Tian Sheng Monster Hunting

Chapter 34
In the evening of the next day, Sheng Yang sat down under the eaves of the courtyard and stared at Hu Luan in a grumpy stomach with a hungry stomach all day. Duan Yuzhi stood aside and held his hands, rarely looking lazily at the mysterious Taoist priest Hu Luan had invited. Secretly fiddled with the practice field, thinking to himself, pretending to be mysterious!
"Master Taifu, please sit down. It will take some time for the dharma field to be set up. Master Wangyou said that you can start hunting monsters only after dark."

Hu Luan very happily asked him to sit down, and then directed the servants to help the master set up the dharma field. For a moment, it made people feel that the monster hunting field was like a stage for an opera soon.

"I'm full!" Sheng Yang commented angrily, then raised his eyes and asked Duan Yuzhi, who was still standing on the side, "How?"

Duan Yuzhi shook his head and sat back on the chair, "To be honest, I can't tell."

"Pfft, is there something that Mrs. Duan can't understand?"

Duan Yuzhi smiled at her as a matter of course, "This method and catching monsters are two different things."

Wen Ming, who had been standing behind Sheng Yang, said unconvinced, "I don't agree with Mrs. Duan's words. Aren't Taoism and catching monsters both spells and kung fu? What's the difference?"

Duan Yuzhi thought that the master was busy placing objects on the field, such as flags, incense burners, and let the servants catch a rooster to prepare for blood, the battle was very big.

He said lightly, "The Taoist priests I have met are all liars."

After an hour like this, Sheng Yang had already entered the house and secretly ate some pastries that were stored yesterday, and drank some tea in new teacups, before Hu Luan came to invite her in person again.

When Sheng Yang walked into the courtyard, it was already dark, and the incense table was filled with densely packed ritual objects. In the courtyard, thirteen flags fluttered slightly. The incense burner, roosters, trees, and the doors of each room could be affixed with spells. The whole place is covered with red spells on a yellow background, and the whole yard is like an alchemy furnace covered with spells. It seems that today I am vowing to catch monsters.

The Taoist priest was about fifty years old, with a sharp and thin face, no distinctive facial features, a gossip black robe, and a beard that reached his navel. He held a whisk in his hand, and bowed to the two of them.

"Poverty and forget your worries, I pay my respects to Her Royal Highness Princess Shengyang, Mrs. Grand Tutor Duan, the princess sits in town today, and Grand Tutor Duan will protect the law, and I will do more with less!"

"It looks like that."

Wen Ming muttered to her behind Sheng Yang.

"let's start."

After waiting for a day, the three of them are ready to watch the play.

The Taoist straightened his robes, put the fly whisk on the table respectfully, picked up a handful of incense, held it up to the candlelight with both hands, and said while lighting it.

"Father Master, today there is an evil demon located in the Beiguan County Yamen. The granary was emptied overnight, and tens of thousands of people went to Beiguan to suffer from hunger and starvation. His disciple, Wangyou, couldn't bear the suffering of the people, so he came here to eliminate the demon. Today Please help me to slay demons and demons!"

When the words fell to the ground, his incense was just smoldering, and he held the incense above his head in a chanting manner, and shouted, "Eliminate evil spirits, suppress the four directions!"

While throwing out all the incense in his hand, the incense was divided into four parts in mid-air, and when it landed, it was firmly inserted in the four directions of east, west, north and south, exactly three sticks in each place.

Wen Ming sighed behind Sheng Yang, "Isn't he, he really has some skills?"

With a calm face, the old Taoist pulled out his iron sword from the incense table, and cut off the rooster's neck with one knife, causing blood to splatter everywhere. Sheng Yang frowned slightly.

Although Sheng Yang sent someone to act decisively, he himself was not blood-stained. Seeing these things made him feel uncomfortable, especially when the victim was a rooster.

She is a paper tiger, afraid of chickens, birds, insects, and the dark, a careerist who is afraid of everything, but Duan Yuzhi understands this very well, and is keenly aware of her discomfort. Patting her hand lightly to comfort him, and feeling his hand, Sheng Yang resisted the discomfort and pulled out a reassuring smile.

At this time, the Taoist priest had already grabbed a handful of spells filled with spells, and shouted, "Hurry up like a law!"

The talisman flew in all directions, and the candle on the table flickered for a moment, and a gust of wind blew in, and the Taoist flag swayed wildly in the wind.

There was a flash of light in his eyes, as if he had locked his position, he swung the iron sword and stabbed towards the west.

"what!"

All the candles in the courtyard were extinguished, and a miserable scream resounded through the courtyard.

"The evildoer appears!"

In response to his voice, all the candles were lit again, and the Taoist priest had already grabbed a person, with a smug smile on his face, "I caught you, evildoer!"

He grabbed the monster with one hand, and pulled out the sword stuck in the monster's leg with the other. The blood spattered all over the ground. Then he skillfully took out the rope and tied the monster tightly, and finally tied a knot tightly.

He kicked it, and the monster rolled numbly to Sheng Yang's feet.

"Princess Shengyang! Pindao caught the monster who stole food!"

Sheng Yang looked at this monster, with a thin face, pointed chin, protruding ears, two eyes staring at her with dissatisfaction, and two front teeth very similar to Chi Qiang.

"This is... the Rat Demon?"

The old Taoist said happily, "The princess is wise! This monster is just a mouse monster, who loves to steal food. The food is in the ground, and they spoil it while eating it. The food is in the granary, and they just eat it without leaving it. It's really not good." Giving people a way to live is disgusting!"

"No, just such a little monster can empty such a big granary?"

Wen Ming squatted down and explored carefully, the rat demon looked young, he didn't seem to have much cultivation, even let him think that he was not as good as Chi Qiang.

"Huh!" The Taoist priest had a disgusted look of "you don't understand".

"This is not an ordinary rat monster. They are called gluttonous rats. They are greedy and have no time to eat. Although they are small, they have a big belly and no sides. They only eat and don't stop all night. Eat tens of thousands of stones of grain!"

"really?"

Sheng Yang looked at Duan Yuzhi with some disbelief. Chiyu should have known more about this matter, but in case the Taoist really hurt Chiyu with that kung fu, she drove Chiyu out early, who wanted to watch the fun.

"I've heard of it, but I don't know much about it. The guards guarding the granary yesterday said that they entered the granary at Zishi for a final inspection. After that, when they entered the granary just after Yinshi the next day, the granary was already empty. As the Taoist Master Wangyou said, he can eat food without stopping, but it also takes time, 300 million shi of food, it is impossible to eat all of them in two or three hours."

He obviously doubted the old Taoist's words very much.

"Your Highness! I have heard of it before," Hu Luan rolled his small eyes, "There has always been a legend in Beiguan that there is a monster that looks like a mouse, but in reality it is a greedy and gluttonous beast. , devouring food is like a bottomless pit, as long as he appears in this world, there will be no grain harvest in that year."

Hu Luan spoke plausibly, but Sheng Yang saw the sneer on the mouse demon's face.

"Oh? Does County Magistrate Hu know when this monster last appeared in Beiguan?"

"This... I saw in a book... the last time this monster appeared was four...500 years ago..."

"Hahahahaha!" The mouse demon rolled back and forth laughing on the ground.

"Little thing, why are you laughing!" Hu Luan pointed at him and said angrily.

"Hey, you officials are really talking nonsense! Your grandpa stole this warehouse, but don't blame it on some ancient monster, hahahahaha!"

Hu Luan's face darkened, and he gave the old Taoist a look, "Cast me a spell and punish him!"

The old Taoist priest hesitated, but Duan Yuzhi seemed to be studying him carefully at this time, standing on one side with his hands folded and his lips tightly pressed, without saying a word, which made him feel a little apprehensive, not daring to meet Hu Luan's eyes.

Sure enough, he asked himself, "Master Daoist, you haven't come back to me yet, he's a little monster, how do you judge that he can steal three hundred shi of grain by himself."

"This...this...of course not...he probably has other accomplices!"

He kicked the little demon again, "Quickly confess, where is your accomplice hiding, maybe the lord can let you live!"

The little demon was kicked forward, raised his head and glared at Duan Yu, "I did it alone! What are you! Don't underestimate me!"

The old Taoist kicked him again, "Stop talking nonsense, this is the number one monster catcher in the world."

The little demon raised his head in astonishment, looked carefully at Duan Yuzhi, and jumped up, "So it's you!"

He was restrained by the old Taoist again, "You little monster, you are dying, and you are still jumping here!"

All the people present felt strange. Although he was caught by the old Taoist priest, he had no emotion towards the old Taoist priest. Instead, he saw Duan Yuzhi as if he was facing a big enemy, as if he had some old grudges.

Duan Yuzhi also seemed to have thought of something. He let go of his casually held hands, and squatted down to take a closer look at the mouse monster. He didn't remember Chiyu, but this face was more distinctive and memorable.

This is the first little demon he let go after struggling with Duan Zi back then!
"I didn't expect you to go this far when I let you go."

He frowned slightly, and whispered in front of the mouse demon.

The rat demon suddenly raised his head, "It really is you!"

"A monster really can only be a monster?"

Duan Yuzhi stood up and frowned and looked at him full of disappointment. Even if he was found from the ruins, rescued, and let him go, would he still become a tool of evil?

The rat demon also reacted greatly to his words, the veins on his face popped up, and he roared.

"Don't talk about high-sounding nonsense! Yes, you let me go, but my home was destroyed and my whole family died. Tiansheng Kingdom is so big, there is no place where I can have a full meal with peace of mind. I can survive. I really complied with that nonsense. Everyone shouted and beat the rats crossing the street. Just because you saved me at that time, I have to suffer so long tremblingly! What’s the use of you saving me that time, and you can’t save me All my life, I still let you be complacent, thinking that if you are my savior, I might as well be killed by you at that time!"

Duan Yuzhi didn't seem to expect him to say that, and was slightly taken aback. What he said was not unreasonable.

The courtyard was quiet for a while, but strong winds blew up, and the flags fluttered, making a deafening sound.

What the Tao proclaims is also the Tao of those in power. Whose Tao is the real Tao?
A cold light flashed across the roof, and Duan Yuzhi blocked Sheng Yang.

A figure appeared and rushed straight from the roof.

(End of this chapter)