I Can’t Be a Sword God

"Daozhang Yu..."

Wang Longqi looked at the old Taoist priest wanting to cry but without tears, "It's a critical point, let's stop playing ethics, shall we?"

"Hehe." Yu Qi'an smiled, "Sorry, professional habits."

Duranke on the side silently remembered this scene in his heart.

Thinking secretly, it seems that if you want to gain a foothold under the Deyun sect, you must intensify your efforts and master the traditional art of ethics.

Li Chu asked Wang Longqi to sit down, and asked, "What happened?"

"well--"

Wang Longqi let out a long sigh.

"If you want to talk about this matter, you still have to blame me. If I hadn't quarreled with my family and ran to Shenluo City, my father would not be unhappy. He ran to Tiannan Prefecture to collect medicine when he was unhappy. Who knew this trip , ran out of trouble."

Then, he began to speak slowly.

As mentioned earlier, the main business of the Wang family is to collect seafood from the East China Sea and ship them inland. There are many businesses, and the main business is a drug store.

In addition to the East China Sea, they sometimes go to Tiannan Prefecture to collect medicines. After all, the types of medicinal materials grown along the coast and inland are completely different.

Wang Longqi's father traveled all over the world when he was young, but now that he is old, he seldom goes to battle in person, but he can't be free, and he has to go out with his buddies from time to time.

When Wang Longqi was not at home a while ago, he followed others to Tiannan Prefecture to collect the medicine.

The territory of Tiannan Prefecture can be roughly divided into two parts, the vast southern land on the east side and the rugged wild mountains on the west side. Jiangnan Prefecture crosses Yindang Mountain, which is Southern Xinjiang.

The team they collected medicines this time consisted of three old shopkeepers who knew each other well, each with one or two assistants, and they also invited an experienced Daoist Cen from Hangzhou Mansion to escort them.

There may be dozens of such exchanges a year, and everyone is very familiar with it, so it is right to enjoy the mountains and rivers, which is very relaxing.

Because the harvest has been quite fruitful for several days in a row, and everyone is in a good mood, I walked to the west for two more days and went to a slightly unfamiliar village.

In that village, they saw a strange scene.

In a cemetery outside the village, there was a grave with a fresh earth color. In broad daylight, there were seven or eight wild dogs digging the grave!

Although everyone was passing by, they didn't stand by and watched, so they stepped forward to coax the wild dogs away. Those scrawny wild dogs all had fierce faces. If Cen Daochang hadn't shot one of them to death with his flying sword, they would probably still be unwilling to leave!

When everyone was wondering, Daoist Cen's expression suddenly changed.

It turned out that he saw a large area of ​​yellow sun grass growing around the new grave.

Several old shopkeepers of this kind of grass also recognize it. It often grows in places with abundant spiritual energy. It is a very cheap companion grass. I don't know why Cen is so shocked when he sees it.

He heard Daoist Cen frowned and said:

"People take medicine, and medicine eats people. Yin houses grow sun grass, and wild dogs dig new graves."

Wang Longqi's father didn't understand, so he asked: "You are full of jingles, do you want to be the number one scholar?"

Daoist Cen had no intention of joking, and told everyone that there has always been a legend in southern Xinjiang that "medicine eats people".

Since ancient times, people have taken medicine. But I don't know when, when some precious medicines grow their own spirituality, they will also want to eat people.

And people who have been eaten by these "medicines" will turn into something like "medicine dregs" after death, with a strange aroma, which is very attractive to mountain wild dogs. And where their corpses are buried, yellow sun grass will grow.

When these two characteristics appear, it is very likely that the conspiracy of "medicine eats people" has occurred.

They hurried to find the village head of the village, gathered a group of young and old in the village, and asked about the situation of the tomb.

After asking, I found out that the owner of the grave was Hei Zhu, a strong man. When he died a few days ago, the villagers were also very surprised. Because he was found in a bathtub when he died, his body was soaked in water, almost turned red and rotten, as if he had been boiled alive!

As for the murderer, it was suspected to be his new wife.

Yes, half a month ago, he, a poor man, married a beautiful young lady from nowhere. At that time, he was very secretive. He rented a small sedan chair at night and carried the bride home. He never took off the hijab from the beginning to the end.

The reason why he knew that the bride was beautiful was that among the people he invited to help carry the sedan chair, there was a second man who happened to catch a glimpse of the bride's face when the wind was blowing. open.

Everyone is still envious of Heizhu's beauty, but who knows that he died so tragically within a few days, and the bride whose origin is a mystery has disappeared.

After hearing this, Daoist Cen immediately understood that the so-called lady of Heizhu must be the legendary "medicine beauty"! That is, the human body transformed from the elixir in the mountains.

Their few words fixed the demon, and suddenly a skinny young man knelt down and shouted, "Prince Daoist, save me!"

It turned out that the young man was the second man, and the missing bride of Hei Zhu was hiding in his house.

It was that woman who killed Hei Zhu and went to Er Manzi's house. Said that Hei Zhu treated her badly, and often beat her when he was drunk, so she kept adding firewood to the drunk Hei Zhu while bathing him, and boiled him alive.

She was desperate, and said that as long as Er Manzi took her in, she would be willing to take him as her husband.

Er Laizi was also a poor bachelor, so he agreed as soon as he gritted his teeth. Two good days have passed, and today I learned that the woman is the incarnation of evil spirits, so I didn't dare to cover it up anymore.

Upon hearing this, Daoist Cen lifted Er Manzi's sleeve to take a look, and sure enough, he found a red mark on his wrist.

Everyone does not know.

Daoist Cen explained that in the past, it was the herb pickers who would tie a red string around the elixir with insufficient age, and when the elixir was ripe, they would come back to pick the elixir.

Later, when Yao Meiren wanted to harm someone, she would also plant a red thread on that person. This red line will gradually grow, and when it completely circles the wrist, it means that you are "mature" and can be picked.

This line can be said to be a mark or a curse.

And the red line on Er Manzi's wrist is only a hair away from being closed, as if his life is not long.

Immediately.

There was no need for the villagers to beg, Daoist Cen had the heart to ward off evil spirits and protect the way, so he followed Er Manzi with his sword, followed by all the villagers with sticks and pickaxes.

But this group of people rushed into the air aggressively.

Er Manzi's house is empty, and the woman has long since disappeared. Er Manzi feels like mourning for a while, even if his real daughter-in-law is lost, he may not be so sad.

That night, Daoist Cen stood guard outside Er Manzi's house with his sword, to see if he could wait for the evil spirit to come and kill him.

It was a peaceful night.

But when he knocked on the door again, he found that Er Manzi in the house had disappeared.

The villagers went out to search, and finally saw his body on the barren hill. His death was miserable, and his whole body was almost crushed by a heavy hammer. If it weren't for his clothes, it would be hard to recognize him.

Daoist Cen was helpless, he could only say that the evil spirit was powerful, and asked the villagers to ask for help.

They and a group of drug collectors went back home.

But who knows, before returning to Hangzhou Mansion, they discovered...

A red line appeared on the wrists of the three shopkeepers, several employees, including Daoist Cen!

The upright Daoist Cen was furious:

"This evil spirit has such a vicious heart. I couldn't wait to see injustice and act righteously. Before I saved that person, I was hated by it. Don't panic, I'll turn around and ask my brother to see how to subdue this man Evil."

This impassioned speech made the shopkeepers feel relieved.

Then Daoist Cen died the next day.

He died tragically in his own Taoist temple, his body was pitch-black and almost charred.

And his senior brother was obviously helpless about this.

The other people panicked at this moment, they reported to Chao Tianque, and spent a lot of money to invite experts everywhere, but in just a few days, not many people could be invited. When some cultivators heard about this, they said clearly that they could not control it. And some are paid to do things, sticking to the employer's side.

But the other two shopkeepers and their staff still died tragically one after another.

I can't hold it at all!

The red line on Wang Longqi's father's hand grew slowly, but it had already grown by nearly half in seven or eight days. If it continued like this, he probably wouldn't be able to survive another seven days.

These two days were a time of gloom in the mansion, when Wang Longqi heard that Li Chu had come back, he really seemed to have grasped at straws and rushed to ask for help.

...

After listening to him, the Taoist backyard fell silent for a while.

Li Chu looked directly at Yu Qi'an and asked, "Master, do you know the root of it?"

"This matter..."

The old Taoist twirled his beard.

"I know, I know, but to solve it, whether it is difficult or not, it is not easy to say. Xiao Wang, let me ask you..."

He raised his eyes to look at Wang Longqi, and asked very seriously: "Do you have a good relationship with your father?"

"..." Wang Longqi was speechless for a while: "No matter if the relationship is good or not, one must have a father..."

Yu Qi'an pondered again, then raised his eyes later: "Can you see me?"

"Please be a human being! Daoist Yu!"

Wang Longqi couldn't help shouting: "If you really have an idea to save my father, I really don't mind taking the thief as my father. If you don't have an idea, don't make fun of me here, okay?"

"Hi." Yu Qi'an waved his hand, "Isn't it to relieve the depressing atmosphere, can I have any ideas? You really underestimated me."

"Father." Wang Longqi said bluntly, "Then quickly save my father."

"Haha." Yu Qi'an smiled, and said leisurely: "If you want to solve the physical barrier, you still need to go to the southern border."