Ruins of the past

Looking at the back of Zhang Da leading the people away, Chu Qiguang thought to himself: 'If this happens, they won't have the energy to trouble me for at least three to five days. ’

Chu Qiguang heard from Qiao Zhi that martial arts had always been popular in Qingyang County, and there were many people in this dynasty who took the martial arts examinations to gain fame.

Nowadays, there are five or six families in the county that have high-ranking officials in office or have become officials. One of them, the Hao family, is eyeing a property belonging to the Wang family.

If the Wang family heard what he said now, they would definitely think that the Hao family was going to do this official method. After all kinds of snooping and secret fighting, they would find out that they had been deceived. If they came to their door again, they would probably have to do it. Be cruel.

But Chu Qiguang was originally just using this information to buy some time and avoid the immediate trouble.

That night, Chu Qiguang lay on the kang, waiting for his mother and sister to fall asleep.

He felt as if he was so hungry that there was a cold air running through him, making him feel uncomfortable and awake at the same time.

After enduring it for a long time and feeling that his sister and mother should have fallen asleep, he cautiously got up.

Suddenly a small hand grabbed him. Chu Qiguang looked down and found that his sister was looking at him with wide eyes: "Brother, are you too hungry to sleep?"

As she said that, she stuffed half of the noodle pancake over and said, "Stop drinking cold water, bro. I have a stomachache after drinking too much and my pants are pooped. This is for you."

Chu Qiguang was slightly startled, but he didn't expect that the other party didn't want to finish the dinner, leaving half of it.

He resisted the urge to eat the pancake in one bite and pushed the pancake back: "You can eat it yourself, I'm not hungry."

Sister: "Mom said you are the man of the house and you need to eat more before you can work."

Looking at his sister who was giving him the dough and staring at it with pursed lips, Chu Qiguang sighed softly, took the remaining dough and divided it into two: "Then let's take half."

My sister didn't refuse anymore, and licked the quarter of the pancake one bite at a time, as if she was afraid that it would be gone if she ate it too quickly.

After soothing his sister to sleep, Chu Qiguang touched his belly and secretly said in his heart: 'It's pointless to live like this any longer. We must improve quickly. By the way, with Qiao Zhizhi commanding so many animals, it shouldn’t be difficult to hunt and get some meat, right? ’

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On the way to the back mountain, Chu Qiguang was thinking about what he had seen during the day.

Ever since he quarreled with the Wang family manager, the village chief, and Zhang Da, the neighbors around him felt a little strange today. After Chu Qiguang greeted them as usual, most of them didn't respond, obviously because he was afraid of annoying the Wang family.

‘When I asked Qiao Zhi to coach Wu today, I decided to make a plan to deal with the Wang family. ’

Still following yesterday's route, I climbed up the stairs towards the platform where Qiao Zhi taught the little demons. But this time I had just walked not far when I heard the roars of various birds and beasts, and there seemed to be something in the roars. With a little fear and panic.

"What's wrong?"

Chu Qiguang ran quickly towards the platform. Before he arrived, he saw two wild cats standing in front of the bamboo forest that had led him the way. The gentleman stood up and waved to him with his paws raised.

Chu Qiguang ran to them and asked, "What happened?"

The two wild cats meowed at him several times and kept waving their paws anxiously. When they saw that he couldn't understand, they simply turned away, as if they wanted to lead the way again.

Chu Qiguang followed the two cats and ran in the other direction when he suddenly heard a loud shout coming from the stone platform where he was originally going.

"Monster! Trying to get away by saying a few human words? I've long seen that you are not human!"

Then Jie Jie's strange laughter echoed in the night sky along with Qiao Zhi's voice: "Taoist! So what if I'm not a human being? The monsters on this mountain are under my discipline and will never hurt anyone. On the contrary, villagers from the bottom of the mountain go up the mountain, often You kill and injure my kind, and you have the nerve to kill demons?"

The male voice said coldly: "Since ancient times, humans and demons have been incompatible. If humans want to open mountains and clear forests, they will naturally encounter demons and kill them. It is said that the survival of the fittest is natural selection. I didn't expect you, an old demon, to be so pedantic?"

Qiao Zhi: "Smelly Taoist priest! Today I want you to see what I am capable of, ancestor."

As he spoke, there were bursts of airflow again, and the sound of trees and bamboos falling down was heard again and again, mixed with the roars and whines of animals getting farther and farther away.

Chu Qiguang was taken to a crevice in the mountain by two wild cats and hid.

Recalling the sound he just heard, Chu Qiguang didn't know who came to slay the demons, and felt a little uneasy.

The two wild cats were spinning around in a hurry, their tails were hanging down in fear, and they were caught between their legs, looking very panicked.

I don't know how long it took, but two dim lights lit up from outside, and Qiao Zhi's voice came along the night wind: "I lured that smelly Taoist priest away. Come out."

The two wild cats cheered when they heard this, rushed out and circled around Qiao Zhi.

Chu Qiguang also breathed a sigh of relief. After crawling out, he asked: "Master Qiao, who was that person just now? Why did he fight with you?"

Qiao Zhi sighed after hearing this, and said quietly: "That is the prison of the Taoist temple in Qingyang County. It is called Qingling Taoist. He is in charge of all matters related to fasting and rituals, and is also a strong hand in slaying demons. In the story you heard at the entrance of the village yesterday, it is He happened to be a guest in Boxing County that day and stabbed the scholar to death."

‘It’s actually him? ’ Chu Qiguang’s eyes moved and he asked: “Master, do you think in the story of the corpse mutiny case, is it the scholar who is devoted to Taoism and dreams of Taoist priests, or does he perform evil magic and be dreamed of by Taoist priests?”

Qiao Zhi shook his head: "I don't know about this, but..." He narrowed his eyes slightly: "There is a demonic aura about this stinky Taoist priest. There is definitely something wrong with him."

Chu Qiguang said in surprise: "Evil spirit?"

Qiao Zhi nodded: "The demonic energy is the aura of yin and yang that transforms into human form. It is an inhuman aura that occurs when demons transform into humans but have not yet reached perfection. It should only be found in demons with human form."

Chu Qiguang didn't know much about the monster system in this world, so when Qiao Zhi took the initiative to talk about it, he simply asked.

During Qiao Zhi's explanation, Chu Qiguang learned that monsters in this world are divided into two categories, namely monsters and monsters.

Most of the so-called monsters live in the deep mountains and swamps, and their temperaments are mostly the same as wild beasts, but their power far exceeds that of ordinary beasts, and their wisdom is no less than that of humans.

After Chu Qiguang inquired, Qiao Zhi mentioned some of the more famous types of monsters, including Ba snakes, mountain ghosts, black tigers, Guhuo birds, etc. They are all ferocious beasts that often hurt and eat people.

Monsters are some animals that are naturally intelligent and have awakened their spiritual wisdom. If such monsters can persist in cultivating the Tao, they can become humanoid after entering the Tao, and they will be almost the same as humans.

The bloodline of Taoist monsters continues to multiply from generation to generation, and there is a chance that they will have spiritual intelligence when they are born, and some can even have human forms.

Once the number of these monsters increases, they form a group and are called monster clans. The seven most famous monster clans in the world are collectively called the Seven Great Monster Clan.

After listening to this, Chu Qiguang said: "The Qingling Taoist has monsters in his body. He is either a monster cultivated by himself or born from the monster clan. But he can transform into a human form without entering the Tao. He naturally comes from a certain A demon clan?"

Qiao Zhi said: "It's very possible. I don't know how he, a monster from the monster clan, managed to sneak into the Taoist temple and learn the Taoist martial arts and Taoist techniques."

Chu Qiguang asked strangely: "Qingyang Temple often presides over folk slaying demons and other things, so why can't we tell him apart?"

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