At the beginning, you will meet a fox demon and be taught the art of immortality

Among the hundreds of thousands of mountains.

A group of demons stood trembling in front of a cave where the wind howled miserably, waiting quietly.

Suddenly, there was a roaring sound in the cave. If you listened carefully, you could tell that it was actually the sound of footsteps, but it was so loud that it sounded like a roar.

After the footsteps were heard, the gloomy wind in the cave was so frightened that it stopped howling and could only make a low humming sound, as if someone was sobbing softly.

The footsteps stopped, and a pair of red eyes suddenly appeared in the depths of the dark cave.

"The shadow snake is dead?" The being in the cave spoke, and the sound was like the clanging of metal.

"Reporting to the general, the Shadow Snake Leader was hacked to death by the Emei Sect's disciples with flying swords while he was searching for treasures!" A snake demon stood up and replied with a trembling body.

"A bunch of rubbish!" The voice in the cave was furious, and then a cold threat came out: "Tomorrow is the last day I give you. If you don't have any news, the end will be that I will pull out your tendons and skin you! You better take care of yourself!! "

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However, Su Rui and his entourage came to the City God Temple with the onlookers.

When the gatekeeper of the temple saw this, he thought something big had happened and hurriedly called out the temple priest.

When they saw the giant bear-like figure of Captain Wu, they knew that it must be a team coming to exchange the monster's corpse for treasures, so they put their minds at ease.

However, they were also shocked when they saw the carcasses of wolves as big as calves being brought in one after another. This was not just one wolf, but ten! After being brought down, they were enough to form a small mountain.

Captain Wu brought Su Rui to the temple keeper, clasped his fists and bowed to him, saying, "This is Erlang from Magistrate Su's family. Today, I have brought the wolf's corpse to exchange for treasures. Please pray to the gods!"

The temple keeper returned the greeting and asked the doorman to ask the captain Wu and the officers to take the wolf demon's body back to the temple. Then he said to Su Rui, "Please follow me in to see the gods!"

Having said that, he took Su Rui into the main hall of the City God Temple.

The two men first went to the City God statue in the center to burn incense and candles, then bowed to Judge Wu, and then went to the statue of Judge Wen to light a specially made long incense stick.

This long incense seems to be made of sandalwood with other medicinal materials, and it emits a lingering fragrance when lit.

As Su Rui smelled the smoke of the long incense, he felt his heart quickly calm down and his eyelids slowly drooped.

He suddenly started awake, woke up from his drowsiness, and looked at the temple keeper warily.

The temple keeper hurriedly explained: "The gods cannot appear before the hour of Hai. We can only meet them through dreams. Please don't resist!"

Su Rui heard this and thought about it and felt it made sense. The key point was that Captain Wu and others were just outside the door, so he was not afraid that the temple keeper had any bad intentions.

So I calmed down again, stopped resisting the sleepiness, and gradually fell asleep.

In the dream, Su Rui came to a magnificent hall. This hall was also decorated with gold, and the furniture was no different from that in the human world, except for a faint smell of sandalwood.

Sitting at the head of the hall was a white-faced man in a green robe. He was dressed like a judge, with a stern look between his brows, but otherwise he looked like an ordinary person.

When he saw Su Rui, he asked softly, "Where are you from, little boy, and what do you want?"

Su Rui bowed first, then responded loudly: "Greetings, Judge! I am the second son of the Su family, Su Qinghe. I came here today to exchange for the treasure in the bounty order. Please fulfill your promise, Judge!"

Judge Wen flipped through the scroll on the table, looked startled, and asked, "Did you also hunt that dying blue wolf?"

Su Rui nodded: "That's what I hunt!"

Judge Wen nodded and praised the man, then continued, "One dying green wolf monster is a great merit! Ten intact corpses of evil wolves can also accumulate ten small merits, which can be exchanged for one great merit! A total of two great merits. What do you want to exchange for it?"

Su Rui did not directly state the goal, but asked: "Can I exchange it for a Taoist method?"

Judge Wen nodded and said, "It can be exchanged with some difficulty! However, there are only two volumes of Taoist secrets in the palace, one is the Gengjin Sword Qi Secret, and the other is the Yuanti Refining Secret. The former is a fragment of the Qingcheng Sect's sword secrets, and the latter is a volume of the Western Demon Sect's secret book. Which one do you choose?"

Both techniques sounded very powerful. As an adult, Su Rui actually wanted both. But if he had to choose one, he remembered the cool and unrestrained style of the Emei scholar who made the snake demon surrender with one sword, and he was more inclined to choose the Gengjin Sword Qi Jue. Moreover, it belonged to the Qingcheng Sect's sword technique. Although it was a fragment, it sounded like a legitimate technique. As for the Western Demon Sect where the Yuanti Refining Secret Method was located, who knew if there would be any side effects after practicing it, such as becoming a monster like a bloodthirsty demon.

"If I want to learn both techniques, how much skill will it take?" Su Rui asked tentatively.

"It requires five great merits now, but it's hard to say what will happen in the future!" Judge Wen said meaningfully.

"I want the Gengjin Sword Qi Jue, please grant me the task!" Su Rui hesitated for a moment and said with determination. Judge Wen said that two techniques would require five great merits, so one technique would require two and a half great merits, which was really a stretch. However, since the other party agreed to exchange the techniques, Su Rui would not back down.

Judge Wen smiled, waved his hand and pointed a point of golden light emitting brilliant colors at the center of Su Rui's eyebrows.

Su Rui did not resist and let the golden light sink into his forehead. He soon felt a Taoist sword technique in his mind, which was the Gengjin Sword Qi Technique!

Su Rui was delighted and said goodbye to Judge Wen.

Judge Wen did not try to keep him. He waved his sleeves and sent him out of the dream.

But after Su Rui left, Judge Wen's face showed a hint of greed. He felt that there were traces of divine power left in Su Rui, which was pure and noble.

"Those evil spirits really didn't lie to me. It seems that the daughter of the Black Mountain Lord has really come to Tongqu County! If I can capture the daughter of the Black Mountain Lord, I might be able to take over the Black Mountain Lord's throne and become a powerful lord in one fell swoop!!"

From the dying Qinglang, he learned that the girl the guys in the mountain were looking for was actually the daughter of the Black Mountain Lord, a person that even the City God had to pay attention to. More importantly, the Black Mountain Lord was seriously injured in his tribulation and was suspected to have died!

The truth of this matter is extremely high, otherwise the Black Mountain God would not sit idly by and watch his daughter being hunted down by a bunch of fly-like villains!

However, when Su Rui woke up from his dream, he still remembered the scene in the dream clearly, and he couldn't help but have a deeper understanding of Shinto in his heart.

"It seems that it's not that Shinto cannot appear in broad daylight, but minor gods like the Judge need the medium of incense to show themselves. I wonder if seventh-grade gods like the City God can appear in broad daylight?" Su Rui pondered.

Not daring to criticize the gods in person, Su Rui hurriedly got up from the ground and bowed again to the City God and the civil and military judges.

After all, more gifts will not blame God!

After the ceremony, he took one last look at the statue of Judge Wen. For some reason, he saw a wisp of black air. When he rubbed his eyes and looked again, everything was normal.

Su Rui was confused, but with the statue in front of him, he didn't dare to think about it anymore and hurriedly walked out of the main hall of the City God Temple.

Outside the temple, Captain Wu had already dealt with the wolf corpse according to the temple keeper's instructions and was waiting for Su Rui, while Old Man Zhao Zhuan was among them.

He originally thought that Su Rui came just to join in the fun, but he didn't expect that he would follow the temple keeper into the main hall of the City God Temple alone. He immediately realized that Su Rui was the main person in today's exchange activity, and he couldn't help but become more enthusiastic in his heart!