Chapter 42

After Qi Wu finished offering to the Mountain God, he hurriedly gathered with the crowd.

The crowd, who were all wet, shivered when blown by the cold wind.

"If this continues, we will get sick."

The old hunter walked to the corner, took out a handful of firewood, and smiled with his big front teeth: "We hunters sometimes avoid rain here, so we left firewood here in advance, waiting for today to use."

Qi Wu was overjoyed: "Then thank you very much."

The old hunter didn't care: "It's nothing. Life in the mountains is about helping each other. When the rain stops tomorrow, we'll collect some firewood and put it back."

The crowd skillfully piled firewood on the fire marks on the ground. Qi Wu took out a fire talisman to light a wooden branch, stretched the wooden branch into the dry firewood, blew and fanned it lightly, and the dry firewood was slowly ignited.

Looking at the gradually rising flames and feeling the warmth of the flames, someone let out a long sigh of relief.

"Finally alive."

"Qi Big Brother, do you want yellow rice cakes or white rice cakes?"

"One of each?"

One of them distributed dry food. After the crowd got the dry food, they put the dry food by the fire to roast.

After roasting until fragrant, A-Yue took out a jar of pickles and let the crowd spread it on the cakes. Taking a bite, it was full of salty fragrance.

"A-Yue's craftsmanship in making pickles is really good. If I were you, A-Yue, I'd rather open a pickle shop. Why follow us to trade?"

A-Yue smiled and didn't say anything.

Qi Wu thought of the scene just now and asked: "Old Sun, why did you ask A-Yue if he was pushed down just now?"

Qi Wu and others were entering the mountains for the first time. They wanted to cross the mountains to sell goods to Qinghuai County on the other side. They had been looking for a long time and finally found an old local hunter to lead the way.

The old hunter looked solemn: "Have you heard of Chang ghosts?"

Qi Wu and others looked serious. They traveled north and south and naturally knew some ghost stories. One of them even shouted loudly: "Are you talking about the Chang ghost who helps the tiger?"

The old hunter nodded and said in a low voice: "This mountain is called Songshan. About ten years ago, a hunter went into the mountains to hunt and then disappeared, leaving only one shoe. At that time, people said that a tiger demon had come to the mountains and ate the hunter."

"At first, people were unwilling to believe it, feeling that they had lived here for generations, so how could a tiger demon appear?"

"But as time passed, some people said that when hunting, their hunting dogs barked at a direction. He looked in that direction and was so scared that his body stiffened."

"That was a colorful tiger, fully four meters long. The tiger leaped and pounced on the hunting dog. He saw it and ran away, fortunately, the tiger didn't catch up!"

"People also found that people disappeared from time to time, so they reported the situation to Qinghuai County. After the officials learned of this, they asked me to find Yanjiang County, saying that Songshan is closer to Yanjiang County, and you only sell prey to Yanjiang County, so it should be managed by them."

"Coming to Yanjiang County, the officials said that Songshan belongs to Qinghuai County and should be managed by Qinghuai County."

"After pulling back and forth several times, both sides sent two cultivators to search for the tiger demon in Songshan. They searched for ten days in a row, and didn't even see a tiger hair. The two cultivators felt that we were playing with them and wasted so much time in vain. We explained that the tiger demon might be hiding from them on purpose and didn't dare to come out. The two cultivators didn't listen to our explanation and left with a flick of their sleeves."

"We went to the government again, and the government stopped paying attention to us."

"We had no choice. Most people left Songshan to find another way out, leaving only a few of us old guys. Besides hunting, we couldn't do anything else, so we stayed here."

"Later, we found that when hunting, we would meet those missing travelers. The travelers were elusive, disappearing from your eyes suddenly, and appearing suddenly, pushing you."

"Sometimes I take people into the mountains, and those travelers pretend to meet us by chance, suggesting that everyone is on the same way, can they take them with them? How could I agree? I hurriedly took people away."

"The older generation said before they died that there is a kind of thing in the world called a Chang ghost. The tiger demon kills people, and the people turn into Chang ghosts, helping the tiger demon find prey, deceiving people to a place, and making the prey turn into new Chang ghosts."

"But dealing with Chang ghosts is easy. Just refuse the Chang ghost's request, and the Chang ghost won't do anything to you."

Qi Wu suddenly realized. He was strange before. Such a large mountain forest should have many hunters. How could he only find a few hunter families after searching for a long time, and these hunter families lived together.

It turned out to be forced by the tiger demon.

Qi Wu saw A-Yue hesitant, so he asked: "A-Yue, if you have anything to ask, just ask."

Originally, A-Yue felt embarrassed to ask his question, but the boss said so, so he didn't hide it.

"I only have one question. Are there female ghosts among these Chang ghosts? Are they good-looking? Do they seduce men? Do they suck men's Yang energy? Is it possible for me to start a forbidden love with her, escape the tiger demon's pursuit together, and roam the rivers and lakes?"

Every time A-Yue asked a question, a question mark appeared on everyone's head, even the old hunter was no exception.

Seeing everyone's reaction, A-Yue scratched his head embarrassedly: "I saw it written like this in storybooks, A Chinese Ghost Story, love between humans and ghosts, etc."

Qi Wu was silent for a while and patted A-Yue on the shoulder: "Read less."

Then Qi Wu asked again: "Then Old Sun, why don't you report this matter to the Five Great Immortal Sects? The Five Great Immortal Sects defend the righteous path and will certainly not sit idly by."

"Five Great Immortal Sects?" The old hunter looked blank and hadn't heard of this title.

"It is the five famous righteous sects such as the Congwendao Sect and the Hanging Temple, and also the five most powerful sects in the whole continent."

"Seems to have heard this name," the old hunter said uncertainly, not knowing where he heard it, maybe in a teahouse at the foot of the mountain, maybe a traveler entering the mountains, maybe he heard it when he was young, maybe he heard it after he was old.

Can't remember clearly.

In fact, the common people know very little about cultivators, just listening to the fun.

Not to mention that the stories passed down by word of mouth are too easy to deform. By the time they reach the ears of the common people, they are often very different from the real stories and cannot be believed.

For example, Qi Wu once heard that the reason why the Congwendao Sect is called the Congwendao Sect is that the immortal path is vast, meaning asking for the Dao from heaven, and cultivating immortals is cultivating the heart, needing to constantly ask oneself what kind of path one is pursuing, whether it is the righteous path or the demonic path, and not losing one's original heart.

Once Qi Wu met a Congwendao Sect disciple, it seemed to be called Dai Bufan. He asked him why the Congwendao Sect should be called the Congwendao Sect. Dai Bufan's answer, he still remembers very clearly to this day.

"You ask this, then I have to talk about our Congwendao Sect's founding ancestor, the Innate Daoist. In order to find a place with good Feng Shui, the ancestor spent a lot of money to ask people from the Tiance Sect to locate and calculate, and finally found a fairy land that gathered Feng Shui from all directions, and also said that if the sect wants to be prosperous, it needs to be established at a specific time and a specific place."

"As a result, the ancestor didn't know the way. Even though he had made marks, he still got lost. He had to ask an old farmer by the road for directions, which was how he found the sect address without delaying the time."

"In order to thank the old farmer, the ancestor named the sect the Congwendao Sect."