Strange mountains and rivers

Cold rain in late autumn.

Ancient temple at dusk.

A path winds through the valley, leading to this dark mountain col.

A jackdaw huddled on a dead tree outside the small temple raised its head and stared blankly at the sky. Occasionally, it lowered its head and glanced inside the small temple.

"Why are you watching, why don't you get out of here?!"

The dull and suppressed voice carried a somewhat indescribable richness and power, like a tiger roaring in the dark, shocking all beasts, and exploded outside the small pavilion.

The jackdaw was frightened and fluttered its wings, but it hovered in the air for a while, seemingly unable to find anywhere to go, and then flinched and flew back to the branch.

He was being chased too closely by the Taoist man thirty miles away.

From Jingyanggang to here, he ran for three thousand miles with almost no time to rest. So far, he has not had time to digest the alchemy in his stomach, and he is a little exhausted.

The man with hooded hair and curly beard who kicked open the rotten door of the small courtyard of the dilapidated temple glanced at the roof of the pavilion above the ancient well in the courtyard, turned his brown eyes, and curled his lips contemptuously.

How dare an ordinary person pay a visit to me?

The roar spread, the pillars and roof of the small pavilion shivered, the gray grass fell off, and the black shadow crawling on the roof only trembled, but there was no other movement.

At this moment, something seemed to have been triggered by his roar, and the main hall of the ruined temple, which was far away from the small pavilion in the courtyard, suddenly seemed to shake.

A golden light spread out from the main hall and hit the wellhead in the pavilion.

The man with shaggy hair and curly beard had long noticed the strange phenomenon at the mouth of the well.

The white mist was lingering, as if something tangible was slowly transforming into something. When illuminated by the golden light, it immediately accelerated its crystallization.

Stopping in surprise, the man looked at the hexagonal wellhead in the pavilion, then glanced back at the strange light that was slowly disappearing, and his eyes fell on the ruined temple with an unobstructed view.

The slowly rising light on a strange statue leaning on the pedestal in front of the temple is dimming.

The power of God’s will?

The man suddenly became serious. If he could be blessed by incense and vows, he would be no ordinary thing.

Just this idol...?

The man could not identify what this ugly statue was.

But after all, he has been traveling in the human world for many years, and he also knows that the customs in the world are different, and the private temples for obscene worship are also all kinds of strange, so it is not strange to worship anything.

It's just that this sacrificial object is too hideous and terrifying.

But if it was just ferocious and terrifying, that would be fine. After all, it was not uncommon to see people offering sacrifices to monsters and ghosts in the secular world, but this one looked like a beast. For a while, he didn't think of any gods and ghosts with such an image.

The forehead is protruding and the nose is protruding, the mouth is protruding and the teeth are buckled, and the top of the head is uneven. Moreover, the statue is missing both arms and the lower half, leaving only a clay bust.

It has no majestic and vigorous form, nor does it have the air of looking down on all living beings. It looks like something that is handled casually in private.

Look at the dilapidated and messy appearance of this temple. The candlesticks in the main hall have collapsed, the offering trays have fallen to the ground, and a futon is in a state of rot, with broken grass roots protruding out, revealing the wooden base inside.

The side hall was empty, except that the stone walls were crooked and mottled.

It doesn't look like anyone is coming to worship.

Perhaps this is a big demon unique to this place, which is quite efficacious and attracts ordinary people to worship it privately?

But no matter what it was, his natural intuition made him feel the crisis.

The monster at the mouth of the well transformed into shape very quickly. Almost in a breath, it had already expanded into a white-headed, green-bodied monster with a wide forehead and broad nose, and its appearance was somewhat similar to the statue of the god.

I saw the monster's eyes were red, with golden light flashing. The ferocious flames in his eyes immediately fell on him, and he also showed a bit of joy. In an instant, he was about to turn into reality. Is this guy going to transform?

Is it the form of Yuan Shen, or is it the form of Yuan Ti that I cannot know?

The man with shaggy hair and beard suddenly felt the coercion forcing him to breathless, and the pill that had not yet been digested in his belly started to beat vigorously, almost jumping out of his body.

He immediately felt that a disaster was coming, and the innate sense of crisis made the hair on his body stand up.

This monster actually wanted to devour himself, and even the undigested elixir in his belly was affected.

You simply ignore yourself, how brave!

But the strength shown by the other party also gave him a feeling of overwhelming power that he was unable to resist.

Either run away or fight.

A hundred years of travels in the world and three hundred years of cultivation have never left him in such a defenseless state, but his heart and blood do not allow him to be captured without restraint.

The man with shaggy hair and curly beard didn't have time to think too much. With one stride, he was three feet away. In just one step, the man transformed into a beautiful tiger that was more than one foot long!

The beard and hair of Dou Da's head were bulging, and his blood-filled mouth suddenly opened. The red and white breath spurted out, directly attacking the swirling and tangled aura.

The atmosphere that was transforming and consolidating suddenly expanded outwards, and the lingering smoke exploded with a roar, blooming into speckled air waves, facing the impact of the red and white gas.

"boom!"

The tiger's huge body was suddenly shaken three feet away, and its light dimmed.

The entire dark and colorful figure presented a blurred shadow, twisting and folding in the space, and the Dan Yuan that had not yet been digested was almost knocked out.

In shock, the tiger transformed into a human form again, and the man with shaggy hair and curly beard could not believe what he had encountered.

Unexpectedly, a layer of external Qi can dissipate the essence of the elixir that he has exerted to the extreme, and part of it has already digested the Taoist's essence.

Could this demon really have become a god with the power of incense? !

How can this be?

For a moment, he didn't know what to do, but he knew that once the demon ghost took shape, with the power it showed, even if he ran away now, it would be impossible to escape from the opponent's clutches.

With no choice left, the shaggy-haired and bearded man roared again.

Suddenly, his hands transformed into tiger claws. The red and white vitality between the claws disappeared and appeared, and he pressed forward with his hands clasped together.

Suddenly they merged and separated, and in an instant, the entire space in the pavilion was about to be torn apart, and the small pavilion suddenly exploded.

The thatch on the top of the entire pavilion was scattered in all directions, the four pavilion pillars were broken, the cyclone exploded, and even the hexagonal wellhead shook.

The transformed giant ape couldn't help but grin, and stretched its arms.

There are actually beautiful things delivered to your door. Is it true that God has opened his eyes?

Although it is said that the quality is a bit poor and a bit mixed, it is actually a tiger's body, but it is also mixed with the human Taoist elixir, which makes it an appetizer.

I saw that the giant ape's figure was about to break away from the constraints of the wellhead with a single move, and its lower body was completely transformed at the last moment.

A silver-white bolt suddenly appeared in the pitch-black void and cut through the sky, falling straight down between the sky and the earth, reflecting the vast expanse of daylight in Cuiwei, Yushan Mountain, which is three thousand miles away.

The horse fell down from the sky and landed on the ground, making it visible throughout the three thousand miles of Yushan Mountain and its surrounding towns.

Countless cultivators couldn't help but rise up in the air and look around, trying to see clearly who was in trouble again.

Bai Lian's light suddenly disappeared, splashing down from the sky, breaking through the air in the blink of an eye.

But it bloomed on the well in this pavilion.

"ah!"

"Ouch!"

The man with the shaggy hair and curly beard had just time to approach the opponent again with the Danyuan Cyclone dancing with his claws, when he saw the Bai Lian light falling from the sky blooming between the two of them, or in other words blooming with the radiance that he had released with his lifetime of Danyuan. And the monster giant ape transformed into its real form.

The top of the barrel-sized nimbus flame ball had a thin silver-white line reaching straight to the sky. It suddenly expanded and exploded between the two of them. The entire two-fold intertwined cyclone was instantly swallowed by the flame, and then slowly spread outward.

The giant ape's expression changed from surprise and joy to horror, despair and anger in the eyes of the man with shaggy hair and curly beard.

Before he could react, he found that his entire body had once again turned into a tiger shadow, and even the remaining alchemy turned into dots and scattered in the air.

"No! God damn it!"

"ah!"

With gradually blurred eyes, he looked at the giant ape that had transformed from feathers into a real form and turned into nothingness again, and a flash of spiritual light suddenly passed away.

The entire real form turned into a white mist again, and was forced back into the hexagonal well. Along with the rough and violent series of curses, it went straight to the bottom of the well for hundreds of feet, and disappeared.

No one noticed that when the top of the pavilion was blown open by the air wave, the black shadow that screamed and fell from the top of the pavilion had not had time to land, but was bounced into the temple by the shock wave released when the light flames bloomed, and was hit hard. The stone wall of the side hall only made a dent in the stone wall before it fell to the ground silently.

Thirty miles away, a figure came flying through the sky with lightning.

It only landed in the sky above this stone kip, but could no longer feel the aura that was quite clear before.

The Taoist who landed on the top of Shikia Peak felt incredible.

Count with your fingers.

A moment?

Could it really be that violent tiger that turned into a nightmare to deal with the calamity?

It shouldn’t be.

Even though the guy took advantage of the situation and swallowed his junior brother's Yuan Dan, he was still far from being ready for the calamity, at least it couldn't be this kind of heavenly calamity, but the faint aura of the guy was fading away, and it seemed to be getting stronger. layer.

Where did this guy go?

If it wasn't him, who would be responsible for the disaster?

Looking up, the Taoist couldn't figure out whether it was humans or demons who were suffering from the disaster in the wild mountains. This Yushan Mountain was too broad, and he could only roughly determine the direction, but could not find the specific location.

After lingering for a long time, he carefully sensed the surrounding area for dozens of miles, but still didn't detect anything of value. The Taoist sighed and could only leave in frustration.

The ancient temple has returned to its former peace, but it is even more dilapidated than before.

The small pavilion disappeared, the hexagonal wellhead was exposed in the wild, and most of the courtyard wall collapsed due to the wave of shock.

Only a crumbling temple was left, as well as the statue of the god that had fallen to the ground and the black figure that was knocked down on the stone wall of the side hall and huddled motionless in the corner.

The sun rises and the moon sets, the morning sun and evening rain.

I don’t know how long it took.

The rain began to pour again.

A group of people appeared on the mountain path, with a few torches dimly lit, heading towards the small temple.

The dark figure huddled at the foot of the wall seemed to be awakened by the sound of horse hooves on the mountain path, and finally moved.

Chen Huaisheng tried his best to raise his heavy head to see where this was.

The darkness in his eyes made him wonder if he was blind.

The probing hand rubbed the rugged stone wall next to it.

There was a bit of fishy smell in the mouth, and there was something dry like snot on the lips under the nose. After licking it, it still smelled like blood.

Only then did he realize that his mouth and nose were full of dried blood clots.

Except for his left hand, his whole body seemed to be in severe pain as if it was broken and scattered.

I haven't felt this way for a long time.

I have the impression that after I was determined to have a Taoist seed at the age of ten, I no longer had such uncomfortable situations.

Even though he later traveled abroad to study and encountered some dangers, he was never like a cripple and a half-dead person like today.

No, aren’t you County Magistrate Chen?

His thinking became a little confused, making him dizzy again. It seemed like a dream, intertwining the memories of two people, but which one was true and which one was false?

He shook his head hard, trying to wake himself up, but the various scenes in his mind lingered. It was really a dream, why was it so clear?

He subconsciously touched the clothes and baggage on his body.

Wearing a long narrow shirt with a horizontal pleated shirt, a cross-collar sweatshirt inside, and trousers underneath, it feels familiar yet strange.

What is familiar to me is that the clothes seem to fit me very well, and the smell is very familiar. What is strange is that this clothes is from the Tang, Song or Ming Dynasty? This thought was strange.

It seems like he really traveled through time?

Chen Huaisheng's mind became clearer and clearer, and bits and pieces emerged from the bottom of his heart like gurgling spring water.

The memories on both sides are finally separated and do not overlap with each other. One seems to be innate, and the other is experienced personally, which is a bit interesting.

This man is also called Chen Huaisheng. Is he soul-piercing or body-snatching?

It seems that I have more recognition of this identity, so I have such thoughts, instead of feeling that I have had an extremely real dream.

With a slight movement, Chen Huaisheng was brought back from his reverie by severe pain.

His whole body was severely injured and he could not move. Chen Huaisheng could only turn his mind back to the scene before he fell into coma.

Tigers should not be talented people.

He didn't know the identity of the man he saw who was waiting to devour anyone, but before he fell into coma, he saw the man with the curly beard turn into a beautiful tiger, and the hair was dazzling, confusing and confusing. He was deeply impressed.

Whether it was a demon or a human, he couldn't tell.

He was knocked off the stone wall and fell down. Although his whole body was in great pain and his bones were broken and his limbs were broken, it was nothing to him who had the Taoist skills. He only needed to adjust his breath and move around the sky to recover. For some, you can recover most of your health after just one or twenty days of rest.

Tao Seed, Chen Huaisheng finally realized something.

Well, I am a little bit different, that is, I have Tao seed in my body. I am the only one among the more than 120 children born in Yuanbaozhai, Guzhen, Liao County in the ninth year of Jingzhen that I have Tao seed in my body. .

Thinking of this, the faint sound of horse hooves on the mountain path came to my ears again.

He didn't have time to think too much. He almost gritted his teeth, supported his body with his still strong left arm, and sat up.

At this time, through a little starlight outside the hall, Chen Huaisheng was finally sure that he was not blind. It was just that the night was deep, he was facing the wall, and there was no light, so he couldn't see.

The slightly turbid vitality is about to stir in the sea of ​​qi.

Closing his eyes and concentrating, Chen Huaisheng slowly gathered spiritual power from his Dantian. Chen Huaisheng urged his spiritual consciousness to drive the flow of vitality in the meridians, and a qi machine began to slowly move along the meridians.

The qi machine rotated three times in a row in his body, which seemed to be faster than expected, which surprised him.

Well, it seems that there is something more in the depths of the Qi Sea, but now I can't look inwards and see what's wrong with my body.

Chen Huaisheng finally got ahead of the noise and entered the temple, forcing himself to stand up.

Most of the ribs were broken or cracked, but that didn't matter, they were well maintained.

But what we are facing now is the crisis.

In the middle of the night, visiting this small mountain temple, I am afraid it is not an ordinary person.

My current state is very unsafe, or very dangerous.

This world seems to be very uneven, or in other words, it is full of dangers.

He cannot expose his weakness to outsiders. Without knowing the role of the person coming, it is difficult to say whether his weakness will stimulate the other party to become malicious.

Chen Huaisheng never hesitates to use malicious intentions to speculate on people he doesn't understand.

Well, this doesn't seem to be the current Chen Huaisheng's temperament.

The sound of horse hooves is getting closer.

The messy sounds were particularly clear in the mountains late at night.

"Why is there a temple here?"

"What kind of bullshit temple is built in a place where people are afraid to see people? You can tell at a glance that it is a licentious temple..."

"Whether it's a licentious ritual or a private temple, there are no people around here for twenty or thirty miles, so who will come to worship?"

"Who do you worship? Huaidu Dragon God? Or Gengchen God?"

"How is it possible? How can the place where the Dragon God and Gengchen are worshiped be so dilapidated? It's impossible to choose a corner like this. It's not popular. How can you worship?"

"Yes, you can tell it is an obscene sacrifice at a glance. I don't know what it is, and the government doesn't care about it..."

"It's so remote. If we hadn't gone the wrong way, we wouldn't have been able to get here. The nearest county is a hundred miles away, so there's no way we can get there..."

Amidst the commotion, the group of people walked to the courtyard gate and looked around, only to realize that the place was in a state of decay.

The first person couldn't help but frown: "Why is it so shabby, how can you rest?"

"Okay, there are so many things to pay attention to when going out, so just don't go out at all and just find a place to take shelter from the rain." A gentle and calm voice suddenly suppressed the noisy group of people, "Go in Well, be careful, there may be people taking shelter here, so don’t disturb others.”

Chen Huaisheng held on to the stone wall and with some difficulty wiped away the blood outside his nose and mouth with his inner sleeve. He tried to appear calm, but he was also a little shocked in his heart.

He tried his best to suppress his breath, but it was obvious that he was still noticed.

There should be more than five or six people coming, and you can tell just from the footsteps of their dismounts that they all have Taoist qualifications, and there are also Qi practitioners.

After traveling abroad for seven years to study and seek Taoism, Chen Huaisheng still saw a lot although he still had no clear idea of ​​Taoism.

He has a Taoist background and is regarded as a leading figure in Yuanbao Village in the countryside. He can be famous in Guzhen, but in the county he can only get a "rare" praise.

If you want to enter the mansion, you will really be like everyone else.

At the age of seven, he knew the bones of the Tao, and at the age of fourteen he had spiritual roots. At twenty-one, he realized nothing and returned to nature.

It will be difficult if your spiritual roots have not yet appeared after fourteen.

I was only thirteen when I awakened my spiritual roots, and I couldn't wait to travel abroad to seek enlightenment.

It's a pity that nothing has been accomplished in six years.

There is still one year left. If you still can’t enter Taoism and practice Qi after twenty-one,...

Then he can only be regarded as an innate Taoist. He can strengthen his body better than ordinary people and have a chance of doubling his lifespan, but there is no other extravagant hope.

There are no candles in the temple.

Recalling that when I first entered the temple, I found the candlestick collapsed, the statue of the god tilted, the offering plate overturned, and nothing else, so I took shelter from the rain in the side hall to rest.

Who would have thought that the monster with shaggy hair and curly beard would come so loudly along the mountain path, and circled outside the temple for a while before entering.

If I hadn't practiced the Taishang Sensing Technique and accidentally sensed something strange, climbed up to the top of the pavilion and hid, I'm afraid I would have been swallowed by that guy immediately.

Thinking of this, Chen Huaisheng couldn't help but touch the thin booklet in his arms.

After six years of studying and traveling, I only had this technique, and it had never worked. I always thought it was useless, but today I finally felt it, and it saved my life.

It's just that I wanted to find a sect to open the door to Taoism, but I still couldn't do it. I wasted for a few years, and saw the passage of time, and then I had the idea to go home and have a look.

As I was thinking about it, the footsteps of a group of people outside had already entered.

The first person did not enter the side hall first, but entered the main hall. He raised the torch and had a panoramic view.

"Hey, this is...?"

"Scared, what kind of stupid people dare to create gods and monsters privately?"

"It's so ugly, without any dignity at all. I wonder what it is?"

The chaotic voices were noisy, but they were still overwhelmed by the calm and gentle voice: "Chi Mei, you are from here, do you know what kind of monster this is? It's not the Dragon King, nor the Gengchen God,... …”

"Senior sister, it seems like Wuzhi Qi. The Huai River is nearly three thousand miles away, and most of them worship Dragon Lord and Gengchen God. However, there are also many villagers who worship Wuzhi Qi privately, but the government has always strictly prohibited it. Xiao I have never seen my sister, I only heard that Wuzhi Qi has a white head, red eyes, a protruding forehead and buck teeth..."

A voice as clear as a spring answered.

"Hey, this private temple actually has couplets..."

"Lantian Hongze, blessing Qinghuai? Tsk tsk, this is really going against the government."

"Then it should be this one. I wonder if Zuodian's friends also recognize him?" A quiet and gentle voice sounded again, and everyone looked at Zuodian.

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