Although Li Gui was killed, none of them could sleep.
"Although Qingyang County is the closest county to Liangcheng, it is still more than a hundred miles away." Lin Ji said in a deep voice, "Now there are fierce ghosts entering the city, and there are more than one. This means that there should be more ghosts on the road.
There are more.”
"Not only in Qingyang County, but also in all directions of Liangcheng and in every county, there will be fierce ghosts and even stronger ghosts."
At this moment, a sense of tension of a large army pressing down on the situation lingered in everyone's minds.
"The three ghosts tonight are probably just appetizers. It looks like the next period will be difficult... Lao Guo, I'm afraid you and I won't have time to rest every night."
"It should." Guo Yi nodded.
Naturally, the previously mentioned matter of returning to Qingcheng to pick up his wife could only be put aside for the time being.
Lin Ji looked at Ling Yin and Lu Cong again.
"Lu Cong, go back and practice conscientiously. Don't wander around all day long until you reach the second level." Lin Ji said, "You have to deal with just a few evil ghosts so hard, don't you think it's a shame?"
"I understand." Lu Cong nodded repeatedly, a little discouraged.
In fact, Lu Cong's talent was very average. Although he was born with as much strength as an ox, his qualifications were not very good. It was not easy to enter the ranks of monks by chance, and it was not easy to enter again.
But Lin Ji didn't want him not to strive for improvement.
It's just the second level. No matter how poor your qualifications are, you will always have a chance if you work hard.
After sending Lu Cong away, Lin Ji said to Lingyin: "Lingyin, you can set off back to the Qingcheng faction tomorrow."
Ayane was stunned for a moment, then said dissatisfied: "No, how can I leave at this time?"
"Three fierce ghosts will drive you to exhaustion tonight. Are you delaying me and Lao Guo by staying here?" Lin Ji said bluntly.
"But..."
"I don't want to deal with the devil while also trying to save you." Lin Ji said bluntly, "Talent is just talent. No matter how talented you are, you are just a second-level monk now."
"Even if your spiritual eyes are not open, the ghost realm of evil ghosts can affect you. It's useless to stay with this ability. Go back to the mountain."
Ayane wanted to argue again, but was stopped by Guo Yi.
"Lin Captou is right. Junior sister, if it's normal, that's fine. The current situation has obviously gone beyond the scope of experience." Guo Yi said in a deep voice, "Think about the elders of the sect who have high hopes for you. Now you are not willful.
When you go back, you should intensify your practice and strive for an early breakthrough."
After hearing this, Ayane was silent for a long time.
"I know, I'll go back tomorrow."
After Ling Yin also left, Lin Ji and Guo Yi looked at each other and smiled bitterly.
"The news about the support manpower from above has been sent out, but under the current situation, I guess it will be difficult for Supervisor Tiansi to mobilize more people," Guo Yi said.
"We can only wait." Lin Ji didn't have any good solution for this.
The night is already deep.
After Lin Ji said goodbye to Guo Yi, he walked towards his home.
He took out the book of cause and effect from his arms, opened the blank space and added new contents.
'The evil spirit tried to kill the watchman, Old Qiao, so behead him.'
When the last stroke was written, Lin Ji suddenly felt clear in his heart.
It's not like last time, where you killed the demon and made great progress in cultivation. A few fierce ghosts were not so exaggerated, but if you practice again now, you will definitely get twice the result with half the effort.
Lin Ji didn't want to delay, so he quickened his pace, returned home, and quickly entered a state of cultivation.
...
This practice did not end until noon the next day.
Lin Ji opened his eyes and took a long breath to calm down the spiritual energy surging in his lower meridians.
"This night's practice is enough to equal my usual week's effort." Lin Ji thought to himself.
At this time, the spiritual energy in his Dantian was close to saturation.
"After the spiritual energy can no longer grow at all, and then stay in seclusion for two or three days, you should be able to break through to the fourth realm."
If others wanted to break through the realm, it would take months or even years to break through the bottleneck, but Lin Ji had no bottleneck at all because of the gift of the Book of Cause and Effect.
After cultivating to the pinnacle of his realm, and then practicing hard in seclusion, the breakthrough realization will naturally appear in his mind, just like a sudden epiphany, and then it will all come naturally.
This was the case when he broke through the second and third realms before. Lin Ji didn't think there would be any surprises in the fourth realm.
Pushing open the door to the room and facing the sunshine, Lin Ji let out a long yawn.
I lazily walked out of the courtyard and walked along the familiar streets to Ruyi Building.
It was still by the window on the second floor, and the waiter had already poured the tea in without Lin Ji opening his mouth.
After a while, Lin Ji's favorite dishes were brought out one by one.
According to the rules of Ruyilou, as soon as Lin Ji arrives, the cook must first serve Lin Baotou.
While Lin Ji was eating, he saw Zhou Qian downstairs outside the window.
"Zhou Qian, come up and join us."
"Come here." Zhou Qian also saw Lin Ji and responded quickly.
Zhou Qian came to the second floor and sat down opposite Lin Ji.
"Boss, I heard there was a ghost last night."
"It has nothing to do with you." Lin Ji said perfunctorily. He had just gotten married and was moving away, so he should stay less involved in this matter.
Lin Ji asked casually while eating: "I see you are in a hurry, what are you going to do?"
"Hey, it's not that there are too many properties in the county, so I'm worried." Zhou Qian looked depressed, "When I discussed it with Xiaomei, it was a good idea, but when I was really ready to move, it became troublesome."
Lin Ji listened quietly without speaking.
"There are more than a dozen places in the house, and there are also expensive furniture inside."
"There are a lot of shops, and you can't take this thing with you."
"Gold, silver and jewelry are soft and messy, which makes me annoyed when I see them."
"And the women I raised before need to be settled one by one."
"So, you won't be able to leave for a while?" Lin Ji couldn't listen anymore and asked.
"That's not the case. I just asked my father for one hundred thousand taels of silver, and all this mess belongs to him." Zhou Qian said with a smile.
Hearing this, Lin Ji suddenly lost his appetite. He stood up and walked out, and then said: "Old Li's Shaobing Shop, the donkey meat shop in the county, and this Ruyi Building."
"What's wrong?" Zhou Qian was puzzled.
"I have a lot of debts. You can settle them for me later."
Zhou Qian should be smiling.
Lin Ji patted his shoulder.
"When are you leaving? It's not peaceful in the county these days. If you want to leave, hurry up and don't delay."
"Tomorrow."
"I'm too lazy to see you off. Have a nice trip."
"okay."
After bidding farewell to Zhou Qian, Lin Ji left Ruyi Building, but just after taking two steps, he suddenly saw a Taoist priest setting up a fortune-telling stall on the roadside.
Lin Ji recognized him as the sloppy Taoist priest he met in Tongtian Town when he came out of the capital.
Thinking of this, Lin Ji came to the stall.
The Taoist priest was still as slovenly as ever, with gray on his face, his eyes closed and his mouth muttering.
"I know astronomy from the top and geography from the bottom. Five hundred years before and five hundred years after! What does the guest officer want?"
"Taoist, when did you become blind?" Lin Ji said with a smile.
The Taoist priest opened his eyes and was a little surprised to see Lin Ji.