A quick journey starting from Wu Dalang

Chapter 269: Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio: Working for Ghosts (3)

"Lotus, if you are willing, the prince from the west of the city will come to marry you in three days. What if you don't want to? Humph! You don't want me to send that fox to the temple, do you?" The man's voice sounded so hateful.

"Husband, you and I are husband and wife, are you really so disregarding of me?" The woman's voice was full of disbelief.

"I have done my best to hide your identity as a demon for you. Tomorrow is the deadline. If you still don't want to, I'm sure that Taoist Wang will like you very much." The man left after saying this, leaving Lotus alone crying at the door.

"Sister Lotus, don't cry. At worst, I'll just bite them all to death." The little fox grinned, but it was a pity that it had no teeth.

"Wow, little fox, I'm sorry. If I hadn't taken you out of the mountain, you wouldn't have lost your teeth. It's all my fault." The woman hugged the fox and cried.

"It's okay, Sister Lotus. I know a very powerful adult. Let's beg her, she will definitely save us." The adult the fox was referring to was of course Shiyi.

Just as Shiyi was about to speak, Hehua spoke up: "Useless little fox, he took my real body, I can't resist, you should leave first."

Lotus and the little fox were fighting over it, but Shiyi picked up a lotus root from where the man left. "Is this from your original body?"

"Yes! Sir, this is the lotus root from Sister Lotus!" The little fox said excitedly, but then she became depressed again: "But this is just a lotus root, not Sister Lotus's body."

"You can use this piece of lotus root to grow your lotus sister." You should know that plant cells are omnipotent. Even though this is a fantasy world, some basic theorems are universal.

So Shiyi’s suggestion is to grow the lotus itself.

Creating a body for a monster is easier said than done. Just bring a large water tank, fill it with soil, add water, and plant the lotus root in it.

The magic that the lotus can use is limited, but it can still give birth to some plants. After three hours of effort, the lotus roots began to sprout, grow leaves, and then bloom.

Lotus hurriedly tried to enter the flower and found that she could actually use the flower as her body. She immediately became excited: "Thank you, sir!"

“Now that your problem has been solved, let’s talk about how eating human hearts can help you practice cultivation?” Shi said with a smile. She wanted to get to the bottom of this matter so that no more monsters would believe it and go astray.

Lotus explained everything. To put it simply, it was the monk in the temple outside the city who said that monsters will only practice cultivation after they eat human hearts. If you encounter a monster, you must not be soft-hearted, because they all eat human hearts.

The monk's purpose might be to deceive some mortals in order to make some money, but he didn't expect that some little demons believed his words and began to spread rumors, causing everyone to want to try to eat human hearts.

So now Shiyi not only has to collect soul power, but also has to fight against the fake monsters that have escaped.

Lotus carried the water jar to Black Mountain, intending to live under Shiyi's protection in the future. In exchange, she would practice the skills provided by Shiyi and sign a contract. When she reached a high level of cultivation in the future, she would go out to fulfill the wishes of the wronged souls.

Leaving the little fox and lotus as companions, Shiyi wandered around as he pleased. Along the way, he met many monsters who said that they could practice cultivation by eating human hearts. Shiyi debunked them one by one, and his method of debunking was simple and crude.

If anyone said such things, Shiyi would just lash out at them violently. After the person changed his words, Shiyi would tell the little demons that eating human hearts would turn them into trash, and only by practicing hard could they become masters.

He coaxed a few innocent little demons into signing contracts, and then sent them back to Black Mountain. He acted like a tyrant all the way until he smelled the scent of a fox nearby.

Shiyi's first reaction was a little fox, but there was something ominous in the aura. The aura of the little fox was extremely pure. This was not a little fox, it seemed to be another kind of fox demon.

Shi Yi followed the scent and saw a monster digging out people's hearts. The monster was ugly, with some features of the original monster, and the movement of digging out the heart was clean and neat.

The heart was still warm after being dug out, but even so, the woman next to him looked disgusted: "It won't even beat. It's ruined my food. Do you want to cook my food?"

"I'm sorry, Xiao Wei, I will change." The man looked guilty, and no one cared how desperate the corpse under his feet was.

"Change? I might as well take out your heart and eat it." Xiao Yi had a vicious look on his face, and was obviously very dissatisfied with the man.

"Xiao Wei"

"Don't follow me!"

Xiao Wei turned and left. The man, with a depressed look on his face, crushed the heart in his hand and licked the blood on his hand: "I will change, Xiao Wei, believe me"

The two demons left one after the other. Shi Yi took out a shovel and buried the bodies. She had the ability to bring the dead back to life, but as a god, she could not interfere with people's life and death. This kind of thing could only be done by those masters who had no fate with immortality.

After the body was buried, the soul floated out, full of resentment: "Revenge! I want revenge!"

"Come with me, I will help you get revenge." Only by helping the wronged soul to get revenge can the other party be reincarnated.

The wronged spirit possessed the jade pendant on Shiyi's waist, and Shiyi took her in the direction the two monsters left.

The two demons did not do anything evil along the way. Of course, it might also be because they had a conflict and were too late to stop them. The female demon named Xiao Wei kept driving away the male demon.

The ugly male demon looked hurt, but because the other party disliked him, he could only choose to stay away. Shi Yi followed the female demon, and she believed that the male demon would come back.

Of course, in order to prevent the male demon from doing evil, Shiyi asked Rika, who was nearby, to keep an eye on the other party. The two demons must die at the hands of wronged spirits.

The banshee sped all the way as if she had a destination. She slowed down only when she was near Taiyuan. When she slowed down, she encountered the bandits. Facing the beautiful Xiao Wei, the bandits kidnapped her without even considering why a weak woman like her would appear in such a deserted place.

Shi Yi didn't want to care about this suicidal behavior. The sand bandits had killed countless people, so even if the bandit died at the hands of Xiao Wei, she would not interfere. However, she didn't expect that the local army of Taiyuan arrived the moment the sand bandit leader was killed by Xiao Wei.

The man leading the troops was called Wang Sheng. It was obvious that Xiao Wei was looking for this person. She only needed to fall to the ground weakly, and someone would naturally take her away with pity. It was a pity that this person was not Wang Sheng.

Are you kidding? Wang Sheng is the commander-in-chief of the army. How could he have the free time to hug a strange woman home? Of course, what’s more important is that Shi Yi blocked Xiao Wei’s charm.

The person who carried Xiao Wei away was only attracted by her beauty and out of sympathy for the victim. In Xiao Wei's eyes, this meant that her charm was successful.

Led by Wang Sheng, the group arrived at Wang's house. The soldiers returned to their respective posts, and the rescued civilians returned to their homes, but Xiao Wei had nowhere to go.

"General, if you don't keep Miss Xiao Wei, she will really have to wander the streets." The kind-hearted Mrs. Wang Rong Pei couldn't help but plead for Xiao Wei.

As a woman, she also had to consider poor Xiao Wei, but she didn't know that Xiao Wei was thinking about her position and her man.

On the first day Xiao Wei came to the Wang family, Mrs. Wang took her to familiarize herself with everything in the Wang family: "This is our cloth business, and these are the rouge and powder business. Follow me and learn slowly, and you will get the hang of it soon."

"Thank you, sister." Xiao Wei called Madam Wang "sister" like a human. From a distance, she looked like Wang Sheng's concubine, which made Madam Wang feel uncomfortable.

As for Wang Sheng who was far away, he felt completely irritated: "Go tell my wife to come find me later."

"Yes, General," the maid hurried away.

Xiao Wei lived like a fish in water in the Wang family, but after a few days, she felt uncomfortable. The evil magic she practiced required her to eat human hearts in order to maintain her appearance, but she had already eaten all the human hearts she had stored, and the lizard demon had not returned yet.

Xiao Wei didn't know that the lizard spirit she was thinking about had been killed by the Peach Blossom Demon and turned into fertilizer. Who made him so ignorant of the danger that he actually dared to attack a little girl?

Without the help of the lizard spirit, Xiao Wei had to do it herself, but as soon as she started, she was discovered. When Wang Sheng pointed a sword at her and protected Madam Wang behind him, Xiao Wei's defense was broken.

"Why? I love you too, why do you want to kill me but protect her?"

"Monster, did you kill the bandits in that cell?" Wang Sheng didn't care about the death of the bandits, but he couldn't accept that someone would kill them at will.

If such behavior is not stopped, there is no guarantee that Xiao Wei will become bloodthirsty in the future and kill innocent people in the city for fun. Xiao Wei lied in her head. She did not understand human beings, but at this moment, she was very annoyed with Mrs. Wang who was protected by Wang Sheng.

At this moment, two people who came from afar joined the battle. One was Madam Wang’s former suitor and the original leader of the Wang family army; the other was a demon hunter who had the blood of a demon hunter and brought a sharp weapon to kill demons.

Shiyi finally waited for Xia Bing's arrival, joined the battle without saying a word, and then snatched Xia Bing's weapon.

"Give it back to me! That's the only weapon that can get rid of the fox demon!" Xia Bing was very anxious, but she was no match for Shiyi, and she couldn't even touch the corner of Shiyi's clothes.

"Take it, now you can go kill the fox demon." Shiyi handed the weapon to the wronged soul. With Shiyi's help, the wronged soul successfully killed Xiao Wei and finally left after fulfilling its wish. At the same time, the soul power left behind filled several collectors.

Pang Yong was stunned, while Xia Bing was full of admiration: "Can I join you? I can feel the aura of a fairy in you!"

"I didn't expect that a little girl like you is actually quite perceptive. Then follow me." Shi Yi handed the contract to Xia Bing and asked her to sign it. The skills would also be taught to her through the contract.

After witnessing this miraculous event, Pang Yong's original love was suppressed. He knew that Wang Sheng treated Peirong very well, so he no longer dwelled on the past. Instead, he was eager to join Shiyi.

Shi Yi gave the contract as usual, but he didn't expect that such a small action would bring him an unexpected surprise. The talents of these two people were not outstanding, at least compared with the monsters in Black Mountain, they were not good enough, but the soul power cultivated by them was indeed the purest, and the speed was very fast.

It seems that humans can provide much more soul power than ghosts and monsters. It is faster to teach humans to practice martial arts than to fulfill the wishes of ghosts and monsters.

Shiyi's eyes turned to the others, but unfortunately after some experiments, only Wang Sheng and his wife could practice the skills, and those with official status could suppress monsters after practicing.

Officials' family members like Madam Wang also have the ability to resist attacks from monsters after practicing martial arts. Both of them are ordinary humans and have no killing power after practicing martial arts, so Shiyi did not waste the contract on them.

After setting out with Xia Bing and Pang Yong, Shi Yi met some students who were going to Beijing to take the imperial examinations. It was not known whether it was because they had no money or were influenced by some storybooks, but most of them were resting in abandoned temples or even in the wilderness.

The kind-hearted Xia Bing and Pang Yong have saved many scholars who were almost killed by female ghosts and monsters along the way. A few of them were lucky enough to learn Shiyi's martial arts and provided him with some soul power.

The innocent souls were left to Xia Bing and the others to fulfill their wishes, while the evil ghosts naturally became fertilizer for the Black Mountain tree monsters.

"Sir, this male ghost said that he died in a temple not far away and asked us to tear down the temple." Xia Bing was a little hesitant. Wasn't it a bit too much to tear down the temple for no reason?

"Oh? Is there an evil monk or evildoer in that temple? What caused him to harbor such deep resentment?"

"Neither. He attempted suicide in the temple, but eventually starved to death." Xia Bing felt a little embarrassed when talking about this.

The male ghost was once a scholar who went to Beijing to take the imperial examinations. Unfortunately, the times were bad and he failed several times. In a fit of rage, the male ghost hanged himself in the temple, but instead of dying, he broke both his legs.

It was already late autumn and no one would pass by here. The male ghost ran out of food and eventually couldn't stand it anymore and starved to death in the temple. He died unwillingly and wanted to tear down the temple.

This was the first time that Shiyi had encountered such a talent, and he couldn't help feeling a little speechless, but seeing the pitiful look of the male ghost, he still agreed: "Let's go there. If there are still people living in the temple, we can't demolish it. If no one lives there, we will fulfill your wish."

"Thank you, sir. It's fine if someone lives there, but if no one lives there, it must be demolished!"

Led by the male ghost, they came to a temple. Unfortunately, there were people there: a scholar who was taking an exam with his servant, a kind-looking old monk, and a burly man.

The three men each occupied a place, looking as if they were not interfering with each other. However, the burly man had a fierce look on his face, and it was obvious that he was not a good person.

The arrival of Shi Yi and his two companions broke this balance. Everyone turned to look at them. The scholar and the servant looked at Pang Yong, trying to judge whether he was the same kind of person as themselves.

The ferocious man looked at the two women, Shiyi and Xia Bing, with undisguised greed in his eyes; the monk glanced past the few people and behind them, where the male ghost was.