Liaozhai Great Sage

Chapter 242
Before I knew it, the sky was a little brighter.

The reunion after a long absence always seems particularly short.

"Husband, it will be dawn soon. It's a pity that we will be parting again not long after meeting with husband." Qingmei, who was originally happy, said sadly when she saw the natural light.

After all, there is a difference between humans and ghosts, and they cannot live like normal couples.

However, Li Xiuyuan smiled and said, "Don't be sad about this, since we have reunited, we will have plenty of time to get together in the future, don't be in a hurry, you go back first, wait for me to deal with the thousand-year-old tree demon, and move your bones back, then you and I can be together every night See you."

"As long as my husband doesn't dislike me as a ghost, I'm already very happy. Husband, I'll take my leave first." Qingmei Yingying gave a salute, and slowly retreated to the nearby shadows with a shy smile. middle.

Finally disappeared in a raised grave mound.

Watching Qingmei leave, Li Xiuyuan came back to his senses after a while.

He suddenly remembered something, and looked deep into the dense forest; "It seems... something was delayed last night, yes, I wanted to support Yan Chixia and Xia Houwu last night, but I met Qingmei who didn't know what to do. I don’t think it’s a night to stay, and they haven’t come back yet, so it’s okay.”

As he said that, he couldn't help showing a bit of embarrassment on his face.

"Ryoma~!"

Li Xiuyuan hurriedly greeted him, and he quickly rode his dragon horse into the dense forest along the direction Yan Chixia entered the back mountain.

Passing by Qingmei's graveyard, he saw that the graveyard he had erected was already overgrown with weeds, and even the tombstone was a bit old, I have to say that time flies by so quickly.

Not far from Qingmei's grave is Nie Xiaoqian's grave.

The tombstone is covered with weeds and is even older.

Moreover, the tombstones are tilted and the mounds are sunken. It seems that there are signs of being excavated, and the mounds have collapsed.

Li Xiuyuan knew that Nie Xiaoqian's grave was already empty, and now it was just an empty shell. Her columbarium had been taken away by the tree demon so that he could use it to control Nie Xiaoqian.

"Drive~!"

The dragon horse neighed, and shuttled through the forest at a very fast speed, crossing mountains and ridges like walking on flat ground.

With such a mount, Li Xiuyuan can go in and out of any place without worrying, and it can make up for his shortcoming of mobility to the greatest extent.

"There are traces of fighting and fighting here."

Soon, he followed the trail left by Yan Chixia along the way, and came to a relatively open place in the dense forest, but he saw that there was a stench, and lying in the grass in all directions were dead bodies. The mummy that sucked out the flesh and blood, from the looks of it, this should be the place where the dryad's grandmother ate. In addition, there were also tree roots scattered on the ground, as well as several trees that had been cut down.

It seems that there was a very violent fight here last night.

"not here."

Li Xiuyuan turned around, but in the end he couldn't find Yan Chixia and Xia Houwu.

But following these traces, he found a big banyan tree with luxuriant branches and leaves in the forest.

Although this banyan tree is not as good as the thousand-year-old banyan tree in the back mountain of Lanruo Temple, it is not much different. It seems that during this period of time, the tree demon grandma wants to be grafted to another banyan tree to make up for herself foundation, once again embarked on the road to immortality.

But this seems ridiculous to Li Xiuyuan.

After killing so many people, even if the dryad could cultivate to the stage of becoming an immortal, the Thunder Gods of the Ministry of Thunder would kill it. How could such a sinful dryad be allowed to become immortal.

"You finally came, I thought you were intercepted and killed by that tree demon on the way." Suddenly, Yan Chixia's voice sounded.

But I saw him sitting cross-legged under the banyan tree, with a lot of dried blood all over his body, it seemed that he was injured last night.

"The tree demon dared to intercept and kill me. It didn't have time to see me running away. Last night, I wanted to support you, but I encountered some delays on the road. I'm really sorry." Li Xiuyuan said apologetically.

"It's okay, I was injured, and the tree demon was injured more than me. This is thanks to the fact that you broke its roots before, causing it to lose its hundred-year Taoism for no reason. Otherwise, it really couldn't beat it, but after In this battle, the tree demon probably won't be able to come out to harm people within a hundred years, and there will be peace here for 100 years." Yan Chixia said.

"It's a pity that the tree demon still ran away. If I know how to kill demons and eliminate demons, the tree demon will undoubtedly die today."

Xia Houwu next to him was also holding a sword in his hand. He was very tired, but his momentum remained undiminished.

"It's not bad to be able to survive. If we really fight to the death with that thousand-year-old tree demon, the tree demon may be seriously injured in the end, but we are the ones who die. The tree demon dare not go all out because it is afraid of this scholar. It is afraid that this scholar will show up at any time. It will live, and it will definitely die when the time comes." Yan Chixia shook her head and said.

Although the battle last night was dangerous, the tree demon still had spare energy to guard against Li Xiuyuan.

Otherwise, they wouldn't just suffer a little injury.

"Where did that dryad go?"

Li Xiuyuan asked suddenly: "Although this tree demon will not be born again in 100 years, but after 100 years, we will all be dead. Maybe no one can subdue this tree demon. Leave such a scourge."

"It makes sense, but it's a pity that the tree demon got into the ground, and who knows where it went." Yan Chixia shook her head and said.

Li Xiuyuan's eyes moved slightly: "Your words remind me, since we can't find the location of the tree demon, we can let the ghost find it. I left a lot of ghost soldiers in Guobei County. They came over and dug three feet to find the tree demon's lair."

"This is a good idea. Manpower is limited, but it is much more convenient to let ghosts do some things." Yan Chixia said with bright eyes.

"Since we will fight again at night, let's leave here now. Even if there are no ghosts in this place, there will still be wild beasts." Xia Houwu said.

"Don't worry, burn this tree demon's lair first. This is a clone of the tree demon. If it is not destroyed, it will continue to do evil in the future." Yan Chixia stood up, intending to burn the big banyan tree in front of her. burn it.

Li Xiuyuan said: "You are injured now, I'll take care of this kind of thing."

"Then I will trouble you." Yan Chixia said.

When he came under the banyan tree, he found that among the weeds under the banyan tree were urns of ashes, big and small, with different styles, obviously collected by the tree demon from places where they were not used. It is better to use these urns to cast spells to control these ghosts.

"A good man will do his best to the end. Ning Caichen and Nie Xiaoqian have a destiny destined for him. Why don't we simply help him retrieve Nie Xiaoqian's ashes urn and fulfill a marriage." Li Xiuyuan thought to himself.

He immediately searched among these urns.

It's just that there are no names on these urns, and he couldn't find any urn that belonged to Nie Xiaoqian for a while, but he knew one detail. There was a red comb in Nie Xiaoqian's urn, which was in front of her. funerary objects.

"Scholar, what are you looking for? These urns belong to the ghosts under the hands of the tree demon. Why don't you just break them all down and expose the ashes to the sun to kill them all?" Yan Chixia said.

He will not be merciful to these harmful ghosts.

"Don't worry, don't be in a hurry." Li Xiuyuan said.

Suddenly, when he opened an urn, he really found a red wooden comb buried in it. If the expectations were correct, this should be Nie Xiaoqian's urn.

Without hesitation, he took the ashes and put them in the ghost king's bag before lighting the tree on fire.

Soon a fire broke out, but this time the dryad was unable to call the wind and rain, attracting rain clouds to extinguish the fire.

Because of Li Xiuyuan's presence, the Dryad dared not appear. If it appeared, it would be killed immediately. For the sake of its own life, how could it manage this lair.

"Scholar, look over there, there seems to be something in the fire." Suddenly, Yan Chixia called out.

"Ok?"

Li Xiuyuan looked at everything, but found that there was a place on the burning tree where the flames could not burn through, leaving a gap, as if there was something in the branch.

"I gonna go see."

The dragon horse jumped up, and the big gun in his hand pushed away the layers of branches. Suddenly, he saw a golden-faced, emaciated mummy with only bones and flesh left.

But the mummy was wearing cassock, and it looked like a monk.

(End of this chapter)