If you don't give up, I'd like to be your adoptive father.

Chapter 676: The Soul-Catching Envoy

"Come closer." Xiaoyu landed on the hillside covered with light snow and waved to Menghuo below.

Menghuo did not hesitate. He immediately let go of the reins, pressed the hilt of the broadsword with his right hand, and strode up the hillside.

As I got closer, I could see her appearance and temperament more clearly.

Red lips, fair face, big phoenix eyes, willow-like eyebrows, hair tied in a Taoist bun, dressed in plain clothes, looks easy-going and amiable, a man who truly practices Taoism. This is the face after slight adjustments, and Xiaoyu looks more like a Chinese than the original one.

Since Meng Huo was sent out to guide the immortals, he naturally has no shortage of means to identify them.

From a distance, he used the art of looking at qi and saw a faint colorful auspicious aura, so he mistakenly thought it was the Cockscomb Fairy from Taiyuan.

Xiaoyu also looked him up and down casually.

He is 1.9 meters tall, with a square face and a serious expression. He has his hair tied in a right bun, wears fish-scale armor, and a cross-collared, right-fronted robe. He really looks like a "Terracotta Warrior".

"Look at this."

She stretched out her right hand with the back of her hand facing Monjo.

A faint golden light suddenly flashed on the fair skin, and a symbol appeared on the back of the hand.

"Taiyi!" Meng Huo read out loud, and then a look of relaxation and enlightenment appeared on his face.

He smiled and bowed again, saying, "So you are the fairy from Taiyi Dao. I am sorry for the rudeness."

Xiao Yu said: "My Taoist name is 'Fei Yu', but I am not a cultivator of Taiyi Dao.

This Taiyi seal was given to me by a friend of Taiyi Dao.

Well, I am a friend of Taiyi Dao.

I just came from the west and was about to go south to Weishui to take a look at Zhengyang Palace.

I heard they split into two factions recently, right?"

"Some changes have indeed occurred in Taiyi Dao in recent years. As I haven't been back to the South for a long time, I don't know the details.

However, there is a Changqing Sanren in Dai County who is familiar with the Taoists of Taiyi. If Fairy Feiyu doesn't mind, I can help pass on the message." Meng Huo said.

Xiao Yu nodded and asked, "What happened to you guys? It looks like you're recruiting soldiers."

Meng Huo said: "Hasn't Fairy Feiyu noticed the situation in Yanmen County? Since the beginning of autumn this year, the Xiongnu has once again gathered an army of 200,000 to attack the pass. More than ten cities in the Yunzhong and Yanmen areas have fallen.

If those coming south are just ordinary Hun cavalry, my Great Qin cavalry would be happy to see them come and die.

But in recent years, there have been many evil cultivators and monsters in the Hun army.

Their strange and secret methods caught us off guard and we suffered a great loss.

For example, this time, there was a demon named Zhang Yuan who refined a 'Blood-Transforming Divine Sword' and used it with a set of 'Five Thunder Yin-Yang Formation', which was extremely powerful.

More than a dozen of our generals have been killed by this villain."

"It's the 'Blood-Transforming Divine Sword'?" Xiao Yu was surprised. "I heard that the Blood-Transforming Divine Sword was a magic weapon from the Conferred God Period in the Middle Ages. It's very powerful. How could it appear in the hands of a foreign monster?"

Meng Huo said angrily: "That Zhang Yuan may not be a foreigner. What's hateful is that this group of people have no king or father, and have no sense of propriety, righteousness, and shame. They are obviously cultivators from Shenzhou, but they defected to the Xiongnu."

Xiao Yu pondered and said, "Can the Jiguan Fairy you invited from Taiyuan break the Blood-Transforming Divine Sword? I am willing to help, but I am not a 'real person', I have not become an immortal, I am just a Qi Refiner."

Meng Huo blurted out, "How can a fairy not be an immortal? I see that there is a pure and auspicious light lingering around your body, which is definitely a sign of becoming an immortal!"

After saying this, he realized that it was not very polite for him to use the art of looking at fairies.

He bowed and apologized, "Please forgive me, Fairy. I didn't mean to spy on you. I was using the Qi-gazing technique to find the Cockscomb Fairy.

The Fairy Cockscomb, who had originally agreed to meet at Pegasus Posthouse, never showed up.

I suspected that the heavy snowstorm had made her lost, so I took people out to look for her, and accidentally ran into the fairy."

Xiao Yu laughed and said, "If someone is standing outside the house, how can we stop others from watching?
However, I have only cultivated a breath of immortal energy, and I have not yet formed the 'Yin Yang Harmony Pill'."

Meng Huo's heart moved, and he had a guess: this fairy has great ambitions and great perseverance. She doesn't want to be an ordinary immortal. Even being an earthly immortal cannot satisfy her. She is cultivating her energy to impact the heavenly immortal position!
"Then the fairy is going to Yanmen Pass?"

Aiming to become a celestial being, there is still a long distance between that and becoming a celestial being.

However, a Qi cultivator who aspires to become an immortal must have no shortage of magical powers and Taoism.

As for the supernatural power, it takes more than just courage to dare to fly around alone in the chaotic north.

Xiao Yu hesitated for a moment, then nodded and said, "Well, meeting is fate. I will follow the Taiyuan Immortal you invited to meet Zhang Yuan outside the pass."

The Meng family army welcomed the immortal with great ceremony.

The reason why Menghuo came out to look for the immortals and guide them "on the road" was because the ceremony they prepared included "laying yellow earth on the road and cleaning the streets with clear water."

The road has been paved with yellow soil and the streets have been swept. It is imperative that an immortal walk up a few steps instead of flying directly from the sky to the front yard of General Meng Yi's mansion.

A 15-mile-long loess road was paved from Feima Posthouse to the south gate of Dai County.

A shed made of reeds was built on the side of the road outside the South City Gate.

General Meng Yi himself and local celebrities from nearby areas were present in the shed, and the ceremony was very grand.

It doesn't mean that the immortals have to walk directly on foot. There is a special welcoming carriage at Pegasus Post Station.

It had four wheels and a canopy that was opened, making it a semi-convertible carriage, pulled by six horses.

Of course, this is prepared for Cockscomb Fairy and her friends.

Xiaoyu didn't ride a horse or a carriage.

She followed the Monjo team, striding along the snow-covered road.

In a short while, her hair and shoulders were covered with a layer of white snow.

However, the long sword slung across his back was still as bright as new, with a red tassel on the hilt fluttering in the wind.

When they reached the Pegasus Post, a knight came to report to Meng Huo: "The Cockscomb Fairy saw the heavy snow and didn't want to have any complicated ceremonies, so she went straight into the city. General, you should go back quickly!"

Meng Huo first breathed a sigh of relief, then turned sideways and pointed at Xiao Yu, saying, "I didn't wait for the Jiguan Fairy, but met the Feiyu Fairy. She is highly skilled in Taoism and has extraordinary magical powers. She is willing to help us deal with the Huns.

Brother Cai, you are a fast horse, so go ahead and inform General Meng."

The young officer surnamed Cai looked at the "expert" with some suspicion, whose body was covered with snowflakes and whose nose was frozen red. He moved his lips a few times, but nodded in agreement.

Regardless of whether this Feiyu Fairy is very powerful, at least she is willing to help. What is there to complain about?
Meng Huo originally planned to let Xiaoyu ride in the six-horse carriage originally prepared for the Cockscomb Fairy.

She declined and continued walking on foot as before.

He didn't even use Qinggong.

On the way from the desolate mountain to Pegasus Posthouse, I didn't meet a single pedestrian.

From Feimayi to Dai County, there is a great Qin highway.

Xiaoyu met a lot of people.

They were all civilians, about 800 people, pushing more than 300 two-wheeled wooden carts.

The cart was not big, with seven or eight sacks of grain or a dozen bundles of horse grass sparsely placed on it.

Xiaoyu seemed to see a group of animals.

Snow was falling from the sky and the north wind was sharp, but they were wearing tattered autumn clothes, with their toes exposed in their straw sandals, and they were stepping directly on the soft but cold snow.

The carriage creaked and the man pushing it staggered.

None of them spoke, only the sound of heavy breathing.

Even when he saw the "Flying Feather Fairy" and a group of cavalry passing by, he would just glance at them with numb eyes.

"Plop~~~" A skinny "old man" with white spots on his hair fell to the ground in the team. The carriage he was pushing also lifted up, and two bundles of hay covered with snow rolled to the ground.

"Uncle Song, Uncle Song~~~" There was an exclamation from the crowd.

Dozens of cars nearby stopped, but most just turned their heads to look and continued to move forward.

A few young men surrounded the fallen old man and called out to him a few times. Then a middle-aged officer with a sword on his waist came over quickly.

"Make way, let me take a look."

He pushed the crowd aside and put his hand on the old man's wrist.

Xiao Yu took two quick steps towards Song Bo, then her eyes flashed and she stopped.

She saw the ghost!

"Song Bo is no longer able to do it. Those of you in Shanyang, please send one person to push his cart!"

The officer in charge of the laborers took out a brush from his waist, licked the hardened and blackened tip of the brush a few times, and wrote on the booklet while shouting: "Shangdang County, Tunliu County, Shanyang Village, Song Bo, died in the winter of the year Wuxu, heavy snow, outside the city of Dai County."

Xiaoyu obtained the "Eight-Nine Profound Art" in the Jihe Water Palace at the beginning of the Xinmao year.

Now, seven years have passed and the Year of the Dog is almost over.

Although Western Shu and Daqin were not in the same country, the chronological records adopted the same standards.

In fact, if we don't count the emperor's reign title and only use the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches to record years, the four continents and all countries are the same.

Everyone is in different regions, but when they look up at the starry sky, the constellations they observe and use to determine the year and month are the same.

The officer did not write that many words. The first half of his sentence was a roll call.

The roster records Song Bo's name and hometown.

Well, his surname is "Song" and his given name is "Bo". The "Bo" in "Bo, Zhong, Shu, Ji" does not mean "old uncle", but means "the eldest brother of Song", similar to "Liu Ji" and "Liu the third".

Now you just need to use a pen to draw a line on "Song Bo", and then write the five words "Wuxu, Winter, Dai County".

Song Bo's life has been explained clearly.

Xiao Yu hesitated for a long time, but finally shouted, "He's not dead yet!"

She used the secret medical skills to confirm that Mr. Song's body was indeed not dead and could still be saved.

It was even relatively easy to save him, he was just exhausted.

Send him to the fireplace, give him a big bowl of hot ginseng chicken soup, and have a good sleep, and he will live a few more days.

She didn't move before, one reason being that she saw the ghost.

The appearance of the ghost messenger indicates that this is his fate and his end has come.

Another reason was that, now that he was saved, he wouldn't be able to endure such heavy labor for long.

The light went out not only because of the strong wind, but also because the lamp oil had run out.

"This is an immortal master, please get out of the way!"

When Xiaoyu didn't move, Menghuo just watched from the side.

Now that she wanted to save people, Meng Huo immediately cleared a path for her, and he and several cavalrymen formed a circle two steps away from Song Bo.

Xiaoyu took out a green bead from her sleeve and rolled it on Song Bo's forehead a few times.

Wisps of green gas emerged from the beads and entered Song Bo's nose and mouth.

Then he groaned, and somersaulted up two feet high. After landing, he hurriedly thanked the fairy, "Thank you for rescuing me. In my next life, I will repay you for saving my life by tying a grass knot and holding a ring."

His sharp movements and clear words stunned everyone around him.

But Xiaoyu was not surprised at all.

She saw the ghost pulling Song Bo, and heard Song Bo begging: "It doesn't matter if I die, but I still have a 50-year-old mother to support at home.

My two younger brothers, Song Er and Song Ji, died in labor a few years ago. The family cannot live without me!"

The ghost ignored him and beat him with chains, cursing, "Your life is over, the King of Hell has called your name, why don't you hurry up and follow me!
Your mother doesn't need to worry, she is just one step behind you, and when the news of your death on the road spreads back to the village, she will cry to death in two days."

"No, I don't want to die. When the second and third sons died, my mother almost cried herself blind. How could I bear to let her cry herself to death?

No, no, this can't be done! Lord of ghosts and gods, I beg you, please have mercy on me and let me go.

Wait until I finish my labor service, return to Shangdang, support my mother and let her die of old age, then you can come and seduce me~~"

Song Bo cried and begged desperately, but the ghost ignored him and only beat him harder with the iron chain.

"I have been assigned a job by Judge Su, and now I am a special 'servant soul-collector'.

I will be responsible for following this group of short-lived servants of yours and taking you away one by one!
More than 90% of you are on the list and have been assigned certain tasks.

If I let you go now, how am I going to report back?

Go quickly, your fate is sealed, even the gods can’t save you.”

Then Xiaoyu walked over.

The ghost was startled and retreated a few steps timidly. He said to Song Bo, "You are lucky. The immortal has extended your life." Then he shrank into the ground and disappeared.

So, even though Song Bo had just woken up, he knew very well in his heart that Xiao Yu had saved him.

He was able to do somersaults because Xiaoyu fed him an extra dose of demon elixir energy to ensure that he could return home safely.

Well, the green bead is not some magical weapon, it is just the inner elixir of an ordinary demon general.

"Take good care of your mother, that's how you repay me." Xiaoyu put away the beads and continued to stride forward.

Song Bo was stunned for a moment, then shouted with even more gratitude: "Song will definitely be filial to my mother."

"Uncle Song, what are you talking about?" The fellow villager next to him looked confused.

(End of this chapter)