Spiritual Masters

He snatched the wooden dagger and teased: "What kind of crap did you make? Isn't it a research institution?"

Someone echoed: "Brother Ruan, is this simple? So simple."

Ruan Yan lazily stretched out his hand towards the man and said, "It's none of your business, stop making sarcastic remarks and pay me back."

The disciple laughed twice: "Don't be so stingy, let me observe and emulate."

"Get out." Ruan Yan kicked him, holding the end of the dagger to snatch it back.

The man became more energetic and shouted not to let go, the two of them fought over each other, but unexpectedly the dagger was not made of good material and broke.Seeing this, the booing people around fell silent.

The disciple didn't expect to be so fragile, and said with some embarrassment: "Ayan, I didn't mean it."

Ruan Yan was silent for a moment, then waved his hand unhappily and said, "Forget it."

His action just dropped the broken dagger to the ground, and several people were still talking around.

But Ji Ping's heart sank along with the falling dagger, and he didn't want to listen anymore, even the conversation in his ears turned into a buzzing sound.He slid down against the tree and sat on the ground, and his first thought was: Fortunately, the tree is big enough to completely cover him.

Chi Sheng could feel how complicated his mood was at the moment. If he could see the expression, he must be very disappointed.

Ji Ping sat under the tree and waited for those people to leave, then he silently patted his butt and stood up. He consciously glanced at the position where they were standing just now, and there were two severed daggers lying there.

He walked over and looked at it for a long time, finally sighed and picked up the things and stuffed them into his arms.After returning to his residence, he sat by the desk, trying to mend the dagger, but it was too badly broken to mend, so he had no choice but to give up.

"Ji Ping."

knock --

It was Ruan Yan who was knocking on the door, and thinking about what happened today, Ji Ping's heart burst into flames, and he lay on the table without saying a word.

"Damn, aren't you here?" Ruan Yan's voice was a little angry.

"Ji Ping?" Ruan Yan murmured twice, then shouted again: "Are you really not here? Then I'm leaving!"

Seeing that he was about to leave, Ji Ping couldn't care less about getting angry, and hurriedly opened the door: "I was writing something just now and didn't hear it."

"It's okay." Ruan Yan entered the room and sat on the chair with a carefree attitude like the owner, frowned and said, "Why don't you have tea here?"

"I don't like tea, so I didn't keep tea." Ji Ping smiled and looked at his waist and asked, "Why didn't you see you carrying a dagger today?"

"Uh..." Ruan Yan rarely got stuck, he hesitated and said: "In my room, who still carries it all day long?"

As expected, Ji Ping didn't speak, Chi Sheng couldn't help it anymore, and said in his heart: "This guy Ruan Yan is really stubborn, he deserves it."

The atmosphere between the two suddenly became heavy, and after a while Ji Ping said again: "By the way, Ayan, you can come to my place in two nights. I will treat you to a drink and talk to you."

"Oh." Ruan Yan said casually.

Chi Sheng could feel the turbulent emotions in Ji Ping's heart, and he couldn't help sighing, so it was like this.

Although he couldn't calculate the season, he knew that Ruan Yan's birthday happened to be just before the Ghost Festival, and Ji Ping would go back to Wushan to worship those villagers every year around the Ghost Festival.

Ji Ping wanted to confess to Ruan Yan about his family affairs, no wonder...

If Ruan Yan had been invited that night, there might not have been those follow-ups.Chi Sheng sighed: "This really has something to do with me, so what's wrong with me?"

What will happen next, Chi Sheng can more or less guess and is mentally prepared, but he will still be affected by his emotions when he sees Ji Ping waiting for Ruan Yan all night with wine.

That night, Ji Ping put away the wine until his heart became peaceful. He lay down without taking off his robe. It was clearly midsummer, and he felt a slight chill.

Ji Ping packed his things early in the morning and prepared to go back to Wu Village to pay homage to those villagers. Before he left, he hesitated and went to Ruan Yan's residence.

The man was still awake, he knocked on the door twice: "Ayan."

Ruan Yan was a light sleeper and had a bad temper when she was woken up.At this moment, he opened the door in a daze and said angrily, "What's wrong?"

"Why didn't you come yesterday?" Ji Ping went straight to the point.

Ruan Yan yawned with a "hey" and said, "Last night, that guy Achi suddenly had a fever. I took care of him for half the night before coming back to sleep. It was really torture."

Ji Ping's expression suddenly turned cold, he glanced at Ruan Yan and said in a deep voice: "You have a good rest, I'm going out to hunt monsters."

Ruan Yan slammed the door shut, and Ji Ping stood outside the door for a long time before leaving.

Chi Sheng saw a toothache, and felt Ji Ping's frustration.

Ji Ping returned to Wu Village and went straight to the cave under the waterfall, where he used to worship the villagers and where he often came to meditate.

When Ji Ping discovered this cave for the first time, Chi Sheng recognized that this was the place where they were teleported.

And the handwriting on the stone tablet and the two lines above it, "I can't get what I want, I miss it." Ji Ping also inscribed it when he was in pain.

He stayed here for two days and got rid of all distracting thoughts. The only firm belief was to kill the evil monsters and avenge the villagers who died in vain. He closed himself and closed his eyes to merge with the darkness. , Feeling the strong hatred filling myself.

When leaving the cave, Ji Ping suddenly wanted to take a look at Wu Village, so he turned around and walked towards the village without hesitation.

The appearance there has not changed, but it has been polished by wind and rain, and it is more like an empty land with the passage of time.

Feeling in his heart, he couldn't help staying for a while longer, thinking about what Wucun used to be like, and walked along the path up the mountain.

At the end of the road, he saw a few men in black standing there. No one has come here since the landslide. What are these people doing here?

Ji Ping stepped forward suspiciously and asked, "Who are you?"

Alarm bells rang in Chi Sheng's heart. Could this be the opportunity for Ji Ping to fall into the spirit? Then the people behind him are among these men in black!

But these men in black didn't show their faces, how to tell them apart...

One of the men in black asked, "You asked me who I am, why didn't you report yourself first?"

It was a middle-aged man with a deep voice.

"This is my hometown, why do I have to declare my family name when I go home?" Ji Ping was a little annoyed when asked, "Why do you break into other people's homes?"

"Home?" The man in black turned around and laughed: "This place is just an open space, why do you say home?"

"You!" Ji Ping said angrily, "You are dressed in strange clothes, who are you, are you demons?"

"How about a demon?" The man said again: "Are you a spiritual master?"

"That's right." Ji Ping heard the demon's eyes turn red, and hated him from the bottom of his heart: "You heinous demons, you are wreaking havoc everywhere and destroying people's hometowns, damn it!"

After he finished speaking, he didn't care about anything else, and rushed towards the man in black. Unexpectedly, the two people behind him quickly pressed him to the ground. He struggled a few times and found it was useless, so he raised his head and asked, "You Want to kill me?"

"Oh?" The man in black seemed very interested: "Aren't you afraid of death?"

It must be a lie to say that he is not afraid of death, Ji Ping silently thought about what he was worried about, and finally laughed at himself: "Afraid of death?"

He shook his head and said, "I have no home to return to, no relatives to worry about, what is there to be afraid of? I only hate that I am not strong enough to kill the demon!"

"Then do you want to become stronger?" The man in black thought for a moment, then squatted down and looked at him at the same level: "I can make you stronger, I can give you the ability to kill the person you hate, do you want it?"

The man in black spoke slowly, like a demon bewitching him, very alluring.

Through the mask, Ji Ping could only see his dark eyes, he frowned and said, "I don't believe what the demon says."

34. Wucun (eight)

"You don't need to rush to reject me." The man in black stood up and turned his back to him: "But you said you don't believe in demons, I'm a little curious."

Ji Ping said: "Monsters are born to do evil, who would believe in demons?"

The man in black smiled and said: "Everything is not born with good and evil, and so are people. If you are just because of this, you might as well think about whether demons can be trusted. Then humans, maybe you spiritual masters can't be trusted."

He also said: "The most despicable and shameless people in this world are the Healer Sect. Under the banner of hunting monsters, they want the monsters to submit to them and become their own fighting power."

Ji Ping said: "It's the demon who did evil, and the spiritual master has good thoughts in his heart, so he uses this method to give the demon a chance to reform."

The man in black sighed: "Instead of believing what other people say, why not try to believe your eyes? What you see is the only truth and reality in this world."

Ji Ping didn't want to go around in circles with him, and said angrily, "What on earth are you trying to do? If you want to kill you, kill me right away."

The man in black said slowly: "I just want to help you recognize the reality. The most important thing you should believe in is yourself, not a demon, nor those hateful spiritual masters."

His words were so magical that Ji Ping's mind couldn't help but follow his words, recalling all kinds of things in the spiritual master sect, thinking of Ruan Yan, his heart suddenly burned with anger

He yelled: "You monsters can only confuse people, I don't believe you, why do you think that I will join forces with monsters? Even if I die, I will not be with monsters, monsters are the most damned in this world!"

The man in black put his hand on top of his head, like a loving father: "You said the demon should die, why did you say it so definitely?"

"My parents, the whole village died because of the demon." Ji Ping gritted his teeth and said, "Why shouldn't the demon die? I hate the demon so much!"

The man in black seemed to have heard something funny, and sneered: "It is clear that the landslide here covered the village, why blame it on the monster?"

"You just can't let go of it in your heart, and you want to find an excuse to make yourself hate. So you blame these on the demon head and make yourself feel sorry for yourself."