My enemies became my companions

Chapter 515: Sword Fairy Little Fox (Three in One)

After going up the river and returning, Chen Yi changed his clothes and found an empty room to wash up, so that no one would recognize him. When he returned to the room and walked around the screen, he saw Yin Tingxue's flushed little face.

I don’t know if he was scared or what.

Chen Yi reached out and held her in his arms, and asked, "What's wrong? Are you scared?"

"A little bit." Yin Tingxue nodded, hesitated for a moment and said, "Chen Yi... you are amazing."

“It’s already amazing.”

Was she blushing because of this? Chen Yi couldn't help but think, a girl who had been married for only one or two years, who was used to staying at home and didn't know the outside world, suddenly found out that her husband was so powerful, thinking about it this way...it was normal for her to blush.

As Chen Yi was thinking, he felt secretly pleased with himself.

There's nothing I can do, it's the little fox's fault for being so good at praising others.

Yin Tingxue leaned against him, and seeing that Chen Yi was almost happy, she raised her little face and said, "Chen Yi, you are so powerful, can you teach me swordsmanship?"

When Chen Yi heard this, he lowered his eyebrows and glanced at her carefully.

Yin Tingxue met his gaze, but did not flinch, instead she silently moved closer to him.

This was a rare good opportunity. She could take advantage of the moment when her husband was in high spirits, praise him a few times, lean on him and get close to his heart. Eventually, Chen Yi would not be able to bear the begging and would agree to teach her a few sword techniques.

However, it is good to have a good idea, but such a little thought is a bit too direct. If it is exposed, I am afraid that Chen Yi will take this opportunity to make trouble again. Yin Tingxue changed her mind and couldn't help but worry. She was still a little afraid of this husband.

The deck of the ship shook slightly. Chen Yi remained silent, as if hesitating. Finally, he met Yin Tingxue's slightly earnest gaze, and suddenly seemed to understand something, and smiled playfully.

Yin Tingxue froze for a moment, then quickly responded with a clever answer: "Master Zhou wanted to teach me at that time, but I didn't want to learn yet."

“…Why don’t you want to learn?” he asked puzzledly.

"I want to learn what you teach me."

Chen Yi's expression was moved. After a long while, he sighed helplessly, rubbed her head and said, "Teach you, teach you. Since you are so cute, I will teach you."

"Well, let's make a deal, don't regret it..."

Yin Tingxue nodded repeatedly, took two steps closer and squeezed into his arms, rubbing his cheek affectionately.

"Since you said I'm cute, then you have to be cute to me."

Chen Yi's heart melted for a moment, and he laughed and scolded, "So corny."

If he said it was corny, then it was corny. Yin Tingxue was a little shy, but it was difficult to refute at this time, so she could only nod in agreement.

The ship was large and heavy as it crossed the river. It had to stop at ports along the way to exchange supplies. No matter how fast the current in the Yangtze River was, it would still take several days to reach Wuchang Prefecture. So the past few days had been simple. Chen Yi finally fulfilled his duties as a senior brother and taught Yin Tingxue swordsmanship.

Chen Yi still had some doubts about his ability to teach people, and he knew that the path he was taking might not be suitable for Yin Tingxue, so he still focused on the living sword and taught the 36 moves of Yinzai Sword according to the sword manual. Yin Tingxue had already laid some foundation when he was practicing in Yinjian Mountain, and he also had the ability of clairaudience, so he had a very high aptitude for practicing Taoism, and his aptitude for martial arts was actually not a problem either. With the help of Yinjian Mountain's mental method, he was able to wield the sword quite well in a short period of time.

So after the first two days, Chen Yi turned to teaching her the combination of swordsmanship and Taoism, which is the Yinjian Mountain's method of dual cultivation of Taoism and martial arts. Her cultivation had already reached the Golden Core stage, which was very suitable for her to control the sword with Taoism. It was not obvious at first glance, but only after a fight did one understand that each move was a way to slay demons and eliminate monsters. It was the most difficult of the several major cultivation methods of Yinjian Mountain. However, it only took Yin Tingxue three or four days to master it. The speed was so fast that even Chen Yi was amazed. Such a high talent was hidden under that pitiful and lovely appearance. No wonder she broke the Bridge of Eternal Life before her rebirth and was able to kill herself for revenge.

Sometimes he secretly felt fortunate that he was the one who taught Yin Tingxue the swordsmanship, and that Yin Tingxue was now his concubine and he could do whatever he wanted with her.

"Little fox, it's time to get you a sword." Chen Yi said.

With Yin Tingxue's current ability, even without me, as long as he acts cautiously, he will be able to protect himself in Huguang, where demons are everywhere and undercurrents are surging.

Even though she has the ability to roam the world, what can she do without a good sword? It is time to prepare a good sword for her, and have her as a gift from her husband. It will be both a birthday gift owed from last year and a token of love.

"You are now considered a sword master, it's time for you to have your own sword."

Yin Tingxue was also eager to try. She rubbed her hands, and her neck was sweaty from practicing sword just now.

"Okay, if you give me the sword, I will give you something in the future." Yin Tingxue said.

"So good?"

"It's better to give and take. My mother taught me this since I was young. I also gave many gifts to the maids around me when I was young."

Chen Yi smiled and said "hmm".

At this moment, he inexplicably thought of the Spring Card again, with plain writing and a layer of copper plated with imitation gold on the edge.

It was only ten taels of silver, but Chen Yi suddenly felt depressed.

I feel so sad…

After a brief thought, Chen Yi took out a money bag from the ground, poured out the silver and put it in Yin Tingxue's hand.

Yin Tingxue opened her mouth slightly in surprise, and clenched it without any sense of reality.

Because of the time she ran away and secretly bought medicine, her husband hardly gave her any change, not even the most basic monthly allowance, to prevent her from having any inappropriate thoughts. After so long, Yin Tingxue had gotten used to it.

Chen Yi put the money in her hand and said softly, "I will give you pocket money in the future, don't spend it recklessly, understand? I'm not telling you not to buy things, just don't spend it recklessly, buy whatever you want... Alas, I don't know what I'm saying, just don't buy me anything, and you can handle the rest yourself."

He said a lot of contradictory things, but finally made things clearer. Yin Tingxue nodded obediently and put the money into her own purse. Chen Yi saw that it was still very thin, so he took out more silver to fill her purse.

Yin Tingxue held up the bulging money bag and smiled, "I'm so rich."

"Hehe, I'll borrow from you when I have no money in the future." Chen Yi rubbed her head.

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Wuchang Prefecture has been the capital of Huguang since the reign of Emperor Shizu of the Yuan Dynasty. It is also one of the hubs supporting the three major waterways of the capital. Located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, it has a dangerous terrain, is easy to defend but difficult to attack, and has great strategic significance. For this reason, passenger ferries are not allowed to disembark directly at Wuchang Port to prevent the evil White Lotus from sneaking in.

Chen Yi and Yin Tingxue got off the boat at an unnamed port and headed straight for Wuchang.

The sky was dark and it was about to rain. Chen Yi and Yin Tingxue could not help but quicken their pace. Although both of them were Jindan and could easily use the Exorcism Technique to avoid the rain, they were used to worldly lives and did not think about this for a moment.

A slightly cold rain came down with the wind, and umbrellas were opened between the shadows of the trees on both sides.

Chen Yi was walking in front, the warrior was breathing deeply, not avoiding the wind and rain, when suddenly something hit the back of his head, and goose bumps appeared instantly. He was alert and thought it was a hidden weapon that was coming to kill him, but he had no idea.

When he turned around, he found that it was Yin Tingxue who was standing on tiptoe and holding up the umbrella with great effort to try to cover him.

"Shorty guy." Chen Yi breathed a sigh of relief and said jokingly.

Yin Tingxue was not angry either. She pushed the umbrella forward and said, "You hold it."

He did not refuse and took it in his hand. Then, the umbrella enveloped the little fox and him together.

Although they are husband and wife, this is the first time they share an umbrella together.

I walked along with an umbrella. After passing halfway up the hill, the rain was getting heavier. Walking on the road in the rain was inevitably annoying. After walking another twenty steps, I saw a broken stele at the corner of the mountain road. On it were six words "Qiu Huai Mountain Mountain God Temple" written on it. I went into the mountain god temple to take shelter from the rain.

The mountain temple was not big, just an ordinary dilapidated temple. Chen Yi looked around and saw that the pillars were covered with a layer of mildew and weeds grew in the gaps.

The wooden threshold has sunken in the middle, leaving mottled tread marks. I guess it was once very popular, but no one has repaired it, and no one has stepped on it for a long time. The civil servant robe on the statue is a ritual from the previous dynasty, and it seems to have been conferred by the previous dynasty and has been preserved to this day but has not been re-conferred.

What is strange is that there are no spider webs on the shrine.

The two of them didn't care.

Yin Tingxue didn't notice it at all because she had little experience in the martial arts world, while Chen Yi didn't care and was too lazy to pay attention.

It is always especially cold when it rains. Yin Tingxue sneezed. Chen Yi saw it and quietly took out a brazier, threw in a few pieces of charcoal to start a fire. A little warmth spread out, refreshing his heart.

Yin Tingxue glanced at Chen Yi and kept this good point in mind.

This is not only because the little fox is kind by nature, but also because there are some connections in it. It's good that he is gentle now, but his nature is hard to change. There will always be a day when he bullies him. If he wants to bully him, he will bring up his kindness and say, "You have been very good to me before, and I still remember it. This time... don't bully me too hard," or "You have always been good to me, do you have to bully me for no reason?" In this way, Chen Yi will feel ashamed and won't have the heart to do it. Even if he really bullies him hard, he will compensate him afterwards.

Since when, Yin Tingxue had a vague idea of ​​how to deal with her husband.

Yin Tingxue took out two steamed buns and ate them.

Chen Yi sat next to her, closed his eyes and waited for the rain to stop.

The rain was getting heavier, and outside the temple was already covered with dense pearl curtains.

Just as she finished eating a steamed bun, her ears suddenly moved and she heard hurried footsteps in the rain.

The footsteps became louder and louder, and Chen Yi also heard human voices.

"Hurry up, hurry up, I remember there is a mountain god temple ahead. Let's burn some incense to the mountain god."

"It was still small just now, how come it's so big now? Could it be true as the fortune teller said, that it was possessed by a dirty thing?" The voice sounded like a girl's, and the tone was a little panicked.

"Ahem, ahem...don't bring bad luck!" the man scolded.

Before long, the couple arrived in front of the mountain temple. They saw the flames in the temple stretching out their shadows and almost lost their souls.

"Which God did I run into..."

The man looked like a peddler, dragging his bamboo hat as he asked with a trembling voice.

Those who often travel the difficult northern route know that if you encounter a ghost on the road, you must never say it is a ghost. Not to mention that this is disrespectful, to put it another way, people have their own luck and ghosts have their own fate. Some ghosts don't even know they are ghosts. If you say it is a ghost, then even if it is not a ghost, it will become one.

"Just stopping by to rest." Chen Yi said casually.

The couple turned their heads and looked at each other. Seeing that there was nothing unusual inside, and that it was still raining hard outside, they swallowed their saliva at the same time. The merchant let his wife go in first, and only went into the mountain temple after looking back.

"Brother, can you lend me some fire?" Seeing the brazier in front of Chen Yi, the vendor took out three incense sticks and asked in a low voice.

In front of the firelight, the merchant's face looked particularly pale, and next to his head was his wife. The two heads were pressed close together, as if they were supported by the same body.

Chen Yi waved his hand to show his agreement.

The vendor's coarse linen clothes were covered in dirt, and his eyes were wandering and a little dull.

Yin Tingxue's ears moved slightly, her eyes moved between the two of them, and then moved to another place.

The vendor borrowed fire to light incense, then took his wife to respectfully bow three times to the statue of the mountain god. At the end he kowtowed and muttered something.

Three incense sticks were about to be offered to the incense altar.

With a snap, it went out.

The vendor was trembling, his face pale. He asked for light again and wanted to burn incense, but the light was still out.

Three times is the limit. After two incense burns out, the couple dared not go for a third time. They just sat down together, leaning against each other, trying to be as close to Chen Yi as possible, but not too close. They kept a distance of two or three feet from each other. The rain was rumbling, and thunder could be heard faintly in the dark clouds. Chen Yi's eyes were empty as if he was pretending to sleep. Yin Tingxue sat beside him in his tall shadow, lowering her head and pecking at the steamed buns bit by bit.

Yin Tingxue looked up unintentionally.
In the dim light, the couple's faces were pale and increasingly haggard, like puppets on a stage...

"Xin'er, it's my parents' bad luck. They have the life to earn money but not the life to spend it..."

"I shouldn't have sold you, I shouldn't have sold you...Xin'er, Xin'er..."

"Father and mother, what's the point of having this little money! What's the point of selling letters for this little money! You are blind and your heart is blind too!"

In a hazy state, the two seemed to be souls leaving their bodies, and they were actually talking to each other through their minds.

Yin Tingxue pondered in silence, clenching the steamed bun in his hand.

There was still some rustling sound.

She listened again.

The crying sound was mournful... like a child covering his face, sobbing softly, saying something incoherently, begging for something, like not blaming his parents...

Yin Tingxue hesitated for a long time, finally took a deep breath, broke open the intact steamed bun, and was about to throw it away.

A hand reached out and pressed down.

It’s Chen Yi.

He looked at Yin Tingxue calmly, and his voice rang in her ears: "Do you really want to save her?"

Yin Tingxue heard it, he saw it,
Not far from the temple, a thin black figure was kneeling in front of the shrine of the mountain god temple, kowtowed...

Seeing Yin Tingxue's eyes drooping slightly, as if she was about to nod, Chen Yi asked again: "I'm not stopping you from doing good deeds, but this person... should he be saved, or should he not be saved? You have to think it through."

Yin Tingxue hesitated for a moment, then said softly: "I want to save..."

After hearing this, Chen Yi stopped trying to stop him.

He sensed a deeper vision, but that was okay, he could let the little fox try her own skills.

The steamed bun was thrown out in an arc. The couple, who had been as stupid as puppets, suddenly trembled and started to fight for the bun like hungry dogs. In a short while, they had eaten up all the crumbs and sand on the ground.

As if they had been hit by a wake-up call, the couple suddenly came to their senses. The merchant quickly sat down, then pulled his wife up and looked at Chen Yi and Yin Tingxue with both respect and awe.

What I admire is this strange way, and what I fear is that I don't know where it came from. Who knows if it is a human or a ghost? Who knows if it is smiling but hiding a knife? I can't say for sure whether the strange symptoms just now were all caused by these two people...

The merchant couple looked as usual, their blood and energy were full, their eyes were lively, and their thoughts were full of changes.

"These two sirs..." the merchant began tentatively.

"Just a passer-by in the world." Chen Yi interrupted directly, extinguished the brazier with a whoosh, and pulled Yin Tingxue up.

The woman's eyes turned, and she hurriedly tried to persuade him to stay: "Why are you in such a hurry to leave? It's raining heavily. Hey, I heard from a fortune teller that this mountain is haunted. You two may as well..."

"No problem." Chen Yi just glanced at him and said, "As long as you have nothing wrong, you can walk at night."

The merchant couple's faces froze and they were so embarrassed that they couldn't even utter the word "thank you".

Before they could say anything else, Chen Yi pulled Yin Tingxue and walked out of the mountain temple holding an umbrella.

The rain did not stop for a moment and was even heavier than before. It was no longer the scene of a sudden downpour in the mountains.

Dense water droplets hit the oil-paper umbrella hard, and the ribs of the umbrella made a creaking sound, which was extremely creepy. Yin Tingxue unknowingly got goose bumps all over her body.

She followed Chen Yi closely. The road was cold, and her ankles felt chilled. She looked down and saw that the potholes on the ground looked like crying faces...

A face flashed past her eyes. Yin Tingxue wanted to look back in surprise, but two fingers suddenly pinched her neck!

It's Chen Yi...

Yin Tingxue shuddered before she remembered that it was Chen Yi.

"Don't look back, or you'll extinguish the Yang Fire." Chen Yi said slowly.

Seeing the little fox nodding very seriously, he couldn't help but laugh. She was clearly a golden elixir, but she was still so afraid of ghosts.

The two were still walking on the mountain road, but the road seemed to be getting longer and longer, and they would never reach the end. Yin Tingxue saw that the mountain road extended infinitely into the darkness, and her panic grew even more, so she had to lean on him tightly.

I don’t know how far I walked, but the road seemed to have come to an end, with complicated shadows intertwined.

"Roar!"

As the tiger roared, a sharp flash of lightning suddenly flashed across the sky.

The sky was filled with white light. Yin Tingxue looked over and saw incense sticks stuck in the mud on both sides of the eerie and gloomy mountain road, stretching endlessly like a long team carrying a coffin.

A pale head slowly pushed aside the eerie rain curtain. It was a giant insect with an old face, a long moustache, and a sinister "king" on its forehead. It was wearing a mountain god's official uniform, but it was the ritual uniform of the previous dynasty. Behind it, there was a shadowy figure...

Yin Tingxue shuddered.

"I thought they were some kind of immortals..." The mountain god Qiu Huai did not move his lips, but his sharp voice fell directly into his ears, "Just two wandering people, dare you interfere with my soul-binding and ghost-making?"

There is a kind of ghost in the world, called the accomplice ghost. Everyone knows that the accomplice ghost is a tiger's accomplice. Everyone knows that the mountain monster that has become a spirit will use the accomplice ghost to lure people into a trap. However, they do not know that there are accomplice ghosts in the world, and then there are mountain monsters. Mountain monsters are always there, but accomplice ghosts are not always there.

To capture souls and create ghosts means to capture human souls and use them to create ghost minions. Not only that, the created ghost minions can also infect the minds of relatives and turn them into ghost minions. For example, the couple of merchants just now sold their youngest son to the Xiashui Su family. The Xiashui Su family has been worshipping ghosts and gods from all over Huguang and Jiangxi for hundreds of years, and it was one of them. So it captured the soul of the child, and used it as the center to pull a lot of "puppet strings", preparing to add three ghost minions to it at once.

The mission seemed to be accomplished, but halfway through, a Cheng Yaojin appeared and killed him.

The sinister gaze of the mountain god Qiu Huai was directed at the two people holding umbrellas. They were not wearing Taoist robes, nor did they have peach wood golden swords. Although they had the masculine aura of a warrior, it was limited.

The warrior was calm and seemed confident, but as for this little girl... The mountain god looked down again and saw that Yin Tingxue couldn't help trembling slightly.

It was raining heavily and the mountain wind was howling.

Yin Tingxue lived in the palace when she was young and was later taken away by Chen Yi. Apart from the stories in the novels, she had never encountered a ghost.

The ghosts in the novels are often the most terrifying.

Chen Yi pressed her shoulder and whispered, "Don't be afraid, you are a sword fairy."

As he said this, he took off the sword from his back and put it in her hand. Yin Tingxue stopped shaking for some reason.

However, she still murmured doubtfully, "Is there really no need to be afraid?"

Chen Yi did not reply. Yin Tingxue gritted her teeth, finally hardened her heart, and drew her sword.

At this time, the rain curtain became heavier and heavier, the oil-paper umbrellas could no longer bear the weight, and the foothills cast a completely dark sky.

The incense thread swayed, and the mountain god seemed to blend into the surrounding darkness. He laughed hoarsely.

"Even a dragon crossing the river doesn't mess with a local snake. You are just fish and shrimp in the river. You don't even know not to mind your own business. You are really blind. Well, today I... Fuck!"

A flash of white light suddenly broke through the sky and headed straight towards the mountain god Qiu Huai.

Yin Tingxue opened her mouth wide.

The mountain god Qiu Huai opened his mouth wide.

The entire eerie and strange figure was split into two halves, the incense line suddenly extinguished, the dark sky split apart with the sword light, and the world became quiet and the air was clear.

It seems like nothing happened.

The mountain god Qiu Huai disappeared between heaven and earth. A faint orchid halo floated by, like a small human figure. Yin Tingxue hurriedly chanted a spell in a low voice.

"Namo Amitabha Night, Duotagadu Night..."

After reciting the mantra for rebirth, the soul condensed a little and then dissipated again. Before leaving, the child waved to Yin Tingxue and thanked her.

Yin Tingxue immediately turned around and looked.

In her eyes, she saw a man in black clothes. Her husband gently wiped the water off his fingers, and under the bright sunlight, he smiled gently at her and said casually:

"I've already told you that you are a sword immortal."

Yin Tingxue wanted to say something, opened her mouth again and again, and finally said "hmm" forcefully.

My husband is right, she is also a sword fairy!
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"Jiang Shen, are you sure he will come here?"

"It must be true. I never miss a thing."

There were dilapidated houses and broken walls. When the convoy passed the mountain road, it saw a desolate scene all over the mountain.

If you pull your horse to the East Palace and stop, you will see a desolate and dilapidated place with weeds everywhere. The scattered roofs are submerged in darkness. There is no smoke from cooking fires around, and the place is silent, as if it had been robbed before.

Not far away from me, there was a tiled house with more than half of the roof collapsed. I guess it was the house of the village guard at the entrance.

One look at the houses built along the mountainside revealed that this was originally a peaceful and tranquil little village. During the White Lotus Rebellion, even the county town with high walls might not have been spared, let alone these unprotected villages.

Wei Wuque, who was walking at the back, looked around without changing his expression. As a spy from the Magpie Pavilion and a eunuch who had been sent to the palace from the north due to drought since he was a child, he had seen even more cruel scenes.

So he slightly tilted his eyes and observed Donggong Ruoshu's expression, only to see the stupid girl jumped off the horse, walked towards the theater, and bowed to the dry bones inside.

"Excuse me for disturbing you. We will leave after we get justice."

After paying homage, Donggong Ruoshu took out a few steamed buns from the package and threw them down, then he climbed onto his horse and looked at the River God Yuan Qi.

He was injured on the river and one of his dragon horns was cut off. He needed to recover urgently. After seven days, although he had recovered almost completely, Chen Yi and the other two were not on the river. So after fortune-telling, he brought Donggong Ruoshu and others here to ambush and take revenge.

Yuan Qi said, "He could appear anywhere within a hundred miles of this area, but the valley in the north is the most likely place, with a 70% chance. When we attack from three sides, he will have no chance of survival, but..."

"But what?"

"But the north... is covered with dark forests and filled with miasma, and is known as the 'Valley of Corpses'. We don't know what evil spirits are hiding there. Be careful, or else you might end up capsizing in a ditch." Yuan Qi said.

Donggong Ruoshu patted his chest and said, "Don't worry, Lord Jiang, I will be very careful and cautious."

Before long, the convoy moved slowly along the road and disappeared into the village.

They walked on the muddy road,

puff,
A rotten, green hand stretched out from the ground...
(End of this chapter)