After the first story was told, everyone woke up and became thoughtful. Xuantian looked surprised and said: "Wow! It turns out that the peasant woman and the baby were transformed into big fish, specially designed to test people crossing the river on the boat. What about the boatman, is he also a monster? Why wasn't he eaten?"
"People's hearts are unpredictable, just like the river that suddenly becomes calm and suddenly overturns. How can the boatman and the fish monster not be mortals." Guangqing Lu said with emotion.
"Mother-in-law, what do you think? Is the boatman also a monster?" Xuan Yi asked the old woman again. "Maybe it's the river god on the west side of the Yellow River. Since it's a story, I don't want to get too clear about it," the old woman replied. "So that's it. These people are so selfish and deserve to be eaten by the big fish. The river god is so smart." Xuan Tian said with a smile.
"I don't think so. The good and evil in people's hearts are like leaves blown by the wind, swaying here and there. Whichever way the wind blows, it will tilt. Great knowledge and ignorance, great planning. There is nothing wrong with leading people towards good. Tempting to do evil, how is it different from evil? The fish monster doesn't know right from wrong, and the river god is also confused. If I encounter them, I will definitely teach them a lesson." Xuan Yi was disdainful.
"The little boy is not very old, but he knows a lot more than many adults." Everyone laughed. "Sister, what are you talking about? Anyway, the bad guys got eaten, so the river god is the good river god!" Xuantian pouted. The Taoist picked up the ruler and said: "I don't want to comment on right or wrong. Just continue to pass on the light."
There was a clanging sound and the flames fluttered, this time heading in the direction of the Taoist. "Haha, master, it's your turn to tell. Master, let's tell another fairy story." Xuan Yi clapped his hands and laughed. "Then I'll tell you a story about a time when I caught an immortal."
The Taoist then spoke eloquently:
Three years ago, I took you two away from Qishan and walked two thousand miles southeast. Passing by Huali Mountain, the atmosphere there was peaceful, so I stayed and meditated. One day, while I was meditating, a cat demon came to me and asked for help. The cat demon has gorgeous fur that can unfold into seven beautiful colors. It often dances in the mountains, attracting praise from all kinds of beasts. Knowing that it is a kind spirit, I hide it in my sleeve.
A group of Taoist priests followed me and asked me to hand over the cat demon. When I didn't agree, they started fighting with me. After a few fights, the leader of the other party, the Taoist priest Qujiao, noticed that the two babies in my arms had an unusual destiny, so he wanted to catch you to make elixirs. After that, I thwarted his many pursuits. He became so angry that he launched the entire Southeast Continent sect to hunt us down. I couldn't hide in the southeastern boundary, so I fled to the remote mountainous area in the southwest.
I carried the baby in my arms and headed deep into the mountains, arriving at a basin in the Qianli Bailong Mountains. In midsummer, the trees should be green and the flowers and fruits should be fragrant, but instead the trees are withered, the flowers and plants are rotting, and smelly water is everywhere. Looking at it with the eyes of the sky, I found that Baili was in ruins, and the scene was so bleak that it looked like the end of the world. After walking for dozens of miles, I saw the only greenery and vitality. It was a pear tree with lush branches and leaves, covering a radius of three or four miles with green shade. The tree was full of golden pears, and from a distance it looked like bunches of golden fruits.
I found the Water Tribe under the pear tree. Most of the tribe's hundreds of thousands people have died of the disease, and the remaining tens of thousands are covered in black and green spots and are suffering under the pear trees. They picked pears to satisfy our hunger, and then took me to see the tribal leader. The leader's name was Kunlongsou. He was one hundred and fifty years old and was seriously ill and bedridden at that time. I heard that a visitor from afar was coming, but he still sat up and talked to me.
I asked for details about the place. Kunlongso told me that his tribe has believed in Yuzhi God from generation to generation and has always lived a prosperous and peaceful life. In the past, it was like spring here all year round, with abundant rain and dew. There are endless fairy fruits on the trees, endless beasts and poultry on the mountains, and endless grains and vegetables in the fields. For hundreds of years, the tribe has prospered from generation to generation without any major disasters. Unexpectedly, half a month ago, poisonous rain suddenly fell from the sky, poisoning all the vegetation, birds and animals to death. People who eat fruits and grains contaminated with poisoned water will soon become seriously ill. In just a few days, half of the tribesmen died of illness, and the rest could only survive by eating pears.
I guessed that they must have offended some gods or evil creatures and suffered such great revenge, so I asked them if anything strange had happened to their tribe recently. A tribal leader named "Fengyuan" mentioned something. He said that three months ago, a three-foot-tall wild boar monster came into the mountains. The wild boar was as big as two houses, with tusks several feet long in its mouth. It rushed around, ruined a lot of fields and food, and trampled dozens of people to death. The young men of the tribe were armed with spears, bows and arrows, but they could not hurt it in the slightest and could not drive it away. The wild boar monster was causing trouble for a moment, and suddenly he lay down on the ground motionless. The tribesmen stabbed it to death with spears and ate its flesh. Its fur was dried in the sun and made into a carpet in the Guangmu Building where the tribe held meetings.
Then, I went to Guangmu Building to check. The building is built on three huge branches of a pear tree that are one foot high. It is three feet wide and made entirely of living trunks and flower vines. It is very beautiful and spacious. Climbing up the wooden ladder, I saw the huge pigskin. The fur is thick and bright, with a faint golden light, and there is a Ganoderma-shaped tattoo the size of an arm on his back. I saw that this was not a wild boar, but a golden-haired dragon pig. Dragons, cows, and pigs are all close relatives of the mythical beast Chaos. This pig is also a descendant of the mythical beast. Judging from the pattern of Ganoderma lucidum on its body, it should be a spiritual beast raised by Yuzhi God. Spiritual beasts all have some special powers. Maybe it smelled the scent of Yuzhi God and sneaked into the mountains on its own, but was accidentally killed. After Yuzhi God found out, he brought disaster.
When the tribesmen knew the whole story, they were very frightened. I discussed with them that we could pray to God Yuzhi and ask for his forgiveness. So, according to the rules of their ancestors, they set up an altar, and the patriarch Kunlongsou led tens of thousands of people to kneel down and pray. After kneeling for half an hour, the sky suddenly became gloomy as if a dark night had come, strong winds blew over the altar, and pouring black rain fell from the sky. The earth seemed to be stained with ink, and poisonous water flowed freely!
I used spiritual magic to pray to him in person. I didn’t want him to hit me with his spiritual blade and almost hurt my life. We had no choice but to hide under the pear tree for shelter. Knowing that Yuzhi God would not give up until all the Water Tribes were killed, I told everyone that only by killing Yuzhi God and using his body as the antidote could the poison in this area be cured.
When they heard that they were going to kill the gods who had been protecting them for generations, they were all frightened at first and hurriedly objected. After some persuasion, they finally agreed to my request in order to survive. At that time, my magic power was still weak, and it was difficult for me to kill the Yuzhi God by myself. But I know that there is another spiritual creature here with ten thousand years of magical power, which is the pear tree. Flowers and trees become spirits in a hundred years, monsters in a thousand years, and spirits in ten thousand years. This pear tree has a life span of more than 10,000 years and has already become a spirit. The golden-haired dragon pig broke into the mountains and could not be hurt by mortals, so it was killed by the pear tree spirit. Although it is a spirit, it knows how to maintain morality, so I will use its ability to kill Yuzhi Shen.
The tree spirit has a reclusive character and likes to hide its true identity. I left my body and went to see it in the heart of the tree. When he heard that I wanted to kill Yuzhi Shen, he laughed at me, saying that there was a world of difference between immortals and mortals, and that I was seeking death in vain. I told him that the Yuzhi God knew that it killed the golden-haired dragon pig, but it did not kill it now, but was afraid of its ten thousand years of cultivation. After he uses poisonous water to erode the land here and weaken its magic power, he will kill it and seize the demon element. Only then did the tree spirit understand Yuzhi Shen's calculation. He felt scared in his heart, but still had some worries.
There are humans, ghosts and immortals in the three realms. There is a barrier of earth between the human realm and the ghost realm, and there is a protective barrier of heaven between the human realm and the fairy realm. Immortals manage the human world, usually through incarnations, or through the guise of others. God Yuzhi is also an incarnation in the human world. The old tree spirit is worried that if we destroy the incarnation of God Yuzhi, the Emperor of the Immortal World will bring disaster. I told it that God Yuzhi did evil and did not dare to report it to the Emperor of Heaven. Moreover, I have access to Yama, the Emperor of Hell, and can open up the connections between the immortal world and ensure that he will have no worries in his future life. Only then did it feel at ease and agree to kill the god with me.
Next, I and the tribesmen prepared for the night. I prepared a lot of magic tools, and asked the people to cut pear wood and make eight thousand wooden drums and mallets, all of which were engraved with the three pure and powerful patterns. On the second day, let them set up an altar again, place a statue of God Yuzhi and curse him. God Yuzhi sensed that someone was cursing at his statue, and quickly came over in the clouds.
I opened my heavenly eyes and saw in the clouds that the Yuzhi God was three feet tall, with a square head and a big face, eyes like copper bells, a mouth as big as a gourd, ears as round as cakes, skin like red blood, and black hair floating like ink. Wearing golden armor and wearing dragon boots. He has a ferocious expression, his eyes are filled with malice, and he is laughing maniacally with gnashing teeth. Seeing him appear, I immediately activated my spiritual skills and used the "Dingling Stake" and "Kongming Formation" to block all the earth's energy and spiritual energy for dozens of miles to prevent him from using the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to escape. Then take a drop of true blood and create a "Shadowless Arrow" to hit the clouds.
Although God Yuzhi is a god, he is a bit arrogant. Without warning, he was knocked down to the ground by my arrow from the cloud. When the tribesmen saw a majestic giant falling from the sky, they all ran away in fear. The old tree spirit was decisive. When he saw Yuzhi God landing on the ground, he immediately stretched out countless thick spiritual roots from the ground and entangled him tightly in the sea of vines.
Yuzhi God was entangled, and roared angrily: "How dare you! If you dare to hurt me, you are seeking death!" The sound resounded for more than ten miles, and the world trembled, and then the aura exploded all over his body, breaking off all the surrounding trees and vines. The tree spirit stretched out countless vine roots to tie it up again, and this time its tree vines carried 3,800 "Fixing Ground Hunyuan Talisman" written by me personally. This talisman can connect the wood spirit to the earth's energy, enhance the magic power of the tree spirit, and can swallow the spiritual power of the person trapped by it.
God Yuzhi was entangled in vines again, and was so furious that his body was able to grow dozens of sharp blades that were several feet long and split all the vines around him. However, the more spiritual power he exerted, the more spiritual power he lost, and the tighter he became entangled with the tree vines. Afraid of losing his life, he suddenly transformed into his original shape and turned into a giant Ganoderma lucidum that was seventy or eighty feet tall. This Ganoderma lucidum is different from the usual ones. It is completely black, its skin is as hard as iron, and its surface has countless steel knife-like stabbing blades, like a mountain of knives made of meat!
Relying on the strength of his body, he whirled and collided wantonly, smashing and collapsing the mountainous terrain for more than ten miles. A large part of the pear tree spirit's foundation was shattered, scaring it so much that its roots retreated and dared not go up again. At this time, I flew into the air and took out the nine thousand and nine hundred spiritual talismans that I had prepared earlier, forming the "Trapped Immortal Formation". Walls of golden light rise like diamond barriers, surrounding the Great Ganoderma layer by layer. The leader of the tribe, Kun Longsou, saw the golden light and ordered eight thousand tribesmen to beat the god-calming drum. "Boom! Boom! Boom!..." Eight thousand god-suppressing drums sounded at the same time, shaking the sky and the earth, shattering the courage of Baili God's soul, and Yuzhi God was also frightened and half of his soul flew away.
