This Liao Zhai is not right

Chapter 4 The bad old man is very bad

In the eyes of the old man in the straw raincoat and hat, Su Fu was wearing a crimson robe and was glowing white all over, so his appearance could not be discerned.

However, with the copper seal with the seal characters "Land God of Baishui Village" tied on the wrist of this ball of white light, it is not difficult to recognize that the figure in front of him wearing a crimson robe and exuding white light is the land god of Baishui Village.

Su Su was not at all panicked when the old man in straw raincoat and hat revealed his identity as the land god of Baishui Village.

But the next words of the old man in the straw raincoat and hat made Su Su look nervous.

"I was fishing by the Lanshui River last night and saw the evil spirit rising from Baishui Village. In the second half of the night, there was thunder. May I ask the venerable god if there is an evil spirit causing trouble here?"

Of course there are.

And standing right in front of you.

Su Su secretly complained in his heart that compared to Tan Jinxuan who thought he had made great progress in Qigong, the old man in the straw raincoat and hat in front of him obviously had some skills.

Yes.

A little bit of skill, but not much.

Otherwise, when it rained heavily last night, he would not have stayed by the Lanshui River to fish, but would have rushed into the land temple in Baishui Village to slay demons and monsters.

"This old man is mean and mean. He's hiding outside Baishui Village and watching the fight between two tigers from afar. It's obvious that he's thinking of taking advantage of the situation." Su Su thought to himself.

Two dogs fight, play off.

The bad old man is very bad.

The old man in the straw raincoat and hat did not come early or late, but waited until the turmoil in Baishui Village subsided before he took the initiative to show up and enter the village. An's thoughts were naturally obvious.

Originally wanted to say that the fox demon was struck to death by lightning and turned to ashes on the spot, but seeing this situation, Su Fu was cautious and made up a story: "The fox demon was seriously injured by the thunder, and when he saw that the situation was not good, he fled to the graves in the west. If the Taoist priest wants to kill the demon, he can still catch up with it if he sets out now."

Following the sound, we saw that the graveyard to the west of Baishui Village was filled with an eerie aura. Even at noon, there was still a howling wind. Everywhere we looked, we saw wild dogs digging up graves, corpses and water flowing everywhere, and even dead bodies with shattered heads and disemboweled bodies exposed in the wilderness.

The grave mountain is only a few miles away from Baishui Village. On one side it is a pastoral countryside with the sounds of chickens and dogs, but on the other side it is like hell on earth.

"What a spooky graveyard. It must be a place full of filth and dirt."

The old man in the straw raincoat and hat had a gleam in his eyes, and he was certain that what Su Fu said was true.

From what he had observed, the white divine light on Su Su's body was dim, and even his physical form was difficult to condense. It was obvious that he had suffered a severe injury last night. It was expected that the fox demon that escaped from Baishui Village was in an even worse condition.

In this way, killing the fox and seizing the elixir was a piece of cake, and it was worth his time to endure the whole night in the thunder and rain.

The practice of Taoism by ordinary people is nothing more than refining essence into Qi, refining Qi into spirit, refining spirit into emptiness, and refining emptiness into harmony with Tao.

But apart from this there is also the Golden Elixir heresy.

After swallowing a golden elixir, I realized that my fate was not determined by fate.

The demon who is refining his inner elixir and about to transcend the tribulation and transform into a human form is no less capable than a Qi cultivator who is refining his spirit and returning to emptiness.

Although he did not have the magical power to move mountains and fill the sea, or ride on clouds, he could easily perform small spells such as magic, summoning wind and rain, and gathering ghosts. When in danger, he could even let his spirit leave his body and travel hundreds of miles at night.

Therefore, even if these monsters are just snakes, insects, rats, ants, or animals that can be slaughtered at will, such as foxes and weasels, they will become very difficult to deal with.

If it is a ferocious beast like a tiger or bear, there will be dozens or hundreds of ghosts gathered around it. Even if the beast itself is seriously injured, it will be difficult for ordinary monks to get close to it.

Killing the monster and seizing the elixir is as difficult as ascending to heaven.

It is a great fortune for me to meet the fox demon who failed to pass the tribulation this time.

As long as we can obtain the inner elixir of the demon fox, which is the main ingredient to refine the golden elixir, even if we have to endure ten or a hundred nights of suffering, it will not matter.

If you don't take what heaven gives you, you will suffer the consequences.

But the old man in the straw raincoat and hat still had some concerns.

He heard that the land god of Baishui Village was named Guo Zhongdao. He was a boatman who ferried people across the Lanshui River. His body sank to the bottom of the river while saving a drowning person. As a reward for his merits, he was given the position of land god of Baishui Village, and it has been more than a hundred years since then.

Logically speaking, the landowner of Baishui Village was a boatman who made a living by selling his labor. His voice should be as loud as a bell, not as soft as it is now.

Why are you acting like a woman?

The stereotype of the old man in the straw raincoat and hat made him suspicious, but the temptation of killing the fox and stealing the elixir was right in front of him.

Think for a moment.

In the end, the temptation to kill the fox and seize the elixir overwhelmed his caution, and he hastily attributed the discrepancies between the Baishui Village land god and the rumors to the damage to the god's body. After all, the land seal hanging on Su Su's wrist could not be forged.

The old man in the straw raincoat and hat bowed to Su Fu and said, "I hope the god can lend me a helping hand. I will definitely reward you handsomely after I succeed."

"......" Su Su was speechless for a while.

I'm going to give a helping hand to you, a mean old man, and then I'll kill myself?

This move is a bit too abstract.

Seeing that Su Su was silent, the old man in the straw raincoat and hat said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty has lived in Baishui Village for more than a hundred years. I am afraid you don't know that troubled times are coming. Five months ago, the imperial court was defeated in the north, and the 150,000-strong army was wiped out. Even the emperor was captured by the barbarians. The barbarians from outside the Great Wall marched south to attack the pass, and their troops are heading straight for Shuntian Prefecture."

"The rise and fall of the world happened in a blink of an eye. Fortunately, the new emperor succeeded to the throne and managed to hold on to Shuntian Prefecture."

"But within a month, an evil monk broke into the palace and used some kind of magic on the new emperor. He allowed the border to rot and began to practice Taoism in seclusion."

"Three months ago, the new emperor appointed him as the Imperial Master, the leader of all Taoist sects in the world."

"With powerful enemies coming south to attack the border, and evil monks disrupting the government, how can we not have a chaotic world?"

The old man in the straw raincoat and hat said this, which made Su Su open his eyes wide involuntarily.

The emperor was captured while leading the army in person, and the new emperor succeeded to the throne and won the battle to defend the capital. Fortunately, an evil monk appeared later to disrupt the government, otherwise Su Su would have named the old man in the straw raincoat and hat and asked him to give up some unrealistic fantasies.

"During troubled times, the gods in heaven stayed indoors, and evil spirits descended to wreak havoc on the human world."

"Bone bones are exposed in the wild, and no rooster crows for a thousand miles. If only one person out of a hundred survives, the thought of it breaks one's heart."

The old man in the straw raincoat and hat recited two lines of poetry on the spot.

Then he looked at Su Su with a half-smile, "Bandits passing by are like combs, and soldiers passing by are like rakes. When the chaotic soldiers pass through, I wonder how many people in Baishui Village will survive? The lineage of the Venerable God may suffer something unbearable to say. Help me to achieve the great path of the golden elixir, and I will ensure that the Venerable God will safely pass through the troubled times!"

God of Land, you don’t want your temple to be destroyed and your worship to be ended by the rebels, do you?

Even if there are no rebel troops at that time, he will have to create some to get them to cross the border.

The threat implied in the tone was self-evident.

If I were not the fox demon that you, a mean old man, wanted to kill, I, Su, would have been really tempted.

At this moment, Su Su was glad that he did not make up the excuse that the fox demon was struck to death by lightning and turned into ashes on the spot, otherwise, who knows what this mean old man would do.

"In that case, then let's do as the Taoist says. It is the duty of the land god to slay demons and protect the people."

Su Su changed his tone, and in his mind he was already thinking about how to stab this mean old man in the graveyard where evil spirits lurked to the west of Baishui Village.

"it is good!"

The old man in the straw raincoat and hat clapped his hands and said, "I will leave immediately. I hope the God will not break his promise."

Su Su's conversation with the old man in the straw raincoat and hat was very short.

By the time Tan Jinxuan caught up, the old man in the straw raincoat and hat had already withdrawn his gaze from where Su Fu was, and turned around to go to the grave mountain west of Baishui Village.

Tan Jinxuan passed in front of Su Su, and the faint divine light that overflowed from him made the black air floating on his forehead slightly fade.

"Strange, why did it feel like there was someone in front of me just now?"

Tan Jinxuan looked at the place where Su Su was standing with a puzzled expression. In a trance, he seemed to see something standing there on the empty roadside. He wiped his eyes and looked again, but there was nothing.

Then he hurriedly chased after the old man in a straw raincoat and hat who was walking towards the graveyard, shouting as he ran: "Master! Master! You said I got a cramp during my training, what's wrong with that? Please enlighten me!"

"When it rains, it pours. How can we deal with this mean old man?"

Su Su sighed softly and shifted his gaze to the cloth with changing words.

Chapter 5: One sulfur, two nitrates, three charcoals, and a little sugar, Big Ivan

'Escape underground: stimulate the power to shuttle within the jurisdiction, exorcism: disperse the ghosts and filth, consume the power to bless items, arrest the soul: there are gods above your head, consume the power to arrest the ghosts.'

Densely packed handwriting appeared before his eyes, and the corresponding spellcasting tips emerged in his mind, and Su Fu's eyes suddenly brightened.

Although these are minor spells related to the land priesthood, they are more than enough to be used as a backstab.

With a slight movement of his mind, the warm current that had penetrated into his heart radiated throughout his body. The soil under his feet suddenly became soft, carrying Su Su into the ground. In the blink of an eye, he had crossed two or three miles and caught up with the old man in the straw raincoat and hat who had walked away earlier.

However, Su Su only felt the whistling of wind in his ears, and his feet felt soft as if he was stepping on sand. He passed through the fields and the figure of Tan Jinxuan, and then stood steadily on the ground.

The divine power marked on the cloth quietly decreased from fifteen to fourteen.

"This feeling... is so convenient, I don't even have to walk!" Su Su marveled at the feeling of traveling underground.

"That is the graveyard where the evil spirits are lurking to the west of Baishui Village."

Two or three hundred steps away, in the quiet forest, there were gusts of cold wind, rustling the bushes and grass. Suddenly, I heard a voice in the wind, as if a roadside tea stall vendor was soliciting customers and calling passers-by to come forward and rest.

But take a closer look.

There was no stall calling on passers-by to stop by. It was clearly a lonely grave dug up by wild dogs, revealing a skeleton with rotting flesh lying in the wilderness. The gusts of cold wind were apparently blowing out from the skeleton's mouth.

If a bewitched pedestrian rashly steps forward and is blown by this evil wind, his whole body will instantly become stiff and he will die.

The old man in a straw raincoat and hat who arrived at the grave mountain before Su Su remained calm, and the bamboo pole on his shoulder was waved, mixing with the sound of wind and thunder.

A ball of fire suddenly exploded on the skeleton.

Accompanied by screams, the skeletons lying in the wilderness were soon burned to ashes.

Su Su took a deep breath. The air was filled with a pungent smell of sulfur. He had thought that this burly old man in a straw raincoat and hat would use his fists to exorcise evil spirits, but he didn't expect that he was actually an old pervert who carried dangerous explosives with him.

“Grind charcoal into powder and mix it with sulfur, saltpeter and other substances to ignite thunder and fire. If you add cinnabar, it will be most effective in restraining evil spirits.” The old man in the straw raincoat and hat said with great satisfaction.

Su Su was dismissive of this.

One sulfur, two nitrates, three charcoal, and some sugar.

If I tell you the advanced formula, wouldn't you, a mean old man, bow down to me in obeisance?

As if he noticed the disdainful expression on Su Su's face, the old man in the straw raincoat and hat froze.

Compared to the path of Qi refining, which involves breathing in spiritual energy, using oneself as a cauldron, tempering the essence, energy and spirit, and forming an elixir within the body, thereby prolonging life, there are even more advanced internal alchemy techniques with various magical powers.

The external alchemy practiced by the old man in the straw raincoat and hat seemed useless. Before he succeeded in refining the golden elixir, he could only control external objects even though he had great skills.

Being beaten will also hurt, suffering from external injuries will also cause bleeding, and long-term illness without treatment will also lead to death.

This is also the reason why the old man in the straw raincoat and hat is so eager to find the fox demon who failed to transcend the tribulation and seize his inner elixir.

Even if he could not refine the elixir, he could just swallow a golden pill and ascend to heaven on the spot to become an immortal. With his years of practice, he would be able to reach the realm of inner alchemy and achieve the state of harmony with the Tao.

Greed blinds one's mind.

In order to refine the golden elixir before the troubled times, even if Su Su was slightly different from the legendary Baishui Village land god Guo Zhongdao, the old man in the straw raincoat and hat could convince himself that this was all due to the damage to the land god's body.

“Honorable God, please do not underestimate my cinnabar lightning fire. Ordinary cultivators have to purify themselves and fast to draw talismans, set up altars to communicate with the gods in heaven, and spend several days to get only a few dozen talismans. But I can make as much cinnabar lightning fire as I want from the alchemy furnace as long as the materials are sufficient.”

Who would have thought that in the world of Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, where gods and ghosts abound, there would actually be a practical Taoist like the Old Man in a Straw Hat and Straw Hat.

If we let him continue to develop on this path, what will happen in the future?

It must be removed as soon as possible!

Su Su shuddered whenever he thought of the scene in which his identity would be exposed and he would find out that the deceived old man in the straw raincoat and hat had refined several tons of so-called cinnabar thunder fire in one breath and then detonated it in Baishui Village.

Who can stand this?

"It's getting late. There are evil spirits lurking in this grave mountain. When the evil spirits show up at dark, it will be extremely difficult to search for the fox demon's hiding place." Su Su said this, reminding the old man in the straw raincoat and hat to focus on the important matters.

The old man in the straw raincoat and hat said calmly, "I am familiar with the art of Feng Shui and Qi observation. The fox demon failed to survive the thunderbolt last night, and its Yin spirit must have suffered a serious injury. It must be hiding in the cemetery where the Yin Qi gathers to recover. I will find its hiding place in a short time when I climb up high and look far away."

Walking forward, the figure of the old man in the straw raincoat and hat shuttled through the mountains, causing a burst of ghosts howling and wolves howling. Many ghosts appeared and caused trouble on the way, but they were all burned to ashes one by one by the bamboo pole filled with cinnabar and thunder fire on the shoulder of the old man in the straw raincoat and hat, and the gloomy atmosphere of the tomb mountain was dissipated.

It took about two quarters of an hour for the old man in the straw raincoat and hat to come down from the top of the mountain, carrying a bamboo pole that was obviously several sections shorter.

"There is a deep valley and dense forest on the shady side of the tomb mountain. There is no sunlight all year round and the gloomy energy is oppressive. It is an excellent hiding place. I guess that the fox demon is probably hiding here." The old man in the straw raincoat and hat said without panting after he came down the mountain.

"Um......"

Su Fu responded once, and then there was no more movement.

The old man in the straw raincoat and hat was dumbfounded when he saw Su Fu's indifference.

You, the landowner of Baishui Village, really don't understand what I am saying, or are you just pretending to be deaf and dumb?

The matter was urgent, so he didn't beat around the bush and said directly: "Your Excellency fought with the fox demon last night, so you must know a lot about it. The sun is high now, and it is difficult for the fox demon's spirit to leave its body. Eight out of ten of its demonic power is gone. In order to avoid alerting the enemy, please find the fox demon first, and I will leave the rest to you."

"It's so funny, isn't the fox demon right in front of you?"