Chapter 25: The Affair of the Rivers and Lakes
The rivers and lakes are really too big, and there are strange and indescribable mountain spirits and ghosts
The boundless deeds of the gods, or the ranger who fights the sword in the rivers and lakes
Or the people in the three religions asked about the deeds of immortality
Outside the village, those killers who were solved by Qingyun turned into ghosts floating on the side of the road
In front of the head of the small village sat a middle-aged man in rags, his eyes glazed as if waiting for something
When the woman who came back from washing clothes in the brook by the roadside saw the middle-aged man, she said, "What are you doing here?"
"I'm such a person," the middle-aged man replied in a sluggish tone
The woman smiled perfunctorily, and turned away with a disdainful smile, obviously disgusted by the middle-aged man's not very good brain
The village does not come to outsiders all year round, you are a madman, what are you waiting for
But they didn't know that after the woman left, there were three people walking on the dirt road without touching the ground
The middle-aged man had a dull expression, but at this moment he got up and smiled, and the smile was deep and unpredictable
The geist who has just formed a ghost is unconscious and needs to absorb the surrounding yin qi, so the geist at this moment is harmless to people's minds
But after all, it is the spirit formed by obsession and yin energy, if it is attached to the body of ordinary people, it will make people more and more unlucky, and the yang energy will weaken
The middle-aged man's expression was flat, and there was no more honest and crazy just now, he slowly stepped forward step by step, his posture was strange, and between the flow of his body, several ghosts quietly disappeared
The children in the neighborhood always shouted at the elders in the house, "Mother, that madman is crazy again."
"Stinky boy, come here to work, see what madman is crazy?"
After being scolded by the woman, the child had to turn away on his own
The child thought about it carefully and said, "Mother, there seems to be someone in front of that madman just now."
A flying stick struck at the child, and the child did not dare to think about it any longer
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The boy in the shop held the big bow in his hand and looked at the old man with a flat expression in front of him
"Master, can I choose this?" asked Leyi tentatively
"The bow is good, but your master and I can't use it," Old Man Li smiled a little embarrassedly
The plain-clothed child was a little depressed, and then asked, "Master, otherwise, I'll go and change it?"
"If you choose yourself, you like it, change it, practice," Old Man Li said with a smile
The child was even more depressed, grasping the wooden bow in his hand, grasping the bowstring with his fingers, and then pulling the bow for half a month, Leyi could not pull another half a minute
"How to practice the half-moon bow, don't practice it if you can't pull the full moon," said Old Man Li
What is surprising is that the childish boy nodded seriously, and kept pulling the bow in his hand
At this moment, in the child's heart, there is an inexplicable hope, if he has practiced the bow, will he be able to walk the rivers and lakes
Three years ago, I thought that striking iron was the only thing in my life that could make me live and starve to death, but I also found something I had hope for
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"A few of you are staying here, and the family has gone out when they should have gone out, and what they should have left behind has really been left," Wang Shanmin explained, holding a wooden staff
In front of you is a brick house that looks like an old house in the village, and when you push open the creaking wooden door, there is a small courtyard in front of you
There were three wooden stakes standing side by side in the courtyard, which had been covered with frost and snow for a long time
"Village chief, does this family also practice boxing?" Zhi Xian asked after seeing the wooden stake that resembled a fist pile
"His kid seems to have practiced boxing for a while, but he didn't stay in the village for a long time, and it was a long time ago, and I don't remember it very well," Wang Shanmin explained
After greeting him, he turned to leave, no longer disturbing the three of them
"Young girl, there are some grievances that let you live here" Zhi Xian said, the environment here is indeed a little more broken than Leyi's house
The woman covered her mouth and chuckled, "Childe, it's not in the way, I'm just a maid, I can live anywhere"
When encountering such a temperamental woman, it really made Zhixian a little moved, but the more the woman in front of her said this, the more Zhixian felt in her heart, and the more she couldn't get over it
After exchanging glances with Lin Chen, the two walked to the wooden stake
"Did you see that middle-aged man in tattered clothes just now?" Zhi Xian asked
Lin Chen, who brushed the snow on the wooden stake, opened his mouth and smiled, "Okay, you kid can see that he is not an ordinary person?"
Zhi Xian nodded, curious in his heart, "Why does the village chief say that he is a madman, do all masters like to pretend to be civilians?"
Lin Chen, who exhaled a breath of turbidity, smiled and explained, "This is not unusual, he is a village guard, so he should be a little stupid."
"What do you mean, village keeper?" asked Zhi Xian
After glancing at the martial artist beside him who had a good knife on his body, but who didn't know anything, Lin Chen explained
"The village keeper is the person who will help whoever has something at home, in the eyes of ordinary people, that person may be going to eat and drink, but I don't know how many things the village keeper who is a little stupid in the eyes of people has solved many things secretly"
As a Taoist priest, Lin Chen naturally knows some of the secrets
The black-robed young man was like a world away, although his memory was a little damaged, he still remembered in his heart that he was not a person of this era
Therefore, when the Taoist priest in front of him explained, a feeling of being separated from the world came from the heart
"Are the village guards all strong?" Zhi Xian asked
"People who are not strong, but have some means, are naturally incomparable to those chivalrous warriors who are mixed with the rivers and lakes"
"I always think that the person just now is very strong, if you are talking about the village guard, the degree may be the top?" Zhi Xian asked
"Are you sure, he's not an ordinary person?" I walked past him and didn't notice a trace of qi," Lin Chen explained
Zhi Xian nodded vigorously, and the feeling of being cold all over his body was also the first time he experienced it
Lin Chen sighed, "You are really on the cusp all the time."
I don't know what I mean, my expression was a little more solemn, "Why do you say that?"
"The village guard, in front of ordinary people, is a madman, when he thinks that this person will be a threat to the village, he will show his anger, and I didn't notice it, so, you are in trouble"
Zhi Xian patted his forehead, "Who did I provoke?"
In the inky space, a pretty woman covered her mouth and smiled, as if she heard the conversation between the two
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At night in the village, although it is not as cold as Fengxue City, it is not much worse, and I saw a man in a black robe sitting outside the small courtyard with his sleeves under the stars and moon
I went back to the house early, and some of the forest dust, who was not suitable for the season here, actually caught a cold with the fall
Qingyun, who didn't like to see the scenery, also went back to his house
The old village chief was quite kind, and when he saw a woman, he arranged a larger brick house for the three of them
A cool breeze blew, Zhi Xian stood up, and wanted to turn around and leave, but he was waiting, and after waiting for a long time, it was fruitless
Suddenly, a figure jumped in from outside the courtyard, the cotton clothes on the figure were already shabby, and there was a slight dementia on his face
"Sure enough, you're here," Zhi Xian said
The demented man looked at the lights in the house, then pointed out the courtyard and walked away
Although Zhi Xian, who followed closely, was surprised in his heart, in the final analysis, he still had to figure out what the village guards in front of him meant
Crossing the dirt road in the village, seeing that the person in front of him was not ready to stay, although Zhixian was puzzled, he still chased after him
Until he was in front of a temple less than five miles outside the village, the middle-aged man in front of him stopped, and then turned around and said
"Who the hell are you?"
Zhi Xian, who was a little overwhelmed by the question, hurriedly replied, "I am me, who else can I be"
The middle-aged man smiled indifferently, "Just by virtue of the demonic aura on your body, you still say that you are a human?" Chenghuang is behind me, I advise you to be cautious" When he said Chenghuang, the face of the middle-aged man in front of him obviously changed
After learning that there was a City God Temple in front of him, Zhi Xian's heart was still calm, obviously he had a clear conscience, even if he was facing the City God in front of him
"I don't know what you mean, and I don't know what kind of demonic spirit you are talking about, I'm really just me" Obviously, when encountering this kind of thing, Zhixian is really speechless
"Since you have a clear conscience, do you dare to enter the City God Temple with me?" the middle-aged man said
"Why do you have to listen to everything?" Zhi Xian's tone was a little unkind, obviously this young man was a little fed up with this kind of life
The middle-aged man smiled, and then his body showed a surging qi, as if he was ready to use the qi to fear the young man in front of him
Although the qi is strong, it is not as good as the old man in the cloth that day, Zhi Xian said with a flat face
"Is that the only one who has this ability?" the sarcasm in his tone did not diminish at all
"I'm afraid it's not just the village guards, right?" The voice came from behind the City God's Temple, and only the sound was heard, but no one was seen
The middle-aged man in front of him had a dull expression, and then said, "Boy, you're really smart."
Zhi Xian smiled slightly, "The predecessor praised it falsely, I just arrived in the martial arts realm, come out to practice with you alone, I really have a problem."
"Come out, it's been hidden for so long, it's cold inside, come out and see you?"
A man walked out of the Chenghuang Temple, not wearing a robe, but a man who wore a Taoist robe at this moment, and said, "Xiaodao Lin Chen, a loose Taoist at the foot of the Tianshan Mountain"
"Are you a Taoist priest?" the village keeper said with a little surprise
Lin Chen smiled, "It's naturally like a fake."
"A Taoist priest in the second realm of Qi cultivation still has to protect a demon with a demonic spirit, you, a Taoist priest, are you a demon Dao?" said the middle-aged man with a smile
The Taoist priest laughed, "You are really powerful, you have the responsibility of guarding the village, and you can also ensure that your mind is not disturbed"
"It's just one of my own duties, so why don't you talk about it," the man said with a calm expression
"Along the way, we have encountered several killers who wanted to take the lives of my friends, and they were all killed, and I am ashamed to say that Xiaodao is extremely sensitive to the aura of ghosts, but I don't know, where did the three wandering spirits who came to the village in front of the village today?" Lin Chen asked with a smile
The middle-aged man, whose expression was still as calm as water, opened his mouth and smiled, "If you two disappear, maybe no one will ask where you went, right?"
As he spoke, the middle-aged man spread his arms, and a body of qi operated out from outside the qi mansion, circulating all over his body, and the momentum of opening and closing made the envy in front of him a little sluggish
"Dao Chief, didn't you say that the village guards are not very powerful?" Zhi Xian said with a sad face
Lin Chen smiled embarrassedly, "Who knew he was such a village keeper"
After saying that, Lin Chen held the hilt of the Dao Sword, and then twisted a talisman in his sleeve with his left hand, and the talisman flashed, and the talisman that exuded a faint aura did not float to the village guard, but to Zhixian's side
"Talisman, don't be surprised, it can help you resist it, with your current injury, you will die if you are beaten again" Lin Chen said unceremoniously
Looking at the strange talisman in front of him, Zhi Xian sighed in his heart, and his hand unconsciously held the handle of the knife at his waist
The middle-aged man has no weapons in his hands, and he walks in the traditional posture of pure martial arts, without any fancy skills, and the trick points circulate the qi machine, and directly punch out with the strength of the martial arts' physical strength
Before the fist arrived, the fist wind was already grinning, and the hair on the forehead of the blow was a little messy, "Dao Chief, this punch seems to be more powerful than that old man."
Lin Chen, who was already embarrassed, heard the envy of the cool words around him, and his face was even more ugly
Obviously, he failed to predict the realm of the village guards in front of him, which made the Taoist priest a little embarrassed, and now it is even more difficult for the two of them to deal with it
Although the people in front of him have not yet been able to let go and close, it is more than enough to face the two people who have just fallen into the realm and the other who have just reached the threshold of martial arts
Resisting the fist wind, he can make Zhixian behind him take two steps back, although Lin Chen in front of him did not move at all, but the talisman in his hand has already been taken out
Taoist talismans, mostly for the town house, praying for rain, breaking evil, killing ghosts, suppressing demons, this kind of talisman is mostly used for ghosts
In front of him is a solid pure martial artist, with Lin Chen's strength now, he naturally can't draw the thunder part of the Zheng Fu that could have been drawn
The talisman flickered, Lin Chen guided with Dao Qi, and the yellow talisman gradually turned blue, followed by a muffled thunder explosion
Within three miles outside the City God Temple, this unfinished small thunder talisman also resounded around
The fist was blocked by the thunder talisman asked by the Taoist priest, and the village keeper was not curious, and the corners of his mouth raised and said
"Don't care about my realm, you two have indeed made some mistakes, here, it is Wind and Snow City, and I am the only village keeper in the surrounding villages" The tone did not hide the pride in it
If you have the original Qi Practitioner realm, the middle-aged person in front of you may be exhausted by your own Qi machine
But now his realm is two realms lower than the other party, and the gap between the qi practitioner and the martial artist in the same realm is already a little obvious
What's more, now he is two realms lower than the other party, and his fist is coming, and his fist is also coming
Lin Chen resisted with a Dao sword, but in the end he was blasted out of a few steps with a punch, the Taoist inserted into the dirt, and the Taoist priest covered his chest and squatted
There was already envy of himself around him, and although he was excited, he had just experienced a battle of life and death during the day
At this moment, Zhi Xian is already calmer than before, and he has not drawn his knife, but raised his fist, and his eyes are a little more focused
"Let me see, a monster that turns into a human, what is the realm of martial arts" The village keeper's smile converged, and he stepped out like a meteor
barely dodged the envy of the village guard's punch, and knew that the person in front of him knew his realm, and he left his hand on it, this was his only chance
He didn't punch out, but grabbed the village guards who were close to him with one hand, and swung hard, stopping his envy and gritting his teeth with his own fist, so he still swung the village guards around him a few steps away
The village keeper, who staggered to stabilize his figure, smiled slightly, and as if he had found some fun, he asked
"Your punch is a little weird, I've never seen it"
Zhi Xian smiled, stepped out, and after approaching the village guard in front of him, he lunge and punched up, this style is also the punch that Zhi Xian has practiced the most in a few months, and practice makes perfect
Five-step boxing, five-step type, three-hand gestures, practicing the road to the realm of martial arts can barely become a martial arts realm
At this moment, the village guards did not use the qi machine, and shook this punch with the strength of their own bodies
It was a punch with great confidence, but at this moment, Zhixian was a little afraid to go into details, and after he punched it, he actually looked a little tickled
The village keeper smiled, "Look at your cross-knife, why do you use your fists against me?"
After closing the momentum, Zhi Xian's face was calm, but the village guards in front of him had a little more playful interest, and he was not in a hurry to kill him
A punch was blasted out in memory, it's not so weak, is it really that the gap between the realm is too big?
Zhi Xian smiled, and after realizing the momentum of the martial artist in front of him, he already had a countermeasure in his heart
Zhi Xian, who changed from a fist to a palm, came out with both palms at this moment, looked at the martial artist in front of him and smiled slightly, and made a hook move
The village keeper's expression was furious, and he stepped out, this time he still didn't have a qi machine, and it seemed that he was going to defeat the arrogant young man who had just taken the martial arts in front of him with his physical strength
With both palms out, as if he had already known the position of the middle-aged man's punch in front of him, Zhi Xian pressed his single palm against the center of the villager's punch, and then gritted his teeth and pushed it away
The village keeper, who felt that he had been unloaded with all his strength, looked at the young man in front of him with a surprised expression
"What the hell is this?"
Zhi Xian showed a smile that was not worth his life
"This is called Tai Chi Pusher!"