In order to eat, I signed a contract with the system

Chapter 674: Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio - Fairy 46

In this chaotic world, ordinary people may be killed by monsters at any time without knowing it. How could people like them, who are tasked with eliminating monsters and defending the Way of righteousness, have the heart to worry about love between men and women?

Money makes the world go round. With the gold and silver accumulated by Ruyi in the previous few worlds, it only took one day for the two of them to transform themselves into the country squire Mr. Song and his wife, with several maids and old women serving them. They also had a beautiful large courtyard in the capital, at the foot of the Huangjue Temple where the Imperial Master's Mansion was located.

Every day, the two of them are just like an ordinary couple. The husband goes out to socialize with people, while the wife stays at home all day to take care of the household chores and seldom goes out. Only when the husband is free, will she go out to burn incense accompanied by him.

As a royal temple, Huangjue Temple had the Imperial Master in charge, so naturally it was very popular and there was an endless stream of pilgrims coming to burn incense. Ruyi and Zhiqiu Yiye took the opportunity to burn incense and worship Buddha to go in and out of Huangjue Temple many times, passing by the Imperial Master's Mansion halfway up the mountain.

When they came to Huangjue Temple to burn incense before, Ruyi and Zhiqiu Yiye had seen the National Master face to face from a distance. Although they did not sense any demonic aura from the National Master, the evil aura from him still made them confirm his identity again. Besides, the overwhelming sense of oppression when facing the National Master made them frown on the spot.

He didn't expect that the National Master's cultivation was far more advanced than he had imagined. He originally thought that the National Master had cultivated for no more than five thousand years. After seeing it with his own eyes, he found that the other party had cultivated for at least eight thousand years.

"It's a good thing that you didn't go to the Imperial Master's Mansion to investigate alone." Zhiqiu Yiye was very grateful, "The Imperial Master's aura alone is not something I can deal with now."

After learning about the National Master's strength, the two became more cautious in their actions. In order not to be discovered by the National Master, they were always careful to maintain their new identities and try not to reveal any flaws. The previously decided plan to kill the monster was also temporarily shelved.

After waiting for half a month, the day finally came when the imperial teacher was ordered to go to the palace to preach Buddhism to the emperor and left Huangjue Temple.

"Zhi Qiu Yi Ye, the Imperial Master has left Huang Jue Temple. According to the young monks in Huang Jue Temple, the Imperial Master left this time to enter the palace to preach Buddhism to the emperor. He will not be back for at least three days."

"So we're going to act tonight?"

"Yes, but we must first deal with the evil monks left in the Imperial Master's Mansion and Huangjue Temple, so that they won't spread the news. After we deal with the remaining monsters, we will go down the mountain to deal with the monster ministers."

Without waiting until late at night, Ruyi and Zhiqiu Yiye first pretended to be pilgrims going up the mountain to burn incense, then changed their route and went around to the Imperial Master's Mansion halfway up the mountain. The Imperial Master's Mansion was built halfway up the mountain, and it was the only mansion. The other neighboring mansions were far away and surrounded by trees, so there was no need to worry about being seen by others.

When Ruyi and Zhiqiu Yiye entered the Imperial Master's Mansion, there were still many servants, guards, maids and even little monks left in the mansion. When they started to act, Zhiqiu Yiye was still worried and did not dare to use heavy hands for fear of hurting innocent people. Later, with Ruyi's reminder, he realized that everyone in the Imperial Master's Mansion was fake, and they were all monsters hiding under their human skins.

"Why are there so many?"

Zhiqiu Yiye was more and more surprised as he fought. He thought that after the Imperial Master took away some monsters, there would only be a few dozen people in the Imperial Master's Mansion. However, he did not expect that he had killed hundreds of monsters, and many monsters were pouring out of the Imperial Master's Mansion. Gradually, Zhiqiu Yiye's physical strength began to decline, and a lot of sweat appeared on his forehead. He turned around and asked Ruyi, "Senior, how long will it take you?"

“It’s almost done. Count to three more nines and I’ll retreat!” After these seven years, Ruyi had already mastered the magic book in Dream of Red Mansions by heart. Ever since the battle with Zhigong, Ruyi felt that he lacked means of attack. Not only did he learn basic swordsmanship from Zhiqiu Yiye, he also learned Taoist formations and talismans from Zhiqiu Yiye.

In order to prevent any monsters from escaping from the Imperial Master's Mansion and informing the Imperial Master, Ruyi and Zhiqiu Yiye split into two groups as soon as they came in. Zhiqiu Yiye was responsible for attracting attention and restraining the monsters in the Imperial Master's Mansion, while Ruyi began to set up a formation around the entire Imperial Master's Mansion.

"Start the Heaven-Sealing and Earth-Locking Formation!" After seeing Zhiqiu Yiye retreating, Ruyi immediately activated the formation. As Ruyi's words fell, the entire Imperial Master's Mansion suddenly flashed with a halo. The monster that was chasing Zhiqiu Yiye flew up and slammed into a transparent barrier.

"Eight Gates Thunder Formation, rise!" Seeing that all the monsters in the Imperial Master's Mansion were trapped in the formation, Ruyi bit his tongue and spat out a mouthful of blood. He put his hands together, attracted the lightning, and with a word of "Fall!" runes suddenly began to light up on the transparent barrier above the entire Imperial Master's Mansion.

A special force enveloped the entire Imperial Master's Mansion. After a loud "boom", amid the anxiety of hundreds of monsters in the Imperial Master's Mansion, bolts of lightning suddenly struck down and landed in the Imperial Master's Mansion.

Amid the violent roar, countless monsters were struck to death by the thunder, one after another, endlessly, and the ones behind were struck down in large groups. The monsters' tragic screams were blocked by the Sealing Heaven and Locking Earth Array and could not be heard out at all. Zhiqiu Yiye could only know the monsters' situation from their painful expressions and their constant rolling and begging for mercy.

The entire Eight Gates Thunder Formation struck for a long time, so long that the flashing lightning almost blinded Zhiqiu Yiye's eyes, and then it stopped. Ruyi's face was a little pale. Although he had the assistance of the formation and did not consume much of his cultivation, the blood on the tip of his tongue that triggered the formation still consumed 30% of Ruyi's energy.

Fortunately, it was all worth it. After the thunder stopped, Ruyi entered the Imperial Master's Mansion. At this time, the Imperial Master's Mansion had already been turned into ruins by the thunder. There was no one alive in the entire mansion. There were charred human skins and centipedes that were chopped into pieces everywhere. Some of the small monsters with low cultivation did not even leave their original forms, leaving only black ashes on the ground. If there had not been a golden ball of light there, it would be impossible to leave any of them.

Looking at the harvest all over the ground, Ruyi nodded happily. It turned out that he had to do something big. The merits dropped from seven years of killing monsters were not as much as what he dropped this time.

"After absorbing all these merits, I don't know if I can enter the twelfth level of immortality?" The more merits one absorbs, the more merits one needs to advance. Ruyi doesn't know how long it will take for him to be able to upgrade, but with the merits he has gained today, it should not be far away.

“Fortunately, we set up the Heaven-Sealing and Earth-Locking Formation before setting up the Eight-Gate Thunder Formation. Otherwise, such a large formation would have been discovered by the monsters in Huangjue Temple long ago.”

"Zhiqiu Yiye, let's hurry to Huangjue Temple. If we delay any longer, it will be bad if we are discovered."