Confucian and Taoist scholar

Chapter 25 Roadblock

Lu Zheng looked at the ghosts and said in a cold voice, "Only five? What? Do you think you haven't killed enough people?"

The ghost cried out in grievance: "Scholar, you also know that in today's world, people die everywhere. If a demon kills a few people, it doesn't matter. Even the government can't do anything about it..."

Lu Zheng's eyes widened at this. What kind of perverse logic was this? Was this a reason to follow a demon and harm people? Did they really treat human life as worthless?

He couldn't help but laugh angrily, "If that's the case, then it's perfectly normal for you to be devoured by the demonic tiger. Why are you complaining about it in front of me?"

Upon hearing this, the ghost was stunned and unable to refute.

"Is the tiger in the east mountain or the south mountain?" Lu Zheng asked.

The ghost didn't dare to hide it and said weakly, "Its lair is in the mountain to the south, so it often moves around there."

Lu Zheng thought to himself that it was just as he expected. This evil spirit had just asked him to take a detour to Nanshan, which meant that he was walking into the tiger's mouth.

"How powerful is that tiger?" Lu Zhengdao said.

The ghost said, "I dare not speak nonsense, but judging from your methods, that beast is definitely not as powerful as you, scholar."

"Heh..." Lu Zheng remained noncommittal.

With his skills, he can naturally be very restrained in dealing with ghosts, but if he encounters monsters or the like, his ability will be greatly reduced.

"Besides you, does it have other minions?" Lu Zheng continued to ask.

The ghost shook his head repeatedly, "No, that's not the case. I was just unlucky. After I died, I became a ghost for no apparent reason. Since then, I have been driven by that beast and have no freedom. Others who were eaten by that beast have not suffered the same fate as me."

For a person to turn into a ghost after death, many factors are necessary. Lu Zheng does not know the details and cannot give an explanation.

Lu Zheng nodded slightly and asked, "Are there any other monsters nearby?"

The ghost said honestly: "I can only move around in the nearby mountains. Apart from that beast, I have never seen any other monsters..."

The accomplice did not dare to hide anything and told everything he knew, only asking Lu Zheng to let him go.

At this time, suppressed by the righteous spirit, the ghost's figure had become like mist and his breath became weak.

If this continues, the ghost will be destroyed in no time.

"This is all I know. Please be merciful and spare my life. I will never be an accomplice to a tiger again!" The accomplice begged for mercy.

Lu Zheng's eyes were indifferent. He raised his other hand, put two fingers together to form a sword, and a stream of righteous energy gathered into a blade.

He didn't have the power to forgive this accomplice on behalf of the victims.

Moreover, the accomplices are a kind of evil ghosts with extremely evil natures and hard to change their behavior. How can they repent just by saying so?

Lu Zheng doesn't have any special Taoist methods to purify the other person's mind and change his nature, so he can only solve the problem from the root and use physical methods to purify the other person.

"You, you, you..." Seeing Lu Zheng's murderous intention, the ghost's face was ferocious and he shouted sternly, "You can't kill me, I am its ghost. If you kill me, it will know!"

Even before dying, he still threatened. Lu Zheng thought to himself that the evil ghost was still an evil ghost after all.

"Oh, and then?" Lu Zheng's tone was as calm as water, and he stabbed out with one hand.

According to the description just given by the ghost, the demon tiger is at most level two. Even if he cannot defeat it, he has a way to escape unscathed. What is there to be afraid of?

The air blade transformed from the righteous energy pierced through the ghost's eyebrows.

The ghost let out a shrill ghost howl, which was particularly harsh and creepy in the silent night, and scared the sleeping birds in the nearby forest so much that they flew away.

But in the blink of an eye, the evil spirit turned into green smoke and disappeared completely.

[You can distinguish right from wrong and hate evil. Kill a first-level ghost. Literary Qi +2!]

Lu Zheng restrained his righteous spirit, slowly lowered his head, looked at the old turtle on the ground trying to struggle and escape, and couldn't help but bend down to pick it up.

This wild old turtle is a tonic, perfect for replenishing your body. It's said that things sent by ghosts shouldn't be taken, as they will bring you bad karma.

However, Lu Zheng was upright and not afraid of these things at all. Moreover, the ghost was dead, and he had refused this thing before. Now he was harvesting the spoils, which could not be considered as accepting a gift from the ghost.

This old turtle was full of energy. In order to prevent it from running away, Lu Zheng gave it a quick kill.

Lu Zheng returned to the book box, holding the old turtle in one hand and the book box in the other, and came to the place where the ghost had fished before.

Then clean the old turtle on the spot, build a stove and light a fire, stew a pot of old turtle mushroom soup, so that you can drink it hot when you wake up tomorrow morning.

The old turtle is so big that it cannot be stewed in one pot.

Lu Zheng cut a portion of the meat and placed it on a clean stone to bake it into jerky.

After tinkering with all this, Lu Zheng sat under a tree and closed his eyes to rest.

Time passed slowly, and Lu Zheng survived the night in a state of half-sleep and half-wakefulness.

In the early morning, warm sunshine shines on the earth.

The early birds are singing and foraging on the branches, while the early insects are avoiding the fate of being eaten by the birds.

Lu Zheng rekindled the extinguished fire and heated the old turtle soup in the pot.

Without being disturbed by any monsters or ghosts, Lu Zheng enjoyed his meal with great satisfaction.

"Not bad……"

Lu Zheng praised it highly. After eating it for a while, he felt warm all over, and his energy became a little excited, as if he had endless energy.

Taking advantage of this energy, Lu Zheng practiced Tai Chi sword moves with his sword to stretch his muscles.

Not long after, a bird was startled in the woods not far away, and an unusual noise was heard.

Lu Zheng couldn't help but stop and turned to look in the direction where the sound came from.

Suddenly, a huge figure rushed out from the dense forest.

It was a large, colorful tiger as big as an adult buffalo, with a strong demonic aura lingering all over its body, and it looked very aggressive.

Every time Da Hu breathed in and out, a sound like muffled thunder came from his nose.

Lu Zheng looked at Dahu, and Dahu's blood-red eyes, as big as copper bells, also saw Lu Zheng.

Da Hu tilted his head slightly and looked at Lu Zheng fiercely.

"My little devil is dead. Was it you, a human, who killed him?" Dahu opened his mouth and made a hoarse and unpleasant sound.

Huh? A strange look flashed in Lu Zheng's eyes. The ghost hadn't told him that this was a tiger that could speak human language.

It is much more intelligent than the wolf demon we encountered before, and can be called a tiger demon.

If the other party can also transform, then it is a real monster.

"Can you speak?" Lu Zheng asked knowingly.

Upon hearing this, the tiger demon grinned, seemingly half-smiling, and spoke word by word, "As I eat more people, I will learn your human language."

Judging from the tiger demon's unfluent speech, it was obvious that he had just learned to speak human language not long ago.

"Oh, is that so?" Lu Zheng's face darkened.

The tiger demon said in a deep voice, "Human, you haven't answered my previous question yet."

Lu Zheng said calmly, "I was the one who killed that evil spirit. What do you think?"

(End of this chapter)