Chapter 279 Qingqiu Tushan Clan
"Oh... it's exposed! Why is it exposed? I think our disguise is very successful? It's similar to you, and we can't even disguise. For the sake of being realistic, we also used illusions. How did you see through it?"
Seeing Li Fei surrounding them with a knife, he was not worried at all, so he admitted it generously and asked him heartily where the flaw was. Boss Hu knew that the other party was not an ordinary person, and they might not be able to threaten the other party at all. If they use force, they will be in danger, especially the word "illusion", which made Boss Hu even more convinced of this. The other party may be a legendary person with magical powers or monsters.
Boss Hu once again determined to judge by intuition that the other party had no malice, which made Boss Hu more inclined to the possibility that the other party might be human.
However, the other party's deceptive behavior made Boss Hu very alert and thought about how to deal with this matter. It would definitely not work if he continued to be stalemate.
The questions raised by the other party are a good breakthrough point. It is best not to do anything if you can do it. If you can solve them in words, it is best to solve them in words.
Boss Hu laughed, eased the tension, and replied: "I believe you must have a reason for doing this, not to be fun, or to have malicious intentions towards us. Your disguise is actually very perfect. The reason why you can see through your disguise is just because you have ignored a detail, a very small detail, teeth."
"Teat?" Li Fei repeated two words, carefully looked at the teeth of Boss Hu and his group, and nodded in a sudden realization and said, "So that's it."
Seeing that some of the members of the caravan had not reacted yet, Hu continued to comment: "Your teeth are too white and neat, and it is impossible for us who come to do business to have teeth. You are born in a noble family and have a very extraordinary background."
"So that's it, I've been taught. Sure enough, what the master said is right, details determine success or failure. It's just a negligence of details, and it's just a waste of my own wisdom." Li Fei swept around and held a hatchet, pointing the blade at them, surrounding the two brothers and sisters, and laughed:
"Boss Hu said it right. My junior brother and I have no malice towards you. My junior brother and I came here to experience it under the order of our master. We found that the demonic energy is soaring into the sky, so we wanted to go into the mountain to eliminate demons, but we found that this place was actually a must-pass road for businessmen, which felt very strange. So we decided to disguise ourselves as we join you and check the reason."
As she spoke, Li Fei removed the illusion on her body and used dust removal techniques to remove the disguise on her body, revealing her original appearance.
Boss Hu, seeing Li Fei wearing a Taoist robe, had a long Taoist rhyme, and immediately let go of most of his guard. He understood that his guess was completely correct. The other party was indeed not a sneaky or monster, but an immortal master with legendary immortal skills, just like the immortal masters they met in the mountains before who helped them drive away birds and beasts.
but……
"The evil spirit is soaring into the sky? How is this possible? I have been running this trade route for more than ten years, and before me, the people who run this trade route have never been cut off. Why has this trade route been a hundred years old? Even if it is now full of sneaky and monsters, we who are walking this mountain road have never heard of it. There are monsters that cannibalize!" Boss Hu said in confusion.
After Li Fei confirmed that this is Qingqiu, he already understood why the demonic energy here soared into the sky. The aristocratic family began to raise monsters thousands of years ago and slowly tamed them into spiritual beasts that are close to the human race. The word "Spiritual Beast" created by the master and dedicated to promoting it among monsters was originally taken from here. Therefore, in essence, there is no essential difference between spiritual beasts and monsters. In the eyes of the Qi-Looking Technique, this spirit beast also emits monster energy.
"According to your description and the information we know, we already understand what's going on. There are not people-eating monsters in this mountain range. You can pass with confidence." Just after Li Fei finished speaking, Zhang Jun suddenly looked at the top of the mountain not far away and reminded Li Fei: "Senior sister, here you are."
Li Fei followed Zhang Jun's gaze and saw a middle-aged Taoist standing on the top of the mountain. Although Zhang Jun had no idea about Boss Hu at the scene, he relied on the tacit understanding between Li Fei and Zhang Jun, and there was something he had to say too clearly. Li Fei also knew what Zhang Jun was trying to express.
The middle-aged Taoist was definitely not a human, but a spirit fox! The image of this middle-aged Taoist was just an illusion perceived by the naked eye. After Li Fei made a judgment, he opened the Yin-Yang Eye and looked at the other person again. Sure enough, there was a blue fox standing there, one meter long and three tails.
Li Fei and Zhang Jun are his focus. Any of their small actions will attract Boss Hu's attention. After discovering that Zhang Jun reminded him, the two looked in a certain direction together. Boss Hu also turned slightly and looked along the sights of Zhang Jun and Li Fei.
"So it's Taoist Master Xuanhu!" Taoist Master Xuanhu was naturally so familiar that he couldn't be familiar with him anymore. He had long been no longer wary of Taoist Master Xuanhu.
After Boss Hu discovered that he was a familiar Taoist Master Xuanhu, he thought that both sides were Taoist Masters, and perhaps they knew him. Even if they didn’t, they should have a way to identify their identities. Moreover, Taoist Master Xuanhu has great magical powers and has the ability to control beasts. With him, he is safer. So he turned around and shouted loudly at Xuanhu: "Master Xuanhu, I am Lao Hu who often comes here to go to business! Do you know me?"
Taoist Master Xuanhu nodded and said, "Mr. Hu, are you..."
Seeing that Taoist Master Xuanhu replied to his words as usual, Boss Hu quickly saluted and asked, "We met two little Taoist priests who knew illusion and mixed into our caravan, saying that the evil spirits are soaring here and we need to investigate. After we discovered it, we are confronting each other. We are not sure about their identities. You are also Taoist priests. Why don't you come and confirm it?"
Taoist Master Xuanhu pondered for a moment, nodded and said, "Okay." After saying that, he saw the other party jumping gently, just ten feet away, and a few jumps reached the encirclement of Boss Hu and others, standing between Boss Hu and Li Fei.
Li Fei and Zhang Jun opened their yin and yang eyes, but the scene they saw was completely different from Boss Hu. They saw a three-tailed blue fox that was ten feet long, jumping a few times and jumping in front of two, less than ten feet away from them.
Li Fei raised her head slightly, looked at the blue fox that looked down at her, and asked with a smile: "Master Xuanhu? The word Hu is really useful."
The blue fox sniffed Zhang Jun and Li Fei twice, nodded and said, "I have experienced it. They are indeed people from the Taoist sect. Boss Hu, you can go first. I have cleared the mountain road behind, and there is no danger."
After seeing Taoist Master Xuanhu coming, Boss Hu just glanced at the two little Taoist masters on the opposite side. Without seeing any action, he determined the other party's identity. He felt that these Taoist masters were indeed immortal masters in the storybook, and they were all nagging, which made people confused.
However, Boss Hu trusted Taoist Master Xuanhu very much. After hearing the other party confirmed the identities of the two little Taoists, he first thanked Taoist Master Xuanhu: "Thank you, Taoist Master Xuanhu, please drink when I come back."
Then he apologized to Li Fei and Zhang Jun and said, "We have been overreacting. I am very sorry. Be cautious when I go out. If you are destined to see you again, you will definitely drink and apologize to the two Taoist priests and say goodbye."
After hearing Boss Hu's words, Li Fei replied with a bow, and said with some helplessness and disappointment: "There will be a date later."
Li Fei looked at Mr. Hu and the backs of others, muttered softly in disappointment: "Don't he say in the storybook: 'When the business trip, the rules are big, the time is tight, and there are many inappropriate things. Please forgive me, and there will be a period later'? Although the meaning of the two sentences is exactly the same, it always feels that there is a little less charm when speaking in plain language. Alas, indeed, reality is reality. Where do people who come out to go to business go through formal education? How can they be literary when speaking?"
"I didn't expect that you, a little Taoist, also like to read the storybooks? You have the same hobbies as me."
The other party's words made Li Fei retract his gaze and look in front of him. Looking at the three-tailed blue fox and smiled and said these words. Li Fei blinked and adapted for a while before politely saying: "The cultivation lineage, the boy under the seat of Master Dianhua, Li Fei has seen you."
Zhang Jun also bowed to Li Fei. The three-tailed blue fox was stunned for a moment, and a look of surprise appeared on his face: "Master Dianhua, the cultivation lineage of Taoism? Could it be that the demon king who killed the demon with one sword on Lianpeng Island, and the supreme warrior who retreated with one word, was the master of sword immortal who was famous in Anzhou?"
Li Fei smiled proudly in her eyes and said, "It's the family master. I didn't expect that I could hear the name of the family master in your mouth. It's really surprising."
The three-tailed blue fox couldn't help but look at Li Fei and Zhang Jun up and down, nodded and said, "It's true that he is a good disciple under the throne of the Sword Immortal, he is indeed graceful! He has seen two fairy boys in Xiatu Shanluo."
Li Fei waved his hand repeatedly, "We are not fairy children, just call our names directly." Speaking of the name, Li Fei asked curiously again: "You have a name too? Is the surname Tushan?"
Tu Shanluo replied with a smile: "The natural magic of our Linghu clan is illusion, and spiritual wisdom is second only to the human race that is born with spiritual wisdom. Through illusion, we can also transform into human forms and communicate with people. In order to facilitate communication, we naturally have to choose a name. Our Linghu clan and Tushan clan have known each other for more than 5,000 years and have been integrated into one. You have me and I have you in me. We will take the name, and we will naturally follow the Tushan clan people. Haha..."
Tu Shanluo looked really good-tempered and talkative. Li Fei had already wanted to ask some questions, so he took the opportunity to ask: "I just heard from Boss Hu that you began to transform into Taoist priests and drive away birds and animals for them more than a hundred years ago and protect them for business operations. Why?"
Tu Shanluo stood up and looked at the rolling mountains and said, "Tushan County... Oh, now it has been renamed Tushui County. Tushui County has only a turbulent Tushui River connected to the outside, and Tushui River cannot connect to each hill. There are many places that still have to rely on the merchants. Therefore, the merchants here are a very ancient and never cut off, and the merchants are also a very dangerous profession. We lived in Tushui County for the past, and they were all wearing water. Naturally, they couldn't bear to see them so easily.
He lost his life, so from a very early stage, people from tribesmen took turns to drive out birds and beasts to the merchants, at least to ensure their safety in this regard. Especially after the drastic changes in the world, the transportation of the Tushui River gradually broke down, and we rely more on these merchants. Fortunately, our previous behavior made many people engaged in merchants in the nearby counties, and there was a huge temptation of interests. More people joined the ranks of merchants, which made our Tushang County barely pass despite the lack of supplies."
Li Fei sighed: "If you do good deeds and accumulate virtue, you will have the blessings of the future, and this is the blessings of the future!"
Tu Shanluo nodded with a smile, agreeing with Li Fei's point of view.
Li Fei then asked, "Why are you pretending to be a Taoist priest when you do these things?"
Tushanluo smiled freely and said: "Our Qingqiu Tushan clan is different from other aristocratic families. We are very close to the royal family, so we are naturally very close to the Taoist sect. Especially in the past century, we have had contact with each other with the Taoist sect, especially the beast control lineage. They have helped us a lot and we get along very well.
"It was a joke at first. You also know that we are spiritual beasts and have magical techniques. We don't care about these false names. Naturally, how convenient it comes. Once when we drove away birds and beasts for the Shangshang, we transformed into a middle-aged Taoist priest. We found that people generally believed in Taoist priests, especially when encountering natural disasters or magical and incredible things, and they had a high degree of acceptance, which could save us a lot of time and energy for explanations. Later, slowly, we had the custom of pretending to be Taoist priests to drive away ferocious beasts."
I see.
Li Fei asked again: "We found that there are many demonic auras on the surrounding mountains, or thick and thin. Are they all your Spirit Fox clan?"
Tu Shanluo smiled and nodded and shook his head, "Since the sudden change of heaven and earth, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth outside has become rich, and our forbidden area has been lifted. The clans below the great monster can leave the forbidden area and reproduce outside. Therefore, there are indeed many my clan members in this continuous mountain range. However, there are also some monsters of other races born due to the sudden change of heaven and earth. However, these monsters are all under the control of our Qingqiu Tushan clan. It is impossible for them to eat people if they are evil."
Speaking of this, Tu Shanluo asked curiously: "Why are you here? Are you going to kill monsters?"
Li Fei thought about it and felt that this experience did not need to be kept secret, so he answered truthfully: "This is the experience of my master and my junior brother. As for whether to kill monsters or something, the master did not say. However, our lineage treats all living beings in heaven and earth equally. As long as there are no monsters that eat people, we will not shout and kill. Especially for the spirit beast lineage, our cultivation lineage will not be regarded as enemies."
Thinking that the "Spiritual Beast Art" had been learned by Huang Ren and he took over the tasks of many monsters who did not eat people for evil, he thought that the Master had the same meaning as "Spiritual Beast Art" and wanted to spread throughout the world, so he said casually: "Even the Master has created the "Spiritual Beast Art" using your spirit beasts as a template, spreading it among monsters that did not eat people for evil. I hope that all the monsters in the world will be transformed into spirit beasts, and like you, they will be integrated with the human race without distinguishing each other."
After hearing this, Tu Shanluo respected the Sword Immortal who was well-known and said, "What a master of Taoism!"
Chapter completed!