Chapter 236 The plan to lure the wolf into the house
Entering the house, the rat people worshiped the gods.
Xu Dao watched with cold eyes, taking in all the strange and gloomy scenes in the hall and thinking carefully.
During the process, although he didn't say a word to the swordsman again and seemed to have disappeared, the thoughts in his mind were spinning crazily.
Glancing at the surrounding beams and pillars and the strange runes slowly growing on the walls, Xu Dao understood clearly:
"No wonder these Shezhao Taoist priests want to stay here and pretend to be gods without leaving home, fooling the rat people. The real key is to use formations to help them refine their essence, increase their cultivation, and even condense evil spirits.
Refining Gang."
Although there are thirty-six copper furnaces in the backyard of Wutong Temple, each of which can cook flesh and blood, most of the rat people are mortals after all, and there are few even cooks, let alone refining the Taoist medicine.
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They can barely help the Taoist priests to feed humans and animals and prepare preliminary "medicinal materials". If you want to extract the essence of the mirage from the body of a mortal, you still have to rely on the efforts of the Taoist priests themselves.
The five Shezhao Taoist priests are worthy of being Taoist priests. The formations they arranged in the hall can turn the "people's fat and people's ointment" prepared by the rat people into pure essence and disperse it in the hall for them to gulp down.
of swallowing.
Although this method is relatively slow, it is superior in that it squeezes cleanly and does not require Taoist priests to do it themselves, so it can be considered superb.
Suck, suck!
The strange breathing sound continued to sound in the main room, and the black shadows of the three statues expanded and contracted with the breathing sound, giving people a trembling feeling.
After placing the offerings and getting some benefits, the rat people kowtowed a few times, then lined up and walked outside the hall with expressions of surprise and excitement.
After leaving the main room, the swordsman who acted as Xu Dao's puppet said hello to the other rat men, then slipped into a corner and called out in a squeaky voice, which must have been Xu Dao.
Xu Daoshang was thinking about the three Taoist priests in the hall. After hearing the swordsman's call, he sighed in his heart and replied: "Shang Zai."
After receiving Xu Dao's response, the swordsman breathed a sigh of relief. It had just seen Xu Dao not moving, and thought that Xu Dao had seen something bad and had left the place.
There was no one around for a while. After making a few gestures, the swordsman squatted on the ground and drew on the ground with his hands, preparing to communicate with Xu Dao in words.
The three Taoist priests in the temple rarely bothered to go to the backyard. There was no spiritual surveillance around, so Xu Dao did not stop it.
Written in just a few words, the swordsman was asking Xu Daoke if there was anything else he wanted to tell him to do.
After Xu Dao paused, he replied: "I'm sorry for all the hard work this time, Laosha, no more for now."
The swordsman then wrote a few words to say hello to Xu Dao, exchanged some pleasantries, and briefly introduced the situation after he and Xu Dao separated in Sheshan.
As reflected in the scene in the backyard, the remaining hundreds of thousands of people in Shezhao Mountain City were all coaxed and coaxed away by the Shezhao Taoist priests.
Naturally, some of them noticed something was wrong and wanted to escape. However, in order to avoid leaking the news, the Taoist priests naturally sealed the city and could not let these people leave.
Thanks to the swordsman's alertness, he did not resist much, but mingled among hundreds of thousands of people, allowing himself to be sealed and captured by the Taoist priests using magic.
As for what happened after being imprisoned, the swordsman didn't remember much. He only knew that in the darkness, after he was released, he was already in the Wutong Temple, and the Taoist priest used magic to change the appearance of the mouse on the spot. He was responsible for
Supervise a group of handymen who were also transformed into mice.
The Taoist priests also promised that after serving as slaves for three years, the people who had been transformed into mice could be transformed back into their human form, and they might even be welcomed into their palaces and teach them the secret of Taoism.
Xu Dao questioned the swordsman carefully and found that he did not know the true identity of the livestock in the backyard.
And according to what the swordsman said, when he communicated with other rat men in private through text, he found that most of the rat men in the courtyard were outsiders from the mountain city, and none of them were from the edict.
Xu Dao has long known the reason for this.
This is because only the Shezhao people have thin dragon blood in their bodies, which must have been passed down from their ancestors.
After the Dragon Palace's formation is self-destructed, only living people with Shezhao's bloodline can get the greatest benefits. As for other outsiders, even if they are in the Sheshan realm, they still won't get much benefit.
In this way, the swordsmen and other foreigners were of little "use" and the Taoist priests were short of slaves, so they escaped and were not reduced to animals to be slaughtered.
Xu Dao did not tell the swordsman immediately about this reason, lest the other party would not be able to accept the truth about the livestock for a while and miss the matter.
After some exchanges, Xu Dao asked again: "How is the arrangement in the mountain? Do you have a way out?"
Hearing this question, the swordsman's expression immediately became excited. He chirped several times before remembering that he had to write on the ground to communicate.
Because of his excitement, his handwriting was illegible. Xu Daolian only guessed to understand what the other party meant and did not let the swordsman repeat it.
Although there are formations inside and outside Wutong Temple, and the mountain is full of miasma, which is quite strange, except for the main hall where a few Taoist priests are staying, there are no restricted areas around. The rat people can do whatever they want as long as they have legitimate reasons.
In and out.
If a swordsman wants to get out of Wutong Temple or even go down the mountain, it will be easy.
This is because the rat people need to burn fire to make flesh and blood, and the bones are small in quantity and cannot withstand burning. From time to time, they have to go to the mountainside to cut wood. Sometimes the rat people are short of food, so they have to disguise themselves and go to the nearby forest.
Villages and towns buy food.
To put it simply, the Taoist priests have a free-ranging attitude towards the rat people, and the entire Wutong Mountain is strict and lenient.
The factor that really limits the escape of the rat people is the rat skin on their bodies. Once they leave the realm of Sheshan, unless they enter the mountains to associate with snakes and insects and become savages, they will be treated as monsters and killed by mortals.
Even if there are rat people who want to escape into the mountains and forests, with their abilities, they often cannot run very far before they are captured by overseers or Taoist priests using magic.
Coupled with Taoist Shezhao's other methods, such as small favors, etc., the rats have resigned themselves to their fate and are just looking forward to the expiration of the three-year period for Taoist Shezhao to transform them back into human form.
Seeing this sentence, Xu Dao couldn't help but sneer in his heart and said: "Three years? I'm afraid that in less than three years, none of you will be left."
The swordsman heard this and nodded, quite agreeing with what Xu Dao said.
In its narrative, there were thousands of living people turned into rats at first, but in just one year, 60 to 70 percent of the rat people died of exhaustion.
What makes them even more frightened is that as the number of livestock in the courtyard becomes smaller and smaller, the Taoist priests' attitude towards them becomes more and more indifferent. At first, they only used them as slaves, but now they even eat them, causing people to panic.
of.
This is why the swordsman was so excited when he heard Xu Dao ask him how to get down the mountain.
Although it is cautious and possesses magical power, in the eyes of Taoist priests, its status is still the same as that of a chicken or dog, and it can be killed at will.
Startled, the swordsman trembled his fingers and drew a few big characters on the ground: "When are you leaving?"
Seeing the other party's expectant but frightened expression, Xu Dao smiled and said: "It's no longer a matter of time, let's leave now."
Phew! After the swordsman heard this, he immediately fell to his knees on the ground and kept kowtowing.
Xu Dao told it to restrain itself so as not to attract the attention of others, so it quickly got up from the ground again.
After chirping several times, Xu Dao asked him to quickly find a way to go down the mountain. Don't disturb too many people, just go down to the middle of the mountain and get out of the scope of the miasma.
The swordsman kept nodding his head. After erasing the traces of drawings on the ground, he suppressed his excitement and walked out of the corner, and immediately started arming arms with other rat men.
Finally, it secretly picked up a few empty wine bags, put them in its pocket, and walked down the mountain alone.
The swordsman was addicted to alcohol and secretly went down the mountain to get drinks. Such behavior was not a proper job, so naturally not too many people could know about it, and other rat-men overseers had to cover it up for a while.
Even if it didn't come back later and was exposed, there was barely any reason to explain it. The rat people might have thought it was beaten to death as a monster at the foot of the mountain.
This kind of thing is not without precedent. After the Taoist priests learned about it, they didn't bother to care about it. At most, they used magic spells and sent a few rat men out to inquire to see if they were really beaten to death.
Sliding out of Wutong Temple smoothly, the swordsman went straight and ran wildly in the miasma. If Xu Dao hadn't reminded it not to use magic power and carefully alerted the Taoist priest, its movements would have been even faster.
Two or three quarters of an hour later, one person and one Yin Shen completely left the area covered by the miasma formation and escaped.
Not only the swordsman breathed a sigh of relief, Xu Dao also felt relaxed for a moment.
Secretly spying on Wutong Temple was risky for him after all.
Especially after entering the shrine, seeing the appearance of the three Taoist priests "with his own eyes", and identifying each other's cultivation, Xu Dao realized that the risk of this trip was greater than he expected.
Fortunately, no accidents occurred during the process, and he also thoroughly discovered the plots and plans of the five Shezhao Taoist priests.
The next thing is how to destroy the other party's plan and profit from it, or in other words, to subdue the demons and save the remaining mortals of Shezhao!
The thoughts in his heart were rolling, and Xu Dao quickly collected his thoughts and suppressed these thoughts first.
He emerged from the cuttlefish sword, raised his hand towards the swordsman, and said, "Old Sha, long time no see."
"Zhizhi!" the swordsman chirped, still unable to speak human words.
Xu Dao smiled lightly and replied: "Let's go back home with Pindao first and then we can talk."
When he flicked his sleeves and robes, the cuttlefish sword vibrated, the surrounding air flow stirred, and the sword screamed.
Before the swordsman could adapt, the sword energy wrapped around its body and lifted its feet off the ground.
The Cuttlefish Sword did not rush straight into the sky, but quickly and nimbly moved through the mountains and forests, heading straight towards the direction of Jiangzhou City.
The flying sword was so fast that a land of hundreds of miles passed by in a blink of an eye.
When Xu Dao and the swordsman approached Jiangzhou City, he used several concealment spells on the swordsman and made him wear a black robe to prevent others from noticing.
After returning to the Talisman Store, nothing happened in the store, and Xu Dao's physical body was still peacefully staying in the quiet room.
He directly left the swordsman in the backyard, called out Su Jiu, told the two of them a few words, and then escaped into the quiet room on his own.
As for Su Jiu and the swordsman meeting each other, being surprised and reminiscing about the past, it was none of his business for the time being.
The Yin God returned, and Xu Dao's physical body in the quiet room suddenly opened his eyes, raised the teeth of the guards around him and flapped his wings violently, making a welcoming gesture.
With a thought in his mind, he turned the Tooth and Scale Soldier into teeth and scales and put it on his body.
After putting away his teeth and swords, Xu Dao did not leave the quiet room immediately. Instead, he sat cross-legged alone and silently sorted out what he had seen and heard in Wutong Temple.
Recalling the momentum displayed by the three Taoist statues in the temple, Xu Dao thought to himself: "Of the five Shezhao Taoist priests, there are two in the early stage of foundation building, two in the middle stage of foundation building, and one with majestic magic power, almost building a foundation."
It’s late stage…”
In just one year, three of the Shezhao Taoist priests successfully condensed evil spirits.
One of them is on the verge of the Lian Gang realm, or may have already reached the Lian Gang realm. Even if not, according to the progress of several Shezhao Taoist priests, it may not take several months to truly break through to the Lian Gang realm, and one month will be enough.
At such a speed, the Shezhao Taoist priests can be said to have accumulated a lot of experience and worked hard!
Xu Dao sighed in his heart: "Obviously, the Taoist practices of these five people were indistinguishable from each other before. They were all in the early stage of foundation building, but now the span is so huge..."
He now has to admit that without his intervention, I am afraid that there might really be a person in the golden elixir realm among the Taoist priests of Shezhao!
"No!" Xu Dao thought carefully in his heart: "We can't let this group of people continue to break through. Maybe after they refine the entire clan, they will still have the means to continue to improve their cultivation."
It should be noted that on Mount She, in addition to hundreds of thousands of living people, there is also a spiritual vein that stretches for thousands of years, but there is no trace of it.
But even if the cultivation base of Shezhao Taoist priests no longer continues to increase, according to the current cultivation base of the five Taoist priests, they are still not something he can deal with now.
Many plans flashed through Xu Dao's mind one by one.
Suddenly, he whispered three words:
"Yaksha Gate."
The leader of the three major forces in the southwest world, there are not only Taoist priests in the foundation-building realm in the Yaksha Gate, but also ghosts and gods who are extremely suspicious of the golden elixir realm. It should be enough to deal with the five Shezhao Taoist priests who have greatly increased their cultivation.
"How can we allow others to snore on the side of the couch? If we inform the Yakshamen about the plans of the Shezhao Taoist priests, even if the five Shezhao Taoist priests keep a low profile, the Yakshamen will probably not be able to sit still, not to mention that there are still benefits."
Xu Dao's idea took shape: "It's better to invite the Taoist priests from Yaksha Sect and come to the Demon Dang Hall to be a guest..."
Although this move may lead to luring the wolf into the house and causing him to be sidelined as a demon, only by muddying the situation can he have the opportunity to fish in troubled waters.
Xu Dao had a certain thought in his mind: "It's not impossible to give up the position of the demon envoy."
Even if he really lures a wolf into his house, the Demon Dang Hall is not his own house. If someone smashes it and smashes it, he loses even if he feels a little sorry for it!