A black shadow flashed and ran into the dormitory courtyard.
A handyman looked up and saw a crow flying towards him. He immediately stepped forward respectfully, stretched out his arm to make the crow land on his arm, and at the same time said in his mouth: "Welcome to the Taoist disciple."
The red-eyed crow nodded humanely, shook its head, and immediately a shadow emerged from the crow's body, appeared outside, and nodded to the handyman.
This phantom was Xu Dao's Yin Shen. He jumped out of the crow's body and walked straight to the lobby.
After the servant of the dormitory bent down and respectfully sent him off, he quickly stood aside holding the crow on his arm and started feeding and watering him happily.
At the same time, several crows flew into the dormitory nearby, and a shadow also walked out of them and walked towards the lobby of the dormitory. These were Taoist disciples who, like Xu Dao, were flying in the bodies of crows.
Although the possessed crows are not monsters, they can channel spirits and are easily invaded by Taoist spirits.
Taoist disciples who do not have Yin beasts often find a crow as a body after their Yin spirit comes out of the body to facilitate walking in the White Bone Temple. At the same time, some transactions between Taoist disciples are mostly completed by relying on crows as messengers.
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It is said that there are crows everywhere in the White Bone Temple. It is precisely for this reason that they were raised for the convenience of Taoist disciples. There are even rumors that the crows in the temple are actually the same species, and they are all the descendants of an old dark crow in the beast courtyard.
Descendants.
After Xu Dao entered the lobby of the dormitory, the people around him were all Taoist disciples who had left their bodies. Each of them had no feet on the ground, and their bodies were floating around, as if they were in the underworld.
Only some Taoist servants could not leave their bodies and could only use their physical bodies to work in the hall.
This was not the first time Xu Dao came to the dormitory. As soon as he walked in, a handyman came over to greet him.
After explaining his intention simply and clearly, the handyman invited him to wait aside while he trotted to get the mission booklet. When the mission booklet was brought, the man respectfully held it in his hand for Xu Dao to look through and choose.
"The night duty mission, which lasts forty days, the Five Paths Skills... the spiritual field mission, which lasts for thirty days..."
Xu Dao looked at them one by one and found that chores really delayed time, so he turned directly to the "outing missions" page.
Most of the things that need to be done down the mountain are collecting elixirs, ores, monster materials, etc., which are also cumbersome and waste time.
He turned over a few more pages, and the task of slaying demons and subduing demons appeared in his eyes, including the task of apprehending Taoist disciples in the late stage of Qi training. However, Xu Dao was quite self-aware and turned the last page directly.
After skipping a few, a mission came into his eyes: "Guhuo Bird"
"Guodong County is suspected of being haunted by a bird that cannibalizes people and plunders children. The people of the Guo clan seek to kill this monster... a total of thirty skills."
Xu Dao took a closer look and found that Guodong County was quite far away from the White Bone Temple, but after riding on the paper horse, it only took a day and night to get there.
The powerful Guo family in the county belongs to the Guo family. Their ancestors were Taoist disciples in the temple. So far, they have repeatedly sent their children to the temple. Although no one has become a Qi Lian Taoist disciple anymore, they pay tribute to the White Bone Temple on time every year, so they have received
The protection of the Bone Temple.
Xu Dao thought about it, and he pondered: "Those who catch birds fly by day and hide at night. They cover themselves with ghosts and monsters. Their clothes and feathers turn into birds, and they take off their clothes and turn into women... They have no children. They like to plunder the sons of men, raise them, and eat them."
Combined with what was said in the mission, this monster has no plans to eat children in Guodong County. It eats one piece of food every day. The county government cannot control it, so it can only ask the White Bone Temple to take action. Most of them are Qi refining level monsters.
Xu Dao glanced at the end of the task and found that there were already two ink dots. After some thought, he added another ink dot at the end of the task.
The booklet states that this task is worth thirty steps, and it is recommended that three people take it together.
Xu Dao accepted the task and found just enough three people to go down the mountain to complete the task in a few days. He handed the task book back to the handyman, who bowed and left in a hurry.
Not long after, the servant came over quickly and said respectfully to Xu Dao: "Please, Master Taoist, please meet at the gate of Dongshan in three days. The other two adults will arrive by then..."
Xu Dao listened to the servant's explanation in detail, and took out all his salary for the past month, a total of ten talisman coins, and then walked out of the dormitory.
Plop!
After a while, another crow flew out of the dormitory courtyard, holding a small talisman at its feet, and suddenly flew into the ghost market.
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The next three days.
While Xu Dao was practicing in the cave, he was preparing things he might need when going down the mountain in case of emergencies.
Three days later, when it was close to noon, he finally got some sleep, and then walked out of the cave in person. He rode a paper horse and rushed to the mountain gate without stopping.
The paper horse was light and wading through mountains and rivers as if it were on flat ground. It took only a short time to reach the vicinity of the White Bone Mountain Gate.
This was the first time that Xu Dao walked out of the cave in half a year. He felt happy for a while. When he arrived at the mountain gate, he suddenly saw someone and his mood became better again.
Xu Dao arrived with a horse, immediately turned over and dismounted, and called out familiarly: "Brother Yu, you are fine!"
I saw two people waiting at the entrance of the mountain. One of them was sitting cross-legged, holding a sword in his arms, closing his eyes and concentrating. This person was Xu Dao's former roommate, Yu Yangyan.
Yu Yangyan heard Xu Dao's cry and opened his eyelids suddenly. A light flashed in his eyes. When he saw Xu Dao's face clearly, he said with a smile: "Brother Xu is here! How are you doing lately?"
"Very good, very good." The two of them greeted each other and became familiar with each other in a polite manner.
Listening to the two people talking, the person next to him impatiently shouted: "Hey! Are you the third one? In what year were you promoted to Taoist disciples? How old is your current Taoist practice? What kind of magic do you know?"
A series of questions came out of this man's mouth, making Xu Dao slightly startled.
He raised his eyes and looked at the other person carefully, and found that this person was not wearing the standard Taoist robe. He had a jade hairpin in his head, a green belt around his waist, and a light blue robe with a faint glimmer of water. He did not look like a Taoist, but more like a wealthy disciple.
At the same time, the mount under this man's crotch is not a paper horse or a paper cow, but a large, thin-necked horse that smells of sulfur from its mouth and nose. There are thin scales on both sides of the horse's body.
It's a monster.
When Yu Yangyan heard this, he quickly smoothed things over with a smile and returned for Xu Dao: "This is my good friend, whose surname is Xu and whose name is Dao. He was once my roommate and friend, and he was also a Taoist disciple who achieved success in the same year."
After speaking, Yu Yangyan introduced to Xu Dao: "This is Fellow Taoist Fang Xiaoshan. He was originally a Taoist boy in the same period as you and me, but Fellow Taoist Fang Xiaoshan broke through to the realm of Qi refining last year and was promoted to a Taoist disciple.
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Xu Dao heard this, nodded, and nodded calmly.
But Fang Xiaoshan, who was riding on the demon horse, looked at Xu Dao and said, "It seems that he is a new Taoist disciple, but has he learned Qi refining level spells?"
When Xu Dao heard the other party's question, he just replied calmly: "I just learned some qigong skills, and I can barely protect myself."
Fang Xiaoshan heard this, nodded, and said, "Then let's go down the mountain. You two should keep up and don't fall behind." After saying that, he kicked the demon horse that sat down.
Yu! The demon horse snorted, puffed out a burst of smoke from its mouth, immediately raised its hooves and neighed several times, then kicked off the ground and galloped away, leaving only Xu Dao and Yu Yangyan standing there.
Seeing the other party's behavior, Xu Dao frowned and looked unhappy.
But Yu Yangyan gave him a look and said, "Brother Xu, let's follow first." The man took out a charm from his sleeve, transformed into a paper horse, and rode on it.
"Good." Xu Dao promised first, got on his horse and started galloping alongside the other party.