At what age are you still being a traditional monster?

"After a long time of trouble, it is time to leave."

Jin Shunping clasped his hands and said: "I also ask the Taoist priest to stay for a few more days, so that the common people can be grateful for the merits of the Taoist priest."

Lin Xu picked up the burden and said: "Pindao didn't remove the demons for the gratitude of the people, it's just that the practitioners did it conveniently. Please stop persuading the governor, as the poor Taoist has something to deal with."

Seeing that Lin Xu couldn't be persuaded, Jin Shunping could only ask the housekeeper to bring out a box of silver ingots, saying: "This is a little kindness, and the Taoist priest will not refuse any more."

Lin Xu readily accepted the silver ingot, the money is still very important.

"I will lead the officials of Pingshun Prefecture to see the Taoist priest off." Jin Shunping said again.

Lin Xu said: "Please stop, the governor of the county still has official business to do, and the officials of Pingshun Mansion also have official business to do, how can they abolish the public for private reasons, besides, if you are poor, you have to go to the Town God's Temple first, if you want to send it, then send it Just outside the door."

Jin Shunping sent Lin Xu to the gate of the mansion all the way, Lin Xu bid farewell with arms folded, singing away.

All the way was smooth, Lin Xu arrived at the Temple of the City God.

There were still many people burning incense in the Temple of the City God during the day, Lin Xu wondered if he had come early, if the City God was invited to show up in public, it would inevitably cause riots.

At this moment, the temple master of the Town God's Temple came out and said to Lin Xu, "Master Taoist, please come inside."

Lin Xu looked at the direction that Miao Zhu asked, which was the inner courtyard of the Town God Temple, behind the main hall, so he followed Miao Zhu into it.

When he got inside, Miao Zhu closed the door and ordered a few people to watch outside so that no one else would disturb him.

"Please go ahead, Daoist." Miao Zhu bowed his body and closed the door, leaving Lin Xu alone.

Lin Xu knew that the city god entrusted him with a dream to wish the temple, and asked him to do things conveniently for him, so he no longer concealed it, and resorted to the trick of inviting the gods.

After a burst of smoke, many ethereal figures appeared around Lin Xu.

The tallest person in the figure said: "The Tao has long been violated."

Lin Xu saluted and said: "Master Chenghuang, the poor are starting."

The Chenghuang laughed and said, "The Taoist priest exorcises demons by himself, how imposing it is."

Lin Xu shook his head and said, "However, the poor Taoist failed to subdue the three big monsters. It's really shameful."

"The Taoist priest is humble, come here this time, is there something wrong?"

Lin Xu nodded, took out the ruler, palmed it, and a red-robed judge ran out of the ruler, looking around tremblingly.

Cheng Huang's eyes turned cold, and he shouted coldly: "Ping'an County Civil Judge Zeng Qi, do you know where this is?"

This sound made the judge panicked, he knelt down with a trembling, at this moment, all the gods in the City God Temple appeared.

"Zeng Qi, you tampered with the book of life and death, you can be convicted!" The black-faced military judge held a big knife.

"Zeng Qi! You are a ghost, but you poisoned the people, you are guilty!" The pale-faced judge Wen took a judge's pen and began to write Zeng Qi's crimes one by one.

"Zeng Qi! You can bear the pain of the [-]th floor of hell!" The ghost king dangled the shackles in front of Zuo Qi.

"Zeng Qi!"

"Zeng Qi!"

"Zeng Qi!"

The gods of the Town God's Temple questioned him again and again, and under the strong pressure, Na Zengqi actually burst into tears and cried out of fright.

Teng Qi knelt down and cried bitterly: "The little god knows his mistake, the little god knows his mistake!"

The Chenghuang thumped the incense case angrily, and said: "Since you know your mistake, you still haven't taken it seriously, why do you want to change the book of life and death, why do you want to poison the people again!"

Zeng Qi explained everything in detail.

This Zeng Qi had a master, whom he recognized when he was less than ten years old, a black-clothed Taoist priest.When Zeng Qi was young, he loved to steal. One day he even stole into the Taoist priest's house, only to find that the Taoist priest was eating human stumps. The frightened Zeng Qi was caught by the Taoist priest.

"If you want to survive, you need to do one thing for me."

Teng Qi, who was under fear, didn't care about these things, let alone one, he was willing to agree to ten.

It turns out that Taoist is a demon who intends to live forever. Over the years, he has tried many methods of longevity, but they have not succeeded. After repeated attempts, he even put his idea in the book of life and death, and asked Zeng Qi to pretend to be good at the age of 20. , I pushed behind the scenes and sent him to the City God Temple to be a judge, so that he had the opportunity to get close to the book of life and death.

Chenghuang laughed when he heard this, and said: "The book of life and death in that county only records the lifespan of the people born in this county, so the demon way doesn't know?"

Teng Qi said: "Master, no, the demon way knows it, he taught me to change the lifespan of some people who were about to die, let them die later, and then kill them with poison before their lifespan expires." , in this way, it may be possible to steal the lifespans that have been changed from those people's death books."

Chenghuang said angrily: "It's ridiculous, how can there be such a reason?"

Teng Qi said: "Master, that Yao Dao also said that it was just an attempt, and only asked me to let him handle the matter, no matter if it succeeds or not, he can help me revive my soul when the time comes."

"Whimsical! Who is your master's last name?"

"He calls himself the True Immortal Black Lotus, but he doesn't know his name."

Hearing this, Lin Xu took out the poison pill that he had refined from the bodies of those who had died in vain in Ping'an County, and asked Zeng Qi, "Your master gave you such a poison at that time?"

Teng Qi looked at it and said, "Poison is a kind, but it's not a elixir, but a few vellus hairs."

Lin Xu said: "Do you still have any?"

"There are a few left."

"Get it out!"

Cai Tongqi hastily took out a few vellus hairs and handed them to Lin Xu. Lin Xu took a closer look and judged that it must be from the Black Lotus Immortal, and that Black Lotus Immortal is indeed a monster!However, just by looking at the vellus hair, one cannot know its true nature.

As a result, the incident came to an end for the time being.

The Chenghuang detains Zeng Qi and prepares to send him and the unjustly dead ghosts of Ping'an County to the underworld for trial by the King of Hades.

"Meng Daochang bothered, and captured this fellow for us."

Lin Xu waved his hand and said, "Your Majesty is being polite. If that's the case, the poor Taoist will resign first."

Chenghuang said: "I will play this matter to the Great Emperor of the Five Sacred Mountains, and to add merit to the Taoist priest."

Lin Xu smiled, didn't speak, turned and left, left Pingshun Mansion all the way, and headed east.

Chapter 41 Changes

"It's not good! Natural mutation!"

A loud cry lingered in the palace of the Roulai Kingdom, attracting the attention of all civil and military officials who were going to court. In the center of the hall, the young emperor Liang Yi slowly raised his head, with a tone of calm and prestige:

"What's the noise!"

Tai Shiling from the Observatory hurried into the main hall, tripped over the threshold of the main hall, knelt down, and said in a panic, "It's not good, Your Majesty, I was born with a mutation!"

"Whether the sky will collapse or not, speak up!"

"A mountain fell from the sky!"

All the officials were shocked when they heard the words, only the emperor Liang Yi sneered and said, "I think you've lost your head!"

After all, he took all the civil and military officials out of the palace gate together, but the scene in front of them made everyone's expressions change.

I saw that in the direction of the south of the sky, a huge palm was slowly falling, and the palm tore through the clouds and cut off the wind and thunder, and headed towards the earth.

If you look carefully, you will find that it is not a human palm, but a mountain in the shape of a palm!

"God's punishment, God's punishment!" Tai Shi Ling spoke incoherently.

The current prime minister, Mo Baixue, took the opportunity to remonstrate: "Your Majesty, this is a warning from the heavens, and we are required to follow the way of heaven. I am afraid that we will have to discuss and discuss the matter of building an altar in the capital."

Liang Yi looked indifferently, and said: "One or two of you, the one on the left is the punishment of heaven, and the one on the right is the warning to suppress me. Since it is a change of heaven, then please ask the national teacher to answer it."

"It's that demon way again!" Mo Baixue was dissatisfied in her heart, but said nothing.

After a while, the national teacher came.

It was actually brought by eight Taoist boys carrying a sedan chair. The national teacher was wearing a black Taoist robe with three golden lotus embroidered on it, and was sitting on the futon.

When the sedan chair entered the hall, the national teacher didn't have the slightest intention to get up, and just bowed slightly on the futon, which was regarded as a courtesy.

There was no dissatisfaction in Liang Yi's tone, but he said humbly, "Master, have you seen the vision in the sky?"

The national teacher smiled slightly, and said lightly: "The poor Taoist has also seen it, don't worry, your majesty, the poor Taoist has already figured it out, but there are monsters in the south, and the punishment from the sky has nothing to do with my country, your majesty should Be careful of other people's scaremongering."

Liang Yi was overjoyed when he heard the words, and said to the civil and military officials below: "Did you hear that? The national teacher said that it is a matter of the south, and has nothing to do with our Roulai country."

All civil and military officials did not say a word, they just lowered their heads and sighed softly.

Liang Yi said again: "Since this is the case, the matter of building the altar must be done quickly. The order will be passed on, and the price of the wood will be increased by [-]%, and the order will be issued widely, so that wood merchants in the world will send the wood as soon as possible."

Mo Baixue grieved and said: "Your Majesty, if this happens, the national treasury will lose a lot!"

Liang Yi said: "If the national treasury is out of money, then the people's taxes will be collected. If the people's taxes can't be raised, then the houses of a few corrupt officials will be raided. Remember that Master Lu of the Ministry of War and Mr. Mo have different political views. Why don't you just replace me, Mr. Mo?" Confiscate his house."

When the emperor was speaking, Master Lu of the Ministry of War was standing in the hall, but when he heard the words, his face was embarrassed, he was angry and angry, and he didn't dare to attack.

Mo Baixue said anxiously: "Your Majesty, Mr. Lu just disagrees with my political views, but he has nothing to do with corruption. How could he raid his house?"

Liang Yi waved his hand impatiently: "Then you go and investigate, and you will copy whoever is corrupt. When Bai Qingyi was around, you could find more than a dozen corrupt officials a day. Why can't you do it, Mr. Mo?"

Mo Baixue was also angry, and said angrily: "That Bai Qingyi is a monster, why should His Majesty mention him!"

Regardless of Mo Baixue's expression, Liang Yi just looked at the national teacher and said, "National teacher, after thinking about it recently, I still want to enshrine the national teacher's Black Lotus Sect as the state religion, what do you think?"

As soon as this remark came out, all the civil and military officials were boiling, and they all tried to persuade him not to do so.

Liang Yi had already seen the strangeness, and just said: "You are not willing, why are you unwilling? The national teacher is an expert with real skills, and the Black Lotus Sect was founded by the national teacher, and it will definitely bless me to come to the country Good weather."

"Your Majesty was blindfolded by a traitor!"

Liang Yi said: "Five years ago, there was a great epidemic in the capital. Fortunately, there was a national teacher! He practiced the method for seven to seven days in a row, saving the suffering of our people and preventing the epidemic from returning. You have also seen it with your own eyes."

Mo Baixue said: "What the national teacher did back then, no one in my country is grateful, so when His Majesty granted the title of the national teacher, all civil and military officials had no objection, but four years ago the national teacher wanted to build an altar again. It is really not the practice of a monk to waste people and money too much."

Liang Yi waved his hand and said: "This matter is the result of my discussion with the national teacher, and there are secrets that I cannot tell you. When the altar is built, I will definitely give you a satisfactory answer!"

The remonstrance of civil and military officials had long been heard in the ears of Emperor Liang Yi. After a burst of intentional anger, Liang Yi announced his withdrawal from the court.

After leaving the gate of the palace, Mo Baixue didn't rush back to the residence, but instead went to the Guanyin Temple.

Now, the emperor has unsealed the Guanyin Temple, but now under the influence of the emperor, all the people in Roulai believe in the Black Lotus Sect, and there is no incense in the Guanyin Temple, so many monks can only go to the street to beg for the day.

When we arrived at Guanyin Temple, except for the acting abbot, all the other monks had gone to the streets.

Mo Baixue dropped a few incense coins and asked, "Hui Jing, Hui Zheng, Hui Jue, the three masters haven't come back yet?"

The acting abbot said: "It's been 13 years since I went there, and I haven't returned yet."

Mo Baixue sighed and said: "I regret that I should have agreed with the three masters to go out to capture Bai Qingyi. I was provoked by that demon way, and today that monster way is ignorant, and no one can control it."

The acting abbot stopped knocking Muyu's hand, and said: "Didn't the prime minister have to kill Bai Qingyi to merge with that demon?"

Mo Baixue's face changed, and he got up to leave.

"Amitabha, self-inflicted evil, can not live."

This sigh, I don't know how many people sighed.

On the Yangchang path, a Taoist walked with a fishing drum and sang.

"Success must be in the capital of God, don't tire yourself out in the prosperity of the inner courtyard.

Can take the Five Immortals Transcendence Tactics, and refine them into immortals beyond the dust. "

Behind the Taoist, a groom who was driving a carriage said, "Taoist, what are you singing?"

The Taoist smiled when he heard the words, and said: "What the poor Taoist sings is the method of longevity."

The groom asked, "Can you live forever just by singing?"

The Taoist said: "Of course it takes a lot of work."

The groom said with a smile: "I don't ask for longevity, I just ask for some silver. I heard that Roulai country would pay three times the price to buy good wood from the world, so I quickly cut down the century-old tree behind my mountain. , dragged by horse-drawn cart to sell."

The Taoist glanced at the wood on the coachman's cart, shook his head and said, "You shouldn't have cut it."

The groom wondered, "Why?"

"This old tree has absorbed the true energy of heaven and earth, the essence of the sun and the moon for an unknown number of years. It was almost completed, but I didn't expect it to be cut down by you. Now that the achievement has not been completed, it will die."

The groom stopped and said in fear: "You mean, the wood was about to become a spirit, and I killed a monster?"

The Taoist sighed and said: "Hey, time is fate, since you have cut it off, you don't have to worry about it."

The groom thought for a while and said, "No, there is still a wooden stump left on the old tree. I will plan the roots when I go back."

The Taoist said: "Why do you want to kill them all?"

The groom said anxiously: "I ruined its morality, if one day it becomes enlightened, isn't it going to take revenge on me?"