Chapter 24
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“Hehe… Hee hee…”
And not long after the two people from the Strong Wind Hall left, the changeling ghost, possessed on a rotten corpse wearing a cloak and riding a demon wolf, came to the gate of Xu Taiping’s courtyard.
You want to ask those junk to catch me. Do you think they dare?
The changeling ghost shouted at Xu Taiping who was standing on the roof with a tone full of sarcasm.
“As long as I close the door, what can you do to me？”
Xu Taiping retorted the evil spirit and then, with a flick of his finger, an arrow wrapped in Residual Cloud True Qi shot out through the air with a “whoosh” sound.
“Bang！”
But what Xu Taiping didn’t expect was that the changgui in the black robe suddenly pulled out a long sword from the robe and accurately cut off the arrow he shot with one sword.
“If it weren’t for your sneak attack yesterday, how could a yellow-mouthed child like you who hasn’t even reached the Open Door Realm hurt me！”
The changgui sneered, and the tip of the sword pointed at Xu Taiping standing on the roof first.
Seeing this, Xu Taiping’s face became solemn.
Just from this one sword of the changgui just now, he could tell that the opponent’s strength was indeed much stronger than his own. Yesterday, he was able to force him out of Liu Qingmei’s body entirely by surprise.
“There is only one chance for a sneak attack. Next, this changgui will definitely be extremely careful. It will be very difficult to force him out of the body again and kill him with wine.”
While Xu Taiping once again put an arrow on the bow and pulled the string, he thought in his heart.
“Little guy, don’t think that I have no way if you hide in the yard and don’t come out. At most, in another ten days, I will be able to dig through that dark canal leading to the medicine garden in your backyard. As long as it is blocked, there will be no water to irrigate this medicine garden, and all the spiritual medicines in the garden will turn into withered grass！”
At this time, the changgui threatened Xu Taiping with a cunning smile.
Hearing this, Xu Taiping couldn’t help but feel a tightness in his heart.
The water source of his backyard medicine garden was indeed a hidden canal deeply buried underground. Usually, there would be a continuous flow of water flowing through the ditches of the medicine garden, which was very convenient for watering.
If that changgui could really dig through that hidden canal, then he would really have to go out to fetch water. Otherwise, it wouldn’t be long before all the perilla seeds just planted in the medicine garden would die.
“If I store water in advance and wait for the water to be cut off ten days later, I can at least last for another five days, which means I only have fifteen days to prepare.”
Xu Taiping’s little head was turning rapidly.
“Little guy, the reason I’m telling you this is because I think you’re quite smart and want to point a way out for you. You can surrender and become this monarch’s ghost servant. Otherwise, I will make you, like that Liu Qingmei, use your soul as a wick and let you taste what it means to be worse than dead！”
After a series of threats, that changgui finally revealed the true purpose of coming here today.
After yesterday’s incident, he took a fancy to Xu Taiping’s cleverness and wanted to ask for his ghost to be his ghost servant after offering his physical body to the Tiger King.
In this era, even ghosts were short of people under their command.
“I am a cultivator of the orthodox way of the Qingxuan Sect. How could I act as a lackey for a tiger like you？”
Xu Taiping sneered and then released his fingers. With a “whoosh” sound, he shot another arrow.
“Swish！”
Without a doubt, this arrow of his was once again chopped off by the changeling ghost with a slash of its knife.
”Orthodox cultivator？”
After chopping off Xu Taiping’s arrow, the changeling ghost seemed to have heard some funny joke and burst into laughter.
”Your Taoism says that one gives birth to two, two gives birth to three, and three gives birth to all things. All things will eventually return to one. So the Tao in this world is just the same goal reached by different paths. How can there be a distinction between good and evil, right and wrong？ If you follow me, I will teach you the way of ghost cultivation. Given time, you can still achieve the right result！”
Failing to intimidate, the changeling ghost began to change its strategy and resorted to bribery.
”The Tao may not distinguish between good and evil, but people do have a distinction between good and evil. The Sage of Calligraphy said that being born as a human, you should cultivate your moral character, you should help others, and you should be like water, living in a bad abyss but doing good！”
Having said this, Xu Taiping once again set an arrow and drew the bow. Then, with his head held high proudly, he looked at the changeling ghost and continued, “You were born as a human, but instead of doing good deeds, you act as an accomplice to a tiger, and bully the weak. This is a great evil and you deserve to be killed!
At this time, Xu Taiping was less than five feet tall, but when he said these words, he seemed much taller than the eight-foot-tall changeling ghost.
”Since you are courting death yourself, then I will grant you your wish！”
The angry and ashamed changeling ghost snorted coldly. While making the demon Wolf under it turn around it turned its head and continued to say fiercely to Xu Taiping:
Do you think that once the water vein is cut off, only the spiritual grasses in your garden will wither and die? I’m not afraid to let you know that the ditches in this garden are the source of spiritual power for the barrier of your “Once the water vein is cut off, the barrier around the small courtyard will break without being attacked!”
Perhaps because of being extremely angry and losing one’s mind, or perhaps because of looking down on Xu Taiping too much, this changgui actually revealed such an important matter.
“You just wait. Within half a month, this monarch will definitely take your life!”
After saying these words, the changgui rode on the demon wolf and disappeared into the forest beside the small courtyard with just a flash.
“Half a month… That’s enough！”
Xu Taiping looked at the forest where the changgui disappeared, and then clenched his fist forcefully and said.
Now, those few arrows were not shot randomly by him, but were deliberately used to test the strength of the changgui.
“With three consecutive arrows, the changgui chose to block each time, which proves that when the body he is possessing is injured, his yin soul will also be hurt.”
“In addition, the force of each of my three arrows was actually different, and he was obviously a little slower when blocking the last two arrows. Judging from this, if my cultivation base can be further improved, it is very likely that he will no longer be able to block my arrow so easily.”
“If we can make him more careless, it is possible to hurt him.”
With this thought in mind, Xu Taiping jumped off the roof and then swept a glance at this small courtyard and muttered：
“According to my true cultivation level, I can only fight against it if I break through the Kai Men Realm. Even if I can improve the Can Xia Gong to the Ice Freezing Stage within half a month, to kill that chang gui, I can only set up a trap and catch him by surprise.”
“There is only one chance, and I have to make full preparations.”
Xu Taiping could choose to escape. For example, he could pour a few bottles of strong liquor on himself to make that chang gui not dare to get close.”
But the problem is that within a few hundred miles around here are all wild mountains. How long can he escape?
“Rather than considering how to escape, it’s better to fight a last-ditch battle.”
Xu Taiping turned around and walked quickly towards his bedroom.
His time is very precious now and he can’t waste a moment.
However, what Xu Taiping didn’t know was that the scene of his confrontation with the chang gui today was actually seen and heard by a figure in the forest several miles away.
That was an old man lying on his back on the treetop, with white hair and tattered clothes.
There was a bronze long sword hanging from the old man’s waist and a wine gourd in his hand.
