Wet viviparity

Chapter 23: The Witch and the Demon
Hengshan, old temple.

An old woman, over 80 years old, came to the temple with a unsteady gait, leaning on a bamboo crutch and wearing tattered scarlet clothes and carrying a basket.

"Old clay man!" the old woman shouted, taking out a stick of incense from the basket and inserting it in front of the broken belly of the clay statue. "I am old and weak, and I rarely have the opportunity to pay my respects to you. Please forgive me."

"Oh~"

The clay statue with its belly ripped open took a sip of the fragrance and cried out in surprise.

"Auspicious incense, this is the magic incense of the Great Pure Yang. The Jade Blood Goddess has made a fortune recently. How could she be willing to offer this incense to me?"

"What a windfall!"

The old woman showed her full mouthful of green teeth and said, "Thanks to your guidance, I found many materials for practicing in the mountains in my early years. This time I will repay my wish."

“Poison skills are difficult to practice, and poison techniques are even more difficult to master.

Although this place is in a corner of Guhezhou in the southwest, and is in the Lanyin area where the Taoism is not prosperous, it is after all the territory of Taiping Mountain, and has its own special branches and supervisory conditions.

If a person like you makes a mistake, you can be killed on the spot with just one imperial decree."

Even though there was no one else here, the witch looked unhappy after her true colors were exposed, so she had to directly state the purpose of her visit.

"There have been rumors of demons collecting essences in the newly built village at the foot of the southwest mountain. I wonder if you have heard of it, Mr. Ni?"

"Look at me, where did you hear that?"

"Why do you have to do this, Master? I have already sealed you off for a hundred years because you are the "earth lord of the old heaven", so I gave you some face."

Ni Gong said with a mocking tone: "Huang Tian is Huang Tian, ​​why is it called Gu Tian? You are so taboo to such an extent, and you also want to go against the will of heaven."

"If it's okay to go with the flow, who wants to go against it?" The witch shook her head, not wanting to continue with such a taboo topic, and said, "That demon must have caused karma because of excessive consumption of essence.

If we attract the Taoists from Taiping Mountain, it will be embarrassing for both you and me, so I would like to ask you to be the middleman and invite him to come here to have a talk."

"This favor"

The witch took out two auspicious incense sticks from the basket and lit them in the temple.

"It's not like I can't help."

"Thank you, Lord Mountain Ghost!"

On the third floor of the warehouse, Ji Ming stepped on the body of a one-eyed old man, fully absorbing the essence from his body.

In just a moment, the internal organs, bones, flesh and blood in the body seemed to be drained out, and they shrank and wrinkled.

With the abundant supply of essence and energy, his flesh and blood were like a sponge soaked in oil, overflowing with active breath everywhere. Ji Ming felt that he had grown again.

This growth is not in the mind, but in the form.

His figure was getting taller by the second. Although he was still covered in feathers, his exposed shoulders, chest, and abdomen made him look somewhat human.

But under the body, there are still two bird claws, but they are much thicker.

The change in form brings about improvements in all aspects, including physique, five senses, and sorcery.

Occasionally, when he was practicing the Moon Worship Method, he could always hear the murmuring of Taoist scriptures, which seemed to be telling about a magic method or a sorcery.

The whisper sometimes comes from the sky, and sometimes seems to come from the bottom of the heart.

Ji Ming tried to listen carefully, but he could not hear clearly, or he felt creepy. Over time, it almost drove him insane.

He could only attribute all this to his insufficient realm.

Outside the door, the young girl sat there, looking like a living dead on weekdays, occasionally revealing a hint of hatred.

Although Ji Ming felt sympathy in his heart, the girl was determined to die and had not yet committed suicide. He was afraid that she wanted to watch the earthen village go to destruction.

"How many more people are there?"

"My lord!" The girl prostrated herself on the ground, her voice as if squeezed out of a cold rock, "The ignorant people in the village were intimidated by your majesty and fled secretly.

However, in your name, I have recruited a group of bandits in the village, intercepted the group of escapees early, and selected six villains from them, who can be handed over to you at any time.

When the villains are exhausted, the group of bandits who surrender to you will be the last "surplus food."

"Divide and win over!"

Ji Ming couldn't help but admire the girl's abilities, and his admiration for her talent began to grow again.

"You don't have to worship me, you and I are equal, we just need each other.

Here, I would like to give you another piece of advice: life is a long journey, and there is always a goal, a person, or an event that can keep you alive. ” The girl did not reply, but just stood outside the door and bowed.

Suddenly, a few crows landed and chirped towards Ji Ming.

Ji Ming had a strange look on his face. He hesitated for a while before saying to the crows in front of him, "Brothers, why did that mountain ghost call me?"

That’s right, these crows were from the same nest as Ji Ming, and they are from the same crow family that grew up on the locust tree in the old temple.

"quack!"

A few crows cried out, causing Ji Ming’s brows to frown even deeper.

"An old woman named Bixue Shenpo is looking for me?"

"But she's the Bixue Granny from Shibai Village!" the girl said outside the door. From the look on her face, she seemed to know this person's background.

"You know her?"

"I heard some things from the people here." The girl nodded, her expression actually showing a hint of anger. "The Thirteen Villages are peaceful and harmonious, thanks to the protection of this witch."

"Tell me carefully!"

Ji Ming became interested and threw a few pieces of meat to his brothers, driving them back.

From the girl's mouth, Ji Ming gradually came to know the extraordinary nature of this witch.

Although Lanyinfang is one of the thirty-six regions in the world, it is located in the southwest, far away from the authentic Central Plains, and is already an area of ​​native villages and barbarians.

Even Taiping Mountain, one of the righteous sects of heaven, only adopted a policy of control, using the unorthodox methods that had been entrenched in the local area for many years to manage the barbarians.

The Green Blood Witch, or the Green Blood Granny, is a well-known evil figure in the Thirteen Strongholds of Hengshan in this area.

Although Taipingshan adopted such a control policy towards remote areas, using barbarians to control barbarians, the corresponding supervision was not weak, but on the contrary extremely strict.

If the local unorthodox sects fail to fulfill their responsibilities of guarding the land and protecting humanity, a royal decree will be issued and they will have to commit suicide without the help of the immortals.

"I just took some supplements, but the karma has already come to me."

Jiming sighed in his heart.

Seeing the way the Blood-Bloody Goddess asked Bo Nigong to speak in the middle, it seemed that she was trying to give advice. It seems that the matter has not yet reached the worst situation.

"Your Majesty, don't worry. I heard that this Jade Blood Goddess has always been clear about right and wrong. She will definitely not be biased against you because of the difference between humans and demons."

“Prejudice is a mountain, but only a few can stand on it.”

Although Ji Ming didn't think the witch would do anything to him this time, he was not very optimistic in his heart. After all, humans and demons have different paths.

"I can explain the whole story to that witch for you!"

"you?"

Ji Ming was stunned for a moment, not understanding the girl's true intention, but when he saw the life in the girl's eyes, he felt a motivation to live.

"I promised you, but can you tell me why?"

"I've always heard that the witch was a person who hated evil when she was young. Even though she is now old and weak, she still has not changed her character.

I want to first explain to the king that this is an act of eliminating evil and saving the people, and then find an opportunity to become a disciple of the witch, so that I can learn skills and eliminate some of the filth in the world."

"That's too ideal." Ji Ming was not optimistic about the girl's actions and said, "If that witch is two-faced, then you are throwing your life away."

"With this broken body, living one more day would be torture."

The girl said this, and Ji Ming let her do as she pleased. He continued, "In that case, escort these evil thieves in and let me deal with them quickly."

After a few days and nights, more than half of the young and strong men in the village were gone, and every household did not dare to go out until the evil party gathered under the demon's command also disappeared, then they dared to go out to check.

On top of the warehouse, I saw rotten bones scattered around, dry skin stuck everywhere, a few skulls rolling on the ground, and a blinding black wind.

Ji Ming stood in the gloomy wind. The great gains he had made in the past few days had greatly improved his cultivation.

The most obvious thing is that the monster's form has almost grown to the size of an ordinary human, and its pair of wings has turned into two feathered flesh arms.

The only flaw is the two claws under its feet. Although they have become as long as a human's, the shiny black claws are really scary.

He opened his mouth and took a breath, and the cold wind blew up a black Taoist robe, which was put on his body, covering his black feathers and leaving only his ordinary face and hands exposed.

When he tied his hair into a Taoist bun, tied a silk ribbon around his waist, and held a dust-tip in his hand, his eyes were like stars and moons, his wisdom was deep, and he looked like a Taoist priest of Santian.

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