Chapter 67: The grace of Goddess Lu is beyond words, her kindness is as boundless as a mountain...
Just now I felt extremely oppressive, all over with weirdness, staring at everyone in the mirror, but at this moment, I wished I could shrink myself into the size of a grain of rice.
But its diameter is as large as nine inches.
Who is it? Why is there such a big deal? Is there something wrong with your brain?
The mirror resented the craftsman who made it, but it did not dare to delay for a moment. It finally squeezed itself into the crack of the door. The moment it breathed in the fresh air, it was ecstatic.
Good, no one's paying attention to me.
It leaped towards the vast world, and shouted happily in its heart: My old mirror is leaving!
Bang.
The temple door was kicked open, and a black figure flashed by. His hood fell as he rushed forward, revealing his long silver hair and bloodthirsty eyes in the moonlight.
The ecstasy in Jingzi's heart turned into horror. He stared blankly at the white-haired zombie that suddenly appeared in front of him. He was unable to stop his momentum of leaping forward, as if he had walked into a trap, and fell into the latter's pale big hands.
Aaaaaaahhhh!!!
The mirror was like a fish that had come ashore, struggling desperately.
"Dr. Tan didn't let you go."
Chu Shen, a loyal Fangshen believer, muttered to himself as he held the fluttering mirror and respectfully presented it to Li Zhou.
Li Zhou took it casually.
The latter bounced heavily and then stopped moving, as if it could disguise itself as an ordinary mirror.
[Congratulations on obtaining: Invisible Mirror＊1]
[A precious mirror that can see the truth, ward off evil, and predict good and bad luck! ]
So powerful?
Li Zhou looked at himself in the mirror and asked, "Who is the kindest person in the world?"
The mirror showed her face clearly.
Li Zhou nodded. This mirror could indeed see the truth.
The crowd, still stiff and unable to move, watched this interaction with numb expressions.
For some reason, they were not surprised at all that these mysterious people in black cloaks were white-haired zombies.
Compared to a great evil spirit that can open its heart at any time, what is a mere zombie?
The mirror pretending to be dead is thinking about why things have developed to this point.
This would have been a brilliant idea.
It disguises itself as the City Goddess who sends messages in dreams, and tricks all the qualified practitioners around into coming to the temple. Through clever rhetoric, it makes these practitioners suspicious of each other and kill each other, while it and the Eight Wax Gods only need to sit back and reap the benefits.
What a perfect plan.
Why did such a big deviation occur at the very beginning?
What about the ridiculous scenes they imagine, where practitioners’ ugly faces and hypocritical humanity are exposed in difficult situations?
Why are they the ones who have become the food of the great evil so ridiculously?
Li Zhou put away the mirror and continued to shake the dumbfounded statue, hoping to make the Eight Wax God spit out the promised water and food.
The statue, which was covered with leaves and held a wooden stick in its hand, broke into pieces with a crack.
The majestic face of the statue, which was adorned with gorgeous robes and tassels and looked like a king, had cracks appearing on it, and it was shattered into pieces in an instant.
The statue of the kind-hearted god holding an ear of corn collapsed with a crash, revealing its empty interior...
Wherever Li Zhou went, the statues collapsed. None of them were really useful.
Li Zhou was a little angry. What was going on? She had already offered tribute!
That was her naked true heart, pure and spotless.
After expressing his true feelings, but being deceived so badly, Li Zhou felt that his heart, which had just been glued together, was broken into many pieces again.
But her character this time is a compassionate doctor, and she cannot use violence even when being bullied by these evil gods.
Li Zhou shook her head helplessly and looked back at the people standing there in a daze. She had not forgotten that these people had killed people.
Let her, Li Qingtian, return to the arena and see how the crimes committed by these people should be sentenced.
Don't think that you can escape justice by pretending to be stupid.
He discovered that except for the Fangshen believers, everyone in the temple seemed to be out of their bodies and no one responded when he called them. Li Zhou recited the Heart Purification Mantra to them several times.
As she recited, the pale faces of the people who were overwhelmed by fear gradually regained some color.
Everyone had a splitting headache, as if their brain was being gnawing at by countless teeth. The scholar in white ran out of the door and vomited. Doctor Gou followed closely behind him. A banner with black words on a white background that read "Healing the World" swayed slightly in front of Li Zhou.
Before Li Zhou could react, the mirror in his hand suddenly stood up, and he looked in the direction where Doctor Gou left, and shouted loudly: "Don't let him run away, he is also our accomplice."
The dizzy crowd was stunned and turned to look at Doctor Gou who was quickening his pace.
Chu Shen, who was standing behind Li Zhou, was about to chase him, but the scholar in white, who was still vomiting, took out a pen from his arms and drew a circle in the air towards Doctor Gou.
There was a flash of ink, and the next moment, a circle appeared on Doctor Gou's ankle. It suddenly closed and tripped him.
Li Zhou looked at the scholar in surprise and was about to speak when Doctor Gou fell to the ground and rolled over. He suddenly shrank into a grasshopper as big as a fist, jumped forward, and jumped into the bushes, and was about to escape.
Li Zhou hadn't done anything yet, but Mirror was much more anxious than she was. Although she was sad that she couldn't escape, she was even more upset that her accomplices had escaped safely. She took the initiative to shine a white light on the grasshopper and spoke in human language: "Who has a net bag?"
"Broken mirror, if I escape, I can come back and save you!" The grasshopper fell into the white light and couldn't move. It quickly changed back into Doctor Gou, and while struggling to climb out, it made promises loudly.
The mirror pouted and said to Li Zhou, "Master, roasted grasshoppers are delicious."
When Li Zhou heard what it said, he hurried forward to catch the grasshopper. Just as he took a step, the dirty beggar took out a torn bag from his arms without saying a word and threw it at Doctor Gou.
"Oh my God." Doctor Gou screamed miserably, and in an instant he was half swallowed by the torn bag. He moved his lower body left and right, but not only could he not break free, the opening of the bag became smaller and smaller, tightly encircling his waist, almost strangling him in two.
Doctor Gou's screams continued, making people feel upset. The girl in green rolled up her sleeves, jumped in front of him, raised her fist and punched him in the face, saying, "I told you not to touch my parrot!"
At her shoulder, the green parrot nodded repeatedly, being controlled to say terrible words, which scared it.
The parrot flew into the air, scratching with its claws and pecking with its beak, and together with its owner, it beat Doctor Gou severely.
Li Zhou looked at the scene of chickens flying and dogs barking, and said sincerely: "What a great strength."
Everyone turned their heads and glanced at her faintly.
After venting her anger, the girl in green picked up Doctor Gou and returned to the dilapidated temple.
The scholar followed her and walked up to the escort Song Gang, who had a complicated expression on his face, and whispered, "Can I have some water to drink?"
Song Gang was stunned for a moment, then he took out a gourd from under the carrying pole and handed it to the scholar.
The scholar took a sip to moisten his throat which was burned by stomach acid, then he returned the gourd to Song Gang and whispered, "Thank you very much, thank you very much."
Song Gang glanced at the scholar who still looked weak, then at the green-dressed girl who had calmed down, then at the dirty beggar who could throw out magic weapons at will, and at the witch Lu who looked blind and old but could actually shrink the distance and see everything happening outside clearly.
He originally thought that these bodyguards were the strongest in the temple.
Now it seems that even if we put aside the mysterious, treacherous and powerful woman in plain clothes, this group of martial artists who only know how to fight and kick cannot rank.
No one cared about Song Gang's depression. Everyone looked at Doctor Gou, who was thrown on the ground and was still trying hard to pupate, with kind eyes.
The mirror in Li Zhou's hand said happily: "Master, you can use the statue as firewood. It has a lot of oil in its belly, and it will be especially delicious when roasted."
"Master Immortal," the blind witch Lv looked at Li Zhou carefully with her eyes covered with white cataracts, bent down and begged, "Before that, can you let us interrogate him first? I think everyone wants to know what is going on."
Li Zhou was not the kind of person who could not help salivating at the mention of roasted grasshoppers. He nodded and said, "Not just him, but each of you must explain clearly."
Goddess Lu was stunned for a moment, then she looked relieved. Didn't she know this a long time ago? What has been done has been done, and there is no way to escape the consequences of cause and effect.
Doctor Gou was in a state of confusion for a long time, and a shadow fell in front of him. He raised his head and saw Li Zhou with a compassionate look on his face.
He looked at her and saw the red light in her pupils. Suddenly, he seemed to be trapped in a muddy swamp. Clusters of algae-like fungi entangled his feet and pulled him into the slippery darkness.
He was terrified and wanted to scream, but the fungi drilled into his mouth, nose, blood vessels, and finally his brain.
The shape of his brain was changed, and the idea of escaping was replaced by regret. Doctor Gou fell at Li Zhou's feet and burst into tears.
"I am possessed by evil spirits. I am guilty."
His predecessor Chu Shen looked at him with pity and said, "Spend the rest of your life atonement for your sins."
After Doctor Gou's tearful narration, everyone finally understood the whole story.
The so-called Eight Wax Gods refer to eight insect gods. They were once very popular when insect plagues were rampant in the past.
However, as the anthelmintic developed on Yaowang Mountain became more popular, the believers of the Insect God gradually disappeared and the temple became increasingly deserted.
After the last temple keeper left, the name of the Insect God had been forgotten by most people. Without incense, the Eight Wax Gods were removed from the list of righteous gods and became evil gods. The temple also became an obscene worship that was not officially recognized.
Doctor Gou, who went to the countryside to practice medicine, accidentally passed by this abandoned temple. Out of curiosity, he walked into the temple. Seeing the dilapidated state, he felt very sympathetic and burned a stick of incense to the Eight Wax Gods.
In order to repay the kindness of the incense stick and also to save himself, the Eight Wax Gods appeared and taught Doctor Gou magic, hoping that he would help him spread his faith and attract believers.
Gou Lang learned magic, but felt that the Eight Wax Gods' magic was of too little benefit. It would be better for him to take advantage of the drought to lure some practitioners who cared about the people, eat their flesh and blood and spiritual power, and increase his own cultivation. This would be much faster than working hard to accumulate incense.
Once he made up his mind, Doctor Gou took the opportunity of practicing medicine everywhere to inquire about the truly accomplished practitioners.
During this period, he accidentally discovered that the witch Lu from Jijiao Village was actually in contact with a man in brocade clothes with extraordinary demeanor.
This man had a pale face and no beard, and had a shrill voice. He looked like a eunuch serving the emperor.
Doctor Gou immediately had countless fantasies, and from then on he kept an eye on the movements of the witch Lü, and sneaked into her room when she was out exorcising the villagers who were possessed by evil spirits. She could be related to someone in the palace, so maybe he was also from there, and who knows what treasures she might have hidden.
Doctor Gou was just trying his luck, but unexpectedly, he actually found a treasure in Lu the witch's house.
This treasure is the invisible mirror that can see the truth and predict good and bad luck.
Having said that, everyone first looked at Witch Lu, and then looked at the obedient mirror in Li Zhou's hand.
The mirror muttered, "Old Lu, Old Lu, I didn't say that."
Witch Lu nodded and said, "After you followed Doctor Gou, you used your abilities to cooperate with him, pretending to be the City Goddess and entering our dreams to lure us all here?"
"I didn't follow him," the mirror corrected dissatisfiedly, "he stole me." It shouted aggrievedly, "If you hadn't failed to keep me safe, how could I have fallen into the hands of such a villain?"
Doctor Gou raised his head and was about to argue, but Li Zhou looked at him and he immediately shrank his neck.
Li Zhou looked at Goddess Lu: "We already know the story of Doctor Gou and the mirror. What about you, Goddess Lu? What happened to the life you took?"
At this point, Li Zhou paused and looked down at the mirror: "Since you can see the truth, then what you just said must be true."
"Except for things related to you." The mirror's tone immediately became flattering. "Even I can't see through the truth about you. There is a saying that goes, God's grace is hard to describe, and his mercy is as boundless as a mountain..."
"That's enough." Li Zhou interrupted him unhappily and even quoted classical Chinese, as if everyone knew that you are cultured.
Jingzi quickly shut her mouth, feeling uneasy, not knowing how she had offended Li Zhou.
The wrinkles on Witch Lu's face became deeper and deeper: "When I was young, I killed many people, some deserved it and some were innocent."
She sighed, her voice filled with indifference and emotion brought by the long years: "In front of the Immortal Master, I dare not lie. I never regretted it then, and I still don't regret it now."
The hall fell silent, with the occasional crackling sound of bonfires. The girl in green picked up a few pieces of the statue and threw them into the fire, making the bonfire burn more vigorously.
All the young people, including Li Zhou, sat around the campfire and listened to the stories of the past told by the old man who was unknown how old he was.
Li Zhou held his chin and listened very carefully.
She likes listening to stories the most.
Witch Lu thought for a moment and said, "That was the eighteenth year of Xianheng. There were still three years before Your Majesty ascended the throne. The fight for the throne was intensifying. I was serving as the secretary to the eldest daughter of the emperor at the time, and Your Majesty was still an unappreciated second daughter of the emperor."
After the first sentence was said, everyone was shocked. No one expected that the witch Lu, who looked old and blind, had such a powerful background.
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