Sword of Coming

It is especially cold when the snow melts.

Either the road on the official road is muddy, or the snow on the secluded path is deep, making a rustling sound when stepping on it.

And according to the calculations of several earthly immortal monks in Shujian Lake, there will be a heavier snowfall in the vast territory of Shujian Lake at the end of this year. By then, in addition to Shujian Lake, the heavy snowfall that has not happened in a century will also include Shihao Kingdom. Several vassals of the Zhuying Dynasty, Shujian Lake monks are naturally happy to see the results. I am afraid that several vassal countries will suffer. I just don’t know if the three heavy snowfalls after the beginning of winter will invisibly hinder the hooves of the Great Li cavalry. The speed of moving south gave the Zhu Ying Dynasty, which adopted the strategy of strengthening the walls and clearing the country for the first time since the founding of the country, more opportunities to breathe.

It's just that these general trends in the world seem to have little to do with the daily life of the monks who are stable on the mountain. After all, "the world" is divided into mountains and mountains.

In the main hall of Lingguan Temple, Zeng went to the surrounding area to collect firewood and lit a bonfire.

Chen Ping'an was still wearing a thick cotton robe, just like on Qingxia Island, but he no longer carried a sword. Instead, he used the sword style "created" by Pei Qian, a homemade bamboo knife and a purchased one from Chishuicheng. The large yellow sword imitating the canal from Yuanwei Street hangs on the side of his waist.

The two of them ate dry food. This trip was the first time Zeng Ye had traveled far in his life. Therefore, compared to the taciturn Chen Ping'an, Zeng Ye, who was young at heart, was inevitably a little excited. He crossed a pass and handed over his Qing Dynasty to the border soldiers of Shihao Kingdom. The genealogy issued by Xiadao Ancestral Hall made Zeng Ye feel fresh, but he didn't dare to show it. Mr. Chen was worried about many things, and Zeng Ye was not blind. Zeng Ye still had this kind of worldliness.

The two of them were almost speechless.

After Chen Pingan ate dry food, he began to spread out a map of Shihao Kingdom's prefectures and counties. Now the southern territory of Shihao Kingdom was not bad, with only sparse Dali cavalry scouts and cavalry wandering around. Chen Pingan and Zeng Ye were there. I have seen it twice, but in fact, the south that has not been affected by the war has also shown signs of troubled times, such as the Lingguan Temple where the two of them are.

This is an old Lingguan temple that has not been repaired for a long time. It is slightly dilapidated. According to the explanations of nearby villagers, the old Miao Zhu who was in charge of incense passed away in the autumn of this year. The county government should have selected a new Miao Zhu. Normally, He said that as long as the candidate has a clean background and has a Taoist priest who has the genealogy to help him sign, the prefectures and counties will nod. This is such a trivial matter, and there is no need to bother the Ministry of Rites in the capital. But when the Da Li barbarians came, the world was in chaos. He couldn't care about it. After all, the court would not blame the people who fled and returned to their hometowns. However, the useless position of temple blessing was similar to that of the county magistrate. He was responsible for the four words "responsibility for protecting the land", so the county government originally wanted to The two candidates, even though the county government had taken a big step back and made it clear in private that they did not need to spend their own money to establish relations with a certain high-ranking genealogy master in the county, they were still unwilling to take office, and they just kept delaying it. Wait, until the big Li barbarians who have surrounded the capital of Shihao Kingdom free up their hands and go south, this Lingguan Temple, which has only a few incense, will have no incense next year.

In troubled times.

The common people have too much time to take care of themselves and have no time to worry about going to the temple to offer incense. When they are full, they will worry about whether the clay statue of the immortal master is full or not. This is human nature.

Chen Ping'an handed the bamboo box to Zeng Ye to carry, and inside it was placed the ghost magic weapon that was brought on credit from the secret warehouse on Qingxia Island and was "imprisoned" in the Yama Hall.

As for Yu Hui's later visit to Qingxia Island, he took the initiative to sell the superior spiritual weapon imitating the Liuli Pavilion to Chen Pingan, and temporarily kept it for Chen Pingan. Among the twelve houses that can warm ghost generals and the like, At present, they are all inhabited by Yin spirits and ghosts with relatively full and complete souls. Except for one of them, the other eleven Yin ghosts are all Qi practitioners who were in the fifth realm during their lives and died at the hands of Tan Xue. They are relatively violent. Heavy, the obsession is deeper.

Although Zeng Ye has mediocre cultivation qualifications and dull temperament, he is a tall young man with diligent hands and feet and a lively eye. After leaving Shujian Lake and heading north, Zeng Ye did a lot of things.

However, Chen Ping'an is not the kind of Immortal Master who is accustomed to fine clothes and fine food. He does not need to serve Zeng Ye, so the two people, who are like masters and apprentices but have no master-disciple status, walk harmoniously and naturally along the way. This time they passed the border and entered Shi Hao. The country needed to visit as many as 40 places, involving eight states and more than 20 counties in Shihao Kingdom. The biggest headache for Zeng Ye was that half of the places were located in the northern part of Shihao Kingdom. The war was in turmoil, and he might have to compete with the Northern Li Dynasty. Dealing with barbarians, Zeng Ye was relieved just to think that Mr. Chen was a god. The poor boy was taken to Shujian Lake since he was a child and grew up on Maoyue Island. He had never traveled with his elders before, and had never tasted " The feeling of "immortal master on the mountain" still has a hint of innate fear towards the court and soldiers.

It seems naive, but in fact, in Chen Pingan's opinion, this is the right thing to do. Otherwise, if he encounters the strange cavalry from the far north and mistakenly thinks it is the ordinary soldiers and horses from the central territory of Aquarius Continent, once there is a conflict, other people will be killed. It is said that a monk like Zeng Ye, who is in the lower fifth realm, is a golden elixir earthly immortal who is worth less than one person in Shihao Kingdom and more than ten thousand people. If he encounters a wall against the Great Li Iron Cavalry, he might die. fate.

Regarding this matter, Chen Ping'an did not deliberately remind Zeng Ye that many seemingly superficial truths must be experienced personally to be profound, or at least heard and seen with one's own eyes.

Zeng Ye began to practice, using the secret technique of the immortal family taught by Mr. Chen. He breathed in and out, and diligence could make up for his weakness. The poorer he was as a wild cultivator, the more he could cherish this hard-won opportunity.

It is not easy for Chen Ping'an to cultivate his mind nowadays, and he has naturally stagnated when it comes to cultivating his strength. This is true for boxing, swordsmanship, and spiritual cultivation.

Chen Ping'an stood up, crossed the threshold, and came outside the main hall of Lingguan Temple, frowning slightly.

There is an old saying in the countryside that is widely circulated, that is, one person cannot live in the temple, and two people cannot watch the well.

Ordinary people may not really understand the mystery, but those who practice Taoism will feel it more deeply.

When good thoughts are dispersed in a person's heart like a fallen tree, distracting thoughts and evil thoughts will come in one after another, and vice versa.

The same applies to places like temples and Taoist temples where incense was originally flourishing. They were originally places where gods respected by ghosts and ghosts sat and maintained rules. Once the incense disappears and the spiritual energy is dispersed, it is easier for ghosts and ghosts to covet and spy on them.

This is the reason why many literati's reading notes record a series of weird things that happened in the dilapidated temples.

Once between Caiyi Kingdom and Shushui Kingdom, Chen Ping'an encountered a fox demon in a dilapidated temple.

At that time, there was an encounter and a parting.

Chen Ping'an lowered his head and held his hands, and gently exhaled a breath of white mist. He rubbed his palms together to keep warm. After thinking about it, he closed the door so as not to disturb Zeng Ye's practice.

Zeng Ye has a simple heart, but he is not tenacious enough on the way to practice Taoism. He is easily distracted. So tonight, the matter of tempering spiritual energy and warming the Qi Palace was interrupted as soon as it started, and he had to start all over again. One or two It doesn't matter once, if there are too many times, once it forms a mental trajectory that you are unaware of, it will be a big trouble. People's laziness, greed, etc. are often like this. It seems to happen quietly and is natural, but in fact it is in the eyes of others. There are already traces to follow.

Therefore, in the early stages of Zeng Ye's practice, Chen Ping'an had to pay more attention to taking care of the young man.

Although he is not a master, he is quite like a protector.

Thinking of this, Chen Pingan burst out laughing.

Instead of feeling heavy, Chen Pingan felt a little more relaxed. He probably thought of some happy things in the past, so that before he knew it, he relaxed his brows and said with a smile: "Come out, I know you exist. This place Although the incense in Lingguan Hall has withered, one of the golden body Dharma phase clones has been hiding and sleeping for many years. Master Lingguan only has divinity left, which is not enough for him to show up and protect the place. However, there is no grudge or enmity between the two of you. It's better to keep the water from the well than to make enemies for no reason, right? Once you meet a certain spiritual official with a bad temper, he will kill you even if he consumes his divinity and breaks his golden body. You can just go to the main hall in the main hall. If you eat the remnants of incense outside, I believe that the spiritual official behind you may not be angry. There is a difference between yin and yang. Ordinary people often like yang and hate the spiritual official, but this may not be the case. Your survival after death is due to God's will and chance. So you can wander around outside the main hall to help yourself maintain some aura, but don’t go into the main hall.”

Chen Ping'an spoke patiently and carefully, because many demonic ghosts and ghosts who have lingering anger, hatred or obsession after death are so confused that their understanding of the world is no more than when they were alive. The wild cultivators of the lower five realms such as Ye are not as good as him.

In Chen Ping'an's eyes, there were several yin things hiding there near the back door of the front hall. The wind was gusty and not strong. Now it is the severe cold of winter. People with a little yang energy, such as young and strong men, stood here like Chen Ping'an. From this position, you may not be able to clearly feel the Yin evil energy emitted by the Yin object, but if you are a person whose Yang energy is weak and prone to disasters, you may be affected by it. The Yin energy invades your body and you are easily infected with wind and cold. I can't afford to be sick. The qi-tonifying medicines prescribed by country doctors may not be effective, because they treat the symptoms but not the root cause, and the patient's soul is damaged. However, some local methods of summoning the soul and calming the mind that are used by some goddesses may be effective.

I don't know whether it was due to fear of Chen Ping'an or because it made sense, but those evil things gradually receded and they gave up the plan of entering the main hall of Lingguan Temple.

Since they stopped, Chen Ping'an didn't say or do much.

The first place they wanted to go on this trip was a fairy house on a hilltop in Shihao Country. Women's ghostly objects appeared in the world and walked in the human world. Chen Ping'an often asked their opinions. They could rely on Zeng Ye, but if they felt awkward, You can also temporarily inhabit a piece of Chen Pingan's fox-skin beauty talisman from the Xu family in Qingfeng City. The charming woman in the talisman can be placed close to you or in Chen Pingan's sleeve during the day, and she can appear at night. They can travel far away with Chen Pingan and Zeng Ye.

The twelve fox-skin beauty talismans are like an inn. Nowadays, people are staying in them, and they used to be Shihao people. So when night falls, when there is no one around, Chen Ping'an will take out the talismans and put them there. The talisman they were living in was taken out, but Chen Ping'an needed to spend some snow money, otherwise the talisman would be closed, making it impossible for them to return to the world of the sun, and unable to take a few more glances at the moving world here, which could not freeze the ghosts and ghosts. Landscape after snow.

If it were a normal night, Chen Ping'an and Zeng Ye would be surrounded by chatter, warblers, and swallows. It was very lively. Among the twelve talisman papers, even though there were some women who didn't like to communicate with each other, they had been together for a long time. , there are one or two female ghosts who are close and familiar to each other, each hugging a group, chatting about some boudoir talk. As for the avenue and practice, they will not say a word more. Talking more is useless and will only make them sad.

As for why they showed up tonight, Chen Pingan asked them to return to the talisman because they had to stay overnight at the Lingguan Temple and follow the local customs. They were not allowed to offend these temples. Some of the more daring women even made fun of and complained. Chen Ping'an came and said that these rules are just for the common people in the countryside. As a deity enshrined by Qingxia Island, Mr. Chen doesn't need to pay attention to it. If the deity of the small Lingguan Temple dares to step out of the clay statue, Mr. Chen will just call him back. As long as Chen Pingan insisted, they could only return the fox skin talisman carefully crafted by Xu.

At this moment, Chen Ping'an was standing in the corridor. Behind him, in the main hall, there was enshrined a spiritual official with a red face and big beard, yellow robe and golden armor. He held an iron whip and a golden rooster, independent and majestic.

According to legend, he is one of the more than 200 recorded orthodox spiritual officials in Taoism.

There is also an extremely hidden rumor that has spread throughout the world in the past hundred years. Most of them are high monks of the upper five realms and earthly immortals like Liu Zhimao who are qualified to hear it.

That is one of the three Taoist masters who sat in Bai Yujing in the last term. Tao Lao Er, who has the reputation of being truly invincible, proposed that among the five hundred Taoist spiritual officials, everyone in the three worlds, even the Celestial Master of Longhu Mountain, Even if you are not a disciple of the Taoist sect, whether you are a disciple of the other two sects or hundreds of schools of thought, you will have the opportunity to return to your position once you accumulate enough merit and luck, and eventually be worshiped in the Lingguan Hall, one of the five cities of Baiyujing. , enjoy endless incense.

So putting aside the more than two hundred spiritual officials and gods who are "ranked in the immortal class", it means that half of the gods are still vacant. The place where destiny belongs is waiting for you.

Chen Ping'an walked down the steps, pinched a snowball, and gently tamped it with his hands. He did not go to the front hall, but just wandered around the yard between the two halls.

This is probably the case.

Chen Pingan was thinking about something.

In Nanposuo Continent, Tongye Continent and Fuyao Continent, the three continents closest to Daixuan Mountain, important treasures were born, and heroes competed with each other. Du Mao's ascension failed, and the fragments of his glazed golden body were scattered. This great opportunity was rumored to have triggered a fight among many monks from the fifth realm on Aquarius Continent.

Then there is the theory of five hundred spiritual officials and divine positions.

This is the true general trend of the world.