After kowtowing, the man stood up and hurried back home.
The house was dilapidated, impoverished, air leaking everywhere, and there was not a single thing of value in the house.
A skinny woman with a disheveled face was huddled beside the bed, her body trembling due to cold and hunger.
There was a sleeping old man lying on the bed, covered with a shabby quilt. The old man's face was pale, without a trace of blood, and his breath was as thin as a thread, just like a light in the wind and rain, which might go out at any time.
With a creak, the door opened, and the cold wind rushed in from the outside.
The woman stood up quickly and used her thin body to shield the old man from the cold wind.
At the same time, he looked back and saw that his husband, whom he had been worried about day and night, had returned, with a look of genuine joy on his face.
In order to save her mother-in-law, her husband went to the mountains to look for the legendary fairy grass for nearly seven days.
She was worried every day. She knew the dangers in the mountains. The longer time passed, the more worried she became. She often cried alone in the past two days.
I can only pray silently, hoping that the gods can bless my husband to return safely.
Now seeing him come back, I couldn't help but let out a long sigh of relief.
"I saw an immortal in the mountains, and the immortal gave me an elixir."
"God, God, are there really gods in the mountains?" His wife was also stunned after hearing this.
After all, they had only heard about things like gods, and no one had ever seen them with their own eyes.
"Really, the god sent his beast to send me back, and gave the elixir to my mother first."
The man cut off a small piece of the elixir Wang Zhe gave him, dissolved it in warm water, and fed it little by little to the old man. Then the couple waited aside.
At this time, in the mountain village outside the house,
Some of the villagers who were frightened by Laifu and fled in all directions stuck their heads out boldly, took a look, then came out from the corner and quietly turned around.
After confirming that the scary monster had left, he breathed a sigh of relief.
"What was that just now? It was so scary."
One person comes out, and soon there will be a second, a third...
When people got together, they were frightened at the beginning, but after they stabilized, they naturally began to talk about the man who had just been sent back from Laifu.
"What kind of monster was that just now?"
"I don't know, it's scary just looking at it. I guess you left after eating it, right?"
"But, I saw Xiang get off that monster's body."
"Really, did you read that correctly?"
"That's right."
"Yes, I saw it too."
"Also, let's take a look at Axiang's house and we'll find out."
At Axiang's home, the couple were surprised to find that their mother's face, which was originally pale and without a trace of blood, turned red and her breathing became much more steady.
The man hurriedly fed the remaining elixir to his old man.
After a while, the old man's body seemed to emit a dull light, and then his eyelids moved and he opened his eyes.
His cloudy eyes turned twice, and finally looked at the two people guarding the bed.
"Axiang, Xiaoxue."
"Mom, you're awake!" The middle-aged man shed tears of joy.
"Is Axiang at home?"
At this moment, shouts came from outside.
A man in his forties, with unshaven beard and triangular eyes opened the door.
When he saw A Xiang, he was startled. When he saw the old man sitting on the bed, he took a step back in shock.
Axiang is very famous in the village because he is a well-known filial son. He has tried every means to save his seriously ill mother.
I sold all the valuable things in my home, but to no avail.
The old man looked like he was going to die.
This is something that everyone in the village knows. As a neighbor, he came to see the old man specially. A few days ago, he even saw A Xiang going into the mountains alone with a hatchet.
He said that he was going to find the legendary fairy grass to cure his mother's illness.
At that time, he dismissed it. There was no fairy grass. There were countless wolves, tigers and leopards in the mountains. If you were not careful, you would die in them.
When the time comes, mother and son will have a companion on the Huangquan Road to avoid being lonely.
But now the seriously ill old man actually sat up, his face turned rosy, and he was still drinking porridge.
"Aunt, you, are you awake!?" The sight he saw was so shocking that he couldn't speak clearly.
"Ah, I just woke up." The old man said with a smile.
"Axiang, you, have you really found the fairy grass?" The man suddenly thought of a possibility and turned to look at Axiang.
"I didn't find the fairy grass, but I met an immortal in Qinchuan. He gave me a fairy pill and saved my mother's life."
Axiang is an honest person and has nothing to hide from his friend from the same village.
"That monster?"
"What monster? The mythical beast you said sent me back was sent by the immortal to send me back. It took me six days to go into the mountain, but it sent me back in just half a day."
Immortals, are there really immortals?!
The man who came to visit was buzzing.
"What does the immortal look like?"
"He looks like an immortal. I don't know how long he has lived, but he looks like he is twenty years old."
"Where is the immortal?"
"I don't know." Axiang shook his head.
"I don't know, how could you not know?"
"I was rescued by an immortal when I fainted in the mountains, so I don't know where he is." Axiang said.
In fact, he roughly knew where Wang Zhe was practicing, but he swallowed the words when they came to his lips.
He suddenly realized that if he revealed the place where the immortal lived, many people might go to the mountains to find him and seek elixir, which would disturb his spiritual practice.
That immortal probably doesn't want to be disturbed, right?
"Maybe it's fate." Axiang said this.
He searched hard in the mountains for six days, experienced life and death, and almost died in the mountains several times, before he had the chance to meet the immortal.
Thinking about it now, he felt that the experiences before he could see the immortal were probably God's test for him.
At this time, Laifu met three people on the way back, who came to search the mountain.
There were originally four of them, but they encountered a tough situation and one of them died in the woods.
"This is a monster, no, it's a spiritual beast?!"
One of them pointed at Laifu Road.
He saw a different aura on Laifu's body, not the black aura of a monster, but a green aura.
The remaining two people were stunned for a moment after hearing this, and then looked surprised. They looked at each other.
"Catch them alive!"
Spiritual beasts are rare for monks.
For example, the golden-winged wither is the lowest-level spiritual beast artificially cultivated.
Between heaven and earth, there are some natural spiritual beasts. It is not an exaggeration to say that they are monsters. They are all born and raised by the earth and possess strange supernatural powers.
For example, Golden Wings can search in the sky, and if you have some spiritual beasts with you, you can give early warning.
If these strange beasts can be tamed, they can bring some unexpected gains to the monks' practice.
"Get away!" Upon seeing this, Laifu roared loudly, his voice echoing through the forest.
"The spiritual wisdom has been opened, and the mouth speaks human words!"
This roar made these people more determined to surrender it.
"Be careful not to injure its life."
One of them took out a talisman, chanted a spell, and flicked it towards Laifu.
Certainly,
The talisman fell on Lai Fu's body, Lai Fu's body shook, and the talisman instantly shattered.
"It's broken, good, good!" The monk was happy instead of angry.
So several monks surrounded Laifu and cast spells, but they were all more restrained and did not make a fatal move.
However, as they fought, they discovered that the spiritual beast in front of them was far more difficult to deal with than they imagined.
It has rough skin and thick flesh, is extremely fast, and can shock people with its roar.
Inadvertently, a person was bitten by him and lost an arm.
They discovered that if they didn't use all their abilities, they might not be able to do anything to this spiritual beast.
So they each used their own means to look after the house, but found that they still couldn't do anything about this spiritual beast.
It actually carries a protective magical weapon on its body.
There is a piece of jade hanging around Laifu's neck. It is no ordinary jade, it is a protective magic weapon specially made for it by Wang Zhe.
There are special amulet spells engraved on it.
But after all, Laifu has fewer means, and is not as good as those three people who are both skilled in magic and magic weapons.
Moreover, it was also playing dirty tricks, and gradually it couldn't hold on any longer, so it took the opportunity to roar, calmed the few people, and then turned around and ran away.
Running towards the mountain peak where Wang Zhe practices,
It can't fight them, but its owner can!
In the distance, while looking at the mountain, I heard the roar of a native dog. I felt a little impatient.
"Did you encounter some trouble?"
Wang Zhe left the mountain in one step, followed the sound, and saw the three people chasing Laifu.
He dodged and stopped the three of them.
"This spiritual beast has an owner?!" As soon as several people saw Wang Zhe appear, they immediately realized that the spiritual beast they wanted to surrender had an owner.
If a spiritual beast is so powerful, wouldn't its owner be even more powerful?
Several people have already given up.
"Walk!"
They turned around and were about to run away, but found that their bodies were frozen, and then they fell from the air and were thrown straight to the ground.
He was beaten to pieces and almost fainted.
As the saying goes, when beating a dog, it depends on the owner.
These people should actually take action against Laifu. Wang Zhe naturally had no intention of letting them go back home.
"Laifu, why are they chasing you?"
Ah oh, ah ah,
Wang Zhe already understood Laifu's emotional description.
"You guys talk about it."
"We thought it was an ownerless spiritual beast and wanted to subdue it, so we took action. Please forgive me."
As soon as Wang Zhe took action, they knew that the person in front of them was definitely not something they could deal with.
The inner energy in the body was suppressed to the point of being unable to move. This level of cultivation was really much higher than them.
"You are from the imperial court, right? What are you doing here in Qinchuan, a thousand miles away?"
"Come to this mountain to find a monk who escaped from the capital."
These people were not very harsh and told Wang Zhe all about their purpose of coming here.
"Eight Wastelands Monument?!"
Wang Zhe was also a little surprised when he heard that that person had snatched two monuments from Northern Xinjiang and the capital.
You must know that the capital city is known as a forbidden place for monks in the world, which means that no monks can run wild in the capital city.
Because the capital had internal guards, Tianfeng Pavilion, and a large number of monks to guard the palace, this man was actually able to break out of the siege and steal an Eight Desolate Monument.
He also understood why the Eight Desolate Monuments reacted abnormally when he was practicing in the cave.
It should be that person who used the Eight Desolate Monuments to perform some kind of magical power.
"Laifu, what do you think we should do with them?" Wang Zhe pointed at the three people.
Laifu thought for a while, then stepped forward, one person at a time.
The three people flew out directly and crashed into a tree trunk or rock. They didn't know whether they were alive or dead.
"Oh, I know you should be merciful, that's right." Wang Zhe smiled and nodded. Laifu didn't kill the three of them, and Wang Zhe didn't take their lives either.
"Whether you live or die, it all depends on your fate. Good luck if you leave!"
Wang Zhe left with Laifu, and the three people felt that the power that suppressed them dissipated, as if the mountains that were pressing on them flew away.
"Huh, that person's cultivation is so good!"
The three people struggled to get up.
"I never imagined that there are such powerful people in this mountain."
They did not dare to stay in the mountains any longer, so they endured the pain and turned around to leave.
Not long after leaving, the three people fell down one after another.
His whole body was blue and black, and he was foaming at the mouth.
A purple mark appeared on everyone's neck.
In addition to wild beasts, there are also some terrible poisonous insects in this mountain, which are even more deadly than those terrible wild beasts.
"Laifu, your skills are too bad. You can't beat those three."
Back on the mountain, Wang Zhe began to criticize Laifu.
Woof woof, ouch.
"Don't make excuses, weakness is the original sin."
Ouch!
"In this way, I will give you additional training starting from today."
"I don't!" Laifu said anxiously after hearing this, and just said what others said.
A peaceful life is so wonderful, it doesn't want to be beaten all day long.
"Hey, I can actually talk!" Wang Zhe said happily.
"Okay, very good, let's start practicing from today."
"I'll teach you the Five Elements Escape Technique first. If you can't fight, you can run. If you can't run, you'll have to wait for death. Let's start with Earth Escape..."
"What, why don't Tuanzi learn it? Its cultivation level is worse than yours. Besides, it's just an eagle. How can it learn Earth Escape? I will teach it the wind control technique in the future."
"It's a good spell!"
Wang Zhe recited the mantra, and although Laifu looked unhappy, he still listened carefully.
In the camp outside the mountain,
When it got dark, the deacon of Tianfeng Pavilion who was waiting outside found that four more of their people who had gone into the mountain had not returned.
"There are four people missing!" He looked at the vast green mountains in front of him.
It was like a huge monster, constantly devouring them.
You can imagine how difficult it is to find a person in a mountain who is also a monk with advanced cultivation.
Just when they were worried, someone suddenly came from the capital and brought the emperor's order, asking the deputy chief of Tianfeng Pavilion and several deacons who were outside to return to the capital.
He said he had something important to discuss.
The remaining people continue to search for the whereabouts of the monk who broke into the capital and took away the Eight Desolate Monuments.
With the departure of several masters,
Those who were left began to fish in troubled waters.