Chapter 44
Before sneaking into the inside, Xin Xiu filled her stomach first. Unfortunately, the ingredients in her treasure bag were gone and she needed to find food. The mule Taoist priest took her to a cow pen under Xiangmao Mountain.
Xiangmao's three mountains are close to the Youzi Forest. There is a bare mountain wall. It erodes many black holes under the wind and sun. The bottom edge of the cliff is sunken inward and turns into a natural cow pen, with at least a thousand cows locked inside.
"Xiang Mao's ghost master likes to ride cows. They have raised these cows as replacements. They will also use cow bones to make bone banners and sacrificial weapons." The mule Taoist sounded quite familiar with Xiang Mao's situation, and even knew about this kind of thing.
Xin Xiu: "There is nothing else to eat except the cow?"
Mule Taoist: "In addition to cattle, there are stones and corpses."
Xin Xiu: "Oh, then eat the cow."
She ate a small piece and saved the remaining beef in a treasure bag without hesitation, preparing to eat it on the way.
"The cows they raise taste good, and the meat is so tender, I don't know what to raise them." Xin Xiu said casually, and suddenly heard the mule Taoist priest on the side say: "My spells are all Xiang Mao's techniques that I secretly learned. The technique of turning people into horses is naturally the same. Xiang Mao's ghost masters are best at turning people into cattle and horses."
He deliberately emphasized the word "ox".
Xin Xiu's movement of gnawing beef slowed down and finally stopped. She looked at the beef that had been gnawed halfway in her hand.
The mule Taoist continued to speak in a faint tone that told a horror story: "They will turn the people who offend themselves into cattle and horses, and there are so many cattle here..."
Xin Xiu: "Phoa."
She spit out the flesh in her mouth and stood up, looking at the mule Taoist priest with horror, pulled out the knife from the treasure bag and pressed it on his neck. When the mule Taoist priest saw the knife, he immediately became eager to survive and quickly explained: "Calm down, I'm just kidding. I just scare you casually. You are also a monk. If you look closely, you won't be able to tell that this is a real cow or a fake cow!"
Xin Xiu put the knife back and smiled again, "Yes, you scared me, so I scared me back."
Mule Taoist: "..." You really don't want to suffer any loss.
After Xin Xiu finished eating, she wiped her hands and was about to start her own infiltration. The mule Taoist priest consciously followed and was stopped by her.
Mule Taoist: "I will follow you and you will be more confident of sneaking into Xiang Mao."
Xin Xiu: "Forget it, I'm afraid you will cheat me later and drag me down."
The mule Taoist priest said righteously: "I have already changed my evil spirits and will not do this!"
Xin Xiu did not listen to his quibbling, turned him back into a human, grabbed a few more cow hairs and stuffed them into a talisman. Poor Lu Sheng, he had just become a cow after only three seconds.
Xin Xiu: "Okay, the mule Taoist priest has become a bull Taoist priest, and can perfectly integrate into this herd of cattle. Even if I can't come back for the time being, you won't be discovered so easily."
Taoist Niu: “…”
Xin Xiu went up Xiangmao Mountain from the mountain road. She felt that Xiangmao was really not as beautiful as Zhong Lingyu in Shuling. The mountain was bare and there were rocks. There was a road up the mountain behind it, almost chiseled out on the mountain wall. It could only allow one person to walk, without even a railing. It was windy when you walked up the upper part, and it seemed that you could blow people down by accident.
There are occasionally several platforms and trails extending next to the mountain path. If you look from a distance, it will probably be arranged like blood vessels.
Xin Xiu was curiously passing through a fork and saw a small cave. Rows of air-dried bacon hanging upside down in the cave... Oh, it's not bacon, it's air-dried corpse.
Do people here have any strange obsession with corpses? They can see corpses and Apiao everywhere, and they have to hang them in a cave like ham and dry them for fermentation? Look at these corpses, they all have hairs, white hair, purple hair and black hair. If they are more wet, they will probably be able to grow mushrooms.
Xin Xiu leaned closer and knocked on a corpse hanging upside down. This corpse is different from other corpses. It is quite fresh. The face is full of flesh and blood and has not yet shriveled. If it weren't for the pale face and the touch is not warm. I really thought this was a living person.
Xin Xiu's hand was pinched on the face before she let go, and suddenly she met the hanging "corpse".
Oh no, the corpse was attracted by her anger and pretended to be a corpse. Xin Xiu quickly pinched out a talisman and put it on the corpse's face for a while to temporarily suppress him.
The corpse then raised his hand and tore off the talisman on his face, "Who are you? Why did you trespass on my Xiangmaoshan?"
Xin Xiu: "..." He was wrong and turned out to be a living person. He seemed to be a ghost master.
Xin Xiu was stunned for a second and then laughed: "I thought you ghost masters would always wear the dance god, the clothes, the masks, why don't you wear those, hanging upside down here like a corpse?"
Perhaps Xin Xiu's attitude was too natural, and the unknown man explained casually: "I naturally looked like this when I was practicing." Halfway through his speech, he suddenly realized that the intruder in front of him seemed to be a malicious intruder, and he kicked his legs and wanted to get off the stone wall.
Unexpectedly, Xin Xiu had already taken advantage of this time and shook his hand and tied him upside down to the pile of corpses.
Her continuous movement was extremely smooth. The man didn't react and was interrupted by someone reading the note. He stared at her upside down: "What kind of iron chain is this? Why can't I break free?"
Xin Xiu: "It is normal that I can't break free. After all, my master was the one who guarded me."
It was also very easy to use for tying mules to tie up Taoist priests. These ghost masters Xiang Mao who deal with corpses all day long are really not good. Could it be that they have had too much contact with corpses, and they are all mum and have a rigid mind. They can't react to any emergencies.
Seeing the man's lips close, as if he was chanting some spell, Xin Xiu covered his mouth, "Don't call anyone, or I'll knock you out."
Although the man did not open his mouth, his voice still came from his abdomen: "Are you here to steal something from our Xiang Mao?"
Xin Xiu: "Cao, you can speak ventriloquialism. Can your ventriloquialism teach me?"
man:"……"
Xin Xiu: "To be honest, I'm actually here to deliver the letter. I'm a disciple of Shuling. Have you heard of it? They are all fellow practitioners, so there is no need for everyone to fight and kill."
The man's eyes changed when he saw her, "Xiang Mao and Shuling have long had old grudges. Any disciples of Shuling who dare to step into our Xiangmao territory must die."
Xin Xiu: "?" Master, you are not kind, and you don't tell anything clearly, just let your disciples come to such a place. This is not a place to deliver letters, it is just a place to send death.
She was a little lucky when she saw the ghost master before, and she didn't shout, "Friend, I'm a disciple from Shuling, here to deliver a letter", otherwise she might have died on the spot.
Xin Xiu: "Can I ask how many Shuling disciples you have killed so far?"
The man was silent for a moment: "No one was killed."
Xin Xiu: "Puchi, then what you said just now is so powerful. Anything that comes will die. I thought you are very skilled in business."
The man was subtly silent for a moment: "If you want to kill someone, you must be able to catch someone first."
I understand, that is to say, you have never caught the disciples of Shuling at all. Wait, I seem to understand a little why they hate Shuling disciples.
Xin Xiu: "You have so many people, why can't you even catch a disciple of Shuling?"
Man: "I don't understand this very much, but you will be the first Shuling disciple to be caught and killed. Leave it as my body."
All the long haired and dry bacon in the entire hole fell down, and pairs of red eyes shining like sirens, illuminating Xin Xiu. Although the man was trapped and could not do more for the time being, he could also direct his corpse brothers to attack her.
Xin Xiu: "Don't let the harsh words go too early, otherwise it will be a lot of pain in the face."
She raised her knife to block it twice, and felt that these corpses were not on the same level as those below. The refined corpses actually had retractable nails. Their nails had not been cut for many years, and they poked out from their fingers in a flash. They all looked like Edward, the scissors hand. When they waved their arms, they could only hear sharp sounds. If they were not careful, their heads could cut off half of their cold-shining nails.
She had been able to cut off the long sword of the zombies before, but when she arrived here, she could only shaved hair for these corpses, and at most a small hole was cut. Even so, the hanging man was already surprised and asked her: "What kind of knife is this? Why can you hurt my stone corpse with this knife?"
Xin Xiu: "It is normal to be able to cut your stone corpse. After all, it was my master who guarded me." Her master, the master of lv99's weapon refining, could create miracles, but her disciple was too incompetent, embarrassing the cool master with white-haired eyes.
I don’t know when the entrance of the cave was blocked, Xin Xiu considered whether to transform into a panda man for three seconds, and rushed out directly with armor and brute force.
Just forget it, just like this, it's not as good as Panda Man's appearance. She thought of a wonderful idea, put away the long knife, pulled the hanging man down, and waved him in the pile of stone corpses.
Xin Xiu stepped on the devil's beat: "Come on the left and draw a dragon with me! Draw a rainbow on your right!"
Man: "Um--"
Xin Xiu danced a human stick so hard that the surrounding stone corpses retreated.
Then she held the shield stick all the way, split the corpse group and escaped from the bacon cave. Before she even escaped, she had not forgotten to take away the ghost teacher's clothes and mask equipment that were placed aside, and blocked the entire hole.
She looked at the man and laughed.
"Oh, don't be afraid. After all, I have no grudges with you. I hate hatred for no reason the most. I just came to send a letter. Otherwise, if you teach me the ventral language, I will let you go."
The man rejected her peaceful olive branch with a swollen face hit by her stone corpse.
Xin Xiu: "Then there is nothing I can do. Can I lend you clothes and masks to use? I won't repay you to borrow the same kind of loan."
The hinterland of Xiangmaoshan is a sunken stone valley. The center of the stone valley can shine on the sun and bathe in the rain and dew, and a green forest that is incompatible with the appearance of this Maoshan Mountain has grown. There are buildings with staggered heights in the forest, with colorful silk ribbons hanging, and white flags dozens of meters high fluttering and dancing high in the woods.
A ghost master walked in from the stone wall of the back mountain and stood looking up at the jungle in the mountain belly. There were several ghost masters dressed in the same dress, but they didn't pay much attention to her when she saw her like this. After all, that building was the residence of the ghost mother, and they all respected and loved the ghost mother. People often looked up to the ghost mother like this to express their respect.
The ghost master looked at it for a while and suddenly walked towards the forest. Before he could step into the forest, he was stopped by two ghost masters next to him who were fiddling with bottles and jars.
"Without the summoning of the ghost mother, you cannot enter the piaolin."
The ghost master said hoarsely: "I dare not trespass, but I found a treasure. I want to provide it to the ghost mother. Please pass it on."
The two ghost masters agreed casually, "We know. When the ghost mother summons us, we will hand it over for you." After that, they continued to go back and make fun of their small pots for ghosts.
After handing over the box with the letter, Xin Xiu wore the ghost master's uniform and swayed out of the mountain. She thought to herself, it's really no wonder that the mule Taoist priests could steal their magic. With this loose guard and casual attitude, they didn't even verify their identity, and the box she gave did not pass the security check.
Maybe it was because of the unified uniform and there were many people, and it was said that there were thousands of people, and probably not everyone knew each other, which gave the thief the opportunity to take advantage of it.
For a moment, I was really worried about their security situation. Are they often thieves here?
She naturally went down the mountain, and on this trip she saw other ghost masters. One of them looked so dusty that she seemed to have come back from a long distance, shaking the bell, taking a team of corpses up the mountain, and met her on the narrow mountain road.
When the ghost master saw her, he stopped one meter in front of her. After looking at her for a long time, Xin Xiu almost thought that he had seen that he was actually a fake person. As a result, the man raised his feet, stepped on the mountain wall next to him, and jumped over her head.
Xin Xiu: "..." Is this a scene where two cats meet on the wall? Are you hesitating just now thinking about how to make way? Why don't you just dig a wider road?
The ghost master who flew over her in the air and roared another bell. The team of jumping corpses jumped over her head one after another.
What a team of gymnastics players!
The last little corpse jumping was not very skilled in business. He staggered when he landed on the ground and almost fell down. Xin Xiu subconsciously helped him, and waited until he stood firm before letting go, watching him jumping away with the other corpse jumping away.
Chapter completed!