mountain ghost

Chapter 3
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The blades of grass brushed across his face, Lu Chen only felt his nose itchy, and couldn't help but want to sneeze.

This scholar seems to have a little cleanliness.

However, after he cleaned it like this, the dust and cobwebs on the statue faded away, making it much cleaner.

'If I say thank you to him now, this scholar might be scared to death, right? '

Lu Chen thought with some evil taste.

But after all, no action was taken.

Li Kaiyang cleaned the statue up and down, and then he was relieved. He threw away the weeds in his hands, looked at it for a while, and said strangely: "I remember that when I first came in, the eyes of this statue were only slightly closed. Why does it seem like it is now? Close it tighter again, is it because you are afraid that the dust will fall into your eyes when cleaning?"

This guy is quite observant.

I stared intently for a while, but didn't find anything miraculous, so I shook my head.

"Maybe I misunderstood it. Recently, I heard the rumors about those monsters, which made me a little confused."

Li Kaiyang shook his head and sat back by the fire.

While drying the clothes, he took out the dry food and water bag in the book bag, lit the fire, and flipped through the books he carried with him.

Sometimes I read softly, sometimes I close my eyes and think.

He is a studious person.

Lu Chen narrowed his eyes and looked from a distance, but he could barely read the writing on the book.

Fortunately, the characters in this world are also Chinese characters. Although there are some discrepancies in traditional characters, they can still be understood.

The book that the scholar is reading at this time should be the Analects.

Lu Chen had read this stuff when he was in school, and the Confucian way of governing the country and the people really made sense.

But he didn't have much interest.

I can't help but look at the book basket next to me. There seem to be a lot of books in it. I don't know if there are any maps or anything like that. If there are, I can find a way to look at them at night and learn more about them. world.

Today, although he can't move.

But if you use the power of the jade talisman to blow up the wind, you can barely do it by flipping through the book.

"Hey, it seems a bit fragrant?"

Lu Chen unconsciously shrugged his nose.

Suddenly, he discovered that when the scholar was studying seriously, there would be traces of spiritual energy wafting from his body.

Like smoke and mist, it exudes a faint fragrance.

Lu Chen seemed to take a breath, only to feel that his mind was a little clearer, and his own soul was slightly nourished.

'This should be the manifestation of a scholar's talent, also known as awe-inspiring energy.Only those who truly possess talent and morality can conceive it. This Li Kaiyang, at a young age, can conceive and cultivate awe-inspiring aura, it seems that he does have some skills. '

Lu Chen nodded secretly.

This dissipated talent is a great tonic for ghosts, gods and monsters.

Immediately without hesitation, he took a deep breath and inhaled that wisp of talent into his mouth and nose.

Suddenly feel a lot more comfortable.

Lu Chen is also very measured, just absorbing the breath that escapes from the other party's reading, and will not cause any harm to the scholar.

'If I can keep this scholar here, reading and chanting scriptures every day to absorb talents, maybe it can also speed up my refining process?But alas, this is simply not realistic. '

While thinking, Lu Chen took another breath of talent that escaped.

At this moment, the scholar suddenly yawned, as if he felt a little tired.

Right.

After all, after traveling for a day, cleaning up and cleaning the ruined temple before, and being secretly sucked by someone, it's no wonder I'm not tired.

"I have to hurry tomorrow, let's sleep first."

Talking to himself, Li Kaiyang smoothed the pages of the book in his hand, and carefully put it back into the bag.

It turned out that the other books were somewhat damp. It should have been accidentally drenched in the rain when they were on the road. They quickly took out all the books, and then laid them flat on the side of the fire, trying to dry them.

But maybe it's because I'm really tired.

As soon as these books were put away, Li Kaiyang couldn't hold on anymore, leaned against the pillar next to him, and fell asleep.

'Good man, put the book out by yourself, and save me from looking for it.It's all for scholars, so it's not stealing if you take a look, right? '

Lu Chen chuckled.

Looking at the covers of those books, most of them are about poetry and classics, which are of no use to him.

Finally, Lu Chen stopped his gaze on an ancient book called "Shanhe Zhi".

This is a miscellaneous travel book.

It records some mountains, rivers, rivers and geographical features in this world.

Instead, you can take a look and have a preliminary understanding of the world.

Thinking room.

Lu Chen pressed the jade talisman in his hand, a faint spiritual light flickered, and the air current was stirred up, and the book of mountains and rivers was gently opened.

"Gui Chou's March is dark, the clouds are scattered and the sun is bright, people are happy with the mountains, and they are all happy. Thirty miles, to the Taihang Mountain. Hearing this, there are tigers on the way. Dozens of people were injured by the moon, so I stopped the night..."

Unexpectedly, I still recorded the travel notes around Taihang Mountain.

The person who wrote this travel note has a concise writing style, not only describing the topography and landforms, but also mixed with a lot of what he saw and heard during the period. Lu Chen read it for a while, and probably also had some understanding of the Taihang Mountain and its surroundings.

The Taihang Mountains where he is now is located in the hinterland of the Central Plains, bordering Hexi in the north and Taiyuan Mansion in the south.

It stretches for thousands of miles.

The land of these two prefectures alone is extremely vast. The writer of the book has traveled for several years, and he is only in these two prefectures. As for other prefectures outside, he can only hear from rumors.

It can be seen that this world is probably bigger than imagined.

I don't know when I will be able to go out and see for myself.

Is thinking.

Suddenly, the bonfire flickered.

A gust of evil wind swept in, pouring in from the broken window.

"Demon?"

Lu Chen was slightly shocked. He had wandered around the Taihang Mountains for several months, so he naturally knew that there were many mountains and ghosts here.

Immediately withdrew the light of the jade talisman, restrained his aura, not daring to reveal the slightest bit.

At the same time, he looked out the window.

In that rainy night, a short and thin figure was lying on the window, poking his head.

This thing is no more than three feet tall. It is shaped like a monkey. It has long hair but no tail. Its limbs are small and long. Its face has the same facial features as humans, but it is pitch black and has strange proportions. Its mouth is huge and takes up almost half of it. The face is grinning like a smile, the nose is like a hole, and the eyes are pitifully small, like two mung beans.

"It's a mountain spirit."

Lu Chen was secretly startled.

This mountain spirit, also called Xiaoyang, was recorded in Huainanzi: "Xiaoyang is also a mountain spirit."Human form, three or four feet long, black face, hairy body, feet on heels turned back, laughs when seeing people, eats mountain crabs, hides at night, and eats mountain people. '

This beast probably also smelled the scent of talent that had dissipated before Li Kaiyang, so he came after him.

but.

This mountain spirit is different from other monsters, its fighting power is not strong, and it doesn't have any powerful spells.

Only when humans relax their guard, they dare to come out to attack.

But at this time, seeing the scholar fell asleep, the mountain spirit moved his mind and crept in, riding on the evil wind.

It first hid in a corner.

Glancing towards Lu Chen in fear, he found that the statue hadn't moved, so he breathed a sigh of relief, screamed strangely, crawled towards the scholar next to the fire, sniffed it, and the corners of his mouth were drooling...

(End of this chapter)