one's door

Chapter 42 Recourse

The methods of the Taoist sect include skill cultivation and dabbling in the divine way, both of which have a natural restraint on evil things.That's why Zhang Yan confirmed on the mass burial mound that there was a ghost in Xuanhua City, and without even thinking about it, he prepared to redeem him for the merits of Huang Tianyu.

Zhang Yan is eating the ghosts.

But if the rice is too hard, you will inevitably hurt yourself if you don't have a good mouth.

There are a lot of things about demons and ghosts killing themselves in the end when they are fine, and Zhang Yan is no exception to face the counterattack of ghosts, and even get injured.

Of course, Zhang Yan was sure of saving his life.No matter how bad he was, he couldn't run, and he was confident that he wouldn't be killed by a mere ghost.

Now Zhang Yan's problem is not only how to avoid getting hurt, but also try not to let the other party run away, otherwise, wouldn't all his thoughts in Xuanhua City be in vain today?

Putting aside the considerations in his heart, Zhang Yan continued to ask the one-armed man on the ground, "Where will Ma Datou and the others go during the day?"

"That's not very clear. It should be wandering around."

"Wangyou? Are you going to the recruitment office in the south of the city?" Zhang Yan added.The "recruitment office" he mentioned was a place jointly set up by the refugee hall and Chengbei Commercial Bank to facilitate the refugees to find work.The two people from the refugee hall told Zhang Yan that most of the refugees would gather there and look for suitable opportunities to make money.

However, the one-armed man obviously scoffed at the "recruitment office" mentioned by Zhang Yan.

"The jobs offered by the recruitment office are either jobs like mine, which shameless people can do. Or heavy jobs like coolies, which the refugees' bodies can't bear. Or some crafts, such as paper, tailoring, etc. You What kind of work do you think Ma Datou and the others can find there?

In fact, many of the refugees are old and weak. Mr. Gui may not be able to do hard work, and he may not be good at handicrafts, so life is difficult. "

"If you don't go to the recruitment office, where can you hang around?"

The one-armed man thought for a while, and said uncertainly: "If you have to find a place, it is Yuhua Street where you can get some benefits."

"How to say?"

"There are many flower houses on Yuhua Street, and there are stalls for playing money. The people who come and go pay attention to their interests. As long as they keep their eyes on it, they can make a lot of loose money by saying 'Mr. It’s not much, and if you don’t keep an eye on it, you’ll be beaten easily, but the money comes quickly and easily. I’ve talked to Ma Datou and the others about this, and they also said they want to try their luck. Even Zhao Hou’er managed to do it once Back. I think they would probably go there if they were hanging out, but they wouldn’t go early, maybe after noon.”

Having said so much, the one-armed man has already told all he knows.But it's a pity that he didn't know the identities and past of Ma Datou and other relatively private things, just as some superficial understanding of the same refugees.

Zhang Yan smiled and said goodbye to the one-armed man, while following the road pointed by the other, he was going to go to the recruitment office in the north of the city first, and then talk about it, it was still early in Yuhua Street, so there was no rush to go there.

This journey from the east of the city to the south of the city allowed Zhang Yan to take a good look at the various situations in Xuanhua City.

To be honest, Xuanhua City is full of surprises for Zhang Yan.It is completely different from the backward city he imagined when he was in Fishback Mountain.

There is not only a wide main street that can accommodate two large cars side by side while passing people, but also a variety of shops.The crowds on the street were full of prosperity.

The biggest shop he has seen on the road so far is a shop named "Yuan Pharmacy", with an open door and two floors.The people who came in and out were all warriors, and some of them were even highly cultivated. The aura reminded Zhang Yan of Lin Zedong, a warrior in the Tongqiao state.

The second is the shop that sells weapons, and the scale is also very large.Although Zhang Yan didn't go in, he looked through the door and found that there were all kinds of weapons inside.In addition to ordinary long and short swords, there are also many strange weapons.However, no long-handled weapons such as long spears were seen, and there seemed to be no crossbow bolts.

In addition, Zhang Yan also passed a special place, the gate was heavily guarded, and even the guards were warriors' "Xuanhua City Lecture Academy".

Walking all the way, Zhang Yan actually came to the south side of the city. He entered the city through the south gate for the first time before, so he has some impressions of this side.

Following the words of the one-armed man, it was fairly easy to find the recruitment office.It is in the middle of a place called "Tiaoshi Street" near the city gate in the north of the city.

However, there was no clue of what Zhang Yan was looking for.

Compared with the refugee hall, this recruitment office is obviously much busier, and the people who come in and out are all hurried backs.Not only refugees would come here, even most of the people who came here were not refugees.After all, compared to the labor demand of Xuanhua City, refugees only accounted for a small and insignificant part of it.

After staying at the recruitment office for about half an hour, Zhang Yan found nothing.But there was an episode, a few people who were said to be in charge of Hualou came to Zhang Yan and asked him if he wanted to work as a male advocate in Hualou, specifically looking for money from those lonely rich women, saying that he is handsome and strong, and he will be very popular in the future. Da Zi's reputation in the southwest is just waiting for nothing...

After Zhang Yan escaped from the harassment in the recruitment office, he went to Yuhua Street in the north of the city. The bustling here once again made his eyes widen, and at the same time, he could feel the fragrance of rouge and gouache all around him. Let him can not help but also the spirit of the sway.

Not all Taoist schools are abstinent, and Longhushan is one of them.Although Zhang Yan was not as handsome and strong as his current skin when he was on earth, he still had good facial features, so naturally he would not be able to find women.But he has always restrained his desires and rarely indulged them.

However, in the environment of Yuhua Street, plus two years of military service, he would still have thoughts.

But business matters, Zhang Yan quickly restrained himself and carefully observed along the road, hoping to find new progress.

"Really."

Not far from the street entrance, Zhang Yan saw a lot of activities of picking people to "send blessings" as the one-armed man said.Often three or two are together, either speaking well, or annoying people, they will choose to spend a little money to get rid of them.It seems that there are not many refugees among the people who do this kind of business.

Do you want to find someone to ask if you know the situation of Ma Datou and the three of them like before?Zhang Yan thought so in his heart.

But suddenly he stopped when passing by an inconspicuous alley, and an unusual yin energy overflowed from the alley, which caught his attention.

I turned my head and looked into the alley, because the sky was already dark so I couldn't see clearly, I only saw that the alley was quite deep.

Looking left and right, Zhang Yan found a few beggars gathered together across the street. Seeing that they looked at ease here, they should be begging for more than a day or two.So he walked over.

Chapter 43

"Want to earn some money for meatloaf?" Zhang Yan stood in front of the group of beggars across the street, and straight to the point raised some change in his hand.

"Hey, sir, how do you make money? But let's say it first, we won't do bad things." The oldest beggar stood in front of the others with a fawning smile, and answered a few words with a smile.

Zhang Yan doesn't believe the other party's so-called "don't do bad things". These beggars on the street are not fuel-efficient lamps. Maybe they really can't do murder and arson, but other nasty things like cheating and abducting Not necessarily.It depends on whether the money given is enough.

"Bad thing? Do you think I look like a bad guy?" Zhang Yan said with a smile while pointing to the alley across the street, "Tell me what's going on in that alley, the money is yours."

There is such a good thing?The leading beggar took a few glances at Zhang Yan, made sure that Zhang Yan was not teasing him, then quickly took the small bag of change from Zhang Yan's open hand, weighed it a few times, and smiled brighter. The money in it was indeed enough for them to buy a meatloaf one by one.

Zhang Yan watched the other party collect the money without urging him.

"Master, that alley actually has a name, but there is no signboard. People in Hunyuhua Street call it 'Luohua Alley', and there are some old houses in it. But it is said to be Luohua, but it is actually some Older show girls are buying and living. Generally speaking, they are not big show girls. When they get old, they don’t have much money and can’t afford a good house. And most of them don’t dare to go back to their hometowns. They will spend half their lives going back. No one will recognize it, so we can only hold together in twos and threes to buy a small house and wait to die."

"Is it so miserable?" Zhang Yan didn't expect such a statement.He thought that behind the prosperity of Yuhua Street, there should be a strong land price, but he didn't expect that it would become the last shelter for those mediocre showgirls in Hualou when they got old.

"Miserable? There are many worse ones." Speaking of these, the beggar showed a sense of desolation that did not match his age, and continued with a bit of a wry smile, "Master, who is the cleanest singer in Hualou? The top ones Fortunately, there are few customers, high prices and a lot of money, and various medicines are also very good for health. But the singers below are not so lucky, they are all open to receive customers, and within three to five years, no one is not a whole body Illness? If you get Hualiu, it will be even more miserable, and you will die in a few years.

I have been in Yuhua Street for six years. Anyway, I have never seen any old singer in Luohua Lane who can live past fifty. Some of them didn’t even have thin coffins when they died. Burial mound. "

Zhang Yan's heart was moved when he heard the words, so he followed the other party's words and asked: "So there are often dead people there?"

"Well, people die every month. But the corpses don't go through the alley here, they go to the exit on the back of the street, saying that they are afraid of affecting the business on the street and looking eye-catching. Sir, if you are interested in the real estate here If you are interested, I advise you to forget it. There is really no good house in it. If you want to see it, you should go to the west side of the city. There are new houses over there, of all sizes. We are familiar with it and can take you there... "

The beggar's thoughts are also straightforward. He doesn't think that Zhang Yan is interested in those broken flowers and willows, but in the real estate in Luohua Lane, so he suggests going elsewhere. They can lead the way and make another fortune along the way, right? ?

It's a pity that what Zhang Yan is interested in is not the singer or the real estate, but the evil spirit overflowing from Luohua Lane.

After waving his hand, Zhang Yan didn't continue to chat with these beggars. Zhang Yan asked the way to the exit of Back Street, and then left quickly, disappearing in the bustling and beautiful street of Yuhua Street.

Coming down from the main street, Zhang Yan made a long detour before finding the back street exit of Luohua Lane that the beggar said.

It was completely different from the bustling scene on the main street. Not only was the back street very deserted, but there was even an unpleasant musty smell in the air.

Standing at the entrance of the alley, you can still feel the yin qi overflowing from inside.

"It's such a strong yin energy, and it doesn't condense, it's impossible for there to be no evil things inside." Even Zhang Yan felt that this alley was more gloomy than the mass graves outside the city.

Coming from the detour, along the way, Zhang Yan had already made his vision into a state of both yin and yang, holding the Wanxiang Pearl in one hand, and holding three spiritual fire talismans in the other hand, and he was still in his own An exorcism talisman and a town spirit talisman were pasted on the chest.

Zhang Yan had a premonition that the evil in Luohua Lane would not be simple.

The first step into the alley, the wind rose from the ground, and it was blowing from the bottom up, even with Zhang Yan's cultivation at the late stage of entraining Qi at this time, he shuddered subconsciously.

Unlike the light outside, there is very little light in the alley, and only three or five faint lights can be seen sporadically, and the window paper cannot illuminate very far.When passing through the gates of the courtyard, I can always smell the smell of medicinal soup that seems to be there.

"Not these places."

Although the yin energy in the alley was heavy and unusual, Zhang Yan could tell that the yin energy still belonged to the diffuse range, not the source.

Continue to go deeper, the silent alley is very deep, and the night is getting darker and darker.Zhang Yan lit a piece of talisman paper, and then rubbed a little paper ash under his eyes with his fingers, as if he had wiped two dark bags under his eyes. After that, his eyes could see clearly in the dark like a nighthawk. thing.

The more you go in, the heavier the yin, the fewer traces of the owner in the house, and the older the house.Some houses and even the gates are collapsed, and through it, you can see the half-collapsed rooms inside. I don’t know how long no one has lived there.

If you hadn't seen it with your own eyes, it would be hard to believe that such a lost place would appear on the back of a bustling street like Yuhua Street.One positive and one negative are so abrupt that it is difficult to accept, but it seems reasonable, so it feels very contradictory.

"Ok?"

Suddenly, Zhang Yan stopped, and the Wanxiang Pearl in his hand changed into a mahogany sword in his hand.Looking straight ahead, there was a ghost in a bright red dress standing in front of the door of a half-collapsed house over there. He was dressed in neat makeup. Although he didn't look stunning, he could definitely be called good-looking.And it seems to be dancing.

"What a powerful ghost!"

Zhang Yan's pupils shrank sharply, knowing that he had encountered a hard problem today.

According to what Longhushan said to the ghosts, the clearer the faces, the more powerful the ghosts are, which means that they are only strong in hostility and obsession when they transform into ghosts, and they can break free from the shackles of heaven and earth more thoroughly, and they can retain more Wisdom and some habits and preferences in life.

Such as grooming, and dancing.

Of course, what made Zhang Yan vigilant was not only the appearance of the other party, but also the yin energy overflowing from the other party.It is more than ten times higher than those wild ghosts he has seen!

Chapter 44

This is a bit too unexpected.

Although there are different levels of strength among the ghosts, this one is definitely the top one among the ghosts.

"Can you handle it?" Zhang Yan didn't know the truth.This was the first time he saw Li Gui, and he didn't know how effective his methods were in restraining him.

try it!If it doesn't work, just avoid it first, and then go back and clean it up after you improve your cultivation base.Zhang Yan soon had a plan in mind.

It's all here, and I spent money to inquire about the news, and it's the first ghost I've seen, so I can't just meet and run away, right?Zhang Yan would not be reconciled if he didn't try the other party's methods.What's more, even if he retreated [-] steps, he still has the means to save his life, otherwise he wouldn't be so courageous.

Another thing that gives Zhang Yan confidence is that people in this world and ghosts are ignorant of the methods of Taoism.It will be a very good first mover in the fight.

Step by step closer.When Zhang Yan was less than ten feet away from the dancing female ghost, the female ghost suddenly stopped dancing and looked at Zhang Yan curiously.And smiled slightly after watching two breaths.

"You...can see me?" The female ghost's expression was full of curiosity and surprise. If it weren't for the ghostly aura, she would never be able to tell that it was a ghost, almost no different from ordinary people.

Just this sentence and expression made Zhang Yan's heart tighten a little more.

"Since you're already dead, why do you still linger? There is a way in heaven and earth, and you will eventually harm others and yourself." Zhang Yan finally stopped at a distance of five feet from the other party, while wearing a talisman on the ground. On the Taomu sword, he looked at the other party and asked.

"Huh?! Can you really see me? Can you hear me? You are not a warrior, but you have a magical aura that I instinctively want to avoid. Who are you?" In the end, it landed on the talisman and mahogany sword in Zhang Yan's hand. She didn't understand why she felt an inexplicable threat from some pieces of paper and wooden sword.

The spiritual energy in Zhang Yan's hand surged, igniting the spiritual fire talisman worn on the mahogany sword, and then holding a sword flower in his hand, he continued to walk towards the opponent, and at the same time said with a smile: "The poor Taoist Zhang Yan is a Taoist priest. The purpose of coming here today to find you is to save you back to heaven and earth."

"Hehe, Taoist priest? What is that? Are you trying to kill me?"

"No, it's an excess."

Hum, with a sound, the peach wood sword draws a wonderful arc, pulling up a trail of spiritual fire is really beautiful, and the light of the sword is tricky and fast, and it crosses the last little distance between the female ghost and Zhang Yan in an instant. When he was on guard, he just hit the opponent's arm.If it hadn't turned its body subconsciously, it would have cut off half of its body instead of an arm just now with the sword.

"what!"

There were shrill screams and screams, and although the exquisite makeup on the female ghost's face remained the same, that beautiful face was replaced by an expression of anger and pain.

The body of the ghost is the soul body, and the spiritual fire on the mahogany sword is dedicated to burning the soul body. With the power gain of "Entraining Qi Sword Art", it can achieve the effect of cutting and destroying the ghost body.

Having his arm cut off was naturally unbearably painful.Moreover, the damage of the soul body is more sensitive.It's just that compared with the physical body, the soul body can't be hurt by ordinary people.It was also because of the latter reason that the female ghost let down her vigilance. It had never encountered a method that could hurt it lightly, and the opponent was not even a warrior.

The underestimation of the enemy and the deviation of cognition cost the female ghost a lot.

"How dare you hurt me!? I'm going to eat you!"

A ghost is a ghost, how can there be any tranquility and gentleness?The sad and beautiful dancing posture before was just a disguise, but now that the words "eat you" came out, it gave Zhang Yan some more evidence for his previous guess.

It's a pity that Zhang Yan will take the lead step by step.Although it was the first time that "Entraining Qi Sword Art" was used against the enemy after practicing for more than two years, many changes had already been done at will, and there was no jerk in the slightest.In addition, he broke the opponent's arm first with one move, which made Zhang Yan full of confidence. Before he exhausted a set of sword formulas, he had already firmly covered the opponent in his own spirit fire and sword light and gained the upper hand.

"what!"

The ear-piercing ghost howl shook his soul, but the spirit-repelling talisman on Zhang Yan's body lighted up slightly and blocked most of its threats, and finally fell on Zhang Yan's soul, which only made him slightly dizzy but did not affect his hand. in the action.

However, although the female ghost lost an arm, the rest of her arm had been turned into a ghost claw. In addition, the speed of the soul body was already extremely fast. Although Zhang Yan had the upper hand, it was difficult to completely avoid the opponent's claw attack.If you step up and down a little bit, there will be a few more scratches on your body.This kind of injury cannot be resisted by the talisman on the body, and even Zhang Yan's Five Elements Qi Shield cannot block all of it.Because the ghost claw is not a simple physical attack, but also a ghost-like attack.

In addition, there will be Yin Qi attached to the scratches, eroding the meridians along the wound, which also makes Zhang Yan feel the pressure.

And after the initial adaptation, the female ghost also gradually understood the power of the spirit fire, using the wind and movement, it was rare to be swept by the sword.

"The Big Dipper is seven yuan, and the spirit dominates the sky; the great sage of Tiangang, the majesty and glory; the heaven and the earth, cut off the source of evil..."

In the face of wild ghosts who have almost no ability to resist, they can naturally use the "Taishang Daojun's Explanation of the Wonderful Sutra of Resolving Injustice and Eviction of Crimes" for salvation.Because the evil spirits in the wild ghosts are not too much, and they are not stubborn, relying on the Shinto scriptures and the increase of aura can easily clear away the hostility and obsession in them, and return to the original pure state of the soul , and then it will naturally return to heaven and earth, completing the transcendence.

But Li Gui is different, the method of superseding wild ghosts cannot be used on Li Gui.

Come to them first to prestige them, then subdue them, and finally you can transcend them.In addition, the powerful mantra should be used first to clear away the hostile energy, and then use gentle scriptures to save it before it can be saved.This is recorded in the classics on Longhu Mountain.

That's why Zhang Yan came up with a surprise attack from the "Entraining Qi Sword Art", and after a successful blow, he continued to suppress him. At the same time, the mantra he chanted was not the "Exorcism Sutra", but the "Big Dipper Curse" directly!

The Big Dipper, the dead soul, deals with ghosts.Zhang Yan wanted to use the "Big Dipper Curse" with his own spiritual fire and sword formulas to subdue the opponent.

"Climb up on the clouds, come to the altar. Come down with true energy, go through the water and into the smoke..."

"Legend of the Three Realms, ten thousand demons raise their fists. Slash the demons and destroy their traces, return to death and ascend to immortality!"

Cooperating with the power of the divine mantra, Zhang Yan's tone quickly slowed down again, and the last eight characters were paused one by one, and each pause was a power, which triggered the spiritual fire on the sword to appear in the sky and the Big Dipper appeared!

The stalwart power from another world seems to have passed through the barrier of infinite space and shrouded it.Even just a little feathery power is enough to restrain a district of ghosts.

But when the female ghost's movements became stiff and the ferocious and stern aura on her face gradually eased, a sudden change occurred, and two strong evil spirits came from Zhang Yan's left and right, accompanied by a shriek. Gui Xiao...