Great Sui Guoshi

The ashes flew away from the palm of his hand, forming a black cloud and drifting towards the shepherd. The latter was so frightened that he lost his goat stick and turned to run. The black smoke caught up with him and penetrated into his seven orifices instantly. Go to the strand of 'little tail' dragged by the black cloud, and then close your eyes.

The spiritual consciousness extended along the black smoke, and the same thing gathered over there. After a while, in the soft voice of the fourth scholar, he slowly opened his eyes, nodded to the four of them, indicating that it was okay, and put it away with a flick of his robe sleeve. That spell, with a mentality of trying, went to the shepherd.

baa baa~~

The flock scattered, and the strangers who ran away in panic, looked like a man who could not move, only two eyes slanted in the eye sockets, staring at the slowly approaching figure.

Suddenly words sounded: "Don't be afraid, we are just lost travelers."

When Lu Liangsheng said this, he was also shocked. The words in his mouth were not the original Chinese at all, but a strange accent. With a flick of his fingertips, the shepherd over there could also move at this time, rubbing his hands. With sore arms, he turned around, still panicking.

"I just want to ask the way, what is this place?" Lu Liangsheng gently raised his hand, and flicked his numb arm, which surprised the shepherd. people.

"Egypt...the province of Egypt."

Egypt?Province?

Although he was able to communicate with the other party, he didn't know what the so-called provinces meant. Lu Liangsheng probably guessed that they should be similar to counties.

"Then there are business travelers from the East here?"

When the shepherd saw the strange man in front of him, his tone was gentle, his previous fear was a little better, and he tremblingly raised his finger to the front of the road.

"There used to be a bazaar... Going forward, there is Kalabsa, where there are vendors from Constantinople in the east..."

Lu Liangsheng frowned. How did the East become Constantine... It seems that the Sui Kingdom is still farther east. I want to ask more questions, but the shepherd in front of me can’t say much. Useful things, the words falter, it seems that the cognition is not wide.

'Go and see where there are many people. '

After thanking this person, Lu Liangsheng went back on the road and told the four of them what he said just now. There are cities and markets, so there is food and sleep. With a sore foot, he followed Lu Liangsheng along the road to the market that the shepherds mentioned.

Soon, someone's voice in front became noisy.

In the distance, a circle of flat-roofed houses made of mud drills can be seen, and there are several skinny men with bare upper body mixing black mud. The woman kneads hay into it, builds up a block of mud drills and puts them in the sun to explode. On the side is a newly built house. A child wearing linen is sitting barefoot on a rock to play. Hearing the sound of a copper bell, he tilts his head and looks curiously at the five people and a donkey who are busy building a house. Both men and women stopped what they were doing and looked at the strange group of people in front of them.

Lu Liangsheng nodded towards them in a friendly manner. Compared with the uncivilized people he saw when he first came, these people had less dark skin and looked much more comfortable.

In the past, this half-repaired house was noisy and noisy. In the circular market, there were many staggered stalls, displaying unknown fruits and vegetables, and things like steamed buns and pancakes from the Sui Dynasty. , placed in dustpans of various shapes, people are still picking; the stout woman with the clay pot on her head glanced at it hurriedly, and ran to a nearby mud house with the pot smelling of wine on her head; the wide square in the distance, with Vocal music was sung, and a woman in sackcloth plucked an upright qin; not far away, as if inspired by the sound of the qin, several dark men pulled a rope and rolled a thick stone pillar back and forth on the wheat on the ground.

These scenes and pictures conveyed the unique style of exotic land, which is novel.

It's a pity that the market is still quite small. Lu Liangsheng led the old donkey around and asked about the Eastern Kingdom. Most of them were Constantine or Persia.

It was still early in the day, and then, Lu Liangsheng continued to go up the river to the nearest city—Kalabusa. There were many camel caravans passing by on the way. Every section of the road, there were many dilapidated temples, and even There are dog-headed people.

"The people here worship this kind of god?"

On the land of Kyushu, there are also many monsters who become gods, but most of them will appear in human form in the end, and there are very few such dog-headed people sitting in temples.

"That's why they are barbarians!" Wang Feng sneered at these weathered, peeling and dilapidated temples.

"Outlander..."

While Wang Feng was speaking, suddenly there was a faint voice blowing along the wind to Lu Liangsheng's ears, like a woman.

"Stranger... hear my name... Isis..."

In the bookshelf on the old donkey's back, Taoist Toad pushed open a gap, peeped out Toad's face to look, and also heard this voice, and hummed.

"God of fart, this old man hits three!"

Lu Liangsheng smiled at his master, turned his eyes away, followed the direction of the voice, and led the old donkey over. He also wanted to see what the gods from other lands looked like.

Especially, why... is extremely weak.

Chapter 665 A Careless Toad

"Master, what's the matter?"

The tall palms on the side of the road swayed the leaves in the wind. The four people guarding the old donkey couldn't hear the ethereal voice just now, but they saw the national teacher suddenly walking to the other side of the road, so they couldn't help following two steps and opening their mouths call out.

"You wait here, I will come as I go."

Lu Liangsheng raised his hand to tell the four of them not to speak and walk freely, he put his master on his shoulders, and walked to the weeds on the side of the road, Taoist Toad fastened his clothes, turned his head solemnly, and pointed his frog webs forward

"Liangsheng, it's in there."

The blades of grass caressing in the wind were pushed aside by the scholar, and there was a small temple as high as a person’s thighs, with mottled scratches on it, covered with vines and moss, and a few tattered clay pots tilted here and there, filled with mud and dust, rustling. In the sound of footsteps, a few insects crawled out of the jar in panic, and quickly hid in the grass.

"I...siss?"

Looking at a small statue with a silhouette of a person whose appearance could not be seen clearly, Lu Liangsheng whispered in this language. He heard the name just now, but there was no sound for a long time. Daoist Toad leaned on Liangsheng's ear and opened his eyes He glanced at it and snorted.

"Leave it here, there is no mana."

Lu Liangsheng squatted down, took the small statue inside his hand, and blew on it. The accumulated dust filled the air. He felt that there was no mana on it, and he wondered. Could it be that there is no mana, as the master said?

Curious that this god is true, but going back to the Sui Kingdom is the most important thing. I patted the statue, held it in my hand, got up and walked out of the grass, and put it on the bookshelf. Maybe when the other party has accumulated a little divine power, he can pass through the statue. Talk to him again.

Over there, the four scholars watched as Lu Liangsheng took a black lacquered stone sculpture back and put it on the bookshelf.

"National teacher, is this thing evil?"

"This statue is a god here... Since it is a god, it should not be evil, and it is also a goddess." Lu Liangsheng closed the small door of the upper compartment of the bookshelf, and joked with a smile.

As soon as the four of them heard about the goddess, they thought of some bad things. Qiqi shuddered, waved their wide sleeves and walked forward, muttering in low voices: "Goddesses are all picked up casually...it's nothing to think about." A decent goddess is not as good as a female fairy."

Lu Liangsheng couldn't hear the four people muttering, and he took the rein handed by the old donkey with a smile and followed. The four of them didn't know the reason, so it was reasonable to say these words. As for the goddess named Isis I don't know why the spirit is so weak, but most of the temples I saw on the way were dilapidated, and the earthen pots were dusty. Presumably no one worshiped them, and they lost their incense and died.

It's just that Lu Liangsheng didn't know why such a situation occurred.

After catching up with the four people who were walking in front of them with their heads buried in a muffled voice, they used their hands again to shrink the ground. Gradually, the road under their feet gradually became wider and smoother. There were more and more Egyptians passing by, driving sheep and mule carts. , Seeing five people and one donkey here, I couldn't help but look at it curiously. The bold kid, who was dressed in dirty clothes, ran up to him and looked at him curiously.

The sun was shining brightly, illuminating the not-so-high city wall in front of it. The mud bricks on it were pitted, and bugs flew around from time to time. There were no soldiers at the gate of the city, not even a city gate. Few people stopped to look at the five people in strange and gorgeous clothes, among them four scholars with bags on their backs looked around.

"What kind of Labsa is this?" "I thought it was a big city, not even River Valley County."

"Wrong, half of it is not comparable."

Entering the city, as the Fourth Scholar said, the streets are full of dust, footprints of people and livestock can be seen everywhere, and the occasional harp music is heard, a group of people walked down the first long street into the city.

The side of the road is messy, pottery pots are piled up beside the low wall, and there are also vendors in the Central Plains, selling woolen blankets there, and people with swords wrapped their heads and walk across the street, only the exposed eyes reveal fierceness, Fiddled with the blade with his thumb and looked at Lu Liangsheng and the others.

Walking past a place similar to an inn, with the smell of barbecue, Taoist Hama smelled it hard through the small door, his webbed head trembled and straightened, and there was a Dharma sound that only the disciples could hear.

"Liangsheng, you see that you have arrived in this city, and there is nothing to see in the barbarian land. If you want to ask for directions, don't be in a hurry. Shall we have dinner first and find a place to stay?"

Looking at the mud-brick bungalow with guests coming in and out from time to time, Lu Liangsheng also smelled the smell of wine and meat. He hadn't slept soundly for more than a month. His face froze instantly.

Toad, who didn't wait for a reply for a while, pushed open the small door anxiously, climbed up the bookshelf, untied the rope, and asked, "Liangsheng, why are you still hesitating..."

Suddenly remembering a few years ago, he followed his apprentice to a county town by the wrong way, and he showed this look, and Toad's face darkened: "Did you forget to bring money again?"

"It's not."

Lu Liangsheng shook his head, pulled out a few copper coins and waved them in front of his master and the four people over there, "This is a copper coin from the Sui Dynasty...it should not be used here, master, these are some cakes, You fill your stomach first, and I will think of a way."

Seeing half a sheet of rice cakes, Taoist Toad snorted, turned his face away, and crawled back into the bookshelf.

"Master, I didn't eat first this time, and waited for you on an empty stomach, so as not to be full of cakes. In the end, you brought out a table of dishes, so I won't be fooled by you."

"Well, the master will wait first."

If you exchange some usable money, you won't be able to exchange that thing with someone else, right?Lu Liangsheng looked at the bookshelf, everything was inside, books must not be good, then, his eyes fell on the scrolls inserted in the shelf, and the corner of his mouth curled up.

Leading the old donkey to a nearby corner, he simply took out the painting that he didn't use much before, unfolded it and hung it on a tree next to him. At first, the few people were eye-catching, but now he sees an ink painting that is different from the style of this country , It was hard to hold back curiosity and surrounded me.

The painting was just a freehand painting of the rising sun on the sea. This kind of painting is extremely rare here. Suddenly someone came up and asked Lu Liangsheng if he wanted to sell it?

"My dear gentleman, your paintings are so exquisite that I can hardly see them in my life. Can you sell them to me?"

"Then how much are you willing to pay?" Lu Liangsheng smiled and cupped his hands at him.

Opposite the man who concealed his face carefully looked at the painting hanging on the tree. First, he was a little surprised to hear the scholar's words. Second, he was not sure whether the painting was worth anything, and he only spoke out of curiosity.

After a while, he stretched out five fingers and shook them, and took out five silver coins with human portraits from the money bag.

"It's five solids, and it buys a lot."

Lu Liangsheng is not familiar with the prices here, but it's okay to get familiar with it first. He reached out and took the man's five silver coins, took off the scroll of the painting and handed it to the other party. He called the four scholars over there to inquire about it. When they found a place to stay, they went straight there.

The inn here is similar to the inn in the Central Plains. There are all the clerks and shopkeepers that should be there, but there is a big difference in the names. Even talking and gestures, I asked for two rooms to stay in.

'Well, I take back the words similar to the Central Plains Inn. '

As soon as he entered the room, he looked at the blankets on the floor. There was not even a basin stand for washing, let alone a screen for changing clothes to cover him. After asking about the washing place, the young man in the shop took Lu Liangsheng to a Not to mention the muddy water in the big bathhouse, there are still several naked men soaking in it...

Lu Liangsheng left the bathhouse with a speechless face, and returned to the room. The young man who happened to bring the meal came, tossed bread of various sizes, and several cans of wine on the floor.

After the people left, Taoist Toad came out of the bookshelf, looked at the food on the ground, twitched the corner of his mouth, turned back to the bookshelf, picked up half a piece of rice cake and bit it, his cheeks puffed and closed, and he sucked it hard Mouth pancakes.

"I've been hungry for a long time, as a teacher, I might as well eat pancakes!"

"Master, maybe this exotic steamed bun is not bad, try one?"

"Don't eat!"

Lu Liangsheng was a little helpless, he didn't know the dishes, so he ordered some randomly, but he didn't expect that they were all like this.

Not long after, the door creaked and pushed open again, and the young man in the store came in again, with a basket of two roasted lamb legs in his hand, with a knife forked, gently put it on the ground, and bowed towards Lu Liangsheng. After a salute, indicating that it's time to eat, he backed out.

"This....."

Taoist Toad looked at the steaming leg of lamb, then looked down at the crumbs left on the frog's web. His shoulder twitched and he hiccupped.

Then... angrily, he threw the crumbs of the cake on the ground, and chopped it hard with his flippers a few times.

"I'm so angry, I can't finish it together, croak!"

Chapter 666 Isis, the Last God

As the night fell, large swaths of clouds floated in the night sky, and the cold moonlight appeared in the gaps.

There are oil lamps flickering in the dimly lit room, Lu Liangsheng doesn't have the habit of going to bed early, and it's good to have books to pass the time in a foreign inn.

There were four scholars snoring lightly from next door. Lu Liangsheng flicked the wick, and the fire was lit up. He glanced at the master on the floor over there, who was snoring loudly under a thin blanket. He smiled and bent over. Pulled the corner of the quilt for him, then sat back, leaning against the wall and continued flipping through the book in his hand.

wow~~

A page was scratched from the fingertips of the book. During this period of time, I went to sea, searched for artifacts, and landed on the other side of the world. Finally, I had some free time in this land of transformation. In the future, it may be more difficult to have a chance.

Thinking back to the four generals of the Demon Family who cast their dharma images that day, it is not difficult to see that the gods in the sky have already set their sights on him. After leaving Kyushu, even just reaching the edge of the Ten Thousand Spirits Formation, they desperately wanted to put him to death. , so anxious, it just happened to be the right step to take the Kongtong seal.

Once you calm down and think about fighting against the gods in the sky, you will have indescribable feelings.

As for the gods in this world, Lu Liangsheng was a little puzzled. Could it be... There is also a boundary in the sky, you are on one side, and I am on the other?

The moonlight outside the house fell into the windowless, and a thin layer of light appeared on a statue hanging on the bookshelf. Lu Liangsheng, who was flipping through the book over there, stopped his fingertips and looked over from the side. A ray of blue light shot from the statue's eyes. On the ground, a silhouette of a person stood in the moonlight, his figure was hard to solidify, his hands crossed and stretched out to the shoulders on both sides, and he pressed his chest and bowed slightly towards Lu Liangsheng.

An ethereal female voice sounded from the figure's mouth.

"Dear stranger, Isis may your magic power and wisdom be comparable to the gods."

Uh... this god compliments as soon as he comes?

Lu Liangsheng was a little uncertain. He closed the book, got up and shook his cuffs, and bowed his hands in return. The other party did not show his face. With his guesses during the day, he probably understood that this so-called god was already very weak.

"In Xialu Liangsheng, who came from the Eastern Sui Dynasty, lost his way on the sea, and passed through a hot land before arriving at the expensive land, so much trouble."

The goddess named Isis seemed to be watching Lu Liangsheng carefully, and a big toad who was sleeping soundly under a blanket scratching his stomach. Under the shining light, the other party seemed to be smiling.

"You don't have to be polite. It's been a long time since I met a god or person who can speak. It's my honor to meet you."

"I haven't met you for a long time, where are the other gods?"

Maybe it was really a long time since I spoke, Isis floated to the window and sat down, propped his chin and let out a soft sigh.

"They're all gone...Outlanders, this is Egypt. It used to have a brilliant civilization, a prosperous dynasty, and gods who sheltered here. They ruled the order of life and death, sin and grace. Every god has its own believers. With its own glorious temple, it will continue in the long river of time in the future.

.......It is a pity that the prosperous Egyptian dynasty perished, and the enemies who invaded here forced the people to change their beliefs. When the first group of believers who still believed in us passed away, the newborn Egyptians gradually forgot about us, and we gradually Disappeared from the temple, foreigners, not only Egypt, but also on the other side of the Mediterranean Sea, a country called Greece, their gods also disappeared in the war... Isis can barely rely on marriage and life beliefs exist. "

Lu Liangsheng frowned slightly, and walked a little closer: "Then, you were replaced by the enemy gods?"

"There is no new god." Isis shook his head and floated down from the window, looking at the moonlight outside, his voice a little sad.

"They believe in gods, but they don't need the existence of gods. The emperor of Byzantium would not believe in gods... Maybe, before long, Isis will also dissipate."

The life and death of a god cannot be controlled by Lu Liangsheng. Looking at her back, Isis casually said a few words of comfort. Looking at the moonlight, Isis turned around and put away his sad tone just now, "Dear Orientals, Your mana is the highest I have ever seen in the years of Isis's existence. Are there many of you in your country? Then your gods are also more powerful, right?"

Lu Liangsheng smiled and didn't know how to tell her.