Chapter 1: Rewarding the ghosts and enshrining the spirits
Jiang Zhou, dressed casually, stared around blankly with his mouth half open.
There are towering ancient trees everywhere, the smallest of which is at least several meters in diameter and dozens of meters high.
The huge twisted and tangled roots and vines were even thicker than he was.
There is a thick layer of fallen leaves underfoot and dense branches and leaves above head, which are like a green dome, blocking out the sunlight.
The sunlight can only cast a faint green light through the gaps between the branches and leaves.
"Travel through time?"
He couldn't imagine where on earth there was such an exaggerated forest.
Besides, he was just in the library, how come the world changed in the blink of an eye?
"Could it be you?"
Jiang Zhou closed his mouth and looked at what he was holding in his hand.
It was an old, yellowed scroll .
He originally went to the library for a date with his newly-married girlfriend, and while looking for books in the library, he discovered this thing.
Out of curiosity, I picked it up.
After opening it, all I saw was a blank old silk scroll, nothing else.
When I wanted to put it back, I looked up and saw this scene.
If I say there is nothing fishy about this ancient scroll, do you think I believe it?
Can time travel be so casual?
Jiang Zhou is quite satisfied with his daily life and doesn't want to travel through time at all.
I had to hold this ancient scroll in my hands and read it over and over again.
If it is really the one who did this, we can only rely on it if we want to go back.
But he found nothing except four scrawled characters.
He couldn't help but frown and stare at the four ghostly drawings, hoping to discern some clues.
"Ghost, God, Picture, Record?"
Jiang Zhou read it out word by word, and then he suddenly realized.
How could I recognize this cryptic symbol? It doesn't make sense...
With some surprise, Jiang Zhou suddenly saw new words slowly appearing on the originally empty paper.
Just like before, he somehow recognized these characters that he had never seen before.
"Command, reward, punish, ghost, seal, spirit, invite, god?"
WTF?
Jiang Zhou was stunned when the ancient scroll in his hand suddenly turned into a beam of light and shot towards his eyes.
Caught off guard.
I felt a chill between my eyebrows, and then my eyes started to itch.
what happened?
Jiang Zhou was startled and quickly took out his cell phone.
I took a quick look and, as expected, the signal was gone.
Turn the camera on yourself.
I saw a faint red mark between the eyebrows.
What the hell?
"Huh? What an interesting magical instrument."
At this moment, Jiang Zhou suddenly heard a pleasant voice.
He quickly raised his head and saw a very majestic white deer standing on the branch of a huge tree on his right.
The huge antlers are curved, and the bull's body is faintly glowing, revealing a bit of mystery.
On the back of the white deer, there is a girl wearing a green gauze skirt.
It was very beautiful, and it had a kind of purity and agility that Jiang Zhou had never seen before.
Jiang Zhou suspected that he saw an elf in the forest.
“Can you see me?”
The elf-like girl seemed surprised.
With a slight squeeze of its legs, the majestic white deer leaped down from the tree.
Landed gently in front of Jiang Zhou.
The green gauze skirt was very short, revealing the girl's white legs, which was a bit dazzling.
“Can you see me?”
Seeing Jiang Zhou was a little dazed, the girl frowned slightly and asked again.
Jiang Zhou opened his mouth and said, "Shouldn't I be able to see it?"
The girl frowned, seeming to be unconvinced.
Riding on a white deer, he walked around the river boat several times.
She noticed that Jiang Zhou's eyes were following her and his gaze was always on her.
Only then did he stop.
He stared at Jiang Zhou for a long time before tilting his head and saying, "It's a human, for sure."
"You are weak, have no magical power, and are dressed strangely. You have the air of a scholar, but not the aura of a noble man. How did you see me?"
What does it mean to be a human being? Aren’t you a human being?
"that……"
Jiang Zhou was a little puzzled: "Of course I use my eyes to see, what do you want to say?"
"Eye?"
The girl didn't know what she was thinking of. She rolled her eyes and said, "Could it be that you were born with spiritual pupils?"
Without waiting for Jiang Zhou to answer, he clapped his hands and said, "Yes, you have no cultivation at all, but you are born with spiritual pupils. That's great!"
Jiang Zhou found that the girl seemed to suddenly become very happy.
A pair of eyes smiled into a pair of crescent moons, looking at him: "I want you to do something for me."
Jiang Zhou felt that she was just like calling a kitten or a puppy, and it was natural.
"Are you okay?"
He doesn't like people who are self-righteous.
"He really has guts."
The girl seemed to see his unhappiness, and before he could say anything, she smiled and said.
At the same time, he stretched out a white finger and pointed into the dense forest.
Jiang Zhou watched as a green vine grew out from her fingertips and shot towards the dense forest with a whoosh.
“Ahhh!”
A deafening roar rang out.
The green vine rolled back, dragging a huge object.
It was a horned monster that looked a bit like a wild boar and a bit like a rhinoceros.
At least three or four meters long.
But it was tightly entangled by a green vine as thin as a finger, hanging in the air, unable to move.
The girl gave him a sweet smile.
Then, rows of sharp teeth grew on the green vines and pierced into the flesh of the horned monster.
“Ouch——!”
Amid the monster's shrill screams, Jiang Zhou watched it shrink rapidly like a deflated balloon.
In just a few seconds, the monster's majestic body turned into a skeleton covered only with a layer of wrinkled skin.
“…”
Jiang Zhou had no expression on his face.
So scared.
The girl still didn't see any fear on his face and thought she didn't scare him.
Frowning her eyebrows: "Aren't you afraid?"
“…”
How can I not be afraid?
Jiang Zhou wanted to speak, but he found his body was stiff.
This witch is a moody psychopath.
He was afraid that if he said something that didn't please the other person, he would suck him until he was skin and bones.
A witch, absolutely a witch.
Jiang Zhou was about to collapse.
A few minutes ago, he was in the library with his girlfriend, enjoying the sea of books.
How did it become like this in the blink of an eye?
Suddenly, he felt a chill between his brows, and a stream of light flew out, transforming into an ancient scroll and slowly unfolding.
A ball of hazy light floated out from the monster's corpse abandoned on the ground and sank into the unfolding scroll.
Pictures appeared on the ancient scrolls.
A strange beast was born in the mountains, and slowly grew up, running and hunting in the mountains.
Until it was entangled by a green vine and its life came to an abrupt end.
The picture also stopped here and turned into a picture on an ancient scroll with characters recorded next to it.
【Tuan: A strange beast in the mountains, with great power, able to split the earth and collapse the mountains. 】
Jiang Zhou also saw that after the catalog, a line of characters slowly emerged and then slowly disappeared.
[Not evil or demon, I will punish you without reward]
Jiang Zhou was slightly stunned.
Could it be that...
Is this what it means to reward and kill demons?
If he wants to kill the demons with his own hands, he can get the reward of the Ghost and God Atlas?
"You're not afraid of me."
He was startled awake by the witch's dissatisfied voice.
Jiang Zhou looked at her and it seemed that she didn't see anything happening.
His silence made the witch misunderstand that he was fearless and indifferent in the face of danger.
The demon girl wrinkled her nose, as if distressed for a moment, and then revealed a fierce expression: "Humph, you do have some backbone, just like those stinky bones of the Confucian sect!"
This look is more playful than fierce.
But Jiang Zhou didn't think so at all. This kind of moody mental patient was truly terrifying, not to mention that he was a monster?
Jiang Zhou still didn't say anything. The demon girl continued to talk to herself, and suddenly showed excitement: "But it doesn't matter, this is fun!"
"How about I cast a heart-eating curse on you?"
