The Demon-Slaying Grandmaster

Chapter 44 Corpse Tiger (Seeking monthly ticket)
Li Jingxiao stayed in the palace for more than an hour, and Emperor Longde repeatedly asked him about what happened last night.

After the emperor was satisfied, he praised and encouraged him and asked Xia Shouzhong to personally escort him out of the palace.

Not long after, the news that Li Jingxiao was attacked and killed by a group of thugs last night quickly reached the ears of the ministers.

But Li Jingxiao had already taken his men and rode back to the mountains on the other side of the imperial mausoleum.

He had discussed with the emperor before and wanted to lure the snake out of its hole to see who was the traitor in the imperial mausoleum.

Only then did he hurried back to the imperial mausoleum.

After meeting up with Zhao Junming and others, Erfu had not returned yet, so Li Jingxiao ordered someone to prepare some hot food.

After much deliberation, he finally decided to take the three Shi Delong brothers and five fast-footed captains into the mountains to the valley.

The matter of the mandrill must be resolved.

Otherwise, it would be impossible to give the emperor a satisfactory explanation.

This trip into the mountains was quite smooth, with Li Jingxiao as our guide, and the five captains all coming from border areas, so they were quite capable of searching for clues.

Along the way, they followed the footprints left by the escaped mandrill, with Li Jingxiao leading the way intentionally or unintentionally.

We arrived at the valley around three o'clock in the afternoon.

When they saw the skeletons, the five captains and the three Shi Delong brothers all looked unhappy.

The eight people could easily guess from the tooth marks on the skeletons that these people were eaten clean by mandrills.

Now that there were signs that the bones had been moved, no one suspected that Li Jingxiao had been there before.

The roles of Shi Delong and the other two were revealed.

Li Jingxiao searched carefully twice but found nothing.

But in the eyes of three professional Taoist priests with orderly inheritance, there is much more useful information.

Just by looking at the weapons, it is clear that this group of people includes Taoists and monks.

In Li Jingxiao's eyes, the knife was just a single sword, but Shi Delong and the other two recognized it as a monk's sword.

There is also the long sword used by Taoist priests, and the hilt and guard styles also reveal many clues.

When the compass was finally picked up, Liu Hongshi's expression changed. He handed it to Shi Delong and said, "Brother, it seems to be from the sect of Mr. Huang Er outside the pass."

After Shi Delong and Lin Yi saw it, their faces also looked a little ugly.

He saluted Li Jingxiao and said, "Sir, these baboon are probably kept in captivity by a strange person from the Huangxian sect.

I just don't know why this person died here.

And it looks like these people are definitely looking for something."

Li Jingxiao immediately thought of the baboon that had appeared several times in the dense forest two or three miles outside the imperial mausoleum.

I thought to myself, could it be that what I'm looking for is in that dense forest?
As for why it is scary at night, it is possible that the original plan was to dig something at night.

This caused the mandrill to make some noise in the woods.

Li Jingxiao had heard the laughter of a mandrill with his own ears, and it was indeed quite creepy.

Moreover, people call mandrills "mountain ghosts". Anyone who encounters this thing late at night will be scared to death.

From now on, no one will go to that dense forest, not even during the day, let alone at night.

However, this valley is thirty or forty miles away from the dense forest by mountain roads, and it is impossible for a normal person to travel such a long distance back and forth every day.

In this case, many of Li Jingxiao’s previous speculations may have been wrong.

But he didn't worry about it. There were few clues to begin with, and he had to rely on guessing. It was normal to be wrong.

After telling Li Jingxiao about how the mandrills first appeared in the dense forest, Shi Delong and the other two immediately felt the same way as Li Jingxiao, thinking that what these people were looking for should be in the dense forest.

But not long after, Lin Yi stared at the terrain of the valley, and his brows furrowed deeper the more he looked.

He hurriedly called Shi Delong and Liu Hongshi over.

Li Jingxiao brought five captains with him, looked at his three brothers, took out a compass, and ran around in the valley.

His expression became more and more serious, which made Li Jingxiao start to worry.

Feng shui and divination are the specialties of Maoshan Taoist priests. The three brothers must have discovered something.

And the matter must be quite serious, otherwise, Liu Hongshi, the least capable of the three, wouldn't be so nervous that sweat would appear on his forehead.

Seeing that it was getting dark, Li Jingxiao was about to give a reminder.

Lin Yi walked over with a bitter face and said, "Sir, this is a very dark place. After we surveyed it, we had a bad feeling in our hearts.

But it’s already dark, and if we want to continue looking for the source of the trouble, we have to wait until tomorrow morning.

Now either leave quickly or make more preparations, something serious may happen during the night."

Li Jingxiao decided to leave without thinking.

No matter how big the problem is, it is not as important as your own life.

But Shi Delong shook his head and said, "We can't leave. If a demon really comes out, we can take advantage of it when it just appears and is at its weakest to destroy it in one fell swoop.

Otherwise, after a while, you will absorb more moonlight.

Or the more people it eats and the more blood it sucks, the harder it will be to deal with."

Li Jingxiao rolled his eyes at the guy, but then he thought about how fast his Qinggong skills were.

The three Shi Delong brothers are at the front, and if the situation is favorable to them, they will help.

If it's dangerous, I'm sorry, I will definitely run away first.

Moreover, with the four of them working together, even if a powerful zombie appears, it shouldn't be too difficult to kill it.

After all, Shi Delong also practiced the Lightning Thunder Fist.

It is still very effective in restraining evil spirits.

Li Jingxiao finally suppressed his anxiety and ordered five captains to go out and get more firewood before it got completely dark.

After the fire started, the three Shi Delong brothers also set up a formation in the cave.

Li Jingxiao wanted to ask, and even wanted to learn, but Shi Delong and the other two had no intention of teaching him at that moment.

After setting up the formation, they began to set up the altar.

Lin Yi, on the other hand, kept kowtowing in front of a wooden sign the size of a palm.

The word "ancestor" would appear from time to time.

Li Jingxiao could only hold back from speaking so as not to disturb the three of them.

As time slowly approached midnight, everyone was covered in fur blankets, but they felt increasingly cold.

Li Jingxiao didn't feel cold at all. As long as he practiced the Eternal Spring Kung Fu, his body would soon warm up.

The consumption of true Qi is also very small, and the daily consumption can be recovered by meditating for half an hour.

So for him, the temperature of a few degrees is no different from that of ten or twenty degrees.

Deep in the valley, a strange noise suddenly came from a muddy ground.

I saw something in the ground starting to loosen up as if it wanted to crawl out.

Not long after, a tiger head as big as a millstone suddenly emerged from the mud.

If you look closely, you can see that there is a deep knife scar on the tiger's face, its eyeballs are white, and the skin around its eye sockets is eroded.

The tongue was grayish white, with many festering wounds and emitted a foul odor.

After the entire body crawled out, it felt like the tiger was at least 3.5 meters long, which was a lot larger than an average adult male Siberian tiger.

Shi Delong and the other two who were meditating suddenly opened their eyes.

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