The prisoner convoy was already very close to the Golden Light Temple, fortunately it was now autumn, and the bodies of the dead soldiers would not smell bad within two days.
At this moment, the officers and soldiers were stopping to let the horses rest for a while.
They were also eating the dry food they had brought with them.
Hu Yuyu was resting and recuperating. In the past two days, she had eaten and slept, woken up and eaten again. This fox spirit had regained quite a bit of energy.
"Brother Yin, you can rest assured that nothing will happen to me."
Jiang Liu'er was encouraging Yin Zhao to act.
Yin Zhao was hesitating: "Brother Jiang Liu, swords don't have eyes."
Jiang Liu'er said, "Believe me!"
Yin Zhao gritted his teeth and said, "Then... shall I give you a light sword strike first?"
Yin Zhao held his longsword and thrust it towards Jiang Liu'er. The force of this strike was not great, at most, it could only break the skin.
However...
"Ding -"
He was shocked to find that the sharp sword tip could not pierce through Jiang Liu'er's skin.
Yin Zhao was astounded and his eyes widened. "What's going on?"
Yin Zhao could not help but increase his strength a bit. The sword tip had already caused Jiang Liu'er's skin to recede slightly. However, it still could not break through the skin, and no blood had been drawn yet.
Yin Zhao was dumbfounded.
He couldn't help but want to exert all his strength, but Jiang Liu'er quickly dodged out of the way.
Jiang Liu'er said, "This is my current limit. If you, Brother Yin, continue to exert more effort, I may really get hurt."
Yin Zhao licked his lips enviously and said, "Brother Jiang Liu, your skills are like those of a god. If you join the army, you could move freely among the enemy troops, slay enemy generals with ease, as if reaching into a bag to take out an item."
Jiang Liu'er was so praised that he felt almost embarrassed.
He had no intention of becoming a general. Instead, he had two career aspirations: becoming a monk or becoming an official!
The former, the Fa Ming abbot would certainly be very happy.
The latter, he would be able to protect Abbot Fa Ming!
[Jiang Liu'er]: "@Muscle Tang San Zhuang, senior Tang San Zhuang, the 'Vajra Fury Body Refining Method' is indeed difficult to practice. I have been practicing for half a day and have only barely entered the threshold, and it's unclear how long it will take to achieve small success."
[Jiang Liu'er]: "Sigh... Perhaps it's because my natural talent is dull."
[Jin Ru Tang San Zhuang]: "..."
Tang San Zhuang had never even dreamed that he would experience a feeling of "defeat" in his entire life.
The "Vajra Fury Body Refining Method" was created by him at the age of twenty-one, exhausting half of his life's learning, expending countless efforts and blood. He believed that Jiang Liu'er would need at least a year to enter the door.
The result...
And just half a day later, Jiang Liu'er had already entered the threshold!
[Jin Ru Tang San Zhuang]: "Once you have cultivated all three methods to perfection, I will teach you a deeper level and more advanced cultivation method."
[Jiang Liu'er]: "Alright!"
...
In the evening.
Under the escort of the prisoner convoy, Jiang Liu'er finally returned to the Golden Light Temple. Looking up at the temple perched halfway up the mountain, Jiang Liu'er felt hesitated. He didn't know whether Abbot Fa Ming would scold him.
He also didn't know if the Hui Shang monk had been killed by himself.
Phew...
Jiang Liu'er took a deep breath and said to himself, regardless of the situation, he had to go back and take a look. Even if Abbot Fa Ming scolded him or even expelled him, he had to report to Abbot Fa Ming first before leaving.
"Brother Yin, I'm going back first. Thank you for accompanying me all the way!"
Holding the red fox in his arms and the bones of the zombie spirit in his waistband, Jiang Liu'er said to Yin Zhao, "If I have the opportunity to go to Chang'an in the future, I hope you won't forget me!"
Yin Zhao laughed loudly and said, "I would never dare to forget you. Since we part today, who knows when we will meet again. This sword is given to you, Jiang Liu'er!"
He handed the sword at his waist to Jiang Liu'er.
Jiang Liu'er was taken aback. He was very envious, but he knew he couldn't accept it: "Brother Yin, the scabbard is inlaid with pearls, jade, and gold, and must be very valuable. I had already offended you by borrowing your sword before, and now you..."
"There's no need for more words!" Yin Zhao forcefully pushed the sword into Jiang Liu'er's hand: "The sword is just an accessory for us soldiers in the battlefield. On the battlefield, we use spears or swords."
He continued, "This sword given to you is much more useful."
Unable to refuse, Jiang Liu'er had to accept it.
This sword must have been made by a skilled craftsman, and the more he touched it, the more he liked it.
"Thank you, Brother Yin, for giving me the sword!" Jiang Liu'er smiled.
"Ha ha!" Yin Zhao said, "We will meet again on the mountains and rivers, Brother Jiang Liu. Until we meet again! Men, let's go to Chang'an!"
"Alright!"
Jiang Liu'er walked forward an additional one li to bid farewell to the soldiers. Afterward, he returned to the Golden Light Temple halfway up the mountain with his belt holding the bone rod, his left hand holding the sword, and his right hand cradling the fox. He was in a complicated mood.
It's only been two or three days since I left the Golden Light Temple.
He felt as if it had been two or three years.
At this moment, the sun had set, and the young novice at the Golden Light Temple, who was in charge of guarding the temple, was thinking to himself: 'Who would go up the mountain at such a late hour to pray incense and worship Buddha, and why did he walk through the back gate? It's quite strange.'
Out loud, he called out, "Please be careful of the winding mountain path, guest. After entering, walk straight ahead to reach the main hall of the Golden Light Temple."
However...
As the person approached, the young novice got a good look at their appearance and was immediately shocked: "Jiang Liu'er? How did you come back?"
This young novice was the one Jiang Liu'er encountered when he fled to the back mountain.
Jiang Liu'er saw a familiar face and smiled, "I got lost outside, but thankfully I met good people who brought me here."
"Kind master, there is a smell of demons in this temple." Hu Yuyu, who had been holding her in his arms, woke up at some point. She whispered, "There is a snake smell. It's like the smell of the snake demon who wields the Fang Tian Painted Javelin in Langjian Cave."
Jiang Liu'er was startled.
The snake demon in Langjian Cave?
Jiang Liu'er asked the young novice immediately, "In the two days I've been gone, has anything happened in the temple? Has a demon come?"
"How do you know a demon has come...?" The young novice instinctively said, but he quickly realized and urgently said, "Actually, a demon did come last night. He took Abbot Fa Ming away!"
The young novice spilled out all the recent events.
Not only did he inform Jiang Liu'er about the demon abducting Abbot Fa Ming, but also about the old abbot reporting to the authorities to capture Jiang Liu'er, and that Hui Shan monk was lying unconscious in a doctor's clinic... all these things were told to Jiang Liu'er.
"Jiang Liu'er, I feel that you have been wronged by that demon!"
The young novice was indignant: "How could you have the ability to abduct the wife of a demon? That demon not only wronged you but also kidnapped Abbot Fa Ming. We don't know what's happened to Abbot Fa Ming. That demon is really bad!"
Jiang Liu'er listened to this and felt his head was blank.
He didn't pay attention to the details. What he did was just listen to it and let it pass through his left ear and out the right ear.
But the one thing that stood out was the abduction of Abbot Fa Ming.
The news was so shocking that it was almost deafening to him.
"Jiang Liu'er, the authorities want to catch you, the monks in the temple want to catch you, and the demons want to catch you as well. You'd better leave quickly!"
As the young novice was saying this, he saw Jiang Liu'er turn and walk away, but in the wrong direction, so he reminded and shouted, "You're going the wrong way! That's east. The demon is over there!"
Jiang Liu'er tightened the scabbard of his sword, and his fingertips could visibly see a slight paleness.
He replied without turning his head, "The demon didn't wrong me. I did indeed cause a commotion at the wedding banquet and took away the newlywed wife of the wolf king. And I haven't gone the wrong way either. I'm heading straight for the demon!"
The young novice was frightened and stood there, wide-eyed and speechless.
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