Chapter 84 The Third Item: Coin Catcher
With the talisman in their palms, the teammates felt more confident even though they knew it was dangerous in the mountains.
Everyone climbed to the top of the mountain and found the gate of Sanshi Temple closed.
This building looks very shocking from a distance, and it is made entirely of wood.
Because of the effect of the talisman, Bian Ling's presence is extremely small.
Even when she spoke, her teammates rarely responded to her, as if they had completely forgotten that there was such a person in the team.
Jiang Lexin tried to push the door, but found that it couldn't be opened at all.
"I'll go check out the back door. I remember there's a path next to it that leads directly to the back door. Be careful here."
Shen Li hummed and stood alone at the main entrance.
In fact, Catman A and Bian Ling should be by his side at this moment, but he didn't know when they disappeared.
After being left alone, from a certain moment on, the sky around suddenly darkened.
The door that was originally tightly closed automatically opened a crack in front of Shen Li.
Black air was swirling in the gap, as if inviting him to come in and take a look.
The things in the Three Corpses Temple only hope that he can go in alone.
Chen Li definitely had no intention of backing down.
He stepped over the high threshold with a calm expression.
There was a futon on the wide platform in front of the main hall.
There was a person sitting cross-legged on the cushion.
The man had his eyes closed and appeared in front of Chen Li in a meditating posture.
He was wearing a Taoist robe, and his beard, eyebrows and hair were all white.
Judging from his age and attire, could he be Taoist Priest Guangyi?
Before Shen Li got close, the man seemed to sense Shen Li's approach.
He pointed to another futon placed in front of him and motioned for Shen Li: "Sit down."
Chen Li knelt on the futon calmly with a submissive expression.
"Excuse me."
Even at this point, he still maintained basic courtesy.
Taoist Guangyi still had his eyes closed and spread his hands towards Chen Li.
"I know what you are here to ask. Put the copper coin in my hand."
Chen Li adhered to the principle of not leaving his copper coins easily and took off the red string wrapped around his wrist.
One end of the red string was still hanging on his wrist, while the other end stretched out and drooped, falling into the palm of the old Taoist priest's hand.
The old Taoist held the coin in his hand and felt both sides.
“This is an old coin.”
Although he didn't open his eyes from beginning to end, the old Taoist priest looked like an immortal and got some of the information right as soon as he opened his mouth.
"I remember this copper coin. There are four old coins and one new coin on that copper coin string. Am I right?"
"You are right, but the other coins are in the hands of my companions. Do you know who lost these coins? To whom should we return them?"
The old Taoist priest smiled.
"Answer me a question first. Is the resentment on that new coin still there?"
"Still there." Shen Li answered truthfully.
"Then there's no need to pay it back. This method really failed."
The old Taoist priest was very kind. Apart from the fact that he didn't open his eyes from beginning to end, which was a bit strange, he basically answered every question.
"I think you should have noticed that the coins minted after the corpses were burned in the copper cauldron furnace are all attached with resentment."
Shen Li nodded.
“These grievances don’t seem to be easily dispelled.”
"So my senior brother and I came up with a plan. Since the resentment on the new coin cannot be eliminated by ordinary methods, we tried it. We tied four old coins and one new coin together, hoping to use the old coin to drive away the resentment on the new coin."
"My senior brother, you should have heard something. Didn't his disciple come with you this time?"
The old Taoist priest talked about Jiang Lexin and cheerfully revealed some of Jiang Lexin's embarrassing childhood memories.
"So now, where should we send these copper coins? In fact, I found that these old coins not only failed to remove the resentment of the new coins, but were contaminated by the new coins."
These four old coins now also have some resentment attached to them.
"I'm afraid you only have one last option."
"Please tell me in detail, Senior."
Sure enough, Taoist Guangyi knew something.
This time they came to the right place.
"I can tell you how to deal with it, but you have to promise me one thing."
Taoist Master Guangyi had a kind smile on his face.
"Wait a minute, please kill me."
"good."
Shen Li barely hesitated.
Because from the moment he entered the door, he could tell that the Taoist priest seemed to be suppressing something in his body.
Although he was still alive, his body had already begun to decay.
"I think the only way to completely remove the resentment attached to the copper coins is to remelt all of them."
"Re-training?"
If this "item" does not have a specific recipient, perhaps recycling it for recycling is really its best destination.
"Senior, I understand. I will send them back to the copper cauldron furnace."
The old Taoist priest was already at the end of his strength at this point, and the smile on his face gradually disappeared.
At the last moment of his life, he held Shen Li's wrist tightly.
"We must destroy... the furnace... and let... the zombies... return home..."
The old Taoist priest seemed unable to suppress what was in his body any longer.
His tightly closed eyes seemed to be stretched open by something.
Taoist Guangyi suddenly opened his eyes.
There were no eyeballs in his eyes, and at this moment, his open eyes were completely dark.
Countless black air poured out from his eyes.
At this moment, Shen Li finally understood.
Taoist Master Guangyi has absorbed all the resentment attached to the copper coins into his own body under the pretext of consecrating them.
He was like a balloon. After absorbing countless grievances, he could no longer hold any more.
It turns out that a long time ago, someone had seen the clues and had been working hard to save the world.
Even at the cost of his own life for it.
At this moment, Chen Li bowed to the body of Taoist Guangyi that was about to turn into a corpse.
Just before the corpse was about to stand up, he tapped Taoist Guangyi's forehead.
The resentment that poured out from Taoist Guangyi's eyes directly broke through the gate of the Sanshi Temple.
Catman A and Bian Ling woke up one after another.
"Did you just... fall asleep?"
The door of the Taoist temple was actually opened.
As soon as they stepped over the high threshold, they were hit by a gust of wind and could not breathe.
They saw with their own eyes that on the deserted platform of the Sanshi Temple, the Taoist priest's body had swollen blood vessels all over its body and his face looked as hideous as a demon.
Jiang Lexin, who arrived late, also saw this scene.
"Master Guangyi!"
He remembered.
The face in my memory always looks kind.
The old man once lifted him above his head and let him sit on his shoulders.
The master made a move on the chessboard.
Taoist Master Guangyi let the young boy sit on his neck, walked around twice, then approached the chess table and placed a piece casually.
"Let me make it clear first. Your little apprentice insisted on pestering me. I am currently multitasking. I have to play with him and play chess with you at the same time. So I will not admit defeat later."
The senior brother stood nearby with a backpack full of herbs on his back, watching the scene with a grin on his face.
The senior sister was still young that year, and she stood behind the senior brother timidly playing with the straw grasshopper in her hand.
Now.
His senior brother stood completely against him, and his senior sister became a living corpse unable to return home.
The master is dead.
The Taoist priest's face in the memory also turned into an extremely ferocious and terrifying appearance at this moment.
This overwhelming resentment almost suffocated the onlookers.
Everyone seemed to have their lifeblood strangled, their faces flushed red.
The sky was covered with dark clouds, and a bolt of thunder struck Wu Yan in Sanshi Temple.
The gargoyle on the roof broke into two pieces and fell to the ground.
Fear and want to escape.
Bian Ling tried to move her feet, but couldn't do it.
Catman A's pupils gradually lost focus, his eyes rolled up, and his face turned blue.
The conditions of the others are similar to that of Catman A.
The moment the resentment overflowed, it seemed to drain all the oxygen around it.
A small dark area formed around the Sanshi Temple.
At the moment when everyone was on the verge of death, Shen Li cast a talisman on the old Taoist priest's forehead.
A drop of bright red blood oozed from Taoist Guangyi's brow.
His expression suddenly became calm.
The resentment broke through his body and tore his drive into pieces.
The moment Taoist Guangyi fell, the majestic Sanshi Temple behind him also collapsed.
The scope of the dark zone continued to shrink, and condensed into a hurricane around Shen Li.
Shen Li stood there, absorbing all the resentment as he had done before.
Taoist Master Guangyi has a mortal body, but he is different.
Chen Li seemed to be able to digest these grievances very well.
Feeling the surrounding pressure gradually weakening, everyone was finally able to move.
"Shen Li?"
Bian Ling approached Chen Li immediately.
Chen Li didn't say anything, but just stood there alone, lowering his head slightly.
The chirping of insects and birds that had disappeared around me for a long time reappeared, and the clouds and fog above my head cleared up.
Bian Ling felt that the crisis was over, and quickly rubbed her hands and wiped off the talisman that Shen Li left for her.
"Why are you still standing there? Can't you see he's in pain?"
Bian Ling said to Jiang Lexin and Catman A who were still in a daze.
The two men finally reacted and went to help him.
"Shen Li? Can you hear me?"
Bian Ling stretched out her hand and waved it in front of his eyes.
Although Chen Li opened his eyes, he seemed to see nothing and his eyes had lost focus.
The accumulated faith will eventually run out.
Just now, Chen Li sacrificed his five senses for three days to suppress Taoist Guangyi who was about to rise from the dead.
He is now almost like a living dead.
No perception at all.
Catman A carried him on his back without saying a word.
"Looking for a doctor! Yes, looking for a doctor! How good are the doctors here?"
These two people are desperate and are trying everything possible.
Jiang Lexin pinched her shriveled purse guiltily, but was too embarrassed to say it out loud.
Now they are penniless and can't even afford to see a doctor.
The zombies that had been following them not far behind seemed to have noticed something.
She walked stiffly to Jiang Lexin, took out the only hairpin on her head and handed it to him.
"The zombie has become a spirit?"
Bian Ling exclaimed.
…
…
At this moment, Shen Li was lying in darkness.
After a long time, he started dreaming again.
Then... should it be their previous life?
He glanced down at the table in front of him, where a beautifully presented lunch was placed.
Opposite the long dining table sat a beautiful and elegant curly-haired girl.
They seemed to have talked about something just now, and the girl was laughing happily.
"So you like lily of the valley, too? That's so unexpected, I never could have guessed!"
"I've seen you in the library several times before. The books you read were so profound that I couldn't understand a single page. At the time, I was thinking, what? The new clan leader must be a nerd?"
Chen Li was holding a silver knife and fork, probably distracted.
A familiar voice behind him suddenly reminded him: "Miss Nanao is talking to you."
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