Feng Xiucai had just recovered from the dizziness that he had felt that day. When he saw Ji Xiang, he immediately screamed:
"Taoist Master Ji, thank God you're here! How long have I been sleeping? It's not safe here!"
"Don't worry, this is Wudang, the Three Corpse Gods sent you back."
Feng Menglong was relieved when he learned that he was now in the Wudang Mountains. He immediately patted his head and sorted out his memories and thoughts. After all, Shuangling's soul had just been reshaped. Although people's wisdom had been restored, they would still be unable to think deeply at this time. Produces incoherent speech.
Feng Menglong muttered a bunch of confusing words, and after about half a stick of incense, he was able to clarify his memories and thoughts.
In fact, everything went well at the beginning. After all, there were three monks and they were keeping a low profile. If they didn't encounter those big monsters, there would be no accidents. At the same time, the monsters in the south, because King Lu was going to ascend to immortality in Yingtian, all the monsters. Most of them have been summoned to Yingtian Mansion. It is safer to walk on King Lu's territory at this time.
Going west along the Yangtze River, everyone was quite happy at first, but when we got near Xiangyang something went wrong.
"We got separated in a village near Xiangyang. It was like I was stunned for a moment, and when I suddenly came back to my senses, I was the only one left with Hu Xiaoshi."
"That village and town is called Taiping Town."
When I entered the village, I saw that there seemed to be some large-scale event being held, and the people in the village were not dressed like the people of the day, which was quite strange.
Because the two parties suddenly separated without warning, there was no way to search for them. They could only try their luck in crowded places.
There are countless activities to worship gods, such as Shehuo, Nuo opera, and rural dramas. They have been practiced since ancient times. At that time, many people gathered to worship the gods. The little fox looked at the person who played the role of the god and said that there was peace between his brows. Qi, and life is very precious, but when I looked over, I only saw..."
Seeing Ji Xiang staring at him, Feng Xiucai said awkwardly: "I don't know how to read fortune."
"But the face I saw was different. Hu Xiaoshi said that the masked face was smiling. What I saw was an angry purple face. And the eyes were still turning and looking at me. When I do, I just lower my head.”
"Then I looked at the big temple that worships the gods. What I saw was black with the words Senluo Temple written on it. I was horrified. Hu Xiaoshi said that what he saw was a beautiful golden temple with carved beams and painted buildings and full of yang energy, which made people It feels comfortable, but I feel uncomfortable all over, as if there are millions of bugs crawling on me..."
Feng Menglong said that at that time, the villagers tried their best to let them enter the temple to worship. He also said that three people had entered the temple before, and the descriptions of their bodies and appearances were exactly the same as those of Nanyangzi, Hou Niangzi, and Luopoxian. The two of them went in immediately after hearing this. There were more than a dozen statues in the temple, all of which looked like god generals, but some of them had broken heads.
The two rooms in the temple, one symmetrical on the left and the other on the right, are filled with various paper money for worshiping gods, and two plaques are hung with the words "salary" written on them.
The statue of the god in the middle, in my eyes, looks like an emperor, wearing the same purple mask as the previous worshiper, with no face visible.
"There's something wrong with that statue! I felt like something was staring at me at the time, and then the temple asked me to kowtow and said that the king of heaven would bless us, but we didn't kowtow! A real man is born between heaven and earth... .I am a scholar of Confucianism, how can I worship the little gods of mountains and wild fields!"
Ji Xiang was surprised: "Then I won't worship you if you don't want to. Is that the temple blessing that wants to attack your overlord?"
Feng Menglong slapped his thigh: "Of course! Bah! What did you say? It was an inappropriate choice of words!"
"As a smart person like me, I thought that when you, Taoist Ji, told me about the Forbidden City, it was because I didn't pay attention and gave those demon gods an opportunity when they were conferred as gods, so the civet cat replaced the prince, so I... ."
"I asked, has your god been canonized by the imperial court? All the gods who have been canonized have a divine book. The temple blessing said that they have been canonized locally. I asked which system this king belongs to, whether he is a god of heaven or an earthly deity. , is it the water official or the underworld, the mountain god or the earth, the fire god or..."
"And guess what!"
When Feng Menglong said this, he became a little excited:
"Hey! The temple minister got angry and insisted on asking this scholar to worship this heavenly king. Who is this scholar? When we separated, didn't you give me a Five Thunder God Machine? I shot him on the spot! "
Feng Menglong said that Shuntian's bullet was so authentic that he knocked down the temple in one go!
If the evil monster takes a shot from a firearm enhanced by a charm, he will die immediately.
If it hadn't been for Yin Guigui, he would have basically died after taking this shot.
The result is the same anyway.
"But the blame lies here! Let me tell you, that Miao Zhu was shot and had a big hole in his head. He fell to the ground and couldn't move, but he could still curse and talk! He also yelled at me, saying that I dare not Kneel down and worship the King of Heaven. This is the greatest humiliation to the King of Heaven. He wants to skin me and hang me up in the temple!"
"How can I be so angry! I think I framed all the people in the Wenxiang Sect back then, and I've seen that mysterious dragon as high as a mountain of meat! I even met the Corpse Executioner in Jinshanshui Mansion. There are still people in this world who can scare Stay with me?! No! So I fired two more shots, and then two strange mists rose from the hole in the temple's head, condensing into the shape of a human face. I saw those outside the temple again The villagers all looked at the two of us as if we were possessed by evil spirits. Fortunately, the little fox’s charm beads were of some use..."
If placed in the hands of a powerful monster, the charm pearl can control the hearts of the people, and even make those people obsessed with living and dying for themselves. However, if placed in the hands of a magic insulator like the little fox, it is just a tool for escaping. .
With the help of the incense ash in the copper wire fire cage, the two of them ran out easily. However, this time Mei Zhu's control time seemed to be shortened a lot, so the villagers quickly returned to normal and continued to chase the two.
And not only that, there are also tall "people" appearing in the town. I don't know if they can be called people. In short, they are like copper heads and iron arms, and the charm beads have no effect on them.
"Zombies or something like that, or human puppets."
Zhang Sanfeng said something.
Feng Menglong talked about the climax at this time, just like a storyteller filming a crime:
"Just when there was no way to go to heaven and no way to enter the earth, we suddenly met another group of villagers. Their eyes were normal. I could feel that this group of people was different from the previous villagers. There was no creepy look on them. They said there was a way out, and said that the three people before had left. They also told us not to ask any questions about the rest. Hu Xiaoshi and I had no choice, so we followed them and saw an ancient temple. , but the incense was strong, there was light in the temple, and the statues of the gods could not be seen clearly. These villagers said that they could not go in. They said that they were condemned and could not get close, so they only let the two of me go in and escape."
"Then the two of us went in. After entering the temple, the invisible statue flickered a few times, and then we walked forward and left Taiping Town. However, not long after we came out, the fog on the faces of the two people before came out of nowhere. , rushed into our bodies, and I felt very sleepy at that moment, and I don’t know what happened next.”
Ji Xiang said: "There is something happening in the underworld, you just met by chance, but in that town, could it be something similar to Gusu?"
"Taiping Town, this town may not really exist. As far as I know, there has not been a town called Taiping around Xiangyang City since the founding of our country. I still often go down the mountain to wander around. The surrounding towns, markets, and village names , I can name it word by word, but the name of Taiping Town is ordinary, but there is no one around it." Zhang Sanfeng interrupted.
Ji Xiang thought thoughtfully: "Is it the Dharma Realm or a constructed illusion?"
Those female ghosts on the graves and vixens in the mountains often engage in wedding or opera dramas. In order to make the married scholars feel "at home", they will construct those illusions to be very real. In fact, the gorgeous venues are just dead branches. The primitive huts piled up with rotten leaves and the tall gated courtyard are just large tombs with tombstones standing on them.
"It should be something like an illusion. If you kill something in an illusion, what you kill will not be its real body, but firearms are useful after all...in various senses."
Zhang Sanfeng's tone was slightly teasing.
Firearms are inherently useful. The reason why you can't kill the opponent is because you don't have enough firepower.
You have to carry the meteor cannon over there, and once you hit the temple, it will probably fly into the sky.
Gujia
"Let me go take a look. But is that place full of yin energy or full of yang energy?"
Ji Xiang wanted to go there in person, but Feng Menglong shook his head: "Anyway, that place makes me uncomfortable, I can't explain it. Maybe you will know after you go there."
"My wife, Nanyangzi and the others have gone, and I don't know if what the second group of villagers said is true or false."
Ji Xiang left immediately, but Zhang Sanfeng said that he and Ji Xiang would go out together and leave Lian Buyun here.
The old man and the young man each used their magical powers. Zhang Sanfeng rode up on the clouds, but when he saw Ji Xiang flipping onto the Pegasus, he drove away his own clouds with his backhand.
"Disciple of the Demon, take me for a ride!"
"Master, as an immortal, you can only travel thousands of miles and get there in just a few tossings. Why do you need to sit on this Pegasus?"
"That's different. Sitting on a Pegasus looks so majestic! Stepping on dragon thunder, facing the cloud tide, rolling clouds and clouds, swallowing the strong wind, this really shows the character of the true immortals of our generation!"
The Pegasus is as fast as lightning, and it soon reaches the sky above Xiangyang City. The popularity below is surging, the country is vast, the rivers and lakes are buzzing with people, merchants from all over the world are coming and going by boat, although there is evil spirit in the surrounding mountains, but there is not much There is a lot of bloody meaning, the incense of the three religions and many folk temples is still quite prosperous, and the relationship between humans and monsters is within the controllable range and there is no abnormality.
Continuing to travel southeast, they came to what Feng Menglong called Taiping Town, and something unexpected happened at this time.
The two immortals came on horseback, but they did not see the Taiping Town at the expected location. There were only a pile of giant tombs piled with bluestones below, and around them stood mud houses and thatched gates, such as the archways and markets in the town market.
"There is no Taiping Town here. It is clearly a burial place. Is it really an illusion created by the underworld?"
"But if it is not accurate to say mass graves, who would build so many regular graves on mass graves?"
These huge tombs built with bluestones were not something ordinary people could build in this era.
Zhang Sanfeng wandered around and then used his magic to move a large tomb.
"The bluestone is extremely heavy, but there is nothing in this tomb. Where are the bones of the deceased?"
"Don't worry, let me seize all the Fangshan God's land, and you will know after asking!"
Ji Xiang looked coldly, and white smoke shot out from his body, penetrating into the surrounding mountains and going deep into the Nine Earths!
Jushen’s great magical power is unleashed!
"This is...the art of restraining the gods!"
Zhang Sanfeng sensed the supreme power contained in the billowing white smoke, which was difficult for the gods to resist. It was a powerful stunt to restrain Shinto.
But after a while, Ji Xiang gradually showed a shocked look.
The land of the mountain gods around this place has all disappeared. Not only is there no temple, but even the wooden clay sculptures used to worship them are not visible, not to mention that there is no trace of the incense used to worship them!
Ji Xiang came up with another plan. He formed a stream of incense in his hand, then took a piece of gold stone from the surroundings, wrote the three characters "Earth God" on it, and offered the incense to the other party.
Land, land, is our own land, and we can only receive the incense from this place. But when this ball of incense was put in for sacrifice, the object to be sacrificed could not be found for a long time.
"All the land of the mountain god has disappeared, but there is no sound or movement?"
Zhang Sanfeng also touched his beard and felt something strange. He looked around and said strangely: "It's just like what Feng Xiucai said. There is plenty of yang energy but no yin energy at all. This is unreasonable in the world."
"The land of the dead must be a heavy grave, unless the tombs contain the living."
Seeing this abnormal scene, Ji Xiang suddenly thought of the words that appeared on the inner scene of the divine card before. It said that someone had tampered with the Vientiane Senluo.
What does this mean? Have ghosts and monsters become able to move in Yang Qi? But does this spell need to be tampered with? Those living ghosts that can be seen everywhere can come out and play around in broad daylight, and even help people work. As long as they don't get called by their real names, nothing will happen.
"There is a way, Master. Since we can't find the mountain god's land and we can't see any living people, then there must be monsters and ghosts around here, right?"
The two masters and apprentices searched here to no avail and began to go deep into the surrounding mountains and forests. It is easy to find places with deep Yin Qi, but the only abnormal place is the Taiping Town area.
The monsters and ghosts in the mountains suddenly panicked. Fortunately, although Ji Xiang was a rogue, he would not kill anyone just for asking for directions. After asking several monsters in succession, they all said that there was no place like Taiping Town here.
"Everything the little demon said is true. There is indeed no Taiping Town here, there is only a group of ancient tombs, but it is strange to say that the place is full of yang energy, and the surrounding ghosts do not dare to go near it. It is obviously a place for dead people. But there is no evil spirit living there..."
"The two immortals want to ask what period the ancient tombs are from...I don't know. In my memory, it seems that when I was wise, these tombs were here."
"Illusion? Impossible. No monsters or ghosts here dare to approach that ancient tomb. No one would set up an illusion there."
The monsters all shook their heads and waved their hands, saying that no humans even knew about that place. How could anyone set up an illusion to catch people there? However, an older donkey monster said that it would take about twenty-five days to go west from here. Here, there is a Dawang Mountain, and there is an old demon in the mountain named Hai Shenjun. He has lived for many years, so he may know about the illusion.
In the Lion Mountain, the old demon was a little panicked when he saw the master and the apprentice. He didn't know what mistake he had made. Zhang Sanfeng comforted him and said that he was Zhang Dayuan from the nearby Wudang Mountain. The old demon was relieved when he heard that and said that he was in Wudang. Shan has recorded his name, has lived for a long time, and has never harmed anyone.
"I am a wild boar spirit in the mountains. I attained Taoism in the early years of Jianyan in the Song Dynasty and opened up my spiritual wisdom. When the Yuan Dynasty went south, I avoided the disasters of war here and did not care about worldly affairs. When Wudang was prosperous in the early Ming Dynasty, Emperor Yongle once came here and said I was looking for the whereabouts of Emperor Jianwen, so I went to the mountain to visit Prime Minister Yao and get some advice."
"If we talk about Taiping Town, it did exist in the past, but that was a matter of the Song Dynasty. Taiping Town was destroyed when the Yuan army came over. There were no giant tombs at that time. These giant tombs were from the founding of the Ming Dynasty. Later, the Xiangyang government built more than a dozen bluestone tombs here because it was so old and the names of the deceased were no longer known. As for those mud houses with thatched gates, I really don’t know."
Ji Xiang and Hai Shenjun told Feng Menglong's experience, and Hai Shenjun looked surprised:
"You two said that some people entered Taiping Town and saw illusions. Not only were all living beings alive but they were also offering sacrifices? This is really unbelievable. From what you two described, the scenery in the town seemed to be offering sacrifices to King Song Shen. ..."
Ji Xiang: "King Tianluo?"
Haishenjun: "King Tianluo? No, no, no, I remember, this is the title given to Qinzong during the reign of Emperor Gaozong... He is not the same person as King Shentian of Song..."
Hai Shenjun told the story of the past:
"I also heard what other old demons said. After all, I only developed spiritual wisdom in the year of Jianyan. It is said that back then, the Emperor of Jin wanted to send Emperor Huiqin to the Five Kingdoms City for imprisonment. Concubine Zhao failed to plead for mercy and cursed angrily. The Emperor of Jin was brutally killed by the Emperor of Jin. On the way to Five Kingdoms City, Empress Zheng fell ill and died and was hastily buried."
"When he arrived at Five Kingdoms City, Emperor Huizong went blind because he was crying for Concubine Zheng. Emperor Qinzong saw sacrificial instruments in the courtyard. Jin Bing said that they were used to sacrifice the King of Heaven, who is respected by people in this place. That night , in the middle of the night, Emperor Qinzong prayed to the statue in his hut..."
"He said that he only wanted to die quickly. If he went to the south, he hoped that the Song Dynasty would be rejuvenated. If he went to the north, he hoped to move back to the mainland as soon as possible. So, he saw the dream god descending from the sky, bowing to Emperor Qinzong in the courtyard, and saying to him : I am actually the Divine King of the North. God has ordered me to command the Yin soldiers and protect the creatures in the north and the south. From now on, there will be ten years of peace in the world. The Southern Dynasty will soon be revived, similar to the peaceful days in the past. "
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