Chapter 151: Destiny cannot even understand his former self. …
The sword energy swept across the land of Kyushu and soon sensed a familiar breath.
The swordsman raised his head and looked in the direction of the breath.
There is...
Yangtouling, Guyuan Village, Baijia.
The villagers have always known that the Bai T family worships a Bai Daxian. Whenever they encounter strange things that are difficult to solve by human power, they will run to the Bai family.
During this period of time, there were surprisingly many strange things.
Several Mohists came to the village to promote the court's new loom, which was more than ten times faster than before. More importantly, this machine was extremely easy to use. Anyone from an eighty-year-old woman to a toddler could learn it quickly.
This should have been a good thing, but unexpectedly, the whole village, young and old, men, women, and children, joined in the work. After a while of hard work, every midnight, a mouse would run to the oil lamp and candle next to the loom, stand up, and use its front paws like human hands to bow and worship.
This is the first strange thing.
The second thing was that the loom suddenly stopped even though all its parts were intact. The Mohists could not find out the reason. Half an hour later, it fixed itself again.
The third case, someone said that while working, he would occasionally hear a sad voice saying in his ear: "The dragon vein... is broken..."
More and more people heard the sound, and the villagers decided to go find the Bai family fairy to ask about the situation.
Everyone was crowded in the Bai family compound, talking about the strange things that had happened to them.
Some children noticed that the fairy's pupils had no whites for some reason. They wanted to tell the adults, but were instead tapped on the back of their heads and warned not to act like a demon at this time.
After listening to everyone's stories, the fairy nodded and said, "Bai Xian already knows about these things."
The villagers hurriedly asked, "Then please help me, Fairy, is there an evil spirit causing trouble in secret?"
The fairy looked at the Mozhe in the crowd. Everyone followed her gaze and heard her slowly speak: "Bai Xian told me that the looms brought by Mozhe are spreading evil and destroying the dragon veins underground. If you want to save your life, you must smash the looms immediately and drown these outsiders in the pond. Only then can Bai Xian take action to eliminate the evil spirits in the village."
Everyone was silent at first, and then, like ants being doused in hot water, they began to get excited.
"The Mohists are here to help us."
"Since we got the new loom, everyone in the family can afford to wear cotton trousers. How can we smash them?"
"The dragon vein belongs to the emperor, so what does it have to do with us ordinary people?"
"If the emperor is not anxious, why should Bai Xian be anxious?"
Clothing and food are the top priorities. Ordinary people don’t care whether you are a dragon or not.
Fairy Bai was not in a hurry. She took out a few pieces of talisman paper from her waist and lit them. The talisman ashes flew all over the ground, revealing small handprints the size of a baby's palm.
Everyone was so frightened that they stepped back and got goose bumps all over their bodies. At this moment, sharp thorns grew on the fairy's face, like a hedgehog.
Her voice also became inhuman, mixed with a beast-like growl: "Look at yourself!"
Everyone knew that this was the Bai family's ancestral art of summoning spirits. They had seen it before and were not afraid. They looked down and saw a number of pitch-black little hands pulling at their sleeves, grabbing their hair, and pulling at their faces.
"ah!"
The crowd was in a panic and pushed each other. Several Mohists were pushed to the front. Someone grabbed their collars and asked, "What is this?"
Just as Mo Zhe was about to explain, Fairy Bai shouted, "You are using this sorcery to seduce souls in my village. Do you really think that there is no one in the Bai clan?"
At this moment, the hoarse voice mixed with the low roar of animals was particularly authoritative to the villagers. People trembled and said, "Oh my God, they are here to take souls away."
As for the relationship between soul-stealing and destroying dragon veins, the villagers would not think too much about it.
Compared to having your soul taken away, the need for clothing and food becomes secondary.
Several Mohists were beaten up by the angry crowd and thrown into pig cages. Fortunately, the pond had not frozen yet, so they could still be sunk.
People pushed looms, carried pig cages, and lit torches, and came to the dark pond at night.
Fairy Bai walked at the end of the crowd. Her pair of black pupils without whites stretched out spores, whipping the thorns on her face, as if she was fighting an internal battle.
The black water reflected the starlight. The Mozhe with a purple face in the pig cage looked at the calm water nearby and tried hard to think of a way to escape. Suddenly he sensed something and turned his head to look.
A thin figure walked over from not far away. Her footsteps were heavy, and each step made a thumping sound, as if the ground was going to sink into it.
At her waist, a token emitted a blood-red light, outlining the pattern of a square and a rule.
The Mohist in the pig cage was shocked: the giant's order that had disappeared for ten years finally appeared in the world.
"Who?"
"Outsider, we are taking care of housework, don't come over!"
The villagers shouted vigilantly, and the weirdo really stopped three feet away. She said loudly: "I am the demon hunter of the Demon Hunting Division. You have identified the wrong evil spirit. Why don't you turn around and look!"
Although they did not believe her immediately, the villagers still subconsciously listened to her and turned to look at Bai Xiangu.
I saw thin spores extending from Bai Xiangu's thorny face, and sticky black liquid dripping down her chin.
The spores and thorns were entangled with each other, as if engaged in a silent fight. Now that she had been discovered, the fairy no longer concealed herself and let out an angry beast roar that hurt people's eardrums.
"She's right!" I don't know if it was the fairy's own will or Bai Xian was struggling to speak, "An evil spirit has possessed me, don't..."
"...The demon hunter." Before the fairy could say a word, she suddenly turned her head stiffly, and her neck made a clicking sound. "So it's the demon hunter Hong Zhu."
When Hongzhu was called by name, she was sweating inside, but she said calmly, "Do you know me?"
"White Fairy" said: "There is nothing in this world that I don't know."
It shook its head regretfully: "You have already lost both legs, why don't you cherish your life?"
Hongzhu's current legs are prosthetic limbs made by the Mohist Xing Can, so it's not surprising that "Fairy Bai" can see through them at a glance.
Hongzhu looked at "Bai Xiangu" and suddenly smiled: "I didn't know you like to talk to people so much."
Before she showed up, she had already sprinkled the poisonous insect given to her by Taoist Qi Ying at the other party. The poisonous insect helped the real Bai Xian recover some of his strength, and at the same time suppressed the evil spirit. It was talking to delay time, probably because it could not fully control this body at the moment.
However, the evil spirit is waiting for its home ground, and the red candle is also waiting.
One after another, footsteps walked into the village in the darkness. The Mohists within a hundred miles sensed the giant's order and came to help.
Xie Sui felt that there were more and more people around him, but he was not panicked. He even smiled and said, "You don't think that as long as there are more people, we can make up for the difference in status, right?"
Chunks of pitch-black flesh squeezed out of its eye sockets and squirmed and flowed towards the crowd under the horrified gaze of the villagers.
Hongzhu rushed forward, holding the talisman paper that had been prepared long ago between her fingers. The talisman paper ignited without fire, and a dark blue spirit whip emerged from her palm and with a snap, it lashed the piece of meat.
A puff of green smoke came out of the whipped part, and a cluster of spiritual power rushed into the body of the flesh like a snake.
The piece of meat let out a shrill scream. It never thought that a mere mortal could actually hurt it.
Although it could find Hong Zhu's name and life, it could not understand the strength of willpower of a mortal who lost his legs and stood up again.
As for spiritual practice, a person with a strong will will achieve a dramatic improvement in his realm after breaking through and then rebuilding.
When a man has not been away for three days, he should be looked at with new eyes. At this moment, the magic whip in Hongzhu's hand was like a rope whip, leaving irreparable wounds on the evil spirit's body.
The Mohists took the opportunity to rush forward, rescued the Mohist in the pig cage, and set up a formation with iron nails to trap the black flesh that was scattered everywhere.
The pieces of meat wailed, cursed the mortals' rudeness, and cursed the mortals' fate. The villagers were finally able to tell who was good and who was evil, and kowtowed to the red candle and the black man one after another.
This scene seemed to stimulate the evil spirit. With a whistle, the iron nails that were firmly nailed to the ground melted instantly, and the piece of meat stretched out branch-like black tentacles, swaying gently in the night wind, emitting a faint fishy smell.
The villagers kneeling on the ground and the Mohist holding iron nails showed a look of desire in the fishy smell. They looked at the branches obsessively, their throats rolling and swallowing saliva continuously.
Hongzhu felt a strange appetite rising in his heart. The black piece of meat became extremely tempting. After eating it, he would no longer have any worries.
He bit the root of his tongue hard and used the pain to regain consciousness. Hongzhu took out another piece of talisman paper and was about to use it when he suddenly saw a faint glow on the ground.
The light expanded and contracted like breathing, and in a blink of an eye it spread throughout the entire village, turning the earth into a piece of glowing warm jade.
Hongzhu felt that the light looked familiar, so he took a closer look and saw that the source of the light was a group of fat worms, whose mouthparts opened and closed and whose eyes moved around as if they were looking for something.
This is……
The figure of a swordsman in a moon-white robe appeared in his mind. Hongzhu stood up happily and pointed at the black piece of meat: "The evil spirit you are looking for is there!"
The appearance of the worms dispelled the villagers' and Mozhe's desire for meat. As soon as everyone woke up, they saw the upright and brave demon hunter in their minds pointing the way to the densely packed worms.
……ah?
Am I crazy or is the demon hunter crazy, or is it this world?
Judging from their appearance alone, these worms are a hundred times more terrifying and disgusting than the black pieces of meat.
People looked at this scene at a loss, and when they saw that the worms really listened to the words of the demon hunter, they all looked at the black piece of meat.
The piece of meat screamed: "What are you going to do? I want to talk to your master! I am the leader of Duotian Sect! I am Xue..."
Before he could finish the word "Jingzhen", the black piece of meat was swallowed up by the worms that swarmed over.
Swordsman Li Zhou frowned: She didn't want to eat this disgusting thing.
The worms that subconsciously opened their mouths to gnaw on the piece of meat paused, then quickly spat out the meat in their mouths.
Swordsman Li Zhou felt the fishy smell spreading in his mouth and frowned unhappily. He rummaged through the black meat for a while and found a middle-aged woman who was dying with a white hedgehog lying on her head.
Some villagers recognized them and opened their eyes wide: Fairy Lady and Bai Xian were both rescued!
It turns out that Lord Worm is the light of righteousness!
Feeling guilty and grateful, people knelt on the ground and worshipped the worms. However, they didn't know that this time, the worms' eyes were staring straight at Bai Xian. Swordsman Li Zhou fell into deep thought: Are hedgehogs delicious?
The white hedgehog lying on top of the fairy's head suddenly felt a chill on his back. When he opened his eyes, he saw a worm crawling in front of him.
Bai Xian: ...I swear, hedgehog meat is sour and smelly, not delicious at all!
While Bai Daxian was racking his brains to escape the fate of being served at the table, the swordsman Li Zhou's sword energy sensed the breath of Tai Sui in another direction.
Northwest, anti-autumn military camp.
In autumn, when the horses are fat and the weather is good, it is the time for the Western Di to go south to plunder. According to custom, the military commanders have to go to the Temple of the Four Goddesses to tell fortunes and seek protection from the gods.
However, this year, the ceremony was shrouded in an ominous shadow as soon as it began.
First, as the soldier stepped over the threshold of the Four Goddesses Temple, a blue brick carved with a goat fell off the wall, fell at the soldier's feet, and broke into two pieces.
The temple keeper hurriedly picked up the broken bricks, but the sharp edge cut his hand. The wound was so deep that the bone was visible, and blood flowed all over his palm.
Then, when the military commander bowed and burned incense, the burning incense stick was broken in the middle, and the ashes scattered on the ground, forming a "well" pattern.
All these signs made the soldiers feel uneasy, and some rumors spread in the barracks. Some said that there would be a major war this year, and others said that the general was not sincere when he burned incense, which angered the empress.
The military commander was worried that these remarks would cause unrest, but the temple keeper stood up and said that this was not a bad omen but a good omen.
The Fourth Lady sensed the piety of the Fangqiu soldiers and wanted to send heavenly soldiers to help with border defense and recover the homeland occupied by the Western Di.
The time has come for the Anti-Autumn Army to make achievements!
only……
"Just what?" The military commander asked hurriedly, "The temple keeper, please feel free to tell me."
The temple keeper said, "In order to thank the Fourth Lady, the general must select ten young and strong men to serve the Lady in the temple."
The general did not hesitate at all and agreed immediately: "What the barracks lack the least is strong men. Wait for me to go back and select them carefully."
The military commander did not see the strange smile on the temple keeper's lips when he turned around.
The temple keeper didn't notice that the military commander was staring at his back with a chill in his eyes.
Half a day later, at midnight, the military commander returned to the Four Goddesses Temple with ten young and strong men.
The empress stood in the darkness, looking down at everyone with a faint smile on her lips.
There was a faint fishy smell in the air and the ground was a little sticky to step on. The temple keeper said that this was because the temple had been in disrepair for a long time and there was too much moisture.
The military commander respectfully lit another stick of incense, and this time, the incense did not burn out.
She glanced at the temple keeper, left ten young men behind, and turned and left.
The temple keeper closed the temple door, and the young men cautiously asked for advice from behind him: "Master, how should we serve the goddess?"
The temple keeper had his back to them and did not move for a long while. Everyone held their breath and walked forward tremblingly. Suddenly, the hair on the back of the old temple keeper's head parted, revealing a black face with only a mouth: "Of course..."
The paint on the statue of the empress behind everyone had also fallen off, revealing the dark flesh-filled interior. One by one, spores covered in mucus were extending and reaching towards the young man like branches and vines.
"...Serve like this."
A cold voice fell, and the ten young men were about to be pierced. The next moment, a sharp bell rang.
“Ding ding dong!”
The skin on the young men quickly fell off, and the master's wives, wearing red shirts and with cold expressions, crawled out from the skin of the young men.
"Monster!" a mistress shouted, "Master Xi has already discovered your conspiracy and is going to eliminate it for the people today. Why don't you surrender!"
"Bang!"
The temple door was kicked open at the same time, and torches lit up the night. The military officer was wearing armor and holding a sharp weapon, and the soldiers behind him surrounded the temple. The military officer swung his sword at the temple priest and said coldly: "I, Fang Qiubing, have served the Fourth Lady for so many years, how could I not understand what the Lady meant?"
It turns out that the falling goat blue bricks were warning of danger, and the pattern formed by the ash was indicating the source of danger. The evil spirit controlled the Fourth Lady, but did not understand the hints He gave to the believers.
The military commander delayed for half a day using the excuse of selecting young and strong men, and went to look for talented people. It happened that the teacher's wife came here on the orders of the God of Joy to search for evil spirits. The teacher's wife burned the "well" pattern to the God of Joy and received a positive answer.
A monster appeared in the Temple of the Four Goddesses. Nine out of ten rivers are closed, which is called a well. In the well lies evil. This evil spirit is the famous Tai Sui!
Tai Sui tricked the military commander into sending him young and strong men for his use, but the military commander and his mistresses took advantage of the situation and set up a tight net.
The "old temple keeper" tilted his head back to avoid the soldier's blade. The flickering firelight shone on his bulging face, casting heavy shadows.
It was clearly a surrounded prey, but there was no panic in its eyes, but rather a hint of helplessness.
"I wanted to give you a chance to live." Chunks of black flesh rushed out from the inside of the statue and the body of the old temple keeper. "You are seeking death, so you can't blame me."
There was some regret in its tone, because it had wanted to manage this place properly, but now it could only be a one-time deal.
The wives hated evil very much, and when they heard this, they immediately rang bells, threw papers, and chanted spells, trying to kill this monster.
However, the paper tape that was as hard as cutting iron in the past seemed to be just an ordinary piece of white paper in front of Tai Sui. As soon as it touched the meat, it was soaked by mucus and fell limply to the ground.
The soldiers and horses came forward to help, but the weapons that had chopped off countless heads seemed to have met their natural enemy. They suddenly became dim and with the next wave, they broke into pieces and fell to the ground.
Her heart trembled, and she heard the screams of soldiers. She turned her head and saw that the soldiers surrounding the temple had fallen into the surging black flesh, as if they had fallen into a swamp. The more they struggled, the deeper they sank.
Ordinary people are no match for Tai Sui.
The soldier turned his head to look at his master's wife, and remembered her instructions that when their magic power was insufficient, they could only draw the blood and essence of mortals.
The military commander said, "If you have any tricks up your sleeve, use them immediately. Don't worry about us."
A mistress glanced at her and was about to speak, but was stunned again.
The next moment, a whirlwind swept up the soldier and threw her out of the temple.
“Bang, bang, bang!”
In an instant, all the doors and windows of the temple were tightly closed, and the black pieces of flesh that entangled the soldiers withered quickly like dead leaves in late autumn, losing their vitality.
The general and a group of soldiers got up in a daze, heard the orderly chanting coming from the temple, saw the dazzling light shining through the cracks in the door and windows, and felt an incomparably powerful aura.
Everyone's heart was beating so fast that it was about to jump out of their chest. Their bodies felt extremely heavy, but they also felt a sense of joy.
A voice in their hearts said:
God is coming.
In the temple, the black Tai Sui flesh that was originally spreading has shrunk back into the bodies of the Four Goddesses statue and the old temple priest.
A gorgeous mask with gold and silver, inlaid with colored glaze and flying phoenix patterns was worn on the face of a master's wife, who looked indifferently at the "old temple keeper" with a mouth embedded on the back of his head.
The old temple keeper raised his lips and said in a leisurely tone: "Xile, do you really think you can stop me?"
The hollow mask, that is, the God of Joy himself, said, "Taisui, do you really think you can change your fate?"
The smile of the "old temple keeper" froze at the corner of his mouth. After a moment of stagnation, the spores flowing with mucus stretched out towards the God of Joy and his believers with an angry look.
The master's wife who was wearing a hollow mask was still able to resist and was not pierced through by the spores, but the other master's wives were stabbed in the heart on the spot.
However, even so, they still maintained a weak breath, and the paper ribbons connected to their bodies emitted a faint glow. It turned out that the God of Joy was transmitting spiritual energy to the believers in reverse.
Seeing this, Tai Sui was furious and yelled, "Even these mortals are protected by someone, but me!"
Tai Sui said angrily: "But I am a pill destined to be swallowed by this world!"
Tai Sui's roar broke through the restrictions of doors and windows, but the content of his words was a taboo that mortals could not know. The military commander and a group of soldiers were instantly deafened by the sound, and for a while they could only hear a buzzing sound.
Those incomprehensible broken syllables were like a heavy hammer hitting everyone's brain, causing them to have a splitting headache, vomit black blood, and faint on the spot.
The God of Joy's gaze was still as cold as water, but he couldn't help but think of Tai Sui's past.
The first Tai Sui is the elixir that all the pharmacists in Yaowang Mountain refine with their flesh and blood.
In order to balance the disasters caused by Laojun's descent to the earth, this Tai Sui was fed to heaven and earth.
Laojun used his own body to refine the second Tai Sui.
The pain of being swallowed remained in Tai Sui's memory. From the moment the second Tai Sui came out of the Medicine King Cauldron, he had the idea of escaping his fate.
"I just don't want to be eaten. What's wrong with me?" The spores all over the Tai Sui's body opened up, and black pieces of flesh crawled all over the Four Goddesses Temple, like a devil crawling out of purgatory. "If that old man hadn't miscalculated the secrets of heaven, why would there be a need to refine a second Tai Sui?"
"You are wrong."
The God of Joy had no sorrow or joy, he looked at Tai Sui and said:
"The Lord Lao came down to earth to refine the second Tai Sui. Although the first Tai Sui had already exhausted all the power of Yaowang Mountain, how could it withstand the catastrophe of the end of the world? Only the flesh and blood of gods, the souls of gods, can bear such a heavy responsibility."
It turns out that Laojun knew from the beginning that he would die a martyr.
There was no expression on the hollow mask of the God of Joy. His flying phoenix eyes were lowered as he looked at the hideous-looking "old temple keeper", as if he was looking at another person through this disgusting mass of dark, sticky meat.
This look made Tai Sui feel like a thorn in his throat. He screamed and rushed to the master's wife who was possessed by the God of Joy. He grabbed her neck and said sternly: "You old thing is just seeking fame and reputation. He wants his honor as a righteous god and he wants to protect his millions of people, but I am the one who really sacrificed! You still miss him? Why? What do you all have the right to do?"
Tai Sui gritted his teeth and yelled three words: "I don't accept it!"
The voice was hoarse and every word was heart-wrenching.
The surroundings suddenly became quiet, and the black piece of meat waited for the god's answer.
"I am not missing Him," the God of Joy stretched out his hand, stroked its uneven cheek in its twisted and trembling vision, and stated without emotion, "You are Him."
Laojun, who came out of Yaowangding, became the new Tai Sui and forgot his original intention of coming to the world.
It is true that Laojun, who came down to earth, had the will to be a martyr, and it is also true that Tai Sui, who was refined, feared his own fate.
People can't even understand their former selves.
So it is with God.
A faint white light came in from the window, and an aura a thousand times more powerful than the God of Joy appeared outside the temple.
The sword energy worm emerged from the ground and looked in the direction of Tai Sui.
The God of Joy held the man who was pinching him in his cold arms and whispered, "If you continue to struggle, it will only make you more miserable. Stop it. I will help you avoid His gaze. I promise that you will not feel any more pain, at least until the last moment."
This is a promise given by the god who controls wishes.
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