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

Chapter 789 Exorcism
Xiao Yu sighed, "One should be loyal to the people who provide him with food. Although Xiao Dao is young and has little moral integrity, he also understands this basic principle of being a human being.

The three strategies of best, middle and worst provided by Xiaodao are definitely considered from the perspective of Xun family.

If I had any selfish motives, I would have followed your wishes and asked you to invite some experts to kill the female ghost directly."

Xun Yuanwai smiled slightly and said, "Master, hermit, it is already past the fourth watch and it is too late.

You guys go back to the upper room and rest first, we will discuss the three strategies tomorrow morning."

Xiao Yu bowed to him and Master Xun, and left the South Courtyard with his friend.

"Dad, that thief Taoist priest is not right. I'm afraid he didn't come here to help our Xun family." Young Master Xun had murderous intent on his face and made a gesture of wiping his neck. "Just in case, let's take the initiative."

Xun Yuanwai angrily scolded: "You are a brainless idiot, all you do is kill, kill, kill all day long.

Can killing solve the problem?

There are ghosts and gods in this world, as well as cause and effect and blessings. Killing is just the beginning of new troubles, and is far from the end.

Taoist Radish may have evil intentions, but if we really follow his "best strategy", it will be most beneficial to our Xun family!
If you are brought to justice, the more than one hundred members of the Xun family will not be tainted by karma, nor will they be targeted by evil spirits. The family will still have good fortune and prosperity. "

Master Xun was not afraid, but laughed and said, "Dad, don't talk nonsense. Your son was sent to the government office to pay for his crime, which means that the Xun family lost its heir. How can it be the best for the Xun family if you lose your eldest son?

Don’t even talk about cause and effect karma.

From a small village head in the countryside, to the heads of the six departments in the county government, to the county lieutenant and county magistrate, then to the prefect of the county government, and finally to the officials of the court in Xianyang, and even to the emperor and the empress dowager, who among them has done less things that are against moral integrity than this child?

What the leader does, the subordinates will follow.

Hehe, we have to admit that we, 'Jade-faced Golden Roc', are not moral role models, nor are we famous heroes in the martial arts world.

But we are not as good as the best, but better than the worst. We are definitely not the debt collector who ruins the family's fortune.

In this world, everyone can see that the emperor, who is known as the greatest emperor of all time, has not shown any mercy or compassion, and is only concerned with his own great achievements, grand palaces, and mausoleums.

The same goes for the prime minister and other ministers in the court; their mansions are as luxurious as the Lishan Palace.

The sheriff and the county magistrate were only thinking about making money.

I am the son of a merchant, and what I did was just a 'little habit common to all noble people'. How could it be considered a big mistake or crime?
After all, there are only 'poor and honest people' in this world who are unable to act freely and unrestrainedly.

If anyone has the ability to break the shackles of rules, who would really care about morality and cause and effect?

If we have to talk about cause and effect, it was me who killed Luo Shiluan at that time, and she deserved it.

Her death today is the result of the bad karma between her and the child."

Xun Yuanwai said coldly: "Do you think that if you just give a bunch of self-righteous theories, the ghosts and gods will not come to you, and the cause and effect will not haunt you?"

Master Xun showed a flattering and pleading smile, and bowed to his father repeatedly, "Son, I am not trying to convince the ghosts and gods. Dad, you are much more powerful than the ghosts and gods."

Xun Yuanwai sighed and said, "Don't worry, I'm not old and confused yet, and I won't listen to the thief Taoist's bullshit 'best strategy'.

I'm not sure whether he has any evil intentions.

He and that Gousheng are definitely not the kind of people who would do their job honestly once they get paid.

But there is no need to kill people to silence them.

Let's go to General Hei and see what advice he has."

Xiaoyu and Gou Jiao were unable to return to their original townhouse.

Lao Qing took them to a small courtyard with its own house, where each of them had a spacious upper room.

"Master, we can't be accomplices of the evil." Gou Jiao said seriously.

"You mean, we should help the female ghost to take revenge and let her kill the Xun family father and son?" Xiaoyu asked.

Gou Jiao waved his hands repeatedly and said, "I admit that the female ghost has been wronged, but it is not right for the female ghost to kill people indiscriminately."

"So what do you want?" Xiaoyu asked.

Gou Jiao looked around and said, "What will happen in the future is entirely up to the Taoist priest.

Now we cannot accept the Xun family's gift or kindness, and we cannot live in the upper house here.

Even the previous servants’ quarters were no longer habitable.

Let's go find a corner on the street and hide away. At least we can feel at ease and sleep soundly."

Xiao Yu said: "Don't underestimate yourself. Just because you jumped into the lake and ventured into the ghost realm to try to help the Xun family resolve the cause and effect, no matter whether the Xun family father and son accept your and my suggestions or not, and no matter what the final result is, you and I have already done a great favor to his family.

Not to mention a house to live in, even if they really gave us a huge sum of money, we would be fully qualified to accept it.

However, there is really no need for us to have good relations with his family.

It’s not about whether we are qualified to live in a house or receive a huge sum of money.

I don't want to do it myself. I don't think the Xun family is qualified to give me money to please me."

Gou Jiao seemed to be thinking about something, "I don't even want to live in the upper room of his house."

Xiao Yu glanced at him and said calmly: "Just now Xiao Dao advised you not to look down on yourself, and now I want to advise you not to think too highly of yourself and not to be too arrogant.

When people walk on the earth, how can their feet not be covered in mud?
Remember, extremes are the beginning of obsession, and obsession is the biggest enemy of spiritual cultivation. "

Gou Jiao was stunned for a moment and fell into long contemplation.

For a full half quarter of an hour, his dark and wrinkled face seemed to be enlightened, becoming brighter and smoother.

"I'm grateful for your advice. It's getting late, so I won't disturb you from resting."

He stood up, said goodbye, and walked calmly to his bedroom.

"You can't sleep." Xiaoyu said.

Gou Jiao turned around and said with a doubtful look on his face: "I am now living in the palace and can sleep well."

"You can sleep, but you can't. In a quarter of an hour at most, the Xun family father and son will come together, politely and respectfully, and implore me to immediately implement the 'middle strategy'." Xiao Yu smiled faintly.

Gou Jiao returned to his seat and asked curiously, "The Xun family father and son were arrogant at first but respectful later. It's already funny. Why do they keep changing their minds?"

"They are ignorant. People with knowledge will tell them how powerful we are." Xiaoyu said.

"Who told them? It's so late, can they still go out of the city to invite the demon-conquering master?" Gou Jiao said.

Xiao Yu poured herself a cup of cold tea and asked, "What did the female ghost say when we saw her in the underwater ghostland?"

Gou Jiao said: "She roared ferociously, like a demon or a monster, not a human at all.

The Taoist priest recited a Buddhist scripture and helped her to "turn over a new leaf", allowing her to regain her human form and regain some rationality.

Then she talked about her identity and origin.

She said Xun Peng took advantage of her intention to condense the immortal elixir, and pretended to use the thousand-year-old elixir from the Xun family's pharmacy to lure her into taking the drug. Her power was broken, her body was defiled, and her body sank to the bottom of the lake." At the end, he hesitated, "Master, I feel that the woman did not tell the truth either.

The relationship between her and Xun Peng is not as simple as she said.

The fact that Xun Peng sank her into the lake in his own yard could only mean that they were both at the Xun family, in the South Courtyard, at that time.

Even if Xun Peng used the magic medicine to seduce her, she came here alone. Oh, she must be very resentful and wronged. I must have misunderstood."

"You must believe in your own spiritual perception. Now your heart is bright, and any doubts you have must have reasons." Xiaoyu said.

"Isn't she a good person?" Gou Jiao asked in surprise.

Xiao Yu shook her head and said, “She has just always been praised and respected by her fellow martial artists, and she is used to being a ‘fairy’.

Even though he guessed that Xun Peng had ill intentions and was hostile to him, he thought he could easily control him.

Unexpectedly, the 'Jade-faced Golden Roc' was not the 'honest man' I met in the past.

She was just a little fox, and she encountered an even more unruly wolf in this game, and was defeated miserably, and it was difficult for her to recover. "

Fairy Qingluan is definitely not a bad person, but she is not a pure and innocent white lotus with a heart as white as snow.

Xun Peng is a complete "Jade-faced Demonic Peng".

Gou Jiao was an honest man and was a little confused when he heard it.

"Master, what is the deep meaning behind the ghost girl's words?"

“She once said that it was Xun Peng who killed her, but she couldn’t do anything to him.

There is a force suppressing her, preventing her from getting close to Xun Peng." Xiao Yu said.

Gou Jiao seemed to be thinking about something, "Which power are the Xun family father and son going to look for now?

He was willing to help the Xun family, but he was unable to break the ghost zone in the lake.

Therefore, I understand that the Taoist priest who made the middle plan is very extraordinary. "

Xiao Yu nodded slightly and said, "The female ghost has been suppressed in the lake area, and it is difficult to even approach Xun Peng's house.

It is definitely not a natural phenomenon.

Some force was suppressing her.

But the female ghost and the ghost domain have always existed, and they are even accumulating negative energy and expanding continuously.

That power could only protect the direct bloodline of the Xun family, but it could not directly destroy her soul as Young Master Xun wished.

After killing two people tonight, her strength increased by another 20%.

If this continues, within five days, she will rush out of the lake and slaughter the servants and maids of the Xun family first.

Then he killed the branches of Xun family, and finally, he exhausted his own life and was beaten to death by a master.

After his soul was scattered, he was labeled as an evil demon who had committed many evil deeds, and the Xun family was the pitiful victims.

The cause and effect between the Xun family father and son and her ended with her being a demon, her being deserving of death, and her spirit being gone."

"This is not fair!" Gou Jiao said with an ugly expression.

"It's unfair to whom?" Xiaoyu asked.

"Yes——" Gou Jiao was stuck.

He originally wanted to say that it was unfair to Fairy Qingluan.

She was raped, murdered, and sealed at the bottom of the lake, but her enemies were still alive and well. She was finally identified as a demon, her soul was scattered, and she was cursed by the world. Not to mention Fairy Qingluan herself, even an outsider would feel very unhappy when thinking about this result. He would never understand the thoughts related to this case in his life.

But the female ghost really did as "Master Carrot" had predicted and slaughtered the maids and servants of the Xun family. Gou Jiao recalled what he had seen and heard in the ghost realm. The female ghost was like a madman, and indeed threatened to slaughter all living people. She was completely irrational.

He was depressed, "It's unfair to the maids and servants, and to the branch of the Xun family."

Xiao Yu sighed, "They are indeed not guilty of seeking death, but they are indeed closely related to the Xun family father and son.

They enjoyed the protection of Mr. Xun, had no worries about food and clothing, and did not have to perform corvée labor.

A gatekeeper only had to sweep the floor in front of the door in the morning and considered his work completed.

If there is anyone who is really unfair, it is only to the living Fairy Qingluan."

"The living Fairy Qingluan." Gou Jiao was stunned for a moment, and asked softly, "Master, you should just let it go, right?"

"Let's first see what choice the Xun family plans to make." Xiaoyu said.

As she expected, just after she drank a cup of herbal tea, the Xun family father and son came to visit her in person.

As soon as he entered the door, he bowed deeply without saying a word.

After the ceremony, Xun Yuanwai said, "Master, after much thought, I still think that the exorcism should be done sooner rather than later.

Just follow the 'middle strategy' that the Taoist priest mentioned earlier.

Tonight, we must first clear the ghost area in the lake, so that the evil spirit will not continue to expand and allow evil ghosts to harm good people. "

Xiao Yu said: "My middle plan is not only to clear the ghost area in the lake, but also to hold a subsequent water and land ceremony.

Clearing out the ghost realm can only deprive the evil ghost of her negative energy and temporarily stop her from erupting in violence and growing rapidly.

Only by cooperating with the sacrifice and making a wish can the hatred in the evil ghost's heart be resolved and she can be reborn in the underworld with peace of mind."

Xun Yuanwai nodded repeatedly, "Understood, understood. Once the Taoist priest has cleared the evil spirits in the lake, I will immediately set up a water and land Taoist ceremony and invite famous masters from inside and outside the county to come to my house to chant sutras and dispel the hatred in the evil spirits' hearts."

Xiaoyu brought Gou Jiao back to the South Courtyard.

I only asked the Xun family for some incense, candles, yellow paper, cinnabar and the like.

She and Gou Jiao set up an altar in the pavilion in the middle of the lake.

Xiaoyu picked up the brush, dipped it in cinnabar, and wrote a "sword and weapon talisman" on the yellow paper.

Wrap the talisman paper around the two chopsticks, the talisman is activated, golden light flashes, and the two chopsticks turn into a "golden magic sword" with flashing cold light.

She held a magic sword in her hand, stepped on the magic steps, chanted Buddhist scriptures, and threw "detonating talismans" into the lake.

"Boom!" Thunder continuously struck the lake, blasting out thick black smoke.

It was as if there was a cuttlefish spirit hidden in the lake. The cuttlefish spirit was injured by the explosion, and its inky black juice flowed out, dyeing the lake black.

"Damn Taoist priest, do you really want to be my enemy?!" A hoarse and resentful female voice came from the bottom of the lake.

"Donor, the devil's sea is endless, it's never too late to turn back!"

(End of this chapter)