Only after a long time did Xu Mu learn from the man's mouth that the other party's name was Zhang Hu, five years ago he was a villager in a nearby mountain village, and even his group of minions, most of them were villagers as well.
Five years ago, the mountain village suddenly began to experience some strange things, at first it was a person's home, raised chickens and ducks suddenly disappeared.
Originally, the villagers were simple and there were usually no thieves, so they suspected that wild wolves and other beasts were sneaking into the village to steal food.
So one day, after drinking a few cups of wine, the village of more than ten strong men decided to gather the family's chickens and ducks together that night, just to see if the damned beast dared to come.
If he dares to come, they will kill him on the spot, and Zhang Hu naturally joined in.
That night, Zhang Hu and more than ten villagers guarded until the middle of the night, eyelids a little sour, before hearing a burst of strange sounds.
Immediately, a huge body suddenly appeared in front of the crowd, they never thought that the guy who stole the chickens and ducks was actually a tiger!
But even if it is a tiger, the villagers are not afraid, living here means fighting with heaven and earth, the villagers are tough.
Immediately the villagers rushed up, Zhang Hu also followed, I did not expect this big tiger to see himself surrounded, actually a big mouth, sprayed a big fireball!The villagers immediately looked stunned, in the face of a fire-breathing tiger, the villagers simply do not have the ability to resist, instantly three or five people died.
In the end, had Zhang Hu not quickly escaped, it is estimated that he would have been eaten by his own 'relatives'.
After eating the people, the tiger seems to have immediately exploded in ferocity, before only daring to come out at night to eat chickens and ducks, and then directly during the day began to appear to eat the prey from the chickens and ducks into the villagers.
The villagers who managed to escape all fled, and those who didn't became horse thieves, gathering all day long to either rob others or prepare to face the tiger.
Xu Mu couldn't help but frown at his words, "You're willing to become horse thieves just because of a tiger? Wouldn't you run away?"
"Immortal Master, you don't know, I still have a ninety year old mother at home, my brothers have fled, my mother is left for me to take care of, if I leave, won't my mother go into the tiger's belly?" Zhang Hu said, crying directly.
Xu Mu wanted to say, why don't you carry your mother to escape, but on second thought, if you escape with your mother, if you meet the Tiger Demon halfway, then you're really screwed.Many of the surrounding horse thieves saw that Xu Mu was quite good at talking, and their courage grew as well, saying, "Yes, Immortal Master, if we could have escaped, we definitely would have done so a long time ago!
Obviously, this group of people all had reasons why they had to stay in the mountains.
For some, it was because their elders at home had mobility problems; for others, it was because their parents were too attached to their homeland and refused to leave.
Others were because the children of some of the elderly had run away and they couldn't see past it, so they decided to stay and look after this group of elderly people.
Speaking of which, these guys were still a group of fairly righteous horse thieves on the inside.
Xu Mu couldn't help but sigh for a while when he heard this, and then curiously asked, "I heard you describe the tigers turning into demonic beasts, but no one reported it, and no clan cultivator here to deal with it?
"This well ...," Zhang Hu sniffed, immediately stuttering, seemed to want to say something, but was afraid of Xu Mu s identity.
Xu Mu smiled and said, "There's no harm in you saying it!"
Only then did Zhang Hu gather the courage to say, "Master Immortal, it's not that we didn't report it, the day after we found the Tiger Demon, we had someone report it, but no one cared!
In fact, to put it bluntly, this mountain range was originally in the area of two, regardless, the people in the village reported this matter to the Yizhou government, the Yizhou government thought that it should be managed by the Mirror State, so they kicked this matter to the Mirror State.Mirror State Government also feel that should not be in charge of their own, they also do not have the ability to manage, and kicked the matter to the Yizhou.
Originally, this kind of low-level demonic beasts immortal door is not necessarily going to help, after all, mortals also have the ability to solve.
But if you're in the plains, that's fine, in this mountain range, the Tiger Demon is like a fish out of water, occupying the right place and the right time, the government sent troops almost can't be good.
Although Zhang Hu did not say these words, but Xu Mu also heard a lot from his voice, although he has not experienced the human world, but before referring to the canonical books, there were similar examples.
Thinking about it, Xu Mu frowned, "What do you mean, could it be that you want me to help you get rid of this fang?"
"Not bad, if Immortal Master can help us get rid of this demon, we are willing to set up a longevity tablet for Immortal Master and offer it for generations with constant incense!" Zhang Hu said, kowtowing to Xu Mu again.
Seeing this, the crowd beside him hurriedly knelt down to kowtow to Xu Mu as well.Seeing this, Xu Mu just felt a wave of helplessness, and the spiritual energy in his body surged out, lifting the group of kneeling people one by one.
The crowd saw that Xu Mu actually had such a magical ability, and they were all overjoyed, thinking that their mountain village had finally been saved!
Xu Mu looked at the crowd's hopeful gaze and couldn't help but sigh helplessly, "You guys tell us first, what exactly are the magical powers of this Tiger Demon?
Xu Mu didn't want to be in charge of this matter, but when he saw how pitiful this group of mountain people were, he couldn't help but feel sorry for them.
In a short time, the mountain people had said all about the Tiger Demon's abilities, only that it could spit fireballs and had great strength.
As for flying, the mountain people had never seen a Tiger Demon fly.
Hearing this, Xu Mu couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief; if the tiger demon could fly, then it must be a second-tier demonic beast, comparable to a human Foundation Establishment Stage cultivator, and he definitely wouldn't care about this matter anymore.
From the villagers' description of the situation, the Tiger Demon was only a first-tier demonic beast, and could only spit fireballs four or five times at a time before becoming exhausted, so it was probably not a powerful first-tier demonic beast.
Originally, Xu Mu was also curious about how this mountain suddenly more demonic beast, will not be a sect run out, now look, most likely a tiger in the mountain has a strange encounter, which has evolved into a demonic beast.
Thinking about this, Xu Mu couldn't help but look at the rag in his hand and rushed over to Zhang Hu, "Zhang Hu, where did you get this?"Zhang Hu froze at his words, glanced at the rags in Xu Mu's hands, and said confusedly, "I don't remember, it seems like I picked it up in the mountain stream last time, so I was just casually holding it to wipe my sweat, could it be some kind of treasure?"
Xu Mu was struck speechless by his words, he never thought that he would actually be holding a rag used by a great man to wipe his sweat so tightly.
However, this piece of rag contained fluctuations of spiritual power, yes, this made Xu Mu a little curious, could it be that there were still some treasures hidden in this mountain range?
Not long after, Xu Mu was taken by the crowd to the place where they were stationed, and it was clearly an incredibly deep cave.
There were a number of women and old men gathered in the cave, and as soon as they saw that the men had returned, they left.