Chapter 101: Tree Demon Granny

The large yellow chicken pecked, swallowed the spirit pill that looked like a relic, and continued to hide it in its crop. It stood on one leg, closed its eyes and digested for a long time, before it managed to refine this Demon-Breaking Golden Needle.

"The Demon-Breaking Golden Needle is truly extraordinary..." Yan Shu praised, and then said: "However, we still don't have clues to the other Demon-Subduing magic tools..."

"But the demons must have them." Qian Chen took over the conversation: "With this ancient Lanruo Temple... with Miss Ning, Brother Yan, Fellow Daoist Zhi Qiu, and my Little Qian... how can there be one less Tree Demon Granny?"

"Let's go and meet this General Liu!"

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Under Heavenly Tian Shafeng, a little monk in hemp clothes was trudging forward with difficulty.

He leaned over and raked a giant rock beside him, carefully walking on the stone cliff of the mountain stream, climbing toward the towering Heishan in front.

When he reached the edge of the cliff, the little monk looked up and wanted to see the road ahead, but saw a red shadow standing alone on the opposite side of the valley.

"Miss!" The little monk shouted: "Do you know if there is any road to Heavenly Tian Shafeng in front?"

The red shadow turned back. Through the thin mist in the mountains, it seemed that she couldn't hide her stunning beauty.

She looked at the little monk, didn't answer, but turned back, her figure lonely.

"Pah pah pah... called wrong again!" The little monk spat a few times, quickly put his hands together, and pretended to be serious: "Female benefactor... is the road to Heavenly Tian Shafeng in front?"

The red shadow flickered and disappeared into the thin mist.

"Disappeared?"

The little monk was stunned and quickly grabbed the Buddhist beads on his neck.

"Could it be a wild ghost in the mountains? In this poor mountain and evil water, there are actually such beautiful mountain ghosts?"

The little monk's imagination ran wild, and then he slapped his head twice fiercely: "Shi Fang! Shi Fang... how did the master explain before going down the mountain... the women down the mountain are tigers, and you must hide when you meet them."

The mountain road gradually went higher.

On the mountainside, the mountain wind blowing from all directions had blown away the mist at the foot of the mountain.

The strong wind whistled past, rolling up the broken stones in the mountains, falling down the mountain. 【101-2

Seeing this, the little monk Shi Fang swallowed his saliva. Falling down from here, truly, even "shattered to pieces" would not be enough to describe it. He tightened the thin monk's robe on his body. The cold air on the high mountain was extremely heavy. Although he had a little meager cultivation, the little monk could not withstand this bone-chilling mountain wind.

He looked around and saw a mountain pass ahead that could block the wind.

He hurried over and indeed saw the stone walls on both sides of the mountain pass recessed, blocking out a place to avoid the wind. It was just that someone had already occupied this place. Fortunately, this place was vast, so it wouldn't be a problem for one more little monk.

"Old man, can you allow this little monk to avoid the wind here for a while?"

Hearing this, the old man with a blank expression in front of the stone wall raised his head. He stared blankly at the little monk's direction, his expression revealing a trace of vastness.

The little monk tentatively shouted again: "Old man?"

"Oh!" The old man just woke up from his ignorance, moved his body to the side, and said in his mouth: "It doesn't... it doesn't matter!"

Only then did the little monk Shi Fang heave a sigh of relief. He saw some withered branches and leaves blown by the wind in the stone wall cave, so he gathered them up, used a fire stone to light a small fire, and only then did he stretch out his hands to warm them, emitting a comfortable sigh of relief.

He also greeted the old man beside him: "Old man, let's warm ourselves by the fire together!"

"This mountain road is rugged, and the mountain wind is cold. I don't know where you are from, old man, and why are you still coming up the mountain at this time?"

"I am a hunter here..."

The old man said slowly. He paused for a long time before speaking slowly again: "My son went hunting, and I came up the mountain to check the traps."

"Since you are a local, old man... do you know any shortcuts to climb the mountain?"

The little monk Shi Fang pointed to the towering Tiansha Peak ahead and asked.

"The road up the mountain!" The old man slowly raised his head. On his face full of wrinkles, a pair of eyes looked dim, making Shi Fang worry about whether he still recognized the road. Moreover, such a confused old man coming up the mountain alone made Shi Fang a bit worried, but he was burdened with a heavy responsibility and really had no spare time to send the old man home.

The old man pointed to the right of the mountain pass and said in a low voice: "There is a road there... you can walk it."

"Thank you, old man..."

His body warmed up a bit, and Shi Fang also had to continue his journey.

He followed the direction pointed by the old man and walked for the time it takes to burn two sticks of incense. Sure enough, a desolate path appeared there, leading to the deeper parts of the great mountain.

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This road was indeed much easier to walk. The little monk Shi Fang didn't know how long he had walked, only seeing the sky gradually darken, and the surroundings were quiet without a single sound.

He didn't intend to climb in the dark, thinking that when he saw a suitable place, he would just sleep for a night.

Suddenly, on the dim mountain road ahead, a dazzling red shadow appeared.

"Female ghost!" Shi Fang nervously closed his eyes, pinched the Buddha beads his master gave him, and blocked them in front of him: "Amitabha! Amitabha! The Buddha is in front, all evils avoid..."

"Why did you come?" the 'female ghost' asked, her voice cold but very pleasant to hear.

The little monk quietly opened one eye, saw that vivid face, and couldn't help but answer: "So you are not a ghost... This little monk's Dharma name is Shi Fang, and I am going to Heishan under my master's order to check if the Buddha statues carved in the mountains are intact."

"There are many demons near Tiansha Peak. Just you... is your master particularly bad to you? Do you often make him angry, and are you too dull to be molded?" The red-clothed woman revealed a smile full of interest, looking him up and down.

The little monk Shi Fang waved his hands repeatedly: "No, no... Master is very good to me. Like a teacher and like a father..."

"Sometimes, you know a person's face but not their heart! If I had a disciple as stupid as you, I would also trick him into going out to die!" the woman said earnestly.

Shi Fang blushed with anxiety.

"Master just wants to help fellow Daoists eradicate a group of demons, so he let me go first alone. With his prayer beads, demons and ghosts cannot disturb me." He raised the Buddha beads in his hand and said.

The red-clothed woman glanced at the Buddha beads: "This kind of low-class magic treasure can only defend against small ghosts and demons in the mountains... The demons here are not some small pranks. You holding this broken thing is just going to die. I don't know how many stupid little monks like you your master has accepted? Are his Buddha beads still enough?"

Shi Fang said with shame and annoyance: "This little monk is not stupid!"

The red-clothed woman tilted her head: "Mistaking a living person for a ghost, and asking a ghost for directions as if it were a person, without the slightest suspicion. You are not stupid... who is?" The woman made an expression with her eyebrows squeezed together, which was very funny.

With such good looks, making an expression like a ghost face, it caused the high-mountain flower in the little monk Shi Fang's heart to collapse with a bang.

Coming back to his senses, the little monk Shi Fang exclaimed: "You said that old man just now was a ghost?"

"Yes! I saw you pestering it to go to your death from far away, and I heard it tell you that its son went down the mountain to hunt, and it was waiting on the mountain for a fool like you to enter the trap." The red-clothed woman laughed until she bent over: "Actually, a stupid rabbit really bumped into it! Hahaha..."

The little monk just wanted to pursue the question, but suddenly glanced at the snow-white, gelatinous skin trembling on her chest, and suddenly lowered his head nervously.

"You are a bit lecherous!" At this time, the woman supported his shoulder.

"This little monk is not!" Shi Fang lowered his head, not daring to raise it.

"When we first met, you called me Miss. Later you changed your address to female benefactor... Little monk, your six roots are not clean!" The red-clothed woman shook her head, suddenly patted Shi Fang's shoulder: "Okay... hurry up and go! I won't tease you anymore. Further ahead, your life will be gone. I came here specifically to stop you, just because I was afraid you would bump into that big guy in front."

The little monk Shi Fang turned back honestly, and before leaving, suddenly asked: "This little monk received the grace of the female benefactor's life-saving, but I still don't know the girl's name?"

"My name is Si Qingguo..."

The red-clothed woman raised her willow eyebrows and said.

At this time, a voice that only she could hear rang in her ear: "Main mission two activated, obtain recognition from the righteous path (Blood Demon) camp..."

"Reincarnator has obtained recognition from the righteous path plot character Shi Fang, completion (1/7)."

"Hehe... and you said you weren't lecherous!" Si Qingguo teased: "A little monk who is stubborn in his mouth but very honest in his heart."

Shi Fang was just about to walk back along the way he came, but saw shadows flickering ahead, and dozens of shadows appeared. The old man who had greeted him stood at the very front, his face wooden as he said: "Why turn back?"

Countless voices behind him echoed one after another: "Why turn back?"

"Why turn back?"

"Playing god and acting like a ghost!" A delicate shout, like the sound of thunder, made the dozens of figures behind him tremble all over, revealing their original forms.

Only then did the kind-faced old man from before have his face suddenly wither, like a dry corpse skeleton, white hair grew on his body, and a pair of fangs protruded from his lips.

The little monk Shi Fang turned and ran back. At this time, a red shadow flashed over, pulling him and rushing toward the corpse group. The little monk Shi Fang only heard Si Qingguo's voice in his ear: "If you go forward, you still have a chance of survival; going back is a dead end! Such a fresh and tender little monk, that old monster hasn't eaten in I don't know how long..."

Watching the ferocious zombies getting closer and closer to him, the little monk Shi Fang wanted to raise the Buddha beads in his hand in terror...

"Put away your broken beads!" Si Qingguo shouted: "Just watch my divine ability..."

Her red sleeves unfolded, and a piece of yellow paper drifted out suddenly, then a second, a third, tens of thousands. Talismans were drawn on the yellow paper with cinnabar, but the little monk Shi Fang was very panicked: "In this world, where did so many talismans come from?"

Not to mention the energy to draw talismans, just the cinnabar and talisman paper consumed could buy the entire temple of him and his master.

Countless talisman papers were like a giant wave, pressing down on the dozens of zombies...

This group of zombies, which was no less than the wolf demons that attacked Qian Chen in the past, faced the crushing of the talisman sea and truly had a feeling of powerlessness. A talisman paper stuck first on the zombie transformed from the old man. Only then did a burst of white smoke rise from where the talisman paper was stuck, and the talisman ignited without fire, burning the zombie with a sizzling sound.

The zombie old man revealed an extremely painful expression, and then a second, a third—the talisman papers submerged the white-haired zombie, and in the blink of an eye, it was dissolved alive into a pool of yellow water.

The endless talisman sea just slapped down, submerging the corpse group. In front of the "money-sprinkling" great method, the fierce demons could not stir up the slightest wave.

Si Qingguo withdrew the talisman sea, circling herself and the little monk Shi Fang. She raised her eyebrows, but not even a drop of sweat was seen on her forehead. Krypton gold divine ability, terrifying to this extent!

At this time, a bright green willow branch, glowing with an eerie emerald green, pierced through the talisman sea with a "pu" sound.

The willow branch was slender and soft, but its texture gave people an eerie feeling of living flesh and blood. Red clouds rolled on Si Qingguo's body, and the red ribbons on her body danced, bringing up dots of fire clouds, preventing the willow branch from continuing to pierce through.

The soft willow branch nimbly rolled, and it rolled away the little monk Shi Fang beside Si Qingguo.

A short flying knife escaped from Si Qingguo's sleeve, and with a slash of the blade light, it was about to cut off the willow branch and save the little monk. But at this time, a second, a third, and a fourth willow branch also pierced out from the darkness in the distance. The willow branches flicked repeatedly, beating back the blade light. The little monk Shi Fang's scream carried an echo as he was rolled into the darkness.

Si Qingguo bit her lower lip, hardened her heart, and followed.

Under Heishan, a towering tree stood in the mountains. It was dozens of zhang in diameter and towered into the sky. There were tens of thousands of emerald-dripping willow branches on the canopy, emitting green clouds, swaying slightly with the mountain wind.

At its feet, countless corpses were piled up like a small mountain of white bones.

The little monk Shi Fang gradually pulled closer accompanied by screams, and was dragged here. He looked up at this willow tree that was like a heaven-connecting divine tree, rolled his eyes, and almost fainted. In the distance, a red figure was flying toward here...