Sword of Coming

The City God enshrined in the Chenghuang Pavilion in Rouge County is named Shen Wen. He was the Yushitai doctor of Caiyi Kingdom during his lifetime. He was famous for his uprightness in the government and the public. He left behind the famous saying "Be a loyal minister in life, and a straight ghost in death". During the three hundred years, It has always been popular.

Because Xu Yuanxia and Zhang Shanfeng had visited the Chenghuang Pavilion before, Chen Pingan was familiar with the roads. The Rouge County Chenghuang Pavilion was divided into four halls. Two originally majestic painted clay statues of heavenly officials stood in front of the Yimen, but now they were too miserable to look at. Snakes and rats are infested.

Chen Pingan walked dozens of steps along the wall, but there was still no evil appearance in the Chenghuang Pavilion Square. Chen Pingan no longer hesitated and took out a Yang Qi Lantern Talisman hidden in his sleeve. The yellow paper talisman was waved in front of Chen Pingan. It hovered at arm's length, floating slightly. When Chen Pingan took a step, it automatically flew slowly towards the Yimen. Chen Pingan was determined. Although the Chenghuang Pavilion suffered a disaster and the entire square was beyond recognition, but behind the Chenghuang Pavilion, There must still be aura left in the building, otherwise the talisman would not move forward and would be destined to retreat towards the high wall.

The lamp-raising talisman emits a faint yellow halo, and the pure brilliance envelopes Chen Pingan's whole body. Wherever his feet pass, the five poisonous things on the ground, including centipedes and scorpions, flee one after another. When passing by the Yimen, there are probably Affected by the ripples of light from the lamp-lifting talisman, the snakes, rats and scorpions on the two Taoist heavenly official statues on the left and right all circled around from the front to the back of the clay statues, or hid in the hollow abdomen.

Chen Pingan held his breath and continued to move forward slowly. Behind the Yimen was the main hall with a gold-lettered plaque. The deity enshrined in the main hall was not the City God, but a seated statue of one of the founding generals of the Caiyi Kingdom. On the left and right were civil and military judges and a total of eight subordinates. official. On the plaque inscribed by the late Emperor of Caiyi Kingdom, most of the gold paint was peeling off at the moment. There was a big black snake as thick as the mouth of a bowl, coiled on it, with its body hanging down. It stretched out its head and spat out the snake message towards Chen Ping'an. It made a squeaking sound, like It is a demonstration and a warning.

When Chen Pingan crossed the threshold, the black snake suddenly jumped over and opened its mouth. Chen Pingan twisted his waist sideways without raising his head. He grabbed the black snake's head with his five fingers and shook his wrist slightly. The beast suddenly became stunned. It was soft and boneless. When it was thrown out, it fell heavily to the ground and was already dead.

Chen Ping'an followed the dangling lamp-carrying talisman and continued forward. After passing the main hall, there was another square, but it occupied a smaller area and was densely covered with ancient trees. There was a stone tablet standing there, which was the edict of the Emperor of Caiyi Kingdom canonizing a country's city god. At that time, Chen Pingan stood in front of the monument and looked at it for a long time, and finally came to the conclusion that the handwriting was really average, not even comparable to the young Cui Chan.

It's a good thing that the Grand Master of Li, who has been renamed Cui Dongshan, is not around, otherwise he would definitely be very angry.

On the left and right sides of the square are the Temple of Wealth and the Temple of Taisui. One burns incense and kowtows, praying for wealth and prosperity, and hoping that one will be blessed with Taisui for a week, hoping that there will be no disasters. Therefore, people kowtow here, which seems to be more pious than kowtowing in the main hall.

The lamp-carrying charm flew straight forward, and Chen Pingan followed closely without stopping at all.

Chen Pingan suddenly looked back. The tall stone tablet standing under the ancient cypress tree seemed to have a white shadow flashing away.

From the Taisui Hall in the Temple of Wealth on both sides, the female voices of Yingying Yanyan can be vaguely heard. They are extremely subtle and seem to be teasing each other. Behind the charm, there is a coldness, like a female ghost from the underworld making a sound to the sun, laughing. Just a little bit, it penetrates the boundary between yin and yang. With the shade of the ancient trees, you can enter the square through the windows from the two halls. You are only illuminated by the sparse sunlight, which is like snow melting. It is much lighter, but it is still traditional. into Chen Ping'an's ears.

Chen Ping'an frowned, turned around and moved forward.

As long as you walk a dozen steps forward, you can enter the main hall of the Chenghuang Pavilion, where the former imperial censor Shen Wen is enshrined.

Except for the two swords in the wooden box which are just for show for the time being, the two flying swords in the sword gourd can be said to be the absolute main force besides the boxing skills.

But among the foreign objects, like the Yang Qi Lantern Talisman, they come from the ancient book "The Authentic Alchemy Book" presented by Li Xisheng. Chen Pingan also has two golden pagoda demon-suppressing charms, which were originally used to eliminate the oil-paper umbrellas in the ancient house. After finding the treasure of copper coins, Chen Ping'an was afraid of an accident and drew a temporary talisman to make it. Later, in a battle with the ancient tree demon named Chu, he was killed by two swords on the 15th day of the lunar month before he could use it. The incarnation of the ancient elm tree.

Then there is one Yang Qi Lantern Talisman and three Earth Shrinking Talisman left. The latter is mainly used to cooperate with the god's drumming style. Of course, it is used to run away and escape. It is certainly not inferior to the Divine Walking Talisman lent to him by Taoist Zhang Shanfeng.

The moment Chen Pingan turned his head.

On top of the stone stele, a woman in white clothes appeared, sitting on the top of the stone stele. Her hair was disheveled, and her face was covered by black hair, so her face could not be seen clearly.

But she stretched out a finger, only withered bones and no flesh and blood left. She tapped the top of the stone tablet with her bone finger, and a spring of blood suddenly appeared, flowing downwards. Soon, the ancient inscriptions with more than a thousand words on the stone tablet appeared. It seemed to have turned into a bright red blood letter.

But the strange thing is that the woman's white clothes are still spotless, without even a drop of blood.

The woman raised her head, her face still covered with green silk hair, and began to sing gracefully. I wonder if it was an ancient folk song that had been lost in Caiyi Country, "咿咿咿咿困咿咿咿咿咿咿咿咿咿咿咿咿咿咿咿忆咿忆咿咿咿"\\". , twisting a roll of black hair, swaying gently, his feet were not wearing shoes and boots, and they were alternately flesh and bone, but there was more flesh and blood than his fingers. His feet were dangling, splashing blood on the stone tablets.

Compared to the blur of laughter and laughter in the two halls on the left and right, the singing voice of the woman in white was clearly audible, and the ancient cypress above her head rustled with the wind, as if she was singing in harmony with it.

The woman seemed to have reached a happy point in her singing, then she raised a boney palm and turned it over gently.

The closed doors of the Taisui Hall in the Temple of Wealth on both sides opened with a snap, and a man staggered out of each other. The man who walked out from the Temple of Wealth was young, and one of his arms was cut off at shoulder level. He was missing, but The bleeding has stopped, and the remaining hand is holding a green-edged sword. His face is white and his eyes are dull.

The middle-aged man in green shirt walked out of the Taisui Hall, his head drooped, and he limped across the threshold. Upon closer inspection, he saw that this man had been chopped on the neck with a sharp weapon, and his head was only held together by a little flesh. does not leave the body.

As the woman in white on the stele turned her wrist, the two staggering men suddenly became flexible and vigorous in their movements and began to dance in the square. It turned out that on the fingertips of the woman in white's withered fingers, there were traces of transparent light hanging in the air, like snow-white spider threads. The spider threads wrapped around the limbs of the two dead men, controlling their every minute movement.

In the two main halls where the doors were opened, women in white were constantly dragging billowing black smoke and drifting rapidly near the door. They looked at the men and giggled, full of sarcasm and hatred. Only the sunlight outside the door reflected, It was like a natural chasm that prevented them from stepping out easily, but four or five women in white couldn't help it. They rushed out quickly with bursts of black smoke, flying around the bodies of the two men, and kept teasing the men with their fingers. The pale faces passed around their backs and flew up from their armpits, but they also paid the price for this momentary joy, which completely disappeared after being exposed to the sun.

Chen Ping'an stood outside the threshold of the main hall. The Yang Qi Lantern Talisman seemed to have hit a wall, bumping and swaying again and again, and stopped moving forward.

The yang energy contained in the yellow paper talisman gradually disappeared.

Chen Ping'an stretched out his hand, and his palm seemed to be pressed against a layer of winter river ice. Even with a slight increase in force, it still couldn't be broken.

Chen Ping'an put his fingers together, turned around and twisted his wrist suddenly. The lamp-raising charm with little spiritual energy left quickly flew towards the square, circled around the heads of the two puppet corpses, and the two men slapped each other. With a bang, Shen Chen fell to the ground. The light on his body was broken one by one. After the body fell to the ground, blood flowed horizontally.

The woman in white retracted her hand and was not angry, but the women in the two halls bared their teeth and claws, looking at Chen Pingan with hatred in their eyes.

As long as you fall into evil spirits, no matter how compassionate you are during your lifetime, you will no longer have the inherent goodness of human nature as the Confucian sub-sage calls it. If you draw water from a bamboo basket, nothing will be left in the end.

This is the will of God.

Chen Ping'an looked at the back of the woman on the stone tablet and said softly: "Miss, the deceased is the most important. No matter what grudges you had during your lifetime, let's just forget about it, right?"

The woman in white ignored it and continued singing, this time using the elegant language of Aquarius Island, which Chen Pingan understood.

"The shape is like a haggard corpse, the heart is like death...the true knowledge is true, and you don't hold yourself to it. The matchmaker is obscure, unintentional and cannot be plotted. Who is that person..."

The woman's voice was gentle, with a hint of calmness and peace, and no trace of resentment or hatred could be heard.

Chen Ping'an could understand the general outline of the text, but could not understand the deep meaning contained in it.

Chen Ping'an didn't have the time to speculate on this. Now the main hall of the Chenghuang Pavilion is isolated from the outside by some kind of magic. It should be that the City God is being detained and is not allowed to go out to patrol the county and help Rouge County survive this upcoming catastrophe. .

Behind Chen Ping'an, in the main hall, is the City God's Hall, which enshrines three statues of the City God, including Shen Wen. The Shen Wen statue is more than three feet tall, requiring pilgrims to look up. The left and right civil and military statues are also two feet high, holding iron maces and official seals respectively. .

It is said that two hundred years ago, a Taoist priest named Zhang from another continent traveled here and was impressed by the simple folk customs of Rouge County. After returning to his hometown, the contemporary Celestial Master of Longhu Mountain soon gave him a "City God of Rouge County of Caiyi Country". "Xianyou Boyin", at that time everyone knew that the young Taoist priest was actually the Huang Zi nobleman from the Tianshi Mansion in Longhu Mountain. This beautiful story was known to all over the continent, and it was rumored in the market that the golden seal with an illustrious origin had long been It was secretly kept in the treasury by the emperor of Caiyi Kingdom.

There is also a huge mural inside, with ninety-nine and eighty-one beauties with flying sleeves.

It was praised by later generations as "the ink color is like life, and the blowing air is like life".

Seeing that the woman in white was indifferent, Chen Pingan said nothing more and quietly patted the sword gourd on his waist.

Turning around, he punched the "ice surface" with his fist, ripples rippled out, and the three statues in the Chenghuang Pavilion on the threshold seemed to be shaking.

Chen Ping'an walked slowly with six steps, hitting the ice with each punch, just like a god beating a drum.

Of course, we have to beware of the violent attack of the woman on the other side of the stone monument.

A sigh sounded from a towering ancient tree, and it was the voice of a girl, "Fool, that was a formation set up by two great monks of the fifth realm. Even my master couldn't do anything for a while, otherwise how could the City God not be able to get out? Come on. Do you want to break through a martial arts attack? Save your energy and leave this place as soon as possible before that female ghost has any murderous intentions towards you. Otherwise, another fool will break in next time and you will be Pianpian. The dancing marionette.”

Maybe Chen Ping'an's boxing was too "arbitrary", so he couldn't show any power.

It is inevitable that the strange girl hiding in the tree will feel contempt.

After the battle with Ma Kuxuan in the small street, Chen Ping'an's boxing skills are now more restrained. He usually moves the boxing more slowly, which is more in line with the word "warm and nourishing". It is generally the martial arts style of the bottom of the martial arts world, and the external boxing style. The reason for the result of "recruiting evil spirits" is that you don't know how to do it, and you don't go into the house. As a result, the more diligent you are in practicing boxing, the more it hurts your body and soul.

However, although Chen Ping'an was slow in walking, the speed of his Qi machine when practicing setting up the sword furnace was infinitely faster. If it could only be an ordinary post station summons and speeding up, now it is an eight-hundred-mile rush.

This mysterious state of "putting it away" is absolutely incomprehensible to someone who is not a solid sixth or seventh level martial arts master.

The woman in white suddenly stopped singing, turned her head, and stared at Chen Pingan's eighteenth punch.

With one punch, like Hong Zhong Dalu, the energy in the entire square shook violently, and the stone tablet soaked with blood suddenly made a cracking sound.

She screamed, piercing her eardrums, and like a general giving orders, the women floating in the two halls turned into two billowing plumes of smoke, melting into the ice together, using their remaining ghost souls to strengthen the filthy formation, and together The black smoke went straight towards Chen Pingan, trying his best to interrupt Chen Pingan's continuous punches and prevent him from delivering the nineteenth punch in the style of a god beating a drum.

"I was killed by you, a daredevil! If I die here today, then we will walk together on the road to hell. If I don't scold you to death... I will die... This girl is already annoyed before she is dead. died!"

On the top of the ancient tree, the girl finished complaining angrily. No longer hesitating, a graceful figure emerged and made a series of crisp sounds. As the sound lingered around the body, it also brought up circles of pale golden flowers. The graceful figure is a pleasure to behold.

The face of the woman in white was covered by thick black hair. The corners of her mouth were slightly raised, and her eyes were coldly sarcastic.

She stretched out her two skeletal palms and patted him gently.

In the main hall of the City God Pavilion, the statues of civil and military gods accompanying the City God squeaked and squeaked, as if they came to life, shaking off huge splashes of dust. At the same time, they stepped out of the altar and stepped on the main hall with a bang. On the bluestone floor, two two-foot-tall clay sculpture statues strode toward the threshold. One of them, holding an iron mace, struck the young man on the head with his mace, while the other, a civil official statue holding a fine iron official seal, took a single step without hesitation. Stepping out of the threshold, holding the huge iron seal in his hand, he patted the girl.

Originally, breaking the formation would allow the City God to regain his freedom. This was the logical development of the situation. Who would have thought that the real murderous intention was not in the square outside the City God's Hall, not in the gloomy woman in white, but in the City God's Hall where Hope was? So where did Shen Wen, the City God who was supposed to have the golden body of a god, go?

In the City God's Hall, the tallest and most majestic statue in the center, the originally shining golden City God, was now dim and dull. The ground was covered with golden debris, leaving only a pair of eyes with dots of golden light. Any local of Rouge County cannot believe that this is the proud "Jin Cheng Huang" of Rouge County.

Because according to the records of Rouge County, nearly one hundred taels of gold foil were used to cover the statue. The county guards of that generation asked the powerful and wealthy businessmen in the county to ask their grandfather and grandma for this. After the donation was successful, they even carved a special seal The Monument of Benevolent Persons records the names and families of all those who contributed funds.

The statue of the main god, covered with gold foil, spoke with difficulty, and the hoarse voice reached the threshold, "You two, go quickly. There are many evil heretics of unknown origin. There is only one ghost in white here. If you can To escape, you must go to the immortal master of Shen Gaozong or the gentleman and sage of Guanhu Academy. He said that the Caiyi country is in great danger. Once the country is destroyed, no one in the six surrounding countries, including the ancient Yu country, will be spared. !”

It turned out that the Chenghuang Pavilion, which was supposed to protect the people of a county, was clearly unable to protect itself when the Clay Bodhisattva crossed the river.

Outside the threshold of the main hall,

First, the girl with silver bells on her arms and ankles helped Chen Pingan block the black smoke. Where the four bells sounded, countless pale golden flowers bloomed, dazzling the eyes. The originally menacing black smoke was cut and shattered, but The girl was also hit by wisps of black smoke in several places, vomiting blood, but she still insisted on not retreating. She stood near the daredevil, shaking her wrist, ringing bells, and golden petals, and continued to eliminate those inclusions little by little. Howling black smoke.

Chen Pingan punched the nineteenth punch calmly.

Then there was a remaining line of black smoke, which crazily poured into the "ice surface" that separated the inside and outside of the main hall, helping the formation to remove the cumulative power of the nineteen punches of the god beating the drum.

Then there are two "rebellious" clay statues. One wields an iron mace and hits Chen Pingan's head, and the other holds a fine iron official seal and slaps the girl on the back of the head.

Chen Ping'an looked calm and delivered his twentieth punch at lightning speed, causing the formation to shake violently. Although it had not been broken yet, it was already shaky, and it was only one punch away at most. But Chen Ping'an felt helpless. He couldn't deliver the twenty-first punch like a god beating a drum, but he couldn't just watch the girl and slap the statue of the civil official who rushed out of the threshold to death, otherwise he would be There is a chance to deliver the final punch.

The stone slab beneath Chen Ping'an's feet cracked, and he disappeared in an instant. He dodged the iron hammer that hit the statue of a military commander on the head, and instantly came to the side of the statue of a civilian official. He punched the waist of the statue in an iron cavalry formation. This punch was for In order to save people's lives, Chen Pingan did not dare to hide anything, so when he punched, his arms were surrounded by snow-white fists, and the fists vibrated, and there was a faint sound of wind and thunder.

A two-foot-tall clay statue was knocked out by Chen Ping'an's punch. The feet of the huge statue plowed a ravine on the ground.

When the girl heard the movement behind her, she turned around and roughly guessed the reason. When she turned to look at the unspectacular young man with a box in his back, her eyes became glazed over.

Chen Ping'an didn't care what the girl was thinking. He froze his hands and arms as if he was about to punch. In fact, he slipped out two golden pagoda demon-suppressing talismans from his sleeves, and quietly attached them to the palm of his hand, holding a statue of a military commander holding an iron mace. After one move failed, the bricks and stones on the ground exploded. He straightened up and swung his mace at Chen Pingan again. Chen Pingan had made countless slow punches during his journey south, but when he wanted to move faster.

That's really fast!

The mace still failed, Chen Ping'an had arrived in front of the statue of the general at some unknown time, tiptoed, jumped up, and slapped the statue's forehead heavily with the palm of his hand.

Brilliant golden light!

Around the clay statue of the military commander, a golden pagoda slightly taller and larger appeared out of thin air, with thunder and lightning flashing like a swimming dragon.

The statue of the god seems to be "enshrined" in this pagoda.

But the specific taste can be seen from the shattering of the huge body of the clay statue. No matter how it struggles, how it strikes with the mace, the pagoda demon-suppressing talisman always suppresses it firmly.

After Chen Ping'an used the first golden pagoda demon-suppressing talisman, his feet were a little bit on the chest of the general statue. He took advantage of the situation and bounced out. It flashed away again, and he rushed towards the girl at a faster speed. In front of the statue of the civil servant god, he clicked again, just pasting the golden talisman on the fine iron official seal.

The tall statue of the god was like a mountain pressing down on the top. His knees were bent, debris kept falling from his knees, and he almost stumbled and fell.

Chen Pingan's feet still didn't touch the ground. After holding out the golden talisman, he continued to climb up and stepped on the top of the statue. He looked at the woman in white who was already standing on the top of the stone tablet, and they faced each other.

Chen Ping'an didn't stop at all. He rushed towards the stone monument under the ancient cypress tree like he was riding the wind. He stretched out his hand in the air and patted the sword box, saying softly: "Exterminate the devil!"

The locust wood sword popped out of the wooden box and was held by Chen Pingan with one hand.

Go away with one sword.

It's all done in one go, a bit chic.