Xiao Yu stood at the entrance of Qingzhu Temple, stretched his head and looked inside, but there seemed to be no one there.
"What's going on? Have you all gone to catch bamboo rats? Why is there no one there?"
As Xiao Yu was talking, suddenly a Taoist priest rushed out from the bamboo forest behind him. He was carrying a bundle of firewood and a sickle in his hand. He looked a little excited.
"You are...looking for the temple owner. He is not here and will probably come back tomorrow. If you have anything, you can tell me."
The Taoist is very young, about the same age as Xiao Yu. As for his cultivation, let alone his cultivation, he is just a very ordinary disciple with no fluctuation in mana.
After the other party finished speaking, he seemed to remember something and ran towards the Taoist temple quickly, shouting at the same time:
"Brother, come out quickly. I saw a very big bamboo rat. It must have become a sperm. Let's catch it quickly and stew it in a pot while the temple owner is away."
Squeak....
There was a sound like the door being opened, followed by another burst of noise.
"It's true or false. Last time you said there was one, but you didn't see it when you went there. Could it be false this time?"
Several Taoists started talking excitedly inside, and Xiao Yu couldn't help but wonder if he had come to Qingyun Temple by mistake.
But when it came to catching bamboo rats, Xiao Yu also became interested, so he planned to follow him and have a look.
So before the other party came out, he took out an invisibility charm and stuck it on himself, and then stood in the bamboo forest, waiting for several Taoists to come out.
Eating meat and fish is something that some young Taoists like to do. The older the Taoist priests are, the more they will abide by the strict rules.
You can eat meat and fish in Maoshan originally, but Xiao Yu believes that Taoism is a clean place and cannot kill evildoers, so it is not allowed to eat meat in the mountain, but disciples can still eat it when they go out.
After a while, several disciples ran out of the Taoist temple. They first looked around furtively, and then started running towards the back of the bamboo forest.
The disciple who was talking to Xiao Yu before was looking around while running, as if he was wondering where Xiao Yu had gone.
Because there is only one way down the mountain, and standing at the entrance of the Taoist temple, you can see it clearly.
But now there is no one on the mountain road, and it seems that the scene that just happened was an illusion.
The other party just looked at it and didn't think much. They rushed towards the bamboo forest behind.
Xiao Yu followed a few people, feeling quite interesting, as if he had returned to the winter when he was a kid catching rabbits.
But now that my status is different, if I try to do what I did back then, I will probably be laughed at by others.
Therefore, at any age, you must do something. It is not something you want to do, but you must do it. This is responsibility.
The bamboo forest behind Qingzhu Temple is denser and the bamboos are very large, as if they have not been cut down for many years.
Maybe it's because the Taoist temple is well protected and doesn't allow anyone to cut it down, keeping it in its original state, so it becomes like this.
It is now May in the Gregorian calendar, and it has passed the bamboo shoot picking time, so many bamboo shoots with bowl-shaped mouths are growing very tall, and the ground is covered with a layer of bamboo shoot leaves, which can be used to make rice dumplings.
Most of the disciples of Guantian Pavilion use bamboo to make utensils. This may be the reason why the bamboo forest is protected in this way.
They walked about two kilometers, and several disciples from Qingzhu Temple began to bend their backs, each holding a long stick in their hands, as if preparing for a sneak attack.
Xiao Yu continued to walk forward, he wanted to see what it was.
The bamboo here is more luxuriant than other places, the leaves are larger, there are a lot of bird droppings on the ground, there are more rocks, and many bamboo roots are exposed.
Some bamboo roots have holes the size of a fist, and they are widely distributed.
Between those caves, there are also some man-made traps, probably made by the Taoist disciples.
Xiao Yu stood there and stared for a while, then closed his eyes. When he opened them again, one of his eyes had turned golden.
Then he looked at the cycle and found some clues.
Because after his eyes turned golden, he could easily see the white light spots floating around in the sky, and the spiritual light at the roots of a pile of lush bamboo shoots became even denser.
"This is spiritual energy, it's not as rich as Maoshan here!"
Xiao Yu thought to himself, and then walked forward again, but the Taoist disciples behind him began to run in another direction.
"Did you see it? It's in the biggest hole."
The weak voice, as thin as a gossamer, reached Xiao Yu's ears, making him follow him out of curiosity.
A few dozen meters away, there was a cave that looked like a wild boar cave, appearing at the bottom of a hillside, with a faint white light emitting from it from time to time.
Of course, this kind of white light cannot be seen by ordinary people.
But Xiao Yu understood at a glance that there should be a spirit body in this cave.
Or, the bamboo rat the Taoist mentioned should be the little demon.
Several Taoists tiptoed forward, spread a large net on the ground, and then used slender steel wires to make traps. Then they began to move to the back of the cave, found another back cave, blocked the entrance of the cave with stones, and then started
Make a fire.
Xiao Yu watched all this but did not intervene.
However, how can an ordinary Taoist priest be the opponent of a bamboo rat that has become a spiritual body?
So after several Taoists smoked for a while, nothing came out, and they were exhausted.
At this moment, a burst of black light appeared above the cave, and then a man holding a black umbrella condensed out.
The other party took out a roster, sketched it with a pen, and then held a cloth bag in his hand. A dozen little ghosts fell from it and disappeared directly into the hole.
The ghost didn't even look at the Taoists below, and left immediately.
"The ghost messenger has sent the soul here. It seems..."
Xiao Yu now understood that the bamboo rat that the Taoist said was so big was probably a bamboo rat that was about to give birth, so it looked bigger than ordinary rats.
A dozen little ghosts fell down, and the cave was still glowing with white light. Then, the white light suddenly emitted, and then suddenly disappeared.
A creaking sound came from the cave, and then a rustling sound was heard.
Xiao Yu folded his hands on his chest and stood there watching carefully. In less than half a minute, a mouse poked its head out of the hole.
The other party sniffed at the entrance of the cave first, as if he was very alert, and then stepped back.
Immediately afterwards, a black shadow flashed out. It was the bamboo rat that had just given birth. The other party was a little demon. He must have known that the entrance of the cave was dangerous, so he wanted to jump over directly.
But he still underestimated the Taoist's trap. The bamboo rat jumped up and touched something. The big net suddenly bounced up from the inside, directly wrapping the bamboo rat in it, and then fell to the ground with a bang.
Only then did Xiao Yu see that the bamboo rat, including its tail, was about one meter long. It was indeed not small among rats, but compared with other monsters, it was too small!
On the back of the big bamboo rat, there are thirteen newborn baby bamboo rats, whose eyes have not yet opened.
