Luo Xi looked at the two men and said, "The books say that men can be relied on, but it's all lies."
Chu Jingheng and Lu Haozhi both felt that they were shot in the knee, and even the young man who agreed to exchange his golden body for safety felt a little embarrassed.
They let the little beauty down, and faced with the ghost soldiers, they were a few big men and asked the little beauty to solve it. This behavior seemed to be particularly beastly.
Lu Haozhi risked his life in order
not to reveal his vest. Chu Jingheng also tried to explain a few words in a sullen manner, "This has nothing to do with reliability or not, this is not their professional match."
The young man held back for a while, but in the end he didn't have the courage to hold back, and obediently shrank in the safest back.
Luo Xi nodded especially obediently to show that he understood, and softly said that he would protect them.
The humans in the surface world are weak, and the male humans in the surface world are also weaklings. Not every male human being can be as cool as Mr. Skeleton. At least compared to Qin Ran, the performance of these two is already pretty good.
Originally, Luo Xi thought that Qin Tianxing was praising himself too hard and was too impractical. In contrast, although Mr. Skeleton is a chatterbox, he is still very good in some aspects.
At least not every man can quash a ship during his lifetime, and become a civil servant in the underworld after his death, and stay in the human world with the salary of the underworld to make a living.
Thinking of this, she looked at them again and sighed softly.
...
Lu Haozhi silently endured her contempt for him, and changed the subject with a pursed lip: "Is there a way to solve it?"
For the sake of the island, facing the question of the sponsor, Luo Xi replied very considerately: "You can try to feed them."
Chu Jingheng felt vaguely that he had heard it wrong.
Feed them?
Feed whom?
The ancient ghost soldiers?
Why did you say it as if you were feeding stray cats and dogs? Now the Taoist's methods of dealing with ghosts are so different?
Luo Xi glanced at the ghost soldiers wandering not far away, and felt a little strange.
Since she and Lu Haozhi appeared, the ghost soldiers no longer approached, but they did not leave. They just followed with a wooden look, not far away, as if they were instinctively on guard against something.
I always feel like I've missed something...
Luo Xi recalled similar events recorded in the book and began to explain: "They have been trapped here for so long that their relatives have long since passed away. No one has offered sacrifices to them for hundreds of years, so their minds have become confused and they have been wandering here. After a person dies, unless they have too strong obsessions, their souls will automatically return to the underworld. The sacrifices feed them to restore their minds for a short period of time, and then open the Yellow Spring Road, and they will naturally go to the underworld to reincarnate."
Lu Haozhi said nothing, looking like he had accepted it well.
The young man was shocked, as if he was listening to a foreign book.
Chu Jingheng's mind went astray. He raised his eyebrows in surprise: "The underworld? Is there really an underworld? Is there King Yanluo there? And the judge there?"
Luo Xi answered him very straightforwardly: "I don't know. I have never been there. If you want to know, you can go down with them later to have a look."
Chu Jingheng: "..."
Don't make such jokes casually!
Luo Xi asked Chu Jingheng to contribute the large amount of food he bought. This large bag of midnight snacks could not be considered a proper sacrificial item, but now they had nothing else, so they could only make do with it. Fortunately, Chu Jingheng
was greedy and bought a lot, so if the quality was not good, the quantity would make up for it.
Luo Xi put the food out, and there was a dazzling array of everything.
Chu Jingheng smacked his lips, finding it unbelievable: "These ancient soldiers are enjoying a feast today. They definitely never ate these when they were alive. Tsk, I haven't even touched my spicy crayfish yet."
Just after he finished speaking, he suddenly felt a chill on the side of his neck. He turned his head and met a pale and wooden face.
Chu Jingheng: "!!!" He
was startled suddenly. Even if he was not particularly afraid of this, he almost screamed.
Before he screamed, the boy who was hiding behind him and was also very close to him screamed.
The boy screamed miserably, and even rolled and crawled to change his position and hid next to Lu Haozhi on the other side.
The soldier next to Chu Jingheng was a soldier with tattered armor. He didn't look very old, about fifteen or sixteen years old. There were no missing arms or legs. If you were closer, you could see a fatal wound on the neck near the chest. It looked like he was hacked to death.
This ghost soldier looked better than the other soldiers. Although he was also dull, there was still some spirit in his eyes. He stared at Chu Jingheng like a dog seeing meat and bones.
Chu Jingheng shuddered, "What is he looking at..."
He couldn't be trying to possess me!
Luo Xi took a look and reached out to take the half-remaining skewer of barbecue in his hand and put it in the pile of food to be sacrificed.
The ghost soldier didn't even look at Chu Jingheng, and followed him to the front of the skewer of meat, squatting there and staring at the meat.
Chu Jingheng: "..."
It turned out that he, Doctor Chu, was not worth a skewer of barbecue.
Lu Haozhi glanced at him and snorted.
Why are you so narcissistic? You really think that everyone loves you. You don't even let ghosts go. You're losing
face. Chu Jingheng naturally didn't ignore his friend's snort. He raised his eyebrows to indicate, "At least I still have ghosts paying attention to me. Unlike him, even ghosts despise me." Since Lu Haozhi appeared, none of the ghosts have even glanced at Lu Haozhi.
Lu Haozhi chuckled. If it weren't for the sake of not revealing his identity, he really wanted to show Chu Jingheng what he can do.
Luo Xi didn't notice the childish behavior of the two. After she put the food in place, she chanted a food-transforming spell to sacrifice to the group of ghost soldiers in front of her.
The group of ghost soldiers were not far away. When they heard her chanting the spell, they slowly approached. As they got closer and closer, they could clearly feel the temperature suddenly drop and become cold.
As they got closer, they could naturally see the appearance of these ghost soldiers more clearly.
All of them were covered in dirt, some of them still had their limbs intact, while others looked much more miserable.
Some had their stomachs ripped open, with their intestines and stomachs hanging out. Some had their heads and bodies separated, with their bloody arms hugging their heads. Some had lost their arms and legs, limping and stabbing with weapons. Some were simply broken into two pieces, with their waists cut off, leaving only the upper body crawling on the ground...
They have been here for hundreds of years, with no one offering sacrifices, and they have been almost always hungry. Now, when they suddenly heard the food-transforming spell and smelled the aroma of food, the faces of each ghost soldier began to change.
From being dull and sluggish at the beginning, to being full of desire.
The food is limited, and it is impossible to feed every ghost soldier. After Luo Xi chanted the spell to transform the food into Dharma food that all ghosts can enjoy, these ghost soldiers lined up in neat rows, as if they were still in the barracks, and came one by one to take a bite.
The way they ate was a bit ugly, almost like they were wolfing down the food, but there was no fight.
One by one, the Dharma food transformed from the pile of food was quickly consumed. After eating the Dharma food, the wooden expressions of these ghost soldiers faded slightly. They looked around, with confusion on their faces, and seemed to be happy and sad. Finally, they looked a bit like the people they were in life.
The guy who had been hiding in the back looked at the food still on the ground, and muttered to himself: "It turns out that it is not eaten directly..."
The food was still there, but the fragrance and heat were gone. Ghosts have no entity, so naturally they can't eat directly. What they enjoyed was the transformed Dharma food, which was the essence of food in another sense.
When the ghosts finished eating, although the appearance of these foods did not change, the taste was different.
If a person took a bite, they would only feel that it tasted like chewing wax.
The group of ghost soldiers suddenly looked over in unison, and the frightened young man shrank back and hid.
Luo Xi began to recite the guiding spell. The road to the underworld is an isolated and closed space. Without the guiding spell, this group of soldiers could not find the way to the underworld.
The group of soldiers moved, as if they had noticed something. They looked behind them, then turned their heads and stared at Luo Xi.
As a novice, Luo Xi also encountered this kind of ancient ghost that had been dead for hundreds of years for the first time. Unlike the last time who could still communicate, these ancient soldiers just looked at her without saying a word.
She pulled Lu Haozhi, her eyes full of question marks.
What are they doing?
Lu Haozhi paused, "Don't avoid their sight, they are thanking you."
Luo Xi blinked and stood upright in front of them.
The group of ghost soldiers saluted Luo Xi slowly, then lined up in silence and walked to the end of the road step by step.
There seemed to be an invisible door there, and they stepped in one by one and disappeared in an instant.
Lu Haozhi and Chu Jingheng didn't say anything, watching all this in silence.
When the last ghost soldier disappeared, the surrounding light suddenly lit up.
The night market stalls were still on the roadside, and there were still scattered diners on the stalls. The dim street lights, the noisy voices and the sound of pots and pans colliding let a few people know that they had returned from the underworld.
Chu Jingheng was a little happy that he was finally out of danger, but when he looked up, he saw Lu Haozhi still expressionless. Tang Luoxi was writing the address to the young man with great interest, asking him to deliver it here after making the golden body for the ancestor. Are
these two guys still human?
As a normal human emotional expression!
Aren't you afraid after taking a trip to the underworld?
The young man still had the joy of surviving a disaster on his face, and carefully folded up the address written by Luoxi and put it away. After he finished pretending, he did not leave. He looked at Luo Xi hesitantly and said eagerly: "Goddess, do you have any amulets for sale? I'll buy some."
Luo Xi shook her head: "I didn't bring any paper and pen."
The young man looked around and saw the night market stalls. He asked excitedly: "Eating at the night market? There must be paper and pens at the night market stalls. I'll treat you."
Luo Xi took a look at the dazzling array of snacks. She did not have the self-awareness that she was in the entertainment industry after all, and as a female star, she had to maintain her figure. She nodded with bright eyes: "Okay, okay."
Chu Jingheng: "..."
Lu Haozhi: "..."
Lu Haozhi held her and did not let her rush to the stalls, otherwise the headlines tomorrow morning would be 'So-and-so newcomer overeats at the night market stall'. He signaled the young man with his eyes to pack up.
The young man was actually a little scared in his heart, but he was more afraid that he would never see Luo Xi again
after this separation. After all, she was in the entertainment industry and was quite famous. As a otaku, he would definitely not have the chance to see her again in the future. Now of course, he had to prepare more, at least the more things like amulets, the better!
Hearing Luo Xi's agreement, the young man immediately ran to the stall, ordered a lot of takeaways, and asked the stall owner to borrow paper and pen.
When he handed the paper and pen to Luo Xi, he was still a little worried whether this would work.
Even if the cinnabar yellow paper was not used, could this kind of paper and pen that the stall vendors used to take notes casually really be used to draw amulets! ? The notebook was the kind of homework notebook for elementary school students, with horizontal lines on it. The pen was also an ordinary pen, the most ordinary kind.
Luo Xi took a pen and paper, walked around Lu Haozhi, and motioned him to lower himself. Then she put the notebook on Lu Haozhi's back, used him as a platform, and started to paint with the brush.
When she finished painting and handed it to the boy, she said, "The effect will be worse if you use this kind of paper and pen. I'll give you a 20% discount on the price. If you mind, you can go to Baiyun Temple to ask for another one."
The boy thanked her gratefully. Of course he didn't mind. Who knows if the amulet from other Taoist temples would be useful. Luo Xi's amulet was a real one that he had seen with his own eyes!
He took out his mobile phone to transfer the money to Luo Xi. The boy repeatedly promised to make a golden body for the Water God as soon as possible and pass it over as soon as it was done. After nagging a few more words, the boy left reluctantly.
After the idlers left, Lu Haozhi looked at Luo Xi deeply. He was a little surprised by Luo Xi's behavior just now. She just stuck to his back and drew talismans so naturally, treating him as tea...
Lu Haozhi: "...You are not polite at all."
Luo Xi was stunned for a moment, and after figuring out what he meant, she said crisply: "Because you are not an outsider."
He is the sponsor, how can the sponsor who gave her the island be an outsider.
Lu Haozhi paused slightly, turned his head and said: "Let's go, I'll take you back."
Luo Xi said "Oh" and followed quickly.
Chu Jingheng curled his lips, thinking that his friend was really stuffy to the extreme.
The corners of his lips were curled up, but he still had to maintain a cold attitude. What are you pretending for? The little beauty said that she didn't treat him as an outsider, so he was so happy?
After what happened tonight, Chu Jingheng refused to take a taxi. He was ready to hitchhike Mr. Lu's car and ask him to take him back like a big shot.
After they took a few steps, they were stopped by a Taoist priest.
The Taoist priest was wearing the simplest gray Taoist robe. He was in his thirties, had no beard, very light eyebrows, and not much hair. He used a piece of cloth to tie his hair into a bun on his head, wore cloth shoes, and carried a cloth bag on his back, staring at Luo Xi with burning eyes.
Chu Jingheng saw that the Taoist priest was wearing ancient clothes, and he was confused for a moment. He turned his head and asked, "How come there is still a fish that has slipped through the net? Did this one run out from the road to the underworld? Is there a Taoist priest among the group of soldiers just now?"
Lu Haozhi replied calmly: "...This is a person."
Chu Jingheng was embarrassed. It was the middle of the night, if it was a person, he shouldn't have come out to scare people.
He changed the subject: "Master, why don't you sleep in the middle of the night and come out for a walk?"
The Taoist's eyes never left Luo Xi, his eyes were bright as if he had found a rare treasure. Hearing Chu Jingheng's question, the Taoist stared at Luo Xi and said: "I am a disciple of the Zhengyi sect, my surname is Zhang, and I can write one word. I see that you have a destiny, are you willing to join my Zhengyi sect?"
Chu Jingheng was dumbfounded. He had seen people who transferred people to become monks, and it turned out that Taoism also has this practice.
Lu Haozhi looked at Luo Xi silently.
Luo Xi looked at the Taoist in front of him suspiciously.
Zhengyi sect, surname Zhang, what a familiar opening introduction.
She asked, "Are you from the same school as the famous Taoist Zhang?" Are all the scammers now going out in groups?
The Taoist was stunned for a moment, then shook his head and explained, "I don't know the person you are talking about. I am a disciple of the Zhengyi School and work at Taoyuan Temple. I am a regular Taoist who has passed the Taoist exam."
"Taoist certificate?" Luo Xi was surprised.
Little Golden Dragon had given her a general introduction to China's education system, and she had heard of graduation certificates and degree certificates... She never thought that becoming a Taoist priest in this era required a certificate.
Zhang Ke took out a certificate from the cloth bag behind him, and it was indeed a Taoist certificate.
Luo Xi looked at the Taoist certificate and her mind went astray.
She didn't seem to have a certificate, and she didn't know if Qin Tianxing had one. If neither of them had one, would their Shuiguan sect be illegal in China?
Zhang Ke didn't know that Luo Xi's imagination had gone too far. He was determined to recruit Luo Xi, a good talent, as his disciple.
Tonight, he was performing a ritual to exorcise evil spirits not far from here. After the ritual, he passed by the commercial street and noticed something unusual here, so he turned around to take a look.
As a result, he saw a peerless talent.
That was the road to the underworld, and there were a group of ghost soldiers who had been dead for hundreds of years. Even if these soldiers were mentally dull because no one was offering sacrifices, they were often more terrifying. Once stimulated and crazy, they had no reason at all.
Zhang Ke couldn't describe the shock he felt when he saw Luo Xi use the food-transforming spell and the road-guiding spell to send away the ghost soldiers. The dead souls trapped on the road to the underworld were not so easy to send away.
The general formal process is that the Taoist priests open the altar and invite the ghost messengers. With the help of the ghost messengers, the road to the underworld is opened. The ghost messengers guide the trapped souls into the underworld. If the ghosts riot, the ghost messengers have soul-binding chains.
From this, it can be seen that the ghost messengers in the underworld are the main contributors.
A capable Taoist priest can also choose to forcibly transcend, but this is very difficult.
First, the underworld road is a bit like an independent space, unlike the world of the living and the underworld are connected. The space where the underworld road is located and the Yin and Yang worlds have barriers, and it is difficult to break the boundary by forcibly transcending.
Secondly, the number is also the key. Zhang Ke believes that he can forcibly transcend one or two, but how many ghost soldiers were there just now... a rough estimate of at least the number of people in a general flag.
According to the military organization of the Ming Dynasty, one hundred households was under the command of two general flags, with a total of 112 soldiers, and one general flag had at least 56 soldiers.
To liberate 56 ghost soldiers at one time, it was not forced liberation, but the use of the food-transforming spell, so that those ghost soldiers would regain some sanity after eating, and then open the road to the underworld and take them to reincarnation.
This is not something that an ordinary Taoist priest can do!
This shows that the girl in front of him is extremely talented, and she is the most talented person he has seen in all these years since he entered the Taoist sect!
Because Luo Xi recited the most common food-transforming spell and the guiding spell, and she had never shown her face in the other world, it looked like she had learned a few tricks by accident, and it didn't look like she had a master.
Zhang Ke suddenly felt an urge to love talent, and wanted to bring this unique seedling into his own sect.
After Luo Xi finished listening, Zhang Ke was looking forward to it, and slowly shattered his dream.
"I have a master."
Zhang Ke's smile froze. He never thought that Luo Xi would have a master.
I haven't heard of such a powerful person coming out of the young people in the inner world. If he is not from the inner world, then he must have a master from the outer world?
Such a good seedling can't worship a bastard master!
It stands to reason that if someone has a master, he shouldn't continue to dig the wall. But Luo Xi's talent is so good that Zhang Ke can't give up.
He thought that there are also people who change their sects in Taoism, and there are also people who change from Taoism to Buddhism in history. It should not be difficult to let this child change his master in the same Taoist system.
Zhang Ke began to sell Amway tactfully, from welfare benefits to social status, and even vaguely revealed a few things about the other world, hoping to trick Luo Xi, a little sweetheart, over.
After selling Amway, Zhang Ke looked at her expectantly: "Think about it?"
Luo Xi: "...How about you go and tell our ancestor?"
Zhang Ke was happy, wow, Master Ye Ji did it quite formally, and there is also an ancestor.
Zhang Ke: "Okay, who do you worship?"
Luo Xi: "The third-rank water official Dongyin Emperor of the Lower Yuan."
Zhang Ke paused and said suspiciously: "Water official Emperor? There are many people who worship him, but it seems that there is only one orthodox one..."
And that family is said to have broken off the inheritance long ago.
Zhang Ke felt something was a little strange, so he asked tentatively, "What's your master's name?"
Luo Xi: "I don't have a master, I only have a senior brother, his name is Qin Tianxing." Zhang Ke froze, his eyes widened, with a look of surprise: "You just said your senior brother's name is..." "Qin Tianxing." Luo Xi thought for a moment, and added, "It's the Qin Tianxing who died decades ago." Zhang Ke was dumbfounded. He wanted to say that since he died decades ago, how did you know that was your senior brother, don't be fooled. But Luo Xi's extraordinary talent, almost demonic performance, and Qin Tianxing's similarity made him unable to refute. Such a peerless talent, only one person has appeared in the Taoist sect in the past hundred years, and that is Qin Tianxing. Qin Tianxing was just a part-time Taoist priest. He suddenly appeared in the world when he was in his teens and shocked the entire Buddhist and Taoist world. In a few years, he became a well-known figure in the inner world, with countless fans. Even after his death for decades, there is still no shortage of legends about him in the inner world. After Qin Tianxing disappeared, the inner world also had high hopes for his son. Later, it was discovered that his son was really not intelligent, and his son's son was not good either. The entire Qin family gradually withdrew from the inner world and faded out of people's sight.
Who would have thought that just when everyone was about to forget about the Qin family, Qin Tianxing actually had a successor!
Zhang Ke felt that he might not be dreaming. If Qin Tianxing had a successor, this would definitely be big news in the inner world.
He immediately gave up the idea of poaching. Qin Tianxing's junior sister was a disciple of the extremely protective Shuiguan Dongyin Emperor. He didn't have the weight to pry this corner.
Even if he really pried it open, the hot-tempered Shuiguan would definitely roll up his sleeves and fight with his own ancestor.
Zhang Ke reluctantly gave up the idea of poaching Luo Xi.
Thinking of Qin Tianxing, he couldn't ignore the booklet in Qin Tianxing's hand. That was something that was passed down from generation to generation in the Shuiguan Dongyin Emperor's family.
Zhang Ke kindly reminded Luo Xi.
There are many people who covet the book. The inner world believes in speaking with strength, but most people still abide by Chinese laws, and will do it openly even if they want to. There
are a few lunatics who ignore the law. If you really encounter such bad intentions, you must not be polite, beat them to death, and beat them so hard that they will not dare to commit the crime again. Qin Tianxing did this in the past, killing the chicken to scare the monkey. When he was alive, no one dared to take the book.
Luo Xi thought so too. This is why she took the initiative to reveal Qin Tianxing after she realized that Zhang Ke was from the inner world.
In the past, she could not contact people from the inner world, and even if she wanted to show her strength, she had no stage. But now it is different. She touched the door to the inner world from Zhang Ke.
Zhang Ke gave Luo Xi a few more instructions and invited her to attend the ceremony, which was also a way for her to show her face in the inner world.
Since she inherited the lineage of the Water Official and was Qin Tianxing's junior sister, she was naturally qualified to participate.
The Chinese Taoist Association organizes a gathering of fellow Taoists every year, which is also an opportunity for fellow Taoists to talk about Taoism and make friends. This year's conference was held in the imperial capital, and Zhang Ke came on behalf of Taoyuan Temple.
He took out the invitation and handed it to Luo Xi. This was an invitation to their Taoyuan Temple. He didn't have an invitation to enter by face recognition, so he gave this invitation to Luo Xi and asked her to take it and come with him.
After giving the invitation, he took out his mobile phone to add Luo Xi's social account to avoid being unable to contact her when the time comes.
Luo Xi thought silently, now even Taoists use QR codes to play Moments, which is really keeping up with the times!
Zhang Ke added Luo Xi as a friend and followed Luo Xi's social media account. Only then did he know that this extremely talented girl in front of him was actually in the entertainment industry.
He was confused for a second. She was obviously a good seedling for Taoism, but she went to the entertainment industry. What a mistake!
Zhang Ke left disappointed and excited.
He was excited to witness a great seedling with his own eyes, but disappointed that such a good girl belonged to someone else and she was not doing her job properly and crossed the circle to become a star.