On the Avenue

On the old willow tree, the scholar ghost was silent and resentful.

Zhu Youcai is his name.

He was hanging here, with his tongue hanging out a foot long, and his face turned purple like pig liver, which was strange to look at.

"Xiao Shi is not honest at all. He used my name to say that this woman is ugly."

He thought to himself, "But having said that, although this woman is not bad-looking, she has a bad mind. I wonder if Xiao Shi can handle it?"

He is in a state of soul, and these people can neither see him nor hear his voice.

He was hanged here. Although he became a ghost, he could not leave this old tree and could not inform Chen Shi's grandfather.

"The porcelain dolls that my eldest sister is talking about are probably a group of little ones that only appear in the evening, crawling out of the grass and talking in whispers."

Chen Shi said, "They spoke so fast and densely that it was hard to hear what they were saying. If people came close, they would hide in the grass and be nowhere to be found. After people left, they would come out again." At dawn, they will disappear. They are the ones Big Sister is looking for, right?"

He has indeed seen these porcelain dolls and often interacts with these little guys, so he is very familiar with them.

The woman in purple clothes and the men in flying fish suits nodded excitedly when they heard this.

"Sir, this little thing... the little brother described it so clearly, it means that the thing must be nearby!"

The man in the flying fish suit named Fang He smiled and said, "The rumors are indeed true. There is indeed a tomb of a true king here! Those porcelain dolls are the burial objects in the tomb that became spirits! If we can get these treasures, …”

The woman in purple was angry, her almond-shaped eyes widened, and she glared at him fiercely.

Fang He felt awe-struck and hurriedly shut up.

The woman in purple glanced at Chen Shi and breathed a sigh of relief when she found that Chen Shi was confused. It was obvious that a country boy didn't know what a big tomb was or what becoming a spirit meant.

"Little brother, can you take us to the place where those porcelain dolls disappeared?" the woman in purple said with a soft face.

Chen Shi looked troubled: "My grandfather is still at home waiting for me to go back for dinner..."

The purple-clothed woman chuckled and said: "Sister, there are some delicious foods here, which are cooked with spiritual animals and exotic herbs. Isn't it as delicious as the food at your home?"

She clapped her hands, and soon someone offered some meat jerky.

Chen Shi ate a piece of dried meat and it was really delicious, so he agreed.

Everyone followed Chen Shi, and the woman in purple said, "Little brother, I still don't know your name?"

Chen Shi said honestly: "My name is Honesty. The gentleman who taught me how to read said that honesty means sincerity and sincerity. People in the village call me Little Honesty. I never tell lies!"

After hearing this, everyone laughed secretly: "Where can anyone named Cheng exist? This country teacher is also ignorant and incompetent."

Fang He looked solemn as he came to the purple-clothed woman and whispered: "Sir, there is something wrong with this child..."

The purple-clothed woman's eyes had already fallen on Chen Shi's back. She squinted her eyes and nodded gently: "I noticed it too."

With a strange look on her face, she said softly: "You can't tell that he is still a monk at such a young age."

Chen Shi in front was still eating meat jerky. There were slight waves of breath in this young man's body, and there was actually real energy flowing around him. He was very strong.

I saw light looming behind Chen Shi's head, faint and hazy, and a shrine made of light was looming!

Dried meat is cooked with various spiritual animals and herbs, and contains very strong spiritual energy. When Chen Shi ate the dried meat, his spiritual energy was refined, and he could not help but reveal his cultivation.

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"Qi refining period, divine womb realm!"

The woman in purple said softly, "He has been transformed into a shrine. I think he has received the blessing of the true god and given birth to a divine fetus! He was placed in the provincial capital and can already take part in the provincial examination! A teenage boy..."

She couldn't help but be horrified.

The practice of monks is divided into five stages: refining qi, transforming into gods, refining gods, returning to emptiness, and integrating the Tao.

Among them, Qi refining is divided into four realms: Qi refining, foundation building, shrine, and divine fetus. Cultivating to the divine fetus realm is already a great achievement. You can take part in the provincial examination, become a scholar, and gain fame.

Nowadays, reading and practicing are both common in the world.

Scholars are monks, who can cultivate themselves, gain merit and become officials in the court.

Chen Shi was only in his teens and had already cultivated into a divine fetus, which was rare even in the world!

If he obtains fame, he will definitely shock the world!

The woman in purple and others came from a wealthy family in the provincial capital of Xinxiang. They did not expect to encounter such a genius inadvertently in the countryside. You can imagine their shock.

"wrong!"

The woman in purple saw that the shrine behind Chen Shi's head suddenly became unstable, as if the smoke in the wind might be blown away at any time. She hurriedly came to Chen Shi and looked at the shrine behind his head.

I saw that the shrine behind Chen Shi's head was empty, and there was no divine fetus!

The woman in purple looked puzzled.

At this time, the shrine behind Chen Shi's head dispersed, his true energy disintegrated, and he became an ordinary person again.

The other men in Feiyu suits also saw this scene, and they all showed strange expressions.

"With his attainments in the shrine, he should have cultivated into a divine fetus! Why is his shrine empty? Why did his cultivation suddenly disappear?" The woman in purple murmured.

Chen Shi's shrine is extremely stable. Even some masters of god transformation are not as good as him. They must have already entered the realm of the divine fetus. But there is no divine fetus in his shrine, and the shrine collapses at any time, which is really a strange thing.

Fang He had already understood and chuckled softly: "My lord comes from a famous family and does not know the dangers of the world. The emergence of a cultivation genius in this countryside is not necessarily a good thing, but a curse. The children of powerful families, if they are not very talented, , unable to cultivate into a divine fetus, passed the exam to become a scholar , they would ask family experts to find a genius with excellent talent and no background, deprive him of the divine embryo, and transplant it into himself. This boy named Honest must have been discovered by a powerful person because of his extraordinary talent. The divine fetus was harvested and transplanted to his own children.”

The woman in purple looked at Chen Shi's back in surprise and asked, "How can you still live after being deprived of the divine fetus?"

Fang He was also a little puzzled and said: "Logically speaking, the only way to seize the divine fetus is to pry open the skull, and the monk who is deprived of the divine fetus will undoubtedly die. But why is this kid not dead after someone poached the divine fetus?"

Every year, many people died because their divine fetuses were taken away, which was very common in the Ming Dynasty. It was a strange thing that Chen Shi was not dead even though he had the divine fetus taken away from him.

Fang He quickly stepped forward, came behind Chen Shi, and probed the back of his head. Sure enough, he felt a long-healed scar on the back of Chen Shi's head.

This scar is three to four inches long, and the bone under the scar is bulging.

"Honestly, don't move."

When Fang He said this, he pushed aside Chen Shi's hair. The scar turned flesh red, like a big red centipede as thick as a thumb lying on the back of Chen Shi's head.

Chen Shi ate the dried meat and didn't care about it.

The woman in purple also saw this scar and was shocked. This boy's head had been opened!

"It's really a miracle that you can survive such an injury!" She exhaled.

Without the Divine Embryo, any true energy is like a tree without roots and water without a source, which can disappear at any time. Chen Shi was robbed of the divine fetus and turned into a useless person. Therefore, after taking the preserved food, the medicinal power contained in the preserved food turned into Qi, allowing his shrine to reappear. But because there is no divine fetus, the shrine and his cultivation are just like a mirror.

Fang He fell a few steps behind and lowered his voice: "Sir, last year Li Xiaoding, the son of the Prime Minister of Li County in Buffalo County, made a splash in the provincial examination and won the title of Jieyuan. However, I heard that Mr. Li has neither knowledge nor skills. He is not clever, he is even very stupid, and he is not favored by the true god. Some people say that Mr. Li probably stole the divine child from a poor boy..."

The woman in purple coughed and said meaningfully: "Although the chief official of Li County is not a big one, the Li family is a powerful family. It has nothing to do with us how Mr. Li became the official. This child is so pitiful."

Her eyes fell on Chen Shi and she whispered: "Give him a good time later, don't torture him."

She turned around, looked at Huangpo Village, with a gentle face, and said softly: "There is also this village, let's get rid of it too, and bury it with the little guy, so as not to leak out and let people say that our Zhao family is not honest in what we do. If we find out that it is really The king’s tomb didn’t tell them that after finding the true king’s tomb, you should make arrangements for the murder and do it cleanly.”

Fang He bowed and said yes.

Chen Shi's expression remained normal, but his ears twitched.

Although he no longer has the divine fetus, his hearing is amazing. Although the conversation between the two people was slight, it could not escape his ears.

"These people have bad intentions towards me and the village. It seems that they are the instigators. According to Master's words, they want to eradicate the roots so that they will have no descendants."

Chen Shi thought to himself, "I will definitely not be able to defeat them. Master said, I don't talk about monsters and gods. My current strength is not enough to be called a monster and I can't make ghosts and gods surrender, so I'll just kill someone with a borrowed sword. Master's words are indeed full of philosophy of life!" "

His admiration for the Master arose spontaneously.

Chen Shi quietly slowed down and motioned for everyone to follow.

The woman in purple clothes and others followed him forward, but they saw a little man about ten feet tall playing by the stream near the mountain forest ahead.

These little people have distinct facial features, complete hands and feet, green clothes, and white skin, just like living people.

The sound of clinking porcelain as they touch each other indicates that they are not human.

The porcelain dolls were having fun playing by the mountain stream, splashing water and catching fish.

The words in their mouths are also very strange. They are not human words, babbling, and have no meaning, but the porcelain dolls can understand them, communicate with each other, and burst out bursts of laughter from time to time, which is very cheerful.

The woman in purple clothes and others came behind Chen Shi. Seeing this, they were inexplicably excited and whispered: "This must be the porcelain buried in the true king's tomb that has become a spirit. Just follow them and you can find the location of the true king's tomb!"

Chen Shi took a step forward and broke a dead branch on the ground. One of the porcelain dolls noticed it and looked around. When he saw Chen Shi, he shouted, with a voice as sharp as an oriole's cry.

When the other porcelain dolls saw Chen Shi, they all turned into bitter and resentful faces, rolled up their sleeves, and committed suicide in a menacing manner, not knowing what hatred they had.

At this time, the porcelain dolls saw the woman in purple and other strangers, and they couldn't help but exclaimed, and they all got into the grass by the stream.

There were chirping and cursing sounds coming from the grass. It must be that the porcelain dolls were angrily scolding Chen Shi for not being able to defeat them, and even called for help.

Fang He and others hurried forward, peeled away the grass and followed the trail quickly, but they saw that the mountains were full of green, the trees were tall, and the mountains and forests were gloomy and vast, and they couldn't tell their direction.

Those porcelain dolls moved quickly through the woods and grass, causing everyone who followed them to suffer a great deal and soon lost their traces.

The purple-clothed woman's eyes suddenly lit up and she whispered: "Follow Honesty!"

Only then did everyone notice that Chen Shi was walking swiftly in this mountain forest, chasing the porcelain dolls with ease.

It was difficult for everyone to catch up with those porcelain dolls, but Chen Shi's target was bigger and easier to track, so they followed Chen Shi and gradually went deeper into the forest.

But the trees became more and more dense, and there were only a few spots of mottled sunlight on the ground.

After chasing for an unknown distance, Chen Shi in front of them suddenly disappeared without a trace.

Everyone caught up, but saw that the trees around them grew rapidly, becoming taller and taller, like giant trees, lush and green, holding up the sky!

Even the weeds became as thick as trees, and the rocks looked like hills, and the streams became the Yangtze River, magnificent!

They were surprised, and heard someone shouting: "It's not that the grass and trees have grown bigger, it's that we have become smaller!"

The purple-clothed woman and others were horrified, and looked at each other, only to see that they had shrunk from the size of an adult to less than one foot in just a short moment!

The purple-clothed woman looked at her skin and couldn't help trembling.

After a while, she mustered up her courage and tapped her arm gently, making a crisp sound of porcelain colliding.

She almost fainted.

She turned into a porcelain doll!

She looked at the others, and the Jinyiwei who followed her turned into porcelain dolls!

"The realm of ghosts and gods! We have entered a realm of ghosts and gods! That's right! Honesty!"

The purple-clothed woman was like grabbing a life-saving straw, "Honesty has been here, he must know what's going on... Wait a minute!"

She looked pale: "If Little Honesty has been here and knew that entering this place would turn him into a porcelain doll, why did he bring us here? Honesty... is he really as honest as he seems?"