bai walked half a mile, a welcoming band beating gongs and drums suddenly appeared behind him.
There were about thirty or forty people in this procession, and at the front of the procession walked a pair of boys and girls, two children with pale faces and two large blushes on them. What's even more weird is that these two little children are holding an empty tablet and singing "Red sedan chair, carry the girl...... But without opening his mouth, Li Bai could feel that the infiltrating singing voice was made by the two of them.
Seeing their team coming this way, Li Bai just stepped aside. The greeting team walked in front of Li Bai, but saw an old woman wearing a red wedding dress on crutches looking at Li Bai, and then the whole team stopped, and looked in the direction of Li Bai, and the two children in front of them turned their heads to look at Li Bai in a strange way, and smiled and leaked oozing white teeth.
Seeing this, Li Bai stepped forward calmly and said a few festive words to the old woman. The old woman looked at Li Bai with straight eyes, and then gave him a happy coin.
When the welcoming team walked away, Li Bai glanced at the happy money that had turned into a blank sheet of paper in his hand, and then looked at the direction in which the welcoming team disappeared, so he followed, anyway, he was going to the mountain.
Li Bai walked for a while and saw a mansion in front of him, the door of the mansion was open, and there were men in wedding clothes standing on both sides of the door. Behind the red lantern in the door, from time to time there are guests urging wine and shouting, so it is not lively. The two men on both sides of the door were also like the boys and girls in the welcoming team just now, with pale skin, two big blushes, and a gloomy smile, looking directly at Li Bai.
Rao is a person like Li Bai who is full of sage classics and has a strong and righteous spirit in his chest, and he is hairy on his back.
Seeing that the two of them made a stiff "please" movement, Li Bai's body involuntarily walked towards the mansion.
Li Bai hurriedly read out the sage Zhizhi "Be cautious of words, avoid ecstasy, be willing to help others, be good at controlling anger, worry less, eat lightly, and often swallow with relish." "When he was studying in the Xiangershan Academy before, Li Xianyi told him that Haoran was righteous and restrained evil.
In an instant, Li Bai's body was full of righteous energy, the power that controlled him in his body disappeared, and the biting cold disappeared. The two men were shocked by Haoran's righteousness, and slowly turned into two humanoid skeletons. Then the skeleton crashed to the ground and turned into powder.
The mansion, which was originally smooth and beautiful, was now extremely quiet, and the buildings inside the door were in disrepair, tattered and overgrown with weeds, as if it had been abandoned for many years, and even the conspicuous red lantern was only left with a skeleton, but the door of the mansion was still very red.
Li Bai couldn't resist his curiosity, so he walked towards the mansion, he wanted to find out what was in the house, and whether this ghost bride was the source of this ghost disaster.
As soon as Li Bai entered the gate, a yin wind blew in his face, and Li Bai, who was originally protected by Haoran righteousness, felt cold again at this moment.
"Whew-" Suddenly, Li Bai only felt that someone blew a cool breath into his ear, which frightened him. Hurriedly turned his head but found nothing. Then he tried to go back the way he came, but found that the door was closed, and no matter how hard he tried, he could not open it.
Li Bai accumulated strength on his feet, then jumped, intending to climb out of the wall, but unexpectedly, the wall also rose with him.
"Whew-" Another cold air blew towards him, and his second realm physique, which was ranked by the strongest martial artist in the first realm, still couldn't help but tremble, and couldn't stand this cold air.
Li Bai could only go to the house to see if he could find a way to crack it.
When Li Bai entered the main hall, he saw a red figure flying in front of him and disappeared in a flash.
The tattered hall reverberated with the laughter of female ghosts.
"Hey, hey, hahaha, handsome reader, hey, hey, hey, hey, ......hey,
The smile stopped abruptly behind Li Bai, and Li Bai sensed that something was wrong, so he threw a punch behind him, but it only kicked up a burst of old dust in the room.
The trembling Li Bai searched for the things in the hall until he saw a dusty tablet engraved on it: The position of the husband Su Nanhong. Among them, the word Nanhong was scraped like a fingernail print, and it was almost impossible to read clearly.
"Are you Su Nanhong's wife?" Li Baileng's voice trembled and asked.
However, the red figure didn't pay attention to it, just floated around, staring at Li Bai's heroic righteousness, and roared: "Reading Lang, ah, Reading Lang, reading is not a good thing, they should all die!" ”
Her roaring voice at this moment didn't want to be the same as just now, at least it could be regarded as a tactful sound just now. The current one is like the friction of gold and iron.
Then he saw the female ghost in red rushing towards Li Baifei, Li Bai fixed his eyes, this should be the bride on the sedan chair in the greeting team he met when he went up the mountain, wearing a wedding dress.
Li Bai controlled Haoran righteousness, and kept reading the sage articles in his mouth. But Li Bai's cultivation is still too low, even if Haoran's righteousness naturally overwhelms the evil, but the realm of this ghost is too high.
Just when the ghost of the wedding dress was about to pierce Haoran's righteousness, the pen "twelve" pinned to Li Bai's waist emitted a dazzling light, attached to Li Bai's Haoran righteousness, and Haoran's righteousness became thick at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The ghost of the wedding dress was also shaken away by the momentum emanating from Haoran's righteousness, and let out a terrible scream.
Seeing this, Li Bai was very determined, and took the initiative to sweep in the direction of the ghost in the wedding dress, and the ghost in the wedding dress floated out of the courtyard one after another.
When the female ghost left, Twelve fell back into the same dead silence as before, and Li Bai simply retracted his righteousness.
Without the support of the female ghost, the gate of the courtyard became tattered.
Li Bai hurriedly walked out of the courtyard, and then continued to set off in the direction where the female ghost left. As for Cui You, Li Bai believes that with Master's means, he will definitely have no worries about his life, and Master will definitely be watching him there.
When the ghost of the wedding dress fled, the qi was dispersed to the east, so Li Bai also chased towards the east side of Komatsu Mountain.
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