"Sir? Hey, isn't this a good thing, sir? You Yinglian lied to me again!"
Heavy footsteps sounded, and a red carp spirit came running from outside. This carp spirit was almost exactly the same as the previous silver-faced carp spirit, as if they were carved from the same mold, but one had silver scales, and the other had silver scales. One is covered in red scales.
Looking at the two carp spirits in front of him who were about three feet taller than each other, Zhang Qian smiled bitterly. These two carp spirits were his subordinates, the Lishui River God, and they were the only two subordinates. Their names were also simple. They were called the one with silver scales. Yin Lian, the one with red scales is called Hong Lian, which makes Zhang Qian unable to complain.
"Okay, you two go down!"
Seeing the two carp spirits arguing, Zhang Qian waved his hands impatiently, got up and walked towards the back of the water god's mansion.
"Sir, have you forgotten that in three days it will be time for the Mang Cang Sword Sect to collect the beads? Last time, my lord defaulted on some amounts, was punished with several whips, and was seriously injured. If the amount is not enough this time, I will wait for the Mang Cang Sword Sect. If the immortal sent by you comes, we will commit a big sin."
Seeing that Zhang Qian was about to leave, Yin Lian said hurriedly.
"Yes, sir, our Longyuan River God next to the Lishui River did not pay enough beads. He defaulted twice in a row and was killed by the adults of the Mang Cang Sword Sect. Sir, please be careful."
The red face echoed from the side.
Zhang Qian's mind changed and he immediately remembered the whole story.
The reason why his original body was able to become the Lishui River God was not because of the heavenly canonization. There was no heaven at all in the Xihuang World, only countless immortal sects and demon sects.
Lishui River is a small branch of the Li River in Nebula Prefecture, one of the thirty-six prefectures in the world. The Li River runs through the entire vast Nebula Prefecture, flows eastward into the sea, and has countless branches. There are countless small branch rivers like Lishui.
Among the countless branch rivers, almost every one has a river god. These river gods are all canonized and appointed by each immortal sect. The reason why so many river gods are canonized and appointed is just for one thing - the incense and fire beads!
Incense beads are condensed from the power of incense, and the source of the power of incense is the worship of mortals. The Lishui River is 800 miles long and seems very grand, but it can only be regarded as a small river in the vast Xingyun State.
As the God of the Lishui River appointed by the Mang Cang Sword Sect, Zhang Qian's duty is to collect incense from the people on both sides of the Lishui River, and then condense the power of these incense into incense beads and hand them over to the Mang Cang Sword Sect.
Zhang Qian was originally a disciple of the Mang Cang Sword Sect. Unfortunately, after joining the sect for more than ten years, his cultivation had only reached the level of spiritual intelligence, and the spiritual intelligence he manifested was still a loach, with unsightly qualifications.
Because of his low qualifications, Zhang Qian was fed up with being a coward in the Mang Cang Sword Sect. Later, he accidentally offended someone and was tricked by someone in secret. He was asked to take over the sect's talisman and come to Lishui River to work. River god.
Once the Talisman of the River God is integrated with the body, the Talisman becomes one with the soul, and the spiritual power is locked, and there will be no chance of practicing Taoism for the rest of his life. However, Zhang Qian's original body had long been desperate for the Taoism, and in this Lishui River... The river god is also at ease.
But this freedom does not come without a price. Every three months, the Mang Cang Sword Sect will send disciples to collect the incense and fire beads. If the number is wrong, they will be brutally punished, and in severe cases, they may even directly kill their lives.
"River God's Talisman? I'm sorry, this body's cultivation qualifications are low, and its soul is also fused with the River God's Talisman, so it will be unable to practice for the rest of its life. What should I do?"
Zhang Gan frowned. Seeing the silver-faced and red-faced men looking at him eagerly, Zhang Gan turned to ask: "How many incense beads are left? How do you usually collect the power of incense?"
Yin Lian touched his head: "It's still more than half way. Our Lishui River is only 800 miles long, and there are not many people on both sides of the Lishui River. The most important thing is that there are no cities on both sides of the Lishui River, only some fishing villages and small towns. Mortals It's too little, unless you send a flood and cause a flood. Then the mortals can offer sacrifices to you very devoutly. Now those people will not go to the river temple to offer sacrifices unless they are celebrating the New Year. The power of the incense is pitiful. ."
"Sending floods and causing floods? Isn't that right?"
If there is a flood, many people will definitely die. Zhang Qian cannot do such a thing yet.
Seeing that Zhang Qian disagreed, Yin Lian said in a low voice, "Then we can only follow the old method."
"What's the old way?"
Zhang Qian was surprised.
"Sir, have you forgotten? Usually, Hong Lian and I go to those small towns to scare people. Then, Your Majesty, you show up and beat us away. In this way, you will manifest the name of God and let the mortals worship you more devoutly."
Zhang Gan's face darkened and he asked, "Is this how you collected incense before?"
"Yeah, hey, it's a pity that this method doesn't work anymore. At first, Honglian and I jumped into those small towns and scared people to death. But after more times, even the children were scared. He is no longer afraid of us, some children even say that we look cute, it’s all because of Hong Lian, he can’t even scare people.”
"Why do you blame me? Last time you ate those children's candies. Don't think I didn't see it."
Zhang Qian almost fainted, he didn't see how cute the silver face and the red face were.
"Could it be...haven't you ever eaten people?"
Yin Lian was stunned, and then replied: "How dare we eat people? We are not the big monsters of the Demon Sect. Besides, there are countless immortal sects in Xingyun State. If we eat people, we might be killed by the masters of those sects. Okay. Besides, don’t you, Your Excellency, not allow us to harm those mortals?”
Zhang Qian nodded: "Don't worry, let me think of a solution first."
After sending the two spirits out, Zhang Qian walked to the back of the water house.
This water mansion is not big, only about an acre in area. There is a magic circle arranged by the Mang Cang Sword Sect in the mansion, which blocks the river. Behind the water mansion is where Zhang Qian lives.
Sitting cross-legged on the cloud bed, Zhang Qian closed his eyes. After half an hour, he opened his eyes again, his face became extremely complicated and ugly.
"Rahu! I have suffered too unjustly for this Wuwu calamity. Not only have I lost my body as an ancient dragon loach, but my substantial soul is now only a remnant soul. I even absorbed and fused the original power of the Hundong Ancestor before. Ninety percent of the power of the mind that grew up to be comparable to the early stage of the Golden Immortal has disappeared! Now this body is extremely weak, and the qualifications are even worse, and there is no comparison with the previous life."
Zhang Qian was extremely unwilling, and more resentful towards Luo Hu. Unfortunately, his hatred was destined to be unable to retaliate, as Luo Hu had self-destructed and turned into ashes.
"Compared with the prehistoric times, this world is completely different, and the path of cultivation is also somewhat different. The starting point of all cultivation is actually the inspiration."
After a while, Zhang Qian finally calmed down, suppressed the overwhelming unwillingness and resentment in his heart, and started to make plans.
After integrating the memories of his original body, Zhang Qian clarified his thinking. Although Xihuang's world was extremely prosperous in cultivation, the world structure was far from the prehistoric times.
In his memory, the practices in this world are divided into: blood refining, induction, spiritual machine, qi refining, magic power, true essence, nine turns of golden elixir, Yin Shen, Dharma phase, calamity, and soul.
The realms that follow are no longer in memory. They are generally no different from the practice in the prehistoric world, but the roots of practice are very different.
Because according to legend, the human race in Emperor Xi's world was created by Emperor Xi. After Emperor Xi created the world, he created countless innate spiritual roots, acquired spiritual roots, and countless mythical beasts and monsters, which brought life to the empty world. It became lively, but Emperor Xi was still not satisfied.
Later, Emperor Xi took the vitality of the spiritual roots of the heavens and the past, the blood of mythical beasts and demons, and the mysteries of the sun, moon, and stars, mixed them into the source of spiritual energy, and used the supreme law to create the human race.
Therefore, the human bloodline in this world contains countless mysteries and various spiritual opportunities. The first step in practice is to refine the Qi and blood, refine the Qi and blood all over the body, and then introduce the spiritual energy of heaven and earth into the body to find oneself. The spiritual power deep in the bloodline manifests itself. This is the beginning of true practice.
However, cultivation depends on the qualifications and the level of the spiritual machine. The higher the level of the spiritual machine, the better the cultivation qualifications.
Everyone's spiritual power is different. The spiritual power that some people manifest is an ancient divine beast with innate spiritual roots. It is very magical. They can be cultivated extremely quickly and have innate levels of spiritual power.
Some people's spiritual inspirations are acquired spiritual roots and various monsters and demons. These spiritual powers are all acquired levels.
Some people's spiritual inspirations are flowers, plants, pigs, cattle, sheep, horses and other ordinary things, which means they are not popular and have no ambition. Zhang Qian's loach spiritual inspiration manifested in his original body is of this level.
There is another level of spiritual power, the Taichu spiritual power. That kind of spiritual power can manifest the sun, moon and stars. The Taichu spiritual power is rarer and rarer than the innate spiritual power. It is the highest-grade cultivation qualification, and every one of them is a peerless genius!
After Zhang Qian's original body embarked on the path of spiritual practice and manifested his spiritual power, his spiritual power turned out to be a loach and became the laughing stock of the Mang Cang Sword Sect.
"It's really fate. I was born as the first loach in the prehistoric world - the ancient dragon loach. After I came to Emperor Xi's world, the spiritual power of this body turned out to be a loach, and he and I are both named Zhang Qian."
Sighing, Zhang Qian didn't care at all that this body's inspiration was just a ridiculous loach. He had gained insights from the ancestor of Hundong, and his knowledge was naturally extraordinary.
Now that he has lost almost everything, he has come to this Xihuang world. If he wants to return to the magnificent world and pursue the eternal life in his heart, he can only find a way to start practicing again.
"There is some trouble. I have the River God Talisman on my body. Now this Talisman is still deep in my soul. With this River God Talisman, I can't practice at all."
The River God Talisman is very useful. It allows Zhang Qian to use it to use various spells. Moreover, the River God Talisman can draw the power of the incense collected in the river temples on both sides of the Lishui River, and it is also necessary to condense the incense and fire beads. Order.
However, the talisman is also a restriction. If Zhang Qian fails to complete the task, the people of the Mang Cang Sword Sect can make Zhang Qian's soul burst and die with just a thought!
"We have to find a way to get rid of this talisman."
With this thought, Zhang Qian's mind buzzed, and then his mind was pulled to the depths of his mind by an inexplicable force, and he saw a strange scene.
A piece of pure white jade floating around was the nameless treasure that took him through two journeys.
Under the residual jade is a golden talisman. The talisman tightly wraps a small loach, but this talisman is firmly suppressed by the residual jade.
What's even weirder is that, perhaps sensing Zhang Qian's thoughts, Can Yu shook lightly and shattered the talisman. The River God Talisman turned into scattered fragments, and then Can Yu turned around and actually shattered the talisman. Swallowed all the fragments!
Zhang Qian felt his soul light up, as if some shackles had been opened, and he felt relaxed.
The loach spiritual machine wrapped in the talisman was also free, and Zhang Qian sensed the spiritual energy from the outside world again.
"This...is this exorcism? This residual jade actually responded to my wish!"
Zhang Qian was a little surprised. He didn't expect that he just wanted to expel the talisman, but Canyu actually did it.
In the prehistoric times, this broken jade never responded to him at all. It just stayed in the depths of his soul and did its own thing. Now it followed Zhang Qian's idea and directly destroyed the River God Talisman Order.
As far as he knew from his memory, the River God Talisman was not easy to expel. These Talismans were all refined by the Golden elixir elders of the Mang Cang Sword Sect. Once integrated, they would take root in the soul and wrap up the spiritual machine and seal it. , making people unable to practice, and any means to expel the talisman will cause damage to the soul.
But under the power of the residual jade, Zhang Qian didn't feel anything at all, and the talisman was shattered and expelled!
