Chapter 143

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　　“Swish！”
　　As soon as these words were spoken, the vixen flew backwards extremely vigilantly.
　　A fox tail then extended out from behind her buttocks.
　　“So cautious. You must have done this kind of thing a lot before, right？”
　　As Xu Taiping spoke, he stood up, and at the same time, the breath that had been suppressed for a long time fluctuated and exploded and scattered around his body.
　　Then, his Danxia True Qi, with a “boom”, surged like a tide and filled the entire dilapidated temple.
　　“Bang！”
　　In an instant, those monsters that were about to attack the unconscious guards were all knocked to the ground at the same time.
　　The goat spirit, in particular, could not withstand the impact of this True Qi and burst open on the spot, turning into a mass of evil qi floating in the temple, leaving only a goat horn falling to the ground with a “snap”.
　　Although the other monsters were not as bad as this, they were all desperately resisting the invasion of the Danxia True Qi.
Just as Senior Brother Qingxiao had said to Xu Taiping before going down the mountain, in front of a real cultivator, these mountain spirits and demons were like papers, which are no match for them.
　　“So it’s a cultivator from the mountain！”
　　The vixen gritted its teeth with a look of regret on its face and said.
　　At this time, a faint blue light was emerging around its body. It was this layer of blue light that helped it resist the Red Cloud True Qi of the Western Zhou Dynasty.
　　Obviously, this vixen had a treasure on it that could resist True Qi.
　　Xu Taiping took a step forward at this time, with one hand on the handle of the knife and the other hand with five fingers spread open, and a ball of flame condensed in the palm.
Although it was only a True Qi flame condensed by the Fire Bullet Technique, its deterrence to like demons and spirits was still stronger than that of ordinary spells.
　　The vixen took a few steps back in fear.
　　“Who instructed you to ambush us here?”
　　Xu Taiping asked the vixen while holding the ball of flame.
　　He didn’t believe that there would be such a coincidence. Just as they passed by this dilapidated temple, this vixen had already set up an ambush.
　　“No one instructed me.”
　　The vixen gritted its teeth and said.
　　“I just asked you who instructed you, not whether someone instructed you or not.”
　　Xu Taiping smiled slightly at the vixen.
　　The fox spirit’s complexion changed drastically upon hearing this, and then she gritted her teeth and said hatefully again, “So what if you’re a cultivator on the mountain？ They’ve all been hit by my illusion now, and I can kill them anytime and anywhere.”
　　”Anytime？ Does it take you ten breaths, five breaths, or maybe three breaths to exercise the spell-killing technique？”
　　As Xu Taiping spoke, he clenched his palm and extinguished that ball of flame. Then he put his hand on the handle of the Spring Tiger saber and converted his Danxia True Qi into Fire Yuan.
　　With a “boom”, the Danxia True Qi that was just ice-cold and bone-chilling instantly became extremely hot.
The group of spirits in the temple sent out screams of pain.
　　Even the fox spirit showed a very painful expression.
　　”Or is it faster than my speed of drawing the saber？”
　　Xu Taiping made the action of drawing the saber and looked at the fox spirit with a calm gaze.
An invisible sense of oppression, following his gaze, suddenly pressed against the fox spirit.
　　”I can tell you, but you have to promise not to harm me.”
　　The fox spirit sighed, raised her hand, and chose to surrender.
In those charming eyes, she looked at Xu Taiping and that gaze was so gentle that it could turn the hardest steel into soft fingers.
　　And it was at the moment when it showed such a gaze.
　　Xu Taiping pulled out the Spring Tiger Saber from his waist with a “clang”, and the surging heat wave slashed towards the fox spirit with the saber light.
　　With a “swish”, the fox spirit was instantly split in two.
　　A strand of demonic energy then rose into the sky and turned into a cloud of gray mist, flying towards the door of the dilapidated temple like a strong wind.
　　”Collect.”
　　Xu Taiping calmly opened the stopper of the green gourd, and then raised his hand, aiming the mouth of the gourd at the fox spirit.
　　With a “whoosh”, a powerful suction force was generated from the gourd, first sucking in the cloud of gray mist that had already escaped through the crack of the door.
　　This gray mist was naturally transformed by the remnant soul of the fox spirit. If it was allowed to escape, it could quickly be reborn once it found something to possess.
　　As early as when they decided to wait for the hare by the tree stump, Fairy Lingyue and Xu Taiping had already discussed the countermeasure.
　　Although the ability of the green gourd to collect demons and ghosts was currently very weak, it was still no problem to deal with a wisp of essence energy transformed by the remnant soul of such a weak spirit.
　　”Sister Lingyue, can you see anything from the remnant soul of this fox spirit？”
　　Xu Taiping asked Fairy Lingyue in his heart while walking towards the corpse of the fox spirit.
　　He didn’t want to be spied on secretly along the way.
　　”It will take some time.”
　　The Spirit Moon Fairy seemed to be busy and only briefly replied to Xu Taiping.
　　Xu Taiping nodded and then bent down to pick up a bracelet full of fox teeth from the ground.
Could that fox spirit have been transformed from this bracelet?
　　Xu Taiping muttered in his mouth.
　　He had read in books that most of these goblins in the mountains and fields were transformed from some kind of spirit-attached objects that absorbed the evil spirit in the mountains.
　　“Dao… Daozhang？”
　　Just then, the Sixth Princess rubbed her eyes and called out to Xu Taiping.
As soon as the fox died, the illusion it cast was lifted so although the Sixth Princess still had a bit of drunkenness at the moment, her consciousness had gradually become clear.
　　“What are you doing？”
Seeing Xu Taiping squatting on the ground rummaging around, the Sixth Princess was a little.
　　“Your Highness, look at Western Zhou.”
　　As Xu Taiping spoke, he put away the bracelet and stood up.
　　“Western Zhou？”
　　Hearing this, the Sixth Princess looked at Western Zhou, and the last trace of drunkenness on her body instantly dissipated.
This was just a wild burial ground full of weeds!
Daozhang, where is this? Weren’t we supposed to be resting in that broken temple?
　　The Sixth Princess nervously walked quickly to Xu Taiping’s side.
　　She looked at Xi Zhou again, and then saw at a glance a group of guards lying on the ground in all directions, and in the middle of the guards, there were several ugly goblin corpses.
　　“We… we encountered goblins and were caught in their illusion？！”
　　She　suddenly　reacted.
　　“Yes, remember that heavy rain？”
　　Xu　Taiping　nodded.
　　“Could it be that everything we encountered started from that heavy rain was an illusion？”
　　The Sixth Princess recalled the previous scenes and felt a shiver down her spine.
　　And at this time, General Chu and Thousand-Household Cao also woke up.
After the two saw the surrounding environment and the corpses of the goblins beside them, they both had expressions of astonishment.
　　“Your Highness, are you all right？”
　　General Chu hurriedly shouted at the Sixth Princess.
“With the Taoist priest here, I’m fine!”
　　The Sixth Princess shook her head with a look of fear on her face and unconsciously got closer to Xu Taiping.
　　“Why is there a plate of dead rats here？”
　　At this time, a guard who woke up discovered the plate on the ground.
　　“There is also a plate of cockroaches here！”
　　“Ugh… and a plate of maggots！”
　　At this time, more plates filled with strange food were discovered by everyone.
　　General Chu and Thousand—Household Cao looked at each other, and then a word appeared in their minds — “Ghost Feast.”