The Demon-Slaying Grandmaster

Chapter 90: The Maoshan Taoist Priest Takes Charge in Danger

Seeing his former employer nod, Han Mengzhuo no longer hesitated and knelt on the ground to express his loyalty to Li Jingxiao.

Zhou Gongzhi and the other six Jinyiwei couldn't help but feel envious.

But Li Jingxiao was obviously only interested in Han Mengzhuo, otherwise the two Jinyiwei who were also rescued by Li Jingxiao yesterday would have switched sides without hesitation.

Li Jingxiao patted Han Mengzhuo's shoulder, turned to look at Zhou Gongzhi and the other seven people, and after thinking for a while, seven level 1 exorcism talismans appeared out of thin air.

It floated in front of the six people and said, "This is a talisman to ward off evil spirits. From now on, when you encounter evil spirits, this talisman will become hot.

The closer you get, the greater the heat the talisman emits.

If you really can't escape, use hidden weapons to fight back.

This talisman will actively unleash the power to exorcise evil spirits, and it is extremely difficult to resist ordinary evil spirits.

Even the cat-faced old woman would not dare to provoke you easily because of the talismans in your hands.

Otherwise, after being hit by a few spells, you will need to recuperate for at least a year or two, which is enough time for you to escape unscathed."

Zhou Gongzhi and the others were overjoyed. They quickly took the talisman with both hands and knelt on one knee, "Thank you, sir."

Li Jingxiao waved his hand and helped the seven people up from a distance, which immediately surprised them again.

But when you think about it, Li Jingxiao is a person who has cultivated the power of thunder, so this trick is actually insignificant.

Li Jingxiao instructed several people to go home and practice swordsmanship. If there is anything they don’t understand, they should come back every ten days or half a month.

I will answer their questions and resolve their doubts.

Everyone thanked him again, and then tactfully took their leave.

After leaving the yamen, Zhou Gongzhi looked back at the inconspicuous courtyard and thought to himself that he should go back and practice his sword skills diligently while also working hard with his wife.

Try to have a few sons as soon as possible.

In this way, my uncle and cousin no longer have any reason to persuade me to be more obedient in the future.

No, I have to take in a few more concubines. After all, I have been married for more than a year, but my wife is still not pregnant.

If it's my wife's problem, then all my efforts will be in vain.

The expressions of the other six people were not very good either. If they had not taken the Zhou family into consideration and the benefits the Zhou family gave them this time were indeed not low, the six of them would definitely have taken the initiative to surrender to Li Jingxiao on the spot.

Of course, not everyone has the courage and bravery to face the demons in the future after escaping death from them.

On the contrary, Han Mengzhuo, because he was born into a hunter family, his father and ancestors had more or less heard of or even encountered strange things.

Therefore, Han Mengzhuo had a clear understanding of demons and evil spirits since he was a child. After learning how to restrain them, he killed more than one evil creature.

Already used to it.

As for the method used to injure the cat-faced old lady, it was actually not very clever.

Using peach wood to make arrow shafts, smearing hot blood from the palms on arrows, and carving runes on the arrowheads and shafts are just methods summarized by the ancestors of the old hunters who taught him these secret techniques.

It was indeed helpful in killing evil spirits, but what really hurt the cat demon was the arrow that Han Mengzhuo shot into the cat demon's chest.

The runes on the arrow and the hot blood on the palm of the hand only broke the cat demon's fur, and the real reason why the cat demon was scared away was that it was almost shot in the heart.

Li Jingxiao had been interested in archery before, and now that he had Han Mengzhuo, a great archer, he had to ask him for advice.

Han Mengzhuo, of course, did not hesitate to answer Li Jingxiao's question and taught him all the archery skills and experience inherited from his ancestors.

Just by listening to Han Mengzhuo's explanation, Li Jingxiao's archery skills automatically improved by +10 and +10.

When he starts practicing archery and hits the bull's eye, his experience will be increased by 3 points.

Hitting the inner circle gives +2 points, hitting the outer circle gives +1 point.

Now Li Jingxiao's archery skills improved several times faster than before.

In just half an afternoon, I was able to upgrade to proficiency (1/2000).

At this level, Li Jingxiao's archery skills were obviously several levels better than before.

Han Mengzhuo saw with his own eyes that Li Jingxiao went from knowing only how to draw a bow and shoot an arrow to being able to hit the bull's eye fifty meters away with every arrow in just one afternoon, as if he were assisted by God.

He thought to himself, no wonder the Jinyiwei said that Lord Li was gifted and a rare talent that can only be seen once in a century.

Otherwise, it would be impossible for him to be so young and yet be much more powerful in the way of cultivation than those old immortals who have practiced for decades.

Now it seems that this is true.

Li Jingxiao saw that he had mastered the archery skill (100/2000), and it was almost three o'clock in the afternoon.

He smiled and put the bow and arrow in his hand into the game inventory, which shocked Han Mengzhuo again.

With this magical access ability, Li Jingxiao can take out the bow and arrow and shoot anytime and anywhere.

There is no need to worry about not having enough arrows and not being able to shoot at random.

There is no need to worry about insufficient supplies or engaging with the enemy too much.

If he had this magical power, Han Mengzhuo felt that he could destroy a bandit camp by himself using guerrilla warfare.

Li Jingxiao asked Han Mengzhuo if he was married. The guy actually scratched his head shyly. It was obvious that he was a novice.

Since Han Mengzhuo was not married yet, Li Jingxiao simply arranged for him to live in Zhenwu Temple.

In order to prevent Zhenwu Temple from being left without anyone to keep warm or live there for a long time, the houses and kitchens in the middle and back yards were abandoned.

Erfu and others were mostly from the frontier army and knew how powerful a sharpshooter was on the battlefield.

Now that such a person is on their side, Erfu and others not only did not reject him, but welcomed him to join.

Therefore, Han Mengzhuo integrated into the group very quickly. After only two hours of Li Jingxiao's consultation, he became close friends with Erfu and the others.

Li Jingxiao sent the last patient away and told Jia Heng to clean up the Taoist temple and let him stay there to accompany Han Mengzhuo for one night.

Unexpectedly, Jia Heng hesitated for a moment and said that he wanted to move out of his home and live in a Taoist temple.

Li Jingxiao looked at Jia Heng in surprise, and saw the boy said embarrassedly, "Master, my mother is living in your house now, and I am the only one at home. It would be more convenient for me to live here at the Taoist temple.

Not only can you walk less every day, but you can also have more time to clean and maintain the Taoist temple.

It’s quite close to the master’s house, which is much more convenient than my daily commute home.”

Li Jingxiao nodded. Living with one person is living, and living with two people is the same.

Jia Heng was overjoyed.

This kid's little idea is very simple.

In the future, after he has worked in the Taoist temple for a long time, he might be recognized by Li Jingxiao and be accepted as his apprentice to teach him Taoism.

Even if you can't become a direct disciple, being a registered disciple is fine.

After agreeing to Jia Heng, Li Jingxiao began to inquire about the cat-faced old woman.

Han Mengzhuo recalled his experiences of the past few days, and a look of horror appeared in his eyes.

Li Jingxiao whispered something, and Han Mengzhuo finally calmed down and began to tell the story.

They encountered the cat demon in the mountains dozens of miles outside Jizhen City, and the cat demon did not attack with all its strength right away.

It's a bit like cat and mouse.

The Jinyiwei fought desperately, which gave Han Mengzhuo the opportunity to shoot an arrow into her chest.

After hearing this, Li Jingxiao immediately lost interest.

Although the total distance from Jizhen to the capital is about two hundred miles, considering the traffic conditions of that era.

Even if you travel the entire distance by road, it still takes a day to reach the destination by horseback, and you have to change horses at post stations along the way, otherwise the horse will definitely die.

If you need to walk on a mountain road, it may take four or five days to go back and forth.

Even a powerful army like the Mongolian army could only march about 200 miles a day at a rapid pace.

This is one person leading three or four horses, and he doesn't spare any horsepower.

Otherwise, a normal march might only cover seventy or eighty miles a day.

Those armies that can march five or six hundred miles a day, even if they are all cavalry, are just bragging.

Even historical novels like Romance of the Three Kingdoms only dared to write "The commander of the army, Xiahou Yuan, is good at long-distance raids and can travel 500 miles in three days."

For urgent military intelligence letters, horses or even people had to be changed at post stations every twenty or thirty miles, or even thirty or forty miles along the way.

Traveling 600 miles a day is already the limit, and that’s on a special post road, otherwise 400 miles would be difficult.

In the entire history of the Celestial Empire, the only official record of the 800-li express was during the Tongzhi period, when Emperor Tongzhi used it to kill An Dehai before Empress Dowager Cixi could issue an imperial edict.

Before this, the highest official record was 600 miles express, and it was not used very often.

Since the cat-faced old woman was injured, she would definitely hide.

It takes four or five days, or even longer, to travel back and forth, which is really not worth it.

I play around with my wife and two maids every day, and I get 100 points a day.

If I wasn't worried about hurting my wife, 200 or 300 points a day wouldn't be impossible.

However, with the skill of chasing stars and catching the moon, the speed is 100 kilometers per hour.

It only takes more than an hour to run to Jizhou City.

Li Jingxiao thought about it and decided to send someone to find out the news.

After determining the approximate location of the cat-faced old woman, or even her specific hiding place, kill her to gain experience.

Someone called Shi Delong and his two brothers over.

As a disciple of Maoshan, it is my duty to exorcise demons and monsters.

As for danger, there are many people willing to take a risk as long as they are willing to spend money.

So the brothers Shi Delong and Lin Yi, carrying the 400 taels of silver notes given by Li Jingxiao, set off for Jizhou with light luggage.

As they walked, they discussed who to pay to explore the way to the place where the cat-faced woman was last seen.

Finally, it was Lin Yi who said, "Brother, how about we ask the people from the Hu, Huang, Bai, and Liu families to come and help us, at a cost of 20 taels of silver per person?"

Shi Delong thought about it and nodded, although he was confident that with his Lightning Thunder Fist skills, it would not be a problem for him to deal with the injured cat-faced old woman.

But the master specifically gave 400 taels of silver notes so that the two brothers could find more helpers just in case.

Then there is no need to be so stubborn.

According to adults, if the problem can be solved with money, why should you risk your life?

“Okay, let’s bypass Jizhou Town and go outside the Great Wall to look for people from the Hu and Liu families.

If these two families have enough manpower, why not go to Liaodong and ask the Bai and Huang families for help? "

Lin Yi finally breathed a sigh of relief.

The eldest senior brother has been practicing Lightning Thunder Fist for many years, and his skills have long been extraordinary, but when he compares himself with Junior Brother Liu and the eldest senior brother, the gap is quite large.

The last time we encountered the skeleton tiger, my two brothers were unable to help.

However, when he touched the cloth bag on his chest, he found that the adult had given him 60 talismans to dispel evil spirits, control fire and control thunder, and he immediately felt confident again.

The tiger corpse before was so ferocious, but in the end, wasn’t it killed by the adults using hundreds of talismans?

No matter how powerful that cat-faced old woman was, she was injured and was definitely not as powerful as that corpse tiger.
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Li Jingxiao returned home quite early today. After having dinner with his wife, cousin and brother-in-law, they chatted and drank tea in the living room to digest the food.

I wanted to check the homework of Jingxi and the other three, but Jingrong said with a smile, "Brother, my sister-in-law has already checked it this afternoon.

He also praised my handwriting, saying it was much better than before.”

Li Jingxiao couldn't help but look at Qin Keqing, and his wife smiled and nodded, then he praised Jingrong several times.

The happy little girl was full of energy.

At around 8 o'clock in the evening, Li Jingxiao went to the study to continue practicing the Thunder-Protecting Talisman and the Five Thunder Talisman, drawing 50 of each.

Then he drew 50 talismans to dispel evil spirits and 50 talismans to ward off fire.

Only then did he put down his brush and took the towel that Qin Keqing personally handed to him to wipe his hands.

The Thunder Protection Talisman and Five Thunder Talisman have been upgraded to level 2 (1/500).

The exorcism talisman and fire control talisman are level three (1800/2000).

If I work hard when I go to the government office tomorrow, and use the whole day to draw talismans, the exorcism talismans and fire-controlling talismans will definitely reach the fourth level of perfection.

However, the success rate of a level 3 spell has been halved compared to level 2.

If it reaches level 4, the probability of success will definitely be reduced.

But the power has increased, so it is definitely more cost-effective overall.

Even if you only draw 25 level 4 talismans every day, you will have 750 talismans in a month, which is enough to fight against demons.

In a year, there are nearly 10,000 of them. Even if you encounter a powerful monster, as long as it is not as fast as you can run, you can still kill it by exhausting it.

Li Jingxiao threw the towel he used to wipe his hands on the table, picked up a level 2 thunder-protecting talisman, and said to Qin Keqing, Baozhu and Ruizhu with a smile.

"I'll show you a trick."

The three women immediately became alert, and saw the talisman in Li Jingxiao's hand suddenly float in the air and explode, turning into a ball of thunder.

In the blink of an eye, it hit the floor, shattering the stone floor and creating a hole in the ground.

Qin Keqing and the other two were so scared that they almost screamed.

The maidservant and the old woman outside the study were also startled, but fortunately they were quickly calmed down by Li Jingxiao.

Then he asked a maid to go to the front yard to tell Erfu that they were fine.

Li Jingxiao himself was also shocked by the power of the Thunder-Controlling Talisman.

But when he thought about how he had used the thunder stored in his body when drawing the thunder talisman, he finally understood.

The thunder-protecting talismans drawn by myself or Shi Delong are definitely much more powerful than those drawn by other Taoists.

Qin Keqing came to her senses and suddenly felt her heart pounding. She subconsciously gave Li Jingxiao a cold look.

With a trembling voice, she reproached him, "My husband, you scared me to death."

Li Jingxiao laughed heartily, but held his wife tightly in his arms and consoled her, "Okay, okay, it's my fault.

I really didn't expect to use the power of thunder contained in my body.

The power of the lightning talisman I drew is surprisingly much stronger than other talismans."

Qin Keqing was immediately distracted by these words and looked up in surprise and asked, "Husband, is there really thunder in your body?

Wouldn’t that hurt yourself?”

Baozhu and Ruizhu also looked at him curiously. Li Jingxiao smiled, raised his left hand, and used the Lightning Thunder Fist.

Suddenly, a trace of electric current emerged from the palm of his hand, and then gathered more and more, turning into several electric snakes that ran around in his palm.

(End of this chapter)