Su Ji, the Goddess, has lost her identity.
The snake's shadow snakes down from the tree without a sound and disappears without a trace.
Soon, a scholar in a basilisk suit came from the east, carrying a trunk full of books.
The swordsman and the scholar met face to face, one wearing a necklace of snake's teeth, the other wearing a bracelet of fish scales, and after meeting, the former was slightly stunned, the latter seemed to smile but not laugh.
The scholar bent down, but could not see much humility, and his eyes were full of the arrogance of a young man: "This gentleman, I'm here to greet you. My name is Ming, the single word is Night, a scholar, this time to the city to go to the examination, but in the event of a serious illness, it seems to be about to miss the examination, so I had to detour around this mountain road. I was so scared that I met you by chance, which is really a good thing. I wonder if you can give me a ride?"
Having said that, he raised his eyes and gave the white-clothed swordsman a flirtatious wink.
The white-clothed swordsman recognized him at once, probably because he was dressed as a scholar and found it amusing, and pressed his lips with his fan.
Seeing him in this manner, Ye Jiming had a momentary daze, and even thought for a moment that the person in front of him was really his Little Fish, and not the dashing guest who drank and cursed with him, and talked with him in a friendly manner, but didn't know his real body and appearance.
Whether it was Duan Shujue's look, or his usual movements, that man imitated them to the letter.
...... real as if it were an illusion.
Yan Jinhua was in high spirits.
Sure enough, everything was just as it was written in the book, and Ye Jiming came to the mountain.
The probability was that he was trying to seize the mountain ghost dan essence so that he could facilitate his cultivation,
But he was his benefactor after all, and he wasn't in a position to compete with him.
The more Yan Jinhua thought about it, the more he felt that he had made a beautiful business deal.
He used a clever trick to take in two little brothers, one willing to charge into battle for himself and be a pawn before his horse, the other, though not much of a conscience, looked like he had a good feeling about Duan Shujue.
With Duan Shujue's aura as the protagonist alone, the mountain ghosts are already a handful.
When the mountain ghost is executed, he only needs to wear a few words with Duan Shujue, with his soft and gentle nature that does not fight for anything, as well as his own benevolence to him, this mountain ghost danjing to get, it is as simple as picking up a bag.
Only ......
He glances to Wen Yujing.
Wen Yujing stood quietly with his sword in his hand, seemingly unthreatening, but Yan Jinhua always suspected that he was deliberately targeting him.
Otherwise, why did he have bad luck after meeting him, losing the Dinghai Pearl first and then Duan Shujue?
He'd better be sensible and stop competing with himself for the Mountain Ghost Dan Essence, or else he'd have to teach this man who should be the protagonist in this world.
Yan Jinhua is scrutinizing Wen Yujing, and so is Ye Jiming.
This person did not comment on his joining the team in the middle of the day, which Ye Jiming did not expect.
Is he so unsuspecting that he didn't even ask?
Wen Yujing here, Ye Jiming is not good at this time to ask the surname of the pool of Wen Yujing in fact what is the head, only to the identity of the scholar strutting to join the three short of a team, with the crowd all the way to walk slowly, to see how the mountain ghosts intend to stir up the wind and clouds.
It was June, the sun was getting hot, and Yan Jinhua was walking with his lips burnt and his throat on fire when a thatched hut appeared on the side of the road.
A young woman with her back to several people was picking beanstalks in front of the house.
Probably hearing the footsteps, she put down the bean curd in her hands, her voice clear and moving, "Four guests, do you need some tea?"
She spoke before turning her head to look at the crowd.
The woman has a mediocre appearance and is plainly dressed, but her clothes are clean and her temperament is not like that of an ordinary peasant woman.
Yan Jinhua smiled darkly.
What kind of ancient White Bone Demon catching the Longevity Monk routine is this?
If you're going to be charming, why don't you become more beautiful?
Yan Jinhua's spiritual power is the lowest among these people, and he only knows that this woman probably used some means to eliminate her spiritual power, but he could not see anything else, so he just pretended to be deaf, and looked at Duan Shujue and Ye Jiming to see how they would react.
Duan and Ye glanced at each other, both seeing confusion in the other's eyes.
Chi Xiaochi asked 061: "Mr. Six, is this person too high in spiritual power or ......"
After a question from Chi Xiaochi, Wen Yujing looks up and examines the woman.
She doesn't have an "aura" that can be analyzed.
There is no ...... demonic qi, no immortal qi, and breathing and exhaling, just like a normal person.
061 cautiously answered Chi Xiaochi's question, "If it's not man, it's God."
Upon hearing this, Chi Xiaochi had a rough idea in his mind and politely arched his hand, "Thank you, girl, then."
A small wooden table with a rough porcelain teapot was set up beside the woman, and she took a couple of bowls with missing corners and poured tea for the crowd one by one.
She said gently, "After you finish your tea, go down the mountain."
Yan Jinhua smiled darkly.
This kind of bullshit is no different from "three bowls but no post", okay? Isn't it just setting up a mystery and pretending to wait for people to ask questions?
And that Duan Shujue really obeyed her, "Why?"
The woman said, "Do not go forward. There are evil spirits in the mountains."
Ye Jiming deliberately winced and leaned in the direction of Duan Shujue, as if he were really a soft scholar.
Wen Yujing looked at him and did not make much noise.
Duan Shujue, on behalf of Ye Jiming, asked, "What evil spirit?"
The woman said, "Do you not know the legend of Shi Yushan? Thousands of years ago, when Shi Yushan was a place of exile in a poor mountainous region, an evil spirit was born that specialized in eating human flesh."
Wen Yujing said, "When I arrived at the bottom of the mountain, I did hear a little bit, but I did not listen carefully. Can I ask you to tell me more about it?"
They did do a bit of research before they came, even more detailed background information than what was written in the book.
Thousands of years ago, the area around Shi Yushan was an inhospitable place used to exile the wicked.
A young girl from a peasant family went with her father to a neighboring town to join relatives, and when she passed through, she was robbed by a number of villains; the father panicked and fled with his daughter, but her feet slipped and she fell down a cliff, perishing on the spot.
The young girl's appearance is not good, but better in the young and unmarried, by the evil people after the evil deeds, these people do not dare to kill, but also afraid that she will report to the police, so they gouge out her eyes, and abandoned her in a bamboo forest.
The young girl was seriously injured and died in the bamboo forest after failing to get out of the forest.
No one found her body until she was covered in bamboo leaves and gradually became one with the land and became carrion.
From time to time, Shi Yushan has been home to a blind girl who is always walking, with a white cloth over her eyes and a tattered bamboo staff.
She kept having chance encounters with people, saying she was lost and begging for a ride home.
Some agreed to her request out of kindness and others out of malice.
The young girl then led them around the mountain, and those with good intentions were often able to send her to a small firewood yard, receive two wild fruits, and leave in peace. Those with bad intentions, after sending her to the courtyard and receiving the wild fruits, often asked her wistfully: How can these rotten fruits be enough? What else do you have to offer me in return?
The young girl replied, "A pair of eyes, may I?"
With that, she removed the white cloth covering her eyes.
That face, where eyes should have been born, was empty.
And the next instant, the other's eyes and hers would be exchanged.
The eyeless mountain ghost often snatches other people's eyes, but she doesn't know what kind of curse she suffered in her lifetime, and the eyes she gets in exchange will shrivel up and degenerate in a few days, transforming into two black, empty holes.
She then went back to looking for her next prey.
Those who regained their lives but lost their eyes fled down the mountain in terror, most of them unable to detail the woman's appearance, bringing down only the maiden's name.
The girl introduced herself to every guide, but there were different opinions, some said she was called Su, some said it was Su, and some said her family name was Su, and under the diversity of opinions, a scholar was inspired by a book that talked about ghosts, and said, "Why don't we call her Su Ji?
Su Ji's bad reputation was spreading by word of mouth, and the people in the neighborhood were afraid to go up the mountain to fetch firewood, complaining but not knowing what to do.
Later, a goddess who traveled to ten places in the clouds came to rest in the town below the mountain.
Thousands of years ago, there weren't many Taoist practitioners, and even fewer people had attained the Dao, and people often referred to those who could ride the clouds as gods.
The goddess listened to the prayers of the people and ascended the mountain to capture and suppress the mountain ghost.
The legend of the mountain ghost has since ended.
In order to thank the goddess, the people at the bottom of the mountain spontaneously built a shrine to the goddess and burned incense to worship her. Although time has changed and the town of Shi Yu under Shi Yushan has expanded into a sizable city, and the shrine of the goddess has long been turned into a spiritual temple for women to predict their marriages, the incense continues to flourish for thousands of years.
I don't know whether it was the blessing of the Goddess, but the people of Shi Yushan were gradually blessed with good weather, and the people were even more grateful for the Goddess's kindness.
Thousands of years later, due to a group of grave robbers, the suppressed spirits of the mountain ghosts were released, killing seven or eight grave robbers on the spot, with only one escaping with his life.
The mountain ghosts reappeared, but the goddess had probably long since attained enlightenment and was nowhere to be found.
Mountain ghosts are earth-bound spirits, and are supposedly unable to leave Shi Yushan, but according to legend, when someone was sleeping in his house in the middle of the city and felt stuffy, he got up in the middle of the night and opened the window to ventilate the air, and saw a woman in white standing not far from his window with her back to him, her hands hanging down, and the veil that was bound at the back of her head was extremely long and flew with the wind.
Seemingly hearing the movement of the open window, she turned back.
The occupant of the open window had just gotten a good look at her face when he was stunned on the spot and nearly died.
After waking up on the second day, the whole city spread the story of the mountain ghost entering the city, and those who witnessed it claimed that the mountain ghost was now not only blind, but half of his face had rotted into white bones, and his grudge must be even heavier.
A few waves of monks did come to the mountain, but unfortunately, each of them had no return.
The people below the mountain are in fear, the Goddess Shrine incense more and more prosperous, day and night, the green smoke does not go out, sandalwood incense gas filled the city.
In the midst of the incense burning day and night, Duan Shujue, they went up the mountain.
The woman in front of them described in her mouth that the mountain ghosts hurt people, the goddess ambushed the ghosts, the mountain ghosts came out again, and all kinds of things that were not far from what they had known.
Hearing her out, Ye Jiming wondered, "You're not afraid?"
The woman was organized and spoke clearly, "I lived here long before she came, so if I left this place, where could I go? Furthermore, I am a woman, not a man who harmed her, she would not hurt me."
Upon hearing this, 061 asked Chi Xiaochi: "Any thoughts?"
Chi Xiaochi replied, "No."
061: "What's wrong?"
Chi Xiaochi took a sip of tea, glanced at the woman's hand deliberately, and did not reply.
In the book "Shark Immortal", Duan Shujue did not meet this woman, but Ye Jiming did, and persuaded him to go down the mountain disguised as a scholar.
In the book, Ye Jiming was originally rushing to the mountain ghost Dan Jing, full of promise, turned around and changed the mountain road up the mountain, after some hard work, finally captured as desired.
When the two were thrown into the same cell, Ye Jiming mentioned that he had met the woman on the road, but after that, the author hurriedly wrapped up the Shi Yushan line, so the ambush was not recovered.
On the known information analysis, the woman is very likely to be sincere to persuade people to go down the mountain, rather than the false intention to fish up the curiosity of the bystanders, intentionally luring people to the mountain, and because only mortals, lack of time, so persuade Ye Jiming, can not persuade Duan Shujue.
But if she was really what she said she was, she was just a lone woman, guarding a road into the mountains all day long, risking being targeted by mountain ghosts at any moment, just to perform a good deed?
Although the Su Ji of a thousand years ago still had some boundaries and had never harmed anyone, who knows what she will become after a thousand years?
Where did she get the confidence that the mountain ghosts wouldn't hurt her?
Besides, her hands ......
Four people drink, thanked her tea, turned down the mountain, until they could not see the woman, Fang Cai changed the road.
The crowd of Daoists were still trapped on the mountain by that demon, and they had no reason to return home.
Duan Shujue looked towards Ye Jiming, who pretended to be pitifully aggrieved and helpless, and intentionally teased, "Ming Gong Zi, if you're afraid, why don't you change your path?"
Ye Jiming looked poignantly at Duan Shujue: "I hope Gong Zi will protect me, I am totally dependent on Gong Zi."
On the one hand, he circled with Duan Shujue, and on the other hand, he secretly looked at Wen Yujing, and in his heart, he cursed the surname Wen to a bloody head.
Why should he pretend to be vulnerable now if this obstructionist Wen Yujing doesn't follow him?
Although the small fish can not now manipulate their own bodies, but at least can see everything that happens outside, Wen Yujing if not, why do you need to tie your hands like this, afraid of leaking demonic power, long ago, you can show yourself in front of the small fish in this March to soar in the results of the cultivation.
One more moment of sharing the trials and tribulations with the little fish, and he couldn't help but feel a little more favorable towards himself.
That Wen Yujing has occupied the little fish for so many days, why doesn't he let go?
After walking a little farther and nearing the top of the mountain, Chi Xiaochi wanted to observe the situation nearby to see if there were any changes, so he asked Wen Yujing, "Master, are you tired?"
Wen Yujing understood what he meant and went along with it, "There are some."
Ye Jiming interjected busily, "I'm tired too."
Chi Xiaochi glanced at him, Ye Jiming narrowed his eyes and smiled lightly, but his hands exerted force to tug on Chi Xiaochi's sash.
Wen Yujing glanced at Ye Jiming's hand clutching his sash without saying a word.
At this moment, 061 and Ye Jiming are clearly thinking of different people, but their hearts are not very comfortable.
As for Yan Jinhua, he himself feels redundant.
He didn't expect the cold-hearted Ye Jiming to be attentive to him, but he didn't expect him to be so distant, as if he'd never known him before.
What he didn't expect was Duan Shujue.
In just three months, Duan Shujue has been transformed as if his face is still the same beautiful face, but his temperament has settled down a lot, and he no longer sees the licked dog that was eagerly waiting for him to come home.
The ...... comparison is horrible.
Especially after enjoying the pleasure of being kneeled and licked by the protagonist, seeing the normal Duan Shujue, Yan Jinhua only felt that there was something wrong everywhere, wanting to go up to consolidate his feelings, but Duan Shujue's left hand side was Wen Yujing, and his right hand side was Ye Jiming, so there was no room for him at all.
He was fretting when he heard his system mutter, "Strange."
His system rarely spoke outside of posting reward information, and the sudden vocalization startled Yan Jinhua.
Returning to his senses, Yan Jinhua said, "What's wrong? What's wrong with Duan Shujue?"
"Not Duan Shujue," the system replied, "...... it's Wen Yujing."
"What?"
The system said, "The spiritual energy radiating from him is too regular."
Yan Jinhua couldn't understand, "Huh? Isn't that normal?"
"...... It's too precise, like the result of a careful calculation." The system paused and said, "Host, right now I can't draw any conclusions, I need to observe a bit more."
Yan Jinhua shifted his butt on the baked rock, "No, you're not being vague, aren't you whetting people's appetites? What exactly are you trying to say?"
The system said, "I suspect that Wen Yujing is also a traveler like you."
Yan Jinhua was creeped out, but the more he thought about it, the more sense it made.
Yes, precisely because he is also a traveler, so he knows to pick up the leakage, committed to hold Duan Shujue's thighs, in the Jingxu sword meeting suddenly killed, robbed his own pearl, also robbed Duan Shujue as a disciple.
It is because he is also a traveler that he has been so flattering to Duan Shujue that he has coaxed Duan Shujue to treat him with respect, even to the extent that he himself is not even in his sights.
Precisely because he was also a traveler, he knew that Shi Yushan contained Duan Shujue's qi and followed him on his mission.
What not to worry about the disciple, what one day teacher, lifelong father, all are pretexts!
Turns out, turns out, that's the real reason why it's causing his plans to fall through so often!
Yan Jinhua suddenly found a reason for his disillusionment and defeat these days, and said hopefully, "What if it's certain that he's also a Traveler?"
"Generally speaking, our system is exclusive." After having doubts, the system had already run to check the relevant regulations, "It is clearly written in the statute that if a similar situation arises, in order to ensure the progress of the mission on our system's side, our upper level system will directly intercept the signals sent by the other system, imprisoning and detaining it."
Yan Jinhua couldn't hide his joy, "That means you can drive it right out?"
The system replied, "Not really, it's just brought to our main god space to be temporarily imprisoned, and when it explains where it came from, as well as our completion of the mission, it will knock him back to his original home. Protecting the host to successfully complete the mission is an obligation that every system of ours should fulfill."
Yan Jinhua busily said, "Then why don't you do it?"
The system replied, "Host, be at ease. This is not my duty, I need to gather considerable evidence before I can report back to my superior system and submit a report."
Yan Jinhua could only clench his fists, trying to suppress his over-excited emotions, and began to plan for a better future after "Wen Yujing" disappeared.
Once "Wen Yujing" lost its system, it either disappeared or was knocked back to its original form.
When that happens, the Master's reputation will be tarnished and Duan Shujue will have nothing to fall back on.
But he still has the Sword in the Stone with him, and even if Wen Yujing is gone, Chiyunzi won't necessarily let himself be with Duan Shujue.
...... has it.
If he can destroy Wen Yujing, he can naturally destroy Duan Shujue as well.
As long as he takes away the system of "Wen Yujing", the traveler who is wearing the vest of "Wen Yujing" will definitely be revealed, and he only needs to control him and lure him to come out to testify as "Wen Yujing" again. Wen Yujing" identity to come out to testify, ruined Duan Shujue's reputation, theft of pills, collusion with outsiders, his heart is not pure, which can be highly valued by the red cloud son of Duan Shujue pulled down to the horse, and then he came out to guarantee, Duan Shujue will certainly fall to their own.
If you want to play it safe, you can simply kill "Wen Yujing".
If a charge of regicide is slammed on Duan Shujue, he will be completely ruined, and it is forbidden to say that he will also be hunted down by the whole mountain. He only needed to step in at that time and show kindness, not only would he get his gratitude, but he might even get back the Sword in the Stone, and the Pearl of the Fixed Sea embedded in the Sword in the Stone. As well as his next series of qi fortunes.
Wait until he's no longer of use and then try to get rid of him ......
Yan Jinhua was so excited and full of all the tawdry maneuvers he had seen in TV dramas before that when a horrible coldness mixed with a woman's scent climbed up his ankle, he didn't even realize it in the first place and fainted.
Published at: 10/25/2024 07:00