After being stabbed to death by my junior brother

"Second Senior Brother, who do you think I am?" Shen Qiuting smiled, but the smile didn't reach his eyes, "Could it be the original owner of this sword, the Shen Qiuting who was killed by you?"

He took the initiative to lean a step on the blade of the Yinxue Sword, the sharp blade cut through the skin, and the color of blood was smudged on the snow-white skin.

"Since the senior brother has already convicted me in my heart, it is better to kill me with a sword." Shen Qiuting looked at Bai Guanchen's indifferent face, and added indifferently, "The left and right senior brothers have long thought about cleaning up the house. gone."

The blood was too dazzling, and Bai Guanchen's right hand holding the sword began to tremble uncontrollably, as if his body recalled some terrible memory, and he instinctively wanted to avoid it.

With a sound of "clang", the Yinxue Sword fell to the ground.

Bai Guanchen looked at the natal spirit sword that fell on the ground, a little absent-minded.

A sword repairman couldn't even hold his sword steady, so he couldn't be called a sword repairman anymore.

The atmosphere between the two suddenly froze.

Shen Qiuting was really angry this time, and also a little chilled.

How much do you hate him, that you want to kill him just by hearing his name?

The atmosphere between the two of them had condensed to freezing point, and the old man who guarded the gate came belatedly with Daoist Qingxu.

Daoist Qingxu almost fainted immediately when he saw the battle.

He looked left and right, and tentatively asked Shen Qiuting: "You... what are you doing?"

Shen Qiuting sneered: "You should ask your second apprentice."

Daoist Qingxu saw that the big apprentice was getting angry, and turned to the other side: "Xiaobai?"

Bai Guanchen still stared blankly at the sword on the ground, but did not respond.

Daoist Qingxu is one head and two big, and without knowing the situation, he started to fight with each other: "Actually...my little apprentice came here today at my instigation, look at the order in his hand." The card was given by me."

The old janitor expressed his understanding, and said that he would not remember Shen Qiuting's fault, and voluntarily and consciously withdrew from the battlefield.

Daoist Qingxu looked at Bai Guanchen, saw that he still didn't express anything, cleared his throat and planned to continue a long speech about the concept of harmony between brothers and sisters in his sect, but was suddenly interrupted.

"Master," Bai Guanchen said suddenly, "He pulled out the Chi Ming sword."

The old gatekeeper's eyes widened, and he felt that this was not a topic he could listen to. He immediately closed his ears with spiritual power, and pretended to watch from the sidelines.

Daoist Qingxu didn't expect it to be because of this, he immediately turned his head to look at Shen Qiuting, and asked him why he drew his sword in front of Bai Guanchen.

With Shen Qiuting's prudence, such mistakes should not have occurred.

Shen Qiuting smiled subtly, and didn't want to say anything.

Seeing that neither of the two apprentices was willing to give in, Daoist Qingxu could only continue to smooth things over by himself: "Actually...your junior brother is really not your senior senior brother. He can draw the sword because I helped him and Chi Ming a few days ago. The sword signed a new contract..."

At the end of the compilation, Daoist Qingxu himself knew that there were many loopholes, so he closed his mouth after deliberation.

"Master," Bai Guanchen seemed to be immersed in his own thoughts, and didn't notice the inconsistency in his words, "Since you already know the reason, this disciple will go back first."

After finishing speaking, he bowed to Daoist Qingxu, then turned and left.

Shen Qiuting looked at Bai Guanchen's back, touched the wound on his neck, and couldn't help cursing: "Is this still a human?"

Seeing Bai Guanchen leave, Daoist Qingxu reluctantly returned to the scene, wiped the cold sweat that came out of his head, patted the shoulder of the big apprentice, and asked with concern: "How is the wound?"

"It's okay." Shen Qiuting thought for a while, and added, "Master, do you think this little bastard Bai Guanchen is still human?"

Daoist Qingxu comforted him: "You know he has memory problems, although sometimes he does not seem like a human being, but you just treat it like...don't care about people with brain problems."

In order to comfort one apprentice, he always had to sacrifice another apprentice's reputation.

"Is this still human?" Shen Qiuting cursed again, and suddenly thought of something, "Wait, you mean, Bai Guanchen has memory problems?"

Daoist Qingxu choked for a moment, and asked, "Didn't I tell you?"

Shen Qiuting and Daoist Qingxu looked at each other for a while, and finally couldn't help but say: "What the hell..."

Shen Qiuting was brought back to Lingyun City by Bai Guanchen. Daoist Qingxu always thought that he already knew about it, so he never mentioned it. Now that the words have come to this point, he realizes that Shen Qiuting didn't know about it at all. thing.

He, the second apprentice, is careful not to tell others what is on his mind, and he is not very clear about the specific reasons, so he can only pick up what he knows and tell Shen Qiuting: "After you left, Xiaobai went mad Once. I really had no other choice, so I sealed his inner demons. I don’t know what went wrong, and his memory of you is not very clear.”

Shen Qiuting was stunned for a while, then asked again: "Then his natal spirit sword?"

Speaking of this, Daoist Qingxu also felt a little regretful: "It was also after that time that he couldn't hold Yinxue in his hands anymore."

A sword cultivator can only have one natal spirit sword in his life.Bai Guanchen's sword repair talent is one of the best in the entire Kyushu, but if he can't hold the natal spirit sword, he will never have the chance to reach the highest level.

Shen Qiuting thought for a while with a sullen face, and his mood eased a little, but he still popped out a sentence: "Then he is not human. It's not good to forget anyone, but forget me."

Daoist Qingxu had no choice but to ask: "Then what do you want?"

Shen Qiuting gave a "tsk", and said in a strange tone: "How dare I do anything? My cultivation base is not as high as his, and my determination to eliminate demons and defend Dao is not as firm as him, so I should bear it."

Daoist Qingxu was so frightened by his tone that he got goosebumps all over his body, and he didn't want to comfort his emotions anymore, he said: "I'll find a chance to talk to Xiaobai and make sure he doesn't have any interest in your life, what do you think? "

As for the rest of the bad things, let the juniors figure it out on their own.

Daoist Qingxu explained a few more words to Shen Qiuting, then turned and left.

He had only walked a few steps when he heard Shen Qiuting grinding his teeth behind him: "I have to find a way to trick him into calming down..."

Daoist Qingxu couldn't help but tremble all over, and his pace was faster.

Shen Qiuting stood on the spot pondering for a long time, seeing that it was getting late, he waved at Erhua who was huddled in the corner with the old gatekeeper: "Erhua, go, go home."

With a "meow", Erhua returned to its original appearance, and the fat one threw itself straight into Shen Qiuting's arms.

He nodded politely at the old janitor, and went downstairs with the cat in his arms.

The old man at the gate returned the salute with a dazed expression, and released the spiritual power that had sealed his ear power.

He carefully recalled what happened tonight, and he always felt that there was something wrong.

After thinking for a long time, he couldn't figure out what was wrong, so he took out the jug and took a sip of wine to calm down.

Shen Qiuting held his breath until the next day, thinking about it still made him panic.

Thinking about killing him every day, is this still human?

He also had no intention of continuing to practice, so he simply went to Liucheng, intending to fulfill his promise and take him to Lingyun City to eat roast chicken, and by the way, relax himself.

Not long after Shen Qiuting went out, a person came in front of the door.

With two medicine bottles in his hand, Bai Guanchen raised his hand to knock on the door.

After pondering for a long time, he still put down his hand.

What happened yesterday... Presumably the younger brother would not be willing to see him.

He put the wound medicine in his hand at Shen Qiuting's door, turned and left.

Erhua was hunting moles nearby to play, but when she came back, she saw two round bottles in front of her house, she circled the bottles twice, and slapped her paw into the grass.

There should be no littering at the door!

Shen Qiuting didn't know anything about what happened in front of his door. He took Liu Cheng into a restaurant with a good reputation in Lingyun City, ordered three roast chickens and a few other dishes, and sat by the window with a jug of wine The wind blew up.

As long as Liu Cheng has chickens to eat, he is very obedient, and no matter what Shen Qiuting is doing, he is very happy to eat a fox himself.

Shen Qiuting felt that the dinner table was too deserted, so he casually said a few gossips: "Liu Cheng, how did you mess with that kid Lu Cheng?"

Liu Cheng carefully gnawed the meat off the chicken bone, heard this and thought for a while, then said: "I didn't want to mess with him, but there was a girl next to him at that time, and the clothes were from Tianyinmen. She had a weird look the taste of."

Tianyinmen is one of the five major sects in the world of cultivating immortals. All the disciples in the sect are women, and there are many Yinmen in the sect. It is known as the holy place for female cultivators.

Tianyinmen and Lu family are in the same southern region, it is not surprising that there are people from Tianyinmen around Lu Cheng, but it smells strange...

Liu Cheng's body is a nine-tailed fox, and his sense of smell has always been keen, so logically speaking, it can't be an illusion.

Shen Qiuting asked: "What's the strange smell?"

Liu Cheng thought for a while, and finally came up with an accurate description: "It's very similar to Xiaoqiu's smell when she came back for the last time. It's very light, and it's a bit sweet when you smell it carefully."

Shen Qiuting's hand trembled, and the clear wine was splashed on his hand.

The last time he went back to Lingyun Pavilion in his previous life... was when he fell into the Two Star Flower in the Demon Realm. The smell Liu Cheng mentioned could only be the smell emitted by the Two Star Flower living in the human body.

The two-star flower is the sacred flower of the Demon Realm. It is rumored that it was transformed from the flesh and blood of a powerful demon from the ancient times.

During this period of time, these rare evil spirits jumped towards his eyes one after another, which inexplicably made him smell a little bit of rain coming.

Seeing that his expression was different, Liu Cheng stretched out his hand and shook in front of him: "What's wrong?"

Shen Qiuting came back to his senses, and asked: "Where did the girl you mentioned go?"

"It happened a long time ago." Seeing that he was interested in this matter, Liu Cheng simply poured beans into the bamboo tube and said cleanly, "I lost her after leaving Lingyun City. Lu Cheng thought I was following him , took me home and wanted to feed me, Xiaoqiu told me before, don’t take advantage of the bastard, I will take it.”

Tianyinmen is far away from Zhongzhou, since Liucheng has lost someone, Shen Qiuting can't go to the door to investigate, so he simply keeps the strange situation in mind first, and wait until he bumps into it.

Hearing Liu Cheng's words, Shen Qiuting slandered what he had taught this fox before, and couldn't help but said: "Of course it's okay to take advantage, but after taking advantage...why don't you remember to run?"

Liu Cheng blushed: "I wanted to run, but Lu Cheng accidentally discovered the man's identity, so... I didn't make it."

Shen Qiuting was speechless for a moment, and could only sigh deeply.

When the two of them were eating about the same, an unexpected guest came suddenly.

Lu Cheng put the folding fan on the table, and asked with a smile, "Do you mind if I join the table?"

Not seeing each other for a few days, Lu Cheng's face no longer showed the rage he had when he was in the ring, and returned to his usual handsome and dog-like appearance, but when he saw Liu Cheng, he still couldn't help but turn green.

Shen Qiuting leaned back on the chair and didn't give him any face: "There are a lot of vacancies in the store, so there is no need for Young Master Lu to squeeze with us."

Lu Cheng didn't take his words to heart at all, sat down and ordered a few more snacks, and took the initiative to talk to him: "This fellow Taoist, it is fate that we met twice, and I don't know the name of fellow Taoist yet. .”

Shen Qiuting smiled politely, and without blinking an eye, used a pseudonym to fool him: "I'm Shen Bai, I've admired Young Master Lu for a long time."

As he spoke, he picked up a glass and poured Lu Cheng a glass of wine.

Lu Cheng was in a trance for a moment, then quickly covered up the past, and then said with a smile: "Fellow Daoist Shen looks quite like an old acquaintance of mine."

"Oh?" Shen Qiuting raised his eyebrows, pretending to be deaf and dumb, "If there is a chance, I would like to get acquainted with that old acquaintance of Young Master Lu."

"Then I'm afraid you won't be able to see it." Lu Cheng drank the wine in the glass with drooping eyes and shook his head. "That man can do a lot. He died 80 or [-] years ago."

Shen Qiuting was choked to death, and could only throw out two words dryly: "My condolences."

"Sad? What's the matter?" Unexpectedly, Lu Cheng glanced at him inexplicably, with a smile all over his face, "It's too late for me to be happy when he died. After all, without him, my life will be much better. The first time he died that year The next day, I even deliberately set off firecrackers in the southern region all day long, tsk, the movement was very lively."

While talking, he poured another glass of wine and drank it down.

This time, Shen Qiuting's face turned green.

Shen Qiuting decided to let each other go, so he changed the subject: "Young Master Lu has lived in Zhongzhou for a long time, when will he return to the Southern Region?"

Lu's family is still in the Southern Region, but now Lu Cheng wanders around Zhongzhou every day, which makes his eyes hurt.

Lu Cheng thought for a while, and said, "Let's go back before the Tianyuan Grand Competition. Is Daoist Shen going to participate in this Tianyuan Grand Competition?"

The Tianyuan Grand Competition is aimed at the younger generation of various sects in Kyushu. It is hosted by one of the five major sects every ten years. It is an excellent opportunity for the younger generation of monks to show their talents, and it is also an excellent platform for each sect to show their new strength. .This year's Tianyuan Grand Competition happened to be hosted by the Tianyin Gate of the Southern Region.

Shen Qiuting had already been the leader of the Tianyuan Grand Competition a hundred years ago, and now he felt that he had lost the energy of a young man and was not interested in such an opportunity to show off, so he said haha: "It depends on the situation. Bon Voyage."

Lu Cheng glanced at him, and always felt that this little disciple looked as if he wished him to leave sooner.

The Tianyuan Great Score is still a few months away. I wish you all the best, what are you doing so early?

Shen Qiuting chatted with Lu Cheng again, and suddenly received a sound transmission talisman from Taoist Qingxu.

Daoist Qingxu's voice was very angry: "Apprentice, I have thought about what you said yesterday as a teacher. Shouldn't you go out to practice, I specially arranged you and Xiaobai together, let him Take you. The opportunity is given to you, what you want to do is up to you, just don’t kill disabled people.”

Lingyun Pavilion disciples have the task of going out to practice before building their foundation. Usually, experienced seniors lead juniors, or a few people form a team. The task is mostly to eliminate demons and defend Dao in Zhongzhou, and it will not be too difficult.

Shen Qiuting felt that something was wrong when he heard half of it, and he was numb after listening to it.

Although he was looking for an opportunity to trick Bai Guanchen for a while, it was true, but Daoist Qingxu's arrangement... No matter how you look at it, I don't think it can't be done without more than ten years of mental illness.

It's not that he doesn't want to be an apprentice who respects his teacher and his teaching, it's because the master Qingxu Daojun is too unreliable.

After listening to Daoist Qingxu's sound transmission talisman, Lu Cheng suddenly asked, "Are you going out to practice with Bai Guanchen?"

Unhappily, Shen Qiuting stole a chicken leg from Liu Cheng's plate, took a bite, and let out a "huh".

Liu Cheng glared at Shen Qiuting, and hastily protected his plate in his arms.

Lu Cheng's face was a little strange: "Can't you change?"

Although Shen Qiuting was not willing to go out to practice with Bai Guanchen, but Lu Cheng asked him bluntly if he could be replaced, which still made him a little confused: "What is the replacement for?"

Lu Cheng didn't answer right away.He stared at the drink in the glass for a while, then suddenly sneered: "I'm not afraid of gossiping behind people's backs, this guy named Bai really doesn't have a good character."

Bai Guanchen has a cold temper, and it is true that many people do not like him, but he is decent and has always had a good reputation in terms of character.It was the first time for Shen Qiuting to hear someone say that Bai Guanchen's character is not good, so he was a little curious and asked, "Why does Young Master Lu say that?"

Lu Cheng asked back: "Do you know what the fame battle of Bai Xianjun, whom everyone admires?"

Shen Qiuting did not shy away from this matter, and said bluntly: "A hundred years ago, he personally killed the last Lord of the Demon Realm."

Not long after he came back, he had heard this story no less than three times from various sources.

"Even a disciple like you who just started knows." Lu Cheng didn't know what he thought of, and the mocking look in his eyes was even more serious, "Then you may not know that the Lord of the Demon Realm who was killed by him is still with his childhood sweetheart, The elder brother who brought him up with one hand. It's the same thing to be incompatible with good and evil, but he wants to get this kind of blood on his hands, how can he be considered a good character?"

Although Shen Qiuting has been brooding over Bai Guanchen's murderous intentions recently because of Bai Guanchen's unsteady behavior, he still needs an explanation when talking about that incident back then. He tried to explain: "Young Master Lu, what if it is... that Does the Lord of the Demon Realm want to die?"

"Maybe." Lu Cheng quickly covered up his gaffe just now, opened his folding fan and said with a smile, "The left and right are all old things, and everyone is dead. The ghost knows what he was thinking back then. My shop There is still something to do here, you will charge this meal to my account, let's go first."

He glanced at Liu Cheng who was still eating, and finally couldn't help but say before leaving: "Damn fox, you can forget it if you eat it to death."

Liu Cheng very calmly pushed the plate to the place where he was sitting just now, taking it firmly.

Lu Cheng's face flushed and turned pale, he hummed, and walked away with a flick of his sleeve.

After Lu Cheng left, the two of them didn't stay for long before returning to Lingyun Pavilion.

As soon as Fang returned to the back mountain, Shen Qiuting rushed to Taoist Qingxu's room and asked him what he wanted to do.

Daoist Qingxu saw Shen Qiuting approaching, stroked his beard in a mysterious way: "Disciple, isn't your master very understanding?"

Just as Shen Qiuting was about to speak, Daoist Qingxu stopped him with a wave of his hand: "You are my apprentice, you are my apprentice, I should do these things."

Shen Qiuting called out calmly: "Master, look at me."

Daoist Qingxu proudly responded and looked up at him.

The two stared at each other for a while.

Shen Qiuting finally couldn't help jumping up, desperately suppressing the idea of ​​deceiving his master and destroying his ancestors: "I have an enmity with Bai Guanchen now, and I don't want to see him at all now! Take it as a blind date! !"

Seeing his appearance, Daoist Qingxu felt guilty, and murmured: "Disciple, look at that... the list has been submitted, anyway, I won it for you, and there is no other suitable person now. Otherwise, you can... make do with it."

His voice was getting lower and lower, obviously realizing that he was not doing this properly.

Shen Qiuting finally gave up the idea of ​​communicating with Daoist Qingxu, turned around and went out.

He grabbed a handful of hair, sighed, thinking in his heart, it's really not good...just make do.

Three days later, Shen Qiuting packed his bags, went to the mission office to receive the mission, and then arrived at the square in front of the main hall of Wenjian Peak.

Bai Guanchen still didn't bring his natal spirit sword, but changed into a new one, still dressed in white, standing tall and tall waiting for him.

Now that Shen Qiuting saw him, his head hurt, and he was not at all willing to greet him, so he got straight to the point: "Second Senior Brother, let's go."

After finishing speaking, Shen Qiuting went to Chi Mingjian first.

He hadn't finished kneading the formula when he suddenly heard a cold voice behind him: "I'm sorry."

Shen Qiuting smiled but did not even turn his head: "If everything can be settled by saying sorry, there will be no grievances in this world."

Bai Guanchen glanced at his back, pursed his lips, and silently followed behind Shen Qiuting.

Shen Qiuting wanted to torment others, and he put on a lot of effort along the way, sometimes he said he wanted to rest, and sometimes he said he was hungry in the wilderness. He was obviously a monk, but he seemed to be living more delicately than a weak and sick mortal.

Bai Guanchen seemed to really feel guilty towards him, and followed him in everything along the way, without any dissatisfaction.

Shen Qiuting squatted on the branch, took a bite of the wild fruit that Bai Guanchen found, thinking in his heart, it's not enough, he must find a chance to get a big one.

Otherwise, the tone in his heart would not go smoothly.

Hiss, this wild fruit is quite sweet.

It was obviously not a very long way, and the two of them dragged on for ten days before they finally arrived at the place.

The training mission this time is in a small border town, located at the junction of Zhongzhou and Southern Region.

According to the information given by the disciples who came back from the investigation, there should be a ghost cultivator in the foundation period in the city. This ghost cultivator had once attached to people in the city.

It is a very common evil method for ghost cultivators to possess one's body under certain conditions. Orthodox monks will learn the solution as soon as they start, and it is perfect to use it as a training experience for beginners.Although the ghost cultivator here can possess the body in the middle, but the cultivation level is not high, and Shen Qiuting's training partner this time is a cultivator at the transformation stage, so it is not without reason that the difficulty is higher.

It was already dusk when the two arrived in Fengcheng, and the sky was shrouded in dark clouds, with only a little light from the sky showing.It's clearly not yet night, but there is a feeling that you can't see your fingers.

The city gate of Fengcheng stood silently in the darkness, the banners on the city wall rattled in the wind, the gates of the three gates were closed, and half of the plaque with the word "Fengcheng" fell down. , hanging crookedly on the top, looking particularly dilapidated and desolate.

Apart from the two of them, there was no third person around.

Looks like I won't be able to get in tonight.

Shen Qiuting looked around and saw a red lantern lit up not far away.

He and Bai Guanchen looked at each other, and read the same thought as himself in the other's eyes.

The location of the lantern is only ten miles away from the city gate, it is a dilapidated inn.

When the two of them walked to the inn, Shen Qiuting glanced back, the night had completely enveloped the whole world at some point, the night seemed to be extraordinarily thick, not to mention that he couldn't see his fingers, maybe he couldn't see anything close to his face .

This inn looks like it has been around for a while, the house is dilapidated, the stairs upstairs are crumbling, and the tables, chairs and benches are still complete, but they are also covered with a layer of old oil.

There was an uncomfortable dampness in the air, like the musty smell of wood soaked in rainwater for a long time.

As soon as Bai Guanchen stepped in, he felt a little uncomfortable.

Shen Qiuting caught a glimpse of Bai Guanchen's expression, felt relieved, and walked in without hesitation.

Bai Guanchen hesitated for a moment, but also followed.

There was only one shopkeeper in the inn, with a plump figure and a ruddy complexion, who was dozing off on the counter.

Shen Qiuting walked over and knocked on the counter, and asked: "Shopkeeper, is there any vacancy in this inn?"

The shopkeeper was awakened by the sound of knocking on the counter, subconsciously replied: "No more, no more, the store has no more vacancies."

The inn is not located in a prosperous area, and there are no commercial cities near Fengcheng. The shopkeeper said so skillfully that there are no vacancies, which makes people suspicious.

Shen Qiuting pretended not to notice any abnormality, took out a high-grade spirit stone from his pocket, and said: "We two brothers and sisters really have no other place to stay, you see... can you be more flexible?"

The shopkeeper's chubby face showed a look of embarrassment. After weighing it over and over again, he returned the top-grade spirit stone to Shen Qiuting with a heartache on his face, and said, "You two are immortal masters, right? It's not that I'm being intolerant, it's a small shop. There are really no rooms left."

He pointed to the direction of Fengcheng outside the door, and explained: "Now there is a ghost living in Fengcheng. This ghost is so powerful that it can attach itself to people, and it will destroy the whole family of the possessed person after nightfall... Now almost every day, one family is wiped out. No one dares to live in the city, but anyone who has the ability has already gone to other places. There are also many people who drag their families and bring their mouths to live here. Xiaodian There are not many rooms in the store, and there are not many people to live in, so... there are no vacant rooms."

Shen Qiuting didn't expect the situation to be so serious, frowned, and asked suspiciously: "This inn is only ten miles away from Fengcheng, why isn't this inn harmed by ghosts?"

The shopkeeper explained: "It's strange to say that this ghost seems to only be active in Fengcheng City. Once you leave the city, you won't be threatened by ghosts anymore."

If ghosts can only be active in Fengcheng City, why is the gate of Fengcheng closed early at night?It looked like it was guarding against something going in.

Shen Qiuting wrote down the doubts, pretended to be clear, pushed the spirit stone back to the shopkeeper, and said with a smile: "Since this is the case, our senior brothers dare not go forward. We want to make do with the night in this hall. I don't know. Can the shopkeeper be accommodating?"

The shopkeeper hesitated for a moment, took the Lingshi, and enthusiastically said: "Then I will get some quilts for the two immortal masters. It is windy at night, and the two of you may feel aggrieved."

Bai Guanchen stood aside, and out of the corner of his eye, he noticed that the wooden head on the pillar next to him had moved. He frowned, stared at the pillar for a while, and saw a colorful flesh worm emerging from the pillar.

The worm raised its body and was exposed to the air for a while, before re-burrowing into the wood.

Shen Qiuting thanked the shopkeeper and was about to find a seat to sit down when Bai Guanchen grabbed his wrist and said, "Don't sit down."

When it comes to serious matters, Shen Qiuting didn't intend to make personal emotions, he understood Bai Guanchen's meaning almost immediately: "You mean, there is something wrong with these tables and chairs?"

Coincidentally, the shopkeeper came over with some colorful quilts, Shen Qiuting winked at Bai Guanchen, telling him not to act rashly, and took the initiative to greet him, and helped the shopkeeper put the quilts on the clean table.

In the process of laying the bedding, he has been careful not to let his hands touch the table.

The shopkeeper spread out the bedding, told Shen Qiuting about the location of the hot water and the kitchen, closed the door of the inn, and planned to go back to rest.

When he turned around, Shen Qiuting suddenly saw something colorful flashing through his hair.

Shen Qiuting narrowed his eyes and stopped the shopkeeper: "Shopkeeper, what's on your hair?"

The shopkeeper turned around blankly and stroked his hair: "There is nothing."

Shen Qiuting smiled: "I misread it and disturbed the shopkeeper."

After the shopkeeper left, Shen Qiuting looked at Bai Guanchen and asked, "What did you just discover?"

Without saying a word, Bai Guanchen pulled out the spirit sword, and with one sword, he split open the stool that Shen Qiuting was about to sit on just now.

The wooden stool split from the middle, and no sawdust splashed out of it, but a light green liquid leaked from the fracture.

If you look carefully, there are countless densely packed colored insect corpses of different sizes stuck at the fracture, and the light green liquid is their blood.

Shen Qiuting felt his scalp go numb after just one glance.

Thinking of what he saw in the shopkeeper's hair just now, Shen Qiuting's whole body felt strange.

The entire inn is made of wooden structures, and it is unknown how many such bugs are hidden in the wood.Even everyone in the inn may have been attacked by these colored bugs.

Shen Qiuting asked Bai Guanchen: "Do you know what these bugs are?"

"I don't know," Bai Guanchen replied while taking out the insect repelling incense from the Qiankun bag and lighting it up, "It looks like it's something refined by a Gu master in the Southern Region."

Gu masters were originally a branch of alchemy, and they often entered Gu with various strange snakes and insects. The snakes and insects in the same altar ate all their companions and survived to refine the final product.Because the companions eaten by the finished product have more or less their own characteristics, the appearance of the finished product will be very strange, not among the normal creatures.

Before the things refined by Gu masters are practiced, no one knows what effect they have. Some Gu masters caught mortals to test the use of Gu insects, which aroused the indignation of the entire righteous way, and they were expelled from the ranks of righteous monks.Over time, these Gu masters gathered in the southernmost part of the Southern Region, where the most snakes and insects are the most, and hardly interacted with various sects in the cultivation world.

This place is obviously not close to the usual activity area of ​​Gu Masters.

The smell of insect repellent incense filled the air, and countless colorful flesh insects crawled out from the floor, tables, chairs, and doorposts, and crawled out of the area covered by the insect repellent incense.

"Clap, clap, clap..."

In the overwhelming squirming sound, another sound suddenly joined, like light footsteps.

Shen Qiuting raised his head and looked in the direction of the stairs, there were a few people standing there at some point.

These people were wearing ordinary coarse bunts, with slightly fat bodies and rosy faces, they looked like guests in the inn.

They seemed to have glanced in the direction of the two of them, then they took a step, followed the bugs and smashed open the door of the inn, and walked out.

Shen Qiuting noticed that their body movements were extremely stiff, like... a person made of wood.

"Their bodies should be full of bugs, and they no longer have self-awareness."

Hearing Bai Guanchen's explanation, Shen Qiuting gave a "hmm", his eyes were still fixed on the inn door that had just been opened.

It was windy at night, and the red lanterns at the entrance of the inn were swaying wildly in mid-air, but the candles inside showed no signs of going out, and the size and shape of the flames did not even change.

Following Shen Qiuting's gaze, Bai Guanchen also noticed the lantern.

Just an inn outside the city reveals strangeness everywhere. This Fengcheng seems to be more than just a ghost cultivator in the foundation building period.

Except for the ubiquitous Gu worms, the two of them stayed quietly in the inn overnight without encountering any other dangers.

The innkeeper got up early, and as soon as he came to the lobby, he saw the stool that was split in half and the door that was broken. He thought it was a thief and almost died of fright.

Shen Qiuting saw that the shopkeeper seemed completely ignorant, so he didn't say much, and left with Bai Guanchen after asking when the city gate would be opened.

The Gu worms in the inn have already been expelled once, as for the Gu worms in the human body, there is no other way to get them out except for the Gu master himself, and talking about it will only increase panic.

It is imperative to find out the source of the anomaly.

Fengcheng opened the city gate very late in the morning, and did not open a small gate next to the main gate until dawn.

Because there are a few sporadic people coming and going, Fengcheng during the day does not look dilapidated at night, it is more like a normal small town.

As soon as Shen Qiuting and Bai Guanchen reached the gate of the city, they found a group of people gathered around the gate, watching something.

"It's all gone, let's go, don't look at it!"

Several people dressed as domestic servants stretched out their hands to drive away the crowd of onlookers. Behind them, a few strong men lifted a few door panels covered with white cloth, and a group of people walked to the woods outside the city.

When the door panel passed by Shen Qiuting, a corner was blown up by the wind, revealing a skinny corpse that was shriveled inside.

Although there is no flesh and blood, judging from the clothes, it should be the few guests who went out with the bug last night.

Shen Qiuting frowned.

Where have all the bugs on them gone?

After being expelled by the servants, the onlookers whispered to each other as they walked into the city: "Why did someone die again? How many people have died recently?"

"Sigh, I can't tell how much. Even the cemetery in Fengcheng can't fit it. Recently, these few have been sent directly to mass graves outside the city."

"Didn't the Li family claim to be a family of cultivators? Why didn't they find anything after searching for so long?"

"What the hell is a family of immortal cultivators? Pooh! Maybe they created this ghost! It has nothing to do with them, so the city will be closed every night, just like we are afraid that we will run out of the city at night."

"You can't talk nonsense about this! If the Li family hears it, you will feel better."

"Speak carefully, speak carefully!"

……

"Brother, wait a minute," Shen Qiuting listened to a few words, and suddenly stopped the middle-aged man who was just chatting, and asked, "I heard you just now... there is a family of cultivators in Fengcheng? "

There is nothing to hide about this, and the middle-aged man in Fengcheng can tell by casually inquiring about it: "Yes, it is the Li family who lives in the center of the city. .”

Why is it Tianyinmen again?

Shen Qiuting and Bai Guanchen looked at each other, thinking that the Li family might have to go for a while.

The city is not as deserted as the two of them imagined. There are no people coming and going on the street, but normal business is still going on.

I don't know if it's an illusion, but Shen Qiuting always felt that his nose smelled the same rain moisture as what he smelled in the inn yesterday.

When the two passed by a meat stall, they suddenly heard a scream from the side.

"This is the man!" Before he could put down the bloody kitchen knife in his hand, the vendor pointed at an old man who came to buy meat with horrified eyes, and shouted to the people around him, "This man is possessed by a ghost! He just now The eyes... are really scary!"

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