Chapter 118: Mountain God Suppresses the Pear Ancestor (Seeking Monthly Votes)

The moonlight is bright, the river is murmuring, and the floating light is jumping like silver.

Most of the people in Huizhou live near water, with villages built beside rivers and streams, and roads also following the streams and rivers, which is not difficult to find.

Two Daoists walk at night by the river bank following the fox.

Under the moonlight, the mountains on one side of the river and the plains on the other are clearly visible, planted with trees everywhere, both those carefully planted and cared for by people, and those wild ones by the roadside, mostly pear trees.

The road surface is bright and dark, with pits and stones, but the one walking in front is a white fox; under the moonlight, no matter if the road can be seen clearly or not, the white fox can definitely be seen clearly, and it also very cleverly increased the range of its movements of jumping over pits and crossing road stones, so as to inform the two behind it that the road is uneven.

Sometimes encountering particularly large pits, it would stop, turn its head to look at them, and then jump over.

After walking about twenty or thirty miles, Fuyao, who was acting as the leading fox, stopped, but didn't turn its head to look at them, but turned its head to look at the distance on the right.

There is a small path there, leading to a forest.

The fox turned its head to look at them again, jumped lightly, but jumped onto that small path, and then walked forward.

The two looked at each other and followed immediately.

"Swish..."

Both long swords were already out of their scabbards.

Looking around, borrowing the moonlight, it is not difficult to distinguish that they are all pear trees, laden with fruits.

Lin Jue stopped, reached out to pull a branch, smelled the leaves closely, and smelled the pears on it, but could only smell the fragrance of the pears.

The junior sister looked at him strangely.

Lin Jue sniffed his nose again.

The junior sister still looked at him strangely.

"What's wrong, senior brother?"

"Nothing. Just always feel like I can smell a trace of death energy, but these pear trees and pear fruits are good." Lin Jue said while continuing to walk forward.

"How did you smell it?"

"Death energy and yin energy are very similar; now it's night, it's normal for yin energy to be heavy, but I can smell a bit of foul smell that is there and not there, that is death energy. But these pears are fragrant."

Upon hearing this, the junior sister was extra alert, looking around, and also sniffing her nose.

"Did you smell it?"

"No." The junior sister answered honestly, "Only the fragrance of pears, and it's so fragrant."

"No matter." Lin Jue said while walking and staying alert to the surroundings, "Fuyao should have discovered something, we just follow it."

"Okay!"

Just at this time, the fox suddenly stopped again, staring at the darkness of the tree forest on the right.

"Ah~"

The fox gave a light call.

In this instant—

The junior sister turned around and waved her sword like lightning, first with a slap, cutting off a dead branch that was flicking over, then her eyes froze, her wrist flicked, and the long sword immediately stirred up a circle of jade light, blocking a few dead leaves in the jade light.

At the same time, a pillar of fire rushed out from behind.

"Boom..."

The flames outlined a demon that resembled both a person and a tree; it had facial features growing on its trunk, its whole body was withered, and it was already ignited by the raging flames.

There was also an astringent, harsh sound like a wobbling wooden chair.

Only seeing the dead tree demon twisting and struggling in the fire, screaming, spinning and whipping the pear trees beside it, knocking down I don't know how many pears, wanting to extinguish the fire.

Just as it was about to extinguish it, the junior sister calmly added another palm.

The whole dead tree was shrouded in flames again.

"This tree demon won't survive."

Lin Jue saw that its cultivation was even worse than the pear tree he met halfway, and I don't know why it became dead wood, making it even more disadvantaged, and it had no power to resist under their fire-element magic arts.

"Try not to use fire, the weather is dry, I fear it will become a disaster."

"Okay!"

"Of course, life is also important."

"Know it!"

It just so happened that at this time, the fox jumped forward again.

"Incantations connect heaven and earth, divine thunder gathers at the sword tip, laws point to yin and yang, true fire reflects the blade edge! The three realms and five elements all help, making my blades manifest divine mystery!"

Lin Jue took out six flying darts.

"Go!"

The two accelerated their speed and also increased their alertness.

Occasionally raising their swords to block, blocking the dead branches coming from the tree forest, flicking their hands and returning two flying darts, stabbing into the twisted five features on a certain dead tree in the forest. Occasionally bending down to dodge, avoiding the dead leaves like blades, standing up and waving their swords, throwing their long swords, spinning and hacking into the trunk of a certain dead tree, reflecting the moonlight.

Both the flying darts and long swords were attached with the Sword Attachment Incantation; the method of incantation prohibition was originally used to drive away evil and eliminate demons, and it was very easy to use against such small demons with no cultivation.

Once the flying darts and long swords stabbed or hacked, a circle of spiritual light would ripple, dispersing some black smoke, and one could hear the screams coming from the forest; if hit in the vital point, the human faces on the trees would all bleed black blood from their seven orifices.

Then the flying darts and long swords would automatically fly back into the hands of the advancing Daoists.

The junior sister was stunned.

Suddenly hearing a sound coming from ahead.

There were shouts, incantation sounds, flame explosion sounds, breaking-air sounds, all kinds of sounds mixed together.

Following the small path over a small slope several people high, looking down by the moonlight, there were indeed Daoists eliminating yaoguai, and what they were eliminating was exactly a tree demon.

Only seeing the flat ground below, four small flags were inserted far away, the small flags flashing with spiritual light, divided into four corners, as if framing a square field, and the Daoists eliminating yaoguai were inside. And outside the field, several circles of ordinary dead tree demons were gathered, motionless, like trees planted messily here, unable to enter.

Three Daoists inside were fighting with a large tree, very intensely.

"It's the Daoist friends of Xianyuan Temple!"

"Saw them."

Lin Jue looked left and right—

The flat ground below was surrounded by mountain slopes, it seemed to be farmland that had just been harvested in autumn, neither trees nor grass grew, and it was a natural firebreak.

Lin Jue held his sword and rushed down.

Those dead trees were originally motionless, as if rooted in the ground, but seemed to hear the movement behind them, suddenly moving slowly, turning to look behind, with human faces all over the trees, and their eyes were pitch-black holes.

As soon as they turned, they saw a fire dragon rushing over.

One in front, one in back, both hitting the same place.

One couldn't be resisted, let alone two.

Between the roaring flames, several layers of dead trees were burned out with a gap, and under the natural fear of fire, they hurriedly moved aside, their movements slow, but their expressions anxious, letting out a wider road.

"Fellow Daoists! We are here to help you!"

"Ying!"

The fox jumped lightly, jumping over the fire circle first, its figure extremely light.

Then, as if it had discovered something, it adjusted its posture in the air, and its four feet suddenly seemed to step on an invisible wall.

"Ying?"

The fox kicked the wall and jumped back.

Just as it wanted to remind the two, it saw Lin Jue reach out, actually scooping it from the air, then tucking it under his ribs with one hand, covering his eyes with his arm with the other, and continuing forward.

The two crashed through the flames and rushed into the square of spiritual flags.

Only then did the fox land on the ground.

"Woo?"

It first turned its head to look at the transparent wall behind it that couldn't be seen clearly, and the burning dead trees, then looked at Lin Jue, feeling that it was like when it was young. However, this was obviously not the time to think about these things, so it looked at the Daoists and the tree demon ahead again.

Although that tree was a pear tree, it was as thick as a bathtub, with lush branches and leaves like a giant, and three Daoists were fighting with it below.

The pear tree was indeed unable to take care of itself.

But the Daoists were not relaxed either.

And there was even a young Daoist who had fallen in front.

Lin Jue went to check first.

He also knew this young Daoist; he was one of the group of young Daoists who had listened to the Dao and received the Dharma from Daoist Wangji with him and the junior sister. At this time, he was lying at a position relatively far from the tree demon, not knowing if he was moved by his fellow disciples or elders after being injured, and he still had a breath at this time.

But Lin Jue felt it was very terrible when he looked—

No obvious injuries could be seen on the young Daoist's body, it might be blunt force trauma, but what was terrible was that quite a few small branches had grown on his body, and pear blossoms had bloomed on the branches.

The largest branch grew from his neck, about the thickness of a chopstick, as long as a palm, and there were several small branches on it, with a clean white and charming pear blossom blooming on it.

And in other places on his neck and exposed arms, there were sparsely growing small bud points, with both clean white pear blossoms and unopened flower buds above.

The pear blossoms under the moonlight were truly both beautiful and terrifying.

Even Lin Jue saw that his Daoist robe behind him was a bit fluffy, I fear things had grown under his clothes too.

His vitality was slowly dissipating.

Lin Jue didn't hesitate at all, first took a small red bottle, poured out a medicinal pill, and stuffed it into his mouth.

When he straightened up, the junior sister had already rushed to the front, fighting the tree demon with the Daoist friends of Xianyuan Temple, both sides didn't have time to say a word, just casting their own skills and magic arts.

The middle-aged Daoist was on the right, and two young Daoists were in the middle.

The junior sister went to the left.

Lin Jue naturally went to the left too.

The young Daoist Yun Yi held a long sword, and the sword emitted golden light; this was a higher-level magic art than the Sword Attachment Incantation, and its name was "Slaying Yaoguai", just suitable for slaying yaoguai and ghosts.

He used this magic art as the main attack, hacking at the branches flicked by the tree demon, and used his robe sleeve as a shield; this was the "Cloth Barrier" method that he had been cultivating hard in the mountain for a long time. He had good talent in this magic art, and he could actually block the branches flicked by the large tree with just his robe sleeve, and the battle was in full swing for a while.

Suddenly hearing a roar of flames.

Yun Yi glanced sideways, and there was one more person beside him.

It was Daoist friend Qingyao of Fuchi Temple.

Only seeing flames pushed out from her palms, hitting the tree demon, the night with the bright moon was instantly illuminated by the firelight, and all the branches of the tree demon were burning with flames.

The momentum was quite strong.

However, the tree demon was not a dead tree, and its cultivation was high, so the effect of this spiritual fire on it was limited; the tree demon only felt the burning pain, the five features on the trunk suddenly frowned, then twisted and looked toward the flames.

Three branches flicked over, hitting Qingyao.

Yun Yi was startled instantly, widening his eyes.

Although the two were not of the same sect, they could be considered classmates in a sense, and he naturally understood this Daoist friend and Fuchi Temple—although this Daoist friend performed much better than himself when learning characters, Yun Yi didn't think he lost to her in magic arts, and Fuchi Temple didn't pass down any body-protecting magic arts. If she was whipped, wouldn't she die on the spot?

But he saw the woman put her sword on her back and bend her waist, dodging the first branch instantly, and while bending her waist, she was also twisting her body; after bending her waist, she just borrowed the momentum of turning her body, actually rising lightly in place, kicking the moon and turning, avoiding the second and third branches.

She even wanted to turn and wave her sword, but couldn't hack it.

"This..."

Actually dodged it with body method alone?

Yun Yi couldn't help but be surprised.

Then he heard a few incantations, a cold light flashed in the dark night, and at the same time flames roared out, a few flying darts with spiritual light shot over, piercing the flames, pointing straight at the tree demon's five features.

The tree demon retracted its branches and protected its vital points.

Is that Daoist friend Lin Jue?

Yun Yi had no time to turn his head to look.

Only hearing a few clangs!

The flames dissipated, and four flying darts were already inserted into the tree branches, and two were inserted into the tree demon's five features, rippling some spiritual light.

The tree demon felt pain and gave a rough roar.

First, the two flying darts on its face were squeezed out and fell to the ground, then the few flying darts on the branches were also squeezed out.

Actually no use?

Just as Yun Yi was thinking, he suddenly saw the tree demon shake.

A few black dots fell down.

"Careful!"

Daoist Yun Yi shouted, hurriedly retreating.

Only seeing his uncle holding a sword and chanting, spitting a breath toward the night sky ahead.

"Bang, bang, bang..."

These black dots all exploded.

Looking again—

That senior brother and junior sister pair also had preparations early on.

Daoist friend Qingyao waved her left sleeve, waving out a puff of flames, swinging outward in a semicircle like a wall of fire, crashing into these black smokes, the momentum astonishing.

Daoist friend Lin Jue immediately waved a gale, blowing away the remaining black smoke.

At the same time, the two retreated repeatedly.

Daoist Yun Yi looked extremely surprised.

These two are quite amazing.

Then he gritted his teeth again.

He cannot be weaker than them.

Daoist Yun Yi prepared to work harder, but also shouted to the two: "Stand further away! This yaoguai is very evil, these black smokes must not be touched at all!"

Lin Jue turned to look, only to find that I don't know when, the Daoist friends of Xianyuan Temple had actually retreated further than the two of them.

They must have experience.

The two hurriedly followed and retreated.

Suddenly felt some pain and itching on his body.

Lin Jue lowered his head to look, and a small bud had actually grown on the back of the hand holding the sword, very small, but growing very fast, in just two breaths, a thin bud close to the length of a fingernail had grown, with a flower bud on it.

This thing seemed to be absorbing his essence and magical power.

Under the moonlight and firelight, the flower bud slowly opened, the petals were clean and white, the stamens were tender, it was a small pear blossom.

"Slap..."

Lin Jue knocked it off casually.

A small blood pillar emerged.

Like a small fountain.

"What kind of demon magic?"

Lin Jue's expression was solemn, circulating his magical power, driving away the demon energy in it with supreme yang spiritual power, and then stretched out his left index finger, with a bean-sized flame suddenly appearing on his index finger, pressing it on the back of his right hand.

"Swish..."

Only then did the blood pillar stop.

The junior sister who came over with a cloth strip was stunned.

The young Daoist Yun Yi who was watching from afar was also stunned.

The situation was urgent, and both sides fought together again.

The two magic arts of Xianyuan Temple were quite amazing; the robe sleeve could block the branches flicked by the large tree, and the golden sword could cut off branches as thick as an arm, and this was under the premise that the two young Daoists' cultivation was not deep. It's just that the black smoke thrown or spat by the tree demon must not be touched; if touched, flowers would bloom on the body, and essence and magical power would fade rapidly.

Young Daoist Yun Yi worked harder and harder.

The other young Daoist saw this and worked even harder.

According to reason, to deal with this kind of yaoguai, Lin Jue used incantations to control the long sword, and coupled with the Sword Attachment Incantation, even if he couldn't hurt its trunk, he could cut off the fine branches one by one. However, this tree demon had high cultivation and could actually use its own magical power to remove the magical power attached by the incantation control method; Lin Jue's flying darts couldn't be recalled.

He could only hack with his sword and burn with fire.

If they kept fighting like this, I fear they would fight until dawn!

After realizing this, Lin Jue decisively withdrew and retreated, and instead took out the token given by the Mountain God.

This token was the size of a palm and very heavy, said to have the ability to suppress evil spirits, but Lin Jue had been carrying it on his body since he came, and yaoguai and evil spirits were still not affected.

And I don't know how to use it.

There was neither any wonderful secret formula nor any incantation.

Is it to be thrown to smash people?

Lin Jue thought so, and actually attached a little magical power to it, held it in his hand, chanted an incantation, and threw it with force, and the token flew out suddenly.

It smashed onto the tree demon.

In fact, the tree demon had discovered this token before being smashed, so it stretched out its branches to block it.

But this small token was actually several thousand jin heavy at this time, the branches were all easily broken, and there was no intention of being able to block this token at all, until it was smashed onto its body.

A huge sound.

The whole tree trembled a few times.

"Eh?"

Lin Jue was also surprised.

Then only seeing the token deeply embedded in the tree demon's trunk, glowing all over, like a red-hot branding iron, scalding the trunk to constantly emit white smoke and foul smell, the tree demon couldn't care about anything else, struggling with a squeak, and the astringent sound was truly painful to the ears.

Before long, the tree demon couldn't move.

Lin Jue couldn't help but be even more surprised.

But he was not the only one surprised.

The three Daoists of Xianyuan Temple all looked over.

The young Daoists and Lin Jue pair had listened to the Dao and learned the Dharma together, and even had exchanges on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month this year, immediately surprised at what kind of skill this was and why it was so powerful.

The middle-aged Daoist saw Lin Jue's movements clearly, so he was surprised at what kind of magic weapon this was.

Even the junior sister and the fox looked over.

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