The salted fish attack made the master carry the cub

There is only a thin layer of flesh on the face of the mummy, and the muscle fibers on the face are clearly visible, as if it was dried or starved to death here.

"Who are you?" the boy asked.

He took a step forward calmly, and adjusted the standing posture between him and Zong Wu from front to back to side by side.

Zong Wu looked at the little apprentice with a complicated expression, and silently saw these little moves in his eyes, and didn't speak to stop him.

Qi Wushen saw that the master didn't respond, so he turned sideways again, blocking in front of him without any trace.

"The cumulus view is the main cloud."

The mummy spoke again, the thick and powerful voice was exactly the same as before, only a little less ethereal.

Hearing this, the young man was slightly startled.

The self-reported mummy undoubtedly confirmed his guess.

"If you are the master of the temple, the one outside is fake?" the boy asked.

This is also what he wanted to ask Zong Wu before he fell.

According to the message from Jiuchongtian, the temple master should be a kind person, but what the residents say is quite different. The only explanation is that the master of Cumulus Temple died and was replaced by someone else.

The mummy spoke very slowly. He didn't immediately reply to the boy's question, but slowly told his own story.

He said: "Six months ago, one of my younger brothers picked up a wounded peacock when he was traveling abroad. The younger brother was kind and took the peacock back to the temple to take care of it. Who knew that the peacock was not an ordinary peacock, but escaped from the demon realm. Peacock Demon."

"The peacock demon seems to be hunted down by people. It speaks nicely to my junior brother, and took in them as a peacock family. Although my junior brother has doubts about the identity of the peacock demon, but after taking care of it for a period of time, I developed feelings for it. The three peacocks were allowed to live in the back mountain of Guanzhong. From that day on, things began to develop in an uncontrollable direction."

"In the beginning, there were young disciples who had just started missing in the meditation. We thought it was not easy to practice Taoism, and those disciples were not strong-minded, so they took the opportunity to sneak home and ignored them. Until later, some disciples said that they saw the three peacocks moving to another place with their own eyes. A disciple tricked him into the back mountain and joined hands to skin and eat meat, and this matter has attracted our attention."

"In order to deal with it, we hurried to the peacock nest in the back mountain, but it was too late. The scene at that time was horrific, and the mountain was full of green peacock eyes. We just realized that the disciples notified were fake, and these peacock monsters were Ready to attack us."

"At first, they also wanted to peel and eat meat like disciples, but we all have merits and virtues. If we swallowed them alive, they would definitely attract the attention of the Nine Heavens. So they tried to trap us at the bottom of the Sutra Pavilion, and let us fend for ourselves."

The mummy let out a long sigh after saying the last sentence.

The young man knew the cause and effect of the incident, and temporarily let go of his back stretched into a line. He put down his hand on the folding fan, but still maintained the movement of protecting Zong Wu behind him.

He added: "So, the current situation is that those peacock demons are not satisfied with the Taoist priests in the temple, and have expanded their targets to the entire Zhenggu City?"

"Little friend is smart, that's true." The mummy turned his head slightly, with a smile of praise on his face.

The next second—

"No." The young man frowned and said, "If what you said is true, why don't they just trick people into eating them, instead of creating such a virtual environment to trap the people in the city here? And..."

The boy paused and said again: "Also, you could have led us here just now, why did you let us fall into the abyss of black mist before you showed up?"

He spoke quickly, before the mummy could speak, the young man put his arms around the master with one hand, took a step back, and said in an attacking posture: "Don't hide, I saw the peacock feathers under your Taoist robe early in the morning."

Hearing this, the mummy suddenly raised his hand to look at the cuffs of the Taoist robe. His movements were so fast that he was completely different from the slow and inconvenient appearance before. However, his cuffs were empty, and there was no peacock feather at all that Qi Wushen said.

The mummy realized that he had been tricked, but it was too late, the boy had already dragged Zong Wu back behind Jin Zhu.

Two green spots of light lit up in the dark sunken eye sockets.

At the same time, eleven corpses fell to the ground at the same time.

The empty Taoist robe slowly opened up, and the dry and skinny body swelled as if inflated, and the blue-green feathers were drawn from the cuffs.

Look again, the mummy no longer exists, and it has suddenly become a peacock wearing a Taoist robe.

The peacock trembled with every step, and walked towards the two viciously, the breathing hole on the short beak was pushed up high by the breath.

It cursed viciously: "Zong Wu, you destroy my demon king, hurt my whole family, destroy my demon core, today..."

"Fuck, I haven't learned the human language yet, and I still want to come out to make trouble? Go back to the demon realm and practice for a few hundred years."

The young man stepped on his foot and quickly raised his hand. The little golden snake jumped out from his cuff and wrapped itself around the peacock demon's neck.

The fluffy feathers were tightly strangled by the little snake, and the peacock let out a hoarse cry, and the next second, the golden chamber under its feet suddenly collapsed.

The young man grabbed the master's waist and stuffed him into his arms.

I thought it would fall far away again like the previous one, but it only took a moment, and I just felt my feet stop.

When I stood still, the room was still the same as before, but the golden color faded and turned into a dilapidated wooden room, which still exuded a decayed and damp smell.

This is obviously more like the basement of the Buddhist scriptures tower, and it is also where they should have arrived.

"vomit--"

"Master?"

The boy quickly reached out to help, but he still had doubts in his heart.

The baby is getting older, and Zong Wu hasn't had morning sickness for a while, why did he vomit again?

Qi Wushen asked doubts, but Zong Wu waved his hands and said: "It's not morning sickness, it's the child..."

Before he finished speaking, he began to vomit again, but it was just retching.

The blood on Zong Wu's already pale face faded away in a flash. He vomited badly, and besides vomiting, he seemed to have some abdominal pain.

The boy's heart moved, and he held him in his arms.

Zong Wu rested his head on the little apprentice's shoulder and covered his abdomen with one hand, only feeling a hand behind his back inserted under the indigo short brown draped on his back, sliding down his back in a soothing manner, soft and yet Strength.

The temperature of that hand was slightly higher than his body temperature. After stroking it a few times, it finally hugged his waist. The two moved very close. Zong Wu put part of his strength on the little apprentice, and he vomited for a while before he fully recovered. .

The white jade-like thin fingers lifted the towel and wiped it between his mouth, the extreme discomfort finally eased.

Zong Wu removed the weight on the young apprentice, and a faint red mark appeared on his forehead.

"Master, what did you say about the child just now?" the boy asked.

Zong Wu paused and explained: "The demonic energy in the belly is coming from the peacock demon, and just now they sensed each other, the demonic energy strengthened, and it clashed with the spiritual energy, causing abdominal pain."

The young man understood, and asked again: "From that peacock demon just now? Master, I wanted to ask just now, do you have any grudges?"

There was always a peacock demon lingering around them, similar to the demon spirit of the same clan, that thing just now had a grudge against the master, but he couldn't figure out where the grudge came from, and how it involved the fetus in the womb .

However, Zong Wu shook his head.

"I don't know," he said.

"do not know?"

"Well, I don't know."

Zong Wu really didn't know that in order to avenge the little apprentice who crossed the tribulation and reincarnation, he slaughtered nearly a family of peacocks, and there was more than one person who had hatred against him.

However, the number is too large, there must be omissions, and it is precisely because of this that what happened later.Those lingering peacock demons poisoned him for revenge and escape.

Emotional poison is a demonic poison. When it occurs, if it is not relieved in time, it will send out a signal that only the demon race can smell.

Those peacock monsters were powerless to resist. In order to get rid of his pursuit, they wanted to use the poison of love to attract the attention of other monster races and beasts during the poisoning process, so as to gain a chance to escape.If you're lucky, Zong Wu can also be ravaged/ravaged to avenge the shame of exterminating the clan, but Ye Qi who arrived in time took the opportunity.

Zong Wu took a deep breath and pulled himself away from the memory.

Afterwards, the poison subsided, and when he tried to find those peacock demons again, he found that they were no longer in the demon realm.

Now that I think about it, those peacock demons who didn't die originally escaped from the demon domain to survive, and were later rescued by luck, and finally came to Cumulus Temple, which caused the current situation.

He told his young apprentice the process of becoming enmity with the peacock demon in a few words, but omitted the reason why he slaughtered the peacock demon.

After listening to Qi Wushen, he thought to himself: That's how it is.

only……

The young man blurted out a few questions immediately: "Didn't you say before that the child's father poisoned himself in order to get you? Why did he become a peacock demon poisoning again to escape? What is the poison? Poison shouldn’t be evil, right? Also, who is the father of the child? Master, have you lied to me again?”

"..."

There is more than one omission between the words.

Zong Wu is not good at lying, because he never needs to explain to anyone.

After a pause, he just opened his mouth, but instead of mentioning the previous incident, he turned to the young man and asked, "How did you find out that the temple master is fake?"

The peacock hid the evil spirit on his body very well, even he couldn't see it at the first time, Zong Wu didn't understand how the little apprentice knew it.

The young man's eyes turned around Zong Wu, and the attitude of hiding and dodging between Master's words was so obvious that it couldn't be more obvious.

At this time, Qi Wushen has already discovered that the authenticity of everything he asks needs to be investigated. Like now, the credibility of what Master said on his own initiative is clearly greater.

He thought for a moment, and had a guess in his heart, but he didn't continue to ask.

"Master, this is very simple."

The boy paused and said again: "In recent months, the residents of the city still saw the temple masters. Even if the peacock demon really didn't dare to eat those Taoist priests, they would not turn into mummified corpses. After all... the peacock demon still has to fight Go out and deceive people with flesh and blood."

Zong Wu didn't know about this, so he didn't think about it.

"Of course, the more important thing is..."

Qi Wushen changed the subject, and said again: "The more important thing is, when the peacock demon was lying, the snake kept biting me..."

As soon as the words finished, the young man raised his arm, and the snake strangled the peacock demon queen, the illusion was broken, and it returned to his wrist.

However, Qi Wushen rolled up his sleeves, at this moment, his wrist was empty, and the little snake ran off to nowhere.

"Here it is."

The young man followed his prestige and saw that the person who was speaking was a man in Taoist robes. The man had soft brows and a plump figure, which could be described as benevolent and benevolent.And the little golden snake that saved him just now was currently wrapped around that man's wrist.

Could it be that this person is the person under the Buddhist scriptures tower?The boy had a hunch in his heart, but he didn't relax his vigilance immediately.

The man obviously noticed the wariness between Qi Wushen's eyebrows, but he just smiled kindly, and then walked towards Zong Wu.

"God, you are here." That warm smile was no different from the ones on the statues of the gods in the dust realm.

He leaned over and bowed to Zong Wu, and Zong Wu responded politely.

At this moment, when the two approached, Qi Wushen just noticed that there was a faint silver light on this person's body, that light was the dao light familiar to young people, which meant that this person really had meritorious virtues, such light was enough to ascend.

"You are the temple master?" The boy was almost sure.

The other party smiled slightly, and reported his name, Qi Wushen bowed politely, and said: "You have such merits and virtues, how come you haven't ascended yet?"

The situation in front of him is different from the news given to him by Jiuzhongtian, but not much.

But Pu Yun shook his head, and said again: "This is not my merit alone."

"Why?"

Without saying a word, Pu Yun bowed his body and led the two of them to one place.

In front of him, on the dilapidated floor of the basement of Zangshu Pavilion, there were twelve coffins neatly arranged.

The coffins were not closed yet, the young man leaned over and took a look inside, then immediately withdrew his steps and pulled the master who was about to step forward into his arms.

"Master, don't look." The young man held Zong Wu's head down, preventing him from lifting it up, with a rare force in his movements.

"What is it?" The white-clothed god asked softly, but he did not resist the little apprentice's hand pressing down on him.

After a while, the boy took Zong Wu and moved a few steps to the side. He confirmed that the master couldn't see what was in the coffin, so he released the restraint.

Qi Wushen turned around and said to Pu Yun: "So, you are all dead."

Zong Wu's pupils dilated slightly, and he looked at Pu Yun, who still had a warm smile on his face, clearly knowing the fact of his death and accepting it completely.

The temple master paused and said again: "What the peacock demons just said is half true. They are indeed afraid of being discovered by the Jiuchongtian, so after peeling their skins, they trap our souls here." The voice is thick and powerful, but the breath is slightly disorder.

"..."

The young man thought of what he had just seen in the coffin, where maggots were everywhere, human skin was peeled off, leaving only red meat and blood stains, it was extremely cruel.

He clenched his fists under his sleeves, feeling a little more disgusted with the group of beautiful but disgusting creatures.

Only to hear Pu Yun say again: "After the twelve of us died, our souls could not leave, but we accidentally learned of the tricks of those monsters. In order to fight against them, 11 of them used the power of their souls to integrate their merits into me, making me We can temporarily save the souls of those who have been victimized by monsters until someone who can save us appears."

"It's you."

So what he sees now is not the real Pu Yun, but a spiritual body formed by the fusion of souls.

The young man lowered his eyes. It turned out that the place where they were surrounded by black mist was a virtual environment set up by these 12 people to temporarily protect the souls of the people. It's just that the peacock demon has discovered that place, which is why the black mist approaches every night.When the bell rings at midnight every night, that is when the peacock demons are at their strongest. At that time, they will capture some people's souls through dreams.

"Come on, the chick has already met something unexpected, right?" Qi Wushen suddenly thought of Ji Sheng who was captured by the black mist, and his premonition was not very good.

If there is nothing wrong with the soul, you can go to the Nether Mansion of the Styx to fish it. If there is a problem with the life soul, the fairy bone will naturally cease to exist, and the problem will be big.

Hearing this, Pu Yun shook his head, and said again: "The group of peacock demons eat people to heal their wounds, and now they take human souls to reshape the souls of the dead demon kings of the peacock clan. Your friend is not a dead soul, so he was pulled out When the time comes, he should return to his original body. Nothing will happen to him, don't worry."

Hearing this, the young man couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

only……

He and Master are still alive, how could they be dragged there?

The boy wanted to ask, but the ground above his head began to shake, and countless black mist poured into the basement from the cracks.The soul power of these 12 people is at the end of their strength, and they are about to be swallowed by the peacock demon.

Pu Yun's figure flickered, the brilliance on his body dimmed a bit, and the smile on his face with a kind smile finally disappeared.

"There's no time." He frowned and said, even his voice became weaker.

He said again: "The group of peacock demons know that you two are here with me now, so they exerted all their strength, and they will not give up until they catch you."

"I can only make a long story short now. They are going to start the lantern ceremony three days later, gather everyone in Cumulus Temple, and then try to take out the soul. At that time, the Peacock King will reshape the soul, and the entire Zhenggu City will be their hunting ground." .Please also ask God to find a way to save Zhenggu City from the dire straits!"

As soon as the words fell, Pu Yun waved his hand back.

The basement, the scripture tower, and the straw mats outside the tower disappeared, and the group of injured people in the distance looked at the scene in amazement, but before they could speak, they turned into balls of light, and moved towards Puyun. Gather up and go.

At this time, Pu Yun was so weak that even his soul began to flicker, but he still held out the last bit of strength and said: "The strength of our 12 people is limited, and it is not enough to deal with the group of peacock demons. Now the Void Realm can't hold on anymore, please return!" You two help us protect the people in Zhenggu City."

Holding the ball of light in both hands, he solemnly handed over the soul killed by the peacock demon to Zong Wu, his eyes full of prayers.

Qi Wushen and Zong Wu complied with his request, and the worry on Pu Yun's face dissipated and became relieved.

He paused and said again: "Let me send you two out of here."

As soon as the words fell, Pu Yun's whole body scattered into a soft light spot, supporting the master and apprentice to break through the black mist.

The light spot struggled with the black mist, and finally they succeeded in breaking through.

The two master and apprentice watched the last extremely weak spot of light dissipate.

That was the soul of the temple master who was supposed to be promoted to immortality.

The author says:

感谢在2022-06-2719：33：22-2022-06-2818：42：13期间为我投出霸王票或灌溉营养液的小天使哦——

Thanks to the little angel of irrigation nutrient solution: 6 bottles of Nanmo;

Thank you very much for your support, I will continue to work hard!