Shen Hui stood in the crowd for another moment. Seeing the two women going back and forth, unable to tell the winner for a while, he gradually lost interest and turned away from Willow Lane Street.
The streets are still lively.
The old man selling sugar was carrying a load and shouting as he walked. A salesman was bargaining with a woman. The woman was holding a handkerchief and wouldn't budge an inch.
Shen Hui Walking all the way, I found it interesting.
As I was walking to a fork in the road, I suddenly heard a rush of footsteps behind me, mixed with breathing, from far to near.
"Daoist Master, please stay!"
Shen Hui turned his head and saw a young man who looked like a young man wearing a blue cloth shirt running up to him panting, bending over and panting.
The young man was about fifteen or sixteen years old. He was small and thin, with a pale face and a thin layer of sweat on his forehead. He looked like he had run a long way.
"Are you calling me?" Shen Hui asked.
The young man raised his head, looked him up and down, his eyes paused on him Taoist robe, and his eyes suddenly showed a bit of eagerness:
"I dare to ask, sir, but Clear Wind Temple is here?"
Shen Hui nodded slightly.
The young man heard the words and said anxiously, "Daoist priest, help me! My young master is possessed by an evil spirit and bites everyone he meets. The house has hired several doctors, but none of them can see the problem. Please have mercy on me, Daoist priest, and follow me to the house to have a look!"
As he spoke, he bowed repeatedly, causing people around him to look over.
Shen Hui frowned and asked, "Your young master? Which family's young master?"
"Xu Family from Chengdong,"
The young man raised his head, his eyes were red, "Our master is in the tea business, and he is quite famous in Qu County. If the Daoist priest doesn't believe it, just ask anyone and you will know."
Shen Hui pondered for a moment and nodded, "Lead the way."
The young man was overjoyed, responded quickly, turned around and left.
Shen Hui followed, one behind the other, heading east along the street.
After turning two corners and crossing three streets, we gradually left the busy city.
There are fewer and fewer shops on both sides, and pedestrians are becoming sparse. Occasionally, one or two porters carrying burdens will pass by in a hurry without taking a second glance.
After walking for a while, there were only some low earthen walls and a half-open wooden door left in all directions.
The alley is deep and narrow, and the bluestone slabs are covered with moss and feel greasy when stepped on.
Shen Hui looked at the young man in front of him who was still walking quickly, and suddenly said:
"Before taking action, there are some things you still need to ask."
The young man slowly turned around after hearing this.
The groveling and anxious look on his face was like a mask that had been lifted off, revealing his true face underneath.
He looked at Shen Hui with squinted eyes, a smile slowly appeared on the corner of his mouth, but said nothing.
Shen Hui didn't look at him either, he just glanced around.
The pedestrians on the street had disappeared without knowing when.
The alley was empty when we arrived, the doors of the houses on both sides were closed, and not even a bark of dogs or a rooster could be heard.
The entire alley seemed to have been cut off from the world by an invisible hand, and it was eerily silent.
Except for a woman behind him.
The woman was wearing a black dress with a cold face, as if she had grown out of the wall. She stood there quietly, blocking his retreat.
Shen Hui's eyes passed over her body, then returned to the young man's face, with a faint smile.
"Two questions."
He stretched out his finger. "Who are you? And why are you targeting me?"
The young man laughed. His voice was not as high-pitched as before. Instead, it was a bit calmer, but his demeanor was completely different from before.
"You do have some cleverness." He raised his hand to straighten his collar and said slowly.
Then he turned his head slightly and looked at Black-Clad Woman. The two of them moved forward and back, sandwiching Shen Hui in the middle.
Shen Hui was not in a hurry, just put his hands in his sleeves and said in a calm tone, "Since the poor Daoist is a dying person, why don't you let me be a fool?"
He turned his head and looked at Black-Clad Woman behind him.
The woman's face was cold, with no emotion in her brows and eyes, she just stared at him quietly.
The young man smiled again when he heard this, with a hint of playfulness in his smile, "I also want you to be a sensible person, but it's a pity..."
He paused and shook his head, "To be sure, I'll wait until you are dead before I tell you."
Shen Hui nodded, the smile on his face not diminishing.
He slowly raised his hand, stretched out a finger, and said calmly, "In that case, you should remember it."
The young man raised his eyebrows and looked at him with a half-smile.
Shen Hui thought to himself and said, "Shen Hui, a poor Daoist, is Deer Rest Mountain Clear Wind Temple Ji Chen True Person, my disciple, Daoist number Qingxuan."
When the young man heard this, he couldn't help laughing, "We know this."
Then he added, "Don't worry, you won't call me the wrong name when burning paper."
Shen Hui shook his head, looked away from the young man, and his tone was still unhurried:
"I'm not afraid that you burned the wrong paper."
He raised his head, a faint smile hanging on the corner of his mouth, but a cold light flashed in his eyes, and murderous intent gradually emerged.
"I'm just saying this to let you know whose hands you are going to die in, so that you don't end up like that fool."
Before he finished speaking, a gust of wind suddenly blew up in the alley.
The wind came strangely, neither from the sky nor from the ground. It brought with it a biting chill, picked up the dead leaves and dust on the ground, and swirled in the narrow alley.
The smile on the young man's face froze.
Black-Clad Woman's hands are already on his waist.
But before the two of them could react, a spark shot out of the sky.
It was so fast that I couldn't see the trajectory clearly. I could only vaguely see a red line crossing it, heading straight for the door facing Black-Clad Woman.
The woman's reaction was not slow. She touched her waist with her right hand, and a dark dagger was unsheathed and placed in front of her.
Sparks hit the sword.
"Tsk!"
Molten metal splashes.
The black sword was burned with a hole as big as a finger, the edge was red and hot, and molten iron dripped down the sword.
The woman screamed and hurriedly let go, causing the dagger to fall to the ground with a clang.
A string of blisters appeared on her palms, and the skin and flesh were opened, revealing the tender red flesh underneath.
At the same time, Shen Hui had already raised his left hand and pointed at the boy opposite who was preparing to recite the incantation Hand Seals.
A white light burst out from the fingertips, as fast as lightning.
The young man was only halfway through the finger gesture. He was frightened and wanted to dodge, but the white light came so fast that he had no time to move.
In desperation, the young man had no choice but to raise his arm and block the bone that he had been holding in front of him, so that he could catch the Sharp Gold Qi.
"You Hand Seals are too slow." Shen Hui said in a serious tone.
After saying this, he moved his left hand forward.
Click!
The bones shattered with a sound.
The white light continued unabated, passing close to the left side of the boy's face.
"Ah--!"
The young man screamed and flew backwards, leaving a trail of blood on the ground.
He lay on the ground and struggled endlessly.
The left half of his face and his ear had been shaved clean by the white light, revealing the white bones underneath, and blood was pouring out.
Shen Hui didn't even look at him, he just said calmly, "You have ordinary abilities, but you dare to come to trouble me?"
As soon as she finished speaking, the woman took out a handful of gray-white beads from her arms and scattered them on the ground.
After the beads fell to the ground, their bones rolled endlessly, and in the blink of an eye they turned into huge skulls. Then the skulls grew backbones, ribs, arm bones, leg bones... everything, and surrounded Shen Hui.
Shen Hui frowned.
He raised his right hand, and several earth walls rose from the ground.
One blocked the group of skeletons, and the other two blocked both ends of the alley, separating the woman from the struggling boy on the ground.
The woman's face finally changed.
She looked at the chest-high earthen walls and her voice became tight. "You... you know how to do it?"