40. Fighting methods

"Senior brother, so we were all Taoist priests in our last life?"

"The master is from the previous life, you are not from the previous life!" Motoko interjected.

"You completely confused me, is it true that I and Master are reincarnated differently?"

"Although we used to be in the same school, we chose different paths, so the final outcome was different. Now that you've asked about it, I'll tell you all. ”

The life that Master and I met was probably at the end of the Song Dynasty and the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, during the war-torn era. We belong to the same sect of Taoism, but we are not taught by one master.

Both of us are leaders in our respective divisions. At that time, the world was full of wolves, the people were struggling to make a living, and there were poor people who died of war and starvation everywhere. In order to purify sentient beings, the master sent us disciples to all parts of the country to transform these souls. But because there are so many dead souls, it's hard to turn them all in. We can only collect the souls of the dead first, and then work together to do something to neutralize them.

At that time, the master was already a contemplator, and the Taoist temple was a two-entry courtyard house with a few young apprentices. The souls responsible for collecting and normalizing the surrounding maps.

On this day, there was a white-bearded old Taoist priest with a little Taoist boy who came to the master's Taoist temple and wanted to come over to place an order. That white-bearded old Taoist priest is Master's senior brother and my senior brother.

Senior Brother Whitebeard's Taoist temple was destroyed by the war, and he had to take this little Taoist boy and walked for more than a month to come here, and Whitebeard also had a net bottle on his body, and the net bottle contained the soul of a three-tailed fairy fox, her name was Zhao Xian'er.

Senior Brother Whitebeard was feathered not long after he arrived at the master's Taoist temple, and the master took in Zhao Xian'er and Xiao Daotong.

Due to the frequent wars in the Yuan Dynasty, countless soldiers and civilians died in various places, and the master was busy collecting souls every day. However, collecting souls consumes true qi, and gradually the master is a little overwhelmed.

Once, the master received the soul of a fallen general, who was a master of qi refining and had a certain path of practice, so his soul was extremely powerful. After the master took back the general's soul, he should have overtaken it and sent him like reincarnation. However, the power of this soul aroused Master's greed. In order to become stronger, he used the forbidden art of this sect: Soul Eater!

The master used the Soul Devouring Technique to directly absorb the general's soul, and the result was that the general who died on the battlefield was left unreborn forever. And all this was seen by Xiao Daotong, and his respect for the master immediately disappeared. Xiao Daotong sent a flying pigeon to the sect and told the master what he had done.

After receiving the news, the head of the sect was very angry. Immediately sent the strongest disciple of the sect at that time to punish the master. And that disciple is me.

I came to Master's Taoist Temple, and was ordered by the head of the sect to arrest Master and return to the sect to be punished. However, the master thought that he was devouring souls in order to better surpass the other souls, and there was nothing wrong with him, so he refused to return to the sect with me. So we didn't agree on a word and did it on the spot.

Originally, Master was not my opponent, but after absorbing the general's soul, his skills increased greatly, and he fought to a draw with me. After the fight, our skills were exhausted, and we could only use the power of the collected souls, and we released the collected souls as weapons to attack each other.

In the midst of our fierce battle, a white light suddenly burst out from under Master's altar and sucked one of the souls I had released into the altar. We didn't have time to think about it at the time. This white light is Zhao Xian'er, and the one she took away is Ling'er's soul. When I collected the soul over, I happened to receive Ling'er's soul, this time I fought with the master, I didn't expect Ling'er and Xian'er to be able to reunite!

In the end, I had a slight advantage and severely injured Master. At that time, I may have thought of the love of the same family, and did not forcibly take the master away, nor did I kill him.

I turned to leave, and Xiao Daotong, who was disheartened by the master, also went with me. As for where Xiao Daotong went and what he did, that's another story, and we'll talk about it later.

Master died not long after his injuries were too severe. After his death, because he violated the Heavenly Rule by devouring souls, his soul was directly sealed. This seal is hundreds of years. It wasn't until this life, when the seal expired, that Master reincarnated as a human being.

Since the master was gone, the Taoist temple was abandoned, leaving only the souls of Ling'er and Zhao Xian'er to guard the altar. And so another hundred years passed......

On this day, two people came to the Taoist temple, the leader was a young and beautiful woman, followed by a descendant. Look at how they dress a bit like the ethnic minorities in the west.

The woman walked to the dilapidated altar of the Taoist temple, glanced down, and said, "There is obviously only one four-tailed fox here, and I want a nine-tailed fox!"