After Qi Wu paid tribute to the mountain god, he hurriedly gathered around with everyone.
Everyone who was covered in water shivered when the cold wind blew.
"You will get sick if you continue like this."
The old hunter walked to the corner, took out a handful of firewood, and said with a big smile: "We hunters sometimes take shelter here from the rain, so we left the firewood here in advance, waiting to be used today."
Qi Wu was overjoyed: "Thank you very much."
The old hunter didn't care: "It's nothing. Living in the mountains means you help me and I help you. When the rain stops tomorrow, we can just collect some firewood and put it back."
Everyone quickly piled firewood on the fire mark on the ground. Qi Wu took out the fire talisman and lit a wooden branch. He put the branch into the dry firewood, blew and fanned it gently, and the dry firewood was slowly ignited.
Looking at the gradually rising flames and feeling the warmth of the flames, some people let out a long breath.
"Finally alive."
"Brother Qi, do you want yellow rice cakes or white rice cakes?"
"One of the same?"
One of them distributed the dry food. After everyone got the dry food, they put the dry food near the fire to bake.
After the pancakes were fragrant, Ah Yue took out a jar of pickles and asked everyone to spread them on the pancakes. They then took a bite and their mouths were full of salty aroma.
"Ah Yue is really good at making pickles. Let me tell you, Ah Yue, you might as well open a pickle shop instead of doing business with us?"
A Yue smiled and said nothing.
Qi Wu thought of the scene just now and asked: "Old Sun, why did you ask A Yue if he was pushed down?"
It was the first time for Qi Wu and others to enter the mountains. They wanted to cross the mountains and sell goods in Qinghuai County on the other side. After searching for a long time, they finally found an old local hunter to lead the way.
The old Orion looked solemn: "Have you ever heard of a ghost?"
Qi Wu and others looked serious. They traveled all over the country and naturally knew some things about ghosts and ghosts. One of them even loudly said: "Are you talking about the ghosts who are working for the tiger?"
The old hunter nodded and whispered: "This mountain is called Songshan. About ten years ago, a hunter went into the mountain to hunt, and then disappeared, leaving only one shoe. At that time, some people said that a tiger demon came to the mountain. Take that
The hunter ate it."
"At first, people didn't want to believe it. They thought they had been living here for generations. How could a tiger monster appear?"
"But as time went by, someone said that when hunting, the hound was barking in one direction. He looked in the direction and was so scared that his body became stiff."
"It was a colorful tiger, four meters long. The tiger leaped forward and pounced on the hound. When he saw it, he ran away. Fortunately, the tiger did not catch up!"
"People also found that people were missing from time to time, so they reported the situation to Qinghuai County. After the officials learned about it, they asked me to go to Yanjiang County and said that Songshan is close to Yanjiang County and you only sell prey to Yanjiang County.
It should be under their control."
"When we came to Yanjiang County, the officials said that Songshan belongs to Qinghuai County and should be under the jurisdiction of Qinghuai County."
"After several rounds of back and forth, each side sent two monks to search for traces of the tiger demon in Songshan. They searched for ten days in a row, but not even a single tiger hair was found. The two monks felt that we had tricked them and wasted so much time. We
We explained that maybe the tiger demon was hiding from them and didn't dare to come out, but the two monks didn't listen to our explanation and walked away."
"We went to the government again, but they stopped paying attention to us."
"We have no choice. Most people leave Songshan and find other ways to live. Only a few of us old guys are left. We know nothing but hunting and stay here."
"Later we discovered that we would encounter missing travelers while hunting. The travelers were mysterious and mysterious. They would disappear from your eyes and appear and push you around."
"Sometimes when I take people into the mountains, those travelers pretend to have met us by chance and ask if we can take them with us. How dare I agree and take people away quickly?"
"The older generation once said that there is something called a ghost in the world. When a tiger monster kills a person, the person turns into a ghost, looks for prey for the tiger monster, deceives the person into a place, and turns the prey into a new one.
Ghost."
"But it's easy to deal with the demon. As long as you refuse the demon's request, the demon won't do anything to you."
Qi Wu suddenly understood. Before, he was surprised that there should be many hunters in such a large forest. How come it took him a long time to find several families of hunters, and these families of hunters still lived together.
It turns out it was the tiger demon who forced me to do it.
Seeing A Yue's hesitation, Qi Wu asked, "A Yue, if you have anything to ask, just ask."
Originally, Ah Yue felt embarrassed to ask his question, but since his boss said so, he stopped hiding it.
"I only have one question. Is there a female ghost in this demon? Is she good-looking? Can she be seductive? Can she attract men's masculinity? Is it possible for me and her to start a forbidden love, and together we can avoid being hunted by tiger demons and wander around the world?
?”
Every time A Yue asked a question, a question mark appeared above everyone's heads, even the old Orion was no exception.
Seeing everyone's reaction, Ah Yue scratched his head in embarrassment: "I've seen it written like this in novels, such as A Chinese Ghost Story, the relationship between humans and ghosts, and so on."
Qi Wu was silent for a moment and patted A Yue on the shoulder: "Read less."
Then Qi Wu asked: "Why don't you, Old Sun, report this matter to the five great immortal sects? The five great immortal sects defend the right way and will definitely not sit idly by."
"Five Immortal Sects?" The old Orion looked confused, having never heard of this title.
"The five famous sects such as Taoist Sect and Xuankong Temple are also the five most powerful sects in the entire continent."
"I seem to have heard this name before." The old Orion said uncertainly. He didn't know where he heard it. Maybe he heard it in the teahouse at the foot of the mountain, maybe he was a tourist entering the mountain, maybe he heard it when he was young, maybe he heard it when he got old.
Heard it.
Can't remember clearly.
In fact, the people know very little about immortal cultivators, they just hear about them rarely.
Not to mention that stories passed down by word of mouth are too easily deformed. When they reach the ears of ordinary people, they are often very different from the real stories and cannot be believed.
For example, Qi Wu once heard that the reason why Taoist sect is called Taoist sect refers to the vastness of the immortal path and the meaning of asking about heaven. Moreover, cultivating immortals means cultivating the mind. You need to constantly ask what kind of path you are pursuing, whether it is the righteous path or the devil's path. Don't
Lose your heart.
One time, Qi Wu met a disciple of Taoism, who seemed to be named Dai Bufan, and asked him why Taoism was called Taoism. He still remembers Dai Bufan's answer very clearly.
"If you ask this, then you have to talk about the founder of Taoist Sect, Taoist Xiantian. In order to find a geomantic treasure, the founder spent a lot of money to ask people from Tiance Sect to locate and calculate, and finally found a gathering place.
He also said that if a sect wants to prosper forever, it needs to establish a sect at a specific time and place."
"It turned out that the Grandmaster didn't know the way. He had already marked the place but still got lost. He had to ask an old farmer on the roadside for directions, and then he found the sect's address without wasting any time."
"In order to thank the old farmer, the founder named the sect Taoist sect."