After Xiongkuohai left, Xiao Zhuo also made small changes in his itinerary. In the past, he focused on both sides of the canal, but now he would occasionally go further. However, after a few days, he found that the closer he got to the canal, the more he walked.

The farther away or the more prosperous places, the less likely there are evil spirits to cause trouble. Therefore, although he has eliminated several evils these days, he has not encountered any more troublesome ones.

On this day, Xiao Zhuo came to a small town and saw that the sky was getting dark, so he had to find an inn to stay. However, at night, Xiao Zhuo was lying on the bed sorting out his thoughts, and suddenly there was a faint sound of footsteps in his ears, which startled him to get up immediately.

.And as soon as he got up, he saw two figures flashing past outside his house, and then he saw a small hole in the window, and a thin stream of smoke drifted into the house.

Black shop! Xiao Zhuo already knew what was going on. He didn't expect that he could stay in a dark shop wherever he wanted, and he didn't know who was behind it! Xiao Zhuo immediately pulled the sword box and fell on the bed.

He wanted to see how dark this black shop could be. If he was just looking for money, he could be forgiven. If he had done something harmful, he would never spare these scum tonight. However, it backfired. He waited in the room for a long time.

But he didn't see anyone coming in. He could only hear the huffing and puffing outside. Out of curiosity, he had to get up and walk towards the door and window.

Through the small hole left by the person outside the door just now, Xiao Zhuo saw that in the inn at this time, there were several figures in black walking back and forth in each room. Every time he entered the room, he was empty-handed, but when he came out, he was empty-handed.

They were big and small bags, and they were really just after money. But there was one thing he didn't understand. If these thieves were after money, why didn't they enter his room?

When this group of people finished their work and were about to leave, Xiao Zhuo also quietly followed them and left the inn. According to his judgment, someone like this who dared to open a black shop to make money must have the backing of a greater force, otherwise God would

How can a guest give up when he discovers that something is missing? The innkeeper will be liable for a lawsuit. It is normal for someone who has lost important items or has a bad temper to resign himself to his fate! Xiao Zhuo followed him all the way.

After about half a stick of incense, Xiao Zhuo followed these people into a forest shrouded in mist, and could no longer see these people.

Xiao Zhuo took a closer look at the clouds and mist in front of him, and somewhat understood why these people dared to open a black shop blatantly. Generally, there are clouds and mist in the woods, either caused by the weather or when black and white alternate in the morning. Like now, it happens in the middle of the night.

The clouds and fog are mostly caused by the excessive Yin Qi in this land. Once these Yin Qi accumulate to a certain extent, they will form clouds and fog that confuse people's judgment at night, and this group of people must be taking advantage of this.

, to escape the arrest of the officials. But everything must be balanced. There is such a strong earthy energy here, and if it continues to accumulate, it will definitely cause harm to strangers.

Thinking of this, Xiao Zhuo looked at the moon in the sky, calculated the approximate direction based on the time he came out, and walked to the left. This kind of cloud and mist is very useful for confusing ordinary people, but if you want to disturb those who have spiritual power,

However, he still needs another ten or eight years to accumulate. When he passed through the clouds and mist, he saw the den of thieves of this group of people. It turned out to be a quite large villa. At this time, people were coming and going from the entrance of the villa.

All of them were carrying baggage or driving carriages and horses. It seemed that there were quite a few illegal shops under the influence of this villa!

"Hi! Friend! Isn't it rude to come here uninvited?"

Xiao Zhuo was watching on a tree when he suddenly heard a voice coming from behind him. Just as he turned to look back, he saw a white light flashing through his eyes. He was so startled that he immediately kicked back and quickly jumped out of the tree.

Jumped down.

What a danger! Xiao Zhuo felt a chill in his heart when he thought of the scene just now. He always thought that with his semi-spiritual cultivation, he didn't have to worry about anyone in this world being able to hurt him. He didn't expect that there were still people who could leave quietly.

Get behind him. If the man's weapon hadn't been reflective under the moon, it would have hurt him!

"Hmph! Is it your etiquette to ask for it without asking?" Xiao Zhuo reached for the sword box behind his back. He originally wanted to pull out the ancient sword, but after carefully thinking that the other party was not evil, he pulled out Su Lie instead.

The sword given to him.

"So you are here to ask for something! Okay, as long as you defeat me, your things will be returned to you!" After the other party finished speaking, a short dagger appeared in his hand.

"There's no need for you to pretend to be generous. Don't you just want to wait for the people in Zhuangzi to come out? I just want to see who the person who can command so many black shops is!" Xiao Zhuo finished speaking, not waiting for the other party to say anything.

He raised his sword and stabbed him. However, to Xiao Zhuo's surprise, when the opponent saw him coming to kill him, he quickly jumped up to the tree with another leap.

"I said, how can you do it when you say you're going to do it?" The other party jumped up on the tree, not forgetting to tease Xiao Zhuo.

Xiao Zhuo didn't care what he said. He immediately stepped on the tree trunk and was about to strike him with his sword when he saw the man's hand tremble and a black object flew towards him. He knew the timing very well.

Well, just in time when he was in mid-air.

How could Xiao Zhuo let him succeed so easily? He immediately changed his sword-cleaving posture and blocked the object coming from the opponent with a posture that seemed to block but also seemed to strike. After the sound of metal clashing echoed, Xiao Zhuo also saw clearly.

What was the object thrown by the other party? It was a grapple used for climbing the wall. When the other party saw that he had stopped the sneak attack, he did not bother with him. He immediately tapped his toes on the branch, and his body actually lifted up a little higher. Xiao

Zhuo looked at him and had to admit that the other party was really capable. At that height, Xiao Zhuo admitted that he would never be able to stand up to it.

"What a light kung fu!" Xiao Zhuo praised, secretly channeling spiritual power in his hand, and saw a flash of green light on the sword. Xiao Zhuo slashed out with the sword, and the branches under the opponent's feet were cut off in an instant. Xiao Zhuo was helpless.

With this move, the opponent obviously wanted to use Qing Kung to compete with him here, and he also knew that he could not beat the opponent in Qing Kung.

"Hey!" the other party exclaimed, and quickly put his foot back, and followed the branch to fall. However, every time he was about to fall on the branch, the branch under his feet was cut away by Xiao Zhuo's sword, so that he could no longer find the place to put his strength.

After doing this for four or five times, when he was anxious to find a point of strength, Xiao Zhuo saw that he had almost landed. He immediately jumped up, withdrew his spiritual power in his hand, and slashed towards the opponent with a sword.

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"Brother, save me!" When the man saw Xiao Zhuo approaching, he shouted loudly to one side. When Xiao Zhuo heard what he said, he also looked to one side. Sure enough, there was someone on the other side who was far away and raised a knife.

Guandao rushed over. But Xiao Zhuo ignored him at all. The sword remained unchanged and slashed at the person in front of him. Even if the person next to him could arrive, he would definitely be able to subdue the person in front of him first.

"Friend, be merciful! Look at the knife!" When the person came to be about ten steps away from Xiao Zhuo, his feet suddenly kicked on the ground, and the person rushed over quickly, and at the same time, the sword in his hand also cut across.

Xiao Zhuo didn't pay attention to the first words of the man who arrived. Just as he expected, even if he arrived in time, it would be impossible to save people from his hands. But the last sentence of "Watch the knife", Xiao Zhuo heard these two words

At the same time as he said the word, he also heard a whistling sound. He turned around and saw that a Guan Dao had cut across him. If this continued, if he didn't stop, he would be cut by the Guan Dao.

Under such circumstances, Xiao Zhuo had no choice but to stop his offensive. He didn't want to kill all the people on the tree, he just wanted to subdue them. Then he held the long sword in his back and stabbed towards Guandao, and the opponent's Guandao

, after he changed his target, the blade changed from the blade to the blade and swung towards him. A cluster of sparks were seen on the blade and body of the sword. The broad Guan Dao was so heavy that it swept Xiao Zhuo and his sword towards him.

Moving aside, Xiao Zhuo tried hard to control his body, and then he barely managed to fall to the ground safely. But just as he adjusted his side, the man on the tree saw the opportunity, and just at this time he had another point of focus, and immediately another

He was caught and sent out on the fly.

"Jun ji, no!" The person using Guandao quickly spoke out to stop him, but it was too late.

Shameless! Xiao Zhuo cursed secretly, and quickly mobilized his spiritual power. The sword in his hand faced Feizhu and struck out with his sword. Feizhu was immediately slashed to the side, while Qingguang continued to move forward, slashing at the person.

On top of the fallen main trunk, the trunk immediately broke off, and the branches and leaves swayed and fell towards the ground. The man wanted to escape, but was blocked by the branches, and in the end he could only be pressed to the ground by the branches.

"Thank you for your mercy, my friend. Wang Xuan, this is my brother Hou Junji. Please forgive me for the offense I just caused!" Wang Xuan came to Xiao Zhuo and quickly saluted and thanked him. At the same time, he also prevented Xiao Zhuo from looking for Hou Jun again.

Ji settled the accounts. He clearly saw Xiao Zhuo's sword strike just now. Although he didn't understand why Xiao Zhuo's sword could strike green light, if Xiao Zhuo really wanted to kill Hou Junji, that sword would never strike the tree trunk.

superior.

"Master Wang, you are upright and upright, Xiao Zhuo admires you, but as your brother, please be more restrained by Master Wang! Fortunately, I am a cultivator. If it were another person in the world, his life would be... hmph!"

Xiao Zhuo looked at Hou Junji, who was still struggling under the branch, and felt a sense of disdain in his heart. He turned back to look at Wang Xuan, who was wearing a green robe and soap boots, with clear facial features, and his chin

With his long beard and a Guan Dao in his hand, he looked like the reincarnation of Guan Yu. No wonder he was notified in advance when the knife was struck just now.

"Yes, I must restrain myself, Junji. Go back and reflect on yourself. When you are in the world, you must be aboveboard and upright in your work, and be worthy of your conscience. They just withheld their hands, how could you make a sneak attack again!" Wang Xuan saw that Xiao Zhuo no longer cared about it!

, then walked over to help Hou Junji pull off the branches and rescue him.

"Master Xiao! Master Xiao! Oh! The flood has washed away the Dragon King Temple!" At this time, another voice came from the direction of the entrance of the villa. Xiao Zhuo looked at Hou Junji, then turned around to look at the speaker, only to see a

A familiar figure waved to him ten steps away. When he looked carefully, he turned out to be Xu Shiji. He didn't expect to meet again after six years in a place like this! Then the yin energy of this place...

…

"Brother Xu Dao, why are you here?" Xiao Zhuo also walked up to him to greet him. At the same time, he couldn't help but wonder. Six years ago, Xu Shiji was still "traveling" around. How come he is now hanging out with the heroes of the forest?

"Say it in the village! Say it in the village!" Xu Shiji took Xiao Zhuo and walked towards the villa. When he left, he did not forget to say to Wang Xuan behind him: "Jun Ke, Junji, hurry up and have someone prepare tea!"

Xiao Zhuo felt helpless for a while. It wasn't that he didn't want to enter the villa, but that he didn't expect to meet Xu Shiji here. In fact, it was nothing to meet Xu Shiji, but he had promised Xu Shiji that he would tell Xu Shiji once he knew any cultivation methods. But if he told Xu Shiji now

Xu Shiji will definitely have a lot of things he doesn't understand about the cultivation method that he needs to ask, and I'm afraid he won't be wasting a little time by then!

However, what Xiao Zhuo was worried about was what Xu Shiji was most eager to know at this time. Originally, he was helping Wang Junke count the items in Wuliu Village, but someone came to report that Hou Junji and a man were fighting outside the village.

When Wang Junke heard this, he picked up his sword and went to help, and when he heard someone coming said that the swordsmanship of the person fighting Hou Junji was extremely weird, and he could actually make the sword shine, and he could chop people from a long distance.

When he hit the target, he knew that the person Hou Junji was provoking this time was probably not a charlatan, but a strange man who was accomplished in Taoism. He couldn't help but go out to take a look. Sure enough, as soon as he went out, he saw Xiao Zhuo slashing a

Green light, green light struck the tree, and the tree suddenly broke. When he got closer and recognized that this person was Xiao Zhuo, he felt so happy! It was just because he had gone to Chang'an to ask Yuan Tiangang about Xiao Zhuo a few years ago.

However, Xiao Zhuo was told that Xiao Zhuo had already gone to practice Taoism. I thought it would take more than ten years to see Xiao Zhuo again, but I didn’t expect that only four or five years had passed before Xiao Zhuo came back, and this Taoist method...

No matter what, Xiao Zhuo must be kept here tonight. It is best to stay in Wuliuzhuang for a while!

"Five Willow Villa." Xiao Zhuo stood at the door of the villa and looked at the name of the villa. Then he walked around the villa. Sure enough, he found five old willow trees standing in the night sky, like five gatekeepers, protecting the villa in the center.

. Willow trees gather spirits near water and gather shade on the ground. He could see that these five willow trees had obviously not been here for a day or two. He didn’t know who planted the willow trees in front of the door to attract shade for what purpose.

!

"Master Wang Zhuang, is this your ancestral home?" Xiao Zhuo stopped and turned around to ask Wang Xuan.

"It's not that this place was originally the ancestral property of my next friend. It was just that his family fell into decline and he handed it over to me to take care of. A few years ago, Taoist priest Xu came here and said that this place is a blessed land from heaven and can hide thousands of troops.

This has become a stronghold for us to make a living."

After Wang Xuan answered truthfully, Xiao Zhuo looked at Xu Shiji again and didn't say anything. He knew clearly in his heart what kind of blessed land or livelihood he was, but he didn't want to say it too clearly. Everyone would be embarrassed. So he led a few people to come.

Next to a willow tree, he ordered: "Master Wangzhuang, please chop down this willow tree!"

"Okay!" Wang Xuan was about to take action when Xu Shiji quickly stepped forward to stop him: "Brother Xiao, fellow Taoist Xiao! What are you doing? These willow trees are a hundred years old. Didn't you say before that everything in the world will last for a hundred years?

Spirits, it is because of their protection that we people can be safe and sound, why do you want to chop it down?"

"Brother Xu Dao, I said this before, and I heard Jin Ruo mention it at that time. But now, I can tell you that even if these willow trees are really spiritual, they will only be a disaster! Everything has Yin and Yang,

The same goes for trees. Tung poplar is a sun tree, so planting it around a house will make it popular. Elm and locust tree is a shade tree, so planting it in the courtyard will cause trouble in the house. The previous owner of this house is an example. Among the many trees, this willow is the only one that is close to the water.

When they are born, they gather spirits, and when they grow on the ground, they collect yin. Today, they can help you hide your whereabouts, but if they continue to grow here, in ten years, even the corpses buried here will not be corrupted!" Xiao Zhuo finished.

, signaling Wang Xuan to continue cutting down trees.

As soon as Wang Xuan heard Xiao Zhuo's explanation, he didn't dare to be negligent. He immediately used all his courage. After exerting enough strength, he suddenly cut off his arms with a knife. The willow tree was broken at the waist, and the crown of the tree staggered towards the ground. Xiao Zhuo

I walked forward, stared at the tree and carefully counted the tree rings. Sure enough, this willow tree was more than eighty years old.

"Master Wang Zhuang, I have an unkind request, please agree." When Xiao Zhuo turned around and walked towards Wang Xuan again, he also had some concerns in his heart.

"Hey! Brother Xiao, you're so polite. A friend of Daochang Xu is a friend of me, Wang Junke. If you have anything to say, just ask, and I will do whatever I can." Wang Xuan's answer was still forthright, and did not change at all because of Xiao Zhuo's foreign tone.

Uncomfortable. Mainly because Xiao Zhuo's words just now really shocked him, and Xu Shiji was respectful to Xiao Zhuo, so he didn't dare not take it seriously.

"Well, Master Wang, please find someone to transplant these five willow trees to a place near the water tomorrow. They have been here for too long, and the accumulated Yin Qi can only be slowly resolved by the energy of the dragon spirit."

"I will do as I am told. I have offended Brother Xiao tonight. Please stay here so that I can apologize!" Wang Xuan looked at Xiao Zhuo and felt a little uneasy. He was really afraid that Xiao Zhuo would refuse. Xu Shiji kept winking at him from the side.

He couldn't stand it anymore, so he persuaded Xiao Zhuo to stay with his favor.

"Okay! I'll stay!"

(I caught a cold while watching Moon Eclipse, so I haven’t kept up with the updates. Sorry!)
Chapter completed!