Xiao Jiang nodded, and the scholar was not embarrassed at all. He ate his own beef noodles which were equally delicious. He was not at all envious of Xiao Jiang who was eating fine wine and delicious food. It seemed that he had looked down on life.
Soon the scholar finished eating and left. Jiao Na also finished eating and wiped her mouth with the silk cloth in her paws. Xiao Jiang was still drinking wine, but the Red Queen said with a smile:
"This scholar must be Ning Caichen. You actually helped him keep his account book. Doesn't this directly change his future? But why is this place so different from the novel?"
Xiao Jiang smiled. This world was very normal. He had retained all the scenes of the Liaozhai world when he came, so it was not surprising that there were differences.
After dinner, the rain stopped. Xiao Jiang stood up and left the tavern with the little fox in his arms. Because he killed a fierce man as soon as he came, everyone in the town was very afraid of him. When Xiao Jiang walked out,
Everyone here secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
A rainbow appeared in the distant sky, revealing colorful light when the clouds dispersed and the sun shone down. Xiao Jiang looked at it and suddenly smiled:
“I once heard an old man say that there was a lot of gold at the foot of the rainbow. So when I was a child, I ran to chase the rainbow when I saw it, but the rainbow actually ran away, and I couldn’t catch it every time. When I grew up, I realized that rainbows are formed by the refraction of light by water vapor.
When I think about it, I was the happiest when I was a child, but it’s a pity that children’s lives are becoming more and more meaningless now.”
As he spoke, Xiao Jiang disappeared in a flash, and when he reappeared, he was already at a creek in the mountains. A rainbow appeared over the pool where the creek gathered. Due to the previous heavy rain, the stream was now rumbling outward along the river ditch.
, a group of fish in the pool kept swimming to avoid being carried away by the rapids.
"Crash..."
The sound of the stream echoed in the mountains. Jiao Na in Xiao Jiang's arms climbed onto his shoulder and licked his chin and said:
"Master, there is a lot of yin energy around here."
Xiao Jiang nodded and walked along the stream to a small lake and looked around. He walked straight to a huge banyan tree. He looked at the large golden altar under the tree and smiled. He waved his hand to a small
The golden altar fell into his hands, and he glanced at the banyan tree walking through the woods with a smile, passing by the mass graves. Not long after, he saw a temple at the edge of the woods that was submerged by two to three meters of wormwood.
The words "Lanruo Temple" on a stone tablet covered with vines in front of the stone temple are still intact, and the stone road is also covered with green grass. Xiao Jiang walked into the temple. When he reached the main hall gate, the sky was already dark enough that ordinary people could not see the road clearly.
For Xiao Jiang, there is no difference between night and day. He glanced around and saw that the Buddha statue in the main hall was broken, the incense table was made of mahogany but was in perfect condition, there was a lot of dead grass in the corner, and there was a cold fire pit next to it.
The firewood around Xiao Jiang's finger circled into a pile and ignited automatically. The surrounding hay rose into the air and was woven into a futon and fell to the side of the fire. Xiao Jiang walked over and sat down, lit a cigarette, and Xiao Jiang patted it gently.
Jin Tan clapped his hands and said with a smile:
"Jiao Na, please sense where the owner of this golden altar's ashes is now."
The golden altar in Xiao Jiang's hand is actually an ancient ashes altar. He would not play with other people's ashes when he had nothing to do. Naturally, he had his own reasons for doing so.
Jiao Na is a fox demon, but she is not an ordinary fox demon. She has a Sky Fox Demon Pill in her body. If she can complete the transformation, she will become a fox fairy, so she is considered a very powerful one in the fox clan.
She is here as a pet in Xiao Jiang, but that does not mean that she is just a well-behaved fox. She twitched her nose and said:
"This is an urn for a lonely soul. The soul is not in it now. It should have gone out before dusk. No matter where the lonely soul is, she will return to the urn before the rooster crows three times tomorrow morning, so it doesn't matter whether she is there or not.
important.
However, when the owner took away the urn just now, the demonic energy in the banyan tree fluctuated. I guess the banyan tree has become a spirit, and the owner of the urn should be controlled by the banyan tree demon.
Now that the owner has taken away the urn, he has saved this lonely soul, which is a good thing for her. I smelled her breath and found that her breath was only 150 feet away from here, but I didn't realize that the urn was there.
Here, master, do you want me to capture her?"
Xiao Jiang stuffed Jiao Na into his arms and said with a smile:
"Catch her. I'll move my hand and she will come. But I have to wait for an opportunity. The tree demon doesn't know my depth for the time being. This female ghost will come to test. I will use her to lure out the old Black Mountain demon. That guy is hiding in
There is a gap between the underworld and the earth, so it’s really hard to find without a passage.”
Just as Xiao Jiang was calculating, a burst of footsteps came from outside. Ten breaths later, a burly man wearing a tattered robe, with sparse hair in a bun, a beard and a large box on his back entered the hall. He glanced at
Xiao Jiang said:
"It's so bold that there are still people who dare to rest here... Hmm..."
As he spoke, his nostrils twitched and he looked into Xiao Jiang's arms. Just as Jiaona poked her head out to look at him, the man's eyes moved and he looked up at Xiao Jiang and said:
"You actually raise a demon fox, brother, you are not an ordinary person."
Xiao Jiang hugged his fists and said with a smile:
"Xiao Jiang, there is nothing to do in the mountain of cultivation. It would be nice to raise a fox to relieve your boredom. Your surname is my brother. I think this place has been popular for a long time. Could it be that I live here and I am disturbing you by taking the liberty of coming here."
The bearded man took off the box from his back and put it on the ground. He sat down and said:
"A dilapidated temple is too disturbing. A certain family, Yan Chixia, doesn't like the chaos in the world, so she just came to this deserted suburb to hide from her business.
Since you are also a practitioner, let me tell you directly, there is a very strong monster here, and its power is higher at night, so you should be more careful."
Xiao Jiang smiled and said:
"What about the tree demon? I don't care if she's not afraid of being burned by me. Brother Yan travels all over the world. Do you know why there are all kinds of demons, ghosts, people, gods, immortals, and Buddhas in this world?"
When arriving at Lanruo Temple, Xiao Jiang's first goal is to find out about the situation from Yan Chixia. Other things are not important. His cultivation level is definitely high on the surface in this world. For ordinary people, he just wants to study the power behind them.
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This Yan Chixia is one of them. Originally this Yan Chixia was just a catcher, but suddenly she became a fellow practitioner of Buddhism and Taoism. There must be some reason for this.
Whether in novels or movies, Yan Chixia's origins are very strange. Only one adaptation of the plot said that he was a member of a demon-subduing sect, but it was different from the novel in which he had a tough judge. Maybe that
It's Yan Chixia from another parallel plane.
Yan Chixia has a straightforward personality. Although her personality has become more restrained after living in seclusion for many years, she is still quite talkative. He felt that Xiao Jiang was not an ordinary person, because he found that the fox in Xiao Jiang's arms was extraordinary. He smiled and said:
"I'm just a layman, and I don't know much. As for the demons, ghosts, gods, and immortals in this world, it seems that they have always existed. Maybe the gods in the sky know what is going on."