CHAPTER XVIII

"Tao'er and I came from the Han Kingdom in the southern border of the Yuntian Continent. ”

"South, through the wasteland, you two can, you can get out of this. ”

"Come out with the caravan. Lin Jiu said very embarrassedly.

"Runaway slaves, right?" said Li Jinliang with a smile.

"So what?" Lin Jiu was very unconvinced

"It's not like that, my grandfather was also a slave from the south back then, no wonder you don't know anything about cultivation, it turns out that you are from the south border"

"Why the people of the South don't know anything"

"Because of the entire Yuntian Continent, only in the south there is no aura, or only a few places have a little aura, so there is no cultivation sect in the south, and there are not many kung fu sects in the world, my grandfather was also captured as a slave and transported to the east to sell to some small sects or loose cultivation as medicine jars, but he was saved by a kind person, and passed on a set of internal strength methods, my grandfather practiced hard and finally practiced to a bottleneck at the age of forty, and then there was no breakthrough, became a master of internal strength, and played a piece of heaven in the rivers and lakes of Dajin Kingdom, and then saved the family business to have my father, my father was a little dull, and he has not become a master of internal strength until now, but my father is good at business, so I started practicing this kung fu early from a young age, at the age of nineteen, at the age of twenty-two this year into the bottleneck period, my father saw that I was still young, so he asked me to go to the Baishan Sect to study. ”

"Then I hope to worship the Hundred Mountains Sect as you wish," Lin Jiu said with a slight smile pretending to be calm.

"I hope so, I hope to get the exercises I can practice in the Baishan Sect, you can't experience my feeling if you don't practice, no matter how deep the internal strength is, it can't compare to a lowest-level spell, you can't practice the aura between heaven and earth for your own use, no matter how much internal force you have in the sea of qi, there is a time when you run out, and in the later stage of qi training, you no longer use refining your own qi to increase the reserves of the sea of qi, but when you breathe and breathe, you will slowly refine the aura between heaven and earth into the body, and at that time the sea of qi will increase many times, if you reach the foundation building period, you can mobilize the aura between heaven and earth for your own use, calling for wind and rain, that is a fairy-like existence." Li Jinliang had a yearning expression on his face.

"It's easy to say," Lin Jiucai said with emotion

"It's not an easy thing to go against the sky, so you are a runaway slave, where are you going to visit your relatives?" Li Jinliang looked at Lin Jiu with ill will

Lin Jiu smiled awkwardly and said, "Brother Li, it is true that our brother and sister have not found a good place to settle down for the time being, but it will definitely be impossible to go back to the southern border, so we have to take one step at a time, if it is really desperate, I will go to the Baishan Sect to find you again, okay?"

Li Jin nodded and didn't say anything more

The next morning, the three of them woke up early and went on the road together, the three young people talked and laughed all the way and passed quickly, Lin Jiu also asked a lot of common sense and knowledge in the practice, and some Li Jinliang couldn't say it clearly, after all, he had heard a lot of people, and he hadn't stepped into the door of the practice yet.

Li Jinliang also told Lin Jiu a lot of strange events in this world, and Lin Jiu, who had just gone out for a long time, was full of novelty.

"By the way, what kind of sword qi did you make that night that look very handsome, can you teach me?" Lin Jiu felt that he was familiar with Li Jinliang in the past few days, so he tried to ask.

"It's no problem to teach you, but you don't have the slightest internal strength, you just know the moves, and you can't send out sword qi without internal strength."

"Alas, it's okay, you teach me"

"Actually, there is no move, it is to stab a sword in the air, but in the body, the internal force should be carried along the sea of qi to the arm and then to the palm, and through the inner sword. If you stab it out again, it will be a sword qi, and I can only explain it to you like this, and you don't understand the acupuncture points and meridians."

"What about your sword, I'll try it. ”

"You pull it down, what do you try, give, return the sword qi"

Lin Jiu took the long sword, drew the sword out of its sheath and stabbed it out as if it were a sword.

"Hahaha, it's like that, it's like that" Li Jinliang looked at it and laughed at Lin Jiu

"Hehe, I'm just blind and can't do kung fu" Lin Jiu scratched his head in embarrassment.

"Actually, don't use a sword to compare, you use your index finger and middle finger as a sword, which can scare people, and those who don't know it think you're a master of sword qi."

Lin Jiu heard that he handed the sword to Li Jinliang, and really tried to make a sword with his fingers to compare with Li Jinliang, and his mouth was accompanied by his own voice, whoosh, whoosh. It made Li Jinliang laugh.

"You are like this, don't move" Li Jinliang walked up to Lin Jiu and said, "Your sea of qi is here," Li Jinliang said, and slowly put his hand on Lin Jiu's abdomen, " In this way, the internal force of the sea of qi passes through this acupoint, this, then walks through this meridian, through this acupoint, this, and this, when it reaches the fingers, and then shoots out from the fingertips, telling you the names of the acupuncture points and meridians, you can't remember it for a while, and you don't understand, anyway, it's also playing, but if you have internal strength, you can hit a sword qi like this, if the internal force is deep, this sword qi can hurt people and kill people. ”

"Oh, that's right. Lin Jiu said and made two more volleys, Li Jinliang shook his head with a smile, his internal strength is already profound, and he can't kill people with sword qi, this guy hasn't practiced his internal skills for a day, he has no internal strength at all, how can kung fu be quick, how can it be so simple.

After a few more days, they came across a fork in the road, one to the east and the other to the south.

Lin Jiu preemptively said, "Brother Li, this eastward must be going to the Baishan Sect, and the junior brother will wish you a successful apprenticeship first."

"You really don't want to come with me?" Li Jinliang asked again

"No, Brother Li, you go first, I'll see you again if you have a fate, little brother, thank you for telling me so much these days, and you also taught me a sword qi. ”

"Ahem, what kind of sword move is that, if that's the case, then goodbye"

"Goodbye"

Lin Jiu took Tao'er on his horse and continued to walk south, and Li Jinliang waved his hand and walked east

"Brother Jiu, aren't we going to the Hundred Mountains Sect, why don't we go with Brother Li?"

"When Senior Qu gave me the map, he said that as long as we get to the Baishan Sect and take out the map, someone will arrange for us, not to mention what will be arranged, at least we will definitely let us stay and take us in, if this Li Jinliang stays with me, it will be very sad that he doesn't stay, so let's go into the mountain separately, if he stays, we will be together in the future, if we don't stay, then we will be arranged in front of him, how embarrassing. ”

"You think so much," Momo's expression was disdainful

"Besides, I am a natural spirit body, although I don't know what this natural spirit body is all about, I also inquired about Brother Li, he doesn't know, but I think it is definitely not simple to make Qu's predecessors moved, so the fewer people who want to know, the better, this is not a day or two journey to Baishan Sect, even if he doesn't know what a natural spirit body is, but if he finds out what it is that we don't even know, then what to do, it's better to be careful." ”

Tao'er nodded, as if she didn't understand, but as long as it was said by Brother Jiu, it should be.

After a few months, although he met several big cities, Lin Jiu deliberately bypassed, he didn't want to cause more trouble because he was unfamiliar with the place, especially after being sold by Aunt Cai once in Fengtai City, he was even more reluctant to go to a crowded place to join in the fun, he knew that it was not uncommon to be sold again with his current experience

But passing by small towns and larger villages, Lin Jiu would stay with Tao'er for two or three days, go to the inn to eat some delicious food, buy some dry food and change of clothes by the way, and when he separated from Li Jinliang, Li Jinliang knew that the two of them had escaped from the caravan, so he gave the two of them some silver taels.

But the months have long been used up, Lin Jiu and Xiaobai took some game to sell in the town, in exchange for some silver, a few months later, finally walked out of the Dajin country, into the territory of the Daqiu country, the map has rarely been taken out anymore, Lin Jiu has been inquiring about this for the past few months, and the Baishan Sect is a major sect, so the route Lin Jiu has already been determined.

This hundred mountains sect is located in the south of the territory of Daqiu country, where there are mountains all over the wilderness, although it is inaccessible but it is not difficult to find, but the mountain road is rugged and not easy to walk, the two of them have been walking for a few months, although they are riding horses, but they will also get off the horse and walk for a while after a long time, so the two of them are not fast, and the more they go south, the fewer villages they meet, and the mountains are slowly more and more later, there is no village, and they will see a family for several days.

Because they are all in the mountains, there is no large area of plains to cultivate, so there are few villages, fortunately, there are many good people along the way, both of them can buy or ask for dry food, plus wild game in the mountains, they will not go hungry, but the long time of the journey makes the two of them really a little unbearable, but when they think that they are about to reach the periphery of the mountains in the south, they are getting closer and closer to the Baishan Sect, but they are stepping up and walking faster.

On this day, go south to a big mountain, the road into the mountain is on the back of the mountain, in the shade of the mountain, just after noon, the sun is still very hot at this time, the two entered the mountain, but as soon as the sun is gone, they feel a cool air drilled straight into the body, and the two of them shivered unconsciously.

"Brother Jiu, how eerie, why don't we take a detour"

"Detour, where to go around, this is the only road within a radius of 100 miles, let's go, it's okay, there's Xiaobai here!"

"But why do you still feel cold around you this time?"

"Nonsense, I'm cold this time, and it's not in Silver Dragon Mountain"

"Oh"

The two of them walked on the mountain path, and they didn't see the sun again until it was dark, when Lin Jiu was looking for a suitable place to spend the night, he saw a dark courtyard in the distance, and walked slowly along the road, only to see a dilapidated courtyard when he got to the front, most of the houses in it had collapsed, and there were still traces of being burned.

The door is knotted with cobwebs, the signboard at the door does not know where it fell, look through the door, the house that has not fallen has no doors and no windows, just in the evening, the house is pitch black and everything is seen, from time to time there are a few crows chirping, it is even more creepy.

Lin Jiu and Tao'er stood under the steps outside the gate, Tao'er looked up at the courtyard and saw that it was even more eerie, so she said in fear, "Brother Jiu, let's not live here, it's too scary." ”

"Okay, let's not go in, just under the steps at this door, my husband is making a fire, and there is a rabbit that has not been roasted, so it will be roasted later." ”

Saying that, Lin Jiu began to pick up firewood nearby to make a fire, with the bright light Tao'er seemed less nervous, at this time, under the light of the fire, there was a faint layer of white fog slowly rising, Lin Jiu didn't care about it, thinking that it was the cold fog in the mountains at night, fortunately, they had a fire and it didn't affect anything, but the mountains were exceptionally quiet, Xiaobai looked here and there from time to time in Tao'er's arms, but he didn't find anything abnormal, so he honestly lay in Tao'er's arms.

After eating, Lin Jiu laid a place for Tao'er to sleep, Tao'er hugged Xiaobai and slept first, Lin Jiu sat by the fire in a daze, nothing to add some firewood to the fire, afraid that the fire was small and Tao'er would catch a cold again, but he felt a burst of irritability for some reason, and looked up to see that a big full moon in the sky was reflected here, and at this time, the white mist on the periphery was a little thicker.

Lin Jiu saw that Tao'er and Xiaobai were sleeping peacefully, so he added more firewood to the fire, got up and walked towards the gate of the dilapidated courtyard, he was more irritable, and pulled the cobwebs on the door and walked in, there is a large hall in the front yard, but most of it has collapsed, and there are some side rooms on both sides, all of which are blackened by fire, and behind the hall is a wall with an arch on it, Lin Jiu walked towards the back.

There was only the rustle of leaves under his feet, the backyard was quite big, there were many people who used to live here, there were several rows of houses at a glance, Lin Jiu walked back along the path, the more he walked back, the more irritable he became, but there was always a curious energy that prompted him to go further back.

At the end of the backyard was the wall, but most of the wall had collapsed, but there was a stone path behind the wall, Lin Jiu stepped over the collapsed wall and walked along the stone path towards the depths of the forest.

But as soon as he walked, it was almost half an hour, and the path was always winding in the forest, Lin Jiu thought that something was wrong and quickly turned around and walked back, but as soon as he turned around, Lin Jiu was stupid, how could there be a way behind him, the stone path disappeared into the thick white fog more than a zhang back, Lin Jiu ran over in a hurry, but no matter how he ran, there was always a small road in front of him, and then there was a thick white fog, Lin Jiu thought badly, this time it was estimated that he was going to explain this, he tried to shout a few more Xiaobai, but the sound couldn't go far at all, Lin Jiu ran back and forth on this path like a headless fly。

About half an hour later, the surrounding fog lightened slightly, Lin Jiu saw a pavilion not far in front, just on the edge of the forest, along the road slowly towards the forest, turned a corner and saw that there was a figure behind the pavilion, and it was not clear from a distance, but this would not be able to find the way back, so he could only walk over hard, and Lin Jiu did not enter the pavilion in front of him.

He saw a girl standing in the middle of the pavilion, wearing a purple robe, and her hair was also tied with a purple hairband hanging down behind her, all the way to her waist, she could only see a side face, her skin was as white as jade, her big eyes had been looking outside the pavilion, she didn't know what she was thinking, she held a delicate dagger on her chest in both hands, and Lin Jiu's appearance made Lin Jiu stunned for a while.

He has come all the way from the Han Kingdom, and he has never seen such a beautiful girl, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he is a fairy who came out of the painting. Lin Jiu thought to himself, could it be a female ghost, and let myself be trapped here to take my life? Lin Jiu looked at this woman as if he was facing a great enemy, for fear that she would do something to harm herself, so she was ready to run at any time.

The girl probably felt that someone beside her had been watching her, so she turned around and saw Lin Jiu's nervous appearance, her eyes revealed a trace of curiosity, and she spoke first, Lin Jiu was half frightened to death when she heard it, and the girl actually said, "You can see me?"

Lin Jiu's back was covered in cold sweat, it seemed that she was really a female ghost, the human eye could not see ghosts and gods, unless they showed up by themselves, this terrible Lin Jiu was scared enough, and the girl smiled when she saw Lin Jiu's expression. "Why? hell, I look at what scared you, I really don't look like a man."

Lin Jiu became angry when he heard it, saying that he couldn't say anything that he was not a man, Lin Jiu raised his chest and said, "Why is Lao Tzu not a man, what are you doing here in the middle of the night? You are a human or a ghost."

"I'm a ghost, a female ghost who specializes in eating people" The girl slowly walked towards Lin Jiu.

"You...... You...... Don't come here, Mom, ghost. Lin Jiu turned around and ran back along the road, but he couldn't lift his legs no matter how he walked, and he howled loudly in fright.

"Cut, I thought it was tough," the girl jumped and floated back into the pavilion.

"Are you a fucking human or a ghost?"

"Didn't I tell you that I was a ghost" The girl was a little impatient, but her eyes kept staring at the outside of the pavilion, "I told you, you stay there and don't move, I have a big thing to do tonight, I don't have the time to suck your yang energy, today is also your luck"

"You're such a ghost."

"Nonsense" The female ghost floated up on the spot as she spoke, turned her head to look at Lin Jiu, stretched out her long tongue, blood flowed from the corners of her eyes, and her face turned white in an instant. "Now you're satisfied?"

Lin Jiu glanced at it, rolled his eyes and fainted directly. The female ghost snorted, turned her head back to her original appearance, looked outside the pavilion and ignored him.

After a while, Lin Jiu slowly woke up, and saw that he was intact, and the female ghost was still standing in the pavilion, so he walked over slowly and boldly, Lin Jiu stood beside the female ghost and saw that she had changed back to her appearance, and felt a lot more relieved, and was about to speak, the female ghost reached out and pressed his mouth, shhhh

Lin Jiu hurriedly nodded, and looked outside the pavilion with the female ghost's gaze, the female ghost's hand was indeed not warm at all, it was cold, standing in the pavilion and looking out, only to find that a foot outside the pavilion was actually a cliff, the female ghost kept looking at the cliff, but Lin Jiu couldn't see what was there.

"Alas, it's back, this guy is too shrewd" The female ghost stomped her foot slightly

"What?"

"Everything, it's all your fault, you must have scared it back, you have yang energy on you, and it's so heavy. The female ghost glared at Lin Jiu and said angrily.

"Damn, that's my fault, you can't kill me for this, can you?"

"That's a good idea, anyway, if it doesn't come out, I'll kill you first, so you don't scare it again"

"Hey, hey, you just said you wouldn't kill me," Lin Jiu said and was about to retreat

The female ghost flashed behind him and said, "But I've changed my mind now." ”

"You...... You ......" was speechless in anger.

At this moment, with a whoosh, a flower vine flew in from outside the pavilion, wrapped around Lin Jiu's waist and pulled Lin Jiu out, flying towards the cliff, "You dare." The female ghost shouted and flew after her.

The cliff is actually not high, but there are more than ten zhang, there is actually a platform in the middle of the mountain, the flower vine pulled Lin Jiu and landed on the platform, supported him and didn't let Lin Jiu fall to death, and swooped and flashed Lin Jiu into a small hole in the mountain, the hole was very small enough for a person to enter vertically.

Hidden in a piece of weeds, the female ghost who followed in a flash, and the fellow Daoists of the cave were only two or three feet deep, and after coming out was a huge cave, there was a big hole at the mouth of the well on the top of the cave, and the moonlight shone down from there, Lin Jiu saw that the cave was full of corpses, densely packed and countless, and the cave was full of unpleasant corpse smell.

Lin Jiu was disgusted and almost fainted, the flower vine wrapped around himself and quickly pulled him towards a flower in the hole, Lin Jiu had never seen such a big flower, the petals were completely expanded, the blood-red petals spread out with a diameter of more than one zhang and so big, Lin Jiu just saw this flower clearly, and was pulled into the flower by the flower vine, the flower vine was released from the body and flew out, the petals swished together, and the female ghost also flew in the moment of closing, Lin Jiu struggled to get up, but was trapped on the ground by several thin stamens in the middle of the flower.

The blood-red light in the flower flashed, and a human-sized red fruit slowly grew, but this fruit was only human-sized, but it had no facial features and hair, and the whole body was red and looked very terrible.

"Little girl, you are bold enough, aren't you afraid that the Hades will find out and condemn you?" The red fruit flashed twice, and it seemed that the flower was speaking, but the voice was a rough male voice.

"Hmph, you don't have to bother with this, wait until I take your body, become a human body, and you can be free in the world, you can go anywhere, the underworld, I never want to go back. The female ghost stared at the fruit and said hatefully.

"It's a big breath, I'm afraid you don't have this ability, it's better to wait for me to take this kid's spirit body, and you can stay and be my ghost concubine, ahhahaha" The whole cave trembled with laughter

"Spirits, no way, he's a mortal with no mana, how can he be a spirit?"

"Little girl, have you ever heard of a natural spirit?"

"Damn," the female ghost glanced at Lin Jiu and said softly resentfully

"When I found you in that pavilion just now, I was still thinking about when you would come down, but I didn't expect this kid to send it to the door, how could I watch you kill him with such a heavenly treasure?"

"Even if you are born with a spirit, I will take your life"

"Yes, today is a rare lunar year and a cloudy day in a hundred years, and it coincides with the full moon, the yin qi is extremely heavy, and the object must be reversed, this is indeed my weakest time, and it is also the best time for you to do it, but now with this kid's spirit, I just need to hold you for a moment, swallow his soul and occupy his body, do you think you can still run away?"

"You can't get used to it right away. ”

"Yes, if it is the spirit body of a cultivator, I will have to take a few days to adapt to his body, but don't forget, this kid is not a cultivator, hahaha"

The female ghost suddenly pulled out the dagger, and sacrificed the dagger in the air with a mantra in her mouth, and the dagger flew towards the humanoid fruit with a whizz, only to see the humanoid fruit wave with one hand, and a blood-red light mask was put on herself, and the dagger hit the light mask and flew back, the female ghost waved her right hand and recited the mantra in her mouth again, and the dagger sent out a green light and slashed at the light mask, and she couldn't cut it for a while.

"The body of the yin?hahaha, the treasure sent by the heavens, this kid is the spirit body of the sun, you are a natural person in the underworld, and you are actually the body of the yin, female doll, I can't let you go this time, wait for me to take away, accept your Yuan Yin, and then concentrate on cultivation for decades, I see who is still my opponent in this world." As he spoke, a dozen flower vines flew out of the flower wall and flew towards the female ghost.

When the female ghost saw that this humanoid fruit was going to fight for vitality and was seriously injured, she was a little anxious at the moment, and the dagger's attack had also slowed down, and she was even more surrounded by flowers and vines, and she was about to be trapped.