It’s sunny after snow.
The sun shines through the clouds in the sky, turning into streaks of glow.
It was as if the sword light that suddenly emerged swept out thousands of sword energies.
Su Jue turned over and woke up, and then saw Xu Zhong holding the Xuanguang Sword, collecting the rays of light.
The rays of light continuously condensed on the sword body, and finally turned into sword energy, condensing the sword light.
He waited until the glow dissipated before ending his practice.
"This sword skill is so mysterious. Before I had any contact with it, I thought the sword energy came from the sword. I never thought that it was collected from the heaven and earth."
Sword Qi originally comes from the practice of secret methods. It is a spiritual creature born with the sword the day after tomorrow. It complements the human spirit and energy and benefits each other.
Like the source of spells, sword energy was originally collected from heaven and earth by sword cultivators.
Some people use rays of light to refine their sword energy, so their sword energy is like a rainbow. Some people use the river to refine their sword energy, so their sword energy is like a long river. Some people use starlight to make their sword energy, so their sword energy shines like starlight...
The reason why sword cultivators can be called sword cultivators, while other Qi practitioners who use swords cannot be called sword cultivators, is because they can collect spiritual light from heaven and earth and refine it into sword energy.
There is a brand of swordsmanship left in Xu Zhong's body, and the sword skills are layered on top of each other, based on the method of collecting qi and refining swords.
When Xu Zhong realizes the imprint of swordsmanship, he can naturally obtain the inheritance of collecting qi and making swords.
Unlike Situ Nan who uses starlight to refine his sword, Xu Zhong uses rays of light to refine his sword energy.
The sword energy is abundant and can be transformed into sword light.
A sword light is often composed of several, or even hundreds or even thousands of sword qi.
That's why there are rumors about swordsmen using their swords and white light to kill people invisible.
Xu Zhong sheathed his sword, and the last ray of sunlight was swallowed by the scabbard. He stood up and brushed off the morning frost on his body.
Su Jue jumped on his shoulder and looked ahead.
At the end of the horizon, a black line can be faintly seen.
That is the outer city wall of Di County.
Di County is the county seat of Yangshuo County and is the center of news circulation.
Xu Zhong made a seal in his hand and started walking. As he walked, he came to a gust of wind and hurried on by the wind.
When the wind stopped, I came down from the top of the wind.
When the wind picks up again, we are on the cusp of the wind again.
This is a spell called borrowing the wind, which can control the wind. Xu Zhong is not strong enough, so he can only borrow the wind to travel. If he is strong, the borrowed wind can smooth the mountains and blow away the city...
Just walking and walking like this, it didn't take long to arrive in front of Di County.
The city gates are strictly guarded, only going out but not entering. The defense was tight, with three teams of sixty people in total, patrolling across each other. Each one was riddled with evil spirits, and they were extremely brave. They looked like veterans in the military.
Xu Zhong used the art of invisibility in a deserted place and successfully entered Di County with the help of a gust of wind.
People of all shapes and sizes come and go on the street.
Some buy food, and some carry large and small bags of things and walk towards the outer city...
"It seems that there is news." Su Jue lowered her voice to avoid being overheard. He regarded her as a bad fox demon and beat her to death.
"Indeed." Xu Zhong nodded silently, and then rushed towards the county government office like flying.
…
"Shaoqing, are you still alive?" Zhang Qian looked at Xu Zhong in disbelief: "Everyone thought you were dead."
Xu Zhong was confused.
"It seems you don't know!" Zhang Qian is the county's chief registrar and a classmate who started his studies in the academy with him.
"There are monsters on the mountain where you live in seclusion. Not long ago, a large amount of purple energy fell from the mountain. The county guard mistakenly thought that there was an auspicious birth, and excitedly sent people to search for it. As a result, the monster was released by mistake."
"Dozens of people died on your mountain. It took a long time before the county dared to send people to collect the bodies."
"I thought you had..."
monster?
Xu Zhong and Yousu Jue looked at each other, but the time didn't match.
It was only a day ago that Shi Yao ran out of Fengdu, but what Zhang Qian was talking about was more than half a month ago.
"It's great that you're still alive." Zhang Qian patted Xu Zhong on the shoulder, then looked at Su Jue: "Is this your pet? The fur is so beautiful."
Su Jue looked at the fox fur cloak on Zhang Qian and took a step back unconsciously.
"But the city is under martial law at this time. How did you get in?" Zhang Qian suddenly became alert.
Xu Zhong opened his mouth slightly, and then spit out a fiery snake from his mouth, burning Zhang Qian's fox fur cloak and part of his hair.
"I was valued by the immortals and was taken to the immortal mountain to practice Taoism. I was successful in my practice. However, my teacher observed the sky at night and said that there were evildoers running rampant in the world. He ordered me to go down the mountain and kill the evildoers." Xu Zhong did not make any excuses.
Zhang Qian was startled by the fire-breathing spell. He hesitated for a long time and was speechless.
"You are the chief registrar of the county and are well-informed. Can you tell me the whereabouts of the monster?" Xu Zhong covered Zhang Qian's mouth as he wanted to scream.
Zhang Qian nodded.
"The day before yesterday, two villages under the jurisdiction of Min County were attacked by demons. Two hundred households were left without a living soul. The magistrate of Min County sent out an emergency report. The most elite imperial guards in the county had set off last night..."
"And this morning, the county received urgent reports from Qin County, Mao County... almost a quarter of the county magistrates in Yangshuo, saying that there are suspected demons."
"Most of the imperial guards in the city have been sent out. The county guard is coordinating the defense with the surrounding counties. He wrote a memorial this morning..."
The place names mentioned by Zhang Qian were written down one by one, and then Xu Zhong left a spiritual pill and turned around and left Di County.
"It seems that ghosts have appeared in most places in Yangshuo." Su Jue propped his chin with a paw.
"Where should we go first?"
"Choose the nearest one." Xu Zhong had already decided on his goal: "Where should I go first?"
Su Jue disliked Xu Zhong's ability to borrow the wind, so he activated the demon wind himself and took him flying all the way.
The ghosts and ghosts that come out of Fengdu have been absorbing Yin energy for many years. When they suddenly enter the human world, their bodies will reject Yang energy, and it is absolutely impossible for them to come and go during the day.
Only at night, when Yang Qi is weak and Yin Qi is strong, will they go out hunting.
"Once these ghosts have sucked the last of their energy and blood, they will no longer be afraid of the invasion of Yang energy, so we must get rid of them before dark."
Yangshuo County has a vast territory, 1,500 miles from east to west and 700 miles from north to south. It is the largest county in Yu State.
It is not easy to travel through Yangshuo County in one day and eliminate all ghosts.
A quarter of an hour later, they landed in Yun County.
The county seat of Yun County is also under martial law.
Flying into the sky with a gust of wind.
Xu Zhong used the art of tunneling into the secluded world, his eyes glowed with divine light, and the darkness was deep.
Suddenly, in the City God's Temple in Yun County, the golden body of the City God came to life. He stretched out his hand and pointed toward the outside of the city. Then he closed his eyes and turned into a clay sculpture again.
"City God?" Xu Zhong was a little surprised. He followed the place pointed by the City God's finger and saw the clouds in the sky flowing like water, falling to the west.
"What?"
"The City God is showing us the way!" Xu Zhong walked in the wind: "But why didn't he take action himself, instead of just showing us the way?"
"The city god belongs to the Yinsi of Fengdu. He only cares about people's souls and judges their good and evil." Su Jue said: "The trouble caused by demons is ultimately a human matter and the Yinsi cannot interfere."
"If it's night, they can use the underworld to patrol the world at night as an excuse to hunt down ghosts, but this is daytime..."
The two realms of Yin and Yang do not interfere with each other. This is the rule set by heaven.
"But with the City God guiding us, things will be much easier to handle."
Su Jue is in good form, but Xu Zhong is in poor form.
"Since those evil ghosts came from Fengdu, and the City God belongs to the Yin Division of Fengdu, it is reasonable and logical that the City God should also take action to arrest..."
"This means that big robbers are easy to catch, but small thieves are hard to catch. If the city god wants to arrest him, he needs the underworld documents, and there are too many ghosts in Fengdu. How can we count them all clearly? And how long does it take to find out which ghost escaped from Fengdu? Difficulties, how could the arrest documents be immediately decentralized? Often after investigation, those ghosts are either much harder to deal with than they used to be, or they are killed by the righteous people, and sometimes they are captured by evil demons to refine magic weapons..."
There was Su Jue's common sense in the world of immortality for Xu Zhong's popular science. Although she had never been exposed to it, this common sense was passed down along with her bloodline.
Her ancestors have experienced it, which means she has experienced it.
One person and one demon chased the floating clouds like this. Finally, the floating clouds dropped towards a village.
There is smoke from cooking pots and people coming and going. It is a place with no traffic.
Traffic congestion often means that it is difficult for news to circulate.
They still don't know what happened in Yangshuo in the past two days.
Xu Zhonghe has Su Jue hanging from the clouds.
The guidance of the City God ends with this village.
Xu Zhong once again used the art of tunneling, carefully looking at everyone coming and going.
Everyone who entered or left looked at the man and the monster who entered the village with curiosity. Some people had even gone to notify Li Zheng.
"found it!"
In the middle of the village, a huge locust tree stands.
A ghost is currently resting in the locust tree.
Just like a newborn baby curled up in its mother's womb.
Ghosts exhale yin energy and inhale yang energy.
And its body was full of evil spirits, and many living souls were entangled together, looking at this ghost with the most vicious and ferocious expressions.
"He killed a lot of people!"
Those souls cannot exist forever.
It's because the resentment during his lifetime was too deep and refused to go away for a long time, so he was attached to the evil spirit.
Unfortunately, these thoughts will fade away as time goes by.
Their human souls have long been devoured.
And the heavenly soul and the earthly soul also went to where they should go.
"Damn it!"
Xu Zhong raised his eyebrows and thought.
In an instant, the mysterious light carried behind him suddenly left his body and turned into a white light.
Boom!
The locust tree fell and there was a loud noise.
The ghost was awakened, and as soon as it opened its eyes, it was greeted by another white light.
The white light flashed across its neck.
Then, he saw his body slowly falling to the ground, and then his vision went dark, and he couldn't see anything anymore.
The locust tree fell.
This attracted a lot of people.
Before they surrounded him, Xu Zhong took advantage of the situation and threw an elixir into the well water.
When the villagers gathered around the locust tree, they discovered that next to the locust tree lay the corpse of an evil ghost with a green face and fangs, and its body and head separated.
