Exorcism

The copper gourd looks very old. The surface is full of cracks and has rusted in some places. The mouth of the gourd is uncovered. When Zeng Fu looked inside, he saw nothing but darkness, like a thousand-year-old deep pool. Staring at it for a little longer would make one dizzy. dizzy.

"How did you get it?" Zeng Fu held the gourd in both hands and felt it was quite heavy.

"It's a long story..."

"Wait a moment, stop your bleeding first." Xin Youxun said.

Chen Guanhuo's abdomen was soaked red with blood. Hearing these words, he felt as if he had been forgiven. He hurriedly took out the elixir and applied it internally and externally, but he did not dare to look up.

The other four monks had stopped the bleeding on their own and were hiding far away at the other end of the yard, looking at the subdued Chen Guanhuo and Qilin with its shining silver horn in horror.

Chen Guanhuo stood up and stood respectfully, like a slave who had just been disciplined.

"Let those pregnant women go first, and say that you have identified the wrong person or the wrong spell, and don't mention the two of us." Xin Youxun did not forget the true purpose of this trip.

Chen Guanhuo responded repeatedly, holding his abdomen and dragging his body to release the man himself. The monk surnamed Liao and others kept winking, trying to figure out what was going on, but Chen Guanhuo ignored him.

Xin Youxun and Zeng Fu retreated to the corner of the manor, and the broom turned into a donkey again. His eyes never left the monks, and his four hooves lightly stepped on the spot. It was the first time that it participated in a real battle. It was a little excited, but a little bit unsatisfactory.

A dozen women with bellies of different sizes came out of a half-tilted house, glanced around hurriedly, and immediately ran towards the door in panic. They were all frightened.

Chen Guanhuo was the last one to come out and said to the two women in the distance: "I distributed silver coins and asked them to go to nearby market towns to seek help."

"One more to go. You said there were fourteen pregnant women, but now there are only thirteen." Xin Youxun was not confused by the panic.

Chen Guanhuo lowered his head and remained silent. The monk surnamed Liao on the side couldn't bear it anymore and said loudly: "Brother Chen, we admired your courage and insight before we were willing to follow you. Who would miss you?" But you are a coward. What is the background of these two women that makes you become like this after your defeat? They all rely on Qilin for support, but they actually have no ability..."

Chen Guanhuo first bowed to the two women, and then walked towards the four companions, "Everything I did has a reason. Please believe in my judgment, brothers. The world is in chaos now, and everyone is walking on thin ice. If you make a wrong step, you will fall into eternal disaster. Earth, you and I have no family or sect, so we need to be even more careful..."

The four monks nodded repeatedly, feeling that these words were correct, but it was too cowardly to admit defeat so easily.

Chen Guanhuo walked up to the four of them, and without stopping, he suddenly cast a spell on his hand, "The whereabouts must not be revealed."

Before they could finish speaking a few words, holes as thick as a thumb were pierced through the abdomens of the four monks. There was no blood flowing, but there was a trace of hot air coming out. The four people's faces were filled with inexplicable horror. They couldn't believe that they had been attacked like this. Zeng Fu in the distance let out a cry of surprise, but Xin Youxun observed calmly.

"Sorry, it's better to die in my hands than to live in troubled times. After all, we are not too familiar." Chen Guanhuo quickly took off the bags of the four people, turned around and walked towards the two women, stopping when they were twenty steps apart. Get down and put all your pockets on the ground.

Behind him, four monks fell one after another.

"Miss Zeng doesn't want to reveal her whereabouts. I can't guarantee that they can keep it secret, so I have no choice but to kill them. Now please ask Miss Zeng to kill me to avoid future troubles."

Zeng Fu was also frightened and lifted up his veil. The fear on his face was no less than that of the four monks who had just fallen. She had lived in Pangshan since she was a child. After leaving the Taoist tradition, she also served the princess. She had never seen such a ruthless person as Chen Guanhuo. , can’t even imagine it.

"You, you...I didn't say I didn't believe you, why did you kill someone?"

"We make several oaths every day and then forget about them. We can only keep them secret until we die." Chen Guanhuo even summoned his magic sword and held it in his hands, saying that he would never resist. "And...a pregnant woman unfortunately died in childbirth. The five of us deserved it.”

Zeng Fu shook his head. She didn't want to kill anyone, so she had to look at Xin Youxun.

Xin Youxun kept sitting on the donkey and said calmly: "You don't have to die, go to the South China Sea, the further away the better."

"Yes, I will pack up the body and leave immediately." Chen Guanhuo stared at his toes, not daring to show that he recognized Queen Xun.

Zeng Fu's hands and feet were weak and she managed to climb onto the donkey's back. She had seen much bigger killing scenes, but none of them were as panicked as Chen Guanhuo's sudden move. She couldn't explain what she felt in her heart. She felt both sympathy and sympathy for Chen Guanhuo. disgust.

Xin Youxun drove the donkey towards the gate. After a few steps, he stopped again, turned around and said, "The gourd is still with us."

Zeng Fu put the copper gourd on the back of the broom, picked it up and said, "Yes, yes, this is your thing, we don't want it... By the way, you haven't told us how you got it."

The closer they were to the Daotong Tower, the more intense the spells provided by the ancestors, and the greater their help in practice. Soon after the five people came back, they encountered a strange thing.

"This gourd fell from the sky. To be more precise, it suddenly appeared more than ten feet in the air and then hit the ground. It was burning at the time, extinguished after an hour, and cooled down after another hour."

"It's such a coincidence that it fell next to you guys?" Zeng Fu found it unbelievable.

"It actually fell in a forest seven or eight miles away. The four of them were practicing. I was on guard and saw it, so I flew over to check the situation. I thought it was a bit strange. Maybe the gourd was a treasure. It was not far from the imperial capital. The Taoist school probably noticed it and would send someone to take it away soon. But I guessed wrong. No Taoist appeared until the gourd cooled down. I stayed there and saw the words on the gourd." Zeng Fu glanced at the copper gourd, "Where did the words come from?" "The words kept flashing at that time, and disappeared after cooling down. I went a little late and didn't see the beginning. It seemed to be a practice method with strange content. It couldn't be practiced at all. The last few paragraphs of text said something else, claiming that a large number of Taoist souls returned to the human world and reincarnated as babies. The most obvious feature was the birth of Taoist roots." "Nonsense, so Zuo Liuying was also the reincarnation of a Taoist priest from the previous generation? He has lived for more than 400 years and has no memory of his previous life." Zeng Fu shook his head repeatedly. "Yes, I didn't believe it at first, so I just took the gourd away. But soon after, Taoist priests were flying around the imperial capital regularly. They were not looking for the copper gourd, but pregnant women from all over the country, and they used a bright mirror to shine on them, so I thought it might be true. So we waited for the Taoist priests to return to the imperial capital, and then found... some pregnant women to see if they could have fetal roots after giving birth."

"Shameless!" Zeng Fu said indignantly, not so sorry about the death of the four monks, "You want to seize the fetal roots?"

Chen Guanhuo's face was slightly red, "The magic of the Taoist Tower has long been unstable, and we are worried that it will stop sooner or later... We are used to the current speed of practice. Once it slows down or stops... In short, I was bewildered and listened to their instigation..."

"Who instigated whom is still uncertain." Zeng Fu began to feel that Chen Guanhuo was not so honest.

Chen Guanhuo lowered his head and said nothing.

"Zeng Fu, return the gourd to him. This thing has an unknown origin and we can't keep it with us." Xin Youxun was wary of anything that could automatically display text.

Zeng Fu wanted to throw the gourd over, but it was too heavy. He thought it was too rude to just throw it on the ground. "Come here and take the gourd away. Alas, how did you become the person you are now? Mu Xingqiu and Yang Qingyin are also short-sighted. You have to reflect on yourself and stop being a bad person. At most, you can find a place to live in seclusion. It is a good thing to make rapid progress in cultivation. It is no big deal to slow down or stop. Taoists still have various disasters. You..." Chen Guanhuo walked in front of Zeng Fu, kept saying yes, and reached out to take the copper gourd. After getting it, he breathed a sigh of relief. This action was very slight and completely unintentional. Even he didn't notice it. Xin Youxun noticed it, and not only that, she also took action. She learned from the lesson of the first offering of talismans and did not offer a bunch of talismans again. She only used one, and waited until Chen Guanhuo came close before taking action. The two sides were less than five steps apart. Chen Guanhuo also learned his lesson and kept holding the magic sword in his hand until he took the copper gourd and then he relaxed his vigilance a little. Even so, he still reacted, swung the sword to block, and at the same time jumped back.

As long as he kept a little distance, he could be invincible, and he could attack or defend.

But he didn't expect how powerful this talisman was.

Xin Youxun didn't expect it either. She only knew that this was a life-saving talisman provided by the Longbin Society. There were only five of them, and they should be kept for the most critical moment.

With a bang, the talisman exploded, like the sky and the earth collapsing.

The two donkeys raised their front hooves and showed their original forms at the same time, standing up to help their master resist the explosion. The broom had a copper bell hanging on its neck, and the other unicorn had a talisman armor plate on its chest. Even so, it was shaken away dozens of steps and stopped after hitting the broken wall.

Zeng Fu felt that all the bones in his body were broken. He lay in the bricks for a while before he could barely get up. He first checked the broom. It was fine, but it was a little dazed by the shock. It kept blinking on the ground. Zeng Fu ran forward and saw a pool of blood on the ground. Chen Guanhuo and the magic weapon were gone, leaving only the copper gourd spinning on the ground. Xin Youxun on the opposite side also came out of the ruins. Her Qilin was not as powerful as the broom. She was injured, her veil was gone, her hair was messy, and there was blood on her face. "Is she dead?" Xin Youxun didn't care about her injuries. Zeng Fu nodded blankly, stood there for a while before reacting, and asked angrily: "What's going on? Didn't we agree to let him go?"

Xin Youxun walked slowly, "This man is not trustworthy. He asked you to die, deliberately not saying that he knew me. In fact, he had murderous intentions in his heart, but he just wanted to avoid killing the queen."

"Just based on this?"

"Also, he drew his sword, and you expressed forgiveness, but he was reluctant to take it back. Every time he raised his eyes, he would look at the gourd. He clearly wanted to go back, but he didn't speak. He was playing hard to get. If there were guards hiding behind us, he would keep pretending to confess. If he confirmed that there were only two of us, he would definitely kill people, just like he killed the four people."

Zeng Fu thought for a while, "Alas, I don't have the roots of Taoism as a Taoist priest, and I don't have the heart to be a mortal. You won't sell me when you are short of money, right?"

Xin Youxun smiled, "Don't worry, I have something more valuable."

Zeng Fu frowned, not sure whether this was a tease or a compliment.

"Chen Guanhuo said a pregnant woman died, but he didn't mention whether the baby was born. I guess he must be hiding something."

"If he lied about this matter, I will fully trust your judgment of him."

Zeng Fu was about to run to the room where the pregnant women were kept, but Xin Youxun pointed at the ground for her to look at.

The copper gourd was still spinning, and there was a shimmering light on it, and lines of text seemed to appear on it.