Zhutian: Everything starts from becoming a disciple of Uncle Jiu!

Chapter 378 Zhao Zheng: I have a plan to kill the tree monster! (Update, 17 chapters left!)

"You heard me wrong. What I meant was that I have more female Taoist friends... Well, I learned it from discussing Taoism."

Zhao Zheng said calmly that he learned the sword-wielding technique from Bai Min'er when they were discussing Taoism in the woods outside the ancient tomb.

"..."

Do I believe it?
Who is this person who is teaching the sword-wielding technique in a random way?
Also, I'm not deaf.
I heard the word fiancée!

Yan Chixia complained in his heart. He was stunned when he was thinking about it. Wait a minute, the corners of his mouth twitched a few times.

He got it!
Although he is still alone, he has been traveling around the world for so many years. He has never eaten pork, but he has seen pigs run!
Yan Chixia looked at Zhao Zheng with disdain and focused her gaze on Zhao Zheng's scholar's uniform. Hmm? That's not right!

Yan Chixia was stunned to see Zhao Zheng dressed like a scholar, then looked at the bookcase hanging on the tree not far away, and stared at Zhao Zheng. He had no other intentions.
Just asking,

You are truly a Taoist disciple.

Taoist disciples dress like this?
"Of course!"

"oh oh……"

Wait, did I speak?
Yan Chixia was stunned for a moment, and then she heard Zhao Zheng say, "When traveling in the martial arts world, you always need to have some disguises. Besides, dressing like this will easily attract those evil spirits that harm people... Besides, I'm only twenty-one, which is the age for studying!"

"Um……"

That makes sense.

But I don’t believe it!

Yan Chixia nodded, thinking to himself that Zhao Zheng was dressed like this most likely for those female ghosts.

However, after looking at Zhao Zheng's face, he felt that he didn't look like him. Based on Zhao Zheng's face, he could find anyone he wanted.

Yan Chixia thought about it for a moment, then he looked at Zhao Zheng seriously with a frown and said, "Are you serious about what you just said about the tree demon?"

"Of course, and I have a plan..."

Zhao Zheng paused, looked at Yan Chixia who was listening attentively, and continued: "Although this method requires sacrificing the small self to complete the big self, but for the sake of the people of this world, I endure it..."

Yan Chixia's eyelids twitched but he didn't say anything, he just felt his palms were itchy. He thought it would be great if Zhao Zheng was his son, then his palms wouldn't be itchy anymore.

However, as he listened, he found something was wrong, especially after he heard Zhao Zheng say that he was going to seduce those female ghosts, thus leaving the tree demon grandmother isolated and helpless...

Yan Chixia was silent, he looked up at Zhao Zheng who was speaking seriously, he really wanted to see how thick-skinned Zhao Zheng was, but he still resisted the urge to curse.

"I'm afraid this method... won't work. Although this tree demon doesn't know how to subdue ghosts, it does know some ways to control ghosts..."

He had lived in Lanruo Temple for a while, so he naturally knew that those female ghosts were controlled. It was wishful thinking to think of leaving the tree demon grandma isolated and helpless by this method.

"Wait, is this kid trying to make fun of me?"

Yan Chixia touched the Xuanyuan Sword on his back, and while estimating the possibility of beating Zhao Zheng, he frowned and asked, "My friend, are you really here to deal with the tree demon?"

"Of course, as cultivators, how can we sit idly by and watch this demon kill lives and bring disaster to the world?" Zhao Zheng said with a serious expression.

"Um……"

Do not believe!

Yan Chixia shook his head in his heart, but looking at Zhao Zheng's serious expression, he felt that Zhao Zheng probably had other purposes. Of course, he didn't know what they were.

But he was sure of one thing, that was that Zhao Zheng seemed really willing to work with him to deal with the tree demon grandma.

Still young and hot-blooded!

Yan Chixia sighed in his heart, weighed his and Zhao Zheng's strengths, and found that there was great potential, so his eyes lit up.

"Thank you very much for your help, but I'm afraid you have to change your plan..." Yan Chixia said calmly.

As he was talking, his stomach growled. Looking at Zhao Zheng's gaze, he said with embarrassment, "I was only practicing during the day."

"It's okay, I have wine and food..."

Zhao Zheng took out a table and chairs from behind with his left hand, and put some cooked food and wine there. Yan Chixia looked at Zhao Zheng's back in confusion.

"Jutsu in the pot!"

"..."

Do not believe,

Whose trick is behind this? !
Yan Chixia complained in his heart. Zhao Zheng opened the wine jar and poured a glass for Yan Chixia. He sat down and held out his hand: "Please come in, fellow Taoist."

"This... Then I won't be polite."

Yan Chixia wanted to refuse, but he was really hungry, so he sat down, picked up the wine bowl and started drinking.

Ok?
This wine!

Yan Chixia's eyes lit up. Zhao Zheng added a 30-year-old Fenjiu and said, "I have yet to ask for your name, fellow Taoist?"

Yan Chixia waved his hand and smiled, "What's the point of having a surname? My name is Yan Chixia. By the way, is your name really Zhao Zheng?"

With this name, plus Zhao Zheng's height and the two words "Tai'a" on Zhao Zheng's magic sword, he couldn't help but think about it.

"Correct."

“From Shaanxi?”

Yan Chixia picked up some food with chopsticks and stared at Zhao Zheng curiously. Zhao Zheng rolled his eyes and shook his head to deny it.

"no!"

"Oh……"

Do not believe!

Yan Chixia didn't believe it in his heart, but he didn't want to ask more questions, because he knew that the more he knew about some things, the more troublesome it would be.

Looking at the almost similar age difference between Zhao Zheng and Shi'er, he sighed inwardly, paused, swallowed the food in his mouth and said, "Actually, it's great that you have the idea of ​​exorcising demons..."

Then, when it came, Yan Chixia didn't say anything else, but said that the tree demon was very powerful, and its roots were all over the mountain. In short, this demon was not easy to kill.

He wanted to persuade Zhao Zheng to leave.

It’s not that Yan Chixia thinks that he and Zhao Zheng cannot defeat the tree demon grandma. On the contrary, he thinks there is a good chance that they can win.
However, the chance is not small, but this does not mean that he can win for sure. Not to mention if he encounters an accident, Zhao Zheng is still young!
Not much different from his Shier.

"so smart?"

Zhao Zheng was surprised. Yan Chixia nodded and angrily slammed the table and snorted, "Humph, of course it's powerful. If it wasn't powerful, I would have set it on fire and burned it to ashes..."

"Don't worry, I have my own plans!"

"..."

have to,
This brat doesn't listen to advice, just like Shier.

Yan Chixia curled his lips, thinking that his kindness was taken for granted, but after thinking for a while, he said, "Your previous plan won't work..."

It seems that he has been drinking, or maybe he doesn't want to procrastinate like before, Yan Chixia's attitude has changed drastically.

In other words, Yan Chixia became more straightforward and directly pointed out that Zhao Zheng's plan to seduce the female ghost was not feasible, and said that humans and ghosts have different paths and should not go astray.

Zhao Zheng asked back: "Do you have a better idea?"

"Forehead……"

Yan Chixia was speechless when he heard this. If there was a better way, he would not have temporarily stopped fighting with the tree demon grandma.

"I know a little bit about mathematics..."

Zhao Zheng opened his mouth, looking at the sight Yan Chixia was looking at, and explained: "I calculated before I came here that this tree demon's life has come to an end. Even if it has not, it will be quiet for a hundred years because of this."

"real or fake?"

"I calculated that you have a son. I also calculated that he dares to sleep with the lights on... Well, he has not turned off the lights for more than two months."

Zhao Zheng threw out the coin and looked at the hexagram. After that, he looked at Yan Chixia opposite him. Yan Chixia was silent for a while and gritted his teeth.

"...I believe it."

Well, this is something Shier can do!
Good boy, just wait for me. Thinking of Shi'er who never turns off the lights before sleeping, Yan Chixia wanted to go back to Wumenju and beat Shi'er up immediately.

"Tsk, I hope everyone is okay."

Seeing Yan Chixia being as angry as Taoist Simu when he faced Jiale who didn't turn off the lights when sleeping, Zhao Zheng clasped his hands together in his heart.

Then, Yan Chixia started drinking and talking, and the words "fellow Taoist" and "young friend" were no longer mentioned.
There is only A Zheng!

Zhao Zheng also called him Old Yan all the time, and the two of them clinked cups and toasted each other. Of course, Zhao Zheng was drinking tea, which made Yan Chixia look down on him.

"What kind of tea is a grown man drinking?"

Zhao Zheng smiled and said nothing, and then Yan Chixia seemed to become a complete chatterbox and started talking about this and that.

When Yan Chixia heard that Zhao Zhengzhen was a scholar and was planning to pursue a career in officialdom, he was stunned and said with a complicated look in his eyes.

"Being an official... isn't really... that good."

"The word 'official' has two mouths, how can it be bad?"

"Hahaha, that's right, there are indeed two mouths." Yan Chixia laughed and looked at Zhao Zheng curiously, "But why do you suddenly not want to pursue a career in politics?"

"Changed my volunteer choice!"

"..."

I also know that you changed your choice.
I'm asking why!!

Seeing that Zhao Zheng didn't say anything, Yan Chixia and Zhao Zheng started talking about other things. After talking about this and that, Yan Chixia believed Zhao Zheng's identity.

There was no other reason. Among the questions he asked, there were many questions about Taoist practice. Not only did Zhao Zheng answer them one by one fluently, but he also had insights that even made him feel shocked.

Zhao Zheng didn't care about being tricked by Yan Chixia, because he had already found out what he wanted to know, which was that Taoism and Buddhism really were fighting.

After Lin Lingsu's death, Buddhism began to fight back against Lin Lingsu's anti-Buddhism campaign.

Taoism naturally can't sit still!
Especially since Buddhism was almost beaten by them like a younger brother, so the practitioners of the two factions started fighting.

As a result, the Taoist and Buddhist sects suffered heavy casualties.
If it were not so, the world would not be so chaotic, and there would not be so many evildoers running rampant. But what is a bit strange is that, well, according to what Yan Chixia said, before the dispute between Buddhism and Taoism, although the world was good, it did not seem to be much better, and evildoers still appeared frequently.

Yan Chixia didn't know the specific reason. After all, he had only been in the cultivation world for more than twenty years.

"A Zheng, how many years have you been practicing?"

Speaking of this, Yan Chixia asked curiously, not for anything else, but for Zhao Zheng's martial arts and Taoist cultivation.

"More than a year, um, about a year and a half."

Zhao Zheng calculated that this was the time since he started practicing, plus the time in the copy world. Excluding the copy world, it would only be one year and one month.

"A year and a half?"

Yan Chixia's eyelids twitched, and she looked at Zhao Zheng with suspicion and scrutiny. Zhao Zheng nodded, stretched out his right hand, and slightly separated his thumb and index finger.

"My talent is a little bit higher than yours."

"..."

See it!

Yan Chixia did not doubt it, but drank his wine in a bad mood. In a word, comparing yourself to others is really annoying.

He was angry, but when he thought that Shi'er, who was about the same age as Zhao Zheng, couldn't withstand three of his moves,
He became even more angry.

Zhao Zheng looked at Yan Chixia, whose temper was almost visible on his face, but he was not angry. Instead, he smiled and said, "People are different. Just like the saying goes, how can you surpass the efforts of several generations of my ancestors in ten years of hard study..."

"This... is a bit unorthodox!"

Yan Chixia was stunned for a moment, then a sighing smile appeared on his face. Thinking about it, he said, "You just said you were from Qiantang, so why did you suddenly come to Jinhua?"

"I'm here to visit my relatives..."

Zhao Zheng opened his mouth to reply. Yan Chixia wanted to ask why he came here, but after seeing the book box hanging on the books by Zhao Zheng, he was stunned for a moment, sighed slightly, and uttered the words "My condolences".

I just expressed my condolences.

He noticed that Zhao Zheng was staring at him with a frown.

"My uncle is still alive!"

"Ahem, eat some food..."

Yan Chixia looked a little embarrassed knowing that he had said the wrong thing. The two continued to eat. After three rounds of drinks, the drunk Yan Chixia couldn't resist his curiosity and looked at Zhao Zheng's hands in confusion.

"Why don't you bite your finger when you borrow the spell?"

"Bite your finger?"

"Draw talismans to borrow magic power... hiccups, if you don't draw talismans, how can you borrow so much magic power?" Yan Chixia asked curiously.

"The mana you borrowed is very little?"

"..."

"Really so little? That shouldn't be the case, right?"

Looking at Yan Chixia's expression, Zhao Zheng was surprised, thinking that the difference in the amount of mana loaned out should not be so large.

Open the system, turn to the status bar, and look at the temporary status added because of the borrowing method. The translation of this status is roughly as follows.

Lender: Zhao Zheng
Loan amount: 129600 mana...

Available amount: 120000 mana...

Amount used: 9600 mana...

Lending platform: Taiyi Jiuku Bank Head Office…

Well, you are worthy of being called the Heavenly Lord.
So grand!
Zhao Zheng put away the system and looked across at Yan Chixia, who was looking down at his ten fingers covered with wounds with a confused look on his face.

"I think there's something wrong with your method?!"

Zhao Zheng thought for a moment, how could such a generous person like Tianzun allow people to bite their fingers to borrow his magic power?
This is not God,

Besides, it’s not reasonable!
"Well...it's possible!"

Yan Chixia nodded subconsciously, then fell asleep on the table, which made Zhao Zheng curl his lips.

"Are you really not afraid that the monster will kill you... Oh, okay, okay." Zhao Zheng saw the Xuanyuan Sword emitting a faint golden light and entering the master protection mode. He stood up and cleaned up the unfinished food.

Then, the big hand reached out to the dilapidated wooden house at the side and grabbed a not-so-clean cup. Zhao Zheng looked disdainful and used his magic power to transform into an invisible big hand, grabbed the quilt in the air and threw it at Yan Chixia.

"Continue to be my scholar."

Zhao Zheng grabbed the book box hanging on the tree and walked into the second floor of the dilapidated wooden house next to Yan Chixia.

After Zhao Zheng walked into the wooden house, Yan Chixia slowly opened his eyes and looked at Zhao Zheng who walked into the wooden house with confusion in his eyes.

"What on earth is this kid doing here?"

never mind,

who cares,
As long as we can deal with this tree monster, it will be fine.

If he were young, Yan Chixia would still be interested in pursuing the truth, but now, he is old and no longer likes the truth.

"sleep……"

As for dealing with the tree demon's outbreak,
Well, things will work out when the time comes!

Yan Chixia changed his posture, wrapped the quilt tightly around himself, and continued to sleep soundly, too lazy to go to the room next door to rest.

But when he fell asleep, he opened his eyes and looked at the Tai Chi diagram on the palm of his right hand. After rubbing it on his pants, he pinched the seal and chanted a spell, then slapped it towards the distance: "The sky and the earth are boundless, Qiankun borrows the law!"

Snapped!
There was a crisp sound, probably as powerful as a small stone thrown casually, which made Yan Chixia's face turn as black as ink, and he felt that Zhao Zheng had played a trick on him.

“Maybe I read it wrong?”

Yan Chixia tried again, but the power was the same. It was not until he bit his finger again and drew a Tai Chi diagram, and then the grass was broken into pieces with a bang, that he gritted his teeth and said.

"艸..."

Brat,
Just wait for me!

Yan Chixia glared at the house next to him, then continued to lie down on the table, wrapped tightly in the quilt and went to sleep. Zhao Zheng didn't know about this.

He is reading at this moment!

While reading, he would occasionally look at his paintings of ladies washing their hair. It was a pity that no matter how long he waited, Nie Xiaoqian did not come, nor did he see Xiaoqing, Xiaozhuo, Xiaoai and other female ghosts.

"Are the female ghosts taking a break today?"

Can’t wash your little head?

Zhao Zheng looked surprised, and the hidden eye behind his head flew out. After a while, with the help of the sight of the heavenly eye, he discovered that the female ghosts were not resting tonight.

"Hiss, these female ghosts are really too much. They actually use illusions instead of real ones. Hmm? I'm surprised, it's quite big..."

Zhao Zheng watched with a critical eye. To be honest, the quality of these girls from the tree demon grandma was not bad.

The orioles and swallows are different in their fatness and thinness.
Well, to keep it simple, just go from A to G...

Although most of them used inferior illusions to confuse the men and make them think they had gotten to the bottom of the matter, there were still a few who actually did get to the bottom of the matter.

"But where is my lady?"

Zhao Zheng looked everywhere but couldn't find Nie Xiaoqian, so he just assumed that she was taking a break tonight and wouldn't be working.

"But these guys are pretty... Oh, they come here for excitement, that's not pitiful, they are just courting death..."

Zhao Zheng muttered, retracted his Heavenly Eye, threw down his book and began to practice. He didn't want to practice either. He wanted to talk to her about life and imagine the future, but there was no way. Miss Nie was not going to work tonight.
He couldn't just sit there and wait.

"Practice!"

Zhao Zheng closed his eyes and meditated. He didn't feel it was a pity that Nie Xiaoqian didn't come. If she didn't come, then she didn't come. After all, this time he came mainly for the mission, not Nie Xiaoqian!
Putting aside his distracting thoughts, Zhao Zheng began to experience the difference between the world in this world. He didn't know if it was an illusion.
He felt that the spiritual energy of heaven and earth in Lanruo Temple was even grayer!
“The will of the people is the will of heaven?”

Zhao Zheng opened his eyes and looked up at the sky through the ceiling. He observed the stars for a while, but when he found that he could not see anything, he closed his eyes again and practiced. He was silent all night.
Until the next day when the sky was slightly bright...

(End of this chapter)