casket of old days

Chapter 83

Daoist Fayuan said: "Our Taoist Temple in Qingyang County was investigating the corpse case of the Immortal Dao, and we also arrested this demon. How can it be your turn to interrogate?"

Li Changqing said coldly: "The case is so serious that it involves the local eunuchs, officials, gentry and powerful families. It must be interrogated by Zhenmasi." He waved his hand and said, "Take people away."

Zhenmagic Division and Tianshijiao are originally divided into two different systems, the state religion and the imperial court, and both of them are hunting demons, so there has been friction between them for a long time.

Especially at the beginning of the establishment of Zhenmagic Division, Tianshijiao sent people to help a lot, providing many martial arts, Taoism and alchemy methods.

But later, as Zhenmensi was used by the royal family to fight against Tianshijiao, the conflict between the two sides became more and more intense.

Seeing that Li Changqing was about to take away the monster he had captured, Fa Yuan jumped up and said, "Li Changqing! When will the Zhenmagic Division catch the people I was taught by Tianshi?"

Li Changqing walked up to Fa Yuan step by step, with a malicious tone in his tone: "Fa Yuan, you are not qualified to rob someone from me."

After Li Changqing finished speaking, there was a flash of saber light, and Taoist Fayuan flew out like a shell as if he had been hit hard. His face was pale, and he was speechless for a long time pointing at Li Changqing.

Li Changqing squinted at Fa Yuan and said, "I am Qianhu, the Department of Zhenmo. If the court officials and their families are involved in demons and cults, I will take care of them. If you have any objections, let the Department of Dao Gang of Lingzhou come and tell me."

Lingzhou Daogang Division is the organization that manages all Taoist temples in Lingzhou in Tianshijiao.

Fa Yuan's face was ashen when he heard these words, he was obviously out of breath, but his skills were not as good as others, but he couldn't make a comeback.

Faced with Zhenmasi's fierce power, no other officials present were willing to stand up for Fa Yuan, but Li Changqing seemed unwilling to offend everyone too much, and finally agreed to take someone to interrogate Master Tianji in the county government cell.

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On the chair outside the cell, Hao Yongtai looked worriedly at the location of the cell.

The little servant said at the side: "Don't worry, young master, this place is also a prison of the county government. No matter how overbearing the town magician is, he won't do anything to the prisoner here."

But just after they waited for a cup of tea, an extremely terrifying roar, as if from another world, came from the depths of the prison cell, and all the soldiers and officers at the scene trembled instinctively, unable to move. move.

Hao Yongtai looked at the cell with a little horror, and said with difficulty: "Demon?!"

Amidst the loud bang, the outer wall of the cell was directly broken, and the clouds covered the moon at some point, and the whole scene was dark.

In the dark prison cell, ghostly laughter swept over, and a huge monster was squeezed out bit by bit from the cell.

Suddenly, as the clouds surged, the moonlight shone into the yard again, revealing the true appearance of the monster.

There were screams and screams one after another, and the slightly timid guard even fainted instantly after seeing the true face of the figure.

It was a huge, swollen, writhing ball of flesh. Dozens of intertwined pale arms of various lengths grew from the fleshy ball. Each arm was covered with bud-like sarcoma, which moved with the movement of the sarcoma. As soon as it moved, thick green mucus was continuously secreted from it, and it dripped on the ground, giving off bursts of meaty fragrance.

But the most frightening thing is the distorted and distorted face on the top of the meat ball. The mouth of the face is slightly opened and closed, and it seems that countless identical faces can be seen through the gap in the upper jaw.

Chu Qiguang glanced at the face and felt that he was about to spit it out, but he could barely see that it seemed to be the face of Master Tianji.

This monster roared and rushed out of the cell like a beast from another world, and every move was releasing waves of fear that could drive people crazy.

Just when Chu Qiguang was shocked by the unprecedented monster in front of him, another figure was holding a demon-slaying knife, tearing the night sky like black lightning.

The light of the knife cut across the air, accompanied by a strong smell of rust.

The figure shuttled back and forth around the monster at a speed that surpassed Chu Qiguang's visual observation, and the long knife in his hand cut through the atmosphere and let out one after another extremely sharp screams.

As the light of the knife passed over the monster's body like thunder and lightning, amidst heart-piercing screams of pain, the monster's body was torn apart, and finally turned into flesh and blood and fell to the ground.

The black lightning-like figure also stopped, and it was Qianhu Li Changqing from Zhenma Division.

At this moment, Li Changqing's skin was red all over, and there were waves of heat, like a cooked shrimp.

At the same time, his eyes were completely white, with no pupils visible.

After killing the monster, the veins on his face bulged, as if he was fighting against some invisible force.

Seeing him grabbing a bottle of elixir from his arms and quickly swallowing one, his expression relaxed a little.

Chu Qiguang thought to himself: "Did you take the medicine from Zhenmasi?" '

It wasn't until a stick of incense passed that the visions on Li Changqing's body gradually subsided and returned to its original normal appearance.

But at this moment, Li Changqing looked at Hao Yongtai, Chu Qiguang and others who were still looking at him, and he cursed: "What are you looking at? Do you want to die? Go to the Taoist temple immediately and call someone to give Fayuan Call, and deal with this demon corpse."

Hao Yongtai immediately called an officer who was still able to move to the Taoist temple to call for someone, and then glared at Li Changqing angrily: "What did you do?"

Li Changqing said coldly: "Didn't you see that he was possessed?"

Hao Yongtai said angrily: "The monster of the immortal way was still fine when he was handed over to you. Is this how you tried to make him into a demon?"

Li Changqing said lightly: "Heretic cult monsters don't believe in Xuanyuan Daoist, and it's normal to be enchanted."

Seeing that he was about to turn around and leave, Hao Yongtai subconsciously reached out to stop him. Chu Qiguang secretly yelled that he was not good. Just as he was about to stop him, he saw a black glow flashing from Li Changqing's hand, and the scabbard hit Hao Yongtai directly. hand, and broke his arm.

Hao Yongtai snorted, and was supported by Chu Qiguang to back away.

Li Changqing glanced at them coldly: "You two... If you disturb the Zhenmag Division's law enforcement again, I will not let you go lightly."

After finishing speaking, Li Changqing stopped looking at Chu Qiguang and Hao Yongtai, and led the team away, leaving the county government in a mess.

But Chu Qiguang's mind was still filled with the monster killed by Li Changqing.

It wasn't until Hao Yongtai gritted his teeth and touched his arm, then reached out and patted Chu Qiguang's shoulder, that he came back to his senses.

Hao Yongtai sighed: "Brother Chu, what shall we do next?"

But Chu Qiguang asked: "That monster just now...is it a demon?"

Hao Yongtai endured the pain from his hands, and said casually, "Yeah, what's wrong?"

Chu Qiguang asked again: "On weekdays, the Taoist temple kills demons and eliminates demons... those who drowned... those who were arrested... and those who went crazy when they were practicing..."

Chu Qiguang let out a breath: "The demon they have fallen into is this demon in front of them?"

Hao Yongtai asked suspiciously, "What's wrong with you?"

"What's the matter..." Chu Qiguang yelled in his heart: "In addition to turning into monsters, people in your world can also become such monsters. '

In fact, it is about the fact that ordinary people will become demons, they need to believe in Xuanyuan Daoist, and they need to rely on the power of faith to prevent themselves from becoming demons... Chu Qiguang has long known this set of rhetoric from Ergou's memory.

There are even all kinds of Erdogs who have heard it since they were young... What is it that people who are tested for talent are prone to becoming demons because they read too many books, so-and-so old people learn too many crafts and end up being enchanted and burned to death, so-and-so children are too smart and end up being enchanted and drowned... …Only by praying to Taoist Xuanyuan every day, and through devout beliefs, can resist the evil.

However, under the habitual thinking of modern people on earth, he thought of those "enchanted people" who were drowned, burned, and hacked to death by Taoist priests in his memory. It's almost like burning witches on earth.

He also remembered that he was studying in Hao’s library before. No wonder Hao Yongtai was concerned about whether he was reading too much. No wonder no one came to such a big library. No wonder Hao Xiangtong sneaked in if he wanted to study, and his family didn’t support it...

'So there is another reason for rich people to take the martial arts test, and the reason why the martial arts scriptures are so simple, with only a few [-] words, is also to reduce the probability of cultivators becoming demons. '

'That's why this Qingyang County, this world...is full of foolish people and foolish women. '

'But...it turns out that there is such a thing as being possessed by demons...people can become monsters...what is the reason for this? '

'Belief in Xuanyuan Daoist can resist enchantment, what is the reason for this?Is the god Xuanyuan Daozun real? '

All this gives Chu Qiguang the feeling that in this world, people are not chasing knowledge, but knowledge is chasing human beings.

Chu Qiguang tried his best to calm down his mood: "No wonder... no wonder Taoist temples are so powerful. This is because the people in the world really cannot do without them, and people need faith to resist enchantment." '

Thinking of this, Chu Qiguang suddenly worried whether he would be possessed by a demon?He has read a lot of books and mastered a lot of knowledge, but he doesn't believe in Xuanyuan Daoist yet.

He thought to himself: "You must ask Qiao Zhi when you go back." '

Later Chu Qiguang asked Qiao Zhi, but Qiao Zhi said: "The more difficult the road of cultivating the Tao, the higher the level, the more you learn, the greater the danger of becoming enchanted. The gift of becoming a fairy. It means that you will not be enchanted by learning the method of becoming a fairy, so what if you learn more knowledge of the mortal world?"

Later, Chu Qiguang also knew that monsters have a much lower chance of becoming demons than humans, so it's okay even if most of them don't believe in religion.

And in the yamen at this moment.

Hao Yongtai pulled Chu Qiguang, who was a little restless, and asked, "Brother Chu, we need to go to Wu's house quickly and tell father and them what happened here."

Chu Qiguang helped Hao Yongtai with a broken arm bone to leave the county government office.

And not long after, the Taoist priests from the Taoist temple rushed over and began to arrange rituals and clean up the demon corpses.

(End of this chapter)