Chapter 70

Lin Jue retreated a few steps and looked up diagonally.

The house next door had a high fire wall, and a man was repairing the roof tiles, seeming very happy, with a smile on his face, singing a song he couldn't understand, and shouting a sentence or two from time to time.

As if noticing Lin Jue's gaze, the man also lowered his head and looked at Lin Jue curiously.

He didn't stop singing.

He used a language Lin Jue couldn't understand.

Suddenly there was a sound of breaking through the air!

Lin Jue changed his line of sight and immediately saw two more saber blades flying from the courtyard in front, but they bypassed the gate from above, spinning and rushing toward him standing at the gate.

Lin Jue wasn't flustered and took a step forward.

His eyes blurred, and he was already inside the courtyard.

There was a large tree in the courtyard, and two archers were waiting under the tree. Seeing him, they walked over.

Thud! Thud!

Lin Jue turned back to look—

Behind him was the courtyard gate, inside which two saber blades were inserted, and two more saber tips protruded from the outside.

Lin Jue reached out and touched them quickly, immediately discovering the magical power attached to the saber blades.

This should be the fa-shu that made the saber blades and wooden sticks fly automatically and hurt people.

The magical power wasn't very pure, which was probably how the Third Third Shixiong judged this person's Daoist practice. Unfortunately, Lin Jue's current spiritual power hadn't reached the level where he could domineeringly break other people's magical power, and his fire-element spiritual fa-shu hadn't been practiced to the level where he could spit out spiritual fire; otherwise, he should have been able to use spiritual fire to burn away the magical power on this, which was also a way to break this fa-shu.

The thought only lasted for a split second, and he turned his head again, looking at the roof again.

His eyes flickered, revealing contemplation.

When he was still at the merchant's house, these flying wooden sticks and saber blades were "half-blind," only knowing the approximate location of him and the Third Third Shixiong, but not knowing exactly where they were, but just now...

"Two warriors."

Lin Jue pointed upward: "Shoot the legs of that person above!"

The bean soldiers couldn't speak, but they were silent and reliable, so they quickly nocked arrows and turned to shoot.

"Swish swish..."

Two arrows shot toward the roof.

But unexpectedly, the person on the roof first retracted his legs, then flipped on the roof, and sensitively dodged two arrows in a row!

"Sure enough!"

Seeing he was discovered, the person didn't pretend anymore, took out a knife from behind, and immediately jumped down from the wall.

The high horse-head wall, landed easily.

"Two warriors!"

Actually, before Lin Jue could speak, the two bean soldiers had already felt the threat. What Lin Jue didn't expect was that they actually showed a cooperative strategy like humans: one held a bow and retreated to open the distance, and the other discarded the bow and arrow, drew a long saber from behind his waist, and walked toward him with heavy steps.

Lin Jue didn't care about these.

At the same time, he had already heard the faint sound of chanting, which came from the room behind him.

"Evil monster!"

Two saber blades on the door trembled and flew out of the door, flying toward him like lightning.

Lin Jue just dodged to the side, and his whole body drilled into the large tree in the courtyard, and then flashed out from the other side. No matter how fierce the saber blades were, they only embedded into the tree.

"Tree brother! Sorry!"

Lin Jue's steps didn't stop at all.

"Bang!"

He kicked open a room door.

Inside was the main hall. The room was not small, and a bald man in a gray robe was sitting cross-legged inside, chanting incantations rapidly.

When he saw Lin Jue standing at the door holding a Daoist saber, his eyes widened suddenly, and a trace of visible panic flashed across his face.

But the chanting didn't stop.

The bald man had many saber blades placed beside him, and two flew up, rushing straight toward Lin Jue.

The saber blades didn't fly slowly, and they kept spinning, and the lethality area was not small at all. But he saw this young Daoist priest keeping his eyes wide open, refusing to blink, waving the Daoist saber in his hand, and with a "clang," he split one away, and then dodged one with a sensitive twist of his body. His Daoist robes and hair were cut by the saber blades.

The bald man's eyes widened more and more, and he was surprised to find that even while dodging, this person was still approaching him.

That Daoist saber looked really scary!

The chanting stopped immediately.

The saber blades that had missed and changed direction to fly toward Lin Jue also fell to the ground with the cessation of the chanting.

Just seeing the bald man point a finger—

The form of the incantation syllables in his mouth changed.

At the same time, Lin Jue's hand suddenly felt soft, and the feeling became light, soft, and slippery.

He hurriedly looked down, only to see that the Daoist saber in his hand had actually turned into two green snakes, twisting their bodies wildly, and one even turned back as if to bite him.

What kind of shu-fa is this?

This thought flashed through Lin Jue's mind, but his figure didn't stop, just threw these two snakes away, and approached the bald man in two steps.

This person never expected that this young Daoist priest, who didn't look sturdy, would dare to rush toward him after losing his Daoist saber. He wanted to continue chanting to drive the saber blades, but only saw a flash of light in front of him, and surging firelight rushed toward his face, accompanied by a wild wind, like a wall of fire.

In the blink of an eye, he was in the midst of the raging flames.

His body and face were suddenly extremely hot.

"Ah!!"

The firelight hadn't completely dissipated, and he hadn't reacted yet, when he felt someone grab his collar, and a fist hit him.

The bald man hadn't recovered from the burning pain and was almost beaten into a daze.

"Do you have any other skills?"

Before he could react, another vase smashed onto his head.

The battle of fa-shu ended in this way.

Lin Jue didn't dare to relax his vigilance, grabbed the collar of this bald gray-robed man, blocked his mouth with cloth, and turned back to look—where were there any poisonous snakes on the ground? His Daoist saber was lying on the ground perfectly fine.

He picked it up and went out to take a look.

There were a few bloodstains in the courtyard, both bean soldiers had saber cuts, and the martial artist had already disappeared.

"Bang!"

The courtyard gate was kicked open.

The first to rush in was the fox he picked up, and the Third Third Shixiong was standing at the door, looking at him. Outside, there were many commoners who were both afraid and felt it was novel. Several merchants were also standing among them, not knowing where they got some wooden sticks and brooms in their hands, as if they were going to fight side by side with the two Daoist priests.

The bald gray-robed man was already flushed and covered in blood.

The young Daoist priest stood beside him holding his saber.

The group escorted the gray-robed man to the county yamen. Behind them, many commoners opened their curious eyes and followed behind, and more and more people gathered, constantly discussing with each other.

When Lin Jue was practicing on Fuqiu Peak, his magical power and magical techniques seemed very ordinary, but when he reached the foot of the mountain, it was like Shu Village, where many people had only heard of magical techniques and high-level people, but had never seen them with their own eyes.

At this time, they naturally felt it was extremely rare.

"I thought about it, this person should have used incantations to drive the wooden sticks and saber blades, but he didn't have X-ray vision, so he hid in this empty house where no one lived. A martial artist pretended to repair the wall and sing, but actually used a language only they could understand to report our location to the people inside." Lin Jue said to the Third Third Shixiong, "He relied on these locations to drive the saber blades and wooden sticks to fly."

"Very likely."

"I guessed it."

"This person also has death energy!" The Third Third Shixiong looked down at him.

"Does this person cultivate death energy?"

"It's not necessarily that his cultivation method is related to this, nor is it necessarily that this fa-shu is related to this; it could also be that his Daoist practice is related to this. The death energy on him is very faint, as if it was stained from somewhere else."

"So that's how it is..."

"Troublesome..." The Third Third Shixiong said with a headache.

"Yes." Lin Jue said, "But this fa-shu is not bad. It's a pity that it seems it needs to be chanted continuously."

"I don't know what fa-shu it is."

"Third Shixiong, you don't know either?"

"The magical techniques of the world, how numerous are they? Before, when our Fuqiu Temple was just formed, we had these seven magical techniques, which was considered a lot. After so many years of hard collection, we haven't saved up much." The Third Senior Brother said, "Besides, the world was peaceful before, how could there be so many things?"

"That's true."

Lin Jue nodded, and couldn't help but look back at the roofs on both sides: "It's a pity that the martial artist ran away."

"He was hit by an arrow, he can't run far. Chasing him is better left to the city's catchers; we Daoists are not good at these things." The Third Third Shixiong was very good at pushing things away, "If the catchers in the city can't find him, it has nothing to do with us; it just means the catchers in the city are incompetent."

"Hmm..."

Lin Jue considered the Third Third Shixiong's personality roughly known—

This person craved comfort and enjoyment, liked fine wine, but also had half a chivalrous spirit, free and unrestrained. If he encountered injustice and evil, if no one was in charge, he would definitely step in, but if someone was in charge, or if someone more capable came to manage it, he would definitely throw his hands up in a hurry; comfort and ease were extremely important.

Such a person, I think, must be very free, right?

While speaking, they were almost at the county yamen.

Suddenly, they saw a group of Daoists walking toward them from the front.

This group of Daoists seemed to be going to the county yamen too, there were about a dozen people, some carrying packages or baskets, and each person held a long sword in their hand.

Among them, Lin Jue and the Third Third Shixiong recognized one person.

It was exactly the Daoist Daoist Qingxuan.

When they saw him, the Daoist Daoist Qingxuan also saw them, and both sides looked at each other, both surprised.

Subsequently, both sides met at the gate of the county yamen.

One side had a dozen Daoists, mostly in their twenties or thirties; the other side originally only had two people and a fox, but the merchants and commoners behind them were countless.

Both sides reported their names to each other.

"Daoist friends, this is..."

"We were invited by the merchants in the city to eliminate Many Yaoguai. We worked all night, and in the morning we were suddenly warned by this evil person using fa-shu. We didn't pay attention, and he wanted our lives, so we finally captured him. It's very likely he is related to the spirits and monsters stealing money in the city." Lin Jue said, looking at them, "Daoist Daoist Qingxuan, what about you all?"

"It's shameful to say, it's about the same." Daoist Daoist Qingxuan said, "Before, your temple sent someone to inform us about the situation in Yixian City, and later someone came to ask for help, but the temple has always been very busy. It wasn't until a few days ago that we had time to come to this Yixian, passing through several mountain villages in between, and there were some strange things. The journey that should have taken two days took four or five days to arrive."

As he spoke, he bowed to the merchant beside Lin Jue.

The merchant also bowed to him.

Both sides seemed to know each other and both felt a bit ashamed.

Looking at this, Lin Jue had some guesses in his heart. It was likely that these merchants went to the more famous Mount Qiyun before going to Fuqiu Peak. At this time, one side felt that the other side had found them and agreed, but hadn't come for a long time, while the other side felt that they had invited the other party and went to Mount Yishan to invite another high-level person. Both sides felt a bit sorry.

"Haha, perfect!" The Third Senior Brother seemed to have found an opportunity, "This kind of thing should be managed by divine beings. Since the Daoist friends of Mount Qiyun have come, we can just happen to be idle."

"Uh..."

Daoist Daoist Qingxuan turned his head to seek an opinion.

Lin Jue saw him sweep his gaze toward the people behind him, mostly looking at the Daoists who were older than him, but the one he stayed on the longest was a female Daoist who looked less than twenty years old.

That woman was wearing Daoist robes, had regular features, and was very beautiful. What left a deep impression on Lin Jue was her skin, which was abnormally white. Just now, he heard that she seemed to be called Jiang Ning.

The female Daoist nodded imperceptibly.

"Naturally, naturally, our Profound Heaven Sect came to Yixian this time to clear out the evil spirits here, not to mention that the people here also want to invite the statue of our divine being." Daoist Daoist Qingxuan then said, "When we received the letter from your temple, we attached great importance to it, but, hehe, Daoist friend also knows that it is troublesome for us to report to the divine being, not to mention that in recent years, there have been too many Many Yaoguai and ghost affairs in the world..."

"Naturally, naturally..."

The Third Third Shixiong also said so, but compared to Daoist Daoist Qingxuan's solemnity, he was much more cheerful, and then pointed to the gray-robed man beside Lin Jue and said: "The rat Many Yaoguai here all have death energy, and this evil person also has death energy, but his Daoist practice is not high, and there is probably a real culprit behind the scenes."

"Leave it to us."

This sentence was said by that woman, her voice calm and sincere:

"The Daoist friend's reminder is very helpful to us, and we must thank you. After we finish the investigation and Many Yaoguai elimination, we will definitely write a letter and send it to your temple to inform you of the investigation and clearing results. The contribution of the two Daoist friends to this matter will also be reported to the divine being and recorded in the merit book."

"Hmm? This is..."

"This is my Jiang Ning Xiao Shimei. Although she is young, she is favored by the divine being and is a fa-shi who has been ordained." Daoist Daoist Qingxuan said with a smile, "Perhaps there will be a chance to meet again in the future."

This actually meant that what this woman said was effective.

The Third Third Shixiong was a bit surprised, as if he didn't expect her to be in charge, but since the other party was so particular, he restrained his smile and bowed solemnly.

Both sides paid respects to each other.