My Apprenticeship to Uncle Jiu: I Was a Warlord in the Republic of China

Chapter 158: Fake Tree God, Real Rat Demon

When Jiang Li heard that there was an evil spirit, he immediately asked, "So how does Master Qianhe plan to deal with the monster? Will he kill it or capture it alive?"

Uncle Jiu glanced at Jiang Li and said, "Don't worry, I have already made it clear to Junior Brother Qianhe. If there is a chance to capture him alive, don't kill him."

Jiang Li smiled and flattered him, "Master, you are worthy of being a master. You have already thought of this. I really have no foresight at all and asked such a unnecessary question!"

Uncle Jiu was flattered again. Although he felt very happy in his heart, he was not forgiving in his words, "Alright, alright, you just keep asking questions. If you have time, go and practice boxing with your fellow apprentices. Don't waste your practice!"

Upon hearing this, Jiang Li went to the square as Uncle Jiu said, and practiced boxing while chatting with a few fellow disciples. This distraction greatly weakened the effect of their training.

After practicing for the whole afternoon, he went to the practice room after dinner, sat on the cushion and began to practice Xuanjia Gong. When he felt mentally exhausted again, he went back to his room to rest.

Nothing happened all night.

The next morning, after Jiang Li paid homage to his ancestors, he went outside for morning exercises with his fellow disciples. When they were almost done, a soldier went up the mountain.

Seeing Jiang Li practicing boxing, he whispered a few words into Asan's ear, and then Asan waved his hand and let him leave.

When Jiang Li finished his morning exercise, Ah San came over and said, "Master, the intelligence has come from Jiang Youchi. He sent someone to report that the situation in Dalui Town has been fully investigated."

"They used the spirit-detecting talisman you gave them to detect the willow tree and found that there were indeed some fluctuations in spiritual power, but the situation seemed to be different from the fluctuations you described. But they were not sure whether it was a tree spirit or not!"

Jiang Li touched his chin and looked at Ah San in confusion. "Since the spirit-detecting talisman has changed, there must be something strange. I have to go and take a look myself!"

Having said that, he asked Asan to go back to the Jiang family to gather people. An hour later, he returned with twenty Taoist soldiers on horseback. However, this time he did not ride a carriage because Jiang Li carried a storage bag with him.

After packing the things inside, he led his men to Daliu Village.

The journey was a total of 200 miles, passing through two towns and several villages along the way. It took two days to finally arrive at Daliu Town.

The intelligence personnel of the intelligence company were found, and under his leadership, they found a very suitable observation point, just in front of the right side of the big willow tree, at the window of a private room on the second floor of the inn.

While listening to the intelligence officer's report, Jiang Li used his magic power to look at the willow tree, only to see that it was growing next to a pond.

According to Jiang Li's visual estimation, the diameter of the base of this willow tree may be close to one meter, but there is a huge crack at the base.

It is nearly 20 meters tall, and its branches cover an area of ​​100 square meters. "A tree this big must have a lifespan of more than 100 years, which is much longer than other trees of the same type that only live 30 to 50 years."

It is surrounded by fences, with only a small temple built with a few stone slabs that allows people to get closer to the big willow tree.

At this moment, someone had just finished burning incense and tied a red rope to a hanging branch, then put his hands together, apparently making a wish.

There were a few people queuing behind him, and behind them there were a number of old men and women watching, pointing and talking from time to time, obviously watching the fun.

Jiang Li frowned as he saw the situation below, thinking, "Looking at the large number of red ropes tied to this tree, we can tell that this willow tree must have received a lot of incense. Perhaps that is why it can live so long and grow so lushly."

Then he turned around and asked the informant, "When will the people around this willow tree disperse?"

"To answer the county magistrate's question, these townspeople will come out to enjoy the cool under the trees after dinner and will only disperse when it gets dark!"

Jiang Li nodded when he heard his name and told him to go downstairs and rest first. He also ordered three tables of food and had lunch with the Taoist soldiers.

After dinner, I sat by the window and waited for the night to come.

He waited for the whole afternoon and had dinner in the restaurant. The crowd under the willow tree finally dispersed. He then quietly took a few Taoist soldiers and went to carefully examine the big willow tree.

When I came under the willow tree, I looked up and was amazed at this huge willow tree. It didn’t look like anything special from the second floor during the day.

Now looking up at this huge tree crown in the moonlight, I feel how small I am. No wonder the townspeople worship this tree as a god.

Just as he was about to climb over the fence and take a closer look, a creature with glowing eyes emerged from the gap in the willow tree, ran quickly into the small temple built with stone slabs, and began to steal the offerings.

Seeing this, Jiang Li quickly stretched out his hand to signal everyone not to act rashly, then took out a demon-suppressing talisman, circulated his magic power through the soles of his feet to hide his footsteps, and then sneaked past the blind spot of its vision.

When he was only three meters away from it, he confirmed his guess that it was a monster. As soon as it appeared, Jiang Li felt the evil aura from it.

He checked the demon-suppressing talisman again. At this time, the distance between them was only three meters. Although the sound was blocked by the small stone temple, he could still clearly hear the squeaking sound.

After estimating the distance, Jiang Li activated his magic power, summoned the demon-suppressing talisman in his hand, and flew straight towards the small temple. The demon in the temple sensed something was wrong and tried to escape immediately.

But just as it walked out of the temple gate, a talisman came towards it, scaring it so much that it dodged quickly. Fortunately, it was agile and was not hit.

But just this delay, Jiang Li had already pounced in front of it and grabbed it.

This guy instinctively wanted to struggle and bite, but the extremely complex aura of Jiang Li, a mixture of imperial, Shinto and human luck, suppressed it and made it unable to move.

After catching it, Jiang Li quickly asked someone to bring weapons and tied it up tightly.

Only then did he see clearly that what he had caught was an extremely fat rat. It must have weighed at least thirty pounds. It must have stolen a lot of tributes to grow to its current size.

After watching for a while, he lost interest and handed the guy to a Taoist soldier to watch, while he walked under the big willow tree to observe it carefully.

But after he used his magical powers to look around for several times, he finally had to admit that this was just a huge willow tree, and it was definitely not a spiritual plant or a deity.

The faint demonic aura emanating from it was most likely coming from the rat demon.

So he turned around and walked to the rat demon, using his magic power to look at it carefully.

It would be fine if you didn't look at it, but once you did, you'd be shocked. Although there wasn't much demonic energy on this guy, his aura was very strong. It was obvious that he had achieved success in his cultivation, and was using the incense and faith to get rid of his demonic body and become a god.

But how could such a powerful monster be caught so easily by himself? This made Jiang Li very confused.

So he took the rat demon from the soldier and looked at it carefully in the moonlight.

Just as Jiang Li carefully looked at the rat demon, a trembling voice suddenly came from its mind, "You, what do you want to do? I am the messenger of the Lord Tree God. If you dare to hurt me, the Lord Tree God will definitely punish you!"