I Can’t Be a Sword God

Southern Xinjiang ancestral training, don't go out after dark.

Tietou obeyed obediently.

no way.

Southern Xinjiang has been a land of demons and evil spirits since ancient times, witches, savages, and all kinds of weird things... It has never been cut off from ancient times to the present.

And because of the power struggle between the court and the aristocratic family, the Heluo court has very little control over this land, and Chaotianque does not have much sense of presence here.

In addition, most of the land is barren, there are few cities, and the land is sparsely populated.

Therefore, people living in this land have long developed a cautious living habit, such as not walking at night, not taking risks, etc., which is nothing more than a word.

Gou.

It's a pity, it's not shabby.

But Tietou didn't expect that something would come to him when he was honestly sleeping at home...

Tuk tuk.

The hasty knock on the door sounded again.

The sound of the wind outside the window, the swaying of branches, the roar of beasts in the distant mountains...but none of them can cover up this small sound.

Tie Tou huddled his whole body under the blanket, not even daring to expose his toes, he only propped up a small gap, and looked at the door with a pair of eyes, trembling.

There has been a knock on the door for a while.

But no one in the village would visit other people's homes at night, even if there was an urgent matter, they would have to make a noise, right?

Although Tietou was a strong man with a height of eight feet, he was extremely timid. He was afraid that if he made a sound, he would reveal that there was someone in the room, so he just waited quietly.

And the things outside seemed to be very patient, just knocking on the door without saying a word.

Tuk tuk.

Tuk tuk.

It rang for about half an hour before it stopped.

Tietou breathed a sigh of relief, it seemed that his patience had won.

Before his heart dropped from his throat, he suddenly heard a fierce "bang bang bang"!

The things outside have been changed to hitting the door with your body!

The small broken door of Tietou's house immediately creaked and wailed.

my door!

Tietou's heart ached for a while, and he couldn't help shouting: "Who are you?"

There was a sudden silence again.

After a while, an extremely hoarse and deep voice answered.

"I am your father..."

"I'm your grandfather!" Tietou was furious.

The clay figurine is still angry. I respect you as an evil spirit, so I am polite to you. Why are you still cursing?

"Iron-headed boy..." the voice sounded again, "I am really your father..."

Eh?

Iron head froze for a moment.

Although the voice was a little muffled, but if you listen carefully, it seems to be a bit like your father's voice. Especially the affectionate title of "Iron Head Baby", only my father would call him that.

Hearing that it was her own father outside, Tietouwa was... even more afraid.

"Father..." he asked tremblingly, "Don't scare me, I personally buried you three months ago."

There was another silence outside.

It seems that the "father" outside is not very smart, Tietou thought, although his father's brain was not very good before, but it is not necessary to think for so long to say a word.

After a while, there was another dull answer from outside: "Father misses you..."

"My mother..."

Tietou grinned, almost didn't cry, and didn't know whether it was because of fear or emotion.

After hearing it from outside, another voice came: "Tietouba, are you missing your mother? How about I..."

"No, no, no!" Tietou hurriedly shouted: "No, I miss you two too, but it's late at night...I will go to your grave tomorrow morning to see you and burn paper for you. Tonight...how about your old Let's go back and rest first?"

"Father is worried about you..." The outside said again: "Have you married a wife yet?"

Iron head had a headache.

Good guy, it's almost the Chinese New Year, you keep crawling out just to get married?

Not to mention anything else, you have only been away for three months, if I marry a wife here, are you happy or unhappy?

He couldn't help pleading: "Father, I just finished your white affairs, how can I have the time to do my red affairs... Isn't that how good things come in pairs?"

This time there was no sound coming back, and after waiting for a while, Tietou tried to call again: "Father?"

no respond.

Appears to be gone.

"call--"

Tietou let out a sigh of relief.

After he calmed down, he remembered all the benefits of his father before he was alive, and even after his death, he still missed himself.

But he didn't even dare to open the door to look at him.

Always asking him for money but never saying thank you to him, I didn't understand his difficulty until I grew up...

The eye sockets were involuntarily moistened.

He gritted his teeth secretly, thinking that if his father came back again, he would open the door and hug him no matter what he said.

Otherwise, you are ashamed to be the Son of Man!

Then I heard another sound outside the door... Tuk Tuk.

Tietou's shoulders trembled, and he immediately retracted into the quilt, forgetting all the warmth just now.

He wailed, "Father, what's the matter?"

immediately.

A young man's voice was heard outside the door.

"Huh?" The voice said in surprise, "Are people in southern Xinjiang so polite?"

Then there was another voice that was a little bit more vicissitudes: "The wind is different for ten miles in the south, and the customs are different for five miles. If you want to come to some rural areas, you will pay attention to calling strangers father?"

"That's really polite."

"So what should we call people?"

"When you come to the country, do as the Romans do."

"Then Seventh Young Master, you come first..."

"Good guy, why don't you come first, Old Du?"

"Seventh Young Master, you have many fathers, so it's not bad for one or two."

"What's this called?"

"Why don't you overwhelm your father?"

"..."

Hearing the lively conversation outside the door, it seemed that there was nothing evil, let alone his father, so Tie Tou poked his head out again and asked, "Who are you?"

"Hello."

A warm and pleasant voice sounded again, and one could tell that this person must be extremely handsome and unrestrained just by hearing two words.

"I am a Taoist priest from Deyun Temple in Hangzhou Prefecture. I want to go to the southern border to collect medicinal materials. I want to stay overnight in a precious place. I wonder if it will be convenient for me?"

Overnight?

Taoist priest?

As soon as Tietou heard that he was staying overnight, he wanted to tell them to go to another house, and he had nothing to entertain. But thinking about being a Taoist again, the words stopped when they reached the tip of his mouth.

After a pause, he got up and said, "Wait a moment."

After putting on his clothes, he walked over, leaned on the crack of the door and glanced at it, and saw the color of the Taoist robe, and then opened the door with confidence.

ah!

As soon as the door was opened, Tie Tou couldn't help covering his eyes with his hands.

It's so dazzling!

Of the three people outside the door, the one on the left is a black-faced Taoist priest with a long body and long hands, and his face looks full of vicissitudes. The one on the right is a young man in brocade clothes with thick eyebrows and big eyes, with a slightly sad face.

The one among them is the most amazing. He is wearing the same Taoist robe as the black-faced Taoist priest, but the clothes look so good and neat on him, not to mention the face...

So handsome that Tietou couldn't keep his eyes open for a long time!

He squinted his eyes for a while to get used to it, before he could barely look directly at the little Taoist priest's face, and stretched out his hand to let the three of them in.

These three people are none other than Shangshilipo and Deyun Temple in Yuhang Town, Li Chu, the founder and close disciple of Yu Qi'an, the master of the temple, and Du Lanke, Li Chu's founder and close disciple.

This trip to southern Xinjiang is to accompany Wang Longqi by his side on a trip to save his father.

According to Yu Qi'an, the red line on Wang Longqi's father's wrist is not a simple mark at all, but a curse.

Although Daoist Cen has a little understanding of the matter of "medicine eats people", his understanding is not thorough after all. This red line is not a mark of the drug beauty's murder, but a means. As long as the red line is full on the wrist, that is the moment when the curse will come.

No matter how many cultivators guard it, it is useless, the cursed person will still die.

It is said that the person who tied the bell is needed to untie the bell. The only way to break the curse is to find the source of the curse, that is, the refined medicine beauty who cast the curse that day.

Even after a few days, they still have to go back to the village where they collected the medicine to check.

So the three of them set off immediately, and by the time they arrived at the village, it was already dark. Turning over a tall black mountain in front of you is the target village of this trip.

If you turn it over, you may not be able to ask anything at night. The three of them discussed it, and decided to spend the night in this village and cross the mountain tomorrow.

This is how the current scene came about.

Tie Tou led the three of them into the house and sat down, poured three bowls of water, and said at the same time: "I happen to have a vacant room in my house, but it's a bit small. If you don't mind the three, you can rest there later."

"Brother, as long as you don't mind bothering me." Dulanke smiled and nodded, and asked at the same time: "Brother, do you know where Shanbei Village is?"

"Shanbei Village." Tie Tou raised his hand and pointed, "You follow the road in the village and turn over the Black Mountain. You can see it at a glance. The three of you want to go there to collect the medicine?"

"Yes." Duranke nodded, but did not say anything about the curse.

"Then I advise you to better not go." Tietou was also warm-hearted, and directly reminded: "A few days ago, there was also a group of medicine collectors. After they passed by our village, they also went to Shanbei Village. Later I heard Said, something happened over there, and there should be no medicine to take now."

"Oh?" Li Chu looked up at him, "Do you know what happened to them in Shanbei Village?"

Although Wang Longqi's father had already told the general story, but listening to it from a different perspective might be helpful in investigating the origin of the medicinal beauty.

"I heard that it's something related to evil spirits." Tie Tou lowered his voice and said mysteriously: "I know a little bit, but I can't say it now."

"Why?" Wang Longqi asked.

"Our rules here are not to talk about deceitful things after dark." Tietou said cautiously: "It is said that there are some high-minded evil spirits. Once someone mentions its name or talks about it, even if it is separated by hundreds of miles It can hear it, and then it will find it!"

Li Chu blinked.

There is such a good thing?

Wouldn't it be possible to just sit at home and listen to stories without moving, and wait for the evil spirits to come to your door?

"In that case..." He said to Tietou, "Then I will trouble you to explain it."

"Perhaps you have never heard of the name 'Little Daoist Master Li', there has never been a single evil being able to take a sword under his hand." Wang Longqi said, "If you are evil, just attract him and let him kill you. "

"That's right." Durante nodded, "My master's nickname is 'Central Plains Women Jianchou', ah no, it's ghosts, you can rest assured."

"this……"

Tietou was still a little hesitant. After all, people who walk in the rivers and lakes will inevitably blow the whistle six times. This little Taoist priest is young. You can barely believe him if you say he is a genius with a high level of cultivation.

You said that no evil spirit has ever been able to walk a sword under his hands...

This is too exaggerated.

Only a fool would believe such a thing, right?

But thinking about what he still needs from them, he finally said:

"Okay, then I'll tell you something."

Tie Tou went to cover the door first, and then came back, speaking in a very low voice.

"First, there was a man named Heizhu in Shanbei Village who married a wife and died soon after. It is said that he was drinking heavily and often beat his wife, so his wife boiled him to death. at home, and hid them."

"At first, no one noticed it. Unexpectedly, the group of customers who collected medicines passed by a few days ago. There was an old Taoist inside. He happened to see Hei Zhu's grave on the mountain, and he said that it was a 'medicine beauty' who caused the trouble. A group of people talked for a long time , and finally decided that the woman hiding in Er Manzi's house was evil spirits, so Er Manzi led them home."

"When the old Taoist came in and saw the woman, he killed her with a talisman and a sword. But after killing her, he found out that there was no evil, it was clearly a person! It's a pity that such a beautiful little lady was killed That bull-nosed man was killed."

"Um?"

Hearing this, the three of them gasped in surprise.

This is completely different from the version described by Wang Longqi's father!

It is difficult to find the monster in form, and if you wait for it to leak its evil spirit, sometimes it is easy to lose the opportunity, so there is no precedent for killing a good person by mistake in the past.

But why did Wang Longqi's father lie?

Or is it that the villagers of Shanbei Village are lying to the outside world?

The candlelight was dim, but Tietou didn't notice the expressions of the few people, and continued to preach:

"The matter got into trouble here, and it became chaotic. Er Manzi grabbed the old man and asked him to pay for his wife. The customers who received the medicine were all rich, so they paid him hundreds of taels of silver, settled down, and then left."

"It stands to reason that the daughter-in-law wasn't his in the first place. He simply harbored the suspect and earned a hundred taels of silver for nothing. The villagers don't know how envious they are."

"But the next day, he was found dead on the mountain!"

"And the death was extremely miserable, with his flesh and blood shattered. When I went to his house to see again, the one hundred taels of silver disappeared. Therefore, the villagers believed that someone should be coveting his windfall and dragged him to the city in the middle of the night. Killed on the mountain and took away the silver."

"And not many people knew about it that day, there is a high probability that people in the village did it!"

"The people in Xiashanbei Village are starting to suspect each other. If we don't find out who did it, everyone will be suspicious."

"Our two villages are not far away, and many people still have relatives, so the news spread here quickly. After hearing about it, the surrounding villages didn't dare to associate with people from Shanbei Village."

After Tietou finished speaking, he shook his head and sighed again.

"One hundred taels of silver, how much less is it, how much can you have if you say more? Why is it worth such a ruthless hand? Sigh!"

The three of Li Chu looked at each other for a few times, and they all felt that something was wrong.

But what's the inside story, I'm afraid we still have to go to Shanbei Village to find out.

After telling the stories they wanted to hear, and chatting for a few more words, Tietou said again: "Seeing that the two Taoist priests are highly cultivated, in fact, I also have something to ask, I don't know if it is convenient."

He was a little awkward, because there were not many cultivators in the countryside, and he couldn't afford a lot of money, so it was embarrassing to ask someone to do something.

But Li Chu just smiled gently: "But it's okay to talk."

"That's right, my father passed away a few months ago..." Tietou said again: "But just before you came, someone knocked on the door and said he was my father, and he came back! And his The voice and tone are very similar! Although I didn't dare to open the door to look, I can almost confirm that it is my father!"

"But how can the dead be brought back to life! This is obviously something evil!" Tietou begged, "So I want to ask some of you to help me find out what's going on."

"Also... If my father really becomes a ghost, it's probably a good ghost. I hope you don't hurt his body, and it's best to let him know his way back and re-enter the earth for peace."

Tie Tou reminded filially.

In the simple concept of the country, it is still hoped that the whole body can be left behind after the death of relatives. What he was most worried about was that these cultivators acted violently and directly physically rescued his father.

So it is important to keep the body intact.

"Back to life?" Old Du frowned again. "This is a strange thing. I heard people say that the southern border is full of evil spirits. I doubted it, but now I am really convinced."

"But we are in a hurry to go to Shanbei Village, so we can't delay. It would be easy to kill an evil spirit, but to investigate this kind of thing, if it is a bit complicated, I don't know how long it will take..."

Wang Longqi turned his back and whispered to the two of them.

"His father is already dead, but my father can still save him..."

"How about this..." Li Chu thought for a while, and said, "Stay here, Lao Du, and investigate this matter for now. Tomorrow, I will go to Shanbei Village with Wang Longqi."

"Okay." Durant replied.

In his opinion, this is the master's recognition of his ability to be independent. As a newcomer disciple in his forties, he was very happy about it.

"ah?"

Tietou was a little skeptical.

Although this Taoist priest looks older, but the master and apprentice, the master must be more reliable. Hearing that the little Taoist priest was going to leave, leaving only an old apprentice here, he didn't know the inside story, so he couldn't help but feel that the other party was just playing tricks on him.

Duranke saw his concerns, so he patted his chest and said:

"Brother, don't worry, there is nothing to be afraid of. Although I am a young apprentice in our Deyun Temple. But I was in Shenluo City before, but I have been the master of the temple for more than ten years, and I can be regarded as a famous ruthless person in the south of Shenluo City! He is also the main player in several battles to eradicate evil spirits in the city."

"Really?" Tietou showed a simple smile, "Then I will trouble the Taoist priest."

"Don't worry." Old Du said again: "Not to mention, just now at the entrance of your village, our team encountered a walking corpse, which might harm the people in your village, and I eliminated it."

"I started with a swordsmanship to cut open its belly, and then summoned it back with a sword to decapitate it."

"But I have always been careful in my actions, and I was worried that it would not be extinguished, and another Fire Department talisman would hit it and burn it to a ball of ashes!"

"Haha, there are no bones left."

"Village entrance?" Tietou blinked, "Isn't that very close to my house?"

"Yeah, it's not far from your house." Old Du rubbed his chin, "Speaking of which, the walking corpse seemed to be coming from your house at that time."

"But it's not important..." He waved his hand again, "It's all gone anyway."

"Let's think about how to help your father go to the ground."

Originally, I wanted to ask for a day off to work on the outline of the new volume, but when I thought that I had just posted on Dafeng Twitter, I immediately broke up to celebrate...it seems a bit inappropriate...forced a chapter.