"Xu Baichuan, since you have become a sword cultivator, you can't stay in this town anymore. ”

In the early morning of the autumn breeze, the old Taoist priest ended a night of conversation with Xu Baichuan, and when he was leaving, he said such a sentence.

Xu Baichuan stood up and asked softly, "Why?"

The old Taoist priest looked at him and didn't explain the reason, but still said, "You should go out, if you don't leave, you won't be able to leave." ”

"Why?"

The old Taoist priest was silent for a moment, and responded with bitterness: "Do you remember the person I asked you to kill, he is coming, and it will be a hundred years in three days, he said that he will come to see me at that time and tell me what he has done in these hundred years, and I can only stay here and not leave an inch." ”

"You are the only sword cultivator in the town, he has always looked at sword cultivation without eyes, and the sword cultivator who died in his hands does not know how many mortals, if you want to go down the sword path again, it is better to go as soon as possible. ”

Xu Baichuan thought about it and felt that what the old Taoist priest said was right, so he nodded and said that he would leave quickly.

After so much time to understand, the old Taoist priest was unfathomable in his eyes, and he once showed his cultivation on a whim, even if he only revealed the slightest hint, he also felt that it was easy to kill himself, and the person who could trap the old Taoist priest here for a hundred years would definitely not be worse than the old Taoist priest, and even stronger.

He Xu Baichuan is just a small sword cultivator with a low realm, and he can't do anything, but he once promised the old Taoist that he would kill that person, and he would not break his word.

So he held down the autumn wind on his waist and promised the old Taoist: "If you can go to that state in the future, I will kill that person to help you get out of trouble." ”

The old Taoist priest showed a look of relief, it is difficult to kill that person, it is only worse than killing the saint, since Xu Baichuan promised, he will not refuse, at this time he really hopes that Xu Baichuan can go farther, higher, and it is best to be parallel to that sword immortal.

"Although sword cultivation is scarce, but if you really want to talk about it, there are still a few famous, our dynasty is called Dali, it's not too big, so there are not even many cultivators, but there is a big country called Qingyuan in the south, and there are a lot of sword cultivation, although I don't know if it still exists, but you can go there to try your luck, it's much better than groping in the way of the sword alone." ”

took out a wordless wooden card from his arms and handed it to Xu Baichuan, the old Taoist priest said calmly: "As for the person you want to kill, I can't tell you the name, this wooden card can, when you meet him in the future, his name will be revealed, and then it will depend on the sword in your hand." ”

Xu Baichuan solemnly put away the wooden card, nodded, and turned to leave.

The old Taoist priest leaned against the door and looked at the figure in the distance, and suddenly sighed.

"Pinning your hopes on a sword cultivator is not like before, it's really old......

......

Back to the dilapidated house, Xu Baichuan packed the items he needed to use into a salute, this was his first time going out, he didn't know when he would be able to come back, and he always had some items as a souvenir.

But his house was dilapidated, and he could not find anything to take with him, except for the utensils of life and the wooden bed for sleeping.

From early morning to noon, only a few changes of clothes and dry food were packed, and the rest was gone, he had always been a man of peace and poverty, and he did not ask much for what he enjoyed, and it was enough to be happy to be able to eat enough.

Xu Baichuan shook his head, pondered for a long time, lowered his body and removed a wooden box under the wooden bed, brushed away the dust of the years on it, and opened it with a click, revealing the thick books inside.

Xu Baichuan has been studying with his mother since he was a child, but his family is poor after all, so the books he learned were written down silently by his mother, there is no title, they are all scattered scriptures, and for a while he has been thinking about whether his mother is the legendary lady, otherwise how can he read poetry and books, but when he took the question to ask his mother, he only got a meal of thorns, and never had any other answers.

Looking at these books now, I have mixed feelings for a while.

Xu Baichuan carefully took out the top one, put it in the bag behind him, closed the wooden box, and put it back under the wooden bed.

He doesn't really have much nostalgia for the broken house, the only thing he cares about is his mother, and now that he is leaving, he will take a book with him.

Xu Baichuan has always been alone, so this time he left alone, without telling any townspeople.

Yunzhen is located in a remote place by relying on Yunshan, if it were not for the promotion of Li Fu, I am afraid that Emperor Dali would have forgotten that there is this town, and therefore the only road to the outside of the town is an official road that has been in disrepair for a long time, winding and winding and not knowing where to stretch out, overgrown with weeds and shrubs, and few people go out and come in.

This is just for ordinary people, and it makes no difference to those monks with boundless magical powers.

The dilapidated house where Xu Baichuan lived was not far from the entrance of the town, and he walked for a while before leaving the town where he grew up.

Walking slowly along the official road, Xu Baichuan felt that everything was very fresh, and the novel scenery that he had seen and had never seen in the past poured into his eyes, and even the faint parting in his heart dissipated without a trace.

After all, he is a teenager, and he travels with a sword to enjoy the flowers.

After walking for a while, I felt a little bored, after all, I was alone, there was an endless road in front of and behind me, and the sound of insects on both sides was constant.

Walk to a willow tree that grows by the river, take a leaf and wash it, put it to your mouth and blow it gently, and the melodious and crisp sound comes out, suppressing all the insects on the road for a while.

The mood is a little cheerful.

Even the walking under his feet is much faster.

Before sunset, Xu Baichuan walked into a town that was much more prosperous than Yunzhen, planning to find a place to spend the night, preferably cheaper, he had eaten more since he practiced swords, even if he got some silver from the figure, it was only barely enough to eat and drink by himself, and he still cooked by himself in normal times, but now that he came out, it naturally cost more.

I asked a lot of restaurants, ate a lot of closed-door soup, and finally was instructed to live in a low temple and spent five cents.

There is an elderly temple in the temple, often with a smile on his face, seeing Xu Baichuan come to stay, he agreed with a smile, the temple usually has no incense, so the income is very small, Xu Baichuan came here to live one night and there are five pennies into the account, why not, the temple Zhu put the copper money into the money bag, and estimated in his heart that he could go to the restaurant to play half a catty of bad wine to satisfy his hunger by relying on these copper coins.

Xu Baichuan was arranged in an old room, with all kinds of bedding and utensils, which was similar to the restaurant outside.

Miaozhu took the cane and said with a smile: "This incense master, it's not too late, it's better to rest early, the little old man won't accompany him much." ”

Xu Baichuan nodded, after a day's journey, he was also a little tired, and now that there was a place for him to rest, it would be better.

Blow out the candles and sleep in your clothes.

......

When he was a child, Xu Baichuan opened his closed eyes, put his hand on the sword at his waist, and pulled it out whenever something was wrong.

He had been sleeping very lightly, waking up at any disturbance around him, and just now, he seemed to feel someone inhaling in his ear.

After entering the small temple, he had already asked Miao Zhu, and there was no one else except him and Miao Zhu, but just now he really felt that someone was inhaling in his ear, not only that, but there was also a biting coldness.

Xu Baichuan lay on the bed and waited quietly, he was sure that the cold and inhaling sound would still appear.

Sure enough, in the middle of the night, a cold feeling reappeared, very close to him.

Xu Baichuan exhaled, got up from the bed, pulled out the autumn wind suddenly, and slashed around, only to hear a woman's scream, and then a paper figure fell to the ground.

Looking at the paper figure divided into two on the ground, Xu Baichuan's face was cloudy, he heard a lot of words from the old Taoist priest in Yizhuang, and knew a lot of cultivation knowledge, so he roughly knew what the paper figure was.

No wonder when he walked towards the temple, the pedestrians around him looked at him very strangely, it turned out that something like this happened.

"There are ghosts, no wonder it's so cheap, no one has come to live in it. ”

Xu Baichuan pushed open the door, walked to the place where the statue was enshrined, and looked up, he felt that the statue was a little weird before, where was there a god in a wedding dress, but now that he thought about it, it was not so much a god as a ghost.

The statue emitted a faint red light, which looked particularly strange in the dark night, Xu Baichuan instilled sword qi into the autumn wind, and the sword body pointed to the idol, and said calmly: "Why, it hasn't come out yet, do you have to let me take out the sword again?"

As soon as the words fell, a sigh sounded in the temple, and a woman in a wedding dress appeared from the statue, her face was pale, and she was surrounded by the aroma of fireworks.

The woman looked at the autumn wind in Xu Baichuan's hand, hesitated a little, and said as calmly as possible: "Immortal Master, the little woman just made an unintentional mistake, she never expected to provoke the Immortal Master, and asked the Immortal Master to forgive her sins." ”

Xu Baichuan shook his head: "I don't think you are unintentional, the first time you didn't absorb the essence from me, and the second time, it can't be said to anyone, use this to excuse yourself, and think of a better reason." ”

The woman frowned, she thought that this was an ordinary absorption, and the one who came to live in the temple was an ordinary person, where would she think that it was a monk with cultivation, although she could sense that Xu Baichuan was just entering the threshold, but she didn't dare to move when she looked at the sword in his hand, she was not afraid of ordinary monks in the same realm, but now she was facing a sword cultivator, the strongest kind of monk in the rumor, she had heard too much about crossing the border to kill the enemy, and she had to be careful.

Xu Baichuan smiled, and suddenly said: "Come out, you are just an ordinary person, you can't help her too much, why don't you tell me how to raise a powerful ghost." ”

There was silence in the temple for a while, and after a while, another door opened, and Miao Zhu came out with a cane in his hand, holding a kitchen knife in his hand.

"Immortal Master, Yuexin just absorbed the essence to continue his life, and did not harm a single human life, and asked the Immortal Master to be aware of everything and let me wait. ”