Mortal Bones

"Hehehe... Hehe..."

Not long after the two people from Liefeng Hall left, a ghost possessed by a rotten corpse, wearing a cloak and riding a demon wolf, came to the gate of Xu Taiping's courtyard.

"I want to ask those rubbish to catch me, do you think they dare?"

The ghost shouted at Xu Taiping standing on the roof with a sarcastic tone.

"As long as I close the door, what can you do to me?"

Xu Taiping replied to the ghost, and then loosened his fingers, and an arrow wrapped in the remnant of the true energy "swooshed" through the air.

"Bang!"

But what Xu Taiping didn't expect was that the ghost in a black robe suddenly pulled out a long sword from his robe and accurately cut off the arrow he shot.

"If you hadn't attacked me yesterday, how could you, a yellow-mouthed child who didn't even have the door-opening realm, hurt me!"

The ghost sneered, and the tip of the sword pointed directly at Xu Taiping standing on the roof.

Xu Taiping's face became serious when he saw this.

He could tell from the sword of the ghost just now that the opponent's strength was indeed much greater than his own. He was able to force him out of Liu Qingmei's body yesterday by an unexpected sneak attack.

"There is only one chance for a sneak attack. Next time, this ghost will definitely be very careful. It will be very difficult to force him out of his body and kill him with wine again."

Xu Taiping thought to himself while putting arrows on his bow again.

"Little guy, don't think that I can't do anything if you hide in the yard and don't come out. In ten days at most, I can dig up the underground channel leading to your backyard medicine garden. As long as it is blocked, your medicine garden will have no water to irrigate, and all the spiritual medicines in the garden will turn into dry grass!"

At this time, the ghost threatened Xu Taiping with a cunning smile.

Hearing this, Xu Taiping couldn't help but feel nervous.

The water source of his backyard medicine garden is indeed a deep underground canal. On weekdays, there will be a constant flow of water flowing through the canal of the medicine garden, which is very convenient for watering.

If the ghost can really dig up the canal, then he really can only go out to get water, otherwise it won’t take long for all the perilla just planted in the medicine garden to die.

"If I store water in advance, I can at least last four or five days when the water is cut off ten days later, which means I only have fifteen days left to prepare."

Xu Taiping's little head was turning rapidly.

"Little guy, the reason I tell you this is that you are smart, and I want to point out a way for you to survive, so that you can surrender and become my ghost servant. Otherwise, I will make you like Liu Qingmei, and use your soul as a wick to let you taste what it means to be worse than death!"

After a round of threats, the ghost finally revealed the real purpose of coming here today.

After what happened yesterday, he was impressed by Xu Taiping's cleverness and wanted to take his ghost as his ghost servant after offering his body to the Tiger King.

These days, even ghosts need people under their command.

"I am a righteous cultivator of the Qingxuan Sect. How can I be a tiger's lackey like you?"

Xu Taiping sneered, then loosened his fingers, and with a "whoosh" sound, he shot another arrow.

"Swish!"

As expected, his arrow was chopped off by the ghost again.

"Righteous cultivator?"

After chopping off Xu Taiping's arrow, the ghost laughed as if he had heard a funny joke.

"You Taoists say that one gives birth to two, two gives birth to three, three gives birth to all things, and all things eventually return to one. Therefore, the Taoism in this world is nothing but different paths to the same destination. How can there be any distinction between good and evil? If you follow me, I will teach you the way of ghost cultivation. In time, you can still achieve the right result!"

After failing to coerce, the ghost began to change his strategy and turned to inducement.

"The Tao may not distinguish between good and evil, but people do. The sage of calligraphy said that if you are born as a human, you should cultivate yourself, save people, and be like water, living in the abyss of evil and doing good!"

At this point, Xu Taiping put an arrow on the bow again, then raised his head proudly, looked directly at the ghost and continued: "You were born as a human, not only did you not do good deeds, but you became an accomplice to the tiger, killing your own kind and bullying the weak. This is a great evil and you should be killed!"

At this time, Xu Taiping was less than five feet tall, but when he said this, he seemed to be much taller than the eight-foot-tall ghost.

"Since you are looking for death, I will grant your wish!"

The angry ghost snorted coldly. He turned the wolf under him and turned his head to continue to speak viciously to Xu Taiping:

"Do you think that once the water vein is cut off, the spiritual grass in your garden will wither? I am not afraid to let you know that the ditch in the garden is the source of the spiritual power of your residence. Once the water vein is cut off, the barrier around the courtyard will collapse!"

Perhaps because of his impatience, or perhaps because he despised Xu Taiping too much, the ghost actually revealed such an important thing.

"Just wait, within half a month, I will take your life!"

After saying this, the ghost rode on the wolf and disappeared in the forest beside the courtyard in a flash.

"Half a month... is enough!"

Xu Taiping glanced at the forest where the ghost disappeared, and then clenched his fist.

He didn't shoot those arrows randomly, but intentionally to test the ghost's strength.

"For three consecutive arrows, the ghost chose to block them every time, which proves that when the body he possessed was injured, his ghost would also be hurt."

"In addition, the power of each of my three arrows is actually different, and he was obviously a little slower when blocking the last two arrows. It seems that if my cultivation can be further improved, he may not be able to block my arrows so easily."

"If I can make him take it easy, it is possible to hurt him."

Thinking of this, Xu Taiping jumped down from the roof, then glanced at the courtyard and murmured:

"According to my real cultivation, I can only fight with him unless I break through the Kaimen realm. Within half a month, even if I can improve the Canxia Gong to the Frozen Stage, I can only set a trap to kill the ghost and catch him by surprise."

"There is only one chance, I have to be fully prepared."

Xu Taiping can choose to escape, such as taking a few bottles of strong liquor and pouring them on himself, so that the ghost dare not get close.

But the problem is that there are wild mountains within a radius of hundreds of miles. How long can he escape?

"Instead of thinking about how to escape, it's better to fight to the death."

Xu Taiping turned around and walked quickly towards his bedroom.

His time is very precious now, and he can't waste a moment.

But what Xu Taiping didn't know was that the scene of his confrontation with the ghost today was seen and heard by a figure in the mountains and forests a few miles away.

It was an old man with gray hair and ragged clothes lying on his back on the treetop.

The old man had a bronze sword hanging from his waist and a wine gourd in his hand.