Chapter 55: The Legend of Demon Subjugation
At the beginning of Li Xuandu's establishment of the inn, he once said that he did not want the inn to become a means of personal gain. It's just that sometimes, justice and self-interest may not be so clearly distinguished, so Li Xuandu listed the position of "miscellaneous servant" separately and devoted himself to handling miscellaneous matters. As long as there is confusion between public and private, it is all classified as miscellaneous matters. It just so happened that Shi Wuyue herself joined the inn, which was also semi-forced, not out of her own heart, and she was not interested in caring about the world at all. Therefore, it is very appropriate to let Shi Wuyue, a miscellaneous servant who does not want to ask for peace, deal with these miscellaneous matters that take care of both public and private affairs.
At this time, the six people in the inn, Qin Su and Li Feiyan are going to Qizhou, Ning Yiyuan is in the northwest, Li Ru is going to Zhongzhou, and only Shi Wuyue is active in Xiaozhou. The reason why she chose this place, according to her own words, is because of the familiarity, which makes it easier for her to develop people. However, in Li Xuandu's opinion, Shi Wuyue was pregnant with the intention of competing with Xiao Shiyu. Sure enough, Xiao Shiyu, who originally planned to go to Zhengyizong to watch the ceremony in person, canceled the trip because of the traces of Shi Wuyue in Xiaozhou, but in terms of the situation at the time of Zhengyizong, the three real people were not there, and Wuzhen and Zhang Haishi were not there, only one more Xiao Shiyu could not change the situation at all, and Shi Wuyue was also an unintentional mistake, so Li Xuandu did not accuse Shi Wuyue of anything.
After Li Xuandu met Zhou Shuning and others, he sent a letter to Shi Wuyue, asking where she was now, but she didn't expect Shi Wuyue to be active nearby, so Li Xuandu asked Shi Wuyue to take care of the matter on her behalf, and told her not to show too many traces, it was best not to kill people, and not to attract the attention of the Soap Pavilion Sect. Now Shi Wuyue also has dozens of people under his command, in order to avoid the pursuit of the Xuannu Sect, Shi Wuyue selected most of the head snake characters, these head snakes are people who have been in Xiaozhou for many years, the realm of cultivation may not be high, but they are well-connected, there are many eyeliners, many inns, wine shops, and tea shops are in contact with them, and provide them with news through flying pigeons in exchange for rewards. Therefore, many Jiangyang thieves can repeatedly evade the wanted pursuit of the government, but if they provoke the people in the rivers and lakes, it is often difficult to escape. After all, you can easily avoid officials, and you can't even avoid these inconspicuous guys. This is also the reason why Xiao Shiyu searched for many days in Xiaozhou but failed to catch Shi Wuyue.
In fact, it is no coincidence that Shi Wuyue will appear here, and the reinforcements of the Xuannu Sect have not arrived for a long time. A few days ago, Shi Wuyue used a trick and played a small trick to deceive the Xuannu Sect's large army to Xiaonan, and she hid in Xiaobei, at this time the Xuannu Sect was searching for Shi Wuyue's traces in Xiaonan, but she neglected Zhou Shuning and others, so that she was almost taken advantage of by the Soap Pavilion Sect. It responds to the principle that blessings and misfortunes depend on each other.
After all, the Soap Pavilion Sect is an outsider, after Shi Wuyue passed the order, in less than two hours, someone used a flying pigeon to report the traces of this group of Soap Pavilion Sect disciples, so there was a matter of Shi Wuyue sending his subordinates to warn. In Shi Wuyue's opinion, don't leave too many traces, it's nothing more than two ways, one is to scare them away, so that they don't show up and don't leak, and these Soap Pavilion Sect disciples can guess it. Another kind is that all the mouths are extinguished, after the death of the person, the true spirit is annihilated, only the body and soul are left, and no matter how powerful the Soap Pavilion Sect is, it can't let the dead speak.
Since these people in the Soap Pavilion Sect refused to retreat, Shi Wuyue had no choice but to take action in person and end their lives, commonly known as killing people and destroying their mouths.
The two women who followed Shi Wuyue's side, one of them was Han Yue, and the other woman was surnamed Lu, with a single name and the word "Qing". Lu Qing is from Lujia Villa and is good at swordsmanship. Speaking of Lujia Villa, in the early years, there was also No. 1 in Xiaozhou Jianghu, and its status was probably similar to Lingxiu Villa in Luzhou. It's just that the rivers and lakes are fighting, in addition to the twenty-two sects that are standing, other sects, villas, and gangs are updated and iterated very quickly, even if they have a history of a hundred years, it is difficult for Lujia Villa to be an exception, and they were removed from the rivers and lakes by the enemy a few years ago, leaving only an orphan girl, Lu Qing, who was chased and killed by the enemy. She also wanted to go over to the Xuannu Sect, but her enemy had some friendship with a certain elder of the Xuannu Sect, and she was afraid that she would send her to the door to the tiger's mouth, so she had been in the rivers and lakes all these years. As a result, not long ago, she was met by Shi Wuyue, Shi Wuyue easily solved several of her enemies, and passed on a technique to her, so that she crossed the threshold of the innate realm at once, so Lu Qing followed Shi Wuyue with all her heart. Shi Wuyue also felt that this little girl had a good heart and was a good material, and she planned to take her second disciple after testing it again, and at the same time adjust Lu Qing's position in the inn by one or two, and be a Xuanzi man. However, Shi Wuyue can't completely decide this matter, and he has to report it to Li Rus, and only after passing the verification.
Although Shi Wuyue has many subordinates now, except for Lu Qing, the others among these subordinates do not know about the existence of the inn, they are just loyal to Shi Wuyue, Shi Wuyue also has her own considerations, after all, she has to observe carefully for a period of time, and then gradually include reliable people in the inn. She had a painful experience of this, if she hadn't been betrayed by her subordinates, how could there have been the disaster of the Jade Prison later.
As for the matter of accepting disciples, it was not Shi Wuyue's whim, but it was carefully considered. Don't look at her crazy, sometimes, it's normal. She remembered clearly, Li Xuandu once said that the establishment of the inn was not Li Xuandu's original intention, he first wanted to establish an existence similar to the sect, but because the sect involved too much and too wide, he retreated to the second, in her opinion, if the inn can develop and grow, after the world is peaceful, it can not be dissolved on the spot, and the transformation to the sect is inevitable. At that time, the six of them will be the six-vein patriarchs, and they will each pass on the Taoist lineage, thousands of years later, how is the ancestor's incense, it doesn't depend on how the disciples are? There is an old saying that if you look at your father and respect your son for the first 30 years, and respect your father for the next 30 years, I can't beat you, and my apprentice can't beat your apprentice? Because of this, Shi Wuyue was very concerned about the matter of accepting apprentices, and her small abacus crackled loudly, and she took these two women with her wherever she went, intending to teach them by word and deed.
Han Yue and Lu Qing followed Shi Wuyue's order, found a lot of dry grass and dead branches, piled them inside and outside the ruined temple, piled these corpses in one place, covered them with firewood and grass, and then lit a fire. However, it was the first time for the two to do this kind of arson, and it was autumn again, the weather was dry, the mountains were full of dead leaves and barren grass, and if one was not properly grasped, the fire stretched out, not only burning this mountain to the ground, but also several nearby mountains were also ignited.
It was the middle of the night, and the fire was raging, illuminating the entire night like the rising sun.
The people of the Xuannu Sect who were in the town noticed that something was wrong, pushed the window to look, only to see the fire outside the town, and at a glance, they couldn't see the end of the flames, it was really like the flame mountain in the script, fortunately, the town was not built on the mountain, but it would not burn into the town.
The faces of the Xuannu Sect were different, this place was at the key point of traffic, in addition to the main road passing through the town, there was only a mountain road feasible, of course they could guess that the people of the Soap Pavilion Sect were lying in ambush on the mountains around the town, and they also vaguely guessed that this Lord Liu had other helpers, but they never expected that there would be such a big formation, what kind of fire company camp, fire bull formation, it was nothing more than that.
In fact, Li Xuandu didn't expect it, looking at the sky-high fire outside, he smiled wordlessly.
Although he knew a long time ago that Shi Wuyue was sometimes unreliable, he never expected that he would be unreliable to such an extent, asking you to kill a few disciples of the Soap Pavilion Sect, not asking you to kill the old man in Tibet, as for such a big movement, I am afraid that others will not know?
It wasn't until dawn that the fire gradually became smaller, Shi Wuyue didn't want to lose face in front of his apprentices, so he didn't hesitate to spend his qi to cultivate, and used the magical means of heaven and man to carry water and gas, and with the little "aftertaste" left by the last autumn rain, a light rain fell here and quelled the fire. Fortunately, there was no one living on the mountain, and it did not hurt the innocent, but it took pity on the birds, animals, snakes and insects in the mountain, and I was afraid that there were many dead and wounded.
After a fire, the mountains were covered with scorch marks, and no one could see what was going on here unless there was a special practitioner who used the earth's qi to retrace what happened at that time. As for this kind of method, it is a secret transmission of the Hun Tian Sect, and now the people of the Hun Tian Sect have withered, and it is very rare to see it.
The two women also knew that they had done something wrong, and they were a little frightened.
However, Shi Wuyue has always been indifferent to this kind of thing, so she just reprimanded her casually and then didn't mention it.
The three masters and apprentices left here, and not long after, Li Xuandu and Xuannuzong and their four people also embarked on the trip.
It's just that the people who were deceived by the Soap Pavilion Sect also saw the firelight, and when they returned one after another, they saw the scorched earth around the town, and found traces left by many ghosts in the town, and they couldn't help but be shocked. Such a big battle, it must be a great demon and a powerful ghost, and with such a high mana, that person must be a contemporary heavenly master.
Since then, there has been a legend of the Heavenly Master descending the demon here, saying that there is a thousand-year-old tree demon hidden on the mountain outside the town, and this thousand-year-old tree demon is unable to move, so it harms many women, so that the souls of these women become its slaves, tempting passers-by and absorbing yang energy. One day, the heavenly master who traveled all over the world passed by this place and saw that there was a demonic aura looming on the surrounding mountains, so he evacuated the people in the town and left the demons alone to catch monsters.
That day, the master first set up an incense case in the inn in the town to expel the ghosts, and then invited the Nine Heavens Fire God to burn the thousand-year-old tree demon to ashes, but the tree demon has cultivated for thousands of years, the mana is strong, and the roots are all over the mountains, so the heavenly master had to burn the mountains, and afterwards he called for wind and rain to extinguish the mountain fire, and then he left.
For this reason, the people here also built a temple of heavenly masters on the site of the original haunted mountain temple to worship Zhang Tianshi, and the incense is extremely prosperous.