This Liao Zhai is not right

Su Su, holding the soul-beating ruler, sneaked in front of the hunchbacked old woman, jumped up, and attacked with all his strength.

The black ruler, which was endowed with a hundred times divine power, smashed down on his head.

The majestic aura was so overwhelming that the hunchbacked old woman had not yet finished screaming when she was hit on the head by the black ruler that was imbued with a hundred times the divine power.

"My Yin Spirit body has caught the eye of Lord Black Mountain. You two killed me today and killed the Rakshasa ghost generals under Lord Black Mountain. He will never let you go."

Faced with the imminent threat of death, the hunchbacked old woman called out the name of Black Mountain Lord, trying to make Su Su and Chang'e feel uneasy.

Mr. Montenegro?

Who is that?

I don’t know him.

Su Su didn't show any sign of weakness.

Before the hunchbacked old woman could react, the Yin Spirit in her body was crushed into pieces by the black ruler.

After a while.

The towering poplar tree to the north of Lanruo Temple, which was pierced by the sword in Chang'e's hand, split in half.

In just a few breaths, the tree roots deep underground began to rise up, and the long sword that swept away the silver moonlight streaked across the night sky like a meteor, and the overflowing light illuminated dozens of white skeletons entangled by the tree roots.

The hunchbacked old woman's body, crushed by the black ruler, became visibly decayed and soon turned into mud.

It all happened extremely quickly.

From the moment the Rakshasa woman and the hunchbacked old woman walked into the monastery, to the moment the long sword on Chang'e's waist pierced the sun with a white rainbow, to the moment Su Fu emerged from underground and slashed the Rakshasa woman and the hunchbacked old woman who were caught off guard, all happened in an instant.

Those beautiful female ghosts hiding in the dark, luring people into taking the bait and feeding on human blood, were so frightened when they saw this that they were afraid that Su Su and Chang'e would beat them to death. They didn't even bother to retrieve the white bones entangled under the tree roots.

They screamed and fled out of the temple.

"Don't they know that I had the civil and military judges lead several teams of ghost soldiers to ambush around Lanruo Temple before leaving the city just in case?"

Seeing the female ghosts in Lanruo Temple running around, Su Su did not chase them, but walked straight to the pile of bones entangled by tree roots, with a puzzled look in his eyes: "There were only six or seven female ghosts who escaped from Lanruo Temple just now, but there are at least forty or fifty corpses under the tree roots. Where are the rest of the female ghosts?"

"Most of them have their souls scattered. Those with mediocre looks are used as cauldrons by tree demons to absorb Yin energy for cultivation, and their spirits and souls are gone. Those with a little beauty are driven by tree demons to seduce passers-by as blood food, and when they are withered, they are sent to the ghost generals under the command of the Black Mountain Lord who occupies the underworld to become slaves and maids, and it is difficult for them to be reborn."

Nie Xiaoqian, with her hands tied, walked out of the monastery at some point. She stood in front of the pile of corpses entangled by tree roots, looking listless, with tears in her eyes, sobbing secretly: "If it is like me, I will only wait until the tree demon's Yin spirit is fully developed and no longer needs to suck the blood and brain marrow of living people. I am afraid that I will be given to the Black Mountain Lord as a concubine or a maid, and I will also end up with my soul torn apart."

"I have fallen into an endless sea of suffering, and it is difficult to escape. My lord, you have been so kind to me that I am like a rebirth. If you do not abandon me, I am willing to stay by your side forever to repay your kindness."

After Nie Xiaoqian finished speaking, she bowed down, looking as if she was willing to ask for whatever she wanted.

In this situation, as long as Su Su nodded in agreement, he could immediately go to bed with him.

"You are such a shameless ghost girl!"

Sheathing her sword, Chang'e quickly stepped forward, her dissatisfaction evident in her eyes and eyebrows: "Young Master Su has been so kind to you, and I didn't contribute at all? Why do you only repay her kindness and not mine?"

Ok.

Another benefactor also came forward and asked for repayment.

Nie Xiaoqian looked at Chang'e's dissatisfied expression, stood up and bowed again, saying: "Sister, please don't tease Xiaoqian anymore. I thought I met a pervert in the room just now, but it turns out to be a fairy-like person like you."

He pointed out that Chang'e was a woman, which showed that he was not unwilling to repay his gratitude. He then mentioned the other party's frivolous behavior in the monastery to show his weakness, and praised Chang'e's appearance as if she was a fairy from heaven to dispel his dissatisfaction.

It can be seen that Nie Xiaoqian has a high emotional intelligence and a good ability to read people's expressions. She deserves to be able to deal with the tree demon and the Rakshasa woman until now, instead of being sent to Heishan Jun as a concubine so early.

If it were an ordinary person, it would be no wonder that she would be fooled by her words. However, when she met a talented actress like Chang'e, how could she easily fulfill her wish?

"Mr. Su is already engaged, and he is offering himself to me in person. Isn't that shameless?"

Nie Xiaoqian frowned when she heard this, bit her teeth and said, "My benefactor has an older wife, so Xiaoqian should be his concubine."

"Stop it. Before the tree demon died, she threatened that if we kill her today, Black Mountain Lord will not let us go. Who is this Black Mountain Lord?"

The topic was getting more and more outrageous, and Su Su interrupted in time.

Nie Xiaoqian answered without hesitation, "Heishan Jun is a great demon from the underworld. He has 100,000 underworld soldiers and hundreds of ghost generals under his command. He controls one side. Recently, he sent out the Rakshasa ghost general to contact the tree demons. It seems that he intends to invade the world of the living. Their conversation was obscure, and I don't know much about it."

It’s as if I didn’t say it.

Su Su had overheard this in the monks' quarters a long time ago.

He looked at Chang'e, who came closer and answered softly, "The Lord of Black Mountain lives in the City of the Dead. He is a spirit from the Black Mountain in the underworld. He has been cultivating for thousands of years. He is originally a great demon who has achieved the great success of refining emptiness and has become a ghost fairy. Since the chaos in the underworld, he has established his own territory and has become a ghost king."

If you hit the younger one, the older one will pop out immediately.

This plot is full of déjà vu.

"I overheard earlier that Lord Black Mountain has to wait until war breaks out and corpses fill the fields before he can invade the world of the living from the Yin and Yang. Does that mean he can't enter and leave Yin and Yang at will?" Su Su asked again.

Chang'e went a little further and nodded in response, "The Black Mountain Lord's true form is a mountain range that stretches for hundreds of miles, so he naturally can't easily enter the Yang world, but he has many ghost soldiers and generals under his command, so we have to be on guard."

As she spoke, Chang'e had already taken off the scholar's scarf on Su Su's head and also took off her jade bun.

When her black hair fell like a waterfall, she looked at Nie Xiaoqian with a half-smile and teased, "Now, do you still want to be my concubine?"

Chapter 32: Liao Zhai Speed, Flip Faster

Her black hair fell down like a waterfall, and her thick eyebrows were wiped away, making her face with red lips and white teeth look a little charming.

Nie Xiaoqian's pupils trembled. She could see that Su Fu was also a fake scholar who wore a hat instead of a hairpin. She felt mixed emotions in her heart, but it was not easy to take back what she had said before. She could only say, "I am willing to serve the young lady and be her slave to repay her kindness in giving me a new life."

In just a few words, she went from being willing to offer herself to be a concubine to wanting only to be a maid and serve him.

The difference is quite huge.

Liao Zhai came fast, but overturned even faster.

After all, ghosts that have cultivated their Yin spirits to a high level can only enter and exit the netherworld. They do not have the ability to appear in the daytime or walk during the day. They will turn into ashes if exposed to the scorching sun.

The female ghosts in Lanruo Temple are willing to be driven by the tree demon to seduce passers-by. In addition to being able to get a share of the essence and blood, they are more for the pure yang energy. This is the foundation for ghosts to cultivate yang gods, not fear the sun, and appear in broad daylight.

Scholars and other people like them are very talented in literature and have abundant yang energy in their bodies. If they pass the imperial examinations and are blessed with an official career by the dragon energy of the emperor, it will undoubtedly be a great tonic for ghosts.

Therefore, female ghosts and monsters are the ones who like this the most. If they do evil and harm others, they will inevitably be exposed to the wilderness, but if they meet someone with a kind heart, there is no guarantee that their luck will turn around.

No wonder Nie Xiaoqian changed her tone after seeing Su Su's true identity.

You don't even have the masculine energy for me to drain, so how can I be your concubine?

"It's really boring."

Seeing Nie Xiaoqian's attitude change, a cold look appeared between Chang'e's eyebrows.

Su Su stretched out his hand to take the scholar's scarf and hair bun that Chang'e had taken off from her. These were the only clothes she had, so how could she dare to throw them away?

"There are many corpses in the roots of the tree demon. There are also corpses outside Lanruo Temple that were killed by the tree demon and left in the wilderness. It would be better to collect them and find relatives to claim them and bury them in peace. This will also prevent them from becoming wandering ghosts and harming people again."

As the City God of Guobei County, it is my duty to take precautions and clear the environment that breeds evil spirits and causes harm to people in advance.

Nie Xiaoqian, who had flirted with the wrong person, was eager to show off: "I heard that there is a ghost gate in the charity cemetery in the suburbs of Guobei City that leads directly to the underworld. If the corpse of the wrongly deceased is buried here, the underworld officials will take it to the underworld when passing by, so as to prevent it from turning into a fierce ghost and causing trouble in the world of the living."

The charity cemetery in the suburbs of Guobei County?

When Su Su was searching for ownerless clergymen a few days ago, he passed by a charity cemetery. From a distance, he saw a small courtyard with two entrances built in the wilderness. There were several thin coffins in it, guarded by an old man with a sluggish figure. There were no oil lamps lit in the middle of the night. If there were no refugees gathered nearby, it would have looked really eerie.

Judge Wen was called in to inquire, and after learning that there was indeed a ghost gate leading to the underworld at the charity cemetery on the outskirts of the city, he summoned the yamen runners and ghost soldiers to carry the bodies of the unjustly died in Lanruo Temple to the charity cemetery on the outskirts of the city.

Nie Xiaoqian, who was standing by, was shocked to see many ghost runners and judges dressed as scholars waiting for Su Fu's orders. She asked, "Who is your status to command the ghost soldiers of the City God Temple?"

"The territory of Guobei County is under her control and jurisdiction. Who do you think she is?" Chang'e put her Confucian scarf and hair bun back to their original place and said in a calm tone.

The entire Guobei County is her territory?

No wonder he would pretend to be a scholar and sneak into Lanruo Temple to eliminate the tree demon grandma. #q@夋?/兒、+)(*^罢]柳+姨+武%⑨↗散,=灵=骑{

Nie Xiaoqian was relieved and quickly turned sideways and bowed: "Greetings to the City Goddess."

"You can come and go as you please. I won't force you."

Since Nie Xiaoqian was willing to be a maid to repay her kindness, Su Su was too lazy to nag about it. She really had a lot of things to do and needed someone to run errands.

"Thank you, Goddess of the City." Nie Xiaoqian bowed again and then stood beside Su Su.

"The tree demon has been entrenched in Lanruo for many years, killing countless people. Many monks must have died at its hands. Why don't you search the temple? There may be treasures hidden in secret places!"

Chang'e suddenly spoke out.

According to Chang'e's instructions, the government officials and the underworld soldiers were called to search Lanruo Temple. In less than an hour, they found a number of scriptures, more than ten sharp blades, several gold bars, two boxes of silver and a large amount of copper coins.

The only thing that can be considered a treasure is a mirror with half yin and half yang, which can reflect living people but make ghosts visible.

I don’t know which unlucky guy with some magical powers was killed by the tree demon and left this mirror in Lanruo Temple.

"You can leave the gold and silver to regularly support the old man Pojiao who is in charge of the charity cemetery outside the city. He has to move the bodies of those who died unjustly and rely on him to make thin coffins. Even if he sells the coffins, it won't be enough." Su Fu ordered.

In addition to the forty or fifty white skeletons entangled in the roots of the tree demon, at least a hundred coffins would be needed.

If we don't give him some financial support, the old man with sloppy feet who is guarding the charity cemetery on the outskirts of the city will have to run away overnight.

Judge Wen took away the gold, silver and copper coins as Su Su instructed. The yamen runners and ghost soldiers carried the remains of the wrongly killed. Nie Xiaoqian found her own body from among the tree roots and brought it to Su Su's body, then took out the sharp spike hidden in her sleeve.

"This thing was given to me by the tree demon to harm people. Use the sharp spike to prick the sole of a person's foot and they will faint. The pierced area will bleed profusely."

After she finished speaking, she took out a Rakshasa ghost bone that looked like a skull gold ingot from her clothes and continued, "This is a Rakshasa ghost bone, given to the tree demon by Lord Black Mountain. It has the effect of tempting people's greed. When greed arises suddenly, the heart and liver will be broken. Only those with a firm mind like iron can resist temptation."

"It is useless for me to keep such harmful things. I hope you will accept them to prevent them from falling into the hands of others and causing harm to the world in the future." Nie Xiaoqian handed the spike and Rakshasa ghost bone in her hand to Su Su.

When Su Su heard this, he looked at the object that Nie Xiaoqian handed over with curiosity.

The pointed cone was neither made of gold nor iron, and was covered in large brown blood stains. It felt chilling in the hand, and if one listened carefully one could hear what sounded like the howling of ghosts.

However, the Rakshasa ghost bone is extremely heavy and shines as brightly as gold. Just a slight touch of it will make you want to possess it. As soon as you put this thought into practice, it will cut your heart and liver from your body and grind it into pieces.

Although Su Su couldn't see what other uses these two things had other than harming people, she guessed that Chang'e must know it, so she directly handed the spike and Rakshasa ghost bone to Chang'e.

The other party took a few looks and quickly revealed the origin: "Anyone who sows discord between relatives, fathers and sons, brothers, sisters and husbands and wives during his lifetime will go to the Iron Tree Hell after his death. The trees are all covered with sharp blades, which will be inserted into the skin of the person's back and then hung on the iron tree. This spike is the branch of the iron tree."

"As for the Rakshasa ghost bones, they are the remains of evil ghosts. They have the ability to travel between yin and yang, fly into the sky and hide underground, but they need to feed on human flesh and blood. They are completely evil creatures."

Both items can be said to be specialties of the underworld.

The reason why he appeared in the world of the living is naturally closely related to the Black Mountain Lord who ruled a certain area in the underworld.

When Su Su thought that the tree demon was actually a minion of the ghost king from the underworld who was spying on the current situation in the world of the living, he felt full of hostility towards this cliché plot that had been going on since childhood.

Although the Black Mountain Lord's true form is a mountain range in the underworld that stretches for hundreds of miles and it is impossible to enter and exit the Yin and Yang realm at will, as long as the ghost soldiers and generals under the Black Mountain Lord's command and the monsters who have surrendered to the Black Mountain Lord show up to cause trouble, Guobei County will never have peace.

Who can stand this!

Chapter 33 Cause and Effect

"You lost your concubine and gained a maid. I wonder how Master Su feels?"

On the way back, Chang'e leaned over with a smile on her face, and Master Su kept calling out, "Master Su, you won't be furious because I ruined your good fortune, will you?"

"What do you say?"

Faced with Chang'e's bad-tempered teasing, Su Su had no idea what she was thinking and could only respond casually with insincere words.

"I guess he's angry. He refused to say much on the way." He stretched out his hand, intending to hold Su Su's waist, but was dodged sideways.

Su Su looked at Heng'e with a wary look in his eyes: "There are people watching, don't do anything, just tell me if you have anything to say."

Nie Xiaoqian stood by with the corpse wrapped in cloth, while Su Su was thinking about how to deal with the threat from Heishan Jun and of course had no interest in talking much.

Moreover, given Chang'e's character of not releasing the eagle until she sees the rabbit, her sudden move must have something in mind.

"Master Su, do you mean that as long as no one is watching, I can do anything?"

Chang'e was determined to do something evil and was determined to confront Su Fu and catch her.

Su Fu dodged repeatedly and threatened: "If you don't speak frankly, this matter will be hopeless."

Being controlled by others, Chang'e had no choice but to submit.

She held the hilt of the sword at her waist with her hands down, and said, "The power I gained during the day was used up to deal with the tree demon. There will be a riot in Yangzhou soon, and I have to settle a cause and effect. To be on the safe side, you have to give me some more power to protect me."

"I saw you use two swords, and the divine power you obtained during the day was gone?" Su Su was surprised.

But she was well aware that Yangzhou was about to fall into chaos.

Those White Lotus sect members conspired to sneak into Yangzhou and help Lao Shizi Zhao Hufa to rebel, thinking that after the rebellion was accomplished, they would return to Guobei County to avenge the plague Taoist. However, Su Su remembered all the plans clearly in the little notebook in his heart.

But how could it be so easy for just a few thousand bewitched old, weak and sick people to accomplish anything?

At most, they could run rampant in the countryside and capture a few county towns by surprise, but it would be extremely difficult to break into Yangzhou City.