What is a demon?

Chapter 28
Nearing the early hours of the morning, Gu Changqing saw the city in the distance through a flash of fish-belly white on the horizon.

It was not yet dark, but many people were already sitting on the ground in front of the city gate, resting and waiting.

They were all dressed like villagers, with bundles of firewood or burdens beside them. The baskets on both sides of the burden contained vegetables or medicinal materials.

Gu Changqing glanced at it from a distance, then walked towards a corner of the city.

Although it looked like he was walking, he took five or six meters in one step, and his speed was extremely fast.

It was still not fully dark here, and Gu Changqing was far away, so not many people saw him.

There was only one young man wearing coarse clothes with a somewhat dirty face. He carefully broke off half a piece of coarse grains in his hand. He inadvertently raised his head and was stunned for a moment, then subconsciously wiped his eyes.

He seemed to see someone disappear for a moment and then appear a few meters away.

But by the time he finished rubbing his eyes, the man was no longer visible.

Gu Changqing looked up at the top of the wall. It was only six meters high and the wall was somewhat damaged.

There were only a few soldiers dozing off on the wall.

After all, this place is located in the southern part of Nanzhou. To the south are mountains and the sea. There are no foreign enemies to invade and no monsters to harass.

Gu Changqing looked up and took a look, then kicked his foot and the soil on the ground exploded.

He rushed to the top of the wall with a single brush, stretched out his hand to grab and press on the top of the wall, and then jumped over the wall and fell to the other side with great flexibility.

The soldier who was dozing on the wall just heard a muffled sound, glanced down in confusion, and then continued to doze again.

When Gu Changqing landed in the county town, he still took a few meters in one step as before. When it got dark, he had already walked around the city for more than half a circle. Then he found a house that looked like a wealthy family, and climbed over the wall directly. .

"Hurry up, take the chamber pot and pour it out! The master will be up in a moment. Those filth have stained the master's eyes!" came a sharp-tongued woman's voice.

Gu Changqing landed behind a rockery and looked around. There were about two entrances to the courtyard, and there were two other small courtyards, which were not too big.

A maid is ordering two servants.

Gu Changqing then got into the small building in the side courtyard, where a man was sleeping soundly on the couch.

After looking around with his eyes, Gu Changqing picked up the opponent's cyan brocade clothes and gestured, threw it aside with some disgust, and then pushed out the window.

The other party is too short, only about 1.7 meters, and the clothes are shorter on him.

After walking around a few houses, Gu Changqing came out wearing a moon-white brocade shirt and a pair of tiger-head shoes with an upturned head. Only the short hair on his head was a bit abrupt.

However, Gu Changqing had a handful of long hair in his bag that he had just borrowed together. He could just find someone to make a wig later.

Then Gu Changqing found a deserted courtyard to rest. After all, he had been running around all night. Even if he became a practitioner, he still had to sleep.

Lying on the couch with his legs crossed, Gu Changqing had twelve brocade bags in his hands, all of which were picked up from the disciples of the Yu family. Most of them contained gold leaves, golden beans and silver barley seeds. More than 20 taels of gold and dozens of taels of silver.

The gold leaves are actually gold pages, beaten into a thin piece and then folded into ten pages, with the Yu family's imprint on them.

The golden beans weigh about ten grams and are actually oval-shaped.

The silver barley is in the shape of a cake, and one piece is about two taels.

Although I don’t know the price of goods in this world, those disciples of the Yu family are also warriors after all, and more than a dozen of them only have these things.

Gu Changqing estimated that it should still be quite valuable.

At least it’s enough for me to go to a local brothel and experience it.

The best place to understand the customs and customs of a place is those romantic places.

After all, in other places we chat with clothes on, but only in that place we chat without clothes.

……

Not long after Gu Changqing rested, a group of nearly a hundred people rode straight to Pingyao County on tall horses, with the sound of hooves thundering.

The knights on the horse were all disciples of the Yu family, all dressed in brocade clothes with the word "Yu" embroidered on their chests.

"Get away!" The disciples of the Yu family shouted, and the villagers in front who were queuing up to enter the city hurriedly got out of the way.

A young man carrying a load was unable to dodge and was knocked away by a horse. He vomited blood when he landed on the ground.

However, the knights of the Yu family didn't care and didn't even look at them.

"Have you seen any strangers entering the city?" A middle-aged man with a beard asked loudly after tightening the reins at the city gate guard. "There are no strangers, they are all nearby villagers!" When the guard saw that the people of the Yu family were so cruel, he dared not speak out in anger, and did not dare to provoke them at all.

The Yu family can be said to be a local overlord in the Yuanhe area.

Even if the county magistrate is protected by the imperial court, he still has to give some face to the Yu family, let alone a little person like him.

The big man frowned, turned around and said something, and the dozen or so riders immediately turned their horses and left the city, and then split up to look along the city wall.

After seeing the signal, they immediately set off, but when they arrived at the scene, they found that not one group of people was missing, but two groups were missing.

Only six bones remain in one batch, while the other batch is still missing.

The missing group of people set out from the direction of Pingyao, and they were probably in danger.

After a little judgement, they concluded that the other party was heading towards Pingyao, so they hurried back.

The Yu family also had a mansion in the city, and they returned shortly after checking out the disciples outside the city wall.

"Senior Brother Yu, there is a trace in the southeast corner. I'm afraid the opponent has entered the city."

"But if the other party is hiding, how should we find him?"

The person called Senior Brother Yu was the middle-aged man who asked at the city gate before, named Yu Xuanzheng.

This person was also a member of the Yu family, but he was from a different background and had average talents. At the beginning, he had to use medicine to help break through the marrow cleaning and blood transfusion.

After the breakthrough, I barely reached the level of Qi training, but I wasted many years and could not go any further.

However, even if he stops at the first level of Qi training, he is far ahead of other Yu family disciples, so most of the things here are decided by him.

"The third elder will arrive in the evening!" Yu Xuanzheng said directly.

"I'll go to see Daochang Xu first, and then I'll go to the county magistrate and ask the magistrate to send troops to search!"

There is another master here, Taoist Master Xu, who has the strength of the fourth level of Qi training and is very close to the Yu family.

Although this person is only at the fourth level of Qi training, he is very good at defense with his Xuanshui sword.

Coupled with the magic weapon in his hand, even if he can't take down the demonic monster, he can still be entangled in him.

"You guys first stand guard near a few city gates and pay attention to people coming in and out!"

After Yu Xuanzheng made some arrangements, the Yu family started to move.

Then Yu Xuanzheng went to the city to visit Taoist Xu, a Taoist who looked to be in his thirties and had an air of immortality.

However, Yu Zheng knew that the man in front of him had been friends with the Yu family for 30 years, and he was at least 70 years old now. He just had good looks, so he looked young.

"You mean the demonic demon who killed the second son of your Yu family has arrived here?" The Taoist asked softly with a kind look on his face.

"Exactly, ten of the troops sent by my Yu family disappeared last night, and they all turned into a pile of bones. They must be the murderers of my young master. Please help me, Taoist Priest!"

"Let's not talk about my friendship with the Yiyu family. Exterminating demons and defending the Tao is what we should do!"

"If that monster appears, I will definitely help him and prevent him from getting away." Taoist Xu said with a smile.

"Thank you so much, Taoist Priest, for your help. My Yu family will be very grateful afterwards!"

Then Yu Xuanzheng went to see the county magistrate again and asked the county magistrate to send troops to help.

After everything was arranged, the Yu family did not take action immediately, but just guarded various city gates.

It was not until evening that a group of more than a dozen riders entered Pingyao.

Among the dozen or so horses, there was a white horse with scales on its legs, which was taller than the other horses and looked very heroic.

On the horseback is a man wearing green clothes and a cold expression, it is Yu Wentao.

I thought that the demonic demon had run away before, so it would be difficult to find him.

I didn't expect that he would dare to appear in this area and take the initiative. He was really bold.

This time we have laid a dragnet, and as long as the devil is still in the city, it will be difficult for him to fly even if he has wings!

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