Yamafu Military Affairs

Chapter 107 Giant Scorpion
On Qingyun Mountain, a blurry black dot rapidly enlarged, and in just a dozen breaths it had reached the foot of the mountain and began climbing.

Qin Huai walked up along the path, and under the moonlight, he soon arrived at the Taoist temple on the top of the mountain.

Through the gap in the courtyard wall, Qin Huai looked at the malicious man and tiger in the yard and the Taoist audience who were struggling to hold on under the claws of the ghost tiger.

"A glimpse, start!"

Name: Scorpion Taoist
Status: Weather Giant Scorpion, ???
Expertise: Scorpion Fist 77%, Gu Magic 54%
Threat Level: Deep Red

The ghost tiger is a kind of monster that has the ability to communicate with the spirit world and control ghosts. It can understand human language and create ghost minions.

Threat Level: Deep Red

Under the black red outline, the evil tiger, with the cooperation of the illusory ghost, is relying on the advantages of its body and claws to suppress the sword and Guandao.

Without the cooperation of the weather, Guang He, who had lost one arm, could only fight the man-eating tiger to the death with his uncle using the swords and knives that he had practiced for many years.

Taoist Master Deshan was not much better off. Although he was strong and experienced, he could only dodge under the two giant claws of the Taoist Scorpion that were strong enough to break gold and split rocks. While guarding against the cold and flashing barbs of the scorpion's tail, he punched the bloated black clothes with his fists, causing waves.

Taoist Scorpion felt very happy when he saw the master of the temple scurrying around in front of him like a rabbit.

"Old Deshan, I didn't expect that you would have this day!"

A hoarse and dry voice sounded, and Taoist Deshan seemed to remember something. He frowned, dodged the claws and shouted.

"Five Poison Taoists? Didn't you all die at the hands of Master Huineng of Zhenbei Temple a long time ago?"

"Thanks to those natives, I was able to save my life."

Despite what he said, the huge black scorpion did not stop at all. Its two pincers were like knives and axes, chasing after Deshan, trying to capture the old Taoist quickly.

The Scorpion Taoist pulled off his hood, revealing an old face that was burned beyond recognition. His shriveled head twisted suddenly, his eyes rolled around, and he stared at Qin Huai who was approaching quietly.

He stretched out his slender, blood-red tongue and licked the corner of his mouth. He pulled an ugly smile and threatened Qin Huai in a sinister tone.

"Wow, I didn't expect there would be a snack so late."

"I'll add your mother's head!"

Before he finished speaking, Qin Huai took three or five steps in an instant. His left hand was as fast as lightning, and he punched out. With his right hand, he grasped the Shattered Cloud that appeared quietly, and he drew his sword fiercely. The rainbow-like sword light slashed straight towards the Scorpion Taoist's neck.

Taoist Scorpion was a little surprised when he saw Qin Huai's violent punches and sword strikes, but he didn't take it to heart.

The giant scorpion that was entangled with Taoist Deshan not far away dissipated and reappeared around the Taoist Scorpion.

One of the giant claws withdrew and blocked his neck, but the other iron pincer flashing with a dark blue color did not move forward to defend. Instead, it unexpectedly stretched forward and clamped Qin Huai's head and face fiercely.

Looking at the Scorpion Taoist who didn't take his punch seriously at all and the claws in front of him with a fishy smell, Qin Huai grinned, his left hand suddenly turned dark red, and his fist turned into a palm, tightly grasping the dark blue and dark brown iron claws.

Immediately his center of gravity dropped, and his right leg soared into the sky like a dragon. The raised tip of his shoe was like a beam of black lightning, fiercely piercing the Scorpion Taoist's heart.

Broken clouds flashed by, water splashed everywhere, and a big cut was made on the giant claw, which looked scary, but other than that, nothing else was accomplished.

The tip of the shoe seemed to have hit thick rubber and the force dissipated. The bloated black clothes were deeply dented by the strong impact, but it still did not burst, protecting the flesh inside.

"Layman, this person has aura protection, you must be careful when dealing with him!"

"It's okay, Taoist priest, go and look after your disciples first, I'll be here!"

Qin Huai glanced at the two Taoists who were already seriously injured by the tiger's claws, and signaled Taoist Deshan to go and provide support elsewhere first.

The Scorpion Taoist gave a chuckle, and the giant scorpion behind him, which was half real and half virtual, slowly approached Qin Huai.

"Little thing, you are quite capable."

Qin Huai looked at the giant scorpion's claws whose blade was gradually healing and the bloated black clothes that were swaying like water, with a myriad of thoughts in his mind.

This so-called weather recovery and defense are really not weak, and the main body in black clothes also has similar energy dissipation methods as the great success of Qi training. No wonder this scorpion Taoist dared to go up the mountain with one man and one tiger and offend Qingyun Temple. He has something.

Seeing the giant scorpion approaching, a revolver appeared in Qin Huai's hand. In less than a breath, he fired six shots at the black-clothed figure, causing everyone in the field to look over involuntarily.

Scorpion Taoist's heart was filled with alarm. The giant scorpion changed its position again and appeared dangerously in front of the man in black.

"what!"

The monster cried out in pain, his black clothes shrank, blood splattered, and the giant scorpion's body was dazed and seemed unstable.

good chance!
Qin Huai stared at the Scorpion Taoist's cloudy eyes, and their eyes met.

[Mirror pupil divine light]!
An eight-headed god with eight legs and eight tails appeared behind Qin Huai, and the sapphire wind and the aquamarine waves responded to the roar of Apocalypse.

Blood was dripping from the corners of Scorpion Taoist's eyes, and in his ears came the roar of a tiger that shook his body and mind. At this moment, he only felt that a red-hot iron rod was stirring violently in his head over and over again.

The giant scorpion hissed and turned into black gas and dissipated. Qin Huai stomped his foot hard, jumped in front of the Scorpion Taoist, and chopped him down with a knife.

Thick smoke billowed out, the bloated black clothes were torn, but the shriveled old man disappeared.

Blindfold?
Qin Huai's eyes flashed with green light, and he swung the Shattered Cloud in his hand. A very thin and long sharp water light pierced through the Scorpion Taoist who was hiding behind the Bagua Incense Burner and wanted to call the Ghost Tiger to run away.

"You killed an evil demon, the Scorpion Taoist."

Qin Huai did not stop, watching as all the Taoist audience had been basically dealt with, leaving only Taoist Deshan's giant tiger of a meter and a half and the ghost figure of Kuiran, and he breathed in silently.

[Penglai Hermit]!
By the time Qin Huai arrived beside Taoist Deshan, his flesh and blood had turned dark red and condensed under the deep blue matte light.

"Master, can you lend me your Guan Dao?"

With a lift of his toes, the large Guandao weighing dozens of kilograms flew into Qin Huai's hand. With a cross of his hands, the Qinglong blade pointed directly at the ghost tiger.

【Face change】!
Qin Huai looked at the ghost behind the fierce tiger, put on a dramatic look, and the Spring and Autumn sword in his hand also emitted a faint fluorescent light.

After all, he had just witnessed how Taoist Scorpion died, so Guihu knew very well that the man in front of him was not someone to be trifled with.

The tiger roared again, black air surged, and the ghostly evil spirit holding the illusory sword slashed towards Qin Huai fiercely.

The ferocious tiger also slapped Taoist Deshan with its claws, sending him flying, and its claws, shining with cold light, headed straight for Qin Huai.

The large Guandao danced with fluorescence, and sword flowers bloomed everywhere. In a few strokes, it broke the illusory ghost sword into pieces, cutting it into scattered black air.

The black air was eerie and strange, and it made people feel stiff and cold when it touched their bodies. Qin Huai's arms were strong and powerful, and he managed to turn the Guandao weighing dozens of pounds into white streaks.

"Layman, come together!"

Taoist Master Deshan, who had been knocked away, also rushed back. A faint green light appeared on his fist again. Although it was still flickering, its power was much stronger than his previous empty fist.

Qin Huai suddenly leaped up, and the eight-headed divine beast with green and yellow bodies rose up again. The sapphire wind and the aquamarine waves entangled, fluctuated, resonated, and blended wildly, and finally turned into a green-blue light blade embedded in the big Guandao.

A frightening aura spread.

The Guan Dao chopped down, and the dazzling sword light suddenly hit the neck of the ghost tiger who was in a stalemate with Taoist Deshan and had no power to dodge.

"Boom~" The feng shui was stirred, the ground cracked, and the huge Bagua incense burner weighing thousands of pounds in the center of the yard was overturned.

Qingyun Mountain seemed to tremble twice under this fierce blow!

The tiger's head was shattered to pieces, the ghost spirit was completely extinguished, everything was silent, and only the cold prompt sound was heard.

"You killed a ghost tiger"

...

After a long time, Qin Huai looked at the Guandao, of which only the blade was left and the blade was nowhere to be seen, and scratched his head helplessly.

He shouted at the sturdy Taoist priest whose chest was sunken after being hit by the ferocious tiger.

"Master, I'm sorry I broke your knife."

The strong Taoist looked in pain and was speechless.

"Nothing, just one more fight."

A voice came from behind Qin Huai, and it was Taoist Master Deshan who took over the conversation on behalf of his junior brother who was unable to speak.

"I would like to thank you for your help today. If you hadn't arrived in time, more than a dozen people in Qingyun Temple would have died tonight."

Qin Huai looked at Taoist Deshan who was bowing to him in thanks, and quickly raised his hands to help the Taoist priest up.

"Master, you are too serious. Anyone can kill these monsters. As a military officer in the government, I have to intervene when I see a monster causing trouble."

Taoist Master Deshan waved his hand, signaling his disciples who were not seriously injured to treat the injuries themselves, and then turned around to explain the origin of the monster to Qin Huai, a government official.

"This action of the layman can be regarded as acting in the name of justice. This Scorpion Taoist claimed to be a disciple of Southern Shaolin Temple in his early years. He had a skill of Gu Shu that he learned from nowhere and a profound skill of Scorpion Fist. He used Gu Shu to cure illnesses and save lives in Jiaozhi and southern Guangxi, and robbed the rich to help the poor. He was quite famous.

At that time, even the Ministry of Civil Affairs and major chieftains had to give him some face, and he was in the limelight.

Unfortunately, later on, this Scorpion Taoist priest got some unknown opportunity and developed a style of martial arts that was completely different from the orthodox Shaolin style. Although it was powerful, it was also quite strange.

One day, a wealthy man asked him to perform a magic trick to help his daughter-in-law give birth. When the Taoist Scorpion arrived at the scene and summoned the poisonous insect, he was exposed by a Miao Jiang orthodox who arrived shortly afterwards.

Originally, the gentry felt that hiring one Gu Master was not safe enough, so they invited another orthodox Gu Master from Miaojiang, hoping to have a two-pronged approach.

However, he did not expect that by this accident, he could save his grandson's life.

It turns out that although the Scorpion Taoist's witchcraft can help women get pregnant, whether the baby can be born successfully is all under the control of his mind.

Most of the couples who received his blessing would ask the Scorpion Taoist to help them protect their fetuses and assist in childbirth. The Scorpion Taoist would then randomly select women who were full-term pregnant, and use witchcraft combined with the evil magic of Southeast Asia to collect the pure blood, spirit and flesh of the babies for his practice.

The Scorpion Taoist was secretive in his actions. If he had not happened to come across the Miaojiang authentic story when he was performing his magic, the world would have been deceived by him for who knows how long.

The rich man was a little skeptical at first, but when he saw the expressions of the two men, he believed it most of the time on the spot.

Although the auras of both of them are giant scorpions, the aura of the Miao Jiang authentic one is full of clear and bright spiritual energy, while the aura of the Scorpion Taoist is full of blood and filth.

The two men fought for several moves in the landlord's house. The Scorpion Taoist relied on his evil magic to make rapid progress and his aura became more powerful. He took advantage of the Miao Jiang orthodox sect's negligence and summoned all kinds of poisonous insects to pounce on the landlords. After causing chaos, he escaped in the chaos.

When word spread, many men and women who had been harmed by the Scorpion Taoist priest pooled together some money to hire someone to kill this evil demon. However, by then the Scorpion Taoist priest had already become associated with several equally notorious demons and became known as the Five Poison Taoist priests.

The five monsters who have achieved great powers and possessed strange magic are indeed a force that cannot be underestimated. No one is willing to enforce justice on their behalf, and people originally thought that the matter might just end like this.

Unexpectedly, the great master Huineng of Zhenbei Temple was alarmed, and the Fire-Headed King took action, and the Five Poisons Taoist disappeared from then on.

But I didn’t expect that this Taoist Scorpion didn’t die, but appeared in Jiaozhi again.”

Qin Huai listened silently, feeling somewhat confused.

"Qingyun Temple is only a hundred miles away from Longyuan. What made this Scorpion Taoist willing to risk being discovered by the Commandery? Could it be that he has a life-and-death feud with the Taoist priest?"

Looking at Qin Huai's eyes that were like an ancient well, Taoist Deshan sighed and explained everything to Qin Huai.

"In my early years, I loved to fight for justice. I fought with him before he joined the Five Poison Taoists. Although I didn't kill him, I did break his foundation. Today, he can come out of the mountains to commit crimes again. I guess he did a lot of evil things after escaping from the hands of Master Huineng. Only by paying the price of countless lives can he use evil methods to cultivate this qi again.

But judging by his actions today, I'm afraid the ghost tiger and the alien insects may have another chance."

"how do I say this?"

"Tigers are rare in Jiaozhi, let alone the monster ghost tiger that can control ghosts. The juice of this strange insect is a rare thing that can block people's qi and blood and disturb their minds. Although it is unlikely to be useful to meteorological masters, it is absolutely effective for warriors of our level of cultivation. This kind of thing specifically targeting meteorology is a secret of various schools. I don't think that the Scorpion Taoist's Gu Book can cultivate such a strange insect."

As they talked, the two of them walked over to the shriveled body of Scorpion Taoist.

Taoist Deshan's hands flashed with green light, and after a while of searching, he found several things.

Qin Huai looked at the colorful luster on these items and couldn't help but frowned.

"These evil Gu Masters love to poison personal belongings. Although we have weather protection to avoid some of them, there are always some young and inexperienced people who are easily fooled."

As the green light passed by, all these strange colors were wiped out as if they were erased by an eraser.

Qin Huai took the Pixiu-shaped necklace handed to him by Taoist Master Deshan, and his heart moved.

【Pixiu Gold Chain】

Function: Attract wealth and fortune
The Yama token that contains the power of Pixiu will increase the awakening degree of any inheritance by 6% after use, and has a special strengthening effect on the body.

Note: Xuanyuan trained the bear, the badger, the leopard, the steed, the fox, and the tiger to fight with Emperor Yan in the Banquan Plain.

———"Records of the Grand Historian: Annals of the Five Emperors"

"The rest are all evil sorcery. You can take them back to the Commandery to exchange for reward money. If you don't like money, you can give it to me. I will give it to Qingwei on your behalf during the Dharma Assembly in exchange for something useful."

Taoist Master Deshan pointed at the remaining booklets and asked Qin Huai what he was going to do. Qin Huai thought about it and said,
"Master, you have thought of everything. Thank you for your kindness. But I would like to take a look at the Scorpion Taoist's weather method first. Do you have it here?"

"The Scorpion Taoist's Qigong is sinister and vicious, and it does not match the layman's nature. If the layman wants to switch to Qigong, he can turn from a soldier to a Taoist and join our sect. I believe that with the layman's strength, it will not be long before he can read the Qingwei Daozang and improve his Qigong realm."

Taoist Master Deshan shook his head and did not recommend Qin Huai to practice this evil method, but he still handed the Scorpion Fist manual to Qin Huai.

"Please wait and see. I will go and reattach my disciple's arm first."

Taoist Deshan took his leave, but Qin Huai did not rush to absorb the power of the Pixiu. Instead, he opened the so-called Scorpion Fist boxing manual first.

...

Qin Huai flipped through the method of Qigong cultivation, his brows sometimes relaxed and sometimes frowned.

"Is that so? Then this weather should be the specialty of this Yambu fruit..."

Qin Huai recalled the stringent requirements of practicing Qigong, took a step forward, and rushed towards the Sanqing Temple.

He had some doubts that he needed to find someone to answer, and the knowledgeable Taoist Master Deshan was undoubtedly the best candidate at the moment.

(End of this chapter)