What do you mean by "the game editor has also traveled through time"?

The story of "Asking the Throne" is mainly set in the Great Wei Dynasty.

The Great Wei Dynasty revered Taoism and suppressed Buddhism, and there were few Buddhist temples. However, there were many monks in the Western Desert and Southern Frontier. Monks who abandoned Buddhism for Taoism in the past were called "Taoists".

Although it sounds nice, it will inevitably attract cold stares.

The martial arts school... is indeed not suitable for Xu Shimo.

"I don't have that kind of money anyway..." Xu Shimo comforted himself with a bitter smile, looking at the other person and waiting for what would happen next.

"good,"

Team Leader Song nodded slightly. "I'm an old acquaintance of Chief Lin from the county government. He obtained a sword technique manual in a deserted village years ago. If you're interested, he'll be off duty the day after tomorrow, and I happen to be going to the city again. You can come with me to visit him then."

Xu Shimo hesitated, then said, "I wonder about Officer Lin..."

Team Leader Song: "Don't worry about picking up ink, I've got everything covered."

Xu Shimo: "..."

Living in someone else's old house, now even the matter of practicing martial arts needs to be handled by others.

However, Xu Shimo was not one to be pretentious, and bowed deeply, saying, "I won't thank you enough. If you need anything in the future, Team Leader Song, just let me know."

The "Red Water Fist" manual costs two taels of silver, and this sword technique sounds even more powerful.

It should be noted that two taels of silver is enough for Xu Shimo to eat coarse rice for another year.

Team leader Song is kind and righteous!

Team leader Song quickly helped him up and solemnly said, "You were wrong!"

"Shi Mo is wrong. It's not that I'm doing you a favor, but rather that I'm repaying it. That day, the Buddha-faced monster appeared, and if it weren't for your reminder..."

At this point, Team Leader Song took a deep breath, as if recalling something extremely terrifying, and then continued:

"That dilapidated temple... The stench inside was overwhelming. Master Chongxu of Qingxu Temple happened to be in the mountains collecting herbs. He led his disciples inside and saw that it was filled with an atmosphere of debauchery. There were six men's corpses lying inside, two of whom were bandits. Their stomachs were ripped open, as if something had crawled out of them. The corpses looked as if they had been eaten by some wild beast."

Xu Shimo understood what he meant.

This is because he almost killed many villagers, causing them to fear misfortune.

The Buddha-faced monster is a relic born accidentally after being mistakenly eaten by an enlightened wild beast following the death of a high-ranking monk. It has a strong reproductive ability but no gender, and can mate with both males and females, causing the other to become pregnant.

—It was precisely this explosive aspect that made Xu Shimo, who disliked storylines, tense up and remember it vividly.

That very point saved his life.

In "Ascension to the Throne," the Buddha-faced monster is treated as a joke, something that can be easily killed after the tutorial. But now, Xu Shimo has entered the "plot" with his own flesh and blood, and those monsters that can be killed with a single strike almost cost him his life.

Just as he was sighing, Xu Shimo suddenly noticed a dark shadow looming over his brow.

A slender Taoist priest stood atop the crumbling wall, his clear voice, which suggested he had never experienced poverty, coming from his elevated position:

"So it was you who saw through that filthy thing called the Buddha-Faced Demon?"

"Master Chen, it is indeed Shi Mo. If it weren't for him that day, our entire caravan would probably have become the playthings of that monster." It was the team leader, Song, who spoke up, bowing respectfully. However, the thin Taoist priest ignored him and just stared straight at Xu Shi Mo.

Actually, even without Team Leader Song's reminder, Xu Shimo knew what to do; he considered himself to be a pragmatic person.

He's the best in the game, but that's all thanks to cheating. Right now, he's a completely new account with no cheats, and he hasn't even practiced any martial arts.

He imitated the gesture of cupping his hands and said, "It is indeed I."

"Let me ask you, how do you know that the Buddha-faced monster will cast two shadows under one lamp, and how do you know that the overlapping point of these two shadows is its weakness?"

"Master, I've forgotten many things since I woke up in the snow," Xu Shimo said, reiterating his previous explanation. "The situation was urgent that day, and information about the Buddha-faced Ghost naturally came to mind."

"Master Chen!"

It was still Team Leader Song. "Shi Mo came from the northwest, which is Liangzhou. Five months ago, Yu City in Liangzhou was swallowed up by a suddenly appearing toad demon. More than 100,000 people died in the beast's mouth, and hundreds of thousands more were displaced. Shi Mo probably also escaped death by a hair's breadth, and he developed a mental disorder due to the great fear."

Clearly, this was information that Team Leader Song had only received in the last few days.

Xu Shimo was stunned. The toad demon devoured the city, which actually happened just five months ago?

So, during this time period… Xu, the plot-skipping player, quickly searched his mind for information and found some that matched up, but unfortunately, none of them were of any use to him at the moment. For example, the family scandal of a certain high-ranking official, the prime minister's daughter running away to a remote Taoist temple, the emperor's death, and the chaos in the northern border…

However, now that they've been classified as vagrants, their household registration status is no longer a concern.

His astonished expression did not arouse the Taoist's suspicion. The Taoist waved his sleeve and threw out three dark red beads, which landed steadily in front of Xu Shimo.

The thin Taoist priest said, "These were obtained from killing the evil spirit in that temple. My master said you had done a good job in this matter, so he asked me to bring you three."

He's a good Taoist priest, after all.

But has this matter spread this far? Before Xu Shimo could even wonder, another red bead landed in front of Team Leader Song.

The slender Taoist priest, who stood tall and straight like a pine tree and struck a pose, suddenly revealed a hint of ambiguity on his face. His next words made the eight-foot-tall leader, Song, blush deeply.

"Old Song, you are what you eat. I've finally fulfilled my promise to your wife."

After he finished speaking, two patches of mud were crushed off the courtyard wall, and the Taoist's figure had already flown into the air.

The remaining voice was distant and ethereal, drifting through the falling snow, seemingly addressed to Xu Shimo, its tone revealing undisguised disdain.

"Put on a hat, it looks awful!"

Now, everyone in the courtyard couldn't help but look at Xu Shimo, the Daoist who had returned to the Dao.

……

"Is a Daoist who has returned to the Dao truly that powerful?"

Zhangjia Village, Huangjia Village.

Although the Huang family is not a surname, they are one of the two largest landlord families in Zhangjia Village.

At this moment, the middle-aged man in the hall stroked his beard and asked a question; the slightly younger one was his son, Huang Ba.

Huang Ba: "That Xu guy is probably quite capable. I heard that when that pale-faced scholar appeared that night, even Song Wen couldn't tell who he was. At most, he just became more vigilant. But that Xu guy overruled everyone's objections and insisted on not letting him into the temple."

"While Zhang Fu was still questioning him, he pulled a piece of firewood from the fire and threw it straight out. The falling embers hit the overlapping area of ​​the two shadows, and the pale-faced scholar bled from his buttocks. He let out a fox-like cry and ran away immediately."

Then the man surnamed Xu said that this was a Buddha-faced monster, probably newly born, and that it was still possible to escape. Thus, the caravan escaped a disaster.

Master Huang nodded and said, "He does have some knowledge, but it's a pity for my cousin..."

Among the corpses in the dilapidated temple was his distant cousin, who had come to arrange a marriage for someone.

"I heard they came from the northwest?" Old Master Huang's lament didn't last long before he asked.

"Yes, he's probably a homeless person."

"Want to learn martial arts?"

"good."

"Bring him over tomorrow to take a look. Next spring, the county magistrate will dredge the river. Let's see if he'd rather be a displaced person and be conscripted, or come to my Huang family to help me open up trade routes," Master Huang said leisurely.

"Yes, Father."