Lingxian Zhenjun

Chapter 34 Foundation Building
The noon sun shines on the green fields in the mountains, and the old ox-drawn carts are slowly moving on the official road, and the dust rolled up is scattered in the air.

"...Boss, you don't know how dangerous it was at that time, and he almost let that guy succeed. Fortunately, I have some knowledge in this way, and my skills are passable, so I didn't let him catch up."

The swaying car rushed up, and Sun Zhengde patted his bulging belly, talking about what happened last night in high spirits, "Fortunately, he rushed to the cowshed in time to let..."

Moo~~
In front, the old cow raised its horns and groaned, shaking its ears, interrupting the fat Taoist's words.

At this time, Chen Yuan, who was driving the car, didn't listen to what he said at all. What happened last night and the stories in the book kept flashing through her mind. .

'Now, more and more people are interested in this book. '

He had rummaged through the book before, and he hadn't found any trace of the author, but he was sure that the other party was definitely not a human being, and the formulas mixed in the story couldn't be written by ordinary people?
"Boss, what did you say about the corpse last night? It's a fraud, and there are no cats or dogs in the hall..." On the side, Sun Zhengde finally thought of something.

"They are raising corpses! As expected, they lied that the corpses were relatives who died in other places. They passed by here, and it was difficult to walk at night, so they went to the inn to stay. When the darkness was thickest in the middle of the night, the corpses came out of the coffin and sucked in the inn The middleman, after a while, changed to another place and continued to commit murder."

"But these people...wouldn't go to big counties, where the city gods would definitely not sit idly by. It is estimated that they would only pick out remote villages and towns, or small poor counties...Nowadays the war is raging in the north, and the people are struggling to survive, so there is an opportunity to take advantage of it."

"Raising corpses? What are you doing after raising them? Cannibalism?"

"I don't know."

Chen Yuan shook her head. She really couldn't guess what happened next, but she might guess that raising this kind of corpse would definitely not be for viewing, but would definitely be used for some purpose.

But...it has nothing to do with me.

Forced out of Jiangnan by the Canglan Sword Gate, who will make the decision for me?Fighting in this world is the business of the superiors. It is only right for me to concentrate on cultivating the Tao and gain a firm foothold.

Thinking about it, he threw the whip to Sun Zhengde, turned around and got into the hood of the car, squeezed the master who was taking a nap, took out the log, and carved the unfinished head carving.

The sawdust fell to his feet bit by bit along the chisel tip, he blew a breath, and the head carving gradually revealed the outline, it was the Qin Shubao who was on the door of the previous life in his memory.

He has been in this world for several months, and has been involved in both acting and sculpture, and with the recent experience in carving given by old man Zhao, he is even more handy.

Seeing the gradually revealed facial features, she switched hands to carve the headgear carefully, and when she was almost at the next town, Chen Yuan took the drill knife and tapped on her eyes.

——Keep your eyes open.

The next moment, Chen Yuan breathed out, put her fingertips between the eyebrows of the head carving, and called softly: "Qin Qiong."

call!
A gust of wind blew into the tent, Chen Yuan held his palm, and the head carving standing on it suddenly opened its eyes, and the color of the wood gradually changed to other colors in an instant, blue, red, black, infested with scales, The phoenix-wing eyebrows on both sides of the pocket and the phoenix wings turned golden, and the dull wooden face in the helmet gradually became whiter.

The head sculpture, which was not as big as a fist, seemed to come alive in an instant.

Turning his eyes, opening and closing his lips on Chen Yuan's palm, people couldn't help laughing. After a while, he used pig hair as a beard and pasted it into a beard, and suddenly he looked like a general.

He took a wooden body carved with armor and inserted it into the hollow under the head carving, and when they were combined together, they made a light 'snap'.

A green and mysterious air suddenly poured into Chen Yuan's chest.

His body froze immediately, and in his mind, he seemed to see the bustling market, the lively stands, crowds of people applauding and applauding, and someone even sent money and invited a puppet back.

He saw Qin Qiong placed in the shrine.

...I saw someone burning incense and kowtow.

...I saw the children on the street waving branches to imitate the generals on the stage who are criss-crossing the enemy's line.

It turns out that the troupe has already started to perform in various places in the south of the Yangtze River.

In an instant, one after another images shattered and turned into cyan light spots, sinking into the sea of ​​qi in Dantian, the circling cyclone was bigger than before, and the surrounding darkness, the twinkling stars became brighter.

'This is……'

Chen Yuan seems to have seen an extra altar in the middle of the cyclone.

Suddenly, his thoughts became clear, and he seemed to understand what it meant to establish a foundation.

Base means Daotai.

Build a platform and lead the way under my feet.

"My boss?!"

The voice of the fat Taoist suddenly came to his ears, and Chen Yuan suddenly came back to his senses, opened his eyes immediately, and a gust of fresh air spread from his body, brushing Sun Zhengde's face, and immediately felt refreshed , but immediately there was another feeling of nausea suffocating in the atrium.

"Old man's apprentice, the talent is really rare, how long has it been since he reached the foundation building!"

At some point, the crazy old man woke up, and was sitting cross-legged across from him looking at Chen Yuan in front of him, but his eyes seemed a little clear, not like the muddy ones before.

But it was only clear for a moment, and then he was in a daze again, and asked the Taoist when the meal was served.

"There is a small town ahead, let's go there right away." Although Sun Zhengde has no cultivation level, he has stayed in Tianshimen for a few years, and he knows more or less what a foundation is. Pull to the town that is not far away.

After lunch, the three of them found an open space on the street and set up a crude stage. Along the way, they also began to carve the last door god.

……

Xiaojiang Town.

Outside the inn on the street, there were crowds of onlookers standing, and some passers-by stopped, watching the county government officers guarding outside with swords and soldiers, and curiously asked the onlookers what happened.

"...Five or six people died in this inn last night."

"I am familiar with the shopkeeper of this inn. I heard from him just now that two groups of people came to stay late last night. One family had a relative who died in other places and brought them back to their hometown for burial. A traveler who seemed to be driving an ox cart brought a Taoist priest and a madman. Old man. As a result, all the people carrying the coffin died overnight."

"So scary?!"

"Isn't that right, the ox cart driver disappeared early in the morning, and the official's messenger has already returned to the county government to report, so maybe they want to hunt down these three people."

"Oh, what's going on recently, so many people have died, I heard that Linjiang is not peaceful, and many children have been lost."

"Stop talking, stay away and come out."

I don’t know who yelled, and the black and white group of people retreated immediately. In the inn, a few servants carried stretchers, and carried the corpses covered with white cloth out of the upstairs, put them into donkey carts, and drank them. The people around watching the excitement left quickly.

"What do you look at? It's so strange that people won't die someday in this world. What should you do? Don't join in the fun! The county lord has his own decision on this matter!"

After drinking the people away, they talked to the innkeeper, then they drove the donkey cart and took the coffin away together.

The sky slanted.

The setting sun draws a magnificent red color on the mountains, and far away on the streets of another town, there are cheers and applause one after another. Watching the two puppets wielding weapons on the stage fight is very refreshing. The story is even more fascinating. Waiting for the performance When it was over, he still didn't leave, clamoring for another show.

"The puppet is amazing. It doesn't eat, but we want to eat it. Everyone, let's stop here today. If you are interested, you can go to Linjiang County to see it."

Chen Yuan waved the two puppets named 'Qin Qiong' and 'Yu Chi Gong' in her hands, and greeted the townspeople with a smile. Immediately, she dismantled the stage and put it in the bullock cart. When she left, she did not forget to say: "If you like it, You can use these two puppet paintings as New Year pictures, and stick them on the door of your house to ward off disasters and get rid of evil spirits. It doesn’t matter if you don’t like it, here’s another pair! I also played Guan and Zhang for you just now!”

Saying goodbye to this small town, the Taoist looked back and there were many people stopping and waving. It was the first time he felt so welcome.

"Wars, famines, they are too tightly suppressed. Watching this play can make people feel happy. It will relieve our troubles for a while. Naturally, we will be happy. If you play a sect at this time, use some blindfolds, believe If you don’t believe it, many people will follow you.”

The fat Taoist crossed his legs, shook his head, but turned his head quite solemnly.

"Isn't that just evil and crooked ways... I would rather beg for food than be fooled by these sufferings haha."

"Then you were bluffing and deceiving before."

"Can you not mention this, this way is just to make a living, not to fool people's fate. They listened to those crooked ways, and lost their lives if they were not sure."

Ha ha.

Chen Yuan smiled, waved the whip, and turned to Linjiang County amidst the sound of the master waving the puppet. There happened to be a missing formula in the book here. I don’t know if there is a chance to make it up. Several woodcarving plays.

The feeling of stepping into Foundation Establishment made him a little impatient.

On the way, I asked passers-by, and after knowing how to get there, I walked along the official road for a while, and saw the outline of the city wall from a distance.

The setting sun dyed the western clouds red.

The rammed-earth city wall was not too long, and it was full of potholes and holes drilled by scumblebees. The guards were holding a portrait and looking at the teams entering and leaving.

"Let's go, let's go! Next!" "You... don't look like you, what are you looking at, if you don't go to the city, get out!"

"The one in the back, put the nostrils down, it doesn't look like you without breaking it!"

Chen Yuan drove the ox cart to a stop, and was behind the queue entering the city. It was his turn to be inspected soon. The guard over there looked at the paper in his hand, then looked at the ox cart, and suddenly called out: "It's him!" !"

As soon as the sound fell, more than a hundred people came out from the front and back of the city gate, wearing armor and swords, rushing over, blocking the water.

Chen Yuan frowned, and was about to stand up. In front of her eyes, more than a hundred soldiers in the city suddenly arched their hands and bowed down.

"Sir, I have an invitation from the Marquis of the Right Capital!"

　It's too late!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)