Starting from Scavengers to Cultivate Immortals

Chapter 126 The Weird Small Town

The hotel is small in size, with a few simple wooden tables and benches. Perhaps because it happened to be lunch time, it was almost full. Xu Chen and Lan You also found a table to sit down.

A middle-aged man over [-] hurried over to say hello, "What do you two want to eat?"

"What special dishes do you have here?" Xu Chen asked.

The store quickly reported the names of a few dishes. Xu Chen scanned the tables of some diners in the hotel with his spiritual sense, and roughly understood the ingredients and methods of these dishes, so he ordered a few light seasonal vegetables and side dishes, and ordered a pot of fruit wine .

This is the second time for Xu Chen to go abroad, and he is not a pure Jianghu Xiaobai, but Lan You is actually worse than him. The core disciple of the wealthy family does not need to worry about eating, drinking, and messing around on weekdays. Even if he goes out, There are also outer disciples who have made proper arrangements for food, clothing, housing and transportation, not to mention staying and eating in such a dilapidated small town, and passing by on weekdays without even taking a look.

But this time, in order to wait for Xu Chen to go together, no one arranged for her on the way, so she could only follow Xu Chen to the countryside and do as the Romans did, eating whatever she could.

Xu Chen is different from Lan You. He was an orphan since he was a child. He grew up in the countryside. He suffered from hardship, cold and hunger. He has no interest in the rich and powerful, but he still has a strange sense of closeness to ordinary people at the bottom. So when I go out, I like to deal with ordinary people.

While waiting for the food and drink, the two also secretly let go of their spiritual senses and listened to the diners' exchanges, and within a moment they roughly understood the reason why the people in the small town were so panicked.

It turned out that a few days ago, many people died or disappeared in a nearby village, and soon this situation spread to the small town. In the past two days, more than ten people have died or disappeared.

Under the panic, some people rumored that evil spirits cannibalized people, and some people said that there were monsters. Therefore, the whole small town was in a panic, and a large number of people began to flee.

The two of them shrouded the entire small town with their spiritual sense in surprise. Although they collected more content about the topic of evil spirits and monsters, and even saw the notice issued by the city lord's mansion that recruited Jianghu masters to exorcise ghosts and catch demons with a lot of money, they did not. No dangerous aura was felt.

Therefore, after looking at each other, the two shook their heads slightly, indicating that they had not found any suspicious targets.

At this time, the store brought food and wine, Xu Chen asked about the haunting, the store immediately shook his head in panic and said: "Guest officer, don't ask, I don't know, I just know that many people have died in the past two days. Some people went berserk and murdered for no reason, and the two guest officers seem to be passing by here, so let's leave as soon as we finish eating!"

After all, the shopkeeper quickly greeted other customers.

Xu Chen had no choice but to continue to let go of his spiritual sense to listen to the conversations of the diners while eating. Suddenly, he heard a few screams and screams of running outside, so he quickly released his spiritual sense and went out to have a look, and saw a strong man of five big and three thick You are like a lunatic, waving a big knife and frantically chasing and killing pedestrians in the street.

In the blink of an eye, several of them had been cut down, and the street was in a panic, with pedestrians screaming and running in all directions.

The diners in the tavern also panicked for a while. Some of them ran out after losing their bowls and chopsticks. Among them, a few knight-errants with good looks got up and walked out with swords on their backs.

Another old Taoist priest wearing a Baina Taoist robe with a gourd hanging from his waist said with a smile: "After waiting for a day, he finally appeared, apprentice, and follow the master to slay demons."

"Yes, Master!" A handsome little Taoist priest about fifteen or sixteen years old excitedly put down his bowl and chopsticks, picked up a sword wrapped in linen and followed.

Xu Chen also put down the bowls and chopsticks, dropped a piece of silver, and said to Lan You, "Let's go out and have a look too!"

"Okay!" Lan You nodded and stood up.

The store owner was hiding behind the counter, but when he found that Xu Chen was the only one paying, he hesitated and ran out, grabbed Xu Chen's arm and said, "Little Master, really don't go, that evil spirit can't be killed at all, it will be contagious."

Xu Chen was surprised and said, "Didn't you just say you didn't know? How do you know that evil spirits can infect people?"

The shopkeeper said with horror on his face: "Every evil spirit is different. I have only seen this kind of evil spirit that kills people and can infect people. If you are attracted by a murderous evil spirit, it will attach itself to you. , and then you too will become a ghost and start killing people.”

"Is there such a thing?" Xu Chen's eyes widened.

Evil ghosts are just mortal sayings. For monks like them who really practice immortality and Taoism, the so-called evil ghosts may be caused by some monsters, but these things are invisible and intangible, and mortals cannot understand what they are Something, so it can only be discussed in terms of ghosts and gods.

Slaying demons and demons to protect the safety of the mortal world is also an important task for all the disciples of the immortal sect to go down the mountain to practice.

What's more, it was the first time for Xu Chen to encounter such a strange thing among the people, so naturally he refused to let go of this opportunity, so he ignored the store's reminder and went out with a pair of Taoist priests and apprentices in front of him.

There was no one to be seen on the street at this time, except for a big man who looked crazy, there were wounded people lying on the street bleeding and crying, two of them were completely dead.

The few knight-errants with swords on their backs had already drawn their weapons, and surrounded the strong man seven or eight feet away, but all of them looked very serious and nervous.

After all, they are warriors, not magicians who are good at exorcising ghosts and demons.

However, the city lord's mansion offered a very high reward, a full 300 taels of silver, such a big temptation was worth their risk.

Among this group of people, the one with the strongest aura is a slender man over forty years old. It can be regarded as a first-class master.

"Su Qinghe, will you go up first or should we go up first?" A burly man with a three-ringed sword said loudly.

The elegant man snorted coldly: "If you want to get the bounty, do it quickly, otherwise I will do it, and you will get nothing!"

The burly man hesitated for a moment with an ugly expression on his face, greeted his companions and rushed forward.

At this time, the crazy strong man has already brandished a big knife and rushed towards this group of people
Xu Chen's face twitched slightly, and he glanced at the swordsman named Su Qinghe.

The mortal world is similar to the fairy world, the higher the cultivation level, the more chicken thieves, everyone is as cunning as ghosts, and there is no good person.

This Su Qinghe has the highest cultivation level and the best martial arts, but he is not willing to take any risks, and with just one sentence, he enrages the swordsman group to come forward to try him out.

Xu Chen didn't move, so Lan You naturally wouldn't move either.

In her mind, Xu Chen is the kind of miraculous person who needs her to stand up high. Although the realm is not as good as her own, but Xu Chen possesses the hidden ability of the real fairy and rare treasure, and it is the Supreme Elder Chixia Zhenjun of Yuqing Palace. Unmatched existence.

In just a few breaths, the five burly men surrounded the crazy strong man, hacking and killing each other.

The strong man was insane and delirious, and he used the sword in a disorderly manner. He was soon surrounded by five people, his body was bruised and his arm was cut off, and finally he was decapitated by one of them with a knife. In the blood spray, the crazy strong man became a sentence of nothing. The first dead body fell to the ground, and a strong bloody smell filled the street.

"Haha, what a ghost, it's vulnerable!"

A guy kicked away a hairy head that was still rolling on the ground and laughed.

The rest of the companions also looked around the corpse with excitement.

Su Qinghe frowned slightly, and at the same time his body tensed up slowly, and the sword in his hand stood on his chest.

At this moment, the old Taoist priest and the young apprentice stepped forward, holding an old brass bell in their hands, and said, "Be careful, gentlemen, this evil spirit is not dead, it will possess the body and contaminate it, so don't get too close!"

A companion of the burly and strong man raised his hand to stop the old Taoist priest and said, "Old Taoist priest, this credit is ours, so don't join in the fun, take your disciples to burn paper talismans elsewhere to have fun."

"Hahahaha!" A group of people laughed together.

Although Xu Chen didn't make a move, his spiritual consciousness wrapped the headless corpse and head in it like flowing water. He carefully felt the movement, but because the person was dead, his spirit dissipated and his breath was cut off, he couldn't detect any difference at all.

But just when he was about to withdraw his consciousness, he suddenly felt a wisp of black air emerge from his head, and then turned into a phantom of a bat about the size of a foot and rushed towards the nearest man.

"careful!"

Xu Chen instantly changed his color to remind him, and at the same time, a wave of spiritual consciousness rushed into the man's body following the phantom of the black bat.

However, ordinary warriors have not yet enlightened, so the sea of ​​consciousness has not yet been opened. After Xu Chen's consciousness entered the man's body, he lost his target in an instant.

Almost at the same time, the man suddenly twisted his body violently a few times, raised his hand and stabbed at the nearest companion. Amidst the exclamation, the man's companion was bending down to check the corpse, and his head was chopped off with a blow, and he fell down with a thud.

"Jiang Laosan, what are you doing?"

The group of swordsmen didn't understand the sudden change. Some of them yelled at their companions, but before they finished speaking, a bloody knife fell on him.

"Ah!" Amidst the screams, another person fell to the ground.

Only then did the swordsman group realize that their companion was possessed by an evil spirit, so they fled in panic. Jiang Laosan had already brandished a big knife and rushed towards the nearest companion, and chopped down another one in the blink of an eye.

Su Qinghe, who had been waiting for an opportunity, changed his face drastically and retreated.

"Su Qinghe, why don't you make a move?" the burly man shouted.

Su Qinghe's face was hesitant, but he didn't answer either. Hearing the screams of his burly man companion, he put his sword away, turned around and leaped up to the roof, and disappeared after three jumps and two jumps.

Seeing that something was wrong, the burly man also ran away with the remaining companion.

In a blink of an eye, only Xu Chen and the old Taoist master and apprentice were left on the scene, followed by a few corpses and the two swordsman companions who were not yet dead.

(End of this chapter)