Exorcism

Long before the Sheshen Kingdom publicly surrendered to Wangshan, the Shengfu Dynasty had already felt the slightest chill in the north. The major vassal states on the border sent a snowflake of letters asking for help. The contents were surprisingly consistent. They were all about the demon clan once again stirring up trouble and snow. The situation has not receded, and even several vassal states in the south have found that this year's winter is particularly long. The pattering winter rain is mixed with snow and hail like rice grains.

The Taoist tradition is preparing to retire as a whole, and Bing Kui is sweeping across the land of demons... More and more confusing and frightening news is coming. The building is about to collapse, but the Shengfu Dynasty is a little helpless. The court habitually turns to Long Binhui for help. Long Binhui made a habit of asking Taoism for advice. As a result, all inquiries either came to nothing or only received a few ambiguous answers.

All the Taoist priests evacuated the imperial capital, leaving only some ordinary disciples who had not yet completed the elixir condensation process. They were confused and even more flustered than the talisman masters of Long Binhui.

Princess Xi Jieguo has only just established a foothold in the imperial capital and is still a long way from taking power, but she still uses her influence to do as much as possible.

She sent letters to various Taoist families, especially Pang Shan, in a private name. The answers she got were still not clear enough, but they were enough for her to draw the most tragic conclusion: Taoism had really decided to give up the whole world, and the Shengfu Dynasty was losing its strongest Big backer.

Except for a few close friends, she did not spread the news. Instead, she searched for warriors who still had fighting spirit in the chaotic court and Longbinhui, and secretly united them to form a small but most determined group. strength.

Sending envoys to the Kingdom of Sheshen was one of the actions that the princess personally promoted. At that time, King Sheshen was still waiting and watching. The Shengfu Dynasty did not want to show weakness to its former vassal country. The emperor even wanted to issue a decree ordering King Sheshen to come to the imperial capital in person to show his loyalty. The princess worked in many ways to make the emperor understand that times had changed, and he could no longer use the same tactics with the country of sacrifice. He had to actively win over the country without asking for alliance. At least he had to keep the half-demon country neutral.

The Holy Talisman Messenger set out from the imperial capital non-stop, using countless talismans along the way, and arrived at the capital of the Kingdom of Sheshen in the shortest possible time. However, the time was still delayed too much, and everything was too late. King Sheshen had already made up his mind to follow Wangshan refused to receive the envoy due to illness, but instead issued an order to hunt down humans all over the country.

Hong Futian and others followed the envoy to the Kingdom of Sheshen as the princess's cronies. They found that it was impossible for King Sheshen to change his mind and were unwilling to return without success, so they wanted to cause some trouble.

Ouyang Hao, a young and enthusiastic casual cultivator, quickly began to speak on behalf of his master, Hong Futian, "The King of Sacrifice was conquered by the Demon King of Tuoshan, so we thought we might as well kill her while the Demon King was still weak. We knew that the Demon King was once The true illusion of the catechumen, but she has long been transformed by the magic of the demons, and is no longer the dragon demon she used to be. "

A total of more than a hundred casual cultivators and talisman masters followed the envoy to the Kingdom of Saishen. Their plan was as follows: the weaker half stayed in the capital of the Kingdom of Sacrifice to continue dealing with the half-demon, and the seven of them caused some trouble in Chaodong Town. Dozens of Taoist priests who attracted Tuoshan had secretly sneaked to Tuoshan, waiting for an opportunity to rush to the top of the mountain to kill the devil.

So they rescued more than a dozen human captives, but they had disagreements about the next step. Hong Futian, Ouyang Hao and Liu Ding felt that the people they rescued were too few to lure the magicians away from Tuoshan, and they wanted to generalize all the people in the camp. After all the human prisoners were rescued, the casual cultivator Chen Guanhuo and the other two felt that enough was enough and they should return to the capital of the Kingdom of Sacrifice as originally planned as soon as possible.

In the end, the casual cultivator named Qin Kun decided to continue saving people.

Mu Xingqiu had long noticed that Hong Futian was not the leader of these seven people, but Qin Kun was.

Qin Kun looked fifty years old, but in fact he was probably more than a hundred years old. His appearance was not good, but his two small eyes were stern and lively. He had remained silent after seeing Mu Xingqiu, but whether it was Hong Futian or Ouyang Shu, Every time he said something, he would look at Qin Kun and only speak boldly after getting tacit approval.

Hong Futian finally realized his rudeness, interrupted the apprentice who was talking incessantly, and introduced the other three people to Mu Xingqiu, especially Qin Kun, "Senior Qin is a minister in the palace. He has served the royal family for a long time and is the most trusted person of the emperor. One of the ministers."

Mu Xingqiu thought for a while before he understood the meaning of "inner minister". Not only was it even more surprising, the human emperor and the Long Binhui of various countries had always been wary of loose cultivators, and often ordered to kill them. The emperor himself actually kept a loose cultivator by his side. But Qin Kun was willing to act as an eunuch, which was really unreasonable.

Mu Xingqiu didn't say much, and he and Qin Kun exchanged polite greetings, and then said: "There is no need to save people for the time being, Tuoshan will send magicians here soon, and traps have been set up in the military camp, making it difficult to save people. "

He did not say that he had rescued these seven people. If he had not stopped Black Phoenix in time, the casual cultivators and Talisman Masters would have become prisoners and become the next batch of sacrifices of the Human Flesh Society.

Ouyang Hao and Liu Ding were disappointed, but Hong Futian immediately expressed his agreement. Qin Kun was a little hesitant, "The catechumen is so famous that I have always admired him very much, but I have a strict destiny - what is the catechumen's plan?"

Mu Xingqiu briefly explained the plan he had thought up. The seven people looked at each other in disbelief. The four people who knew Mu Xingqiu were better and trusted him more, but the three people including Qin Kun and others who had just met were full of doubts. , refused to say a word for a long time.

"There are three Xingluo Taoist priests who are helping me. One of them is at the inn in Chaodong Town." Mu Xingqiu knew what these three people were hesitating about.

Sure enough, Qin Kun felt relieved and said with a smile: "So that's it, that's fine. Let the catechumen arrange everything."

Ouyang Hao turned and looked at Liu Ding. The two of them believed in Mu Xingqiu himself.

Mu Xingqiu used magic to return directly to the inn, while Hong Futian and others landed outside Chaodong Town and walked into the town pretending to be monsters from outside who had just arrived.

The dozen humans rescued last night have been hidden in a nearby mountain, so there is no need to worry for the time being.

In the hotel room, a red-faced Yang Chuang was arguing loudly with a smiling Hei Huang. The bald man stood on the table, looking left and right in confusion, obviously not quite understanding what they were arguing about.

The arrival of Mu Xingqiu ended the argument. Yang Chuang realized that he had lost his composure and hurriedly lowered his eyes and recited scriptures to calm down quickly. However, Black Phoenix looked like it didn't matter whether he won or lost. He stood up and came over to greet him with a smile: "Tao Zun is back and has found some casual cultivators? That's for sure. There's nothing that Dao Zun can't do."

Mu Xingqiu asked Baldy: "What's going on?"

"They were arguing about who was bold and who was timid, and then... I couldn't understand." The bald man laughed a few times.

Yang Chuang hurriedly wanted to retort, but then hurriedly controlled the impulse in his heart and said to Mu Xingqiu: "The banshee doesn't know what victory is. That's why the three of us lived in seclusion in the first place. If we return to Daotong, we will become possessed by demons." Danger."

Mu Xingqiu knew what the Tribulation of Victory was. It was a Tao Tribulation that was eager to win but was unable to achieve it. Everyone around him was practicing, and he had to work hard, but he knew that hard work would have no results. As time went by, it would inevitably Feeling jealous, Yang Chuang and others left Taoism before their jealousy became too strong.

Those who have a strong Taoist heart will usually stop in front of the calamity of sighing. That is because they are defeated in the contest with themselves. Only a few people who are not strong in the Taoist heart will encounter the calamity of victory and lose in comparison with others. Compared with others, Under the circumstances, victory was rare and not very honorable. Yang Chuang was very sensitive about this matter and actually got into a fight with a banshee.

Mu Xingqiu had never developed the heart of a Taoist priest, so naturally he would not laugh at Yang Chuang, but what he noticed was another thing, "Yang Chuang, you have been fooled. Black Phoenix is ​​using demonic illusions on you."

Yang Chuang was startled and was about to deny it when he suddenly realized that the banshee knew nothing about him, but he unknowingly revealed it and gave her an opportunity. This was also an illusion, but it was too weak. Not even the magic weapon in the room responded.

Yang Chuang became even more angry and blamed himself. He walked to the corner, turned his back to Mu Xingqiu and Hei Huang, and sat down to enter a state of contemplation.

Black Phoenix chuckled, "Don't you think Dao Zun will be angry? I don't have any bad intentions, it's just a little joke. As you know, it hasn't been long since I learned the magic of demons, and I always want to try the effect. Dao Zun has just learned the illusion of mind. Is it the same as when ?”

Mu Xingqiu asked directly: "When will the demonic Taoist priests from Tuoshan arrive at Chaodong Town?"

"Well...I said the situation here is not very serious. He will probably arrive before dark, just in time for tonight's human flesh meeting."

This is what Mu Xingqiu thought, "Let me see your clone technique."

Black Phoenix smiled even more ambiguously, and as if he couldn't control himself, he used some demonic illusions again, "One Black Phoenix is ​​not enough for the Taoist, do we have to have two?"

Black Phoenix had no intention of refusing. She raised her right hand, holding a black feather, and spun around in circles. Suddenly, smoke rose, and her joints crackled. After a while, the smoke dissipated, and two identical women appeared on the spot. The two black phoenixes stared at each other, as if they were looking at each other in the mirror, but their postures were different.

The bald man couldn't help but cheer.

"How many clones can you create?" Mu Xingqiu asked.

"How many? Dao Zun has a big appetite." "One clone is amazing." "Clone is not an ordinary illusion. Even the Taoist priest's third eye cannot tell the truth from the fake." "Do you want to give it a try, Dao Zun?"

The two black phoenixes answered each other word by word. After speaking, they looked at each other and smiled. They were both satisfied.

Mu Xingqiu pointed at one of them, "I have been tracking your spells."

"Does that mean Taoist Master can't tell the truth from the lie just by looking at it?" "Haha, this is enough to make me proud for a while."

"Pretend to stay in Chaodong Town, but really follow me to Tuoshan. Set off immediately."

"Oh, I smell the breath of destruction. Our Lady of Ten Thousand Sons is right, Taoist Master will be destroyed wherever he goes." "But there is one thing that Taoist Master knows. The farther the distance, the weaker the clone. Tuoshan Li For more than two hundred miles, there is only one body left in the clone, which cannot be deceived by the Taoist priest."

"It doesn't matter."

There was a knock on the door outside, and Hong Futian and others arrived.

Mu Xingqiu went to open the door. The two black phoenixes looked at each other and suddenly stopped smiling, their clear faces quickly becoming blurry.