"Master Sun, wait for me!"
The mountain breeze in the night blew through the woods, rustling the fallen leaves. Wang Banxia, who was running behind, looked around breathlessly, but there was no sign of Sun Yingxian and the monster.
"Master Sun, please come back. If you can't catch me, you have to take me out of the mountain~~"
The sound echoed back to the quiet foothills. The old man found a dead branch on the ground and leaned on it. In addition to the sound of the wind, there were also occasional wolf howls from afar. He couldn't help but shiver. Just as he was about to calculate whether it was good or bad, he suddenly heard a loud noise of a tree bursting from the side of the forest, and a familiar voice shouted: "Monster, where are you going!"
A smile suddenly broke out on Wang Banxia's face. He stroked his beard and nodded. He turned around and headed over there, leaning on a dead branch. Amid the crunching sounds of dead leaves and branches on the ground, more than ten feet away, a figure running in the forest leaped up and rushed forward. With one kick, a nearby big tree shook.
"Monster, stay!"
As the tree swayed, the Taoist used the force to leap into the air and drew the Yin-Yang seals in his hands one after another. Two balls of golden light pushed aside the drooping branches and rushed towards the flying figure in front, one after the other.
Bang!
A golden light exploded, and the light flashed in the night sky, illuminating the surroundings for a moment. Then, the demon let out a sharp scream, and fell straight down from mid-air. It landed on the ground, covering its eyes and rolling around wildly. Black air hissed all over its body, spreading everywhere.
"Master Sun has great magical powers!!"
Wang Banxia, who had caught up, felt that the evil spirit was dissipating. With Sun Yingxian by his side, he felt much braver than before. He raised his thumb, picked up the dead branch in his hand, slowly raised it, and pointed it to the night sky. His eyes were dull, but he looked like a master.
"I told you to eat people. Now you know how powerful I am!"
Before he could hit the monster on the ground, the bird monster with a shrill scream got up from the ground with red eyes and tilted its head to stare at the old human in front of him. Wang Banxia's expression became serious. He lowered the wooden stick, leaned on the ground and felt around, while his other hand was groping in the air. He turned around and slowly walked away, muttering to himself.
"It's strange, why am I here... Sorry to bother you..."
The bird demon spread its wings and was about to peck at the target with its sharp beak. Behind him, he heard rapid footsteps. The Taoist priest pulled out a peach wood sword from behind him, bit his fingertips and quickly wrote an imperial edict on it. The moment the demon heard the noise and turned its head to the side, a divine light meandered along the peach wood sword and lit up.
Next second.
The tip of the sword was against the monster's back. The Taoist used his other hand to make a spell and pushed the sword head with one palm. With a "puff", more than half of the sword was inserted into the monster. The bird monster's body shook, and it raised its head and let out a shrill scream.
The Taoist pulled the hilt of the sword and pulled out the peach wood sword. A black gas gushed out from the wound that was shining with magical light like a sharp arrow. The demon twitched violently a few times, fell straight to the ground, and never moved again.
Phew~
Sun Yingxian let out a breath, rolled up her sleeves to wipe off the imperial edict on the peach wood sword, spun it twice in her hand, inserted it behind her back, closed the scabbard, clapped her hands, and lifted a few strands of hair floating in front of her forehead.
"The way I use a sword is actually quite impressive."
He looked at the corpse on the ground and said something, then he remembered that there was another person, and looked over there: "That guy... Was he not scared?"
"It's just a little demon, it's nothing serious."
The monster had been eliminated. Wang Banxia came over slowly, leaning on a dry branch. He waved his hand calmly and said, "Thank you for your hard work, Taoist Sun."
As he spoke, he approached the corpse on the ground, pushed it with a dead branch, and snorted, "It's a pity that I didn't let you, a monster, see how powerful I am."
The Taoist knew his temper and was too lazy to pay attention to him. He estimated the time and it was almost dawn. It was probably too late to go back to sleep. He called this eldest disciple of Lu Liangsheng to return to Chang'an together to avoid encountering monsters on the road and being chased by them.
Just as he opened his mouth to call the old man, Wang Banxia suddenly cried out "Oh my god!" and stumbled backwards, pointing at the monster's corpse on the ground and shouting.
"It's moving, it's not dead yet!"
"What do you mean he's not dead? The demonic aura has dissipated!" Sun Yingxian grabbed his collar and pulled him up. In her peripheral vision, the demon's body on the ground moved.
Um
The Taoist pulled the old man back and stretched out his hand to grasp the hilt of the sword behind him. On the ground opposite, the bird demon was lying, its feathers fluttering slightly in the wind. A red aura visible to the naked eye slowly floated out, one end suspended in the air and the other end still in the demon's body, like a snake sticking half of its body out of the water, floating and spreading.
"Demon star aura? No wonder a little demon that hasn't transformed into a human form took me so much effort."
However, the Taoist was in a dilemma. He couldn't just ignore the aura of the evil star, but even if he did, he wouldn't be able to contain it. He couldn't suppress it in his body like Old Lu did, right
If it causes negative effects... wouldn't I become even more lustful
Forget it, forget it… While frowning, his gaze slowly moved to the shivering old man behind him, and his eyes lit up. Wang Banxia seemed to sense something, and turned his eyes away from the half red light on the ground, and saw the Taoist staring at him, and even a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
He had a bad feeling, so he quickly forced out a smile and waved his hand, saying, "Master Sun... why are you looking at me? I'm old and can't stand the hardship. Let's go together."
Just as they were talking, there was a sudden "sha" sound on the ground. Sun Yingxian, who was half-blind, turned her head and saw the demon corpse lying on the ground and moving forward, following the demon star aura extending out of its body, as if being pulled by it.
Before he could figure out what was going on, the movement speed suddenly increased, and the breath of the demon star reached into the sky, pulling the monster's corpse into the night sky.
"What the hell... How can this be explained? Does this demon star like corpses so much?"
The Taoist stared at the rising red light and the corpse, turned around and said, "Wait here for me, I will catch up to see what's going on."
Banxia was already terrified and pulled at his clothes: "Don't go, let's go."
However, Sun Yingxian ignored him, opened the old man's hand, jumped onto the branch with light steps, used her light body skills, stepped on the swaying branches and followed the red light floating in the air, and headed towards a mountain foothill immersed in darkness in front.
Wang Banxia quickly pinched his fingers, avoiding the dense trees while following below. After a while, they passed through the forest and came to the foot of another mountain. Sun Yingxian watched the red light disappear behind the side of the cliff. He pushed with his feet and climbed up the cliff. His hands slapped on the rocks twice, turned in the air, and headed for a nearby isolated rock cliff. He grabbed a protruding rock and his vision expanded behind the side of the cliff.
The scene in front of him came into his eyes, and his pupils shrank instantly, and all the hairs on his body stood up.
"What the hell is this..."
In the moonlight from the night sky, on the back of the cliff, above a forest, a huge black shadow was slowly crawling. The red light that had just floated over dragged the demon corpse and flew over. In the blink of an eye, it seemed to be sucked in. The surrounding area illuminated by the instantly flashing red light was full of human corpses, as well as corpses of wild beasts and monsters. They were densely packed, overlapping and intertwined, making the Taoist's scalp numb.
"This is going to be a big deal!"
"Go back and tell Mr. Lu!"
Sun Yingxian didn't dare to attack casually. He turned around, kicked his feet, and floated down the cliff. He put two magic talismans on his legs. Wang Banxia, who had just come over, hadn't even stopped yet when his wrist suddenly tightened and he was grabbed by the Taoist. "Master Sun, we finally caught up... Hey hey~~" he called out several times.
His body suddenly became lighter, and a cloud of dust rose up, as if he was being dragged in the air by a Taoist priest like a kite, and flew away into the distance.
…
Heading northwest, the sky gradually brightened.
In Chang'an City, Lu Liangsheng, who had not slept for two consecutive nights, rubbed his tired eyes, put down his brush, picked up the drawn magic circle blueprint, rolled it up and put it in his sleeve pocket. Amid the crowing of roosters outside the building, he put his master, who was holding up the window frame and twisting his waist, on his shoulder, pushed the door open and left, walked out of Wanshou Temple and went to the outskirts of the city.