Confucian and Taoist scholar

Chapter 52 It’s over
Seeing that the big locust tree had completely lost its vitality, Lu Zheng looked at Wang Xiu and others beside him.

"This tree is dead. You can have it burned tomorrow when you have time. There's no need to worry about it getting contaminated by any evil spirits."

Upon hearing this, Wang Xiu bowed gratefully and said, "Thank you for your help, sir!"

Lu Zheng smiled and said, "It's not over yet. I'll go to the gate and wait. Don't make any noise, or we'll alert the enemy."

After saying that, Lu Zheng quickly headed towards the Wang family's gate.

Seeing this, Wang Xiu also ordered everyone to turn off the lights and hide in the rooms.

The moon was dark and the wind was strong, and the entire Wang family compound soon fell silent.

Lu Zheng was sitting on a rooftop, his figure hidden in the eaves, observing the movements outside the yard.

I don’t know how long it took, but a figure floated over and flew into the Wang family compound.

Lu Zheng had sharp eyes and discovered that the other party was a ghost. He stood up suddenly and ran towards it.

The ghost vaguely felt that something was wrong with the atmosphere in the Wang family. It glanced sideways and saw Lu Zheng rushing towards it.

It was slightly startled and quickly swung out a palm.

A cold and chilling wind swept towards Lu Zheng.

Lu Zheng released a righteous energy from his body, easily eliminating the influence of the evil wind.

Seeing this, the ghost felt that something was wrong and turned around to fly away.

Lu Zheng took a step, jumped high, and caught the ghost.

The ghost struggled frantically, but was unable to break free from the restraints.

It turned around again, revealing a ferocious and ugly face, and opened its mouth to spit out a cold and evil aura towards Lu Zheng.

Lu Zheng punched the ghost directly in the face, and wisps of green smoke immediately rose.

"what……"

The ghost couldn't help but scream.

Lu Zheng asked coldly, "Where are the two rat demons pretending to be the young master and steward of the Wang family?"

Upon hearing this, the ghost understood what had happened to the Wang family.

It sternly shouted, "We are serving the king. You dare to attack me? Are you seeking death?"

Lu Zheng raised his eyebrows. Haha, he actually met a tough ghost?
Lu Zheng exerted more strength in his hands, and also used a little more of his righteous energy.

Suddenly, the ghost was burned and green smoke rose, and its figure became blurred.

"I don't know, they didn't go the same way as me." The ghost said hurriedly.

"Tell me about your king." Lu Zheng said again.

The ghost said, "I don't know."

"Ok?"

The ghost explained, "I'm just a little ghost. How could I have seen the king? I was in the ghost cave in Jiguan Mountain before, and then I was sent here to work without knowing why."

"Haunted cave?"

The ghost said, "The King's ghost breeding ground has many ghosts. I devoured my own kind to gain spiritual wisdom, and then was assigned an errand. I don't know about other places in Jiguan Mountain."

The ghost paused, then continued, "Although I have never met the king, you are a demon king of the third realm, with many demons and ghosts under your command. Young man, I advise you not to get involved in these matters, lest you bring disaster upon yourself."

Lu Zheng narrowed his eyes slightly, "Are you teaching me how to do things?"

Seeing Lu Zheng's murderous eyes, the ghost said in panic: "Young man, if you let me go, I will pretend that I don't know anything about this!"

He is nothing but a coward after all.

Lu Zheng asked, "How did you get the sap of this locust tree to Jiguan Mountain?"

The ghost replied, "At midnight on the 20th of every month, we will leave the things at a dock outside the town, and someone will come to pick them up."

Today is the tenth day of the sixth lunar month, and there are still ten days until the twentieth. Ten days is too long, and Lu Zheng can't wait here that long.

He asked the ghost some more questions, but the ghost could not explain anything clearly and obviously did not know much.

Seeing this, Lu Zheng was too lazy to waste words and raised his hand to kill it.

[You killed a first-level evil spirit, Wen Qi +5! ]

After the ghost disappeared, a bead rolled to the ground.

Lu Zheng picked it up and saw that it was the same spiritual bead he found in the Taoist temple, which also absorbed people's yang energy.

At this moment, Wang Xiu, who had been observing secretly not far away, appeared.

She came to Lu Zheng, handed him a jade box, and whispered, "I found this in my father's room. It must have been left by those monsters."

Lu Zheng took the jade box and opened it. Inside were several blood-colored pills, which were no different from the pills collected by the snake demon. They were the same kind of pills.

I originally thought that Qinggang Mountain and Jiguana Mountain had no connection, but now it seems that someone is behind the scenes connecting these monsters and ghosts and making them work for them.

Jiguana Mountain also has monsters of the third level, but judging from the painted skins worn by the rat monsters, it can be guessed that the mountain king is not a very important character.

Lu Zheng didn't know whether behind those monsters and ghosts was a single powerful existence or a hidden force, but the other party must be very strong.

Lu Zheng thought to himself that he had repeatedly disrupted the plans of these demons and ghosts, and he wondered what the person behind it would think if he knew.

However, Lu Zheng was not afraid and was not scared enough to continue his study tour.

He put the beads into the jade box and returned it to Wang Xiu.

"It's inconvenient for me to carry these things with me, so you can keep them for now."

Wang Xiu nodded, "Okay."

Wang Xiu knew that Lu Zheng still had to wait for the two rat demons, so he quietly retreated.

Lu Zheng returned to his previous position and waited until dawn.

It was not until dawn that even Lu Zheng thought that the two rat demons had sensed something and would not come back, but he appeared.

The two rat demons in painted skins were still drunk and supported each other as they returned to the Wang family.

Without any effort, Lu Zheng easily captured the two rat demons, then tied them up tightly with ropes and threw them into a yard.

The Wang family members spent the whole night in fear. When they learned that the monster had been captured, they all came over curiously to take a look.

Lu Zheng had already torn off the painted skins of the two rat demons, revealing their ugly faces.

Many people had seen the rat demon last night, but it was too dark to see it clearly.

Seeing it in broad daylight, I felt very disgusted.

It has a pair of shifty eyes and a face that looks both like a rat and a human, which makes it look extremely strange. It also has black fur that emits a faint stench.

Unexpectedly, these people have been living with this ugly monster in disguise for more than two years.

Lu Zheng held up his sword and began to interrogate the two rat demons.

The two monsters were so frightened that they sobered up and stammered in response to Lu Zheng's questions.

Even the graves they had dug up and the people they had harmed were revealed. Their evil deeds were too numerous to list.

In the end, Lu Zheng couldn't get anything out of them, so he killed the two rat demons on the spot.

[You killed two first-level rat demons, eliminating harm for the people. Literary Qi +10!]

Lu Zheng calmly put away his sword and said, "Let's burn the body. That big locust tree can be used as firewood, which will save us a lot of trouble... Now that this matter is over, you don't have to worry about ghosts and monsters haunting you anymore."

Seeing that all the demons in his home were killed, Wang Xiu couldn't help but kneel down and kowtow to Lu Zheng with tears in his eyes.

Lu Zheng quickly supported Wang Xiu and comforted her with kind words.

(End of this chapter)