Volume 3: Summoning Demons Chapter 14: Side quests still need to be done
Lu Bai took Li Bodhisattva and walked towards Prefect Liang, preparing to borrow a carriage or find a boat to go directly to Lijia Village.
Before the incident on Qingjiang River, it would take less than half a day, or more than an hour, to reach Lupan City from Lijia Village along the Qingjiang River.
Although going upstream is much slower, it only takes one day to get back.
However, in recent years, fewer and fewer people dare to sail on the Qingjiang River.
Before Lu Bai arrived at the yamen, the yamen runner who had been there before found Lu Bai.
He glanced at Li Bodhisattva behind Lu Bai with a slightly surprised look.
Then he said, "Mr. Lu, you came at the right time. Prefect Liang just happened to want to see you for something."
"Find a place to lock him up and don't let him die." Lu Bai nodded to the bailiff and then walked into the yamen.
This time when I came in, the atmosphere in the yamen was much more normal.
The big copper pot was taken down from the table and turned into various documents.
A group of people gathered here, discussing various information.
"Brother Lu, you came at the right time. This matter is related to what you reported before."
"If you hadn't reminded us, we wouldn't have discovered the source of this disaster."
Prefect Liang said as he handed a file of the investigation to Lu Bai.
Lu Bai took the file, looked at it carefully, and couldn't help but frowned.
The incident was about Li Min, Li Duo and others selling spiritual spring water.
The Evil-Eradication Bureau has already investigated the source of the spiritual spring water and how to obtain it.
Li Min, Li Duo and others would go dig the soil and dig graves every once in a while.
The purpose was not to rob the tomb, but to steal the corpse.
After successfully stealing the body, they would move it to a dry well somewhere in the city.
A bucket of flesh and blood, in exchange for a bucket of spiritual spring water.
This business was discovered by Li Min. After the discovery, he immediately gathered the people from Lijia Village.
In addition to Li Du, there were five people in total. They had stolen many corpses and made a lot of money over the years.
I do n’t know if it was because of years of contact with corpses or for some other reason, but three of them died of illness.
During this period, Li Duo also fell ill.
For this reason, Li Duo often visited Li Min, and many conflicts broke out between them.
If that were all, then it would just be a conflict caused by some ordinary people using evil means to make money.
Although the Evil Elimination Bureau will send people to resolve the issue, they will not take it too seriously.
However, today, they discovered a problem: the water drawn from many wells in the city was bloody.
And according to someone, the taste of this water is the taste of the spiritual spring water.
"This spiritual spring water is addictive. Some people who have drunk it are willing to spend all their money just to have another sip."
"No matter how much you resist, you can't help it when you smell it."
"That person was like this today. He knew clearly that it was bloody water and there were all kinds of weird things in it, but he couldn't help but drink the spring water in one gulp."
"I even wanted to throw myself into the well and drink my fill."
"This has seriously affected the safety of Lu Pancheng."
"I hope you can go to the Evil Suppression Department next and solve this matter with them."
"As for the reward, how about a ship?" asked Prefect Liang with a smile.
"The prefect is really well-informed." Lu Bai looked at Prefect Liang and said with a smile.
"I just happen to know some things that ordinary people don't know." Prefect Liang also smiled modestly.
Lu Bai didn't really think that the other party was being modest. He had just brought Li Du over, and the other party knew that he was going to use the boat.
This kind of intelligence capability is probably something fishy.
In fact, the conditions proposed by Governor Liang were not that harsh.
It seems that he got a ship by helping to fight against the evil, but in fact, it also depends on the favor of letting Lu Bai enter the archives directly.
If I'm not mistaken, this is also a test.
A test of whether it is lawful .
"The prefect thinks too highly of me." Lu Bai thought, not quite sure why.
"Or did I reveal something?"
If Lu Pan of Lu Pan City is really the person he thought he was, then there must be many things he left behind in this city named after him.
It is normal that I was exposed because of this.
Lu Bai was not in a hurry to confront Governor Liang.
This Magistrate Liang is an old fox . We will probably have to deal with him often in the future. There is no need to rush into some things.
With all kinds of speculations, Lu Bai followed the yamen runners to the Evil Elimination Division.
The Evil-Eradication Division is not far from the government office.
When Lu Bai arrived, people had already gathered.
They were all dressed in black, most of them even wore masks, and were equipped with various weapons.
Lu Bai could sense a strong aura of internal strength from them. Apart from anything else, each of them was at least a martial arts master.
He did not look down on Lu Bai, the queue-jumping man, but he did not care much about him either.
The people in the Evil Suppression Department are all those who have practiced the art of summoning demons.
After the original miraculous martial arts, the next step is to find a way to break through the innate level.
However, now with the addition of the method of summoning demons, martial arts has gone astray.
The name of Xiantian has not been heard for a long time, and it has become the great devil.
If Lu Bai wants to break through to his innate state, according to the contents of the "True Scripture of Withering and Flourishing", he will have to undergo multiple transformations of life and death after the catastrophe of death.
Through the miracle of transformation of life and death, some things inside the warrior are changed.
Thus, the old body turns into dead wood, and a new body emerges from it. This is considered to have reached the innate state.
Although Lu Bai collected some withering energy, he was still some distance away from reaching the point of death, not to mention the multiple transformations of life and death that would follow.
The five paths of spiritual origin are magical, and the inner cultivation of the gods can reverse the innate.
To cultivate inner self through spiritual cultivation is the way to reach the innate state.
Most people would understand this "inside" as the cultivation of internal organs and marrow.
In fact, most people who have reached this level of martial arts do need to cultivate their internal organs. This is only a means, not the essence.
Hu Niu and Lu Bai had talked about the relevant knowledge, but they didn't go into detail. They just said that once you reach that level, you will naturally understand it.
But in the Demonic Land, this step has changed, and the power of evil spirits is absorbed through the two ways of "sensing objects" and "strange arts".
After successfully subduing the evil spirit, he suddenly possessed strange powers.
And once the evil spirit is completely swallowed, it can become a "big demon", which is at the same level as the innate in the past, but the degree of weirdness is completely beyond that.
Although Lu Bai was in urgent need of the power to fight against evil spirits, he had some doubts about it.
The path of martial arts has a follow-up path. After the innate level, there are other paths.
But the path of the Great Demon has no future.
At least for now, the future of this path is probably only related to demons, and the future has been strictly limited.
And perhaps this is what the old curator wants to do?
