The young Chu Yuanxiao also learned later that there have always been some sayings on the rivers and lakes of Jiuzhou that are like the secret books of the immortal monks, about those goblins and mountain ghosts who are secretly cultivating in the mountains and rivers and looking forward to becoming immortals one day, there is also a running account to talk about.

It is said that 10,000 years ago, from the time when the demon clan of Jiuzhou in the world was sent to Yunmengze by the last human emperor together, until the strange celestial phenomenon known as the demon dragon opening his eyes more than ten years ago, during this period of nearly 10,000 years, there have been few mountain spirits or ghosts and ghosts on Jiuzhou who can really cultivate a certain climate.

Some people say that it is because the last human emperor personally blocked the cultivation opportunities of other beings in heaven and earth except for the human race, and some people say that it is because there are hundreds of schools of thought led by the three sects to supervise the world and suppress the growth opportunities of these other non-human beings.

Nearly 10,000 years of accumulation, all kinds of theories have been circulated, but it seems that no one has really given an exact statement, on the contrary, many people know that the group of people in Middle-earth seem to have some ability to subdue demons and eliminate demons, and they are more enthusiastic than other monks in the eight continents to accumulate merit and good karma that are responsible for keeping accounts by the Linyuan Academy.

Among the more famous, such as the four mountain gates opened in the Dao Gate outside the Kunlun Ruins, their ancestors are all registered disciples under the throne of the Dao Ancestor, although the cultivation methods adopted by the disciples and grandchildren of each family are slightly different, but it seems that there are more or less some skills to subdue demons and eliminate demons in hand.

Among these four families, the most obvious is the Longhu Mountain Heavenly Master's Mansion, which is known as the Thunder Law Talisman and the Double Peerless, opening the door to accept apprentices, canon rules and precepts, and the biggest theme is the eight big characters, "Thunder Law Talisman, accumulating merit", and every elder immortal master in the mountain will clearly tell the younger disciples that only those eight words can be successful in cultivation if they are both one and two.

However, the merits advocated by the Heavenly Master's Mansion do not seem to be exactly the same thing as the merits in the account book of the Linyuan Academy, but instead look more like the incense wishes needed for the growth of the gods in the world throughout Jiuzhou.

Generally speaking, it is these intricate rules and regulations that seem to have completely blocked the road to heaven for those goblins and ghosts wandering in the mountains, so in the past 10,000 years, there are almost no big demons or trolls who are really capable of appearing in the world.

Among the five clans back then, in addition to the Protoss who were sealed behind the Heavenly Gate, and the human race that completely occupied Jiuzhou, the remaining three clans can still be regarded as somewhat famous in Jiuzhou, that is, the Demon Sect Leader who stayed in Zhuolu Prefecture in Middle Earth all the year round and didn't go out a single step, and Yun Mengze, who was assigned to the entire Demon Clan to live alone, and the one that only a few people knew, including Luo Yushan, the extraterritorial ghost clan distributed on the sea.

Some people also say that the Zhenhai Tower built in the southeast Jinchai Continent is actually to suppress the Kraken clan, with a five-story stone building to dominate the four seas, to prevent the Kraken from landing on the land of Jiuzhou as a disaster to the world, but this statement is not as famous as the first three, and it seems to be more like a far-fetched word of mouth for good things, so it is not known whether it is true or not.

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Today, when the young man Chu Yuanxiao arrived at the entrance of the valley that was a little strange, and when he met the strange ghost with a strange and changeable face and couldn't see the origin clearly, he initially thought that it should be the pretending of Su Sanzai, who had a sick brain, but after seeing him suddenly turn into a grimace, he felt that he really seemed to be a powerful ghost who practiced and debuted.

The old Liang Tou once mentioned that in the world of life, everyone's shoulders and the top of the head are born with three fires, the fire on the top of the head represents the three feet above the head and there are gods, and the two fires on both shoulders each represent the three yin and three yang, and the three fires together are the three souls and seven spirits of the people.

Walking in the world, the three fires are combined in one place and viewed from a distance, just like the white paper lanterns lit in the mountains and fields in the middle of the night, and some people with shallow lives, the light of the fire is not bright enough, it will be more like a ghost fire, which is easy to attract evil.

As for those who are hard enough, or who have advanced cultivation, the fire is like the sun, and naturally it can also prevent those treacherous and evil approaches.

Today's young Chu Yuanxiao, on the one hand, is the avenue is broken, on the other hand, the martial arts body is broken, although there were rumors in the town that he was hard to overcome his relatives, but the problem is that the hard life is a statement, a little bit is in heaven, and a little bit is really a man-made disaster, it is not easy to assert, so when he is alternating day and night, black and white are inseparable, he suddenly encountered an evil ghost who blocked the way, it seems to be reasonable.

All of a sudden, it was dark and dreary without the slightest light, the wind was blowing, the sand was flying, and the ghosts were crying in the ears!

Chu Yuanxiao's hairs stood on end in an instant, and when he carried the dead old drunkard out of the town three miles on his back and buried him at the foot of the dragon's back mountain, he didn't seem to be afraid, because that old man was a relative who watched him grow up, and it was really not the same thing as the ghost in front of him who didn't know the origin.

On the other side, the miserable white grimace that kept wandering in the black fog seemed to suddenly have only one head left, and the entire body below the neck seemed to be the same thing that he had condensed with ghost qi before, and when the black room was permeated, it melted and dissipated little by little, merging into the black qi, and disappeared, leaving only one head to fly around.

In fact, as early as more than ten years ago, this ghost thing had already settled in the valley in front of him, but at that time, the monks and gods of all walks of life in the world were extremely unkind to these demon things, so although he settled here, he actually rarely dared to show his body clearly.

He is like the ostrich who likes to bury his head under the sand of the ground when he is hiding from his predators, and he deceives himself with no regard for his head.

Later, not long after the time, I don't know if it was because the sky had eyes and deliberately gave him a way to live, or because he was stained with the light of some similar demons with great luck, in short, on a full moon night, the Taiyin moon in the sky, which was originally like a white jade plate, was suddenly dyed with a layer of blood, and it was the demon dragon who opened his eyes!

Like them, the ghosts and spirits who are born with the Great Dao in the treacherous and evil way, have a great thirst for the power of Taiyin, and without the replenishment of heaven and earth treasures, they do not dare to blatantly devour those Terran monks or ordinary people who are not strong into their stomachs, as a panacea for cultivation and nourishment, every night when the moon is in the middle of the sky, squatting on the top of the mountain cliff to absorb the power of Taiyin is almost the only choice for them to effectively increase their strength in addition to down-to-earth cultivation.

Complement each other and complement each other.

The demon dragon opened his eyes that night, and the so-called "demon dragon" happened to be the most friendly to the monsters in the mountains and rivers, and it could also be of great benefit to these ghostly things.

Therefore, all along, the ghost things in front of him who only dared to sneak in a secluded place to absorb some of the power of Taiyin benefited a lot that night, and their cultivation also went to the next level, and finally dared to show their heads a little in ordinary times, and occasionally coveted the merchants and pedestrians passing by on the official road outside this valley.

It's just that as a ghost, he was born with a keen sense of smell, although it is about two hundred miles away from the famous Yanguan Town in Liangzhou, but he still doesn't dare to be too arrogant, because there are many great monks of the human race scattered in that town, and in his eyes, it is as dazzling as the sun, and it is difficult to pretend not to see it from two hundred miles.

Moreover, in the eyes of ordinary people, this distance of two hundred miles may take two or three days to arrive, but in the eyes of those Terran monks who are like natural enemies in his eyes, it is only a little longer than a step with one foot lifting, and he is not much different from being under the noses of others.

It's not that this ghost thing doesn't want to go farther away to settle down in other places, it's just that his strength is not high, it is only equivalent to the middle of the second realm of the human race cultivation realm, and he has arrived here by mistake, so he doesn't dare to change places too blatantly, so as not to be accidentally targeted.

Second, in fact, there is another reason that I dare not say clearly, that is, the Great Array of Salt Officials that can gather the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, although it is separated from this place by two hundred miles, but because the effect of absorbing spiritual energy is too huge, it happens that there is a spiritual energy vein that passes through this valley all the year round.

Therefore, settling here, for the ghosts who are not blessed by the avenue, there will also be some benefits, some are called near the water, and if they are not good, they can only be called rats stealing oil, in short, there are some benefits.

This day has been sneaking around for more than ten years, until about half a month ago, he was still hiding in the cave in his own cliff, but unexpectedly, a catastrophe fell from the sky, and the two powerful martial artists who could seriously injure and die just because of the scorching qi and blood emitted by a body of martial arts qi and blood, I don't know what medicine he took wrong, and ran to this valley to ask each other.

In that fist-to-flesh martial arts game, the two people who were fighting against each other didn't care about it for the time being, and scared him half to death and half injured him to death when he was hiding in the mountain cliff cave mansion.

If it weren't for the fact that he ran fast enough to see the bad situation, and the two of them seemed to be only staring at each other at the time, and they didn't notice that he was running under their noses, I guess he wouldn't have survived today.

However, the fist fight between the two affected him, the fish in the city, so when he was seriously injured, he had to show his head after the clouds cleared and found a way to make up for his shortfall.

Now fortunately, the salt official array has been broken, and those masters who thought to him could collapse him to death with a fart have also left the Liangzhou territory one by one, so at this moment, he intercepted the young man in front of him, so that he could make up for the shortfall.

As for why he can change into the appearance that this young man knows, it is a trivial matter, this young man is a weak person who is not strong in life, and has no cultivation as a body, and it is very simple for ghosts and spirits to see through the thoughts and thoughts of people like them, he found at a glance that it seems that the appearance and image of the man in black have the deepest roots in this young man's heart, so as long as he changes a little, it is not difficult at all.

As soon as he thought of this, this ghost creature stared at the young man who was in the midst of the ghost with a pair of scarlet and bloody eyes, smiling strangely, his eyes were hot, and he couldn't help but stretch out his terrifying and weird long tongue and lick his pale and bloodless lips up and down.

"Boy, if you didn't say a word and obediently followed me into this valley, although I would still eat your flesh and blood, but I could keep your soul as a little ghost, or be a slave companion for me, but you talked too much nonsense and missed this great opportunity, then next, don't blame me for even flesh and blood with soul tonic together."

As he spoke, the ghost creature who was constantly wandering in the ghost fog and changing directions, his eyes became even more blood-red, and he continued to laugh strangely while salivating.

"You must have come from that town, right? You have had many years of uninterrupted spiritual energy nourishment of heaven and earth, for me it is a great tonic of flesh and blood elixir, which is very beneficial, I can't imagine that although I don't have the honor of entering the town to accept apprentices, I have the good life of eating a young man in the town, and the time is also fate, and I deserve to ascend to heaven! ”

The ghostly aura was strong, the yin wind was raging, and Chu Yuanxiao, who came out of it, inevitably began to feel dizzy, and his whole body began to feel weak and powerless.

The two changes before and after made him injured, like a dilapidated thatched hut, began to leak on all sides, and the gusts of yin wind that continued to rage around his body happened to flow up the cracks of those broken flesh, constantly eroding the internal organs, making him chill all over his body, and becoming weaker and weaker.

However, the pale young man was really sure that this was not Su Sanzai, but a real ghost thing, but he was not as scared as before.

It is normal for people to be afraid of those illusory things that cannot be seen clearly, but now that he has determined what the situation on the other side is, the young man is a little relieved, after all, he is indeed the right person who let go of the ghost marquis face to face, although he is only a bystander, but the physical body is indeed his.

Chu Yuanxiao gritted his teeth, and then tried to open his eyes and looked at the gusts of yin wind around his body, although it was pitch black, he couldn't hear the ghostly voice clearly, but he still said: "How can you be sure that you must have eaten me, not planted in my hands?" ”

The ghost thing seemed to have heard a big joke when he heard it, and he still couldn't get rid of the thick gloomy atmosphere in the laughter.

"I know that you have some immortal things around, such as the money in your hand, as a thing that is disgusted with the town, and has some natural restraint for creatures like us, but what you don't know is that the power of the magic weapon depends on who uses it."

The ghost creature suddenly showed his head from the yin and evil aura that permeated the surroundings, and then grinned, and the corners of the two narrow ghost mouths had already opened to the base of his ears, making his already withered and terrifying face look even more weird.

"If someone in the cultivation holds your winning coin, I will only have to retreat, but as far as your blood is empty, and the fire of life is swaying and about to be extinguished, what is the difference between using this money to deal with me and tickling? If you use it as a method, whether you can penetrate my ghost formation or not is a question! ”

The boy looked at the terrifying ghost creature that only had a head and no body below the neck, and was still bleeding on the tick, and when he heard his answer, his face became ugly again.

He didn't know if it was really as the ghost said, if he pronounced those four words, the young man in black would be able to sense the predicament in front of him, but if he didn't read it at this time, he didn't seem to have much other means at his disposal.

Seeing that the mountains and rivers were exhausted, the young man did not hesitate, directly pinched the money, and softly read out the four words engraved on the coin, the law is ancient and modern.

After reading it, when I raised my eyes again, I saw that grimace was frozen in place for a long time, a pair of weird and terrifying ghost eyes smiling slightly, and the mockery at the corners of his lips became more and more obvious.

Because the dark mist that spread around him did not change at all, as if it was really as he said, even if the young man really used the tired money, it was useless, and the great monk who promised to be summoned by him did not show up.

It was silent, except for the dark mist that was still swirling, and there was no sound or any other variation.

Seeing this, Chu Yuanxiao's eyes couldn't help but change slightly, if this money was useless, it meant that he had to think of other ways next, and even could only rely on his own ability to escape.

The ghost on the other side seemed to be in a good mood at the moment, and he was not in a hurry to take the young man's life, but instead smiled weirdly and said, "Boy, you are so big, you shouldn't have heard of ghosts hitting the wall, right?" ”

Ghosts hit the wall, of course the boy has heard of it.

Lao Liangtou once said that some people who are not hard in life, when they encounter ghosts at night, or even accidentally strayed into ghosts in the wilderness alone in the middle of the day, they will go around as if they were blinded.

When some goblins are so ferocious, those who strayed into them may even die in them.

The young man remembered clearly that when Lao Liang Tou talked about this, he once said a tragic scene that he had seen with his own eyes when he was young.

It is said that the young man who met the ghost hitting the wall, when he was discovered, knelt alone in a dirt pit at the foot of a mountain, his eyes protruding angrily, and his eyes were full of great fear, as if he had seen some extremely terrifying and strange scene.

And the man's mouth and nose were also stuffed with mud and sand, the nails of his hands and ten fingers had all been broken and fell off, and he was dripping with blood, and he was still clutching two handfuls of dirt in both hands.

He also said that the sand in the young man's mouth and nose should have been fed to his mouth by himself, and when the people found out, the man had already died of suffocation because his mouth and nose were blocked, and his body was already cold and stiff, and his death was extremely miserable!

At that time, the black lights were blinding, and there was silence all around, and the young man who followed Lao Liangtou through the streets and alleys, only the bang in his hand would have some sound when he knocked it, so when he heard Lao Liangtou's tone say these descriptions lightly, the young man only felt as if he was following something behind him, and couldn't help but get closer to the old man.

Back then, it could still be heard as a story, but now it is in front of him, Chu Yuanxiao's face is even darker, staring at the grimace that looks a little arrogant, and said: "The ghost hits the wall does know, but you want me to simply obey the order because I heard these three words, I'm afraid it's too easy to think about it." ”

The ghost thing listened to the young man's answer, and a pair of blood-red ghost eyes actually raised his eyebrows, which looked a little weird and funny, only to hear him laugh and smile: "Then you might as well try it, see if there is any way to get out of trouble, if you can escape from my hands today, I will be your servant companion in the future!" ”

Chu Yuanxiao listened to the tone of the ghost's voice, and could obviously hear that he was more sarcastic, just like a cat playing with a mouse, he was not in a hurry to put his mouth down, but had a touch of banter to play with playthings and have fun.

This was an opportunity, and the boy began to meditate on what else he could use, and as if he had no intention of talking to the ghost, he began to stall for time: "You have blocked others besides me?" ”

When he said this, the young man began to calculate in his heart that the miraculous things he was carrying when he walked out of the town this time, in addition to the money, there was also the jade Sumeru given by Mr. Cui, the fish and dragon pendant that Li Yuyao gave him, and the compensation from Su Sanzai's bamboo pole in the Sumeru.

In addition to these, it should also be counted the bamboo cane he pinched in his hand, when he was in Yanguan Town, every time he saw the old Taoist chief, the young man could see that the old man with wide robes and big sleeves always carried this bamboo cane in his hand to explore the way.

Moreover, on the night of the spring equinox, when the old Taoist chief stood on the top of the dragon's back mountain in the east of the town, he also released the thunder pool through this bamboo cane, so maybe this bamboo cane will be useful?

The ghost on the other side listened to the young man's question, and didn't mind him procrastinating, and looked at the young man's eye movements, and saw him pinching the bamboo pole, so he grinned weirdly: "It doesn't matter if I blocked others or not, you want to use that bamboo pole to deal with me, do you think I will be stunned by you like a person?" ”

The reason why he said this was because ghosts were different from humans, and if the Terran monks did not cultivate to a certain level, they would not be able to refine the real and the virtual, that is, there was no way to avoid attacks by dissipating their bodies, but the ghosts did not have this limitation.

For example, when Chu Yuanxiao and Li Yuyao were paired with the pair of Shuixiu Lake masters and servants at the foot of the Dragon's Back Mountain, the old woman with a gloomy face, who was a Qi practitioner in the Six Realms, had also cultivated the Demon Gate method, and in the face of the attack of the girl in white, she still couldn't avoid the damage by disappearing her body.

But like this ghost in front of him, he can disappear from this place at any time, and then appear from another place, as long as the vast ghost qi around him is like a howling wind at this moment, he can toss and turn from time to time, like a fish in water.

Therefore, when he found out that Chu Lantern Xiao intended to attack him with that bamboo pole, he only felt funny, the young man in front of him not only had no cultivation, but he didn't even seem to know some basic common sense of walking the rivers and lakes, a real chick!

Therefore, before the young man could answer his question, he first smiled and put down his arrogance, "Come on, come on, you might as well try it and see if your bamboo pole can cause me a little damage?" ”

This time, without waiting for the young man holding the bamboo cane to make a move, both the human and the ghost coincidentally saw a flash of light and shadow first, and then a thin palm with five fingers and slender suddenly appeared above the ghost head!

As if he thought the ghost's head was too bloody and dirty, the palm of the hand did not touch the messy pile of hair scattered and hanging down on the top of the ghost's head, but there was a clear breath that seemed to be there and slowly wrapped and imprisoned the head.

Almost instantly, the face of the gloomy ghost who had suddenly changed suddenly changed, and the grimace that had been still smiling weirdly changed to a look of surprise and horror like a trick, because he found that he couldn't move.

Obviously, there was no sign of dissipation of the surrounding ghost qi, obviously only one hand appeared, and the owner of this hand was still submerged in the ghost fog and did not appear, but he was like a fish swimming in the water suddenly trapped by a net, unable to disappear, unable to move, unable to escape, heaven and earth are like a cage, imprisoned and cannot be escaped!

Before the ghost could finish panicking, and before the boy could be surprised, a lukewarm voice exploded in the ears of the boy and the ghost at the same time.

"Then you can take a look at his bamboo cane now and see if he can hit your ghost head that should have rotted a long time ago?"

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