One Qi Chaoyang

Chapter 243: Snake Demon Follows the Wind

In the Yidang Mountains, there is a mountain called Huifeng Valley. There is an evil wind echoing around the valley all year round. The evil wind can scatter souls and hurt minds, and it is extremely scary.

It’s just because there was a big demon here who opened up a cave, and the cave was called Qingfeng Cave.

The big demon also called himself the Taoist Suifeng. He often said that he lived with the wind and felt the Taoist rhythm in the wind.

At this time, Granny Niu went towards Qingfeng Cave.

She jumped off the cow's back, as light as a fox. She actually crawled and walked. Except for her tail, she looked like a wild beast, but every part of her body was human.

She jumped lightly over the stones and came to the entrance of Qingfeng Cave.

There were two gorgeous golden pheasants at the entrance. They spoke in human language, shook their heads, and said as if reciting poetry: "Welcome Granny Niu to Qingfeng Cave. We are here to welcome you on the orders of the cave master."

Granny Niu looked at the pair of swaying golden pheasants in surprise. She didn't say anything, but followed the pair of golden pheasants into the Qingfeng Cave.

Entering the cave, Granny Niu clearly felt a light breeze always surrounding her, like a naughty little monkey.

When she came to the depths of Qingfeng Cave, she saw the owner of the Qingfeng Cave, Taoist Suifeng.

Taoist Suifeng is also a half-demon, a green-scaled snake whose upper body has taken on the appearance of a human.

He has a pair of hands covered with blue scales, a flat face, but with high cheekbones and a pointed chin.

He was actually wearing a Taoist robe with an opening at the back. A pair of green fleshy wings stretched out from inside, and underneath the robe was a coiled snake body.

"Should I call you Granny Cow or Granny Fox?" said the half-human, half-snake Taoist Suifeng with wings.

The entire cave is inlaid with gems everywhere, and a pot of fire is placed in the corner, making the whole cave flash with cold light.

There was an indescribable chill in his voice, and Granny Niu even sensed a vague sense of mockery.

"Master Suifeng actually knows my origins." Granny Niu's eyes were gleaming with light, like the reflected brilliance of a gem.

“The wind can tell me everything. There are very few secrets in the world that can be hidden from the wind.” Taoist Suifeng, who is half snake and half human, said with a smile.

His smile was like a sneer, as if he had not yet learned how to sneer, or as if he did not smile enough, so the muscles on his face were stiff.

"Then, I think the Taoist priest should know the purpose of my coming here?" asked Granny Niu.

"Whether you know or not, I'm very casual. But when I ask you, should I call you Grandma Ox or Grandma Fox? You haven't answered me yet." said Taoist Suifeng, who is half snake and half human.

Granny Niu jumped lightly onto a large rock nearby and sat on it like an old fox, saying, "Master, you can call me Granny Fox."

"From Fox Hill in Qianshan Country?" Taoist Suifeng said.

"The Taoist priest is indeed well-informed. He knows everything about the world without leaving the cave." Grandma Fox said with a sigh and a hint of compliment.

The half-human, half-snake Taoist Suifeng smiled. His eyes were slightly narrowed when he smiled, but it made people feel like he was examining them.

"Most of the time, the wind just blows across the surface, and there are many places that the wind cannot reach, so what I know is limited. However, it just so happens that you, Grandma Fox, are here, so I know about it." Taoist Suifeng explained.

"I heard that the Taoist priest has always wanted the Great Zhou court to recognize that this mountain belongs to your Taoist temple." Grandma Fox said quietly.

"So it seems that Grandma Fox, you have a solution?" asked the half-human, half-snake Taoist Suifeng.

"Here, with Xutang Pass here and you being a foreign demon, this is almost impossible." Grandma Fox said. The half-human, half-snake Taoist Suifeng did not say anything, but just looked at Grandma Fox and listened carefully.

The old fox didn't stop either. She sat on the stone, dressed in black, like an old black fox.

“However, if the chief of Xutang Pass committed a serious mistake and died, and you surrendered to the Great Zhou at the right time, and the local powerful families spoke for you and expressed your willingness to guard the mountain of monsters, then you can be recognized.” said the fox lady.

"Who are the local powerful families?" The half-human, half-snake Taoist Suifeng grasped the key at once.

"Of course he is a local aristocratic family." Granny Fox said, "If you want to meet him, I can introduce him to you when the time is right."

"So from now on, should I listen to the Great Zhou court, or to the local aristocratic families and powerful people?" the half-human, half-snake Taoist Suifeng asked again.

"The imperial court of the Great Zhou Dynasty is far away in the horizon, while the local aristocratic families are right in front of us. The clouds in the sky can be seen but not touched, while the people around us can drink and discuss Taoism with the Taoist priest." said Grandma Fox.

"So, what do you need me to do now?" The half-human, half-snake Taoist Suifeng seemed to accept this easily and asked again,

"Originally, I wanted to bring the wife of the Xutang Bingzhu to the Taoist priest, and then let Mrs. Xu Mao confess the illegal things that the Xutang Bingzhu had done. Then..."

"Let's not talk about the previous plan. Now someone has done it for us. We met a stupid Taoist priest. He took Xu Mao to find the military commander of Xutang Pass. I guess they will definitely have a conflict and both sides will suffer. As long as you, Taoist priest, go to Xutang Pass now, you can take them down in one fell swoop. From now on, this mountain will be yours." said the fox grandmother.

"Go kill them? Is this what humans often call a token of surrender?" said the half-human, half-snake Taoist Suifeng.

"Humans are always a little worried about us monsters. If we want to gain a foothold here, we naturally have to gain people's trust first, right?" Grandma Fox said with a smile.

"That's indeed the truth." The half-human, half-snake Taoist Suifeng reached out and touched his pointed chin, saying thoughtfully.

There was a smile in Grandma Fox's eyes.
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After Zhao Fuyun questioned him, the other party evaded the question, neither denying nor daring to respond. Zhao Fuyun was certain that the other party must have done those things.

So he took action. The fireball thrown by Zhao Fuyun rolled over and burned the grass-roots soldiers who tried to stop him into ashes.

But the light was faster and fell on Xu Mao's body and eyes.

Xu Hongyu opened his hands and immediately a dark light appeared in his palms, which also formed into a round ball and crashed into the flame.

In an instant, the firelight and the gray light intertwined and entangled in the door, as if they were devouring and corroding each other.

But Zhao Fuyun suddenly stood up and flew into the sky. He opened his mouth and spit out a flash of fire which fell on his palm and turned into a lamp.

From Zhao Fuyun's perspective, he could see that the straw men originally placed everywhere came alive at this moment, turning their heads to look at Zhao Fuyun. For a split second, Zhao Fuyun felt as if his soul was invaded by countless consciousnesses.

He felt as if his body was turning into straw.

In an instant, Zhao Fuyun's body turned into a flame and a ball of rainbow light. It had no substance, but it surrounded the lamp. Suddenly, the light flickered, and thousands of golden rays bloomed and fell on the scarecrows.

The scarecrow burst into flames instantly.

In the city, Xu Hongyu stretched out his hand and pointed. A ray of yellow light flew out from the house and landed on his hand. It turned into a golden pagoda, which swelled in the wind.

This is the soul-locking and demon-suppressing tower passed down by the Xu family.

However, the lamp in the void suddenly trembled and disappeared in the rainbow light. The rainbow light condensed into a point, turned into a ray of light, and flew away into the distance.

Xu Hongyu looked unhappy, and cursed: "You are so ignorant. If you hadn't run fast, I would have refined your soul into my grass head."

He turned around to look at his wife again, and found that his wife had turned into a pile of black bones on the ground.

She had been burned to death by the flames at some point.

"Ah, you actually killed my wife, I will definitely kill you!"

Zhao Fuyun did not get entangled with Xu Hongyu, because at that moment, the sense of "robbery" in his heart suddenly became clear.

He felt like he was about to fall into a trap and was walking on the edge of it, so he leaped up, turned into golden light, and headed towards Yidang Mountain again.

He was going to find that 'cow woman', peel off her skin and see what she was.

However, just as he entered the mountain, he was hit by a gust of wind and felt a voice calling him. Then he circled around and came to a valley where the wind blew back and forth. There was a cave on the rocky cliff in the valley.

The words "Qingfeng Cave" were engraved on the cliff next to the cave. He felt the wind from the mountain constantly flowing into the cave.

At the entrance of the cave, there was a 'person' hanging there.

Looking closely, he realized that it was not a human being, but a black fox. The fox was so old that it had lost its hair. There was a piece of human skin hanging next to it. He immediately realized that this was the "cow woman".

She actually died here.

At this time, a voice sounded in the cave.

"Since you are here, Fellow Daoist Fuyun, why don't you come into my cave and have a chat?"

The voice was a bit cold, but did not seem to contain much hostility. However, Zhao Fuyun was unwilling to interfere in other people's dojo.

Especially for this kind of cave-type dojo, which is semi-enclosed, if someone closes the cave, you can only kill them if you want to get out.

"I haven't asked for the name of the owner of Qingfeng Cave." Zhao Fuyun asked.

"Since I settled here, I have taken the name 'Sui Feng'. If Daoist Fu Yun is unwilling to come to my cave, I can also come out of the cave to chat with you."

As soon as he finished speaking, Zhao Fuyun felt that the wind in the void had changed. Then he saw a white mist pouring out of the Qingfeng Cave. Wrapped in the white mist, a half-human, half-snake monster emerged from the cave. Its body soared into the air with the wind, but its lower body was still in the cave.

Zhao Fuyun's eyes flashed with fire as he looked at the half-snake, half-human monster with green scales. The clothes on the other party were obviously also robes, which grew larger as the body grew larger.

"Fellow Daoist, are you wondering why I killed this fox?" asked the half-human, half-snake monster.

Zhao Fuyun did not speak, he continued: "Because it regards me as a foolish demon with magical powers but no wisdom, and together with the local cultivation families, they want to use the strategy of driving a tiger to swallow a wolf on me. Even if I don't listen, they will definitely let the master of Xutang Pass know that his wife is detained in Yidang Mountain, and then the master of Xutang Pass will lead troops to wipe out me.

At that time, I will fight him until both of us are injured, and then someone will appear and kill me and Xu Hongyu together. At that time, they will have to peel off my skin, pull out my tendons and bones, and restrain my soul to refine magic weapons. However, Daoyou happened to be there and stepped into this trap for me. I must thank you. "

Zhao Fuyun still didn't speak, and the other party continued: "I know that you are looking for precious materials to refine treasures, and there should be something you need in a place."

"Oh, where?" Zhao Fuyun asked at this time.

The other party smiled and said slowly: "Of course it is the Lingcao Secret Mansion in Xutang Pass. The master of Xutang Pass is the one who guards this secret mansion for the Great Zhou court."

Zhao Fuyun then showed a look of realization and said, "You snake demon, you are here to take over this secret house."

Zhao Fuyun's sudden and unreasonable address made a hint of coldness flash across the snake demon's eyes.

However, Zhao Fuyun was carefully experiencing the new sense of disaster in his heart.

(End of this chapter)