The next day, there was a strong wind and heavy rain.
Everyone returned to the Zhongsan stronghold, and the Suixing generals immediately set off south.
Along the way, Aguan always wanted to find opportunities to talk to Pianpian, but sometimes when he approached, Pianpian would already be far away. When he finally spoke, Pianpian just nodded without answering.
Aguan felt like someone had stuffed a jar of bitter and sour plums into his mouth, feeling sad but not knowing who to confide in.
Everyone spent a whole morning and finally packed it up.
The sixth wife stood in front of the Sanheyuan where she had lived for a long time, and said with some reluctance: "Oh... I just got used to living there, and now I have to leave again..."
While they were chatting, Ye Yuan, who had just said goodbye to everyone at the Third Formation stronghold in the morning, came back again.
Ye Yuan and Dasha both carried burdens. Ye Yuan said: "I just went back to the mountain to say hello to Master Qiang, and came back to accompany you. I have thought carefully these days. At my age, leaving the mountain, I don’t know where to go. I just hope that I can do something for the common people in my lifetime..."
Originally, Ye Yuan still had more than half of his finished speech, but the general who was waiting to set off became impatient and grabbed him into the pagoda.
The Sixth Po summoned the spirits and Lord Tiger to enter the pagoda, and Aguan also entered the pagoda. Duke Shui Hui led six heavenly generals and slowly flew into the sky with the white stone pagoda, heading towards the blessed land.
Duke Qi Lie and Duke Mu Zhi led the rest of the generals and continued to guard the stronghold, while working with the City God to sweep away the demon soldiers who had fled in all directions due to their defeat in the past two days.
Everyone in the pagoda exclaimed repeatedly, hearing that the latest news Ye Yuan heard when he returned to the mountains to visit Yimin Lord Li Qiang in the morning was about Xue Mei Niang.
It turns out that Xue Mei Niang escaped into the mountains and forest, and fled overnight to the ruins of the True Immortal Palace, but she was caught by the righteous men who had been lying in wait for a long time. Previously, Li Qiang did not go to the Zhongsan stronghold with Zhong Kui to help, but he led the volunteers to guard around the True Immortal Palace and continued to pursue the roving demon soldiers.
Xuemei Niang was seriously injured in a battle in the sky yesterday, and was surrounded by the Demon General Pot King. In addition, she was defeated at the Zhongsan stronghold the day before, and she was tortured and humiliated by Zhengshen. She was already exhausted physically and mentally. When I returned to the True Immortal Palace and saw the ruins, I knew that Jiutian and the demon soldiers had all been wiped out, and I was instantly disheartened.
The volunteers suddenly attacked, and Xue Meiniang, who was unable to fight anymore, was defeated and tied up again.
Li Qiang originally wanted to kill the demon king with one sword, but Zhong Kui stopped him and put away the sword.
"What's the matter with Guan Zhongkui? When did he join in the fun?" "He seems to be everywhere?" The spirits were making noises, and Ye Yuan continued to talk.
Yesterday, Zhong Kui parted ways with Zhengshen and naturally returned to his home territory, where he also got in touch with the volunteers again. As soon as he learned that the volunteers had captured Xue Mei Niang, he hurriedly shook his tongue and led the entire army to snatch the prisoner of war.
Of course, Li Qiang had no intention of competing with Zhong Kui for the female devil, so he simply asked Zhong Kui to carry Xue Mei Niang on his shoulders and take him away.
"Then why is the female devil so unlucky?" "What happened next?" "Did Zhong Kui eat her?"
Ye Yuan shook his head and said, "I don't know what happened next. These were all what Mr. Qiang told me when I went to greet him."
As Duke Shui led the general to fly in the sky, he soon left the sea and flew to the outlying island. The outlying island is quite large, and there are several towns on it, where many villagers live.
There are several islands on the outskirts of the island, large or small, with some old houses on them.
Aguan looked from the tower and saw that among the islands, two islands were glowing with light, like a big bell.
The blessed land is these two small islands, one big and one small, one glowing orange and the other yellow.
"Huh?" Aguan looked at it from a distance from the top of the tower and felt something strange.
Duke Shui led the general to fly down, chose the smaller of the two islands, and landed on a sand dune. Aguan, Atai, Liupo and Ye Yuan also left the pagoda and looked at the surrounding scenery.
Looking from this beach, you can see many trees and some old houses planted in the distance. The old houses on the two islands of Fudi are like those in the Third Stronghold. They are all empty and short buildings, but they are not that shabby. They all seem to have been renovated.
"The order was sent from the main camp yesterday. Why didn't the two island gods here come to greet them?" Duke Shui Hui took the general and was about to go to the residence when Aguan grabbed him and said, "Wait a minute!"
"Something's not right..." Aguan looked around uneasily. He felt that although the surroundings were filled with bursts of spiritual energy, they were also mixed with bursts of familiar and subtle evil thoughts.
Duke Shui Hui knew that Aguan could sense evil thoughts, so he immediately issued an order to the general: "Everyone, be alert and be careful!"
The sky was divided into two sides, three on the left and three on the right, with Aguan and his party in the middle, and everyone headed towards the houses like this.
After walking for a while, there were several old houses in front of us. In front of one old house, a large stone slab was erected, two meters high, one meter wide and fifty centimeters thick. On it were two big characters - Mount Tai.
"What's this? The God of Blessed Land knew that my master Tai was coming, so he specially erected a monument to welcome me, right?" Artai chuckled and reached out to touch the big stone slab.
"Wow!" Artest exclaimed. The big stone slab suddenly shook, and two stone arms sprang out from the left and right sides. They grabbed Artest's neck and lifted him up.
"How presumptuous! You still haven't withdrawn your hand!" Shui Huigong shouted and grabbed the stone slab, but was knocked back far away by the big stone slab with a punch.
The generals of heaven swarmed up, struck the giant stone hand with an ax, cut it off, and then pushed the big stone slab down with their hands and pressed it to the ground.
"What are you doing, this stone soldier?" Shui Hugong asked Ye Yuan to help him up, and cursed angrily: "Where is the 'Tapo' who is guarding here?"
When the Sixth Po looked at the stone slab, she felt sorry for herself and shouted, "Ah! Isn't this 'Shi Gandang'?"
In folk belief, Shi Gan Dang is a spiritual creature that can ward off evil spirits and control evil spirits. It is a unique magic weapon in this large town on an outlying island. After the Taisui Cauldron collapsed, the righteous god made a total of forty-two Shi Gan Dang, large and small, on the outlying islands. Everyone gathered on the two islands of the blessed land to guard the blessed land together.
Duke Shui was still shouting, but the Ta Po he was talking about didn't come out.
Tagong and Tappo are the main gods guarding the two islands of the blessed land, and together they led two divine soldiers to guard the blessed land.
The big stone slab was pressed to the ground and suddenly trembled. Two holes were cracked in the stone slab. The holes shook and opened, revealing two eyes.
Artai screamed strangely, got up from the ground, and kicked the stone bitterly, forgetting that it was a hard stone slab, and rolled down again holding his feet, screaming in pain.
"You stone soldier!" the general shouted angrily, and knocked Shi Gan's body with the handle of his big axe. He saw that Shi Gan's severed hand had grown back, exactly like the original giant hand. The severed hand that fell to the ground turned into ashes.
"This stone has become evil!" Aguan rushed forward, pressed down on Shi Gandang, closed his eyes and concentrated, and suddenly sucked out a bunch of evil thoughts. There weren't many evil thoughts, just a small bunch. Aguan quickly summoned the Ghost Crying Sword and ate the evil thoughts.
The stone fell flat on the ground, its eyes closed again, its hands retracted, and it became a large stone slab again, but it was still trembling from time to time. No matter how the general called, it didn't respond.
"This is weird!" Mr. Shui Hui was a little stunned and led everyone deeper into the residence.
I only saw these old alleys. Many houses had stone animal tags affixed to their doors, and many red bricks engraved with runes were affixed to the walls. These bricks were all new.
"This is the 'brick talisman'!" Ye Yuan touched the brick talismans and said to himself: "These are all evil-repelling talismans, but I have never seen so many and so densely packed!"
Duke Shui Hui nodded and said, "The defenses of this blessed land are all newly built in the past few months."
I only saw small statues of mythical beasts embedded in the walls of old houses; or a few flagpoles erected in the corners of alleys with talisman flags hanging on them.
After exiting this alley, there are several more alleys. There are also several fallen stone slabs at the intersection of the alleys. They should all be stone slabs.
The generals whispered to each other in confusion: "What's going on with these stone soldiers?" "What are they doing when they all fall to the ground?"
"Ah!" Aguan thought for a while and said: "These Shi Gandang have evil thoughts, but they are very slight. They should have turned evil recently. Perhaps this blessed land has strong spiritual energy, which makes these evil Shi Gandang feel pain. Feeling uncomfortable?"
"It should be so..." Mr. Shui Qi nodded. "We have to find the two main gods of the island quickly!"
Aguan thought for a while and said: "Let's divide the troops into two groups. You lead the general to find the Lord God, and I will be responsible for driving away the evil thoughts of these stones."
