My enemies became my companions

Chapter 394 Goodbye Lu Ying (7k chapter)

After entering Liufeng County, Chen Yi booked an inn.

"Boss, come to a room. I want the best. By the way, where are the ready-made clothes for sale? I want to change my clothes."

As they got closer and closer to Yinjian Mountain, it wouldn't be long before they would meet Yin Tingxue and Zhou Yitong. Chen Yi couldn't help but want to get dressed for the journey.

We can't let them feel that they are having a bad life.

The shopkeeper weighed the silver, thought for a moment and said:

"The house is easy to find. There are ready-made clothes for sale in Lane 18. By the way, please don't go to Lane 17 by mistake. Someone just died in the house there, and the owner of the house is hiring a Taoist priest to catch the ghost."

Chen Yi said: "A Taoist priest from Yinjian Mountain?"

"Yes, there is no one else here when it comes to Taoist priests." The shopkeeper responded.

Chen Yi thought about it for a moment.

He then asked, "Is there a gold shop here that makes hairpins?"

The shopkeeper rolled his eyes and said with an apologetic smile, "Brother, I reminded you that the female Taoists in Yinjian Mountain only practice Taoism. As the saying goes, Yin means respect. They only respect the sword and do not want a Taoist partner. If you want to make jewelry to give to others, you have come to the wrong mountain. You might as well give it to me."

"Give it to you? I don't have the Longyang kind."

The shopkeeper laughed a little, then looked at Chen Yi's face. If nothing else, at least he was tall and good-looking, so he said, "To be honest, I have a little girl at home who is waiting to be married."

"How is he?" Chen Yi asked, "Call him out to see?"

It's said that she's still waiting to be married, so there's no point in asking a girl to come out and meet people. The shopkeeper touched his chin and said, "She looks a lot like me."

"No wonder I can't see anyone."

Chen Yi said this with a smile, and without saying anything more, he walked straight out the door.

The shopkeeper was stunned for a moment, then laughed and scolded:

"No matter how ugly you are, you can't hook up with anyone from Yinjian Mountain!"

When you go to a store, it is normal for the owner and the customers to joke and laugh with each other. After the shopkeeper finishes laughing, he lowers his head and starts fiddling with the abacus beads.

There was a beggar sitting outside the inn, his clothes ragged with strips of rags hanging down from his waist.

"Please be kind, please be kind."

The beggar was holding a bowl and begging for money.

Chen Yi glanced at it and casually threw three cents at it.

The copper coin drew a subtle arc in the air.

The beggar's hand suddenly raised up and took the three cents with the bowl, without dropping a single cent.

Chen Yi took this scene in and slowly walked away from the inn.

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"Masters, how is it?"

Several Taoists from Yinjian Mountain, dressed in wide Taoist robes, gathered in and outside the alley, and the person who was talking was the owner of this house.

Someone died in the house, and it was haunted by wronged spirits, making it a haunted house. According to the owner of the house with a scar on his face, he had bought the house not long ago because he wanted to get a bargain, and he never expected that someone had died in it.

After that, the owner of the house went to Yinjian Mountain to post a reward. For such a small matter, the people who could be invited would certainly not be the real masters on the mountain, but a group of disciples such as Lu Ying.

This can also be considered a kind of tempering at Yinjian Mountain.

Lu Ying listened to the words of the owner of the house and explained softly:

"This is not easy to handle. The wronged soul has turned into a ghost and is haunting the house. This situation requires a small ritual for three days. Let's prepare first, and then choose an auspicious day."

"Choose an auspicious date?" The owner of the house seemed dissatisfied. "I finally saved enough money and it's time to move to a new house. I asked someone to write letters to invite a few distant relatives to come over to warm up the house. I'm afraid I'll miss the date."

Lu Ying still shook his head and said:
"All the masters and uncles on the mountain have repeatedly warned us that there must not be any mistakes in the rituals, not to mention that the wronged souls inside have already turned into ghosts, so we must be extra careful."

The owner of the house seemed dissatisfied and murmured:

"I'll go find someone else's house."

When the Taoists of Yinjian Mountain saw this, they didn't say much, but just sighed quietly. Lu Ying didn't explain much either, because there was no point in explaining these things.

Many people invited Taoist priests, hoping to solve the problem today, but there is no trivial matter in Taoism, let alone such dangerous things as exorcising demons and ghosts. If you are not well prepared, even the little ghosts can cause you to suffer.

A nun said, "I've already told him, but he didn't listen and insisted on asking Senior Sister Lu."

"Yes, Senior Sister Lu explained it once, but he still didn't listen and wanted to find someone else."

"I'm just afraid that if I find someone else, they'll make him wait even longer."

.........

The female Taoist priests of Yinjian Mountain chattered a lot. It was obvious that they had seen similar things hundreds of times. Lu Ying also looked helpless. However, as a disciple of Yinjian Mountain who came up the mountain very early, although she was young, she still waved her hand and said:

"Everyone, please stop talking about this. It's not good for others to hear."

The topic was stopped at this time, but it was changed. A younger female Taoist remembered something and said with a smile: "Hey, Senior Sister Lu, I heard that your Cangwu Peak has a little junior sister?"

"Yeah, I've seen it before. It's very juicy and cute."

"What's her name? Does she have a Taoist name now?"

The chattering of people started again. No matter how much Yin Jianshan emphasized self-cultivation, women are still women and are born to love gossip. But no one noticed that Lu Ying's face had become a little darker.

Zhou Yitong, the Sword Armor of Yinjian Mountain, is the master of Cangwu Peak. For a very long time, he had only one disciple, Lu Ying.

Zhou Yitang is not a talkative person, and most of the time, he just gives some pointers.

However, Lu Ying lacked playmates and people of her age to communicate with on the mountain, and she often felt that life was boring.

So she really hoped that Zhou Yitang would accept another disciple one day so that she would have a little junior sister whom she could get close to.

But the problem is...

This junior sister seems to be married, and the last time I saw her, she was with that Chen Yi!
When talking about Chen Yi, Lu Ying felt unhappy and sad. She still remembered when they were in Hehuan Sect, Chen Yi and Zhou Yitang hugged each other...

Even though Lu Ying had never asked her master about the relationship between the two, she couldn't help but imagine it.

She has always regarded her master as her mother, but now that she knows the origins of this little junior sister, she has some bad premonitions in her heart.

probably not……

The two of them should have no relationship, it must be just a misunderstanding...

Lu Ying comforted himself with a few words and didn't notice it at all.

Among the female Taoists, there was one who had not spoken a word. She had an ordinary appearance and her Taoist name was Qing Yuan. She seemed to be thinking about something.

Lu Ying didn't even notice.
A familiar figure walked by the alley.

…………

The owner of the house with a scar on his face stopped after walking a few steps. Looking up, he saw a man with a sword and a knife blocking his way.

He was stunned for a moment and his pupils shrank.

Chen Yi, wearing a Taoist robe, now looks a bit like a Taoist priest coming down the mountain.

Chen Yi strode away and said:

"Come, I'll exorcise the ghost for you?"

The owner of the house realized it belatedly and said quickly:
"It couldn't be better!"

He looked at Chen Yi's knife, then at Chen Yi's sword.

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Li Heng bought a house not long ago, spending almost half of his life savings.

There are four rooms in total. After passing the gate, there is a small courtyard in the middle and a second floor. Everyone will be satisfied with this!
Moreover, he bought a house in the county town and had a wife.

To talk about a person's lifelong dream, it is actually very simple. It is to have a house, a wife, and a child. The most important thing is to have a house, which is the foundation of life. A land deed is passed down to future generations, so that every generation has a home.

In order to buy a house, he took out all his father's coffin fund and used the last bit of money to make up for the loss. Li Heng originally wanted to move in happily.

But just a few days after the joy of moving into a new house, unexpected things happened. After his father bought the house for him, his health became increasingly weak and he passed away within a few days.

The coffin had already been taken out and the village was far away. Li Heng had no choice but to use some thin wooden boards to make a coffin himself, put his father in it, and buried him.

Li Heng thought that when he saved enough money in the future, he would buy a good coffin, move his father out of the ground, and ask his fellow villagers to help bury him back in his hometown. In order to make it easier to identify his father's grave, Li Heng deliberately buried him not far from the Liufeng County stele.

On the day of his father's burial, Li Heng knelt there and kowtowed three times. He said that he had moved into the house and would work harder in the future. As soon as he had money, he would not marry a wife first, but bury his father back in his hometown.

"Dad, wait for Heng'er!"

Li Heng swore an oath as a witness that day.

After making the oath, Li Heng was a man who kept his promises and was more content to do his duty. Besides, death was the greatest thing, and that was his own father, so he worked even harder to help him.

He was the leader of the boat trackers in Liufeng County, managing more than ten people, and he was also able to work hard. In less than two or three months, he had saved up enough money.

Moreover, there was still some money left. Li Heng was so happy at the thought of being able to bury his father that he took some of the remaining money and drank with his brothers that night.

Since we were drinking, we had to talk about something. What should we talk about? Ghost stories.

The men were drunk and bold, and they were a group of brothers playing and joking, so they started talking:

"What we are going to tell you is a true ghost story...

It’s not about my hometown, it’s about Liufeng County right under our feet.

You all know that there was a man named Sun who was also a boatman. He finally bought a house. How did he buy it? He found a bargain! Other houses cost 100 taels, but this house only cost 30 taels!
About three or five years ago, Lao Sun was so ecstatic that he moved into the house without a second thought as he was still single. He slept very well on the first day.

Everyone congratulated him and envied him. He was in high spirits when the good news came and he worked extra hard.

But after a few days, it just didn't taste right...

At first, he had back pain. When he was in his twenties or thirties, Old Sun would bend over and squat on the ground from time to time, with his tongue hanging out like a dog.

Old Sun was an honest man and had never been to a brothel, so how could he have these illnesses? Everyone noticed something was wrong and quickly asked him what was going on.

Old Sun didn't understand either. He just felt that something was always bothering him when he slept.

But nothing in the house was moved.

Old Sun was puzzled and thought of staying up all night to look for it.

The results of it?
It was almost dawn, and nothing happened, no movement at all.

Old Sun breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that he was exhausted during this period of time. Thinking of the tense night, he got up and went to the toilet.

I slowly walked to the toilet and naturally took off my pants to urinate.

It's pitch dark at home. I can only barely see a few things in the darkness.
It looks like a strand of hair.

Old Sun slowly drained the water, then looked up in confusion.
He saw a head with disheveled hair slowly drooping from the beam of the toilet, and a pair of creepy eyes staring at him!
Swish!
Old Sun was so scared that his urine flowed back!

He died that night."

Li Heng was shocked when he heard it that night, but he didn't take it seriously.

It was normal for brothers to tell ghost stories and joke around. Li Heng returned home as usual and checked the toilet, but there was nothing there.

"Listen to these bastards talking nonsense!"

Li Heng remembered that he cursed with a smile that night.

But tonight, for some reason, Li Heng couldn't sleep.

He suddenly felt very tired, his waist was weak and a little painful.

When I touched it, I felt my waist was sore.

Hiss, there is really some...

Li Heng slowly climbed up on the bed and hissed a few times.

Oil lamps require oil. He was the only one living at home and rarely lit the lights. It was pitch dark and one could not see one's hand in front of one's face. The entire house was built on the ground and the walls on all four sides were square.

Like a coffin.

He originally wanted to buy a coffin for his father.

Li Heng had some cold sweat on his forehead. He exhaled a few times, wiped his forehead, and was about to go back to sleep.

But when he turned his head, he suddenly caught a detail from the corner of his eye...

The door that was originally closed opened a tiny crack, and it seemed like something was shaking outside.

Li Heng tensed up instantly, cold sweat pouring down his face.

He suddenly thought of the story they told while drinking and shuddered.

"Light, find a light... Don't be scared to death. Old Sun was scared to death because he had no light." Li Heng jumped off the bed and searched around. Finally, he found an oil lamp. He lit it, and the light flickered and was a little confusing.

He slowly opened the door and looked inside carefully.

Nothing unusual was found.

Li Heng was nervous. He touched the oil lamp and closed the bedroom door.

After the sound of the door closing, he wandered around the house, which he had just bought not long ago, holding a lamp.

A gentle breeze blew across the beams and pillars of the house, which seemed a bit empty and shabby, with little furniture.

He held the lamp tightly in his hand, pressed his hand against the door, and pushed it from room to room, looking back and forth several times.

But, nothing happened.

He was the only one in the house.

Li Heng breathed a sigh of relief. He had checked the toilet several times and there was nothing hanging from the beams there.

He wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and said to himself:
"You scare yourself."

There was nothing everywhere. Li Heng held the oil lamp, heaved a sigh of relief, and laughed and scolded the group of brothers who told ghost stories.

Li Heng strode into the bedroom.

suddenly,

He stopped and suddenly realized something. Didn't he close the bedroom door when he left? !
call……

It was like a gentle breeze, bringing a slight chill. Li Heng turned around in surprise, his mind going blank in an instant.

At the door behind him, there stood a man with disheveled hair!
"Ghost!"

Li Heng screamed and the oil lamp in his hand fell to the ground.

The figure slowly approached. Li Heng fell to the ground and crawled toward the wall with a pale face.

However, the "ghost" passed him and chuckled:

"You are the ghost."

Li Heng stood there in a daze, bewildered.

The man made a hand gesture and recited slowly:
"In times of disaster, mercy comes to you, the nectar of the universe comes to you, and you can call upon the ten directions to save all living beings."

In an instant, countless memories flashed through Li Heng's mind, like broken fragments.

He drank with a few brothers and then returned to the house.

Then...a faint white flashed by.

There seemed to be something hidden behind the door. He opened it and saw that it was a shining dagger.

There was a crash.

The flesh and blood broke open and pierced into his waist and abdomen, causing him severe pain in his waist!
Li Heng fell backwards into a pool of blood, his breathing becoming more and more rapid. He raised his head and saw the murderer stepping over him and slowly wiping the blood off the dagger.

Before closing his eyes, he heard:
"This house belongs to our Lifeng Pavilion now."

.........

Li Heng suddenly opened his eyes.

He lowered his head and found that his figure was illusory.

The so-called oil lamp did not emit a red flame, but a blue ghost fire.

Li Heng's eyes gradually widened and he said hoarsely: "I... I'm already dead?!"

Chen Yi sighed, smiled at the ghost who didn't know he was dead, and said:
"Do you know how he died?"

Li Heng's eyes widened, and he spoke harshly:
"I know, I know. The man who killed me said he was from Lifeng Pavilion and had a scar on his face!"

Chen Yi narrowed his eyes when he heard this.

The owner of the house he saw,

There is a scar on the face!

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Lu Ying was a little confused.

Looking at the almanac, tomorrow night is the auspicious time, so she and several of her senior and junior sisters will come to perform the ritual.

However, Qin Peng, the owner of the house, said that everything was resolved.

"Is everything resolved?"

Lu Ying and the other Taoists from Yinjian Mountain were all filled with surprise.

Qin Peng bowed and said, "The house is empty now. You Taoist priests don't need to bother to perform any more rituals. But we can't let you make a wasted trip. How about this? I will set up a banquet at Yayue Tower tonight and invite you all to the feast."

After slaying demons, it is very common for the client to hold a banquet to express gratitude, but under normal circumstances, the Taoists of Yinjian Mountain will refuse. First, the Taoists have different fasts to observe at different times, and second, the Taoists often have to practice diligently and are not trapped by the mundane world, and matters of human relationships often drag people deeper and deeper.

"Do you want to refuse?"

A junior sister behind me asked.

Lu Ying frowned and did not answer. Instead, he looked at Qin Peng and said:
"May I ask, Mr. Qin, who did you entrust to slay the demons?"

Qin Peng did not hide it:
"This person does not want to reveal his name. I only know that his nickname is Hou Kang. Yes, this Taoist will also attend the banquet."

Hou Kang?

What a strange Taoist name! The female Taoists looked at each other in confusion, feeling quite curious.

The Taoist names of Taoists are often related to Taoist scriptures, and are mostly related to Xuan, Yang, Chun, Zhen, Sheng, etc. However, the Taoist name Hou Kang is really hard to find its origin.

The female Taoists looked at them, and one of them asked:
"Would you like to take a look?"

Another female Taoist named Zizhen responded, "Let's go and have a look. We can exorcise the demon without choosing an auspicious day. I think the Taoist method is very profound."

"It would be nice to discuss the Dao with him."

"Go ahead, go ahead, but what does Senior Sister Lu think?"

... Seeing that everyone agreed, Lu Ying decided not to go in order to avoid being unkind.

Besides, I was curious, and seeing that the eyes of these senior and junior sisters were shining.

Only the little girl Qing Yuan was silent, with her head down as if she was thinking.

Time passed quickly, and soon night fell over the sky of Liufeng County.

In this not-too-small and somewhat prosperous county town, Yayue Tower is considered the best building, with singing and dancing, delicious food, and everything else. It was not yet the first watch curfew, and the lights in the building were bright, with bursts of laughter.

The second floor was reserved by Qin Peng to host a banquet for the female Taoists from Yinjian Mountain.

When all the female Taoist priests were seated, maids and servants brought the dishes one by one. Taoist priests observe a fast and generally do not eat any of the four foods, especially meat, so the dishes served are mainly light, without beef, black fish, wild goose or dog meat.

Qin Peng sat upright on the main seat, while the second seat was left vacant, apparently reserved for the Taoist priest who exorcised demons.

But the future of Kang Sanren is still unknown.

Among these mountain cultivators, some talk about being pure-hearted and having few desires, but they are also arrogant in their hearts. Qin Peng, who has been a killer in Lifeng Pavilion for many years, also knows this, so even if Hou Kang Sanren did not attend the banquet, he did not show much anger or impatience.

Qin Peng rubbed the rim of the cup with his fingertips and looked around carefully again.

When he stepped into the second floor earlier, he checked every corner, including behind the screen, inside the vase, and even jumped up and stood on the beam to take a look around. Behind him was a window overlooking the river. Even if someone suddenly attacked and killed someone, he could jump out of the window and escape with just a thought.

There was a small patch on his sleeve, which looked ordinary, but contained a four-inch long flying knife.

His feet were placed on the legs of the table. If someone suddenly attacked him, he only needed to move his ankles and the whole table would be lifted up.

Qin Peng is always cautious when it comes to dealing in human lives.

Even the ins and outs of this house in Liufeng County were carefully considered.

Not long ago, Qin Peng, who had worked for Lifeng Pavilion for many years, was promoted and was able to come to Liufeng County to open a branch.

Liufeng County is within the sphere of influence of Yinjian Mountain, although it is on the edge. If Qin Peng wants to set up a branch on the edge of Yinjian Mountain's influence, he has to make himself familiar to the people. Treating a group of Taoists to a banquet in the name of slaying demons and eliminating evil is, to some extent, a form of paying homage to the mountain master.

In the final analysis, the people of Hou Kang are all fake, and these Taoists of Yinjian Mountain are the real ones.

The so-called distant relatives who were in a hurry to celebrate the joy of moving into a new house were a group of killers transferred from various places. Naturally, they could not be seen by the people of Yinjian Mountain.

The house in Lane 17 was the one Qin Peng had specially chosen. It was located on a high ground and one could see the scenery of the county town from the roof. It was hidden deep in the alley, making it convenient for the killers to hide. Finally, there happened to be only one bachelor living in it, who could turn into a ghost after his death. So Qin Peng could invite Yinjianshan to come and slay demons and monsters, killing two birds with one stone.

Killing Li Heng was the easiest business deal he had ever done.

He was just an ordinary man. Both his parents were dead, and he was living alone in the world in order to get married. No one would avenge him, so he didn't worry about getting stained with too much blood debt, which would be too troublesome to deal with.

Compared with the swordplay, bloodbath and gore of the past, it is so simple that it is hard to imagine.

Later Kang Sanren still did not come.

The female Taoist priests at the table had already started discussing.
"He won't stop coming, will he?"

"When the work is done, leave with nothing to hide your achievements and fame?"

"It's probably a fake, otherwise he wouldn't have agreed to come to the banquet."

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When Lu Ying heard the slightly noisy sound, he sighed inwardly that these sisters and fellow students were really lacking in cultivating their minds and personalities.

Compared with the Taihua Goddess she had met, she was far inferior.

But it makes sense. His tenacity in seeking the Tao and his deep affinity with the Tao are beyond the reach of ordinary people. He remained calm even when faced with a mountain collapse. He is also walking a new path alone. He does not seek to be the same as his predecessors, and does not take a Taoist companion. Instead, he takes Chen Qianhu as his cauldron.

Lu Ying sighed softly, feeling that these senior and junior sisters were far inferior to the Goddess Taihua. As for himself, he could only barely catch up with her.

Just as he was thinking, Lu Ying looked around again, and saw that Qing Yuan was still expressionless. She seemed a little out of place compared to the group of female Taoists, but she really had the temperament of not being happy or sad because of things. I don't know which peak she was from.

Lu Ying admired her very much and had been taking good care of her in the past few days.

Tread.

There were footsteps outside the second floor, neither light nor heavy.

After hearing this, everyone turned their heads and saw a figure with a sword and a knife slowly appearing.

Lu Ying was stunned on the spot.

Why is it him? !
Then her heart was startled, and she suddenly had a premonition of crisis. That was Yin Jianshan's way of warning.

Qin Peng, the host, stood up, raised his cup and greeted him, saying with a smile:

"Master Hou Kang, you are finally here. I have been waiting for you for a long time."

"Ah."

"Come, come, sit, sit. That seat is reserved for you." Qin Peng pointed to the seat.

"Since Mr. Qin is hosting today, I can't refuse. However, I left in a hurry that day, so I don't know Mr. Qin's name."

The man bowed but was not in a hurry to sit down.

When Qin Peng saw this, he thought that he was a rootless and wandering person, so even if he told him his name, it would not matter. What's more, without him, these Taoists from Yinjian Mountain were afraid that they would not want to attend the banquet.

Because of him, everything went smoothly.

Just like killing Li Heng.

Perhaps this also means that everything will go smoothly and you will achieve immediate success in the future.

"There is only one word 'Peng' in my name," Qin Peng felt proud and raised his glass to chant casually: "One day the great roc rises with the wind, soaring up to ninety thousand miles..."

puff!
The moment he finished speaking, the sound of the knife tip piercing into flesh was heard. Qin Peng's eyes widened in horror and his body fell limply.

"Thank you, now that I know your name, I can search your soul." Chen Yi said.

Qin Peng felt a chill in his lower abdomen, the killer's body twitched, blood gushed out, and the female Taoists including Lu Ying froze in place. No one had expected this kind of development.

“…Who…sent you…which family…” Qin Peng’s throat felt as if it had been torn apart.

"No one was sent."

"No... Impossible, which family are you from..."

Qin Peng became increasingly weak, and he only saw the man wiping the blood off the knife as his life force gradually faded.

Killing Li Heng was the easiest business he had ever done.

So today, he didn't believe it before he died.

He died because of the simplest business deal.

(End of this chapter)