Ink panel: Hunting the sun and surveying the sky from the bow

Hearing this roar, Shen Qing and Tian Xiaohu looked at each other.

Shen Qing, who has been dealing with various wild beasts in the mountains all year round, recognized that this was clearly the roar of a fierce tiger.

A tiger appears in the Shicheng Mountain?

"Let's go out and take a look."

Shen Qing led Tian Xiaohu out of the house, looked in the direction of the roar of the beast behind the mountain, and was stunned.

I saw a big hole poked out of the thick dark clouds in the sky of Shicheng Mountain.

From a distance, it looks like a powerful immortal Buddha has dropped a huge boulder in the sky.

The blue sky and sunlight pouring down from the hole looked extremely amazing.

Such a spectacle caused other people in the village to run out of their homes.

Everyone was whispering to each other, and the scene seemed a bit noisy.

Shen Qing knew that there were tigers and blind men in Shicheng Mountain, but they were very rare.

However, he had never seen a tiger roaring like this.

"I remember there are still people hunting in the mountains, right?" Shen Qing turned to look at Tian Xiaohu and asked.

It's already the beginning of spring, but the tax collectors in the city haven't come yet, so the villagers naturally don't care about spring bans or not.

Everyone wants to take advantage of the last window to make a fortune.

Tian Xiaohu said without raising his head: "We are all here. Now the harvest of each household is not very good, and now they are all going into the mountains to hunt with all their lives."

"Well, then you can ask them what's going on in the mountains."

"Um."

Just as he was talking, there was a burst of movement from the entrance of the village, and it seemed that many people were rushing towards the village as if they were desperate for their lives.

"It's just a trick, they're back!"

Someone exclaimed, drawing everyone's attention.

Shen Qing looked over after hearing the sound and saw Zhang Baoqing rushing into the village in panic with many hunting tigers.

Everyone was in shock, as if they had seen a ghost.

Shen Qing stepped forward to stop Zhang Baoqing, grabbed his shoulders, shook his head and asked, "Zhang Baozi, what's going on on the mountain? Why are you running away one by one?"

Zhang Baoqing's face was full of fear, and his whole body was trembling. He said in a trembling voice: "Monster... tiger!"

Shen Qing frowned and said: "A tiger is a tiger, what kind of demon tiger is it?"

"We...we...saw that tiger speak...human words!"

"ah?!"

As soon as these words came out, everyone in Hongshan Village was shocked.

Exclamations came and went.

"In my whole life...I have never...never seen such a weird thing..."

Shen Qing doubted: "Did you see it wrong?"

"I wasn't the only one who saw this, but everyone heard it. Chen Dacong was swept away by a gust of evil wind." Zhang Baoqing said with an extremely positive tone.

Shen Qing stopped talking.

Zhang Baoqing's character is obvious to all in their village and he will not talk nonsense.

There is really a demon tiger in Shicheng Mountain.

Shen Qing immediately said: "Zhang Bantou, we don't know what is happening in the mountains now. You should calm down first. Tonight, we will arrange people to divide the men over twelve years old into groups of old and young, and each of them will get a gong. , patrolling the outskirts of the village."

"Let's take a look first. I'll go to the city to find someone from the Yamen tomorrow and the day after tomorrow." Shen Qing said in a very organized manner.

His calm look made Zhang Baoqing seem to have found his backbone, and he quickly calmed down and hurriedly went to make arrangements.

Shen Qing and the other hunters in Hongshan Village have at most heard of the spiritual foxes in the mountains for generations, but they have never heard of the rumors of demons in this world.

For a time, people were panicked.

The entire village was enveloped in an atmosphere of sadness and impending disaster. Every hunter living in Hongshan Village was pushed up by bursts of tension. At night, every household put hunting bows and daggers under their pillows.

Be prepared for possible changes at any time.

At night, Shen Qing lay on the bed and did not fall asleep.

He kept thinking about the demon tiger.

At this moment, he felt that a mysterious corner of the world that he knew little about in the past seemed to be vaguely revealed to him.

A night of silence.

By early morning, Shen Qing had woken up early.

The eldest sister Shen Fang prepared breakfast for him as usual, with no trace of emotion on her face.

Shen Qing took willow branches and green salt, brushed her teeth, washed her face with hot water, put on a thick cotton coat and walked towards Zhang Shuyuan's house.

Tuk-tuk-tuk.

Knocking lightly on the door, Shen Qing said, "Sir, are you at home? I have something to ask."

"Come in."

Zhang Shuyuan's lazy voice came from the room.

Shen Qing walked in without much thought. Seeing that Zhang Shuyuan's whole body was still huddled in the quilt, when he saw Shen Qing come in, he straightened up half of his body with difficulty.

"Did you come here early in the morning to deal with the demon tiger yesterday?"

"I can't hide it from sir, it's because of this." Shen Qing didn't mince words and asked directly: "I want to ask sir, are there monsters in this world?"

"Demon? How is it possible? I really think I have read too many story books. Anyway, I have grown up and read so many books, but I have never heard of demons appearing anywhere." Zhang Shuyuan shook his head and said.

"If you really want to be more serious, you can find some fragments of stories about demons in ancient times, but those times were so long ago that some of them are not credible."

Shen Qing had reservations about Zhang Shuyuan's words.

Zhang Baoqing and the others had seen it with their own eyes, so the demon tiger who spoke could not be fake.

"If there are no demons, then are there immortals?" Shen Qing continued to ask.

"Yes, but there has been one since the founding of the Great Zhou Dynasty."

"Who?"

"The founding emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the ancestor of the Ji family who is now 900 years old."

"He's still alive?" Shen Qing was surprised. He never thought that there would be someone alive until now.

"Don't act like you haven't seen the world. This matter is well known to us scholars. The founding emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty became an immortal through martial arts and lived a second life. He is the only martial immortal in the world."

"But because it involves royal ethics, it has been kept secret and hidden from you ordinary people. Otherwise, why do you think the Ji family can rule the world for 900 years and still stand tall?"

Zhang Shuyuan's words made Shen Qing's scalp numb.

He didn't remember the rest very clearly. The only thing he remembered was that he became an immortal through martial arts.

There are really immortals in this world.

He had always been ignorant before.

Shen Qing continued to ask some other trivial details, and asked: "Sir, do you have any historical and cultural records about this world? I want to take some to see."

"You haven't recognized all the characters yet, and you won't understand even if I tell you."

Shen Qing heard this and stepped forward silently, tapped three silver beans on the table and placed them on the table.

The sound of the silver beans one by one was very pleasant.

Zhang Shuyuan, who was lying on the bed, sighed slowly and walked out of the warm quilt.

Then in front of Shen Qing, he took out two books from the bookshelf and handed them to Shen Qing, saying: "You read them first, and ask me if you don't understand."

Shen Qing clasped his fists and said goodbye: "Sorry to bother you, goodbye."

"What can you read if you don't recognize all the characters. Forget it, the old man said that there is no distinction between the teachings, so it won't hurt to let him read more books."

Zhang Shuyuan wiped the silver beans, put them in his arms, and huddled back into the quilt.