Chapter 42 Legends and facts are often deviated


    After Qi Wu gave the mountain **** tribute, he hurriedly surrounded everyone.


    Everyone covered in water shuddered by the cold wind.


    "If this continues, you will get sick."


    The old hunter walked to the corner, hugged a handful of firewood, and smiled with his big teeth, "We hunters sometimes shelter from the rain here, so we left firewood here in advance and wait for today''s use."


    Qi Wu was overjoyed: "I would like to thank you for this."


    The old hunter didn''t care: "It''s nothing. Life in the mountains is for you to help me and I help you. When the rain stops tomorrow, we can collect some firewood and put it back."


    Everyone was piled with firewood on the ground with quick hands and feet. Qi Wu took out the fire talisman and lit a wooden branch, and put the wooden branch into the dry firewood, gently blew the fan, and the dry firewood was slowly ignited.


    Looking at the rising flames and feeling the warmth of the flames, someone let out a long sigh.


    "Finally come alive."


    "Brother Qi, do you eat yellow rice cakes or white rice cakes?"


    "One of them?"


    One of them distributed dry food. After everyone got the dry food, they put the dry food to the fire and roasted it.


    After the aroma was baked, A Yue took out a can of pickles and let everyone apply it on the cake, bite it down, and it was full of salty and fragrant.


    "A Yue''s skill in making pickles is really good. If I ask me, A Yue is not as good as opening a pickle shop. Why do you have to follow us to do business?"


    A Yue smiled and said nothing.


    Qi Wu thought of the scene just now and asked, "Old Sun, why did you ask A Yue if someone was pushed down?"


    It was the first time that Qi Wu and others entered the mountain. They wanted to cross the mountains and go to Qinghuai County on the other side to sell goods. They searched for a long time and finally found an old local hunter to lead the way.


    The old hunter looked solemn: "Have you ever heard of a ghost?"


    Qi Wu and others looked serious. They traveled around the world and naturally knew some ghosts and monsters. One of them even shouted: "Are you talking about a ghost who is accomplice for the tiger?"


    The old hunter nodded and whispered, "This mountain is called Songshan. About ten years ago, a hunter went into the mountain to hunt, and then disappeared, leaving only one shoe. At that time, someone said that a tiger demon came from the mountain and ate the hunter."


    "At first people were unwilling to believe it, thinking that they had lived here for generations, how could a tiger demon appear?"


    "But over time, some people say that the hunting dog barked in one direction while hunting, and he looked in the direction, making his body stiff."


    "It was a colorful tiger, four meters long. The tiger leaped and rushed towards the hunting dog. Seeing this, he ran away. Fortunately, the tiger did not catch up!"


    "People also found that someone was missing from time to time, so they reported the situation to Qinghuai County. After the officials learned about this, they asked me to go to Yanjiang County and said that Songshan was close to Yanjiang County. You only sold your prey to Yanjiang County, which should be under their jurisdiction."


    "When I came to Yanjiang County, the officials said that Songshan belongs to Qinghuai County and should be under Qinghuai County."


    "After pulling it a few times, two monks from both sides sent two monks to search for the traces of tiger demons in Songshan. They searched for ten days in a row, but they didn''t even see a tiger hair. The two monks felt that we were fooling them and wasting so much time in vain. We explained that the tiger demon might have intentionally avoided them and dared not come out. The two monks did not listen to our explanation and left."


    "We went to the government again, but the government no longer paid attention to us."


    "We have no choice. Most of us left Songshan and found another way to live. Only a few of us old guys were left. We didn''t know anything but hunting, so we stayed here."


    "Later we discovered that we would encounter those missing travelers while hunting. The travelers were elusive and suddenly disappeared from your eyes, suddenly appeared, pushing you."


    "Sometimes when I take people into the mountains, those travelers pretend to meet us by chance and ask everyone to go along the way. Can I take him with me? How dare I agree and hurriedly take people away?"


    "The older generation said before his death that there is something called a ghost in the world. When the tiger demon kills people, people turn into ghosts, search for prey for tiger demons, trick people into a place, and turn prey into new ghosts."


    "But it''s easy to deal with a ghost. As long as you reject the request of the ghost, the ghost will not do anything to you."


    Qi Wu suddenly realized that he was surprised before. There should be many hunters in such a large mountain forest. Why did he find several hunters after searching for a long time? And these hunters still live together.


    It turned out to be forced by the tiger demon.


    Seeing A Yue hesitating, Qi Wu asked, "A Yue, if you have anything you want to ask, please ask."


    Originally, A Yue felt embarrassed to ask about his own question, but the boss said so, so he didn''t hide it.


    "I only have one question. Is there a female ghost? Do you look good? Can you seduce? Will you absorb male yang energy? Is it possible that I have a taboo love with her, avoid the hunt for tiger demons and wander around in the world?"


    Every time A Yue asked a question, a question mark appeared above everyone''s heads, even the old hunter was no exception.


    Seeing everyone''s reaction, A Yue scratched his head embarrassedly: "I saw that the storytelling novels are written like this, A Chinese ghost story, human and ghost love is not over."


    Qi Wu was silent for a moment and patted A Yue on the shoulder: "Let''s read less."


    Then Qi Wu asked again, "Why don''t you report this matter to the five immortal sects? The five immortal sects defend the right path, and they will definitely not sit idly by."


    "Five Immortal Sects?" The old hunter looked confused and had never heard of this title.


    "It is the five famous sects, including Wendao Sect and Hanging Temple, and the five most powerful sects in the continent."


    "I seem to have heard of this name." The old hunter said uncertainly, not sure where he heard it. Maybe he was in a teahouse at the foot of the mountain, maybe he was a traveler entering the mountain, maybe he heard it when he was young, or maybe he heard it when he was old.


    I can''t remember it clearly.


    In fact, the people know very little about the matter of cultivators, just listen to the scattered excitement.


    Not to mention that the stories passed down by word of mouth are too easily deformed. When they are heard by the people, they are often very different from real stories and cannot be believed.


    For example, Qi Wu once heard that the reason why the Taoist Sect is called the Taoist Sect is that the path of immortality is vast and the meaning of asking the Tao in heaven. Cultivating immortality means cultivating the mind. You need to constantly ask what path you are pursuing, whether it is the right path or the demon path, and don’t lose your original mind.


    Once, Qi Wu met a disciple of the Inscription Sect, and it seemed that he was named Dai Bufan. He asked him why the Dao Sect was called Inscription Sect. He still remembers Dai Bufan''s answer very clearly.


    "You ask this, and this means we have to talk about the innate Taoist master of the founder of the Dao Sect. In order to find a Feng Shui treasure land, the ancestor spent a lot of money to ask the people of the Tiance Sect to locate and calculate, and finally found an immortal land that gathered Feng Shui from all directions. He also said that if the sect wants to prosper, it needs to establish a sect at a specific time and at a specific location."


    "As a result, the ancestor was a person who didn''t recognize the way. He had clearly marked it and was still lost. He had to ask the old farmer on the roadside for directions, and then he found the address of the sect, without wasting time."


    "In order to thank the old farmer, the ancestor named the sect Wendao Sect."


    (This chapter ends)