Liaozhai Great Sage

Chapter 237 Decoy
At this moment Xia Houwu came running out of breath, still in shock, completely in a state of distress, even his shirt was gone.

"Brother Xiahou, running around without clothes in the middle of the night is indecent and shameful. If you were in the city, you would be arrested and put in prison." Yan Chixia Laughed drunkenly.

"There are monsters and ghosts here. I met them all just now, and almost died in the hands of monsters." Xia Houwu immediately walked in and said.

Sure enough~!

Li Xiuyuan's heart trembled, he had guessed that Xia Houwu would encounter a monster before, it seemed that things were really as he imagined.

"Thanks to your horse for saving me just now, otherwise I would have died just now. I don't thank you for your great kindness, but there will be great rewards in the future." Xia Houwu calmed down, and bowed his hands gratefully to Li Xiuyuan.

Li Xiuyuan said: "It's just a little effort, I believe any kind person will help."

Seeing his generosity, Xia Houwu immediately said with shame on his face: "Not only are you better than me in martial arts, but you also admire your friendship. I regret that I didn't listen to your suggestion to stay in Lanruo Temple."

"Since the matter has passed, there is no need to mention it again. I came here to kill the monsters here. Brother Xia Hou encountered a monster just now. I don't know what happened. Can you tell me?" Li Xiuyuan said.

"I'm ashamed to say that I'm not sure enough, I'm not strong enough to be confused by the female ghost, and I almost lost my life." Although Xia Houwu couldn't say anything about what happened before, he still said it in detail.

Yan Chixia next to her hiccupped: "So, not only is there a female ghost here, but there might also be a tree demon?"

"They are a group, I think there should be other ghosts here." Xia Houwu said.

"That's just right. Since there is a nest of ghosts and monsters, let's catch them all and leave none behind." Yan Chixia stood up, took the sword and said, "I've had enough wine, let's go, scholar, let's get rid of the demons."

After finishing speaking, he walked out unsteadily.

Li Xiuyuan said: "If you go out like this, the ghosts will run away in fright. We have been drinking for several hours now, and we can see ghosts appearing? I think the ghosts are afraid of you and have already hidden."

"Then I'll find him." Yan Chixia said, before disappearing into the night.

Li Xiuyuan shook his head, but did not try to stop it. Anyway, with Yan Chixia's skills, it is impossible for the tree demon to take him down in a short time.

"I wanted to sit back and wait for the tree demon to come to me, but now it seems that I have to change my method and ask Yan Chixia to drive the tree demon out."

Xiahou Wu said, "That ghost almost killed me and made a deep hatred with me. I will also go to find that monster, and I will definitely kill it with a sword."

Stimulated by Yan Chixia, he didn't want to be outdone, took the sword and wanted to leave.

Li Xiuyuan called him: "Brother Xiahou, wait a moment, Yan Chixia is going to find monsters because he has the means to deal with monsters, so monsters are afraid of him. Although you have extraordinary martial arts skills, you have no means to deal with monsters. If you go there rashly, you will definitely encounter danger.”

"That monster isn't very powerful. I cut off a lot of its roots when I killed it just now. If it was really powerful, I wouldn't be able to escape." Xia Houwu said.

Li Xiuyuan shook his head and said: "You can't say that, the antelope is threatened and turns around, and even the tiger will back away, but once the courage of the blood is gone, the antelope will still be eaten by the tiger. I guess the tree demon has already set its sights on you. You are regarded as prey, and it is impossible to let you go easily."

"If that's the case, then I'll fight that tree demon with all my might, and I'm not afraid of death." Xiahouwu said, still determined to find revenge on that tree demon.

Obviously, he was arrogant and unconvinced.

"Since Brother Xiahou is determined to deal with the tree demon, I can give you a way to exorcise ghosts and demons. I hope it can be helpful to you." Li Xiuyuan said.

"What way?"

"Give me your saber." Li Xiuyuan said.

Xia Houwu immediately handed the sword to Li Xiuyuan.

Li Xiuyuan took out a sharp sword, cut his finger lightly, wrote on the sword with his own blood, and wrote a few words: the sky is big and the earth is big, and the truth is the greatest.

"Okay, now this sword has become a sword of reason that can kill demons. If you encounter monsters and ghosts with this sword to reason with it, it must be very afraid."

"This can work," Xia Houwu said with a strange face.

"Of course, if you can keep your mind steady and not be tempted by ghosts, then there will be very few ghosts and ghosts who can stop you." Li Xiuyuan said.

Xia Houwu nodded and was about to leave.

At this time, another man's voice sounded outside the temple: "Help, help, is there anyone here? Someone come help me."

"The monster must have appeared. I will kill it to avenge my revenge."

Xia Houwu's eyes lit up when he heard the voice, and he rushed out immediately.

"The voice seems familiar."

However, Li Xiuyuan was a little curious in his heart, and followed him to have a look.

At this moment, outside the temple, a scholar ran towards Lanruo Temple in panic, holding three or four lanterns.Behind him, there were three or five wild wolves closely following him, howling constantly, and waiting for the scholar to run out of strength, they would swarm him and share the food with him.

"Ah~!"

When the scholar came to Lanruo Temple, he was stumbled by the steps of the mountain gate, and fell to the ground with a cry of surprise. Three or four lanterns were all extinguished immediately, and the surroundings suddenly became dark. Only the moonlight in the sky barely allowed him to see. See pairs of glowing green eyes in the dark night.

"Susu."

Seeing the opportunity, the hungry wolves behind him swarmed up, ready to prey on the scholar.

"Who is it, still wandering around in the wilderness in the middle of the night."

Just when the hungry wolf was about to pounce, a drunken loud voice rang out, but the gate of the temple was kicked open with a bang, and a burly bearded man came out with a sword in his hand.

"Wolf go away."

When Yan Chixia saw that the hungry wolf was about to eat people, she immediately pulled out her sword and threw it. As the sword flew out, she shot through the hungry wolf in front of her, and then rushed over to kill the other hungry wolves. Using his martial arts to deal with these hungry wolves is as easy as killing chickens and dogs.

However, before they could get close, the rest of the hungry wolves all slipped away seeing that the situation was not good.

"Bah, such a cowardly wolf thought it was a dog." Yan Chixia said unhappily seeing the wild wolf slipping away.

"You, a powerless scholar, what are you doing here so late? Leave quickly, this is not the place for you."

After sizing up the scholar, seeing that he was an ordinary person with no hands, Yan Chixia immediately told him to leave.

Although the attitude is bad, it is for his own good.

"Ning Caichen, Wansheng, thank you for this strong man's rescue. Wansheng just wants to stay in the temple for one night, and he will never disturb your temple. Please accommodate me." Ning Caichen hurriedly saluted.

"I am not the owner of this temple. All the monks in this temple have died. Now it is an empty temple, an abandoned temple. I also stayed here, but there are unclean things here. If you don't want to die, you should leave quickly. Yan Chixia took the sword, turned and left.

He is not a mother-in-law, and he doesn't like to persuade people.

"What is Yan Chixia talking about with this monster? How could someone be walking outside in the middle of the night? It must have been transformed into a ghost. Let me slash him with a sword and let him reveal his true colors." At this time, Xia Houwu heard the sound, Seeing the scholar Ning Caichen, he just regarded him as a ghost, and immediately drew his sword and stabbed Ning Caichen.

"Keng~!"

There was a collision sound, and Yan Chixia blocked the sword.

"Brother Xiahou, do you not distinguish between human beings and ghosts? This is an ordinary person. If you kill him, you will kill a good person by mistake." Yan Chixia said.

"What, he's human?" Xia Houwu asked in surprise.

"Of course it's a human being. He doesn't have a demonic or ghostly aura about him. He's not a human being." Yan Chixia said.

"He is indeed a human being, not a ghost or a monster, but a good friend of mine, his name is Ning Caichen, he is a child student, um, maybe he is already a scholar."

Li Xiuyuan came over, and his heart skipped a beat when he saw Ning Caichen.

It's too coincidental, all the characters are gathered together, and it's just a good show.

"Li, Mr. Li."

Ning Caichen was both surprised and happy when he saw Li Xiuyuan: "Mr. Li, why are you here? Didn't you go back to Guobei County?"

"I came here on purpose to kill monsters. Of course I'm here. If it's you, aren't you staying in Guo Beicheng? Why do you come here?" Li Xiuyuan said.

Ning Caichen said; "Xiaosheng was copying books in Jibaozhai before. This morning, the shopkeeper entrusted me to come to Guo Beicheng to collect the bill because his subordinates were out of control. It happened that there was something to tell Mr. Li, so Xiaosheng That’s why it’s dealt with.”

"What is it?" Li Xiuyuan asked.

"It's a matter of publishing the list. Because of the plague, the imperial court chose to release the list in Jinling City this time. The text of the list has already come down. Mr. Li probably doesn't know about it. Many scholars in the city have gone to Jinling City to read the list. " Ning Caichen said.

"So that's the case, I'm sorry you came here to let me know." Li Xiuyuan said gratefully.

Ning Caichen was a little flattered and said: "Just a word in passing, Mr. Li, you are being polite."

"Since he's not a monster, where is the real monster hiding?" Xia Houwu said a little irritable.

Yan Chixia said: "Who knows, there is a monster smell everywhere here, it must be the lair of monsters, the tree monster will appear sooner or later, just be patient and wait."

"Waiting like this is not an option. We need a bait to lure the tree demon to appear. This bait must be an ordinary person, so as not to arouse the vigilance of ghosts." Li Xiuyuan touched his chin and said.

bait?

Good idea~!

moment.

Xia Houwu, Yan Chixia, and Li Xiuyuan all looked at Ning Caichen in unison.

"??" Ning Caichen looked blank.

(End of this chapter)