Pawn Crossing the River

"Are you okay?" Qi Xuansu asked while loading the "Dragon Gun".

Zhang Yuelu took a deep breath: "It's okay."

Qi Xuansu gently stroked the body of the "Dragon Hand Gun" with his hand and praised: "It's really a good thing. When I get rich, I will definitely buy one for self-defense."

"Have you seen something wrong with them a long time ago?" Zhang Yuelu gradually realized that Qi Xuansu was able to kill the second woman with a gun at the critical moment. This was by no means a temporary reaction, but a long-term preparation. He was even ready to attack. , so he could just kill the woman.

Qi Xuansu put the "Dragon Fire Gun" back into the holster on his waist. He did not answer directly, but said: "I don't know if they have any problems. I only know that they must be on guard against others."

Zhang Yuelu said angrily: "Then you won't remind me?"

In fact, Zhang Yuelu is not someone who likes to shirk responsibility. If it were anyone else, she would definitely choose to reflect on herself, but Qi Xuansu is an exception.

"You gain wisdom after you have been hurt, but it's hard to remember what others say. Only when it hurts can you remember it deeply and firmly." Qi Xuansu reached out to untie his right lapel.

Zhang Yuelu was startled, subconsciously took a few steps back, protected himself with his hands, and said warily: "What are you going to do?"

Qi Xuansu opened his collar and middle coat, revealing a hideous wound: "When I first walked on the rivers and lakes, I didn't understand this truth and almost died, so I remember it very well."

Zhang Yuelu looked at Qi Xuansu's wounds. A little further up was his throat, a little further down was his heart and lungs. He almost died.

Qi Xuansu covered up his clothes and said: "One more thing, there are four taboos in the world, monks, Taoists, old people, women, and children. Take you as an example, you are both a Taoist priest and a woman, so in the eyes of others, you are a troublesome person. In fact, the reason is not complicated. Not to mention the monks, women, children and the elderly are all weak, and the world is not a good place. As the saying goes, there will be monsters when things go wrong. Women, children and the elderly who dare to walk in the world. He must have a good artistic career.”

Zhang Yuelu gently pressed his ribs with his hand, nodded and said, "I've written it down."

"Are you really okay?" Qi Xuansu then looked at Zhang Yuelu's ribs.

Zhang Yuelu frowned and said: "It's strange to say that these two women are just acquired people, and their bodies are not even as good as those of alchemists, but they can hurt me. There is a strange true energy that remains in my body and has never dissipated."

Qi Xuansu said: "Are you saying there is something fishy about these two women?"

Zhang Yuelu nodded: "I suspect that they are related to the Ancient Immortal. There is nothing surprising about the believers of the Ancient Immortal, but they can use their own bodies as containers to pray for the divine power of the Ancient Immortal. If these two women are believers of the Ancient Immortal, then That makes sense.”

Qi Xuansu came to the woman who was shot dead by him. Because the woman's clothes were relatively simple, there was no need to search her body. He looked carefully at the woman's wrists, neck and other places, and sure enough, he found a string of beads on her wrists. .

"Liu Zhu" is the rosary of Taoism.

"Tai Shang San Yuan Liu Zhu Sutra" says: The white pearls used for reception are round, clear and bright, three hundred and sixty-five as big as tung seeds, corresponding to the degree of the stars and the time when the sun and the moon meet. Another "Tai Xuan Jin Suo Liu Zhu Yin" says: Day and night are turning, the sky is endless, like the endless flow of water, and the stars are as round as beads, so it is called Liu Zhu. "

The most common number of Buddhist beads is one hundred and eight, which means one hundred and eight kinds of troubles. The most common number of Taoist beads is eighty-one, which means the eighty-one transformations of the Supreme Being. Of course, there are also twelve, Twenty-four, twenty-eight, thirty-six.

Qi Xuansu took off the string of beads from the corpse's wrist and looked through them carefully. There were twelve beads in total, a typical Taoist style. Each beads was engraved with a different image of the same woman, or just like ordinary people, It may be like a dragon or a snake, or it may have three heads and six arms, or it may have two heads and four arms, or it may have eyes open between its brows, or it may have two wings on its ribs.

Qi Xuansu was very sure that he had never seen this woman before, so he handed Liuzhu to Zhang Yuelu.

Zhang Yuelu took the Liuzhu and looked at it carefully for a moment: "This should be something from Wu Luo."

"Wuluo?" Qi Xuansu asked doubtfully.

As the saying goes, there are specialties in the arts, but when it comes to Jianghu experience, Zhang Yuelu is not as good as Qi Xuansu. But when it comes to matters involving ancient immortals, Qi Xuansu is far inferior to Zhang Yuelu.

Zhang Yuelu explained: "Wuluo is one of the ancient immortals and the master of the Lingshan witchcraft. Before the rise of Taoism, the ancient witchcraft was at its peak. The ancestors of the ancient witchcraft were called the Ten Witches of Lingshan, and Wuluo was one of them."

"Later, there was a rupture among the ten witches in Lingshan, and five of them left Lingshan with Wu Yang, and were called the Six Enlightened Witches. The remaining five witches fought among themselves, and Wu Luo and her sisters murdered the then leader. Wu Xian. There are only four people left in the ancient witch sect, and Wu Luo is the most powerful, replacing Wu Xian as the new leader of the witch sect."

"When the Tianshi Sect, the predecessor of Zhengyi Yitai, rose up, our ancestor of the Zhang family, the Ancestral Tianshi, led a crowd to attack Lingshan and killed Wu Luo and Wu Gu. The witch sect was destroyed. The remaining two great witches fled to the grassland and Posu Prefecture. , each left a legacy, which is also the origin of shamanism.”

"But just two hundred years ago, Wu Luo was resurrected and manifested in the world. He claimed to be the master of the Wu Cult and was classified as an ancient immortal by the Taoist sect."

Qi Xuansu said in disbelief: "These two women are followers of Wuluo? This place is only a few hundred miles away from the Kunlun Pass. How dare they be so rampant?"

Zhang Yuelu said: "This is nothing. When the ancient immortals were at their most rampant, they had even penetrated into Xuandu."

Qi Xuansu was speechless and said: "As the saying goes, how can others be allowed to snore next to the bed? No wonder the Taoist sect wants to crack down on secret associations."

Speaking of this, Zhang Yuelu began to pace back and forth habitually. Because of his injury, he subconsciously put his hands on his waist, as if to show his affection.

Seeing this scene, Qi Xuansu wanted to hold back his laughter, but he couldn't hold it back, and his shoulders shook slightly.

Zhang Yuelu stopped, looked at Qi Xuansu, and asked softly: "Tianyuan, why are you laughing?"

Qi Xuansu coughed lightly: "I suddenly thought of something funny."

"If there's something funny, you might as well tell it and make me laugh." Zhang Yuelu's tone became gentler.

Qi Xuansu suddenly felt something bad. Before he could think of anything to change the subject, he felt a pain in his ribs and had been pinched hard by Zhang Yuelu.

"Hiss!" Qi Xuansu took a breath of cold air and couldn't help but reach out to support his waist like Zhang Yuelu.

Zhang Yuelu smiled and said: "It's indeed very funny. If we can take two more steps, it will be even funnier."

Qi Xuansu hummed, but considering his own level of cultivation, he did not dare to express any opinions.

Zhang Yuelu suddenly felt that Qi Xuansu was becoming more and more arrogant, but this arrogance was also related to her indulgence and encouragement, which made the two of them get along more like friends rather than bosses and subordinates.

After a while, Zhang Yuelu used his zhenqi to dissolve the alien zhenqi under his ribs, and finally stopped holding his hands on his waist.

Qi Xuansu rubbed his ribs and asked: "Why do the ancient immortals manage such a huge power? Is it just for the incense and power? You also said that there were ancient immortals who were recruited by Taoist sects and became Taoist sects. An innocent Taoist priest."

Zhang Yuelu thought for a moment and said slowly: "For those high-ranking ancient immortals, worldly gold and silver no longer have much meaning. Their money is incense and will power, which is even more important than money. It is the food to maintain their existence." ”

Zhang Yuelu paused and added: "I just followed the script."

Qi Xuansu said thoughtfully: "You once told me that for the ancient immortals, the human world is a huge cage, so all the great masters and great masters of the past generations have ascended and passed away, but the ancient immortals continue to stay in the human world. You still I said, if one day we lose our magic power, where will we go? " Is there any relationship between the two? "

Zhang Yuelu did not hide his admiration for Qi Xuansu: "It does matter. I can only tell you now that the power of incense and desire is the key for the ancient immortal to break free from the shackles of the human world. The Taoist sect is not to force the ancient immortal to stay in the human world, but to The ancient immortals are not allowed to harvest the power of incense and wish in the way of fishing, and the ancient immortals are not allowed to establish cults for their own selfish purposes. In other words, the Taoist sect only cares about the order of the world and does not care about the life and death of the ancient immortals. Survive in death, no matter what happens in the world. From a mortal standpoint, Taoism is naturally right."

Qi Xuansu said thoughtfully: "What is the difference between orthodox religion and evil religion?"

Zhang Yuelu replied: "Actually, it's just like doing business. Orthodoxy is a serious business. It takes time to slowly accumulate wealth. It is reasonable and legal. However, cultism is about making money quickly and benefiting oneself at the expense of others. Generally speaking, orthodox gods will persuade believers Those who are good will protect one side after gaining the incense and vows from believers, and they come and go. However, evil gods make up doctrines at will, harvest the incense and vows at will, fail to perform their clerical duties, and even encourage people to do evil. "

Qi Xuansu said in surprise: "What good does it do to the ancient immortals to persuade people to do evil? Are they just doing evil?"

"Take Wulu as an example." Zhang Yuelu knew very well about the annihilation of witchcraft because of the Zhang family. "Back then, Wulu once created the Kingdom of God in the human world. Anyone who believed in Wulu could enter Wulu's world in their sleep. In the Kingdom of God, as long as you can pass the various tests set by Wu Luo, you can obtain a witchcraft called 'Zhu Youshu'. The Taoist sect calls it 'Human Technique', and the Holy Court calls it 'Hypnosis'. , can make others follow your orders in confusion."

"After many people have obtained this method, although they cannot deal with people born in the past, they are more than enough to deal with people born in the future. The ravines are difficult to fill, and they either take the opportunity to make money and kill, or take the opportunity to rape their wives and daughters. In this way , these people are becoming more and more pious towards Wulu, and more and more people believe in Wulu.”

"At its peak, Wu Luo had nearly a million followers. He dominated one area and was the most powerful among the great witches. Do you think this is persuading people to do evil? Is there any benefit?"

Qi Xuansu remained calm on the face, but deep down in his heart there was a huge wave.

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