After a while, Niu Er, who was fetching water, passed out in the grass beside the pond.
As for whether his absence from the village for a long time will arouse suspicion, there is no need to worry.
Niu Er himself confessed that he was just a handyman in the village and lived in a hut outside the village. He usually farmed the land for the bandits. Even if he got lost for a while, no one would care. If he ran around in the mountains and was eaten by tigers and wolves, he would also
No one will care.
"According to what Niu Er said, all the captured strangers were imprisoned in earthen prisons in the stronghold, or those who were violent were tied to wind stakes behind the cliff and starved." Liu Qiao pondered in his heart.
Chao Chang Long asked: "I see that the stronghold is heavily guarded. The two saints, Lu and Mao, each have their own Taoist skills. Do you have any ideas on how to save people?"
Chang Long lowered his head and pondered for a moment, then said in a low voice: "I will go directly to the door and take away the donkey and the Second Saint Mao. I will naturally release the remaining mortals."
"If you don't obey, first bite off half of the donkey saint's body, and then poke 10,000 holes in the hair saint with a spear..."
Liu Qiao was speechless for a while. As expected, he couldn't ask this reckless man about his conspiracy. It would be in vain if he asked, and it was so annoying.
Chang Long's words are not unreasonable. To capture the thieves, capture the king first, capture the leader of the thieves, and the bandits will disperse. They just rush forward recklessly, fearing that they may not be able to scare the snake, or the thieves will threaten the common people, but they will use the rat weapon instead.
But it opened up Liu Qiao's thoughts. After a change of thought, he smiled and said: "Let's divide the work. You go to the front of the stronghold to call for a battle. No matter the outcome, let's delay it for a while. I will save those people and then come over to help you."
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"It all depends on Master's arrangements..." Chang Long bowed and agreed.
He immediately took out the armor from the treasure bag and put it on, dressed neatly, and said arrogantly: "There are only two rightists in the backcountry who are proclaiming themselves kings and saints. Why do they need Master's help? Let me go and take them together so that they know that the world is vast and there is a sky beyond it."
After saying that, he waved his sleeves and robe, picked up his gun and walked straight towards the front of the village.
Liu Qiao shook his head when he saw this. He said that he was arrogant because he had been practicing for a long time. He was looking down on the world's right-wing experts. Confidence was also a good thing. There were some things that you wouldn't understand unless you suffered a loss. He didn't bother to persuade him.
He swayed and turned into dim light and penetrated into the stream. However, he escaped from the water with the help of five elements and became invisible.
Directly from the water channel outside the village, we drilled all the way into the village, followed the direction pointed by Niu Er, crossed the ditch, passed the well, and made many twists and turns until we arrived at the bottom of a stone cliff behind the village.
The cliff is a hundred feet high, and there are dozens of wind stakes on the top. Some fierce strangers are tied up, and they will only be fed to the two saints after they have been starved for a few days and their intestines have been purified.
Under the cliff are rows of caves, of different depths, all specially dug with axes and axes, and sealed externally with wooden fences or copper doors, leaving only a few holes, into which leftovers for feeding livestock are thrown in every day.
This is the dungeon. According to Niu Er, people are locked up in it. Women, children, the elderly and the weak are kept in the big cave with wooden gates; strong men or those with martial arts are locked in small caves and sealed with copper doors and iron locks.
Outside the cliff, up, down, left and right, there were heavily armored thieves patrolling, and the Lu Taoist cave was not far from the cliff, just for fear that these "human elixirs" could escape.
Liu Qiao saw that the defense was tight, so he escaped from the water and hid in a smelly ditch in front of the cliff to wait for an opportunity.
"Kill...kill...kill..."
After a while, there was a commotion in the stronghold, and there was a lot of noise outside. Thousands of thieves came out of the raiding formation, and their shouts of killing shook the heaven and earth, and resounded for dozens of miles.
It was estimated that Chang Long challenged outside the stronghold and lured the thieves out of the stronghold. However, the security in the dungeon was not loose, and the Lu Taoist was nowhere to be seen, so Liu Qiao did not dare to act rashly for a while.
"Whoosh...Zheng...Boom..." Suddenly the mountains and forests trembled, and the sound of weapons clashing resounded through the sky, making jackals tremble all over the mountain and all tigers and leopards hiding their heads.
Needless to say, it was Chang Long who got into trouble with the green-robed demon.
After a while, the sky was filled with the shadows of spears, the swords flashed, and there was a ping-pong-pong-pong sound, which made the whole world tremble, but it hit the ground from the ground to the sky.
Good fellow, these two are fighting in a martial arts battle, both of them have magical powers. Their weapons are wielding each other with great force, clanging like thunder, stirring up the wind and clouds for dozens of miles, and causing birds to fly in the forest.
Half an hour passed in the blink of an eye.
The fighting was still going on outside, with knives coming and going, and mist and wind blowing into the sky.
Liu Qiao was hiding in the ditch, and there were walls and mountains blocking his view. Seeing that the fight had lasted so long and seemed to be at a stalemate, he couldn't help but worry: "With Chang Long's bravery, he will not be defeated. I just hope he will be more cautious... That Lu
Could it be that the Taoist is not at home? Why can't there be such a big movement..."
But he was afraid that Chang Long would be alone and exhausted after fighting for a long time, and he was also afraid that the demon would use evil magic to plot against him.
Liu Qiao waited and waited, fearing that the Lu Taoist would suddenly appear when he was rescuing people. Even though he could not defeat the Lu Taoist and had no problem escaping, the mortals who were captured would suffer.
Could it be that Lu Taoist is not in the village?
Changes will happen as time goes by, and the longer the delay, the inevitable changes will occur. Liu Qiao immediately decided not to wait any longer, and first deal with the bunch of minions in front of the prison and rescue the plundered mortals.
Just as he was about to get out of the ditch, there was a sudden "whistle" of evil wind above. Liu Qiao's heart sank, but he remained hidden in the ditch and remained calm.
However, a plume of red smoke rose from behind the cliff, curled up into Qingming, and turned into a red mist that was a hundred feet long and as thick as a bucket. The mist seemed to be slow but was actually fast, and disappeared in an instant.
"As expected, we are still in the stronghold, and now we can save people..."
Judging from the battle, it was not difficult to guess that it was Taoist Lu. Perhaps Taoist Mao had seen that he had been unable to win for a long time, so he went to help him with his fists. Seeing this, Liu Qiao felt a little relieved. He solved the escape technique and jumped out of the water.
ditch.
"who!"
"Uh..." Before the guarding thief could finish his words, a sword pierced his throat. The sharp blade broke his trachea. He only had time to grunt twice and was killed instantly.
"Dong...dong...dong..." The gongs sounded loudly.
Although Liu Qiao moved quickly, the thief on the tower on the top of the cliff could see clearly. He saw a man jumping up from the gutter about a foot wide, killing the guard, and hurriedly rang the gong and shouted: "Someone has robbed someone."
Prison, someone robbed the prison..."
With this roar, hundreds of people came out of the surrounding woods, grass, and trees, all of them were soldiers with brave armor and complete armor.
Coupled with the fierce bandits who were patrolling in the open, there was a huge crowd for a while, armed with swords, spears, axes, axes and forks, and a row of archers appeared on the cliff, twisting their bows and setting arrows.
Liu Qiao, who was lying on the grass, was shocked. Why didn't the elite bandits go out to fight? They usually hid on the edge of the dungeon and were doing what they did. Their armor was as good as that of the officers and soldiers. They were so crazy.
Moreover, these bandits have solid steps, well-founded advances and retreats, and have been through battles for a long time. Their eyes are ferocious, and they are not afraid of demons. They look at it with the Dharma eye. They are full of fishy wind and are surrounded by injustice. They either kill countless people or eat people and drink blood. They are all brave soldiers.
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"kill…"
Looking around, he saw dazzling swords and cold spears and spears. Liu Qiao didn't even have the interest to block them. He very decisively twisted the sand with a Yang, disappeared in a yellow light, and escaped with the earth.
When the thieves saw that the assassination was in vain, they all wondered: "It's strange. Could it be that it was a ghost? Why is it missing?"
"Hmph...this is to make the magic escape!" the knowledgeable gangster reminded with a sneer.
"What a shame, my Nether God Vajra and the Seven Saints of Mysterious Heaven have not been refined yet. Otherwise, why would I be afraid of the wolves? What should I do?" Liu Qiao jumped into the air, feeling anxious for a moment.
Although his martial arts skills are good, he doesn't have the ability to decapitate people in a crowd of thousands. The sword is a light weapon and cannot penetrate armor.
He didn't have any powerful Taoist powers. If there were hundreds or even thousands of ordinary people, he could kill them seven in and seven out. But when faced with the siege of hundreds of well-equipped bandits, there was really no way to survive except to escape.
But after all, he is a practitioner of Taoism. He can't be strong in the front, and there are other methods.
Liu Qiao escaped in the air, chanted a mantra with his hands, pointed at a gravel cliff, and said: "Where is the strong man? Move here quickly..."
"As commanded..."
With a whistle, there was a burst of wind, sand and rocks flew for dozens of miles, and dirt and dust were spread on the ground.
With a loud "crack" sound, several stubborn stones as big as millstones were uprooted from the cliff, flew hundreds of feet in the air, and smashed towards the crowd of bandit soldiers below.
"Boom..."
The thieves were still discussing Liu Qiao's disappearance when they suddenly felt that the sky seemed to be a little cloudy and the wind was howling above them. Before they could recover, they were killed by huge rocks.
"Ah...run quickly..."
"Clang...Boom!!"
The rocks were moved by the strongmen, one after another. The ground was narrow and the bandits were crowded together, leaving no place to hide.
The stone as big as a millstone fell hundreds of feet from the air, like a giant cannonball.
The moment it hit the ground, a huge crater of seven to eight feet was made, and it bounced and rolled, creating a bloody path.
All of a sudden, broken limbs, intestines, hearts, lungs, and heads were all over the place.
………
"ah!!!"
After several rounds of boulders, the ground was already filled with howls and screams.
Those who failed to react in time and were directly smashed to pieces were better off.
It is really miserable to have limbs cut off and those who are still alive are in so much pain that they cannot live or die.
"Mom...it hurts so much..."
Half of the body was reduced to minced meat, and those who were not yet dead were already unconscious from the pain.
When he was about to die, he still cried for his father and called his mother as if he had fallen and got injured when he was a child.
It was only then that I found out about my parents, but it was too late.
Are you pitiful? There must be something hateful about pitiful people.
According to Niu Er, the elite and fierce bandits in this village are all confidants of the Second Sage Lu Mao. They are also good at cannibalism and their methods are extremely cruel.
"He did many evil things during his lifetime, plundering the people, raping wives and daughters, cooking babies, and eating pregnant women for blood. Now in the eighteenth level of hell, Shen Nong and Huang Di are spreading grains. Could it be that they can't support people?"
"It is too indulgent for those who do evil things like this to find everything in vain after death. At this time, no one will care about the evil done in the Yang world. There will be no retribution in the underworld and the underworld. I will give you retribution in this world..."
Looking at the tragic scene on the ground, Liu Qiao finally had some understanding of why the three religions jointly signed the list of gods, and why they chose so many sacred ones that were above the heads of mortals.
In fact, people's hearts are divided into good and evil. There are only a few people who do good, and there are many vicious and stubborn monsters, but there are countless people who are worse than the monsters. If there is no threat, there will be no self-consciousness. How can we be unified.
There is no saint in the heavenly palace and cannot control the longitude and latitude. There is no god in the human world and cannot reward good and punish evil.
What is a god? He raises his head three feet with a sharp blade hanging, and looks at the world with a pair of Dharma eyes.
It’s not that the time of retribution has not yet come. Heaven, the human world, and the underworld all have sacred queens. If anyone does evil, he will go to hell after death and be punished for thousands of years, or suffer for tens of thousands of years.
It is not unreasonable that one day in the world of the sun is one year in the world of the underworld.
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Everything is twisted and broken.
Wonderful true light, round nature fruit.
This kind of cause and effect encourages people to do good, but not to do evil. When a thought arises, the gods will enlighten them and let them do whatever they want.
How can you learn how to learn from a clumsy, stupid, and obedient person? The two methods are still unintentional medicine. You should practice while you are alive and have the right way to do it. Mo Langpo.
To identify the root cause, get rid of the original shell, and visit the eternal life, you must grasp it. You must always see clearly and consider it with enlightenment.
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