The Demon-Slaying Grandmaster

Chapter 1 Rebirth
Zhenwu Temple in the capital.

Li Jingxiao finished his morning lessons alone, left the Zhenwu Temple, picked up his medicine hoe and carried a bamboo basket, planning to go up the mountain to collect herbs.

Lock the door of the temple. There is actually nothing to steal inside.

Li Jingxiao collected all the important items such as money, scriptures, and magical instruments into the game inventory.

After walking about ten meters out of the door, I saw a few hooligans at the corner of the street, staring at me secretly.

Li Jingxiao frowned and thought for a few seconds without stopping. Among these people, at least two of them had appeared around the Taoist temple several times recently.

He sighed secretly, it seemed that he was being targeted.

He pretended not to see anything and walked quickly towards the outer city.

After an incense stick of time, the five ruffians saw him leave the city and head straight for the Qingyi Garden, which was the direction of the Summer Palace in later generations. They guessed that the boy must be going there to collect herbs.

But in that era, apart from a relatively famous temple, the Qingyi Garden was surrounded by lakes of various sizes and dense forests.

There were indeed medicinal herbs, but most of them had already been looted by farmers and herbalists outside the city.

In fact, Li Jingxiao didn't need to go into the mountains or dense forests to collect herbs.

When the mind is reborn, it appears in the game in the mind.

Then command the game character to enter the pharmacy and buy red and blue medicines such as Panax notoginseng powder, licorice powder, Ganoderma lucidum blood-replenishing pills, and Ginseng Dan Qi-replenishing pills to treat people.

Moreover, Li Jingxiao treated patients not only to earn some money for food, but also mainly because he could gain experience.

Although a person only has 1 point of experience, he can still accumulate little by little to level up.

Li Jingxiao would not directly use the medicines in the game to treat people.

A small amount of the lowest-level blood-healing medicine, Panax notoginseng, was mixed into the herbs.

Since we need to use herbs, we have to have a source of them, so we go out to collect herbs every ten days.

And he doesn't treat all kinds of illnesses.

They are all minor ailments such as bruises, chronic coughs, headaches and fevers.

However, in ancient times, colds were actually fatal diseases.

It was almost noon when they arrived at the Summer Palace. Since Li Jingxiao had a cheat, his pace was certainly not slow.

Just to lure those five hooligans to follow him, he deliberately slowed down his pace and led them to a place with fewer people.

This is really hard for the five ruffians behind him.

After chasing for almost an hour, they saw Li Jingxiao sitting in a pavilion by the lake, drinking water from a gourd.

There were no pedestrians or tourists around, so the five people suppressed their fatigue and thirst, took out the iron rulers and daggers they carried with them and ran over quickly.

He shouted sternly, "Little Li, if you know what's best for you, hand over your master's prescription and you'll avoid a beating."

Li Jingxiao looked at the five ruffians as if they were fools, and put the gourd away casually.

With a turn of his wrist, five roasted chestnuts appeared in his hand.

The five ruffians were stunned, and then they saw Li Jingxiao using his hidden weapon skills. With a flick of his hand, five chestnuts flashed with cold light, and they felt a huge pain in their arms instantly.

He couldn't hold the iron ruler and dagger in his hands.

In just a moment, my arm started to swell up.

Several people realized that they had met a tough guy.

Then I thought about the rumors I had heard in the past, which said that the Taoist priests in Zhenwu Temple, in addition to being proficient in martial arts such as swords and guns, were also immortals who knew Taoism.

I thought that this kid was too young to be as powerful as the old Taoist priest who had disappeared for several months and could deal with five strong men like me.

I didn't expect that the other person could hurt me and others with just one move from such a distance.

Two of them were startled and turned around and ran.

After running a few steps, two chestnuts caught up with them and hit their ankles, spraining them.

One of them ran too fast and not only sprained his ankle, it looked like it was dislocated.

He held his legs in pain and wailed.

Seeing this, the remaining three knelt on the ground and begged for mercy without hesitation. Li Jingxiao felt that there must be a mastermind behind these five people, so he interrogated them and even used acupressure to torture them.

After confirming that the person behind this was a famous doctor in the city, he reached out and patted the five people lightly with relief.

Although Mian Zhang is not a well-known Kung Fu in the world of martial arts.

But among the palm techniques of martial arts, Wudang has the Mian Palm, Emei has the Mian Palm, and there is also the quite famous Bone-Dissolving Mian Palm. It can be seen that the feminine palm power is quite commonly used in the hands of heroes.

And it’s really useful.

I watched the five broken-skinned guys staggering away, supporting each other.

Li Jingxiao did not rush to collect herbs, but continued to sit in the pavilion, thinking about his past life.

When I was reborn three months ago, there were six young and middle-aged Taoist priests in Zhenwu Temple, and a temple master who was over 80 years old.

After Li Jingxiao took over the body of the 15-year-old Taoist priest, he took two days to slowly accept the fact of his rebirth.

After that, he followed his grandmaster, master, uncles and aunts to meditate and practice Taoism, learn medicine and draw talismans, and practice martial arts to strengthen his body every day.

What's more, in just a few days, he actually cultivated some magical powers.

In addition, there is a small fairy-tale game in my mind that I downloaded before my rebirth in my previous life.

Create a character in your mind, and command the character to kill monsters in the Novice Village, and you can also find various secrets of the martial arts world.

Since it is a fairy-tale game, there are martial arts secrets. When you reach a higher level in the future, there will naturally be methods for cultivating the truth and becoming an immortal.

With the cheat, Li Jingxiao's subsequent cultivation speed was not slow.

He is deeply praised and loved by his grandmaster, master, uncles and uncles.
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After morning classes and practice, he would spend the afternoon helping his junior uncle, who was in his 30s, to tend to the vegetable garden.

The entire Zhenwu Temple is over 600 square meters, which sounds quite large, but it is actually very small.

There is a main hall in the front yard, dedicated to the Great Emperor Zhenwu, and two side halls, which occupy half of the Taoist temple.

The second courtyard is the living area, with a main hall, two side rooms on the left and right, and four back rooms.

The backyard is the kitchen and vegetable garden.

This Taoist temple is actually a compact courtyard with three entrances.

Compared with other Taoist temples, the place is not very big and the buildings are not very tall. The main hall is only 5 meters high.

It seems that it has nothing to do with grandeur.

According to legend, after Zhu Di successfully launched his rebellion, he specially ordered the construction of many Zhenwu Temples in the capital.

Unfortunately, the Ming Dynasty in this world was defeated by the Oirat Mongols when they reached Tumu Fort.

The world is in chaos.

Finally, the Zhou Dynasty unified the world.

I heard from my master and junior uncle that Taoism has existed since ancient times, but during the reign of Emperor Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered Liu Bowen to cut off all 99 dragon veins in the world.

The spiritual energy of heaven and earth began to thin.

As the saying goes, fortune and misfortune are interdependent.

After what Lao Zhu did, it became even more difficult for Taoist priests, monks, and other practitioners to practice Taoism.

There are also fewer demons causing trouble.

However, the Taoist priests and monks’ abilities and determination to exorcise demons are not as strong as before.

Their own Taoist temple is one of the many Zhenwu temples built by Zhu Di's order.

At the same time, because the area is not large, no one has paid attention to it for more than a hundred years, which is why it has been preserved.

Compared with some dukes' and marquises' mansions, it's nothing to mention.

The Ning and Rong mansions, which are not far from the Zhenwu Temple, are at least seventy or eighty times larger in area than the Zhenwu Temple.

It took Li Jingxiao seven or eight days of rebirth for him to realize that he had been reborn in the world of the Red Mansion.

PS: The original title of this book was "Groups of Taoist Companions", but due to some indescribable reasons, it was changed to its current title.

(End of this chapter)