Episode 163: Heartbeat
Yan Chixia, Jiang Chen, and Ning Caichen returned to Lanruo Temple almost at the same time, and the three of them met in the courtyard, Ning Caichen went back to the room first because his clothes were all wet, and there were two left, Jiang Chen immediately asked out loud: "How is it, Yan Daxia, have you caught up with that female ghost?"
"Nope. Yan Chixia replied angrily: "That female ghost is very cunning, and there is a thousand-year-old tree demon behind her, I fought with the old demon, although I didn't suffer a loss, but I didn't get any bargain." ”
Jiang Chen said in surprise: "I didn't expect that the thousand-year-old tree demon to be so powerful, even Yan Daxia couldn't win." ”
"It's okay. Yan Chixia said: "Wait for me to prepare the guys, and in a few days, the two of us will join forces to try to eradicate this thousand-year-old demon in one fell swoop." ”
"Eradication?" Jiang Chen couldn't help but be stunned when he heard this, but he remembered that because most of the millennium tree demon scourge was because of bad people, Yan Chixia had never paid much attention to getting rid of it, and later it was because the millennium tree demon did too much that Yan Chixia took action to abolish most of its strength, so that within a hundred years, it would not be able to come out again to make waves.
"Not bad. Yan Chixia immediately responded: "I haven't made a decision before, but now I have figured it out, this thousand-year-old tree demon has always been a disaster, and it must be eradicated as soon as possible, otherwise it will definitely be a disaster in the future." Little brother, would you like to help me?"
"This" hesitated for a moment, Jiang Chen immediately responded with a righteous and awe-inspiring voice: "Subduing demons and eliminating demons is our duty as cultivators, and now that there are demons and demons, Zhiqiu Yiye is of course willing to help Yan Daxia to eliminate the thousand-year-old tree demon!"
"Okay, good!" Yan Chixia couldn't help laughing out loud when she heard this: "Zhiqiu Xiaodao Master is really worthy of being a master of the Kunlun faction, and he is righteous and hot-blooded, then let's go and discuss and see if there is any good way to fight to eliminate this thousand-year-old demon in one fell swoop!"
Not to mention that the two talked at night with candles, discussing how to eliminate the thousand-year-old tree demon, Ning Caichen returned to his temporary monk's house, took off his soaked clothes and dried them, changed into a clean underwear, and then began to repair the piano left by Miss Xiaoqian by the faint light of the lamp.
After thinking about it all night, it was not until dawn that Ning Caichen came back to his senses, put down the piano that had been repaired in his arms, took the account book, and carefully restored the blurred handwriting.
"Oops!" he exclaimed, and quickly got up, and looked around, but saw a ladder standing in the corner of the wall, and he couldn't help but be overjoyed, and he walked over and dragged the ladder with all his might.
There was a loud bang, and the floor smashed through the wooden floor and fell into the monk's house below, faintly, in the endless dust and sawdust flying around, three or four rotten dried corpses moved slowly, and the empty eyes were full of strange and inexplicable evil light, which was uncertain.
"Ahem" coughed violently, Ning Caichen came back to his senses, carefully lowered the ladder, and before the two decaying corpses who fell to the ground and just wanted to get up did not have time to move, they were pressed by the ladder falling from the sky, and struggled for a while, but the corpses were already decaying, where was there still the strength to turn over.
Ning Caichen climbed down the ladder and went down to the monk's room on the first floor, which had been uninhabited for a long time, it was full of dust, and there was no light, it was pitch black, he bent down and groped on the ground for a while, but did not find his own ink stone, behind him, in the dark, several dried corpses were groping towards him.
"Really, it's too dark!" Ning Caichen couldn't find the ink stone, so he couldn't help muttering, so he got up and walked to the window, picked up the blocked wood garbage, opened a window that had long been broken, and suddenly, a bright beam of sunlight shone in.
"Snort-" The warm sunlight shone on Ning Caichen's body, warm, which naturally made him feel very comfortable, but the few people behind him obviously didn't think so, the rotten dried corpses, the weak ghosts, couldn't withstand the sunlight at all, and they immediately corrupted and fell to the ground, forming a rich corpse oil.
Ning Caichen didn't know that he had just walked on the death line, picked up his ink stone, and slowly returned to the second floor along the ladder, at this time, there was a knock on the door outside, and then Jiang Chen's voice came in.
"Brother Ning, have you gotten up?" Jiang Chen's words were faintly urging: "Did you encounter anything strange last night?"
"Strange things?" Ning Caichen hesitated for a moment, and immediately replied angrily: "If you want to talk about weird things, the weirdest thing here is that bearded man." ”
"Brother Ning, Yan Daxia is a swordsman in the world, you don't know but you can't talk nonsense," Jiang Chen shook his head and said: "Let's talk about the little girl you met last night, Yan Daxia told me, the vicinity of this Lanruo Temple is full of barren mountains and mountains, and there are no people in half of the family, and in the middle of the night, there will never be any girls walking around, you must have met ghosts." ”
"How is this possible, how can Miss Xiaoqian be a ghost, you must have seen it wrong. Ning Caichen was a pedantic poor scholar in the end, and when he heard Jiang Chen's words, he couldn't help but refute it.
Jiang Chen persuaded him several times, but he couldn't persuade Ning Caichen, so he couldn't help but curse "ghost obsessed mind", and Gu Zi went to find Yan Chixia.
Yan Chixia went out hunting and hunted a roe deer weighing dozens of catties enough, and when she saw Jiang Chen looking for it, she immediately smiled and said, "Little brother, you see what I hit, we have a good fortune at noon." ”
"What a big roe deer. When Jiang Chen saw it, he couldn't help but laugh, and immediately said: "Yan Daxia, go, I'll go to the lake with you to clean, and you can tell me about the use of the palm thunder." ”
Talking last night, the two of them were not just discussing ways to eliminate the thousand-year-old tree demon, they were both cultivators, and it was rare to meet together, so they naturally talked about the Tao and the Fa.
Although Yan Chixia became a monk halfway, she was not as famous as Zhiqiu Yiye who Jiang Chen replaced, but she was a cultivator and had both Buddhism and Taoism, which was very good.
"Well said, well said. Yan Chixia said with a smile: "Compared to your space transfer technique, this palm thunder yuan is not a magical secret method, since you want to learn, I will naturally not be stingy, let's go, I'll talk to you on the way."
Not to mention that the two were busy talking about the Tao and the Law, after Ning Caichen restored the account books, he immediately set off for Jinhua City and once again continued the unfinished quest task before: collecting debts.
When he arrived in Jinhua City, the innkeeper heard that Ning Caichen had stayed in Lanruo Temple for one night, and he was safe and sound, so he couldn't help but be surprised and shocked: "Scholar, you really stayed in Lanruo Temple for one night?"
"Is that still fake?" Ning Caichen smiled proudly: "You take a good look at the account book, if there is nothing wrong, hurry up and help me settle the account, right?"
"Okay, good!" The shopkeeper didn't care to check what was wrong, and without saying a word, he hurriedly paid back the arrears of silver.
"Thank you, boss!" Although Ning Caichen didn't understand why the shopkeeper had become so happy after a day, it was still a happy thing to be able to successfully recover his debts and complete the task.
"Zhiqiu Daoist invited me to eat and drink before, and now that I have successfully collected my debts, I can get half of the commission, which is just enough to buy some wine, which can be regarded as a reward for that meal. Ning Caichen hurriedly left the inn and came to the street, but saw that Jinhua City was full of paper money flying around, and then he suddenly remembered that today was the Yu Lan Festival, he bought a pot of wine, Fang Yi turned around, and saw a familiar shadow flying in the sky with paper money, holding a picture scroll, and walking into the distance.
"It's Xiao Qian!" Ning Caichen exclaimed, and was about to say hello to the other party, but unexpectedly, just in a blink of an eye, Xiao Qian's figure had disappeared, he only felt as if he had lost something in his heart, and hurriedly shouted and chased in the direction where Xiao Qian disappeared (to be continued. )