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Jingle bell, jingle bell, jingle bell…
The soul-seeking bell rang again.
After a night of preparation, the village's fields were covered with a thin layer of frost, which was a sign that the weather was getting colder, and every household locked its doors.
But at this moment, the bell rang.
The sound stopped in front of the first house in the village, and then changed from a crisp ringtone to the voice of a mature woman.
"Is there anyone in the house? Taiping Taoists are here to drive away evil spirits."
The village woman opened the door lazily, her cloudy eyes were bloodshot, and she was a little hesitant in fear.
"Taoist priest?"
The Taiping Road crowd waited quietly outside the house.
The crimson lanterns, flags, rattles, and the "nine-section" staff are all available.
The archmage holding the nine-section staff stepped forward and said, "There is a ghost in the house. Can you let me go in and capture it?"
嘤嘤嘤……
Sure enough, there were children crying in the house, and it sounded more like the cry of a fox?
"Duo'er?"
——The village woman trembled and called her eldest daughter over.
"Are you really possessed by a demon?" The man stood there, his pupils dilated, stiff as a dead thing, and his words were so intermittent.
"What, weren't you okay just now?" The eldest daughter was pushed out and said in fear: "What are you doing!"
The village woman yelled: "Get out!"
As if facing poultry and animals, the village woman kicked her daughter into the hands of the Taiping Taoists, and then begged: "Please Taoist priests, this is the only daughter in our family, there will be no more..."
Before he finished speaking, the fox-like sound of a baby crying came again.
"Please, this is the only seedling in my family!" The village woman was afraid that her youngest son would also be taken away, so she knelt on the ground and kowtowed repeatedly.
The archmage holding the nine-section staff sneered: "That's enough, the monster is in this woman."
After that, the scene began to cast spells to exorcise evil spirits.
He raised the nine-section staff and ordered others to form an array to protect the law. He then started a strange witchcraft dance around the "possessed" woman, muttering scriptures that no one could understand.
The "possessed" woman only felt strange at first and did not feel downright scared. Until she saw her biological mother slowly closing the door of her house, she gradually understood...
——The woman began to hiss and roar.
"Who is the person who takes care of your bastard's daily life every day and night? You bitch, how dare you do this to me?"
"Come out, if my father finds out, he won't let you go even if he is a ghost!"
"Come out! Wuwuwu..."
The feeble knocking on the door gradually turned into the sound of smashing, beating, and kicking. To the villagers who secretly opened the windows to watch the Taiping Taoists perform spells, it seemed that they were suddenly possessed by evil spirits.
"That's enough." The female Taoist priest who just started talking to the village woman said, "She has blocked the door, girl."
The possessed person suddenly froze and allowed the Taiping Taoists to put shackles and shackles on her.
Seeing this, the villagers opened their doors and went out to watch, because they knew that Taiping Taoists usually only exorcise evil spirits from one house at a time when they came to the village.
The former charming girl "Duo'er" has turned into a dull-eyed idiot in the blink of an eye.
She didn't wear any shoes and her clothes were thin, and her exposed skin soon turned red from the cold.
There were many potholes along the way, and from time to time she would step on sharp stones, which would cause her feet to bleed if she wasn't careful. However, she no longer wanted to care about such things.
Until the White Snake Swordsman appeared in front of him - speaking of it, it was really a captivating piece of music.
Not long after, bursts of rapid flute sounds filled with murderous intent came along with the cold wind. After hearing this, the Taiping Taoists realized that they were already in danger.
There are bamboo forests on both sides, and the only road is sandwiched between the bamboo forests. The sound of the flute echoes in the middle of the road for a long time, as if it can reach the bone marrow, making people's hair stand on end.
"Who, who's there!"
The Taiping Taoists all said in unison, but saw a man dressed as a woodcutter walking towards here while playing the flute.
"If you come one step closer, don't blame us for being ruthless with our swords!" The female Taoist unsheathed her sword and was about to kill the woodcutter.
Unexpectedly, someone suddenly jumped down from the bamboo forest on the side. He waved the long "whip" in his hand and stabbed the vital part of the female path with one blow.
"ah!!!"
The mysterious swordsman took back his whip and transformed into a sword. Although he only has one arm, he is extremely strong.
"Three Talents Sword Formation!" The remaining Taiping Taoists quickly formed a formation to surround Master Jiujie and the newly captured woman.
However, they had just stabilized their position when the woodcutter who was playing the flute suddenly pointed the outlet of the flute pipe at the person with the eyes of the sword array.
"call out!"
Just like a blowgun, a sharp iron needle flew out of the flute and plunged directly into the forehead of a Taoist priest, killing him on the spot.
The woodcutter said calmly: "The song ends and everyone disperses. It's time to end."
After finishing speaking, he took out a purple sheath sword from his backpack, took advantage of the Sancai Sword Formation's unstable footing, and teamed up with the Broken Arm Swordsman to defeat it!
After the battle, Master Jiujie was beheaded by the woodcutter, and the rest were either seriously injured or disabled, or were lying dead in the wilderness.
"Duo'er" who witnessed everything was crushed under two or three corpses and almost suffocated to death, but the woodcutter still rescued her.
When I came out, in addition to the two swordsmen, I saw a woman about her own age carrying a wooden box. She put the head of the Jiujie Master into it in a familiar way, without letting any filth and blood leak out. .
"Where are you going to put it this time?" The woman didn't look scared at all.
The Broken Arm Swordsman said: "It's still the same as before, leave it to others."
"Let's go, it's not a good place to stay here for a long time." The woodcutter hid the sword back in the basket on his back and continued to play the flute while on his way.
"That! Benefactor!" Duo'er chased after him: "Benefactor, are you the White Snake Swordsman? Take me away, I am already homeless..."
The White Snake Swordsman only said: "Jinyang City is just ahead. It's up to you whether you want to come or not. By the way, I'm not interested in bereaved dogs."
"..." Duo'er didn't know whether she was happy or sad. She stood there for a long time and slowly began to feel cold: "Jinyang, right?"
She looked at the footsteps in the distance and followed them step by step.
The first incident of the White Snake Swordsman killing "Jiu Jie" started to spread from Duo'er, and the woman in colorful clothes who appeared frequently in the rumors was also killed before the head of the first "Jiu Jie" was later discovered. Saw its whereabouts.
As the pursuer of the White Snake Swordsman, Dali Temple Yuchizhen was duty-bound and rushed to the scene of the crime immediately.
The corpse was the same as the ones I had seen a few times before. It was treated very cleanly. There was a note next to it: "The White Snake Swordsman is here to kill the Taiping Taoists."
"If there's a first time, there's a second time." This is the most experienced judgment of head catcher Chi Zhen.
As expected, in just a few days, there were more and more assassinations targeting the "Nine Sections", and the perpetrators were successful and failed, and the so-called women in fancy clothes sometimes appeared and sometimes did not appear.
This phenomenon further confirms what Bai Feng said: "The White Snake Swordsman is never a certain person."
The first incident was more like a trigger. If the Taiping Taoists had not been rampant in the countryside and were extremely domineering, the influence of the White Snake Swordsman would never have been as overwhelming as it is today.
The more Yuchi thought about it, the more scared he became. He believed that he must take the initiative to predict the White Snake Swordsman's next target, and then capture the "fancyly dressed woman", which would help end this series of murders and assassinations.
In this way, he began to slowly explore and figure out the thoughts of Bai Feng from the first incident, this well-known White Snake Swordsman.
