"You are a Taoist priest. You are older than Sanhua Empress. You must know more spells than Sanhua Empress." The girl held her robe and looked up at him. She thought seriously and said as she walked, "But Sanhua Empress just met you."
At that time, you were not as old as you are now, and you must have been learning magic for about as long as Sanhua Empress. How many spells did you know at that time?"
"Don't ask about that either."
"Are there many Sanhua Empresses?"
"Let this happiness last a little longer."
"Well……"
The girl frowned, and her instinctive curiosity prompted her to continue asking questions, but some experiences in her memory stopped her. These two things simply represented sensibility and rationality. They were fighting in her mind, and it was hard to tell the winner for a while.
It only made her frown get tighter and tighter.
In the end, a compromise was chosen——
Move the topic.
"Taoist priest, how long will it take for Sanhua Empress to turn a stone as big as a mountain god into gold in one go?"
"If you are an ordinary genius, it may take several years. But judging from the speed and talent of Empress Sanhua in learning spells in the past, it may only take half a year."
"Half a year!"
The girl frowned again.
But I wasn't happy or sad, I didn't feel it was long or short, but I secretly said it was bad.
I used to study other spells too hard. I always pretended to go out to catch mice in the middle of the night. In fact, I caught mice for a while in the front and a while behind. In the middle, I was learning spells behind the Taoist priest and Yanzi. Otherwise, my progress in other spells would not be possible.
So fast. But I didn't expect that this was a good thing, but I would actually stand up at this time.
How is this good?
The mountain god is so big that it is taller than a house. If you can't turn it into gold within half a year, how can you get off it?
It’s all because I worked too hard to learn the art of turning stones into soldiers and made progress too fast.
If it were still the little mountain god who was as tall as a cat many years ago, wouldn't it all turn into gold in a few days?
"Yundu is a big city after all, with many people living there. There are not many powerful monsters outside the city, and Sanhua Empress's gold and stone giants have no place to use them for the time being." Song You said as he walked, "But we can't go to Ma County or even Yundu.
There will definitely be more powerful monsters on the road to the south of the state, and by then Sanhua Empress will definitely be more accomplished at turning stone into gold than she is now. Sanhua Empress can first try to turn part of the mountain god into gold,
The most critical part of transformation, fighting monsters, is equivalent to practice."
"right……"
The girl nodded, but still didn't give up. She turned around and asked the Taoist: "How long did it take you to learn to turn such a big mountain god into gold in one go?"
"Miss Sanhua is a peerless genius, so why do you have to compare her with me? Aren't you deliberately humiliating me?"
"Well!!"
The girl's expression suddenly became tense and she quickly put her head back, not daring to look at the Taoist priest.
Out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of the swallow in the sky next to him.
"Tell me, Taoist priest, that Empress Sanhua needs to practice a lot, so that when she turns stones into gold, she can be as hard as a swallow's small sword that can't cut it?"
"I don't know..."
"Puff puff..."
A swallow landed on a nearby branch.
"Sanhua Empress is a peerless genius. Yanzi already thinks she is inferior. Besides, Yanzi is weak and can only use external objects to fight with others. Why does Sanhua Empress not even let go of magic weapons?" Yanzi imitated the Taoist just now.
He said in a tone of voice, "Didn't you mean to humiliate me?"
"Well!!"
The girl turned her head to the other side again, embarrassed to look at them.
The grass at the bottom of the mountain has withered and turned yellow, like a thick blanket.
The leader was sitting on the roadside waiting for them, stroking the bone sword in his hand. There was a bay-red horse beside him. In front of the horse was a pile of cut grass, which was the horse's favorite food. It must have been cut by the leader.
"Let's go."
The Taoist walked over and said.
The guide immediately got up and performed his duties conscientiously.
The horse also followed.
Slowly return to Yundu and walk back to Jiyafang.
"This is your guide money for today." The Taoist took out twenty-five cents and handed it to the guide. But after he took it, he took out another twenty-five cents and said, "There is one last place to go tomorrow. This is
This is your guide money for tomorrow, please accept it first."
"The last place?"
"yes."
"Then when will the villain come to look for Mr. tomorrow?"
"You don't have to look for me tomorrow. We are about to leave Yundu and go to Ma County."
"ah?"
The guide didn't react and just looked down at the money in his hand.
"That……"
"Just go ahead by yourself." The Taoist took out a piece of paper from his arms and handed it to the guide, "It is a haunted house of a wealthy family outside the city. Although there is no reward for money, the wealthy family is rarely stingy about it. If you hold on
There are water demon bone swords who come to recite spells to drive away ghosts, and I think I can get some rewards."
The guide took the paper blankly.
It's a pity that he can't read.
All you can see is lines of beautiful words written on the paper, like paintings. Most of them have been crossed out, except for the leftmost line.
"This is just a little devil. You have helped us with some small things in the past few days. Now you are going to get rid of it alone. Although it is dangerous, if you can get rid of it, from now on, if your reputation spreads, you will never have to go there again.
I'm leading the way at the city gate." The Taoist said, "But I still have to give you a few words of advice."
"gentlemen!"
When the guide thought about what happened in the past few days, he felt as if he was in a dream. He was so moved that he knelt down without hesitation.
"Sir, please speak!"
"You and I are just fate, there is nothing else. This gift is not possible, so please get up first."
"..."
The leader felt a breeze and pulled himself up.
Then I had to stand, lower my head and listen.
"First, I have eaten snake gallbladder, which can strengthen the body. I have taken Tumor Pill, which can strengthen my spirituality. I have tasted the taste. But I am a mortal. One pill of Rabbit Monster Tumor Pill is enough.
The second one has no effect. Moreover, some of the strange things on monsters are useful, some are useless, some need to be taken in the correct way, and some are poisonous and harmful. You must not put them in your mouth casually in the future."
"Take note of that, villain."
"Second, after we left, the things we accidentally picked up can only be used to ward off demons. And when we slay demons, we can only get rid of the evil spirits that are causing trouble. Even the demons and ghosts have innocent and kind people, but we can't.
Killing innocent people indiscriminately. If the demons and ghosts are causing trouble, but the crimes are not capital crimes, if you have the ability, you can subdue them, capture them, and take them to the City God's Temple. Yundu is the governor of Yunzhou, and the City God has a very high status, and you should have a good relationship with him.
There is no harm done to you before or after your life. Maybe there will be more opportunities waiting for you."
"Thank you, God!"
"Third, there were curses and forbidden methods in the previous dynasty, but later many of them were left behind among the people. Most of these cursed and forbidden methods are used to get rid of evil spirits. Some are useful and some are useless. They are all very simple. If you are interested, you can also collect them.
Let some try it, it’s a way to go.”
"The villain will keep it in his heart."
"Finally, if you do a good job in slaying demons and demons, you will get rid of more demons and ghosts, you will create strange things, the evil spirits will be much calmer, you will also cultivate your righteousness, you will do more good things, your reputation will come naturally, and it will be of great help to people, even if there is nothing else.
With the blessing of forbidden spells, these can also take you to the next level."
"I understand, little man! God is so kind to me..."
"Needless to say, if you can make the outside of Yundu City more peaceful, even if you only get rid of some little demons and ghosts who are of low moral character and harm the people, it will be a reward for me."
Song You said that he had already reached the door of Zhu's house. He just waved his hand to let him leave and then entered the door.
…
The old mother of the Zhu family had another dream.
What I dreamed about was my son who had died just a few days ago.
In the dream, her son-in-law was dressed in clothes that were similar to those of a yamen clerk but somewhat different. He had a fair and rosy complexion, a tall and straight figure, and a graceful demeanor. The morbidity accumulated over the past few years had been wiped away. This was almost a look that she had almost forgotten.
, even when I saw him, I remembered that my son had never been sick before, and when he was at his peak, he had won the admiration of many rich ladies in Yundu.
Erlang held hands with her and talked with her, telling her that Yundu City God liked to be good at calligraphy, and he happened to be good at calligraphy. Within a few days of going to the City God's Temple, the City God praised him repeatedly.
He was even specifically allowed to tell his dream to his family once a year.
Then he told her about the Chenghuang Temple in the city, and told her not to worry or be sad. At the same time, he asked her to thank the gentleman in the family again for her.
After the old mother of the Zhu family woke up, she waited at home for the gentleman to come back and prepared to say thank you. Finally, she waited until the Taoist returned. When the two parties met, it was the Taoist who saluted them first and said goodbye.
"Thank you for your stay and hospitality. In recent days, I have almost seen the scenery outside Yundu City. It's time to continue our journey to Marsh County."
"Sir, are you leaving?"
"Leave early tomorrow morning."
"Why not stay a few more days?"
"I have made up my mind, and I have made an agreement with my children that I will not disturb you any more." The Taoist said, "There is still a long way to go, and I dare not stay here any longer."
"..."
Everyone was very helpless and did not dare to stay any longer.
So the Taoist went back to his room and started to pack his things. Zhu's house also got busy preparing dry food and drinking water for him to take on the road tomorrow.
In fact, for a Taoist, it was just a long mountain road, passing by here, resting for a few days, and happened to see the rampant demons and ghosts outside Yundu City. It happened that my children needed to learn new spells, and Yanzi also needed to practice using that Western Region dagger.
He was under control, so he stayed for a few days to see the scenery and people in Yundu, and to get rid of the demons by the way.
The child's spell has been completed, the monsters have been eliminated, and the scenery has been seen, so naturally it is time to leave.
Early the next morning, he said goodbye to everyone in the Zhu Mansion.
The Zhu Mansion prepared dry food for them and also gave them some travel expenses. Song You accepted the dry food. He had already received twenty taels of silver from the Zhu Mansion before, but it was difficult to accept the travel expenses, so he had to politely refuse and gave him an exorcism charm.
As a reward, he took Sanhua Empress and Ma'er away.
The autumn weather in Yundu is still sunny. I don't feel cold at all under the sun. There is a bit of summer heat but not too much. It is a good weather for traveling.