"I am a doctor from Tailing Pavilion. I can naturally cure diseases. As for the wealth in the world... Even if you have thousands of acres of fertile land, you can only have three meals a day. Ten thousand fine buildings, but only one bed at night. You don't need too much fame and wealth, as long as you don't starve!"
Zhu Yuting reached out his hand, which was icy cold, and gently pinched Lu Xiaochan's ear: "But do you know that people are greedy? My greed is his desperation?"
Just as Lu Xiaochan was about to cast a healing spell to force the evil spirit out of Zhu Yuting's body, the other party grabbed Lu Xiaochan's other hand.
"You can cure the diseases of the world, but you cannot cure the demons in the hearts of the world. Do you want to see the greed and cruelty of the human heart? If after seeing it, you still decide to save them, I will leave this body and let you refine it."
Zhu Yuting lowered his head and looked at Lu Xiaochan.
"What if I don't want to watch it?" Lu Xiaochan asked coldly.
"Then I will let your brother be trapped in this evil formation forever, suffering day and night until his cultivation is completely lost."
Lu Xiaochan clenched her teeth and said, "Okay! What else can you do?"
Zhu Yuting pressed Lu Xiaochan's shoulder, and he fell down and sat down beside Zhu Yuting.
Zhu Yuting clapped his hands and closed all the open windows on all sides.
Rotten food suddenly becomes fresh and bright, and grimy wine glasses are overflowing with fine wine.
This is a trick of the evil spirits. Those who have not reached a high level of cultivation will never be able to see through it!
If Lu Xiaochan had not seen the real appearance of this place, he would not have been able to see through the deception here.
As night was about to fall, the once dead silent Zhuxu Mountain suddenly became brightly lit, presenting a prosperous scene.
Several young disciples came out, smiling and neatly dressed, as if they were there to greet guests.
Lu Xiaochan saw it clearly: their faces were pale and their eyes were filled with black energy as if they were possessed by evil spirits.
After the greetings, several sect leaders and their favorite disciples came in.
They complained about the plague, talked about their own difficulties, and then complimented Zhu Yuting, the leader of the Zhu Xu faction.
"I heard that Zhu Xushan, from the chief swordsman to the disciples, and even the janitors who sweep the floor, have all taken the blood of the spirit bird Jiaosi, so they no longer have to worry about contracting the disease."
"Yes, my disciple, the sword master, has practiced for more than 200 years - this epidemic has taken his life! I don't know how to find a better disciple!"
"Now the spirit bird Jiaosi has been hunted to extinction. Not even a feather of it can be found in the entire Linzhou. Only the Red Snake Formation of Zhu Xu's sect can trap spirit birds! I hope that Master Zhu will remember the friendship of Xuanmen and give a few spirit birds to each sect!"
Zhu Yuting smiled slightly, stood up and said: "Fellow Taoists, please sit down and have a rest. I have ordered people to prepare a banquet to welcome you all!"
"Master Zhu! The epidemic is serious. We really can't afford a banquet. Please..."
Zhu Yuting raised his hand and said with a smile: "As you all know, almost all the spirit birds in the world have been hunted to death, and the few remaining ones have already hidden themselves, only we in Zhu Xushan know how to trap them. Therefore, spirit birds are really precious, and it is impossible for everyone to have them like opening a warehouse and releasing grain."
After Zhu Yuting said this, the leaders of various sects who came to pay a visit fell silent.
Zhu Yuting looked at Cheng Ziqiu, the head of Muyang Mountain, who had arrived earlier and had his pulse checked by Lu Xiaochan, and said, "Headmaster Cheng just rushed to Zhuxu Mountain from Muyang Mountain yesterday and drank the wine made with the blood of the spirit bird Jiaosi. But Headmaster Cheng did not come empty-handed."
Cheng Ziqiu stood up and said, "In order to thank Sect Master Zhu, I have given our sect's most precious treasure, the Yuanling Pearl, to the Zhu Xu Sect, with the agreement that we will take it back in a thousand years."
The other leaders were talking about it in surprise.
"No way? Yuanlingzhu! Practicing with this bead will achieve twice the result with half the effort. Cheng Ziqiu actually gave it to Zhu Yuting like this? And for a thousand years?"
"There are too many people who want the blood of the spirit bird. To be fair, it depends on how long you are willing to pledge your disciples' magic weapons to our Zhuxu Mountain. If you pledge for a hundred years, the sect leader can drink the blood of the spirit bird. If you pledge for two hundred years, the disciples' sword masters can also drink wine. If you pledge for a thousand years, then the entire sect can be saved."
"Zhu Yuting! You are taking advantage of the situation!" A sect leader couldn't help but yelled.
"That's right! You didn't raise the spirit bird! It was just that your disciple used some unorthodox techniques to lure the spirit bird out!"
"If you hadn't killed all the spirit birds, we wouldn't have been able to catch any!"
"In the final analysis, it's because you, Zhu Xushan, are too ruthless!"
"They are not just doing it out of spite! They have a plan! They are just waiting for the Spirit Bird to become extinct. If they can find the hiding Spirit Bird, they can control other sects!"
"Perhaps this plague was intentionally introduced into the world by Zhu Xushan to infect the various sects of the Xuanmen!"
The other leaders responded one after another, and some even put their hands on their swords, ready to fight if they disagreed.
Everyone was extremely jealous, except Zhu Yuting who smiled calmly.
"Since you all know that the spirit birds are almost extinct, I have to tell you the truth - the reason why I clearly marked the price is because the spirit birds are really not enough to save everyone present. You can only exchange them with magic tools and make a spiritual agreement. When the time comes, I will naturally return them."
Zhu Yuting's eyes swept over everyone, and those leaders who were about to take action had to suppress their impulse and think twice.
"Or you can join forces to kill Zhu Yuting and seize the spirit bird. However, all of my disciples are full of spiritual energy and have no illnesses. I don't know if you can get away with it. Even if you kill Zhu Xushan, the next step is that you will kill each other because of the limited number of spirit birds. So is it better to set a clear price? Or is it better to perish together?"
Zhu Yuting sat back in the main seat, pointed his fingers at the table, supported his chin with his other hand, and looked at everyone present.
A disciple came over with a pen, ink, paper and inkstone and sat down next to Zhu Yuting.
One of the sect leaders took off the jade bell from his waist and said, "Qingkun Bell, I bet a hundred years in exchange for the blood of the spirit bird!"
Zhu Yuting and the sect leader signed a contract and left a spiritual mark.
One of Zhu Xushan's disciples brought out a spiritual bird, cut its throat, and put the blood into a cup.
Lu Xiaochan felt it was extremely cruel. Looking at the dim eyes of the spirit bird, he suddenly thought of the time when he and Kunwu walked up the stone steps of Zhuxu Mountain and the bloody eyes on the trees on both sides of the road.
The leader got a cup of the spirit bird's blood and drank it all in one gulp.
The other sect leaders silently weighed in their hearts whether their sect's magical weapon was more important or their own lives were more important.
The disciple standing behind the headmaster couldn't help but kneel down on one knee: "Master! Since our sect's magic weapon has been pledged to Zhu Xushan, why don't you pledge it for another hundred years to save your disciple's life?"
The headmaster's face changed drastically, and he pressed his palm on the disciple's shoulder: "How dare you! You are just a sword master of my sect, and you dare to use our magic weapon to prolong your life? Are you vying for the position of the headmaster?"
The disciple was horrified and bowed his head, saying, "Master! I just don't want to be infected with the disease and let down your cultivation for more than a hundred years. I have never dreamed of becoming the head of the sect!"
"The magic weapon of our sect is pledged to Zhu Xushan for a hundred years. I still have ways to deal with it. If it is pledged for another hundred years, can you bear the consequences if something goes wrong?"
The disciple bowed his head and said nothing.
Other sect leaders also took out their own magic weapons to exchange for the blood of the spirit bird. They only sentenced them to a hundred years to save themselves and did not care about the lives of the other disciples.
The disciples they brought with them were angry but dared not speak out.
Zhu Yuting turned his head to look at Lu Xiaochan. Although he didn't say a word, Lu Xiaochan knew that he wanted him to see the ugly faces of these upright people in the Xuanmen sect.
Who of them is not selfish and only cares about his own life and death
Is such a person worth saving
The last sect leader hesitated for too long and finally decided to exchange the magic weapon for the spirit bird.
But Zhu Yuting said: "Master Chen, you have been making this decision for too long and have lost your chance. I have used up all the spiritual birds in Zhuxu Mountain."
Upon hearing this, Master Chen's face changed drastically and he became anxious: "Master Zhu! I'll give you the magic weapon, can you send your disciples to catch birds? Even if the spiritual birds are extinct, there shouldn't be no one left, right?"
Zhu Yuting smiled and shook his head: "I said it's too late, it's too late."
Sect Leader Chen almost knelt down: "Sect Leader Zhu! Please, for the sake of being from the same sect as Nanlijingtianxia Xuanmen, please give me another spirit bird to save my life!"
Zhu Yuting still smiled and shook his head: "I waited so long for Master Chen to make a decision. I thought you really valued your sect's magic weapon more than your own life!"
The disciple behind Master Chen held his elbow and helped him up.
"Master, can't you see? This Zhu Yuting is using the spirit bird to hold the sects hostage! The palm swordsmen of the sects failed to get the blood of the spirit bird. He was infected with the disease and died one day, and the strength of the sects was greatly reduced! Zhu Xushan holds the treasures of the sects, so he still needs to worry that we won't listen to him?"
When Master Chen heard this, his expression immediately turned cold. He stopped begging Zhu Yuting and stood up.
"Since Sect Master Zhu no longer has a spirit bird to save my life, I will go to Nanlijingtian and ask the Nanli Sword Sect to take charge!"
Just as Master Chen was about to lead his disciples away, Zhu Yuting spoke up: "Master Chen, don't worry. There are ways to solve the problem! It's just that I only have one spirit bird left. Besides Master Chen, there are many other disciples of Xuanmen who haven't taken the spirit bird blood. I can't bear it. Master Chen, you are a noble person, so I should give it to you. Who made you slow down a little bit?"
Master Chen opened his eyes wide, pointed the hilt of his sword at Zhu Yuting and said, "What on earth do you want to do?"
"The last spirit bird, the one who is capable will take it. It will also be a good opportunity for me, Zhu Xushan, and the leaders of each sect to see the level of the disciples of each sect!"
After saying that, Zhu Yuting clapped his hands, and a disciple who was bound by spiritual energy was escorted out.
When Lu Xiaochan took a look, she realized that it was Senior Brother Gao who had taken Zhu Xushan’s disciples to hunt spiritual birds at night the night before yesterday.
He is not a spirit bird, why did Zhu Yuting bring him out
“Whoever can cut open its body and drink its blood will be saved! From all the sects that pledged their magic weapons, if anyone’s disciple gets this magic bird, I will return the magic weapon to him!”
All of a sudden, the disciples of all the sects were ready to give it a try!
Lu Xiaochan opened her eyes wide. This was not a spirit bird at all, but Zhu Xushan’s swordsman Gao Minxin!
At this time, Gao Minxin was struggling hard. He opened his mouth to call for help, but the voice that came out was that of the spiritual bird Jiaosi.
Lu Xiaochan suddenly realized that this was also a trick of the evil spirit, making them see the spirit bird instead of the living Gao Minxin!
What exactly does Zhu Yuting want to do
Gao Minxin is his disciple!
No... Zhu Yuting is now an evil spirit, and he has no disciples at all in his heart!
Does he want to see the ugly scene of different sects killing each other
Could it be that the evil spirit controlling Zhu Yuting is not the Demon Lord Yisou who feeds on illness, but the Demon Lord Luli who feeds on murderous thoughts
Lu Xiaochan immediately chanted a huge curse and pushed it towards Zhu Yuting's face with all her strength. It was the Tai Ling Chong Xiao Curse.
But unexpectedly, Zhu Yuting raised his hand and pressed down this sky-reaching spell, and the curse fell on the table, leaving a mark.
Zhu Yuting smiled: "I didn't expect that you have such a high level of cultivation at such a young age. Keeping you here will only bring trouble to you! Why don't I deal with these rabble first, and then deal with you?"
Lu Xiaochan was shocked. She had just used the Chongxiao Curse with the intention of refining the murderous intent in Zhu Yuting's heart, but it did not work—the one who possessed Zhu Yuting was not the Demon Lord Lu Li!
So who is it
The disciples of various sects have made preparations and unsheathed their black swords.
The spiritual lock on Gao Minxin's body opened, and he immediately ran for his life.
Countless swords stabbed at him, yet restrained each other.
Zhu Yuting added: "Don't forget that you are also rivals! If you show mercy to each other, you will lose the opportunity to snatch the spirit bird!"
So while Gao Minxin was fleeing secretly, disciples from various factions began fighting each other.
In an instant, murderous aura spread, and in the blink of an eye, some disciples had died.
Gao Minxin's arm was hit by the sword, and immediately a disciple pounced on him, bit his arm, and desperately sucked his blood.
Before he could swallow Gao Minxin's blood, he was stabbed in the inner elixir. Then Gao Minxin's shoulder was cut, and someone else pounced on him.
Gao Minxin screamed continuously, and her whole body seemed to be stung like a hornet's nest.
Lu Xiaochan cast a spell, hoping to help the disciples of various sects regain their clarity of mind and see through the evil spirits' tricks.
But the curse had just been cast when Zhu Yuting, who was drinking, suddenly threw the wine glass into Lu Xiaochan's curse.
"You have seen Gao Minxin being arrogant and domineering before, killing countless spiritual birds, right? Now he is being pierced by thousands of swords. Isn't it what he deserves?" Zhu Yuting asked with a smile.
"Even if he is wrong, he should be punished according to the rules of each sect!"
"What sect's rules say that we can't kill spirit birds? Even if he killed all the beautiful people in the world, people would at most say he was cruel. Who would want to take his life just for a spirit bird?"
Zhu Yuting's smile was so deep that Lu Xiaochan could see fear, despair, and a crazy desire for revenge.
This kind of Zhu Yuting made Lu Xiaochan feel familiar, but she couldn't remember where she had seen him.
"Neither the rules of the Xuan Sect nor the laws of the world can make Gao Minxin and the entire Zhu Xushan pay the price for their murderous thoughts and greed. The best punishment is to let them all turn into spirit birds - be hunted down, bled dry, and experience the despair of being slaughtered."
Lu Xiaochan was speechless. He saw the corpses of those spiritual birds hung on Gao Minxin's horse, as if they were not living creatures in this world at all, ready to be slaughtered at will. When had Lu Xiaochan never had the urge to kill Gao Minxin
"Are you the souls of those innocent and tragically dead birds?"
Lu Xiaochan lowered her head and looked at Zhu Yuting's shadow. Her mind was clear and she could see the truth with her eyes.
Zhu Yuting's shadow was like countless beautiful women trapped in a net, struggling desperately, in misery and pain.
"You are a disciple of Tailing Pavilion, let me see how people's hearts can be cured!"
At this time, Gao Minxin was covered in wounds and lying on the ground dying, with broken bones and blood all over her body. It was a horrible sight.
But there were still people who had not drunk his blood, and they were fighting over it.
In their eyes, it was not a human being, but just a humble spiritual bird.
Zhu Yuting smiled and suddenly pushed Lu Xiaochan.
"How could I forget? Today, a disciple from Tailing Pavilion stayed overnight with us! He even raised a spirit bird!"
Lu Xiaochan was caught off guard. Zhu Yuting raised his finger and the lid of the straw basket was opened, revealing the young bird inside, who was sleeping soundly.
Those Xuanmen disciples were covered in blood, their eyes were bloodshot, and evil clouds were hovering above their heads. They were about to be possessed by demons!
“Since this is Tai Ling Pavilion, and it is your responsibility to cure illnesses and save lives, why don’t you hand over the spirit bird!”
"What do you want to do by keeping the spirit bird? Do you want to force us to hand over our sect's magic weapon?"
Lu Xiaochan thus became the target of public criticism.
He closed the lid of the straw basket and took a step back.
Zhu Yuting tilted his head and smiled: "Look, it's just a spirit bird. Hand it over and you will be saved!"
Lu Xiaochan took a deep breath and said in a cold voice: "The law of the world is that the strong prey on the weak. I can save it once, but I can't save it a hundred times."
"Yes, you are right. So hand it over and put an end to it!" Zhu Yuting pointed at those crazy disciples.
"But, since I raised it, it has developed feelings for me. I will do my best to protect it today. If by some chance we can both survive, I will teach it how to protect itself. The strong prey on the weak - as long as it is not weak, that's all!"
After saying that, Lu Xiaochan cast a Tailing Qingyuan Curse and rose up with all his strength to confront the evil cloud head-on. Suddenly, wind and clouds rose up.
Evil clouds pressed down layer by layer, swallowing up the Qingyuan Curse.
When the disciples saw that Lu Xiaochan refused to hand over the young bird Jiaosi, they rushed forward with swords drawn.
Lu Xiaochan gritted her teeth and cast a spell to keep them out.
When the leaders of other sects saw that Lu Xiaochan refused to hand over Jiao Si, they also started to take action.
The tip of the sword gradually penetrated into his curse, getting closer and closer to him.
Zhu Yuting smiled disdainfully: "This spiritual bird can be exchanged for a life. No matter how spiritual Jiao Si is, she is just a bird. Giving up a spiritual bird can exchange for my own life. Isn't it worthwhile?"
Lu Xiaochan cast a spell again, and the two spells overlapped to push away the several swords that were stabbing in.
"Do you think I am compassionate and can't bear to see the spirit bird being killed by having its neck cut? Birth, aging, sickness and death in this world are all caused by fate! If the spirit bird is willing to use its own blood to save people, then the blood of the spirit bird is a universal medicine. If the spirit bird dies with hatred, it is □□!"
Zhu Yuting's smile faded, and he raised his eyebrows: "What did you say?"
"A doctor saves the world with compassion. If the bird has no compassion and is unwilling to take the blood, how can its blood save the world?"
Lu Xiaochan gritted her teeth, thinking that this group of rabble who claimed to be from the orthodox Xuanmen sect were really annoying!
He really wanted to learn from the evil spirits and take their Dan Yuan to prevent them from doing stupid things under the banner of Xuanmen!
In an instant, countless black spirit birds suddenly flew out of the body of Zhu Yuting, who was originally sitting upright. They rushed towards those people from the Xuanmen and entered their bodies.
"Today, either you die or I die!"
Zhu Yuting seemed to have been drained of all his energy and fell flat on the table.
Lu Xiaochan finally understood that the evil spirit here was the spirit bird Jiaosi! They died innocently, and the entire tribe would be found by Zhu Xushan's people no matter where they fled or hid.
He thought of the young bird Jiaosi in the grass basket. Maybe it was left alone in the wilderness because its parents were killed by Gao Minxin and Zhu Xushan's disciples. The one who came up with the idea of hunting down Jiaosi and forcing all the sects to come and exchange their treasures for it was Zhu Yuting, the head of Zhu Xushan.
All of this was the revenge of the deceased Jiaosi on Zhu Xushan's entire family.
Before they died, they were filled with resentment and crazy desire for revenge. They were devoured by evil spirits and invaded Zhuxu Mountain.
Have good thoughts and good blood can cure the plague.
If you harbor hatred, Jiao Si's blood will accelerate the onset and spread of the plague.
This is why Kunwu and Lu Xiaochan discovered that Zhu Xushan’s disciples were all infected with the plague, and their condition progressed much faster than that of ordinary people.
Originally, Jiao Si's soul wanted to use illness to torture these hypocritical and upright Xuanmen sects. The arrival of Lu Xiaochan made Jiao Si, who still wanted Zhu Yuting to be disgraced and despised, suffer.
After all, Zhu Yuting harmed the disciples of Tailing Pavilion for his own selfish desires, which was much more serious and evil in the eyes of the world than simply slaughtering the spirit birds.
Jiao Si's soul occupied the minds of the disciples of these sects, making them attack Lu Xiaochan.
In order to survive, Lu Xiaochan must fight them to the death.
If Lu Xiaochan died in Zhu Xushan, and at the hands of the mysterious swords of so many sects, it would definitely cause an uproar.
Tailing Pavilion will definitely go to Nanlijingtian and ask Miaochen Yuanjun of Nanli Sword Sect to punish these sects.
Even if he couldn't pay off their lives with their own, he had to destroy their cultivation, so that Jiao Si could get revenge!
Thinking of this, Lu Xiaochan broke out in cold sweats.
The fragrance of the sleeping grass in the grass basket disappeared. The young bird slowly transformed, poked its head out of the basket, called out twice affectionately, and rubbed its head against Lu Xiaochan's waist.
"You little bastard, why don't you wake up at any other time? Why do you have to wake up now?"
Those distracted disciples of the Xuanmen sect went crazy immediately upon seeing the young bird.
"Hand over this Jiaosi—"
"If you won't give it up - you'll die!"
They were outnumbered and Lu Xiaochan's energy was almost exhausted. He gritted his teeth and raised his leg to shake the baby bird in the grass basket.
"Little soybean! You must be very strong after eating so much last night, right? Now flap your wings and fly quickly - the farther and higher you fly, the better -"
The little bird felt that the people besieging Lu Xiaochan were almost all staring at it with fierce and greedy eyes. It was so scared that it shrank back into the grass basket and trembled.
Lu Xiaochan was so anxious that she almost got angry and wished she could kick it up to the sky.
"Arrogant King! Hurry up and fly to the sky! Otherwise, there will be no more soybeans to eat! They will twist your neck and drain your blood! Fly quickly!"
The author has something to say: In the next chapter, Brother Wuxi will come to save Xiaochan.
Don’t ask me why I don’t write short plays anymore.
I can’t make it up.