Liaozhai Great Sage

"The little one has seen the general."

The four yamen servants guarding the door hastily saluted respectfully.

"Excuse me, the two court envoys are inside?" Li Xiuyuan said.

"Yes, general, it's inside. Mr. Fu was worried that the two envoys would have an accident, so he specially ordered a few younger people to guard here to ensure the safety of the two envoys." A squad leader said.

Li Xiuyuan nodded and said, "Yes, thank you for your hard work, just knock on the door and tell me that General Ben is visiting."

The team leader responded, then turned around and knocked on the door; "Your Excellency, Your Excellency, the younger one is the team leader of the yamen. General Li is here, please open the door to meet me, Your Excellency."

Immediately, a voice came from the room, with a look of panic: "What? Then General Li is here. Quick, open the door and invite General Li to come in."

"No, you can't open the door. The rooster is still outside. As soon as the door is opened, the rooster will rush in, and we will die." Another person stopped in a panic.

Li Xiuyuan frowned, the golden light in his eyes flickered, and he peeked at the situation inside the house.

However, in the hall of the house, jade belts, treasure armor, gold and silver silk satin, and all kinds of court rewards are placed, and in a room, two men in imperial court uniforms are trembling at the moment. On the bed, they hugged each other, looking extremely terrified.

These two envoys are both pale and beardless, one is older and slightly fat, the other is young and thin, they look like eunuchs.

But take a closer look.

Although these two eunuchs have human skins, there are two huge centipedes curled up inside their bodies.

One is black all over, the thickness of an adult's arm, and the other is yellow and slender like a snake.

"Ah, divine eye technique? Who, that god is spying on us?" The chubby eunuch was startled and screamed subconsciously.

Li Xiuyuan frowned and withdrew his divine eye technique.

The way is not low, my god's eye technique has been noticed, but it is not as good as my master, and I can see that I am peeping at a glance. The two centipede spirits don't know that the person who is peeping is me.

"My lord, what's the matter, are they two monsters?" Third Sister Hu leaned on the side, blinking winkingly, and said coquettishly.

Li Xiuyuan said: "There are two centipede spirits, one with 500 years of practice, and the other with 300 years of practice. It's really not easy. No wonder they are afraid of Thunder God. They have met their nemesis."

Third Sister Hu pursed her lips and said with a smile: "It's only 800 years of Taoism in total, and you don't know how many thousand-year-old monsters have been beheaded by you. Are you afraid of these two little monsters?"

"What I'm talking about is not simple, not their morality, but as centipede spirits, these two monsters can become envoys of the imperial court. What is contained in it has to make people think deeply." Li Xiuyuan said.

"That's right, the officials of the imperial court are all protected by good luck. It is difficult for ghosts to get close to them, and it is difficult for evil spirits to harm them. It is indeed not easy for two centipede spirits to become the imperial court's envoys." Third Sister Hu said.

Li Xiuyuan waved his hand at this moment and said: "Stand back, you have nothing to do here."

"Yes, General Li." The yamen servants saluted and quickly retreated.

Li Xiuyuan glanced at Jia Shidao beside him; "You guard the gate of the courtyard, and no one is allowed to enter without my order."

"Yes, General."

A group of soldiers beside him responded, and immediately retreated to the gate of the yard with their fists clasped, guarding the exit.

Only then did Li Xiuyuan stride forward, without any hesitation, he stretched out his hand and pushed open the door.

"The two envoys of the imperial court don't hide, come out, Li Xiuyuan, the two envoys should have heard of my name, if my prediction is correct, it should be the national teacher who sent you here, the national teacher What a skill, the eunuchs in the palace can cast spells to occupy their bodies, and even become the court's envoys."

He stopped walking, stood with his hands behind his back, and looked calmly at the two eunuchs hiding in the room.

The chubby eunuch had a weird smile on his face at the moment, seeming to be scared, startled, and forced to smile; "I've heard the rumors from the ghosts of the capital that there is a sage in the south. Rong is really lucky in three lives, I wanted to visit the saint in person, but I was blocked by the nemesis and dared not go out half a step, so I had to call for help, and ask the saint to forgive me."

"Don't talk about a saint, and the official's ears think I'm going to rebel." Li Xiuyuan said, "Since I've arrived, why don't I show up?"

"I'm afraid of the rooster beside Mr. Li." said the fat eunuch.

Li Xiuyuan said: "Without my order, Lei Gong will not eat you, come out."

Looking at the big red rooster next to him, he asked him to step back a little, so as not to scare the two centipedes from coming out.

"Yes, yes, yes, with Master Li's words here, the little one can rest assured."

Saying that, the two eunuchs walked out of the room cautiously. The older eunuch was better, while the younger eunuch was a little limp when walking, almost half kneeling on the ground and half crawling out.

"Hey~!"

Lei Gong behind him let out a cry, and stared at the young eunuch with his head.

"Ah~!"

The young eunuch immediately lay down on the ground in fright, the skin pouch on his body deflated quickly as if deflated, a slender centipede was curled up in the pouch, not daring to move.

The 300-year-old centipede is afraid of this big rooster to such an extent.

"Humph."

Seeing this, Li Xiuyuan snorted heavily: "Is the national teacher sending such a thing to Yangzhou? You haven't cultivated your body yet, and you still dare to see people, aren't you afraid of being punished by me?"

Hummed by this.

The slightly chubby eunuch was startled, and hurriedly said: "Please forgive me, Master Li. The ancestor has no one to use him now, so he let this little guy show up. His morals are too low, and he is showing his ugly appearance. He is a little kid here." I want to apologize to Master Li, and please don't take it to heart."

"The national teacher's Taoism has been at least 1000 years, no, at least 2000 years. He is the spirit with the highest Taoism I have ever seen. No one can use him?" Li Xiuyuan asked.

The slightly chubby eunuch said with a bitter face; "Back to Mr. Li, to be honest, the situation in the capital is complicated, and the ancestor is struggling to support it alone. The five immortals in the north, the Dragon King of the Great River, the ghosts of the underworld, and the Yashas from overseas , as well as the masters of Taoism, the Arhats of the temples, the foremen of the river mouth, the gods of the temples, the scholars of Wenruo Xinghe... Although the ancestors have high Taoism, they are eccentric, not orthodox, and have a lot of restraint. It’s good to be able to stabilize the situation in the capital, and these small spirits dare not go out casually, otherwise they will have to be killed if they meet someone with a high level of morality.”

Li Xiuyuan's expression froze when he heard the words: "What has the capital become? Why are there so many monsters and monsters?"

"Don't Master Li know that when the country is about to perish, there must be evildoers? The luck of the Song Dynasty is declining, and the dynasty will change within a hundred years. When the dynasty changes, the spirits in the capital will steal the high position, and the city will surrender. The asylum and incense of a dynasty can last for hundreds of years." said the fat eunuch.

"Using the luck of the country to avoid disaster?" Li Xiuyuan immediately understood the meaning of his words.

"Yes, yes, some ghosts have sinned too deeply, so they hide in the capital to avoid lightning strikes, catastrophes, national fortune, and imperial aura, so ghosts and gods can't detect them." The fat eunuch said: "But they can linger in The demons and spirits in the capital are all extraordinary, ordinary spirits cannot gain a foothold in the capital, and among the six gates of the imperial court there are people who specialize in exterminating demons."

Li Xiuyuan said: "This is different from what I thought. I thought that there are so many ghosts and ghosts in the world that the capital should be better. Now it seems that I was wrong."

Third Sister Hu smiled and said, "My lord, haven't you heard that most of the officials in the imperial court are descended from the heavenly stars? The temple is a place where ghosts and gods compete, and the Wen champion who died of illness is the heavenly king." Did Wen Quxing go down to earth to reincarnate? It seems that there are still many such cases. It’s just that the time has not come, and the miracles have not manifested.”

"If you say that, is it possible that the emperor's concubines and maids are not mortals?" Li Xiuyuan asked.

Third Sister Fox said: "This is a nine-to-one thing. You don't even know about the fox fairy Daji in the Shang Dynasty, Zhen Mi who was transformed into a Luoshen in the late Han Dynasty, Yang Yuhuan, the Taoist real person in the former dynasty, and the icy muscle jade." Madam Hualei, may I ask which woman who has been passed down through the ages is an ordinary person? Either a spirit or a ghost, after all, how can an ordinary woman have such a beauty that fascinates all living beings?"

"I read a lot, third sister, don't lie to me, it's not recorded like this in the historical records." Li Xiuyuan said in surprise.

These words made him feel that the historical records he had learned before could be thrown into the kang and burned.

"Hehe, if the son's name goes down in history, maybe the younger sister Qing'e will also be famous in history. Do you think the younger sister is an ordinary person? Ordinary people can't see the truth of the matter with the naked eye. Collecting books, young master, you might as well read them if you have time that day, the so-called historical records. There are legends of ghosts and gods everywhere." Third Sister Hu said.

"Lying on the ice and begging for carp, it is the filial piety of mortals that moved the water god and gave him fish. Otherwise, how could mortals melt the ice and catch fish?"