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Chapter 204 Walking Dragon (asking for monthly ticket)

"I dare not accept such a heavy trust."

Xu Yuan returned the sword box and said, "Master, please choose someone else."

Unable to figure out the trick, Xu Yuan didn't dare to take it.

And in this strange space, is there any benefit in taking it?
The answer is most likely no.

The brutality of the old Taoist priest could be seen clearly.

"Don't you dare?"

Black gas came out from nowhere, and the whole room was filled with smoke. Shrill cries and screams came from the black fog, drilling into Xu Yuan's ears like a needle, and even drilling into his brain through his ears!
This time, eight slender and strange insect legs extended from the sword box behind the old Taoist priest.

But he didn't rush towards Xu Yuan, but in the opposite direction, hooked the wall, and quickly climbed up to the corner of the roof with the old Taoist priest!
The old Taoist priest looked down at Xu Yuan, with black air swirling around his eyes.

"As disciples of our sect, since you have learned the sword, you must take on the responsibility of slaying demons and monsters!"

He pointed at Xu Yuan, and the bones of his fingers pierced through the flesh and grew out rapidly.

The front end of the finger turned into a piece of white bone and dry branch!
For the old Taoist priest, the dead branches are swords!
"But!" Xu Yuan changed the subject: "If Master can't find a more suitable person for the time being, I am willing to take care of this sword!"

Xu Yuan quickly grabbed the sword case back from the table.

"Disciple has the responsibility to slay demons and evil spirits, and benefit the world!"

"I just want to make my attitude clear to Master: I do not covet this precious sword!"

"If Master wants to take it back and give it to someone else in the future, I will definitely offer it to him with both hands."

The old Taoist priest on the corner of the roof laughed loudly, and the black air in the room disappeared without a trace in an instant.

The antisegmental insect legs behind the old Taoist priest also disappeared, fell down with a bang, and landed on the chair.

The chair was nearly smashed.

"He is indeed someone that the teacher has high hopes for. He is responsible and has integrity."

Since Xu Yuan couldn't refuse, he seized the opportunity and asked, "Master, where did that evil dragon come from? Only by knowing both ourselves and the enemy can I kill it!"

The old Taoist priest stroked his beard and nodded, saying: "That evil beast was born in Xiaoyu Mountain. Even the founder does not know how many years he has practiced Taoism.

But it has several magical powers, which I will tell you. If you encounter that evil beast in the future, remember to be on your guard!

Xu Yuan hurriedly bowed and said, "Yes, disciple will remember this."

"First, that evil beast can devour anything from thin air. If it sees anything, it will devour it in one gulp.

Another powerful aspect of this magical power is that once it is swallowed, it is cut off from the Yin and Yang realms and exists only in the void within its belly."

Xu Yuan's eyes moved, but he didn't say anything and just listened obediently.

"This beast's second magical power is 'Poisonous Body and Evil Soul'. Its entire body is filled with poison. Its soul naturally exudes evil intent. If you get close to it, you will be affected by it, becoming vicious and cruel from the very nature of your soul!"

"The third magical power is the innate ability to 'create waves', which allows me to stir up enormous waves in rivers, lakes and seas.

Not to mention a city, even a mountain can be submerged by waves if it wants to.

Furthermore, in its wind and waves, unless you are a fish or shrimp, no matter how good a swimmer you are, you will drown.”

The old Taoist priest finished speaking and emphasized, "This evil beast has a strong body and extremely strong vitality. The best way is to use the dragon-slaying sword under the bridge and pierce its vital points when it passes through the bridge hole!"
When it was in its dragon form, it hadn't yet fully transformed, and it still had the weaknesses of a snake. Therefore, if you stab it accurately, a single strike of the sword will kill it!"

Xu Yuan was puzzled. "Since this evil dragon is so powerful, why did it go under the bridge? The bridge is narrow, wouldn't it have been better for it to just crash down the bridge?"

"No." The old Taoist priest explained: "The dragon walks in order to change its shape, and it hopes to make as little noise as possible.

Collapsing the bridge would cause a huge noise, which could easily attract thunder."

The old Taoist priest sneered again, "This kind of evil creature always hopes to get away with it, hoping to get away with it quietly.

But they didn't know whether Heaven would let them off. They had already seen through everything.

So no matter how cautious they are, they can't escape that disaster in the end!" The more Xu Yuan listened, the more he felt something was wrong.

Heaven?

In the Ming Dynasty, is there anyone who still mentions "Heaven's Way"?
Two hundred years ago, when the weirdness began to spread across the earth, no one mentioned this word anymore.

If there were a law of nature, those weird and evil things would have attracted thunder from heaven long ago.

Why did the old Taoist priest mention this word?

Xu Yuan recalled the feeling of disharmony he felt when he first saw the Qingxia Temple.

When Xu Yuan was in Guiwu Mountain, he had seen some evil spirits in temples, monasteries, and palaces from afar in the mountains.

But judging from the name, it is obviously from Jiaozhi.

Because most of the evil spirits in Guiwu Mountain appeared after the canal was opened.

After the Ming people came, the newly built temples and shrines were all normal.

Qingxia Temple is a name in the style of the Ming Dynasty.

It shouldn't be evil.

"This old Taoist priest... could it be that he's some evil spirit from two hundred years ago, fleeing from the Ming Dynasty to Jiaozhi with his own Taoist temple?"

"Why did you go to the Hundu River specifically?"

"Just because of that evil dragon in the river?"

This time, there are too many weird things that are unreasonable.

The evil dragon that the old Taoist priest was talking about was obviously the one in Yujing Village.

But that one had been dead for a long time, and only recently did someone use some unknown means to seal the soul back into the body.

And that's clearly not "evil".

The old Taoist priest cursed the evil dragon repeatedly, calling it an "evil beast"—if the evil dragon wasn't evil, then the old Taoist priest, despite his celestial appearance, was actually an evil spirit...

It seems quite reasonable!

Xu Yuan was thinking about this when suddenly a faint thunder was heard outside.

The old Taoist priest’s ears pricked up!
It is a real "vertical".

At this moment, the two human ears turned into two huge bat ears, standing upright on the old Taoist priest's head!
He listened carefully, his face changed drastically, he jumped up and spun in the air, turning into a black wind and black sand, which rolled around and went out of the window.

"Disciple, quickly follow me, that evil beast has escaped!"

Xu Yuan also followed him out through the door.

After hesitating for a moment, he quietly threw the sword box into the corner of the room.

It was already dark outside, and the faint sound of thunder was getting closer and clearer.

Xu Yuan already understood: this was the sound of waves.

The evil dragon's magical power is to "stir up trouble."

It rolled up the river water, created huge waves to cover its huge body, and began to swim upstream along the river, becoming a dragon!

The black wind and black sand transformed by the old Taoist priest had already rolled up to a height of dozens of feet.

He emerged from the crowd and shouted, "Disciples, draw your swords—slay the demons and monsters!"

A fire wheel appeared under Xu Yuan's feet and started to move, and with a whoosh it soared onto the high roof of the main hall.

Coincidentally, just as Xu Yuan stuck his head out from behind the hall, the evil dragon in the river not far away also raised its huge head from the water.

That face... is exactly the same as the one Xu Yuan saw with the Yin-Yang Guillotine!
(End of this chapter)