Wife, you didn't really drug me, did you?

Chapter 634 The Immortals Beyond the Pass
Uh uh…

The little girl suddenly clutched her leg in pain. At this moment, the young man beside her also became anxious and stepped forward to attack Chen Jie, saying, "Let go of Er Ya."

"Second, Second Donkey, don't beg him. Grandma Hu will come to save us right away."

Chen Jie dodged the young man's attack in a flash, looked at him and said, "He's already summoned a god, why didn't you?"

The young man's face turned bright red as he said, "I... I don't need your permission."

"Hey, you can't possibly not be able to get one?"

Chen Jie's words, "He kills people by destroying their spirit," made the young man blush. He wished he could kill Chen Jie right then and there. "Don't underestimate me! It's not that my time hasn't come yet, that I haven't been chosen by the immortals. Why would I let you criticize me?"

Chen Jie then looked at the young man and said, "By the way, I know you guys are called 'the master and the second master,' one as the main attacker and the other as the support."

"I don't need you to say more."

The young man attacked again, but Chen Jie kicked him away, sending him sprawling to the ground.

"You idiot!"

Seeing this, the little girl immediately cried out in alarm. Hearing this, the young man also reacted and tried to get up, but he felt a force sealing his limbs, making him unable to move. Chen Jie had already withdrew most of his strength and had not used it, otherwise, one kick would have been enough to turn the young man into mincemeat.

At this moment, Chen Jie looked at the anxious little girl and said, "It's alright, he's just temporarily unable to move. Tell him not to make a fuss."

The little girl gritted her teeth and said, "Kill us then, and Grandma Hu will avenge us."

Upon hearing this, Chen Jie asked, "Is Third Great-Grandma Hu your leader?"

"What leader? That's our immortal lord!"

As they were talking, Chen Jie asked, "Immortal? What immortal? A terrestrial immortal?"

Chen Jie asked, and the little girl suddenly froze. Then Chen Jie felt a strange power flowing into her body again, but this time the power was much greater than the last time.

Then the little girl spoke, but this time she spoke in a mature and authoritative manner, even with the air of someone in a superior position.

"A terrestrial immortal? I dare not accept such a title!"

At this moment, a voice came out, and Chen Jie looked at the little girl whose voice had changed and said, "Great-Grandma Hu San?"

"I don't deserve it, I don't deserve it. Please put me down, young friend. I'm not used to talking to people in this position."

Upon hearing this, Chen Jie looked at the old lady, then reached out and put the little girl down. At this moment, the little girl immediately bent over. Seeing this, Chen Jie asked curiously, "Can we have a proper chat now?"

The little girl said, "Okay, I can tell you didn't mean to hurt them."

Chen Jie asked, "How did you figure that out?"

"Hehe, with your formidable cultivation, taking them down would be a piece of cake!"

Chen Jie paused for a moment and said, "You can tell my cultivation level?"

"Of course, in your human terms, you'd say you've reached the second stage of the Fusion God realm, and you already possess a significant portion of the power of the Heavenly Dao."

Upon hearing this, Chen Jie looked at Grandma Hu San and said, "Grandma Hu San, you have a good eye."

"Hehe, if you didn't have this much insight, you humans would have killed you long ago. Alright, young man, I can see that you are a kind-hearted person. It just so happens that my immortal family outside the pass is encountering some difficulties and needs a human to help us. I wonder if you can lend a hand?"

Chen Jie looked at her and said, "You need a human, and you've chosen me. Is there some kind of trap here?"

"Hehe, caution is good, but excessive caution can be counterproductive. I'll give you a chance, and you should give yourself one too. Why don't you come with me and take a look? It might be a great opportunity!"

Upon hearing this, Chen Jie looked at Grandma Hu and asked, "Can I trust you?"

Grandma Hu said, "Believe it or not, it's up to you. I'm leaving now. If you believe me, come with me. If you don't, just pretend I didn't say anything and go by yourself."

After saying that, Grandma Hu turned around and said to the young man beside her, "Let's go."

After saying that, the two walked straight outside. Chen Jie frowned when he saw this, but still followed them.

Suddenly, the little girl's eyes regained their clarity, and Chen Jie also felt a sense of clarity emanating from her. Then, the little girl turned to look at Chen Jie and asked, "Will you help us?"

Upon hearing this, Chen Jie replied, "Not necessarily. I want to see what you're up to!"

The young girl said, "You, an outsider, are quite different from the others."

They walked straight ahead and eventually went outside. The girl said to the boy, "Get the carriage ready."

The young man immediately hitched up the carriage and drove off. Seeing this, Chen Jie also jumped onto the carriage, squatted down, and looked at the little girl, asking, "Where are we going?"

"Old Linzi".

Then he ignored Chen Jie and sat in the carriage with his eyes closed to rest. The carriage was quite simple, without a canopy, just an open-air chassis. The people here call this kind of carriage a "big saddle carriage".

The car moved slowly forward, and after a while the little girl asked, "What's your name?"

Chen Jie said, "Chen Jiu Si."

"Oh, my name is Liu Erya, and his name is Erluzi, and his full name is Li Sheng."

The young girl explained.

Chen Jie said, "That's easy to remember."

Liu Erya said, "Your kung fu is amazing. Even if I asked Great-Grandma Hu Shisan to beat you, you still wouldn't be able to defeat me."

Chen Jie said, "I'm quite curious about that. After you summon a spirit to possess you, are you still yourself?"

Liu Erya said, "Of course, we are still us."

Chen Jie said, "But if you are still yourself, why have your behaviors changed? What does it feel like?"

Liu Erya said, "I watched the whole thing, but my body was taken over by my great-grandmother and the others."

Chen Jiedao: "First-person perspective, watching yourself do things? But unable to control your limbs?"

"Is such that."

Liu Erya said.

Chen Jie nodded, then said to the young man beside him, "Hey, your kung fu is really amazing, can you teach me?"

Chen Jie looked at the young man and said, "Didn't you already learn how to summon spirits? Why are you learning kung fu from me?"

The young man lowered his head and remained silent.

Liu Erya said, "He's too stupid. He can never learn anything and can only be a second-in-command. So he's always wanted to learn something else."

Chen Jie said, "If you want to learn kung fu."

Chen Jie thought for a moment, then flipped his hand, and a secret manual appeared in his hand: "Five Tigers Severing the Gate Sword Technique". This was the first sword technique that Chen Jie learned in Mianshui. Later, after Chen Jie improved his strength, he modified this sword technique.

The learning difficulty has been greatly reduced, but the power has been greatly increased.

It has now been adopted by Chen Jie as a textbook for the martial arts training courses at the Huangzhou Prefecture entrance examination. It's a required course for military academies and the most widely used sword technique among Chen Jie's soldiers. Chen Jie handed it directly to Li Sheng, saying, "This book is for you. By the way, you can read Chinese characters, right?"

Li Sheng looked at the book Chen Jie handed him, politely accepted it with both hands, and then said, "I know it. Er Ya and I are both Han Chinese, but we have always lived outside the Great Wall. My parents told me that we should be Song people."

Song Dynasty people?

Chen Jie glanced at them and nodded to himself. They must be descendants of Han Chinese who were captured and taken to the north during the Song Dynasty. During the Jingkang Incident, many Han Chinese were displaced. Thinking of them, Chen Jie thought of Huangyu Island in the South China Sea, the Zhong family who saved him, and his apprentice Gouzi.

Weren't they all persecuted by foreign tribes during the Song Dynasty and forced to wander abroad?

Thinking this way, Chen Jie felt a little closer to the two of them.

At this moment, the young man received the Five Tigers Severing the Gate Saber technique. After taking a few glances at it, he liked it very much and said, "Thank you, uncle."

Uncle?

Chen Jie found these words somewhat unfamiliar. He seemed to be only twenty-five years old, so how could he be considered an "uncle"? The young man in front of him looked to be sixteen or seventeen, and he was at most ten years older than him, so was he considered an "uncle"?
Chen Jie shook his head, finding it somewhat amusing.

However, once the young man obtained the secret manual, he became quite talkative and told Chen a lot about local customs and traditions.

The term "immortals outside the pass" is very popular outside the pass, but rarely heard inside the pass. Many people outside the pass believe in immortals.

Furthermore, the immortals have many shrines outside the pass, and Liujiatun, where Liu Erya and Li Sheng live, is one of the major shrines outside the pass.

Moreover, it was the most prosperous Hu family branch.

The immortals outside the pass are mainly divided into five families: Hu, Huang, Bai, Liu, and Hui, as well as some miscellaneous immortals. However, because the miscellaneous immortals do not have a lineage, their lineage is generally mixed and they rarely appear in the world.

The five great families of Hu, Huang, Bai, Liu, and Hui truly rule the immortal realm outside the pass.

Among these five major families, the Hu and Huang clans are the most powerful, while the Liu family has the strongest individual strength.

The great-grandmother Hu who invited Chen Jie this time should be considered the leader of the immortals outside the pass, and also the most powerful one.

After learning this information, Chen Jie became very curious about what this number one immortal from beyond the Great Wall was after.

Liu Erya clearly saw Chen Jie's doubts and said, "Don't worry, Grandma Hu San wouldn't harm anyone."

Chen Jie nodded, thinking that no matter what, he would go and see. In any case, he was not weak, and it would probably be difficult for the other party to take him down. Moreover, he had the trump card of divine blood. If it really came to a desperate situation, he would not be unable to protect himself. Unless someone was a true terrestrial immortal, they would be able to take him down.

With that in mind, Chen Jie rode in the carriage into the old forest.

At this time, at the foot of a mountain in the old forest, there was a large village, which was Liujiatun.

Just then, Liu Erya drove the carriage back and saw farmers carrying hoes to work in the fields and hunters carrying bows and arrows coming out of the forest. She greeted them all warmly.

"Third Uncle is busy."

"Brother Tu has caught another wild boar."

As the group talked, they entered the village. Everyone was very enthusiastic. At that moment, the carriage stopped in front of a gatehouse with red lanterns hanging on it. A child of about ten years old was collecting firewood with a basket at the gate.

Upon seeing Liu Erya, he immediately said, "Big sister, you're back."

After saying this, Liu Erya said, "Quickly tell Mother that the family has arrived!"

Upon hearing this, the child immediately called out to the yard, "Mother, the family is here."

"Okay, come inside quickly. The kang (heated brick bed) is warm right now. Your dad is killing a chicken; we'll stew it in a bit."

As they talked, the whole family got busy.

Chen Jie followed Liu Erya into the courtyard and saw that the courtyard was very large and had a lot of poultry, including chickens, ducks and geese. There seemed to be twenty or thirty chickens.

Liu Erya said, "We rarely eat this chicken; it's mostly prepared for immortals."

As he spoke, he entered the house. At this moment, a very kind-looking peasant woman came out. Her face was flushed, a common sight in the Northeast, mostly from the cold weather.

"Quickly, come inside. You must be the distinguished guest that Grandma Hu San Tai mentioned. Take off your shoes and get on the kang (heated brick bed)."

Chen Jie was caught off guard by the family's enthusiasm and could only nod. Just then, a man walked in, carrying two cleaned and plucked chickens.

Then he saw Chen Jiedao and said, "Hey brother, come here and feel right at home. Get on the kang first, and we'll have a drink together in a bit."

Chen Jie was a little confused. What am I here for?

The family was so enthusiastic that they ushered Chen Jie onto the kang (a heated brick bed). If Chen Jie hadn't sensed no hostility from them, he would have really thought they were preparing to attack him.

And so Chen Jie was put on the kang (a heated brick bed), and even his shoes were placed on the windowsill.

Sitting on the warm kang (heated brick bed), Chen Jie felt as if he had been transported back in time, as if he were spending the Spring Festival with his parents in his hometown in Northeast China.

They did this until noon, when a kang table was brought out and the dishes began to be served. However, before serving the dishes, they prepared several small bowls in advance, took out today's dishes, especially the stewed chicken, put the two chicken heads into the small bowls, and placed them in the middle of the house.

There was a red paper there, with the words "Offering" written at the very top center:
The inscription below reads: "[The Position of Hu San Tai Nai, the Guardian Deity of the Liu Family Mansion]".

Following this, write a couplet on each side: "Cultivating one's true nature in the deep mountains," with the second line reading: "Leaving the ancient cave to protect the family's peace."

Good dishes were placed on the offering table, and then homemade rice wine was poured over it, along with three sticks of incense.

Immediately afterwards, Liu's father turned around with a smile and said, "Haha, honored guest, you've been waiting for a long time. I'll have to serve the immortals first."

Then he sat down at the table and looked at Chen Jie, asking, "What is your honorable name, esteemed guest?"

Chen Jie said, "Chen Jiu Si."

"Oh, Brother Chen, haha, all guests are welcome. Our village is nothing compared to big cities and counties, we don't have much good food, just some local village stuff."

Chen Jie glanced at the table; it was quite abundant.

There is chicken and meat.

At this moment, Liu's father said, "Come, come, try our own free-range chicken, and the stewed mushrooms here are hazel mushrooms that I picked myself from the mountain. They taste delicious."

"Okay, okay, I'll do it myself."

"Come on, let's have a drink. This rice wine is the best I've brewed this year. Let's drink until we're drunk!"

Chen Jie clasped his hands in greeting, but he couldn't refuse the other person's politeness. The meal and drinks were enjoyed by both host and guest.

After they had eaten, Chen Jie looked at Liu's father and said, "Brother Liu, we've eaten and drunk our fill, let's get down to business."

Upon hearing this, Liu's father said, "Alright, wait a moment. I'll bring my pipe from home."

As he spoke, Liu's father picked up his pipe, lit a bowl of tobacco, and as the smoke rose, his expression slowly changed, becoming more and more like that of an old lady.

"Hehe...Young man, you really didn't disappoint me, you really came!"

At this moment, the voice of Hu San Tai's grandmother came from Liu's father's mouth.

(End of this chapter)