The Buddha is actually me

Chapter 86: Tianzun Case, Sex and Zen

In Qingzhou City, at night, wind and rain gradually rise.

Zhang Jiuyang's figure slowly appeared on the street, gradually changing from transparent to solid.

It did not return to the place where it disappeared, so it seems there was a deviation.

Zhang Jiuyang walked towards his home. The raindrops falling on his body were evaporated into streams of water vapor, which showed how high his body temperature was.

As the cold rain poured over his entire body, Zhang Jiuyang's high temperature finally subsided.

Only then did he completely relax and feel aches all over his body. He lifted up his sleeves and saw red marks on his arms, like burns.

Sure enough, with his current level of cultivation, it was still too difficult for him to control the Jade Pivot Sky Fire.

However, he has made obvious progress this time. He believes that after breaking through to the third level, he will be able to use the Jade Pivot Sky Fire as a means of killing.

In addition, the token in the mind that was like a ghost gate became dim at this moment, but it could automatically absorb the power of the moonlight between heaven and earth and slowly recover.

Once it becomes bright and brilliant again, we should be able to start the next Huangquan gathering.

It seems that this token is also a powerful treasure. It can actually teleport his true body to the underworld. Although he did not see the legendary underworld, he did take a trip to the Yellow Springs.

To open up the two worlds of yin and yang is equivalent to tampering with certain rules of heaven, and this ability should not be underestimated.

If it can be used at any time, wouldn't it be possible to just escape into the underworld when you encounter an enemy you can't defeat?

Or trapping the enemy in the underworld and locking him up for a hundred or eighty years, what difference is there between that and death?
Such a powerful thing, every heavenly stem in Huangquan has it...

Zhang Jiuyang's assessment of Huang Quan's danger increased again. This organization was weird in every way, especially that Tianzun, who was too scary.

Before you have absolute strength, it is best not to confront the Heavenly Lord directly. You can first try to win over, corrupt, split, or destroy other Heavenly Stems...

Especially the seventh Heavenly Stem 'Geng', for some reason he seemed to have a good impression of me, and before leaving, he secretly sent me a message.

The general meaning is that 'Xin' who gave him the assessment task is an old scoundrel who holds grudges the most. This task must be not easy, so he should be more careful.

Next time, I can try to win over this Geng and strive to have my own small circle in Huangquan.

Maybe one day, he will be able to say something to Tianzun.

"Stop it, Tianzun, Huang Quan is mine!"

Zhang Jiuyang returned to his home while thinking. Just when he was about to call Ah Li, he saw a small figure standing alone by an empty pond in the distance.

Like a lost cub.

She stood by the pond, not daring to move, letting the rain wet her hair and little white skirt.

"Ali——"

Zhang Jiuyang had just shouted when the little figure flew into his arms, her two pigtails swinging back and forth and her body trembling slightly.

"Wow, Brother Jiu, I thought you didn't want Ah Li anymore..."

Little Ah Li was really scared this time. Ever since her father was captured by the bad guys, she and Zhang Jiuyang have been dependent on each other. Jiu Ge would buy her candied haws, tell her nice stories, and watch over her when she sleeps during thunderstorms...

If even Brother Nine doesn't want her anymore, then she will really be a lonely ghost that no one wants.

Zhang Jiuyang touched her pigtail with a bit of amusement and a bit of emotion, and said, "Didn't I tell you not to be afraid and wait for me to come back? How could I not want you?"

After a pause, he tapped Ah Li gently and said, "You've been following me for so long, why are you still so stupid? You don't even know to hide when it rains?"

Ah Li raised her little face and said seriously: "It was you, Brother Jiu, who told me to wait for you here and that you would be back soon."

Zhang Jiuyang was stunned for a moment, then he understood why she had just stood stupidly by the pond without moving.

"What a fool you are! I told you to wait here, but you didn't move at all."

He used his sleeve to wipe the rain off Ali's face. Ali held the corner of his clothes tightly, and after making sure that he would not disappear, she finally smiled.

"I will do whatever Brother Nine says!"

After a pause, she seemed to react and said unhappily, "Brother Jiu, were you calling me stupid just now?"

Zhang Jiuyang laughed loudly, carried her to the eaves to avoid the rain, and said, "Silly ghosts have good luck. If you were not stupid, I would not like you."

Seeing how happy he was, Ah Li took the opportunity to act coquettishly and said, "Brother Jiu, you are not angry about me putting that book... Carnal Prayer Mat in the wrong place before, right~"

The smile on Zhang Jiuyang's face immediately disappeared and he could no longer laugh.

It’s over. How could I have forgotten about this?

He was silent for a while, and finally squeezed out a word from between his teeth.

"Starting tomorrow, I will teach you to read. I will also assign you homework in the evening. If you can't finish it the next day, you will be punished by willow branches!"

Ignorant little ghost girl, your happy childhood ends here!

……

Kyoto, Imperial Observatory, White Tiger Pavilion.

The newly promoted Marquis of Minglie, Yue Ling, is checking various files in the room. These are all cases suspected to be related to the Huangquan case in the past hundred years.

Some of these cases were beyond her control in her previous position, but now that she has been promoted to Prison Magistrate, that is no longer a problem.

She had been looking at these cases for many days, analyzing, comparing, and categorizing them one by one, but in the end she became more and more frightened.

She suddenly remembered what the supervisor said when she transferred these files.

“Don’t look into the abyss easily. The more you know, the more despair you may feel.”

Yue Ling had this experience at this moment.

After reading these files, she found that the Huangquan organization was more terrifying, more evil, and more powerless than she had expected.

Each shocking case challenges the bottom line of human nature.

The evil ghost's heart-cutting case: overnight, the hearts of more than 300 babies in the orphanage were dug out. Of the three Si Chens who went to investigate, two had their hearts dug out and one went crazy and died, and the case became an unsolved mystery.

In the Yangzhou Skinning Case, the skinner who roamed around at midnight would appear every once in a while, and each time he appeared, he would cut off hundreds of human skins, leaving behind hundreds of bloody corpses that died while wailing and wriggling.

In some remote villages, there is an extremely strange statue of a conjoined Buddha and a devil, with two faces, one compassionate and the other cruel.

Any village that enshrines this evil Buddha statue will eventually become a dead place. The strangest thing is that the dead people are all naked, and they are grouped in pairs, with their bodies sewn together with needle and thread, like conjoined twins.

According to the coroner's analysis, the villagers sewed themselves up with their own hands and had pious smiles on their faces when they died.

……

There are many such unsolved cases and murders. The Imperial Observatory has made great sacrifices, but few have been solved.

Behind all these cases, there is a common place... Huangquan!
Although she was very unwilling, Yue Ling had to admit that with her current strength, there was still a big gap compared to the giant Huang Quan.

However, Huangquan is not invulnerable. Once, a Lingtailang from the Imperial Observatory successfully infiltrated it, but unfortunately, he did not pass the so-called test and eventually died tragically at the hands of evil spirits.

Yue Ling pondered for a long time, and finally took out a file with three big words written on it.

Tianzun case!
Name: Tianzun Case
Location: Dingguo Mansion, Jizhou, Daqian

Host: Zhuge Yunhu
Danger: Deep Level

Status: Unsolved case
Confidential: A (No access without prior detention) She opened the file, and the contents were shocking, every word was like a knife stabbing her heart.

"In the seventeenth year of Linde, Tianzun attacked the Duke Dingguo's mansion at night, killing one hundred and seventy-six people..."

This was the first appearance of Tianzun, and he was accompanied by other disaster-level evil spirits. After that night, Duke Dingguo was disabled, the second daughter died, and the descendants of the Yue family were slaughtered. The family was sparsely populated, and now there are only three sons left, two of whom were born later.

If Yue Ling had not been sent to the battlefield for training, he would probably have died that night.

The Yue family is the descendant of Yue Jingzhong, a famous general who founded the country. The whole family is loyal and brave. The impact of this incident was so great that it even caused an uproar and restlessness in the army.

It was only when Duke Dingguo limped to the military camp on crutches and gave a stern reprimand that the 200,000 strong Jizhou army was intimidated.

The imperial court was ashamed and the late emperor was furious, so he sent Zhuge Yunhu to investigate the case personally. It was during this investigation that Zhuge Yunhu was seriously injured and has not recovered from his illness until now, so he was called a sick cat.

At the end of the file, there is Zhuge Yunhu's comment on the case.

"This is truly the result of the three generations of heroes and the century-long achievement of the Imperial Astronomical Observatory."

This means that in order to solve the case and kill Tianzun, the Imperial Observatory would have to sacrifice at least three generations and spend a hundred years.

The reason why it took three generations to last a hundred years was because the average life expectancy of people in the Imperial Observatory was only around thirty years old.

The late emperor was naturally dissatisfied with this result, and it is said that he was furious at that time.

Yue Ling did not blame Jian Zheng. The more she came into contact with him, the more she understood how seriously Jian Zheng was injured. A lot of the information he had now about Huang Quan and Tian Zun was obtained with his life at stake.

If his old injuries had not healed, how could he have stayed in the Sixth Realm for twenty years?

"Dong dong!"

Suddenly, there was a knock on the door and two coughs were heard outside.

"Long Hu, I see that your lights are still on, so you probably haven't gone to bed yet."

It was the voice of the Supervisor.

Yue Ling hurriedly opened the door. Standing outside the house was an old man with white hair and wearing a coarse green robe. His skin was dark and wrinkled. He was wearing a cloak and was slightly curled up in the night wind.

"Ahem, I'm getting old, and my body isn't as strong as it used to be. I cough when the wind blows, haha... cough cough!"

Zhuge Yunhu wrapped his cloak tightly and almost had a runny nose from the cold.

Anyone who saw it would not believe that this could be a great cultivator of the sixth realm and the current director of the Imperial Observatory.

"Superintendent, please come in!"

Yue Ling quickly welcomed him into the house and lit a charcoal fire.

Zhuge Yunhu sat down, feeling the warmth of the charcoal fire, and finally slowly relaxed a little.

"Some time ago, I followed the example of my ancestors and wanted to set up a star formation to help you exorcise the demon, but I didn't expect that it triggered my old illness. Those people were right. I am indeed a sick cat."

Zhuge Yunhu laughed at himself and sighed, "If my ancestors were still alive, they would probably be ashamed of me."

Yue Ling was about to say a few words of comfort, but she saw the supervisor looking up at her. There seemed to be some deep power in his warm and calm eyes.

"I'm a sick cat, but you're a dragon and tiger."

Zhuge Yunhu's eyes gradually brightened up, and his ordinary face became sparkling because of these eyes.

"In the Tianzun case, I said that it would take three generations of heroes in the Imperial Observatory and a hundred years of hard work, but now that you have entered the Imperial Observatory, this comment can be changed."

Every word he spoke spoke loudly.

"The one who can kill the Heavenly Lord in this world is the Dragon and the Tiger!"

Yue Ling was stunned, and suddenly felt a heavy responsibility.

"But you are still a young tiger and a young dragon after all. For the time being, we old men will be there to handle the Huangquan case. Don't be too anxious."

Yue Ling felt warm in her heart, knowing that the reason why the supervisor came tonight was because he was worried that she would be under too much pressure after reading the relevant files, so he came to counsel and comfort her.

"Don't worry, Supervisor. I understand."

"Actually... I'm not the only one facing this."

Yue Ling thought of the mysterious and interesting little Taoist priest, how he turned the tide in Chenjia Village, the terrifying red-gold flame, and his personal promise to help her.

A slight smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.

Zhuge Yunhu was startled. It was rare to see Longhu smile. It seemed that she had a very special experience during this trip to Qingzhou.

"It's Zhang Jiuyang, right?"

Zhuge Yunhu smiled slightly and said, "You went against all odds and even refused to give face to Lao Xu, forcing him to be your peripheral. This shows that this person is indeed extraordinary."

The places for the outer circle of the Imperial Observatory are extremely precious, and are usually only given to the true disciples of famous sects. The places for the outer circle of Minglie Hou Yue Ling are even more precious.

I don't know how many elders from famous sects hope to have their disciples connect with Yue Ling.

Old Xu from Tianji Pavilion refused to issue a badge to Zhang Jiuyang on the grounds that his background was not clean enough. As a result, his face became bruised and swollen the next day, and he kept muttering "reckless man". When others asked him about it, he said that he accidentally fell while walking at night.

Well, a cultivator of the fifth realm fell down while walking at night...

"Long Hu, you didn't want to explain in detail before, but now that the dust has settled, you can finally tell me what kind of person Zhang Jiuyang is?"

Zhuge Yunhu asked curiously, "Since you are so protective of him, his cultivation must be quite strong."

Yue Ling was silent for a moment, then said, "The second level, I have reached the halfway point of the Hundred Days Pass."

Zhuge Yunhu: "..."

"So you gave up the Taoist teachings of the fourth realm and the Buddhist monk who had cultivated the relic, and chose a person from the second realm as your peripheral?"

Yue Ling nodded, as if she wanted to say something for Zhang Jiuyang, but she was not good at speaking, and after thinking for a long time, she could only utter one sentence.

“He writes very good stories.”

Zhuge Yunhu: "..."

Just when he was about to ask more, Qingji's voice suddenly came from outside the door.

"Master, I'm back from delivering the letter!"

Qingji rode into the room on his pony, excitedly untied the bag on his back, and said with a smile: "Master, this is Zhang Jiuyang's reply to you. Oh, and there is also a book. He said he wrote something for you... a sequel!"

Yue Ling's eyes lit up slightly.

Seeing this, Zhuge Yunhu was also aroused with curiosity. He reached out and took the book, saying, "Longhu, can you let me also read Zhang Jiuyang's masterpiece?"

Although Yue Ling was anxious to read the sequel to "The Legend of Zhong Kui Catching Ghosts", she did not want to offend the supervisor, so she could only nod.

Zhuge Yunhu smiled slightly, and then slowly opened the book.

However, it wasn't long before the smile on his face began to stiffen.

……

(End of this chapter)