A hundred flavors of life

Chapter 1073: The ending of A Chinese Ghost Story, Go to Gaojiazhuang! (Please order the whole thing!)
Shifang cried as he dug a hole all night and then buried more than a ton of soil.

Yes, that's right. He buried all the soil stained with his master's golden blood into the pit. Then, among the ruins of Lanruo Temple, he found a wooden plaque and engraved the words "Baiyun Arhat sacrificed his life to achieve enlightenment here" on it.

Ning Caichen was a kind-hearted man. He helped out all night and was covered in dust.

Not far away, Hua Shier and Yan Chixia were sitting on the steps of the former main hall of Lanruo Temple drinking. Well, now only the steps are left of the hall.

In fact, according to Hua Shier's idea, they should have left after killing Bai Yun yesterday, but Yan Chixia said he wanted to stay because he had something to say to Ning Caichen.

Shifang filled the last handful of soil, kowtowed three times to the grave he had made with his own hands, and then stood up and ran to Hua Twelve, pointing at him angrily:
"Why did you kill my master? Why!!!"

Because of fear, sadness and various other emotions, he had been holding these words in for the entire night, and now he finally couldn't help but ask.

Hua Twelve said calmly:
"Your master said that I am a demon, and he wants to exorcise me. Can't I fight back? Look, your master is the demon. Other people's blood is red, but his is gold. What does this mean? It means that he is not human!"

Yan Chixia spat out a mouthful of wine. He is a golden-bodied arhat.

Ning Caichen, who followed, was shocked: "Yes, Master Shifang, why is Master Baiyun's blood golden?"

“This. That.”

Shifang was also confused, he didn't know either!

Although he was a Buddhist and Baiyun's disciple, he was only a novice monk with shallow practice. No one told him that his master had become a golden arhat, and he had no idea what color the golden arhat's blood was.

Hua Shier spread his hands and said, "Look, this and that, you should thank me. If it weren't for me, that old monster would have accepted you as his disciple, and he might have eaten you when he got hungry one day!"

Shifang was a little annoyed: "Don't talk nonsense, my master loves me very much!"

Hua Twelve laughed: "I love you all the time, I'm just afraid that I'll hurt you later!"

Yan Chixia smiled bitterly and shook his head. He could see that Shifang's sadness had lessened a bit. He was obviously affected by Hua Twelve's words. He immediately said to the latter:

"My friend, please stop teasing him!"

Then he said to Shifang: "Little monk, your master is not a monster. He is like this because he has achieved the state of Arhat. Besides, we are not bad people. It is just a misunderstanding between us and your master. It is God's will. Don't be obsessed with it!"

When Shifang heard that his master was not a monster, he breathed a sigh of relief. He glared at Hua Twelve, then became overwhelmed with grief and tears began to fall again.

Yan Chixia is very optimistic about Shifang and continues to show his goodwill:
"Little monk, if you have nowhere to go, you might as well consider joining my Taoist sect. The bearded man has the ability to kill demons with a flying sword. Are you willing to become my disciple and a Taoist boy?"

Shifang shook his head vigorously: "I have been a monk since I was young, I will not be your Taoist disciple!"

Yan Chixia did not force it: "Okay, then go back to where you came from. I think there will be someone in the temple who can take care of you!"

Hua Twelve interrupted and said, "I see you have such a big golden Buddha on your back. Why are you going back to the temple? Why don't you give me the golden Buddha and I'll give you a thousand taels of gold. With the money, you can be a rich man wherever you go. How about that?"

He knew that the golden Buddha had great magical powers and could even defeat the Black Mountain Demon. It was definitely a great treasure.

Shifang covered the bag behind him with a vigilant look on his face: "You, how did you know that? Don't even think about it!"

Hua Shier waved his hand: "If you don't want to, forget it. I'm not forcing you to give it to me!"

Shifang moved his lips, wanting to say something harsh, such as avenging his master in the future, but when he thought about the gap between him and Hua Twelve, he let out a breath again. He said goodbye to Ning Caichen, left Lanruo Temple and continued to head north with the morning light rising from the horizon.

Ning Caichen was reluctant to leave this friend whom he had been with for more than a day, and shouted from behind:
"Little monk, where are you going?"

Shifang's voice came from afar: "I'm going to Jinshan Temple. Brother Ning can come and find me there when you have time!"

"Golden Mountain Temple?"

Hua Twelve raised his eyebrows. He thought of the mighty dragon and shouted to Shifang who had already walked away:

"Little monk, remember not to show off your wealth. Don't let people see the Buddha statue. Not everyone is as kind as me and willing to pay for it!"

After Shifang left, Yan Chixia asked Ning Caichen:
"Ning Caichen, where are you going now?"

He and Ning Caichen had known each other for more than a hundred times, so they were very familiar with each other, so they were not shy in speaking. However, in Ning Caichen's memory, it was the first time he had seen Yan Chixia, and he was surprised to see that the other party could call out his name:
"Big Beard, how do you know my name? Oh, Brother Hua must have told you!"

After he finished speaking, his eyes suddenly flickered and he became a little timid.

Yan Chixia laughed loudly and said to Hua Twelve: "Daoyou, do you know what he is thinking? He must think that you and I are some great villains!"

He had previously told Hua Twelve about his previous reincarnations, including the incident where Ning Caichen mistook him for the notorious bandit Liu Yidao and went to the government to sue him.

Hua Twelve couldn't help but smile. He knew that Ning Caichen must be thinking the same thing. The two had met once before and should have had a good impression of each other. But he beat Bai Yun to death in front of Ning Caichen and Shifang yesterday. Maybe in the other party's mind, he and Yan Chixia were both the same villains.

Seeing that Ning Caichen was about to tremble, Yan Chixia smiled and comforted him:

"Don't be afraid, we are not bad people. I am just an expert in face reading. I see that you have a bad aura and I am afraid you will end up in jail. I want to give you some advice!"

He didn't care whether Ning Caichen would listen to him, and just said:
"Before you came here, you must have suffered a setback when collecting debts in Guobei County. Am I right?"

Although Ning Caichen didn't say anything, his eyes were wide open, and it was obvious that Yan Chixia was right.

Yan Chixia continued, “This time when you go back to collect the debt, just tell that person that you spent a night in Lanruo Temple, and he will naturally give you the silver. When you take the silver back to your hometown, you will find that the owner of your Jibaozhai is dead, the shop is gone, and you will be wrongly imprisoned, and then your life will be miserable.”

Originally, after Ning Caichen was released from prison, there was still Fu Qingfeng who could elope with him, but now the Centipede National Master was killed by Hua Twelve in a two-on-one duel. Without this national master to disrupt the court, Fu Qingfeng's father Fu Tianchou would not be framed by the national master and would most likely continue to be an official. There would also be no drama of Fu Qingfeng escaping the prisoner to save his father, and he would not have any intersection with Ning Caichen anymore.

So Yan Chixia was not wrong when he said that Ning Caichen's life was miserable.

Ning Caichen was a little unconvinced: "Nonsense, how could you know about something that hasn't happened yet?"

Yan Chixia stood up and knocked him on the head: "Foolish idiot, didn't I say I can read faces?"

He grabbed Ning Caichen's arm and said, "Let's go. I'll stay for one day to help you once!"

Hua Shier smiled and got up to watch the show. He didn't mind spending a day or so away. He had been killing people before, so now it might be nice to watch the show and relax.

As soon as the three of them left Lanruo Temple, one of them used Qinggong to jump in front of the three of them:

"Yan Chixia, I have been waiting for you for a long time. This time I will definitely defeat you and become the best swordsman in the world!"

This person found Lanruo Temple yesterday, but didn't dare to come over when he saw the dark clouds and the howling of ghosts and wolves. Today, he saw Yan Chixia just after waking up. It was a perfect time for a duel!

Ning Caichen was startled, because the person who jumped out was the swordsman who was killing everyone when he was hiding from the rain that day!
Yan Chixia said unhappily: "Xiahou, I don't have time to play house with you anymore. Let me show you my real ability, Ten Thousand Swords Return to the Origin!"

He pointed his finger, and countless sword lights flew out, circling around Xiahou and darting back and forth.
After Hua Twelve, Yan Chixia, and Ning Caichen walked away, Xiahou came back to his senses naked. It turned out that the countless sword lights of Ten Thousand Swords Returning to the Origin had already shattered his clothes into powder, but did not hurt his body at all.

Xiahou covered his vital parts and shouted to Yan Chixia who was walking away: "Yan Chixia, don't think you can humiliate me like this just because you are so powerful. You have to be responsible for me!"

Hua Twelve laughed loudly, and Yan Chixia almost fell down. He turned around and shouted angrily:

"You are all grown men, what responsibility do I have for you?"

"I said take me as your apprentice!"

"Get out! I won't accept Guo Ben as my disciple. I'm too ashamed!" Xiahou: "." You made this dog like this, Yan Chixia, you are a real dog!

In a blink of an eye, they arrived at Guobei County. Yan Chixia dragged Ning Caichen to the inn where he was going to collect the debt. He pushed him:

"Go!"

Ning Caichen walked into the inn somewhat reluctantly and said to the innkeeper:
"I'll collect the bill!"

When the shopkeeper saw that it was him, he said impatiently, "Didn't I tell you that your account book is soaked by water and I can't see the account clearly. How can I give you the money? Go away, if you want the money, bring the account book here first!"

Ning Caichen naturally didn't have an account book. Thinking of what Yan Chixia had said to him, he tentatively said, "I spent the night in Lanruo Temple yesterday!"

The shopkeeper exclaimed, "Ah!" and confirmed, "You said you stayed overnight at Lanruo Temple?"

When the diners around heard this, they all turned to look at him, their eyes filled with shock and sympathy.

Ning Caichen nodded: "Yes, it is Lanruo Temple!"

The shopkeeper quickly took out two silver ingots and stuffed them into his hands: "Here, here, go quickly, I don't owe money to the dead!" In his opinion, since Ning Caichen had been to Lanruo Temple, he would not live for many days.

After Ning Caichen came out, he was somewhat shocked; "He really gave me the silver!"

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Yan Chixia shook her head: "Let's go, I'll go home with you!"

He took out a few magic speed talismans, affixed them to Ning Caichen, and gave one to Hua Twelve: "This magic speed talisman can travel 300 miles a day, which is about the same speed as an ordinary horse."

Hua Twelve shook his head and said, "This is too slow. Let me lead you!"

He grabbed one in each hand, released the Moon Golden Wheel, and flew with the two of them on swords.

They traveled at lightning speed, and in the blink of an eye they had covered more than two hundred miles. Under the guidance of Ning Caichen, the sword light landed outside a town.

The two accompanied Ning Caichen to Jibaozhai to settle the account, only to find that just as Yan Chixia said, Jibaozhai was gone, the shop looked as if it had been looted, and the boss and his family were nowhere to be seen.

After asking around, I found out that just after Ning Caichen went to Guobei County, a group of horse bandits came to the town, burning, killing and looting. Many people died, and the boss's family might have been killed.

Ning Caichen was confused. He went on a business trip and lost his company. Where could he go to seek justice?

Just when I was confused, a group of people came, all of them were big and strong, holding knives and swords, with malicious faces:

"Three of you, can you lend me some money for your expenses? Hey, isn't this the guy who collects the debts from Jibaozhai? How much money did you collect? Show it to everyone!"

Ning Caichen was terrified: "You, you don't come over here!"

Hua Shier found his weak appearance somewhat funny and waved at those people. His energy burst out, and with a bang, bang, bang, everyone flew backwards and died in the air due to the shock of the energy, vomiting blood.

Yan Chixia couldn't bear it: "Fellow Daoist, you have a murderous intention!"

Hua Twelve pointed at those people and said, "It's not that I have a murderous heart. Some people may appear to be human, but judging by their actions, they are no different from demons. Killing such people as soon as possible will help you eliminate the demons and get rid of harm to the people!"

Yan Chixia and Ning Caichen disagreed. Just as the former was about to speak, a skinny young man rushed out and kowtowed to Hua Twelve:
"Thank you for avenging my family. After the bandits left, these beasts ran out of food and started eating people. My second brother was white-skinned and they thought he had tender meat, so he was..."

The young man could no longer continue speaking and began to sob.

But he didn't say the rest. Yan Chixia understood, and his face turned red immediately, and he stomped his feet fiercely:
"I was being hypocritical. Good job on killing you, fellow Taoist!"

Ning Caichen's fate followed the same fate as before. He bid farewell to Yan Chixia and wanted to go home to study. With the money he had collected, he would not have to worry about his livelihood for a year or two. He just had to wait for the court to hold another special examination. He wanted to pass the examination and gain fame and a bright future.

Yan Chixia did not stop him and took Hua Shier into hiding. As a result, in less than a day, Ning Caichen was treated as a fugitive and captured by the government in exchange for a bounty.

That night, Yan Chixia rescued Ning Caichen again and asked with a smile:

"Do you believe me this time?"

Ning Caichen was annoyed. "How could there be such a confused county magistrate? It's obvious that I'm nothing like the person on the arrest warrant, but the county magistrate won't listen to me no matter what I say!"

Hua Twelve laughed and said, "The county magistrate is not stupid. He took 80% of the reward for catching a fugitive, and the person who caught you took 20%. Your county magistrate got 200 taels of silver just for imprisoning you. How can you ask him to spit it out? I tell you, if it weren't for Fellow Daoist Yan who rescued you, the county magistrate would not only not let you go, but would also kill you as soon as possible and make it a solid case before he can rest assured!"

Ning Caichen felt a chill down his spine when he heard this. He was just staying at home and not going anywhere, yet something unexpected happened to him. He suddenly felt that there was no hope in life.

Suddenly he glanced at Yan Chixia, and a sudden inspiration came to him. He knelt down and kowtowed:

"Master Yan, I want to be your disciple. Please accept me as your apprentice!"

Yan Chixia originally didn't want to accept Ning Caichen, but when he thought about the previous reincarnation cycle, he and Ning Caichen were brothers. Now that his brother was kneeling down, hugging his legs and calling him dad, he thought it was not unacceptable.

Well, master and disciple are like father and son. Yan Chixia feels that calling him master is the same as calling him father!
He raised his eyebrows: "Okay, I originally wanted to help you live a peaceful life, but it's a good thing that you are interested in Taoism. From now on, you can practice with me!"

Ning Caichen kowtowed repeatedly: "Greetings, Master!"

He kowtowed to Hua Twelve again: "Greetings, Uncle Master!"

Hua Twelve laughed: "You're blaming me for this. Well, I won't call you Uncle Master for nothing. I'll give you a toy to play with!"

He took out a flying sword from the storage space that was in decent condition and handed it over:

"This is the flying sword I got when I killed my enemy. It just so happens that your master is a flying sword player, so I'll give this sword to you for self-defense!"

Yan Chixia's eyes lit up: "Why don't you thank your uncle!"

Ning Caichen thanked him repeatedly.

After dealing with Ning Caichen's affairs, Hua Shier discussed with Yan Chixia and headed to Gaojiazhuang!
Only then did Yan Chixia realize that Hua Shier had actually set his sights on Zhu Ganglie.

Along the way, he told Hua Twelve the origin of Zhu Ganglie, and also told him about the most powerful exorcists in the world today, Tiancanjiao, Wuxingquan, and Kongxu Gongzi who could be among the top three.

Hua Twelve asked curiously, "What about Fahai? Are these three more powerful than Fahai?"

Yan Chixia shook his head and smiled:
"I don't know about that either. It's said that Fahai is the reincarnation of an arhat and has great magical powers. However, he is a loner and never participates in the affairs of exorcists, so no one ranks him. As for how his strength compares to the top three, they haven't fought each other. We have to fight each other to know!"

While the two were talking about Fahai, the young monk Shifang encountered a tiger in the mountains and was nearly killed by it. At the critical moment, a young monk in white clothes came down from the sky like a banished immortal and landed directly on the tiger.

The tiger immediately became obedient, crawling on the ground, willing to be a mount.

Shifang calmed down a bit and stepped forward to greet him: "I am Shifang, thank you for saving my life, Master."

The white-robed monk raised his eyebrows and asked:
"Are you Shifang? Three months ago, Zen Master Baiyun sent me a letter, saying that he would escort the Golden Buddha from Lingtai Temple to Jinshan Temple for worship. Where are your Master Baiyun and the Golden Buddha now?"

Shi Fang's mind was moved: "May I ask the Master?"

"Poor monk Fahai!"

In Gaojiazhuang, Hua Twelve, Yan Chixia, and Ning Caichen unexpectedly met a pair of fellow brothers and sisters who had just come down the mountain!

Thanks to: 08a, Brother Xiao Xiaohu in the Demon World for the reward, and thanks to the brothers who voted for monthly votes and recommendation votes, thank you very much.