He suddenly remembered the "five declines of heaven and man". When Buddhism was popular in the Tang Dynasty, he went to the temple to listen to sutras. It was said that heaven and man had their own fragrance, but at the end of their long lifespan, hair buns withered, heaven and earth would appear. Dirt on clothes, stinky body, sweating under armpits, darkening of body and other signs of decline.
This is an ominous sign.
But how ominous is the unknown?
While he was wondering, he noticed movement in the woods around him.
In an instant, murderous intent surged from all directions. Hu Zangji was shocked. He noticed that the surroundings were filled with thoughts of killing. It was obvious that the other party had been lurking for a long time and had hidden himself extremely well.
He couldn't help but panic. Is he a human? Is it another monster with a grudge? But he never holds grudges.
No, he underestimated the other party's murderous intention.
They came prepared, targeting him and stealing his three hundred years of practice at once!
I knew something about it, but it was already too late.
When the dark clouds slid in front of the moonlight, they rushed out of the forest, revealed their figures, and surrounded Hu Zangji from all directions under the cover of shadows, with the intention of killing him.
Hu Zang was calm in the face of danger. He concentrated his mind and used the Taoist skills that he had practiced for three hundred years and refined from the moonlight essence.
He landed on all fours, revealing his huge fox tail. He lowered his body and swept around. He immediately built a wall of ice on all sides to temporarily block the enemy's attack. Then he swept with his fox tail, and several hailstones immediately flew in all directions. His Big Ear heard the sound of flesh and blood being cut, indicating that he had successfully hit them.
However, his big ears also heard a very familiar voice.
It was his grandson's young scream... coming from afar.
Under his guidance, his family worshiped the moon in different places, and his ears could tell that screams came from the place where the family worshiped the moon.
At the moment, Hu Zangji was so distracted by his love for his relatives that he could no longer keep his thoughts in mind.
At this moment, he regretted that he had moved to find a partner and start a family.
He just wanted to get back the warmth of his childhood and enjoy the sweetness of the cub's snuggle.
But this was also an opportunity for his three hundred years of practice to be ruined overnight.
If you are alone, you may be able to survive the disaster today and continue practicing for another three hundred years.
Hu Zangji finally caught a glimpse of the other person in his panic. At that time, the dark clouds just broke through, allowing the moonlight to cover the face of the God of Death approaching him.
The eyes of the God of Death were like burning copper bells, and his hair looked like frozen flames under the moonlight. He opened his mouth like a crocodile and showed his sharp teeth like palladium nails.
Hu Zangji's heart dropped to the bottom of his heart.
He couldn't help but suspect that the lack of storms and waves in the past three hundred years was due to the fact that fate was on the rise. After the family was broken up and people died when he was young, his fate changed from extremely bad to good, and only after the big break did he have great success. However, after such a long period of good luck, there will always be a time when things turn the other way.
Will this moment of great danger be the end of fate?
He still held out a bit of luck, but the other party answered him.
Hu Zangji's head was pulled away from his body with a burst of pain that penetrated his heart and lungs. However, his long-term practice made his consciousness last long and it was not annihilated so quickly. He watched helplessly as his limbs were torn apart and his body was attacked by several monsters. Rush to devour.
At the end, he felt his head being placed on a square of bluestone, and the monster's saliva dripped greedily on the tip of his nose.
In an instant, he understood what the other party wanted.
When his forehead was bitten by sharp teeth, he was still conscious. Until the monster inserted its claws into his forehead and dug into his brain, he could still feel the pain deep in his consciousness.
The monster dug out a red bead from his brain.
That was the inner elixir that he spent three hundred years refining.
The monster looked at the red pill in the moonlight. After studying it for a while, he put it in his mouth and swallowed it in one gulp.
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Mount Hengshan has been listed as one of the Five Mountains since ancient times and is full of fairy tales.
Since becoming the King of Hundred Demons in Qingcheng Mountain, Zhu Yan has traveled around in order to avoid Bai Pu's pursuit, especially visiting famous mountains to explore the fairy sites mentioned in ancient books so as to understand the state of an enlightened person.
As a Taoist priest, his movements are more convenient than ordinary civilians.
He traveled all the way east, passing through famous mountain wonderlands such as Mount Emei, Xicheng Mountain, Taibai Mountain, Huashan Mountain, and Wangwu Mountain, and finally arrived at Mount Hengshan, the North Mountain among the Five Sacred Mountains.
The weather was getting colder and the sky was getting darker. He planned to find a shelter from the wind and rain at the foot of the mountain and then climb the mountain in the early morning.
He found a pine forest under the rock wall at the foot of the mountain, picked up some dead wood and built a bonfire. After eating some dry food, he sat cross-legged and meditated.
As soon as he sat quietly and his consciousness entered an unusually sharp state, he felt a few pairs of eyes staring at him.
He had no choice but to leave the state of meditation, sighed, and said, "Who is over there? Do you want to see Pindao if you have anything to do?"
Only then did three monsters appear fearfully, and came and stood in front of him: "Greetings to the king, I don't dare to disturb the king's practice, but I have to do so."
Zhu Yan looked up at them and saw that one tall and two short, although they were in human form, they still looked like animals.
Zhu Yan agreed to be the king of a hundred demons and often mediate disputes among the demons. These three monsters were so cautious. There must be something extraordinary happening to make them so anxious.
"If you have anything important to do, please tell me directly." Zhu Yan felt their urgency.
They first announced their identities one by one. It turned out that the leader was the rat spirit, followed by the deer spirit and bat spirit.
The Rat Spirit spoke: "Of course your Majesty knows that Hengshan Mountain has been a place for cultivating immortals since ancient times. Not only people can become immortals, but with the help of immortal energy, we can also become spirits." The Rat Spirit must have spent a lot of time preparing this speech, "However, recently, there have been Foreign monsters broke into Hengshan Mountain, did not care about cultivation, invaded the mountains and forests, and killed our people, destroying the peace in the mountains."
"Massacre? What's going on?" Zhu Yan wanted to find out first.
When mediating disputes between monsters, he also encountered false accusations or frame-ups, and he had to guard against them. But this time, three unrelated monsters came together to take revenge, so it must be something serious.
"Back to your Majesty, there are immortals in Hengshan who cultivate both internal and external skills and convince others with their virtues. Among them are the great immortals Hu Zang and others. We, the Rat Clan and the Toad Clan, are collectively known as the "Three Families of Hengshan"."
"Is Hu Zang a human or a fox?"
"It's a fox, but their leader Hu Zangji, the great immortal, was killed," the rat spirit said bitterly, "No, not only that, he was eaten!"
Lu Jingjie said: "Not only that? He also injured several members of the Hu family, ate three of them, and even the children were not spared!"
Zhu Yan understood that these foreign monsters had gone too far. This was no longer as simple as a turf war.
"Do they have any deep hatred?"
"Hu Daxian never makes grudges with others. There is no disrespectful person on Mount Heng. What's more, those monsters don't even say hello."
"What kind of monster is this? So rampant?"
"Actually, they are neither demons nor spirits. Their names are Yakshas." The rat spirit couldn't help but shudder when he said the word Yaksha. "I heard that they fled to Middle-earth after their homeland was occupied."
"Yaksha?" Zhu Yan heard someone say this when he was studying Taoism in Sichuan.
Basically, "Yaksha" is a name from the country of India. It is a monster that is often mentioned in Buddhist scriptures and is not originally from China.
The deer spirit rushed to say: "Four or five yakshas broke into the forest and killed Empress Hu Daxian. They have also killed many of our generation in recent days. Now the mountains are in panic all the time. Everyone is afraid that their fate will be in danger. Moreover," as he said, They were all so angry that they were itching their teeth, "They are also very vicious. They only pick out those who have become spiritual masters to eat! If this continues, all immortals will be wiped out!"
It is extremely difficult for fairies to cultivate into human form, and they are also treated as food by Yaksha. After thousands of years of practice, they will never rest in peace.
Zhu Yan frowned deeply: "This Yaksha is a monster from India. It has been recorded since the Tang Dynasty. But why does it come here to wreak havoc? There must be a reason."
The rat spirit said: "Actually, it was not only Yasha but also other fairies who broke into the forest, but they all kept to their duties. We were in trouble, so we questioned the new fairies and found out the whole story."
"Say it."
"In the final analysis, it is still a disaster caused by humans!"
They told Zhu Yan that the world had been in chaos for a long time. Recently, Shi Jingtang attacked the Liang Kingdom and established the Jin Kingdom. In order to stabilize the world, the new emperor ceded large areas of land such as Youzhou and Yunzhou in the north to the Khitan people in exchange for their assistance. Consolidate power.
The problem is that after the Central Plains was included in the sphere of influence of the Khitans, the Khitans cut down trees to obtain wood. The monsters in the original area could not rest in peace and fled to the south one after another.
Zhu Yan sighed. He could understand their resentment: "Then what do you want me to do?"
