No taboos

Chapter 3 Seven Gates

The burly man climbed to the top of a peak and looked around.

Big and small eyes were on guard at the foot of the mountain. The two of them acted separately so that whoever encountered danger could be rescued.

At least until the "June Bug" is found, we are still good brothers who share life and death.

The burly man on the top of the mountain suddenly gestured to Daxiaoyan, asking him to come up as well.

The big and small eyes climbed up, and the burly man excitedly pointed in a direction: "Look, is it a village?"

Looking closely, they saw a group of houses hidden among the trees on the hillside not far away.

"It must be Wangxiang Village." The two men breathed a sigh of relief, came down from the mountain, and carefully moved towards the direction of the village.

There really wasn't any danger along the way.

Big and small eyes said: "It seems that the mountain runners in Wangxiang Village are very powerful. The evil spirits dare not approach the village. We made the right choice."

As they approached the house on the other side, they heard a clanging sound, like a stonemason carving stone.

The two men followed the sound and turned around a bush that looked like a fence wall. Suddenly, the view in front of them opened up. Sure enough, there was a stonemason sitting on the slope. There were round stones scattered around him, half of which had been carved into various human heads, animal heads, and bird heads.

The stonemason had his back to them, his hands still busy, chiseling the stone with an iron chisel.

The two were about to step forward to talk when they suddenly frowned, feeling that something was not right.

The stonemason sitting there felt taller than the burly man standing.

At this moment, the carved human heads, animal heads, and bird heads on the ground turned towards them and stared at them.

The clanging sound stopped and the stonemason turned around. He also turned out to be a stone head!
But his stone head, covered with messy hair and a thick beard, and his facial features were all movable - after seeing the two people, he smiled happily: "Newcomers are here."

"I'll pick a good one for you."

The stonemason then began to select from the carved stone heads, patting and tapping them. Listening to the sound, it sounded like picking melons.

The two turned and ran.

The stonemason did not chase after him, but concentrated on choosing. He soon chose a satisfactory one and then poked it with an iron chisel.

The stone head flew towards the burly man with a whoosh.

A ball of shadow spurted out of the burly man's nostrils, quickly expanded and shattered, and seven armored ghosts rushed out from it, pouncing on the stone head with their fangs and claws bared.

The stone head just hit them, and the ghosts shattered one by one with screams.

The burly man spat out a mouthful of blood and staggered a few times, but he didn't dare to stop for a moment and fled as fast as he could.

But the speed of the stone head was incredibly fast. It smashed his head with a puff and grew on his neck instead!

The stonemason still smiled strangely: "Come with me, I will find you a place to stay."

There are not many empty houses hidden among the trees.

……

Xu Yuan was very happy after fulfilling his stepmother's request and finally being able to go home.

So he put away the small bamboo cage, picked up the axe and started chopping wood.

After chopping down a few trees, Xu Yuan wiped the sweat from his forehead with the back of his hand. Suddenly he felt a little itchy and scratched it a few times.

When he scratched it, he found that the skin on his forehead was completely cracked!
Xu Yuan felt his whole body begin to itch again, and it was very itchy, making it unbearable.

Scratching and scratching——

Some places on his back were inconvenient to grab, so Xu Yuan simply took off his clothes and rubbed his back against a big tree.

As he rubbed, the skin all over his body separated from his body, and then Xu Yuan crawled out from the cracks on his scalp like a cicada!
"Huh——" Xu Yuan let out a long sigh and finally felt comfortable.

When I lowered my head, my hands became white and delicate, and my skin all over my body was renewed.

Looking back, I saw a thin piece of human skin under the big tree, which was clearly mine.

However, on that skin, there were some strange purple-black patterns that looked like tattoos. Xu Yuan patted his forehead and said in sudden realization, "So that's it."

"June bug" is a medicine for life cultivation.

The burly man is a "divine cultivator", the man with different sizes of eyes is a martial cultivator, and in addition, Huang Ming also has seven types of cultivators: literary cultivators, alchemy cultivators, craftsman cultivators, and magic cultivators.

Together they are called the "Seven Gates".

I don’t know about the vast world outside the Ming Dynasty.

If you want to become a practitioner, you either need a "guide" or take a "medicine".

I have become a "life cultivator" without realizing it.

Among the seven types of practitioners, life practitioners are the least numerous.

As the name suggests, destiny cultivation is about cultivating "destiny". The first destiny that one obtains is named: No Taboos!

These days, I have led three groups of people with bad intentions into the mountains, just like the burly man and the big-eyed man. I was able to escape in the end with the help of the evil spirits in the mountains.

Just like the snake vine, every time I come into close contact with evil spirits.

I have been infected without realizing it.

These infections will continue to accumulate and will soon erupt completely. Perhaps in a dream, while eating, or while chatting with others, you will suddenly transform yourself into a bloodthirsty evil spirit!
If there happen to be other practitioners around, you will become their enemy's record.

If not, I will kill a lot of people and then escape into the Ghost Witch Mountain...

But his "no taboos" fate saved him.

When this infection accumulates to a certain extent, "no taboos" will give rise to a "transformation".

The infection remains in the shed skin, and the organism itself becomes clean and white again.

Xu Yuan observed the layer of skin he had shed and rolled it up carefully. This thing was still useful.

Then Xu Yuan continued to work. After chopping enough firewood for tomorrow, he tied it up with a hemp rope and carried it down the mountain.

When they walked out of Guiwu Mountain, it was almost dark, and Xu Yuan quickened his pace.

When I passed the intersection of Mao'er Tomb, the old woman was gone. I guess she was still looking through books in the ancient tomb.

Pushing open the door to the backyard, Xu Yuan carried the firewood in and found a sedan chair in the backyard.

Mr. Qiao's carriage was squeezed into a corner.

Mr. Qiao is the owner of the inn. He is a scholar with the title of Juren.

I heard the saying “Lust is like a knife hanging over your head” from him.

He is the most prestigious person in the entire Qihetai Town, but he does not usually live in Qihetai, but in Shanhe County, 40 miles to the west.

Mr. Qiao only comes to stay for three or five days at the end of the month to check the accounts.

The names of the shops in the town are not very good: Lin's Sugar House, Zhao's Fur Shop... But Mr. Qiao's inn is called "Yifangting".

Whenever something happens in the town, the first reaction is not to go to the government, but to wait until the end of the month and ask Mr. Qiao to "give justice".

Mr. Qiao has been fair in his dealings over the years and everyone is very impressed by him.

Originally, there were only two families in Qihetai, the Chen family and the Hu family.

It was Mr. Qiao who introduced many young men from the county town or surrounding villages to come to the town to work, and the town gradually became prosperous.

Xu Yuan was also from the county town. His stepmother asked someone to find Mr. Qiao and introduced Xu Yuan to work in the inn.

Erliang, who was also working in the backyard, reminded Xu Yuan, "There are distinguished guests in the front yard. Master Qiao even came from the city to entertain them personally. Don't go to the front yard these days. We can't afford to offend the distinguished guests."

"I understand." Xu Yuan responded.

Although the sedan chair was not big, it was decorated luxuriously and exquisitely. Xu Yuan muttered in his heart: Is it a woman?

(End of this chapter)