Taming the Demon: A Guide to Raising a Great Sage

Thousands of feet high in the sky.

Shen Lang forcibly stopped looking at the ground, and distracted his attention with nothing to say:
"Master Yan, after I go back, I want to buy a house first."

Yan Tianying said in surprise:

"Buy a house? Prices in the capital are expensive, housing prices are extremely high, and many poor Beijing officials can only rent a house. Do you have that much money?"

Shen Lang said embarrassingly:
"When killing the spider sisters, I saved many innocent people who were sacrificed by the spider sisters. Among them, there were a few rich people who gave me more than 5000 silver dollars to thank me for saving my life.

"I know this is against the rules, but someone said, saving us, you just do it for the mage, but it is a life for us. Isn't our life worth such a little money?
"There are also people who say sternly: Those who hold salaries for everyone should not be allowed to freeze to death in the wind and snow. We must not let heroes like mages shed blood and tears... Then I thought what they said was reasonable, so I reluctantly accepted it." down.

"In addition, after destroying the Pirate Alliance, eradicating the Shark King Gang, and confiscating various properties of the Shark King Gang, Mu Daren also paid me a lot of rewards according to the rules. And Mu Daren made a fortune while avoiding the storm at sea, I picked up a lot of gold from the sunken ship at the bottom of the sea, and I also shared some of it... So, there should be some money to buy a house."

Yan Tianying frowned, and repeated several times, "Those who hold salaries for everyone should not let them freeze to death in the wind and snow", and then relaxed their brows, and smiled in relief:
"You just came to the capital to report yesterday. Before that, you were just an undercover agent developed by Xiaomu. Since you have not officially entered the job, you are not considered an official arrester of the God Detective Hall. Since the rich are grateful for your life-saving grace, they will give you gold and silver. If you have it, you will receive it."

Xuan looked solemn again, and said seriously:

"But Xiao Shen, you have to be vigilant. Some people with ulterior motives will deliberately design various situations to ask you to help and even save their lives, deliberately owe you favors, and then give you gold, silver and other goods in the name of gratitude.

"At first, it was just a small gift in the scope of normal human relations, so that you can relax your vigilance. Then gradually increase the amount to treat you to a big meal today, give you some 'souvenirs' that seem to be worthless tomorrow, and then beg you to do something reasonable , small things that do not violate the rules, and I will give you some invaluable calligraphy and painting antiques when it is over...

"It's like this time after time to get in touch with you, to make friends, to relax your defenses a little bit, to paralyze your vigilance, and to sink you deeper and deeper step by step. By the time you come to your senses, you have already been pulled down Water, hold the handle.

"Similar incidents have happened more than once since I took charge of God's Catching Hall.

"Even a few senior headhunters in the God of Catching Hall have been disrespectful, and have been slowly corroded by people with ulterior motives... So Xiao Shen, after you officially join the job, such things can no longer happen, and we must prevent it from happening. Unburned."

Shen Lang was taught awe-inspiringly:

"My lord's lesson is that my subordinates should be taught!"

Yan Tianying nodded, and said:
"More than 5000 silver dollars is enough to buy a nice small courtyard. Where do you want to buy a house?"

Shen Lang thought for a while and asked in a low voice:

"Well, I don't know where Mrs. Mu lives? I want to buy a house closer to her..."

Before Yan Tianying could speak, Master Wanfa pursed his lips and smiled, jokingly said:
"Xiao Mu is the flower of the Shenchuitang. Even in the capital, she is also a beauty. Xiao Shen, you are very ambitious!"

Shen Lang laughed:

"Then what, when I was in Yingzhou, Lord Mu took care of me a lot, and my subordinates are very grateful. This time I came to the capital, I wanted to live closer to her, and if she has anything to do, I can help and repay her..."

Yan Tianying laughed:
"There's no need to explain! We understand. Speaking of which, the houses around Xiaomu's house are extremely cheap, and they can't be sold at all. You can save a lot of money by living next door to her."

Ok?
Shen Lang said in astonishment:
"The place where Mu Da people live, the environment is not very good?"

Yan Tianying said:

"That's not true. The 'Xingyefang' where she lives is originally a good place. Although Xiaomu is a person who has a bit of windfall luck, in other respects, his luck is a little bit worse. People sit at home, and Shishitian Come up and raze the house to the ground. Have you ever seen such a thing? Xiao Mu has hit it before.

"Anyway, her family always suffers inexplicable disasters. Falling stones from the sky is an extreme case, and it only happened once. However, fires are common, and there are several times when people seek revenge and find the wrong place. They went to her house to fight and even haunted her.

"As time goes by, the residents around Xiaomu have been disturbed and moved out, and the vacant houses can't be sold. It's cheaper for you."

"..."

Shen Lang was speechless for a moment.

……

Although buying a house in the capital is a big deal, Shen Lang is really embarrassed to bother Yan Tianying and Master Wanfa any longer.

One of them is a great master and the big boss of God Catch Hall. They are busy with official duties, and the other is a real person who is impossible for ordinary people to meet. They put aside their respective things and spent a day and a night with a little shrimp like Shen Lang. Not only did they help him achieve In addition to his promise to Bai Shishi, and also helped him partially solve the hidden danger of the spider mother, Shen Lang naturally had to know the good and the bad, and always troubled them.

So after returning to Beijing, Shen Lang proposed to ask Yan Tianying to send him a guide to take him to buy a house.

As for the further study in the "Emperor Capital Daoist Academy", Master Wanfa has already prepared a letter of recommendation for him, and when he settles down, he can enter the "Emperor Capital Daoist Academy" to practice at any time with Wanfa Daoist's recommendation letter and token.

Since it was already the time when the lights came on when returning to Beijing, Shen Lang rested in the Shenchuang Hall for the night, and in the early morning of the next day, he followed an old scribe assigned to him by Yan Tianying to the "Xingyefang" where Mu Qingxue lived. "Buy a house.

Bai Shishi joined an action team subordinate to Shenzhutang, and began her first dangerous mission, going to the northern barrier "Taiyi Mountain" of the capital to hunt down a group of horse thieves who have been rampant recently.

It is said that among the group of horse thieves, there is also a wild monk who knows one or two hands, and the leader of the horse thieves is also a powerful and experienced gangster with strong martial arts.Bai Shishi's martial arts has fallen by two major realms, and her life may be in danger if she participates in the operation this time.

But this is her way of redemption, life or death is her fate.

Shen Lang bought a house very smoothly.

Prices in the capital are expensive, and housing prices are very high.

Xingyefang is located in the inner city, not far from the imperial city where the government offices of various ministries are located, and the housing prices are sky-high.

If a seventh-rank magistrate does not get promoted all his life, he will have to struggle for more than 240 years to buy a small courtyard in Xingyefang with a salary of 30 silver dollars a year.

Even Shen Lang, who has a small fortune, would have to spend more than half of his net worth if he wanted to buy a house in other normal areas of the inner city of the capital.

But the houses around Mu Qingxue's house are not the case.

The prices of the houses near her home are very impressively low, only [-]-[-]% of the normal house prices.

That's it, it can't be sold at all.

So Shen Lang easily bought a small courtyard facing Mu Qingxue's house, with only a Qingshi street in the middle.

The reason why she didn't buy the houses next to her was just to avoid being affected by disasters such as fire and falling stones.

Across a two-foot-wide bluestone street, it is somewhat safer.

With the help of the old scribe of Shenchuangtang, I negotiated a deal with the owner, signed a contract, went to the Jingzhao government office to complete the transfer procedures, paid the deed tax, and paid the owner's purchase price. I worked hard for a long time. Even if it belongs to Shen Lang.

Putting away the house deed stamped by the government, and inviting the old scribe to a restaurant for a big meal, Shen Lang moved into his house in the capital after noon.

It took another half a day of work, busy until dusk, and finally cleaned up the inside and outside of the two courtyards, neat and tidy.

Jumping onto the roof of the second gate, looking down at the fruits of the afternoon's labor, Shen Lang nodded in satisfaction, planning to make some good dishes, call out the little monsters, and have a big meal to celebrate.

Just as he was about to jump back into the courtyard, he looked back at Mu Qingxue's house across the street. Shen Lang became interested and flew to the roof of the outer courtyard. How come the small courtyard you entered is so desolate?
Most of the partition wall between the outer courtyard and the inner courtyard collapsed, and on the half of the wall that barely stood, there were traces of smoke and fire, and even slashing with sharp knives.

The front and back houses are also dilapidated.

Except for the main house in the inner courtyard, which is still intact, the rest of the houses, even the roof, are full of holes.Anyone who dared to jump on the roof of her house would fall into the house if he didn't pay attention.

In the wing room on the left side of the main house in the inner courtyard, the entire roof is gone, and there is only one burnt beam hanging alone from the frame.

Even the ground of the yard is full of potholes, and traces of filling can be seen in many places.

Mu Qingxue has been away from Beijing for a while, and the house has been left unattended for a long time. The ground and walls in her dilapidated small courtyard are covered with weeds, and it looks like an abandoned house that no one lives in.

"Tsk, how miserable!"

Shen Lang shook his head with emotion, and then looked at Mu Qingxue and his neighbors, it turned out that there were no people living in these houses.

"That's fine, quiet!"

Shen Lang chuckled, jumped back into his yard, put the little fish into the pond in the inner yard, released Xiaoya and Xiaogu, and let them explore and play around the new home, while he took out pots and pans, The daily necessities, rice, oil and salt, went to the well in the backyard to fetch a bucket of water, and began to cook a big meal.

Mu Qingxue will not return to Beijing for a while, during this period, he will live alone in this area.

But soon, he will go to the Imperial Capital Taoist Academy for further training.

At that time, I'm afraid it will take several days to come back.

"When Mu Qingxue comes back, will she be pleasantly surprised when she finds out that I live across from her, or very pleasantly surprised?"

……

Mu Qingxue didn't know that Shen Lang had prepared a "surprise" for her.

All she knew was that her recent emotional changes had become more and more intense, and she was often impulsive and violent.

Two days ago, because of the matter of Yingguo Duke's mansion, he had a quarrel with the head arrester of the mansion, and he slapped the other party so that he vomited blood internally.

Although the head catcher was Ying Guogong, he always opposed Mu Qingxue when she was investigating the case, and repeatedly obstructed her, but in any case, before he got the evidence and took off the head catcher's uniform, the other party would not let him go. It's her nominal colleague.

Shooting and injuring a colleague in a public place like the government office, even if she is a big shot from the capital, the influence is very bad and it is a very taboo thing.

In the end, Mu Qingxue paid the healing elixir and a sum of gold and silver, and apologized.

To be honest, when I made an apology, looking at the other party's implicitly smug face, the evil fire in Mu Qingxue's heart kept bubbling out, and I almost couldn't hold back my slap to smash the other party's head.

After suppressing her anger and apologizing, she went to the uninhabited sea alone, stepped on the water for more than ten miles, squandered her true energy on a small deserted island, and bombarded it indiscriminately. Exhaust that evil fire.

Mu Qingxue is also well aware of the root causes of her various changes.

It was the "demon seed" left by the six-armed snake demon.

Although the demon seed was sealed around her navel by various means, and the snake demon's reckless plot to take her away failed to materialize, but the position where the other party finally occupied was too close to her dantian.

Although third-rank warriors can't take the initiative to "refine the gods", their true energy can already passively feed back the primordial spirit, subtly strengthening the primordial spirit and making the primordial spirit more tenacious.

And that demon species is entrenched in the "Shenque" acupoint of her belly button, affecting her true energy all the time.Afterwards, the zhenqi affected by the demon seed slowly affected her primordial spirit in turn.

This kind of influence, in a short period of time, will not distort her nature and pollute her into a demon, but will only make her mood swings become more and more violent, and her temper will gradually become irritable and irritable.

But if the "demon seed" exists for too long, even if the snake demon is unable to seize her, she may gradually alienate into a demon due to the deep pollution accumulated by the primordial spirit.

Mu Qingxue knew the crux of the matter.

But there is no solution for the time being.

If you want to get rid of the demon seeds left by the six-armed snake demon, you must at least ask Yan Tianying, or a certain first-rank Daoist to do it.

You can't write a letter back to the capital, begging Yan Tianying to make a special trip to Yingzhou to help her pull out the demon seeds, right?
Mu Qingxue looks cool and quiet, but in fact she has a very strong temper.

Otherwise, as for being able to practice "Tiangang Battle Qi", which requires extremely high xinxing and willpower, in the body of a woman, it is still possible to reach the third rank all the way-Tiangang Battle Qi requires only four levels of xinxing and will. One word: never turn back.Simplified into two words: head iron.

This can be seen from her feat of going straight to the Thousand Star Islands and driving directly to Shark King Island.

In short, with Mu Qingxue's temperament, she didn't want to trouble Yan Tianying until the matter of Yingzhou was settled.

At the very least, the Blood Shadow Cult's influence in Yingzhou must be wiped out first, so that she can return to Beijing with dignity.

As for Duke Ying, this old nobleman is backed by the emperor and has deep roots in Yingzhou. The current Lord Ying is old and cunning. Time is impossible to achieve.

This may be a long struggle.

If you say something disrespectful in your own heart, it may even take until the current emperor dies, or the emperor voluntarily abandons Duke Ying before he can be brought down.

Mu Qingxue knew that she might have to stay in Yingzhou until winter, before returning to the capital until the Chinese New Year.

At this point of time, she can hold on, and won't be affected by the "devil seed" to the worst.

It's just that his temper has become a little more irritable.

I don't know how far Shen Lang can cultivate when she returns to Beijing.

If he is still insisting on "double cultivation of martial arts and martial arts"... Well, with his talent, he should be able to reach the seventh rank of martial arts and the seventh rank of Taoism, so there should be no problem.

But further up, I'm afraid it will be difficult to make an inch.

At that time, he must choose a path and focus on practicing.

He should be able to choose spells, right?

After all, his Taoism talent is far above the martial arts talent.

I don't know if he has arrived in the capital now, or has he entered the Imperial Capital Taoist Temple...

[Ask for a ticket~! 】