Song Wan City Lord brought over a map of the surrounding area of White Cloud City.
He marked the location of each Pig Demon attack on the people, saying:
"We have searched every location on this place for dozens of miles, but we have not found the lair of Pig Demon."
"So there are no clues now?" Pang Yuanfu asked.
I thought I would simply get rid of a monster, but after a long time I didn't even know where the monster was.
Song Wan was a little embarrassed. He knew it too. He had brought so many victims and talked a lot, but there was almost no really useful information.
He could only smile bitterly and said, "I have to bother a few immortals with a lot of trouble."
When Li Xiuchang saw this, he gave a step and said, "Of course there are clues. From the map brought by City Lord Song, you can get very important clues."
"Oh?" Even Song Wan himself looked curious, wanting to hear what Li Xiuchang could say.
Li Xiuchang pointed at the map and said, "First of all, every time Pig Demon appears, it is around White Cloud City. It can be seen that it moves around White Cloud City.
"Secondly, as mentioned just now, this Pig Demon is very cautious. The rabbit does not eat grass near its nest. The location he chose to launch the attack must be far away from its nest. Lord Song searched these locations and found nothing around them, which also confirms this.
"So we want to find the home base of Pig Demon, and we must first rule out the locations where it launches attacks."
Pang Yuanfu, Song Wan and others looked at each other and felt that what Li Xiuchang said seemed to make sense, but they didn't seem to say anything.
"Then what?" several people asked.
Li Xiuchang walked to the map and drew a circle around White Cloud City with his finger, which just included all the crime locations of Pig Demon.
"We can draw a circle with White Cloud City as the center and define a search range. Within this range, all crime locations and their surrounding locations will be excluded. The remaining blank location is the place we want to search."
Everyone looked at the map. According to the Li Xiuchang method, the area they wanted to search was indeed much smaller and more targeted.
"Good method!" Pang Yuanfu praised.
Song Wan's first reaction was that this method was good and reasonable, but he always felt that something was wrong.
He thought about it carefully and suddenly understood what was wrong.
He had previously asked his men to search all the places where Pig Demon committed crimes and nearby areas, which meant that these places had been eliminated.
Now Li Xiuchang asked them to search places other than where the crime was committed.
Isn't this equivalent to drawing a circle and asking them to search the circle?
He almost got involved... Song Wan muttered in his heart, but did not say it out in the end.
Because he had no better way, it seemed like this was all he could do.
At this time, the two Rogue Cultivators in the city lord's palace were worshiping, and the worshiper Third Layer of Qi Condensation suddenly said:
"I met that Pig Demon by chance before, and I fought with it a few times. This beast was thick-skinned, strong, and very dexterous. I was no match for it, so I could only watch it run away.
"I encountered it here, I wonder if this news is useful?"
After speaking, he pointed out the location where he encountered Pig Demon.
"It's useful, so useful! "Li Xiuchang said, "The location where Pig Demon committed the crime must have been carefully selected by it, so there are no clues to be found, but it is different if you encounter it by chance. It is very likely that Pig Demon's lair is in that area, so we will start searching from this area first."
The location where Rogue Cultivator was enshrined and met Pig Demon happened to be the largest completely blank area on the map, where Pig Demon had never committed a crime.
The workload of searching is not small.
However, if we continue to discuss here, we can't come up with a reason. Li Xiuchang immediately urged everyone to set off as soon as possible.
Li Xiuchang The location they are searching for is a mountain forest.
Everyone divided the work and cooperated. The city lord Song Wan and the two Rogue Cultivator priests led people to search the foot of the mountain, and Li Xiuchang and the three of them searched the mountain.
"The three of us will act separately. Once we discover the monster's lair, we will use Fireball Talisman to shoot into the sky as a signal."
After the three of them agreed, Pang Yuanfu and Chi Hui each searched in one direction, leaving only Li Xiuchang alone in the same place.
The place where he stood was the place where Rogue Cultivator was enshrined in the city lord's palace and he met Pig Demon by chance.
Li Xiuchang took out a gourd and pinched a spell on the gourd.
Then he bit open the lid of the gourd and poured out a dark shadow.
The shadow squirmed and transformed into a giant dog more than two meters long. As soon as it landed on the ground, it spread its legs and tried to escape.
Li Xiuchang was already prepared. He pulled back the hand that was holding the secret, as if there were invisible threads pulling on Dog Demon's soul. It let its four claws surge like flying, but it could only flop in place, unable to move forward.
Seeing that he couldn't run away, the dog spirit turned around, opened his Big Mouth and pounced on Li Xiuchang.
Li Xiuchang stood motionless, except for a faint layer of precious light emerging from the surface of his body.
This is the Protective Treasure Light that comes with "Vajra Dharma Form Art" after it reaches the second level.
Dog Demon bit Li Xiuchang's arm, but all he heard was a sizzling sound, as if red-hot iron touched water and bursts of white smoke came out.
That Dog Demon whimpered and quickly backed away.
Li Xiuchang didn't even leave a single tooth mark on his arm, but Dog Demon's giant kiss was blurry and white smoke continued to emit.
"Vajra Dharma Form Art" is a Buddhist technique. The Protective Treasure Light produced by the cultivation is naturally capable of restraining evil spirits and evil objects.
In addition, Li Xiuchang crushed Dog Demon's body-refining state. Even if he stood still and let Dog Demon bite him, Dog Demon would be melted by Protective Treasure Light first in the end.
Seeing that Dog Demon couldn't run away and couldn't be beaten, he immediately lowered his body with all four legs on the ground and swung his tail wildly, begging for mercy from Li Xiuchang.
Li Xiuchang can directly use Soul Master's method to forcibly control the dog soul.
But Senior Brother Mo told him that it was best to subdue the ghost before using soul control methods, so that the ghost would be more loyal, easier to drive, work harder, and less likely to betray.
How to conquer it?
It's nothing more than showing favor or showing power.
Or serve both together, hit a stick and give a sweet date.
"Good dog! "Seeing the dog soul's fawning appearance, Li Xiuchang smiled and patted the dog's head.
Unexpectedly, when the dog soul heard the sound, its tail suddenly stopped wagging, as if it had been humiliated, and it pounced on Li Xiuchang again.
A few breaths later...
Li Xiuchang gave the dog soul a beating, and the dog soul finally settled down and lay on the ground shivering.
Li Xiuchang thought, first-order Dog Demon's intelligence is not low, and he can probably understand human speech.
So he just called out "good dog" and angered the dog spirit?
Doesn't it think it's a dog?
"Little wolf? "Li Xiuchang called out tentatively.
After hearing this, Dog Soul rubbed his head against Li Xiuchang's hand intimately.
"Is it really Wolf Soul, not Dog Soul? "Li Xiuchang is a little doubtful.
He used the common language for summoning dogs. "..."
The dog spirit immediately moved closer to Li Xiuchang's trouser leg, and when he looked at its tail, it was almost wagging to the sky.
"It seems that it was deceived by the stall owner and really thought he was a wolf."