Chapter 49

Volume One: Mountain Ghost Rumor, Chapter 49: Decisive

Zhao Chan asked suspiciously: "What is wrong with her?"

"Listening to the story of the two of you, Zhang Cuicui seems to have appeared for Yang Yun alone." Kong Yanxing frowned, "I am not a citizen of Youju Town and don't know the love between the two, so it's hard to make a judgment."

The young man was silent for a while, his face changed: "Does Big Brother Kong mean that Sister Cui Cui is like a demon?"

Kong Yanxing looked at the young man whose expression changed instantly: "Setting aside those spiritual objects favored by heaven and earth, demons must be at least at the Foundation Establishment realm to transform into humans. There are also demon cultivators who are unwilling to transform into humans. Take Thousand-Household Yuan as an example. He is from the Mountain Ape Clan of Qingshu Mountain. His demon body is not much different from that of a human, and he can practice without transforming into a human."

"Why must demons transform into humans?" Zhao Chan asked, puzzled.

"Our human race is uniquely endowed by nature. The human body is like a small world independent of the outside world and equipped with a heavenly cycle. Confucianism has a good saying, 'All things are prepared for me.' Buddhism also has the saying, 'Bodhi self-nature, originally pure, just use this heart, directly become a Buddha'..."

Taoism's explanation of the human body as a small world is the most fundamental, 'The rise and fall of Qi and liquid is like the yin and yang of heaven and earth, the conduction of liver and lungs is like the repetition of the sun and moon,' and there is also 'Heaven follows me, I follow heaven.'

Therefore, our human race is the leader of all things, so it is not difficult to understand why demons transform into humans.

It is nothing more than imitating our human physique to speed up cultivation."

Zhao Chan heard what Kong Yanxing said about "all things are prepared for me" and so on, and seemed to understand it, but he understood the sentence that the demon race imitates the human race to speed up cultivation.

"If Sister Cui Cui is a demon, is she also a demon that can transform into a human?"

"Exactly." Kong Yanxing nodded, "Ha, I was just talking casually, how could I wrongly accuse a good person of being a demon!"

Zhao Chan paused and said seriously: "Even if Sister Cui Cui is a demon, she must be a good demon."

"Haha... kid, when we Demon Slayers encounter good demons, we call them demon cultivators or the demon race." Kong Yanxing couldn't help laughing. After laughing a few times, he touched his injury and immediately gasped in pain.

"Big Brother Kong, I'll go get something to eat."

He was in so much pain that he couldn't speak, so he could only nod.

The ingredients at home were no longer fresh, so Zhao Chan trotted towards Xizhao Inn, intending to buy a few good dishes.

When he worked part-time at Xizhao Inn before, the townspeople would order dishes from Xie Wan. When the dishes were ready, Zhao Chan would carry the food box and "deliver to the door."

"Sister Wan'er."

Coincidentally, Xie Wan was standing outside the door, and he saw the outsider cultivator named A Ping walking towards the outside of the town.

Xie Wan turned back and smiled at Zhao Chan: "Have you figured it out?"

She was naturally talking about the matter of apprenticing to the Xuanwei Sect.

The young man shook his head: "Sister Wan'er, give me more time."

"Oh? Did you come here to plead guilty this time?"

"No, I want to buy four dishes."

Xie Wan pretended to be surprised: "You? Buying vegetables? Little Toad, do you have money?"

"I saved some money." Zhao Chan certainly couldn't tell her that he had killed several outsiders, and he was now a nouveau riche in Youju Town.

"You gave all your money to Lao Liu to buy a coffin, where did you save it from?"

"It was given by Big Brother Wang Huan when I joined the Demon Slaying Division," he said, "He gave me thirty wen."

"Which four dishes do you want to buy?"

Big Brother Kong is injured now, so he should eat something light. He said: "Steamed fish, stewed chicken, braised beef, bamboo shoots stir-fried with shepherd's purse."

"Yo, the price of these four dishes is not cheap."

Zhao Chan took out the broken silver and placed it on the counter. He knew the price of various dishes when he worked part-time at the inn.

Xie Wan glanced at it: "The money is just right, sit wherever you want, wait, I'll make it for you."

"Sister Wan'er, I'm taking it home to eat, can I borrow the inn's food box?"

"Yes." Xie Wan said with a smile.

Bai Youjun saw Zhao Chan suddenly come to the inn and had already happily left her seat and walked to his side.

"Young Master~" she called out prettily.

Zhao Chan saluted: "Miss Bai."

Bai Youjun giggled, "Young Master, look, Miss Bai is over there."

He had already noticed Bai Yuqing, Huangfu Changqiu, and Xun Lan.

Bai Yuqing waved at him, and Zhao Chan thought about it again and again before walking over.

"Don't want to talk to me?" Bai Yuqing joked.

After all, she was the one who gave him two Mountain Ghost Flower Coins, so Zhao Chan bowed: "I wouldn't dare."

In front of Huangfu Changqiu and Xun Lan, Bai Yuqing said with a smile: "Since you are here, I will tell you how you should become bait for fishing for the mountain ghost."

Zhao Chan was slightly startled and said calmly: "I am all ears."

"All ears? Hehe, you are too polite. You are a smart person and should be able to feel Qing's affection for you. Moreover, Qing's nickname is only known to two people in the world now. One is me, I am her elder sister, and the other is you."

Bai Youjun's nickname is Qingshen.

She told him on the fifteenth of August.

Huangfu Changqiu laughed: "Young Master, look at how beautiful Bai Youjun is, and your appearance is also handsome and dashing..."

Zhao Chan did not look at her directly and interrupted her coldly: "My name is Zhao Chan, a Demon Slayer of the Youju Town Demon Slaying Division. May I ask who you are? Are you a cultivator?"

Huangfu Changqiu was stunned for a moment, then stood up seriously and saluted: "Baoyu Studio cultivator Huangfu Changqiu."

If it were just him alone, Huangfu Changqiu wouldn't need to be so formal, and wouldn't even bother to pay attention to him... but Bai Yuqing was watching from the side.

She is an Eighth-Rank Pacification Envoy of the Demon Slaying Division.

Although Zhao Chan was praised by Xun Lan as a genius more stunning than the Guye Sword Immortal Lin Wei, he is still an insignificant Body Refining realm cultivator, and Huangfu Changqiu doesn't take him seriously.

A so-called genius is nothing before growing up.

Bai Yuqing is different.

The power of a Demon Slaying Division Pacification Envoy is extremely great. Although it is an eighth-rank official position, which seems like a small official position, in fact, when the elders of Baoyu Studio come, they have to talk to her politely.

As for her inviting Bai Yuqing to be an offering in Baoyu Studio, the real meaning is just to borrow her name, but the heavenly materials and earthly treasures, Mountain Ghost Flower Coins, or Mountain God Coins that should be given to the offering will not be less.

Zhao Chan looked at Xun Lan.

Xun Lan also saluted: "Hengwu Pavilion cultivator Xun Lan, I have met Demon Slayer Zhao."

Xun Lan has other thoughts. Hengwu Pavilion wants to accept Chen Xianggu as a disciple.

The young man and Chen Xianggu have secret feelings for each other. She is polite now so that Zhao Chan will not have hatred for Hengwu Pavilion when she takes Chen Xianggu away later.

This matter is particularly critical!

She is extremely optimistic about Zhao Chan's cultivation speed on the Great Dao. One day, after the young man in front of her reaches a particularly high realm, and he is also a Demon Slayer of the Demon Slaying Division, relying on Chen Xianggu's relationship, Hengwu Pavilion might have something to ask of him.

After learning about their backgrounds, he stared at Bai Yuqing calmly.

"You want to ask about my background?" Bai Yuqing raised her eyebrows and said heroically.

"Yes."

"Kid, if I give you some color, you dare to open a dyeing workshop, right?" she sneered and asked back.

Zhao Chan said calmly: "I am a Demon Slayer of Youju Town, and it is my duty to clarify your identities."

Seeing that her elder sister was really angry, Bai Youjun hurriedly held her arm and whispered: "Elder Sister, speak well, don't get angry at Young Master."

In an instant, Bai Yuqing smiled indifferently: "I was almost led around by you."

Xun Lan and Huangfu Changqiu immediately came to their senses and smiled.

This stinky kid, relying on his status as a Demon Slayer, actually dared to forcibly take the initiative.

It was clearly Bai Yuqing talking about how he should become bait for fishing for the mountain ghost, but Zhao Chan directly asked about their backgrounds, lightly brushing over the "bait" matter.

Bai Yuqing said: "It's also because I have no malice towards you. If it were other cultivators, they would have been angered by your little thoughts long ago."

She said seriously: "Zhao Chan, do you think that because you are an Upper-Grade Body Refining realm cultivator and a Demon Slayer of the Demon Slaying Division, you can be presumptuous? There are too many cultivators in the mountain sects outside who don't take Demon Slayers seriously. Don't believe it? Ask them, are they afraid of your status as a Demon Slayer?"

Before he could speak, Xun Lan spoke first: "You are a Thousand-Household Official of the Demon Slaying Division, I might be willing to say a few words, but you are nothing now... I reported my sect only because your talent is good."

"Young Master, Senior Sister Xun is right. Baoyu Studio is not comparable to those small families. The reason I am amiable is also because of your talent," Huangfu Changqiu laughed. She is not like a Baoyu Studio cultivator who chants scriptures and prays to Buddha. The fox-like appearance she shows is more like a top-tier flower girl in a brothel. Plus, Huangfu Changqiu is wearing plain clothes. If she were really a brothel woman, she would definitely attract high officials and wealthy merchants to spend thousands of gold.

Bai Youjun looked at him worriedly.

The three of them ridiculed Young Master like this, and she was afraid that Young Master would be sad.

However, Zhao Chan shook his head gently: "Your backgrounds are bigger than the other, and they must be powerful cultivators that I cannot imagine no matter how I think.

Since you are in Youju Town, why don't I see you dealing with the demon disasters one after another?

Why stand by and watch the people die under the claws of demons?

Could it be that Baoyu Studio and Hengwu Pavilion are in the same group as the demons?

Miss Bai, I see that Miss Huangfu and Miss Xun respect you very much. I think your status is far above theirs. Why are you also unwilling to compassionately kill the demons that force the innocent people to leave their homes?"

The young man was silent for a short time and said slowly: "Mountain Ghost Flower Coins are extremely precious. Mountain ghosts can spit out Mountain Ghost Flower Coins. I really want to ask, is the value of a mountain ghost more precious than the lives of the people in your eyes?

Mr. Pan once taught me the four words 'human life is at stake.'

Demon disasters broke out, a matter of human life, but you turned a deaf ear."

Zhao Chan looked at Bai Yuqing, whose face changed: "I promised Miss Bai to become bait for fishing for the mountain ghost, and I will never go back on this matter. My questions are finished. Miss Bai can say how I should be an obedient bait."

Huangfu Changqiu glanced at Xun Lan and saw that Senior Sister Xun was lost in thought.

Xie Wan carried the freshly cooked steamed fish and placed it gently on the side table.

Listening to Zhao Chan's words.

She thought to herself, in the entire Youju Town, apart from Little Toad, there are very few people who truly care about the fate of the people.

Even Wang Huan of the Demon Slaying Division is more because of his duty that he has to fight demons.

Peeling his heart layer by layer, there is still a question about how much real worry he has for the people.

But Little Toad, ever since your parents passed away from illness, you have struggled to survive in Youju Town, suffered countless white eyes and disgust, why are you still full of hope for this world? Aren't you disappointed?

Didn't you always want to be a superior person?

To be a superior person is to eat people!

If you don't eat people, how can you become a superior person?

Seeing Bai Yuqing and the others stunned and unable to answer Zhao Chan's question for a while.

She called out: "Little Toad, the food is ready."

Zhao Chan turned back and thanked her: "Thank you, Sister Wan'er, wait a moment, there are some things I haven't finished saying."

"Okay, I'll wait for you."

She turned back to clean every corner of the food box.

The young man said again: "Miss Bai, what should I do?"

Bai Yuqing sighed faintly: "First answer your doubts. It is by no means that I am unwilling to help the people, but the task on my shoulders is also very heavy, and I really cannot fight. The situation in Youju Town is more troublesome than you see. Qing..."

Bai Youjun knew what her elder sister wanted her to do and immediately said: "Young Master, Elder Sister has her own difficulties, don't blame her. In fact, Elder Sister has already helped Youju Town a lot. You don't know, Youju Town is about to suffer a very, very big disaster. The demon disaster that has broken out now is just an appetizer compared to this disaster..."

She told Zhao Chan about the Hundred Treasure Zhen Pan Xi without any concealment, and also about that special mountain ghost.

There are no citizens surnamed Pan in the town.

Zhao Chan suddenly became nervous.

There are citizens surnamed Pan, but the private school teacher is surnamed Pan.

Huangfu Changqiu and Xun Lan observed him. Even with Bai Yuqing there, they couldn't take Zhao Chan away, but they were also worried that this matter would ruin his Dao heart.

For no other reason, they also bet on Zhao Chan, and they didn't want to see the young man's Dao heart broken and destroyed.

After Bai Youjun finished speaking, she called out: "Young Master?"

Zhao Chan looked down at his hands. It turned out that the real purpose of those outsider cultivators who came to the town was to kill everyone on the Mid-Autumn Festival on the fifteenth of August, just for the treasure of Hundred Treasure Zhen.

And in order to keep his treasure safe, that Hundred Treasure Zhen actually hid the key in the national fortune of Youju Town.

Yes, if the people are dead and Youju Town is destroyed, the national fortune will be gone, and the cave abode will naturally be able to open.

The young man's hands were numb.

Recalling the outsiders who came to Youju Town in groups of three or five over the years, and there was no lack of those who bought houses and settled down here, he was still naive enough to think that it was because the town had good scenery that it attracted outsiders.

He let out a turbid breath.

Bai Yuqing narrowed her eyes and stared at him.

Zhao Chan asked very slowly, very slowly: "I know, tell me how I should be bait for fishing for the mountain ghost."

Bai Yuqing's hanging heart fell, and Huangfu Changqiu and Xun Lan were the same.

The young man's state of mind was stronger than they imagined, even excessively strong.

At the same time, they were all filled with some doubts. Why is the heart of a mountain and water boy born and raised here so strong?

After hearing this news, shouldn't he be panicked? Shouldn't he be angry? Shouldn't he be desperate? Shouldn't his mind be full of thoughts of escaping?

"The timing is a bit early now. I suspect that this mountain ghost came here to be promoted to a Mountain God. Even if it is not, I want you to go with me to the place where you first encountered the mountain ghost tomorrow evening. You deliberately let it catch you, and leave the rest to me."

"No." Zhao Chan shook his head.

"Are you afraid that the mountain ghost will harm you?"

"No."

The fourteen-year-old young man was half a head shorter than her. He looked up slightly, stared into Bai Yuqing's eyes, and said decisively: "The mountain ghost must die! I will slowly repay your losses in the future."

Bai Yuqing asked: "Why?"

"There is no why. If the mountain ghost doesn't die, my heart cannot be calm! Cannot be quiet! Cannot be at peace! It cruelly killed all the fellow villagers in Shanniu Village! And refined them into Chang Ghosts! I saw with my own eyes the souls of the villagers scattered! There is no reason for the mountain ghost not to die!"

She instantly smiled like a flower, and she didn't drag her feet at all, "Okay."