One Qi Chaoyang

Chapter 242 Chapter 242: Grassroots Soldier

The mountains and ridges are undulating, there are three or five stars, the night dew is getting thicker, and it is midnight.

The demons whispered and talked about the events of the Spring and Autumn Period.
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Zhao Fuyun didn't want to hear what the old lady Niu said anymore, so he said directly: "I once longed for light in the darkness. Now that someone calls my name, I am willing to give her light to illuminate her way forward."

After he finished speaking, he didn't care what Granny Niu wanted to say. He stretched out his finger and flames appeared at his fingertips. The monsters or evil spirits that were originally in the darkness immediately retreated into the mountains and forests.

Fear and terror surged in their hearts.

The flames surging from Zhao Fuyun's fingertips were wanton, ostentatious and dangerous.

The old lady Cow, who was sitting on the cow's back, raised her sleeves to shield her eyes, and a dark light shone on her body.

Under the illumination of the fire, the turbidity in the white sow's eyes was pierced by the fire, like the fog in the mountains being dispersed by the morning sun.

A gleam of humanity appeared in the white sow's eyes, and she immediately said, "Master Fuyun, save me."

Granny Niu was not frightened or excited, either because she was confident in her own strength or because she thought she had done nothing wrong.

"Where are you from and why did she turn you into a beast?" Zhao Fuyun asked.

"Master, you have to make a decision for me. I, Xu Mao, the wife of the master of Xutang Pass, was taking a nap in the inner room, but this witch used magic to transform me into a beast. I was in a daze all the way and was brought here. I was briefly lucid before and heard the Taoist's name. I was lucid again just now. When I saw that the Taoist was about to leave, I risked my life to call him to stop and beg him to make a decision for me..."

The white sow spoke in a woman's voice, which was a little trembling but clear, and she explained the whole story.

"Haha! Why didn't you tell me that you fell into a deep sleep after drinking the soup made from the baby's heart petals and magical herbs? That's why I covered you with a white pig skin."

"I want to turn a person into a white pig and cover him with white pig skin. First, the person must be naked. After you drink the children's heart petal soup, your whole body will feel hot, so you will take off your clothes and sleep on the bed. Only then will I have a chance to cover you with white pig skin." Granny Niu explained in a sarcastic tone. She was also confirming what she said about the other person eating children's hearts.

"Master, please forgive me. How could I dare to eat the heart petals of a child? What I took was just the dream fruit that was conceived in the dream and worshipped at home." The white sow argued loudly.

"Meng Guo?"

Zhao Fuyun had just left Duxia City not long ago, where he hunted down a dream builder. The dream builder caused considerable casualties in Duxia City, causing many people to die in their sleep.

And what about this person now? Is he eating the human heart or the "dream fruit"? Moreover, in his mind, the dream fruit is probably grown from the soil of human soul.

"The deity at home said that it was just a dream fruit, not a real human heart petal." Xu Mao said anxiously.

"Then do you know that in Xutang Pass, many children's hearts disappeared after they died?" Granny Niu asked coldly.

"I, I don't know." said Xu Mao.

"It doesn't matter, we can still go back to Xutang Pass." Zhao Fuyun interrupted at this time.

"If the Taoist priest takes her back to Xutang Pass, I'm afraid it will be difficult for her to get out. The master of Xutang Pass is a man who has been in the Purple Mansion for many years and has refined a soul-locking and demon-suppressing tower to suppress an area. The Xu family's worshipper is not only a dream-building Taoist, but also a difficult person. Taoist priest, taking her back for a confrontation like this, are you intending to send her back?" Xu Mao said.

"Don't worry, Granny Niu. If that's the case, I'll be able to explain it to you," said Zhao Fuyun.

"Master Taoist, if you are willing to send me back to Xutang Pass, my concubine and my husband's family will be very grateful." Xu Mao said with somewhat suppressed excitement.

Granny Niu stared at Zhao Fuyun, as if she wanted to see into Zhao Fuyun's heart.

"Master, do you want me to go to Xutang Pass with you?" asked Granny Niu.

"Of course. Since I have asked today, I must ask clearly and plainly." Zhao Fuyun said seriously.

Granny Niu's heart sank. She thought that the Taoist might have gone mad from practicing in the mountains, and Granny Xu Mao thought the same thing.

"Master, if you want to go, I will not accompany you, and I will not argue with you here. You can go wherever you want. If you get trapped, don't blame me for not reminding you. Xutang Pass is a place where soldiers are hidden. The master of the pass, Hong Yu, is also a military leader. Although there are no Red Flame soldiers in the pass, there are countless grass-roots soldiers hidden there." Granny Niu gave a general description of the situation in Xutang Pass.

"You evil woman, you are afraid that your lies will be exposed, so you dare not go back with the Taoist priest. With me here, the Taoist priest will be fine." Xu Mao said.

She has a pig's body but speaks in such a female voice that it sounds weird.

Zhao Fuyun did not say any more. In addition to verifying what the two said, he also had to find the dream builder.

He raised his hand, picked up the white sow using the grappling technique, and flew up into the sky, heading towards Xutang Pass.

All the 'people' below looked up at Zhao Fuyun who was going away. Among them were naturally some minor cultivators, with eyes full of yearning. In the eyes of some people, Zhao Fuyun was a great cultivator in the world, a master, a senior, who could do whatever he wanted.

Zhao Fuyun took Xu Maoshi in the sky, and with her pointing the direction, they arrived at Xutang Pass.

At this time, there was a bright light in the east, and the sky and the earth were all gray, with no one around.

Zhao Fuyun was in the sky, looking down at the small city and didn't see anything special about it. If there was anything special about it, it was that there were straw men everywhere inside and outside the city.

The straw man in the field also has a bamboo stick in his hand with some colored cloth tied on it to drive away birds.

There were even scarecrows on the city walls. Zhao Fuyun couldn't help but think of what Granny Niu said, that Xutang Pass was a place where soldiers were stationed, and all the soldiers stationed here were straw soldiers. Could it be that all those straw men were straw soldiers?
Of course, apart from these straw men, there were only a few people on the streets or in the shops, probably because it was not yet completely light.

Zhao Fuyun brought the white sow directly to the center of the city, where there was the largest house.

After falling down, he looked at it and saw: "Xu Tang."

Zhao Fuyun didn't know much about Xutang. He only knew that it was a place where troops were stationed, and it was probably hereditary to the Xu family.

There are many such fortified cities where troops are stationed in the Great Zhou Dynasty.

But when he landed in front of the gate of the mansion, the neatly and majestic straw men in front of the gate turned their heads and looked at them.

The white sow that landed on the ground ran towards the mansion.

Suddenly, divine light appeared on those straw men, and then they changed rapidly. The originally withered and yellow bodies of the straw men turned into soldiers wearing yellow armor, and the weapons in their hands, which were originally made of straw, turned into real "magic weapons".

They chopped at the white sow.

"What are you doing? Don't you know who I am?" Xu Mao made a sharp sound with her pig body.

At this moment, a powerful voice appeared in the room: "Madam, is that you? How did you become like this? Who cast a spell on you?"

As soon as his voice came out, the weapons in the hands of the scarecrows were immediately put away.

"Husband, you have to avenge me. The person I invited back to clean the house turned out to be a witch. She cast a spell and turned me into this." Xu Mao said angrily.

There was no trace of the weakness and pity in her voice at this moment.

At this time, Zhao Fuyun saw a tall and strong man walking out quickly. He had a beard and opened his arms. He wanted to hug his wife, but the wife was a white sow, so he couldn't do it.

Zhao Fuyun felt that he was the master of Xutang Pass - Xu Hongyu.

"Where is that witch? I want to make her into a straw man and make her guard the corner for the rest of her life." Xu Hongyu said angrily.

"That witch is in the Yidang Mountain. There are many monsters there. My husband, I have suffered great humiliation. You must avenge me." Xu Mao started crying as she spoke.

"Madam, don't worry. I will send troops right away to wipe out Yidang Mountain." Xu Hongyu spoke loudly, but his eyes were looking at Zhao Fuyun outside.

"Madam, who is this person?" Xu Hongyu asked.

"Husband, this is Taoist Fuyun. He saved my life and brought me back home." Xu Mao said.

"Thank you, Taoist priest, for saving my wife. Please accept my greetings." Xu Hongyu bowed deeply to Zhao Fuyun with a serious expression.

Zhao Fuyun did not avoid him either, but stood there openly. After he finished worshipping, he said, "Master Xu, do you have a worshiper in your house who knows the dream-building technique?"

"Worshiper? Someone who knows the dream-building technique?" Xu Hongyu's eyes were a little confused. At this moment, Zhao Fuyun knew that there was no such person.

At this time, Xu Mao turned around and said, "Master, why do you have to ask so many questions? That witch is obviously a demon, and the magic she uses is also evil. Master, you are a person who practices in seclusion in the mountains, why do you have to associate with such people? If it gets out, it will tarnish your reputation for nothing."

Zhao Fuyun looked up at the sky. A ray of light pierced through the morning mist from the east, fell on the earth, fell into the Xutang, and fell beside Zhao Fuyun. Zhao Fuyun raised his hand as if to catch the ray of sunlight in his palm.

"If someone knew that I saved a person who ate human heart petals, and spread it out, my reputation would be tarnished." Zhao Fuyun sighed.

Xu Hongyu's eyes turned, and he certainly wasn't as honest as he looked. He immediately said, "Master, you saved my wife and brought her home. I am grateful to you. As for other matters, please don't listen to the evil words. We have laws in the Great Zhou that no one is allowed to make friends with evil spirits. Master, please don't make mistakes."

Later on, he actually started to admonish Zhao Fuyun, and even said, "If it weren't for you saving my wife, I would have arrested you."

"So, it seems that Madam is the dream builder. You give birth to dream fruits in your dreams, but have you ever thought that the formation of each dream fruit requires others to pay a price." Zhao Fuyun was bathed in the sunlight, feeling awe-inspiring.

"How dare you! I am the military commander of the Great Zhou. How dare you, a wild man from the mountains, talk nonsense here? Leave immediately. Otherwise, you will be punished by military law."

"Alas! If all the officials in the Great Zhou Dynasty were like you, who treated the people like cattle and horses, what difference would there be between you and the devil?"

"Husband, don't pay attention to him. Let's go into the house and find a way to remove the magic from my body." Xu Mao urged.

Zhao Fuyun sighed, then stretched out his hand towards the sun in the sky, as if he wanted to grab the sun that had just emerged from the clouds in the east, so that it could come out quickly and dispel the haze between heaven and earth.

In Xu Hongyu's eyes, a ball of dazzling golden light gathered in Zhao Fuyun's palm, and the golden light flew. He suddenly swung it towards himself, and a ball of dazzling golden fireball flew out of Zhao Fuyun's hand and flew towards the gate of his mansion.

Dazzling, brilliant, dangerous, terrifying.

At this time, Xu Hongyu felt that there was nowhere to hide and he could only take it head-on. The scarecrow that had been guarding the door instantly turned into a man wearing heavy yellow armor, raising his weapon and rushing towards the huge fireball. In just a moment, the scarecrow soldier turned into ashes.

(End of this chapter)