At noon, the sun is as hot as fire.
When Pei Wende officially arrived at the entrance of Zhangjia Village, peace had returned to the place.
Judging from the movements in the village, there is no trace of the "official personnel" mentioned by the three civet brothers.
However, Pei Wende, who is extremely observant, did not ignore certain details.
For example, the traces and aura left behind by his previous battle with the mandrill can no longer be felt at all.
Looking from a distance, I saw that the entire village looked as if it had been recently renovated, and even the remaining traces and aura of the mandrill had been completely cleaned up.
"Looks like a real professional."
Because he is a practitioner, Pei Wende knows how difficult it is to completely remove the evil spirit left by the mandrill.
I think back then, Pei Wende wanted to get rid of the evil spirit of the mandrill.
They cut their wrists, bled them, chanted sutras and chanted mantras, but they still couldn't completely eradicate the mandrill's demonic aura.
But those "officials" had just arrived and "obliterated" all these anomalies.
Yes!
In Pei Wende's eyes, what those "officials" did was not simply to exorcise evil spirits, but to fundamentally erase all traces of mandrills left in the world.
Under normal circumstances, the vitality of heaven and earth is a wonderful rhythm, flowing and permeating each other just like the water of the five lakes.
But now in Zhangjiacun, the rhythm that only practitioners can see has been forcibly "smoothed out", leaving only an "emptiness" like deathly silence.
As a result, let alone the evil energy left by the mandrill, even the energy that originally flowed normally between heaven and earth actively avoided Zhangjiacun.
Pei Wende didn't know how long this abnormal "soothing" would last.
But this did not prevent him from realizing how terrifying a guy who could use such methods was.
Pei Wende asked himself that he had seen a lot during this period, but this was the first time he had seen such a method that could artificially interfere with the natural movement of heaven and earth.
"If I could get back to the possessed state I was in when I was in Mulian Temple..."
"Then taking the initiative to transform into an 'earth dragon' with the help of evil spirits, it might be possible to do something similar."
Unable to help but narrow his eyes, Pei Wende looked in the direction of the village and muttered.
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"he came!"
The young Taoist priest who was quietly drinking tea in the courtyard suddenly raised his head.
Then the young Taoist priest ignored Butcher Zhang and his wife beside him, got up and walked towards the entrance of the village.
"This is terrible. How could he come down the mountain at this time?"
Through his wife's series of actions, Butcher Zhang, who already knew that the young Taoist priest had bad intentions, immediately changed his expression.
"I'll follow you and take a look. Stay home and don't wander around."
After briefly explaining to his wife, Butcher Zhang glanced at the butcher knife placed in the courtyard, hesitated and picked it up.
On the one hand is Pei Wende, who he has watched grow up, and on the other hand is the official Taoist priest of unknown origin...
Zhang Butu, who has a bold nature and an upright temper, did not hesitate to side with Pei Wende, even if it made him lose his home for the second time and lead a life of escape.
"Chu Lang!"
She could tell what Butcher Zhang was thinking at a glance, and her wife couldn't help but call him out.
But what was different from Buthu Zhang's imagination was that the reason why his wife stopped him was not to stop him.
"Come back early, I will wait for you at home."
After gently tidying up Butcher Zhang's clothes, his wife warned him with a tender look on her face.
"Remember, you must come back."
"No matter what happens, we are a family."
There was a rare silence. At this moment, Butcher Zhang, who had a rough nature, thought of his two children.
Today, Butcher Zhang is no longer single. He already has a wife and two children, and he can no longer be as willful and carefree as he was when he was young.
"I will return!"
Holding the butcher knife tightly in his hand, Butcher Zhang assured with firm eyes.
"I will definitely come back, I promise you!"
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"really……"
As if he heard the conversation in the yard behind him, the young Taoist priest walking calmly in front raised his eyebrows.
"I knew the butcher couldn't be an unknown person."
The first time he came to Zhangjiacun, the young Taoist priest noticed that Butcher Zhang had an evil spirit that was different from ordinary people.
That is definitely not what ordinary butchers can possess, and even veterans who have retired from the battlefield cannot possess such amazing evil aura.
Before becoming a butcher, Butcher Zhang was clearly a fierce general who had fought countless battles, and was a "living king of hell" that even the underworld was unwilling to accept.
"With the surname Chu and such an amazing evil spirit, there are not many people who meet this condition."
Whispering softly, the young Taoist priest flashed through his mind the famous warriors in the court over the past twenty years, and finally targeted a list of warriors who were judged to have died in battle.
"The former Shannanxi Jiedu Envoy - a fierce general under Li Jiang's command. Among the 800 Luanzhong who were killed in the 'Shannanxi Army Rebellion', it seems that one was named Chu Fan, right?"
Relying on the astonishing memory of a practitioner, the young Taoist priest quickly matched the physical descriptions on the list with Butcher Zhang.
"I didn't expect that there would be survivors among those eight hundred soldiers?"
The "Shannan Xijun Rebellion" that occurred ten years ago can be said to be one of the major events in recent years, besides the separatist feudal towns.
According to legend, when Nanzhao invaded Xichuan on a large scale, Shannanxi Jiedushi Li Jiang was ordered to recruit thousands of troops to help.
However, because he harshly deducted rewards and forcibly dismissed old soldiers in the process, eight hundred of his warriors rebelled and were beheaded on the spot.
Subsequently, the imperial court urgently dispatched Wen Zao, the then minister Youcheng, as the governor of Shannanxi, and used a trick to strangle the eight hundred rebel soldiers, thus barely quelling the normal rebellion.
According to the subsequent investigation, it was true that Li Jiang wanted to dismiss the old soldiers and recruit new ones, but he himself did not deduct the reward of these eight hundred brave men.
The direct cause of this rebellion was the political disagreement between the supervisor Yang Shuyuan and Li Jiang.
Therefore, after Yang Shuyuan defeated Nanzhao, he deliberately spread rumors about Li Jiang in the army, which led to this rebellion that should not have happened.
"There is nothing you can do if you hate someone but feel pity for them."
After finding out the identity of Butcher Zhang, the young Taoist priest shook his head and started singing softly.
He was originally a monk, and he only temporarily committed himself to Qin Tian Prison because of his teacher's orders. Naturally, he had no intention of getting further involved in the strife in the court.
Therefore, no matter what identity Zhang Butcher had before, in the eyes of the young Taoist priest, he is now just a butcher in Zhangjiacun.
—Recommendation ticket—Monthly ticket—
