One thought of Acacia, one thought of perseverance

Chapter 37

When Zhuang Shaoqin went to Lijiaji, there were more and more people missing from Lijiaji, and the number was increasing. He was bold and skilled, so he went straight to Changgang Mountain.Changgang Mountain is quiet, and the wind is too loud, and the sound is sympathetic.

Zhuang Shaoqin opened his third eye, but only saw a light yellow halo.He took out a climbing rope and hooked it on a fir tree with the thickness of an adult's calf, and told his two disciples: "I'll go down and have a look, and be careful yourself."

Zhuang Haotian was a little worried: "Master, Yaxia's situation is unknown, so I'm afraid..."

Zhuang Shaoqin didn't listen to these, and was already testing the abyss on the right side of the mountain, Zhuang Haoyu was also a little eager to try: "Master, this disciple will go with you!"

Zhuang Shaoqin shook his head: "The two of you stay here, and I will notify you every half an hour to prove that you are safe. If not...cough, you two should go back to Qingxu Temple first, and know about Zhizong." What to say, Zhuang Shaoqin climbed down the rope, "Don't talk nonsense."

The vegetation was lush between the cliffs, and he walked down the cliff, keeping an eye on the movement around him.However, apart from the wind, there seemed to be no other changes.Half an hour later, he blew once, but the bottom of the cliff was still bottomless.He was proficient in Taoism, and immediately felt that there was an enchantment under the cliff, preventing outsiders from entering.

Could it be that some divine beast is really sealed?He was a little excited.Humanity has flourished in the prehistoric times, and the mythical beasts that ran rampant back then can only live in legends.If you are lucky to see it, it is a blessing in this life.

He walked half a circle along the edge of the cliff, but in the end, because the length of the climbing rope was not enough, he couldn't find the eye of the formation.He couldn't find out the depth of the barrier, so he really didn't dare to go down—there are many different ancient formations, and some formations even lead directly to the ruins. array.

But he was not willing to just go up like this. He turned around on the cliff and noticed that a corner in the northwest corner seemed to be weakening, and a white patch could be faintly seen in the thick fog.He took the thousand-mile detection hook from his waist, hung it down several times, and lifted it up to have a look. He saw some clear yellow mucus on the hook, like... like an egg.

He was quite puzzled, took the mucus and sniffed it, and then looked down, but he could only return in vain.

Last time, Ye Tian made a fuss about Liu's mansion because of Liu Ge's desire to marry his daughter to Rong Chenzi. Dare to offend.Ye Tian didn't bother him, so she went straight to Liu Qinfang.

Liu Qinfang looked as usual, but her skin became smooth and delicate, and her cheeks were pink and tender, like newly ripe red apples.She was just a little girl who hadn't grown up before, but now she suddenly became charming and charming like a spring breeze overnight.

Ye Tian frowned slightly, and ordered Qing Ling, a young Taoist who came with her, to check if there were any missing children nearby.Such an investigation is really incredible. In just four or five days, the babies of four families disappeared.

Ye Tian was also very courageous, and she was about to live with Liu Qinfang immediately, and told Liu Qinfang to go in with her from now on and never leave her.

Liu Qinfang was a little dazed, but with all the members of the Liu family in front of her, she could only nod her head in agreement.

However, the next day, news came from the Liu residence that Ye Tian was missing.At that time, Liu Qinfang was talking with her mother, Mrs. Liu, Ye Tian sprinkled some Tage stone powder around Liu's house, and ordered her servants to prepare hot water for bathing.

After half an hour, she still hadn't come out. Mr. Liu Ge sent people to urge her several times, but there was no movement.After an hour, Liu Ge panicked and ordered someone to knock open the door, and saw that the inside was neatly arranged, Ye Tian's change of clothes was hanging on the hanger, the water in the basin was already cold, but there was no trace of water on the nearby floor, the whole There was no trace of a fight in the room.

Ye Tian's background is not small, and there is a national senior brother backing him behind, Liu Ge doesn't want to cause this trouble, so he immediately notified Rong Chenzi and Zhuang Shaoqin.

The three of Rong Chenzi and his family grew up together, and they have always been brothers and sisters. Now that Ye Tian is missing, not to mention Rong Chenzi, even Zhuang Shaoqin's face has changed.

Zhuang Shaoqin arrived at Liu's residence within two hours of receiving the news. Although Rong Chenzi was seriously injured, but his junior sister was at fault, he was so anxious, how could he rest?He forced himself to get up, but the injury was so serious that he started coughing up blood that day.

The Qingxu Temple was in a state of turmoil. When Zhuang Shaoqian heard that Mr. Liu Ge had sent a letter to Rong Chenzi, his face turned pale immediately, and he sent a message back to the Qingxu Temple. Dao Yetian just left for a while, but now he has been found. This appeases Rong Chenzi.

The Liu family was in a hurry, Zhuang Shaoqin knew the seriousness of the situation, so without further delay, he immediately notified the real person in Jiuding Palace, and told him everything about it.Master Xingzhi was also secretly surprised when he heard that even Ye Tian had followed the Tao without a sound, so he immediately picked a group of capable disciples and rushed to them together.

Seeing that so many great figures from the Taoist sect had come, Mr. Liu Ge finally felt relieved.Fortunately, Liu's mansion had ample space, so he placed all Taoist priests in Chunhui Garden.

Liu Qinfang behaved as usual, but her skin was more radiant and moist, and her whole body was radiant.

Zhuang Shaoqin felt her pulse, but nothing unusual could be seen.He was more anxious than the real person Xingzhi—Rong Chenzi had a delicate mind, and sooner or later he would know about Ye Tian's disappearance.He was seriously injured, if he worried too much, he might hurt his body even more.

That night, Zhenren Xingzhi secretly sent disciples to lurk in homes with babies, and sent another group of people to ask the parents of the lost children again to see if they could find any clues.

The successive incidents of missing babies caused the entire Lingxia Town to close its doors before it was dark.Gradually, rumors began to spread everywhere, some said that monsters cannibalized people, some said that the dead were resurrected, and there were many versions.So the streets were empty.

The Liu family was also very quiet. What really worried Mr. Liu was... his second son's concubine was about to give birth.

The night in early November was already a bit chilly. There was an ancient well in the backyard of Chunhui Hall, and there was an old apricot tree beside the well.Now Zhuang Shaoqin is standing under the apricot tree, with blue clothes and black hair, tall and straight.The autumn wind rolled up the yellow leaves behind him, making the whole courtyard look a bit bleak.When Liu Qinfang walked over, her expression was disturbed, and after a long time, she asked eagerly: "National Teacher... You asked the little girl here, what's the matter?"

Zhuang Shaoqin's expression was calm: "It's fine, I just want to ask if these successive incidents have anything to do with you."

Liu Qinfang showed a surprised expression: "Unexpectedly, the national teacher thinks the same way, but I am a little girl, what can I do by stealing a baby who is not yet a month old?"

Zhuang Shaoqin took out a short knife from his boots, and he wiped the blade leisurely, his expression indifferent: "Actually, it's very easy to prove your innocence. There was also a three-eyed snake pretending to be a senior brother in Qingxu Temple, but according to According to my nephew Pindao, the human body is the body of a snake." He looked at Liu Qinfang with a sharp expression, "I only need to cut open your body to know whether you are a human or a snake!!"

Liu Qinfang's expression changed drastically: "But if I cut my body apart, how can I survive?"

Zhuang Shaoqin sneered: "That's not something I should care about."

His eyes were gloomy, and Liu Qinfang retreated step by step: "You monks are supposed to rescue the suffering, how can you kill innocent people indiscriminately?"

Zhuang Shaoqin sneered: "Killing a hundred can save a thousand, why not save the suffering?"

Liu Qinfang didn't guard against him, his eyes were cloudy and cloudy, but Zhuang Shaoqin didn't say any more, and rushed forward, swinging the knife to cut her heart.Liu Qinfang flew back and jumped, and that movement was not at all agility of a human being.Zhuang Shaoqin snorted coldly: "How dare you say it's not you!"

His subordinates were merciless, and immediately fought with Liu Qinfang.Liu Qinfang seemed eager to get away, and just backed away blindly.Zhuang Shaoqin stabbed her in the back with a knife, bleeding half of her body.She ran desperately to the outside of Chunhui Hall, calling for help while running.

Zhuang Shaoqin jumped up suddenly, grabbed her ankle, and with a flash of the knife in his hand, he chopped off one of her feet.Liu Qinfang wailed, and suddenly turned around flexibly, as if there was no bone in her waist.The anger in her eyes burned like a fire.Furious, she suddenly opened her small cherry mouth, her tender and smooth skin was torn, and bloody cracks appeared on the whole skin.

Mr. Liu Ge and the others ran over when they heard her cry for help. Seeing this scene, their feet went limp and they sat on the ground and couldn't move for a long time.Without further hesitation, Zhuang Shaoqin chopped down the waist with the short knife in his hand, only to see the man's body lying on the ground, blood and flesh splattered everywhere.

A three-eyed snake with green ink patterns and the thickness of an adult's wrist slowly unfolded among the flesh and blood on the ground. It had two-inch-long white horns on its head. The three-eyed snake that Qingxu Guan pretended to be Rong Chenzi was much taller.

The dark eye in the middle of it slowly opened, and Zhuang Shaoqin yelled badly: "Everyone, don't look into its eyes!"

However, how could a mortal react faster than this foreign object? A servant around him snorted softly, and his soul had already been sucked away by it.Old Liu Ge and the others reacted, quickly covered their eyes and dared not look at it, their legs were shaking like sifting chaff, and some timid ones had already peed on their pants.

There were obviously dozens of people around, but now it was dead silent.

Zhuang Shaoqin's palms were covered with cold sweat. He drew spells to suppress demons, drive away ghosts, and subdue demons, but none of them worked.The thing swam under the courtyard wall in the blink of an eye.In desperation, Zhuang Shaoqin smashed a ball of talisman fire over, the dark eyes in the middle of the three-eyed snake stared at him suddenly, and when his mind froze, he jumped out of the courtyard wall.

Zhuang Shaoqin bit the tip of his tongue, chased after him, and then slashed at the tail of the snake.His waist knife is made of cold iron, which can cut gold and jade.But with such a violent slash, only a few thin scales were lifted from the snake's body.Zhuang Shaoqin was startled, the snake's tail swung around his waist.

The tail of the snake tightened more and more, even though it was only thick at the wrist, it almost strangled Zhuang Shaoqin's waist.Zhuang Shaoqin swung his sword and slashed several times, the snake's body finally broke a little bit and began to ooze blood.Zhuang Shaoqin felt unspeakably frightened - since he debuted, he has hardly met an opponent.In my life, I have only cultivated the Tao to be profound, but who knows that there are all kinds of wonders in the world.

Seeing that he was struggling, suddenly there was an angry shout from outside, and a flying sword slammed into the snake's head. The three-eyed snake was frightened, and suddenly threw away Zhuang Shaoqin. It jumped more than two feet, and quickly disappeared into the grass inside.

The real person from outside the courtyard rushed in, and this Taoist master who was equally dignified and dignified was still in shock: "Is it really that monster snake that uses a human body as an egg?"

Zhuang Shaoqin wiped the sweat from his forehead: "Well, and it should be much stronger than the last one. It doesn't devour the body, but it can absorb the soul."

Old Liu Ge still had weak legs, sitting on the ground unable to get up, Xingzhi Zhenren looked at the house slave who fell to the ground, and found that his body was not injured, but his soul had already left his body, and now he had no breath.

He raised his head and looked at Zhuang Shaoqin, both of them understood that maybe a catastrophe was imminent.

"Its skin is so tough that even my Zangxing knife can't break it, and ordinary weapons can't hurt it at all." Zhuang Shaoqin panted, "We know almost nothing about these things now, don't know How it reproduces, let alone how to distinguish whether they are humans or snakes, once this thing spreads, the consequences will be disastrous."

Daoist Xingzhi frowned into pussy folds: "Master, I know that you don't want to disturb fellow Taoist Rong Chenzi, but it's urgent, you and I have no choice."

Zhuang Shaoqin pondered: "I'm afraid even if you tell my senior brother, it won't help the matter,"

It was Zhuang Haotian beside him who suddenly interjected: "Master, the last time the brothers met the three-eyed snake, it is said that the clam spirit only took two arrows to deal with it. I think maybe not every snake is like the one we encountered. Is it that powerful?"

Zhuang Shaoqin's eyes lit up, and he said to himself: "Yes, how could I have forgotten that river clam beauty..." He licked his lips, "It's just the current situation, how can I get her to take action?"

"Master, this disciple thinks that this matter is actually very simple. The reason why the mussel approached Master was only for the sake of immortal flesh. If..."

The corners of Zhuang Shaoqin's lips raised slightly, and he reached out and patted his disciple's shoulder: "Well said."

The next day, a letter was delivered to Haihuang Palace, with more than [-] words eloquently written by Zhuang Shaoqin, full of emotion and literary talent.Unfortunately, as soon as the letter was handed out, there was no news.Zhuang Shaoqin felt that He Mu must not trust Daozong, so Yu Jian had to rush back to Qingxu Temple to discuss with Rong Chenzi.

When Rong Chenzi heard the news about He Mu, he remained silent for a long time. Zhuang Shaoqin recalled the content of his letter, but felt that there was nothing wrong with it, so he couldn't help asking cautiously: "Senior brother, you see she hasn't heard back for a long time... because of three Is Cobra really a loser, or is it because she still doesn't trust Daozong?"

Rong Chenzi only glanced at his draft, remained silent, and it was Qing Xuan who explained the mystery with one word.He said cautiously: "Uncle...Nephew thinks...it might be because...your letter is full of classical Chinese, she can't understand..."

(End of this chapter)