Please bring your best friends to practice immortality

Chapter 16 The innocent turtle spirit

Gu Shi paused and continued,
"A hundred miles to the east from here, there is a place called Wanjuan Academy. The mountain leader there is a famous scholar in the academic world. He is the most loving student. He truly teaches without distinction. He is also a Confucian monk. Great Taoist monk, when you go, don’t hide your identity, make a sincere request to him, and explain your determination to study wholeheartedly, there is no way he will accept you!"

The rat spirit heard a pop and knelt down to Gu Shiyi.

"Thank you sir!"

After kowtowing to Gu Shiyi three times in succession, Gu Shiyi laughed and cupped his hands at him, saying,

"So I wish Brother Shu a success in his studies, and we will see you soon!"

"There will be a period later!"

The two of them just said goodbye. Gu Shiyi drove the carriage along the river bank, walked more than ten miles of rugged mountain roads, and finally turned onto the main road. Only then did Li Yaner emerge from her collar and asked,

"Eleven, this rat spirit has been practicing for 800 years. I see that if it transformed into its original form, it might not be able to compete with you with its sharp teeth. Why didn't it make a sneak attack at the beginning instead of changing its shape? To confuse you by becoming a man?”

Gu Shiyi smiled and said,

"Our world has its own laws of heaven and earth. When a beast like it becomes a spirit, it goes against heaven. Unless it is a Buddhist since childhood, nine out of ten will be burdened with many evil debts, such as It killed bandits and thieves before it. Although those people deserved to be killed, the debt was borne by it. Of course, the debt borne by killing those who deserved to be killed would be much lighter. When it waits for it in the future When you are old and weak, you have to pay back the debt. If you want to become a great demon or demon ancestor, you have to repay the debt ten times. Therefore, unless those spirits who have entered the devil's path, ordinary spirits do not want to Those who easily take on bad debts..."

After a pause, Gu Shi said,
"The human race is originally the darling of heaven and earth. They are naturally more intelligent than other races, and they can absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. They can kill each other, but other races will bear more debts if they kill others, so most of them don't want to kill more races. , but the flesh and blood essence of the human race is the favorite of the monster race. The flesh and blood of ordinary people can be eaten for several years, let alone the cultivators, but they want to eat it but can't, so they are clever. The demon clan discovered that the yin and yang essence of the human race was the essence of the human race's flesh and blood. Then they figured out a way to turn into handsome men and beautiful women to seduce the human race, have sex with them, and steal the human essence at the most embarrassing moment. In this way, You can get the most essential things when you come, and because the human race handed them over willingly, you don’t have to bear the debt of karma..."

Gu Shiyi smiled and said,

"That's why there are so many fairies and monsters who like to seduce humans, and these beasts have no ethics or even distinction between men and women. When they meet a man, they turn into women, and when they meet a woman, they turn into men. Anyway, the main theme is a lie! "

Li Yaner twisted her mouth,
"So...this rat spirit...is male?"

Gu Shiyi nodded with a strange expression.
"Um……"

In the world, nine out of ten people who travel long distances are men, so this rat spirit welcomes men, plus men on top of men, and is suitable for both men and women?
Gu Shiyi winked at her, with an expression that said, "Just know it, don't tell me." The king on the other side remained silent. The two of them laughed strangely for a long time before they realized that the king was acting strangely.

"Your Majesty?"

Gu Shiyi pulled at the top of the tree with his fingers.

"what happened to you?"

The king did not speak, and sighed quietly,

"You humans are really favored by heaven and earth. You are born with intelligence, hands and feet. You can go wherever you want, do whatever you want..."

After speaking, he stretched out a twig and pointed at the carriage beside him.
"I'm afraid this old sandalwood is older than me, so it was cut down by you to make a car. Fortunately, I have opened the spiritual wisdom. If it is still as chaotic as before, there is no chance that it will be found by the people who go into the mountains to look for wood. , will also end up like this!"

The king's temperament is a bit overbearing and carefree, but it is rare to feel sentimental today, so Gu Shiyi kindly persuaded it,

"What's good about being a human race is that you can live for thousands of years. Although the human race is born with spiritual wisdom, cultivators can only live for a thousand years at most and have to go through countless hardships and sufferings. The average person can only live for a hundred years, and every day You have to work hard for a living, just like flies and dogs, it's like you were born and raised by nature, you don't have to worry about food and drink, even if there are wind, rain, thunder and lightning, you are much more comfortable than the human race!"

At least you don't have to run around for life, and you don't have the obsession with love. You won't be sad or sad. Chaos may not be a bad thing!
When she said this, the king thought about it and nodded, saying,
"What you said is quite right!"

After he figured it out, he immediately became energetic again, twisted his body and said,
"It was unlucky and was cut down by someone. For someone like me, once spiritual wisdom is awakened, it will have a lifespan of tens of millions of years. In the future, it is impossible to say that it will grow into the number one sacred tree in this world, and its lifespan will be as long as the sky!" "

Gu Shiyi and Li Yaner immediately nodded, cupped their hands and said,
"Yes, yes, your Majesty is wise!"

They chatted and laughed, and drove the carriage straight to Xuancheng along the road, leaving the rolling green mountains behind. However, they did not know that there were five escaping lights searching around in the mountains at this time.

And the mouse spirit, who was admiring the decoration style of his ancient tomb style in his own hall, suddenly felt something. He raised his head to the sky, sniffed randomly, turned his head and squeaked several times at the densely packed holes on the mountain wall. , in the hazy night pearl light, several mountain rats as big as dogs rushed out in response, straightened up like humans, stood up on their hind legs, and held their two front paws together like humans. After raising his head, the mouse spirit ordered,

"Let the children go out and see who is coming to the mountains!"

"squeak!"

The big rats took the order and left, but soon came back to revive themselves.
"Squeak..."

The rat spirit frowned and ordered,

"Even cultivators are not something we can mess with. Let the children hide them and don't let anyone catch them!"

"squeak!"

The big mice ran away, and the mouse spirit looked overhead again and murmured,

"I still feel frightened, so it's better to hide it!"

Having said that, he looked at the stone coffin beside him. Why would you put this coffin in your lair like a rat? It is naturally because of its unusual aesthetics, and there is also a secret talisman from ancient times engraved on this coffin. , which can isolate spiritual consciousness from detection.

The rat spirit relied on it to avoid being tracked by many natural enemies of the same level. Without further ado, it twisted its body and turned into a small gray mouse and got into the hole in the corner of the coffin, leaving only a naked body. The scholar's Confucian shirt fell to the ground...

And above the top of the mountain range where it is located, five rays of escape light converged together, and someone cursed viciously,

"It's all your fault, Old Five, but they are just a few mortals. Why do you care about them? You killed people and attracted the Qingling Guards. We didn't dare to search here. Now we don't know who has escaped." Where has it gone!"

The three Qingling Guards are all in the Foundation Establishment Stage, and the leader among them has reached the Great Perfection in the Middle Stage of Foundation Establishment. Killing five of them would be like squeezing ants to death. If the leader wasn't in the back of the town, , Brother saw the opportunity quickly, they were about to be caught, and whether they could complete the mission assigned by the sect leader, I was afraid that they would also end up dead!
It makes me angry!Someone responded,
"Third brother, you can't blame me. A few mortals dare to use wine mixed with water to trick the fifth master. Who else will they kill if they don't!"

"We came out here to do business. We asked you to do this and attract the people from Qingling Guard. It's fine now. If you don't get it done, the sect master will definitely punish you if you go back!"

"I……"

The man named Lao Wu wanted to reply, but a low and hoarse voice next to him shouted,

"Okay, you two don't waste time here. Before the people from Qingling Guard come after you, use your spiritual consciousness to scan the mountain again. If you still haven't found anyone, we will use some of the mountains here. Ask the wild monster!"

This person must be the leader of these people. As soon as he spoke, the two of them immediately stopped arguing. The five rays of escaping light dispersed and flew in all directions. After an hour, they converged in one place, "Brother, could not find it……"

"could not find it……"

"Well... I just found a ten-thousand-year-old turtle spirit in the valley here..."

There was a faint sound of conversation in the escaping light. After about half an hour, the five escaping lights merged into one and flew away quickly. After another half hour, three escaping lights appeared, one in front and two behind. Flying over, with a sweep of his consciousness, he saw the old turtle spirit who was thrown on the top of the mountain and whose soul had been searched. The leader's escape light flashed and fell on the rocks, revealing the figure of the man with a gentle smile. He came over and touched the half-dead old turtle with his toes.

"My soul was searched. It seems that they are chasing in this direction..."

They also found the mountain spirits here and searched for their souls. It seems that they are still looking for the whereabouts of the old Taoist priest and his apprentice!

Who is the old Taoist priest who made Yin Sha Sect travel so far to look for him?
Before he finished speaking, there was a flash of white light, and the person disappeared, leaving only the dying old turtle with its weak belly pointing to the sky, its head hanging out of the turtle shell, and it looked like it could no longer survive!
"squeak……"

After they were out of sight, two huge mountain rats crawled out from the hole under the rock. They looked around for a long time to make sure that the human monks would never come back. Then they went over and took the old turtle one after another. Pushed towards the cave entrance...

Not to mention how the rat spirit tried to save the old turtle spirit, but Gu Shiyi, who was unaware, was already approaching Xuancheng. There were people coming and going on the road to Xuancheng, and the road was crowded. The carriage slowed down. On the way, Gu Shiyi stopped in a small village and bought some homespun cloth woven by the village women. He spent five copper coins and spent another two copper coins to rearrange the carriage.

Now, from a distance, this carriage looks like an ordinary carriage. When you get closer, you can at least feel that the carriage is made of real materials and is very solid. No one can doubt its extraordinary origin.

Gu Shiyi drove the car and got caught in the flow of people entering the city, moving little by little with three stops. Xuancheng is a medium-sized city in the north of the country of Yue. This city is located near a large river, with convenient water transportation and prosperous trade. Therefore, various places Businessmen would stop and stay here, and the population flowed very frequently. As she drove her car and dressed in coarse clothes, she looked like a small businessman who came to the city to purchase goods, and she was not noticeable at all.

Because there were too many people entering the city, the city gate officials wanted to question them one by one. It was already half an hour later when it was Gu Shiyi's turn.

"Where did it come from?"

The city gate official acted according to the rules and asked someone to lift the curtain of the car to check. Gu Shiyi responded,

"Coming from Qingshan Town..."

"What are you doing here?"

"Come and get some goods..."

"What kind of goods are coming in?"

"This one……"

Gu Shi rolled his eyes,
"My lord, I am a wine seller. I heard that the wine from the Wang Family in Xuancheng is good, so I would like to buy some and sell it back..."

The city gate officer nodded and looked at the official certificate handed over by Gu Shiyi.
"go in!"

"Thank you, sir!"

Gu Shiyi smiled and thanked her, and drove in. She drove around the city in a hurry. After asking about all the inns in the city, she finally found one that was remote and cheap. Yes, even if she was like this, she still wanted fifty coppers a night. Gu Shiyi was in great pain. He entered the room, closed the door, and counted the coins in front of Li Yaner and the king.
"Look, I've only been out for a few days, and I've lost one ingot of silver. There's still a long way to go, so I'll have to save more in the future!"

There are carriages on the left and right, so we won’t go into the city from now on and spend the night in the wild!

Li Yaner asked her,
"Not to mention that you can make money by catching ghosts and subduing demons. I think Xuancheng is not too small. Why don't you look here for anyone who needs to catch ghosts and subjugate demons?"

In her previous life, this Xuancheng could be considered a remote town on the [-]th line. There were two or three commercial streets in the busiest area, and there were residential areas nearby. It was much larger than the previous two small towns. The density of population is the highest she has ever seen in this world.

Gu Shiyi thought for a while and shook his head.

"No, you can't catch ghosts in a place like this..."

"why?"

"Although there is a lot of business here, the income may not be huge, and the daily expenses are too high. Maybe after a few days, we will be unable to make ends meet, and we will have to pay compensation if we don't make any money!"

A wandering Taoist like her is just like a wandering doctor. Rich people don't look down on her at all, and they can't trust her. Most people can't afford the money, and they may not be able to earn a day's expenses for a trip. It's really not cost-effective!

She told Li Yaner the calculation, and Li Yaner nodded.
"Eleven is right, then we will leave the city tomorrow?"

Gu Shi nodded,

"Yes, let's buy some dry food in the city today, and then leave the city tomorrow!"

Normally, there were waterways in Xuancheng, so taking a boat would be fast and stable, but she had no money, and it was difficult to do work by boat, so she drove the car and looked for wealthy households in nearby towns. The squire asked, "Rich people do a lot of bad things, so they always have something to do!"
(End of this chapter)