Strange Stories

Chapter 286 What a sinister Taoist!

Change is the best way to describe time.

Even Taoist Qingxuan, who was standing next to him, felt a little dazed for a moment when he saw this scene.

I still remember the first time I met them. They had just entered the door of cultivation and could only spit out ordinary fire. They needed their senior brother to lead them down the mountain. They even had difficulty dealing with a small Rakshasa bird.

But when I met them again in Li Village, they were already able to kill Li Zu and fight against the corpse ghosts all over the land. Now when I meet them again in the capital, even this Yaksha can't stop Lin Jue's magic.

Such changes...

It’s only been a few years.

"Friend Lin..."

Taoist Qingxuan was filled with emotion. After thinking for a long time, he sighed, "No wonder he was able to get rid of the Alligator Dragon King!"

Taoist Jiang did not say anything, but just lowered his head, silently looking at the shiny cardboard and the flowers blooming on the cardboard on the grass a few feet away, wondering what he was thinking.

"Thank you for the compliment, Brother Dao."

"You don't have to be modest. Although we are in a Taoist temple outside the city, your reputation has spread, and we have also heard about it in the temple."

"This is not the time to talk about this!"

Lin Jue was holding a bean in his hand. He loosened his five fingers slightly. At the same time, the bean immediately grew bigger and longer. When his five fingers were held together again, he had an ancient long sword in his hand.

In the distance a fox jumped towards him.

While still in the air, the fox grew bigger against the wind. When it landed back to Lin Jue, it had turned into a four-tailed white fox that was several times larger than an ordinary mountain tiger. It fanned up a gust of wind, and its tail swayed behind it.

Taoist Qingxuan couldn't help but be stunned again.

What came to my mind was the little fox I saw in Ogawa Village and Li Village. If compared with the huge and majestic four-tailed white fox today, it was like comparing the two young Taoists in the past with Fellow Taoist Lin and Taoist Qingyao today.

Junior Brother Ma was suddenly startled.

And it's not his fault. Anyone would be shocked if they saw such a huge monster suddenly appear next to them.

Only Taoist Priest Jiang looked calm and not surprised.

The fox looked up into the distance.

The bean soldiers not far away had just put away their weapons, and the archers had just picked up their bows and arrows, and they all turned their heads and looked in that direction.

It seemed as if a gentle breeze was blowing across the earth, and the green grass of spring was as silky as silk, and patches of it were pressed down, outlining the traces of its movement.

An angry voice came from the wind:

"You guys are quite capable! You were able to eliminate my two Yaksha generals and a group of wolf soldiers! I underestimated you!"

"call……"

The wind blew in front of them.

Everyone's clothes and hair were lifted up.

But the morning mist was blown away and the sunlight poured down unhindered. In the light, a figure suddenly appeared on the top of the mountain in front, but it was not clear.

"Huh? A Taoist from the Zhenjian Palace? The Zhenjian Palace is also involved? A four-tailed white fox? Descendants of which family? Bean soldiers? You can also use Bean soldiers?" The voice on the top of the mountain kept saying. This was inconsistent with the scene in the temple that he had seen with the talisman paper before, so he was a little surprised.

His tone gradually became heavier.

It seemed that neither the Taoist priest from Zhenjian Palace nor the four-tailed white fox surprised him as much as this bean soldier magic.

Lin Jue could feel him looking at him.

Then he shook his head and muttered to himself: "What a pity, what a pity, my skills are not deep enough, and the quantity is not enough."

Lin Jue did not answer.

This person is also right.

Twelve bean soldiers are indeed not a lot, even compared with the number before the third senior brother went down the mountain, there is still a lot less.

Although he had been finding time to carve bean soldiers and had made several of them, on the one hand, his focus had been on other things recently, and on the other hand, carving bean soldiers was very time-consuming. He planned to carve all 28 bean soldiers and then refine them together, which would be most efficient. Therefore, it was not yet time for them to appear.

But it's soon.

"Are you the master behind this temple? The one who helps people lose weight in the mountains?"

"So what if it is? So what if it's not?"

"Recently, many women in the capital have been murdered, and they all came to your place. We were asked to come and investigate." Lin Jue paused, "By the way, I want to ask, do you know a... short-looking strange man named Wan? He is also from Juxian Mansion and came to see you a few days ago."

It would have been fine if he hadn't said the second half of the sentence. As soon as he finished it, the figure on the mountain ahead seemed to be irritated.

"What? Are you here to cause trouble too? Then let's see what you can do!" A voice came from the mountain. After a pause, it added, "Listen carefully, Taoists from Zhenjian Palace. This is a feud between me and those rubbish from Juxian Mansion. You'd better not interfere. Otherwise, even if we invite gods, they may not be able to protect you!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he waved his robe.

Suddenly, a long piece of paper shot towards Lin Jue, like a chain, against the light, at an extremely fast speed.

Before Lin Jue could react, Luo Gong had already moved forward with his saber in hand. He was alone with his saber, without any magic or fancy skills. He just raised his head and chopped it down -

"Zi!"

The extremely sharp blade that could slay demons and ghosts collided with the piece of paper, and there was a sound of metal, sour and astringent that pierced the eardrums.

But the paper was also torn apart.

Seeing this, the fox also jumped into the sky without hesitation. Its huge body jumped more than two meters high, then turned around and shot towards the ground like an arrow.

With a puff, a trace appeared on the ground.

The fox simply disappeared.

When it came out again, it had appeared below the top of the mountain. It wanted to leap up and kill the monster, but it found that dozens of tall wolf-headed vine-armored soldiers and seven or eight ferocious yakshas had appeared around it. Some of them that were farther away from it turned their heads and glared at it, while some that were closer to it stabbed it with steel forks.

"return!"

Lin Jue's voice came from afar.

Not good!

The fox made a prompt decision, dived down again, and disappeared.

The next moment, two steel forks stabbed with great force and penetrated deeply into the soil.

When it appeared again, it had returned to Lin Jue.

Then there was a crazy noise in the forest, and countless wolf-headed soldiers rushed out, followed by heavy footsteps of Yakshas.

Lin Jue's bean soldiers also rushed forward, avoiding those Yakshas, ​​and slammed into dozens of tall wolf-headed soldiers, starting a fierce fight.

"Why are you so irritable? You won't even say a word?" Lin Jue said, "It wasn't easy for Yaksha and I to get these paper soldiers and generals. If they were wasted, wouldn't it be a pity?"

"What can I say? You people from Juxian Mansion have come to disturb my quiet cultivation time and time again. If I don't teach you a lesson, where will I put my face?"

While they were talking, two Yakshas had already rushed in front of the crowd.

Mr. Luo immediately raised his sword and stepped forward.

Yaksha glared at him, brandishing the steel fork in his hand.

The huge steel fork swept past at an angle, and the air couldn't help but let out a whimper, but the warrior ducked his body and avoided it perfectly, then leaped into the air and swung the long sword in his hand.

A cold January light blooms in the sky.

The yaksha was also extremely ferocious. It opened its bloody mouth and bit forward fiercely.

Unfortunately, the long sword was faster after all.

The Yaksha avoided the vital parts, but its cheek was also cut. It seemed to be unaware of the pain, and when it was about to bite the warrior, the warrior pushed its chest with his left hand, and the whole person flew backwards.

Yaksha was about to step forward, but the warrior disappeared.

He looked left and right, but saw no sign of the warrior. Just as he was about to lower his head to look at his crotch, he suddenly felt a chill on the back of his neck. Then his neck could no longer support the huge head and fell forward.

It turned out that the warrior had cut off half of its neck from behind its head, leaving only half of the neck connected to the head, hanging on the chest.

With a hissing sound, the Yaksha shrank quickly like deflation and turned back into a piece of paper.

The fox rushed towards the other Yaksha.

Now its body size is several times larger than that of a mountain tiger, and not much smaller than that of a yaksha. It avoided the yaksha's steel fork with its agile body and pounced on it. Although its body was usually as light as a feather, this time it burst out with extremely strong impact force and knocked the yaksha to the ground.

What followed should have been a fight between demons and monsters, with scratching and biting each other, competing in strength, and fighting fiercely.

But this fox is not that simple——

After only a brief struggle, it stepped on the Yaksha and pressed its claws on its chest. It lowered its head, opened its mouth, and spit out something suddenly, followed by a whistling sound.

A fire dragon condensed from the sun's spiritual fire surged out and hit Yaksha's face. The flames immediately covered everything, even its hideous face could not be seen.

No matter how fearless a Yaksha is, he cannot withstand such burning.

Before the flames faded away, the Yaksha quickly shrank down, and the fox that was stepping on it also fell down. When Fuyao found that he was almost stepping on the ground, it stopped spitting fire. He tilted his head and saw a huge piece of oil paper in the shape of a Yaksha on the ground. The facial features were clearly visible, and the head of the paper Yaksha had been burnt, with red stars on the edges.

In the blink of an eye, the two Yakshas were destroyed one after another.

The figure on the hillside made me feel distressed and angry.

However, when he glanced around, he saw the Taoist below throwing a handful of beans towards him. Before the beans hit the ground, they turned into more than a dozen flying swords in the wind.

The Taoist chanted a spell and the flying sword flew towards him.

"A weapon made from the Bean Soldier Technique?
"The method of controlling the curse?"

The man in flowery robe was even more surprised, but there was no time to think about it. He just turned around and turned into a gust of breeze, flying from one hill to another.

However, the Taoist's gaze kept following him.

The flying sword naturally chased him closely.

Then I saw the breeze pressing down the spring grass, outlining the path, and behind me a group of flying swords whizzed past, reflecting the sunlight.

He saw the breeze blowing through the treetops again, shaking the leaves. The flying sword still followed him as he flew through the forest, chopping off countless dead branches and leaves, but it was affected to some extent.

After a short while, the breeze blew over several hilltops.

The man in flowery robe found the right opportunity and revealed himself in the dense forest.

Only then did Lin Jue see his true face clearly——

This monster was not very tall, and was wearing a flowery robe of brown, yellow and white, which seemed to be made of three colors of patchwork. At first glance, it looked like a patchwork robe of Buddhists, or a helpless act of a poor family who couldn't afford the cloth. But when I looked up and saw a flowery dog ​​head on his neck, it made sense.

"A mere curse? How dare you be so presumptuous?"

The man in the flowery robe was full of anger. He shouted and said:
"I advise you to be cheerful!"

"Ok?"

Inexplicably, Lin Jue felt a surge of joy in his heart, as if he suddenly remembered something happy, or as if someone had touched his sensitive funny nerves, and he couldn't help but want to laugh out loud.

Although I was able to hold back my laughter, I couldn't recite the spell.

brush brush...

More than a dozen flying swords fell to the ground.

"Now let's see how you wield the sword!" the man in the flowery robe said, and waved his hand again, "My men, stay away and shoot with bows and arrows!"

The wolf-headed soldiers below naturally responded to his shout.

Suddenly, the sounds of bowstrings and breaking air were heard together, and in the distant sky it seemed as if a group of bees rose up and flew towards them quickly.

This time the rain of arrows was much denser than before.

Lin Jue acted decisively and turned into a stone sculpture.

The fox immediately burrowed into the ground.

Luo Gong couldn't help but use a big tree to block it.

Even Taoist Qingxuan and Taoist Jiang, who were protected by golden light, couldn't help but pull Junior Brother Ma to find a place to hide.

The bow and arrow hit the stone carvings, making a clanging sound.

But no one noticed that in the woods, deep in the grass, there were two flying swords quietly moving.

“You guys have some skills!

“I can save a life!

"But I just don't want to kill you!

"Remember, don't come to the mountain to disturb my meditation from now on. You should go to the capital to make money and steal incense. I just want to practice peacefully on Fengshan Mountain. We..."

As he was speaking, he suddenly bent forward.

"Fuck!"

A flying sword came from behind him and shot straight at his back. Although he bent down, the flying sword still flew over his back and cut his Taoist robe.

The man in the flowery robe didn't dare to stay, and immediately turned around and dodged to the side.

Another flying sword came spinning through the air. Although he dodged quickly, the sword's force was too fast and powerful. The tip of the sword still cut through his waist, leaving a mark of blood.

"What? What's going on?"

The dog-headed man in the flowery robe thought about it for a moment, then understood. He touched his waist with his backhand and felt a handful of blood. He was shocked:

"What a sinister Taoist!"

But he looked down carefully -

The warriors and foxes below were still fighting with the Yaksha. The Yaksha had the advantage in numbers, but they were not as good at fighting as the foxes and warriors. The wolf-headed soldiers and bean soldiers fought in unison, and they had the advantage in numbers, but when the Taoist chanted the spell, the ground suddenly trembled, the rocks rolled, piled up, and gathered into a stone giant more than ten feet tall, joining the battlefield.

At the same time, the dozen flying swords had all flown up, and the Taoist no longer chanted the spell, but just stared at himself.

The man in the flowery robe suddenly broke out in cold sweat on his back.

How come this person has so many powerful spells?
How could these be the trash from Juxian Mansion?

What’s more, there were three Taoists from the Zhenjian Palace, holding talisman papers in their hands, and they were ready to take action.

"This……"

The man in flowery robe had flickering eyes.

I'm afraid we've played a little too much today.

But we have come this far. If we continue to fight, I'm afraid our hope of winning is slim. If we don't fight, I'm afraid we will lose face again.

"lose face……"

That's bigger than death.

(End of this chapter)